¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ ¤ SPEND MY LIFE ¤ 00:00:07.04\00:00:11.84 ¤ MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤ ¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE 00:00:11.84\00:00:26.25 REMOVING PAIN ¤ ¤ LORD LET MY WORD HEAL UP 00:00:26.25\00:00:43.07 HEARTS THAT HURT ¤ ¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE, 00:00:43.07\00:00:47.94 MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤ ¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ 00:00:47.94\00:00:54.92 ¤ MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤ 00:00:54.92\00:01:04.99 >> HELLO, FRIENDS, WELCOME TO 3ABN "TODAY LIVE." 00:01:10.43\00:01:17.97 THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO TUNE IN TO 3ABN FOR AN EXCITING 00:01:17.97\00:01:24.05 PROGRAM. MANY CENTURIES AGO, OR MANY MEL 00:01:24.05\00:01:31.19 INTHAT AGO, THE QUESTION WAS ASKED CAN THESE DRY BONES LIVE? 00:01:31.19\00:01:36.22 AND IN THIS DAY AND AGE IT IS GOOD TO KNOW THAT THE POWER OF 00:01:36.22\00:01:40.70 GOD IS STILL AVAILABLE TO REVIVE, TO REVITALIZE OUR 00:01:40.70\00:01:45.13 CHURCHES, AND WE HAVE THREE SPECIAL GUESTS THAT WILL 00:01:45.13\00:01:49.27 ENCOURAGE OR INSPIRE YOU. TONIGHT I BELIEVE YOUR VISION 00:01:49.27\00:01:55.34 WILL BE CHANGED, AS IN THIS DAY AND AGE, 2017, THE LORD HAS NOT 00:01:55.34\00:02:01.05 LOST ANY POWER THAT HE HAS GIVEN TO HIS CHURCH. 00:02:01.05\00:02:04.39 WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT CHURCH GROWTH. 00:02:04.39\00:02:07.46 FULL MEMBER EVANGELISM, EVERY MEMBER INVOLVEMENT, AND THIS IS 00:02:07.46\00:02:11.69 THE KIND OF PROGRAM -- I'M EXCITED ABOUT IT, SO YOU NEED TO 00:02:11.69\00:02:16.60 SPEND THE NEXT TWO HOURS WITH US. 00:02:16.60\00:02:17.97 I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF 00:02:17.97\00:02:22.74 THIS NETWORK. AND BEHALF OF OUR FOUNDER AND 00:02:22.74\00:02:27.44 PRESIDENT DANNY SHELTON, I BID YOU WELCOME, AND THANK YOU FOR 00:02:27.44\00:02:31.08 ALL THAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR THIS NETWORK, FINANCIAL, VOLUNTEER, 00:02:31.08\00:02:36.15 OR JUST YOUR PRAYERS, IT ALL MAKES A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE. 00:02:36.15\00:02:39.82 THE SECOND HOUR WE'LL GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEND IN YOUR 00:02:39.82\00:02:43.29 QUESTIONS. AND WE'LL GIVE YOU THE EMAIL AND 00:02:43.29\00:02:45.39 THE PHONE NUMBER YOU CAN CALL THOSE QUESTIONS IN. 00:02:45.39\00:02:48.53 BUT WE ARE ALWAYS EXCITED WHEN WE BEGIN OUR PROGRAM WITH GOOD 00:02:48.53\00:02:53.87 MUSIC, AND I KNOW DR. YVONNE LEWIS PERSONALLY. 00:02:53.87\00:02:57.24 SHE IS A GOOD FRIEND OURS, AND YOU MAY KNOW HER AS THE GENERAL 00:02:57.24\00:03:03.81 MANAGER OF THE DARE TO DREAM NETWORK. 00:03:03.81\00:03:05.71 BUT SHE IS GOING TO SING A BEAUTIFUL SONG ENTITLED "IN 00:03:05.71\00:03:13.02 CHRIST ALONE." ENJOY. 00:03:13.02\00:03:29.54 ¤ IN CHRIST ALONE, I AM FOUND ¤ ¤ HE IS MY LIGHT, MY STRENGTH, 00:03:29.54\00:03:38.75 MY STONE ¤ ¤ THE CORNERSTONE, MY SOLID 00:03:38.75\00:03:44.42 GROUND ¤ ¤ WHAT HEIGHTS OF LOVE ¤ 00:03:44.42\00:03:48.66 ¤ WHAT DEPTH OF PEACE ¤ ¤ WHEN THE FIELDS ARE STILL TO 00:03:48.66\00:03:58.10 STRIDING SEA ¤ ¤ MY COMFORTER ¤ 00:03:58.10\00:04:01.60 ¤ MY ALL IN ALL ¤ ¤ HERE IN THE LOVE OF CHRIST I 00:04:01.60\00:04:06.37 STAND ¤ ¤ IN CHRIST ALONE WHO TOOK ON 00:04:06.37\00:04:22.36 FLESH ¤ ¤ THIS GIF OF LOVE AND 00:04:22.36\00:04:29.40 RIGHTEOUSNESS ¤ ¤ BORN BY THE ONE HE CAME TO 00:04:29.40\00:04:34.10 SAVE ¤ ¤ DRAW NOW CLOSE AS JESUS DIED 00:04:34.10\00:04:42.68 FOR US WAS GOD SATISFIED ¤ ¤ FOR EVERY SIN ON HIS WORLD 00:04:42.68\00:04:52.95 LAY ¤ ¤ HERE IN THE DEATH OF CHRIST I 00:04:52.95\00:04:56.09 LIVE ¤ ¤ OH, OH ¤ 00:04:56.09\00:05:18.88 ¤ OH, ON THE GROUND HIS BODY LAY ¤ 00:05:18.88\00:05:23.79 ¤ AND THEN DARKNESS CAME ¤ ¤ UP FROM THE GRAVE HE ROSE 00:05:23.79\00:05:36.33 AGAIN ¤ ¤ AND AS HE STANDS IN VICTORY ¤ 00:05:36.33\00:05:45.94 ¤ FOR I AM HE AND HE IS MINE ¤ ¤ BUT WITH THE FLESH OF BLOOD OF 00:05:45.94\00:05:55.85 CHRIST ¤ ¤ NO FEAR IN DEATH ¤ 00:05:55.85\00:06:10.77 ¤ THIS IS THE POWER OF CHRIST IN ME ¤ 00:06:10.77\00:06:17.34 ¤ FROM LIFE'S FIRST CRY TO FINAL BREATH ¤ 00:06:17.34\00:06:23.18 ¤ JESUS COMMANDS MY DESTINY ¤ ¤ [ INAUDIBLE ] ¤ 00:06:23.18\00:06:35.29 ¤ LIKE HE CAN ¤ ¤ WHEN HE RETURNS TO TAKE ME 00:06:35.29\00:06:46.00 HOME ¤ ¤ HERE IN THE LOVE OF CHRIST, 00:06:46.00\00:06:53.34 I'LL STAND ¤ ¤ 00:06:53.34\00:07:14.36 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, YVONNE FOR THAT WONDERFUL SONG, "IN CHRIST 00:07:26.81\00:07:32.78 ALONE." AND THAT IS THE FOCAL POINT OF 00:07:32.78\00:07:35.82 OUR PROGRAM. IF WHAT YOU DO IS NOT IN CHRIST, 00:07:35.82\00:07:38.75 IT HAS NO VALUE, AND JESUS IS NOT GOING TO BE GLORIFIED BY IT. 00:07:38.75\00:07:42.82 MATTER OF FACT, OUR GUESTS -- ONE OF OUR GUESTS, AND 00:07:42.82\00:07:46.19 I'LL INTRODUCE YOU TO THEM IN JUST A MOMENT, SAID THAT IS THE 00:07:46.19\00:07:49.56 SONG THAT ENCOURAGES AND REVITALIZES HIMSELF AS HE 00:07:49.56\00:07:56.04 PREPARES TO PREACH. SO LET'S MEET OUR GUESTS FOR 00:07:56.04\00:07:59.11 THIS EVENING. TO MY IMMEDIATE RIGHT IS PASTOR 00:07:59.11\00:08:04.41 TIM BAILEY GOOD TO HAVE YOU HERE. 00:08:04.41\00:08:06.48 >> THANK YOU. >> WELCOME BACK. 00:08:06.48\00:08:08.48 >> THANK YOU. GOOD TO BE HERE. 00:08:08.48\00:08:11.09 >> TO HIS IMMEDIATE RIGHT IS -PASTOR ANTHONY CRAWFORD. GOOD 00:08:11.09\00:08:16.06 TO HAVE YOU. >> GOOD TO BE HERE. >> HE IS THE WILLIAMSPORT PASTOR 00:08:16.06\00:08:22.53 AND CENTRAL REGIONAL DIRECTOR FOR -- 00:08:22.53\00:08:25.33 >> FAITH FOR FAMILY. >> AND TO THE FAR RIGHT IS 00:08:25.33\00:08:35.64 STEWART PEPPER. YOU ARE THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR 00:08:35.64\00:08:39.68 FOR FAITH FOR FAMILY. GOOD TO HAVE YOU HERE THIS 00:08:39.68\00:08:43.02 EVENING. >> THANK YOU. 00:08:43.02\00:08:44.82 >> JUST TO GIVE OUR VIEWERS AND LISTENERS AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET 00:08:44.82\00:08:48.02 TO KNOW YOU BETTER. LET US KNOW WHAT YOU DO AND 00:08:48.02\00:08:51.29 WHERE YOU ARE FROM, AND KIND OF LET THE PEOPLE KNOW A LITTLE BIT 00:08:51.29\00:08:54.73 ABOUT YOU. >> THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF 00:08:54.73\00:08:57.07 COUNTRY IN ME. AS YOU CAN SEE, I'M JUST A 00:08:57.07\00:09:00.44 COMMON EVERY DAY JOB. BUT I HAPPEN TO HAVE A VERY 00:09:00.44\00:09:03.94 IMPORTANT JOB. I WORK FOR JESUS. 00:09:03.94\00:09:07.41 REALLY I'M THE PASTOR'S PASTOR, BECAUSE WE WORK TOGETHER WITH 00:09:07.41\00:09:11.65 ALL OF THE PASTORS. IT'S -- IT'S AN EXCITING 00:09:11.65\00:09:16.42 OPPORTUNITY, AS WE -- AS WE HAE EMBARKED ON THIS PROCESS HERE, 00:09:16.42\00:09:21.36 WE HAVE SEEN SOME REAL GROWTH IN OUR PASTORAL FIELD AND OUR 00:09:21.36\00:09:28.23 CHURCHES. >> PRAISE THE LORD. 00:09:28.23\00:09:29.13 AND WELCOME BACK. >> THANK YOU. 00:09:29.13\00:09:31.13 THANK YOU. >> AND PASTOR ANTHONY. 00:09:31.13\00:09:34.27 >> YEAH, I PASTOR A THREE-CHURCH DISTRICT WITH AN ELEMENTARY 00:09:34.27\00:09:39.57 SCHOOL, WHICH ALWAYS MAKES THINGS EXCITING. 00:09:39.57\00:09:42.38 I LOVE GOING TO SCHOOL. IN FACT OUR SCHOOLS GIVE HUGS, 00:09:42.38\00:09:47.68 ESPECIALLY OUR LITTLE ONES. I HAVE BEEN IN PASTORAL MINISTRY 00:09:47.68\00:09:51.35 FOR OVER 20 YEARS, AND HAVE BEEN IN PENNSYLVANIA FOR ABOUT SIX. 00:09:51.35\00:09:55.82 SO IT'S SORT OF A NEW FIELD, WAS IN FLORIDA FOR ABOUT TEN, AND 00:09:55.82\00:10:00.23 THEN CAME OUT TO PENNSYLVANIA, AND HAVE REALLY BEEN ENJOYING 00:10:00.23\00:10:05.20 IT, AND DRASER WEATHER CHANGE, BUT HAVE BEEN ENJOYING IT. 00:10:05.20\00:10:09.07 >> I WOULD SAY SO. NOW WITH THE WEATHER WE HAVE 00:10:09.07\00:10:12.97 NOW, IT SEEMS LIKE EVERYTHING IS NICE. 00:10:12.97\00:10:16.11 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CALL IT GLOBAL WARMING, OR SPIRITUAL 00:10:16.11\00:10:20.02 WARMING, BUT PRAISE GOD FOR THE GOOD WEATHER WE HAVE HAD. 00:10:20.02\00:10:24.95 >> AND PASTOR PEPPER? >> YES. 00:10:24.95\00:10:27.26 I HAVE WORKED FOR THE CHURCH FOR 33 YEARS NOW. 00:10:27.26\00:10:30.63 17 OF THOSE YEARS, I STARTED AS A EVANGELIST, AND THEN WENT TO 00:10:30.63\00:10:39.80 THE BINDERY, AND NOW, SINCE MAY, I HAVE BEEN A PASTOR IN THE 00:10:39.80\00:10:45.41 PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE AT PITTSBURGH AND NEW BRIGHTON, AND 00:10:45.41\00:10:48.84 HAVING A GREAT TIME. >> THAT IS GOOD. 00:10:48.84\00:10:51.51 AND THE PROGRAM THAT YOU ALL ARE HERE TO TALK ABOUT, AND I'LL BE 00:10:51.51\00:10:55.28 HERE WITH PASTOR BAILEY, IS FAITH FOR FAMILY. 00:10:55.28\00:10:58.65 I HEARD ABOUT IT. I GOT A WONDERFUL OUTLINE, AND 00:10:58.65\00:11:03.26 THOUGHT, WOW, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT CAN BE DONE IN OTHER 00:11:03.26\00:11:07.36 CONFERENCES, OTHER FIELDS? NOT JUST IN THE UNITED STATES 00:11:07.36\00:11:09.76 BUT AROUND THE WORLD. >> GIVE US AN OVERVIEW OF THE 00:11:09.76\00:11:14.24 FAITH FOR FAMILY INITIATIVE? >> ABSOLUTELY. 00:11:14.24\00:11:16.47 I HAVE PREACHED IN COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD. 00:11:16.47\00:11:20.11 I HAD THREE, FOUR, 5,000 BAPTISMS IN INDIA, HELD MEETINGS 00:11:20.11\00:11:28.58 ALL THROUGH THE UNITED STATES. HERE IN THE UNITED STATES WE 00:11:28.58\00:11:32.25 MISSED OUT ON SOMETHING. WE GONE TO THIS THING WHERE WE 00:11:32.25\00:11:37.49 THINK IF WE SEND OUT A HANDBILL OR A BROCHURE, WE THINK PEOPLE 00:11:37.49\00:11:43.93 WILL COME. I REMEMBER HEARING YEAH, BUT 00:11:43.93\00:11:47.47 THEY HAVE SO MANY BAPTISMS OVERSEAS. 00:11:47.47\00:11:52.51 AND IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES, AND RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA, I 00:11:52.51\00:11:55.94 WANT TO TELL YOU THAT THERE'S NOT A MAGIC BULLET. 00:11:55.94\00:12:00.22 THERE'S NOT SOME PROGRAM OR EVENT, BUT GOOD OLD FASHIONED 00:12:00.22\00:12:04.29 GOSPEL PRESENTATION. BIBLE STUDY, PRAYER MINISTRY. 00:12:04.29\00:12:08.79 DEDICATION AND HARD WORK, BUT THE KEY IS THAT 40 OR 50 PASTORS 00:12:08.79\00:12:13.29 IS NOT THE ANSWER. TOTAL MEMBER INVOLVEMENT IS THE 00:12:13.29\00:12:17.23 ANSWER. >> WOW. 00:12:17.23\00:12:18.00 >> SO THIS FAITH FOR FAMILY INITIATIVE IS ALL OF THAT, A 00:12:18.00\00:12:22.57 TOTAL MEMBER INVOLVEMENT WITH STRONG LEADERSHIP, STRONG 00:12:22.57\00:12:25.64 ORGANIZATION, AND WE'RE SEEING APOSTOLIC TYPE OF GROWTH AS A 00:12:25.64\00:12:32.68 RESULT. >> WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT TOTAL 00:12:32.68\00:12:34.98 MEMBERSHIP INVOLVEMENT, THAT'S REALLY THE MODEL THAT THE LORD 00:12:34.98\00:12:37.72 GAVE. WE TALK ABOUT SAVED BY GRACE 00:12:37.72\00:12:40.02 THROUGH FAITH. IT'S A GIFT OF GOD NOT OF WORKS. 00:12:40.02\00:12:46.19 AND PEOPLE OFTEN THINK THAT MEANS I DON'T HAVE TO DO ANY 00:12:46.19\00:12:49.33 WORK. BUT WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP 00:12:49.33\00:12:58.37 CREATED IN CHRIST FOR JESUS. >> ABSOLUTELY. 00:12:58.37\00:12:59.47 EACH OF OUR CHURCHES WHO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THIS PROCESS 00:12:59.47\00:13:02.48 OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS SINCE WE HAVE BEEN DOING IT, THEY FILL 00:13:02.48\00:13:07.68 OUT A COVENANT CONTRACT. AND THE FOUNDATION IS THAT THEY 00:13:07.68\00:13:12.72 WILL PRAISE THE CHURCH, THEY WILL WORK AS A CHURCH, AND 00:13:12.72\00:13:16.49 FOLLOW UP AS A CHURCH. SO WE HAVE ALMOST EVERY SINGLE 00:13:16.49\00:13:21.53 PERSON INVOLVED. SOMEONE SAYS I CAN'T DO SOME OF 00:13:21.53\00:13:24.43 THESE THINS, I'M TOO OLD. IF YOU HAVE BREATH, YOU CAN BE 00:13:24.43\00:13:30.41 INVOLVED IN PRAYER. YOU CAN PETITION YOUR HOLY 00:13:30.41\00:13:33.41 FATHER FOR SUCCESS. I BELIEVE THE FOUNDATION OF 00:13:33.41\00:13:36.64 SUCCESS HAS BEEN PRAYER THEN WORK. 00:13:36.64\00:13:38.55 AND HUMAN EFFORT WITH DIVINE POWERS THE SECRET OF ALL SUCCESS 00:13:38.55\00:13:45.95 WE'RE TOLD BY ELLEN WHITE, TALKING ABOUT JOSHUA AS HE WAS 00:13:45.95\00:13:50.96 GOING FORWARD, SO WE'RE TRYING TO MODEL THAT. 00:13:50.96\00:13:53.90 WE HAVE 11,500 MEMBERS, IF WE HAVE 11,500 PEOPLE 00:13:53.90\00:14:00.50 PARTICIPATING, WE'RE GOING TO SEE A LOT OF GROWTH. 00:14:00.50\00:14:02.84 >> THAT'S A NOT OF MISSIONARIES. >> IT IS. 00:14:02.84\00:14:05.67 >> IF THE LORD CAN DO WITH THE DISCIPLES WHAT HE DID ON THE DAY 00:14:05.67\00:14:10.41 OF PENTECOST, WHAT WOULD HE DO WITH 11,000 DISCIPLES, 11,000 00:14:10.41\00:14:19.29 EVANGELISTS, 11,000, IF WE COULD SAY, BOOTS ON THE GROUND. 00:14:19.29\00:14:22.32 TALK ABOUT THAT PASTOR ANTHONY. >> WELL, JUST A LITTLE CLIP, TIM 00:14:22.32\00:14:26.53 HAS BEEN GOING AROUND TO EACH ONE OF THE DISTRICTS AND HAS 00:14:26.53\00:14:29.63 BEEN PROMOTING FOR THIS UP COMING YEAR, AND IT JUST HAPPENS 00:14:29.63\00:14:33.20 TO BE THAT IT'S IN CENTRAL, WHICH IS PART OF THE REGION THAT 00:14:33.20\00:14:36.71 I HELP WITH, AND JUST THE STORY YOU JUST TOLD ABOUT ACTS, AFTER 00:14:36.71\00:14:42.74 TIM ON A SUNDAY, WE HAD A NICE BRUNCH FOR EVERYBODY, AND HAD 00:14:42.74\00:14:47.38 SEVERAL CHURCH MEMBERS COME OUT, AND THEY WERE ON FIRE READY TO 00:14:47.38\00:14:51.02 SIGN THE CONTRACT THERE, AND EVERYTHING. 00:14:51.02\00:14:53.72 AND THE NEXT MORNING MONDAY MORNING, I DID ACTS CHAPTER 1 00:14:53.72\00:14:59.89 AND 2 FOR OUR KIDS AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AND TO SEE 00:14:59.89\00:15:06.74 THEIR EYES LIGHT UP, AS WE BEGAN TO PRAY TOGETHER, AS WE CONFESS 00:15:06.74\00:15:11.84 OUR SINS TO EACH OTHER, AS WE TRULY REPENT AND CHANGE THOSE 00:15:11.84\00:15:17.01 THINGS, AND HOW THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME OVER GOD'S PEOPLE IN ACTS 00:15:17.01\00:15:24.39 2, AND 3,000 PEOPLE WERE ONE IN ONE DAY. 00:15:24.39\00:15:27.29 AND I LOOKED AT THESE LITTLE KIDS, AND I SAID IF WE PUT ALL 00:15:27.29\00:15:32.46 OF THE CHURCHES TOGETHER, IT'S STILL NOT 3,000 PEOPLE. 00:15:32.46\00:15:36.77 GOD COULD DO THIS IN OUR CITY. AND THEIR EYES JUST LIT UP. 00:15:36.77\00:15:42.40 SO AS TIM SAID, THERE IS NO REASON ANYBODY CANNOT BE 00:15:42.40\00:15:46.84 INVOLVED IN THIS, INCLUDING KIDS AND EVERYBODY ELSE. 00:15:46.84\00:15:50.81 EVERY MEMBER INVOLVED REGARDLESS OF AGE -- REGARDLESS OF MAYBE A 00:15:50.81\00:15:55.68 DISABILITY, WHATEVER IT IS, GOD HAS A PURPOSE FOR THEM. 00:15:55.68\00:15:58.79 >> THAT'S RIGHT. AND PASTOR STEWART? 00:15:58.79\00:16:03.16 >> THIS INITIATIVE WHEN IT CAME TO YOU, BEING THE WESTERN 00:16:03.16\00:16:07.23 REGIONAL DIRECTOR, HOW DID YOU EMBRACE IT? 00:16:07.23\00:16:10.23 BECAUSE I WOULD SAY PASTOR BAILEY PUT HIMSELF ON THE LINE. 00:16:10.23\00:16:14.14 AS MINISTERIAL DIRECTOR YOU COME UP WITH THE INITIATIVES AND 00:16:14.14\00:16:18.11 THINK WHAT CAN WE DO TO CAUSE THE CHURCH TO GROW, BUT TELL US 00:16:18.11\00:16:22.48 ABOUT THE IMPACT IN YOUR REGION? >> THEY HIRED ME AS A PASTOR 00:16:22.48\00:16:26.82 JUST LAST MAY IN THE PITTSBURGH DISTRICT, AND WHEN CAME IN, THEY 00:16:26.82\00:16:30.69 TOLD ME, OH, BY THE WAY, YOU ARE ALSO REGIONAL DIRECTOR FOR FAITH 00:16:30.69\00:16:36.39 FOR FAMILY, SO FIRST THERE WAS A LOT OF CATCHING UP TO DO, BUT AS 00:16:36.39\00:16:40.43 WE GOT INVOLVED, JUST WATCH THIS THING GROW ON PEOPLE, IT TURNS 00:16:40.43\00:16:47.44 INTO SOMETHING THAT IS BIGGER THAN WHAT YOU INITIALLY 00:16:47.44\00:16:51.17 EXPECTED, BECAUSE YOU START HAVING RESULTS IN AREAS THAT YOU 00:16:51.17\00:16:54.21 NEVER INTENDED TO HAVE RESULTS. >> SO THERE WAS A GENERAL 00:16:54.21\00:16:58.28 STIRRING UP, IN OTHER WORDS A WAKING UP OF THE MEMBERSHIP? 00:16:58.28\00:17:02.38 >> OH, ABSOLUTELY. IN WESTERN PA, WE HAVE ABOUT 00:17:02.38\00:17:08.76 1300 MEMBERS, AND ONLY ABOUT 538 ATTENDS. 00:17:08.76\00:17:14.13 BUT TAKE ONE LITTLE CHURCH FOR EXAMPLE. 00:17:14.13\00:17:15.90 ONE OF OUR PASTORS SAID, WELL, I DON'T THINK OUR CHURCH MEMBERS 00:17:15.90\00:17:19.87 ARE GETTING INVOLVED. WE HAVEN'T HAD PRAYER MEETING IN 00:17:19.87\00:17:23.34 TEN YEARS. I HAVE TRIED TO DO THIS, IT JUST 00:17:23.34\00:17:26.78 DOESN'T WORK. I'LL GET TWO OR THREE AND THEN 00:17:26.78\00:17:29.31 IT DROPS OFF. THERE IS NOBODY THAT HAS ANY 00:17:29.31\00:17:32.48 MONEY. IT IS JUST NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. 00:17:32.48\00:17:35.08 WE KNEW A LADY JUST SOLD SOME PROPERTY, AND WE THOUGHT, LET'S 00:17:35.08\00:17:39.65 GIVE IT A CHANCE. AND WITHIN 5 MINUTES, SHE GAVE A 00:17:39.65\00:17:46.26 $25,000 CHECK, AND SHE SAID I WANT TO SEE EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE 00:17:46.26\00:17:50.00 TALKING ABOUT HAPPEN IN OUR CHURCH. 00:17:50.00\00:17:52.60 AND SO WE BEGAN TO DO THE PROCESS. 00:17:52.60\00:17:57.44 WE START PRAYER MEETING SERIES IN THAT CHURCH, AND TODAY THEY 00:17:57.44\00:18:01.34 HAVE ABOUT 30 PEOPLE ATTENDING EACH -- EACH WEDNESDAY NIGHT, 00:18:01.34\00:18:05.48 AND THEY ONLY HAD ABOUT 25 PEOPLE ATTENDING BEFORE THIS 00:18:05.48\00:18:09.35 PROCESS ON SABBATH ALONE, SO NOW THEY HAVE A CONTINUING PRAYER 00:18:09.35\00:18:13.72 MEETING GOING, THERE IS A CYCLE OF EVANGELISM, IT'S REALLY 00:18:13.72\00:18:19.06 MIRACULOUS WHEN WE GO FROM ALMOST NOTHING TO VIBRANCY. 00:18:19.06\00:18:23.00 THAT SAME CHURCH HAD ONE CHILD IN IT, NOW THEY HAVE 12. 00:18:23.00\00:18:26.37 AND WE'RE ONLY TALKING FIVE MONTHS LATER. 00:18:26.37\00:18:29.74 THEY HAVE GONE FROM 25 TO 50. THEY HAVE ACTIVITY GOING. 00:18:29.74\00:18:34.41 THERE'S EXCITEMENT, AND THEY CAN'T WAIT TO CONTINUE THIS 00:18:34.41\00:18:37.58 CYCLE OF EVANGELISM, SO THEY CAN CONTINUE TO GROW AND PROCLAIM 00:18:37.58\00:18:42.08 THE GOSPEL FOR JESUS. >> SO EVANGELISM IS NOT SINGLE 00:18:42.08\00:18:49.29 EVENT, BUT A COMPLETE EXPERIENCE. 00:18:49.29\00:18:51.13 >> NO THERE HAS TO BE TOTAL MEMBER INVOLVEMENT. 00:18:51.13\00:18:54.03 WHERE THEY ARE GOING OUT -- WE HAVE THE TRANSITIONAL COOKING 00:18:54.03\00:19:01.47 SCHOOLS. WE'RE TRYING TO HELP PEOPLE FIND 00:19:01.47\00:19:04.47 JESUS THROUGH THE GOSPEL IN HEALTH AND EVERYTHING. 00:19:04.47\00:19:09.21 EVERY TRANSITIONAL EVENT HAS A PURPOSE. 00:19:09.21\00:19:11.65 AND THAT'S TO LEAD WITH THE TO JESUS CHRIST. 00:19:11.65\00:19:14.55 >> SO WHAT YOU DO IS NOT SOMETHING THAT IS AN END IN AND 00:19:14.55\00:19:18.19 OF ITSELF, BUT ALWAYS HAS A PURPOSE. 00:19:18.19\00:19:21.52 >> ABSOLUTELY. >> WE'RE NOT JUST SAYING, YOU 00:19:21.52\00:19:25.33 WANT TO BE A GOOD VEGETARIAN, YOU WANT BE A HEALTHY PERSON, 00:19:25.33\00:19:30.50 THAT COOKING CLASS HAS A PURPOSE AHEAD OF IT. 00:19:30.50\00:19:35.14 >> YEAH. WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE RESULTS 00:19:35.14\00:19:37.84 COMING FROM IT, IN MY DISTRICT, WHEN WE WENT OUT WEST, WE HAD 00:19:37.84\00:19:42.21 ACTUALLY FINANCIALLY JUST PURCHASED A BUS, AND -- AND 00:19:42.21\00:19:45.58 LOADED THAT BUS UP, AND FOR FOLKS FROM MY DISTRICT AND 00:19:45.58\00:19:50.15 FURTHER OUT, EVEN IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA, ALL DROVE, SOME 00:19:50.15\00:19:56.56 FIVE, SIX HOURS TO GET OUT TO WESTERN PA, SO WE'RE HAVING BUS 00:19:56.56\00:20:01.06 LOADS OF PEOPLE COMING OUT, AND THE INITIATIVE OF PEOPLE COMING 00:20:01.06\00:20:04.80 OUT, KNOCKING ON DOORS AT A CHURCH THAT MAYBE HAD IN 00:20:04.80\00:20:11.11 ATTENDANCE SIX PEOPLE. AND BROTHERS AND SISTERS THERE 00:20:11.11\00:20:15.71 CHRIST, WERE COMING TO SAY YOU ARE NOT STANDING ALONE. 00:20:15.71\00:20:19.25 YOU HAVE A WHOLE FAMILY THAT IS HERE WITH YOU. 00:20:19.25\00:20:22.38 AND WHAT THAT DID FOR THEM OUT WEST WAS JUST AMAZING, THE 00:20:22.38\00:20:26.45 RESULTS THAT CAME FROM THAT. JUST THE THOUGHT PROCESS THAT 00:20:26.45\00:20:29.39 YOU KNOW WHAT, I KNOW THE CONFERENCE IS WAY OVER THERE, 00:20:29.39\00:20:33.60 BUT PEOPLE CARE ABOUT ME OVER HERE. 00:20:33.60\00:20:35.96 >> CAN YOU IMAGINE THE EXCITEMENT FROM A LITTLE CHURCH 00:20:35.96\00:20:40.20 OF SIX TO TEN PEOPLE, AND 80, 90, 120 PEOPLE COME FROM EASTERN 00:20:40.20\00:20:47.01 AND CENTRAL PA -- >> HOURS AWAY. 00:20:47.01\00:20:49.54 >> HOURS AWAY. AND SOME LEAVE AT 5:00 IN THE 00:20:49.54\00:20:54.88 MORNING. AND THERE ARE ONLY 538 PEOPLE 00:20:54.88\00:20:57.99 ATTENDING IN THIS REGION, BUT 1,340 MISSIONARIES FROM ALL 00:20:57.99\00:21:04.83 PENNS PENNSYLVANIA CAME TO HELP OUR 00:21:04.83\00:21:09.10 BROTHERS AND SISTERS. >> IN THAT SIX-MEMBER CHURCH. 00:21:09.10\00:21:13.47 >> IN THAT SIX-MEMBER CHURCH. AND WHEN YOU HAVE ALL OF THESE 00:21:13.47\00:21:21.24 PEOPLE COMING, SAYING WE'RE GOING TO HELP YOU. 00:21:21.24\00:21:26.58 THERE WERE TEARS OF JOY. AND THE MEMBERS OF THOSE 00:21:26.58\00:21:31.45 CHURCHES MADE COMMENTS LIKE, I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS. 00:21:31.45\00:21:34.46 WE ARE REALLY LOVED, AND THE GOSPEL WILL BE PROCLAIMED, AND 00:21:34.46\00:21:38.89 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS HELP. IT IS PHENOMENAL WHEN YOU FEEL 00:21:38.89\00:21:46.37 SUPPORTED. THESE MEMBERS ARE DOING MORE NOW 00:21:46.37\00:21:49.10 THAN THEY HAVE EVER DONE BEFORE. >> WOULD YOU SAY THEY ARE 00:21:49.10\00:21:52.87 FINDING THEIR WORTH? >> I REMEMBER A STORY JUST TO GO 00:21:52.87\00:21:56.61 WITH THIS -- >> THAT IS PHENOMENAL. 00:21:56.61\00:21:58.68 >> I PASTOR THE PITTSBURGH CHURCH, AND LILLIAN TORRES, ONE 00:21:58.68\00:22:02.85 OF THE LADIES THAT HELPED OUT BEHIND THE SCENES, SHE CALLED ME 00:22:02.85\00:22:09.12 UP AND SAID I HAVE 50 MORE. CAN YOU HANDLE THEM? 00:22:09.12\00:22:12.36 THERE HAS TO BE MORE FOOD, AND THEN SHE CALLED ME AGAIN AND 00:22:12.36\00:22:17.53 SAID THERE IS GOING TO BE EVEN MORE. 00:22:17.53\00:22:20.20 CAN YOU HANDLE THEM. SO I JUST SENT OUT THE WORD TO 00:22:20.20\00:22:24.21 MY CHURCH. NEXT THING I KNOW, THEY ARE 00:22:24.21\00:22:28.24 SETTING UP THIS HUGE TENT OUTSIDE OF THE CHURCH TO HANDLE 00:22:28.24\00:22:32.28 ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE HELPING US. 00:22:32.28\00:22:35.42 MORE FOOD CAME IN. THE TENT WENT UP, AND THEY JUST 00:22:35.42\00:22:39.82 SAW THE NEED AND DID IT THEMSELVES. 00:22:39.82\00:22:43.32 IT WAS TERRIFIC. >> THERE WAS NO FAILURE HERE, 00:22:43.32\00:22:46.43 BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENED -- WHEN YOU TOLD ME ABOUT THESE THOUSAND 00:22:46.43\00:22:50.20 PEOPLE, I'M THINKING YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT A CAMP MEETING. 00:22:50.20\00:22:53.44 BUT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT A THOUSAND-PLUS PEOPLE THAT 00:22:53.44\00:22:58.87 DESCENDED -- >> ONE CHURCH IS ABOUT 130, BUT 00:22:58.87\00:23:04.45 THE OTHER CHURCHES AVERAGE 6 TO 20, THOSE OTHER 22 CHURCHES. 00:23:04.45\00:23:12.19 AND EACH HAD ANYWHERE FROM 50 TO 300 PEOPLE COME TO THEIR CHURCH 00:23:12.19\00:23:15.92 TO HELP THEM. AND BUS LOADS WOULD COME. 00:23:15.92\00:23:18.89 ONE OF OUR CHURCHES RENTED A MEN NANITE BUST BUS. 00:23:18.89\00:23:35.64 AND THEY ALL CAME TO GO OUT. ONE OF OUR MEMBERS WHO CAME FROM 00:23:35.64\00:23:41.75 EASTERN PA, HIS SON HAS COMMITTED SUICIDE A YEAR BEFORE. 00:23:41.75\00:23:47.32 AND HE WAS GRIEVED OVER THIS, OF COURSE, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE. 00:23:47.32\00:23:50.99 ON THAT DAY, THERE WAS AN INDIVIDUAL WALKING DOWN THE 00:23:50.99\00:23:53.90 STREET, THEY KNOCKED ON THE DOOR, AND THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN 00:23:53.90\00:23:57.20 IN THERE READY TO COMMIT SUICIDE. 00:23:57.20\00:24:00.54 THIS GENTLEMEN HAD STOPPED TO PRAY IN MEMORY OF HIS SON, AND 00:24:00.54\00:24:04.17 HE WAS HEART BROKEN OVER THIS, AND THEY CALLED HIM OVER BECAUSE 00:24:04.17\00:24:08.01 HE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT IT MEANT TO LOSE A SON, AND HE BEGAN TO TALK 00:24:08.01\00:24:13.01 WITH THIS YOUNG MAN, AND TALKED HIM OUT OF COMMITTING SUICIDE 00:24:13.01\00:24:19.92 THAT DAY. THAT YOUNG MAN INVITED HIS TWO 00:24:19.92\00:24:24.09 BROTHERS AND OUR BIBLE WORKERS ARE STILL GIVING BIBLE STUDY TO 00:24:24.09\00:24:28.30 THEM TODAY. >> LOOK AT THAT. 00:24:28.30\00:24:31.70 AND THAT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN COINCIDENTAL. 00:24:31.70\00:24:36.07 >> CAME FROM EASTERN PA, FIVE HOURS AWAY, RENDEZVOUSED ON THE 00:24:36.07\00:24:42.64 STREET IN WESTERN PA, AND JUST HAPPENED TO BE THERE TO GIVE 00:24:42.64\00:24:46.28 THIS MESSAGE TO THIS YOUNG MAN. THERE IS NO COINCIDENCE 00:24:46.28\00:24:55.69 WHATSOEVER. >> THAT'S GOD LEAD. 00:24:55.69\00:24:56.89 >> YEAH. >> WE ARE JUST SCRATCHING THE 00:24:56.89\00:25:00.26 SURFACE AND I'M EXCITED ABOUT WHAT I'M HEARING ALREADY. 00:25:00.26\00:25:04.73 AND PASTOR STEWART PASTOR BAILEY SAID YOU HAD A STORY. 00:25:04.73\00:25:14.14 >> YES, WE HAD A YOUTH RALLY, AND MANY STUDENT CAME CLEAR TO 00:25:14.14\00:25:21.22 PITTSBURGH TO -- THEY SPENT THE DAY PASSING OUT FLYERS, AND THAT 00:25:21.22\00:25:25.32 EVENING WHEN WE WERE PLAYING VOLLEYBALL AND THERE IS AN 00:25:25.32\00:25:29.59 INITIATIVE IN PITTSBURGH THAT IS GOING ON TO REACH INTO THE INNER 00:25:29.59\00:25:33.29 CITY, TO REACH INTO SOME OF THESE KIDS THAT HAVE DRUG 00:25:33.29\00:25:36.90 PROBLEMS AND PROBLEMS -- THEY JUST HAVEN'T HAD THE 00:25:36.90\00:25:40.27 OPPORTUNITIES THAT MOST PEOPLE HAVE HAD. 00:25:40.27\00:25:41.74 AND ONE OF THOSE GIRLS WAS AT OUR YOUTH RALLY. 00:25:41.74\00:25:46.54 SHE CAME TO THE YOUTH RALLY, MET SOME OF THESE STUDENTS -- 00:25:46.54\00:25:50.31 >> IT WAS ACTUALLY HER FIRST TIME EVER IN A REGULAR 00:25:50.31\00:25:56.89 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. >> SO SHE MEETS THESE STUDENTS 00:25:56.89\00:26:00.32 FROM BLUE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY. SHE GETS INTERESTED. 00:26:00.32\00:26:02.46 I WANT TO GO TO THIS SCHOOL. I WANT TO BE AROUND CHRISTIAN 00:26:02.46\00:26:06.93 KIDS THAT ARE MY AGE. HER PASTOR TAKES HER CLEAR 00:26:06.93\00:26:13.57 ACROSS THE STATE TO BLUE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY. 00:26:13.57\00:26:15.74 SHE LOVES IT. SHE WANTS TO GO THERE, BUT 00:26:15.74\00:26:18.84 THERE'S NO MONEY. SO PASTOR KENT TALKS TO THE 00:26:18.84\00:26:25.31 CONFERENCE TREASURER, AND THE TREASURER, SAYS WHERE IS SHE 00:26:25.31\00:26:30.15 FROM? FROM PITTSBURGH. 00:26:30.15\00:26:31.22 IT JUST SO HAPPENED IN THE 1970S, SOMEBODY HAD MADE A 00:26:31.22\00:26:35.86 DONATION TO THE CONFERENCE AS PART OF THEIR WILL, THAT IT WAS 00:26:35.86\00:26:40.26 TO GO -- SPECIFICALLY TO GO FROM A GIRL FROM ALAGENY COUNTY. 00:26:40.26\00:26:53.01 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE CONFERENCE SAYS WE HAVE MONEY. 00:26:53.01\00:26:56.81 WE HAVE A DONATION. SHE CAN GO TO SCHOOL. 00:26:56.81\00:26:59.35 I'M TELLING YOU, WHEN EVERYBODY GETS INVOLVED YOU START FINDING 00:26:59.35\00:27:05.52 SUCCESS. GOD IS AMAZING. 00:27:05.52\00:27:07.29 HE WAS PLANNING AHEAD FOR THIS YEARS AGO. 00:27:07.29\00:27:09.96 >> SO THE LORD HAD HER IN MIND, DECLARING THE END FROM THE 00:27:09.96\00:27:15.70 BEGINNING FROM ANCIENT TIMES THINGS NOT YET DONE. 00:27:15.70\00:27:19.10 WE ALSO HAVE A VIDEO ROLE. THIS GIVES US AN EXPLODED VIEW 00:27:19.10\00:27:24.71 OF FAITH FOR FAMILY. >> WE CREATED THIS TO SHOW TO 00:27:24.71\00:27:28.31 OUR CENTRAL REGION SO OUR CHURCHES CAN GET A LITTLE BIT 00:27:28.31\00:27:31.31 MORE EXCITEMENT TO SHOW A LITTLE BIT MORE WHAT HAPPENED IN -WESTERN PA, AND IT GIVES A 00:27:31.31\00:27:38.52 SHORT OVERVIEW, AS YOU SAID. WE CAN GO AHEAD AND SEE THAT 00:27:38.52\00:27:41.72 NOW. >> OKAY. 00:27:41.72\00:27:42.46 LET'S LOOK AT THAT. ¤ 00:27:42.46\00:27:58.21 ¤ >> I ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT JESUS 00:27:59.34\00:28:10.22 IS COMING AGAIN, AND I HOPE YOU DO TOO. 00:28:10.22\00:28:13.15 ALONG WITH OUR WORLD CHURCH HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA, WE'RE 00:28:13.15\00:28:16.79 ENCOURAGING TOTAL MEMBER INVOLVEMENT. 00:28:16.79\00:28:20.26 WHY? BECAUSE WE NEED EVERYBODY 00:28:20.26\00:28:22.33 INVOLVED TO SHARE THE GOOD NEWS, THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. 00:28:22.33\00:28:28.00 THAT'S WHY THIS IS SO IMPORTANT. IT ORGANIZES AND GIVES EVERYBODY 00:28:28.00\00:28:33.07 AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET INVOLVED IN THIS WORLDWIDE MOVEMENT, 00:28:33.07\00:28:35.58 BECAUSE JESUS IS COMING AGAIN. ON OCTOBER 1ST, 2016, 1,340 00:28:35.58\00:28:42.22 MISSIONARIES FROM ACROSS PENNSYLVANIA WENT TO THE WESTERN 00:28:42.22\00:28:46.19 REGION, AND THEY HELPED 22 OF OUR SMALL CHURCHES. 00:28:46.19\00:28:50.39 AS A RESULT, SO FAR, WE HAVE EXPERIENCED 34 BAPTISMS WITH 9 00:28:50.39\00:28:57.17 MORE PREPARES FOR BAPTISM RIGHT NOW. 00:28:57.17\00:29:00.94 66 BIBLE STUDIES -- STUDENTS HAVE ATTENDED CHURCH ONE OR MORE 00:29:00.94\00:29:04.97 TIMES BEYOND THAT, AND THERE IS STILL 351 BIBLE STUDIES TAKING 00:29:04.97\00:29:11.28 PLACE BY OUR MEMBERS OR BY THE WORKERS, STILL FOLLOWING UP. 00:29:11.28\00:29:16.05 ALSO THERE'S A DISCIPLESHIP FOLLOW-UP PROGRAM TAKE PLACE 00:29:16.05\00:29:20.92 THROUGHOUT EACH OF THE CHURCHES, AND WE ARE STILL HOPING AND 00:29:20.92\00:29:24.43 PRAYING FOR AT LEAST 100 BAPTISMS. 00:29:24.43\00:29:29.73 INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH 19-YEAR AVERAGE FOR THE WESTERN CHURCHES 00:29:29.73\00:29:33.84 HAS BEEN ABOUT 30 BAPTSMS PER YEAR. 00:29:33.84\00:29:36.00 THIS LAST QUARTER, THE FOURTH QUARTER, EXPERIENCED MORE THAN 00:29:36.00\00:29:39.31 THAT. BY THE TIME WE GET DONE WITH A 00:29:39.31\00:29:42.48 FULL-YEAR CYCLE, THAT 100 BAPTISM, WE HOPE AND PRAY WILL 00:29:42.48\00:29:46.95 TRULY BE A REALITY. HERE IS ONE EXCITING STORY THAT 00:29:46.95\00:29:51.52 RESULTED FROM LAST YEAR'S FAITH FOR FAMILY. 00:29:51.52\00:29:53.29 >> I WAS AT -- WORKING AT WAL-MART, AND STOCKING SHELVES, 00:29:53.29\00:29:59.59 AND I MET THIS GUY NAMED CHRIS. HE WAS ASKING ME FOR -- IF HE 00:29:59.59\00:30:05.97 WANTED TO TEACH ME ABOUT THE BIBLE, BECAUSE HE GAVE ME HIS 00:30:05.97\00:30:09.90 CARD, AND IF I WOULD LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SEVENTH-DAY 00:30:09.90\00:30:14.44 ADVENTIST CHURCH WAS ON THE SABBATH ON A SATURDAY, AND HE 00:30:14.44\00:30:21.05 TOLD ME THAT WHAT THE SABBATH MEANT WAS SATURDAY. 00:30:21.05\00:30:27.02 AND THAT'S WHEN I GOT INTERESTED, BECAUSE I WAS 00:30:27.02\00:30:29.99 WONDERING WHAT THAT MEANT IN THE BIBLE ABOUT THE SABBATH, HE MADE 00:30:29.99\00:30:35.00 ME UNDERSTAND MORE OF IT THAN I WOULD EVER HAVE DREAMED OF, AND 00:30:35.00\00:30:39.57 THEN I GOT BAPTIZED. I THINK IT WAS THE BEST THING 00:30:39.57\00:30:44.47 THAT THE CHURCH IS EVER DO FOR PEOPLE IS GIVE THEM HOPE. 00:30:44.47\00:30:47.84 >> YOU JUST HAD A CHANCE TO MEET JOHN WHO HAS COME INTO OUR 00:30:47.84\00:30:52.05 CHURCH AND BECOME A MEMBER OF OUR CHURCH. 00:30:52.05\00:30:54.18 THE CHURCH IS GROWING. YOU KNOW WHEN WE FIRST STARTED 00:30:54.18\00:30:58.45 THIS BACK WHEN FAITH FOR FAMILY CAME ABOUT, WE WEREN'T MOVING 00:30:58.45\00:31:02.32 VERY MUCH, BUT BY THE TIME WE GOT INVOLVED WITH FAITH FOR 00:31:02.32\00:31:07.40 FAMILY, OUR GROUP GREW AND THEY WERE TOGETHER AND THEY ACTUALLY 00:31:07.40\00:31:12.93 STARTED OUT WITH HARDLY ANONE TO -- TO PRAY FOR, BEFORE THEY 00:31:12.93\00:31:16.50 GOT DONE, THEY HAD MORE PEOPLE ON THEIR LIST THAT THEY WERE 00:31:16.50\00:31:19.44 PRAYING BEFORE, BEFORE THE SERIES OF MEETINGS, AND IF YOU 00:31:19.44\00:31:23.04 WOULD COME ON A SABBATH WHEN ALL OF THESE KIDS ARE HERE, WE ARE 00:31:23.04\00:31:27.62 PACKED WITH KIDS ANYMORE. WE DIDN'T HAVE KIDS FOR THE 00:31:27.62\00:31:31.09 LONGEST TIME. AND NOW WE HAVE CHILDREN THAT 00:31:31.09\00:31:33.56 ARE BUBBLES ALL OVER THE PLACE. JOHNSTOWN GOT ON BOARD. 00:31:33.56\00:31:39.59 WE HAVE A SERIES OF MEETINGS DOWN THERE. 00:31:39.59\00:31:43.80 HAD THREE PEOPLE GET BAPTIZED DOWN THERE, AND JOINED THE 00:31:43.80\00:31:47.07 CHURCH. WE ARE WORKING NOW ON A CYCLE OF 00:31:47.07\00:31:51.34 EVANGELISM IN BOTH OF OUR CHURCHES AND MY OTHER CHURCH IS 00:31:51.34\00:31:56.04 NOW STARTING ON BOARD, AND THEY WANT TO DO A SMALL SERIES OF 00:31:56.04\00:32:01.05 MEETINGS TOO. WE ARE ALL EXCITED BECAUSE FAITH 00:32:01.05\00:32:04.22 FOR FAMILY HAS STARTED THIS WHOLE PROGRAM FOR US. 00:32:04.22\00:32:07.39 >> WE HAVE 29 CHURCHES THAT WE HOPE TO BE WORKING WITH, AND 00:32:07.39\00:32:11.46 THAT'S GOING TO BE A CONTINUOUS PROCESS FOR YEARS TO COME. 00:32:11.46\00:32:15.80 THEN WE'LL GO TO NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA, AND START THE 00:32:15.80\00:32:19.67 PROCESS ALL OVER AGAIN. PENNSYLVANIA DESPERATELY NEEDS 00:32:19.67\00:32:24.57 100% OF ALL OF ITS MEMBERS TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE. 00:32:24.57\00:32:27.91 WE'RE PRAYING THAT WE WILL HAVE TRULY TOTAL MEMBER INVOLVEMENT 00:32:27.91\00:32:34.38 PHYSICALLY, AND SPIRITUALLY IN YEARS TO COME. 00:32:34.38\00:32:41.19 >> AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE IS NOT JUST A GENERAL, BUT A SPECIFIC 00:32:43.86\00:32:48.90 EXCITEMENT, THE STORIES THAT WERE TOLD WERE REVITALIZATION 00:32:48.90\00:32:56.47 STORIES. CHURCHES THAT HAS A WHIMPER OF A 00:32:56.47\00:33:00.71 CANDLE WICK, AND NOW THEY ARE ON FIRE FOR THE LORD. 00:33:00.71\00:33:03.75 >> AMEN. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE EVERY SINGLE 00:33:03.75\00:33:07.68 CHURCH AS ON FIRE, AS MAYBE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL -- 00:33:07.68\00:33:11.59 >> BUT THE FIRE IS SPREADING. >> BUT THE FIRE IS SPREADING. 00:33:11.59\00:33:16.66 AT FIRST 18 DECIDED THEY WERE GOING TO PARTICIPATE, AND AFTER 00:33:16.66\00:33:20.56 WE GOT STARTED, FOUR MORE DECIDED THIS IS TOO GOOD. 00:33:20.56\00:33:25.63 WE WANT TO PARTICIPATE TOO. I'LL TELL YOU HOW MUCH THE FIRE 00:33:25.63\00:33:28.67 IS GROWING. >> OKAY. 00:33:28.67\00:33:31.07 >> FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS OR SO, WE HAVE A LITTLE MINI CAMP 00:33:31.07\00:33:35.54 MEETING IN THAT REGION. WE AVERAGE ABOUT 6 O, 65 COME TO 00:33:35.54\00:33:40.62 CAMP MEETING. THIS YEAR 230 CAME. 00:33:40.62\00:33:44.55 >> WOW. >> THAT IS BECAUSE SOMETHING IS 00:33:44.55\00:33:48.06 CHANGING. PEOPLE ARE SO EXCITED. 00:33:48.06\00:33:49.82 ONE OF OUR CHURCH ELDERS SAID THIS IS THE GREATEST THING THAT 00:33:49.82\00:33:53.90 HAS EVER HAPPENED. I DIDN'T BELIEVE THAT OUR DEAD 00:33:53.90\00:33:56.43 AND DYING CHURCH IS NOW ALIVE AGAIN. 00:33:56.43\00:33:58.77 >> AMEN. >> SO AS LONG AS THERE'S BREATH, 00:33:58.77\00:34:02.40 THERE CAN BE A REVITALIZATION AND A REVIVAL. 00:34:02.40\00:34:07.18 PASTOR ANTHONY, YOU NOW AS A DISTRICT PASTOR, WHEN YOU USE 00:34:07.18\00:34:12.28 THE WORD DISTRICT THAT MEANS YOU HAVE MANY CHURCHES. 00:34:12.28\00:34:15.22 LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW THIS INITIATIVE IMPACTED YOUR 00:34:15.22\00:34:18.15 DISTRICT. >> IT'S ACTUALLY -- WHAT 00:34:18.15\00:34:19.82 HAPPENED IN OUR DISTRICT WITH THIS ONE BECAUSE IT WAS OUT 00:34:19.82\00:34:22.56 WEST, WE ACTUALLY CAME TOGETHER AND MY WHOLE DISTRICT WAS THE 00:34:22.56\00:34:26.09 ONE THAT LOADED UP ON A BUS AND HEADED OUT WEST. 00:34:26.09\00:34:28.93 >> OKAY. >> BUT THE OTHER THING MY 00:34:28.93\00:34:32.00 DISTRICT DID WITH THIS, WAS THEY ALLOWED KNOW GO OUT AND HOLD A 00:34:32.00\00:34:35.67 SET OF MEETINGS OUT WEST, BECAUSE IT WASN'T JUST THE LOCAL 00:34:35.67\00:34:40.91 PASTOR, BUT PASTORS FROM ALL OVER THE CONFERENCE CAME TO THE 00:34:40.91\00:34:44.71 WEST, AND HELD MEETINGS. ONE OF THE INTERESTING STORIES 00:34:44.71\00:34:48.58 WITH THAT IS, IS AS WE WERE SETTING UP, WE HAD A PERSON CALL 00:34:48.58\00:34:52.69 UP AND SAY WHERE THE MEETING WAS. 00:34:52.69\00:34:54.79 AND SHE SAID SHE HAD SEEN US ON 3ABN WHEN WE WERE HERE EARLIER. 00:34:54.79\00:34:58.93 >> OKAY. >> AND SO I WENT TO MEETINGS AND 00:34:58.93\00:35:03.16 EVERYWHERE ELSE. AND SHE WALKS THROUGH THE DOORS, 00:35:03.16\00:35:05.57 AND SHE GOES, HEY, WEREN'T YOU THE ONE ON 3ABN. 00:35:05.57\00:35:12.67 AND JUST AS GOD CONNECTED ALL OF THOSE THINGS THAT THE PERSON 00:35:12.67\00:35:15.94 THAT WAS WATCHING, AND NOW NOT ONLY DID SHE COME TO THE 00:35:15.94\00:35:20.18 MEETINGS, SHE BROUGHT HER HUSBAND TO THE MEETINGS, AND 00:35:20.18\00:35:23.25 ALSO BROUGHT A FRIEND TO MEETINGS, AND I WAS JUST IN 00:35:23.25\00:35:30.39 THE -- CONTACT WITH THE CHURCH, AND THEY ARE ALL STILL ATTENDING 00:35:30.39\00:35:35.30 THE CHURCH, AND SO GOD JUST WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS ALL 00:35:35.30\00:35:40.40 OVER THE PLACE TO PUT THOSE THINGS INTO REAL. 00:35:40.40\00:35:45.34 >> NORMALLY YOU WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THAT FAR OUT? 00:35:45.34\00:35:49.74 >> NO. GOD PUT IT IN PLACE. 00:35:49.74\00:35:51.71 >> REMEMBER THE CHURCH MEMBERS ARE PRAYING NOW. 00:35:51.71\00:35:53.95 THEY ARE ASKING FOR DIVINE APPOINTMENTS TO OCCUR. 00:35:53.95\00:35:58.02 THEY ARE ASKING AND CHALLENGING GOD SPECIFICALLY, WE NEED YOUR 00:35:58.02\00:36:02.62 HELP. SO ALL OF THESE DIVINE 00:36:02.62\00:36:04.96 APPOINTMENTS ARE COMING UP ALL OVER THE PLACE. 00:36:04.96\00:36:08.23 I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT OUR BIBLE WORKERS LATER IN THIS STORY. 00:36:08.23\00:36:11.53 >> SO MY CHURCH WORKERS GO A EVERYTHING ELSE. 00:36:11.53\00:36:14.44 WELL, NOW IT'S COMING TO CENTRAL. 00:36:14.44\00:36:17.37 SO NOW MY CHURCHES ARE FIRED UP ABOUT WHICH CHURCHES ARE GOING 00:36:17.37\00:36:21.64 TO COME HELP US GO DOOR-TO-DOOR, WHICH CHURCH IS GOING TO HELP US 00:36:21.64\00:36:26.95 DO PREMEETING THINGS? SO THEY ARE EXCITED BECAUSE 00:36:26.95\00:36:31.52 WE'RE SEEING IN PENNSYLVANIA IT'S NO LONGER ABOUT MY 00:36:31.52\00:36:35.12 DISTRICT, YOUR DISTRICT, MY REGION, YOUR REGION, WE'RE 00:36:35.12\00:36:39.16 STARTING TO FUNCTION MORE TOGETHER AS AN ENTIRE CONFERENCE 00:36:39.16\00:36:43.03 TO ACCOMPLISH THE MISSION THAT GOD HAS SET US OUT TO DO. 00:36:43.03\00:36:46.33 >> SO IT'S COME OVER AND HELP US. 00:36:46.33\00:36:50.01 >> YES. >> THAT'S KIND OF A CALL THAT WE-HAVE, IS WE NEED YOUR 00:36:50.01\00:36:55.14 HELP. WE WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT 37 PASTORS AND A FEW 00:36:55.14\00:37:01.72 ADMINISTRATORS ARE NOT GOING TO REACH THAT MANY PEOPLE. 00:37:01.72\00:37:04.52 >> NOT AT ALL. >> AS TOOLS IN GOD'S HANDS, WE 00:37:04.52\00:37:08.82 CAN DO A MUCH MIGHTIER WORK TOGETHER THAN WE CAN BY LIFTING 00:37:08.82\00:37:13.09 UP THE CLERGY TO DO ALL OF THAT WORK. 00:37:13.09\00:37:17.83 >> THERE WAS A FAMILY THAT PASTOR PEPPER TALKED ABOUT FROM 00:37:17.83\00:37:22.77 NEW BRIGHTON. >> WHEN YOU COME INTO A DISTRICT 00:37:22.77\00:37:25.87 AND TRY TO SELL THEM ON EVANGELISM, A LOT OF TIMES THEY 00:37:25.87\00:37:31.25 SAY WE TRIED THAT ONE A LONG TIME AGO, AND MY OBSERVATION, 00:37:31.25\00:37:37.19 EVANGELISM, SOMETIMES IS THE ONLY THING THAT ACTUALLY DOES 00:37:37.19\00:37:39.72 WORK. YOU HAVE TO TAKE THE MESSAGE TO 00:37:39.72\00:37:41.59 THE PEOPLE FOR THEM TO SEE WHY IT MATTERS, AND ONE OF THE 00:37:41.59\00:37:45.89 FAMILIES THAT CAME TO OUR MEETINGS, ONE OF OUR OTHER 00:37:45.89\00:37:49.46 MEMBERS KNEW THAT THEY WERE OUT THERE, THAT THEY USED TO COME TO 00:37:49.46\00:37:53.13 CHURCH. ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO THEY 00:37:53.13\00:37:56.04 STOPPED COMING TO CHURCH, STARTED GOING TO A SUNDAY 00:37:56.04\00:38:00.08 CHURCH. AND THIS FAMILY SHOWS UP, AND 00:38:00.08\00:38:02.54 NOW THEY ARE BECOMING A STAPLE. THEY ARE TELLING THE CHILDRENS 00:38:02.54\00:38:07.78 STORIES. THEY ARE THE ONES DOING OUR 00:38:07.78\00:38:09.78 SPECIAL MUSIC, AND IT'S BRIGHT SPOT IN YOUR CHURCH. 00:38:09.78\00:38:13.96 SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THE THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON. 00:38:13.96\00:38:17.66 >> SO NOT ONLY DOES IT ATTRACT NEW PEOPLE, BUT SOME THAT HAVE 00:38:17.66\00:38:21.83 STRAYED AWAY AND HAVE BEEN RECONNECTED, AND NOW THIS NEW 00:38:21.83\00:38:26.20 LIFE, THIS NEW POWER, THIS NEW JOY. 00:38:26.20\00:38:29.04 WHEN DAVID PRAYED TO ME, THE JOY OF YOUR SALVATION, IT IS 00:38:29.04\00:38:33.68 SOMETHING YOU ALWAYS SEE IN YOUR CONFERENCE. 00:38:33.68\00:38:37.25 NOW, THIS IS A VERY INTERESTING STORY ABOUT YOUR JOURNEY HERE. 00:38:37.25\00:38:41.15 BECAUSE YOU CAME -- [ LAUGHTER ] 00:38:41.15\00:38:42.62 >> -- FROM ST. LOUIS. WHICH ONE OF YOU WOULD LIKE TO 00:38:42.62\00:38:45.69 LEAD INTO THAT STORY. WHO WAS THE DRIVER? 00:38:45.69\00:38:49.56 PASTOR ANTHONY, TALK ABOUT THAT. >> THANKS GOODNESS IT WAS HIM. 00:38:49.56\00:38:53.83 >> IT WAS INTERESTING. THROUGHOUT THIS WHOLE TIME, WE 00:38:53.83\00:38:59.77 HAVE SEEN WHERE THE DEVIL HAS TRIED TO STOP US FROM MOVING 00:38:59.77\00:39:04.34 FORWARD. TESTIMONY, IF YOU NOTICE HIS ARM 00:39:04.34\00:39:08.08 IS IN A LITTLE BIT OF A SPLIT. >> YEAH, HOLD THAT UP FOR OUR 00:39:08.08\00:39:12.41 AUDIENCE TO SEE. THAT'S RIGHT. 00:39:12.41\00:39:13.85 >> YEAH, HIS INITIAL INJURY HAPPENED EARLIER -- WAS IT 00:39:13.85\00:39:18.89 DECEMBER? >> NOVEMBER 22ND. 00:39:18.89\00:39:20.29 >> NOVEMBER. AND FELL DOWN A FLIGHT OF 00:39:20.29\00:39:23.22 STAIRS, COULD HAVE BROKE HIS NECK. 00:39:23.22\00:39:25.36 AND WE JUST SEE ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING WITHIN 00:39:25.36\00:39:28.26 THOSE THAT ARE IN THE CORE GROUP OF TRYING TO GET THIS STARTED -- 00:39:28.26\00:39:33.30 >> DEMONIC OPPOSITION. >> EXACTLY. 00:39:33.30\00:39:35.90 >> I'M GOING TO TELL THIS PART OF IT, BECAUSE ONE OF OUR 00:39:35.90\00:39:39.67 PASTORS ACTUALLY HAD A DREAM, AND HE SAID, TIM, I HAVE TO TELL 00:39:39.67\00:39:44.41 YOU, THE DEVIL IS ANGRY, BECAUSE WE'RE DOING SO MUCH WITH THIS 00:39:44.41\00:39:49.32 EVANGELISM INITITIVE, AND IT IS CHANGING ALL OF OUR LIVES. 00:39:49.32\00:39:53.02 THE PASTORS LIVES AND THE MEMBERS LIVES. 00:39:53.02\00:39:56.16 AND HE SAID I SAW IN THAT DREAM, THAT THE DEVIL PICKED YOU UP, 00:39:56.16\00:40:01.63 AND THREW YOU AGAINST THE WALL AND TRIED TO DESTROY FAITH FOR 00:40:01.63\00:40:05.97 FAMILY. AND HE HAD THE SAME DREAM TWICE 00:40:05.97\00:40:09.70 THAT NIGHT. HE CALLED ME UP, AND HE SAID I 00:40:09.70\00:40:12.21 HAVE TO TELL YOU BECAUSE I BELIEVE THE DEVIL IS OUT TO GET 00:40:12.21\00:40:16.31 YOU. HE SAID HE THROUGH YOU UP 00:40:16.31\00:40:18.11 AGAINST THE WALL, BUT YOU LIVED, AND WHEN YOU HIT THE FLOOR AND 00:40:18.11\00:40:21.78 GOT UP, YOU SAID, GOD STILL IS AT WORK AND ALIVE, AND FAITH FOR 00:40:21.78\00:40:26.79 FAMILY WILL CONTINUE ON. >> HUM. 00:40:26.79\00:40:28.62 >> AND IT WAS ONE WEEK LATER THAT I FELL DOWN A FLIGHT OF 00:40:28.62\00:40:34.40 STAIRS, BUT I NEVER HIT THE STAIR, I HIT THE WALL, AND THEN 00:40:34.40\00:40:39.23 I HIT THE BOTTOM CONCRETE FLOOR AND BROKE MY WRIST. 00:40:39.23\00:40:42.80 AND I WAS ABLE TO OBVIOUSLY LIVE THROUGH THAT. 00:40:42.80\00:40:47.91 AND SEVERAL THINGS HAVE HAPPENED SINCE, AS WE WERE COMING HERE -- 00:40:47.91\00:40:52.28 >> YEAH, WE GET OFF OF THE AIRPLANE. 00:40:52.28\00:40:55.75 WE GET TO THE RENTAL CAR COMPANY. 00:40:55.75\00:40:58.85 WE GET OUR CAR. WE GET OUT HERE TO 3ABN. 00:40:58.85\00:41:02.22 WE SAID WE ARE DOING GOOD. WE PRAISED GOD FOR LANDING 00:41:02.22\00:41:06.56 SAFELY AND EVERYTHING ELSE. WE'RE ABOUT FIVE MINUTES AWAY 00:41:06.56\00:41:09.43 FROM THE RENTAL PLACE, AND WE'RE GOING DOWN I-74 -- 00:41:09.43\00:41:14.74 >> 64. >> 74. 00:41:14.74\00:41:16.71 >> OKAY. >> AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN IN 00:41:16.71\00:41:21.91 FRONT OF US, CARS SLAM ON OUR BRAKES, I SLAM ON THE BRAKES, 00:41:21.91\00:41:27.22 AND WE COME TO A STOP, BUT IT WASN'T SOON ENOUGH. 00:41:27.22\00:41:30.72 AIR BAGS GO OFF IN THE CAR. I SAID I HAVE NEVER HAD A CAR 00:41:30.72\00:41:35.16 THAT HAD SO MANY AIR BAGS AS THIS ONE DID. 00:41:35.16\00:41:38.66 THEY HAD THE CURTAINS THAT WENT DOWN THE SIDE. 00:41:38.66\00:41:42.70 ONE BLEW UP DOWN AT MY FEET. IT ENDED UP BEING SOMEWHERE. 00:41:42.70\00:41:47.20 WE HAVEN'T QUITE FIGURED OUT WHETHER IT WAS TEN CARS, 12 00:41:47.20\00:41:53.58 CARS, 14 CARS, BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE LEFT THE ACCIDENT SCENE. 00:41:53.58\00:41:57.25 BUT NOBODY IN THE WHOLE DEAL HAD TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL. 00:41:57.25\00:42:00.45 >> AMEN. >> AMBULANCE CAME, BUT THEY LEFT 00:42:00.45\00:42:04.85 WITHOUT ANYBODY IN IT. WE ALL WALKED AWAY. 00:42:04.85\00:42:07.99 ABOUT AN HOUR LATER, WE WERE BACK ON THE ROAD AGAIN. 00:42:07.99\00:42:12.16 GOD JUST WORKING MIRACULOUSLY TO MAKE SURE WE GOT HERE. 00:42:12.16\00:42:16.00 AND WE JUST CONTINUE TO SEE THAT -- WE WERE ABOUT 30 MINUTES 00:42:16.00\00:42:19.23 OUT OR SO, AND WE GOT STOPPED IN TRAFFIC AGAIN. 00:42:19.23\00:42:22.67 THERE WAS AN ACCIDENT AHEAD OF US, WHERE A SEMI HAD CAUGHT ON 00:42:22.67\00:42:26.81 FIRE, AND WE ENDED UP HAVING TO TURNAROUND TO GET A HOTEL FOR 00:42:26.81\00:42:31.18 THE NIGHT, BECAUSE IT WAS GETTING SO LATE. 00:42:31.18\00:42:34.45 SO WE HAVE JUST SEEN THE DEVIL TRYING HIS BEST, BUT WE SERVE A 00:42:34.45\00:42:38.22 GOD THAT IS BIGGER -- >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:42:38.22\00:42:40.99 >> -- AND WE SERVE A GOD THAT IS GREATER, AND WE'RE HERE TONIGHT 00:42:40.99\00:42:45.23 BECAUSE OF GOD'S GRACE AND MERCY. 00:42:45.23\00:42:47.93 >> AND I BELIEVE THE REASON WHY THE SDDEVIL IS SO FEARFUL, 00:42:47.93\00:42:56.00 BECAUSE WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING. IT'S OUR INDEPENDENCE ON THE 00:42:56.00\00:43:00.81 LORD THAT GIVES US BREATH OF LIFE. 00:43:00.81\00:43:01.81 BUT I BELIEVE THE DEVIL IS AFRAID OF 11,500 PEOPLE IN 00:43:01.81\00:43:06.28 PENNSYLVANIA BECOMING RENEWED, REVIVED, AND SPIRITUALLY READY 00:43:06.28\00:43:10.72 TO IMPACT THE WORLD THAT THEY LIVE IN. 00:43:10.72\00:43:13.36 >> HUH. >> AND I SEE THAT HAPPENING WITH 00:43:13.36\00:43:16.29 OUR MEMBERS. HERE ARE THE KINDS OF STATEMENTS 00:43:16.29\00:43:18.86 I HEAR THEM SAYING. IT'S ABOUT TIME. 00:43:18.86\00:43:20.83 >> WOW. >> WE'RE JUST WAITING FOR 00:43:20.83\00:43:22.93 SOMETHING LIKE THIS. WE WANTED TO DO MORE. 00:43:22.93\00:43:26.40 BUT WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT. THIS IS BIGGER THAN US, AND WE 00:43:26.40\00:43:29.54 WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:43:29.54\00:43:32.24 >> AND THAT'S WHY YOU CAN GET 1,340 PEOPLE GETTING UP AT 5:00 00:43:32.24\00:43:40.62 AM, AND DRIVING ACROSS THE STREET TO GO DOOR-TO-DOOR TO 00:43:40.62\00:43:46.02 INVITE PEOPLE TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S CHURCH. 00:43:46.02\00:43:49.56 AND IT WILL BE EVEN BIGGER THIS YEAR. 00:43:49.56\00:43:53.96 AND I CAN THAT IN FAITH. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:43:53.96\00:43:58.90 HE'LL NOT ONLY HEAR US, BUT WE'LL HAVE THE PETTION OF WHICH 00:43:58.90\00:44:02.54 WE ASK. YOU ARE PULLING THIS TOGETHER IN 00:44:02.54\00:44:04.84 A CONFERENCE, AND YOU ARE IN A CITY THAT STATISTICALLY COULD 00:44:04.84\00:44:09.31 BE -- IS NOT AS LIVE WITH THE ADVENTIST PRESENCE AS OTHER 00:44:09.31\00:44:14.48 PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. ST. LOUIS IS ANOTHER REGION OF 00:44:14.48\00:44:19.02 THE NATION IS NOT AS POPULAR AND FAMILIAR WITH THE ADVENT 00:44:19.02\00:44:22.52 MESSAGE, BUT EVERYONE HAS TO HAVE THIS MESSAGE WHEN THIS 00:44:22.52\00:44:26.80 GOSPEL GOES TO ALL OF THE WORLD THEN THE END WILL COME. 00:44:26.80\00:44:31.50 THEN JESUS WILL COME. DO YOU HAVE A STORY, PASTOR? 00:44:31.50\00:44:35.64 >> YES, AS TIM SAID, FOR US THREE GUYS, OUR MAIN FOCUS RIGHT 00:44:35.64\00:44:39.77 NOW IS PENNSYLVANIA. THAT'S WHERE GOD HAS CALLED US 00:44:39.77\00:44:43.28 TO BE. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:44:43.28\00:44:44.78 >> BUT WE'RE SITTING HERE AND 3ABN IS BROADCASTING THIS ALL 00:44:44.78\00:44:49.35 OVER THE WORLD, AND IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS. 00:44:49.35\00:44:52.79 I REALLY DON'T THINK THE DEVIL WANTS THE ENTIRE WORLD TO 00:44:52.79\00:44:57.23 REALIZE THAT EVERY MEMBER NEEDS TO BE INVOLVED WITH SPREADING 00:44:57.23\00:44:59.86 THE GOSPEL. IF WE ARE GOING TO GO HOME, IT'S 00:44:59.86\00:45:05.20 TIME TO GET BUSY. IT'S TIME TO DO WHAT GOD HAS 00:45:05.20\00:45:09.14 CALLED US TO DO AS A CHURCH, AND I REALLY THINK THE SDEFL SCARED 00:45:09.14\00:45:13.94 TO DEATH BECAUSE OF WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN, BECAUSE OF WHAT 00:45:13.94\00:45:15.51 IS HAPPENING HERE TONIGHT. >> YEAH, THE KAMIKAZE MENTALITY. 00:45:15.51\00:45:21.82 >> OH, YES. ALL I'M SAYING IS THE FOREST 00:45:21.82\00:45:26.69 FIRE IS SPREADING. >> I CAN ONLY IMAGINE IF 25 00:45:26.69\00:45:32.59 MILLION SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS CAME ALIVE, AND IF THEY WOKE UP 00:45:32.59\00:45:36.30 WITH THE BURNING DESIRE OF SHARING THE GOSPEL LIKE IT WAS 00:45:36.30\00:45:40.77 THEIR LAST DAY ON EARTH. WHEN WE SEE THAT KIND OF PASSION 00:45:40.77\00:45:44.91 OCCUR -- THAT'S WHAT ELDER WILSON HAS ASKED FOR EACH OF US, 00:45:44.91\00:45:49.48 IT HAS BEEN A CALL FOR THE WHOLE CHURCH TO HAVE TOTAL MEMBER 00:45:49.48\00:45:53.08 INVOLVEMENT. AND I WANT TO BE A PART OF THAT 00:45:53.08\00:45:55.38 TYPE OF MOVEMENT, AND TO SEE THIS KIND OF ENERGY, AND THIS 00:45:55.38\00:46:01.76 KIND OF SPARK WHEN A CHURCH MEMBER WILL GO OUT AND WORK WITH 00:46:01.76\00:46:05.03 SOMEONE ELSE, EXPECTING NOTHING IN RETURN, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT 00:46:05.03\00:46:09.36 NEEDS TO OCCUR IN ORDER FOR THE GOSPEL TO GO OUT IN OUR 00:46:09.36\00:46:13.77 GENERATION LIKE IT DID WHEN THE APOSSEL STARTED. 00:46:13.77\00:46:24.25 THEY WENT AROUND THE WORLD BECAUSE THERE WAS TOTAL MEMBER 00:46:24.25\00:46:30.32 INVOLVEMENT. IT'S ABOUT DISCIPLESHIP. 00:46:30.32\00:46:32.32 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT TOTAL 00:46:32.32\00:46:35.56 MEMBER INVOLVEMENT IS, IT'S DISCIPLESHIP. 00:46:35.56\00:46:38.39 IT'S ALL OF US GETTING INVOLVED TO THIS LEVEL, WHERE IT'S OUR 00:46:38.39\00:46:42.76 PASSION, AND -- AND THIS IS WHAT WE'RE STARTING TO SEE A GLIMPSE 00:46:42.76\00:46:48.97 OF TAKE PLACE IN THE PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE. 00:46:48.97\00:46:50.97 >> AND THE GOSPEL HAS TO GO TO THE WORLD FOR THEN TO COME. 00:46:50.97\00:46:56.75 THE HANDBILLS HAVE THEIR PLACE. >> ABSOLUTELY. 00:46:56.75\00:46:59.58 >> BUT THE HANDBILLS CAN ONLY ADVERTISE, BUT IT CAN'T TOUCH 00:46:59.58\00:47:04.22 THE HEART OF THE INDIVIDUAL RELATIONSHIPS -- HELLO, MY NAME 00:47:04.22\00:47:11.46 IS PASTOR TIM BAILEY. I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO 00:47:11.46\00:47:15.60 OUR UP COMING SERIES OF MEANINGS. 00:47:15.60\00:47:18.47 THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE. YOU TALKED ABOUT THE LARGE 00:47:18.47\00:47:22.77 CROWDS DESCENDING, BUT TELL ME ABOUT INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA. 00:47:22.77\00:47:28.38 >> WELL, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA WAS A CHURCH THAT THE AVERAGE 00:47:28.38\00:47:35.25 AGE -- I'M BEING CAREFUL HERE -- >> RIGHT. 00:47:35.25\00:47:39.29 YOU ARE BEING KIND. >> I WOULD BE THE CREATOR OF THE 00:47:39.29\00:47:47.23 OLDER GENERATION IN THAT CHURCH. THERE WERE A COUPLE IN THEIR 00:47:47.23\00:47:52.73 50S, BUT MOST WERE 65, 60 YEARS OF AGE. 00:47:52.73\00:47:59.31 AND THEY HAD ONE GRANDCHILD COMING. 00:47:59.31\00:48:01.54 AND THEY WEREN'T HAVING PRAYER MEETING BECAUSE IT WAS TOO 00:48:01.54\00:48:05.21 DIFFICULT. THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY MONEY FOR 00:48:05.21\00:48:07.88 EVANGELISM, BECAUSE IT IS TOO EXPENSIVE, AND IT DIDN'T WORK 00:48:07.88\00:48:12.42 ANYWAYS. BUT THERE WAS ONE LADY IN THAT 00:48:12.42\00:48:15.62 CHURCH. SHE WAS IN HER 80S. 00:48:15.62\00:48:17.69 AND SHE WANTED TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED IN PHILADELPHIA THE 00:48:17.69\00:48:22.23 PRIOR YEAR BEFORE. AND SHE WAS THE LADY THAT 00:48:22.23\00:48:25.37 DECIDED SHE WAS GOING TO GIVE $25,000 SEED MONEY. 00:48:25.37\00:48:28.74 AND WE PROMISED NOT ANY BAPTISMS, BUT THAT WE WOULD PUT 00:48:28.74\00:48:34.14 OUR BEST FOOT FORWARD, AND THAT SHE WOULD HAVE TO BE SATISFIED 00:48:34.14\00:48:37.35 WITH THAT, AND WE DID. AND SAID ABOUT -- JUST LESS THAN 00:48:37.35\00:48:41.45 SIX MONTHS LATER, THEIR CHURCH ATTENDANCE AS DOUBLED. 00:48:41.45\00:48:45.62 >> AMEN. >> THEY HAVE AN AVERAGE OF 50, 00:48:45.62\00:48:49.19 THEY HAVE A DOZEN KIDS ATTENDING CHURCH NOW. 00:48:49.19\00:48:52.63 THEY HAVE NOW ALREADY VOTED, AND THEIR ARE WORKING ON A CYCLE OF 00:48:52.63\00:48:57.83 EVANGELISM, WHERE THEY CONTINUE OVER AND OVER EACH YEAR, AS 00:48:57.83\00:49:00.10 WE'RE TRYING TO DO WITH THE ENTIRE CONFERENCE. 00:49:00.10\00:49:03.20 >> RIGHT. >> AND INDIANA IS A VIBRANT 00:49:03.20\00:49:07.04 EXCITING PLACE TO BE. >> INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA. 00:49:07.04\00:49:10.15 >> INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA. INDIANA IS TOO, I'M SURE. 00:49:10.15\00:49:15.08 [ LAUGHTER ] >> AND THE MEMBERSHIP HAS JUST 00:49:15.08\00:49:16.82 COME LIVE. I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, IT'S SO FUN 00:49:16.82\00:49:19.65 TO BE IN THAT CHURCH, BEAUSE THEY ARE SO EXCITED ABOUT WHAT 00:49:19.65\00:49:22.99 GOD IS DOING. >> WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE 00:49:22.99\00:49:25.93 PROGRAMMING -- WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THIS, AND 00:49:25.93\00:49:29.50 WE'RE SAVING ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHT INITIATIVE STORIES FOR 00:49:29.50\00:49:33.64 THE SECOND HALF OF THE PROGRAM, BECAUSE MANY OF YOU MAY BE 00:49:33.64\00:49:37.67 ASKING, HOW DID THIS GET STARTED? 00:49:37.67\00:49:39.61 WHERE DID THIS IGNITION COME FROM? 00:49:39.61\00:49:42.04 WHAT GAVE THE PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE THE IMPETUS TO START 00:49:42.04\00:49:45.68 SOMETHING THAT HAS NOW BECOME A BRUSH FIRE IN THE HEARTS AND 00:49:45.68\00:49:50.39 LIVES OF ALL OF THE CHURCH MEMBERS AND LEADERS, AND HOW CAN 00:49:50.39\00:49:55.89 WE BECOME ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THE SAME KIND OF EXCITEMENT IN 00:49:55.89\00:50:00.76 OUR OWN COMMUNITY? BUT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT 00:50:00.76\00:50:05.60 THAT IN THE SECOND HOUR. PASTOR STEWART IS IN THE WESTERN 00:50:05.60\00:50:11.47 PORTION OF THE STDIO. BUT COMING ON BOARD IN THE 00:50:11.47\00:50:14.81 CONFERENCE, YOU TALKED ABOUT THAT, COMING ON BOARD IN THE 00:50:14.81\00:50:18.61 CONFERENCE, AND JUST DISCOVERING, I HAVE COME TO A 00:50:18.61\00:50:22.25 CONFERENCE, AND NOW I'M SO CONNECTED TO THIS MISSION. 00:50:22.25\00:50:29.02 WHAT DIFFERENCE HAS THAT MADE. >> I DIDN'T COME ON BOARD A 00:50:29.02\00:50:33.63 COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. I CAME ON BOARD LAST MAY. 00:50:33.63\00:50:38.03 SO LESS THAN A YEAR. IN SO MANY WAYS THERE WAS 00:50:38.03\00:50:42.44 TENSION, THERE WAS A LACK OF MOTIVATION. 00:50:42.44\00:50:45.24 THERE WERE PEOPLE SAYING IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK. 00:50:45.24\00:50:48.31 WE SPENT $50,000 ON AN EVANGELISTIC SERIES 15 YEARS 00:50:48.31\00:50:53.05 AGO, AND THERE'S ONLY ONE PERSON LEFT, AND JUST TRYING TO 00:50:53.05\00:50:56.45 MOTIVATE THE PEOPLE, JUST TRYING TO GET THEM INTO A CYCLE OF 00:50:56.45\00:51:02.12 EVANGELISM, GET THEM TO UNDERSTAND, IF WE GET BUSY, 00:51:02.12\00:51:05.79 TOTAL MEMBER INVOLVEMENT, THINGS THAT ARE BIGGER THAN US ARE 00:51:05.79\00:51:08.33 GOING TO HAPPEN. I CAN GIVE YOU A STORY. 00:51:08.33\00:51:11.53 WE HAD A LADY THAT CAME TO THE EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS, AND SHE 00:51:11.53\00:51:17.44 WASN'T QUITE READY TO JOIN. SHE HAD SOME HESITANCY. 00:51:17.44\00:51:24.31 WE HAD A BIG SNOW STORM IN PITTSBURGH ON A FRIDAY. 00:51:24.31\00:51:26.88 AND ONE OF THE MEMBERS THOUGHT I'M GOING TO CONTACT THIS LADY 00:51:26.88\00:51:32.45 AND JUST ASK IF I CAN PICK UP GROCERIES FOR HER. 00:51:32.45\00:51:38.46 AND THEY OFFERED TO DO THAT, AND DID THAT, AND AS A RESULT OF 00:51:38.46\00:51:42.10 THAT -- SOMETIMES WE THINK EVANGELISM IS WHAT BRINGS PEPLE 00:51:42.10\00:51:46.30 IN, BUT FOR HER IT WAS THAT THAT MEMBER CARED. 00:51:46.30\00:51:50.47 THAT MEMBER SHOWED THAT SH MATTERED. 00:51:50.47\00:51:53.04 AND IT WAS SHORTLY AFTER THAT, SHE CAME TO ME AND SAID I WANT 00:51:53.04\00:51:57.85 TO BE BAPTIZED. I WANT TO JOIN YOUR CHURCH. 00:51:57.85\00:52:01.72 >> I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT THAT STORY UP, BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES 00:52:01.72\00:52:07.69 PEOPLE SAY I'M NOT A PREACHER. BUT WHAT YOU ARE SHOWING IS 00:52:07.69\00:52:12.73 THERE ARE THOE LISTENING AND WATCHING THE PROGRAM AND SAYING, 00:52:12.73\00:52:16.67 HEY, I LOVE PEOPLE. IS THERE SOMETHING I CAN DO? 00:52:16.67\00:52:20.10 CAN I REACH OUT TO MY NEIGHBORS AND MAKE AN IMPACT? 00:52:20.10\00:52:25.47 THE SPIRIT OF GOD WORKED THROUGH THAT INDIVIDUAL, BECAUSE THE 00:52:25.47\00:52:28.48 LORD KNEW THERE WAS A FLAME THERE THAT NEEDED MORE THAN JUST 00:52:28.48\00:52:32.01 A MESSAGE. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:52:32.01\00:52:33.88 >> YEAH, THERE WAS ONE OF OUR SMALLER CHURCHES -- WHICH THEY 00:52:33.88\00:52:39.02 ARE ALL SMALLER IN WESTERN PA, EXCEPT FOR THE PITTSBURGH 00:52:39.02\00:52:43.93 CHURCH. THEY HAVE JUST A FEW MEMBERS, AS 00:52:43.93\00:52:46.59 DO MOST OF THEM, AND A GROUP OF SPANISH PASTORS AND THEIR 00:52:46.59\00:52:52.80 MEMBERSHIP CAME OVER. THEY SAID WE CAN'T SPEAK ENGLISH 00:52:52.80\00:52:56.47 VERY GOOD, AND HOW ARE WE GOING TO DO THIS? 00:52:56.47\00:52:59.57 SO WE TAUGHT THEM TO SIMPLY SAY, GOD LOVES YOU AND I DO TOO, AND 00:52:59.57\00:53:05.05 HERE IS A CARD OR BOOK FOR YOU. >> IN ENGLISH? 00:53:05.05\00:53:08.92 >> IN ENGLISH. AND SOME OF THEM SPOKE GOOD 00:53:08.92\00:53:13.79 BROKEN ENGLISH. BUT THERE WAS ABOUT 80 SPANISH 00:53:13.79\00:53:18.23 MEMBERS THAT WENT TO THIS ONE CHURCH, AND WHEN THEY CAME TO 00:53:18.23\00:53:21.53 THAT CHURCH, THEY WERE SO OVERWHELMED -- THEY HAD A 00:53:21.53\00:53:26.17 BEAUTIFUL CHURCH WITH HARDLY ANYBODY ATTENDING. 00:53:26.17\00:53:28.87 SO THE NEXT WEEK, THEY WENT BACK HOME AND THEY GAVE A 00:53:28.87\00:53:33.11 PRESENTATION TO THEIR CHURCH OF THE MISSIONARY PROJECT THAT THEY 00:53:33.11\00:53:36.21 WENT AND THEY WERE TELLING TESTIMONIES, AND THEY ASKED HOW 00:53:36.21\00:53:41.98 MANY WOULD GO AGAIN? ALL OF THESE HANDS WENT UP A. 00:53:41.98\00:53:45.29 AND THEN ONE OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE SAID, BUT THEY NEED US SO BADLY. 00:53:45.29\00:53:51.53 WE CAN'T GO JUST ONCE. WE NEED TO GO AGAIN. 00:53:51.53\00:53:54.10 >> THIS IS A SPANISH YOUNG PERSON? 00:53:54.10\00:53:56.87 >> A SPANISH YOUNG PERSON. AND HIS FATHER HAPPENED TO BE 00:53:56.87\00:54:00.37 THE HEAD ELDER OF THE CHURCH, AND HE SAID, DAD, CAN WE GO BACK 00:54:00.37\00:54:06.88 ONCE A MONTH? WHAT CAN WE DO? 00:54:06.88\00:54:09.41 THEY HAVE SO MUCH, BUT THEY HAVE NOTHING. 00:54:09.41\00:54:13.25 WE DON'T EVEN OWN A CHURCH, BUT WE'RE EXCITED AND HAVE ALL OF 00:54:13.25\00:54:17.02 THIS GOING ON HERE. WE HAVE TO SHARE WITH WHAT WE 00:54:17.02\00:54:21.92 HAVE. >> WOW. 00:54:21.92\00:54:22.79 >> SO THEY MADE ARRANGEMENTS THAT THEY WOULD GET A 00:54:22.79\00:54:27.13 12-PASSENGER VAN, AND TRY TO GO OVER AT LEAST ONCE A QUARTER, 00:54:27.13\00:54:31.20 AND THEY WOULD GO OVER AND HOLD FRIDAY NIGHT [ INAUDIBLE ] FOR 00:54:31.20\00:54:36.44 THESE PEOPLE AND THEN HAVE SABBATH SCHOOL, SPECIAL MUSIC, 00:54:36.44\00:54:41.38 PREACH THE SERMON, AND THEN THEY WOULD GO OUTDOOR-TO-DOOR FOR 00:54:41.38\00:54:45.28 FIVE OR SIX HOURS BEFORE THEY HEADED HOME, SO THEY COULD WORK 00:54:45.28\00:54:51.62 UP MOE INTEREST FOR THE BIBLE WORKER THAT WE PLACED IN THAT 00:54:51.62\00:54:55.59 -CHURCH. AND THE INTERESTING THING THAT JUST TOUCHES MY HEART 00:54:55.59\00:54:59.46 IS THEY SAID THEY HAVE, WHAT WE NEED, WHICH IS A CHURCH 00:54:59.46\00:55:04.53 BUILDING. AND WE HAVE WHAT THEY NEED, WHICH IS YOUTH AND LIFE. 00:55:04.53\00:55:07.87 AND WE WANT TO SHARE WHAT WE HAVE, SO THAT THEY CAN FILL UP 00:55:07.87\00:55:11.14 THAT CHURCH. >> WOW. 00:55:11.14\00:55:12.57 WOW. SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE 00:55:12.57\00:55:15.21 BECOMING UNSELFISH. >> ABSOLUTELY. 00:55:15.21\00:55:17.18 >> A LOT OF TIMES CHURCHES ARE VERY TERRITORIAL. 00:55:17.18\00:55:23.25 THEY SAY NO -- WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO ADVERTISE THE PRGRAM 00:55:23.25\00:55:27.62 HAPPENING IN OUR CHURCH. AND THEY SAY NO. 00:55:27.62\00:55:29.89 >> THEY CROSSED CULTURAL AND AGE BOUNDARIES. 00:55:29.89\00:55:34.73 BEAUTIFUL. >> THE INTEREST WAS WHAT CAN WE 00:55:34.73\00:55:36.23 DO FOR PEOPLE TO COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHO JESUS IS? 00:55:36.23\00:55:40.54 AND I LIKE THAT FAITH FOR FAMILY. 00:55:40.54\00:55:42.40 WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THIS IN THE SECOND 00:55:42.40\00:55:45.67 PART OF THE PROGRAM. I DON'T WANT YOU TO GO AWAY, 00:55:45.67\00:55:48.91 BECAUSE IT IS A VERY INTERESTING STORY. 00:55:48.91\00:55:51.11 BUT WHAT YOU ARE SEEING SO FAR IS THE MISSION FIELD ISN'T 00:55:51.11\00:55:55.05 NECESSARILY INDIA ALONE. IT'S NOT NECESSARILY THE MIDDLE 00:55:55.05\00:55:59.85 EAST OR THE 680 CORRIDOR AS WE HAVE OFTEN BEEN TOLD IN OUR 00:55:59.85\00:56:05.26 CHURCH. LET'S TRY TO FIND WAYS TO REACH 00:56:05.26\00:56:08.26 THE MUSLIMS, HINDUS, BUDDHISTS, BUT THERE ARE CITIES WHERE JESUS 00:56:08.26\00:56:16.27 IS NEEDED JUST AS MUCH AS AROUND THE WORLD. 00:56:16.27\00:56:20.28 >> IN PITTSBURGH 1 IN 1,000 PEOPLE ARE SEVENTH-DAY 00:56:20.28\00:56:28.35 ADVENTISTS. THERE IS MORE NEED THERE THAN 00:56:28.35\00:56:31.22 THERE IS OVERSEAS. I THOUGHT I WOULD JUST POINT 00:56:31.22\00:56:34.26 THAT OUT. >> 1 IN 5,000. 00:56:34.26\00:56:37.86 >> THAT'S PHENOMENALLY LOW. >> BUT THEN YOU HAVE 11,000 00:56:37.86\00:56:41.63 PEOPLE ON THE STREET STIRRING UP THE POT. 00:56:41.63\00:56:43.43 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN PEOPLE START NOTICING, WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE 00:56:43.43\00:56:47.90 IN PENNSYLVANIA? AND AS A PERSON WHO -- AND THIS -IS A BEAUTIFUL 00:56:47.90\00:56:53.61 THING. YOU ALL ARE ENDURING HARDSHIP AS GOOD SOLDIERS, THE 00:56:53.61\00:56:58.58 INJURY, THE CAR ACCIDENT, AND WHEN I HEARD ABOUT THE CAR 00:56:58.58\00:57:02.35 ACCIDENT, I COULDN'T HESITATE BUT TO ASK WAS IT BAD WEATHER? 00:57:02.35\00:57:05.39 WAS IT RAINING? >> NO, PERFECT CONDITIONS. 00:57:05.39\00:57:09.36 >> PERFECT CONDITIONS. >> YEP. 00:57:09.36\00:57:11.23 >> BUT THERE WAS AN ENEMY UPSET ABOUT PEOPLE GETTING ON FIRE FOR 00:57:11.23\00:57:15.80 JESUS, BEING IGNITED ABOUT THE GOSPEL. 00:57:15.80\00:57:18.97 CARING ABOUT OTHER INDIVIDUALS, GOING BEYOND THEMSELVES. 00:57:18.97\00:57:22.87 SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAITH FOR FAMILY, THIS IS WHAT IS 00:57:22.87\00:57:25.61 HAPPENING IN PA, BUT THE REASON WHY THE LORD ALLOWED THIS 00:57:25.61\00:57:29.34 PROGRAM TO BE ON 3ABN TONIGHT, BECAUSE THERE ARE THOSE OF YOU 00:57:29.34\00:57:32.91 IN AUSTRALIA, AND NEW GUINEA, AND EUROPE, AND DIFFERENT PARTS 00:57:32.91\00:57:38.52 OF THE WORLD THAT MAY BE SAYING, WE HAVE FAMILIES HERE TOO THAT 00:57:38.52\00:57:44.49 NEED TO BE IGNITED. SO STAY TUNED WE HAVE MORE 00:57:44.49\00:57:49.06 EXCITING STORIES AND HOW YOU CAN BECOME INVOLVED. 00:57:49.06\00:57:53.87 WE'LL BE BACK IN TWO MINUTES. ¤ 00:57:53.87\00:57:56.47