Participants: Greg Morikone (Host), Nelson Ernst
Series Code: TDY
Program Code: TDY017002A
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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 00:29 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. 01:06 Hello and welcome to another 3ABN Today program. 01:09 My name is Greg Morikone. 01:11 And thank you so much for joining us as you do, 01:14 each and everyday it's a blessing 01:16 to be able to come into your living room 01:18 or maybe you're driving in the car 01:19 and you're listening on the radio. 01:21 Thank you for your prayers and support 01:24 of the ministry of 3ABN. 01:26 It's because of course, the Lord Jesus Christ 01:28 at this ministry is in existence 01:29 but it's also because of you, 01:31 your prayers and your financial support, they mean a lot to us. 01:35 And thank you for standing with us through all the years, 01:37 you know, what's that open as plain. 01:39 We're sitting here in the 3ABN Today studio 01:42 and I love that song, 01:44 "I want to spend my life mending broken people." 01:48 And today we have a wonderful update on what GLOW is about 01:54 and I want to, well, in a minute, 01:56 you're gonna find out what GLOW is all about. 01:57 But it's really an update, several years ago 01:59 Nelson Ernst was here 02:02 and you were telling us about what GLOW is all about. 02:04 And so today is an update on that 02:06 and some new and exciting stories, 02:08 but you have the opportunity at home 02:12 of mending broken people and we will tell you how 02:14 through the ministry of GLOW. 02:17 I want to turn to a scripture here before we get started. 02:21 And it comes from Isaiah 55, Isaiah 55, 02:27 and hopefully if you have your Bible 02:29 you're turning there as well. 02:30 Isaiah 55, starting with verse 10 and going to 11. 02:34 It says, "For as the rain comes down, 02:36 and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, 02:39 but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth 02:42 and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, 02:46 and bread to the eater." 02:48 It's a good verse, verse 11, 02:50 "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: 02:54 it shall not return unto me void, 02:57 but it shall accomplish that which I please, 03:00 and it shall prosper in the thing 03:02 where to I sent it." 03:04 Now today we're gonna be talking about 03:06 spreading God's word around the world. 03:10 And the opportunity you have of spreading it 03:12 and we're going to hear some amazing stories 03:14 of what God has done through the ministry, 03:16 through the ministry of GLOW. 03:18 Now recently, Jill and I were in particular city in Texas 03:24 and we had to take an errand to Walmart, 03:28 we're on a trip for 3ABN. 03:30 So Jill and I went to Walmart, 03:31 picked up the items that we needed, 03:33 and when we came outside and headed to the rental car, 03:37 I noticed something in the, in the door handle of the car. 03:42 And I reach to my pocket here 03:44 and hopefully not cause a mike issue. 03:47 And this is what I found something very similar to this. 03:50 This is probably kind of hard to see 03:52 but this is a GLOW tract. 03:55 It was rolled up kind of like this 03:57 and it was sitting right in the door handle. 03:59 And Jill and I, we looked at each other and we said, 04:02 somebody an Adventist most likely was here, 04:05 passing out literature. 04:07 And we were so excited. 04:08 It kind of makes you feel, you know, 04:10 up again part of that team of those 04:12 that are spreading the gospel around the world. 04:13 And so someone was out there putting these little tracts, 04:16 planting those little seeds, 04:18 as we're reading about here in Isaiah. 04:21 God's word is being put forth and He promises, 04:23 this is a promise that it will not return void. 04:27 Isn't that exciting? God is good, isn't He? 04:29 We hope that you've had a great week, a great day, 04:32 whatever you're doing. 04:33 I know we have here at 3ABN because God is good 04:36 and it's always a blessing to be able to serve Him. 04:39 Now before we talk here with Nelson regarding GLOW, 04:43 we enjoy music, I hope you do too. 04:45 And the song that we're gonna hear 04:47 is from the "Hallelujah, We're Home at Last" project 04:50 and we're going to listen 04:51 to Pastor John Lomacang as he brings us a song 04:53 "Until Then". 05:13 My heart can sing 05:18 When I pause to remember 05:27 A heartache here 05:32 Is but a stepping stone 05:41 Along a trail 05:46 That's winding 05:48 Always up above 05:54 This troubled world 06:00 Is not my final home 06:08 So until then, 06:13 My heart will go on singing 06:22 Until then, 06:27 With joy I'll carry on 06:35 Until the day 06:41 My eyes behold the city 06:49 Until the day 06:54 God calls me home 07:22 The things of earth 07:26 Will dim and lose their value 07:35 When we recall 07:40 That they're borrowed for a while 07:48 And the things of earth 07:54 That cause my heart to tremble 08:01 Remembered there 08:07 Will only bring a smile 08:16 So until then 08:21 My heart will go on singing 08:30 Until then 08:34 With joy I'll carry on 08:43 Until the day 08:48 My eyes behold that city 08:56 Until the day, 09:03 Until that day 09:10 Until that day, 09:15 Glorious day 09:21 Until the day 09:27 When my eyes behold that city 09:35 Until the day 09:40 God calls me home 09:49 Until the day 09:56 God calls me 10:06 Home 10:28 Amen. Praise the Lord. 10:30 Amen. 10:32 Wow, thank you Pastor John. 10:34 What a powerful song, ''Until Then''. 10:37 To what a blessing, isn't it? 10:38 We look forward to heaven and the earth made new, 10:41 so while we're passing through this old earth full of sin, 10:45 we have the opportunity of spreading Jesus' love 10:48 and joy around the world, 10:50 but also to our neighbor 10:51 those in the cities and towns around us. 10:54 And again if you're just now joining us, 10:56 we're going to be talking about GLOW. 10:58 Now this is an update for those of you that already know 11:01 what GLOW is, some of you may not even know 11:03 what GLOW is and you say, "What is GLOW?" 11:05 You know, you hear of glowworms, 11:08 I remember as a kid we had these glow sticks, 11:10 that you kind of break them and then the chemical reaction, 11:12 they glow in the night. 11:13 But we have someone here with us today, 11:16 his name is Nelson Ernst. 11:18 And you're the director of GLOW ministries. 11:21 Welcome, we're glad that you're here. 11:23 Thank you. 11:24 Tell us a little bit about what GLOW is, 11:26 because someone may say, "What is GLOW?" 11:27 So tell us what GLOW is and how GLOW started? 11:29 Yeah, good. Thank you for having me here. 11:32 It's a blessing. 11:33 So what is GLOW? 11:35 It's basically a ministry where we're trying to encourage 11:39 believers to carry small literature with them 11:42 wherever they go in their pockets and in their purses, 11:45 so that they can give that literature away, 11:48 when God opens up a good conversation 11:51 or divine appointment 11:52 and maybe even the grocery store line or at a gas station. 11:55 So that's what it is and we have people 11:58 all over the world now passing out these pieces of literature. 12:01 So I have a question for you, Nelson. 12:02 I'll bet you, you have some GLOW tracts in your pocket, 12:05 kind of put you on the spot. 12:07 You have some in your pocket right now? 12:08 Yes, of course. 12:10 So reach in your pocket and pull them out. 12:11 I want you guys to see at home. 12:12 I pulled one out earlier but in case, you didn't see it, 12:14 this is amazing because these tracts are small. 12:17 Right here. There you go. 12:18 Actually this one right here is German. 12:20 Okay. I can't read German. 12:22 Yeah, well, I can't read it very well either. 12:23 My wife is from Germany, so I do know some but... 12:25 Yeah, fantastic. 12:27 And then this one is obviously English. 12:29 So tell us how GLOW got started and what does GLOW stand for 12:31 'cause it's a G-L-O-W. 12:35 Yeah. 12:36 And that's... 12:37 Yeah, it's an acronym. It is. 12:39 And so it stands, GLOW stands for Giving Light to Our World. 12:40 Okay, say it again, Giving Light to Our World. 12:44 Fantastic. 12:46 Yeah, and that's based off of Revelation 18:1, 12:49 where you see the fourth angel coming down 12:51 and he lightens earth with his glory. 12:54 And we're told from Ellen White 12:55 that a large portion of that message 12:58 that goes out at the end of the world 13:00 is going to be done through our publishing houses. 13:01 That's right. 13:03 So here you have a picture of, you know, of course, 13:04 everyday church members, 13:06 giving away literature and books 13:08 from our publishing houses 13:09 and it's helping enlightening the world. 13:11 So that's, you know, 13:13 kind of what the GLOW acronym stands for. 13:15 So okay. 13:16 So a GLOW started a number of years ago, 13:18 tell us, you know, what year, but where you just like in bed 13:21 and then all of a sudden woke up one morning said, 13:23 "Oh, this is what I'm supposed to do, a GLOW tract." 13:27 Tell how you got this vision and when? 13:30 Well, back in 2007, we had, 13:33 I was working for the Central California Conference 13:36 and in the literature ministries department. 13:39 And in Central California, 13:41 every year they have a camp meeting 13:43 where they take up a large evangelism offering. 13:45 And that particular year they had an evangelism offering 13:48 which came in and it was over $3 million. 13:51 Three million dollars for evangelism. 13:52 For evangelism. 13:54 Wow. Right. 13:55 And so the conference president, 13:56 he wanted some ideas on how to use this money. 13:59 I mean, it's great problem to have, right? 14:01 So through some conversations that happened, 14:04 he eventually ended up coming to our department 14:06 with the suggestion and he said, 14:08 "I want you guys to try and do some research and development, 14:11 to try and come up with a literature ministries program 14:15 for adults." 14:16 In other words, we already had a strong program 14:18 going for the kids. 14:19 During the summer, 14:20 they would go out door-to-door and sell books. 14:22 Oh, yeah. 14:23 I was involved in some of that working my way through college. 14:24 There you go. There you go. You know about it. 14:27 And that's a great ministry, 14:28 but it's not necessarily ministry 14:30 which works well for adults, and so you know, 14:34 he charged us with this commission to go 14:37 and try and figure out how we can get adults doing it. 14:40 And you know, at the time I happen to be living 14:42 in a renovated garage, I was a bachelor, 14:44 you know, eating my Top Ramen. 14:46 Yeah, okay. 14:47 From the ABC of course. It can be kind of rough, right? 14:49 Yeah. 14:51 And I didn't have, you know, anything to do but you know, 14:56 be at home and think about these kind of things and work. 14:58 Sure. What a challenge. 15:00 Yeah, well. 15:02 So I started studying Ellen White's writings 15:04 specifically the book called Publishing Ministry, 15:06 trying to figure out are there any ideas that we can glean 15:08 from this book on how we could get adults 15:11 to do literature evangelism. 15:12 And through prayer and immersing yourself 15:13 in Ellen White's writings, you just get these ideas 15:17 that keep you up at night. 15:18 And that's where the blueprints for the program came out of. 15:21 And I like to say that really the reason for the success 15:24 of this program is not because of the people who are involved, 15:26 it's not because we have PhDs and we're very talented people, 15:31 but it's because we try our best 15:33 to base the blueprints of this program 15:36 off of the Spirit of Prophecy 15:38 and the council that God has given us 15:40 and God is able to bless that. 15:42 So that's how it started, the blueprint started there. 15:45 We kicked it off the program in our first church 15:48 where we talked to these church members about 15:49 how to pass out literature in everyday life, 15:52 soon word spread, and we had churches lined up, 15:55 soon word spread further, we had conferences lined up 15:58 and very soon after that we had about 22 conferences 16:00 within a couple of years that had begun this program 16:04 in the United States and then people internationally started 16:07 hearing about it and it just, it's just constantly expanding. 16:10 So okay. 16:12 So the initial then printing was how many? 16:16 Well, I think that... 16:18 let me say first, when we first started a church 16:20 we didn't even print customized tracts, 16:22 we just went to the ABC, the local Adventist book center 16:25 and picked up a bunch of tracts and magazines 16:28 and project restore and just went with collated packets 16:31 to get to the church members. 16:33 But eventually we got to the point 16:34 where Pacific Press said to us, 16:35 "Hey, we hear you're doing this project. 16:37 Why don't you begin to work with us to print 16:38 your own customized tracts?" 16:41 And I don't know maybe our first order was, you know, 16:44 maybe 100,000 tracts that we printed with them. 16:47 But today by God's grace in United States alone, 16:52 we're printing 1.6 million tracts every month 16:54 and we've printed about 73 or 74 million tracts. 17:00 Okay, that's a lot. You said how many a month? 17:02 About 1.6 million. 17:04 Okay, so then that means you're probably getting 17:06 a huge inventory stacked up in some warehouse 17:09 somewhere that you know, all these tracts are sitting 17:11 because that's to me, is it possible to pass out 17:13 that many or what's going on with that many of that 17:14 you're printing every month? 17:16 No, the conferences that are involved 17:17 they typically don't like to have a lot of, you know, 17:19 inventory in their warehouses sitting around so. 17:21 Amen. That's good. 17:22 As you probably understand here at 3ABN, 17:24 so the reason why we print the tracts 17:25 is because people are passing them out. 17:27 So you know, when I say we're printing 17:29 1.6 million what that means is that 17:31 1.6 million are leaving our doors 17:33 and being distributed in the United States. 17:36 But of course, that's very small 17:37 compared with what's going to happen very soon here 17:39 as the world church is beginning to pick up on it. 17:41 I mean, we've had one division alone tell us that 17:44 they're planning on printing a 100 million a year 17:47 of these tracts and which is going to completely 17:49 dwarf what we're doing. 17:50 Not that it's a competition thing, but just to show, 17:52 you know, what God can do in other parts of the world. 17:55 Wow, yeah, that's absolutely amazing. 17:58 You said, just going back just a little bit you said, 18:00 that in the very beginning you had, 18:02 was it churches lining up and then conferences lining up. 18:04 What do you mean by lining up 18:06 because I need for you to describe what, you know, 18:08 'cause, you know, I don't always know all these things, 18:10 so what this program is all about? 18:12 So those at home you're home they say, what does he mean? 18:14 What is this program? 18:16 And how does GLOW work? 18:18 Well, you know, honestly there's not much to explain. 18:20 I mean, when we go to a church you know, 18:22 we give, it's a very simple presentation 18:25 of our ways and ideas, practical ideas 18:28 on how to pass out literature in everyday life. 18:30 Okay. 18:31 I'll say for example, when a credit card offer 18:33 comes your way and you got inside 18:34 that prepaid written envelope, you know. 18:37 Rather than throwing that away, 18:38 stick a piece of literature in it and send it back, 18:39 it's free evangelism money you know. 18:41 People, they just love that idea. 18:43 In fact, every time we get done with one of these sermons, 18:45 people come up to me and they say, 18:46 "Hey, I got this idea for how I can do literature 18:49 in my own life that I had never even thought of." 18:52 Like this woman came up to me one time after church 18:55 and she said, "Hey, I've got this great idea. 18:57 I'm a policewoman and when I arrest people 19:00 and I put them in jail, 19:02 we put all their personal items, all their clothing 19:04 and everything into what we call a personal item bag." 19:06 She says, "Well, I'm going to put GLOW tracts 19:07 in the personal item bags," you know. 19:09 So hey, creative idea, I would have never thought of that, 19:12 never been a policeman so. 19:14 Yeah, no, me neither. 19:15 Yeah, we were picked up at the airport recently 19:19 and the driver was Bobby, he's a 3ABN employee. 19:24 And the person that was, you know, 19:26 waving the traffic into the airport 19:28 to pickup passengers. 19:29 Bob rolled down the window and said, "Hey, 19:31 I want to say thank you so much 19:33 for doing a good job, here you go. 19:34 And I think he handed them an actual GLOW tract, 19:36 I'm sure it was a GLOW tract. And said, here you go. 19:37 Thank you, good job. And she said, oh. 19:40 You know, of course, they appreciated being appreciated. 19:42 And gladly accepted the piece of literature. 19:45 I hadn't thought about using the envelope though 19:48 and a credit card offer etcetera. 19:50 Even if you pay bills, if you use a check still, 19:52 you can put it in with your check. 19:54 They send back to utility company etcetera. 19:56 Absolutely. Creative ways of witnessing. 19:57 Yeah, church members come up 19:58 with a lot of different creative ways. 20:00 Not necessarily ones that I recommend... 20:01 Okay. 20:03 But you know, they come up with interesting ways. 20:04 I recently heard a story of an academy student 20:08 up in Canada, who was at the Great Mall 20:11 or the Edmonton Mall. 20:13 And he was with two of his buddies and they were bored. 20:15 And so he got an interesting idea. 20:17 He said, "Hey, friends come in and watch this." 20:19 So he goes to the second floor of the mall 20:21 and he drops a GLOW tract, just down to the first floor, 20:25 just to see what would happen. 20:26 You know, maybe somebody will pick it up 20:27 off the floor or something. 20:29 And as the tract is falling through the ground, 20:33 a woman walks out from underneath 20:34 that he hadn't seen and she opens up her purse. 20:36 You know, where that tract went? 20:38 Right into her purse. 20:40 And if you think I'm exaggerating, 20:41 I can get you in contact 20:43 with the young man who this happened to. 20:44 That's amazing. 20:45 And she wasn't opening her purse to grab it, it just... 20:47 No, she just walked by, opened up her purse 20:49 and the thing fell right in, 20:50 as it was falling through the air. 20:51 So he looked at his buddies and he said, 20:53 that was a divine appointment. 20:54 Oh, yeah. Amen. 20:55 Like the Holy Spirit kind of guided it right into her purse. 20:58 Yeah, right. 20:59 So tell me about the different topics, 21:00 how many topics do you have? 21:02 What is the content of these GLOW tracts? 21:03 Sure. 21:05 Well, let me just say 21:06 we're continually developing new tracts. 21:08 Okay. That's great. 21:10 At this point we're about 35 different titles. 21:12 Okay. 21:13 For example? Well, yeah. 21:15 Some of our newest ones that have just come out, 21:17 we have a new one that shows how the Bible is validated 21:21 by archaeology in the "Dead Sea Scrolls". 21:23 Oh, wow. 21:24 And we also have a brand new one, 21:27 written on the topic of 21:28 what happens when you die for children. 21:31 For children. 21:32 Yeah, it's called "What's wrong with Grandpa." 21:33 So in the story that it begins with grandpa dies 21:36 and the child says, what's wrong with grandpa? 21:39 And you know, dad says, he's asleep. 21:41 Yeah. 21:43 And then as the grandpa is being lowered 21:44 into the ground, he says, 21:45 "Dad, don't let them do that 21:47 and grandpa is going to get dirty," you know. 21:48 And so he has to explain, 21:50 you know, what that's all about. 21:52 So John Bradshaw's wife wrote that one for us. 21:54 Fantastic. Melissa. 21:56 Yeah. 21:57 We're actually developing whole line 21:58 of equivalent tracts for children now. 22:02 And we have another one that's new written by Mark Finley. 22:06 We have also just recently developed 22:08 two new tracts for Buddhists. 22:10 And we're... 22:12 Buddhists. Wow. 22:13 Yeah, we're actually going to, 22:14 we're in cooperation with the General Conference 22:17 right now to develop a set of tracts 22:19 for every major world religion. 22:21 So we just finished two for Buddhists to begin with, 22:24 and so we're soon going to be moving on 22:26 to developing them for Jews, 22:28 and then we also have begun the process 22:31 of doing it for Hindus and we'll also be developing 22:33 literature for Muslims etcetera. 22:36 Wow. You know, praise the Lord. You know isn't that exciting? 22:38 I mean, this is exciting 22:40 because we're seeing these little tracts 22:41 being as the leaves of autumn as Ellen White mentions 22:44 being spread around the world in multiple topics. 22:48 And how many different languages? 22:50 Oh, man, well, I think we have a little bit 22:53 or maybe over 42 languages now. 22:55 Over 42 languages. 22:56 I know you're showing us one 22:58 that was in your pocket that was in... 22:59 In German, yeah. 23:00 In German. Yeah, yeah. 23:02 Yeah, that's absolutely amazing. 23:03 I know you're touching a little bit briefly 23:05 on the General Conference. 23:06 I know you want to talk about is it Mission 360? 23:08 Sure, Mission 365. 365. 23:10 Yes, tell us a little bit about that? 23:12 Yeah, so, we recently, you know, 23:15 the General Conference has two meetings a year 23:18 and one is in the fall. 23:19 And they asked us to come 23:20 and to help them to do an outreach. 23:23 So we took the GC executive committee all out 23:26 door-to-door and passed out GLOW tracts and books 23:30 and it was exciting what happened there. 23:33 But in that process of working with the GC, 23:37 several of the departments at the General Conference 23:40 came up with an idea to try and make 2017 a year 23:44 to encourage church members 23:46 to distribute literature and books. 23:49 I should say small literature and books. 23:50 Okay. 23:52 And so, we came up with a title for that, 23:53 that's called Mission 365, where we're encouraging people 23:55 to be participating in mission for 365 days of the year, 23:58 hence the name. 24:00 And it's just very simple. 24:01 The basic concept is we want to encourage everybody 24:04 to carry books and small literature with them 24:06 and pass out at least one book a day 24:08 and carry literature with them that they can pass out as well. 24:11 It's very easy to do. 24:13 If every church member 24:14 in the world church were to do this, 24:16 we would easily reach 24:17 one billion pieces of literature, 24:19 which is kind of an unspoken goal that we have. 24:21 Wow. 24:23 And we also have, you know, a new app 24:24 that we're developing for it as well, 24:25 so that people can input their numbers for distribution 24:29 and keep track of that, and also see the global goal 24:31 and how close we're coming to it. 24:32 Yeah, praise the Lord. 24:34 You know and I want to courage you at home 24:35 because in a little bit, get your pen and paper out 24:37 because in just a little bit, 24:39 we're going to have an address roll 24:40 where you can get in contact with Nelson and GLOW 24:44 and to find out how you can participate. 24:45 So I want to give you a little heads up, 24:47 that you need to get your pen and paper ready 24:49 to get the contact information down. 24:51 So 365, I like that because it's basically 24:54 having a piece of literature in your coat pocket 24:57 like you have today. 24:59 Or I mean, I don't carry a purse, 25:02 my wife carries a purse, 25:03 and there you can put something in your purse. 25:05 I mean, we're to be honest with you, 25:09 we're in association with people every single day 25:12 and it's an opportunity. 25:15 Especially, if you pray to God, I've done this before, 25:17 I said, "God, show me someone I need to reach today." 25:21 And He will provide those opportunities, won't He? 25:23 He does. 25:24 I know you have some, you have a roll 25:26 regarding Mission 365 that Mark Finley put together. 25:30 Absolutely, yeah. 25:32 It's a just a short video that Elder Finley put together 25:34 to encourage church members to pass out literature 25:37 and participate in Mission 365. 25:39 All right, well, let's go to that video right now 25:40 with Elder Mark Finley. 25:42 It was one of those hot July summer afternoons. 25:46 Beads of sweat stood on my forehead 25:47 and pour down my face. 25:49 My wife and I were on a journey, 25:51 a journey of discovery. 25:53 We knew that in November 18, 1848, 25:56 Ellen White had that vision of our publishing works, 25:59 streams of light going around the world. 26:03 We were in the Middletown, Connecticut, 26:06 the place where the "Present Truth" was printed 26:09 for the first time. 26:10 We went to the historical society 26:12 and as we were digging through historical records, 26:16 we discovered the address of the printer that printed 26:20 the first Present Truths, that was meaningful to us. 26:24 We knew that Ellen White had commissioned James, 26:29 her husband to print a small tract 26:31 that would go like extremes of light around the world. 26:33 They were at that time living with the Belden's 26:36 in Rocky Hill, Connecticut. 26:38 James had walked the eight or nine miles from Rocky Hill 26:43 to Middletown, Connecticut. 26:44 I can almost imagine that on that hot summer day, 26:47 I could imagine James walking with a carpet bag in his hand. 26:51 And collect bag from Middletown to Rocky Hill 26:56 with that literature. 26:58 I can imagine the White's spreading it out on the floor 27:01 and praying over it, 27:02 that how that vision has been fulfilled today 27:05 with publishing houses around the world, 27:08 with millions of pieces of literature going out. 27:12 The literature work 27:13 of the Seventh-day Adventist church 27:15 has been ordained by God. 27:17 God who loves literature, think about, 27:21 we have the Bible. 27:23 What would we know about Jesus? 27:24 What would we know about the plan of salvation 27:26 without the Bible? 27:28 The written word changes lives. 27:31 The Bible's still changing lives today. 27:34 And missionary books of the year, 27:37 sharing the message of the Bible, 27:39 sharing the message of scripture 27:40 are changing lives. 27:42 I'm really excited about what God is going to do this year 27:45 through Seventh-day Adventist literature. 27:48 The book "Story of Hope" which is an abridged book 27:51 of the story of redemption 27:54 is the missionary book of the year. 27:56 It's our goal and every Seventh-day Adventist 28:00 pass out one book a week. 28:02 You think that's too difficult? 28:04 You think that vision is too large for people? 28:08 I believe that if our people are challenged, 28:10 they will rise to the challenge and if every member 28:14 passed out one book a week for 52 weeks, 28:18 we would pass out one billion books this year. 28:22 It's staggering. 28:23 You say, what if we don't hit the goal? 28:25 Well, we still have millions passed out. 28:29 I'm also thinking of the GLOW tracts. 28:32 I love the GLOW tracts and here's why. 28:34 The GLOW tracts can easily be placed in your pocket. 28:38 You can simply have a dedicated pocket for tracts. 28:42 Pass them out to a friend and neighbors, 28:44 somebody at the store. 28:45 We are printing one billion GLOW tracts 28:49 in multiple languages around the world. 28:52 I've written a new GLOW tract called 28:55 the "Certainty in an Uncertain Times". 28:57 We're living in incredibly uncertain times. 29:00 What's going to happen in the future? 29:03 People have looked to the future with fear, 29:05 but you and I can have confidence. 29:06 Our hearts can be filled with hope. 29:08 Hope in the fact that God has this world in His hands. 29:12 Hope in the fact that Jesus Christ has provided 29:15 security for us in His salvation. 29:17 Hope in the fact that Jesus is our High Priest 29:20 that He will care for every need we have. 29:23 Hope in the fact that Jesus is coming again 29:25 that this world is not going to be destroyed 29:27 in some thermal nuclear warfare. 29:29 We're not going to spend our last moments 29:31 in like calling it won't enough for a living space. 29:34 Literature can make a difference. 29:36 As you give out a tract, as you give out a book, 29:39 it can change someone's life for eternity. 29:44 Sometime ago I was in the city of Chennai, India. 29:47 And we heard this story. 29:49 Many years ago, a lady was walking down the street. 29:51 She found a GLOW fragment of literature that's, 29:53 it what happens with the tide. 29:55 How to find peace at death? 29:57 She was concerned because her 17 year old son 30:01 had been killed in a tragic accident. 30:04 She read that pamphlet, 30:06 going to Seventh-day Adventist meetings, 30:08 walked into the meeting, 30:10 her whole life was changed in that meeting. 30:12 She became a secret believer, taught her children 30:16 about the Adventist message, but they were Hindus. 30:19 Three years later, 30:20 one of those girls walked into an Adventist church, 30:23 told the pastor that she believed in Christ, 30:25 believed He was coming again, believed in the Sabbath, 30:28 she was baptized. 30:29 Her two sisters were baptized, 30:31 their husbands were baptized, their children were baptized, 30:34 30 people baptized or more as the result of that pamphlet. 30:39 You give out a GLOW tract and you give out a book, 30:43 it will make a difference 30:45 for eternity in somebody's life. 30:48 Somebody is gonna walk down streets of gold, 30:51 somebody is gonna put their arms around you 30:53 with tears coming down their face and say, 30:56 thank you for coming to my door. 30:58 Thank you for giving me that GLOW tract. 31:01 Thank you, I found Jesus because of you. 31:14 Thank you Elder Finley. Well, that was just powerful. 31:16 You know, I like the idea Nelson of having an actual, 31:19 he called it like a literature pocket. 31:21 Yeah. 31:22 You know, dedicate in your suit 31:23 or maybe even dedicated purse pocket 31:26 to having pieces of literature in there. 31:28 And you know, what a challenge passing out literature 31:30 on a weekly basis, daily basis, and what a goal. 31:33 You can't go wrong with that, can you? 31:35 No, you cannot. 31:36 It's one of the easiest ways to reach out to people. 31:38 Yeah, you're absolutely right. 31:40 Now I know that you've got the Mission 365 calendar. 31:43 Tell me a little bit about that. 31:44 Yeah, so you know to help church members get 31:48 or believers get an idea 31:50 for how they can pass out literature. 31:52 You know, sometimes people say, oh, 31:53 I just don't have any idea 31:55 on how I can give out literature, how should I do it? 31:57 There's a lot of creative things that you can do 31:59 and we've developed a calendar, 32:02 that actually gives you basic ideas on how to do it. 32:05 And it goes month by month, through the year. 32:08 Each month has a particular emphasis. 32:11 Like for example, 32:12 one month is the creative distribution month. 32:14 So your goal is to try and come up 32:17 with the most creative idea you can 32:18 to distribute a piece of literature. 32:20 And it also teaches you how to utilize on holidays 32:24 and creative ways to get out literature during Halloween 32:27 or Christmas and these kind of things. 32:29 So it's just chock-full of different ideas and resources. 32:32 And this is something that church members can get news. 32:35 Very easy, it's on our on our website. 32:37 Okay, which we will give that contact information, 32:39 again like we said, toward the end of this program. 32:42 So let's say and this would be a sad thing, 32:44 but let's say my local church says, you know, 32:46 I don't want to be involved because we've talked about 32:48 churches and conferences, the church, local church says, 32:50 no, I don't. 32:52 But you at home say, 32:53 oh, but I want to on an individual basis. 32:55 Is it possible as an individual to contact GLOW and say, 32:59 I want a bunch of literature or is only have to be churches? 33:02 No, no, we work with everybody. 33:05 Church members included just as individuals. 33:07 In fact, probably most of the tracts 33:09 that come out through our area in terms of what's purchased 33:13 is just individual church members. 33:15 So if a church member wants to get involved, you know, 33:17 they can just go online with the contact info 33:19 that we'll give them at the end of this program 33:21 and they can get literature. 33:22 Many churches across America and even outside 33:25 already have tracts and literature in the foyers. 33:27 That's true. We do. 33:29 It doesn't have to be a GLOW tract, 33:30 it can be a pocket science tract, 33:31 it can be a different piece of literature. 33:33 It can be even outdated literature 33:34 that's been sitting in the foyer for 10 years. 33:36 Yes. 33:38 With terrible graphics, 33:39 you know, let's just get it out. 33:40 So grab the literature that you have in your church 33:42 and then you can order more through us 33:44 and give it out and keep track of it. 33:46 You know because it's the content 33:47 that doesn't grow outdated. 33:49 Now you think about 'cause you know, 33:50 the Word of God's been around 33:52 for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. 33:53 Absolutely. 33:54 That is still powerful and it convicts 33:56 and changes lives for eternity. 33:58 So I know that there is, on the back of these tracts, 34:01 I want to just to expound upon this a little bit. 34:03 Some customization that can be done, 34:05 which I think is just an ingenious way 34:08 so you can do some good follow up. 34:10 Because you pass these out and it's like 34:11 well, what happens to these? 34:13 Probably many of them will never know until heaven, 34:16 but some of these is a way of contact. 34:18 So tell us about that in the way 34:20 that we can customize these tracts. 34:21 Yeah, so if you're outside of the United States obviously, 34:24 I mean, we can work with you in a different way 34:26 than inside of the United States. 34:28 But inside the US... Okay. 34:30 On the back of each tract there's a back panel 34:32 that has contact information with the phone number, 34:34 a website, snail mail address. 34:36 And those are, they have a routing system behind them 34:40 so that when a person calls in one particular state... 34:44 Okay. 34:46 They'll input the state that they're calling from 34:47 and it will direct it to the appropriate location. 34:49 So when you pass out a tract, 34:51 if somebody signs up for Bible studies 34:53 because of that tract and they call in 34:54 or they go to the website, 34:57 it will be brought much more local. 34:59 And then the conferences that are participating 35:01 with this program in the US, 35:04 know to take these Bible study interests 35:06 and to hand them off to the local churches. 35:08 So you can rest assured that when you're passing out 35:11 a GLOW tract in the US, that you know, 35:13 if the person who signs up for Bible studies 35:15 lives close to your church, that Bible study interest 35:17 is going to be coming back to your local church. 35:19 Back to the local church. 35:20 So even here in Thompsonville, Illinois 35:22 where we only have the huge metropolis, 35:24 I think of 600 people or so. 35:26 And we have the Thompsonville, Seventh-day Adventist church, 35:28 so if we were to pass it out in this area, 35:30 you would eventually, is what you're saying? 35:32 Yeah, it would come back to you. 35:33 And that's powerful because then you can follow up 35:35 personally with these Bible study context. 35:38 Absolutely, and that's what we want, 35:39 personal contact with people. 35:41 Yes. So that's why we do it. 35:42 If were nothing else, 35:43 it's a blessing for the church members. 35:45 You know, we need to get out there and start 35:46 interacting with people 35:47 and it's a greater blessing to us. 35:49 Yeah, you're right. 35:50 You know, I think about the Bible text 35:52 in the 1 Corinthians that talks about, you know, 35:53 we put it out there, we plant the seed 35:56 and then God does the increase. 35:58 So I think in heaven, Nelson, 36:00 I think there will be many more people 36:02 that we don't even have a clue have responded to these, 36:04 made the decision to follow Christ 36:07 based off of these GLOW tracks. 36:08 And what a wonderful day that would be. 36:09 I wanted to say, thank you so much for passing out 36:12 this little GLOW tract, putting it, or just, yeah, 36:15 handing it to someone or I've seen them, 36:17 I think even in restrooms, at rest areas. 36:19 I have no clue who put them there 36:21 but I've seen them resting there by the sink etcetera. 36:24 So I know that people are passing them out worldwide. 36:26 Right. 36:27 Is that right? Yeah, that's true. 36:29 Tell us a little bit about that? 36:30 Yeah, we get stories on a regular basis from people 36:32 who are passing them out. 36:33 In fact, one that comes to mind is 36:35 one that happened in the Philippines, 36:36 there was a man who was distributing GLOW tracts 36:38 and one of these GLOW tracts ended up getting thrown 36:41 on the ground in the street and as they do 36:43 over in that part of the Philippines I guess. 36:46 When there's rubbish on the ground, 36:47 eventually somebody comes by and they put it into a pile. 36:50 You know, they sweep it into a pile. 36:52 And then they burn it up. Oh, my. 36:54 Well, anyway so this happened, 36:55 a GLOW tract gets into the rubbish pile 36:57 and they set it on fire, 36:58 but the GLOW tract doesn't burn. 37:01 And so somebody who was walking by noticed that 37:03 there's this rubbish pile that's all burnt up 37:04 but this tract just didn't burn. 37:06 And so he goes and picks up the tract 37:07 and he says this is weird. 37:09 So he tries to light the tract on fire with his lighter 37:10 and it doesn't light up. 37:12 And pretty soon he calls the attention of some people 37:14 and there's a small group of people that come together 37:16 and he's like, this thing won't light on fire. 37:18 And believe me we don't make, you know, fireproof tracts, 37:20 it's just not what we do. 37:22 And as this crowd is, a small group of people 37:25 looking at this tract, 37:26 the original guy who had been passing out those tracts 37:28 happen to come by, he knows what was going on. 37:30 And he said, "Hey, if you think that's amazing, 37:32 you should come to these series of meetings 37:35 that we're having at our local church." 37:37 It's going to be even more amazing. 37:38 Several people ended up coming from that group 37:40 and two of them got baptized. 37:42 So you know in these different parts of the world, 37:45 we have miracle stories happening. 37:47 I'm also reminded of in Germany, 37:50 our European coordinator at the time, Martin Kim. 37:54 He had just received a shipment of thousands of tracts 37:57 from Norway. 37:59 And he had them all, you know, in boxes 38:01 and in front of his apartment 38:03 and he was sorting through them, 38:04 in Russian and German, these tracts. 38:06 Well, one person walked by and saw what was happening, 38:11 somebody who wasn't part of our church. 38:12 And they saw that they had Russian pamphlets. 38:15 And he went up and asked about them 38:17 and ended up buying one of each of the packets 38:19 of the Russian literature for himself to distribute. 38:22 And then he took them home and apparently end up 38:25 reading one of them because... 38:27 He just a little while later ended up calling 38:30 that phone number 38:31 and requesting a free Great Controversy 38:33 which was offered on the back. 38:35 And so Martin went and followed up with that. 38:36 And here you have thousands of pieces of literature 38:39 sitting in front of our European coordinator's house, 38:41 getting ready to be dispersed to the local Adventist churches 38:43 throughout Germany. 38:45 But before they even get there, non-Adventists are coming up 38:48 and they're purchasing the literature. 38:50 And they purchased. Wow. And to pass out themselves. 38:52 Isn't that incredible? 38:53 Yeah. Wow. 38:55 And then he requested a Great Controversy. 38:56 Correct. 38:58 It's exciting, isn't it? Yeah. 38:59 To see what God is doing, you know, in this world. 39:02 I know it's full of sin and Satan is doing his best. 39:04 But we know that Christ has won 39:06 and, boy, what a neat opportunity 39:09 we all have of spreading God's word around the world. 39:12 I know you've got some more stories as well. 39:14 Yes, I do about international. And I'll just share one more. 39:20 You know, we had a... 39:23 Well, I'll tell the one about what happened in Hawaii. 39:25 Recently we had a group of young people going out 39:27 and passing out the tracts door-to-door in Hawaii. 39:30 And this young man came up to a house 39:34 where there was a fence and he noticed that 39:35 there was an intimidating dog inside, 39:37 the dog was just growling and barking at him. 39:40 So he decided I'm just going to skip this house. 39:42 And so he threw the tract over the fence. 39:44 Okay. 39:45 And the tract land on the ground. 39:47 Now, that kind of sounds like something I might do 39:48 because I don't really like big scary dogs, so, okay, 39:50 so he just threw it over the fence. 39:52 Yeah, neither do I. 39:53 I probably would have done the same, I don't know 39:54 but anyway he threw it over the fence. 39:56 Dog food, Placed in this dog food, right? 39:57 Well, ironically speaking of dog food, 39:59 the dog comes over and pick the tract up in his mouth 40:03 and took it to the front door and dropped it on the ground 40:07 in front of the front door. 40:09 Just placing it there nicely for the person to pick up. 40:12 Sort of like the morning newspaper. 40:15 But... 40:16 Yeah, there you go, you know. 40:18 The newspaper man just dropped a newspaper off 40:19 but this was good news. 40:20 Yeah. So it's Christ. 40:22 Wow. 40:23 So Elisha, you know, he has his bears 40:24 and Balaam has his donkey 40:26 and Noah has his animals coming into the ark 40:27 and apparently there's glowing dogs over in Hawaii. 40:29 That's right. 40:30 Passing out tracts themselves. 40:32 I've got here is something about a Baptist pastor 40:35 who preached at a funeral a story about that. 40:37 Yes, yes. 40:39 Yeah, we had a missionary come into our office 40:41 in California, purchased literature. 40:44 And take the literature to Cameroon. 40:49 And when he was in Cameroon, 40:51 the tract went from his hand to a hand, hand and hand 40:53 and it ended up getting eventually into the hands 40:55 of a Baptist pastor, who was about to preach at a funeral. 40:57 And he was putting together his content 40:59 for what he was going to talk about. 41:00 When he got this tract, well, the tract happened to be on, 41:03 guess what topic, "What happens when you die." 41:05 And so he read the tract and he liked what it said 41:08 so much that he translated a portion of it and read it 41:11 and worked it into his talk at the funeral. 41:14 So about 80 people were in attendance at that funeral 41:17 and after he gets done reading a portion of this tract 41:20 which is translated into French, 41:21 several people come up to him and they say, 41:23 "Hey, well, we didn't know that you don't go directly 41:25 to heaven or hell after you die. 41:26 And he said, "Well, I didn't know that either 41:28 but that's what the pamphlet said." 41:29 And you know, it just made a great impact. 41:32 You never know what's going to happen with one piece 41:33 of literature and how God can use it. 41:35 You know, you really don't, I think back to you 41:38 for those of you that have watched 3ABN 41:39 for a number of years, 41:41 the book "Ten Commandments Twice Removed" 41:42 that 3ABN's president Danny Shelton 41:45 and then Shelley Quinn program development director wrote. 41:50 And we had one that someone, you know, 41:51 they were passed out, some of you probably helped in that 41:54 passed out around the United States 41:56 and I know around the world. 41:58 And someone threw it in the trash can. 42:00 I was thinking about this one that was in the rubbish heap... 42:02 That happens. The GLOW tract. 42:03 Threw the Ten Commandments, 42:05 you hate to say that in the trash. 42:07 And the garbage man took the trash can 42:10 and was emptying it into the garbage truck 42:12 is what I'm told and the book fell out of the garbage can 42:15 and on to the road, on to the street. 42:18 So the garbage man said, "Oh, well, 42:20 this looks like an interesting book." 42:22 So he kept it for himself instead of throwing it 42:24 in the garbage truck and you know 42:25 after reading that, he became convicted 42:28 of the Seventh-day Sabbath, so boy, I'll tell you, 42:30 God's word is powerful, isn't it? 42:32 Yeah. 42:33 It's neat to see how the Holy Spirit works. 42:34 So tell me about the mission trip, the GLOW 42:37 you call GLOW mission or GLOW mission trip? 42:39 Yeah. So recently we... 42:41 and God has really shown us clearly that He wants us to, 42:45 you know, start doing a little bit more with GLOW 42:49 where we go out and are more intentional 42:52 about our distribution. 42:53 In other words, our primary emphasis is to get everybody 42:56 to just carry literature with them everyday. 42:58 We're going to get out millions of pieces of literature 43:00 by doing that. 43:01 Be faithful in the small things. 43:03 That's great. 43:04 But there are times when I think that God has called us 43:07 to go and to distribute literature 43:10 in a more proactive sense. 43:12 In fact, there's a quote where Mrs. White says, 43:14 that as we near the end, there will be more and more 43:16 large gatherings in our cities. 43:18 And that Adventist should be present with our literature 43:21 to distribute it and that many of those tracts 43:23 will be as leaves of the tree of life 43:25 to the people who receive it at those gatherings. 43:27 Amen. 43:28 So when Pope Francis came and visited the United States 43:31 for the first time just a little while ago. 43:34 God absolutely, clearly told me, 43:38 that he wanted me to organize a group of people to go in 43:42 to give literature to these folks. 43:43 There was supposed to be about 1.5 million Catholics 43:46 that were going to come together 43:47 to see him when he was in Philadelphia, in particular. 43:50 A lot of people. 43:52 A lot of people who are looking for spiritual things. 43:53 And God said, I want you to go out there 43:56 and provide some spiritual answers for them. 43:57 And so that's what we did much against my will but... 44:01 Yeah, you felt impressed. Exactly. 44:03 In fact, it was extremely uncomfortable for me 44:05 to do something like that. 44:07 I'm not a big crowd kind of person but you know, 44:11 when God calls He equips, and so... 44:12 Amen. 44:13 We did get together a group of committed young adults 44:16 from across the country about 35 to 45 depending on the time 44:20 of the mission trip and we passed out 44:22 a million pieces of literature, a million GLOW tracts. 44:25 And it was such a blessing. 44:27 I'm telling you, God's hand was so in it, 44:30 it was very obvious that He was blessing 44:32 what we were doing out there. 44:33 We had one of our missionaries, for example, 44:36 walking down the street and in that particular day 44:38 he had five tracts to give to people. 44:40 Five different titles. Okay. 44:42 He went up to a man on the street, 44:43 he gave him two of the titles. 44:45 What were some of the titles? 44:46 Oh, man, I mean, it's been a while we had ones 44:49 on salvation, ones on Sabbath, the state of the dead etcetera. 44:53 And the man said, where are the other three titles? 44:59 And then he proceeded to name the three titles 45:02 that he had not received. 45:03 This random person he came up to on the street? 45:05 Yes. 45:06 And he named the exact titles that he had not received yet. 45:08 And then he said to our missionary Jericho, 45:11 he said, where is your partner? 45:13 'Cause Jericho was by himself. 45:15 And Jericho was taken aback. Of course. 45:18 And said, what do you mean? 45:20 I don't have a partner right with me. 45:22 And how did you know that I had 45:24 three other kinds of literature? 45:26 He come to find out that this man had had a dream 45:28 two months previous, where in the dream 45:31 the man had seen Jericho coming to him 45:33 with a big tall good looking partner... 45:37 Guardian angel. Well, yeah. 45:39 I mean, he didn't say that but you know... 45:40 Of course. 45:42 And the big guy said to the man, 45:45 when Jericho comes to you, he didn't mention his name 45:47 but when this young man comes to you, he has what you need 45:49 and make sure that you get this, 45:50 this, this, this, and this. 45:52 I mean, that's just one of the stories 45:54 that came out of that that mission trip. 45:56 Well, that gives me goose bumps. 45:57 I'll tell you what, isn't that amazing? 45:59 Yeah. Two months before. 46:00 You said, two months before... 46:01 Two months previous to the mission trip. 46:03 And if you think I'm exaggerating, 46:04 once again you can go to our website 46:05 glowmissiontrips.org 46:07 and you can actually watch the hour long documentary 46:10 of this particular mission trip and you can see the testimony, 46:13 Jericho gives it himself on there. 46:14 Okay. 46:16 We recorded testimonies the day after 46:17 we would have those mission trips. 46:19 Another story from that particular mission trip. 46:21 One of our young guys, he was a patent lawyer. 46:23 He came on the mission trip. 46:25 And he saw a young man and his girlfriend fighting, 46:29 almost physically on the street. 46:30 He actually felt bold, he went over and he broke it up. 46:32 Oh, my. 46:33 And settled things down and in the end, the guy, 46:36 the young man, the boyfriend was so excited 46:39 about what our missionary was doing, 46:41 the patent lawyer that he asked if he could help. 46:43 So he gave him a stack of literature 46:44 and they both went down the same street 46:46 just on two different sides of it and he was helping 46:47 pass out the literature, it was great. 46:49 Incredible. 46:51 So these mission trips, is this the first one 46:52 and you're planning more, have you've done more 46:53 since this mission trip? 46:55 Yeah, so that was our first one and from there have been 46:57 a lot of other ones that have been created. 46:59 We also did one to the Super Bowl 47:01 where we distributed million tracts in San Francisco, 47:03 a lot of them. 47:05 So this is to the crowd going into the Super Bowl? 47:06 It was to people in the bay area... 47:08 We did San Francisco for the most part 47:11 and then when the Super Bowl actually happened, 47:12 Super Bowl Sunday we were there giving out 47:14 literature to the people coming into the Super Bowl arena. 47:18 And there have been several other mission trips 47:20 that have happened in Chicago and other places since then. 47:23 We do have one that's coming up in Romania, 47:27 in just a few days here February 1 through 10, 47:29 we're going to distribute a million tracts 47:30 with the Romanian Union. 47:32 And all of these tracts are going to advertise 47:33 for the 2000 simultaneous evangelistic meetings 47:36 that are happening there in cooperation 47:38 with the General Conference in Romania. 47:40 Okay. 47:41 We're also going to be doing one to Salt Lake City. 47:43 That'll be coming up in a couple of months here, 47:45 we're going to pass out a million tracts there. 47:47 And then we lastly we have one planned 47:50 coming up soon for Japan, 47:52 we're going to go with the Japanese Union 47:54 and distribute a lot of literature on Christmas, 47:57 and also some time in 2018 hopefully 47:59 another million tracts or so. 48:01 Yes. 48:02 So you know, there's a lot going on obviously 48:04 here with GLOW. 48:05 And so I just wanted to say 48:06 'cause depending on when this program air, 48:08 some of these events we just discussed 48:09 could actually be behind us but the key is, 48:11 is to go to what website, 48:13 I know we're going to give in a couple of minutes. 48:14 But what is that website again? 48:16 So for the mission trips specifically 48:17 to learn about them, to sign up for them, 48:19 all that kind of stuff, go to glowmissiontrips.org. 48:23 Glowmissiontrips.org. 48:25 Correct. Okay. 48:26 Yeah, pretty easy to remember. Oh, yeah, it is. 48:28 So in a couple of minutes that we have left here, 48:31 why did you feel to do these mission trips? 48:33 What was the reason for these mission trips 48:34 because you've got, you know, churches, 48:36 you've got conferences, those are already to me big, 48:38 you know, event or, you know, 48:40 other ways of distributing the literature. 48:42 But the mission trip, why did you feel burden to do that? 48:45 Well, I think like I said at the beginning you know, 48:49 we really try to follow the Council of Ellen White 48:54 with this ministry. 48:56 And I think that's why God is able to bless it. 48:58 And so when she wrote those statements about us 49:01 needing to be in the large gatherings that happen, 49:05 that was what really helped fuel this aspect of what we do, 49:10 the mission trips. 49:11 And you know, honestly we've seen some very good results 49:16 come of it, and we've seen God's hand working every time 49:19 that we go out. 49:20 And it's exciting to think about the future 49:23 and potentially how we can get church members 49:25 to do this more and more and more. 49:28 You know, I know you mentioned the one mission trip to Chicago 49:30 and we had some of the church members here 49:32 at local Thompsonville, Seventh-day Adventist church 49:34 go up and participate in that, what did you call, 49:37 the Chicago mission trip? 49:39 Yeah. 49:40 GLOW and they came back so excited and so enthused, 49:43 enthusiastic about doing it again. 49:45 So basically what you're saying, Nelson, 49:47 is that people at home, they've been encouraged today 49:50 about, well, I want to be involved in the local church 49:52 but they can also be involved in these mission trips. 49:55 So the way to do that is to go to... 49:57 Glowmissiontrips.org 49:58 and they can find the mission trips 50:00 that are currently being planned. 50:03 And they can also register on there, 50:05 find information about the timeframes, 50:07 the costs and those kind of things. 50:09 I really want to encourage you at home to participate 50:12 whether it's locally or get involved 50:14 with these mission trips. 50:16 It's always encouraging to be able to spread God's Word 50:19 around the world in your local community, 50:22 to have a part in spreading the good news of Jesus Christ. 50:26 Now, what I want to do right now is to get ready 50:28 to go to our address roll, so get that pen and paper ready 50:31 because there will be more information on there 50:33 on how you can get a hold of Nelson Ernst 50:35 and the GLOW ministries and let's go to that right now. 50:44 If you would like to contact GLOW Ministries, 50:46 you can do so by writing to 2820 50:49 Willow Avenue, Clovis, California 93612. 50:54 That's 2820 Willow Avenue, 50:58 Clovis, California 93612. 51:01 You can call them at 559-347-3150. 51:06 That's 559-347-3150. 51:10 You can also visit them online at glowonline.org. 51:15 That's glowonline.org. |
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