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Series Code: IIWC
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00:03 ♪♪ 00:37 [gentle guitar music playing] 00:40 ♪♪ 00:44 >> Welcome to It Is Written 00:45 Canada. 00:46 Thank you for joining us. 00:49 Imagine the dreams of a father 00:51 being passed down to his son. 00:53 The father's dreams of helping 00:55 desperately sick people to find 00:57 holistic healing, health, 00:59 and wellness. 01:02 That is the story of Phil 01:03 Brewer, the co-founder and 01:05 director of Silver Hills 01:06 Guesthouse and Spa, a living 01:09 lifestyle center in the 01:11 beautiful Maple Lake Valley 01:13 near Lumby, British Columbia. 01:16 >> Phil's father struggled to 01:17 stop smoking, and when he 01:19 finally kicked the habit and 01:21 started to experience freedom 01:23 from smoking, he continued to 01:25 advance in his journey towards 01:27 total health, improved 01:29 nutrition, sleep, and inner 01:31 peace, and a sense of self 01:32 control, relational wellness and 01:35 spiritual wholeness. 01:36 Phil's father had a dream to get 01:39 people out into nature because 01:41 he believed that nature is God's 01:44 physician. 01:46 His belief was that if people 01:47 could just escape the constant 01:49 pathological busyness, the rat 01:51 race and stress that imprisons 01:54 most men and women, they would 01:56 then naturally find the 01:58 fortitude to flourish. 02:01 >> Today, on It Is Written 02:02 Canada, Phil Brewer shares the 02:04 story of his father's influence 02:06 on his life. 02:08 Phil's own personal journey to 02:10 discover holistic health and 02:12 wellness, as well as how he was 02:14 able to get Silver Hills, this 02:16 living lifestyle centre, up and 02:18 running and was able to help 02:21 countless souls experience 02:23 holistic healing, health, and 02:26 wellness for the last 40 years. 02:31 [gentle guitar music playing] 02:34 [water spraying] 02:38 [PHIL] For me, Silver Hills 02:39 started when I was five 02:40 years old. 02:42 My father was an advocate of 02:44 health and he started a 02:46 vegetarian restaurant. 02:47 So that's 1955. 02:49 And you can imagine 1955, 02:51 vegetarian, the word, nobody 02:52 even knew what he was 02:53 talking about. 02:54 It lasted two years 02:55 and then went out of business. 02:57 But my dad was not out of the 02:58 But my dad was not out of the 02:58 health business. 02:59 He loved to teach health. 03:01 And so he taught five-day stop 03:03 smoking plans. 03:04 And so as I was growing up, it 03:05 was five-day stop smoking plans 03:07 every month. 03:08 And I used to help run the film 03:09 And I used to help run the film 03:10 and, you know, projector and 03:12 work with the guests and 03:13 work with the guests and 03:14 visitors. 03:16 He had a very hard time stopping 03:18 smoking, very difficult time. 03:20 And so he'd like to help them. 03:21 But he─ there were some people 03:22 that were like him, they would 03:23 struggle, like how do you stop 03:25 smoking? 03:26 And he thought, "If only we had 03:27 And he thought, "If only we had 03:27 a place in the country where, 03:29 you know, like, how could we 03:30 have a place in the country 03:31 where we could take the ones 03:32 that were really struggling, 03:33 get them away from all cigarette 03:35 smoking out in the country, 03:37 in nature, and then they would 03:38 have a chance of stopping." 03:39 And so I was raised with this 03:40 idea, you know what we should 03:41 do, we should have a centre 03:42 in the country. 03:44 [gentle guitar music continues] 03:47 ♪♪ 03:50 I'm Phil Brewer, 03:52 co-founder of Silver Hills 03:53 Guesthouse, a live-in lifestyle 03:55 centre. 03:55 centre. 03:56 Next year will be 40 years that 03:58 we've been operating it. 03:59 [gentle guitar music continues] 04:02 ♪♪ 04:09 So my wife and I came to this 04:11 valley in 1973, and it was a 04:13 missionary training program. 04:15 And so we were part of that 04:16 until 1984. 04:17 until 1984. 04:18 And in 19─ actually, 1974, I 04:21 went down to a place in Alabama 04:23 where they had a lifestyle 04:25 centre to take some training so 04:26 I could help in the missionary 04:28 training program. 04:29 And it was Uchee Pines 04:30 Institute. 04:31 And down there, I mean, doctors, 04:34 two doctors were running it, 04:35 Dr. Agatha and Calvin Thrash. 04:37 To learn from them was fantastic 04:40 and they were also into 04:41 natural health. 04:41 They would give their patients 04:43 medication. 04:44 They'd say, "Here, take this 04:45 medication for your heart 04:46 disease, take this medication 04:47 for your diabetes." 04:48 But they would also give them a 04:49 lifestyle prescription. 04:51 And it's like, do exercise, 04:52 you know, drink water, get to 04:54 bed on time, they would do 04:55 that thing. 04:56 And so, you know, they were 04:57 doing that and they would, the 04:59 patient would come back, 05:01 you know, after a month for 05:03 a follow up, "How did you make 05:05 out with the exercise?" 05:06 "Well, you know, we had visitors 05:08 all month last month. 05:11 You know, I couldn't get out of 05:12 the house. 05:12 I was washing clothes, you know, 05:14 feeding visitors and things like 05:16 that so I just couldn't 05:17 get out." 05:18 "So how did you make out with 05:19 the medication?" 05:20 "Well, my back is itchy, you 05:21 know, I'm having problems with 05:22 my back, and..." 05:23 And they'd say, "Well, we'll 05:24 change that medication for you." 05:26 The next month they come back 05:27 for another re-evaluation. 05:28 "How did you make out with the 05:29 exercise?" 05:30 "Well, you wouldn't believe it, 05:31 Doctor, it rained every day." 05:33 So what they were doing is they 05:34 So what they were doing is they 05:35 were taking the medication, but 05:35 they weren't changing their 05:36 lifestyle. 05:41 It was kind of like my dad. 05:42 He was into lifestyle education, 05:43 they were into lifestyle 05:44 education. 05:45 I really wanted to have a place 05:46 where we could do lifestyle 05:48 education. 05:49 So when I came back, and by 05:50 1984, the missionary training 05:53 program, the missionaries had 05:54 gone out and the property was 05:55 still here and the board said to 05:56 still here and the board said to 05:56 me, "What do you wanna do 05:57 with this place?" 05:58 And I said, "I'd like to run a 05:59 lifestyle centre." 06:01 And so they said, "Go ahead." 06:02 Well, to run a lifestyle centre, 06:04 you have to have money. 06:05 [gentle piano music playing] 06:08 ♪♪ 06:12 The neighbour invited me to 06:13 build him a woodshed 06:15 and garage combination. 06:17 And so I built him that, and he 06:19 really liked it. 06:20 And so he said, "Well, will you 06:21 build me a hobby barn?" 06:22 And so the hobby barn had a 06:23 hip roof on it, and it was 06:25 painted red and white trim and a 06:27 place for hay upstairs and two 06:29 horses on the... 06:30 He loved it. 06:31 And his son came out. 06:32 He saw what we had built and he 06:33 said, "Will you build me a house 06:35 on the property next door? 06:36 And so he gave us the plans to 06:38 look at, and we went over the 06:39 plans and we worked out all the 06:42 details, you know, the cabinets, 06:44 the plumbing, everything, 06:46 everything it needed. 06:47 And we gave him a price, showed 06:50 it to him, he liked the price 06:51 and signed the plans, we signed 06:53 the plans. 06:54 That was 1983. 06:55 1984, we went to start it, 06:57 but then we had inflation 06:58 at 33%...33.5%. 07:01 Everything we had quoted him; 07:03 windows, doors, drywall, 07:06 cabinets, every piece of 07:07 material, labour, everything had 07:09 gone up 33%. 07:10 And we had contracted, 07:13 we said we would build it for a 07:14 certain price and so we're gonna 07:15 build it for that price, right? 07:17 And so we went ahead with the 07:19 price that we had given him, 07:20 which meant we were gonna 07:21 build it for free. 07:23 Basically. 07:24 But you know, we─ your word is 07:26 your word and we decided to go 07:28 ahead with it. 07:29 The problem was that the man 07:30 himself was a difficult man 07:32 to work for. 07:33 He was very hard to please, 07:34 very, very difficult. 07:35 Every person that I hired, he 07:38 would basically chase them off. 07:40 And, it was─ it became a very 07:42 difficult thing and I worked for 07:43 him for a year and a half. 07:44 So, you know, after building 07:46 that house a year and a half, 07:48 the, not just the loss of money, 07:50 the stress, there was a lot of 07:52 stress involved and my 07:53 health broke. 07:54 I mean, I was really 07:55 a broken man. 07:57 I wasn't sleeping. 07:58 I didn't care to eat. 08:00 I was, you know, I was having a 08:02 terrible time with my memory. 08:04 I mean, I was hard to live with. 08:05 I told my wife, I said, you 08:07 know, I felt so sorry for her, 08:08 I said, "You know, if you wanted 08:09 to leave me, I would understand. 08:11 I mean, I'm suicidal, I can't 08:13 function, I can't..." 08:15 Everything was wrong. 08:16 I was just not working right. 08:16 I was just not working right. 08:17 [pensive music playing] 08:20 I would pray. 08:21 I mean, I loved to pray, I loved 08:23 to read, I liked to have 08:24 devotions in the morning. 08:24 I couldn't read, I couldn't─ my 08:26 memory was so bad I couldn't 08:27 retain the thought from one 08:28 paragraph the next. 08:30 paragraph the next. 08:30 I literally couldn't read. 08:31 I mean, I couldn't believe it. 08:32 I mean, I would sit there and I 08:33 would try and read and it was 08:35 just confusion, it was a jumble 08:36 for me. 08:37 So my memory wasn't 08:38 working right. 08:39 And I used to pray, pray for my 08:40 family, I prayed for my wife, 08:41 and prayed for my kids. 08:43 And, "Did I pray for my wife? 08:44 I prayed for my wife and I 08:45 prayed for my kids." 08:46 And then, "Did I pray for 08:48 my wife?" 08:48 And then I prayed for my wife. 08:49 And then I said, "You know, I've 08:50 gotta do something about this." 08:52 So I sat down with a piece of 08:53 paper and I put my wife's name 08:55 at the top, I put my, each one 08:56 of my children down, and every 08:58 other person that I wanted to 08:59 pray about and every item that I 09:01 was praying for, put that down 09:03 on my prayer list and I put my 09:04 finger on it, and I would go 09:05 down it, and then I would know I 09:06 had done it. 09:07 [pensive music fades out] 09:14 And I was sitting there one day 09:15 and I looked across the room and 09:16 I saw my work boots, and I said, 09:18 "You know, I gotta get 09:19 back to work." [chuckles] 09:21 Year and a half, we hadn't 09:22 earned anything. 09:24 And here I am, I've gotta get 09:25 some work going. 09:26 And I said to my wife, "When we 09:28 go to town, I'm gonna look for a 09:29 new─ I'm gonna go to the second 09:30 hand store and buy a new pair of 09:31 work boots." 09:32 We get to tell my wife says, 09:34 "Why don't you go to 09:34 Workwear World? 09:35 I said her, you know, "We can't 09:38 afford Workwear World boots." 09:40 "Well," she says, "Why don't you 09:41 go to Workwear World?" 09:43 And I thought, well, you know 09:44 what, even as sick as I was, 09:46 you know, I'd do anything to 09:47 please her. 09:48 I wanted to help her and, you 09:49 know, I thought, I'll go down 09:50 just to make, you know, to make 09:52 her satisfied. 09:53 So I go to Workwear World and I 09:55 go there, there they are, 09:55 Kaufman, double leather, triple 09:57 stitch, you know, and what I 09:58 would buy, $79.95, we don't 10:00 have $80. 10:01 There's no way. 10:03 I turn to walk out 10:04 and I see on the wall 10:05 a sign that says $9.99. 10:09 And there it was 10:10 in that, right underneath the 10:11 sign, there's work boots, 10:13 Kaufmans, double leather, 10:15 triple stitch. 10:17 I turned to the lady, I said, 10:18 you know, "What do you─ what's 10:19 going on here? 10:20 I mean, this can't possibly, 10:21 you know, you can't sell in 10:22 the same store $80 10:24 and 99─ $10. 10:26 You can't have the same boots. 10:27 And I says, "What's wrong? 10:28 They got no glue, were the steel 10:30 shanks forgotten, you know, 10:31 built the wrong factory? 10:32 What's wrong?" 10:33 She said, "Nothing." 10:34 She says, "They're seven and a 10:35 half and we can't find workmen 10:37 that will buy them." 10:38 I looked down at my feet. 10:39 I got two, I got seven and a 10:41 halfs right here. 10:42 I give her $20, she gives me 10:43 change. 10:45 I'm walking towards my wife with 10:46 a smile on my face and she, I 10:48 could see on her face, she was 10:49 like really worried now. 10:50 I mean, before she could 10:52 understand, he's depressed, he's 10:53 ruined he's a wreck, he can't 10:55 sleep, he's... 10:56 Now he's smiling like a nut. 10:57 Like, what happened to you now? 11:00 Well, you know, what happened is 11:01 I had put on my prayer list 11:03 work boots. 11:04 The lady at the store didn't 11:05 know that. 11:06 My wife didn't know that. 11:07 There's only one being in the 11:08 universe to knew that and that 11:09 was God and He just told me He 11:11 loved me. 11:12 You know, I mean, that was, 11:13 I mean, I needed that. 11:14 I can't tell you how much I 11:15 needed to know that. 11:17 [uplifting music playing] 11:20 ♪♪ 11:23 We wanted to start a lifestyle 11:24 centre, I mean, that's why I was 11:25 building the house for this guy 11:26 was, you know, the idea was to 11:28 earn money. 11:29 We didn't earn money, but we 11:30 were willing to start it in our 11:31 own home. 11:32 You know, we moved out of our 11:33 master bedroom into one of the 11:34 kids rooms and we got, 11:37 you know, I put on the prayer 11:39 request: guests. 11:40 You know, we needed to start off 11:41 with guests. 11:43 Well, Dr. He in Vancouver sent 11:45 us a lady and we started our─ 11:47 then is when we started our 11:49 life─ our first lifestyle guest 11:51 came right at that time. 11:54 And you know, I needed to have 11:56 that guest and I needed to 11:57 practice what I had been 11:58 learning for myself, how they 11:59 recover. 12:00 How do you recover from this? 12:02 And so we had our first guest. 12:03 And so we had our first guest. 12:04 [uplifting music concludes] 12:08 You know, it wasn't─ probably 12:10 four guests later we had a lady 12:10 four guests later we had a lady 12:11 that came and she spent three 12:13 weeks with us. 12:14 And during that three week time, 12:16 there was a couple that came 12:17 to visit. 12:18 And this couple were cute. 12:21 They brought their own lunch 12:22 bucket, they had their food all 12:24 laid out, and they came to have 12:26 lunch to visit their friend who 12:28 had come from Airdrie. 12:29 They lived locally here, but 12:30 they knew her and they wanted to 12:31 see how she did, see? 12:33 So they came and they visited 12:34 her and they went away. 12:35 And toward the end of her stay, 12:37 they came back to check on her 12:38 to see how─ what had changed, 12:39 how, you know, what had 12:41 improved. 12:42 And they were so quiet. 12:44 I mean, he virtually 12:46 didn't talk. 12:47 His wife talked some, but 12:48 very quiet couple. 12:50 And at the end he said to me, 12:52 "Can I bring my wife 12:53 for three weeks?" 12:54 I said, "Sure!" 12:55 Guy's name was Bill. 12:57 And he comes along and 12:59 spent three weeks with us, 13:01 and I don't think he said 13:03 50 words the whole time he was 13:05 with us in three weeks. 13:06 Very, very... 13:07 And at the end of the 13:08 three weeks, he says, 13:08 "Can I help you?" 13:10 And I looked at him, I thought, 13:11 "Well, what what can you do?" 13:13 Like, I mean, "Yeah, you know, 13:15 we need help. 13:16 We're trying to build a 13:17 lifestyle centre. 13:18 We've got a, you know, a 13:19 foundation is poured, 13:20 we've got it framed up, 13:21 but we're gonna need help." 13:22 He said, "Well, what do you 13:23 need?" and I said, "Well, we 13:24 have a caterpillar tractor 13:25 have a caterpillar tractor 13:26 that's been─ a D6 cat 13:29 tractor that's been donated to 13:30 us, but it doesn't work." 13:32 "Oh," he says, "I'll go get my 13:33 brother." 13:34 And he comes back and he's got a 13:35 set of coveralls on and his 13:36 brother's got coveralls on, they 13:37 got their wrenches and they pull 13:39 the tracks off this cat, they 13:41 rip the back end open. 13:42 They find a shaft inside, and 13:44 it's just a small shaft, they 13:46 get it second hand for $150. 13:49 They come back, put it back 13:50 together, put the tracks back on 13:51 the cat, drive it up the hill 13:53 and they push a road. 13:54 We needed a, desperately needed 13:55 a good road into the new 13:56 lifestyle centre we're building. 13:58 And he pushes it level. 13:59 I said, "Bill, how did you 14:01 do that?" 14:02 "Well," he says, "I used to run 14:03 cats in the seismograph lines in 14:05 Alberta," he said "I had..." 14:07 I think he said he had five 14:08 D7 cats that he was running 14:10 doing seismograph lines. 14:11 Wow, he's a cat driver, 14:13 you know, that's fabulous. 14:14 He says, "Now what do you need?" 14:16 I said, "Well, we need a set of 14:17 cabinets." 14:18 And he goes over and takes his 14:19 measuring tape, and he starts 14:20 with a piece of paper and 14:21 he's measuring and he's, 14:22 you know... 14:24 Phones me up from Vernon and he 14:25 says, "I need $600." 14:28 And I turned to my wife and I 14:29 said, "$600, I mean..." 14:31 She looks at me. 14:32 We started the building 14:33 with $1,600. 14:36 I mean, where are we gonna 14:37 get $600? 14:37 But we needed the cabinets, 14:39 right, and so she rounded it up. 14:41 Every cent that we had came out, 14:43 and we gave him $600. 14:45 And two weeks later he came with 14:46 cabinets ─ uppers, lowers, 14:49 everything. 14:50 I mean, it was 14:51 just imac─ perfect. 14:53 Oak, he bought oak plywood 14:56 with the $600. 14:58 And so we had cabinets for the 15:00 kitchen, stainless steel sink, 15:02 pulls on all the drawers, 15:03 Arborite on top. 15:05 He brought us two 15:07 vanities for the two bathrooms 15:09 that we had in the place, plus a 15:10 vanity and sink 15:13 and uppers for the laundry room. 15:16 Okay, Bill, you know, this is 15:18 quite a guy. 15:19 I mean, he can he can drive cat 15:21 and he can build cabinets. 15:23 So then he says, "What do you 15:24 need now?" 15:25 I said, "Well, we need a shop." 15:27 And he goes out with this cat 15:28 and he's pushing back and forth 15:30 and back and forth. 15:31 Finally I go over and I said, 15:32 "Bill, what are you doing? 15:33 I mean, this is unbelievable. 15:34 This is like... 15:35 I mean, I want a two-car 15:36 garage." 15:37 He pulls out a tape, 100 feet 15:40 one way, 40 feet the other, 15:42 and he lays out the building, 15:44 it's 40 by 100. 15:47 I can't believe it. 15:48 Okay, so how are we gonna, 15:50 I mean, how are we gonna frame 15:51 it, how are we gonna get it...? 15:52 A fellow donated us the box, 15:53 A fellow donated us the box, 15:54 and Bill laid 15:55 3000 blocks himself. 16:04 I mean, I thought we needed 16:05 money, I thought, you know... 16:07 But, you know, the Lord showed 16:08 me He can give you 16:09 a pair of boots, 16:10 He can bring you a person, 16:12 and He can build things 16:15 with that person's talent 16:17 and donated material. 16:19 One thing right after the other. 16:20 Bill could wire, he could plumb, 16:22 he could mechanic, he could 16:25 run a cat. 16:26 I mean, there was─ I don't think 16:27 there's anything he couldn't do. 16:29 The Lord send us the right man. 16:30 That was the found─ that was the 16:31 beginning of Silver Hills. 16:32 beginning of Silver Hills. 16:34 We opened the guesthouse in 16:35 1985, right here. 16:42 So here, you know, God sends 16:43 us a man, I mean, 16:45 the man who has the talent. 16:47 That's what we needed. 16:48 And, he had all the talents that 16:51 we needed. 16:52 We, at the time, we had 16:53 plumbed the guesthouse. 16:54 We had it all plumbed. 16:55 We had set up rads all over the 16:57 house, and we had put─ the 16:59 copper pipe had been hooked up 17:00 to the rads, but I didn't have 17:02 my boiler hooked up. 17:04 And a man came along, actually a 17:06 man─ a couple came along to help 17:07 us, they came to see what we 17:08 were doing and to volunteer. 17:10 And, he says, "What do you 17:12 need next?" 17:12 I said, "Well, I need my boiler 17:14 hooked up." 17:15 And he goes over to a cardboard 17:17 box and he rips the flap off and 17:18 he takes a crayon and he starts 17:20 writing on this flap. 17:22 And he says, "Go to town and get 17:24 this," and I says, "What for?" 17:25 He says, "To hook up 17:26 your boiler." 17:27 I says, do you know how to hook 17:28 up a boiler, wood boiler?" 17:30 "That's what I do for a living!" 17:31 He says, "Of course I could─" 17:33 So off to town I go. 17:35 You know, I was, I mean, 17:36 I have to say, you know, 17:38 the Lord gave me a pair of boots 17:40 and He gave me Bill 17:42 and He gave me Len 17:43 who could hook up boilers. 17:45 And it's been─ the program was 17:46 His program. 17:47 I mean, these are His children. 17:48 These are His─ the children that 17:49 He needed─ like I was. 17:51 I was sick. 17:52 He has children that are sick. 17:53 They have all kinds─ they have 17:54 heart disease, they have 17:55 diabetes, they have depression, 17:57 all kinds of illnesses. 18:02 I gotta tell you about a fellow 18:03 that came. 18:04 So here we are, we're walking 18:06 home, it's October, we're 18:06 home, it's October, we're 18:07 walking up the driveway and this 18:08 car pulls up. 18:09 German people, broken English. 18:11 "Is this a place to stay?" 18:13 And I said to Eileen, "Do we 18:14 have any rooms?" and she says, 18:15 "Yeah, we have a couple rooms." 18:16 And I said, "Would you folks 18:18 wanna stay? 18:19 Do you wanna stay here?" 18:20 And they said, "Sure!" 18:21 "Okay, we'll stay..." 18:22 And so the next morning at 18:23 breakfast, I'm saying, you know, 18:24 like, "How long have you been 18:25 in Canada?" and they said, 18:26 "Six weeks." 18:27 I said, "What are you 18:28 looking for? 18:29 You wanna buy land here or, 18:30 you know, what do you... 18:32 Six weeks?" 18:33 And Uwe, he says to me, "We were 18:35 looking for this place." 18:37 [calm music playing] 18:41 They actually stayed until 18:42 they had to fly out of Calgary 18:44 on Thursday, so they stayed 18:45 until Wednesday and we made 18:46 friends with them and chatted. 18:47 It was difficult because it was 18:48 English and German. 18:50 And I thought, that's it, 18:51 they're gone. 18:52 We'll never see them again. 18:54 Next fall─ next spring, they 18:55 phoned, said, "We wanna come 18:56 back to Silver Hills 18:58 for three weeks." 18:59 So they came. 19:01 And while we were walking 19:02 on the nature trail, 19:04 Uwe says to me, "You know 19:06 what happened last year?" and I 19:07 said, "No, I don't really know 19:08 what happened." 19:09 He says, "Well, when we flew 19:10 into Calgary coming to Canada, 19:12 we had promised our daughter no 19:13 more smoking. 19:14 We were smoking less, 19:16 but we hadn't quit 19:17 till we drove in here 19:18 and we realized this was a no 19:20 smoking place, and we knew 19:22 that we were in the right spot." 19:23 [calm music continues] 19:27 Well, Uwe and Dorothy came back 19:28 year after year. 19:29 They kept coming back and 19:31 each time they made a change. 19:32 And Uwe, as you go closer to 19:34 retirement, he told me, he says, 19:36 "When I retire, I'm coming here 19:37 to work." 19:38 Now Uwe phoned me last year, 19:41 he's in his 80s now, 19:43 and he said to me, "Phil, 19:46 Dorothy and I wanna come back 19:47 one more time. 19:48 We wanna come back and say 19:49 goodbye." 19:51 So he comes all the way over 19:52 from Germany and, you know, you 19:53 could tell he was starting to 19:54 show his age, and I got him on 19:55 the nature trails, got him 19:57 walking. 19:58 And you could see his, him 19:59 started to, you know, his eyes 20:01 lighten up and he started to get 20:02 feeling better. 20:03 And he phoned me and he says, 20:04 "I'm coming back next year." 20:05 He was saying, they're not gonna 20:06 say goodbye, I'm gonna 20:07 keep on living. 20:08 So it's just really good to see 20:10 Uwe and Dorothy and the 20:12 improvements they made. 20:15 [inspirational music playing] 20:18 ♪♪ 20:19 So people asked me, you know, 20:20 what do you teach at Silver 20:21 Hills, I mean, what's the 20:22 program, what's the foundation 20:24 of the program? 20:24 Well, we call it the Eight 20:26 Natural Doctors. 20:27 We start off with exercise. 20:30 You know, the foundation of good 20:31 health is exercise. 20:31 health is exercise. 20:32 And so we have nature trails, 20:34 we have 90 acres, and we take 20:36 people out into nature. 20:37 [inspirational music continues] 20:40 And we have water, we teach them 20:41 the eliminary organs 20:42 and the importance of 20:43 drinking water. 20:44 And we teach them how to deep 20:45 breathe and how breathing helps 20:48 them sleep at night. 20:49 It helps them to relax. 20:51 ♪♪ 20:53 And we have a whole probably 20:54 four classes on nutrition. 20:56 We start off with the Western 20:57 diet and then we do protein, we 20:58 do carbohydrates, we do fats. 21:00 We do the physiology of 21:02 digestion. 21:03 That's one of my favourites, and 21:04 it's one of their favourites. 21:05 When they understand how they 21:06 digest their food, then they 21:08 look at how they eat their food 21:09 somewhat differently, and they 21:11 really appreciate that one. 21:14 We do sunlight, we do rest, 21:15 We do sunlight, we do rest, 21:16 and we do one that we call 21:17 abstemiousness, and people say, 21:19 "What do you mean? 21:20 Well, if it's a poison, we try 21:21 to get them to leave it out of 21:22 their lifestyle. 21:23 And we also give them cooking 21:24 school classes. 21:25 We teach them how to cook, how 21:27 to change your cooking, because 21:29 we're gonna teach them to move 21:30 away from the diet they may be 21:31 on to a plant-based diet. 21:33 [inspirational music continues] 21:36 ♪♪ 21:37 And the last one, of course, my 21:39 favourite because of my work 21:41 boots, is trust in divine power. 21:43 And, you know, I mean, the whole 21:45 program is built on that. 21:46 But we teach them that. 21:48 And, you know, it's not─ 21:49 trust in divine power, you know, 21:50 like when you say that people 21:51 kinda, you know, like, "Okay, 21:53 you're gonna get religious on 21:54 me," and I tell them, you know, 21:55 "This is not a religion. 21:55 "This is not a religion. 21:56 This is a relationship. 21:58 You have a heavenly Father loves 22:00 you, and He wants to give you a 22:02 pair of work boots. 22:03 He wants to give you that same 22:05 experience of having your 22:07 experience with Him, where you 22:08 came in need and He supplied 22:10 that need and showed you that 22:11 He loves you. 22:12 ♪♪ 22:16 We've got the Eight Natural 22:17 Doctors, we've got the 22:18 nature trails. 22:20 And, you know, we decided that 22:21 we wanted to do it in a way that 22:23 people would be─ felt like they 22:24 were pampered. 22:25 were pampered. 22:25 So we built a spa. 22:27 ♪♪ 22:38 And we have five massage rooms. 22:41 We do detox wraps, we have two 22:43 infrared saunas, we have a steam 22:45 room, we have a hot tub. 22:47 ♪♪ 22:54 You know, so we pamper them. 22:56 You know, so not only are they 22:58 getting instruction 23:00 and exercise and gourmet meals, 23:03 but they also─ we do it 23:04 in a spa setting 23:05 and out in nature. 23:06 You see, my dad, 23:08 I think he was right. 23:09 If we can get people away 23:11 from the stresses, from the 23:12 city, from all the things, 23:14 get them out in nature. 23:15 You know, he was always telling 23:16 me, he said, "Nature 23:18 is God's physician." 23:19 [inspirational music continues] 23:24 My father came out to 23:26 visit Silver Hills and 23:29 he loved it when he came here. 23:30 He saw his vision, he saw his 23:32 dream, you know, because he 23:33 loved to minister to people. 23:35 And he saw this whole project 23:37 now was ministering to people. 23:42 You know, he used to always say, 23:44 you know, "The angels long 23:46 to use our hands and our voices 23:48 in ministering to others." 23:50 And when he saw this place, he 23:51 says, "That's exactly what's 23:53 happening here. 23:53 The angels love to use our hands 23:56 and our voices to minister to 23:57 other people." 24:03 >> In his darkest hours, God 24:05 provided Phil with a simple pair 24:07 of work boots to reveal His love 24:10 for him. 24:11 And that's what Phil needed 24:14 to get his health back. 24:16 His father had taught him so 24:17 much about health. 24:19 He had studied health 24:20 academically for himself, but 24:21 then when he had to get his own 24:23 health back, he began to dig 24:26 deep and really study it. 24:29 And what he learned became the 24:31 foundation of what he teaches 24:33 at Silver Hills. 24:35 And it all began with the 24:37 revelation of God's love through 24:39 a pair of work boots that gave 24:41 him the direction that he needed 24:44 to move a mountain of obstacles. 24:48 >> Like so many others who 24:49 sincerely dedicated their lives 24:51 to God's service, Phil Brewer 24:53 was confronted by obstacles and 24:56 overwhelmed by trials. 24:59 Even his prayers seemed 25:00 hard to speak. 25:02 Like God's people in the Bible, 25:04 we often question God. 25:06 "If You're leading me, why do 25:08 all these problems keep 25:09 coming at me?" 25:11 >> The reality is that it is 25:13 because God is leading you that 25:15 these overwhelming difficulties 25:17 keep coming into your life. 25:19 The Lord asks this question in 25:21 the Bible... 25:36 >> Have you ever watched a 25:37 potter working with clay? 25:39 The potter takes the clay and 25:41 moulds it according to his will. 25:43 He squeezes it and works it. 25:46 He tears it apart and presses 25:48 it together. 25:49 He wets it and then dries it. 25:52 He lets it lie for a while 25:53 without touching it. 25:55 And when it is perfectly 25:57 pliable, flexible, 25:59 bendable, able to be moulded 26:02 according to the potter's will, 26:04 then he continues the work of 26:06 making it a vessel, a pot, 26:09 or a container of some kind. 26:11 He forms it into shape and on 26:13 the wheel trims and polishes it. 26:16 He dries it in the sun and bakes 26:18 it in the oven. 26:20 Only in this way does it become 26:22 a vessel fit for use. 26:25 >> This is how God, the Master 26:27 Potter, desires to mould and 26:28 fashion you and me. 26:30 As the clay is in the hands of 26:32 the potter, so am I, and so are 26:34 you to be in God's hands. 26:38 We are not to try to do the work 26:40 of the potter. 26:41 Our part is to yield ourselves, 26:43 to be moulded by the master 26:46 worker. 26:47 >> That's how you become the 26:49 hands, the feet, and the voice 26:50 of Jesus and His angels 26:52 to others. 26:54 Like Phil and his entire family 26:56 love to use their hands and 26:58 their voices to minister to 27:00 other people, you too can be 27:02 truly possessed of one purpose, 27:05 and that purpose is to live 27:08 to bless others. 27:10 >> Friends, you might have a lot 27:12 of questions about health as 27:14 Phil talked about it, and so we 27:16 have a free offer that we can 27:18 send to you right now. 27:21 >> Eight Steps to Health is a 27:23 small window into what Phil 27:24 calls the Eight Natural Doctors. 27:28 Our free offer, Eight Steps to 27:30 Health, will guide you through 27:32 eight simple changes you can 27:35 make to help you along your own 27:37 personal journey to live longer 27:40 and feel better. 27:42 >> We wish to pray for you. 27:44 If you would like to send us 27:46 your personal prayer requests, 27:48 the information for how to 27:50 contact us is on the screen. 27:52 Tell us your request and we will 27:54 put you on our personal prayer 27:57 list and pray for you 27:59 personally. 28:00 >> Before you go, we would like 28:02 to invite you to follow us on 28:04 Instagram and Facebook 28:06 and subscribe to our YouTube 28:08 channel, and also listen to 28:10 our podcasts. 28:11 And if you go to our website, 28:12 And if you go to our website, 28:13 you can see our latest programs. 28:17 >> You, too, can experience the 28:19 fullness of life found in the 28:21 words of Jesus when He said... 28:33 [uplifting music playing] 28:36 ♪♪ |
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