I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome
once again to 3ABN Today.
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We are so glad
that you are joining us
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and we have an
exciting program for you today.
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We will be talking about
the Ellen G. White Estate
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and their new visitor center,
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we're gonna be
speaking on, we'll learn about
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the Adventist
Heritage Ministries
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and some
exciting new applications
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and web apps
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that you can use for
Ellen White writings.
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Before we begin,
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I wanted to read
a scripture to you,
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actually it's a passage
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from 1 Corinthians
Chapter 12:7 through 11,
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and here's what Paul
wrote to the Corinthians.
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"But the manifestation
of the Spirit is given
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to each one for
the profit of all.
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For to one is given
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the word of wisdom
through the Spirit,
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to another the word of knowledge
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through the same Spirit,
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to another faith
by this same Spirit,
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to another gifts of
healing by the same Spirit,
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to another the
working of miracles,
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then to another
prophecy, discerning of spirits,
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different tongues, and
interpretation of tongues.
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But one and the
same spirit works
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all these things, distributing
to each one individually
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as He wills."
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We are so blessed as Christians
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that when
Christ was resurrected,
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He sent the promised Holy Spirit
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from the Father.
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And the Holy Spirit
gives us gifts for the,
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not for our personal benefit,
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but for the benefit
of the whole church,
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for the work of the Lord.
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And today we'll speak
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about one of God's made
servants Ellen G. White.
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Let me introduce
our guests to you.
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First, we have Jim Nix.
It's so good to see you again.
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It's good to see you
again too, it's been a while.
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It has been a while
and you are the Director
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of the E.G. White
Estate, for how long?
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Since 2000. Since 2000.
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That's right. What a
privilege. Praise the Lord.
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It is a privilege, I know.
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Next, we have Siloe Oliveira.
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And Siloe, you are...
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I work with a graphic team here
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'cause I'm in
program development.
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You are a graphic
designer with Flip Designs?
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Flip Designs.
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I am a trained artist and
I work with graphic design.
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And I have been working
in Flip Designs since 2010.
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Wonderful, wonderful.
But we're glad you're here.
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Then we have
Marcello Capuchinho.
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And, Marcello,
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you are the
Director of Flip Designs.
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Tell us who Flip Designs is.
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Flip Designs
was actually created
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when we started the project
with the Ellen White Estate.
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We're actually a
television company.
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So we produce
television shows and events.
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And when I started
working with Ellen White Estate,
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that's when we
created flip design.
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The purpose was to
create the new visitor center.
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So wonder... That
was the beginning.
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Wonderful.
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Well, before we
get into the meet
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of this interview, Jim, tell...
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Many of our viewers
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may not have
heard of Ellen White,
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they don't know what role
she played in God's kingdom.
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So tell us
something about Ellen White.
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Well, to keep it brief
because she lived to be '87,
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so you could go
on and on and on.
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But to keep it brief.
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She was born in Maine in 1827,
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lived out her life much
of in the United States,
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but also two years
in Europe in the 1880s,
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nine years in
Australia, in the 1890s,
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died in California, 1915.
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Now that's the very,
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very, very small
view of her life.
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She as a young girl,
had a terrible accident,
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that affected her
health for many years,
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but it also drew her to Christ.
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She began to realize...
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I mean, she was
already a Christian,
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she was a Methodist and
her family were Methodists.
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But she began to realize also
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what it was to
have a disfigurement
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'cause she was hit in the
face, and so she had an empathy
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that grew for those
that are marginalized
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or that are on this,
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you know, the
margins of society,
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or maybe have some
kind of a physical deformity
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or something.
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And so she
always had that empathy
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for what we might...
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When I was growing up,
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we had to call
the down and outers,
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I don't think
that's correct now,
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but those people
that need a little extra.
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So she was always helping people
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throughout her life.
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She also at the age of 17
or just before she was 17,
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her family became
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what were known as
Millerite Adventists.
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They were
expecting the Lord to return
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through a misunderstanding
of biblical prophecy.
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They expected the
Lord's return in 1844.
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And so she was disappointed
when He didn't come,
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but shortly after
that she was given
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what we believe was
the first of many visions
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and prophetic
dreams of the night
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that she would have
during the rest of her life,
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the next 70 years.
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And from those prophetic dreams
and visions that she received,
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she spoke, she wrote
great amount of information
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on everything
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from education to health,
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I mean, you name
it, public relations,
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even how you should interact
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with other people,
other face, religious liberty.
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I mean, you just
go on and on and on,
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if you look at the
scope of her writings,
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much of it about Christ.
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One of the things
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that we feature
in our visitor center
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that we'll be discussing
later in the program is the fact
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that she used more
than 800 different names
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or terms to refer to
Christ in her writings.
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I mean, this lady
was Christ centered
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through and
through biblically based,
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you can hardly open
a page of her writings
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without finding either Christ,
or a Bible, in a Bible passage.
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And she was an
extremely prolific writer.
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How many books did she write?
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Well, at the time of
her death it was over 25,
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but she left thousands
of pages of manuscripts
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and those have been
put into compilations.
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I don't even know
how many there are now.
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There's over 120
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or so of different
compilations from her writings
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on all these different topics
that we've been talking about
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and many, many more
that I haven't mentioned.
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So her writings, by
the way, are all available,
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you'll hear later about that.
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They're all
available for free downloading
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from the Ellen G. White Estates.
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So if you're
just sitting at home
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with your and have
access to the internet,
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you can get them for free,
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you don't have
to even go somewhere
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to see all this.
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And, you know, if I
were to say to our viewers
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if you're not
familiar with Ellen White,
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the first three books
that I would recommend would be
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"The Desire of Ages"
on the life of Christ,
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"The Great Controversy"
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which is talking about
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what's going on
in our world through,
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not only the
historical perspective
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but seeing how
this great controversy
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between good and evil.
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"Christ Object
Lessons" is another great one.
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There's so many wonderful...
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Yeah, but don't
forget "Steps to Christ."
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And, oh, "Steps to
Christ," excuse me.
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Absolutely.
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It's very small, but, man,
it is really life changing.
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That's true. Amen.
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In fact, this year
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is the 125th anniversary of
the publishing of that book.
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And the White Estate
has... Steps to Christ?
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Yes.
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So I mean we're
almost through the year,
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I realized
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but it was
published first in 1892.
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And the White Estate
has been encouraging people
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to read that book
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or either for the
first time or read it again,
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as though it were
for the first time
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and let it touch
their lives again.
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But just, let me
just add one other thing.
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Her, especially
her writings on health
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have impacted
Seventh-day Adventists,
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those that follow her counsels.
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We, on average,
live 8 to 10 years longer
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than the general
population of whatever country.
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And these
surveys have been done,
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studies have been
done over and over.
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She's been recognized
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by Smithsonian
Institute in their magazine
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as one of the
outstanding Americans,
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100 top of outstanding Americans
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in the history the country.
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National Geographic
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has talked about
her impact on health,
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so just in that one area,
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not to say
anything about education
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and other as well.
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So she is recognized
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as a prolific
religious writer as you said
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and one that changes
lives and points people to Jesus
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that was what she was all about
was pointing people to Jesus.
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Get them to study their Bibles
and to point them to Jesus.
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When I first visited
the Ellen White Estate
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I was told only approximately
3% of her writings was,
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like foretelling the future.
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Mostly what she was
doing was an inspired
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by old writer on the scriptures.
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And she was always, always,
I've got pages where she says,
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my writings are not
to replace the Bible,
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I'm the lesser light
pointing to the greater light.
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So we as
Seventh-day Adventist Christians
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base all of our
beliefs on the Bible.
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And she says, go
to the Bible first,
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and then it's just reading...
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If you then read her writings,
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it gives you even
greater understanding
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just because she's
spent so much time on Word.
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That's interesting.
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You'll never find her saying
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that the Bible should
be tested by my writings.
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She always says my writings
should be tested by the Bible.
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She's always
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from the very first
book that she put out,
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right through
the rest of her life
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as you just said,
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she's always pointing people,
she always uplifting Christ,
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excuse me, the
scriptures and Christ,
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but scriptures always
pointing people to the Bible.
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And so to the extent
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that her writings
help us to do that,
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that she's being effective.
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If we make her the center,
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she would be upset if
she were still alive today.
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Absolutely, absolutely.
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Now, let me ask
you this question.
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"How did you meet
these two gentlemen?
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How did you all come together?
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And tell us about your dream
that is now being fulfilled
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for the Ellen
White Visitor Center.
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Well, I don't know
how many years ago,
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probably, at
least 8 or 10 years ago,
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I got a dream.
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I mean, "Not a dream, dream,"
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but, you know, I had
this idea that many Adventists
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or people who come to
the General Conference
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or Seventh-day Adventist
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where the White
Estate's headquarters is
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in Silver Spring, Maryland,
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that many of them don't
know much about Ellen White,
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even church members,
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they don't know a
lot about Ellen White.
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So I had this idea,
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this dream that we would have
some kind of visitor center,
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that would explain who she was
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and about the main
themes of her writings.
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And so, I
finally got to the place
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where I've been able
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to salt away a
little bit of money
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and we hired a company,
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but they didn't know
anything about Ellen White.
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And most of our meetings,
I was spending explaining
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"Well, now we want
to talk about this.
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Well, what is that all about?"
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So then I would have to
tell them all about that.
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Well, why is that important
and then tell about that.
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So I realized we were eating
up all of our money explaining
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why we needed to include
this in the visitor center,
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but not, how are we gonna,
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you know, how
we're gonna featured
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in the visitor center.
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So my staff knew
that I was frustrated.
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One of my colleagues happened
to be doing a shoot with...
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Marcello?
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I don't know,
Marcello and who else,
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I don't know who all was there.
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But anyway, with
Marcello and others,
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they were doing a shoot,
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I think for the
Brazilian publishing house?
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Okay, so for
our publishing house
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and our church's
publishing house in Brazil.
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And Marcello, as
I was told later,
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said something to Alberto
Tim, is my colleague's name,
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to Alberto, we're
looking for something
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we could do for the church.
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Well, they're in
television production
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and that kind of thing
and so my colleague knew
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that I was very frustrated
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'cause I wasn't
making any progress
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on this visitor center concept.
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So he said, "You
need to go talk to Jim.
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When you get back to..."
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'cause their
office was not very far
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from the General Conference
actually at that time,
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they moved a
little bit farther away
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but they're
still in the vicinity.
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And so he made an
appointment and came in.
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I didn't know him at all.
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I mean, I never
met the guy except
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that my colleague had said
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there will be
somebody contacting you.
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I clicked with
Marcello immediately,
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being a Seventh-day Adventist,
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I didn't have to
explain why this was important
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or that was important, etcetera.
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Hence, so I said,
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"You know, can you work
on us for a visitor center?
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We're gonna
develop a visitor center."
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Now he did not
tell me at that time
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they were in television.
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They had never
created a visitor center.
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If he had told me that,
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I probably would
have had wet feet.
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You know, I'd probably said,
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"No, wait a minute,
I'm not sure about this."
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But they've got this gung-ho,
you know, we can do this thing,
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I had attitude
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and you pray
your way through it,
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and many people had told us
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this Smithsonian
quality what they produced.
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So I think that
between meeting him,
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I mean, Alberto
meeting him initially
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and then our
clicking and talking,
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it was a long
time after that before
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I actually met this man
because he was over doing
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the graphic designs
back in their office.
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And there was another person
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that doesn't work
for the company anymore,
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and he's moved on
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to another
Adventist institution,
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but he's the one I
was interacting with.
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So I would hear
about what he was doing,
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but I hadn't actually met Siloe.
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And when I did, I
clicked with him too.
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So now they're almost like sons,
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but I don't know if
they would mind me saying
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that on your program,
but I look at him like sons.
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Amen. Amen.
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So, Marcello, you
know, it occurs to me
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because I have seen
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what you're going to
show in just a moments,
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the roll that you
brought of the news center.
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It occurs to me that
maybe it was a good thing
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that you'd never done
in visitor center before.
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And that wasn't your
focus because as a TV producer,
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you are used to telling a story
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to immerse
people in the culture.
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Tell us, when you
first got this project,
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I guess, you spent a
lot of time on your knees?
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I guess, the first challenge
was to convince my own team
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that we were going to
build a visitor center
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because I remember
coming to the project,
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and I didn't go to Siloe,
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I went to another
designer on the team and said,
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"I'll just start
putting stuff here and there.
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I just want to
go to this meeting
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and show something,"
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and everybody was saying,
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"This is not going to work.
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And we don't do
this, we do television."
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And so first step
was to convince the team
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and then the next step
would be to convince Jim.
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Now, of course, we
didn't know exactly
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what he had in his
mind for a visitor center.
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And so it was a
challenge in the beginning.
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But...
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And I remember
that he mentioned,
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"We want to do something here
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but we don't want to
do a lot of construction."
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So we want to use
this space as it is.
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That's because I
didn't have much money.
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Yes, I understand.
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I think
construction is expensive.
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We understand that.
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And so it was
funny because I said,
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"Oh, yes, we won't do,
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we will try to use
the space as it is."
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But I didn't want them to see
when we came in with the team
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because first they
probably would notice
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that we didn't
know what we were doing,
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and also in my mind,
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we needed to
redo the whole thing.
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So we went on a Friday afternoon
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when the building was
closed and I told my guys,
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we can't take down anything
that's needed, any walls,
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all we will keep is the columns.
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So we had...
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And the walls.
And the walls, yes.
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So we had some goals.
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One would be to really separate
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the office area
from the visitor area.
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And then you
spread the space in a way
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that it would start
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and end at the same
place, natural light,
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and changing so many things
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that it would
look great on paper,
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but we were not sure
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if it would ever
actually become reality.
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But it ended up
working very well, I guess.
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And so when did
Siloe look at you?
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But that's
another miracle. What?
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When they
brought the plan to us,
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because I mean, as
I said a minute ago,
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we didn't have money, I
wasn't against moving walls,
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we just didn't have the
money to move the walls.
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So when I saw the concept
that they came up with, I said,
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"Well, this is
what we need to do
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but I still
don't have any money."
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But we're in the World
Headquarters of the Church,
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we don't own the
building, obviously,
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the General
Conference owns their building.
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So we made an appointment
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with the officers of the church,
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the top three officers
and a few others were there,
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also including
one of your speakers
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that you have often Mark Finley
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who happened to
be at the meeting.
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And they made a presentation.
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And now what we had prayed
about before we went in was,
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that the GC,
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the General
Conference would say,
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"We'll do the remodeling,
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you save your
money for the exhibits."
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And I had no idea
this was going to happen.
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Now if you know
anything about treasures,
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what happened was
nothing short of a miracle.
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The treasure...
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Well, Mark was one of the
first to speak and Elder Finley,
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and Pastor Finley and he said,
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"You know, we should
have done this years ago."
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But one of the treasurer said,
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"You know, we're
remodeling the building
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'cause it's been..."
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I think, in 1989 or
something they moved into it.
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So they were
moving different floors
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and remodeling things, you know.
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And they said,
00:18:02.51\00:18:03.85
"Why don't we move the
White Estate up on the list
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and we'll take care
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of all of the
remodeling of the walls,
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and they can save their money
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that they've saved
for the visitor center.
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And I walked out of there, said,
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"Lord, You're in this project"
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because there's no way
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that we could have done
much of a visitor center
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with the funds
we had and had to do
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all the cost of remodeling
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everything that
they were suggesting.
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Amen.
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Siloe, how at what
point did you become involved
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because I understand
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that your graphic
designing has added a lot.
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Right from the beginning,
00:18:33.38\00:18:35.34
ever since Marcello
brought in the concept
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of what we could
do with the space,
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I was working
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the different
iterations of designs
00:18:42.25\00:18:44.05
so that we could
finally get to Jim's,
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or close to Jim's dream
because he had this in mind,
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and he lives and
breathes history.
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Yes, he does.
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He loves the
history of Ellen White
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and the church.
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So to be able to translate
that into something tangible,
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it becomes a challenge,
00:19:02.80\00:19:04.14
especially trying to
understand it from him
00:19:04.17\00:19:07.14
who has that historian
mindset to try to change it
00:19:07.18\00:19:11.65
and build it into 3D space
and put color, and put type,
00:19:11.68\00:19:17.95
and make it into environment
that actually tells that story,
00:19:17.99\00:19:21.72
but perhaps that he
didn't even know exactly
00:19:21.76\00:19:24.56
how it would be.
00:19:24.59\00:19:25.93
So getting to that point,
00:19:25.96\00:19:28.50
there were obviously challenges.
00:19:28.53\00:19:30.07
But I think we were able to find
00:19:30.10\00:19:31.90
a good solution at the end.
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Why don't we roll,
00:19:34.34\00:19:35.90
they brought a six
minute roll with them
00:19:35.94\00:19:37.74
and we'd like to see that
now and you all can just...
00:19:37.77\00:19:41.28
As you watch this,
we'll allow them to explain
00:19:41.31\00:19:44.81
and you'll get to
just see a little taste
00:19:44.85\00:19:47.88
of the new Ellen G.
White Visitor Center.
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This is the entrance
to the visitor center.
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So here's where you begin.
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That, visitor center
00:19:54.69\00:19:56.02
is actually
divided into two sections.
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The first section deals
with Ellen White as a person.
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She began her
ministries in a barn,
00:20:00.23\00:20:03.00
or small homes, or
churches, etcetera.
00:20:03.03\00:20:05.33
That was a very simple ministry
when she was a young girl,
00:20:05.37\00:20:08.14
and God first called her
and so we start with the barn.
00:20:08.17\00:20:10.94
And then some of the
people that were involved,
00:20:10.97\00:20:13.01
her husband and others,
00:20:13.04\00:20:14.38
that were supporters of
her at the very beginning.
00:20:14.41\00:20:16.61
Her childhood, we talk
about her childhood in Portland
00:20:16.64\00:20:19.01
and have examples of that.
00:20:19.05\00:20:20.92
And growing up as a
Millerite Adventist,
00:20:20.95\00:20:23.49
so we have a
display on Millerites.
00:20:23.52\00:20:25.85
And here you can
see, when the years
00:20:25.89\00:20:27.99
that she was a
Millerite Adventist
00:20:28.02\00:20:29.62
that I mentioned earlier.
00:20:29.66\00:20:30.99
So the first part
00:20:31.03\00:20:32.36
of the whole
visitor center deals
00:20:32.39\00:20:33.73
with her as a person.
00:20:33.76\00:20:35.76
Yes.
00:20:35.80\00:20:37.13
Hoping people, helping people
00:20:37.17\00:20:38.50
to understand a
little bit more about her,
00:20:38.53\00:20:41.07
some of the original artifacts
00:20:41.10\00:20:42.44
that we have put on
display in the visitor center.
00:20:42.47\00:20:44.74
There's a section here
on her support of her son,
00:20:44.77\00:20:48.31
Edson White
00:20:48.34\00:20:49.68
and his work among
blacks in the south,
00:20:49.71\00:20:51.45
as well as her
international travels.
00:20:51.48\00:20:53.82
So section about her years
00:20:53.85\00:20:55.65
that she was in
Europe, the 1880s,
00:20:55.68\00:20:57.95
and then her years in
Australia in the 1890s to show
00:20:57.99\00:21:01.62
that she didn't
just talk the talk,
00:21:01.66\00:21:03.26
she walked the walk,
00:21:03.29\00:21:04.63
she went as a
missionary herself overseas.
00:21:04.66\00:21:07.06
And there's some
interactive displays
00:21:07.10\00:21:09.33
in here also,
00:21:09.36\00:21:10.70
you can't see
them from the pictures
00:21:10.73\00:21:12.07
but there's some
interactive things
00:21:12.10\00:21:13.67
that visitors get to see.
00:21:13.70\00:21:15.14
There's a model in the
middle of the room there,
00:21:15.17\00:21:16.87
of her home and
Battle Creek, Michigan,
00:21:16.91\00:21:19.74
which is owned by
the church, this house.
00:21:19.77\00:21:22.28
But this is a little model again
00:21:22.31\00:21:23.65
to help people realize
00:21:23.68\00:21:25.01
what, you know, how
she lived what she did,
00:21:25.05\00:21:29.48
section about home.
00:21:29.52\00:21:30.99
And well,
here's the house again,
00:21:31.02\00:21:33.52
that someone very kindly donated
00:21:33.56\00:21:35.69
this model that they made.
00:21:35.72\00:21:37.06
It's very, very accurate.
00:21:37.09\00:21:38.43
We find people standing
around and looking in there.
00:21:38.46\00:21:41.20
It's lovely. I'll bet.
00:21:41.23\00:21:43.77
I've been to that home
and it is, does look very...
00:21:43.80\00:21:46.97
But you haven't
seen this little model.
00:21:47.00\00:21:48.70
You've got to come to...
00:21:48.74\00:21:50.17
You got to come
there sometime and visit.
00:21:50.21\00:21:51.64
Oh, this is
beautiful. It's beautiful.
00:21:51.67\00:21:54.81
And you must have
really had to hunt
00:21:54.84\00:21:57.75
to find this old
wood for the barns and...
00:21:57.78\00:22:00.68
Yeah, we try to be
as accurate as possible
00:22:00.72\00:22:04.02
when it comes to creating a feel
00:22:04.05\00:22:06.25
of what it would look like.
00:22:06.29\00:22:07.62
So we actually found
a hundred year old wood
00:22:07.66\00:22:10.83
that we used for
that particular display.
00:22:10.86\00:22:13.76
So we don't have any
clothes that Ellen White wore
00:22:13.80\00:22:15.56
but this is made from a
picture of one of her dresses.
00:22:15.60\00:22:18.70
This is a bonnet actually
that belong to Ellen White.
00:22:18.73\00:22:21.14
It's the only
original artifact of clothing,
00:22:21.17\00:22:23.81
a piece of
clothing we have from her.
00:22:23.84\00:22:25.41
She was well known as a
speaker during her lifetime.
00:22:25.44\00:22:27.18
This is a pulpit
that she's preached from,
00:22:27.21\00:22:29.74
yeah, from Southern California.
00:22:29.78\00:22:32.55
Why do you feel
this is so important?
00:22:32.58\00:22:34.85
I mean, she
played an important role
00:22:34.88\00:22:37.85
in the development
00:22:37.89\00:22:41.69
of our church.
00:22:41.72\00:22:44.36
Is this...
00:22:44.39\00:22:45.73
Why did you feel this
was so important to do?
00:22:45.76\00:22:49.66
I mean, I've got
to tell you about this
00:22:49.70\00:22:51.03
'cause this is the display about
00:22:51.07\00:22:52.60
all the names of Christ.
00:22:52.63\00:22:54.57
So we have an old
engraving of Christ.
00:22:54.60\00:22:56.57
You can't see it in the picture
but behind that very light,
00:22:56.60\00:22:59.37
you may be able to see
that there are some words,
00:22:59.41\00:23:01.18
those are the over 800
different names for Christ...
00:23:01.21\00:23:03.31
That she used in her writings.
00:23:03.35\00:23:04.68
That she used in her,
throughout all of her writings.
00:23:04.71\00:23:06.18
Beautiful.
00:23:06.21\00:23:07.55
Sometimes people say
she wasn't Christ centered.
00:23:07.58\00:23:09.12
Down the hall,
00:23:09.15\00:23:10.49
which is what we're in right now
00:23:10.52\00:23:11.85
are various areas of emphasis.
00:23:11.89\00:23:13.56
I haven't
forgotten your question,
00:23:13.59\00:23:14.92
I'll get back to it, but
various areas of emphasis,
00:23:14.96\00:23:16.99
so we have a display
on the Great Controversy.
00:23:17.03\00:23:18.79
This is about publishing,
00:23:18.83\00:23:20.16
there's our first paper
00:23:20.20\00:23:21.53
that we put out
The Present Truth.
00:23:21.56\00:23:23.10
And the first issue
of our church paper.
00:23:23.13\00:23:26.13
Now it's called
Adventist review,
00:23:26.17\00:23:27.67
but then it was longer
name, it's Healthful Living,
00:23:27.70\00:23:30.74
showing the contrast between
00:23:30.77\00:23:32.91
what was typical
19th century treatments
00:23:32.94\00:23:36.34
and medicines and stuff,
and what God showed her...
00:23:36.38\00:23:38.75
When doctors suggested
smoking for your health.
00:23:38.78\00:23:41.25
We've got a cigar right there
00:23:41.28\00:23:42.62
and a little note that
doctors would prescribe tobacco,
00:23:42.65\00:23:45.75
smoke a cigar
to clear your lungs
00:23:45.79\00:23:47.59
and that kind of thing.
00:23:47.62\00:23:48.96
And then her counsels
00:23:48.99\00:23:51.29
that God gave her
about Healthful Living.
00:23:51.33\00:23:54.20
So again there are some of
the major areas of emphasis.
00:23:54.23\00:23:56.53
Education is another one,
00:23:56.56\00:23:57.90
of course, and Bible
based education and verses,
00:23:57.93\00:24:02.60
the general classical education
which was based on Greek
00:24:02.64\00:24:05.27
and Latin and
that kind of thing.
00:24:05.31\00:24:07.38
There is a timeline
00:24:07.41\00:24:08.74
about important
events in her life
00:24:08.78\00:24:10.85
that is along the wall.
00:24:10.88\00:24:13.15
And this display
isn't quite yet finished,
00:24:13.18\00:24:14.82
we've still got a
lot of information
00:24:14.85\00:24:16.79
we want to add to this display.
00:24:16.82\00:24:18.19
Now is this open to the public?
00:24:18.22\00:24:19.79
Oh, yeah, we've had
several thousand visitors
00:24:19.82\00:24:21.36
since we opened
it, come through.
00:24:21.39\00:24:23.12
So I'm gonna have to put
this on my bucket list as well.
00:24:23.16\00:24:26.73
I'd love to see this
wall. But don't wait that long.
00:24:26.76\00:24:28.23
Well, no.
00:24:28.26\00:24:29.60
Now make it a very
short, but I bet...
00:24:29.63\00:24:31.17
Put it on your to-do-list.
00:24:31.20\00:24:32.53
On my to-do-list, excuse
me, that's what I meant to say.
00:24:32.57\00:24:36.00
And this is about her life,
00:24:36.04\00:24:37.54
and about her
family I should say.
00:24:37.57\00:24:40.01
People are curious about
00:24:40.04\00:24:41.38
her siblings, her
children, and all.
00:24:41.41\00:24:42.78
And there's a
little movie there,
00:24:42.81\00:24:44.15
that clip is 1929,
00:24:44.18\00:24:46.55
White family movie
of her grandchildren
00:24:46.58\00:24:49.12
and all that was
in the White family.
00:24:49.15\00:24:50.69
And they loaned it to
us, we had it digitized,
00:24:50.72\00:24:52.92
we have clips out of
it now on display there.
00:24:52.95\00:24:56.39
This is about her death,
a newspaper about her death
00:24:56.42\00:24:59.69
and other
pictures about her funeral,
00:24:59.73\00:25:02.40
and funeral notices, and
that kind of thing in 1915.
00:25:02.43\00:25:05.97
I guess the very
interesting thing
00:25:06.00\00:25:07.64
you said, all this
documents, all this pictures,
00:25:07.67\00:25:10.71
all this material
was already there.
00:25:10.74\00:25:13.91
But it wasn't displayed in a way
00:25:13.94\00:25:16.18
that people would
actually understand
00:25:16.21\00:25:18.11
and immerse into this,
so that was the main goal.
00:25:18.15\00:25:23.49
I find a design
00:25:23.52\00:25:24.85
that would give
justice to her life...
00:25:24.89\00:25:26.22
Let me just say a
little bit about this
00:25:26.25\00:25:27.59
because people ask about
00:25:27.62\00:25:28.96
some of her
literary assistants',
00:25:28.99\00:25:30.33
just display, the one
right in the middle right now
00:25:30.36\00:25:32.16
is shows the pictures of
her major literary assistant
00:25:32.19\00:25:34.60
she used in her life.
00:25:34.63\00:25:35.96
And this mural is what
started the whole thing.
00:25:36.00\00:25:37.87
I wanted just a simple
sounded like program on here.
00:25:37.90\00:25:40.87
What Siloe created,
00:25:40.90\00:25:42.37
I still don't
know how he did it.
00:25:42.40\00:25:43.74
But it is amazing.
00:25:43.77\00:25:45.11
It's more than sound...
00:25:45.14\00:25:46.47
You have to go
there to see. I have to.
00:25:46.51\00:25:47.84
You have to, I mean, I
can't describe it to you.
00:25:47.88\00:25:49.71
There's a little section
for children with some things
00:25:49.74\00:25:52.11
that are pictures
of Ellen White in 3D,
00:25:52.15\00:25:55.58
and some
recordings on the phone.
00:25:55.62\00:25:57.05
You can listen to
recordings of people
00:25:57.09\00:25:58.52
who actually knew Ellen White,
00:25:58.55\00:26:00.36
who remembered her
00:26:00.39\00:26:01.72
and told some stories about her.
00:26:01.76\00:26:06.16
I guess, this is...
00:26:06.19\00:26:07.53
That's south
entrance to the White Estate.
00:26:07.56\00:26:11.67
An amazing job.
00:26:11.70\00:26:13.77
She was a remarkable woman.
00:26:13.80\00:26:16.44
And this you've done
00:26:16.47\00:26:17.81
an amazing job in
putting this together.
00:26:17.84\00:26:20.91
But why was it
so important to you?
00:26:20.94\00:26:22.58
Why did you have this dream?
00:26:22.61\00:26:23.95
I've got to say one more thing
00:26:23.98\00:26:25.31
while we're
talking before you leave.
00:26:25.35\00:26:26.68
You said, amazing.
00:26:26.72\00:26:28.05
I want your viewers to
know that we invite any of them,
00:26:28.08\00:26:31.12
all of them, they can come.
00:26:31.15\00:26:33.19
And where is this located?
00:26:33.22\00:26:34.56
It is in the world headquarters
00:26:34.59\00:26:35.92
of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:26:35.96\00:26:37.49
in Silver Spring, Maryland.
00:26:37.53\00:26:39.43
And I think you'll be
running the address later.
00:26:39.46\00:26:41.06
Yes, okay, we will
definitely do that.
00:26:41.10\00:26:42.43
But it's... That's
where it's located.
00:26:42.46\00:26:43.80
Anyway, why was
it important to me?
00:26:43.83\00:26:45.90
My wife and I were visiting
00:26:45.93\00:26:48.20
a Church History Museum
of another denomination.
00:26:48.24\00:26:53.38
And as we walked through that,
this was a number of years ago,
00:26:53.41\00:26:57.15
as we walked through that,
there was a father with his,
00:26:57.18\00:27:00.15
about three year old son.
00:27:00.18\00:27:02.22
And as we walked behind
them, they were standing there,
00:27:02.25\00:27:04.65
looking at an exhibit.
00:27:04.69\00:27:06.42
The father said
something to the son about,
00:27:06.45\00:27:09.86
well, this is where this
00:27:09.89\00:27:11.23
or whatever was
happened in our history.
00:27:11.26\00:27:14.43
We went around the
corner and I said to my wife,
00:27:14.46\00:27:16.36
"Where can I as a
Seventh-day Adventist
00:27:16.40\00:27:18.63
take my child or my grand child
00:27:18.67\00:27:20.60
to have that
kind of experience?"
00:27:20.64\00:27:22.17
Amen. I can't.
00:27:22.20\00:27:23.97
We don't have anything
in our church like that.
00:27:24.01\00:27:26.17
That's where the dream started.
00:27:26.21\00:27:28.31
I said, "We have to do something
00:27:28.34\00:27:30.05
for parents and grandparents.
00:27:30.08\00:27:31.41
Have a place
where they could come
00:27:31.45\00:27:33.05
and they could show
00:27:33.08\00:27:34.62
what God did in the
beginning of this church."
00:27:34.65\00:27:37.02
We still don't have.
00:27:37.05\00:27:38.39
That was actually a
Church History Museum.
00:27:38.42\00:27:40.39
I wish our churches had
a Church History Museum,
00:27:40.42\00:27:42.06
we don't, but that's
one of my dream still.
00:27:42.09\00:27:44.23
But... You have time.
00:27:44.26\00:27:45.59
But... Well, I don't know.
00:27:45.63\00:27:46.96
You know... You've
got the right people.
00:27:47.00\00:27:48.33
I got the right people.
00:27:48.36\00:27:49.70
But at least I was
over the why to say,
00:27:49.73\00:27:51.07
so I said,
00:27:51.10\00:27:52.43
"I could do
something about Ellen White."
00:27:52.47\00:27:53.80
It may not be the whole church
00:27:53.84\00:27:55.17
but at least I could do
something about Ellen White.
00:27:55.20\00:27:56.91
But that's where
the dream came from.
00:27:56.94\00:27:58.57
Well, let's just say,
00:27:58.61\00:27:59.94
"Where do we
have that capability,
00:27:59.97\00:28:02.71
that possibility
in our denomination?"
00:28:02.74\00:28:05.01
At that point, we didn't.
00:28:05.05\00:28:06.38
Now we're working on
it with another segment,
00:28:06.41\00:28:08.12
we'll be in your program later
00:28:08.15\00:28:09.58
about adversary
ministry and our historic sites.
00:28:09.62\00:28:12.75
But that's all
part of the same thing
00:28:12.79\00:28:14.46
is young people are relational.
00:28:14.49\00:28:16.79
Well, we are all
relational. Absolutely.
00:28:16.83\00:28:18.43
And we like stories.
00:28:18.46\00:28:19.96
So if we can tell
stories and do something
00:28:20.00\00:28:22.43
so they can relate, I
mean, I'm ahead of the program
00:28:22.46\00:28:25.20
but we have people coming.
00:28:25.23\00:28:26.57
There are young people coming
00:28:26.60\00:28:27.94
through the
Historic Adventist Village
00:28:27.97\00:28:29.30
in Battle Creek for instance.
00:28:29.34\00:28:30.67
And they will
say, now we can relate,
00:28:30.71\00:28:32.04
we walked in the
streets where the pioneers,
00:28:32.07\00:28:34.21
we have been in the bedrooms
00:28:34.24\00:28:35.58
and the living rooms of
the homes of the pioneers.
00:28:35.61\00:28:38.58
And that's what
it all came from.
00:28:38.61\00:28:39.95
It's just how do we pass
00:28:39.98\00:28:42.15
on this fantastic story of God's
00:28:42.18\00:28:45.59
leading in the history
of this church, to then,
00:28:45.62\00:28:48.39
how de we pass it on
to the next generation?
00:28:48.42\00:28:50.03
Amen and amen. That's
one of my many passions.
00:28:50.06\00:28:52.53
Well, you know, it was so funny
00:28:52.56\00:28:54.30
because I have to tell
the audience this that,
00:28:54.33\00:28:57.47
when we first were
meeting this morning
00:28:57.50\00:29:00.34
and when we were
in the green room
00:29:00.37\00:29:01.70
and I said,
00:29:01.74\00:29:03.07
"Oh, well, I have been
to Ellen G. White Estate."
00:29:03.10\00:29:04.47
And they said, "How long ago?"
00:29:04.51\00:29:05.84
Well, it's been
about eight years.
00:29:05.87\00:29:07.21
They said,
00:29:07.24\00:29:08.58
"You have not been seen
the Ellen G. White Estate."
00:29:08.61\00:29:11.05
So this is a beautiful museum.
00:29:11.08\00:29:12.88
Thank you all so
much for your dedication.
00:29:12.91\00:29:15.58
I know the Lord led you
00:29:15.62\00:29:17.55
and this is something
that I believe every person...
00:29:17.59\00:29:22.32
I think I know,
00:29:22.36\00:29:23.69
we'll compare notes in a minute.
00:29:23.73\00:29:25.06
But I think I
know where you were
00:29:25.09\00:29:27.06
when you had this
vision and it is important.
00:29:27.10\00:29:30.40
God created us in His image.
00:29:30.43\00:29:33.10
He is a relational being.
00:29:33.13\00:29:34.97
And it is important
that we can know our history
00:29:35.00\00:29:39.07
and see how God has
done such amazing things
00:29:39.11\00:29:44.41
through one
simple surrendered soul.
00:29:44.45\00:29:49.18
What we want to do,
we still have so much.
00:29:49.22\00:29:52.15
We are going to talk about
Adventist Heritage Ministries
00:29:52.19\00:29:55.82
and some exciting applications
00:29:55.86\00:29:59.03
that you can
download from the web
00:29:59.06\00:30:01.86
and the new web design
00:30:01.90\00:30:03.30
for the Ellen G. White writings.
00:30:03.33\00:30:06.43
And that's coming
up in just a moment
00:30:06.47\00:30:08.10
but we are going to
swap out some guest.
00:30:08.14\00:30:10.41
So we have a
special treat for you
00:30:10.44\00:30:12.17
and that is Wintley Phipps.
00:30:12.21\00:30:13.54
He will be singing
"Tell Me the Story of Jesus."
00:30:13.58\00:30:17.71
Tell me
00:30:55.18\00:30:56.69
The story of Jesus
00:30:56.72\00:31:02.39
Write on my heart
00:31:02.42\00:31:05.53
Every word
00:31:05.56\00:31:06.90
Tell me
00:31:06.93\00:31:11.30
The story most precious
00:31:11.33\00:31:16.97
Sweetest that ever
00:31:17.01\00:31:20.51
Was heard
00:31:20.54\00:31:24.45
Tell how the angels
00:31:28.05\00:31:31.99
In chorus
00:31:32.02\00:31:35.29
Sang as they welcomed
00:31:35.32\00:31:38.73
His birth
00:31:38.76\00:31:42.50
Glory to God
00:31:42.53\00:31:45.33
In the highest
00:31:45.37\00:31:49.90
Peace and good tidings
00:31:49.94\00:31:53.27
To earth
00:31:53.31\00:31:57.98
Tell me the story of Jesus
00:31:58.01\00:32:04.85
Write on my heart
00:32:04.89\00:32:08.12
Every word
00:32:08.16\00:32:12.13
Tell me the story
00:32:12.16\00:32:15.60
Most precious
00:32:15.63\00:32:19.40
Sweetest that ever
00:32:19.43\00:32:23.04
Was heard
00:32:23.07\00:32:28.11
Tell of the cross
00:32:43.29\00:32:46.16
Where they nailed Him
00:32:46.19\00:32:50.90
Writhing in anguish
00:32:50.93\00:32:53.80
And pain
00:32:53.84\00:32:57.97
Tell of the grave
00:32:58.01\00:33:00.38
Where they laid Him
00:33:00.41\00:33:06.55
Tell how He liveth
00:33:06.58\00:33:10.25
Again
00:33:10.29\00:33:14.66
Love in that story
00:33:14.69\00:33:18.29
So tender
00:33:18.33\00:33:21.86
Clarer than ever
00:33:21.90\00:33:25.10
I see
00:33:25.13\00:33:29.20
Stay, let me weep
00:33:29.24\00:33:32.31
While you whisper
00:33:32.34\00:33:36.64
Love paid the ransom
00:33:36.68\00:33:39.78
For me
00:33:39.81\00:33:45.62
Tell me the story
00:33:48.76\00:33:52.13
Of Jesus
00:33:52.16\00:33:55.90
Write on my heart
00:33:55.93\00:33:59.10
Every word
00:33:59.13\00:34:03.24
Tell me the story
00:34:03.27\00:34:06.57
Most precious
00:34:06.61\00:34:10.65
Sweetest that ever
00:34:10.68\00:34:16.58
Was heard
00:34:16.62\00:34:23.56
We thank Wintley
Phipps and praise God
00:34:38.97\00:34:41.21
that he uses the
gifts God gave him
00:34:41.24\00:34:44.35
for the Lord's glory.
00:34:44.38\00:34:45.95
Now we have two new
gentlemen who are joining us,
00:34:45.98\00:34:48.78
who are so excited.
00:34:48.82\00:34:50.29
We have Marcus Kutzschbach,
did I say that correctly?
00:34:50.32\00:34:53.36
That's fine.
Wonderful. Thank you.
00:34:53.39\00:34:55.66
And Darryl Thompson.
00:34:55.69\00:34:57.03
And gentlemen, Marcus,
you are the Associate Director
00:34:57.06\00:35:00.80
for the Ellen G.
White Estate, and Darryl,
00:35:00.83\00:35:03.06
you are the Assistant Director
for the Ellen G. White Estate.
00:35:03.10\00:35:07.07
Marcus, you are
here to talk to us
00:35:07.10\00:35:09.10
about Adventist
Heritage Ministries.
00:35:09.14\00:35:12.87
What is that about?
00:35:12.91\00:35:14.74
Yeah, Adventist
Heritage Ministry
00:35:14.78\00:35:16.31
is an organization
00:35:16.34\00:35:17.81
which was founded
in 1981 by lay members
00:35:17.85\00:35:22.05
and they are taking
care for our church history.
00:35:22.08\00:35:25.12
We operate four sites.
00:35:25.15\00:35:26.89
One is in Battle Creek,
00:35:26.92\00:35:28.26
this is big site
with so many houses
00:35:28.29\00:35:30.19
and you can learn a lot
about Adventist history,
00:35:30.23\00:35:33.13
also the Ellen White
house is standing there.
00:35:33.16\00:35:35.93
Then we have the
William Miller Farm.
00:35:35.96\00:35:38.37
We also operate the
Joseph Bates Boyhood Home
00:35:38.40\00:35:41.34
in Fairhaven, Massachusetts
00:35:41.37\00:35:42.94
and Hiram Edson farm
close to Rochester in New York.
00:35:42.97\00:35:46.07
Wonderful.
00:35:46.11\00:35:47.44
Now who operates
Elmshaven and what's...
00:35:47.48\00:35:51.58
It's owned by the
Pacific Union Conference.
00:35:51.61\00:35:53.72
And then in Australia,
I've been to all of them.
00:35:53.75\00:35:55.82
It's owned by the
South Pacific Division.
00:35:55.85\00:35:57.49
All right, all right.
00:35:57.52\00:35:58.92
Tell us what is latest project
00:35:58.95\00:36:01.76
for Adventist
Heritage Ministries.
00:36:01.79\00:36:04.69
Yeah, the latest
project, the biggest one
00:36:04.73\00:36:07.06
is the Joseph Bates Boyhood Home
00:36:07.10\00:36:08.90
in Fairhaven, Massachusetts,
00:36:08.93\00:36:11.23
that's a total
reconstruction of the house.
00:36:11.27\00:36:14.57
It's the progress.
It's right now in process.
00:36:14.60\00:36:17.61
Oh, this will be
fascinating. It is.
00:36:17.64\00:36:19.14
It's a huge project.
00:36:19.17\00:36:20.51
We bring in a
new visitor centre,
00:36:20.54\00:36:22.18
a welcome centre
00:36:22.21\00:36:23.55
and we total renovate the house.
00:36:23.58\00:36:25.71
So that it looks
inside original old part like,
00:36:25.75\00:36:28.98
in the old days when
Joseph Bates lived there.
00:36:29.02\00:36:31.12
And who was
Joseph Bates for people
00:36:31.15\00:36:32.82
who've, may be
never heard that name.
00:36:32.85\00:36:34.72
This is one of our co-founders.
00:36:34.76\00:36:36.46
He introduced the
Sabbath to the church,
00:36:36.49\00:36:39.46
not to the
church, not at this time
00:36:39.49\00:36:40.86
because there was no church.
00:36:40.90\00:36:43.50
And he also brought
together the combination
00:36:43.53\00:36:47.37
or he combined the Sabbath
00:36:47.40\00:36:49.37
with the Three Angele's Message.
00:36:49.40\00:36:51.44
So he's very
important to the church.
00:36:51.47\00:36:53.54
You know, Jim, I
just have to say this.
00:36:53.58\00:36:56.14
People don't realize,
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:36:56.18\00:36:58.51
didn't just pop
up out of nowhere.
00:36:58.55\00:37:00.82
There were Methodists,
Perspirations, Baptists,
00:37:00.85\00:37:03.52
people of all denominations
00:37:03.55\00:37:05.39
who got together
and studied the Bible.
00:37:05.42\00:37:08.42
They knew there were
some doctoral differences
00:37:08.46\00:37:10.36
but they went to scripture,
scripture upon scripture
00:37:10.39\00:37:13.19
and that's how
the church was formed.
00:37:13.23\00:37:16.73
So it is
fascinating to me to hear this.
00:37:16.77\00:37:19.43
Now you brought a roll with you.
00:37:19.47\00:37:21.54
Is this going to
explain about Joseph Bates?
00:37:21.57\00:37:25.04
Well, let's look
at that right now.
00:37:25.07\00:37:26.88
Nestled in the once busy
00:37:37.19\00:37:38.52
seafaring town of Fairhaven
sits a centuries old home.
00:37:38.55\00:37:42.66
Its unassuming character,
hides this unique importance.
00:37:42.69\00:37:46.46
Worn-out floors
and layered walls,
00:37:53.47\00:37:56.00
service stage
for a key character
00:37:56.04\00:37:58.11
in Adventist history.
00:37:58.14\00:38:02.38
Today, it has been
reclaimed and refreshed,
00:38:02.41\00:38:05.61
so it can
continue to tell this story
00:38:05.65\00:38:08.02
to a new generation.
00:38:08.05\00:38:11.45
This was the boyhood
home of Joseph Bates,
00:38:11.49\00:38:14.62
the sailor turned preacher,
00:38:14.66\00:38:16.66
who upon
learning of Christ return
00:38:16.69\00:38:18.96
and the
importance of God's Sabbath,
00:38:18.99\00:38:21.06
dedicated his life in
spreading Bible truths
00:38:21.10\00:38:24.10
across the world.
00:38:24.13\00:38:25.70
In 2005, the
Adventist Heritage Ministry
00:38:32.61\00:38:36.44
had the rare opportunity
of purchasing the home
00:38:36.48\00:38:39.21
which had been occupied
00:38:39.25\00:38:40.58
with the same family
for around six generations.
00:38:40.62\00:38:43.79
Since then, much has been
done to refurbish the building,
00:38:43.82\00:38:47.36
so it can serve as
a centre for learning
00:38:47.39\00:38:49.89
more about Joseph Bates life.
00:38:49.92\00:38:51.86
The exterior has been
fully restored to look
00:38:51.89\00:38:54.36
as it did in Joseph Bates time.
00:38:54.40\00:38:56.53
However, much is still
to be done in the interior
00:38:56.56\00:38:59.27
of the home,
00:38:59.30\00:39:00.64
so it can continue to tell
00:39:00.67\00:39:02.00
the story of God's anti-message.
00:39:02.04\00:39:04.54
A visitor to the home
will be able to experience
00:39:04.57\00:39:07.51
the original 18th century rooms
as they were in Bates time.
00:39:07.54\00:39:13.42
While the more
modern editions to the home,
00:39:13.45\00:39:16.08
woodhouse impactful and
immersive exhibit spaces
00:39:16.12\00:39:19.72
with audio visual
and interactive displays
00:39:19.75\00:39:22.26
that tell Joseph Bates
story of faith and highlight
00:39:22.29\00:39:25.46
the importance he gave
to the Seventh-day Sabbath.
00:39:25.49\00:39:30.70
A similar visitor
centre recently unveiled
00:39:30.73\00:39:33.20
by the Ellen G. White Estate
in Silver Spring, Maryland,
00:39:33.23\00:39:36.81
has demonstrated how
important learning spaces
00:39:36.84\00:39:39.21
can be in the
development of young Adventists.
00:39:39.24\00:39:42.28
Ellen White's Christ
centered story of resilience
00:39:42.31\00:39:45.28
has portrayed
through vivid exhibits
00:39:45.31\00:39:47.48
that leave a mark
on whoever visits,
00:39:47.52\00:39:49.78
strengthening her legacy.
00:39:49.82\00:39:52.45
Likewise, visitors
00:39:52.49\00:39:53.92
to the Joseph Bates Boyhood Home
00:39:53.96\00:39:56.06
will be able to more fully
00:39:56.09\00:39:57.53
understand
Joseph Bates experience,
00:39:57.56\00:39:59.79
his struggles and victories.
00:39:59.83\00:40:02.33
The tour of the home will start
00:40:02.36\00:40:03.70
in the belly of a
19th century ship,
00:40:03.73\00:40:06.17
as the visitor is
introduced to Joseph Bates,
00:40:06.20\00:40:08.90
a cabin boy turned captain,
00:40:08.94\00:40:10.87
through the use
of video monitors,
00:40:10.91\00:40:12.91
and surround sound design,
00:40:12.94\00:40:14.48
his adventures
are brought to life,
00:40:14.51\00:40:16.51
as the visitor is
immersed in the narrative.
00:40:16.54\00:40:19.81
More can then be learned
about his international voyages
00:40:19.85\00:40:23.49
to an interactive
touch-screen display
00:40:23.52\00:40:25.95
that connects Joseph
Bates to the wider world.
00:40:25.99\00:40:28.92
The visitor will then
explore his formative years
00:40:28.96\00:40:31.79
as they tour the original rooms
00:40:31.83\00:40:33.46
of the home that molded the man.
00:40:33.50\00:40:35.50
Daily life in the
19th century is revealed,
00:40:35.53\00:40:38.20
as well as Joseph
Bates love for the sea
00:40:38.23\00:40:40.77
and later
conversion to Christianity.
00:40:40.80\00:40:43.44
His passion for the message
of Christ imminent return
00:40:43.47\00:40:46.34
has proclaimed in
the Millerite movement
00:40:46.37\00:40:48.48
will be explored
in the next room.
00:40:48.51\00:40:50.71
The visitor will understand
00:40:50.75\00:40:52.55
how the central belief
became pivotal in his life
00:40:52.58\00:40:55.65
even when
struggling to make sense
00:40:55.68\00:40:57.39
of the great
disappointment of 1844
00:40:57.42\00:41:01.02
Original artifacts
will color the experience
00:41:01.06\00:41:03.16
and Interactive Digital Displays
00:41:03.19\00:41:05.23
will engage those
who want to know more.
00:41:05.26\00:41:07.80
The following room,
the guests will explore
00:41:07.83\00:41:10.40
Joseph Bates anti-slavery views,
00:41:10.43\00:41:12.73
a device of stands at that time.
00:41:12.77\00:41:15.37
Bates interest in
leading a healthy life
00:41:15.40\00:41:17.77
will also be featured
00:41:17.81\00:41:19.17
as his pioneering
work on temperance
00:41:19.21\00:41:21.61
and health reform are discussed.
00:41:21.64\00:41:23.98
The visit will commentate
00:41:24.01\00:41:25.35
with an audio
visual presentation
00:41:25.38\00:41:27.18
that reveals Bates discovery
00:41:27.22\00:41:28.95
and conviction that
the Seventh-day Sabbath
00:41:28.98\00:41:31.39
should be observed
00:41:31.42\00:41:32.92
and how this doctrine influenced
00:41:32.95\00:41:34.56
the Seventh-day
Adventist Church.
00:41:34.59\00:41:36.76
This last room becomes
00:41:36.79\00:41:38.13
the light house for the Sabbath,
00:41:38.16\00:41:39.86
as this central
theme is explored
00:41:39.89\00:41:42.06
through the historic
lens of Bates own experience.
00:41:42.10\00:41:45.00
The Joseph Bates Boyhood
Home becomes a unique tool
00:41:45.03\00:41:48.47
to share the
message of the Sabbath
00:41:48.50\00:41:50.34
with those in the
community at large
00:41:50.37\00:41:52.84
that reflects through
the life of Joseph Bates,
00:41:52.87\00:41:55.41
the value of
following biblical principles
00:41:55.44\00:41:58.41
and leading a
Christ centered life.
00:41:58.45\00:42:00.72
By reaching those
00:42:00.75\00:42:02.08
who have not yet
heard of Christ saving grace
00:42:02.12\00:42:04.35
and by solidifying the
faith of those who have,
00:42:04.39\00:42:07.02
that Joseph Bates home
will be bastion of truth.
00:42:07.06\00:42:10.93
I can see where that
would not only be good
00:42:15.26\00:42:17.43
for educating church members
00:42:17.47\00:42:20.47
but for an evangelistic outrage.
00:42:20.50\00:42:22.90
Right. Yeah, that's true.
00:42:22.94\00:42:25.47
We are working
close together also here
00:42:25.51\00:42:27.08
with the local community.
00:42:27.11\00:42:29.04
And especially this
house is the oldest house
00:42:29.08\00:42:32.51
still standing in town
00:42:32.55\00:42:33.98
and then back of the
house, we have old stone wall.
00:42:34.02\00:42:36.55
And this stone wall
goes back to the Mayflower,
00:42:36.58\00:42:38.82
it's connected
with some Mayflower
00:42:38.85\00:42:40.19
since one of the pilgrims
name, his name was John Cooke.
00:42:40.22\00:42:43.86
His daughter married a
guy, his name was Thomas Taber
00:42:43.89\00:42:47.00
and he builded this
house in 1678, around this age.
00:42:47.03\00:42:50.70
Fascinating
history. When will this open?
00:42:50.73\00:42:53.34
We open as soon as
possible because in 2020
00:42:53.37\00:42:57.04
we have the 400th anniversary
00:42:57.07\00:42:58.71
of the landing of the Mayflower.
00:42:58.74\00:43:00.28
And the town will use
the space for tourisms,
00:43:00.31\00:43:03.71
for the tourists to come.
00:43:03.75\00:43:05.18
You know, Joseph
Bates we owe a lot to him.
00:43:05.21\00:43:07.45
Well, God would
have found somebody
00:43:07.48\00:43:09.45
to reintroduce His
truth to the protestant faith
00:43:09.48\00:43:13.09
of the Seventh-day Sabbath,
00:43:13.12\00:43:14.52
but great evangelistic
outrage there as well.
00:43:14.56\00:43:19.13
All right, Darryl? Yes.
00:43:19.16\00:43:21.26
You are on. Thanks, Shelley.
00:43:21.30\00:43:23.37
As the Assistant Director
of the E.G. White Estate,
00:43:23.40\00:43:25.73
you've been overseeing
the website development
00:43:25.77\00:43:28.30
and the
downloadable applications
00:43:28.34\00:43:30.97
of Ellen White writings.
00:43:31.01\00:43:32.34
Yes. Yes, for the past 16 years.
00:43:32.37\00:43:35.21
It's been my privilege to be
00:43:35.24\00:43:36.58
in charge of
Ellen G. White writings,
00:43:36.61\00:43:38.91
website, and apps.
00:43:38.95\00:43:40.82
And over that period of time,
00:43:40.85\00:43:42.82
we have consistently changed
as new technologies come out
00:43:42.85\00:43:47.46
and I'd love to
introduce to you today
00:43:47.49\00:43:49.86
a little video
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that runs on your
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Wonderful.
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So if we can roll that,
00:43:59.03\00:44:00.37
you get a brief
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Wonderful, let's roll that.
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00:46:32.35\00:46:35.62
Okay. Note 8 that I love.
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You do.
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00:46:48.27\00:46:50.41
How about for Windows too?
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That was exciting.
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and there is my thought
and there is my Bible reading.
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I can subscribe to,
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you know, the King James
or American Standard Version
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and it will say,
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"Oh, you know, I can
read a chapter a day."
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But the other big
thing is in subscriptions
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is the ability to read
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through the writings of
Ellen White systematically.
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So you can sign up
and say, you want to read
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through the
Conflict of the Ages series.
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And so you will start of
with Acts of the Apostles.
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You can subscribe to it.
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You can say, I want
to read one page a day
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or I want to read
up to 50 pages a day,
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you've got that choice.
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And you can set the time
of day you want to read it
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and it will deliver as a
notification on your app.
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And everyday, you
can systematically read
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through Acts of the Apostles
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and then you can read
through Prophets and Kings,
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Patriarchs and
Prophets, Great Controversy,
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Desire of Ages.
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You can go and
read through them all.
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And then this old
books, Christ Object lessons.
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This year we have
the 125th anniversary
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as Jim mentioned previously,
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you can read
through Steps to Christ
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and all that can be delivered.
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But not just in
English, our app now is,
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has 98 languages
available across all of them.
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At least one book,
00:49:46.25\00:49:47.58
you know, mainly Steps to Christ
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but we have multiple
books in multiple languages.
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And this is all
downloadable for free?
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Oh, downloadable for free.
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So you go to the App
Store and EGW Writings 2
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from the iTunes App Store,
00:49:59.06\00:50:00.40
EGW Writings 2 from
the android app store,
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EGW Writings from
the Windows home store,
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and then the
Mac app is available
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from EllenWhite.org website.
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So you can download from web.
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And give us the
website address one more time.
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So we got two website addresses.
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All right.
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We have got EGWWritings.org.
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EGW W-R-I-T-I-N-G-S dot-org,
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that's our main website
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that you can go to and
access all these writings.
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And then we have EllenWhite.org,
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which is the main
website that you can go to,
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to learn about Ellen White.
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You know, who she is,
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what she wrote
about and all that.
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What is this Partner?
Oh, the Partner, okay.
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So, you saw in the app
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where we talked
about audio books.
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And we do from Christian record,
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we do have a selection of
a lot of the old recordings
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but we transfer them from,
00:50:54.12\00:50:55.85
you know, the all LP records
and so they're little scratchy.
00:50:55.88\00:50:59.39
And we would like to do
digital recordings of these.
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And if people would like to see,
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like the conflicts
available, you know...
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In audio?
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In audio, like
say Great Controversy,
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we do have it
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but, you know, a
lot of people say,
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"You know, can't you update it,
00:51:12.47\00:51:13.80
can't you get a
better recording?"
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Well, it costs money
to do it professionally
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and it will cost about $50,000
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to professionally
record Great Controversy
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for example.
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And if we want to do
more, it would cost 180,000.
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So we are looking
for donors to come
00:51:25.38\00:51:26.95
and you can make your donation
at Partner.EGWWritings.org,
00:51:26.98\00:51:30.49
an online donation,
00:51:30.52\00:51:31.85
or you can mail it to
the Ellen G. White Estate.
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Amen and amen. So
what we want to do...
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You have got so much going on.
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Well, this is the
tip of the iceberg.
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I know.
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Shall we send the
rest of the team out?
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Tell you what they are
doing? Yes, you should.
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But what we want to do
because I know that the...
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Some of you at home are saying,
00:51:47.20\00:51:48.57
"Hey, I want to get
more information on this."
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And perhaps the Holy
Spirit is directing you
00:51:53.01\00:51:56.78
or inspiring you to
support some of these works.
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We want to put
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whether it is something to do
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with the Ellen
White visitor center
00:52:05.39\00:52:07.49
or the Adventist
Heritage or something that you,
00:52:07.52\00:52:11.53
for this digitizing
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00:52:11.56\00:52:15.90
Ellen White audio books.
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