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, and
welcome to 3ABN Today.
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We have a very,
very special program
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lined out for today.
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So, don't turn that channel.
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We're going to be talking
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about
witnessing and the blessing
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and the power of witnessing
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and sharing the gospel of Jesus.
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I want to first and foremost
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thank you for taking the
time out of your busy day
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to join us today.
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And we thank you always
for your continual love,
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prayers, and
support of 3ABN Ministry.
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I have two special
guests with me today.
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I want to go ahead
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and quickly just
introduce them here.
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We have Nelson Ernst,
and we also have Oleg Lotca.
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Did I say that
right, brother? Yes.
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Oleg Lotca from GLOW Ministries,
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and we're going to come
back in just a few moments
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to talk in greater
detail with these two gentlemen
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about GLOW Ministries
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and some
colporteuring opportunities.
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But until then,
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we're actually going to
take a break for just a moment
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and actually hear a special song
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by Miss Stephanie Dawn entitled,
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"I'll Go Where
You Want Me To Go".
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It may not be
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On the mountain height
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Or over the stormy sea
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It may not be
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At the battle's front
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My Lord
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Will have need of me
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But if, by a still, small voice
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He calls to paths
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I do not know
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I'll answer, dear Lord,
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With my hand in Thine
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I'll go where You want me to go
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I'll go Where You want me to go,
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Dear Lord
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Over mountain
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Or plain or sea
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I'll say What
You want me to say,
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Dear Lord
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I'll be what You want me to be
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Perhaps today
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There are loving words
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That Jesus
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Would have me speak
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There may be now
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In the paths of sin
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Some wanderer
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Whom I should seek
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O Savior,
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If Thou wilt be my guide
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Though dark
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And rugged the way
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My voice
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Shall echo the message sweet
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I'll say
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What You want me to say
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I'll go Where You want me to go,
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Dear Lord
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Over mountain
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Or plain or sea
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I'll say What
You want me to say,
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Dear Lord
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I'll be What You want me to be
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There's surely
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Somewhere a lowly place
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In Earth's harvest fields
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So wide
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Where I may labor
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Through life's short day
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For Jesus,
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The Crucified
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So trusting
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My all unto Thy care
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I know
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Thou lovest me
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I'll do Thy will with a heart
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Sincere
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I'll be What You want me to be
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I'll go Where You want me to go,
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Dear Lord
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O'er mountain
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Or plain or sea
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I'll say What
You want me to say,
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Dear Lord
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I'll be What You want me to be.
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Wow, praise the Lord.
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Thank you so much,
Stephanie, for that song.
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I love to hear her sing.
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She has just
such a beautiful sound
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and the message of that song,
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"I'll go where
You want me to go,"
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that should be our
heart's desire, right?
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That should be our
prayer, our anthem,
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our life anthem to the Lord
that, "Lord, please send me.
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Here I am," as
Isaiah said, "Here I am.
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Send me, Lord."
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And that's exactly what
we're going to be talking
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about today on
this particular program,
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is we need to be asking
that question to ourselves.
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"Lord, what do
You want me to do?
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Where do You want me to be?
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Where do You want me
to go for Your kingdom?"
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And so, this gives
me an opportunity again
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to reintroduce again.
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And this time, in
greater detail, our guests.
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We have Nelson
Ernst, and also Oleg...
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I know how to say this.
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Don't... Lotca.
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Lotca, Oleg Lotca. You got it.
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And so, I'll get,
I'll get it one day.
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But, gentlemen, it's a
blessing to have you here
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with us today on this program.
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And you guys are from
technically GLOW Ministries
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or the Ministry of GLOW.
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And so, most of you out there
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probably know exactly
what I'm talking about
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because if you've
ever held or passed out
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or received a GLOW tract,
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then it's exactly what
we're talking about here,
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GLOW Ministries.
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And so, guys, there
may be someone at home
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that may not
know who you guys are,
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even though, Nelson,
you've been here a few times.
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Sure, yeah.
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Tell us a little
bit about yourself,
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who you are, where you're from,
and just introduce yourself.
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Great, thank you.
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Yeah, well, just
a brief about me.
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I was raised in
an Adventist home,
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born in Berrien
Springs, Michigan,
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when my dad was going to a place
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called Andrews University.
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But, you know, God
took a hold of my life,
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I think, when I
was about a freshman
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in high school and
I got Bible Bopped,
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so to speak, by
another Christian,
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which challenged me
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and it drove me
to study my Bible.
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And in the process
of studying my Bible,
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you know, I just,
God entered my life
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and there was
conversion from there
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and started me
on a path where...
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Yeah, now I'm working
full time for the Lord,
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been doing that
for the past 15 years
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or so with
Literature Ministries.
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So, that's kind of a
snippet of my history there.
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Amen. Yeah, no, that's awesome.
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I like that, Bible
Bop. Is that what you said?
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Yeah, Bible Bop. Yeah.
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I mean, this guy,
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he didn't literally
hit me with the head Bible.
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But yeah, he was
pretty close to it.
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He was very aggressive.
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I'm gonna have to keep
that one in my arsenal.
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I've been Bible
Bopped by this person.
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That's nice, man. All right.
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And, Oleg, tell us a
little bit about yourself.
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I heard you talking
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kind of behind
the scenes earlier
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about some of the places
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you've been and
ministered for the Lord.
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Tell us who you
are, where you're from,
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and a little bit about yourself.
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Well, Brian, it's
so good to be here.
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Well, I was born in
Moldova, a small country
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there in between
Romania and Ukraine.
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I was born to a pastoral family.
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But when I was 15,
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I decided that I
wanted to see the world
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and what the world has to
offer and I left the church.
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And then, yes,
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I went to England for four years
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and then from there
to Canada, four years,
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and then in
Canada was my conversion
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and my encounter with Jesus
for the first time in my life,
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that was the thing
and God was so good.
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He led me from
there to Argentina
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to South America,
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and I went to
the University there,
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did the theology course
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and then met a girl
there by the name Karen,
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she's my wife now.
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I have three kids and
the fourth one in the oven.
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So, two and a half years ago,
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we came here to
the States, and yes,
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right now we're enjoying
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working in literature department
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there with GLOW.
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Wow, praise the Lord.
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And I briefly heard
you mentioned something
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about speaking
multiple languages.
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How many languages do you speak?
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Well, when people ask
me that, I said, "Good?
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None."
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But more or less, I speak
four, plus half Portuguese.
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Four and a half.
Wow, praise the Lord.
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That's a blessing, man.
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That's awesome.
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GLOW. Yep.
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GLOW, I have to
tell a story real quickly
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before we launch
ourselves into this,
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my first experience with GLOW.
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I was not raised
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in the
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
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by the way.
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And I attended for
my undergrad degree.
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I attended a Baptist University
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where I was
studying music and history.
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And little did I know
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that even though
I had been studying
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about Sabbath keeping,
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I've been studying the
messages and the truths
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as taught by the
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
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I had not formally
committed to becoming
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Seventh-day Adventist Christian.
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And I had heard
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that there was a Seventh-day
Adventist Church in the area,
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but I really didn't
go searching, per Se.
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But at this
particular university,
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I was working in
the music department.
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And often, I would
find myself in a piano room,
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practicing
piano, practicing voice,
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you know, doing vocal warm-ups
because I was a vocal major.
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And I'll never forget
going in every single week
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to a particular booth
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where there was
this little private room
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and a piano,
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I would go in
there and do scales
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and sing vocal scales.
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But every time I
would go into this room,
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there was always
this little tiny tract
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or piece of paper
laying on the piano.
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Again, this is a
Baptist University.
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And so, it would say
on the front of it, GLOW.
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And each and every
week... Are you serious?
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It had a new... What?
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And this was in
Northeast Arkansas,
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because this is where I
grew up in Northeast Arkansas.
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And they would
always have a new truth,
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a new topic, you know.
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And so, I would
pick that little tract up
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and I would take five
to ten minutes of my time,
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just to kind of go through it
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and really
comprehend and think to myself,
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I've been studying these things,
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I've been looking
through them every single week.
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Finally, I learned
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who was putting
these tracts in there.
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And even though,
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I didn't know her at the moment,
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I come to find
out, long story short,
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she was the daughter
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of the local
Seventh-day Adventist pastor.
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She was also coming
there for piano lessons.
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And she was sharing her faith
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and so my very
first technically,
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very first, kind of...
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I guess you could
say I got Bible Bopped
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on a weekly basis
by these GLOW tracts
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because it was
things that I was studying,
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things that I was learning.
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And so, it just,
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that goes to show
the reach of GLOW,
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in the sense
that it's everywhere.
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I mean, if it's in
Northeast Arkansas,
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if you're from
Northeast Arkansas
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or ever been there,
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you know, it's
just a kind of a dry,
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flat, delta region out
in the middle of nowhere
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and there's very
little Adventist presence,
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but you know, a witness
to me on a weekly basis.
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So, GLOW, tell us a
little bit about what is GLOW,
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because there maybe
someone watching right now
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that doesn't know
who or what GLOW is
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and then, kind
of, give us an update
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on what's been happening.
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Yeah, sure. Wow, man.
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What am I going
to say with that?
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That was amazing.
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I have no idea that
that's what happened.
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I didn't know
you got GLOW tracts.
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Yeah. Incredible.
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Well, yes.
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So, basically your
experience of finding a tract,
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you know, in the piano room
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from some church
member that just, you know,
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set the tract there,
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is exactly a
perfect illustration
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of what GLOW is all about.
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So what we do with GLOW
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is we're just basically
encouraging church members
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to carry
literature in their pockets
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or their purses wherever they go
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so that they can
leave it somewhere,
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or they can give it to somebody
as God opens up the door for,
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you know, divine appointment.
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So, you know, just
by carrying it with you
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and looking for
divine appointments,
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God has opened up
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a lot of amazing
stories like yours.
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And a lot of people
have been led to Christ.
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So, that's kind of in a nutshell
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what GLOW is about in
terms of our emphasis.
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So, we make these
little GLOW pamphlets.
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Right.
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We have about getting close
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to 50 different
titles now in English.
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And since the
ministry started in 2007,
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we've printed
118.5 million of them
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but those are just
the ones that we know.
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So, there's people in
different parts of the world
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with Literature Ministries,
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portion of the church
that print these tracts,
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and we're not sure
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actually how
many have been printed
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because they don't necessarily
report to us all the time.
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But the ones that we know
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of is about
118.5 million tracts.
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So, we're getting
close to 120 million,
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which will be a
great milestone for us.
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You know, you
asked for an update,
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I'll just mention.
Sure, yeah, absolutely.
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This is
something that the viewers
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might be interested in is that
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we're actually developing
a new Halloween tract,
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one of the best times
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to pass out
literatures on Halloween.
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When the kids are coming to you,
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give them a tract,
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or you can go out with your kids
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and giveaway tracts.
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You call it Trick or
Truth, or Glowing in the Dark.
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Right.
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So, we've got a new one
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coming out on
ghosts for Halloween.
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And we have a new one coming out
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actually for Black
Friday distribution
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and the topic is
about Black Friday
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and how Jesus
died on Black Friday,
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when it turned the sun,
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turned out while
Jesus was on the cross.
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So, it's a salvation tract.
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So, anyway, those are just
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a couple new ones
that are coming out.
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That is amazing.
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It's interesting that
you mentioned Halloween
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because my wife and I,
the last couple of years,
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that we have been in an area
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where I either wasn't
traveling or I was at home
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during the time of Halloween,
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you know, we
thought to ourselves,
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you know, we didn't
want to be those people
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because some people
are just absolutely like,
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you know, no participation,
turn your light off,
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you know, make it
like you're not home but,
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you know, we've lived in
a couple of neighborhoods
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where there's been
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a large circulation
of kids during that time.
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And so, the last couple years,
we have taken a GLOW tract.
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And I think we might
have used one on, like,
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hell or the truth about
hell or the truth about,
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you know, this is the devil
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in charge of hell
or something like that.
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I can't remember exactly
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but we would take the GLOW tract
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and we would
basically rubber-band it
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to, you know, a small like,
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you know, piece of
candy of some kind.
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And when they
would come to the door,
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we would chunk
this into their bag
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and those kids...
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You know, again, most kids
will put candy in their bag,
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they just open
it up, dump it in,
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and then they turn
around about face and walk away.
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But it was interesting
because they caught their eye,
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I would put it in their bag,
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and then they would open
it up and look down in it
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and see, like,
00:17:07.56\00:17:08.89
"What did this guy
just put into my bag?"
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So, it kind of turned heads,
like, "What is it, what is it?"
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But it's awesome to think
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that you can take
opportunities like that
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and you can
witness, you can share
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the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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And in fact, we
actually have a young woman
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who I'm actually friends with,
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she was brought into
the church and baptized
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and even went to a Bible college
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and is serving God right now.
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All because her little brother
on Halloween got a GLOW tract
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when he was out collecting candy
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and then she looked
through his bag of candy
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and you know,
connected the dots.
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One last thing I
was just going to say.
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Yeah.
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Before we move on to
the next topic with GLOW is,
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we do these things
called mission trips
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where we're not going to build,
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you know, set up a building
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or you know do
preaching or anything
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but we get people together
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and we go and we target
a big city or big event.
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And our objective is
to pass out literature
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to everything that
breathes and that can read.
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And so, we typically go out
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and we do million-tract
mission trips or half million.
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We just finished a
half million mission trip
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in California.
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And we're going to be doing
a million-tract mission trip
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coming up too in Germany,
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this summer in June.
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Wow.
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There's going to be
some big soccer games
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coming up in Munich.
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And so we just want
to put the word out,
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we're still
looking for more people
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to come and join us.
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You don't have to speak German.
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The tracts will do
the speaking for you.
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All you have to
do is just smile,
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give out the tracts.
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And we're in the
process of printing
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that million tracts right now.
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So if people want to learn
more about that mission trip
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and potentially
and come and join us,
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they can go to
GlowMissionTrips.org.
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And it has all the information
as well as registration there,
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GlowMissionTrips.org.
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We need some more people
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and it's going to be
great front-line ministry
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to pass out a million
tracts to people in Europe.
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Hopefully, the corona virus
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won't stop the
games from happening.
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Right.
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But, you know, if it
doesn't, we'll be out there.
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Hey, you know what?
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I think, you know,
God's gonna do all that He can
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to get His message out there.
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And, you know, I
some people, you know,
00:19:04.47\00:19:05.81
will pick up
these little GLOW tracts
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and they'll think to themselves,
00:19:07.21\00:19:08.54
"Well, this doesn't
have enough information."
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Well, it's not
designed to be a full-length,
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you know, Bible study,
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but yet it
provides enough information,
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it provides
enough to hook a person,
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you know, to get
them to thinking,
00:19:17.32\00:19:18.65
and you know, I think to
myself like I mentioned earlier,
00:19:18.69\00:19:20.96
you know, dropping
that little GLOW tract
00:19:20.99\00:19:22.46
into some kid's candy,
00:19:22.49\00:19:24.36
you know, most parents,
00:19:24.39\00:19:25.73
maybe not all, but most parents,
00:19:25.76\00:19:27.10
you know, will be
responsible enough
00:19:27.20\00:19:28.53
to go through that
candy at the end of the night,
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just to check it to make
sure there's nothing there bad,
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you know, to pick it through.
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And they're going to
come across that GLOW tract
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and even if you
were to reach one person,
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just think of that one mother,
00:19:37.44\00:19:38.77
that one father
who pulls that out of,
00:19:38.81\00:19:41.04
you know, the bag
and reads that and it,
00:19:41.08\00:19:44.31
you know, plants a seed
there and interests them,
00:19:44.35\00:19:46.92
you know, enough to
go research it more.
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And I just praise the
Lord for GLOW Ministry
00:19:49.38\00:19:51.59
who make these tracts.
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Praise the Lord.
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So, you know,
00:19:54.36\00:19:55.69
we know that you're
here to talk about GLOW,
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but I also know you're here
00:19:57.36\00:19:58.73
to talk about a new project
that GLOW has going for it.
00:19:58.76\00:20:02.10
So, go ahead and let's
talk about this new project
00:20:02.13\00:20:03.47
that GLOW has.
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Sure.
00:20:04.93\00:20:06.27
So, Literature Ministries
is really comprehensive,
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meaning it's a ministry
00:20:09.64\00:20:11.77
that everybody
can be involved in.
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And it even has facets
of it which are specialized,
00:20:14.68\00:20:17.65
highly specialized.
00:20:17.68\00:20:19.01
So, thus far,
00:20:19.05\00:20:20.38
we've talked about
literature distribution.
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This is
something everybody can do.
00:20:21.98\00:20:23.39
We can all carry tracts with
us and give them away for free.
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But one very important
aspect of Literature Ministries,
00:20:26.62\00:20:30.63
which we don't often talk about,
00:20:30.66\00:20:32.56
which used to be
actually a very strong portion
00:20:32.59\00:20:36.40
of the Ministry of
the Adventist Church
00:20:36.43\00:20:39.73
is full-time,
00:20:39.77\00:20:41.34
colporteuring,
full-time adult colporteuring.
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Some people here have...
00:20:43.64\00:20:45.04
You know, the
viewers have maybe heard of
00:20:45.07\00:20:47.08
or seen our students
that go out during the summer
00:20:47.18\00:20:49.48
for ten-week programs,
and they sell softcover books,
00:20:49.51\00:20:52.65
but we're talking now
about people who choose
00:20:52.68\00:20:56.45
and feel called by God
00:20:56.48\00:20:57.99
to actually take
this on as a vocation,
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where they're going out
and they're presenting books,
00:21:00.29\00:21:03.06
salvation, salvational
books to people in their homes,
00:21:03.09\00:21:06.90
and they're doing
that as a job full time.
00:21:06.93\00:21:08.26
Right.
00:21:08.30\00:21:09.63
Okay, so just to pause
for a moment to confirm
00:21:09.66\00:21:11.37
because there may be
someone watching this,
00:21:11.40\00:21:13.23
as you just said, colporteuring.
00:21:13.34\00:21:14.84
And you kind of
described a little bit there,
00:21:14.87\00:21:16.71
but just a
little bit more detail.
00:21:16.81\00:21:18.27
What is
colporteuring for someone
00:21:18.31\00:21:19.64
who may not ever heard
that before what it is?
00:21:19.67\00:21:21.28
So, colporteuring is a
really old French word.
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It's very difficult
to spell actually, too.
00:21:23.48\00:21:25.41
But basically
what colporteuring is,
00:21:25.45\00:21:27.52
it's something
that's been around
00:21:27.62\00:21:28.95
actually for centuries,
00:21:28.98\00:21:31.09
where people
take religious books,
00:21:31.12\00:21:34.59
and they go and they sell them.
00:21:34.62\00:21:36.52
They're going
out into communities,
00:21:36.56\00:21:37.93
going door to door typically,
00:21:37.96\00:21:39.39
although there's
other ways of doing it,
00:21:39.43\00:21:41.00
and they're selling
books, peddling, proselytizing,
00:21:41.03\00:21:44.17
you know.
00:21:44.27\00:21:45.60
Technically,
actually in the United States
00:21:45.63\00:21:46.97
when we sell
books with colporteuring
00:21:47.00\00:21:48.90
and the Adventist Church,
00:21:48.94\00:21:50.31
it's not considered soliciting,
00:21:50.34\00:21:51.67
but actually proselytizing.
00:21:51.71\00:21:53.04
It's one of our
means for helping people
00:21:53.07\00:21:55.11
come to knowledge of the truth
that our church has to offer.
00:21:55.14\00:21:58.68
Wow. Okay.
00:21:58.71\00:22:00.12
So, this new project,
00:22:00.15\00:22:01.52
what GLOW has with colporteuring
00:22:01.55\00:22:03.89
is creating a new
opportunity for people
00:22:03.92\00:22:06.96
to become more
involved in a little bit more
00:22:06.99\00:22:09.46
of an organized way for
this colporteuring, going out,
00:22:09.49\00:22:12.33
and I was actually
talking to you guys before,
00:22:12.36\00:22:14.80
as we were discussing
before this interview.
00:22:14.83\00:22:17.37
I was fascinated
00:22:17.47\00:22:18.80
by how much
potentially a person can make,
00:22:18.83\00:22:22.04
as you can
actually make a living
00:22:22.07\00:22:24.01
off colporteuring.
00:22:24.11\00:22:25.44
Yes.
00:22:25.47\00:22:26.81
And some people
don't believe that,
00:22:26.84\00:22:28.18
or they don't know it.
00:22:28.21\00:22:29.54
They think, "Can
you really make a living
00:22:29.58\00:22:30.91
going door to door,
selling religious books?"
00:22:30.95\00:22:32.41
Exactly. Yeah.
00:22:32.45\00:22:33.82
So, let's talk a
little bit about that.
00:22:33.85\00:22:35.25
Because while we know
00:22:35.28\00:22:36.69
that we don't do
ministry for money,
00:22:36.72\00:22:38.79
we're not in it for the money,
00:22:38.82\00:22:40.16
we're in it for
getting the gospel out there.
00:22:40.26\00:22:41.72
But you know what?
00:22:41.76\00:22:43.09
The Lord
provides for His people,
00:22:43.12\00:22:44.46
and we need our
needs taken care of.
00:22:44.49\00:22:45.96
And so, in this
case, I think, Oleg,
00:22:45.99\00:22:48.10
you're going to talk a
little bit about somebody
00:22:48.13\00:22:49.90
who's watching that
says, "You know what,
00:22:49.93\00:22:51.47
I would love to be in
colporteuring ministry,
00:22:51.50\00:22:53.07
but I can't support
myself with that, right?
00:22:53.10\00:22:55.10
I have to have
another job on the side."
00:22:55.14\00:22:56.81
Talk a little bit about
how financially it can benefit
00:22:56.84\00:22:59.64
someone who commits
themselves full time to it.
00:22:59.67\00:23:02.88
Sure.
00:23:02.91\00:23:04.25
Well, Ryan, you know,
before I go into that,
00:23:04.28\00:23:05.98
I have to say that, sometimes,
00:23:06.01\00:23:07.92
I get so passionate
about colporteuring ministry,
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that I emphasize
so much this ministry
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that people might think
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that this is the
only ministry that exists.
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No. God uses so many ministries.
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He uses...
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As a matter of fact, I
met a lady few weekends ago,
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I was preaching in the church.
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And I've asked her,
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"How did you
come to the church?"
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And she says,
"Well, for five years,
00:23:28.44\00:23:29.77
I've been watching
3ABN, and I was an Adventist
00:23:29.80\00:23:33.98
without even
stepping into the church
00:23:34.08\00:23:35.98
for five years."
00:23:36.01\00:23:37.35
And she was coming to the church
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only for three
months, then when I met her.
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So, I know God is
using so many ministries,
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but I get so
passionate about canvassing.
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And sometimes people say,
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"Hey, you're too
passionate about it."
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So, anyway, I came...
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Me and my family, we
came to United States.
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I came to study here.
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I was going to Weimar.
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And in order to go
through the course,
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I need to pay, I
need to get $15,000.
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I didn't have any
money because, you know,
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you come from South America,
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you change the
money that you have,
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and all of a sudden,
that's nothing, you know, here.
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So, I only had
three and a half weeks
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before the classes would start.
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And I was talking
to the people there
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and they were saying,
00:24:22.76\00:24:24.13
"How would you pay for this?"
00:24:24.16\00:24:25.49
And I said, "Well,
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the only thing I
know how to do well
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and probably could do it
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here is
canvassing or colporteuring."
00:24:30.10\00:24:32.00
And they say,
"But you know what?
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I didn't know that
you can do that here.
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Maybe in South America,
you can earn that money,
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but you only have
three and a half weeks."
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I said, "Well that's
the only option I have."
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So, anyway, I got some
books and I went out in the,
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in the town nearby.
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Sacramento area.
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Yeah, close to Sacramento
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and started colporteuring
every day, long hours...
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This is just
going door to door...
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Door to door.
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knocking on
doors. Knocking on doors.
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Yeah. And this is in California.
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Right, okay.
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Now, let's
remember that, you know,
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we're talking about
the secular Westside,
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you know, so.
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So yeah.
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So I started doing
that and I said, "Lord,
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I only have
three and a half weeks.
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I know You have been
faithful in the past,
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You have showed me
miracles in this ministry,
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I trust You."
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And I started working.
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And I know, just guess, Ryan.
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Do you think God gave me
in three and a half weeks
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what I needed for
the school, the 15,000?
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We wouldn't be
talking about it otherwise.
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So, I believe, I
believe. Absolutely.
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God gave me that
and a little more
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in three and a half weeks.
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But it's amazing
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that it's not only
the money thing, you know.
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In those three and a half weeks,
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by going door to door.
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Fifty-eight
people have signed up
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to study the Bible.
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Wow.
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So, it's amazing to
see how people are ready.
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Like, they're
waiting for someone
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to come and invite
them to study, to know more.
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You know, there
is a lot of hunger
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for the truth there.
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Absolutely.
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You know, and what you just said
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just sparked interest,
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'cause you said
you were in Sacramento.
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I've had firsthand
opportunity of witnessing
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and actually walking
the streets of Sacramento
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when I was at AFCOE.
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You know, we did some Bible work
00:26:09.00\00:26:10.37
and preparing for
an evangelistic series.
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And, you know,
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sometimes you get
off into some areas
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that you otherwise
wouldn't end up in.
00:26:16.34\00:26:17.71
And I was kind of
00:26:17.74\00:26:19.07
in a very
interesting part of town.
00:26:19.11\00:26:22.21
I'll just say that.
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But it's powerful.
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You know, God
has people out there
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that are waiting on you.
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Yes.
00:26:28.62\00:26:29.95
And I remember
walking through this
00:26:29.98\00:26:31.32
rather scary neighborhood
and thinking to myself,
00:26:31.35\00:26:34.06
"Lord, please protect
us because there were..."
00:26:34.09\00:26:35.79
You know, this is a
little rough part of town.
00:26:35.82\00:26:37.86
But I remember going
into this particular area,
00:26:37.89\00:26:39.66
knocked on several doors,
00:26:39.69\00:26:41.40
but obviously knocked
on this one lady's door.
00:26:41.43\00:26:43.37
She answers and she says,
"You're an answer to prayer."
00:26:43.40\00:26:45.87
She said, "I've
been praying for God
00:26:45.90\00:26:47.24
to send me someone who
can help introduce me to Jesus
00:26:47.34\00:26:50.61
and help teach me
00:26:50.64\00:26:51.97
and help me understand the Bible
00:26:52.01\00:26:53.34
because I don't understand it."
00:26:53.38\00:26:54.71
And so what we're
talking about here,
00:26:54.74\00:26:56.08
we're talking about real
witnessing opportunities.
00:26:56.11\00:26:58.18
And this is kind of
where we talked a little bit
00:26:58.21\00:27:00.12
of how you can make a
living being a colporteur.
00:27:00.15\00:27:02.62
But now let's get down
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to the most
serious part of this,
00:27:04.09\00:27:05.42
which is the
witnessing aspect of this.
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You know, God has commissioned
each and every one of us
00:27:07.29\00:27:09.62
to take the gospel to the world.
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And we all can play a
role and our part in that.
00:27:11.46\00:27:13.40
And I think of
the Great Commission
00:27:13.43\00:27:15.06
how Jesus said, you
know, go ye into all nations.
00:27:15.10\00:27:18.83
And so that being said,
00:27:18.87\00:27:21.14
there's someone
00:27:21.17\00:27:22.50
who's waiting to
receive that tract
00:27:22.54\00:27:24.74
or waiting to receive
that book or waiting to,
00:27:24.77\00:27:27.68
you know, receive those
series of Bible studies,
00:27:27.71\00:27:29.78
and they are
earnestly and honestly desiring
00:27:29.81\00:27:32.21
the
transformation in their life.
00:27:32.25\00:27:33.72
So talk to us a little bit about
00:27:33.75\00:27:35.08
maybe some stories,
maybe some instances
00:27:35.12\00:27:36.89
and how does this ministry
open doors for ministry,
00:27:36.92\00:27:42.06
you know, for fruit
00:27:42.09\00:27:43.43
because again,
churches are going to say,
00:27:43.53\00:27:44.86
people are going to
say, "You know what,
00:27:44.89\00:27:47.20
we want to see the
fruit of our labor, right?
00:27:47.23\00:27:49.76
We do ministry,
00:27:49.80\00:27:51.13
because we want to
see lives changed."
00:27:51.17\00:27:52.50
You know, there's nothing,
there's no greater feeling
00:27:52.53\00:27:54.24
than seeing that person
make a decision for baptism.
00:27:54.27\00:27:56.71
So, how does this ministry,
you know, relate to that?
00:27:56.81\00:28:00.38
Well, it's
interesting that, if I may,
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I want to tell a story.
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Sure.
00:28:04.45\00:28:05.78
One of those days
00:28:05.81\00:28:07.32
in those three and a half weeks,
00:28:07.35\00:28:08.78
it was a Sunday and
I knocked on the door,
00:28:08.82\00:28:11.05
a lady comes out.
00:28:11.09\00:28:12.42
And I say, "Well, I'm
here to talk about health,
00:28:12.45\00:28:15.12
physical, mental
and spiritual health."
00:28:15.16\00:28:16.93
And she says,
"That's interesting.
00:28:17.03\00:28:18.69
But we're busy right now."
00:28:18.73\00:28:20.10
She says, "All our family,
we have extended family here.
00:28:20.13\00:28:23.16
We're all
watching a soccer game.
00:28:23.20\00:28:25.37
And it's an important game,
so we can't receive you now."
00:28:25.40\00:28:30.94
And I say, "Ma'am,
this is so important.
00:28:30.97\00:28:34.48
I need to talk to you."
00:28:34.51\00:28:35.84
And she says, "No,
my husband is there.
00:28:35.88\00:28:37.75
He's watching."
00:28:37.78\00:28:39.11
I said, "Can you call
your husband, please?"
00:28:39.15\00:28:40.52
And she says, "I
will. But he'll be upset."
00:28:40.55\00:28:42.62
I said, "Please call him."
00:28:42.65\00:28:43.99
So, I kind of felt, you
know, that I had to insist.
00:28:44.09\00:28:48.16
Husband comes out
and I say same thing.
00:28:48.19\00:28:51.13
"We're talking about health,
I need to talk to you briefly.
00:28:51.16\00:28:53.50
I know you're watching the game,
00:28:53.60\00:28:54.93
but I say,
00:28:54.96\00:28:56.97
"Just tell me what do you
think it's more important,
00:28:57.00\00:28:59.57
your health and
your family's health
00:28:59.60\00:29:01.60
or a soccer game?"
00:29:01.64\00:29:02.97
And that's kind of
a big thing to say.
00:29:03.00\00:29:04.94
I don't usually say that
00:29:04.97\00:29:06.31
but I was impressed
to say that in that time.
00:29:06.34\00:29:08.58
And he says, "You're right.
00:29:08.61\00:29:11.88
You're right."
He says, "Come in."
00:29:11.91\00:29:13.62
And I'm going in,
00:29:13.72\00:29:15.05
he goes right to
the TV, turns it off.
00:29:15.08\00:29:17.39
And the room was full
of people sitting there
00:29:17.42\00:29:20.16
and he turns to
them and he says,
00:29:20.19\00:29:21.56
"Okay, now we'll
listen about health."
00:29:21.59\00:29:23.93
And they all,
like, look at each other,
00:29:24.03\00:29:25.96
and one by one,
they all left the room.
00:29:25.99\00:29:28.40
You walked right
into the lion's den.
00:29:28.43\00:29:29.76
Yeah.
00:29:29.80\00:29:31.13
It was...
00:29:31.17\00:29:32.50
It was serious,
especially this was in America?
00:29:32.53\00:29:33.94
Yeah. Okay.
00:29:33.97\00:29:35.30
So that's clear,
because American culture
00:29:35.34\00:29:36.81
and they're sports,
man, you just don't do that.
00:29:36.84\00:29:38.51
So, the Lord had
to have been with you
00:29:38.54\00:29:40.18
going into that lion's den.
00:29:40.28\00:29:41.61
It was amazing.
00:29:41.64\00:29:42.98
And then, finally, I was left
00:29:43.01\00:29:45.25
only with the
husband and the wife,
00:29:45.28\00:29:48.02
both of them, they're sitting,
00:29:48.05\00:29:49.38
we talked about half an
hour about physical health.
00:29:49.42\00:29:51.89
And he told me that,
just a month or so ago,
00:29:51.92\00:29:54.69
he had a stroke.
00:29:54.72\00:29:56.12
And he was recovering from that.
00:29:56.16\00:29:57.86
So, that's why the interest,
00:29:57.89\00:29:59.23
he understood and
he said, "Yeah, yes,
00:29:59.26\00:30:01.20
we want to know about that."
00:30:01.23\00:30:02.56
But then when I
took the Bible out,
00:30:02.60\00:30:04.37
and I said, you know,
00:30:04.40\00:30:05.73
"This is about
spiritual health."
00:30:05.77\00:30:07.14
He said,
00:30:07.17\00:30:08.50
"But really what we
really need is this."
00:30:08.54\00:30:10.11
And he embraced that
Bible, and he held it there.
00:30:10.21\00:30:13.68
And we talked for
another hour and a half
00:30:13.71\00:30:15.14
about spiritual things.
00:30:15.18\00:30:16.95
Anyway, to make it short,
00:30:16.98\00:30:19.21
for maybe a year and two months,
00:30:19.25\00:30:21.98
they were coming
every Sabbath to our home
00:30:22.02\00:30:24.19
to have lunch with us.
00:30:24.22\00:30:25.99
And then one day,
he came and he said,
00:30:26.02\00:30:29.86
"I want to get
married. Would you marry us?"
00:30:29.89\00:30:32.79
And it was, I
think we have a picture
00:30:32.83\00:30:34.73
there somewhere...
00:30:34.76\00:30:36.10
Yeah, let's look at the picture.
00:30:36.13\00:30:37.47
I don't know if it's available.
00:30:37.57\00:30:39.17
Yeah, that's Neelo and Olga,
00:30:39.20\00:30:42.44
that's in Weimar church.
00:30:42.47\00:30:44.57
And I got the
privilege of marrying them.
00:30:44.61\00:30:46.88
And then I
think the next picture
00:30:46.98\00:30:48.34
is about the family.
00:30:48.38\00:30:49.71
That's their
entire family there.
00:30:49.74\00:30:51.08
Wow, praise the Lord.
00:30:51.11\00:30:52.45
So that entire family,
they got married in the church.
00:30:52.48\00:30:55.95
They were so happy.
00:30:55.98\00:30:57.39
The Weimar Church organized
the entire wedding for them.
00:30:57.42\00:31:00.96
It was so
amazing. They were amazed.
00:31:00.99\00:31:03.26
They had family come in
and everything, and they said,
00:31:03.29\00:31:05.36
"We've never seen
a wedding like that."
00:31:05.39\00:31:07.40
And then few
weeks later, they say,
00:31:07.50\00:31:10.57
"We want to get
baptized as well."
00:31:10.67\00:31:12.33
And I think we have a
picture of that as well.
00:31:12.37\00:31:14.64
Oh, praise the Lord.
00:31:14.67\00:31:16.00
And so three of
them got baptized,
00:31:16.04\00:31:18.37
the rest of the
family are still waiting
00:31:18.41\00:31:19.87
because they're
a little too young.
00:31:19.91\00:31:22.04
But Pastor Don Macintosh
is baptizing all of them.
00:31:22.08\00:31:25.91
And that's after the baptism.
00:31:25.95\00:31:27.32
Wow.
00:31:27.35\00:31:28.78
This is what canvassing or
colporteuring is all about,
00:31:28.82\00:31:31.39
you know.
00:31:31.42\00:31:32.75
You go into homes that...
00:31:32.79\00:31:34.16
You don't know what you
will, whom you'll meet there.
00:31:34.19\00:31:37.63
And then you see,
00:31:37.66\00:31:38.99
and now this family
is the closest family
00:31:39.03\00:31:41.80
that we have here in US to us.
00:31:41.83\00:31:44.70
When our third child was born,
00:31:44.73\00:31:47.24
we didn't have anyone, you know,
00:31:47.27\00:31:48.60
to take care of
the rest of the kids.
00:31:48.64\00:31:50.31
They came, they left their work,
00:31:50.34\00:31:52.04
they came and they stayed
with our kids for three days.
00:31:52.07\00:31:56.38
I was with my
wife in the hospital
00:31:56.41\00:31:57.95
and they were...
00:31:57.98\00:31:59.31
So, they became like our family.
00:31:59.35\00:32:01.12
They came now, this New Year's,
00:32:01.15\00:32:02.88
they spent with
us because we moved,
00:32:02.92\00:32:04.55
we're now in Central California
00:32:04.59\00:32:05.92
and they moved
there and we moved there
00:32:05.95\00:32:07.66
and they came to
spend the New Years with us
00:32:07.69\00:32:09.59
and we did some
witnessing together.
00:32:09.62\00:32:11.23
So, it's amazing,
00:32:11.26\00:32:12.69
this is what
canvassing is all about.
00:32:12.73\00:32:14.30
Absolutely.
00:32:14.33\00:32:15.66
You know, just
hearing you talk about this
00:32:15.70\00:32:17.80
just gets me stirred up,
00:32:17.83\00:32:19.77
you know,
because we don't realize
00:32:19.80\00:32:22.04
just how important it is for us
00:32:22.07\00:32:24.84
to take the aspect of witnessing
00:32:24.87\00:32:27.08
and sharing the
gospel, very seriously.
00:32:27.18\00:32:29.88
I love the name of it, GLOW
00:32:29.91\00:32:32.81
because what goes to my mind,
I can't speak for everyone,
00:32:32.85\00:32:35.95
but what comes to my
mind is the sanctuary
00:32:35.98\00:32:38.65
because in the holy place,
00:32:38.69\00:32:40.16
the only light
source in the holy place
00:32:40.19\00:32:42.36
was the seven-branch candlestick
00:32:42.39\00:32:44.49
and it was only
because they were able
00:32:44.53\00:32:46.49
to keep that oil refilled
00:32:46.53\00:32:49.00
that the fire constantly
and continually burned.
00:32:49.03\00:32:52.17
And I think of
Acts 1:8, it says,
00:32:52.20\00:32:55.10
"And you shall receive power
00:32:55.14\00:32:56.60
when you
receive the Holy Spirit,
00:32:56.71\00:32:58.04
you shall receive
power to be a witness unto me
00:32:58.07\00:33:00.58
unto all the
parts of the earth."
00:33:00.61\00:33:02.28
And so, you know, GLOW Ministry,
00:33:02.31\00:33:04.35
just hearing
you talk about this,
00:33:04.38\00:33:05.85
if you had not
went into that home
00:33:05.88\00:33:07.75
and been brave enough to say,
00:33:07.78\00:33:09.12
"Okay, Lord,
I'm going to go back
00:33:09.15\00:33:10.49
and knock on this door,"
00:33:10.59\00:33:11.92
these people are
watching their game, right?
00:33:11.95\00:33:13.29
And in America,
you just don't do that.
00:33:13.32\00:33:14.66
If you're watching football
or soccer or whatever it is,
00:33:14.69\00:33:17.53
you just don't do that.
00:33:17.63\00:33:18.96
But the Lord
impressed you to do that.
00:33:18.99\00:33:20.33
And because of this,
00:33:20.40\00:33:21.73
now, you see the
fruit of your labor.
00:33:21.76\00:33:23.37
This is what the
gospel is all about, right?
00:33:23.40\00:33:24.97
Incredibly.
00:33:25.00\00:33:26.33
You know, I also was...
00:33:26.37\00:33:27.70
You made me think of something
that I think needs to be said.
00:33:27.74\00:33:30.61
Sure.
00:33:30.64\00:33:31.97
You know,
00:33:32.01\00:33:33.34
when the Adventist
Church was first growing,
00:33:33.38\00:33:36.85
as I mentioned a
little bit earlier,
00:33:36.88\00:33:38.21
one of the reasons
why it was able to grow
00:33:38.25\00:33:40.02
was because the church
was able to send out people
00:33:40.12\00:33:43.02
who were colporteurs
to do missionary work.
00:33:43.05\00:33:45.55
See, one of the unique
aspects about colporteuring
00:33:45.59\00:33:48.49
which makes it set apart
00:33:48.52\00:33:50.03
from a lot of
different ministries
00:33:50.06\00:33:51.63
is that you
actually are getting paid
00:33:51.66\00:33:54.46
by the people
that you minister to
00:33:54.50\00:33:55.83
for ministering to them
in some ways, and oftentimes.
00:33:55.86\00:33:58.17
So when a church
doesn't have a lot of money
00:33:58.20\00:34:00.44
to send out full-time,
00:34:00.54\00:34:01.87
you know, paid missionaries,
00:34:01.90\00:34:03.24
you know, salaried
missionaries or whatever,
00:34:03.27\00:34:05.14
they could send out a
colporteurs to a country,
00:34:05.17\00:34:08.64
which they did repeatedly.
00:34:08.68\00:34:10.45
And the colporteur
would just need some books,
00:34:10.48\00:34:12.51
and they would get there,
00:34:12.55\00:34:13.92
and they would be
able to be self-sustaining
00:34:13.95\00:34:15.28
to a certain
extent or completely,
00:34:15.32\00:34:17.95
while they're
actually ministering to people.
00:34:17.99\00:34:19.39
And as we saw
just from the story
00:34:19.42\00:34:20.96
that Oleg shared,
00:34:20.99\00:34:22.32
you know, when you
go into people's homes,
00:34:22.36\00:34:24.83
you're sitting down
with them in their seats,
00:34:24.86\00:34:27.40
right in their living rooms,
00:34:27.43\00:34:28.90
you're maybe even
sharing a meal with them,
00:34:28.93\00:34:30.37
you're taking and
you're having a personal touch,
00:34:30.47\00:34:32.70
you're going to them,
00:34:32.73\00:34:34.14
not waiting for
them to come to you.
00:34:34.17\00:34:35.50
When you go and
knock on their doors,
00:34:35.54\00:34:37.91
you have an opportunity
there to bring people
00:34:37.94\00:34:40.78
to make spiritual decisions,
00:34:40.81\00:34:42.38
and to be a
centerpiece to connect them
00:34:42.41\00:34:44.95
with a new congregation
that you're building
00:34:44.98\00:34:47.12
or maybe an
existing congregation.
00:34:47.15\00:34:49.08
So, this is one of
the reasons this strength,
00:34:49.12\00:34:52.22
this
characteristic of colporteuring
00:34:52.25\00:34:54.06
in that it's
something where the missionary
00:34:54.09\00:34:55.96
actually gets paid
by doing their ministry
00:34:55.99\00:34:57.79
from the public,
00:34:57.83\00:34:59.36
that characteristic made it
00:34:59.39\00:35:00.80
so that it was very
valuable to the church
00:35:00.83\00:35:03.03
as it was beginning.
00:35:03.06\00:35:04.40
But, you know,
00:35:04.43\00:35:05.77
we could still view
ourselves as a beginning church.
00:35:05.80\00:35:07.44
I mean, we have
great facilities,
00:35:07.47\00:35:08.80
and we've grown a lot and, what,
00:35:08.84\00:35:10.21
20, 22 million members
00:35:10.24\00:35:11.64
but that's a drop in the bucket
compared to 7 billion people.
00:35:11.67\00:35:13.88
Oh, that's the truth.
00:35:13.91\00:35:15.24
So, there's still a great need,
00:35:15.28\00:35:17.25
a great need for us
to train and activate
00:35:17.35\00:35:22.72
called and consecrated members
00:35:22.75\00:35:26.09
to go out into the neighborhoods
00:35:26.12\00:35:28.16
and to be the middlemen,
00:35:28.19\00:35:29.52
to be the connecting piece
00:35:29.56\00:35:30.93
between the
community and the local church.
00:35:30.96\00:35:32.33
We should have colporteurs.
00:35:32.36\00:35:33.70
In fact, Mrs.
White put it this way.
00:35:33.80\00:35:35.13
She says that God
wants evangelistic canvassers
00:35:35.16\00:35:37.60
in every church,
00:35:37.63\00:35:38.97
canvassers is plural.
00:35:39.00\00:35:40.54
Can you imagine every church,
00:35:40.57\00:35:41.90
every church having at least
two consecrated canvassers?
00:35:41.94\00:35:44.21
Let me tell you,
00:35:44.24\00:35:45.57
you'd have a
presence in that community.
00:35:45.61\00:35:47.08
And if the church is offering,
00:35:47.11\00:35:48.51
you know,
follow-up health programs,
00:35:48.54\00:35:53.01
various, you know,
things for the community,
00:35:53.05\00:35:54.82
then the
colporteur can be out there
00:35:54.85\00:35:56.18
connecting people constantly,
year around to these services,
00:35:56.22\00:35:59.52
and it's just a win-win.
00:35:59.55\00:36:01.02
Yeah, absolutely.
00:36:01.06\00:36:02.39
You know, I'm thinking
of as you were telling me
00:36:02.42\00:36:03.83
that, you know, as Mrs. White
puts it Christ method alone.
00:36:03.86\00:36:06.03
Yep, that's right.
00:36:06.06\00:36:07.40
You know, He mingled with them.
00:36:07.50\00:36:10.37
He went to them, He
ministered to their needs,
00:36:10.40\00:36:12.70
and He won their confidence.
00:36:12.73\00:36:14.24
And that's
essentially what we're doing.
00:36:14.27\00:36:15.67
And I also just want
to speak for a moment
00:36:15.70\00:36:17.11
because there may be
someone watching right now
00:36:17.14\00:36:18.47
that says, "Well, you
know, I'm not a good speaker.
00:36:18.51\00:36:21.61
I'm not a good talker.
00:36:21.64\00:36:22.98
I'm certainly not
going to walk the streets."
00:36:23.01\00:36:24.61
Well, you may have that
mentality, but you know,
00:36:24.65\00:36:27.52
you never know that
door you're gonna knock on
00:36:27.55\00:36:29.82
could be someone that,
you know, you get to heaven.
00:36:29.85\00:36:32.29
And the Lord says,
00:36:32.32\00:36:33.66
"Oh, see that large
group of people over there.
00:36:33.76\00:36:36.06
They're all there
00:36:36.09\00:36:37.43
because you chose
to knock on that door
00:36:37.53\00:36:38.86
and you chose to go
and place these resources
00:36:38.89\00:36:41.03
into their hands."
00:36:41.06\00:36:42.40
And it's powerful to think about
00:36:42.43\00:36:43.77
because, you know,
00:36:43.87\00:36:45.20
it's not like
you're giving a Bible study
00:36:45.23\00:36:46.57
or it's not like Bible
work necessarily in the sense,
00:36:46.60\00:36:48.20
you're not going in
00:36:48.24\00:36:49.57
to give an in-depth Bible study,
00:36:49.60\00:36:50.94
but you're putting the
resources into their hands,
00:36:50.97\00:36:52.81
guided resources
that can help teach them,
00:36:52.84\00:36:55.94
you know, the
message, the truth,
00:36:55.98\00:36:57.45
the gospel of Jesus Christ,
00:36:57.48\00:36:58.81
which brings me
to my next question.
00:36:58.85\00:37:00.52
If someone were
interested in this,
00:37:00.55\00:37:02.92
someone wanted to
participate in this ministry
00:37:02.95\00:37:05.29
and in this work,
00:37:05.32\00:37:06.65
what is it
actually that they're,
00:37:06.76\00:37:08.09
you know, if
somebody is going to,
00:37:08.12\00:37:09.92
taking these books door to door,
00:37:10.03\00:37:11.49
what is it that they're selling?
00:37:11.53\00:37:12.93
Or what is it that
someone's going to receive
00:37:12.96\00:37:15.06
when you go knock on the door?
00:37:15.10\00:37:17.17
You know, I
wanted to just mention
00:37:17.20\00:37:19.83
as I get into that answer.
00:37:19.87\00:37:22.44
You know, Bible
workers go into the home
00:37:22.47\00:37:25.24
and they give Bible studies.
00:37:25.27\00:37:26.88
But when a
colporteur goes into the home,
00:37:26.98\00:37:30.15
oftentimes you're
spending about 45 minutes
00:37:30.18\00:37:32.05
to upwards of 2
hours with that family.
00:37:32.08\00:37:34.92
And when the
colporteur goes into the home,
00:37:34.95\00:37:37.49
they're actually
saying a certain,
00:37:37.59\00:37:39.69
what we call a canvas,
00:37:39.72\00:37:41.09
which is for the
most part, a script
00:37:41.12\00:37:44.13
so that they're able to
explain what the books are.
00:37:44.16\00:37:46.06
But when we go into the homes,
00:37:46.09\00:37:47.60
you're going through
books like "Desire of Ages"
00:37:47.63\00:37:50.07
about Jesus' life,
00:37:50.17\00:37:51.50
you're going through
books like "Great Controversy."
00:37:51.53\00:37:53.34
There are certain segments
00:37:53.37\00:37:54.70
where you're
literally explaining to people
00:37:54.74\00:37:56.37
the origin of
sin in your canvas,
00:37:56.40\00:37:58.41
you're explaining
to them how Jesus,
00:37:58.44\00:37:59.84
what He did for us in
the Garden of Gethsemane
00:37:59.87\00:38:02.04
and how there were
great drops of blood.
00:38:02.08\00:38:03.75
So, they're incredibly
deep and spiritual moments
00:38:03.85\00:38:07.75
as you go through that canvas.
00:38:07.78\00:38:09.45
You're essentially
giving a mini Bible study
00:38:09.48\00:38:11.15
to these people and helping them
00:38:11.19\00:38:12.52
go through an
overview of the Bible
00:38:12.55\00:38:14.62
and the Great Controversy theme
00:38:14.66\00:38:16.59
when you give a
canvas inside of a home.
00:38:16.62\00:38:18.03
So, it's a
deeply spiritual work.
00:38:18.06\00:38:22.10
But you asked the question,
what do we sell at the doors?
00:38:22.13\00:38:24.67
I think that...
00:38:24.70\00:38:27.24
Oleg, you probably can
say some things about this,
00:38:27.34\00:38:29.40
but I wanted to mention
00:38:29.44\00:38:30.94
that we kind of do a combination
00:38:30.97\00:38:32.57
of religious books
and spiritual books.
00:38:32.61\00:38:34.38
All right.
00:38:34.41\00:38:35.74
We see from
Mrs. White's writings
00:38:35.78\00:38:37.25
that it's important
00:38:37.28\00:38:38.61
that we treat those
equally at the door.
00:38:38.65\00:38:41.45
Because what health
books do, religious books...
00:38:41.48\00:38:44.09
Did I say
religious and spiritual?
00:38:44.19\00:38:45.52
I meant
religious and health. Okay.
00:38:45.55\00:38:46.89
Yeah. Right.
00:38:46.92\00:38:48.26
So, health books,
everybody has health.
00:38:48.29\00:38:50.63
Either good health
or bad health, right?
00:38:50.66\00:38:52.39
So, when you have health books
00:38:52.43\00:38:54.73
and you use that as
your initial approach
00:38:54.76\00:38:56.30
in reaching people,
00:38:56.33\00:38:58.47
that opens up a lot of doors,
00:38:58.50\00:39:00.74
which wouldn't be open
00:39:00.84\00:39:02.17
if you only were
using religious books.
00:39:02.20\00:39:04.01
And Ms. White calls it
the right arm of the gospel.
00:39:04.04\00:39:05.71
Or the entering
wedge, right. Right.
00:39:05.74\00:39:07.18
So, so having health books
00:39:07.28\00:39:09.74
is absolutely
essential for multiple reasons,
00:39:09.78\00:39:12.68
one of which is
your initial approach
00:39:12.71\00:39:14.22
when you're talking to people.
00:39:14.32\00:39:15.72
But we also are interested
in people's spiritual health
00:39:15.75\00:39:17.85
and so we need to
treat those equally.
00:39:17.89\00:39:20.16
So, what we do is we
carry religious and spiritual,
00:39:20.19\00:39:24.03
I'm sorry,
religious and health books
00:39:24.06\00:39:26.33
when we go to the doors,
00:39:26.36\00:39:27.70
and they both
play a very vital role.
00:39:27.73\00:39:29.43
Now, in different
parts of the church,
00:39:29.46\00:39:32.97
colporteuring is
in a weakened state
00:39:33.00\00:39:35.94
or it's in a very strong state.
00:39:35.97\00:39:37.77
And one of the
factors that we've come to see
00:39:37.81\00:39:41.28
that is making it
too weak in some areas
00:39:41.31\00:39:44.25
is a lack of the
health publications.
00:39:44.28\00:39:47.92
So we have recently moved
00:39:47.95\00:39:50.39
into the process of
developing a health set.
00:39:50.49\00:39:55.32
And let me tell you,
this is a huge undertaking.
00:39:55.36\00:39:57.23
And these are new health books?
00:39:57.26\00:39:58.79
Right. Okay.
00:39:58.83\00:40:00.20
So, this is new addition
to what you already had.
00:40:00.23\00:40:02.56
Okay. Yes, yes.
00:40:02.60\00:40:03.97
So right now, we've noticed
that there's a big lack of...
00:40:04.00\00:40:07.84
Well, I shouldn't
say there's a lack.
00:40:07.87\00:40:09.20
There's good health materials
00:40:09.24\00:40:10.61
that our colporteurs are using
in various parts of the world.
00:40:10.64\00:40:12.57
But I think that we
believe that we can take it
00:40:12.61\00:40:14.44
even a notch higher
00:40:14.48\00:40:15.88
and provide more
comprehensive information
00:40:15.91\00:40:19.48
from some of the top
names in the world actually,
00:40:19.51\00:40:22.42
when it comes to overcoming
some of these diseases
00:40:22.45\00:40:26.76
that people are
dealing with, like, diabetes,
00:40:26.79\00:40:28.92
coronary artery
disease, you know, hypertension.
00:40:28.96\00:40:32.09
So, what we've been doing
00:40:32.13\00:40:34.20
is actually
spearheading forward.
00:40:34.23\00:40:36.77
We've been spearheading
this set of new books.
00:40:36.80\00:40:39.57
And what it'll be is
basically seven volumes set
00:40:39.60\00:40:43.51
and it'll be addressing
00:40:43.61\00:40:46.01
most of the major preventable
or reversible diseases
00:40:46.04\00:40:50.15
that people are
having in the homes.
00:40:50.25\00:40:52.91
And let me tell you,
when you go to the house,
00:40:52.95\00:40:55.35
I mean, 95% of the house,
00:40:55.38\00:40:57.65
unless you knock on the door
00:40:57.69\00:40:59.02
and, like, some
young person comes out
00:40:59.05\00:41:00.46
who's just like an athlete
in a college or something,
00:41:00.49\00:41:02.82
inevitably you're
gonna find a person
00:41:02.86\00:41:04.23
there who's going to
have one of these issues
00:41:04.26\00:41:06.36
that's in this set, right?
00:41:06.39\00:41:08.03
And so, we're in the process
of developing this set of books
00:41:08.06\00:41:12.37
right now and we
have contacted...
00:41:12.40\00:41:13.94
And, Oleg, you're gonna
have to help me out with this.
00:41:13.97\00:41:16.17
But we've contacted
some of the premier names
00:41:16.20\00:41:18.27
in the Adventist Church
00:41:18.31\00:41:19.94
and also outside of
the Adventist Church
00:41:19.97\00:41:22.38
in terms of doctors
who are into writing
00:41:22.41\00:41:26.28
and about these
various diseases.
00:41:26.31\00:41:28.58
One of them is Dr.
Campbell, Dr. T. Colin Campbell.
00:41:28.62\00:41:32.39
T. Colin Campbell,
"Forks Over Knifes".
00:41:32.42\00:41:33.96
Yeah, there you go.
00:41:33.99\00:41:35.32
We actually...
00:41:35.36\00:41:36.73
He wrote "The China Study",
00:41:36.76\00:41:38.09
which is one of the greatest,
00:41:38.13\00:41:39.46
most sophisticated
works in the medical industry.
00:41:39.49\00:41:41.46
Yes.
00:41:41.50\00:41:42.83
In fact, day before yesterday,
00:41:42.86\00:41:44.73
Oleg and I were in New York
00:41:44.77\00:41:46.10
and we were in Dr. T.
Colin Campbell's office
00:41:46.13\00:41:48.67
and we had a meeting
with him, then we had lunch.
00:41:48.70\00:41:51.01
And by the end of the meeting,
God just totally blessed.
00:41:51.04\00:41:54.68
We made a great connection,
00:41:54.71\00:41:56.18
and he gave us full
permission to use his writings
00:41:56.21\00:42:00.02
in this set of books.
00:42:00.05\00:42:01.58
We've also
contacted some other doctors,
00:42:01.62\00:42:04.69
Dr. Neil Nedley,
00:42:04.72\00:42:06.32
he's going to
be working with us.
00:42:06.35\00:42:07.69
Dr. Hans Diehl is
going to be working with us,
00:42:07.72\00:42:10.23
particularly to help us
with molding the whole set
00:42:10.26\00:42:13.60
as it comes together but
creating the last volume,
00:42:13.70\00:42:16.33
which will be
about mental health
00:42:16.36\00:42:17.70
and spiritual health.
00:42:17.73\00:42:19.27
So, even in the
seven sets for health,
00:42:19.30\00:42:22.20
we'll get into
the spiritual aspect.
00:42:22.24\00:42:24.21
We've contacted Dr. Esselstyn...
00:42:24.31\00:42:26.44
Michael Greger.
Dr. Michael Greger.
00:42:26.47\00:42:28.14
Barnard.
00:42:28.18\00:42:29.51
Dr. Barnard, so these are
some of the top names that...
00:42:29.54\00:42:30.95
Oh, yeah.
00:42:30.98\00:42:32.31
Absolutely, I
knew all those names.
00:42:32.35\00:42:33.68
And these are guys that are,
you know, ahead of their time
00:42:33.72\00:42:36.69
in the studies of health around.
00:42:36.79\00:42:39.69
It's powerful.
00:42:39.72\00:42:41.06
And without exception,
00:42:41.09\00:42:42.42
every one of them
has contacted us back
00:42:42.46\00:42:43.83
and said, "You can use...
00:42:43.86\00:42:45.19
We love the idea
00:42:45.23\00:42:46.56
of what you guys
are talking about.
00:42:46.59\00:42:47.93
The fact that you
have 40, 000 people
00:42:47.96\00:42:49.30
around the world,
00:42:49.33\00:42:50.67
these are our colporteurs,
that are going out door to door
00:42:50.70\00:42:52.67
that will be presenting
these materials, we love it.
00:42:52.70\00:42:54.84
You can use our materials.
You can use our materials."
00:42:54.87\00:42:57.61
So, God is opening up
00:42:57.64\00:42:58.97
a lot of really,
really big doors.
00:42:59.01\00:43:00.78
He's glowing the world.
00:43:00.88\00:43:03.65
So I should have probably
already asked this by now.
00:43:03.68\00:43:05.85
What does GLOW stand
for? Yeah, GLOW is an acronym.
00:43:05.88\00:43:08.28
It stands for
Giving Light to Our World.
00:43:08.32\00:43:10.29
Awesome, Giving
Light to Our World.
00:43:10.32\00:43:12.19
That's amazing. Praise the Lord.
00:43:12.22\00:43:13.56
And that's exactly
what you guys are doing.
00:43:13.66\00:43:14.99
That's what we're talking about.
00:43:15.02\00:43:16.36
And, you know, I
just wanted to...
00:43:16.39\00:43:18.83
because we have
just a few minutes
00:43:18.86\00:43:20.20
before we go to our break,
00:43:20.30\00:43:22.03
but if there's someone
watching right now that says,
00:43:22.06\00:43:25.13
"Okay, this is sounding
00:43:25.17\00:43:26.50
like something
that I want to do,
00:43:26.53\00:43:27.87
that I'm interested in,"
00:43:27.90\00:43:29.24
how does one become
00:43:29.27\00:43:30.61
a part of this
colporteuring ministry?
00:43:30.71\00:43:32.11
Give us some
little insight in on that.
00:43:32.14\00:43:34.28
Well, the first
thing that they want to do
00:43:34.31\00:43:35.88
is contact their
local conference,
00:43:35.91\00:43:38.51
or you know, union,
00:43:38.55\00:43:40.52
and ask if there's
a publishing program
00:43:40.55\00:43:41.88
there already so
they can get trained.
00:43:41.92\00:43:43.25
But if not, we have a website.
00:43:43.28\00:43:45.62
It's called
ColporteurTradeAcademy.com,
00:43:45.65\00:43:48.22
ColporteurTradeAcademy.com.
00:43:48.26\00:43:50.13
And there they can find
information about the program
00:43:50.16\00:43:53.09
that we provide
00:43:53.13\00:43:54.46
and how they can get
involved in being trained.
00:43:54.50\00:43:57.73
We have a two-component process.
00:43:57.77\00:43:59.47
Number...
00:43:59.50\00:44:00.84
First, we have an
online training component.
00:44:00.94\00:44:02.74
So, they'll be learning
a lot about colporteuring,
00:44:02.77\00:44:05.24
the classroom
information through the internet
00:44:05.27\00:44:07.38
at their own pace.
00:44:07.48\00:44:08.81
And then when it comes to
the field training aspect,
00:44:08.84\00:44:11.41
we're offering two
different ways of doing that.
00:44:11.45\00:44:14.32
One is individualized training
00:44:14.35\00:44:16.08
or coming to group
trainings that we're providing
00:44:16.12\00:44:18.69
so that people can get involved,
00:44:18.72\00:44:20.06
but there's a
lot more information
00:44:20.16\00:44:21.49
on the website itself
00:44:21.52\00:44:22.86
about how they can
begin that process.
00:44:22.89\00:44:24.23
Absolutely. Okay.
00:44:24.26\00:44:25.59
So is this something...
00:44:25.63\00:44:27.70
If somebody is
engaged in this particular,
00:44:27.73\00:44:30.97
they sign up for it,
00:44:31.00\00:44:32.33
they want to
become a part of it,
00:44:32.37\00:44:33.74
will they learn practical ways
00:44:33.77\00:44:35.54
on how they can
become a better colporteur?
00:44:35.57\00:44:39.37
Yes, that's the idea.
00:44:39.41\00:44:40.98
Because, you know, it's
nice to read it in a book.
00:44:41.01\00:44:43.55
It's nice to
hear the testimonies,
00:44:43.58\00:44:45.25
but the best
thing is to go out there
00:44:45.28\00:44:47.22
and experience it yourself.
00:44:47.25\00:44:48.88
So, we're
planning a ten-week program
00:44:48.92\00:44:52.25
for infield training.
00:44:52.29\00:44:54.52
And that's
interesting because right now,
00:44:54.56\00:44:56.06
we have people from all around
00:44:56.09\00:44:58.29
the United States contacting us,
00:44:58.33\00:45:00.20
and asking, saying,
00:45:00.23\00:45:01.93
"Is there any
chance to have it sooner?
00:45:01.96\00:45:04.53
Can we go now?"
00:45:04.57\00:45:06.23
And there is a process,
00:45:06.27\00:45:07.64
we're still
working on that process
00:45:07.67\00:45:09.00
on making everything
happen in a legal way,
00:45:09.04\00:45:11.31
in a proper way in California.
00:45:11.34\00:45:13.21
That's a challenge in
itself, but God is opening doors
00:45:13.24\00:45:17.25
and we're walking through them.
00:45:17.28\00:45:19.38
And we're planning
in September, 2020,
00:45:19.41\00:45:21.62
this year to have a 10-week
infield training in California,
00:45:21.65\00:45:27.16
where people...
00:45:27.19\00:45:28.79
Yesterday, we were driving
00:45:28.82\00:45:30.23
and someone
called us from Texas,
00:45:30.26\00:45:31.73
saying, "I'm ready to go.
00:45:31.76\00:45:33.50
I want to go
there to get trained
00:45:33.53\00:45:35.10
and come back to Texas
00:45:35.13\00:45:36.46
and revive the adult
canvassing in Texas."
00:45:36.50\00:45:40.34
Nelson and I,
when we had a lot...
00:45:40.37\00:45:42.54
We spent a lot of time
together now this week,
00:45:42.57\00:45:44.61
especially flying
and driving together.
00:45:44.64\00:45:47.64
Oh, when we start
dreaming about this
00:45:47.68\00:45:49.74
and praying about
this, we get so enthused,
00:45:49.78\00:45:52.61
and then we
receive a call like that.
00:45:52.65\00:45:54.32
We say, God is just
working in amazing way.
00:45:54.35\00:45:57.29
Bring the people...
00:45:57.32\00:45:58.65
The other day,
somebody from Washington
00:45:58.69\00:46:00.96
contacted me and saying,
00:46:00.99\00:46:02.36
"God just been
pounding this into my head
00:46:02.39\00:46:04.93
the past few months."
00:46:04.96\00:46:06.29
And then they say,
"We went on YouTube
00:46:06.33\00:46:08.76
and we found some
of your videos, guys."
00:46:08.80\00:46:10.97
Nelson and I, we put some videos
00:46:11.00\00:46:12.33
there on some training.
00:46:12.37\00:46:14.24
"So that training, God
just answered our prayer,
00:46:14.27\00:46:17.51
and my wife and I,
we want to go there,
00:46:17.54\00:46:20.28
get trained and come back here
00:46:20.31\00:46:21.78
and enthuse our
church with this."
00:46:21.81\00:46:23.75
So, yes, the infield training,
00:46:23.85\00:46:25.75
the online training
first, infield training,
00:46:25.78\00:46:28.48
and then we are praying
to revive adult canvassing
00:46:28.52\00:46:34.06
not only in the
NED, even in the country
00:46:34.16\00:46:36.26
where canvassing is
not in being practiced.
00:46:36.29\00:46:38.69
And I just want
to tag on to that.
00:46:38.73\00:46:40.10
I think it's really
important for people
00:46:40.13\00:46:41.60
who are watching this program
that are pastors in particular
00:46:41.63\00:46:44.47
or church leaders.
00:46:44.50\00:46:46.37
We want to speak to churches,
00:46:46.40\00:46:48.44
and we want to
tell church leadership
00:46:48.47\00:46:50.41
that this is something
that will benefit your church.
00:46:50.44\00:46:53.68
So, yes, we are
reaching out to individuals
00:46:53.71\00:46:56.08
and asking them to
register if God's calling them
00:46:56.11\00:46:58.55
but we want to speak
specifically to churches
00:46:58.58\00:47:00.32
because churches
are going to form
00:47:00.35\00:47:01.95
a very important
part, a very important link
00:47:01.98\00:47:05.59
in the long-term sustaining
00:47:05.62\00:47:11.99
of that colporteur in that area.
00:47:12.03\00:47:13.80
So, you know, one of the things
00:47:13.83\00:47:15.16
that will keep a colporteur
going really strong long-term
00:47:15.20\00:47:19.50
is a sense of community.
00:47:19.53\00:47:20.94
And if a colporteur is
not plugged into a church
00:47:20.97\00:47:22.60
that's supportive, then...
00:47:22.64\00:47:25.14
We can train people all we want,
00:47:25.17\00:47:26.68
but we want them to
stick around long term.
00:47:26.71\00:47:28.58
So, if churches have people
00:47:28.61\00:47:29.94
that they think
would be qualified
00:47:30.05\00:47:31.38
and are called to this,
00:47:31.41\00:47:32.75
then they can send them our way.
00:47:32.78\00:47:34.12
And we can work with the church
00:47:34.15\00:47:35.48
so that from the very beginning,
00:47:35.52\00:47:36.85
the church is
part of the equation
00:47:36.89\00:47:38.42
of the training process,
00:47:38.45\00:47:39.82
because we want to link
colporteurs with churches,
00:47:39.85\00:47:42.16
and churches with colporteurs,
00:47:42.19\00:47:43.53
and teach them how
to support each other
00:47:43.63\00:47:45.13
so that this can be
prosecuted long term.
00:47:45.16\00:47:47.60
That's amazing. Praise the Lord.
00:47:47.63\00:47:48.96
I praise God for
this type of ministry.
00:47:49.00\00:47:51.97
In fact, I have a friend
who just recently graduated
00:47:52.00\00:47:54.97
from the Ouachita Hills
College over in Arkansas,
00:47:55.00\00:47:57.74
and they have a very strong
colporteuring ministry there.
00:47:57.77\00:48:00.58
And he has told
us so many stories,
00:48:00.61\00:48:02.68
because he was
actually one of the leaders,
00:48:02.71\00:48:04.15
he worked himself up
to be one of the leaders
00:48:04.18\00:48:05.65
who takes these
large groups out.
00:48:05.68\00:48:07.32
And sometimes,
they'll go to churches.
00:48:07.42\00:48:09.48
And I mean, these
guys are so committed
00:48:09.52\00:48:12.12
they literally bring,
like, their sleeping bags
00:48:12.15\00:48:14.26
and they sleep on
the floors of churches,
00:48:14.29\00:48:16.73
hard floors.
00:48:16.83\00:48:18.16
Oh, yeah. Just so committed.
00:48:18.19\00:48:20.20
And then throughout
the day, for, you know,
00:48:20.30\00:48:22.50
a couple of weeks at a time
at these different locations,
00:48:22.53\00:48:24.97
they're just
flooding the streets,
00:48:25.00\00:48:27.34
going out there,
going door to door
00:48:27.37\00:48:28.77
with these books.
00:48:28.80\00:48:30.21
And the stories
00:48:30.24\00:48:31.57
that he comes back and tells me,
00:48:31.61\00:48:32.94
it's just like, "Wow,"
00:48:32.97\00:48:34.31
you know, all of that
from just going to the door
00:48:34.34\00:48:35.68
and saying,
"Hey, I have some books
00:48:35.71\00:48:37.05
that I would like
to share with you.
00:48:37.08\00:48:38.41
You know, are you interested?"
00:48:38.45\00:48:39.78
And it opens up
conversations that opens up ways
00:48:39.81\00:48:41.25
to get the
gospel message out there
00:48:41.28\00:48:42.62
and it's just powerful.
00:48:42.65\00:48:43.99
Now, just really quickly,
00:48:44.09\00:48:45.42
you briefly
mentioned the books that are,
00:48:45.45\00:48:47.16
that people can have access
to or that they will be getting,
00:48:47.19\00:48:49.46
if they were to go out and sell
00:48:49.49\00:48:51.09
or if they were to be
someone who received this.
00:48:51.13\00:48:53.70
You mentioned "Desire of Ages"
00:48:53.73\00:48:55.06
there maybe
someone who may not know
00:48:55.10\00:48:56.43
what "Desire of Ages" is,
00:48:56.46\00:48:57.80
it's simply Ellen
White's commentary
00:48:57.83\00:48:59.37
on the life of Christ.
00:48:59.40\00:49:00.94
And I believe...
00:49:00.97\00:49:02.30
So I've been told that,
what is it, the Congress?
00:49:02.34\00:49:06.68
Library of Congress has stated
that this is the greatest,
00:49:06.71\00:49:10.05
best work on the life of Christ
00:49:10.15\00:49:11.51
that they've been
able to find so far.
00:49:11.55\00:49:13.42
It's listed that way.
00:49:13.45\00:49:14.78
So you get "The Desire of Ages".
00:49:14.82\00:49:16.15
You mentioned "The
Great Controversy",
00:49:16.18\00:49:17.52
which has changed so many lives.
00:49:17.55\00:49:19.15
I think it was Ellen White's...
00:49:19.19\00:49:20.56
It was the one book
00:49:20.59\00:49:21.92
that she wanted to
push more than any of them,
00:49:21.96\00:49:23.32
said she would like to
get in the hands of everyone.
00:49:23.43\00:49:25.33
Is there any more
other than those two?
00:49:25.36\00:49:27.40
Well, yeah.
00:49:27.50\00:49:28.83
So for the spiritual books,
00:49:28.86\00:49:30.20
there's
children's spiritual books
00:49:30.23\00:49:31.67
which help them
understand the Bible.
00:49:31.70\00:49:33.34
And then there's the
adult spiritual books
00:49:33.37\00:49:34.90
which help the
adults understand the Bible.
00:49:34.94\00:49:36.91
And that's something
00:49:36.94\00:49:38.27
that we call the
Bible reference library
00:49:38.31\00:49:39.64
or the conflict series.
00:49:39.67\00:49:41.01
There's different names for it.
00:49:41.04\00:49:42.38
But basically, it's a
five or six set of books
00:49:42.41\00:49:46.61
that goes from the
very beginning of the Bible
00:49:46.72\00:49:48.32
with a book called
"Patriarchs and Prophets",
00:49:48.35\00:49:50.29
all the way
through to the last one
00:49:50.39\00:49:51.79
called "The Great Controversy",
00:49:51.82\00:49:53.15
which is more of a
commentary on Revelation.
00:49:53.19\00:49:54.86
And then at the end,
00:49:54.89\00:49:56.22
there's typically a
question and answer book
00:49:56.26\00:49:58.06
that goes through
topically different questions
00:49:58.09\00:50:00.60
that people might have.
00:50:00.63\00:50:01.96
So, you're talking about the
"Conflict of the Ages" series,
00:50:02.00\00:50:04.07
that commentary on the Bible
00:50:04.10\00:50:06.43
and then I'm
guessing the other two,
00:50:06.47\00:50:08.10
the question and answer,
00:50:08.14\00:50:09.47
is that the "Bible
Readings for the Home"
00:50:09.50\00:50:10.91
or similar to it?
00:50:10.94\00:50:12.27
That the name for, yes,
one of the versions out there.
00:50:12.31\00:50:14.58
Right. Okay, nice.
00:50:14.61\00:50:15.94
You know, I remember
00:50:15.98\00:50:17.45
you speaking
about that actually.
00:50:17.55\00:50:18.98
This was before I
became a Seventh-day Adventist.
00:50:19.01\00:50:22.58
I don't even
remember how I got it
00:50:22.62\00:50:24.29
but I got that
question and answer book.
00:50:24.32\00:50:27.79
And I remember going
through and familiarizing myself
00:50:27.82\00:50:30.83
with the truths as taught
00:50:30.86\00:50:32.59
by the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:50:32.63\00:50:34.00
through this "Bible
Readings for the Home",
00:50:34.03\00:50:35.36
it actually turns
out to be a set of books,
00:50:35.40\00:50:37.73
like you're talking about,
00:50:37.77\00:50:39.10
that one of my
friends who's a colporteur,
00:50:39.13\00:50:40.97
actually would go out
and sell door to door.
00:50:41.00\00:50:43.27
And it's just
powerful because again,
00:50:43.30\00:50:45.01
people can open these books up
00:50:45.04\00:50:46.37
that have no
knowledge of Scripture,
00:50:46.41\00:50:47.78
have no
knowledge of Bible themes
00:50:47.81\00:50:50.05
and understanding
of any of these things.
00:50:50.08\00:50:51.61
They can read them and
see them for themselves
00:50:51.65\00:50:54.32
in question and answer format,
00:50:54.35\00:50:55.68
and it's such a great
opportunity for witnessing.
00:50:55.72\00:50:58.62
I just praise God
for we actually...
00:50:58.65\00:51:01.06
We're coming down to
the end of this program.
00:51:01.09\00:51:04.23
But we actually,
00:51:04.26\00:51:05.59
I want to make
an appeal right now.
00:51:05.63\00:51:07.00
You may be asking yourself,
00:51:07.03\00:51:08.36
"You know what,
I've heard all of this,
00:51:08.40\00:51:10.07
I'm pricked to the heart,
00:51:10.10\00:51:11.93
I want to join this or
I want to support this,"
00:51:11.97\00:51:13.94
or you might just simply
want more information about it.
00:51:13.97\00:51:17.01
We're actually going to
go to a roll really quickly,
00:51:17.04\00:51:20.18
where it's going to
have all their information
00:51:20.21\00:51:21.98
on how you can contact GLOW
and to get more information,
00:51:22.01\00:51:25.31
maybe even gain
access to their tracts
00:51:25.35\00:51:27.22
or any of the
material that they have,
00:51:27.25\00:51:28.65
and also how you
can become a part
00:51:28.68\00:51:30.79
of this amazing
colporteuring ministry
00:51:30.82\00:51:33.36
on getting the
gospel to the world.
00:51:33.39\00:51:35.06
I strongly encourage
you to do this, my friends.
00:51:35.09\00:51:37.53
Please pay attention,
write this information down,
00:51:37.63\00:51:39.53
take it down, go
to their website,
00:51:39.56\00:51:41.46
contact them, reach out to them,
00:51:41.50\00:51:43.37
because this is an opportunity
00:51:43.40\00:51:44.73
where the Lord is
knocking on the door
00:51:44.77\00:51:46.10
of your heart
00:51:46.13\00:51:47.47
to minister for
Him in these last days.
00:51:47.54\00:51:49.57
Here it is.
00:51:49.60\00:51:50.94
Colporteuring has
played a vital role
00:51:53.78\00:51:55.44
in the expansion of the gospel.
00:51:55.48\00:51:57.05
And now the new Colporteur
Trade Academy online course
00:51:57.08\00:51:59.58
can work with anyone's schedule.
00:51:59.61\00:52:01.42
If you'd like to
find out more about GLOW
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or the
Colporteur Training Academy,
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just visit their
websites, GlowOnline.org
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or ColporteurTradeAcademy.com,
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that's GlowOnline.org or
ColporteurTradeAcademy.com.
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You may also call
them at (559) 347-3150
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or write to GLOW,
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2820, Willow Avenue,
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Clovis, California, 93612.
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