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00:20 Denzil, you need to join this organization called ASI. And I 00:24 will tell you it changed our lives, didn't it? 00:27 Absolutely it changed our life and we are so grateful to God 00:32 for this opportunity to be involved in the ASI ministry. 00:36 When we went 30 years ago I thought there's about 300 people 00:41 there. What are we going to do? I realize that God has something 00:45 special for us as a family to do. There wasn't anything for 00:49 children at that time. I said Denzil, we have to have 00:52 something for the children and the youth. That's so important. 00:56 And as you saw last night, I was a beaming Grammy sitting on the 01:00 second row up here watching my grandson. Isn't it special that 01:05 we have something at ASI for our youth and our children. And you 01:09 know what, if you're not a member of ASI we think you should join 01:14 ASI. We would love to have you. 01:17 You know ASI has changed our family, changed our way of life 01:22 and changed how we look at how we can use our businesses and 01:27 our opportunities to share Christ in the marketplace. 01:29 And I invite each and every one of you to become involved and if 01:33 you're not a member please join. You'll not regret it. So you can 01:37 enjoy the same joys and privileges that we have had to 01:41 share Christ in our marketplace and be part of this great work 01:45 in seeing our Lord come because he's coming very, very soon. 01:49 Amen. Jesus is coming soon so please find out more about ASI 01:53 membership on our Website, asiministeries.org. We want you 01:57 to be a part of the family. God bless you and happy Sabbath. 02:01 The second coming of Jesus Christ just impels me to 02:06 understand how better to relate to people because I 02:11 believe Jesus is coming very soon. In fact, every morning 02:15 before I leave the house I have prayer with my precious wife 02:20 Nancy asking God to prepare us for the day, to bless particular 02:26 situations and just to understand what it is that God 02:29 wants us to do. I'll tell you, to be connected with the Lord 02:33 every day, to realize that he's coming back soon for you and for 02:38 me, that ought to tell of us we need to do something for the 02:44 Lord right now. ASI is one of those dynamic organizations that 02:49 just thrills you when you attend a convention, when you 02:54 get involved in sharing Christ in the marketplace every day. 02:58 ASI is something that will help you to understand better your 03:03 role in the great proclamation of the three angels' messages. 03:07 Let me tell you, the very core of the three angels' messages is 03:12 the righteousness of Jesus Christ. What a happy, wonderful 03:14 subject to share in the marketplace. So I want to 03:17 encourage each of you to become a member of ASI. It will not 03:22 only enrich you personally and your family it'll give you the 03:27 tools to really help you to know Christ and to share him as 03:31 we come to Christ's soon second return. 03:40 ¤ ¤ O Worship the King. 04:55 I'd like to invite you to stand for our morning prayer. 05:01 Our heavenly Father, as delegates of ASI and members of 05:07 ASI stand before you this morning, we pray that you'll 05:11 accept our praise, our thanksgiving. May it mingle with 05:15 that of the angels around your throne. May we see our 05:18 heavenly Savior, our precious Savior and his nail-scarred 05:22 hands interceding for us. Dear heavenly Father we thank you for 05:27 raising up this organization, for using it the past 70 years. 05:29 The untold, unseen good that's been done around the world 05:36 because of the dedication and commitment of the members of ASI 05:40 will only be realized when we get to the kingdom. So we want 05:45 to start praising you for that now. We pray you continue to use 05:50 us to advance your cause in the earth, to hasten the coming of 05:55 Jesus. Unite us as one like never before. We want to be 06:00 ready when Jesus comes. Father may our lives give evidence that 06:05 the living Christ is living in us and that his power through 06:11 us, our hands, our voices, is seen in the world. Father, thank 06:16 you for blessing ASI and now we pray that you pour out your 06:21 Spirit on this organization and all of us, our speaker and our 06:27 ears and hearts. In Jesus' name. Amen. 06:31 I invite you to remain standing as we sing our opening song, 06:37 Crown Him With Many Crowns 06:43 ¤ ¤ 09:45 You may be seated. 09:47 Good morning and Happy Sabbath ASI. I'm here before you again 09:57 and as we prepare for the morning's offering, we would 10:01 like to share with you three projects. The first is the 10:05 Ethiopian Union Mission for the funding of the providing 10:10 scriptures or Bibles, Spirit of Prophecy and training for former 10:14 Orthodox clergy. The second is a project named Kibidula, 10:19 in Tanzania in Africa and a third is our New Beginnings 10:24 picture rolls which you have seen posted here all week long. 10:29 The first is of a sensitive nature. It's the testimony of a 10:36 former Orthodox clergyman and because of the risk to his 10:42 safety I am telling you his testimony. In the order and the 10:49 community where they live they take a vow for simplicity so 10:54 they have very few belongings because they have devoted their 11:01 lives to religious things. And this particular clergyman, his 11:08 name is Elias, we'll call him Elias, came upon a Bible that 11:13 was translated by a local Adventist pastor. In reading the 11:18 Bible, which actually is forbidden among these clergymen 11:23 he discovered wonderful truths and he couldn't help believe 11:31 what he was reading. They have a Steps to Christ that he was 11:36 reading and he was reading these things and he was so overjoyed 11:41 he felt that he just had to share it with someone and so 11:45 with his closest confidants he would share these truths of the 11:51 Bible. He was discovered for these truths were not 11:56 necessarily well received by all They took him out into the woods 12:05 They removed his shoes and they beat the bottom of his feet. 12:11 Now you need to understand because they have this vow of 12:16 simplicity that they don't have many belongings and so the way 12:20 they travel and get around is by walking. So you can 12:24 understand how this disabled and this injury affected him. They 12:31 tied him to a tree and this was very disturbing for him because 12:36 he remembers that others who were under punishment were tied 12:42 to a tree and left for three days. And if they lived, if they 12:48 weren't eaten by wild animals, then they were admitted back 12:53 into the community. But he praised God because they tied 12:58 him to a tree just for an hour. But they threatened him and they 13:05 said you will not tell these truths. You keep these things to 13:13 yourself. But he could not. How could he? How could we keep the 13:21 truths of God to ourselves. So he continues in a very 13:27 clandestine and secret way to share with his brothers in that 13:31 community the truths, the full truths, present truth of the 13:38 Bible and what he's learned in reading Steps to Christ. We were 13:44 able to talk with another clergyman who indicated that 13:50 because of the sharing of these truths, and he was discovered, 13:53 they broke his arm and because they don't have much, he 13:58 didn't have the resources to seek medical assistance and so 14:04 for four months he lived with that broken arm. And it wasn't 14:10 until he was able to go out and visit the SDA pastor, the 14:15 Adventist pastor, that the pastor saw what happened and 14:19 was able to raise funds and get him the medical assistance. When 14:25 they went to the doctor, the physician looked at his injury 14:28 and exclaimed why have you now brought him to me. I don't even 14:32 know if I can save his arm. In examination he determine that he 14:36 needed to actually cut off part of the bone before he reattached 14:40 and reset the arm. So now this former clergyman has one arm 14:47 shorter than the other because he dared to share Christ with 14:53 another. Another clergyman wanted to give a specific 15:03 message to us here in the west let's say and he said this: Our 15:12 time of persecution is now for sharing the gospel, for telling 15:19 others about Jesus. Our time of persecution is now, speaking of 15:24 himself and his other brothers who have learned of these Bible 15:31 truths. But he says to the west, your persecution is not yet. 15:37 That to me is an admonition that while we still have time, while 15:44 we still have freedom, while we still have ability, while we 15:50 still have resources that we must take advantage of this time 15:56 now to share with our brothers and sisters. They say the west 16:02 doesn't understand what it means to be persecuted. We don't 16:06 understand trouble. We've heard some in the news, Christians 16:11 being beheaded, being killed for their faith just because they 16:17 call themselves Christians. We are so blessed but we have an 16:22 obligation that we must take advantage of this time to do the 16:27 Lord's bidding now, now, before it's too late. So as you 16:34 consider this particular project for former Orthodox clergymen 16:40 who have decided to remain in that environment so they can 16:45 reach out to their brothers, let us give them what they need 16:50 in order to share the gospel. Let us give them the full truths 16:55 of the Bible, the Spirit of Prophecy and good training so 17:00 that they will be able to tell their brothers and others that 17:06 Jesus is coming soon. For our second project I would like to 17:13 introduce you to a family. So as they come out here to stand 17:19 before me I'm introducing you to the Fournier's Their lovely girls 17:26 Tolisa, Emily and Shiloh and we have Jason and his wife 17:32 Antoinette. The reason I want to introduce them to you as a 17:38 family is that they run and work on a ministry in Kibidula in 17:43 Tanzania as a family and as only one family in the midst of many 17:48 families and many others who are ministering to other in the 17:52 Kibidula area. So I wanted you to meet them so that you would 17:57 know that this is a special collaboration. This is a 18:00 partnership that's important because it takes all of us, 18:05 family, and families to share the love of Jesus. So at this 18:09 time Antoinette is going to share more about that Kibidula 18:13 project. 18:14 Good morning ASI. Thank you so much for the opportunity to hear 18:19 what we have to say. Kibidula has been a part of our lives for 18:24 many years. Our children were born and raised there and we are 18:28 still laboring there. But what makes it so special is that in 18:32 process of reaching out to help others we ourselves are 18:35 receiving the help that we so desperately need and isn't that 18:39 just the beauty of the Christian walk? The Lord loves us very 18:44 much. Kibidula Mission is supportive ministry of the 18:48 Seventh-day Adventist church in Tanzania, East Africa and is 18:52 a long-standing member of ASI and Outpost Centers 18:55 International. If I could sum up everything we do and stand for 19:00 at the mission it would be this. Education. At the primary school 19:04 which is an English media primary school, 148 students 19:08 receive a Seventh-day Adventist Christian education as outlined 19:12 in God's word. These young students not only learn from 19:16 books but they work and they plant and they also learn to 19:21 make things with their hands. In a moment, I will return to 19:25 talk about the second school that we have for at risk youth 19:29 ages 14-22. The third school that we have is our lay 19:35 missionary training program where lay people from churches 19:39 in Tanzania come for five months to learn how to be effective 19:43 soul winners for Christ. We train about 65 lay people every 19:46 year and over the years we have chosen the very best of these 19:51 lay missionaries and 26 of them are laboring in unreached areas 19:55 of Tanzania where there is no Adventist presence. Can you 20:00 imagine that-no Adventist presence. And these missionaries 20:05 face privation and sometimes danger as they work in 20:08 especially difficult areas of the country. As I speak many new 20:13 companies of believers are worshipping in mud huts or under 20:17 trees because they don't have churches. You can only imagine 20:21 the blessing the one-day church program has been for these 20:24 believers because the cost of a roof is the greatest factor 20:29 hindering them from having their own church and it's with much 20:32 appreciation that they look to ASI and say thank you because 20:37 especially in Tanzania if you don't have a church you don't 20:40 have a message. By God's grace we have been able to build over 20:44 500 one-day churches in Tanzania. In July 2014, we 20:53 jumped at the opportunity to start a printing operation and 20:57 we started printing tracts from inside the garage. Thanks to the 21:01 support of ASI we have been able to build a new printing building 21:05 to house our two presses and folding and packing machines 21:08 that were donated to the mission In July of this year, we printed 21:15 one million Glow tracts in the Swahili language and in just 21:19 four days distributed them in the city of Dar es Salaam with 21:24 the help of local churches. Our publishing department stays busy 21:29 translating quality books into Swahili, doing the layout and 21:33 design, getting it printed in Poland, and selling it into the 21:37 colporteur system in Tanzania. Currently Dr. Hans Dielh's book 21:41 the U-Turn is a best seller. Kibidula also invests a lot of 21:47 time and energy into teaching the health message, not only to 21:51 our students but also to the community through public health 21:55 seminars and health expos and helping guests who come to our 21:59 lifestyle center. But all these programs to win souls to Jesus 22:04 cost money and it is our aim to become self-supporting. We 22:08 believe the time is coming when support from the outside will no 22:13 longer reach us and great drive currently to become self 22:17 supporting through an export business of avocados. Over the 22:21 last three years we have planted over 80 acres of avocados by our 22:26 own team grafting and growing these threes. Now to come back 22:32 to our second school. On July 10 I received a notification on my 22:36 Instagram feed from the Voice of the Martyrs. It was an urgent 22:41 call to pray for three young teenage girls who had been 22:45 rescued in Tanzania. These girls of whom one is a primary school 22:49 student and the two others secondary school students have 22:55 recently converted from Islam to Christianity. The girls were 22:58 captured and raped by their Imam and arrangements were made for 23:02 them to marry Muslim men. In Tanzania girls can be legally 23:06 married at age 15. Fortunately these marriages didn't take 23:11 place and these girls are now in good homes. Attention is being 23:16 given to the schooling options remaining for the two older 23:19 girls who became pregnant and were expelled from public school 23:25 for life unless new laws come into effect soon. In 2001, the 23:29 government established a primary education program which made 23:34 primary school attendance for children age 7-15 compulsory. 23:39 By also abolishing the mandatory primary school fees Tanzania has 23:44 made a huge change to education with 92 percent of boys and 23:50 girls attending primary school in 2012. However, when you come 23:56 to lower secondary education this number changes 23:59 significantly with only 32 percent of boys attending and 24:04 24 percent of girls. And when you realize that Tanzania is one 24:08 of the youngest countries on earth with 71 percent of the 24:13 population age 30 years and younger, this statistic is 24:17 staggering. There are many factors contributing to this 24:21 education crisis but one factor that demands scrutiny and 24:26 attention is the plight of the vulnerable girl. Boys are 24:30 vulnerable too. But statistics show that Tanzania has 24:50 Some research shows that mandatory pregnancy testing in 24:53 schools and the expulsion of pregnant students from primary 24:57 and secondary schools has been going on for over 50 years. 25:01 Between 5000 and 8000 girls have dropped out of school annually 25:05 between 2008-2011 due to pregnancy. This figure is a 25:09 gross underestimate because of unknown factors such as 25:13 abortion, suicide and girls dropping out of school before 25:17 they can be caught and publicly shamed. Public shaming is the 25:22 systematic tactic aimed at girls who have broken the law of 25:26 morality in Tanzania. The reasoning is that by making 25:29 these girls a public example and denying them further education 25:34 it will discourage other girls from being promiscuous. These 25:38 girls can't again attend public school without a letter of 25:42 good standing from your previous school and an explanation for 25:48 the time of absence from school. So rape, sexual harassment and 25:54 coercion from teachers, male students or other adults or 25:57 simply one bad decision on the part of a poverty stricken and 26:02 often desperate girl is the end of her educational life. The 26:05 only options remaining for these girls are to attend private 26:09 schools, which are unaffordable to the poor or to go to the 26:13 vocational training schools that require a certificate of 26:17 successful education of lower secondary education or to get 26:21 married. It is a fact that almost two out of every five 26:25 girls in Tanzania are married by age 18 and that 70 percent 26:30 are married by age 20. Women with no education tend to have 26:35 an average of 6.9 babies. Women with primary education 5.6 26:39 babies and women with secondary education and higher 3.2 babies. 26:47 Astonishingly statistics show that 53 percent of women in 26:50 Tanzania justify wife beating. Unfortunately I cannot take the 26:56 time here to talk about the research of international human 27:02 right groups such as antislavery highlighting the deplorable 27:06 issue of one million child domestic workers in Tanzania. 27:12 In 2004, Kibidula mission in partnership with _ 27:17 Switzerland started a vocational training center for vulnerable 27:20 youth that is unique. It is an agricultural training school 27:24 that is specifically for primary school failures and secondary 27:29 school dropouts, giving them a second chance to become educated 27:34 contributors to society. This program is free so the poorest 27:38 student who wants to learn can attend. Students who pass 27:42 receive government issued certificate which enables them 27:46 to enter the work force as skilled labor. At the mission 27:50 these boys and girls live on three separate farm units, 27:54 two for boys and one for girls, where they put into practice all 27:58 that they learned in the classroom. They grow their own 28:02 food, keep their own livestock, have their own beehive, press 28:07 their own oil, plant their own avocado orchards and sell extra 28:11 crops and in addition to agriculture they learn carpentry 28:15 and sewing skills. The girls sewed this outfit that I'm 28:19 wearing for ASI and they do send their greetings to you here. But 28:25 the best news is that over 90 percent of these young people 28:29 accept Jesus Christ as their Savior and are baptized into the 28:33 Seventh-day Adventist church. But the need is so big that we 28:36 have outgrown the original perimeters set for this program 28:41 so that we can help more boys and girls. We are so thankful 28:45 for the extra classrooms that were added to the program last 28:49 year as well as six small houses for teachers. We have now more 28:54 girls attending than boys, but because we only have one girls' 28:58 dormitory we really feel the pinch. Currently the girls are 29:03 sleeping two to a single bed so the need for a girls' dormitory 29:08 that is secure from harassment, that is clean and neat is real. 29:12 And we just want to express our sincere appreciation to the Lord 29:16 and ASI for choosing this project to be part of the 2017 29:20 missions offering. This offering will enable us to build a new 29:26 girls dormitory to house and educate an additional 42 girls. 29:31 The foundations are already built. We're just waiting for 29:36 the building to start. I'm so excited to see how the Lord will 29:41 bless and help us to not only help these young people realize 29:46 their worth in this world but most of all to be a part of that 29:51 army of youth that will finish the work on this earth. Thank 29:55 you ASI for partnering with us and helping us to accomplish 30:00 this mission. Happy Sabbath. 30:02 Our last project is the New Beginnings Picture Roll. With 30:10 me is Norm Reitz who is the vice president for evangelism 30:16 and Norm I know that in your role the torch has been passed 30:21 to you to continue with the development and the perfecting 30:25 of materials and tools that we can use for lay evangelism as 30:30 well as for pastors. What does this mean for the world church 30:34 in the accomplishment of spreading the gospel around the 30:37 world to have these tools. 30:38 Well for New Beginnings, if you heard the numbers this morning 30:43 out of Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya they are historically huge 30:47 251,000 baptisms after three months of meetings. The new 30:51 development within ASI and the World Church is the picture roll. 30:57 When Desmond Doss's film Hacksaw Ridge came out if you saw it, he 31:02 is rescuing people, lowering them down the miano escarpment 31:08 and he prays, and he prays Lord give me one more, one more Lord. 31:15 In ASI our prayer is Lord, one more soul for the kingdom. One 31:21 more, Lord. The New Beginnings picture roll that's hanging here 31:26 on our hut is being introduced at ASI as a major part of our 31:32 offerings. We believe it is going to lead hundreds of 31:36 thousands, probably millions to the Lord. It is a child of New 31:42 Beginnings. There are 26 segments. Each one has seven 31:46 evangelistic pictures and one health poster. We are printing 31:53 two-sided on light weight, plastic water-proof paper. 31:58 They're to be put into rolls and carried to the field. There for 32:03 use in places where there's no electricity and no 32:06 infrastructure. We believe that these rolls will be preserved, 32:12 treasured and used and that many will come to know the God 32:18 of heaven and Christ as their savior and have a hope of heaven 32:23 because of them. 32:24 Amen. So at this time we would like to share with you a video 32:28 that gives you some more information right on the field 32:32 with the New Beginnings picture roll. 32:35 ¤ ¤ 32:43 Over 100,000 evangelistic meetings have been held using 32:46 New Beginnings materials all over the world and our 32:49 opportunity to bring the gospel to the third world is greatly 32:53 enhanced by brining pictures to them. 32:56 This is the Kajero 32:58 District or county and this area is the Massai land. Now the 33:03 Massais are not drawn to reading or even listening to the 33:07 radio. They are people who move from place to place seeking for 33:12 pastures for the animals. But I think Massais would literally 33:18 magnetized by the picture rolls. It is awesome when you use a 33:23 picture roll in the _ to explain Biblical truth. 33:28 Imagine for somebody who has never seen and imagined how 33:33 Jesus will come and then he sees for the first time that picture 33:38 of Christ descending with angels surrounding his throne. 33:43 And the people looking up too at that. Oh it's just an 33:48 awesome picture. So convicting. It sends the message 33:53 powerfully into their mind. 34:09 There is nothing more important to God than the salvation of men 34:14 and women. That's why God used every way possible, every means 34:18 available to save them. I am so excited about the picture roll 34:22 project because it gives us a tool, it gives us an opportunity 34:26 for God to work. Think about it. God is going to use this project 34:30 to win 10s of thousands for his kingdom. 34:33 It's been inspiring to see all these beautiful works of art 34:38 produced by some of the best Christian artists on this planet 34:43 to become part of this picture roll. 34:47 I think what motivates me as an artist to do the type of art I 34:50 do is the awareness that a painting can have a profound 34:53 effect on people who see them. Evangelists often use art and 34:57 images to help convey the message of sharing the gospel. 35:02 To me a painting can be a very profound tool of evangelism. 35:16 With over 120,000 series of meetings this year this tool is 35:22 invaluable in putting it in the hands of lay people to help them 35:25 with evangelism. Many of those sites do not have access to 35:29 electricity. They need a way to share the gospel and to share 35:34 through pictures is an ideal way to help people understand more 35:38 about the sacrifice that has been made on their behalf. 35:43 In our Christian experience the word of God is so vital to all 35:48 that we experience with our Lord Jesus Christ. And many of us who 35:52 have availability to beautiful pictures and being able to 35:56 access things on line or in some kind of program, we have a 36:01 great advantage. However, there are thousands, yes millions, of 36:05 people who don't have that advantage and the picture roll 36:10 project is just for them. It's for people who will take this 36:14 precious project and they will used it in total member 36:19 involvement sharing Jesus with others, being a part of it. 36:23 ¤ ¤ 36:36 Ah, that was very exciting wasn't it? Do you know that that 36:40 actually took place. That was not set up. That was actually an 36:44 evangelistic series Keith where people actually got baptized. 36:49 You know the area rivers were all dried up. But people wanted 36:54 to be baptized and so let's fill the cow troughs with water and 36:57 that's where they baptized people because they wanted to be 37:01 baptized. Amen. I just want to walk everyone through this so 37:05 that we understand exactly how this works. So that's beautiful. 37:09 For the first one, as you heard Norm say, we have something for 37:14 a health talk. So we actually have diagrams there and we have 37:17 a script so that individuals can follow that and actually teach 37:21 them about health practices. And then we go from picture to 37:24 picture that outlines a particular sermon. They have 37:29 sermon notes to follow and there are seven of those pictures that 37:33 actually go with each particular sermon. Thank you Kyle for 37:39 turning the pictures for us so anybody can get a real good 37:45 feel for how the picture roll works. So this must be really 37:50 exciting for you Keith. Keith is one who has grown up in the 37:55 Congo and in Tanzania. You've used the first generation 37:57 picture rolls and this must be exciting for you to see this. 38:01 How does this make you feel? 38:03 I am absolutely floored. This is just wonderful. I remember 38:05 growing up and my mom would go out under the trees and 38:08 sometimes I would translate for her in Swahili giving Bible 38:11 stories with these picture rolls My wife and I both have one at 38:14 out house. We take them out in our vehicle, on our motorcycle, 38:16 on a weekly basis and you know I've had so many good 38:20 experiences teaching from these. I remember teaching about heaven 38:23 at a funeral, actually it was my little sister who we brought 38:26 into our home, an AIDS orphan, and different experiences that 38:30 we've had sharing with such a simple beautiful tool. I'm so 38:33 excited that an entire evangelistic series can be 38:35 shared simply with these pictures. 38:37 That's wonderful. Now is this the only tool. You have 38:40 Something in your backpack that we can actually see that 38:45 complements or expands the possibilities for evangelism. 38:48 When I go out to preach I usually have in my backpack a 38:52 Bible, some sermon notes and a projector. And that's what I've 38:55 got today. This is an amazing little projector, reasonably 38:58 priced and I am excited that you can get it out there for less 39:01 than a hundred dollars actually. Well wonderful. And the sermon 39:04 notes go right along with the picture roll so even somebody 39:08 who just didn't have a lot of _ but they like to read 39:11 they can read. That's all it takes 39:13 All right. So who would use the projector. Do you have to 39:16 actually plug that into electricity? 39:18 Sure. And out in the bush I pull a generator on my motorcycle all 39:21 the time. We're always packing that thing up, it happens. 39:24 So I know we have the projector You can put the sermons actually 39:29 right in there through a USB port on a flash drive so that 39:33 can show and then you have the picture rolls, which is the 39:36 analogue representation and then you even have your phone so you 39:41 can download those sermons on your phone. So we have covered 39:45 every possibility for sharing the word of God in sermons for 39:49 everywhere around the world from as a friend of mine said the 39:53 artic down to the Congo. 39:54 Yes that's right. Praise the Lord. 39:56 That's phenomenal. So you're looking forward to getting these 39:59 This is wonderful material. We are just on fire about this. We 40:01 think about all the people that we are training. We're involved 40:04 in training people for total member involvement in Congo 40:06 right now. All the people that will be benefitted from having 40:10 these materials to preach from. I'm excited. 40:11 Oh that's wonderful. Now I just want to let you know... So we're 40:17 talking about the cost of these. Our first print run of 10,000 40:21 will be about 55 dollars each. That will be the cost for that 40:27 print run. So if you are able to sponsor 100 of those then that's 40:35 5500 dollars. You know I'm bad at math, right? Five hundred and 40:40 fifty dollars. (Laughs) and then if you want to do a thousand 40:44 that's 55,000 dollars. And we know that there are individuals 40:48 out there that can do all of these things. So we're just 40:52 tugging on your heart strings. The Lord just wants us to be 40:55 able to put these in your hands so that you can go out and share 40:59 the message. We look forward to giving these to you, Keith, so 41:02 that you can evangelize the world out of Congo and Tanzania 41:05 and in the surrounding area. 41:06 Praise the Lord. Thank you Debbie. 41:08 Thank you Kyle. Isn't this exciting. We have a tremendous 41:14 opportunity before us today. And I'm really excited about it 41:19 because it covers a whole breadth of opportunity. 41:22 But right now I think I want us to just zoom right in on this 41:30 picture. This is the second coming. So I want you to 41:34 imagine with me our former Orthodox clergymen standing here 41:41 watching Jesus come. I want you to imagine with me the young 41:47 ladies and the men who are at Kibidula Farm at Kibidula and 41:52 they're learning and they're being taken care of but they're 41:56 also being instructed about Jesus and they're giving their 42:00 lives to the Lord and they're standing there looking at 42:04 Jesus' coming. And then we think about the people in the Congo. 42:09 We think about the people in the arctic, we think about people all 42:13 around the world standing there watching Jesus come. But how 42:21 they know if we don't tell them? It's incredible opportunity for 42:27 us today that we can put in the hands of all the ministries that 42:32 we talked about, all the ministries that are in your 42:36 program guide. Give them the tools so that they can share the 42:40 love of Jesus with others. But we must fill their hands so that 42:45 they can help others. They can't do it alone. If we're unable to 42:49 go there then we can certainly support them so that they can 42:55 tell others. We need to tell others here. We need to let our 43:00 former Orthodox clergymen who said your persecution is not yet 43:06 We need to accept that admonition that we will take 43:09 advantage of the opportunity and make sure that we will let 43:13 others know that Jesus is coming Can you do that with me today? 43:17 Can you pledge your support to Jesus that we will be in 43:21 partnership with him and give all that we have because he gave 43:27 all that he had. At this time I want to ask the deacons to come 43:32 forward and I just want to appeal to our 3ABN audience as 43:37 well. You're not here in the convention hall, but you're 43:41 watching on TV or you're on your device and you want to say I 43:45 want to be a part of that. I want to join my brothers and 43:49 sisters at ASI and I want to give the tools to people around 43:53 the world so they can learn about Jesus and we can go home. 43:56 We want to look at Jesus' coming more than just a picture on a 44:00 picture roll. We want to see him break through the clouds, don't 44:04 we? So for those at home the address is on the screen and 44:10 you can go to asiministries.org. Even those of 44:13 you here on your phone if that's your desire. You can go 44:18 to asiministries. org and hit Donate Now and place in your 44:22 donation. We pray that God has inspired you with everything 44:26 that you've heard and that you will give above and beyond you 44:31 can imagine because God said that he will give us above and 44:36 beyond what we can imagine. Let us pray. Father in heaven, 44:41 we thank you for the opportunity to work in service with you. We 44:45 ask you now that you would be with us, that you would press 44:48 our hearts that we would give as much as you would have us 44:52 give so that the work can be finished and we can go home. 44:55 Thank you Lord for blessing this offering and the projects that 44:59 will be recipients of it. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen. 45:18 ¤ ¤ 47:25 ¤ ¤ |
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