3ABN On the Road

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Program Code: OTR000933


01:03 Let us bow our heads together.
01:07 Our heavenly Father,
01:09 it has been such a privilege to be here,
01:13 to praise Your name and song, to hear the wonderful things
01:19 that You are doing around the world.
01:22 And, Lord, we're so blessed by You
01:28 to be able to be a part of Your great commission.
01:34 As we prepare to hear more
01:36 of the wonderful things You do, Lord,
01:39 and as we prepare to study a word
01:41 we do not want to go forward with out Your Holy Spirit
01:45 in our hearts leading our minds in our midst, Lord.
01:50 Please fill these place with Your Holy Spirit.
01:53 And, Lord, there are more brothers and sisters
01:58 and children of God watching,
02:01 may Your Holy Spirit visit them as well
02:05 and may we know that You've been with us today
02:09 and may others know when we go forth from here.
02:14 In Jesus name, amen. Please be seated.
02:39 Without Him
02:41 I could do nothing
02:47 Without Him
02:50 I'd surely fail
02:55 Without Him
02:58 I would be drifting
03:04 Like a ship without a sail
03:13 Jesus, O Jesus
03:21 Do you know Him today?
03:25 Do not turn Him away
03:29 O Jesus
03:34 My Jesus without Him
03:40 How lost I would be
03:47 Without Him
03:49 I would be dying
03:55 Without Him
03:58 I'd be enslaved
04:04 Without Him
04:06 Life would be hopeless
04:12 But with Jesus
04:14 Thank God I'm saved
04:21 Jesus, O Jesus
04:29 Do you know Him today?
04:33 You can turn Him away
04:37 O Jesus
04:42 My Jesus
04:46 Without Him
04:49 How lost I would be
04:55 Jesus, my Jesus
05:05 without Him
05:08 How lost I would be
05:38 Our panelists today are Sikhu Hlatshwayo.
05:42 She's the vice president for resources
05:44 for the Generation of Youth for Christ.
05:46 She's involved with campus ministries
05:48 on public university campuses all over Michigan.
05:51 She was born in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe
05:55 and then grew up in Bulawayo.
05:57 And after winning a scholarship to study
05:59 in Victoria, British Columbia,
06:01 she did the same and graduated
06:03 from Wellesley College in Boston.
06:07 Wendell Lawrence is a dental surgeon
06:11 and he practices in Southfield, Michigan.
06:13 He was born in Trinidad.
06:15 He's been ASI member for eight years
06:17 and he's on the board of AMEN,
06:20 the Adventist Medical Evangelism Network.
06:23 Patty LaVanture directs cooking schools
06:25 at Country Life Natural Food in Pullman, Michigan.
06:29 She grew up in a Catholic communion,
06:31 later was trained by Mark Antino Finley in Chicago.
06:36 And she is assisted in training wellness centers,
06:39 equipping overseas missionaries plus
06:41 inspiring lay people and pastor's wives
06:44 and equipping churches and outreach.
06:47 Elizabeth Gonsalves-Remington from Long Island, New York,
06:51 She is the president of the ASI Chapter
06:54 in the northeast
06:55 and she directs a home health care agency
06:58 and visiting nurse agency of a 150 staff on Long Island.
07:03 Her heart is for building
07:04 and equipping Christian schools in her native Guyana,
07:08 where the institution is grown from 100 students
07:11 to over 350 now.
07:13 Bill Dull leaves in Calcutta, India
07:16 for last 15 years for he and his wife Lois,
07:19 have established and operate two orphanages
07:22 filled with the 170 children,
07:25 three Bible seminars with 80 students
07:28 and midwifery training program for village midwives.
07:32 Has been an ASI member since 1979
07:35 and has taught medical missionaries
07:37 in a number of places across North America
07:40 and other places in the world and now in India.
07:42 And the reason that we've come together today
07:45 is to review with you the wonderful lesson
07:50 that we've had about the compassion of Jesus Christ
07:53 and we think about the quote of Emma Lazarus
07:57 on the base of the Statue of Liberty,
07:58 "Give me your tired, your poor,
08:00 your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"
08:03 sounds much like the situation of mankind
08:06 2,000 years ago in Palestine and how does it apply today.
08:12 "Give me your tired, your poor" does that apply to us today?
08:15 Amen.
08:17 Jesus said, "Come unto me, all ye that labor
08:19 and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
08:21 Take my yoke upon you, and learn with me,
08:25 I meek and lowly in heart
08:26 and you will find rest for your souls."
08:29 Every part of his ministry was motivated by compassion.
08:33 You've may heard popular 3ABN personal Cheri Peters says
08:38 "Don't forget God is crazy about you."
08:41 What was it about Jesus and His ministry?
08:44 What was it about His ministry that large crowds,
08:47 great multitudes would flock to see Jesus?
08:52 I mean, the Bible said that many tried to touch Him
08:55 because they felt that power was coming out of Him to heal.
09:00 So, He drew attention
09:02 because power was coming out of Him.
09:04 Anybody else? Sikhu?
09:06 I think in addition to that
09:08 I gonna return to John Chapter 9.
09:10 In John Chapter 9 we've the story of the gentleman
09:13 who was blind all his life and then he was healed
09:16 and then when he is taken in before the Sanhedrin
09:20 and they have a problem with the fact
09:21 that he believes Jesus to be prophet.
09:23 In chapter 9 verse 35 it says that
09:27 "Jesus heard that they had cast Him out"
09:29 they had cast Him out of synagogue
09:31 "and when he had found him, he said unto him,
09:34 Dost thou believe on the Son of God?"
09:36 So that Jesus who had a personal interest
09:39 in this gentleman who was being ostracized
09:41 for his faith in God
09:42 and because of that personal interest
09:44 that Jesus took in individuals it made people draw--
09:49 people were drawn to Him because of that
09:51 because He individually cared about their needs.
09:53 Bill?
09:55 One of the things that I've noticed is that
09:58 when you pay attention to children
10:01 the parents and older people really take note
10:05 and Jesus said, "bring them to Me."
10:07 He held them on His knee, He blessed them
10:10 and the people really took note of His compassion
10:13 for even the little children.
10:15 Patty?
10:16 Well in Isaiah 53 it talks about
10:19 how Jesus had no form or comeliness
10:22 and He had no beauty that we would desire Him.
10:25 But when I think about Jesus
10:27 there must have been some thing amazing,
10:30 some love that emanated out of Him through His eyes,
10:34 through His tone of the voice that just drew people to Him.
10:37 This amazing love that they could sense
10:40 otherwise He wouldn't have be able to appeal
10:42 to individuals and crowds alike.
10:46 Elizabeth? Okay.
10:49 You know, very often people are drawn
10:51 and enthuse by good oratory.
10:54 We've read so many places
10:56 that Jesus was such a wonderful speaker.
10:59 We read about the gentleness of His voice.
11:02 And what was most interesting is the where he taught.
11:06 He used the things that people were accustomed to.
11:09 He used the very things that they did from day to day,
11:13 planting and all the other things
11:15 to bring home a very and much more powerful point.
11:20 Now what I like most about it He could have all the oratory,
11:25 all the good speech and if it was not accompanied
11:29 by those personal compassionate times
11:33 He spent with people it might not have meant us much
11:37 as all the good speaking how canon will do.
11:42 How can we apply these compassionate,
11:44 love and action in the mission were we live and work?
11:52 Have you thought about that the power of His love
11:55 and compassion is really what it was that drew people,
11:59 even though people came for a variety of reasons.
12:02 According to Mark 5 and Mark 6 and John 12,
12:06 it says that spiritual hunger is something that drew them.
12:10 They came to be heal, they had a medical need,
12:13 they were seeking political solution,
12:16 they were desiring relief from a foreign occupying power
12:19 that they were under their pressure
12:22 and some came merely out of curiosity
12:25 but what was it the phrases said
12:28 about the way the crowds came to see Him?
12:31 What was the observation that phrases said?
12:35 In today's language we'll say the world
12:38 has gone mad after Him.
12:40 He was very much like a super star of His day.
12:44 Multitudes came from all around.
12:46 It was not from the particular town
12:48 that He was speaking in at that time.
12:51 The Bible says, I think its Mark says
12:53 that they came from Jerusalem, from Judea,
12:56 from Samaria, from Galilee, from every part
13:00 and I want you to remember
13:02 it's not like today were you took your car
13:05 and you drove from Orlando or you drove from my Miami
13:09 or you drove from wherever you came from.
13:12 They came by foot in hot deserts
13:17 and whatever they heard about and whatever the people thought
13:20 when there was-- in His presence
13:23 was strong enough to keep those multitudes
13:25 coming day after day and the Babylon so said
13:30 some followed Him from town to town
13:32 because they just couldn't get enough
13:35 of what He had to say.
13:37 Have you ever thought what is your motive
13:40 for following Jesus?
13:43 I mean, Jesus said to disciples, follow Me
13:46 and I'll make you fishes of man.
13:48 So I think that our motive should be
13:50 to make fishes of man for Him and the same energy
13:56 that we put into serving others
13:59 would be the savings of our own souls.
14:03 Bill?
14:04 The same way Jesus took the little children,
14:07 He took me.
14:10 Well, you know, when we think about
14:13 we go to church some times because of custom,
14:16 because of family, because of habit
14:19 and when we stop and ask that question,
14:21 why is that that I follow Jesus?
14:23 What is that draws me? Sikhu.
14:26 I just want to say that from working with young people
14:29 and being a young person I think sometimes
14:32 because you go to church so much and you here about
14:35 how you follow Christ for the wrong motives
14:36 and that's not good and I completely agree
14:39 but the danger becomes that as a young person
14:42 I don't want to follow Jesus for the wrong motives
14:44 and because I know that my motives are wrong
14:46 I choose not to follow Him at all
14:48 and it may some kind of surprising
14:50 but there are actually lot of young people out there
14:52 who don't want to be a hypocrite
14:54 and that's the reason they don't come to church
14:56 and yet Jesus says come just as you are.
14:59 And even though your motives are wrong
15:00 and you may be coming to church for all the wrong reasons
15:03 but when you're in church
15:04 that's where Jesus can reach you.
15:06 Just come even if you have the wrong motives and pray
15:08 and God is the one who change your motives.
15:11 Yeah, I really appreciate Sikhu bring out that point
15:14 because I think young people are so amazing.
15:17 They can see through so much
15:20 and they don't want to be hypocrites
15:22 but like you said it's better to come
15:25 for the wrong motives then do not come at all
15:27 because Jesus can change our motives.
15:30 And we talked the other day about
15:32 all the different motives
15:33 that people had for coming to Jesus.
15:35 Some wanted physical healings, some wanted spiritual healings,
15:39 some are just curious, some wanted to trick Him.
15:44 They're jealous of the power
15:49 that Jesus had over the people and they wanted--
15:52 may be they wanted that for themselves
15:53 I'm not sure but they hated Him
15:56 for what they saw in Him rather then loving Him.
15:59 So it's just amazing.
16:00 We do need to search our motives
16:02 but like Bill said Jesus when He came into my life
16:05 and touched me I had to follow Him wherever He led.
16:10 You know, Brother Richard Bland with United Prison Ministries
16:14 with the captive audience that he served,
16:16 he said they can really see through.
16:19 They can tell a phony immediately.
16:21 They have insight to be able to discern
16:25 what a person's real motive is and we need to look and see
16:28 what our motives are really and to be passionate about
16:32 what we live for.
16:35 We live in a very impersonal world today.
16:38 For example, if you got to touch tone phone press one.
16:42 We live in a iPod, ecommerce technological age
16:47 and how is it that compassion relates to a personal touch
16:51 in such an environment that we live in today.
16:55 You know, I missed all the techno buzz
16:59 and the E world we live in, people in society
17:02 are still yearning for that personal touch,
17:07 for their heart fill personal relationship
17:09 that nothing else can replace.
17:11 I think if we do that God is gonna use us
17:14 in a powerful way to touch someone's life
17:17 admits all this technology
17:19 and ecommerce in our society today.
17:22 You know, we can only make a friend
17:23 one at a time, don't we?
17:26 And people do business with people they like.
17:30 And so if we make ourselves available to others
17:33 and win friendships then we have to win a friend
17:36 before we can win a friend of Christ.
17:39 If our life and witness lacks power
17:43 are we misrepresenting the character
17:45 and mission of Jesus?
17:49 Absolutely.
17:51 You know, the Bible talks about how we have--
17:53 we have this treasure in earthen vessels
17:55 and I think the more we realize are nothingness,
18:00 the more we realize our need for Jesus,
18:02 the more we realize He is our only sufficiency.
18:05 He is all we can give.
18:07 So, if we go to God, just say, Lord,
18:09 I mean empty vessel.
18:11 I have nothing to give except what You put in me,
18:14 we will have what the world needs.
18:17 How is that the personal touch of someone influence you
18:23 to accept Jesus Christ as a personal Savior?
18:28 Well, I could speak from-- I grew up in a Adventist home.
18:32 So, from an early age,
18:34 you know, my parents personal touch
18:35 had a huge influence in me
18:36 making the decision to follow Christ.
18:38 But I particularly remember when I left home
18:41 and I went school in Canada being far away
18:43 from the home for the first time in my life
18:45 I went through some,
18:47 I guess I had to recommit myself to Christ
18:50 and make the decision to keep Sabbath,
18:52 not do home work on the Sabbath day
18:53 and stuff like that.
18:55 Again a challenge that I faced is that
18:57 the school that I went to was about
18:58 30 minutes away from the nearest Church,
19:01 30 minute drive and I had no transportation
19:04 and there was just one particular family
19:06 that took me in as their own and they lived 30 minutes away
19:10 from the Church in the opposite direction.
19:12 They would drive an hour to come pick me up
19:14 and hour back to the church
19:16 and the same thing to drop me back home.
19:18 And that made a huge impact and when I was deciding
19:21 whether or not I was gonna keep the Sabbath or not
19:23 if this family was willing to do that for me
19:26 then I wanted to be faithful to God
19:29 because they were being faithful to me.
19:31 And that was a-- that made a difference in me
19:33 making the decision for Christ to go all the way for Him.
19:36 Amen. Amen.
19:39 Henry, I know for me God sent someone
19:42 into the store were I worked.
19:44 And I was thankful that that person was listening
19:46 to the voice of the Holy Spirit because he had no reason
19:50 to go into the store where I was
19:52 and it was at a time when I was praying
19:54 that the Lord would lead me to the Church
19:56 where He wanted me to be
19:58 and I'm just so thankful for that person touch.
20:03 Yeah, praise the Lord.
20:04 I'm sure that someone was ready at the right time.
20:07 Even a word or date or some literature
20:09 or something is available
20:10 but the personal touch of people
20:12 is really the most significant thing, isn't it?
20:17 "Those who are fighting the battle of life
20:19 at great odds may be strengthened
20:21 and encouraged by the little attentions
20:24 that cost only a loving effort.
20:27 Such a strong helpful grasp
20:28 by the hand of true friend
20:30 is worth more than gold or silver.
20:33 Words of kindness are as welcome
20:35 as the smile of angels."
20:37 According to the Ministry of Healing, 158.
20:39 I know when someone who is working,
20:42 cleaning a restroom at the airport
20:44 or someone who is working at the counter at the airport
20:47 if you say to them, thank you very much
20:49 for the contribution you are making
20:50 or thank you for keeping this place clean
20:52 or you have been an answer to prayer to me today
20:55 to someone that is helped you at a bank
20:57 or some other agency that their faces can just slide up
21:01 and it really is a, it really is a pleasant reaction
21:05 and you can represent in a personal way Jesus Christ.
21:08 Pastor Wintley Phipps likes to say,
21:11 "Never go next door with a tracked in hand
21:14 unless you first been there with a helping hand."
21:18 And I think that that really is true.
21:20 Go stack ward for a neighbor who needs help
21:23 or whatever it might be that they have a need for.
21:26 People were attracted to Jesus
21:28 and they listen with delight according to Mark 12,
21:31 and they were amazed at His teaching.
21:34 How was He able to personally impact
21:37 both individuals and crowds alike?
21:39 He was equally effected-- effective with big crowds
21:44 as well as individuals.
21:45 How was it that He was able to do that?
21:49 We have got a classic example of the woman at the well.
21:53 That was a one on one contact.
21:57 He took the time to talk with her.
22:00 He sure had some foreknowledge because of who He was
22:04 but eventually when He was able to offer her the living water
22:10 she brought many people
22:12 from the village to come and talk to Him.
22:15 You know, it made all the difference there
22:18 the way He dealt with her.
22:19 He could have just said, "Give me some water,"
22:22 she gave Him the water, "thank you and left her alone."
22:26 In today's very, very busy world,
22:29 you know, we have a common greeting
22:31 when we reach people.
22:32 How are you doing?
22:34 But how often have we stopped
22:36 for a couple seconds to hear a response
22:39 to that "How are you doing?"
22:41 You do stop sometimes and some of the times
22:44 you have stopped you have to stop the conversation
22:48 because you realize that the people are so hungry,
22:51 people are so wanting to talk to somebody
22:54 and say something that's bothering them
22:57 that the listening ear means a lot.
23:00 I have personally promised myself
23:02 that as often as I can
23:05 and more often than not make the time
23:07 to listen a little bit.
23:09 And when you listen just listening,
23:12 I have been able to say to so many people.
23:15 Well, do you know the Bible says
23:18 "Come unto me, all ye that labor
23:21 and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
23:24 For me that's the best word
23:26 we can offer to anybody in today's world.
23:29 Today you talk to people and all they say to you,
23:32 "I'm stressed, I'm tired."
23:35 Now this is not the way God intended life to be.
23:38 And I have promised myself
23:40 that by His grace as often as I have the opportunity
23:45 to point someone to somebody, who is really,
23:49 personally and individually interested in our lives.
23:54 And my favorite statement is, God is so interested in us
23:59 and knows so much about us that He knows
24:02 how many grains of hair is on our head.
24:06 I am happy to have such a Savior
24:08 and I just keep asking God to help me, to help me,
24:12 to be like Him where I can touch another life
24:16 to bring others to know Him better.
24:19 Well, following on what you have said, Elizabeth,
24:21 how have the rest of you found the way
24:23 to be able to minister effectively one on one.
24:30 You know, our home has always been our--
24:35 the centre of our evangelism.
24:36 My wife has been a great blessing.
24:39 And when we were in New York,
24:41 we were in Washington Square Park
24:44 and we had-- we would do park ministry.
24:49 We would sing songs and do health talks and all
24:53 and one of the prostitutes that the park
24:57 she came up to us, she came up to me
25:01 and she said "I'm tired of the life that I am living,
25:05 I would like to come home with you,
25:07 would you take me?"
25:08 And so, we took her out to our home.
25:11 We put her in our home with us, with our children.
25:15 And she just grew unbelievably
25:17 with the morning worships and everything
25:20 and she was with us for several months
25:24 and she eventually wanted to go back to the city.
25:27 We took her back to the city.
25:29 She went back into prostitution.
25:31 But then we were in the park doing park ministry,
25:35 again she came and she said "I don't want this life.
25:38 I want to comeback will to take me back?'
25:40 We said, "Yes, we will take you."
25:42 We took her back into our home.
25:45 And she was with us a short time.
25:47 Three times she went to the park, back to the park.
25:50 But the last time she said "I'll never do it again,
25:54 please take me again.
25:56 I want to change my life.
25:58 I want to follow Jesus all the way."
26:00 And she did. Her life was changed.
26:03 She said "I have a son that I gave away
26:06 when he was born."
26:08 She said "I want to get him back.
26:10 I want raise my boy. I want to be a Christian."
26:14 Arleen changed her life. Praise God.
26:16 She was baptized.
26:18 She became a secretary.
26:25 She-- just a few months ago
26:29 her son wrote me a letter and he said
26:32 "You don't know what you did for our family.
26:35 You changed our entire life
26:37 and I want to thank you for what you did for me."
26:40 Amen.
26:42 It seems that Jesus wants to...
26:49 It seems that Jesus wants to setup
26:51 a branch office in our town, doesn't He?
26:54 Yeah He wants to live in our neighborhood
26:57 and delve in our heart and develop a partnership
27:01 with each one of us
27:03 and pitch His tent in our refugee camp.
27:06 Anyone else have a personal contact like that?
27:10 Well, you know, as a dentist
27:14 when I have patient in the chair,
27:16 I have a very captive audience.
27:17 Indeed.
27:19 And while I'm working on them they can't really say anything.
27:23 So I can give an entire Bible study.
27:25 And when I'm finished then we can ask questions,
27:29 you know, and so from time to time
27:31 I do that in my dental chair and God has brought many people
27:37 to knowledge of Him through this method.
27:40 Amen.
27:43 We really are strategically placed
27:45 for God can hear us, aren't we?
27:46 That's right.
27:48 And, Henry, you know, that's one thing
27:49 that I think about a lot.
27:51 Each one of us is strategically placed,
27:53 it's not about-- there's nobody
27:55 that's more important
27:56 or less important than anybody else.
27:58 It's about God putting each one us
28:01 where you will be in touch with the very people
28:04 that He knows you can be a blessing to
28:07 and also where you are going to receive the very blessings
28:12 and trials that will develop a character in you,
28:15 that the Lord-- that He is just trying
28:16 to paint a picture in everyone of us.
28:19 So, wherever you are you are there
28:21 for all those reasons.
28:24 And don't ever think that your most humble effort are futile.
28:31 I remember as a little guy
28:34 sitting at the knee of my dear grandfather
28:37 after he return from South America
28:39 were he had gone to be the first minister
28:43 of our faith baptizing the first person
28:46 and starting the first Church in Argentina,
28:48 Brazil and Chile where my mother was born.
28:51 And he told about the first series of meetings
28:54 that he had conducted in Punta Arenas.
28:58 Punta Arenas as you know
29:00 is the further most southern city
29:03 in the whole world on the bottom of Chile
29:06 and you face across the sea to the Antarctica.
29:10 And he put up posters and hand bells
29:13 and rented a hall and expected to be able
29:15 to get a good size crowd.
29:18 He didn't know what God would send him.
29:20 But only one lady, one lady
29:24 and her son came to that effort.
29:27 And he went ahead and preached
29:28 as thought there were 100 or 1,000 people there.
29:32 And I didn't know what the outcome of that was
29:35 but it's 1942 or 1943 when he told me that story
29:39 and encourage me never to think that
29:42 what small effort that we are able
29:44 to invest might be able to have a result.
29:48 And a two or three years ago
29:50 my wife and I were in King Texas
29:52 for our 100th anniversary celebration
29:56 of my mother's last cousin who came from Argentina.
30:01 Dr. Herbert Westphal and he was--
30:05 he recited the Ten Commandments for us in German
30:08 and he sang for us in Spanish
30:10 and he still had his good sense of humor.
30:13 He is awaiting the Lords return now.
30:15 But I learned at that time the rest of the story.
30:19 Out of that meeting and Punta Arenas
30:21 the grandpa of Frank Westphal had
30:24 that there came over 200
30:26 Seventh-day Adventist Christians,
30:28 60 or 70 denominational employees,
30:31 two conference Presidents and two Evangelists
30:34 that no doubt contributed the thousands of others
30:37 discovering Jesus Christ.
30:39 So, he won't know that until the kingdom.
30:42 And you and I won't know the results
30:44 of the little things we do
30:45 where God strategically places us
30:48 to be able to come in contact with someone.
30:51 Now Sister Slicker says in her prayer time
30:53 in the morning "Who today Lord?
30:55 Who today?"
30:57 Go and do like wise, dear ones. God bless you.
31:07 Thank you, members.
31:09 You have an opportunity and we have an opportunity
31:13 to make an investment of the time
31:15 that we have been given and the opportunities
31:18 He allows to cross our path
31:20 and there will be people in the kingdom as result.
31:34 At this time you have an opportunity
31:36 to give a Sabbath school missions offering.
31:40 This offering shouldn't be confused
31:42 with the ASI project offering that will be taken later
31:46 and please don't use the envelopes
31:48 that were on the chairs
31:50 when you came into the auditorium.
31:52 This is the offering that you normally give
31:54 at your home Sabbath school and is for the World Missions
31:57 of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
32:00 Thank you for you generosity
32:02 and the ushers will wade on you now.
36:50 Good morning, ASI family.
36:52 Good morning.
36:54 I can't believe eight years ago
36:55 we started taking about New Beginnings DVD project
36:59 and it's been an exiting eight years.
37:03 We worked closely with
37:04 It Is Written in many other organizations
37:07 and I can't believe what the-- how the Lord has blessed.
37:11 Amen. Amen.
37:12 You know, another thing is that we've worked
37:13 with numerous supporting ministries
37:16 partnering together to share the gospel
37:19 throughout the world
37:21 and also a partnership with ShareHim
37:23 as we go to prepare the way for the evangelist meetings
37:27 that take place with ShareHim.
37:29 It's been a wonderful partnership
37:30 and is continuing on with the Lord's blessing.
37:33 We have been working with many great organizations
37:36 and we have been particularly with Jonathan Kuntaraf
37:39 from the world church along with Pastor Mike Ryan
37:43 and, Pastor Mark Finely and it's been blessing
37:46 to see how with laity and the church working together
37:50 the things that the Lord has done.
37:53 And I know that Viorel, I believe is it right now
37:57 as we speak can we safely say
37:59 that someone is learning about Jesus through this program?
38:03 Denzil, I would say that it's safe to say
38:06 that at this very moment and 24 hours a day
38:09 and seven days a week somewhere in the world
38:11 it's learning about God through the New Beginning DVD
38:14 from the laypeople that been trained
38:16 and equipped all around the world.
38:19 How many places have we done this training, Viorel?
38:22 Oh, I hope you don't ask me this.
38:24 We have so many places.
38:26 I cannot tell you exactly the countries
38:28 but we have done over 60 places
38:31 and we trained over 19,000 lay people
38:34 how to do evangelist series.
38:36 Trained and equipped.
38:37 Did you hear that over 19,000 laypeople have been
38:41 trained and equipped to tell others about Jesus.
38:46 You know, Denzil, we never would have dreamed
38:47 this about eight years ago.
38:49 We never would and this morning,
38:51 Dwight, can you--
38:52 we are gonna highlight a few places
38:54 and, Dwight, would you tell us about those places?
38:57 Thank you so much.
38:58 This morning we are going to highlight places in Mexico,
39:03 in Brazil, in Philippines and share with you a little bit
39:09 of what took place in these particular places.
39:12 And joining me now are Norm and Gail Reitz
39:15 and I am going to ask them to share with us
39:19 first of all from Mexico, what took place there, Norm?
39:23 Mexico City is the largest city in the world
39:28 that has a population of 26 million.
39:31 It's a Catholic country
39:33 but they are two Adventist conferences
39:34 in Mexico City as take a mission
39:37 were last year in the middle of the year
39:39 we trained 170 laypeople to do evangelism.
39:43 Last December there were 500 laypeople
39:47 that came to training in Mexico City.
39:51 In order to get our respective on how it was so effective
39:55 I would like to tell you a story.
39:58 When I was young lawyer working
40:00 for the navy department in Washington
40:03 in that patriotic environment
40:04 I decided to join the Marine Corps
40:07 and as my buddies and I were leaving for boot camp
40:10 from Union Station in Washington DC,
40:13 Major General William Fairborn
40:15 came down to say good bye to wish as well.
40:19 And I learned something that day that applies to ASI
40:23 and that is that in the Marine Corps
40:27 the lowest recruit and the highest officer
40:30 in head quarters are both on the team.
40:35 We are team ASI together.
40:38 You folks provided the money for the Mexico City.
40:42 There is an infrastructure
40:44 that allows arrangements to be made.
40:46 When we went money had to be wired
40:48 by the General Conference.
40:50 We couldn't take 500 DVD players through customs
40:53 so the money had to go there.
40:56 Viorel Catarama made arrangements.
40:58 The Inter-America Division was holy supportive
41:02 of what we were doing.
41:03 They sent Sergio Moctezuma pastor,
41:06 they sent Carlyle Bayne's, ministerial man
41:09 to lend their influence to the media.
41:12 Gail, would you tell us
41:14 as they show the pictures of Mexico
41:15 what subjects we taught at the seminar?
41:19 Well, we gave evangelism God's way
41:22 with combined efforts with pastors and laity
41:27 and we also talked about the power of the Holy Spirit
41:30 an intercessory prayer.
41:33 We also told them how to get an audience
41:38 and then make effective appeals and then we showed them
41:44 how to practice preaching and that was the fun part
41:49 to see them practice the preaching.
41:56 Then we went to Brazil. Dwight was with us in Brazil.
42:00 Well, we found the team that go to Brazil
42:03 that consisted of Norm and Gail Reitz
42:06 and Darcie -- family from Mission Serve
42:13 and we went there to train 300 lay people
42:17 in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil.
42:19 And Norm and Gail share a little bit
42:21 of what took place there in Brazil.
42:24 In Brazil we had a very young audience.
42:27 This group were mostly between the ages of 20 and 35.
42:34 They are traveled up to 250 kilometers
42:37 to come to the meeting.
42:39 We have to turn 40 of them away.
42:42 They love this thing, they were enthusiastic,
42:44 they were energetic and they proved the principle
42:49 of trained the trainer evangelism.
42:52 There are three principles
42:53 that make this kind of training work.
42:56 The first one is multiplication.
42:59 We can go to a meeting, many of you have done meetings,
43:01 ShareHim is doing meetings all the time
43:04 but if we go and train 100 people
43:06 or 200 people or 300 people
43:09 we multiply the benefit tremendously about
43:13 what one meeting will do.
43:15 The second principle of trained
43:17 the trainer meetings is retention.
43:20 If your neighbor, if your fellow worker,
43:23 if somebody beyond culture or beyond language
43:26 is your mentor, is your teacher
43:28 you are more likely to stay in the church.
43:31 They are there to answer your question.
43:32 They are your friends.
43:34 And thirdly the principles of trained
43:36 the trainer evangelism is cost effectiveness.
43:41 You get the lot bigger yield for your investment
43:44 that you put into it.
43:46 Gail, tell about us some of the people that came.
43:48 Oh, we had young people and we had elderly people
43:53 but mostly we had young people that came
43:56 and they were so enthusiastic,
43:58 they were writing all the time taking notes
44:01 and they were especially happy to receive the brochure
44:07 that would go with the DVD.
44:09 his was the new idea that we got from doing
44:15 the one in Mexico City
44:16 because the ones in the Mexico City
44:19 we are larger ones.
44:21 And then we also gave them the DVD
44:24 and these were in Brazilian Portuguese.
44:27 And they where just so happy with these
44:30 and then their DVD sets.
44:33 As far as we know this was the first time
44:35 that the New Beginnings has been
44:38 given out in Brazilian Portuguese.
44:40 There are about 30 languages that have been done
44:43 and so far, as far as I know,
44:44 they haven't have been used in Chinese.
44:48 They are going to be some meanings in China next year.
44:51 But this was the first time for the Brazilian Portuguese.
44:55 Brazil was wonderful experience and they have been working
44:58 and in September ShareHim
45:01 will be conducting reaping meaning.
45:03 So please pray for the people in Brazil as they were
45:07 and the 40 that we had to turn away
45:09 they will be receiving their own personal training
45:14 from the local evangelist that was with us there.
45:17 So they don't be left out either.
45:19 Thank you so much for sharing
45:20 what has been going in Mexico and Brazil.
45:23 Amen. Amen.
45:25 It's exiting to see what's taking place
45:26 all over the world.
45:29 The next place that we are going
45:30 to highlight is Costa Rica.
45:33 And you folks know these, these young folks here,
45:37 Rusty and Joy McKee and we had a great time
45:40 down there in Costa Rica.
45:43 And what we were doing
45:45 was doing the training session we--
45:48 our goal was 300
45:49 and we had 300 people came for training.
45:52 And then Joy went to Costa Rica
45:56 in last couple of weeks of June,
45:58 the first part of the July
46:00 and she held her own evangelistic meetings
46:02 in connection with ShareHim.
46:04 And so we put together this team
46:06 that work so well together.
46:08 Rusty, tell us first about the training.
46:11 You were there with us for the training
46:12 and what was your impression
46:13 and tell us something about that training.
46:15 Thank you so much, Dwight.
46:16 So it's about three months before
46:18 Joy does evangelistic series
46:19 we went down spent all day training
46:23 on DVD home of the evangelism.
46:26 It was the end of the day we were kind of tired,
46:28 ready to go home and all of sudden we realized
46:31 hey, let the church members give it a try.
46:33 So we asked three people to come forward and they did.
46:36 First person went, went to half a dozen slides
46:39 and you could tell things are working,
46:41 responses from the crowd was lot of amen's
46:43 and okay its working.
46:44 Second person went, third person went.
46:47 And also and that third person the slides were done
46:51 but they kept going and going.
46:53 And I'm telling, Joy, Joy, what are we taking about?
46:55 What's he saying?
46:57 Yeah, because you couldn't understand them.
47:00 And so I lean forward to Denzile
47:01 and Denzile saying, you know, asked to turn to the wife.
47:03 What did we do?
47:04 He's still going, what's he talking about?
47:06 And about that time at the corner of my eye
47:08 I saw some movement in aisle so I turned to looked
47:12 an entire family was going forward.
47:16 He had made a call for those to accept Christ
47:19 for the first time.
47:20 My first response was, you know,
47:22 may be step on aisle and say,
47:24 "Hey, hey no, that's just the practice.
47:28 But, you know, God's timing and His word is so true
47:32 He just wants for us to share it.
47:33 And about one and half month later
47:35 we find out that whole family was baptized.
47:40 So you can imagine when we got a report
47:43 just about a week or two later
47:46 that there had already been 137 baptisms
47:49 due to this DVD training in Costa Rica.
47:52 We were thrilled
47:53 and I couldn't wait to get down there
47:56 and work with these evangelists
47:58 in the campaign, ShareHim campaign.
48:00 So upon arrival I met my translator
48:04 and it turns out that she had done
48:06 the DVD series in her own home
48:09 and I believe we have a picture of the translator
48:14 and some of the DVD training.
48:16 And I just wanted to point her out
48:18 and Lisa and her husband Ian.
48:21 Ian actually was an amazing help
48:24 during the campaign.
48:25 He did lot of the music
48:26 and that's him on I guess her left.
48:28 He had done the music and coordinated the PA system
48:32 and I thought what an amazing member of this church.
48:35 It wasn't, I believe it's a second Sabbath
48:38 that you in a ShareHim campaign you preach on stewardship
48:41 and health and it's about tithe
48:43 and you think it's, you know,
48:45 just a good reminder to all the church members.
48:47 Well, after when I went down to greet on the church members
48:49 and here came Ian running down and he said.
48:51 Oh, Joy, thank you, thank you, thank you.
48:53 I need it to hear that sermon.
48:55 Oh, it touched my heart and I said wow, Ian.
48:59 You know, this is the pretty fundamental understanding
49:01 in the Christian church.
49:02 I can't believe that your response.
49:05 He said well, you know,
49:06 I am, actually you might not know this
49:09 but I have been catholic my entire life.
49:12 And I said, oh.
49:13 He said, and I have been struggling
49:14 with alcoholism for several years
49:16 and it's put a strain on past ten years
49:18 of my marriage with Lisa.
49:20 And I said, really.
49:22 And he was like yeah and then, you know, what happen?
49:24 Lisa held these DVD trainings in our home
49:28 and studied with people in our home
49:31 and I decided to get baptized.
49:34 So here only he had been a member
49:36 for about two months and I couldn't believe it.
49:41 And I said, Ian,
49:42 what an amazing testimony you have.
49:44 You need to share this during the campaign
49:46 and he did and I think it touched
49:48 lot of people's life, which--
49:51 For which I have am thrilled.
49:52 And just keep Ian in your prayers.
49:54 His entire family is Catholic,
49:56 and now he is going down to visit his mother in Belize
49:59 to share his victory over alcoholism.
50:01 She is a devout Catholic
50:02 and he is going to share with her his new beliefs.
50:05 Amen, and did you notice that she said that
50:08 before the meetings even began there were 139 people
50:12 who are baptized including the four
50:17 who came forward that day
50:19 when they were practice preaching.
50:21 What a wonderful blessing.
50:23 And with the conclusion of the evangelistic meetings
50:26 they were nearly 600 that have been baptized
50:29 in that part of Costa Rica.
50:30 Praise the Lord for His blessings
50:33 upon the people there in Costa Rica.
50:35 And thank you so much for sharing with us
50:37 your work with the DVD.


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