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Project Reports And Members In Action - Wednesday Evening Pt. 1

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01:01 Dear Lord we trust You, your love for us is
01:04 wonderful and we want to learn more about it.
01:07 To have been a creation as Adam and Eve were and
01:09 to have had direct communication with you
01:11 would have been so wonderful.
01:13 But we understand that there is war going on here
01:16 in this planet, not only between nations but
01:19 warfare between you Christ and Satan.
01:23 So, as we live our lives in the many cities and
01:26 towns that we come from, yes from all over
01:29 America and even other nations.
01:33 Let us take seriously the opportunity we have to
01:36 present You in the market place.
01:39 Let us be bold in telling others of your creative
01:41 power, Your love for us as demonstrated when
01:45 You came to this earth to give us an example.
01:49 We have different ways to show that love during
01:52 these last days of the war between good and evil.
01:55 Our first is by accepting you as humble children.
02:00 It feels good to be Your child,
02:03 but this warfare is hard on us. As we meet here,
02:07 fill this hall, this whole city with Your
02:10 Holy Spirit so that we can receive wisdom and
02:13 commands from you as to what to do.
02:17 Show us how to personally witness better,
02:20 better ways to use the printed page,
02:22 the radio signals, the telephones,
02:25 television signals and yes the Internet.
02:30 The ASI conventions bring us close together,
02:32 fills our hearts and lives with hope,
02:35 fellowship and happiness. As we now open the 60th
02:39 convention, may it be the greatest of all and may
02:42 we find harmony, love and sharing as you
02:46 would have it. We love You and
02:48 want to serve you, amen, amen.
03:00 Good evening, good evening.
03:02 And welcome to the ASI Convention,
03:05 the 60th anniversary. This is a special year
03:08 isn't it Debbie. Oh! It's truly special, wow,
03:11 think about God has led us to this point,
03:13 that's right, to experience 60 years
03:15 of sharing Christ in our market place.
03:17 That's right, you know years ago our pioneers
03:19 never thought we'd have 60 additional years
03:21 after 1947. I am sure that was never in their
03:25 thinking, no and you know I think maybe what
03:28 had been in their thinking Ron is that so soon
03:31 we would be in heaven. That's right,
03:33 and that is our yearning. While we are extremely
03:36 excited that God has brought us to this point
03:38 we really do want to accelerate the pace so we
03:41 can go on. And that's why we are here tonight
03:42 isn't it? Yes it is, and there are some special
03:44 things besides this 60th, there are some special
03:46 things happening at this convention aren't they.
03:49 Oh! Yes because it's the 60th we have a number
03:52 of exciting features that we want everyone to
03:54 take advantage of. Now I was in the
03:56 exhibits just a little bit ago and it seemed like
04:00 it was especially full, in the past we had about
04:03 300, just under 300 exhibits.
04:05 What's happened this year? Well you know I
04:08 happen to bring a list of, Ron, oh really,
04:10 let me just here, oh really, if we just slip
04:11 right over here I have a very short list,
04:13 you're organized Debbie. Well you know I didn't
04:15 want to really miss anything so,
04:16 can we just highlight a few of them.
04:18 Oh! Let's see, okay alright,
04:19 I know it really is just a few, oh yeah,
04:22 well actually we do have so much to share,
04:26 you think we can highlight all of these or,
04:29 we'll just take a few. Okay we'll just take
04:30 a few, okay we will just take a few, yeah,
04:31 yeah okay. Well you mention the exhibits,
04:32 right, and we actually have over 320 exhibits
04:36 this year, wow. So it's a record breaking
04:39 experience. Oh! That's wonderful,
04:42 that you know these exhibitors have a special
04:45 presentation. Each one of them have something
04:47 special to say to us, right. Yes they do,
04:50 they want to let us know that there are different
04:52 ways, many ways that we can share Christ in the
04:55 market place. I understand that there is
04:56 something unusual happening in the back of
04:59 the exhibit hall this year. Oh! That's right,
05:00 way in the back usually the place where no one
05:03 goes, where it's kind of difficult for exhibitors
05:06 that are back there, I know that,
05:07 but we have some exciting things.
05:08 You know what we're going to have back there Ron?
05:10 Well, tell me? A health expo.
05:13 A health expo, you know when I walk
05:16 around the convention I get tired,
05:18 my muscles just really, really feel it after
05:21 a while. Would they have massage?
05:24 Yes, we have something for those tired muscles,
05:26 oh well. For those aching feet we have
05:28 massage therapist that can help relax those
05:31 muscles. Oh that's for me, that's for me, yes.
05:33 And we have some other exciting things, okay,
05:35 okay, some other features.
05:36 This is one of the places, at the times we are
05:39 able to premier some exciting new things that
05:42 are going to happen for ASI members.
05:43 Well we are in a new era, yes,
05:46 we absolutely are, of technology,
05:47 yes, but are we into technology?
05:49 Yes, we are into technology,
05:50 we are going to take advantage of it, really,
05:52 by using the netadventist.org,
05:55 NetAsi, yes, NetAsi, NetAsi. So we will be able
05:58 to provide to our members as a benefit a free
06:02 websites. No, no, yes, I understood that this was
06:05 worth about $250 a year. It is, it's really
06:08 a fancy stuff, it's complimentary from
06:10 ASI. Wow, and it's for the purpose of ministry.
06:13 You see websites, technology is no good
06:16 unless you use it, wow. But if you can harness
06:19 that power in order to be just really get the
06:22 word out then it's really, it be really useful.
06:25 Now if you're an organizational member,
06:26 a nonprofit supporting ministry or a business,
06:30 you are an organizational member,
06:32 you can actually sign up for it here.
06:34 Yes you can and actually right here,
06:36 there are actually going to be some
06:37 demonstrations, oh, some so people can ask
06:40 questions, so we can watch out, we can get
06:41 training right here. Oh! Right here, right here,
06:44 we want to encourage everyone who is interested
06:46 to having their website to sign up,
06:48 because this is for ministry purposes.
06:50 So, even those who have a business while they may
06:53 have their own website, they can still use it,
06:55 they can still use it for ministry.
06:56 Oh! That's wonderful, because that's what we
06:57 are all about, sharing Christ in the
06:59 market place. I'm thrilled.
07:00 Oh and something else, yeah, you know we have
07:02 our standard 20 seminars, that's wonderful,
07:06 yes we have 20 seminars, I can get training in
07:09 different areas. In different areas,
07:10 and we are actually going to hear more about each
07:12 of those later in the program. Oh good, good,
07:14 so we'll have that, okay we can leave that along.
07:16 Oh! another exciting thing Ron,
07:17 I am really excited about this,
07:19 the train them now initiative,
07:21 train them now, yes, who we are trying to train?
07:23 Well, we're training more lay people to do
07:25 ministry. We're going to train lay people?
07:27 We are going to train lay people to share the
07:28 gospel. I thought we were lay people
07:30 being trained. We are being trained and we are
07:32 training lay people to train,
07:33 well you get the point. Oh well, well, the whole
07:35 point is that we've actually embarked on this
07:38 training initiative and we are going to hear
07:40 highlights of that experience at the
07:42 convention this year. That sounds great,
07:44 that's wonderful. Oh let's see what else do
07:46 we have, oh now this is really exciting.
07:48 You know you can't have a 60th anniversary
07:50 without reflecting on the past and understanding
07:53 how it has brought us to this point,
07:55 that's right. So we actually going to be
07:57 looking at two important pillars on which ASI has
08:01 been founded. During this convention?
08:03 During this convention, okay,
08:05 so on Thursday morning, two pillars, two pillars,
08:07 yes, what would that be? Well the two pillars are
08:09 the medical missionary work, okay, okay,
08:11 and then the education, self supporting work,
08:14 oh wonderful. So, we're going to really
08:17 be highlighting and understanding, right,
08:19 how those have contributed to our
08:20 existence today, right. And look at this big
08:23 crowd out here, oh isn't it wonderful
08:25 to see so many people get a passion about sharing
08:27 Christ. We want to welcome each of you here,
08:29 you took time out of your busy schedule to be
08:32 with us during these important days and we want
08:35 to thank you for your presence and your support.
08:37 We do and we want you to take advantage of all
08:40 that we have planned through the Holy Spirit so
08:43 that we can share Christ more effectively in our
08:45 market place. Oh I can't wait to get to the rest
08:48 of this list, oh I tell you,
08:49 yes it's quite a bit. Well we'll save this for
08:53 the rest of the convention.
08:54 Well thank you, appreciate that.
09:05 It's my privilege tonight to interview one of
09:08 our pioneers, an old timer, Ed Martin.
09:14 Ed, do you have a microphone there, okay.
09:16 Yeah there you got that right on the old timer.
09:19 You know, you know Edwin we put out a special
09:22 magazine this time for the convention and this is
09:25 the 60th anniversary magazine.
09:28 It looks a little old and may be it has some
09:31 features that are a little different then usual.
09:34 This picture, do you remember this picture?
09:36 I sure do, yes, yes I do. When do you think this
09:39 picture was taken? I don't know for sure
09:41 but between around 1938 to 40.
09:43 Okay, okay, and so you saw this picture way
09:47 back then? Yes, long time ago.
09:48 You know the man on this cover
09:50 I knew the man on the cover.
09:52 Wow, now why would we put this man on the cover
09:58 of the 60th anniversary? Because he was the one
10:01 who had the ideas, the one was the
10:03 background for starting ASI,
10:05 and Dr. E.A. Sutherland. And you knew him?
10:09 I did, wow, I am just looking at here and
10:12 thinking that about these many people in this
10:14 first 10 seats here and so attended the very
10:17 first meeting. Can't believe it, that's right,
10:19 that is impressive, a long time ago.
10:22 So, ASI started back in 1947 and
10:26 Dr. E.A. Sutherland was the first president, yes.
10:30 And what was his credentials to be the first
10:34 president of ASI, what was this all about?
10:36 Well he was the one who started
10:38 Madison Institution which fostered a lot of
10:43 little self supporting institutions all through
10:46 the south. Now Madison College began when?
10:49 1904, 1904. Now was there anything special about
10:54 this school? Well everything was special
10:56 about it. I was just thinking about
10:58 Dr. Sutherland and you know he was a deeply
11:01 spiritual man, he believed in Mrs. White,
11:03 he believed in the Spirit of Prophecy,
11:05 he believed in the teachings of the Bible
11:07 and he thought that they should be made practical
11:10 in everything we do. Wherever we go,
11:13 whatever we do, we should be living out
11:15 these principles. So he was an action man?
11:17 He was an action man. Now I understand that
11:19 you went, you went to school at one of the units,
11:22 one of the Madison units, yes, but what was that?
11:25 Fountain Head which is now Highland Academy.
11:28 Fountain Head, now I actually worked at
11:29 Fountain Head. Actually Highland Academy
11:32 several years ago. But what did you,
11:36 you know what was unique about Fountain Head
11:39 these units that came out in Madison.
11:41 What was, what type of education did you get?
11:43 I frequently said that I didn't get a lot of
11:46 book learning. I did very poorly in school,
11:49 but I did learn to work. You learned to work?
11:53 I learned to work, okay, and the Lord has bleesed
11:57 my ability to get up and go to work everyday.
12:00 Okay, lets just talk a little bit so, you're a
12:03 retired business man. What was your business?
12:06 We were into nursing home business.
12:08 A nursing home, we had about 2000 beds,
12:10 2000 beds and you recognized the training
12:13 you received from Fountain Head Academy as a
12:18 training that taught you the importance of value
12:21 of the work ethic. I did, now Dr. Sutherland,
12:25 you were talking about this stool of education,
12:28 a three legged, three- legged stool of education.
12:32 And so it was tied around spiritual
12:36 principles to begin with, in order to be a member
12:39 of ASI which was the association of self
12:43 supporting institutions, you had to have an
12:46 institution and that institution had to have
12:49 three major components, really.
12:52 They had to have an agricultural program,
12:54 a medical program and an educational program.
12:57 And if you didn't have those three you were not
13:00 eligible to belong to what was then called,
13:03 early on it was the Laymen's Extension League
13:05 that was before ASI. Now I understand that
13:09 actually your wife Mary Bill attended
13:13 Madison College but what brought her to come to,
13:17 why did she come to Madison to go to school.
13:20 Well her mother was an Adventist,
13:22 her father wasn't. But there was an
13:25 article that came out in the Readers Digest on
13:28 Madison and your ability to be able to go to
13:30 Madison and work your way through school.
13:32 Wow, and her dad was not able to put her in
13:35 college, so she read about this and said hey,
13:38 that the place I go and work my way through
13:40 school. So Mary Bill read in the Readers Digest
13:43 about Madison College and saw an opportunity to
13:48 receive an education even though she didn't have
13:50 the resources, that's right, within college,
13:52 that's right. Well that is impressive,
13:56 now Madison College is located where.
13:58 Well just out in Nashville, oh it's not,
14:01 not two and half hours from here.
14:04 Yeah, just about, yeah okay.
14:06 Now that's the Southern Union, yes.
14:09 And so out of Madison these units came up,
14:12 right, what impact did these units and these
14:15 schools have on the Southern Union.
14:19 When you were growing up as a young person in
14:22 your day, what was the relationship between the
14:25 supporting ministry schools and the church
14:29 schools or the conference led school.
14:33 Well to be honest, they were only to my
14:35 knowledge and I think I am right,
14:38 there were only 2 schools, academies in the
14:42 Southern Union that were operated by the church,
14:45 and that was Collegedale and Forest Lake Academy.
14:52 And that was the only schools that we had with
14:54 academies in the Southern Union,
14:56 and so they there were probably half a dozen self
14:58 supporting schools. Half a dozen self
15:00 supporting schools, can you name a few
15:02 of those? Oh yes, okay, Madison itself had one,
15:04 Madison okay, Fletcher, Pisgah,
15:09 Fountain Head, where I went to school,
15:15 trying to think of the others,
15:16 now Forest Lake Academy, not Forest Lake,
15:18 now Georgia Cumberland, Pine Forest Academy,
15:20 Pine Forest, down in Mississippi,
15:23 Georgia Cumberland head something but I am not
15:25 sure just what it was. Okay, okay, there were
15:28 the Georgia Cumberland Academy is today,
15:30 there was a little school there and a medical
15:33 work there. Now tell me about the personality of
15:35 Dr. Sutherland. You know we hear about
15:36 E.A. Sutherland and his influence on the church
15:41 and on ASI especially because we are a
15:44 product of Dr. Sutherland's
15:46 Madison College program in some ways,
15:50 tell us about his personality what type
15:52 of man was he? He was a very strong
15:54 man in his thinking and he was a thinker.
15:58 He tried to teach other people to think on their
16:00 own and he wanted you to much like I did when
16:03 my children were growing up.
16:04 I wanted them to think for themselves until they
16:06 began to think different then I did.
16:08 Alright, but I didn't like that certainly.
16:10 You told me, you told me that Dr. Sutherland
16:13 had a habit of talking to some young people,
16:19 some of the kids bringing them into his office
16:22 for a conversation. And the young people
16:25 didn't like coming into his office.
16:27 Now tell me about that? Well, I just thinking
16:29 probably about the fact that someone would say
16:33 to someone else Dr. Sutherland looking
16:35 for you, oh yeah, and he said oh sure,
16:37 I know he is but I don't want to see him.
16:39 Yeah. Because, he's going to try to convince
16:42 me what the Lord wants me to do and I don't want
16:44 to do that, so I don't want to see him.
16:46 Right, right, he was a master psychologist, yes,
16:49 he knew how to deal with people.
16:51 Well, well, you know Edwin I really appreciate
16:55 talking to you because I think you are one of
16:57 the few that, that has this personal acquaintance
17:00 with the founder of ASI, Dr. Sutherland.
17:04 It was real privilege to know and I can tell you
17:06 that. And God has blessed us with a
17:08 wonderful history, a wonderful heritage
17:10 and a wonderful opportunity to
17:13 learn from the past as we look toward the future
17:15 to the second coming of Jesus, amen.
17:17 Thank you so much, thank you so much Ron,
17:20 God bless you.
17:29 One of the most exciting things I think about ASI
17:32 is the opportunity that all of us here at this
17:35 convention and also throughout the year
17:36 have in supporting some of the wonderful projects
17:40 that we have all going on as ASI members.
17:43 And one of the those projects is the
17:46 Advent Home that Dr. Blondel Senior runs
17:49 and Dr. Senior would you tell us just a little
17:52 bit what is in case someone doesn't know what
17:54 is the Advent Home? Advent Home is a license
17:57 residential treatment program for boys with
18:01 ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
18:06 And we take kids with the various types of
18:08 learning problems. Kids who are failing
18:11 in school or about to fail and they come to the
18:15 Advent Home so we can give them a new start.
18:17 This is kind of a unique program.
18:19 Isn't it you actually were able to patent this
18:21 program weren't you. Well yeah we designed it,
18:23 I never liked the word unique but yeah it's
18:26 different, okay, and we cater to a special type
18:30 of need and a special type of students.
18:33 Tell us a little bit about the services that
18:35 Advent Home provides? Well first we provide
18:37 residential care, they come and they
18:39 live in our program like a dormitory.
18:42 And we have what is called a minimum distraction
18:46 environment, that is we remove all the
18:49 distractions like computer games, baggy pants,
18:53 hairdo, drugs, cigarette and girls.
19:01 We provide counseling, we provide group sessions,
19:05 we provide schooling both remedial school and
19:08 accelerated school. We provide a lot of
19:11 tutoring, we provide parents training.
19:15 Work is therapy at the Advent Home and most kids
19:18 come there allergic to work.
19:20 And so we teach them to work and we provide
19:24 community outreach and placement and follow up.
19:28 When our kids are through we place them in the
19:31 school we think they should go to and we follow
19:34 up to see that they continue to be successful.
19:37 You know I was really interested to hear what
19:39 were saying about the different aspects of the
19:41 Advent Home. You know in a lot of ways,
19:44 what you just heard about what constituted self
19:47 supported institutes back years ago is very much
19:50 alive and well at the Advent Home isn't it.
19:53 Yes, yes, we provide schooling,
19:55 we provide work as therapy and we provide various
20:00 types of activities that gets the kids involved
20:03 and they like to work. Work is therapy, right,
20:06 right. Tell us, you received a little bit of
20:09 help from your ASI family and tell us just
20:13 exactly how you're involved in the community
20:15 and what that, those funds went to.
20:17 First, I must say thank you ASI for a grant that
20:22 we received this past year, $10,000 grant to
20:26 help with our community outreach program.
20:30 And at the Advent Home the health message is a
20:35 wedge, there is no doubt, but the health message
20:38 is a very good wedge to get into the community.
20:41 So our boys take a regular class on health.
20:44 And in it they learn lots of things,
20:46 and the teacher Miss Yoins take the kids into
20:51 the community and put into practice what they
20:53 have learned. The first thing we do,
20:55 we conducted a survey in a community in which
20:59 we live. Now there was about maybe 2500 people
21:02 in that little city and we do a survey in terms
21:06 of their needs and we discover that they have
21:08 the same needs like everybody else obesity,
21:11 smoking, drug problems, alcohol and you know
21:18 basic lifestyle problems. And so we designed a
21:22 program, first thing we did, we trained
21:24 the staff. So we went and we got training, CPR,
21:28 crises prevention intervention and other
21:31 types of first aid training.
21:33 And so our staff are certified to conduct these
21:36 types of first aid training and lifestyle
21:39 training. And then we go into the community
21:42 and we conduct health exposes and health
21:46 seminars and we go to the public schools and we
21:51 will conduct seminars in the public schools and
21:54 we have as many as 200 and 400 kids attending
21:58 antismoking, drugs, et cetera, obesity problems
22:02 and they really liked it. And you know what they
22:05 have asked us, they have asked us to comeback
22:07 and make it a regular part of their curriculum in
22:09 public school. And we are working with at least 3
22:12 schools now and several community agencies.
22:15 We even went to Wal-Mart and we thought that
22:18 Wal- Mart was going to put us at some little
22:20 corner on the outside of their store,
22:22 they put us in the center of the store inside
22:26 the store. Now that's unusual,
22:27 can you imagine that, that's unusual, yeah,
22:29 yeah. Now I want to know if those who are
22:31 here and know Advent Home, how many of you were
22:34 aware that they were involved in the community
22:36 in this way. Not very many, yeah.
22:38 Now I thought of Advent Home really as a specific
22:41 need, yes, and I think most people do but it's
22:43 amazing to hear how you been able to reach out to
22:45 the community in this way and ASI has been able
22:48 to help you. Well they, may I just say one thing
22:50 that the myth is that young people with ADHD are
22:53 bad kids, no, they are very, very bright kids.
22:56 Brighter then the average but they learn
22:58 differently, yeah that's true, I can speak from
23:01 experience on that. Let me talk just a little
23:04 bit about something that's near to my heart and
23:06 that is radio, okay radio. I spend some time in
23:09 radio as an announcer and also we have a little
23:12 radio station of our own. Now I understand that
23:14 you do as well, yes we have a little radio
23:16 station out there in the forest.
23:17 Oh how about that, so tell me, and it was funded
23:20 by ASI, you do a radio program as well Senior.
23:23 Yes, we have a radio program 24 hours,
23:26 we do approximately 14 hours of downing from 3ABN
23:31 and then we design our own program and once a
23:35 week we invite a public official to come to our
23:39 seminar, and come to our radio station and
23:42 conduct a seminar on health for the public,
23:46 amazing, and the public likes it.
23:48 We invite the ministers in the community to come
23:51 and conduct programs and they really like it
23:54 really having a real positive effect upon the
23:58 community in terms of disseminating information.
24:01 Dr. Senior we appreciated hearing from you.
24:04 About 20 seconds left, can you tell us how this
24:08 benefits the community? Well first it benefits
24:12 our own students. Last year we baptized 19,
24:15 this year we have baptized 8 already, amen.
24:18 We have baptized parents,
24:23 we're sharing information with community on
24:25 health and they are responding positively.
24:29 Thank you so much for being with us and talking
24:31 a little bit about Advent Home.
24:32 We want to also give you the opportunity not just
24:37 to support with your money but also with your
24:40 prayers. Thank you so much for being, thank you.
24:43 Our next person that we want a project,
24:45 that we want to talk about this evening and a
24:48 project that you have been able to help several
24:49 times has been Bill and Lois Dull at the
24:54 Living Springs Overseas Retreats, right,
24:57 Missions. Now tell us just a little bit about
25:00 what you're doing there, where your home is?
25:05 Our home is in India. Okay and how long have
25:08 you been there? For about the last
25:10 14 years we lived full time in India.
25:13 Just what really drew you to go to India?
25:20 We went India 33 years ago, 34 years ago for the
25:24 first time we never could get it off of our mind
25:27 after that and so when the Lord opened the door
25:31 for us to go we went and we moved over and we
25:34 been there ever since. Now I could get you go
25:37 on the stories but tell us what it is that you do
25:40 there in India? We have several
25:43 ministries that we've begun.
25:45 We have two orphanages, we have three Bible
25:49 seminaries and a midwifery training
25:51 school that my wife runs. How many orphan
25:55 children do you have there?
25:56 We have about a 150 children that we care for
25:59 and love and house and feed and cloth and teach
26:04 and train. You got some amazing things that have
26:08 happened over the years.
26:09 Tell us just a little bit about some of the
26:10 changes that you seen in people lives,
26:13 children lives there that you are working with.
26:16 Our children come to us from many different
26:19 backgrounds. From, and are, from unbelievable
26:28 circumstances that I can't take the time to go
26:31 in detail to explain to you but some of them
26:33 have been brutally used. Many of our girls have
26:37 been brutally molested and all and so they when
26:44 they come to our place they need a lot of help.
26:46 But we have seen changes that are
26:48 unbelievable in our children and we've seen
26:53 miracles of God in with the children and I just
26:57 like to share an experience with you.
27:00 We got a girl last summer from a,
27:05 she was taken when she was 11 years old,
27:07 when she was, for two and half years she was
27:11 kidnapped and put into a prostitution center
27:15 and this girl escaped, she made it out to our
27:22 place. Her mother brought her, she was terrified
27:28 when she first came, but her life was totally
27:32 changed. We put her in one of our orphanages
27:37 long ways away so that the people would not come
27:41 to get her. After two months,
27:46 a group came to get her at this place where we
27:49 put here in our orphanage, another orphanage
27:54 that we have. They came to get her,
27:58 a whole gang of them came, they parked their
28:01 vehicles at the end of our road and they started
28:04 walking up the road to our girls dormitory to
28:08 get her. She saw them coming, she panicked,
28:12 she called for one of the other girls.
28:15 They came out they prayed and the people stopped,
28:25 they stood on the road and then they turned
28:28 around and they left, praise God,
28:33 they went about a 1000 feet down the road where
28:36 they can still see the dormitory and they stayed
28:40 there clear into the middle of the night
28:43 and then they left and our girl is safe.
28:47 She is learning to know Jesus, she loves Jesus,
28:50 her whole life has been changed.
28:51 And we just praise God. Amazing story isn't it?
28:55 Well, amen, before we run out of time,
28:58 Sister Lois, can you tell us just a little bit
29:01 about what you are up here for?
29:04 Yes we been working in India for many years
29:08 and just a little over a year ago at the end of
29:12 2005 we began a pilot program to train
29:17 midwifery, to training midwifery,
29:20 midwives and I had 11 midwifery students,
29:23 alright, and we went into the homes,
29:27 we worked in about 10 villages and we just were
29:32 looking to find a way to train these young women
29:34 to save lives. In India a mother dies
29:39 every 5 minutes in the process of gestation and
29:43 child birth. And most of it is totally
29:46 unnecessary, 90 percent of the births are in the
29:51 home and this is a great challenge.
29:54 They have those, most of those babies are born
29:57 by a traditional midwives and we are just giving
30:02 them the skills that they need to monitor the
30:05 baby, monitor the mother, get help when they
30:09 needed and prevent a lot of unnecessary deaths,
30:13 amen. Okay, so that's a service that really
30:15 needed and you are helping people to be able
30:17 to provide that services well.
30:18 Yes, we have the same problems there that you
30:22 have here. Alcohol is rampant in the villages,
30:25 in homes, we deal with a lot of that,
30:28 a lot of mental problems among the mothers.
30:31 We had one mother whose third baby had died
30:35 and she came to us pregnant with her
30:37 fourth and she was very frightened of the witch
30:43 that had bewitched her and caused her third baby
30:46 to die and she wanted to give birth in our little
30:48 clinic. She gave birth in the hospital with a
30:53 cesarean because this fourth baby probably would
30:56 have died also. We were able to detect the
30:59 emergency and she had a cesarean.
31:03 Two days later she ran away from the hospital,
31:05 was scared. We brought her back with us for two
31:09 weeks of recovery and she is now studying to be
31:12 a Christian. When the girls went to study with
31:15 her they were 35 of the people in her village
31:17 waiting to study with them also, amen.
31:21 Now Brother Bill, ASI family was able
31:23 to help you with some projects,
31:25 can you tell us what they were and what you done
31:27 with that? Yes, the last, this last project that
31:30 ASI helped us with was $30,000 for a
31:35 building a vocational arts building in our
31:38 Calcutta orphanage and we, the building is almost
31:43 completed. It's well on its way and we have
31:48 training program for tailoring, for welding,
31:52 carpentry, electrical work,
31:55 electrical motor rewinding, we are teaching
31:58 our children and our seminaries students all of
32:01 the various trades, and agriculture and
32:06 then on the second floor of that building we have
32:08 a housing for staff and workers.
32:11 So we just really want to thank ASI for what you
32:16 have done for us in our projects in India.
32:19 We are completely out of time, yeah,
32:21 and I am so sorry but we will have to wind it up.
32:23 I do appreciate you taking the time to spend with
32:26 us this evening and I know that the family also
32:29 appreciate that as well. Thank you ASI and keep
32:32 praying for these projects.
36:08 Good evening ASI family, it's so exciting to be
36:11 here with you tonight and we have wonderful
36:14 testimonies and who do I have standing with me
36:16 tonight. Janet Fournier from
36:18 Eden Valley Foster Care Mission.
36:21 And Janet, what do you do?
36:23 I work with AIDS orphans in Tanzania, Africa.
36:27 Okay, I think that you have some pictures to
36:29 share with us tonight and some stories?
36:32 Yes, I do. Let's have that first picture,
36:34 okay, that's the, let's start talking about this
36:41 picture that we see on the screen.
36:43 Okay, this is Shamimu and her little brother.
36:48 Shamimu is one of our little orphans and
36:53 actually she has a mother but her father
36:54 has died. Shamimu has come to us,
36:57 actually she ran away from home and came to us
37:00 with wounds on her chest and on her cheek.
37:05 And if you change the picture you will see that
37:08 at her house we've bandaged her and looked
37:13 after her. But we found that this isn't the first
37:16 time that Shamimu has been wounded.
37:19 One time as a baby she fell into the fire and
37:23 her head was burned and so the hair doesn't grow
37:27 on half her head. Then the second time
37:31 she ran away from the home because the workload
37:35 apparently was too heavy and so her mother put
37:38 her feet over the fire so she wouldn't run
37:41 away again. And then this time her mother
37:44 took a stick, a poker out of the fire and burnt
37:47 her on the cheek and on the chest and Shamimu
37:53 ran away and came to our house and you know when
37:56 her mother came to get her, we talked very
37:58 seriously to the mother. And Shamimu had to go
38:02 back with her mother but we would report her
38:05 mother to the authorities so that this could
38:07 never happen again and if it did that we would
38:10 take Shamimu away from her mother.
38:13 And that seems like an awful thing to do but
38:15 under the circumstances it's
38:18 merciful thing to do. Shamimu hung on to
38:21 the bumper of my truck and it took one of the men
38:25 to come and pull her away, to drag her home with
38:29 her mother. This is a terrible thing because
38:31 home should be a place where children love to be,
38:34 amen. Let's go to the next picture.
38:37 And what's this story about?
38:39 This is Tyson, Tyson and his little sister.
38:43 One evening my Bible workers who live in,
38:46 some of them live in the same house as we do.
38:49 He and his wife could hear this baby crying
38:51 around 10 O'clock at night. I want you to know
38:54 that I don't live in hot Africa,
38:55 I live where it's cool and sometimes very frosty.
38:59 And so Tyson with his little sister had been
39:04 chased by their parents, who entered the bar
39:08 because he didn't finish filling the water
39:10 buckets. And Tyson came and tried to sleep on
39:15 our porch, it was freezing cold and Tyson,
39:24 when my Bible workers heard this crying they
39:27 went out to find out what happened and so they
39:30 found them on there, we brought them in,
39:32 we wrapped them in blankets.
39:33 They were frozen and then we went to find their
39:35 parents which were at the bar and then we talked
39:39 to the parents seriously again and Tyson is now a
39:43 happy little boy because his parents don't dare
39:45 do such a thing again, amen.
39:48 Let's go to our next picture,
39:49 what's this about Janet? Oh this is Alex,
39:52 Alex is our newest little guy, Alex,
39:59 he was just a little boy sitting on the road had,
40:04 was picking at his feet, was crying, dirty,
40:08 his feet were bleeding. He had Funzas,
40:11 Funzas is a flea and I will show you in a minute
40:14 what Funzas can do. And anyway I said Twandy
40:17 and so he has come and so I took him by the hand
40:22 and he followed me home, no problem at all.
40:25 Washed him up, his feet and started pulling out
40:29 these Funzas, we can go to the next slide.
40:32 And these Funzas, it's quite painful and so we,
40:39 we got rid of the Funzas and then we went to
40:41 find the family out about the family situation.
40:45 He lives with his grandmother who has
40:47 elephantiasis, elephantiasis,
40:50 she can't work in the fields and do farm work,
40:53 so she is a beggar. And so we talked to this
40:55 grandmother we found her in the bar and said,
40:59 don't you love this boy and she says oh I love
41:02 him very much, but what can I do,
41:04 look at me. And so we said alright,
41:10 we will take Tyson to live with us and she
41:13 agreed. The next day she was there at our fence
41:15 watching in our yard to see how Tyson was doing
41:19 and she walked away because Tyson
41:21 was doing fine. Our carpentry teacher said,
41:25 you know I know one thing for sure that Tyson
41:28 is a very happy little boy since he has moved to
41:31 your place. Okay we have another slide that
41:33 we would like to see and tell us about this one
41:36 Janet. This is Funzas, Funzas is a little flea
41:39 that burrows into the skin.
41:40 It causes deformities. They go deeper and deeper
41:45 and pretty soon some of these kids can't walk.
41:48 It infects the toes, the heels, the fingers,
41:51 you can see it's a horrible thing.
41:54 Oh it looks absolutely painful also.
41:56 Very painful, very painful to take these out.
42:00 Well this is a challenge isn't it.
42:01 It is, it is, we have another slide for you.
42:05 Well this is an exciting slide.
42:07 Yes it is, you know we have a carpentry school,
42:11 we have a sowing school, we have the nursery
42:13 school and now after four years of working in
42:17 Africa with these young people they are just now
42:21 taking their stand for Christ.
42:23 They get 45 minute of Bible studies everyday
42:28 before their classes begin.
42:30 It's such a wonderful thing to see them.
42:33 Well I would like for you to tell our ASI family
42:36 exactly a challenge to us, how we can be involved
42:41 in your project and challenge us Janet.
42:44 You know the passion of my heart is to work with
42:49 these, with these young people and you know
42:54 industry is the tools that we have,
42:58 I am just an old lady. I can do this,
43:02 I've seen the need, I can go and do this.
43:05 How many of you can go out and do this who have
43:08 more life, more youth, more strength.
43:11 Come, help us out there, bring these children
43:14 to Christ. This is what we're there for.
43:18 Thank you Janet so much for sharing with us
43:21 tonight and you will be in our prayers.
43:23 Okay, thank you very much,
43:24 thank you, appreciate it.
43:32 Alright, I have a young man here with me in fact
43:35 I am old enough to be your mother.
43:37 Who do I have with me. My name is Jared Thurmon.
43:40 And where do you come from Jared?
43:42 I am from Marietta, Georgia.
43:44 And tell me a little bit about you?
43:48 I am a newly wed in the past year.
43:51 I went to Adventist schools my whole life.
43:55 I was actually home school as a child and
43:57 loved every minute of that and I went on to
44:00 Southern Adventist University where I
44:03 graduated and I was prepared to be the
44:06 Fortune 500 President that they taught me to be
44:08 and as they do all their business majors.
44:11 And I graduated and got into the workforce,
44:15 that's a little bit about me.
44:17 Well that sounds like a awful lot.
44:19 You told me you had an international business
44:21 degree and you planned on using that,
44:23 is that correct? I did, I had about two books
44:26 hundreds of pages each, with all the ideas in the
44:28 world of how to make a buck.
44:31 Well that's sounds interesting,
44:33 but I think something happened to you,
44:36 can you tell me a little bit about that?
44:37 It did, yeah after a few years working and doing
44:40 the daily grind, I wasn't feeling fulfilled in
44:43 the evening when I would get off work and so
44:48 after that over and over that happened again and
44:50 again, then my dad got sick and when you see
44:53 someone go through an illness and death is at
44:55 the doorstep and make sure reassessing things.
44:58 So that happening and in the midst of that a
45:00 friend calls me and says hey we're going to
45:02 India, we want you to go. And I told him India is
45:05 far away and I have been on mission trips to the
45:08 Caribbean, Mexico but India is just a long way.
45:10 He says come on we are going for three and half
45:11 weeks with ShareHim we need you to go.
45:14 So I went with him and that's when the turn
45:19 started. The turn started in India,
45:20 did you go once or twice to India?
45:21 I went once and then he says hey we are going
45:23 back in about six more months,
45:24 so we went back to India and upon coming home
45:27 I said you know there is just something about
45:29 that call Jesus made to the men to say hey,
45:32 leave the boat in the water and follow Me.
45:34 And I couldn't give my allegiance to work and
45:38 ministry, so I decided to take the latter out.
45:41 So instead of fishing for business,
45:43 you it sounds like to me that you started
45:46 thinking about fishing for souls.
45:48 I did, I did, I started thinking how could we
45:51 apply business skills to a ministry.
45:55 And so as I started to think of all the things in
45:57 the world that I enjoy and do,
45:58 the Internet is involved with, heavily with that.
46:01 So I decided to start a website and call it
46:03 Presenttruth.com. So what got you interested
46:07 in doing this website? What's out there that we
46:11 need this new website of yours?
46:13 Seeing that the Internet is something that
46:15 changes every second. This website we've created
46:18 is something that we have the frame work where
46:20 anybody and everybody can come and gain free
46:23 resources that will equip them to be a better
46:25 witness to the world around us.
46:27 And it is an Adventist focus site,
46:29 so it is Adventist material, free sermons,
46:32 free study resources, free videos, lots of free
46:36 things which free is always a good so,
46:38 that's where we focused.
46:39 And is this for everybody?
46:41 This is for everybody, every age group.
46:43 We have some big ideas and we actually have some
46:46 multi language platforms we're trying to plan
46:48 for, because not everyone speaks English in the
46:50 world so. So this is really new,
46:52 do you have other people working with you?
46:54 We do, I am blessed to have hired someone in very
46:58 recent past and I have a number of people
47:01 volunteering to help me out and they brought
47:03 into this vision which we are staying up very
47:05 many late nights preparing for today,
47:08 which is our official launch.
47:09 So did it launch today?
47:10 It did, oh congratulations,
47:12 and how exciting. Now I know having a
47:15 son close to your age that when you go to college
47:18 you are thinking about your career.
47:24 And it's very important that you follow your
47:25 career, but I see that Jesus had something else
47:26 in mind for you. Could you challenge our
47:28 ASI family and youth around the world of
47:32 how they could be involved in doing something for
47:34 Jesus? I would love to say something,
47:38 if you look at the world around you Jesus is
47:41 coming. And the motto to tell them now,
47:44 I have taken that personally tell me now.
47:46 Get into the Bible everyday, the world is
47:49 starving for this gospel that I believe
47:52 Adventists have a special burden to preach.
47:54 And so to young people, old people everyone we
47:57 have family members maybe that aren't in the
47:58 church anymore. We have people that we work
48:02 with that need to hear this and this,
48:04 this sweet message that we have is something
48:08 that I believe is growing very rapidly right now
48:12 and if you, I guess required in your life
48:15 like I am trying to be in listening people.
48:18 The thing is stirring and if I could I love to
48:20 read something that was the tipping point of
48:22 encouragement for me. We would love to hear
48:25 what was so encouraging to you.
48:28 This is from Testimonies volume 7 page 249
48:32 it says, at this time God's cause is in need of
48:35 men and women who posses rare qualifications and
48:38 good administrative powers. Men and women who
48:41 will make patient thorough investigation of the
48:44 need of the work in various fields.
48:47 Those who have a large capacity for work,
48:50 those who posses warm, kind hearts, cool heads,
48:53 sound sense and unbiased judgment.
48:57 Those who are sanctified by the spirit of God and
49:00 can fearlessly say no or yeah and amen to
49:03 propositions. Those who have strong convictions,
49:07 clear understanding and pure sympathetic hearts,
49:10 those who practice the words all ye are brethren,
49:13 those who strive to uplift and restore fallen
49:16 humanity, amen. Well you know Jared,
49:20 you will be in our prayers, let's pray for
49:23 Jared and his ministry and God bless you as you
49:26 continue working for Him, thank you,
49:28 thank you for sharing.
49:39 I want you to put on your seat belts,
49:42 because we are in for one fast paced interview.
49:48 Who do I have here with me tonight?
49:49 Brenda Silva from Greeneville, Tennessee.
49:52 From Greeneville, Tennessee and we are
49:54 excited you're here. Brenda, thank you,
49:56 I want you to tell us, our family how your team
49:59 began their ministry. Well most of you know in
50:02 2004 the movie the Passion of Christ came out.
50:05 There was such a phenomenal interest
50:07 created from that movie that many hearts were
50:10 more receptive at that time to hear about Jesus.
50:13 Well I believe that God wanted to take advantage
50:16 of that opportunity. Well as a result of that
50:18 movie, Remnant Publications came out with
50:21 the movie Passion of Love. God moved on our
50:24 hearts to take those books to Thunder Over
50:28 Louisville, an event which draws between 250 to
50:32 500,000 people during Derby week.
50:36 That day nine of us, mostly family passed out
50:41 4000 books, amen. We developed such a passion
50:46 for going to events that attracted large numbers,
50:49 masses of people. Well, on the way home from
50:52 Louisville that day I believe God gave us a
50:55 vision to go to Bristol Motor Speedway on race
51:00 weekend to pass out the book,
51:02 Race to Victory Lane. This event attracts a
51:07 165,000 people. This also coincided with an
51:14 upcoming evangelistic meeting that
51:16 Pastor John Earnhardt was having in our church
51:19 in Greeneville, Tennessee. You know in Evangelism
51:23 page 35 and 36 it says that we to have to device,
51:27 we have to device new methods to attract people
51:31 where they are, go to them where they are.
51:34 And I believe that's what God has put on our
51:36 hearts and that's what we are doing, amen.
51:40 Tara, tell us some of the miracles that have
51:46 happened during your ministry and tell us who
51:48 you are also. I am Tara Cohen,
51:50 I am her daughter and I am going to run through
51:53 for it real quick, the first one is you just
51:56 don't get into Bristol Motor Speedway.
51:58 And from the very beginning God gave
52:00 us favor with the director of Raceway Ministries
52:03 which is predominantly run by the Baptist church.
52:06 One of the most important privileges that we were
52:08 given was that he allowed us to bring our own
52:11 books in to pass out. They had never done that
52:15 before, that second thing we needed a place to
52:18 stay. God opened the door up for us to have
52:22 a nice Christian home. To go one mile from the
52:26 racetrack and we were able to keep coming back
52:28 and forth very fast. The third is we needed
52:32 books; we didn't have anything to pass out.
52:34 By faith we ordered 20,000 books,
52:38 in two weeks $24,000 was raised.
52:42 I can't tell you how awesome that is.
52:45 The fourth thing is a, we were told from the
52:47 beginning that we only had one shot at giving
52:50 our books out. That was it,
52:52 we were not going to be able to do it at any more
52:54 races. When the race was over the director asked
52:58 us to bring our books back for the next race and
53:01 since then the door has been wide open to get our
53:04 stuff in. God is awesome,
53:07 praise the Lord, how exciting.
53:10 And Patti, tell us who you are and tell us
53:14 what has happened since Bristol.
53:16 My name is Patti Cohen and I am Tara's
53:18 mother-in-law and God is, God is so good he is
53:24 opened so many doors since this first race has
53:27 taken place. When we got home,
53:29 the very first thing that stated happening was
53:32 our phones began to ring off the hook with Sunday
53:35 school teachers and ministers from Sunday
53:38 keeping church is calling and wanting this book
53:42 to pass out to their classes and their
53:45 churches. We began, or Pastor Earnhardt
53:48 began getting calls from ministers in different
53:52 areas wanting him to come and minister.
53:55 The doors to racetracks all through the south
53:59 have opened up for him to be able to minister
54:02 in that have been closed and its only God that
54:04 has opened these doors. He's been called to
54:07 Charlotte, he's been called to Darlington,
54:09 he's been called to Talladega,
54:11 he has been also called to Daytona.
54:14 God is opening these doors for him to be able
54:17 to minister to all of these race fans across
54:20 America because of this little book that has been
54:24 written. Amen, your enthusiasm and
54:28 excitement is contagious. In the spring of this
54:33 year God called Pastor Earnhardt to come over
54:37 to Talladega through a Baptist minister and he
54:40 called then he said, I want you to come and I
54:43 want you to speak to the people in the
54:45 campground. And Pastor Earnhardt said I can't
54:48 do that. He said I will be in the middle of an
54:50 evangelistic meeting and so he said well,
54:53 we happen to have a man in our congregation that
54:57 has his own airplane and he will fly over,
55:01 over to South Carolina, pick you up, fly you in,
55:05 so that you can speak and fly you back home.
55:08 So you will be there to preach to your people.
55:11 Amen, that's what happened. Our family and a
55:15 couple of other church members in Greenville,
55:18 we packed up Tara and Steve's van, we went over
55:22 and we ministered for two days on Sabbath and
55:25 Sunday in this campgrounds passing out this book
55:28 we blanketed those campgrounds and Pastor
55:32 John came over and he told his testimony.
55:35 We have been invited to go back and minister in
55:38 those same campgrounds next fall.
55:41 This coming fall in October and along with
55:44 that we have been given the opportunity to
55:46 minister in one of 12 campgrounds over at
55:50 Bristol. Our little group and our church has been
55:54 called to minister in one of those campgrounds,
55:57 it's called Hillandale that will take place in
56:01 three weeks from this weekend and we are so
56:04 excited. Pastor Earnhardt is coming once again
56:07 and he is going to be ministering to the people
56:10 there again. And so please keep us in
56:13 your prayer. God has called each
56:16 and every one of us, every one of us to be
56:19 ministers of the gospel and in doing that it
56:23 doesn't matter what he asked you to do.
56:26 What he lays on your heart,
56:28 don't say this is too big for me to do.
56:30 Because God can do anything,
56:33 think out of the box. We are Out of the Box
56:38 Ministry for God. Thank you and praise the Lord.


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