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, friends,
welcome to 3ABN Today.
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Yes, this is John
Lomacang with a new voice.
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This is called a cold voice,
but don't worry about that,
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we have a tremendously
exciting program today.
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And it is about ministry.
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Now you know 3ABN is a ministry,
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we've been around for
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a number of years,
more than three decades.
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And God has
blessed tremendously.
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But we always have
guests on our program that
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God has impressed
to begin ministries.
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And we have known,
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as we have seen
through the years,
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God has opened
doors in so many ways,
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in so many lives,
on so many continents.
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And we believe
and have seen lives
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transformed and
changed by the people
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that has been impressed
by God to start a ministry.
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And our guest today is one
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who is not a
stranger to our network.
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She's been a part of
our family for some time,
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and today we're
going to talk about
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ministry in a place
that I'm excited about.
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I'm not gonna
tell you right now,
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because I don't want
to preempt her story,
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which is gonna be a great one.
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But you may be thinking about
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ministry in your
own life wondering,
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what does God
have in store for me?
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How can I be an
impact to the kingdom?
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How can I
advance the cause of God?
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And you might say, I
just don't know how to do it.
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Well, today,
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our guest is going to talk about
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how God impressed, how God led,
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how He opens doors,
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and how you can
participate in a movement
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that God is now
involved in, in her life.
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And I know it's going
to be a great program.
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So you might want to
hit the record button.
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But do sit down and
enjoy the program that is going
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to encourage and
inspire your life.
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To know that no matter what,
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each one of us can do something
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to advance the Kingdom of God.
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I want to thank
you for your prayers
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and your financial
support of this network
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as we continue
going and growing,
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getting ready for
the coming of the Lord.
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And if you have
come to volunteer,
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thank you, if it's just
through prayer and donations,
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every little bit helps
and it keeps the doors open,
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but it also keeps
the gospel light on.
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And we thank you
very much for that.
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Before we
introduce our guest, though,
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I want to let you
know about our music today,
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another person
who's not a stranger.
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And I think the
song sets the stage
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because when you're involved
in ministry, the song title is,
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"No One Ever Cared
for Me like Jesus",
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and it's going to
be ministered to us
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by a good friend
of ours, Jeff Pearles.
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I would love to tell you what
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I think of Jesus
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Since I found in Him a friend
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so kind and true
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I would tell you how
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He changed my life completely
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He did something that
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No other friend could do
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No one ever cared for me
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Like Jesus
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There's no other friend
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so kind as He
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No one else could take
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The sin and darkness from me
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O how much
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He cared for me
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Ev'ry day He comes to me
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with new assurance
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More and more I
understand His words of love
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But I'll never know
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Just why He came to save me
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Till that day I
reached my blessed home above
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No one ever cared for me
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Like Jesus
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There's no other friend
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so kind as He
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No one else could take
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The sin and darkness from me
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O how much He cared for me
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O how much He cared for me
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Thank you so much, Jeff.
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That's a wonderful
segue into our program
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because ministry
is about Jesus caring
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for everyone that He
brings to His throne of grace.
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On that note, let's
meet our guest today.
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Pamela Benton, good to have you.
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I'll just stretch my
hand over and shake yours.
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Thank you.
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Yes, you know,
you're not a stranger
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to the 3ABN family.
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And your family has
been involved in the ministry
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of 3ABN for a number of years.
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But there may be
somebody watching or listening
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to the program that might
say, I don't know Pamela Benton.
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Give us some of your background,
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and I will eventually
get it to your daughters
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and kind of how God
has led in your life,
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but just kind of,
where are you from?
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What do you do right now?
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From right now
Weaverville. Okay.
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But we were from Lakeport
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when we were
working with 3ABN...
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California.
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In California,
back in the 1990s.
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And it was the Benton sisters,
the girls had started doing
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cooking schools
and somebody video them
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and send it to 3ABN.
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And 3ABN picked up
on it and aired them.
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The girls did quite a
few programs with 3ABN.
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And then, of course,
we got calls from churches
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around the
United States and spent,
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we thought we're going
to be just one little trip
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ended up lasting nine years,
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touring the United
States doing cooking schools,
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which ended up being
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a lifestyle improvement program.
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Okay. Yeah.
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So the, you know,
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the song writer
says it only takes
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a spark to get a fire going.
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And your girls were very much
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part of this
ministry for some time.
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Now, do they also sing? Yes.
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I thought so. Yes.
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Yeah.
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So on a weekend
when we go to a church,
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they would do Sabbath
school church service,
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singing in all the divisions.
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Then do an evening
concert and then on Sunday,
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we would do
breakfast, lunch and desert,
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an all day seminar.
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They were always smiling
when they were on the program.
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Very, very
infectious personalities,
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people were drawn to
them in their ministry.
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But you were the
dynamo behind that
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because you're the mom
with only three girls, no sons.
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No sons.
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But I do have
three son-in-laws now.
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Okay. And three grandsons.
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Good. So...
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Wow.
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So the ministry
of the Benton Sisters
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has spanned a number of years.
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Yes, it was 17
years all together,
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first it was concerts,
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just the concerts
and it moved into the...
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Cooking part?
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Yeah, health
improvement program,
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cooking schools.
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Okay. Yeah.
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Wow.
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The Lord bless us
with over 400 recipes
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that were no
refined fats or sugars.
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Just like your old
favorites, the girls used to say
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but without the
heart attack ingredients.
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You know, that's a good point
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because today we live in a world
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with a lot of
heart attack ingredients.
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Yeah.
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It's hard to find
things that are natural.
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Even many
things that are natural
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have been
augmented and has been a...
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What's that word
or the acronym GMO?
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Yeah.
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Genetically modified
organism so to speak.
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But it's good to
have you here again.
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Thank you. And
you're here on your own.
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But we want to talk
about your ministry today.
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And you mentioned
you're Californian.
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Yes. Okay. Born and raised?
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No, born in Nebraska. Okay.
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But I was only three
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when we moved to California, so.
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Okay, and you didn't
drive in other words.
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Nope.
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But California is
the place the ministry
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that you're going
to talk about today
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is in a
location that has a place
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in my heart and my wife's heart.
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We were in...
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Let's just talk about that
before we talk about the place.
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Talk about how
God inspires because,
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you know, many times
we're not thinking about
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starting a ministry,
but God has plans for us,
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you know, Jeremiah 29:11 to 13.
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He always has plans.
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And He impresses us,
but talk about that briefly,
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where the idea came from,
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for the Eden Renew
International Wellness Center.
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Let's talk about
that? Well, can I back up?
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Sure, you do that.
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And I would like to express
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what happened with
our daughter Amberly.
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Okay.
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Because I know there was so many
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that have been praying for her.
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Yes.
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And to our shock,
she got a brain tumor.
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Hmm.
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Never expect in a million years
that a member of our family
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would get a brain tumor.
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But it happened.
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Sometimes it happens
and we don't know why,
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but we prayed that was
for to glory of God, right?
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And she had two surgeries.
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The first one was thus,
the surgeon cut the tumor out
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but he could only get
like two-thirds of it.
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And in nine
months, it grew back.
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And they wouldn't
do another surgery.
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And so they put her
on drugs to shrink it.
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And we were busy
praying for a miracle.
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And, of course, and
God showed Himself strong
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so many times in
Amberly's behalf.
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Amen.
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And
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it was a few
months after that episode,
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when we were praying
that God led us to a doctor
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in Santa Monica, Daniel
Kelly, who was able to...
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In fact, he videoed
Amberly's entire surgery,
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and has been
traveling around the world
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teaching other
surgeons how to do it.
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And apparently, I
mean, he was the one
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that invented this whole process
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and he just sent
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a tool in through her eyebrow
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and put dye in which
picked up the entire tumor
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including the roots.
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And then he set
another tool and, of course,
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he's looking with a
camera on the outside.
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And he...
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the tools sucked up
the entire brain tumor,
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the entire thing.
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And it was really big.
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And he came back
and he told Amberly
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after she woke and he
says, I got all the dye.
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I got all the dye out.
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And he goes, "I'm
not supposed to tell you,
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I got 100% of it.
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But I can only
tell you, I got 99.99.
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But, you know, they did an MRI
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on her every month
for quite some time
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and it never, never
showed up, it never came back.
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And so it was totally
gone for a whole 14 months
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before she passed,
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and so she did not pass
of cancer or a brain tumor.
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And, but before I
tell you what happened,
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how she passed,
I want to tell you
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of a miracle that happened.
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One of the times when
she was in the hospital,
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we had rushed her
down to Santa Monica
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because she
started having headaches
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and we didn't know why.
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And we didn't know if the tumor
was coming back or what it was.
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And she was not responding.
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She was in ER, and I
think she was in a coma.
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And they told me that
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she wasn't going
to pull out of it.
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A nurse came in and told
me that and I saw, you know,
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I don't, I was just thinking,
you know, God is miracle.
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He does miracles.
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And so I queued into my phone...
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What's that song?
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To God be the glory, my tribute.
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And I put it up by
her ear, and she sang it.
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And she sang it
out loud, really loud.
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And she was
supposed to been in a coma.
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And afterwards,
when the song ended,
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I put another song on,
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and I kept
playing songs like that
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her favorite religious music.
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And the doctors came in
and says, by the next morning,
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she's recovering.
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We had
emergency surgery planned,
00:15:29.99\00:15:31.89
because we can't, you
know, and we're canceling it.
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And she continued to recover.
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And so I just
played songs all night.
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Wow.
00:15:39.97\00:15:41.30
And, you know,
God did a miracle.
00:15:41.34\00:15:45.77
She never
remembered singing that song.
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That I believe that God did it
00:15:49.28\00:15:51.21
and I was the
only one that heard it.
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So it was a huge blessing to me.
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But she, you know,
00:15:55.92\00:15:58.09
we don't
understand why she passed,
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the doctors don't
even know except one thing
00:16:01.49\00:16:04.23
that was told to us is that
00:16:04.26\00:16:06.59
she had gotten
cranial pneumonia.
00:16:06.63\00:16:10.57
And we were told
that cranial pneumonia
00:16:10.60\00:16:14.04
can take a person
that has had brain surgery,
00:16:14.07\00:16:17.81
before the doctors
even can figure out
00:16:17.84\00:16:19.81
what's going on.
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Wow. And if she had...
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If we would have been
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able to get her to Santa Monica,
00:16:24.75\00:16:27.25
things might
have been different,
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but we weren't.
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You know, the fire had
just come through Lake County,
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if anybody remembers
00:16:33.22\00:16:36.19
of the trauma of last year,
00:16:36.22\00:16:39.93
of all the
fires and all the land
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that got burned up,
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the fire was just
an eighth of a mile
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from where she was.
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And she was there,
taking care of all the guys
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that were there, you
know, protecting the property.
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And before I want to, I
want to say a couple of weeks
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before she passed,
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she was at Leoni
Meadows Family Camp.
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And she drove the go-karts.
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She went on the zip line.
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I don't know if
you, one of those things,
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those ropes that
are real high in the sky
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that you walk on
through a maze and everything.
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She did that too. I didn't.
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I was not brave
enough to do it, but she did.
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She was feeling really good.
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And the doctors felt like
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they didn't even
need to see her regularly.
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Wow.
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And then, you know,
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there's really no
explanation other than I think
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it was the fumes from the fire.
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Wow.
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Somehow affected her and
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made her brain swell.
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And the
hospitals were evacuated,
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the hospital in our town.
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So we had to take her to,
you know, a neighboring town,
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and she had gone into a coma.
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And she died shortly
after she got to the hospital.
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Wow. And, well,
that has been a...
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I mean, as
you're walking through,
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I'm listening carefully,
you're going from victory to,
00:18:15.19\00:18:18.76
I don't know, to
what's going to happen next.
00:18:18.79\00:18:21.63
And then all of a
sudden, you lose your daughter.
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I know.
00:18:23.23\00:18:24.57
You know, Pam, when we
think about moments like this,
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you know, what would
we do if we didn't have
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the hope of the
resurrection, what will you do?
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I know, and God gave me
something very, very special.
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I was trapped up in Trinity
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and couldn't get
down to where she was...
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That's Trinity County.
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Trinity County, and the highways
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were blocked off.
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So, you know, my
husband was able to get down
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to help with the
fire but he had left,
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and I was not
able to come with her.
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But when I was
able to leave that day
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when they let me know
that there was something
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not good happening with Amberly,
00:19:00.50\00:19:02.30
and they're rushing her to ER.
00:19:02.34\00:19:05.01
I got in the van and I took off,
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and I got like two-thirds
of the way to Eureka on 99
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going west from Junction City,
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and a thought came into my mind.
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I know it was the Lord.
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You know, you
just know those things
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when certain
thoughts come into your mind.
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And it's in words that
you wouldn't ordinarily use,
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you know, especially you
think, where'd that come from?
00:19:30.93\00:19:35.57
But, and I'll be
talking about some of that soon.
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Sure.
00:19:37.74\00:19:39.07
But the thought came with
be at peace, she sleepeth.
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That's right.
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And what was the other?
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Be at piece and she sleepeth.
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At first I
thought, well, you know,
00:19:53.15\00:19:54.49
she, maybe you
know, this is good.
00:19:54.52\00:19:57.13
She'll be okay.
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We can take her home
and then I started thinking,
00:19:58.53\00:20:02.60
God's character and the
way He speaks in the Bible,
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when He speaks of
somebody sleepeth,
00:20:05.87\00:20:08.97
they passed.
00:20:09.00\00:20:10.34
Okay.
00:20:10.37\00:20:11.71
And so I just go,
she, I think she's passed.
00:20:11.74\00:20:16.98
And, you know,
that was my first,
00:20:17.01\00:20:19.35
but the peace
that I got was that
00:20:19.38\00:20:22.45
he was telling
me that be at peace.
00:20:22.48\00:20:26.09
And you know, if
somebody is not saved,
00:20:26.12\00:20:27.46
you're not at peace.
00:20:27.49\00:20:28.82
That's right. That's right.
00:20:28.86\00:20:30.19
And so being at
peace meant, she was saved,
00:20:30.23\00:20:32.16
and He was giving me that hope
that I will see her someday.
00:20:32.19\00:20:35.46
That's right.
00:20:35.50\00:20:36.83
And the Benton Sisters as a trio
00:20:36.87\00:20:38.47
will sing again in
the kingdom of glory.
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How blessed that is.
00:20:41.40\00:20:43.10
You know, if Paul said,
00:20:43.14\00:20:44.47
"If we only had
hope in this life,
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we will be of all
people most miserable."
00:20:47.34\00:20:49.54
But this is not
the end of the story.
00:20:49.58\00:20:51.11
This is just a
part of our journey.
00:20:51.15\00:20:53.01
And those who
are resting in Jesus,
00:20:53.05\00:20:54.75
we know will come forth.
00:20:54.78\00:20:56.35
So praise God for
that, but her life,
00:20:56.38\00:20:58.55
you know, Amberly's life
was a tremendous blessing
00:20:58.59\00:21:00.46
and all the work that she did.
00:21:00.49\00:21:02.32
I know through
her other two sisters
00:21:02.36\00:21:03.99
and the programs that
they've done go on to,
00:21:04.03\00:21:06.80
as the Bible says
their works continue
00:21:06.83\00:21:08.56
to follow and bless other lives.
00:21:08.60\00:21:11.00
And, you know,
Amberly never complained
00:21:11.03\00:21:13.27
through this whole thing.
00:21:13.30\00:21:15.10
She would...
00:21:15.14\00:21:16.81
She took the whole
thing so graciously.
00:21:16.84\00:21:21.84
And as public as
this situation was,
00:21:21.88\00:21:25.31
there are many people praying.
00:21:25.35\00:21:26.88
You know, I want to
address this part real quickly
00:21:26.92\00:21:28.38
because she brought it out.
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A lot of times we
pray and we wonder, Lord,
00:21:30.25\00:21:34.32
we're praying,
people are praying.
00:21:34.36\00:21:37.03
Why don't You heal my daughter?
00:21:37.06\00:21:38.43
Why don't You spare her life?
00:21:38.46\00:21:40.46
I remember a
number of years ago,
00:21:40.50\00:21:42.63
something similar
happened to a person
00:21:42.66\00:21:44.17
that I knew very well.
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That just started
00:21:45.57\00:21:46.90
with a melanoma
cancer on the foot
00:21:46.94\00:21:49.90
and at 36 years old and
end up claiming her life.
00:21:49.94\00:21:52.87
But when she passed away,
00:21:52.91\00:21:55.34
50 minutes after
she was declared dead,
00:21:55.38\00:21:57.88
she woke up again.
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So it was crazy situation.
00:21:59.41\00:22:01.35
And my brother with
Stacey was his wife.
00:22:01.38\00:22:05.15
And he said, "Well, we've been
praying for you to be healed."
00:22:05.19\00:22:08.49
And she says, "I have been."
00:22:08.52\00:22:10.76
She said, "The Lord is
allowing me to go to sleep."
00:22:10.79\00:22:13.50
He knows this is the best time.
00:22:13.53\00:22:15.66
Because if I'm healed, I may,
00:22:15.70\00:22:17.50
my life may go in
the wrong direction.
00:22:17.53\00:22:19.00
She actually said
that? She actually said that.
00:22:19.03\00:22:20.37
Oh, my.
00:22:20.40\00:22:21.74
Fifty minutes
after she passed away.
00:22:21.77\00:22:23.10
So, you know, the Lord knows.
00:22:23.14\00:22:24.47
And here's the thing
that I think one of our,
00:22:24.51\00:22:26.34
Mollie Steenson who used to be
00:22:26.37\00:22:27.81
our general
manager said, she said,
00:22:27.84\00:22:30.38
she struggled
through her cancer.
00:22:30.41\00:22:32.51
Her doctor said, she said,
00:22:32.55\00:22:35.05
"I will be healed
either in this life,
00:22:35.08\00:22:38.72
or in the life to come."
00:22:38.75\00:22:40.09
Right.
00:22:40.12\00:22:41.46
But God is, God is
not a God who cannot.
00:22:41.49\00:22:44.49
But His sovereignty
sees the longer picture
00:22:44.53\00:22:47.96
better than we do.
00:22:48.00\00:22:49.33
And the
beautiful thing about it,
00:22:49.36\00:22:50.70
as you just
mentioned, she's just resting,
00:22:50.73\00:22:53.03
waiting for the
Lord to come forth,
00:22:53.07\00:22:55.97
to come back, and
she'll come forth perfect.
00:22:56.00\00:23:00.94
No tumors, nothing
to be even consider.
00:23:00.98\00:23:03.04
I know she
would say things like,
00:23:03.08\00:23:05.28
"Oh mom, you know,
dying isn't that bad.
00:23:05.31\00:23:09.08
The next face I
will see will be Jesus."
00:23:09.12\00:23:12.72
I go, "Don't say that
I can't have you dying."
00:23:12.75\00:23:16.76
Of course, momma would say that.
00:23:16.79\00:23:18.13
You know, children aren't
supposed to die before you.
00:23:18.16\00:23:22.26
That's very hard.
00:23:22.30\00:23:23.63
I've seen so many
parents endure that, yeah.
00:23:23.67\00:23:25.00
But here you are
still carrying the flame.
00:23:25.03\00:23:27.74
I've been backstage
mom and being in front
00:23:27.77\00:23:30.81
is not my cup of tea.
00:23:30.84\00:23:32.91
But you know what?
00:23:32.94\00:23:34.44
If God is for you,
who could be against you?
00:23:34.48\00:23:36.54
There's nothing difficult.
00:23:36.58\00:23:38.01
I want to dive into because
you mentioned Trinity County
00:23:38.05\00:23:40.52
and I'll let our
viewers and listeners know.
00:23:40.55\00:23:42.35
Trinity County in
this particular context
00:23:42.38\00:23:45.09
is a beautiful
Alpine city Weaverville
00:23:45.12\00:23:50.09
in Northern California,
about 50 miles west of Redding,
00:23:50.13\00:23:53.66
and about 90
miles east of Eureka.
00:23:53.70\00:23:57.87
Maybe a little more than that,
but it's beautiful up there.
00:23:57.90\00:24:00.90
My wife and I had a chance
00:24:00.94\00:24:02.27
to live up there
for a couple years.
00:24:02.30\00:24:04.47
If you ever seen a
postcard when it snows,
00:24:04.51\00:24:06.68
where you wake up in the morning
00:24:06.71\00:24:08.04
and the snow has
covered everything,
00:24:08.08\00:24:10.01
and you're the first one
to put a footprint in it.
00:24:10.05\00:24:12.58
You know, once we
went into the forest,
00:24:12.61\00:24:15.25
on the day when the
snow has just fallen,
00:24:15.28\00:24:17.29
and everything look like
00:24:17.32\00:24:18.65
a just a perfect
winter wonderland.
00:24:18.69\00:24:20.92
And we went through the forest
00:24:20.96\00:24:22.36
and it sounded like
we were in a closet.
00:24:22.39\00:24:25.09
They were so dense from
snow, it was just muted.
00:24:25.13\00:24:29.30
And, but that's where
God has chosen to direct you
00:24:29.33\00:24:32.73
to start a ministry
00:24:32.77\00:24:34.10
called Eden Renew
International Wellness Center.
00:24:34.14\00:24:37.14
Talk about that? How
does this impression come?
00:24:37.17\00:24:40.41
And where does a person
00:24:40.44\00:24:41.78
who likes to be
in the background
00:24:41.81\00:24:44.91
step out to be
in the foreground?
00:24:44.95\00:24:47.22
Well, you know, maybe it was
00:24:47.25\00:24:48.58
because of to dry
my tears, you know,
00:24:48.62\00:24:52.62
and pull me away from my sorrow
00:24:52.65\00:24:54.99
that God has brought
me on a journey this year
00:24:55.02\00:24:59.23
that was intense
but yet I had peace
00:24:59.26\00:25:03.70
and is exciting.
00:25:03.73\00:25:06.57
And I would like
to share it with you.
00:25:06.60\00:25:08.74
And it all started with...
00:25:08.77\00:25:12.77
My friend is in real estate.
00:25:12.81\00:25:15.24
And she sent me an
email of pictures of a hotel
00:25:15.28\00:25:18.68
that was for sale.
00:25:18.71\00:25:20.18
And I was like,
00:25:20.22\00:25:21.55
"I'm not
interested in buying a hotel.
00:25:21.58\00:25:24.02
What are you sending these for?"
00:25:24.05\00:25:26.15
And she said, "Just
look at the pictures.
00:25:26.19\00:25:28.72
This is stunning place."
00:25:28.76\00:25:30.69
And so I looked
at the pictures and,
00:25:30.73\00:25:32.29
you know, how you think
the pictures are going to be
00:25:32.33\00:25:35.66
so much better than the reality,
00:25:35.70\00:25:39.03
you know, so
curiosity got the best of me.
00:25:39.07\00:25:41.80
But I wanted to say
00:25:41.84\00:25:43.17
one little
thing about the hotel.
00:25:43.20\00:25:44.91
It was first
built in the mid 1800s
00:25:44.94\00:25:48.28
and recently
restored recapturing
00:25:48.31\00:25:50.48
much of its original charm
00:25:50.51\00:25:52.11
and historical ambience,
00:25:52.15\00:25:54.05
with antiques in all seven
00:25:54.08\00:25:55.92
of his guest rooms and
a beautifully furnished
00:25:55.95\00:25:58.35
old fashioned parlor.
00:25:58.39\00:26:00.72
And I saw the pictures
and I go, okay, so we...
00:26:00.76\00:26:05.43
Since it's right
there in our town,
00:26:05.46\00:26:07.33
I couldn't resist so my
husband and I took a tour.
00:26:07.36\00:26:11.83
Curiosity got the best.
00:26:11.87\00:26:14.00
I'm intrigued by the sale price.
00:26:14.04\00:26:16.20
It started with,
00:26:16.24\00:26:17.57
I think a million and a quarter,
00:26:17.61\00:26:19.74
then it came down
to seven something,
00:26:19.77\00:26:22.18
and then I've had it.
00:26:22.21\00:26:27.25
I quote that was, I
asked if they would accept
00:26:27.28\00:26:32.15
this certain
amount and they said yes,
00:26:32.19\00:26:33.92
but we can't tell you
officially that we will.
00:26:33.96\00:26:37.19
Off the record.
00:26:37.23\00:26:38.69
Yeah, but I'm getting the cart
00:26:38.73\00:26:40.13
before the horse
so I better back up.
00:26:40.16\00:26:42.16
So anyway, we looked at
it, and then I asked for
00:26:42.20\00:26:46.37
his three year
profit and loss statement.
00:26:46.40\00:26:49.30
And I thought, you know,
00:26:49.34\00:26:51.17
why in the world
would this beautiful place
00:26:51.21\00:26:53.81
be on the market for
four years and not sold?
00:26:53.84\00:26:57.65
And why are they
selling it, you know?
00:26:57.68\00:27:00.42
And I looked,
took a quick glance
00:27:00.45\00:27:02.72
at the profit and
loss statement and said,
00:27:02.75\00:27:05.65
"Wow, Lord,"
00:27:05.69\00:27:07.02
which I often talk
like that to the Lord.
00:27:07.06\00:27:09.99
It's a beautiful place,
00:27:10.03\00:27:11.36
but it looks like
a financial disaster.
00:27:11.39\00:27:14.03
And I was happy to lay
it aside and go on my life
00:27:14.06\00:27:17.30
and never give
it another thought.
00:27:17.33\00:27:20.14
You know, like,
00:27:20.17\00:27:21.90
but I was struck with a thought,
00:27:21.94\00:27:24.91
yes, but not
for a health center.
00:27:24.94\00:27:29.14
And that's what started
this whole ball rolling.
00:27:29.18\00:27:33.31
Was that God answering me?
00:27:33.35\00:27:36.18
Was He choosing this as a
health center for Himself?
00:27:36.22\00:27:41.66
Did I stumble upon this by
accident or by divine plan?
00:27:41.69\00:27:45.46
Okay.
00:27:45.49\00:27:46.83
And that is what my
testimony is going to be about
00:27:46.86\00:27:50.47
for the rest of the program.
00:27:50.50\00:27:51.83
Okay.
00:27:51.87\00:27:53.20
And you know, I know exactly
what hotel you're talking about
00:27:53.23\00:27:55.57
'cause this is on Main
Street, one on Main Street?
00:27:55.60\00:27:58.14
Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's beautiful.
00:27:58.17\00:27:59.51
Right there at the end,
00:27:59.54\00:28:01.08
on the west end,
right next to the Gazebo.
00:28:01.11\00:28:03.91
Okay, yeah, I
know where that is.
00:28:03.95\00:28:05.61
Yes. Wow, I mean, Weaverville.
00:28:05.65\00:28:07.48
Now you're
bringing all these pictures
00:28:07.52\00:28:08.85
back to my mind,
'cause I can see myself.
00:28:08.88\00:28:11.09
When I moved to Weaverville,
I bought a motorcycle
00:28:11.12\00:28:13.86
'cause there's
beautiful mountains up there,
00:28:13.89\00:28:15.49
nice beautiful roads.
00:28:15.52\00:28:16.86
It's gorgeous. But it's amazing.
00:28:16.89\00:28:18.23
So let's talk about that.
00:28:18.26\00:28:19.59
So the Lord is
saying, Pam, this is not,
00:28:19.63\00:28:21.30
I don't want you
to start a hotel.
00:28:21.33\00:28:22.73
I don't want you
to continue a hotel
00:28:22.76\00:28:24.20
because it's not
really good up here.
00:28:24.23\00:28:26.60
Because it's such
a unique location,
00:28:26.63\00:28:28.74
that it's not a
high volume market
00:28:28.77\00:28:31.71
for people to be filling
up the hotel all the time.
00:28:31.74\00:28:34.24
Right. But God had other plans.
00:28:34.28\00:28:35.74
Let's talk about that.
00:28:35.78\00:28:37.11
Yes, and if anybody
wants to look at the hotel,
00:28:37.15\00:28:40.15
just type in Weaverville
Hotel Trinity, California,
00:28:40.18\00:28:44.79
and it will come up
and you can see a video
00:28:44.82\00:28:47.32
of the entire place.
00:28:47.36\00:28:50.09
And so I recommend
go ahead and do that.
00:28:50.13\00:28:53.76
But, yes, and so, you know,
00:28:53.80\00:28:56.87
it had been growing
in intensity this hotel.
00:28:56.90\00:29:02.27
And I wasn't able
to get free of it.
00:29:02.30\00:29:04.11
And so I thought,
well, you know what?
00:29:04.14\00:29:05.47
Maybe I need to just research
00:29:05.51\00:29:09.14
some of the council
given by Ellen White
00:29:09.18\00:29:12.01
to our church about
health centers, thinking,
00:29:12.05\00:29:15.05
well, maybe I would
come across something
00:29:15.08\00:29:16.85
that would put the
whole thing at rest.
00:29:16.89\00:29:19.75
And because, you know, I
thought the health centers
00:29:19.79\00:29:21.86
were supposed to
be in the country.
00:29:21.89\00:29:23.76
This isn't, this is a
little tiny town in the country,
00:29:23.79\00:29:27.30
but it's in a city, you know.
00:29:27.33\00:29:28.93
At the city part
of the country, right.
00:29:28.96\00:29:30.30
Yeah, city part.
00:29:30.33\00:29:31.67
And so I thought, well,
you know, I wasn't sure.
00:29:31.70\00:29:34.17
And so I
researched it and found out,
00:29:34.20\00:29:36.14
yeah, they are
supposed to be in the city,
00:29:36.17\00:29:37.97
as well as in the country
00:29:38.01\00:29:39.34
and there are two
different ministries,
00:29:39.37\00:29:41.04
and they work, they
complement each other.
00:29:41.08\00:29:43.48
But moving farther forward,
00:29:43.51\00:29:46.18
I saw a prophecy
that God's people
00:29:46.21\00:29:50.59
would see property for sale
00:29:50.62\00:29:55.12
far below its value,
00:29:55.16\00:29:57.13
and they would
secure it for his service.
00:29:57.16\00:30:00.40
And that was a
quote from Ellen White.
00:30:00.43\00:30:02.66
And so I thought,
00:30:02.70\00:30:04.03
I wonder if this is
one of those places.
00:30:04.07\00:30:07.30
And so it started in February
when I first saw the email.
00:30:07.34\00:30:12.44
So now we're getting into April,
00:30:12.47\00:30:15.31
and I'm not
getting peace from this.
00:30:15.34\00:30:18.11
And so I'm going, okay,
it's growing in intensity.
00:30:18.15\00:30:23.89
And I go, "Okay, Lord,
00:30:23.92\00:30:26.12
I have no resources
to make this happen."
00:30:26.15\00:30:28.26
So maybe my part is to just tell
00:30:28.29\00:30:30.19
God's people about it.
00:30:30.23\00:30:31.99
And then God's
people will take the ball
00:30:32.03\00:30:34.20
and run with it.
00:30:34.23\00:30:35.66
And I go, "But,
Lord, how do I do that?
00:30:35.70\00:30:39.20
Who could help me with this?"
00:30:39.23\00:30:40.90
And then, of course,
00:30:40.94\00:30:42.27
Danny Shelton's
name came up in my mind.
00:30:42.30\00:30:44.87
And I thought, of
course he knows, everybody.
00:30:44.91\00:30:47.81
And he surely will know
somebody that has a heart
00:30:47.84\00:30:51.08
for health
evangelism that could,
00:30:51.11\00:30:53.42
you know, secure this valuable
piece of property for the Lord.
00:30:53.45\00:30:56.92
And so, and you know,
00:30:56.95\00:30:59.95
he had history with
Benton Sisters ministry,
00:30:59.99\00:31:04.03
our health ministry.
00:31:04.06\00:31:05.39
And so, I felt comfortable
talking to him about it.
00:31:05.43\00:31:08.50
And he said, "No, the Lord
has laid this on your heart.
00:31:08.53\00:31:14.00
You need to let the
Lord open the doors for you."
00:31:14.04\00:31:18.04
And he invited
me to come to 3ABN
00:31:18.07\00:31:19.94
and give the Lord
00:31:19.97\00:31:21.31
and God's
people that opportunity
00:31:21.34\00:31:23.24
to make this happen.
00:31:23.28\00:31:25.18
And that's why you're
here. And that's why I'm here.
00:31:25.21\00:31:27.28
But that happened
clear about last April.
00:31:27.32\00:31:29.78
So what in the world,
why all this time elapsed?
00:31:29.82\00:31:33.36
That's next part of the story.
00:31:33.39\00:31:35.59
I wasn't ready to hear that.
00:31:35.62\00:31:37.93
You know, to come
that it would be my,
00:31:37.96\00:31:40.33
on my shoulders, on my heart.
00:31:40.36\00:31:42.46
You know, I'm going, okay.
00:31:42.50\00:31:44.43
I needed to have
confirmation more than just
00:31:44.47\00:31:48.70
this thought that I
thought comes from the Lord.
00:31:48.74\00:31:50.91
I needed to have real
heavy strong confirmation.
00:31:50.94\00:31:53.54
You had a Gideon moment. Okay.
00:31:53.58\00:31:55.88
Yes, I want it fleeces. Right.
00:31:55.91\00:31:58.51
And so, anyway,
00:31:58.55\00:32:03.05
before I was even
ready for the doors
00:32:03.08\00:32:06.25
to start opening
with very short time.
00:32:06.29\00:32:10.06
I saw a friend I
hadn't seen in a long time.
00:32:10.09\00:32:13.13
And she asked
me, "So what's new?"
00:32:13.16\00:32:17.30
And, of course,
what's on my mind,
00:32:17.33\00:32:20.10
this hotel health center.
00:32:20.14\00:32:22.30
And so I expressed to her
00:32:22.34\00:32:25.44
what was on my
heart and thinking,
00:32:25.47\00:32:28.81
well, she might have
something to say that
00:32:28.84\00:32:30.75
would put
everything in perspective
00:32:30.78\00:32:32.48
and it would all go away.
00:32:32.51\00:32:34.65
She gave me
money to come to 3ABN.
00:32:34.68\00:32:38.49
In other words, you're
saying, I'm looking for help,
00:32:38.52\00:32:40.59
but you guys keep pushing
me to the front of the line.
00:32:40.62\00:32:42.49
I know. I know.
00:32:42.52\00:32:44.19
And so, I said, "Well, you know,
00:32:44.23\00:32:45.99
there's a lot of hurdles,
00:32:46.03\00:32:47.36
I need to go over before
I'm ready to go to 3ABN."
00:32:47.40\00:32:49.26
Right.
00:32:49.30\00:32:50.63
And so, I said, I
will put this away
00:32:50.67\00:32:52.70
for safekeeping and
if God doesn't answer
00:32:52.73\00:32:54.80
all my fleece prayers,
00:32:54.84\00:32:57.61
then I will give it back to you.
00:32:57.64\00:33:00.38
And so, my first fleece was that
00:33:00.41\00:33:05.15
my husband would be supportive.
00:33:05.18\00:33:07.95
That was number one.
00:33:07.98\00:33:09.68
I told God if he
isn't supportive,
00:33:09.72\00:33:12.15
I am not going to do it.
00:33:12.19\00:33:14.86
And so, he has said
only supporting words
00:33:14.89\00:33:19.09
to me about it.
00:33:19.13\00:33:20.46
He has never said
anything negative.
00:33:20.50\00:33:23.20
And so, oh, wow.
And so, then I go, okay.
00:33:23.23\00:33:28.74
I had fallen and
hurt my hip in 2015
00:33:28.77\00:33:33.74
and I was left
with a painful limp.
00:33:33.78\00:33:37.05
And I just go, Lord,
00:33:37.08\00:33:39.85
I cannot run a health
center with this painful limp.
00:33:39.88\00:33:43.99
There's stairs,
I couldn't even get
00:33:44.02\00:33:45.85
to the top of the stairs.
00:33:45.89\00:33:47.62
You know, if You
are calling me to buy
00:33:47.66\00:33:49.82
this specific
hotel for health center,
00:33:49.86\00:33:54.43
please help me with my hip.
00:33:54.46\00:33:56.73
Prayers hadn't helped before.
00:33:56.77\00:33:58.77
I mean, you know,
God hears our prayers,
00:33:58.80\00:34:00.34
but He doesn't
always answer them
00:34:00.37\00:34:01.94
the way we want Him to, right?
00:34:01.97\00:34:03.81
And so...
00:34:03.84\00:34:05.17
Sometimes in our weakness
His strength is revealed, yeah.
00:34:05.21\00:34:07.54
Right.
00:34:07.58\00:34:08.91
And so, right
after I prayed that,
00:34:08.94\00:34:11.78
I see laying there a
handheld massager that
00:34:11.81\00:34:15.55
my daughter had told me
00:34:15.58\00:34:17.25
I needed to buy
several months before
00:34:17.29\00:34:19.55
and I finally had gotten it,
00:34:19.59\00:34:21.72
and I thought, oh, my goodness,
00:34:21.76\00:34:23.99
and the thought also came
before you call, I will answer.
00:34:24.03\00:34:28.13
And there he had, I had,
so I grabbed that massager.
00:34:28.16\00:34:32.13
And I just put it on the pain
00:34:32.17\00:34:34.47
as I walked and I
paced because it didn't have,
00:34:34.50\00:34:36.77
it was a battery.
00:34:36.81\00:34:38.14
So I could get
away from the chord,
00:34:38.17\00:34:40.08
and I did that and
the pain would release.
00:34:40.11\00:34:43.45
And I would, I repeatedly
did that for several weeks.
00:34:43.48\00:34:48.02
And it went away and
it has never come back.
00:34:48.05\00:34:50.42
Amen. You know
what a relief that is.
00:34:50.45\00:34:53.72
When I would go
to the grocery store,
00:34:53.76\00:34:56.89
just the thought
of going to the back
00:34:56.93\00:34:58.63
of the store was like,
00:34:58.66\00:35:01.56
"Where's the grocery cart?"
00:35:01.60\00:35:03.70
It's like an old lady,
you know, and so it's gone.
00:35:03.73\00:35:08.80
And it's just so wonderful.
00:35:08.84\00:35:10.81
The second one was, I
had a painful left foot,
00:35:10.84\00:35:16.11
like, I don't know if
you've ever experienced.
00:35:16.14\00:35:19.01
It's like coals of fire burning,
00:35:19.05\00:35:21.32
coals of fire on
your bottom of your foot
00:35:21.35\00:35:23.52
when you're walking.
00:35:23.55\00:35:24.89
It's horrible.
00:35:24.92\00:35:26.25
For a whole
year, I had been doing
00:35:26.29\00:35:29.02
natural remedies
thinking I was going to be able
00:35:29.06\00:35:31.33
to get to the bottom
of this and Lord help me
00:35:31.36\00:35:33.03
which one should I try
this, this time and so on.
00:35:33.06\00:35:36.26
And, and then
00:35:36.30\00:35:40.74
after a year of the suffering
00:35:40.77\00:35:42.90
for this burning foot, I
finally went to a doctor.
00:35:42.94\00:35:46.11
His remedy didn't work either.
00:35:46.14\00:35:48.14
And so, I had my
prayer, the same as before,
00:35:48.18\00:35:53.25
if You are calling me for
buying this specific hotel
00:35:53.28\00:35:57.55
for a health center,
Father, please fix my foot.
00:35:57.59\00:36:02.29
I can't run a health
center if I have this problem.
00:36:02.32\00:36:05.93
And you know,
with a very short time
00:36:05.96\00:36:07.66
after I prayed that,
I saw a YouTube video
00:36:07.70\00:36:10.40
with a person saying,
00:36:10.43\00:36:13.74
"Doctors often
diagnose burning feet
00:36:13.77\00:36:17.77
as plantar fasciitis
00:36:17.81\00:36:19.84
when it's really your liver."
00:36:19.87\00:36:22.68
And I was so shocked.
00:36:22.71\00:36:25.51
I would have never guessed
that I had a liver problem.
00:36:25.55\00:36:29.45
And I just like,
you gotta be kidding.
00:36:29.48\00:36:32.75
And so I started addressing,
00:36:32.79\00:36:34.86
I knew how to do
that address my liver,
00:36:34.89\00:36:38.06
and it went away.
00:36:38.09\00:36:39.43
Wow.
00:36:39.46\00:36:40.80
And I just kept,
repeatedly kept doing this
00:36:40.83\00:36:43.53
and working on it
until I figured out
00:36:43.57\00:36:45.67
what was causing the problem
00:36:45.70\00:36:47.97
and eliminated that the
best I can out of my world.
00:36:48.00\00:36:53.48
And that's the second,
00:36:53.51\00:36:56.18
no the third
fleece that was answered.
00:36:56.21\00:36:58.58
Okay? God's
really working on you.
00:36:58.61\00:37:01.62
I know, and so I felt like
00:37:01.65\00:37:07.49
I was gaining conviction.
00:37:07.52\00:37:10.29
But there was some
questions in my heart that I had
00:37:10.33\00:37:14.16
and was asking
God during these weeks
00:37:14.20\00:37:16.80
where these prayers
were getting answered, okay?
00:37:16.83\00:37:20.54
While this was going on,
00:37:20.57\00:37:22.84
I would, my troubling
thoughts were such as, Lord,
00:37:22.87\00:37:28.21
You have several
wonderful health centers
00:37:28.24\00:37:31.75
across the United States.
00:37:31.78\00:37:34.15
Am I misunderstanding You?
Do you really want another one?
00:37:34.18\00:37:40.36
Then He would lead me
to counsel that Ellen White
00:37:40.39\00:37:43.22
has given to us on
research on health centers,
00:37:43.26\00:37:47.96
and I find that He says,
He wants them in every city.
00:37:48.00\00:37:51.87
Wow. Wow.
00:37:51.90\00:37:53.23
And I'm going okay.
00:37:53.27\00:37:55.44
And I go, but we have
churches in every city
00:37:55.47\00:37:58.04
and there was
wonderful health ministers
00:37:58.07\00:38:00.18
and the churches
00:38:00.21\00:38:01.54
that are doing a wonderful work.
00:38:01.58\00:38:03.85
And then He lead me to
find a quote that said that
00:38:03.88\00:38:08.88
He wants every
member of the church
00:38:08.92\00:38:11.35
to be involved in
medical ministry work.
00:38:11.39\00:38:15.16
And so then I go well,
00:38:15.19\00:38:17.26
surely it's too close
to the end of the time
00:38:17.29\00:38:20.46
to buy a hotel and put
it into a health center.
00:38:20.50\00:38:26.43
And He would lead me to see
00:38:26.47\00:38:30.31
that soon there will be no
work done ministerial lines,
00:38:30.34\00:38:34.44
only medical ministry work.
00:38:34.48\00:38:37.55
And I'm thinking we
still have our pastors,
00:38:37.58\00:38:40.25
we still have our churches.
00:38:40.28\00:38:43.18
So that means we have time.
00:38:43.22\00:38:45.29
That's where my
thoughts win. Right?
00:38:45.32\00:38:47.76
And, and so, I mean,
I can't outguess God.
00:38:47.79\00:38:51.99
True.
00:38:52.03\00:38:53.36
And so I go, but how do I
know it's going to be a success.
00:38:53.40\00:38:58.33
And he... I gotta
read this one to you.
00:38:58.37\00:39:01.30
Surely, share that quote.
00:39:01.34\00:39:03.00
It says, "It is not the
power that emanates from men
00:39:03.04\00:39:07.58
that makes the work successful.
00:39:07.61\00:39:09.58
It is the power of
the heavenly intelligence,
00:39:09.61\00:39:12.55
working with the human agent
00:39:12.58\00:39:14.32
that brings the
work to perfection."
00:39:14.35\00:39:16.85
Christian Service, page 260.
00:39:16.89\00:39:19.15
"Not once should we
even think of failure."
00:39:19.19\00:39:21.76
Okay.
00:39:21.79\00:39:23.12
"We are to cooperate with
one who knows no failure."
00:39:23.16\00:39:26.76
That's right. I like that quote.
00:39:26.80\00:39:28.60
I've used that
to encourage people.
00:39:28.63\00:39:30.57
You know, we do evangelism,
we do outreach and people say,
00:39:30.60\00:39:33.13
well, does he going to succeed.
00:39:33.17\00:39:34.60
Well, you know, once again,
is there any failure with God?
00:39:34.64\00:39:37.74
Yes. Yes. And the answer is no.
00:39:37.77\00:39:39.57
So the Lord is pushing you
now, He's saying, Pam, come on.
00:39:39.61\00:39:42.51
Now, Pam, I've given you,
I've given you one fleece,
00:39:42.54\00:39:45.25
I've given you two fleeces,
I've given you three fleeces.
00:39:45.28\00:39:48.08
And so how have you moved on?
00:39:48.12\00:39:49.45
I mean, let's talk
about what's He told you.
00:39:49.48\00:39:51.45
Okay, now, is, I told him
I wanted my prayers answered
00:39:51.49\00:39:54.19
by my birthday in May.
00:39:54.22\00:39:57.39
Do I dare push
the Lord like that?
00:39:57.43\00:40:00.46
But you know, I didn't
want it to drag on and on and on
00:40:00.50\00:40:03.67
wondering if God
isn't going to answer it,
00:40:03.70\00:40:05.90
I wanted to have a cut off time.
00:40:05.93\00:40:07.47
Right.
00:40:07.50\00:40:08.84
Well, for my
birthday, I got my...
00:40:08.87\00:40:11.61
my two prayers answered.
00:40:11.64\00:40:15.11
And that was huge.
00:40:15.14\00:40:17.15
And then all these questions
that I had were being answered
00:40:17.18\00:40:21.98
during this time as well.
00:40:22.02\00:40:24.22
And I was, I had conviction now,
00:40:24.25\00:40:28.96
but I didn't have a passion.
00:40:28.99\00:40:31.63
And I go, God, I
need a passion for this
00:40:31.66\00:40:34.30
because I'm
gonna need it to do it.
00:40:34.33\00:40:39.23
So give me a passion,
Laodicea was heavy on me.
00:40:39.27\00:40:42.57
You're not gonna have
time with your grandchildren
00:40:42.60\00:40:44.34
and all that kind
of stuff, you know?
00:40:44.37\00:40:46.27
Right, all the thoughts
or the tormenting thoughts
00:40:46.31\00:40:48.18
of how this is going to happen.
00:40:48.21\00:40:49.54
Yeah.
00:40:49.58\00:40:50.91
You know, my
grandma, I got grandchildren.
00:40:50.95\00:40:52.31
My family has needs.
00:40:52.35\00:40:54.08
But why at this stage of my life
00:40:54.12\00:40:55.55
are You going to, you know,
direct me to start a ministry?
00:40:55.58\00:40:58.35
But you know, some
of the greatest things
00:40:58.39\00:40:59.72
that happen in life happened
were not because of age,
00:40:59.75\00:41:03.69
but because when
God opens a door,
00:41:03.73\00:41:05.49
there is no failure.
00:41:05.53\00:41:06.86
Right.
00:41:06.90\00:41:08.23
And so you're
probably lighting a torch
00:41:08.26\00:41:10.13
that God wants to be
laid at a particular time.
00:41:10.17\00:41:13.34
And when I know,
00:41:13.37\00:41:14.70
I'm talking about going
back to Weaverville now,
00:41:14.74\00:41:16.07
it's a beautiful,
beautiful piece of property,
00:41:16.10\00:41:18.11
wonderful hotel.
00:41:18.14\00:41:19.47
And Lord wants that.
00:41:19.51\00:41:20.84
And very quickly
for the population,
00:41:20.88\00:41:23.28
because you know what
I like about Weaverville,
00:41:23.31\00:41:25.38
Trinity County is, you
know, when we were driving,
00:41:25.41\00:41:28.12
and I don't know if
the sign is still there
00:41:28.15\00:41:29.48
it talks about 2,500
feet above sea level.
00:41:29.52\00:41:32.72
That's the
altitude of the city and...
00:41:32.75\00:41:36.89
There's 3,000
people in the city itself.
00:41:36.93\00:41:39.69
That's right. Okay?
00:41:39.73\00:41:41.06
And then some of
the mountains around.
00:41:41.10\00:41:42.43
And I think there is,
yeah, 13,000 in the entire city.
00:41:42.46\00:41:46.23
You know what?
00:41:46.27\00:41:47.60
I maybe should look
high in the county and see,
00:41:47.64\00:41:51.21
close, something like that.
00:41:51.24\00:41:52.67
But when you live up there,
you don't see 13,000 people,
00:41:52.71\00:41:55.21
they're hidden,
it's so beautiful.
00:41:55.24\00:41:56.58
Yeah,
everybody's is all far flung,
00:41:56.61\00:41:59.01
and it's a huge county.
00:41:59.05\00:42:00.38
That's right.
00:42:00.42\00:42:01.75
And it's perfect because
00:42:01.78\00:42:03.18
it's surrounded
by counties also,
00:42:03.22\00:42:06.32
that can be
reached by this ministry.
00:42:06.35\00:42:08.49
And in the county itself,
00:42:08.52\00:42:09.99
there isn't
really anything except
00:42:10.03\00:42:11.66
two really small churches.
00:42:11.69\00:42:13.80
Hayfork is quite some ways away,
00:42:13.83\00:42:15.96
is a little bigger, nice,
sweet, wonderful little church.
00:42:16.00\00:42:20.34
And then the
Weaverville churches,
00:42:20.37\00:42:22.60
one family church with
like 20 people come on,
00:42:22.64\00:42:26.94
you know, when the pastor comes,
00:42:26.98\00:42:29.21
and it's a
wonderful group of people,
00:42:29.24\00:42:32.01
wonderful,
loving, loving people,
00:42:32.05\00:42:34.58
but it's very, very small.
00:42:34.62\00:42:36.35
And you know,
00:42:36.38\00:42:37.72
there is a great
need for a work to be done
00:42:37.75\00:42:42.19
in that area.
00:42:42.22\00:42:43.56
Now let's talk
about some of the things
00:42:43.59\00:42:44.93
that will help people
00:42:44.96\00:42:46.29
that are
listening to the program
00:42:46.33\00:42:47.66
and watching understand
how they can participate.
00:42:47.70\00:42:49.46
Do you have a business plan?
00:42:49.50\00:42:50.87
What kind of idea do you have?
Yes, I do have a business plan.
00:42:50.90\00:42:53.57
Okay.
00:42:53.60\00:42:54.94
And, but before I get
to that, I wanted to tell
00:42:54.97\00:42:58.44
how God helped
me test the waters.
00:42:58.47\00:43:00.44
Okay.
00:43:00.48\00:43:01.81
I want before coming to 3ABN,
I wanted to test the waters,
00:43:01.84\00:43:04.41
and you know what I
mean by that, right?
00:43:04.45\00:43:06.55
Find out what the
temperature gauge of the people
00:43:06.58\00:43:10.09
and how they felt about it
00:43:10.12\00:43:11.85
and see if they're
supportive of this whole thing.
00:43:11.89\00:43:13.92
Also I wanted...
00:43:13.96\00:43:15.29
We're told to gain counsel
00:43:15.32\00:43:17.39
from a
multitude of God's people.
00:43:17.43\00:43:20.00
And I felt that
was important for me.
00:43:20.03\00:43:22.93
And so I asked
God, how do I do that?
00:43:22.96\00:43:26.27
He gave me a
name, Zachary Mandachi.
00:43:26.30\00:43:29.34
Okay. And he was
an officer in ASI.
00:43:29.37\00:43:33.51
And so I'm going, okay,
00:43:33.54\00:43:35.68
I need to figure out
how to get hold of him,
00:43:35.71\00:43:37.71
did some acrobatics,
and I got hold of him.
00:43:37.75\00:43:40.75
And I told him about it.
00:43:40.78\00:43:42.15
He and his wife right away went
00:43:42.18\00:43:44.35
and saw the hotel
and became supportive.
00:43:44.39\00:43:47.36
Amen.
00:43:47.39\00:43:48.72
They in turn shared
it with their friends
00:43:48.76\00:43:52.46
who went to see the
hotel and became supportive.
00:43:52.49\00:43:55.40
You know,
amazing thing about it.
00:43:55.43\00:43:56.77
You can't just
go to see the hotel,
00:43:56.80\00:43:58.13
you gotta really
want to go there.
00:43:58.17\00:43:59.73
I know 'cause
it's out of the way.
00:43:59.77\00:44:01.60
It's like an hour and a
half drive from Redding.
00:44:01.64\00:44:04.17
From Redding, yeah.
Or something like that.
00:44:04.21\00:44:06.37
And so, then he gave me
the contact information.
00:44:06.41\00:44:11.95
He approached the
health ministry's director
00:44:11.98\00:44:14.45
of the Pacific
Union, Dr. Lorraine Barton.
00:44:14.48\00:44:17.22
And she was wanting to
talk to me about it too.
00:44:17.25\00:44:19.19
So I talked to her.
00:44:19.22\00:44:20.69
She has given me
00:44:20.72\00:44:22.06
so much counsel
and encouragement.
00:44:22.09\00:44:24.06
Amen. She has
stayed in the hotel.
00:44:24.09\00:44:25.99
So she was very
familiar with it.
00:44:26.03\00:44:28.56
And she was very
supportive, excited about it.
00:44:28.60\00:44:32.03
And so then, you know,
Calvin Thrash from Uchee Pines?
00:44:32.07\00:44:36.40
Yes, yes. Past
president of Uchee Pines.
00:44:36.44\00:44:39.47
He has given me a
whole bunch of quotes
00:44:39.51\00:44:42.81
from Ellen White
on moving forward.
00:44:42.84\00:44:45.95
You know, when
your feet are in the...
00:44:45.98\00:44:48.25
appear to be in the Red Sea
00:44:48.28\00:44:49.82
and the armies
behind you move forward,
00:44:49.85\00:44:52.09
don't be discouraged, you know,
so many encouraging quotes.
00:44:52.12\00:44:55.89
He has been a huge
blessing of support for me.
00:44:55.92\00:44:59.13
But I wanna get
to the crux of it now
00:44:59.16\00:45:00.93
because we have about a
little bit of time left,
00:45:00.96\00:45:03.06
but I want those who
are listening to know
00:45:03.10\00:45:05.10
how they could
participate briefly
00:45:05.13\00:45:07.04
the business plan you have.
00:45:07.07\00:45:08.57
Okay. The business plan.
00:45:08.60\00:45:11.77
Okay, in June is
when I got familiar with,
00:45:11.81\00:45:15.64
God brought this
attention to the people.
00:45:15.68\00:45:17.91
And then in July, I
got 5000 given to me,
00:45:17.95\00:45:21.38
and so now I realized
I needed to have a way
00:45:21.42\00:45:25.05
to give people tax
deductible receipts.
00:45:25.09\00:45:26.82
Yes.
00:45:26.86\00:45:28.19
So Dr. Barton told
me to put my application
00:45:28.22\00:45:30.83
in with Josiah
ministries from ASI.
00:45:30.86\00:45:34.00
And they accepted in
September my application.
00:45:34.03\00:45:37.17
Amen.
00:45:37.20\00:45:38.53
And so if you send a donation
00:45:38.57\00:45:41.14
to TJM in care
of Weaverville Hotel
00:45:41.17\00:45:46.94
written on the check, and
then send it to my address,
00:45:46.98\00:45:53.15
Pamela Benton on the
outside of the envelope.
00:45:53.18\00:45:55.65
And we'll let them know
how to do that specifically.
00:45:55.68\00:45:57.02
Okay, and then I will in turn,
00:45:57.05\00:45:59.79
turn the checks over
to Josiah ministries.
00:45:59.82\00:46:02.26
So you have a support in.
00:46:02.29\00:46:03.63
And they will give
tax receipts for me.
00:46:03.66\00:46:07.33
So that's the catalyst
00:46:07.36\00:46:09.26
that's going to be
able to start moving
00:46:09.30\00:46:11.03
this project forward.
00:46:11.07\00:46:12.63
That was another fleece. Okay.
00:46:12.67\00:46:14.50
So God has done
one after another doors
00:46:14.54\00:46:16.94
He opened for me, yes.
00:46:16.97\00:46:19.41
And so, but my business plan
as far as my financial plan is,
00:46:19.44\00:46:25.71
I took the, from the
profit and loss scale sheet,
00:46:25.75\00:46:30.89
the fixed expenses that
00:46:30.92\00:46:32.45
the hotel has
just for being itself,
00:46:32.49\00:46:35.19
like the insurance, the gas,
00:46:35.22\00:46:37.96
you know, the
electricity and all of that.
00:46:37.99\00:46:40.63
And I did some
research on health centers
00:46:40.66\00:46:43.16
and what the costs
of running them are.
00:46:43.20\00:46:45.87
And I added it to
the fixed expenses
00:46:45.90\00:46:49.34
and divided it by eight
because I don't want to have
00:46:49.37\00:46:52.31
to be responsible
for the winter months
00:46:52.34\00:46:55.71
when it could be
covered with snow.
00:46:55.74\00:46:57.38
That's right. That's right.
00:46:57.41\00:46:58.75
Yeah, and so, and then we have
00:46:58.78\00:47:01.52
with live in
workshops six times a year,
00:47:01.55\00:47:07.46
we will have a balance
left over for improvements.
00:47:07.49\00:47:10.16
Amen.
00:47:10.19\00:47:11.53
And so that's all written
out for any investors that are,
00:47:11.56\00:47:15.50
want to move forward on this.
00:47:15.53\00:47:18.97
And you know the other
thing I want to bring out about,
00:47:19.00\00:47:20.80
when you talk about Eden Renew
International Wellness Center.
00:47:20.84\00:47:25.84
You know, wellness centers
are literally focused on,
00:47:25.87\00:47:28.84
in many cases sometimes helping
a person through challenges,
00:47:28.88\00:47:32.88
health challenges in life
00:47:32.91\00:47:34.25
that can be remedied
based on natural things.
00:47:34.28\00:47:37.95
By no means discouraging people
00:47:37.99\00:47:39.95
from being participating
in if pharmaceuticals
00:47:39.99\00:47:43.43
they have to take,
00:47:43.46\00:47:44.79
but the health retreat centers,
00:47:44.83\00:47:46.16
specifically in
the Adventist Church
00:47:46.19\00:47:48.06
have seen such a success.
00:47:48.10\00:47:50.27
Like you mentioned Uchee
Pines, we have Black Hills,
00:47:50.30\00:47:54.47
we have so many different
other wellness centers,
00:47:54.50\00:47:57.31
but the Lord encouraged
you to put one in this city.
00:47:57.34\00:48:00.14
And I want to tell you,
I'll tell you in just a moment,
00:48:00.18\00:48:03.01
the promise and
encouragement to go forward.
00:48:03.04\00:48:06.82
So right now you're at the place
00:48:06.85\00:48:08.18
where what's left to be done.
00:48:08.22\00:48:11.12
What's left to be done is,
there is a whole bunch more.
00:48:11.15\00:48:15.36
I could tell you about
doors that the Lord opened
00:48:15.39\00:48:18.76
and direction on how to
run it and what He wants done.
00:48:18.79\00:48:22.76
And oh, one thing
I've got to tell you.
00:48:22.80\00:48:25.13
Okay. Is the parlor.
00:48:25.17\00:48:27.74
I saw in a dream, the parlor
00:48:27.77\00:48:31.37
and we had a big screen TV
00:48:31.41\00:48:35.81
where health videos
00:48:35.84\00:48:37.68
were going on
throughout the day,
00:48:37.71\00:48:40.28
and people were
coming in and watching them,
00:48:40.32\00:48:42.42
but this specific
part of the dream,
00:48:42.45\00:48:45.32
we, the doors of the parlor
00:48:45.35\00:48:48.22
were open to the
street and singing.
00:48:48.26\00:48:52.79
I heard singing,
trickling down the street,
00:48:52.83\00:48:56.77
and I saw going
past the windows angels
00:48:56.80\00:49:00.47
walking back and forth,
bringing people in for worship.
00:49:00.50\00:49:05.17
Amen.
00:49:05.21\00:49:06.54
And I'm going, well,
that's what the parlor is for,
00:49:06.57\00:49:10.18
for worship.
00:49:10.21\00:49:11.55
So Lord is showing you
00:49:11.58\00:49:12.91
how to be able to
segment this out and to put,
00:49:12.95\00:49:15.25
and to use each of the rooms
00:49:15.28\00:49:16.72
in an effective
way to reach people.
00:49:16.75\00:49:18.29
Yes, I don't
want to have a hotel
00:49:18.32\00:49:20.59
and not know what to do with it.
00:49:20.62\00:49:21.96
I told Him, "I got to
know every little detail
00:49:21.99\00:49:24.59
on what You
want done with this."
00:49:24.63\00:49:26.80
And, you know,
I asked Him, Lord,
00:49:26.83\00:49:29.86
"Why are You
asking me to do this?"
00:49:29.90\00:49:33.67
And He said in thought,
00:49:33.70\00:49:37.04
I didn't hear any audible voice.
00:49:37.07\00:49:38.57
Right.
00:49:38.61\00:49:39.94
Because I've blessed
you with good health.
00:49:39.97\00:49:43.14
I have given
you over 400 recipes
00:49:43.18\00:49:45.75
that address chronic diseases.
00:49:45.78\00:49:48.05
Wow.
00:49:48.08\00:49:49.42
And He said, "I
have impressed people
00:49:49.45\00:49:51.65
to get you through education,
train you in this area."
00:49:51.69\00:49:57.29
And I go, "But why
didn't You have me do this
00:49:57.33\00:49:59.09
when I first got out of school."
00:49:59.13\00:50:01.90
And he said, "Because I wanted
you to know who's in charge."
00:50:01.93\00:50:07.10
Right, to
everything there is a season.
00:50:07.14\00:50:08.77
Yes.
00:50:08.80\00:50:10.14
For everything there's a season.
00:50:10.17\00:50:11.51
Yeah.
00:50:11.54\00:50:12.87
And so, you're poised now
to catapult to Eden Renewal,
00:50:12.91\00:50:15.84
or Eden Renew
International Wellness Center.
00:50:15.88\00:50:18.08
Just before I go
to the address role,
00:50:18.11\00:50:19.45
I want to reiterate
00:50:19.48\00:50:20.82
what Pamela Benton talked about,
00:50:20.85\00:50:22.18
because you might be saying,
00:50:22.22\00:50:23.55
well, I want to
participate financially.
00:50:23.59\00:50:25.49
Now, if you mail anything,
00:50:25.52\00:50:27.19
if you mail
anything to this ministry,
00:50:27.22\00:50:29.42
send it to Pamela Benton,
00:50:29.46\00:50:31.43
and we'll give the
address in just a moment here.
00:50:31.46\00:50:33.93
And, but if you
want to write checks,
00:50:33.96\00:50:36.03
don't write Pamela Benton,
00:50:36.06\00:50:37.40
don't write Eden
Renew International,
00:50:37.43\00:50:39.63
write TJM on the check,
care of Weaverville Hotel,
00:50:39.67\00:50:46.11
and that's how the check will be
00:50:46.14\00:50:47.48
able to be segmented out
00:50:47.51\00:50:49.08
and you'll be able to
get a tax deductible receipt
00:50:49.11\00:50:51.65
to cover any expenses that will
00:50:51.68\00:50:53.82
contribute toward the ministry.
00:50:53.85\00:50:55.82
As a matter of fact,
what I want to do, Pam,
00:50:55.85\00:50:57.79
I want to go to the
address role right now,
00:50:57.82\00:50:59.22
and on the other
side of the news break,
00:50:59.25\00:51:01.06
we'll get a
chance to wrap it up.
00:51:01.09\00:51:02.92
But I want those who
are watching the program
00:51:02.96\00:51:04.66
and listening to be
able to get the information
00:51:04.69\00:51:06.80
that they need in order
to participate in this vision
00:51:06.83\00:51:10.37
and this ministry,
00:51:10.40\00:51:11.80
Eden Renew
International Wellness Center.
00:51:11.83\00:51:14.60
Here's the information
that you're going to need.
00:51:14.64\00:51:18.07
If you'd like to
find out more about
00:51:23.24\00:51:24.81
the Eden Renew
International Wellness Center,
00:51:24.85\00:51:27.28
you may email Pamela
Benton at EdenRenew@iCloud.com.
00:51:27.32\00:51:31.52
That's EdenRenew@iCloud.com.
00:51:31.55\00:51:34.62
If you would like to
support this ministry,
00:51:34.66\00:51:36.66
please send your
tax deductible donation
00:51:36.69\00:51:38.76
to Eden Renew
International Wellness Center,
00:51:38.79\00:51:41.73
PO Box 393, Junction
City, California 96048.
00:51:41.76\00:51:47.67
However, it is important
to make your checks payable
00:51:47.70\00:51:50.67
to TJM in care of
Weaverville Hotel.
00:51:50.71\00:51:54.54
That's TJM in care
of Weaverville Hotel.
00:51:54.58\00:51:58.08