Participants: John Lomacang (Host), David Canther
Series Code: TDY
Program Code: TDY016019A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people. 01:08 Hello, friends, welcome to 3ABN. 01:10 My name is John Lomacang, 01:12 and if you're part of our family, 01:14 you already know that. 01:15 But if you are not and you're tuning it for the first time, 01:17 welcome to this network. 01:19 We are serious about the gospel 01:21 and there are many needs in our world 01:23 that the Lord has given us the reasonability 01:26 and privilege of addressing 01:27 and today's program talks about one of those needs 01:30 that may be unique in your community. 01:33 But we're gonna discover today, 01:35 it is a need in every community. 01:37 We want to thank you also for your prayers 01:39 and your financial support of this network 01:41 that keeps going and growing, 01:43 preparing hearts and lives for the coming of our Lord, 01:45 which we believe is not too far distant. 01:49 In just a movement we'll meet our guest, 01:51 and as you know, we always like to encourage you 01:54 to remember this network. 01:56 There's not only 3ABN in English 01:58 but Latino, Kid's time, Dare to Dream. 02:00 We have a number of networks, 02:02 and so check out our packages and connect with us 02:04 to find out what more we have to enhance your spiritual walk 02:08 and bring you closer to Christ. 02:10 Now, we always have very good music. 02:13 One good friend of ours 02:14 and also a good friend of our 3ABN family, 02:16 Gayle Jones Murphy is going to bless us with a song 02:19 entitled "I want Jesus to walk with me." 06:13 Thank you so much Gayle. 06:15 I've often said, she knows that keyboard very well, 06:18 but even more than the keyboard 06:19 she has a wonderful relationship 06:21 with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 06:24 Right now meet our guests, we have pastor David Canther 06:26 and his daughter Autumn Canther. 06:28 Good to have you here, David. 06:30 Thank you. Good to be here. 06:31 Yeah, I was glad we had a chance to talk 06:33 and by the way welcome, Autumn. 06:34 I wouldn't stretch my hand over there to shake your hand. 06:35 That's okay. Thank you. 06:37 Our producers will have a cowl there, 06:38 but it wouldn't be 06:40 aesthetically a good thing to do. 06:41 But good to have you both here today to talk about a program 06:44 and I wouldn't use the word concept 06:47 and all that you unfold that 06:48 and unpack that in just a moment, 06:49 but so glad to have you here. 06:51 David, for our listening and viewing audience, 06:54 just before we get into the topic, 06:56 just give us an overview who you are, 06:58 where you're from and what you do right now? 07:01 Thank you, Pastor John. 07:03 It's great to be here once again at 3ABN. 07:06 3ABN has been one of our greatest supporters. 07:11 You've been out on the field with us as well as Danny 07:13 in many disaster responses globally. 07:16 So, we've respond over one hundred times globally. 07:19 Katrina was one of the memorable ones 07:20 when a lot of 3ABN guests came in 07:23 and sang in one our sound stages, 07:25 helping people that are hurting. 07:27 So, having been a pastor like yourself for 32 years, 07:31 my passion is about helping people 07:35 in time of need emotionally, spiritually and physically. 07:38 So, ACTS World Relief 07:39 used to be the old name we went under. 07:41 Now, we have two divisions, GR3 and ACTS 911 07:44 is what we're going to talk about today. 07:46 Okay. And, Autumn, good to have you here. 07:48 Good to be here. 07:50 Let our viewers and listeners know who you are 07:52 besides your dad's daughter. 07:54 My name is Autumn Canther. 07:56 And currently I am studying physical therapy 07:59 and so I'm here for, 08:01 they have different schedules of the year. 08:04 So, I'm here on the summer break. 08:06 And glad to be here, thank you for having us. 08:09 Okay. 08:10 And just kind of, you're also bilingual I understand. 08:13 I am, yes. 08:14 Okay, I just want to bring that out because, 08:16 just to let our audience know 08:18 that this program most likely will be again heard in Spanish. 08:23 And I believe Autumn is going to be a part of that. 08:25 Unfortunately her dad 08:26 is not as fluent as he would like to be in Spanish. 08:29 So, you'll be excluded 08:31 but the message will still go forward. 08:32 Tell us about the ministry ACTS, 08:35 we'll start with the word ACTS 08:36 because it was first ACTS World Relief, 08:38 then ACTS GR3. 08:40 What does GR3 stand for? 08:42 So GR3 means Global Rescue Relief and Resilience. 08:47 So that's the deploying side, the emergency response side, 08:50 both in preparedness training and deploying. 08:53 I'm also a faculty at the Harvard BIDMC program 08:57 which is an emergency management, 08:59 so we train a lot of doctors, 09:00 medical people in the field how to respond. 09:04 But not only medically, 09:05 but today we're going to even be having a little fun 09:07 with psychological first aid. 09:09 That's emotional and spiritual care side. 09:12 So you have the GR3 side. 09:14 But a whole another division that only began two years ago 09:17 is both your and my passion 09:19 and that is church growth strategy. 09:22 How do you help that 80 percentile of churches 09:25 that are actually in decline through serving others, 09:29 52 percent of churches 09:32 have less than 100 members in their congregation. 09:35 So, there are common denominators 09:37 we're going to explore today. 09:39 You can invite ACTS 911 to come in as a consultant 09:44 and basically help your church grow 09:46 guaranteed 10 percent a year. 09:49 You talked about psychological first aid 09:52 and I also understood prior to our interview 09:57 that that is an area 09:58 that Autumn is very much involved in. 10:00 Tell us about that, because some people may be saying 10:02 psychological first aid, what in fact is that? 10:07 The psychological first aid 10:08 is just a way to be able to not only in disasters 10:12 but in everyday life to calm people down, 10:14 if they're having maybe a stress, 10:16 you know, a breakdown at work. 10:18 To be able to attend to those needs 10:20 because when people are, you know, just were where, 10:23 you know, familiar with the term burnouts here. 10:27 When we have too many things to do, 10:28 you know, we're just so stressed out. 10:30 We're getting to the maximum level, 10:31 that you can just realize those symptoms 10:33 and say how can I help you, 10:35 you know, in a very one on one level. 10:37 Okay. 10:39 And the sooner we mitigate, that's a word we use a lot. 10:43 The trauma, whatever it is in life. 10:45 The sooner and quicker God has created us, 10:47 so we can rebound. 10:49 Be resilient and so, 10:52 what we're going to have fun with in the second part is, 10:54 we're going to role play something. 10:56 Typical church setting scenario that could happen 10:59 to any of our listening audience. 11:02 And how to mitigate it quickly. 11:04 How to reduce the stress like Autumn was talking about, 11:07 so that we can be resilient and healthy happy Christians. 11:10 Okay. Now, Acts World Relief, do you still have that? 11:14 No. Okay. 11:16 Now, it's ACTS 911 and ACTS GR3. 11:19 Correct. Correct. And you're the CEO of that. 11:22 Wonderful, but you said, you had about-- 11:24 Now, the 19 trucks or the 17 trucks 11:26 you talked about, do you still have that? 11:27 Yes, we have many of those trucks 11:29 located at Forest Lake Academy in Orlando, Florida. 11:32 But we have other kitchens in various places 11:34 in the country. 11:35 And so, that's to help churches 11:37 immediately mobilize school groups 11:39 in emergency response. 11:41 Uniquely enough though we have found over the years 11:44 that these two are very related. 11:48 When you help churches in natural disasters, 11:52 we spend years later 11:53 helping churches evangelistically reach out 11:56 because once they've helped them in time of need 11:58 churches grow exponentially. 12:00 So it's a first multiplier, when you're preparing 12:03 that church to now meet the needs and then they grow. 12:06 And that's what the ACTS 911 side as well. 12:08 Okay, so not only just giving. 12:10 I think in the Bible Jesus talks about 12:13 if there's someone who is destitute of food 12:15 and hungry and naked. 12:17 They would be more receptive to the gospel 12:19 if those needs were met first. 12:21 Jesus always loved to meet the needs of people first, 12:24 and then they were open to listening. 12:26 Tell us how you had received this impression of the Lord, 12:30 because, I know that anything that we do 12:31 is not something well, let me see 12:32 what else can I do in life? 12:35 But the Lord directs our hearts to fill a need 12:39 and that need is indelibly connected to the gospel. 12:43 It's not just an end in and of itself. 12:47 Talk about that, and then we want to lay the foundation, 12:49 so that our viewers at least, 12:51 we're gonna describe this for our listeners 12:53 but so our viewers could be able to understand 12:55 what they're about to see this short roll 12:57 in about two minutes. 12:59 And, but lay the foundation for that 13:00 so we could kind of begin to unpack the movie. 13:02 So the foundation is based on Acts 2. 13:04 When you read Acts 2, 13:06 you find that here the church is just growing exponentially. 13:10 There are ingredients 13:11 that will talk about that are very specifically clear. 13:15 We're gonna talk about four of those ingredients 13:17 but I pastored churches like yourself 13:19 that were very challenged. 13:20 I wanted God to lead me to churches 13:22 that were very challenged 13:24 and were going to cease to exist. 13:26 And how you could take a church 13:28 that was really closed its doors 13:29 even though a several million dollar edifice 13:31 was paid for entirely. 13:33 And yet, maybe only one family in the church, 13:35 the rest are retired. 13:37 And so, how to take that church within three years 13:40 so that it's now having five services on the weekend 13:43 filled with young people. 13:45 And the key is training as a resource tool, 13:48 laity finding out the strengths and talents 13:51 of your congregation, the people of that church. 13:54 Matching that 13:55 with what are the needs of my, of your community. 13:57 When you match those two together, 13:59 it becomes a vibrant church. 14:01 That's my passion, that's my joy. 14:04 Disaster started happening in Florida, 14:06 and since we are feeding people every week. 14:08 We were used to feeding, 14:10 we just started feeding thousands. 14:11 And so, it's to take that church growth strategy 14:14 and realize the gospel is very clear and simple. 14:18 Help the people that are hurting 14:19 and to realize it that when that's Holy Spirit driven, 14:24 it's a wonderful journey with God. 14:26 So, instead of answering questions 14:27 that people are not asking, because oftentimes we say, 14:30 well, we want to have this kind of series 14:31 or that kind of evangelistic outreach, 14:32 that kind of seminar. 14:34 And you ask about the relevance of it for the communities. 14:36 Sometimes people are not responding 14:38 because we're not giving answers 14:40 to the questions they're asking. 14:41 Or we're not filling a need that they have. 14:43 And we know in the consumer world, 14:46 the most successful formula 14:47 for getting a product into someone's home 14:50 is finding out what their needs are. 14:52 And so we wouldn't sell... 14:54 I just want to be kind about this. 14:56 We wouldn't sell farm equipment in Brooklyn, New York. 15:01 It wouldn't be relevant, but in this community it would. 15:03 We have to understand our people in our community. 15:05 Lay the foundation for this roll in 15:07 we're about to see. 15:08 Okay, so let's have a little fun 15:10 with four key principles. 15:12 Right. 15:13 The first principle according to Acts 2 15:16 is a principle that's very simple. 15:19 And that has to do with Christ centered 15:22 and Holy Spirit driven. 15:25 Every church has to begin with that 15:27 as their number one ingredient. 15:30 Are you Christ centered in everything that you do? 15:32 Are your ministries or your outreach, 15:34 are they all leading people to Christ? 15:37 If it's just a program, it's gonna die, 15:39 it doesn't have any meaning. 15:40 So, is it Christ centered? And is it Holy Spirit driven? 15:45 Because you and I can sit around cooking up new ideas 15:48 that the community needs to do for a new project. 15:51 But if it's not Holy Spirit driven, 15:52 it will cease to exist. 15:54 That's where the miracles happen. 15:56 We're gonna share some neat miracle stories 15:57 in these ministries in just a few minutes. 15:59 But, when you begin realizing, it's a God thing. 16:02 It's not us, it's not man made. 16:05 Right, you're just a conduit. Conduit. 16:07 So, in English the second C would be? 16:11 The Compassion. 16:13 And how important is, you know, 16:15 you've grown up in a lot of church growth 16:17 and been a part of a lot of community outreach. 16:20 How important would you see compassion 16:22 and relationships being a part of all this? 16:24 What's important about having compassion 16:26 is having those inter, those relationships 16:30 that are interpersonal. 16:32 The relationships that you have in the community 16:34 and in the church, 16:37 as you're able to have the relationships 16:40 in between the churches. 16:43 You're able to then go out into the community 16:45 and be able to serve them effectively. 16:48 Because when you have a compassionate heart, 16:50 you're able to see the needs a little bit more specifically, 16:52 that maybe our human eyes won't be able to see. 16:55 That's why important, 16:57 that's why it's important to have the Holy Spirit also 16:59 to be able to pray for that and say, you know. 17:02 Even though I love to glorify myself, 17:04 because we are humans, we all have that pride 17:07 that you know, the Holy Spirit. 17:09 We ask for that humility to, 17:11 to have that compassion for others. 17:13 You know, the Bible talks about the fact 17:15 that when Jesus saw the multitude, 17:16 He had compassion on them. 17:17 That's right, that's right. They knew it, they knew it. 17:19 And compassion gets involved. 17:22 Compassion gets down, pity looks down. 17:24 It's amazing you know, as I coached to many pastors 17:28 and church people. 17:31 If the pastor is not compassionate 17:33 with his own church members, he models that. 17:36 It's very difficult to get to the next level, 17:39 when we talk about community outreach. 17:42 You see, you have to develop a community that's the third C. 17:45 So, we find 17:47 that the first we talked about is Christ centered, 17:49 Holy Spirit driven. 17:50 The second one is what Autumn has just shared. 17:53 The third one has to do with community. 17:55 Community within you have to develop that 17:58 through the compassion she talked about. 18:00 If the pastor isn't modeling compassion to his members, 18:03 you have a little problem. 18:04 Because the church can only rise 18:06 as high as the pastor is demonstrating 18:08 that compassion as the leader. 18:10 And because then he model something 18:12 that the congregation begin saying, 18:14 "Wow, relationships are very important here." 18:17 So developing that community within. 18:19 Many times though, 18:21 churches are very dysfunctional as we know. 18:23 And so, you can't spend all of your time 18:25 like on mega churches 18:27 just talking about the community 18:28 and fellowship within. 18:30 You have to begin reaching out. 18:31 And many times, it's when we combine community within, 18:34 you become somewhat functional. 18:36 You're modeling, helping one another, 18:38 praying with one another caring. 18:40 But now, that begins spilling out to the community. 18:43 And so, now the community without you're finding 18:46 what are the community needs? 18:47 We're going to talk about a survey in a minute, 18:49 how you find it out? 18:50 But another is if you're identifying 18:52 the community needs. 18:53 And once you've done that, now your church community 18:56 begins reaching out to the community, 18:57 and it begins making sense. 19:00 And so that leads to that third community 19:03 and the fourth C is something that... 19:06 Sometimes we're resistant to this word. 19:10 And this last C is very important 19:13 because it's a changing world. 19:16 Exactly it's change. 19:17 You know, it's hard for us to be as humans 19:20 wanting to change because the situations around us 19:23 are constantly evolving. 19:24 And we need to be able to adapt to those situations, 19:27 so change is actually a biblical principle. 19:31 You know, as we're having in our relationships with God 19:34 as we're growing. 19:36 Everybody's growing, everyone's at a different level 19:39 that you have that change in your heart 19:41 that comes genuinely. 19:43 You know, some people will look at you in different ways 19:46 and say, "You need to change this. 19:48 You need to do that." 19:49 But if it's not, you know, God's driven, 19:52 that divine purpose won't be genuine. 19:55 So, let's get practical for a moment. 19:58 We as pastors sometimes 19:59 you were sharing with me earlier 20:01 about a tremendous thing that God is causing you to do 20:04 in your church having to think about our church plan. 20:06 What are we doing in this community? 20:08 But see we get to comfortable. 20:10 When it comes to change, 20:12 we as human beings all like to be comfortable, 20:14 kind of do the same thing over and over. 20:17 But I call it. 20:18 We call it different terms 20:20 but, you can call it institutional idolatry. 20:23 Another words you say, 20:25 we're going to keep doing it the same way, 20:26 my grandparents and five generations did it. 20:29 Whether it's the worship style, 20:30 whether it's the way you do things, 20:33 you just want to keep doing the same thing. 20:35 And that's where churches are dying. 20:37 So when the Holy Spirit is driving, 20:40 you are open to new ideas. 20:41 By beholding Christ, we become changed. 20:44 As a church community we're adapting now. 20:46 And that's why we had five different services 20:49 because we knew 20:50 that there are many needs in that community. 20:52 How can we design each service, that's meeting different needs? 20:55 We had to change. 20:57 I had to learn some Spanish, I had to preach in Spanish. 21:00 It's like whoa. Yeah! You preach in Spanish? 21:02 And so, another words that's a challenge. 21:06 But that's the parable to good Samaritan. 21:08 Jesus is saying, "When you see the needs, 21:10 are you ready to adapt?" 21:12 Thank the Lord. And then the church can grow. 21:13 We have Spanish translation at our church. 21:16 And matter of fact just this last service we had was, 21:20 I was saying to one of our leaders 21:22 who is practically alls. 21:24 Even our baby dedication was in Spanish. 21:26 So since they endured English at very Sabbath, 21:28 they can endorse Spanish this week. 21:30 But so, in this video roll, 21:32 then we're going to see these four models. 21:34 We're gonna see. 21:35 Actually going back in history, like you were talking about, 21:38 a little bit about Act World Relief. 21:40 How GR3? 21:41 What we've been doing 21:43 since some of our viewers haven't seen the Philippines 21:46 or Nepal response a lot of these things. 21:47 That's going to bring us up to speed. 21:49 Only two minutes on. Okay, bring you something. 21:51 Check out this video. 21:59 My name is David Cather, the founder and CEO 22:02 of what used to be Acts World Relief 22:05 which is now actually GR3 Inc, 22:07 which means Global Rescue Relief and Resilience. 22:11 So, you can find that on Facebook or on our website, 22:15 but a new exciting element of growth has to do it. 22:18 No, longer ACTS Road Relief but ACTS 911. 22:22 And so, ACTS 911 is all about active churches 22:26 that are serving, building relationships. 22:29 That's all about church growth strategy. 22:32 Finding people 22:33 and churches that want to grow through serving others. 22:36 It has to do about active churches 22:38 that love to reach out to their communities, 22:41 whether domestically or internationally. 22:44 I've really enjoyed that area as well as a former pastor. 22:47 Trying to help people understand that model, 22:49 it's all about serving one another in love 22:53 and developing relationships that causes church growth. 22:58 I've enjoyed training many pastors, 23:00 and psychologists, and world leaders 23:02 on church growth development, so that's ACTS 911. 23:05 Also we have GR3, 23:07 which is Global Rescue Relief and Resilience. 23:11 That's everything to have to do about responding 23:13 and recovering to over 100 global disasters 23:18 that we've been involved in over 3,000 volunteers. 23:22 So we want to give you that little update. 23:24 GR3 Inc, you can find on Facebook or our website. 23:28 And ACTS 911 just has to do about spiritual 23:32 and emotional psychological care 23:35 about church growth strategy. 23:38 If you want to find some exciting things 23:39 about either of those topics, go to one of those websites. 23:42 We've tried to separate the strength of each of them out 23:46 as God continues us to expand in the future. 23:54 Now, that was a summary of the ministry of ACTS. 23:58 Wonderfully connecting it to the Book of Acts, 24:01 the growth of the church 24:02 both spiritually and also community connection. 24:05 You talk about the exponential growth of the church. 24:08 There are number of facets that we saw just expand on. 24:13 I notice a lot of community outreach, 24:15 a lot of reaching out. 24:16 Tell us how easy that is to effect in a church. 24:21 It's actually very easy. 24:23 Once you understand the principle 24:26 of finding out what the community's needs are. 24:29 When you and I kind of grew up, 24:30 we were out with little surveys knocking on the doors, 24:33 trying to figure that out. 24:34 There're actually more efficient ways 24:36 and effective ways of finding out the community needs. 24:39 For example: You have... 24:42 You have a number of different resources 24:44 that you can find at ministerial association. 24:47 You can go over to the chamber of commerce. 24:49 I went to the judge as well. 24:50 And so basically I'm asking the judge I said, 24:54 "Can you describe to me, what do you believe 24:57 are the community's greatest needs?" 24:58 He says, "I'll tell you right up." 24:59 He says, "You're in a pretty affluent community 25:01 in Mount Dora. 25:03 And he said, 25:04 "Domestic violence, anger management." 25:06 And he says, "I have to court order people 25:08 to that every week rather than going to jail, 25:11 that's your other option." 25:13 And I said, "What if we signed up 25:16 and registered as a church 25:17 where you could court order them 25:19 to come to our church. 25:21 And we would have the correct certified people 25:23 the instructors lead out in domestic violence, 25:25 you know, anger management, domestic violence." 25:28 He said, "I would love that." 25:29 He said, because it has a Christ centered as it has. 25:32 It has a bigger picture that could help people, 25:36 you know, in the long run.. 25:37 And so, starting two months 25:39 after that little visit together. 25:41 Every month, he would court order 25:43 between 30 and 40 to come to our church. 25:45 Now, we got rid of the name Sabbath school. 25:47 Right. We call it the seminar time. 25:49 We had always a minimum of seven seminars going on. 25:53 And so, that's how easy it becomes, 25:55 I find the needs, match it up. 25:57 And now, your church begins meeting those needs 26:00 both within having seminars. 26:02 And we had people 26:04 that were challenged in our own congregation 26:05 with domestic violence, anger management. 26:07 And I put them in that class to help lead it, to teach it. 26:10 And so, ministries become very natural 26:14 and normal when you find out 26:15 what your community's needs are. 26:17 Are we meeting those needs? 26:19 It's evolving. Have you seen that? 26:21 Have you seen that-- 26:22 Now, having a dad with such a broad platform 26:27 of abilities and skills. 26:29 How has that impacted your life? 26:32 That's been so interesting. 26:33 Ever since I was little just, 26:36 I think I was at the church almost every day which-- 26:39 it just became my home, you know, 26:40 walking in the hallways and finding things to do. 26:43 I didn't get bored easily. 26:45 So, you know, it was just fun to find different things to do 26:48 and when I was seeing these seminars happening. 26:51 Now, that I'm older, he was telling me, 26:53 you know, the other day 26:54 that we had also a Spanish ministry, 26:56 and I said man, you know, 26:57 if I would have learned even Spanish earlier, 26:59 but just the different ministries that you can see 27:03 as you asked the chamber of commerce 27:05 or different people in the community 27:07 what their needs are specifically. 27:09 We had different plumbing, you know, ministries. 27:12 We had seminars, where you could teach people 27:14 how to do electrical things. 27:17 Different things like that. 27:19 You know, as a little girl 27:20 you're not able to see a lot of that. 27:22 But you're seeing a lot of people 27:23 from the community coming into the church, and saying, 27:26 "Wow, they're from all different, 27:27 you know, ranges of the community" 27:30 and that's a great thing to have. 27:31 I was just speaking to a couple of our leaders, 27:33 I mentioned that to you before the program I said, 27:36 here we have a wonderful facility 27:37 with a lot of classroom space. 27:39 What do you think would happen 27:41 if we'd cave after school programs 27:43 for people that want to learn Microsoft Word, 27:44 the beginning level? 27:45 Good, good. 27:47 What about for single parent, classes on single parent. 27:50 Do you think that that would be something 27:51 that is need in this community? 27:54 Yeah, what about all these graphic and video editors... 27:58 Terrific, terrific. 27:59 Things that are practical that are write down all I want. 28:01 What about somebody who wants to understand 28:03 how to set up a website? 28:05 You know, these are basic things 28:06 and I said in some cases 28:08 for just a minimal registration fee. 28:10 So that anything they invest 28:12 and they'll be more likely to come and attend it for-- 28:15 We changed our choir room into a computer lab 28:17 for just that. 28:19 Communities came and our young adults, 28:21 all taught them website design, windows, 28:24 how to work, all for free. 28:26 And so, you had finances 101, plumbing, electrical, 28:30 how to fix a leaky faucet, all that kind of stuff. 28:32 The most popular one that she was referencing 28:34 was on Friday night and Wednesday night 28:36 and that is English literacy. 28:40 It was always packed. 28:42 And so, every community has specific needs. 28:46 And so, when you tap into that like you're saying. 28:48 It's exciting in ministry in how the Holy Spirit 28:51 just drives it and you're meeting 28:54 and interacting people all the time and it's fun. 28:57 Now, a lot of times we do community surveys. 29:00 But let's talk about a church survey here. 29:03 You have one that you can share with us. 29:04 So, we're going to show on the screen 29:06 an example not by detail, 29:07 we're not going to go through the whole survey, 29:08 but there's 28 questions. 29:10 Okay. And on the survey. 29:12 For example, it's trying to have a church 29:15 understand its unique calling. 29:17 Every church is unique, because the members within that church. 29:20 We're talking about church members, 29:22 that's what a church is. 29:23 They have gifts, talents and uniqueness. 29:25 So, in other words, 29:27 we want to find out when we're coming in 29:28 as a consultant team with ACTS 911. 29:31 We want to help your church grow. 29:32 We want to help you identify your unique church's purpose. 29:37 And so, these 28 questions are designed in a way. 29:41 We're going to just choose three maybe for example. 29:43 And so, how your church rates in points, 29:48 whether you're going to be a growing church 29:49 or a dying church? 29:51 And so, let's, let's have fun with three little questions. 29:54 Now, I'm gonna, I'm gonna look at the sheet for just a minute. 29:57 Autumn has chosen three that she kind of liked. 30:00 And so, the first one is number five on the sheet 30:03 that you saw there. 30:05 Our congregation knows what the community's needs are 30:09 and meets them. 30:10 And the responses are from one to five. 30:12 One to five. 30:13 Five being very informed, one being ignorant. 30:16 Now, if it's one, you know, your church is out of touch. 30:20 And so, you're trying to prompt that church 30:22 with the right questions to have them think about things 30:24 for action steps afterwards. 30:26 So not only do you help go through the survey 30:28 with the congregation, but the action, 30:31 the outcome, the action plan afterwards. 30:35 You work with the church to say wow 30:37 and as you're going around with your leaders and members. 30:40 So, this survey is designed in that. 30:42 We've talked about five a lot, 30:43 actually so far meeting those needs. 30:45 Now, the next question that you've circled actually 30:48 is our doctrines are focused on God's love from one to five. 30:53 How do you find, 30:55 that's very important within a church congregation? 30:57 It's so important to just show God's love 31:00 I think our generation, 31:02 you know, wants to see the action. 31:04 We want to see something that's actually tangible. 31:07 And to say, okay, 31:08 how are we reaching these needs to the community 31:10 when we have so many internal problems. 31:13 You know, we have these problems that... 31:15 We have hypocrisy, 31:17 we have different things going on 31:18 that we want to see something tangible 31:20 so, you know, as we hear God's word in the church, 31:24 as we read God's word on our own. 31:26 You know, we want to do something and say, 31:27 "Okay, how can we do this." 31:29 And so focusing on God's love, 31:31 I think is the best way shown in through actions. 31:35 When she grew up kind of having fun with us. 31:37 Let's take the Sabbath for example. 31:39 Rather than focusing on the thou 31:41 shalt not do whatever and don't eat the following. 31:44 You focus on the positive. 31:46 God's love says, you know, 31:48 there's a special day that God blessed. 31:50 Do you like blessings? 31:51 So, you're focusing on the positive. 31:53 You're extenuating. Yeah. 31:54 Isn't that wonderful 31:56 that God has created us to be healthy, 31:57 the temple of God. 31:59 He wants us to be, he wants us to live long. 32:01 How can we do that? 32:03 Well, millennials love to hear that positive action. 32:07 Right. 32:08 And so, ACTS 911 is all about acts, 32:11 action, churches. 32:13 You want to be actively involved. 32:15 You want to look back at the Book of Acts and find out, 32:18 how can we become a vibrant church like that. 32:21 So the last question we'll have fun with. 32:23 This was 12 you've circled. 32:25 How we live is more important 32:28 than what we say as a congregation? 32:30 And I think that just, you know, 32:31 ties into the prior one number seven is, 32:35 you know, that we want to be able to see. 32:39 You know, we're saying so many things, 32:41 we hear a lot of things but when we see the action, 32:44 that's the most important thing. 32:45 The gospel in action. Yes. 32:47 Matter of fact, this is crazy. 32:50 I mean, I'm sitting here soaking this up, 32:51 I've been pretty quiet as an interviewer. 32:53 Lot of times I'm more interactive 32:55 and I'll become that in just a few moments 32:56 but I'm hearing my sermon play itself out, 32:59 the sermon I just preached, it's called the Deception. 33:02 And the deception was thinking, that what you say 33:05 and what you do has no impact on your salvation. 33:07 Yes. 33:08 And, you know, it's a comparison 33:09 between the Pharisee who said thank God, 33:11 I'm not like other men, and he began to accentuate 33:13 all of his doctrinal accuracies. 33:15 I tithe that everything I have, you know... 33:18 I keep the Sabbath. 33:20 And but the other one who was a tax collector says. 33:24 You know be, be merciful to me a sinner, 33:26 beating his breast and not feeling his worthiness. 33:29 And we can create a chasm between those who need 33:31 to be closer to Christ, and He stood afar off. 33:34 And with this concept, there are many in the community 33:37 that are far off, 33:38 because we are creating such an un-welcomed atmosphere 33:41 by our doctrinal... 33:44 Let me use this word here, by our doctrinal roadblocks. 33:48 Now doctrines are not roadblocks. 33:50 But the way you present them can become roadblock. 33:53 Want to just clarify that. 33:54 So I'm seeing that here that these things 33:58 that God has established to be a positive. 34:01 Yes. 34:02 Can become a negative based on how you present them. 34:05 How you present it. Right. 34:06 And when we're modeling God's love 34:08 and demonstrating that, 34:10 youth love to come to your church. 34:11 Okay. 34:13 We're kind a... 34:14 We'll show the viewers a third sheet. 34:16 This one is 101 ministries 34:19 of how that when you're understanding 34:21 the needs of your community, 34:22 and we're not going to go through all... 34:24 The acts of kindness one. Okay. The acts of kindness. 34:26 So, if you want to just show that sheet. 34:27 We're not going to go through them all 34:29 but we're going to maybe pick out 34:30 a couple miracle stories. 34:31 We called our church a one stop shop. 34:33 Okay. 34:34 And so, 101 acts of kindness that you're doing. 34:38 These are the seminars we've been talking about. 34:41 Every Sabbath, I'd stand in front of the people 34:43 and I'd say, "I'm praying for God 34:44 to give you a vision and a dream, 34:46 of what He's called you to do in a new ministry." 34:49 And literally, 34:50 the Holy Spirit would reveal that vision of the dream 34:53 to our members and our youth. 34:55 Who would say, well, what do you think about that? 34:57 So, as the finance committee, 34:59 we called it a visionary committee, 35:01 not a board meeting. 35:02 We said, give us a one, three and five your goal plan 35:05 has to how God has called you to this ministry. 35:07 Write out your financial plan. 35:09 We will help assist you, 35:11 because we want to guarantee success to your ministry. 35:13 So we would fund them once they turn that into us. 35:16 That's what these 101 ministries 35:18 became in our church. 35:19 These are just theory, 35:21 these are things we did in that church 35:22 and while it became five services. 35:24 Functional and practical. Okay. Very practical. 35:26 So one stop shop. 35:29 Yes, many years ago, Autumn and I were having fun 35:32 rehearsing this little bit talking about remembering it. 35:35 But I said, okay, we've been doing a lot of work 35:37 in this community we called it Oakwood. 35:40 As the ministerial president, I worked with a lot of pastors 35:43 and I asked them I said, 35:45 "How many of you working in Oakwood? 35:46 That's one of our low income areas, high crime." 35:49 And they said, "We stay out of there." 35:51 And I said, "That's the place we're going to target." 35:54 And so, we did ministries on Friday night, 35:56 on every Saturday. 35:57 Going out with Autumn and a lot of the youth. 36:00 Like a mini VBS, we called it kids' club. 36:04 And so, we're feeding the people in that community. 36:06 They're doing VBS. 36:08 They're singing, they're having all kinds of fun. 36:10 We had, we had our fellowship dinners out there 36:12 once a month. 36:13 So, we call it a one stop shop 36:15 because we bought, first of all the bus. 36:17 We started the community outreach center. 36:19 It grossed over million dollars the first year, 36:22 meeting people in the community, okay. 36:24 Now, how did you gross over a million dollars, 36:25 tell me about that? 36:27 It's like a glorified thrift store. 36:28 Okay. 36:30 And out of that thrift store, 36:31 people are giving you stuff, it's a great ministry. 36:33 Which one of these 101 ministries, 36:35 we have a whole training manual 36:37 on how to begin your own thrift store. 36:38 The thrift store became my second home. 36:42 And so, it's all about ministry though. 36:44 And building bridges through the things that we possess. 36:46 That's a model that the Book of Acts use 36:48 nobody consider anything to have to be their own 36:50 but it belong to everyone. 36:51 Now, at first the conference wasn't too excited at the idea. 36:54 They said, "You're kind of mixing business and church." 36:56 And I said, "No, no, hundreds are coming to you every day." 36:59 Okay. 37:00 Well, after the first year, after it was making good money 37:03 but impacting thousands. 37:05 The first year we helped over $600,000 in goods 37:08 to needy people burned out victims, mothers, 37:11 divorced on and on 37:13 and then the conference director came 37:14 and said, "I was against your brother, 37:17 but now I'm for you. 37:18 Can you develop your training menu." 37:19 I give him a lot of credit for that. 37:21 Because many times we have to be innovative 37:24 with the power of the Holy Spirit. 37:26 And so, now our church has money. 37:28 Money is coming in, and we said 37:29 we want to fund you in a new ministry. 37:31 So we called it a one stop shop church. 37:33 So, bought a bus, dual air conditioning, 37:37 picking up people from Oakwood, we called it. 37:39 Going down to the homeless camp, 37:41 if you came from the homeless camp three times 37:44 to join one of our seminars, we gave you a free tent. 37:47 The tenet said life changing ministries 37:49 Seventh-day Adventist Church. 37:50 Free tent? Okay. Free tent. 37:52 When they came to the church, we welcome, 37:54 our deaconesses welcome them. 37:55 We took their dirty laundry. 37:57 Took it back into a room 37:58 where they began washing and drying it 38:00 while they were in a seminar. 38:02 They finished one of the seminars 38:03 in finance 101 or whatever their thing was. 38:07 And then they came into the worship service. 38:10 They had a good hot meal after they were done. 38:12 So by the time they're getting back on the bus, 38:14 they got their laundry done, they got a hot meal. 38:17 They're learning things about the seminar 38:18 and had a wonderful time of worshipping. 38:20 They were joining our church. 38:22 We always had a different equation. 38:23 We had more nonmembers attending the members. 38:27 So, that's funny evangelism. That's good. 38:28 It's outreach evangelism. Right. 38:30 And so, anyway they came three times, 38:32 they got their free tent. 38:33 And you know, after a while I said, 38:34 you know, Lord, what I like to read in the bus, 38:37 that is not cool. 38:38 I mean it had air conditioning, 38:40 but for me it's just not, you know. 38:42 So, we bought our first limousine. 38:45 And we said, we're going to make our guests feel 38:46 like kings and queens come into this church. 38:49 Make them feel good. 38:50 Life changing ministries on the side of it. 38:52 So we got the first limousine. 38:54 We were sitting in one of our visionary meetings 38:57 during the week. 38:58 And I heard a knock on the door, 39:00 on outside door by my office. 39:02 And I opened the door 39:04 and an individual was there in a white suit. 39:07 He said, "I was driving by the front of your church 39:09 and the Holy Spirit spoke to me, 39:11 I have not stepped my foot in any church in over 20 years. 39:14 And he said, the Holy Spirit said, 39:16 "Stop in here, I don't know why I am here." 39:18 But he said, "I own a limousine company." 39:21 We invited him into our visionary meeting 39:23 and I said, "Do you know 39:24 at the beginning of this meeting, 39:25 we were praying about buying our second limousine." 39:28 But I said, "You walked in owning a limousine company." 39:32 He said, "Actually I was an Adventist 30 years ago." 39:35 And he said, "I haven't been in any church, 39:37 I went to another church. 39:38 Didn't find they were helping me." 39:40 But he said, "I know what you guys have been doing 39:42 in the community. 39:44 I've heard it, you're over there in Oakwood, 39:45 you're helping at different places." 39:47 And he said, "I was just wondering, 39:48 if I could help in, you know, what God has called you to do." 39:52 Get reconnected. 39:53 Reconnected, and I turned to the group and we applauded. 39:57 And they said, "This is a Holy Spirit thing. 39:59 This is a miracle thing." 40:00 I said, his name was Dr. Civic. 40:03 And I said, "Dr Civic, we would like to offer 40:06 giving you our first limousine, joining it to your fleet. 40:10 You're willing to pay an extra employee 40:12 and yourself to bring people 40:14 every Sabbath to our functions." 40:17 You know, it's cheaper to let you own it than us own it. 40:20 Okay. 40:21 You don't have to own it to enjoy it." 40:23 And so we gave him our limousine, 40:25 he joined it with his fleet. 40:26 He hired extra people to bring those people 40:28 and Autumn witnessed that for many years. 40:31 He would sit on the front, bringing people in, 40:33 he would make his little route. 40:36 He would go down the homeless camp, 40:38 went to Oakwood, went to different places. 40:39 We had a handicapped van that picked up people 40:41 who couldn't get there by wheelchair. 40:43 So people are coming, you know, 40:46 that's what this 101 ministry is about. 40:47 Wow, wow. 40:49 Now, did you have a graphic to talk about 40:50 the emotional and spiritual care? 40:53 We do. 40:55 And this is probably one of the fun things 40:58 that we enjoy doing. 40:59 That little graphic that you're going to see. 41:02 Once again only illustrates when we're coming in to train, 41:05 how emotional and spiritual care are vitally important. 41:10 Because people have traumas every day of their lives. 41:13 You want to try to mitigate that as quickly as possible 41:16 which simply means reduce the level of anxiety 41:20 as Autumn was talking about. 41:21 Now, chime in on that, Autumn. 41:23 And talk about the functionality of that 41:26 and the actual experience of putting that into practice. 41:28 The practicality of this survey is something 41:33 that's just important. 41:34 As you know, as scenario that we were mentioning earlier 41:37 to connect with people, to be able to direct them 41:40 when they're in shock. 41:41 You're not thinking clearly, so your mind is, 41:43 you know, either frozen. Everyone reacts differently. 41:46 So, in that experience that you're able to connect 41:50 with the person and to put your hand on their shoulder 41:52 and to say, I'm here for you, I'm not leaving you until, 41:56 you know, whatever situation he is through that 41:58 we can talk this through or even just presence. 42:01 You know, some people just need the presence, 42:03 the embrace to cover them, you know, with a blanket, 42:06 different things like that to practically to calm them down. 42:08 Sometimes not to say anything at all 42:10 but just to be there with them to hold their finger, 42:14 hand on the shoulder. 42:15 Would you like us to illustrate? 42:17 Sure, if you feel comfortable doing that. 42:19 Now, talking about that I know over a ministry 42:21 that there are some cases, where in homes, 42:23 where there's a trauma in the family. 42:25 Oh, yes. 42:26 And the child has to be removed 42:27 for this particular ministry that, 42:29 when they show up to, have the child removed, 42:31 they have a teddy bear. 42:33 They have a blanket, they have all those tools 42:35 that would bring comfort to the child. 42:37 And that child immediately grabs onto that toy, 42:41 that blanket and becomes somewhat 42:43 of an immediate comfort to them to know that 42:45 they're not just being put in a cold 42:47 calculated sterile environment, 42:50 where they're separated from the people that they love. 42:52 And then, they're welcomed in, I guess along that line. 42:55 So, you're bridging that something 42:57 they're familiar with in showing compassion, 42:59 building a relationship. 43:01 So, we're going to illustrate here 43:03 for example in a church setting. 43:05 This is happening more and more around the world. 43:07 Things that you would never expect, 43:09 but when you're not prepared for it, 43:13 it can be disastrous. 43:14 Let's say, we're in a church setting, 43:16 I'm not going to... 43:17 I'm not going to give you everything ahead of time. 43:19 But we're going to illustrate, 43:20 this is happening in a church setting now. 43:24 Offering has just been taken, okay. 43:27 And something happens as we're all ready to be 43:32 fed with a great spiritual thing. 43:34 But something far different Satan had in mind happens next. 43:38 That's something that, you know, 43:40 we can relate as 43:41 different terrorist attacks are happening, 43:44 to get back into the situation of, 43:46 you know, the offering has just been taken 43:48 and there's someone that comes in, 43:50 a robber wanting to get all of the money. 43:54 You know, whether it's Saturday, 43:55 whether it's whatever day. 43:57 People want money today. That's unfortunate in case. 44:00 That's true. 44:01 So, you know, they come in, and they, 44:03 you know, they have a gun. 44:05 And they say, "Okay, give me all the money." 44:07 And the members, can you imagine I mean, 44:10 seeing a gun, seeing money. 44:12 You don't know where your life is going at that point. 44:14 So let's say, I'm the pastor, okay? 44:16 You and I were up front now, this is just taking place. 44:19 What do you as a pastor do when all of a sudden 44:22 this began spiraling as it were out of control? 44:26 You faint. 44:27 And that's very real. Fainting. 44:30 Go into shock, because remember up to 70 percent of people 44:34 have no medical conditions at all. 44:36 They go into shock and can die. 44:38 Just over the trauma, just over the stress. 44:42 So, we're going to role play this a little bit. 44:43 Okay. 44:45 And let's see how we can help at the stress level. 44:48 She is going to be the ballistic member. 44:51 You always have the screamers. 44:53 You gonna be able to. 44:54 And I try not to scream too much into the mike. 44:56 All right, go ahead. 44:58 Oh, my goodness! 44:59 What is this person doing? 45:01 He wants to take the money. 45:02 He takes all is right here beside me. 45:04 What do I do? 45:05 Hello, my name is David. 45:07 And what is your name? 45:08 Penelopi. 45:10 Penelopi? 45:11 Yes. 45:12 Penelopi, I know you're asking a very good question. 45:14 You've just seen something very terrible happen. 45:17 But, you know, 45:18 there's something we do as a church, 45:20 it's called a comprehensive emergency management plan 45:22 how to help. 45:24 Okay, so there's a plan? What's the plan? 45:25 We have a plan, and the plan I'm gonna share 45:27 with you is that we have drills, 45:28 that we do in our church family. 45:30 Okay. 45:31 And so, the beautiful thing about it is 45:33 that the terrorists have just left. 45:35 And so, they're out, 45:36 we have some deacons out there dealing with that issue. 45:39 911 has been called. 45:40 Okay. 45:41 The police are coming. 45:43 But we're right now about to file out 45:44 in a very orderly way. 45:46 And so, follow our queue leaders now. 45:49 We're going to go out the side door, 45:50 not the door that the terrorists 45:52 has just left out of. 45:53 We're going to make our way out the side door. 45:55 Everybody is going to go out quickly but in order. 45:59 Do you understand what I'm trying to share with you? 46:02 I'm trying to understand yes, 46:03 that I just want to get out of here. 46:05 Now, Autumn, I want to let you know. 46:07 I'm going to be with you. 46:08 I'm not going to leave you. Okay? 46:10 And we're going to provide resources with you, 46:12 to help support you in this time of need. Okay? 46:14 Okay. all right. 46:16 So, so it helps you to understand. 46:19 Now, let's go into the spiritual part. Okay? 46:21 That was, that was an amen. Praise the Lord. 46:24 Now, here's where it gets fun though the spiritual part. 46:27 Autumn, do you like blessings? 46:29 Of course like everybody. 46:31 You know, God is so good. 46:33 And what I would like to ask right down Autumn is, 46:38 would you like me to pray a prayer 46:40 blessing with you before we go out. 46:43 I would like that very much. 46:45 Lord, I want to thank you, 46:46 that you're with Autumn right now. 46:48 That You're here, You have promised 46:50 never to leave her or forsake her. 46:53 And, Lord, I want to give you thanks 46:55 that you are a God who loves to be strong with her. 46:59 And that you're with her right now, 47:00 healing her physically, emotionally, 47:03 and spiritually in Jesus' name, amen. 47:05 Amen 47:06 Now, the beautiful thing about. 47:07 Many people feel awkward about the spiritual part, 47:09 how do we get to the spiritual part 47:11 in disaster response or in the situation. 47:14 I've never in thousands of times 47:16 I've prayed with people in time of disasters 47:17 or needs everyday in their life. 47:19 We all like blessings, you see. 47:21 And so, you don't just say, 47:23 "I'm going to pray with you." 47:25 That can create a fuss. 47:26 Right. 47:27 You don't push yourself or you don't say, 47:29 notice I didn't say, 47:30 "I'm going to pray over you." 47:32 That sounds like last rites. 47:34 But you're asking permission, can I pray with you? 47:37 A prayer of blessing. 47:38 There's all kinds of wonderful promises 47:41 that come out now in that prayer. 47:43 You try to keep mentioning their name. 47:45 Once again, you've told them at the beginning, 47:47 you're going to be with them, you're not going to leave them, 47:49 just like you prayed in the prayer. 47:51 Jesus promised, He'll never leave us or forsake us. 47:54 You know, I had that-- 47:55 I had that one example on a plane. 47:59 On 9/11 September 2001 coming from London. 48:05 When I lived in California, my wife and I were there 48:07 and they made the announcement about the incidents 48:09 in the World Trade Center, and also in Washington D.C. 48:13 and there was lady sitting right in front of us 48:15 on this Boeing 777 United Airlines, 48:18 we were being rerouted. 48:20 And she immediately burst into tears. 48:22 Similar to well, that was really good. 48:26 But she was in trauma because she said, 48:28 my son works in that building. 48:30 And I was sitting right behind her 48:31 and I said, "My name is", introduced myself 48:35 Good, good. Pastor. 48:36 Yes. 48:38 I like to, you know, 48:39 I just spoke with her calmed her, is that okay, 48:40 if I prayed with you? 48:42 And in short I know what you're going through, 48:45 I worked in that building. 48:46 I have family in New York, I understand where he is, 48:48 and you know in just a matter of minutes, 48:51 she was calm, she stopped deep breathing, 48:54 she stopped hyperventilate 48:55 and I said, "It's going to be just fine." 48:57 So if you can imagine in a church setting. 48:59 We've been rerouted to a safe place, 49:01 we're in no immediate danger. 49:02 And I'm sure that those who are on the site 49:04 will make sure that things are okay with him. 49:06 So let's say, you're a leader in the church 49:08 and something bad is happening in the whole congregation. 49:10 The sooner you can intervene, mitigate the situation, 49:13 lower the stress level with a plan. 49:15 Now you know, tragically enough I asked many churches. 49:18 Do you have an emergency response plan? 49:21 Most of them do not. That's tragic. 49:23 You need to be going through drills things, 49:26 tornados could hit your church. 49:29 You know, something bad can happen. 49:30 But when people understand there's a plan. 49:33 That's a resource tool. 49:35 And so remember once again. 49:38 If stress is not reduced, they can go into shock. 49:41 Now, Autumn, told me her name 49:42 and she was answering questions. 49:44 Or I would have continued asking her other questions. 49:47 If she missed two out of three of my questions, 49:49 she's going into shock. 49:50 And then I'm gonna kick, 49:52 I'm gonna move into a medical mode. 49:54 I'm going to ask other helpers to come, 49:56 other ladies at this point. 49:58 You know, I'm going to signal them to come over. 50:00 They're gonna help lay Autumn down. 50:01 They're going to elevate her legs. 50:03 Very simple things that can help prevent her 50:05 from going into shock. 50:07 So we can deal with these things 50:08 quickly in a very orderly way. 50:11 Well, I mean this is, 50:13 you're talking about things that are not normal. 50:16 When I say not normal, let me use another phrase 50:19 and I think this is a good way to use it. 50:21 A new normal the church needs to have 50:23 There you go. There you go. 50:24 That we talked about that prior to the program, 50:25 because many of these things are not really addressed. 50:28 Yes. 50:29 It's almost a situation where the, 50:30 where the trauma happens with the perpetrators 50:33 present has taken. 50:35 Whatever he has come to take in 50:37 or whatever he has come to take. 50:38 And now, it's kind of a run for your life situation. 50:41 Yes, and the word you just used... 50:42 Let's just get out. 50:43 Normal is so important psychological first aid. 50:45 We're creating a new normal in the church setting, 50:48 so that, they see themselves as a growing vibrant church. 50:51 Doing ministries outreach service, 50:53 that's a part of the new normal. 50:55 You know, just to reaffirm, sorry, 50:57 I did mean to cut you but as you're saying, 51:00 you know, this new normal that as a person is 51:02 realizing their, their emotions 51:04 and everything then to say, what you're feeling is normal. 51:08 Not to help them to say, 51:09 "Oh, no, you're acting a little too much," you know. 51:12 Calm down, or stop doing or stop yelling. 51:15 Yeah. 51:16 Right because it exacerbates the situation 51:18 when they really going through the trauma. 51:19 This is the point that is excellent 51:21 she has brought out here. 51:23 What you are experiencing right now is very normal 51:27 for the situation you've just gone through. 51:29 When you keep using that word normal with them. 51:31 It's amazing how God has made us to be resilient. 51:35 If you've just experienced somebody dying, 51:37 a suicide, somebody is ready to commit suicide. 51:40 As a teenager, 51:41 we have many teenagers role-playing this. 51:43 What, when you're talking to this other teenager. 51:46 What you were experiencing, 51:47 what you have described to me is very normal 51:50 for what you have been through. 51:51 The quicker you can cause somebody to realize 51:54 this is a normal reaction to an abnormal situation 51:58 our stress begins going down. 51:59 Right, because in many cases people think 52:01 that the natural response would be. 52:05 "Boy, they just lost it." 52:07 And you should have seen it, these people just off the wall, 52:11 they started crying, they were just, 52:12 some are screaming, 52:13 some are running for their lives. 52:15 This place went crazy when in fact, 52:17 these are the traumatic responses 52:18 to traumatic situations. 52:20 Now, something else you did, 52:21 you have two books in front of you. 52:23 I'd like to take some focus on that one in English. 52:27 Do we have a graphic up of this? 52:29 Don't know if they found it. 52:31 We've shown it once before 52:33 but the amazing thing is this book 52:35 actually First Response. 52:37 They can see it there, is something that is dynamic 52:41 when it comes to church growth strategy. 52:44 Because in other words, 52:45 they learn a lot of these ministries 52:47 that we've been sharing today 52:48 how I can encourage them to that new normal. 52:51 How church can be fun 52:52 but the interesting thing is in Spanish. 52:54 Okay. 52:55 This book has outsold that one two times to one. 52:58 Wow! 52:59 Now, you can get these books through 53:00 Amazon digitally all the rest of it. 53:03 But the amazing thing is, 53:04 is we're trying to create resources to you 53:06 as a church member. 53:08 How you can truly begin to have fun 53:11 in church growth strategy. 53:13 Let your church grow. 53:15 Become the 20 percent that are growing. 53:18 And so, we'd like to guarantee an ACTS 911, 53:21 that every church who when we close will share 53:25 how you can become a partner or become a part of that. 53:27 But in other words, we want to guarantee 53:28 church growth to every church, 53:30 that becomes a part of ACTS 911. 53:31 Wow! Wow! 53:33 And how long have you roughly been in existence? 53:36 So, ACTS 911. 53:38 As a pastor ACTS 911 as two years. 53:42 And so GR3 ACTS World Relief all of that came out, 53:44 until we kept having more and more requests by pastors 53:47 and churches to say train us, 53:49 how to grow in the community? 53:51 In Peru many different countries they say, 53:53 "Please don't, don't do the medical part. 53:55 Just train us, we're church leaders, 53:57 we want our church to grow." 53:59 And so, we found that there was-- 54:01 the Holy Spirit was drawing us 54:02 to develop this ministry ACTS 911. 54:04 So, we spent a lot of time now focusing on 54:07 just that ministry by experienced people 54:11 that can come in to be a train, 54:12 the trainer to your congregation, 54:13 a coach in helping you grow. 54:15 You know, I want to make the information available 54:17 to our audience, our viewers and our listeners 54:19 so that they could know. 54:20 This is a tremendous program. 54:22 I've learned a philosophy. 54:24 You learn more when you speak less. 54:26 So, I've spoken less today, 54:27 so I could glean quite a bit from this program. 54:30 Very, very well put together. 54:32 But not only in the sense of a wonderful idea. 54:35 But a strategy that's supported by the Bible. 54:38 These are the Acts that were working out 54:40 in the New Testament Church. 54:42 That's why they grew from the day of Pentecost 54:44 to 3000 then 5000 then the exponential growth 54:48 was something that they experienced. 54:49 And what we're hearing today, 54:51 Pastor David Canther and Autumn Canther 54:53 also saying that, this could be the experience 54:55 in your church, in your community, 54:58 so here's the information that you need 55:00 if you'd like to invite them. 55:02 ACTS 911 offers long term community building remedies 55:07 and include quick responding diagnosis, 55:09 practical knowledge, and resources for growth. 55:12 If you like to support this ministry, 55:14 you can do so by writing to ACTS 911, 55:19 600 Citrus Avenue, Ft. Pierce, Florida 34950. 55:24 That's ACTS 911, 600 Citrus Avenue, 55:28 Ft. Pierce, Florida 34950. 55:31 You can call 941-504-2324. 55:35 That's 941-504-2324. 55:39 You can also visit them online at acts911.org. 55:43 That's acts911.org. 55:48 Well, as you know our time comes and goes 55:50 so quickly, but I don't want you to leave 55:52 without this wonderful story of how the Lord works 55:55 through this ministry. 55:56 Autumn, tell us that story real briefly here. 55:59 The story what I remember 56:01 when I was little is there is a lady called Sandy, 56:04 and she was in the hospital but on her last, 56:07 you know, moment of life she had AIDS. 56:09 And so, she was you know, 56:11 just suffering from that and asking for prayer, 56:14 she was in the last moments. 56:17 So, we were able to sing and to pray with her. 56:20 And we prayed with her 56:21 just asking God to heal her with that child like faith. 56:25 I don't know how old I was, but just that moment 56:29 where we prayed with her, 56:30 she was able to actually come back to the church 56:32 and to testify that God had healed her in that moment. 56:36 So when we have that faith to, 56:38 you know, just pray over people and to say, 56:40 you know, this is not about me, 56:42 it's about God for him to be able to give that testimony 56:46 to encourage the church and to say, 56:48 "This is where God is working, it's inside of our church." 56:50 And she lead out in the AIDS ministry 56:52 after her healing. 56:53 Which she understands better than a normal individual. 56:56 Well, David, thank you for being here and, 56:58 Autumn, thank you for being here. 56:59 But just one more program note. 57:00 You can also become an active monthly supporter 57:03 and ambassador with this ministry ACTS 911, 57:07 by going to the website and financially monthly support 57:11 so that other people around the world can be blessed, 57:14 as well as in your local community. 57:16 Thank you so much for being here David, 57:18 Autumn thank you for being here. 57:20 And, friends, thank you for all that you do for this ministry. 57:22 Thank you continue praying for 3ABN 57:24 and one day your acts of kindness 57:27 will result in somebody being in the kingdom. 57:30 God bless you. |
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