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Youth In Action - Friday Evening

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01:00 Lord Jesus we thank you so much for the
01:02 beauty of another day.
01:04 We thank you Lord that even on the eve
01:06 of the Sabbath we can all gather here
01:09 and ponder the hope that we have
01:11 in your second coming.
01:12 We acknowledge your presence with us
01:15 and ask that your Holy Spirit will touch
01:18 each heart and each mind so that we will be able
01:21 to absorb all that we hear and be changed
01:24 to be better witnesses for you,
01:26 and to have a deeper relationship
01:28 with Jesus Christ. Thank you in Jesus name,
01:32 Amen. You may be seated.
01:37 Well at this time, we would like to welcome
01:41 Harold Lance to the podium with me.
01:44 And you remember that each night we have been
01:47 just taking a walk back and looking at some of the
01:49 humble beginnings of ASI and we thought
01:52 that we would talk to a couple people
01:53 that have been around for a while.
01:55 I understand that Harold Lance has been
01:57 a member of ASI for 32 years.
02:00 And Harold I'd like your perspective on
02:02 what things are different from
02:04 when you first a part of ASI. Probably tonight
02:07 is the easiest comparison we have probably a 150
02:12 young people here. In the old days we didn't have
02:15 the young people here. As a matter of fact
02:18 our conventions were scheduled for October
02:22 when they were in school they couldn't be here.
02:24 So that's a difference. Well, that's pretty
02:27 remarkable because we can hardly think of
02:29 ASI without our young people.
02:32 That's true. There were some other differences
02:34 will have I think over 2000 people
02:38 for lunch tomorrow. In the old days we had
02:42 a 150 to 200, and then often after the convention
02:48 was over we scheduled a kind of a vacation
02:53 trip to go to see mission places around the world
02:57 and it involved many of the group.
03:01 May be a fourth of them would go on
03:02 the mission trip. We can't take you
03:04 all that way now.
03:08 Is there anything else that's different
03:10 that strikes you? Well, I don't think the
03:15 differences between now and then they are
03:17 significant as the similarities.
03:20 The similarities I believe are the powerful things
03:24 about ASI, we still have that hope.
03:28 We still sing like we mean it.
03:31 We still have a belief in the Bible
03:33 and the spirit of prophecies
03:34 are guiding light. We have a corporation
03:37 with the leadership of the church
03:39 and we covet that relationship
03:41 and we have the hope of Jesus soon coming.
03:44 Well, that's a pretty powerful reflection
03:47 and I want to thank you Harold
03:48 for taking it back for us. Thank you.
04:00 Just a minute Debbie, wait Debbie, hello Debbie.
04:07 Hello ASI family. I don't want Debbie to leave yet,
04:12 you see our ASI family out there Debbie,
04:15 isn't it a wonderful crowd that we have
04:17 here this year? Tremendous yes!
04:20 We know Debbie has been serving our ASI family
04:23 for the last four years and it's been a privilege
04:26 to be Debbie's friend. And we as a family
04:31 wanted to say thank you to Debbie
04:33 for serving our family.
04:36 And we have flowers for you that's
04:39 pretty obvious there, they are beautiful
04:41 just like you are Debbie. Thank you Donna,
04:43 you are beautiful on the outside and in the inside.
04:46 And then in this gift here there is a globe
04:50 of the world because you have been using
04:53 as your theme tell the world, tell them now.
04:57 And we appreciate everything that
05:00 that you have done for ASI to spread
05:03 the gospel around the world.
05:06 Thank you Debbie for everything that
05:08 you have done, we love you and we know
05:10 your are not gone and guess
05:12 what I am not letting you go. so thank you.
05:21 You welcome. Donna thank you so much,
05:27 and I am looking forward to supporting you
05:29 as you pickup the helm and keep moving ASI forward.
05:32 Thank you. Thank you.
05:45 Good evening. Good evening.
05:47 Here at ASI we take our young people
05:51 very seriously; our dedicated leaders
05:55 have worked hard to provide interesting
05:58 and uplifting program for our
06:00 ASI children and youth. The primary purpose
06:04 of our programs is not to entertain
06:08 but to train our young people.
06:11 Our leaders have arranged many
06:13 inspirational speakers, we have mission reports,
06:17 uplifting music, we have crafts
06:20 and we also provide opportunities to get our
06:24 young people involved in service
06:26 and outreach projects right here at ASI.
06:30 This evening I would like you to meet some very
06:33 dedicated leaders from our youth departments
06:36 who will be sharing some of the highlights
06:38 from their classes, and I want to recognize
06:41 all of the work, all of the prayer
06:44 and all of the hours that our leaders
06:47 have spent planning and preparing these
06:50 inspirational meanings for our young people.
06:58 Good evening. We have the kindergarten class here
07:02 and our theme this year was Missionaries Now,
07:06 Jesus fills my cup. And instead of me sharing
07:09 what we have done I am gonna let the children
07:12 share because we share what we receive.
07:16 Okay children our missionary is called
07:20 to spread what? The Gospel!
07:23 The Gospel, right! What is the gospel?
07:27 The power to choose Jesus!
07:31 The power to choose Jesus, good!
07:34 And where do we get our fuel?
07:38 Anything, everywhere we receive from
07:42 the mouth of God. Very good,
07:46 but we first need to see our need, don't we? Okay.
08:00 I see you dear oh my Lord,
08:04 I give you my soul.
08:09 Let's sing for Him and believe in Him,
08:14 I am waiting for the day when He will come,
08:20 someone is waiting for the Lord before.
08:27 Very good, now to be a missionary
08:30 how old do we have to be?
08:32 Any age, any age right.
08:36 And who do we have to know?
08:40 God, Jesus, Jesus right.
08:44 What will he do for us, fill our mind,
08:48 hearts with what? Fill our mind hearts with love.
08:53 Right, with love. And what should we do with
08:58 what we have with this love,
09:00 should we share what we receive?
09:03 Yes, yes oh we want to share.
09:05 And when do we start?
09:07 Now, now okay. Where is our mind, heart?
09:15 Jesus come into my heart,
09:19 into my heart and above,
09:23 And bless his little children
09:27 and our Lord is sweet.
09:31 Sweet Lord, Sweet Lord,
09:35 trying to follow your steps,
09:39 give him your heart and he will take your hand.
09:48 Forgive dear Lord all our sins
09:51 and shall every single be,
09:56 You come and give your heart
09:59 and Jesus take my heart.
10:03 Sweet Lord, sweet Lord
10:07 trying to follow your steps,
10:11 and give him your heart and he will take your hand.
10:20 Thank you, we will go right this side.
10:43 You know it's been a real blessing work
10:45 in the primary department this year.
10:46 And our theme has been called to prepare
10:49 God's people. And we have been studying
10:52 the life of Joseph, how God has called Joseph
10:55 at a young age to do almighty work
10:58 and save the lives of many people.
11:00 You know God extends that call to us,
11:03 to reach out in this dying world to help prepare
11:05 others for Jesus soon return.
11:08 ASI is all about service and our primary
11:11 department has adopted a service program.
11:14 We have adopted It's My Very Own,
11:18 and what they do, they make bags of love.
11:20 And they give these bags of love to children
11:24 who taken them from their homes
11:26 and put in the foster care.
11:28 And Caleb can you tell me some of the things
11:30 that we put in these bags of love.
11:32 Well for example crayons,
11:34 stuffed animals, shampoo, soap
11:37 and though they are just a few of them.
11:39 Just a few now more, right.
11:41 And Nichole is there some that
11:43 you brought from home.
11:45 I brought quilts for the foster kids.
11:49 Quilts for the foster kids! You know it gave me
11:51 great joy and please to see that the primary class
11:55 and their parents with enthusiasm bring
11:56 all these gifts and stuffs to put
11:58 in these bags of love. And at this time
12:00 they would like to sing our theme song.
12:14 Hark! the voice of Jesus calling,
12:19 "Who will go and work today?
12:24 Fields are white, the harvest waiting,
12:29 Who will bear the sheaves away?"
12:34 Loud and long the Master calleth,
12:38 Let his work your pleasure be.
12:43 Answer quickly when he calleth,
12:48 "Here am I. O Lord, send me!"
12:54 If you cannot cross the ocean
12:58 And the heathen lands explore,
13:09 You can help them at your door;
13:13 Loud and long the Master calleth,
13:17 Let his work your pleasure be.
13:22 Answer quickly when he calleth,
13:27 "Here am I. O Lord, send me!"
13:32 While the souls of men are dying,
13:37 And the Master calls for you,
13:41 Let none hear you idly saying,
13:46 "There is nothing I can do!"
13:51 Loud and long the Master calleth,
13:56 Let his work your pleasure be.
14:00 Answer quickly when he calleth,
14:05 "Here am I. O Lord, send me!"
14:10 "Here am I. O Lord, send me!"
14:34 Hi my name is Ted Evert.
14:35 I have been the Junior Leader for
14:37 the 10 to 12 year olds and I have been spending
14:41 a lot of time with your 10 to 12 year olds
14:44 the last few days. But I have to say it's been
14:46 a total pleasure, and I really want to thank
14:49 each of you as parents and guardians
14:52 for raising up such an incredible
14:53 army of young people. And I really accounted
14:57 a privilege to have been able to be a part of it.
15:00 Nichole has been my assistant leader
15:02 and she is going to talk about the mission project
15:04 that we have been working on.
15:07 Good evening, it has been a true blessing to work
15:11 with your children and to see their hard work
15:14 that they have put into our mission project.
15:17 And we are actually putting together
15:19 some care packages for the orphans in Kenya
15:24 with East African missions.
15:26 And these boxes are actually shoe boxes
15:30 and there are going to the orphans.
15:34 And they are currently 99 orphans there in
15:38 East African mission orphanage
15:40 and each child will be receiving their own box
15:43 with certain items in them.
15:46 And we wanted to fill these boxes with things
15:49 that would inspire the children and be a blessing
15:53 to them physically, mentally and spiritually.
15:56 And I actually have some assistants here;
15:59 they are going to show you some of the items
16:02 that are going into our boxes.
16:04 These aren't all of them but these are some
16:06 of the items that we are including.
16:09 Each orphan will be receiving some
16:12 hygiene items, some toothbrush,
16:16 toothpaste and a comb,
16:19 as well as some other things.
16:21 And some fun items like a teddy bear
16:24 and little bags that the children decorated
16:28 and also our steps to Christ
16:32 and some character building stories
16:34 that are just a little pamphlet and we know
16:37 that God is going to tremendously bless
16:40 these boxes as they go over to the orphans.
16:43 And the children have made or donated
16:47 all of the items that are going in these boxes
16:50 and they are actually currently trying to get
16:54 donations for the, for the shipping of these boxes
17:00 and they are doing a wonderful job,
17:02 and they are well on that way to our goal
17:06 for the shipping cost. And I know that God is
17:10 going to tremendously bless the orphans as well as
17:13 the children that have put these boxes together.
17:17 Well our theme has been soldiers for truth,
17:21 and may be the, they seem kind of young
17:23 to already be soldiers but yet they are soldiers
17:26 in the army of Christ, isn't that true.
17:29 And so to finish off our program
17:32 we are going to sing Onward Christian Soldiers.
17:45 Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
17:53 With the cross of Jesus going on before.
18:02 Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;
18:11 Forward into battle see His banners go!
18:19 Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
18:27 With the cross of Jesus going on before.
18:47 Happy Sabbath Day ASI. Maria, Lotte, Kemp
18:50 and I have had the opportunity
18:51 and the privilege of working with
18:53 your early teens. Our theme this year
18:56 has been transformed by His loving hand
18:58 and our goal has been to show your early
19:01 teens how God through His love
19:04 can transform their lives. In the evening
19:07 we have been listening to J. Rosario share
19:11 messages about how God has transformed
19:13 the lives of people in the New and Old Testament.
19:17 Taken them from where they were which was
19:19 a life of nothing to a life that is truly making
19:23 a difference in the world
19:24 and turning the world upside down.
19:26 Joe, I brought up some of the early teens up
19:29 with me and Joe has something
19:30 he wants to share that he learned during
19:32 J. Rosario's speech, Joe. Well we've been learning
19:36 about ugly Mary Magdalene how she was changed
19:40 from being a street person and a harlot
19:46 to being a beautiful girl And how was she changed?
19:51 By God's grace. And how does that apply
19:53 to your own life? I think that each one of us
19:57 should we as people are ugly caterpillars
20:01 but by God's grace we can become
20:03 beautiful butterflies. And that's we want our young
20:06 people to see that. Well, we may have a life
20:09 that feels empty, if we will submit to the
20:10 love of God that will become changed
20:13 in beautiful men and women for God.
20:17 On Thursday we also wanted our young people
20:20 to see that the Bible they believe in is true
20:24 and scientifically founded on that they don't have
20:26 to be embarrassed about their faith.
20:28 So, on Thursday we took them to the
20:30 Creation Museum which is about two hour drive.
20:32 And when we are at the Creation Museum
20:34 they saw that the Bible is scientifically
20:38 the most valid solution, the most valid
20:42 explanation for why, for why we exist today.
20:48 And while we were there Lisa Murray
20:51 there was an exhibit that you really
20:52 enjoyed men in white, tell us about it.
20:55 Well I really enjoyed the show but my favorite
20:57 part was when they showed us Noah's Ark
21:00 and during the whole thing they splashed
21:02 water on our faces which is really fun.
21:05 Yes, what is with the splashing on your face
21:07 but what did you leave with?
21:08 Well I learned the creation is real
21:12 and there aren't really are scientific
21:14 facts to prove it. Amen, so we went through
21:18 the Creation Museum, we went through
21:20 the exhibits and then at the very
21:21 end Haley there was an exhibit that
21:24 you really enjoyed, what was that?
21:26 There was a planetarium it was like where
21:28 the seats go back and we look up like at the ceiling
21:32 and all these stars are there.
21:34 And we are like this tiny little earth
21:37 and God created it so small yet he cares
21:39 about us so much. And all the other
21:42 planets are like almost all bigger then ours
21:45 yet he cares about this tiny little earth
21:47 and all these tiny little people.
21:50 Wow, isn't that amazing?
21:51 I remember when I was there as well.
21:52 You look at this they take you from our little
21:55 tiny earth and they zoom way, way, way,
21:57 way out all the way out into the entire universe
21:58 and you are looking at the universe.
22:00 You cannot even see where our little planet
22:04 is and yet God sacrifice his entire life that
22:08 we might have eternal life.
22:09 And that is what we wanted our young people
22:11 to see that God loves them
22:12 and as they see this they will be transformed.
22:15 But it goes beyond scene that God loves you.
22:17 We want them to share that love with others.
22:20 And so this afternoon we went
22:21 and did an outreach of sharing God's love
22:24 with the community around us.
22:26 Jennifer you had an amazing experience
22:28 while we were doing that. Tell us about that?
22:30 Well me and my friend we decided,
22:34 we wanted to go over to this one girl
22:36 that was impressed to talk to and I decide
22:40 I was going to give her and sing the song
22:42 God is love. And as I go over to her
22:46 and say here you want this Jesus loves you
22:48 and she gets so excited just like Oh!
22:50 I am so excited. I do not know Jesus loves me.
22:55 So it's very cool. Imagine there are people
22:57 around here that didn't know Jesus loves them
23:00 and yet our early teens went out there
23:02 and shared the love of God and there is someone
23:04 that now knows that Jesus loves them, amen.
23:08 We have enjoyed working with them,
23:09 we have one of our early team
23:11 and we will continue enjoying them
23:13 through this weekend. Thank you very much.
23:23 Good evening, my name is Rob Neil
23:26 and I have been working with the
23:27 youth department here at ASI.
23:29 And it's always a joy to be here and experience
23:33 the enthusiasm that young people have to love
23:35 and serve their Lord.
23:37 This is the 16 to 18 years old
23:38 and I have two of our youth with me here
23:43 Jimmy Glaser and Crystal Case.
23:48 I knew I was going to do this,
23:49 Crystal Case, Crystal Case.
23:52 And we have enjoyed working together
23:55 and Crystal what has been the theme of our program
23:59 here at ASI this year in the youth department.
24:01 It's one life to live, one life to live.
24:04 What does that mean in practical terms,
24:06 what are we learned about one life to live?
24:08 Well virtually to sum it out is just you know
24:11 we have, you know such a short time on this earth
24:13 and you know we only have this one life
24:16 and we want to do whatever we can to do
24:18 in Jesus service you know.
24:19 Do whatever we can for him in this
24:21 one life service. One life to live and making it
24:25 count for God and for eternity.
24:28 Jimmy what part of the programming has impacted
24:32 your life or may be was a special blessing to you.
24:34 Well one of my favorite talks we had was from
24:37 Dr. Samuel Pipim and he talked about living life
24:41 as in excellence and that was a really great
24:44 message that we receive from him.
24:46 I believe it was last night so,
24:49 had various speakers coming in speaking
24:52 Jay Rosario, our morning devotional speakers,
24:55 also testimony sharing witnessing experiences
24:59 and conversion experiences in our youth department.
25:02 But you know one of the best ways of helping
25:04 young people catch a vision of making their life
25:07 matter for God is to get them involved in service.
25:10 And so we on Thursday 81 ASI youth had the
25:14 opportunity of loading up on buses
25:16 and going to eight different service projects
25:19 in the Downtown Louisville area and making
25:22 a difference in the lives of disadvantaged
25:24 people here in Louisville.
25:27 Crystal what eight different service
25:30 projects did you have the opportunity to chose
25:32 from this year? Okay, well we had quite a few,
25:35 we had five with habitat for humanity
25:39 and two of them were women only like
25:41 constructions sites. They are building new houses.
25:44 And then two were just general construction sites
25:47 where anyone that want to go.
25:48 And then we had one it was like building
25:50 foundations for new houses.
25:52 And then wayside ministries for,
25:57 Wayside was it, Wayside Christian Ministries,
25:59 always forget that. But, yeah they had three areas
26:04 that you could work in; one was working there
26:08 helping paint a day room at the men's
26:11 homeless center. And there was a daycare center
26:15 for helping the homeless people
26:17 watch the kids and stuff.
26:19 And then they had the bicycle repair.
26:22 Jimmy is homelessness a very large problem
26:26 here in Downtown Louisville?
26:28 Well like any large city homelessness is getting
26:33 to be a very large epidemic and there
26:37 is a stat that says that Louisville
26:39 has about a 11,000 homeless people
26:41 on the streets. So hopefully we made
26:44 a difference in our community service
26:46 outreach. Working with the homeless people
26:48 and its amazing a 11,000 people they estimate
26:52 in the Louisville area. And so you had the
26:55 opportunity of learning about the plight of many
26:57 of these people and helping out.
26:59 Now which project, which particular project
27:01 did you chose to be involved in?
27:03 Well at the Wayside Mission they had
27:05 a bicycle shop and the last thing I thought
27:08 I was be going to able to do at ASI was be able
27:11 to work on bicycles and. You like to work on,
27:13 you like to work on bicycles.
27:15 I certainly do, bicycles are one of my passions
27:18 and so I was able to work on bicycles
27:21 and the way that works is.
27:23 Did you bring your bicycle to Louisville?
27:26 I sure did I brought my own bike.
27:28 Before he went and worked fixing bikes
27:31 he cycled 35 miles that morning before we arrive.
27:36 I was excited to know I had an experienced
27:38 bicycle person, they love bicycles
27:39 and was able to use his talents for the Lord.
27:42 And so what was the like when you arrive
27:43 there at the bicycle shop.
27:45 Well when I first got there it looked like
27:48 somebody had tipped over every single bike.
27:50 There is about a 100 different bicycles
27:52 in the shop with various disrepair,
27:55 tires land all over the ground, we had no tools.
27:58 Whatsoever expect for a basically a mechanic shop
28:01 that was in the back, so we had to use what tools
28:03 we could to fix the bikes.
28:06 And why would a homeless person
28:09 Downtown Louisville need a bike?
28:11 Well that's what I thought,
28:13 I didn't know that at first but when
28:15 I learned the real reason was when homeless
28:18 people at the Wayside Mission they teach them
28:21 how to get back into the real world.
28:22 They give, they give them lessons of how to get
28:25 a job and everything. And once they get
28:27 a job its hard for a homeless person to get
28:29 a car right away. So if we can give them
28:31 a bike they can use public transportation
28:34 and then if there is another mile
28:36 or two they ride to their job.
28:37 They can use the bike.
28:39 And so when you were finished how many
28:41 of those bikes were you able to refurbish
28:43 they naturally try out and get working
28:44 for the homeless people. Well when we got there,
28:46 there is a lot of different you know,
28:49 different kinds of bikes but the main problem
28:51 was that some were in too bad of shape
28:53 to get fixed right away. So we kind a did
28:56 a three hours program and got them separated
28:58 and we ended up fixing about 30 different bikes
29:02 and got them road worthy. Amen.
29:06 It's exciting to get young people
29:09 involved in service. Working with habitat,
29:11 fixing bikes, helping homeless people
29:14 and hopefully they will catch a vision
29:17 as we are told that it is in service that
29:19 our greatest joy and highest education
29:22 is found and there is no better way to make
29:25 your one life to live for God
29:28 then through its service.
29:42 Good evening, happy Sabbath.
29:47 It is good to be here at ASI on the Sabbath
29:49 yes, yes. Well this year we have had
29:53 a wonderful time and God has blessed so much
29:57 that we can't even begin to tell you
30:00 and describe to you what has happened
30:01 here this summer. And we have,
30:04 this is a ASI Youth For Jesus Program,
30:07 this is the program that you sponsor,
30:10 that you support, that you pray for
30:14 and God has blessed your efforts,
30:17 your sponsorships, your prayers and
30:20 he has answered in a powerful way.
30:23 And don't they look nice.
30:33 This year we have had evangelistic meetings
30:36 at six sites. There were three Kentucky-Tennessee
30:40 Conference Churches, two Indiana Conference Churches
30:43 which are just across the river here
30:46 and one South Central Regional Conference.
30:50 And the pastors and the conferences
30:53 have just been unreliably supportive and worked.
30:58 And the other day I said I wish I could give
31:00 them medals of honor because
31:03 they just have been, they have gone beyond
31:08 what we normally ask of them.
31:10 And so we just really appreciated
31:12 Pastor Richard Hallock the President
31:15 of the Kentucky-Tennessee Conference,
31:16 Pastor Gary Thurber, President of the
31:18 Indiana Conference, and Pastor Michael Harpe
31:21 was the ASI liaison for the
31:23 South Central Conference. And we just appreciate
31:26 their support so much. We have had 43 youth
31:30 during our program. They come from 12 countries
31:33 and represent 12 states and represent 4 countries.
31:38 We have had 21 Bible workers,
31:41 the Bible workers have been here for all the
31:44 past three or four months doing pre-work
31:48 previous to the start of the evangelistic series.
31:52 And also we have had just the most wonderful
31:55 volunteers staff and I just, I just appreciated
32:00 them so much. We have had just a very
32:03 spiritual filled, just most wonderful
32:08 time to gather, working with the kids
32:10 and praying with them and pleading with them
32:13 and even nagging them. And the kids don't need it;
32:19 do they? But you know on occasion they did
32:24 and some of the wonderful results that
32:30 we have experienced amongst many,
32:32 many testimonies, just, testimonies that would
32:36 just warm your heart and that would inspire
32:39 you which we wish we could share all of them
32:41 with you, but we are going to share a few
32:42 of them with you tonight.
32:43 But the results from the prayers
32:49 and work and the dedication of this group
32:52 have resulted in 149 decisions for baptisms.
33:05 We held a wonderful, wonderful baptismal
33:07 service the other day.
33:08 Some people had been previously baptized
33:11 and the total number of people that have already
33:13 been baptized is 77. And there is 12 schedules
33:17 for not tomorrow because tomorrow
33:20 all the churches are coming here but next
33:23 Sabbath there is 12 more decisions,
33:26 people that have made decisions to be baptized,
33:28 and there is several, several,
33:31 there is many actually that we need
33:33 to still clear. I guess Kentucky is the
33:37 headquarters for some tobacco companies
33:39 or something and so we have many that are
33:41 struggling to overcome that addiction.
33:46 And so we need to really pray for our contacts
33:49 that are still struggling with the issues
33:51 that we need to still clear.
33:52 So keep them in your prayers.
33:56 You know these just may sound like numbers,
33:59 but they are blessings from God,
34:02 and we just want to praise God from whom
34:05 all blessings flow. And our Katie Eager,
34:08 Andrew Eager, and their sister
34:11 Stephanie McNeilus are going to praise God.
34:19 Praise Father, Son, Praise Father, Son,
34:24 Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
34:35 All people that on earth do dwell,
34:40 Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice.
34:45 Him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell;
34:51 Come ye before Him and rejoice.
34:56 O enter then His gates with joy,
35:02 Within His courts His praise proclaim;
35:08 Let thankful songs your tongues employ,
35:14 O bless and magnify His name.
35:20 Because the Lord our God is good,
35:26 His mercy is forever sure;
35:32 His truth at all times firmly stood,
35:39 And shall from age to age endure. Endure.
35:48 Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
35:55 Praise Him all creatures here below;
36:01 Praise Him above ye heavenly host;
36:09 Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
36:18 Amen, Amen, Amen.
36:36 Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
36:42 Praise Him all creatures here below;
36:48 Praise Him above ye heavenly host;
36:55 Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
37:04 Praise Father, Son, Praise Father, Son,
37:09 Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen!
37:38 Amen. You know what I found out doing
37:43 this work that the work of evangelism takes work.
37:48 And it takes a lot of work and we appreciate
37:51 our Bible workers so much, and I would like
37:54 to introduce Kevin Sears to you right now.
37:56 Kevin Sears is the Youth For Jesus coordinator
38:00 and he has been on the ground since January
38:03 working with churches. Why don't you share with,
38:06 with our ASI family the work that you have been
38:09 doing since January and introduce
38:11 the site coordinators? Good evening everyone.
38:14 Good evening! Leasa we haven't gotten past
38:17 the introduction I think we lost them already.
38:19 Good evening everyone. Good evening!
38:22 We are excited to be here tonight, amen. Amen!
38:25 I have the privilege of coming here in January
38:28 to prepare the pre-work for the seminars
38:33 that we are putting on and so then the Bible
38:35 workers came. The coordinators came
38:38 in February, the Bible workers begin coming
38:41 in March and April and May and in June
38:44 and then the youth came in July right before
38:47 our series began. And so I have had the privilege
38:50 of being here in the Louisville area for most
38:53 of this year and it's been a real privilege.
38:56 And tonight I would like to introduce you to the
38:59 coordinators for our all the sites that we had,
39:02 Jim Helman why don't you step forward
39:04 and kind of wave this is Jim Helman.
39:06 He has been with for a couple of years.
39:08 He does a great job. He was coordinating
39:11 the Shelbyville church in Louisville area.
39:16 And who do we; Andrea step forward,
39:18 Andre Shedroff was a coordinator over at
39:22 the Jeffersonville site in Indiana
39:25 and Andrea is originally from Russia
39:29 and he was a Bible worker with us last year
39:31 and now he is a coordinator.
39:32 And Kal Roller, I would like to introduce you.
39:34 Kal come on over here.
39:36 Kal was the, come on over here, Kal.
39:39 Kal was the coordinator and I have a microphone
39:41 for you that I was hiding.
39:43 You wanna put that there.
39:45 Kal was the coordinator for the site at
39:48 the New Albany, Indiana and we could have
39:51 called up either one of these coordinators
39:53 to share many, many, many testimonies
39:55 with you but we don't have the time
39:57 for that unfortunately. But Kal tell us of
39:59 an interesting story that happened
40:02 over in New Albany.
40:03 Well I was out going door to door with
40:05 Michael Reynolds one of the Bible workers
40:07 back here and we met this lady.
40:09 She was very disarming at the door.
40:11 She was very friendly and gentle
40:14 and she took the time to take our survey
40:16 at the door, and through our conversation
40:20 she revealed to us that she has a religious
40:24 studies major. She has a degree in religious
40:27 studies and yet she didn't really understand
40:31 the books of Daniel and Revelation
40:32 that well, and so she really wanted to
40:35 understand. I mean this is perfect.
40:38 And so we studied that very Sunday.
40:41 We met here on Thursday, on Sunday
40:44 we studied with her Daniel chapter 2
40:47 and that is an extraordinary study
40:49 in the Bible. It's one of the most powerful
40:51 tools we have in sharing with people that
40:53 Jesus is coming and also that the Bible is true.
40:56 Amen. Now that Sunday she also revealed to us
41:03 that she had drifted away from the Lord
41:05 and she was under conviction from the
41:07 Holy Spirit that she should return
41:09 to the Lord. That Sunday she loved the
41:11 Bible study and at the end she told us
41:14 why she let us in, why she took the survey
41:17 from us and here is why. She had this dream
41:22 that there was a white beat up car parked
41:24 in front of her house and on the same day
41:28 that this white beat up car was in front
41:30 of her house these two young men came
41:32 to her door. That Thursday morning
41:35 she saw this car in front of her house
41:38 and she knew that two gentlemen
41:41 would approach for that very day.
41:42 And that's when Michael and I showed up
41:44 at her door, extraordinary.
41:47 That was the Sunday before the meeting
41:49 started that Friday only five days before
41:52 the meeting started we had her first and only
41:55 Bible study with her. She came to most of the
41:57 meetings and she is now preparing
41:59 to be baptized. Amen, amen. Thank you Kal.
42:04 Again we could share many
42:06 and we will share some more stories
42:08 but we couldn't even scratch the surface
42:11 of all the incredible miracles that took place
42:14 in such a short time here in the Louisville area.
42:17 So thank you and God bless you.
42:24 You know I wish we had time to share
42:26 these testimonies with you every morning
42:29 during our worship we have a testimony time.
42:31 And you know I have been churches where
42:34 the Pastor says now it's our praise
42:36 and testimony time does anybody have anything
42:38 to say and you know we are to sit there.
42:42 And you know sometimes we don't have anything
42:46 to say but that's not the case with Youth for Jesus.
42:49 When it's time to tell testimonies every hand
42:51 goes up and they come up and they line up
42:54 and they just tell one wonderful testimony
42:56 after another of contacts they have made,
42:59 interest they have met and people that they
43:02 brought to the meetings, and so this is just
43:05 an exciting, exciting program. Now we have,
43:10 you've met four of the six coordinators
43:13 and we had two other sites.
43:15 One was the South Central Regional Conference
43:19 and that site was coordinated by the
43:23 NAPS group from Oakwood College.
43:25 And I would like Bryan and Jean to come up
43:28 and these gentlemen are part of an organization
43:33 called NAPS from Oakwood College.
43:36 And why don't you tell us why you took
43:40 this time to come and help us at ASI.
43:44 Well thank you Leasa,
43:45 well my name is Jean Lubin,
43:46 Oakwood student missionary volunteers
43:48 with the organization called NAPS
43:50 and that stands for the National Association
43:52 for the Prevention of Starvation
43:54 and well God worked miracles throughout
43:59 the meetings eleven souls who wanted the
44:00 Kingdom and Bryan has more testimonies
44:05 on how the lives of families were changed.
44:08 You know we spend time with them
44:10 and God we worked upon their hearts to give
44:13 their lives to Lord, Bryan. Well Jean mentioned
44:16 we working with families and that certainly
44:18 was the highlight of working with the youth
44:20 for Jesus campaign this year.
44:22 One family that I was able to work with
44:24 was a family of three.
44:26 The mother she was 65 years old
44:28 and she had two daughters and she had a problem
44:32 with smoking and there were some things
44:34 going on in the family. And they were searching
44:36 for truth; they were looking for something
44:38 better in life. We came knocked on their
44:41 door one day and we asked them
44:43 if they would like to have Bible studies
44:45 and they agree. And after we were able
44:48 to have Bible studies with this family we had
44:50 this chance to see their family be reunited again.
44:55 And she had a problem with smoking.
44:57 She started smoking when she was 16 years old.
45:01 I remind you she is 65 so she has been almost
45:03 smoking for 50 years, but through the power
45:06 of Holy Spirit and through us working
45:08 with her and showing her love,
45:09 she was able to give up those cigarettes
45:11 and not only to give that up but to be baptized.
45:15 And one of her daughters was baptized
45:17 with her as well. Thank you so much.
45:23 Now what was the result from your efforts
45:26 and how did God bless?
45:28 God truly blessed. We also had a chance
45:31 to do a children's program.
45:32 This is another way that we were able to get
45:35 into the people's homes. We have a sort of
45:39 vacation Bible school style outlined for them
45:41 but it's really focused on teaching the kids
45:44 the Bible truth adoptions that we find
45:46 in the Bible and the Lord really blessed.
45:49 We really sowed seeds into those kids
45:51 and as a result of that when we had our
45:53 evangelistic meeting several of the parents
45:56 came and received and accepted the
45:58 word of God. Amen. Thank you so much.
46:07 we also had a site that was we called out
46:10 satellite site. When we first came down to
46:12 the Kentucky-Tennessee Conference to talk with the
46:14 conference leaders about the program
46:16 they just really had a heart for us to do
46:21 something in Frankfort. Now Frankfort is the
46:23 capital of Kentucky and they did not have
46:26 a Kentucky-Tennessee Conference Church there
46:28 and you know which is just,
46:31 it's a capital of a state and so we wanted
46:34 to do something there too but it was just too far
46:37 away for us to be directly involved
46:39 and so we asked Ouachita Hills College
46:41 to come and coordinate and provide Bible
46:44 workers and speakers to work there as a
46:46 satellite site. And Dan why don't you give us
46:49 a report of that effort? Well I wasn't at the
46:53 Frankfort site but some good friends of mine
46:56 and also my sister worked there as Bible workers
46:58 and speakers. And I just got off the phone
47:00 with my sister a few minutes ago and some
47:02 amazing things were happening over Frankfort.
47:04 Before we got there as Leasa said
47:06 there was no English speaking church.
47:08 There was a Hispanic church they were working
47:09 hard and the conference hired Pastor James
47:12 to go in and to work as a part-time Pastor,
47:16 part-time Literature Evangelist.
47:18 By the time he had finished one year
47:20 he had 20 peoples with a Branch Sabbath school.
47:23 He was a hard working man and that's about
47:24 the time that ASI and the Ouachita Hills College
47:28 evangelism team got there. And they only,
47:30 because the school got out one month before
47:33 the program started, they only had a one month
47:36 to do all of their pre-work.
47:38 So they go in there, they started
47:39 knocking on doors. They started going
47:41 and giving Bible studies to people and the
47:43 opening night of their meetings they had 70
47:45 visitors come not counting church members, okay.
47:54 I had the privilege of going over there one time
47:56 with Leasa and Verrell and I noticed
47:59 a man walking in. He had a Michigan jacket;
48:01 I go to school in Michigan so I thought
48:02 oh I can talk to him. And I went over there
48:05 and he came up to me and said how are you,
48:08 I am Chris Glover and his ascent, given his
48:10 ascent, I said no way you are from Maine
48:12 I am from Maine too. And he was telling me
48:16 how he met my sister. My sister had made
48:19 a wrong turn into the hotel and she was turning
48:23 around and he saw her license plate from Maine
48:26 and he flagged her down and stopped her car
48:30 and asking her what you doing all the way down
48:33 here in Frankfort. And so she told him what
48:36 we are doing, you know we are doing the series
48:37 in Bible studies and she asked him
48:40 do you study the Bible. And he said you know
48:43 I haven't in the past but I've been thinking
48:46 that something I really need to do.
48:48 I really want to study the Bible and so she asked
48:50 him do you want to study and he said yes.
48:53 He has been coming into the meetings every night
48:55 and tomorrow I believe he is going to be baptized.
49:04 One more thing I want to say is that
49:06 they couldn't be here tonight because
49:07 their meetings. Tonight is their last night,
49:10 but last night they had 12 decisions for people
49:15 to join God's true church to come out of that one.
49:18 They are having five people getting ready
49:20 for baptism right now plus 12 more
49:23 and God has been doing some
49:24 amazing things over Frankfort.
49:27 That's close to doubling their membership.
49:32 You know there are several objectives that
49:35 we have for this Youth for Jesus Program.
49:37 And it's not just for the youth; it's not just
49:40 to mentor them, to teach them how to
49:42 do evangelism, to teach them how to live
49:46 Christian lives. We also want to impact
49:49 the churches that we go into.
49:52 We also want to impact the community.
49:54 We want to share the love of Jesus.
49:56 The soon coming of Jesus and the salvation
49:58 that Jesus provides with the community
50:01 and invite them to come and join His church.
50:04 We also want to make this program so that
50:07 he can be duplicated anywhere and anybody
50:10 can do it. And so we are going to give,
50:14 we are going to talk to some people in these
50:17 different areas who have been impacted
50:20 by our Youth for Jesus program.
50:23 And Kevin is bringing out Pastor Rich Teller,
50:27 and we love this man. If we could take him
50:32 home to Minnesota we would.
50:35 Here we have as Leasa told you Richard Teller.
50:39 He is the Pastor Shelbyville as well as
50:41 the Pewee Valley church and when we came out
50:44 here last year to try and figure out what
50:47 churches we are going to go with,
50:49 some interesting things happened.
50:51 We want to originally going to go with
50:54 Pewee Valley as the main site and Shelbyville
50:56 wasn't even one of our churches we were
50:59 considering, and the Lord just worked things
51:02 out amazingly. And the Lord knew
51:04 where we needed to be and who needed
51:06 to be touched and so we ended up having
51:08 our main site at Richard's church a Pastor,
51:12 Richard's church at Pewee Valley
51:14 and then his second church we were able
51:16 to incorporate as one of the churches as well.
51:19 And I wanted to just ask you Rich what kind
51:23 of an impact would you say it had on let say
51:26 Shelbyville church first.
51:27 Tell us little bit about Shelbyville church?
51:29 Well Shelbyville is not a large church.
51:32 It averages may be about 35 people
51:34 a Sabbath. And the meeting started
51:38 the first night and I think we must had 85 people.
51:41 There was about 42 visitors. Amen!
51:44 We average between 70 and 85 people every night
51:47 with about 30 to 45 visitors every night.
51:51 So we are actually having more visitors
51:52 in our total Sabbath attendance.
51:56 Which just excited the church,
51:58 the young people and the church members
52:02 just bonded, and they just fell in love
52:05 with each other, and it's excited the church.
52:07 The church over the last few years may be
52:09 done 6 or 7 evangelistic efforts may be one or two
52:13 people and to have the amount of people
52:16 coming out that came to this meeting just
52:19 inspired them, just fired them up.
52:23 We baptized 8, the other night we have
52:27 at least 5 to 6 that are very serious that
52:30 we are working with, that are working on smoking
52:32 and we have other interest that will
52:34 continue to follow up. The Lord put us in contact
52:37 with some very interesting people.
52:40 Everyone is an experience,
52:41 but I want to share one experience from
52:43 Shelbyville. Alaina one of the Bible workers came,
52:46 the first week she was there,
52:48 she knocked on Elizabeth's door.
52:51 Now Elizabeth is in her 80's and as they started
52:55 talking Elizabeth brought up to Sabbath.
52:59 Elizabeth had been keeping the Sabbath
53:01 by herself for several years trying to convict
53:04 people of the Sabbath and nobody would
53:06 listen to her and she had not idea there was
53:09 anybody out there that understood
53:10 and kept the Sabbath. So, the very next Sabbath
53:15 she was in church and almost immediately
53:19 became part of our church family, amen.
53:21 Now Elizabeth when she was 17 years old
53:25 her family was starving. They didn't have enough
53:26 food and somebody told her if she would smoke
53:30 cigarettes it will help deal that hunger.
53:32 And she started smoking when she was 17 years old.
53:37 Just before the meeting started we had a
53:39 "Stop Smoking" seminar and the very first day
53:44 Elizabeth quit smoking. It's been well over
53:46 a month now and she not had another
53:48 cigarette since. Amen! And she was baptized,
53:52 last Tuesday night. How long she smoking for?
53:54 Oh my, 82 or 83 and started when she was 17.
53:59 Sixty five years in that area.
54:01 And she lights the cigarettes down
54:03 and never looked back again, amen, amen.
54:05 Just a sweet heart, and that's just one
54:08 of the many, many stories. Any other story
54:11 come to mine. Well we go to Pewee Valley.
54:15 Pewee Valley is little bigger church.
54:18 The beauty that ASI brought is the Lord for
54:22 the past three years has had Pewee Valley
54:23 on a journey. Last summer we had the
54:26 Messiah's Mansion there and it really
54:28 rallied our church members and excited some.
54:32 Then this year, I go back a couple of years ago.
54:36 My son used to be the ASI Representative
54:39 liaison for Mid-American Union.
54:41 When he was in Cincinnati I went up to see him
54:43 and he said, got good news for you dad.
54:45 We are going to be able to visit you in two years
54:47 because that's going to be in Louisville.
54:49 And we went great and I knew a bit about
54:52 the Youth for Jesus. So I start getting
54:55 a little bit excited that it would come
54:57 and we could possibly be part of it.
55:00 And we started building that excitement
55:03 this year and then when we met and they visited
55:07 our church, I think Kevin you came to visit
55:10 Pewee Valley with couple of others.
55:13 And the people just loved them.
55:16 They loved them so much that I think they said
55:18 two of them saying that's where when we got
55:19 to have to meet the coordinating site.
55:23 Yes! The church worked together to prepare
55:27 for the youth. We had the 43 youth staying
55:29 in our school and just our church had
55:35 40 to 50 people out every Sabbath for the
55:37 training that entire eight week training,
55:41 went out door to door. Every single story
55:49 is an exciting story. When we did the baptism
55:53 on Tuesday night it was just electric.
55:55 We had around 500 people in the church.
55:58 You could just feel the electricity in the air.
56:01 And as we were doing the baptism I looked out
56:03 to everybody and I said you know you aren't
56:06 getting the few of the faces that I am getting
56:08 as they come up out of the water.
56:11 Brenda who is going to come out in a little bit,
56:12 when she came up all the worry on her face
56:15 and her eyes were just absolutely if they could
56:17 have been spot lights they had been that bright.
56:20 She was so excited. But I want to share
56:23 one special one. And I debated on whether
56:28 embarrassing them or not, but they are sitting
56:31 here tonight. And the first person I got to
56:34 baptized and may be the one that was the biggest
56:38 thrill for me was George. Now George had been
56:41 Jehovah's Witness for 20 years,
56:43 and his wife was our church treasurer
56:46 and he had been coming to church for a lot of
56:48 years and the church was praying, and praying.
56:51 I don't know, I think the prayer has finally
56:55 stormed heaven and God had to do something
56:57 because when this young people came they touch
57:00 George's heart and Tuesday he was baptized.
57:03 Amen! Amen.
57:13 Tremendous people are baptized.
57:15 We are looking forward to see what the Lord does.
57:17 We also have several people in Pewee Valley
57:20 that we are working with, yeah,
57:22 that smoking and few other problems
57:25 but several of them committed to that
57:30 they want to be baptized as soon as we can work
57:32 through their issues with them, amen.
57:35 Thank you Rich very much.


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