Participants: Charles Cleveland, Janet Fournier
Series Code: OTR
Program Code: OTR000832
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01:00 Today we are here to celebrate 60 years of ASI
01:03 ministries. And in this hour we have the 01:06 privilege to focus on the history of self 01:09 supporting medical missionary work. 01:12 For some attending this ASI session, 01:15 the history we are about to share in picture and 01:18 testimony is not new to you, 01:20 in fact many of you are part of it. 01:23 We trust that during this hour of looking back 01:27 on what has been done as well as what is 01:29 currently being done you and the 3 ABN viewers, 01:33 audience will be blessed. Seventh-day Adventist 01:36 early on had an interest in health 01:38 reform emphasis, emphasizing the prevention 01:42 of disease over the common focus on acute care. 01:46 Back in the time when physicians were 01:48 prescribing smoking to relax one's nerves. 01:51 The church in 1848 through Ellen White 01:55 taught that tobacco was harmful and went 01:58 another step in advance teaching that tea and 02:01 coffee were injurious. It was in 1863 that the 02:05 Adventist church began to take on its own unique 02:08 Teufel philosophy, when they began to show the 02:12 relationship between physical welfare and 02:14 spiritual health. Ellen White wrote, 02:17 "I saw that it was a sacred duty to attend to 02:21 our health, and arouse others to their duty. 02:25 We have a duty to speak to speak, to come out 02:27 against intemperance of every kind, 02:29 intemperance in working, in eating, in drinking, 02:33 and in drugging. And then to point them 02:36 to God's great medicine water, 02:38 pure soft water for disease, for health, 02:42 for cleanliness, and for luxury." 02:45 This council came none too soon by the time the 02:49 toil of pioneering the new movement the 02:52 Seventh-day Adventist church had began to take 02:55 its toll on the church leaders who often carried 02:58 the work of two to three people trying to advance 03:01 the kingdom of God in every way. 03:04 It was on Christmas day in 1865 that Ellen White 03:08 has given her second vision on health stressing 03:12 our need to take as of people more seriously 03:15 health reform. She said, "I was shown that we 03:19 should provide a home for the afflicted and for 03:22 those who wished how to wish to learn how to take 03:25 care of their bodies that they may prevent 03:28 sickness. The brethren heard this call and 03:32 through the church and though the church was 03:34 about 10,000 strong, church leaders in Battle 03:37 Creek began to enlist donations for their first 03:40 Adventist Health Institute. 03:42 The record shows that J.P. Kellogg, 03:45 father of the future John Harvey Kellogg pledged 03:48 the first $500. Then Ellen White also pledged 03:52 $500 and others were pledging 100s as well 03:56 until soon there was a pool of $11,000 enough to 04:01 begin the first health enterprise. 04:04 Five acres in Battle Creek were purchased which 04:08 included a good home on the property; 04:10 two adjoining acres were also purchased. 04:13 Treatment rooms were constructed by September 04:17 1866, the Battle Creek Western Health Reform 04:21 Institute opened for patients on staff were 04:25 Dr. Hareshio S Lay and Dr. Phoebe Lamson, 04:30 two bath attendance, one nurse and three 04:34 or four helpers. The opening of the 04:36 Western Health Reform Institute marked a new 04:39 era in the Seventh-day Adventist church history. 04:43 This was to be not only the forerunner of the 04:45 Battle Creek Sanitarium but of a whole system 04:48 of healthcare facilities that would be operated 04:51 around the world. Two months after the 04:54 opening of the institution Dr. Lay reported 04:57 its success was far beyond our most sanguine 05:00 expectations. The patients had been received 05:04 from Canada, Redmond, Rhode Island, New York, 05:07 Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin 05:11 and Iowa. It became necessary to secure rooms 05:14 in nearby homes for those who were able to 05:17 walk a short distance leaving the room in the 05:20 main building for the accommodations of the most 05:23 feeble ones. By 1877 a second much larger 05:29 building was erected and the Institution was 05:31 renamed The Medical and Surgical Sanitarium 05:34 later commonly called the Battle Creek 05:37 Sanitarium. During the next 20 continued growth 05:41 and patronage led to major expansion. 05:44 In 1887 for instance a separate five storey 05:47 hospital structure was erected. 05:49 In 1890 another five storey extension was 05:52 added to the main building and the original 05:55 structure was raised one storey. 05:57 By the turn of the century the Sanitarium 06:00 was world famous and employed more than 900 06:03 workers. Amen. But this was not all good, 06:09 church leaders along with Ellen White had 06:11 repeatedly counseled not to concentrate so many 06:15 resources and finances and people in one place. 06:18 Smaller centers were to be established near many 06:22 cities throughout the United States. 06:25 It was only a few years later when on February 06:28 18, 1902 that a fire broke out in the main 06:32 building of the Sanitarium and within three hours 06:36 the principle structures were gone. 06:39 All the approximately 400 patients were safely 06:45 cleared from the building. As Ellen White 06:48 pondered the first news of the fire she wrote, 06:51 "Our heavenly Father does not willingly afflict 06:54 or grieve the children of men. 06:56 He has his purpose in the whirlwind and 06:59 in the storm, in the fire and in the flood. 07:02 The Lord permits calamities to come to 07:05 His people to save them from the greater dangers. 07:09 This was the turning point for the Adventists 07:12 that have been centered largely in Battle Creek 07:14 and soon the Review and Herald Publishing 07:17 Association and the General Conference of 07:19 Seventh-day Adventist moved to 07:21 Washington DC area. And efforts were made 07:25 to establish Health Institutions in 07:27 Southern California as well. 07:30 Already the Rural Health Retreat had opened 07:32 in 1878 in Northern California later 07:36 renamed as St. Helena Sanitarium but many more 07:40 health facilities were needed. 07:43 About this time Mrs. White was in Los Angles 07:46 area for a camp meeting when she heard about 07:48 a 20 acre property near Santiago, California. 07:52 It had a three storey building that had been 07:54 recently build as a sanitarium and the 07:57 grounds were absolutely beautiful. 07:59 The property was strangely unoccupied and for 08:02 sale for a fraction of its original price. 08:06 The cost of the building alone had been $25,000 08:09 and now it's being offered building and property 08:13 for $12,000, but still it was more than 08:16 the Adventist could afford. 08:19 Eighteen months go by and the price was lowered 08:22 until in 1904 it was offered for a mere 08:26 $4000, complicating the decision to go to 08:30 purchase this property was a prolong drought 08:33 in the area. But Ellen White was impressed by 08:36 the Lord to move forward and found the way to 08:38 come with the funds. Soon with the blessing of 08:42 God an abundance of clear pure water was found 08:45 on the property and the facility was named the 08:48 Paradise Valley Sanitarium and it was soon full 08:52 to capacity. That same year another property 08:56 was found closer to the Los Angeles that also had 09:01 a well kept three storey building known as 09:05 Glendale Hotel worth $50,000. 09:08 When the price eventually came down to $12,000 09:13 the Adventists made the down payment and with 09:16 the blessing of God's funds came in, 09:19 and within months the institution was furnished 09:22 and ready to operate as Glendale Sanitarium. 09:27 These several institutions were quite a step in 09:31 faith for the Southern California Conference of 09:33 the Seventh-day Adventist with only 1100 members 09:38 strong but God was already leading for an 09:42 even broader medical work. Back in 1900 09:47 Ellen White had been shown a property already 09:49 build with a beautiful sanitarium and other 09:53 buildings and with many fruit trees. 09:56 In 1903 a property was found in the Redlands 09:59 Riverside California area that matched the 10:02 description perfectly but the price 110,000, 10:06 it was prohibitive. But by May of 1905 10:10 when the price dropped dramatically to only 10:13 $40,000 a decision was made to move forward 10:17 in faith, and the property was purchased with the 10:20 $5000 down payment and soon the balance was 10:24 paid in full. The property continues 10:27 today as Loma Linda University with a major 10:31 regional hospital, medical dental, 10:33 and nursing schools, and the school of public 10:36 health and many more. While the work was 10:39 expanding in the early 1900s largely to the west, 10:44 there were repeated calls for workers who would 10:47 go the south and take up the work of the Gospel. 10:51 Ellen White counseled, medical missions must be 10:55 opened as pioneer agencies to prepare 10:58 the way for the proclamation of the 11:01 Third Angel's message to the cities in the south. 11:05 The call was answered by two men 11:07 professors Edward A Sutherland and Percy Magan 11:11 who had been leading out in the churches 11:13 educational work first at Battle Creek and then 11:16 later at Berrien Springs, Michigan. 11:19 Ellen White was by this time visiting her son 11:22 near Nashville Tennessee, her son Edson near 11:25 Nashville, Tennessee where he operated a 11:27 missionary steamer boat on Cumberland River. 11:30 He and his wife were seeking to start education 11:33 work among the Negro or colored people. 11:36 Edson was just ready to leave on a trip up the 11:38 river when Ellen White proposed that they all 11:41 travel together and invite Sutherland and Magan 11:44 to look for property with her for another school 11:48 that they would run. The first day there, 11:51 there was a break down in the boat's machinery, 11:54 and they tied up for repair at Edgefield 11:57 Junction Landing, some 12 miles in direct line 12:01 from Nashville. One of the men working with Edson 12:04 who knew the area took Mrs. White up on the 12:07 bank of the river and pointed out to her an 12:10 adjoining 400 acre plantation which 12:12 was for sale. The bottom land near the river was 12:15 good soil but the upper part were poor and 12:20 had lots of bare limestone. 12:23 Ellen White was impressed, she recommends 12:26 Sutherland and Magan to see the land, 12:28 but they did not see anything but that was so 12:32 impressive. By this time The Morning Star boat 12:36 was repaired and they all headed up river for 12:38 the next several days. During this time 12:41 Ellen White became sure that this was the 12:43 property the Lord would have them to start their 12:46 new school. The men struggled over this 12:49 recommendation but in the end decided that since 12:52 the Lord had so often used Ellen White in 12:54 directing the work of the church that they should 12:57 trust her this time also, but where to get the 13:00 funds? $13,000 was a lot of money and 13:04 $5000 of that would be do in just 10 days. 13:08 Ellen White offered to help in every way she 13:11 could, she said, "our people will help you, 13:13 I'll recommend your work, I'll write an article 13:16 about it in the church paper, 13:18 I'll come on your board if you wish. 13:21 Do you know that this is the only time in her 13:24 life that she agreed to be a member of the board 13:26 of trustees of any institution and 13:29 which she did, and she served 13:31 faithfully until the very near end of her life. 13:34 So the Madison school and farm was legally 13:37 organized in a special way. 13:41 It would be a church owned and operated school 13:44 but would formally operated nonprofit 13:47 foundation like the Biblical model of Paul, 13:52 the self supporting tent making, 13:53 tent maker evangelist. This school would be a 13:57 self supporting school but would have close 14:00 cooperative ties to the Seventh-day Adventist 14:03 church. God proposed this tuition free school 14:07 from the very beginning. Half the day was devoted 14:12 to the study, and half to work. 14:14 The institute was named Nashville Agricultural 14:18 and Normal Institute and later the Madison 14:21 college. As the school grew a few old buildings 14:26 both house, both workers and students but they 14:29 were bursting at the scenes. 14:31 Percy team again in 1908 just four years after 14:34 their modest founding was able to report great 14:37 progress in the building, he said this. 14:40 We have erected eight cottages which will 14:43 accommodate about 36 students. 14:45 Besides these we put up a small bathroom and a 14:48 laundry and three other buildings which are used 14:51 for the bakery and dairy purposes. 14:54 In 1907 we began erecting three buildings for a 14:57 real sanitarium making a total of 19 buildings 15:01 that are erected or in the process of erection. 15:04 Actually as early as the fall of 1904 at the 15:08 very time that the Madison was being born 15:11 Mrs. White was writing letters encouraging that 15:14 the sanitarium be built in conjunction with the 15:17 school. I have been instructed that there are 15:22 decided advantages to be gained by the 15:25 establishment of a school and a sanitarium 15:27 in close proximity, that they may be 15:31 a help one to the other. God bless the sanitarium 15:35 work at Madison from the very beginning. 15:39 Percy Magan's wife had died several years earlier 15:42 and when he remarried, he married 15:44 Dr. Lillian Eshleman who became the first 15:47 physician for the new health enterprise. 15:50 From the humble beginning in 1907 the sanitarium 15:53 were kept expanding, new additions were regularly 15:56 being added. Many of the patients came from 15:59 nearby Nashville, but as the sanitarium's 16:02 reputation of excellence grew patients came from 16:06 all over the country. The sanitarium nurses 16:09 training program was at first a one year course 16:12 uncertified, but with the Lord's blessing year 16:16 by year the nursing classes grew. 16:18 By 1915 the nursing course was extended to 16:21 two years, in 1919 expanded to three years 16:25 training and their graduates became 16:27 full fledged recognized professional nurses. 16:30 The sanitarium specialize in treating its many 16:33 patients with, not with drugs but with the simple 16:36 natural remedies and lifestyle change. 16:40 The results were wonderful, 16:41 patients found a new lease on life. 16:44 Students were taught how to give the various 16:47 treatments. Here one staff member is giving 16:50 a whirlpool treatment. Instructors often work 16:54 closely with their students making sure the 16:56 patients received the very best treatments. 16:59 Here the patient is receiving a steam bath. 17:03 The Madison school and sanitarium developed many 17:06 auxiliary services, dental offices were a part 17:09 of the campus eventually with the additional 17:12 hospital, and maternity services were also 17:14 offered. Part of the treatment was to spend 17:18 sometime outdoors in the fresh sunshine everyday. 17:23 Madison developed overtime 27 different 17:26 industries to help enable students to work and 17:28 pay their tuition. This included a health 17:31 food factory and a bakery which supplied good 17:34 quality bread and bakery products for their 17:36 campus and community. In 1909 the campus hosted 17:41 its first self supporting convention. 17:44 By this time one family started the medical 17:46 missionary work in Cuba and other satellites were 17:50 beginning to be started in numerous places now 17:52 throughout the south. 17:59 Go ahead, okay. By 1909 the medical work at the 18:04 school had grown to such significance and needed 18:07 strong stable leadership, it was recommended that 18:11 both Sutherland and Magan take medical school 18:14 training nearby at Nashville. 18:16 They began their studies in 1910 at Vanderbilt 18:20 and the University of Tennessee, 18:22 but also continued to run the Madison campus 18:25 graduating in 1914. Sutherland was 50 when 18:30 he obtained his MD degree. Perhaps to summarize 18:35 this self supporting pioneering effort on the 18:38 Madison campus with its health work, 18:41 we can quote from the Reader's Digest article 18:45 of May 1938 which incidentally resulted 18:50 in 5000 enquiries. Today the Madison Rural 18:54 Sanitarium, with 100 rooms up-to-the minute 18:57 equipment, and a staff of 14 physicians, 19:00 is the institute's most important industry. 19:04 Although it is operated for the benefit of the 19:07 college, as rates of $25 to $35 a week, 19:11 the sanitarium has never turned away a charity 19:14 patient. Students do all the routine work, 19:19 getting practical training in the process of 19:21 earning their education. The 25 to 30 graduates 19:25 of its nurses' course are snapped up each year by 19:31 the best hospitals, and the premedical and 19:35 pre-dental work is accepted by all the 19:39 colleges and The American Medical Association. 19:44 Through the years Madison did a wonderful job 19:47 of training medical missionary workers, 19:49 encouraging them and enabling it's graduates to 19:52 leave and go out and start similar institutions 19:55 throughout the south. And now here just the 19:58 few of the examples, on a farm up in the hills 20:02 the surround Nashville Basin, several Madison 20:05 graduates started one of the hill schools which 20:08 was called Fountain Head. Their program was well 20:11 described by a mountain man who said it this way. 20:14 They help the poor, they help the sick and 20:17 they learned our children. Not all the early 20:22 ventures of Madison were rural. 20:24 In 1919 a Polk Street settlement and a 20:28 cafeteria, and a treatment room in Nashville were 20:31 operated by Madison graduates. 20:33 The Polk Street settlement was a day nursery 20:36 where the worker's mothers could leave their 20:38 children in a place from which the nurses went 20:42 out into the homes. The couple pictured on 20:46 the left are Neil Martin and his wife, parents of 20:50 Edwin Martin who will be interviewed here in a 20:53 few minutes. Located near Portland, 20:56 Tennessee was where another hill school 20:59 started called Chestnut Hill Farm School. 21:02 To this house upon the hill came those in the 21:05 community who needed medical help. 21:07 And to the little school house that had 21:09 been added came whole families who felt the need 21:12 of an education. The idea of a medical 21:15 and educational work for North Carolina was 21:17 conceived early in 1910 not far away from 21:21 Asheville, a property was found in the beautiful 21:24 valley surrounded by hills and it was originally 21:26 called the Naples Agricultural and 21:29 Normal School. A few years later a medical 21:32 work was started under the simple name 21:34 Mountain Sanitarium. Today, Fletcher Academy 21:38 continues as a self supporting school with 21:41 anticipated enrollment for next year of a 150 21:44 students and the hospital is run by Adventists 21:47 Health Systems. Pisgah Institute was 21:50 also located in Western North Carolina, 21:53 nine miles from the city of Asheville where 21:56 school was established in 1914 and the sanitarium 22:00 was later started. This institution has trained 22:04 hundreds of young people who have gone forth 22:06 to serve their church at home and in foreign 22:09 lands. Today Mount Pisgah Academy is owned 22:12 and operated by the Carolina Conference and 22:15 has an enrollment of a 142 students. 22:19 Near Florence, Alabama, the Lord blessed with the 22:23 founding of El Reposo Sanitarium by Madison 22:28 graduate Neil Martin, his wife and several 22:32 others. Years later, two of the Martin boys, 22:36 Charles and Edwin former Fletcher students along 22:39 with their wives took over the management 22:42 of El Reposo. The Hulbert Farm 22:46 and Scott's Sanitarium in Reeves, 22:49 Georgia began its operation in 1914, 22:54 medical, educational and agricultural activities 22:57 were carried out under the name of Rural Health 23:00 Educational Institute which also sponsored to 23:04 cafeteria and treatment rooms in Chattanooga, 23:07 Tennessee. Anyone who drives the 17 miles from 23:12 Louisville, Kentucky to the Pewee Valley 23:14 Sanitarium and hospital will enjoy the fragrance 23:17 of honeysuckle and magnolia, and the rolling 23:20 infields of blue grass. The work at Pewee Valley 23:23 was started by a group of nurses from Louisville. 23:25 The property was purchased in 1924, 23:28 starting in a log building it grew and in time to 23:31 become a school and a sanitarium, 23:33 many Madison's students have been connected with 23:35 the Pewee Valley work. The Lawrenceburg 23:38 Sanitarium and Hospital was located 6 miles from 23:41 Lawrenceburg, Tennessee and came into 23:43 existence in 1919. Its objectives were medical, 23:48 education, agricultural work on the original 23:51 42 acre farm. Other farms were added then 23:55 a larger sanitarium was built operating under the 23:58 name of the Lawrenceburg Rural School and Health 24:01 Retreat. This institution is unique and that for 24:04 many years it was operated by Madison and served 24:08 as a training center for rural school and rest 24:11 home work. There were actually many other self 24:15 supporting medical institution schools, 24:17 vegetarian cafeterias throughout the south. 24:21 Time doesn't allow covering them all but one 24:24 more project will be of interest to our ASI 24:28 attendees here in Louisville. 24:31 That's right Janet and here are the two photos 24:33 of, one of the vegetarian cafeterias once 24:35 operating right here in Louisville. 24:38 Pictured on the outside is the cafeteria and 24:41 this other picture is the inside photo showing 24:44 a large spaces dining room area. 24:46 By the 1940s Madison had been responsible for 24:50 raising up over a 50 or more self supporting 24:53 institutions. Eventually the church felt a need 24:57 to get more closely associated with these many 24:59 facilities and to assist in any way that it 25:02 could. It may come as a no surprise with the 25:05 church in 1948, in 1946 reached out to the 25:09 president of the Madison College Dr. Sutherland 25:12 who had served Madison for 42 years. 25:15 They invited him to move to the church head 25:18 quarters in Washington DC and become the head 25:22 of a newly organized commission on rural living 25:24 that will foster rural living and self 25:26 supporting missionary work in North America. 25:30 Soon it was known as the association of the 25:33 Seventh-day Adventist self supporting 25:34 institutions or as we now know the initials 25:37 simply ASI. Self supporting work has 25:41 grown beyond any one's dream, 25:45 and was having a significant impact on the 25:48 communities. They were located in and near as 25:51 well as on the Seventh -day Adventist church. 25:54 Now Dr. Sutherland would have the opportunity 25:58 to find ways through the newly formed ASI 26:02 organizations to keep these institutions united 26:05 and focus on the great commission of Jesus 26:09 to teach, preach and hear all over the world, 26:13 heal all over the world. With the Lord's blessing 26:16 the ASI organization did grow larger through the 26:20 years. And in 1961 broaden its membership base to 26:24 include Adventist businessmen and women. 26:28 The goal remains the same emphasizing the 26:30 importance of Christian witness in the workplace. 26:33 To provide a place, a fellowship for lay persons 26:37 with like goals and enhance the Christian 26:40 principles of business. It seems that the 26:43 Lord has abundantly blessed this organization, 26:46 and it just keeps on growing not only larger 26:49 but more effective in its outreach activities 26:52 around the world. By 1917 and again 26:56 in 1979 some name adjustments were made to 27:00 fit the growing army who were sharing Christ in 27:02 the workplace, and it was still ASI but now it 27:06 was called Adventist- laymen's Services and 27:09 Industries, a perfect fit for a great 27:12 organization. It's being a blessing to review 27:17 this amazing history of self supporting medical 27:21 missionary work. And it's a great pleasure for me 27:24 to also be able to invite two men whose lifework 27:28 is a great tie to us to the past and even the 27:31 present. I have with me today Brother 27:34 Bob Sutherland who is going to spend just a few 27:37 moments with us on our history of self supporting 27:41 medical missionary work. Brother Sutherland 27:44 your grandfather E. A. Sutherland pioneered 27:48 the Madison College along with Percy Magan and 27:51 several others of course. And your parents also 27:56 were involved, in fact I guess they met 27:57 each other at Madison. Yes they did. 28:02 And then your father became a physician like 28:05 grandfather. Yes. And he served at Madison. 28:09 Yes, he did. And then you came along and you 28:12 were raised at Madison and you started, 28:14 you met your wife at Madison. 28:16 Absolutely 62 years ago. Isn't that a blessing 28:20 folks, can we all say, amen. 28:23 So that's a wonderful history and these 28:26 institutions are very good for providing just 28:28 the right wives, aren't they? Oh yeah. Amen. 28:31 And so after you had raised your family there, 28:36 so you really saw Madison in its 28:39 heydays in so many different ways, 28:41 didn't you? Yes, I did. Now you were there at 28:45 the time probably in your twenties when that 28:47 article came out in the Reader's Digest in 1938. 28:52 I wouldn't be in my twenties but I was around. 28:54 Okay, you were around. And what was that like 28:58 when that article came out? 29:00 What happened to Paul Edison? 29:01 We didn't have a room to put him. 29:03 You didn't I mean 5000 people asking that was 29:06 phenomenal, wasn't it? Yes, it was. 29:08 But it was a real testimony to see how 29:11 the world was even responding to, 29:14 to be able to respect such a simple but a 29:19 prosperous self supporting school. 29:22 I have a question for you because you did see 29:25 the different industries there and so forth. 29:27 The theme that drew many people from the West 29:30 or the East of the United States was that you 29:33 could go to the Madison and earn your way 29:35 through to wish a Roman board, 29:37 how did that really worked? It worked fine, 29:40 people came there with no money at all, 29:42 got a four year education and went away with 29:44 money in their pocket and a career. 29:48 And what was it like? What was the daily 29:50 schedule life for them? Well started early in the 29:54 morning if you are milking cows and late in the 29:57 evening after you got off work. 30:00 And they have some time to study too? 30:02 Oh yes. So about half and half. 30:05 That's the way the program is supposed to work 30:06 as. That's a pretty balanced program, 30:08 wasn't it? Now as the institution we know was 30:14 self supporting, they had up to 27 different 30:17 industries. Yes. But as the work spread as the 30:20 vision was to go out and do likewise, 30:23 that costs money and that I know that the 30:25 campus couldn't earn, how did God give us 30:27 an example? How did God provide for some of those 30:30 multiple new projects? Well, for lot of people 30:33 Mrs. Scott came there from up in the Northeast, 30:40 made her life at Madison she was a daughter of 30:44 Mr. Funk who established Funk and Wagnall's 30:47 publishing company. She made her life there and 30:50 could spend her inheritance helping 30:53 Madison and sustaining it by building buildings 30:57 and also by buying properties to hold for our 31:01 institutions, did wanted to start in future. 31:05 And that was one of God's way of helping many of 31:08 them to get jump start. And then somebody wanted 31:10 to go out and start, and Madison might give him 31:12 a cow or a piece of equipment to help him get 31:15 started. Any thing they could do to encourage 31:17 them and get them off to a good beginning. 31:20 They were always part of the family. Amen. 31:23 Thank you brother Sutherland today, 31:25 he still serves the Madison Alumni Board 31:28 and the curator of the Heritage Housing. 31:31 We appreciate what you and all your family did to 31:34 give us such a beautiful heritage and self 31:36 supporting work. Well just a matter of 31:39 being willing to do what the Lord asks. Amen, 31:41 thank you so much brother Sutherland. 31:48 Brother Edwin Martin, Nashville, Tennessee, 31:51 we have known you for the number of years 31:53 and I have worked with you together on 31:54 different projects. Your father went to Madison, 31:57 he met his wife there. Your evangelist 32:01 grandfather came there from California to join 32:03 self supporting medical machinery work at 32:06 Madison. You attended Madison part of the 32:09 time had some army in between and you met your 32:12 Mary Bell at Madison. I did. And she took 32:15 nurse's training there, didn't she? 32:17 And she said I will. And she said I will. 32:20 And you became a lab technician as I remember, 32:25 and like your grandfather, and like your father, 32:28 the time came that you and Mary Bell felt the 32:31 call to do likewise and you devoted much of 32:34 your life to self supporting ministries. 32:37 Well, I have to say it took my wife a little 32:39 longer to get the call than it did me, 32:41 but she eventually came across. 32:43 Okay I see you are down there Mary Bell. 32:46 And well that's what it takes us while the Lord 32:48 puts us together sort of balance one and another 32:51 and maybe sometimes we need those breaks as well 32:54 as we think about it carefully. 32:56 So with you and your wife, your brother and his 32:59 wife, and your father and family you started 33:03 El Reposo in Florence, Alabama, 33:06 and you worked there many years. 33:08 When you left Charles continued there the rest 33:10 of his life. Right, right. You went on with 33:13 Mary Bell over to Lawrenceburg to run the 33:16 Lawrenceburg Sanitarium and Hospital in 33:18 Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, and that was pretty 33:21 serious business, wasn't it? 33:22 Yes, you just saw the picture of Lawrenceburg 33:25 too that's the way it looked when we were there. 33:27 Is that right? We were there nine years, 33:31 a great training place. What motivated you to 33:34 join self supporting work, I mean you didn't have 33:36 to, I can't imagine it was for the salaries? 33:39 Well, yeah, they paid really good wages, 33:43 I think we made $100 a month, 33:46 and that was for the two of us. Oh I see. 33:49 And it wasn't a forty hour a week either by the 33:51 way. I see, okay. Well we all know actually those 33:55 who have been in self supporting work that it is 33:57 not a simple work, it's full of many blessings, 34:01 but there is never enough money for everything 34:03 is there? Never. If the roof's leaking, 34:05 if the van doesn't run, if the boiler breaks 34:09 down, you got to find a way to fix it, don't you? 34:11 Right. And so as you think back on your life 34:16 and your investment, if you had a choice to 34:20 consider whether you do this over again or not, 34:22 would you do it again? I surely would. 34:26 And what was it, why would you say that? 34:28 What it do for you? Well, first of all I want to 34:31 say God is good, isn't He? Amen. 34:36 I would like to encourage any of you out there 34:37 who are not exactly sure that where the 34:40 Lord want you to be, or doing exactly what He 34:43 wants you to do? That you would seek 34:46 His guidance and listen carefully when you know 34:50 what and where He wants you to be, 34:51 give it your very best. And He'll be responsible 34:56 for the results, we don't have to worry 34:58 about that. There were many times when the going 35:03 was pretty tough and you weren't sure where 35:05 to go, what to do? Well there were times we 35:08 didn't understand, why things happened, 35:10 like loosing a job, but the truth is 35:14 that it was time for us to move on. 35:17 It's very clear to us today that everything 35:20 that happened to us and every move that we 35:22 made was God leading us along to teach us lesson 35:26 that we needed to learn to prepare us for the 35:29 next phase of our life. We expect that even to 35:34 the retirement years, He had led us to the 35:37 right place at the right time; we expect our next 35:40 move to be the heaven. And yes, if I had it all 35:44 to do all over again, we do the same thing. 35:48 Maybe I've not been blessed above all 35:51 people that I know off. We thank the Lord 35:53 everyday for His goodness to us. 35:57 Thank you Brother Martin, let's give these two 35:58 men a great amen. Thank for every thing 36:02 that you represent. Thank you. Thank you for 36:03 being with us. Now it's my privilege 36:07 to present to you some photos of present day self 36:12 supporting medical missionary work. 36:14 There are many institutions you'll be 36:16 surprised at the variety of that there maybe. 36:19 We're gonna be able to just give you a 36:20 sampling in a few minutes that I have to share 36:23 with you, so we're gonna move very quickly 36:25 but I wanted to give you a nice overview of what 36:28 God is doing through other lay people here in 36:31 United States and around the world. 36:34 Let's start up in Oak Haven in Michigan at 36:37 country life natural foods, wholesale foods 36:40 in Pullman Michigan. This is the entrance to 36:43 their 1200 acre campus. Next we see a picture 36:46 of them gathered together in their large health 36:48 food facility on the campus there. 36:51 And if you know anything about Oak Haven you 36:54 surely want to try their granola. 36:56 And here's the picture of their baking of that 36:58 product, its shipped all over the 37:00 Great Lake States through delivery trucks 37:02 and people will get it by UPS all over the 37:05 country. There are other health food stores 37:09 of course in United States, our time doesn't 37:11 allow to picture them all, so I wanted to mention 37:14 some of the restaurant and health food stores, 37:16 for instance the Wildwood one in Chattanooga 37:19 Tennessee, the Country Life Columbus, 37:23 Georgia are run by Yuchi Pines, 37:25 out in New Hampshire in Keene New Hampshire 37:28 Country Life up in Portage Wisconsin is another 37:31 Country Life. I would like to share some now in 37:34 Europe with you as we go to Country Life Marsey 37:38 in South France. Here's a picture of their 37:41 beautiful health food shop that you'd visit if 37:43 you ever went there, and how about the 37:45 sampling from their restaurant. 37:47 I think you would be interested to know 37:49 that they make some very good pies. 37:52 In Basel, Switzerland here is the front of their 37:55 beautiful little restaurant and health 37:57 food store on the first floor as you see there 38:00 pictured is their health food shop, 38:02 and on the second floor is a beautiful 38:04 restaurant. Let's look inside the building, 38:06 and here we see the health food shop well stocked 38:09 with natural foods. And on the second floor 38:12 if you were there you could take a look at 38:14 what the cook was making as they prepare some 38:17 food for the restaurant. We have other 38:20 institutions restaurant and health food stores in 38:23 South America, in Chile, in Uruguay, in Columbia, 38:28 in Costa Rica, in Demonic Republic, 38:31 in Puerto Rico, in Europe they are in Spain, 38:34 Poland, a half a dozen in Czech Republic, 38:38 Norway and in South Korea. Now I would like to 38:42 turn to some of the lifestyle centers, 38:45 the wellness centers where you can go for two 38:48 or three weeks to get your weight worked on if 38:51 you need to reverse some diabetes, heart disease 38:55 any number of lifestyle diseases to our 38:58 lifestyle centers. We go to South Dakota first of 39:01 all to Black Hills Health and Education Centre 39:05 which offers thirteen and twenty day living 39:07 programs, nestled in a beautiful Canyon Valley 39:11 there in South Dakota is Black Hills Education 39:14 Centre. When you are there you would be treated 39:18 to one of the nation's historic monuments on 39:20 your outings to the nearby famous Mount Rushmore. 39:25 There facility is beautifully located 39:27 in a quite roll setting as most of our lifestyle 39:31 centers are out in the country as we were 39:32 counseled. There is experience there in the 39:35 kitchen with some hands on cooking. 39:38 In the morning you can join the group for some 39:41 warm up exercises, and during the day there 39:44 is time for some one on one personnel therapy 39:47 by the therapists there. Now we go the 39:51 Eden Valley Colorado to the lifestyle center 39:54 located near Loveland, Colorado in the foot 39:57 of the Rocky Mountains. Here is the entrance to 40:00 the campus and some of the guests out there are 40:04 getting some good exercise, 40:06 here's it not always winter in Colorado 40:08 fortunately, here's the beautiful campus setting 40:11 there. And the next picture is their lifestyle 40:14 center where the patients reside. 40:18 And finally I know you are always interested in 40:21 their food, here's the patients going through 40:23 the buffet. Then there is the lifestyle center 40:26 of America located in Sulphur, Oklahoma 40:30 offering 12 and 18 day programs, 40:32 a beautiful facility very modern and up to date 40:36 in most every way. Here you see an evening 40:39 short of the facility. Inside the building 40:42 there is one on one nutrition counseling, 40:44 and they have a lovely indoor track that 40:48 surrounds the gymnasium, they have an indoor pool 40:52 and many other exercise facilities for you. 40:56 Next we like to go back overseas to Europe to 41:00 Fredheim Heath Centre in Kongsberg, Norway 41:03 which has been operating 12 day continuous 41:06 programs for the last 25 years, 41:09 they are on the mountain setting. 41:11 You'll see a beautiful facility where the 41:13 patients come and can hike the mountains and the 41:16 vigorous fresh air. Then we would like 41:19 to show you the educational facility for 41:21 the medical missionary school located about 41:24 40 miles away on the other part of the campus 41:27 where they do the agricultural work. 41:29 There you see the kitchen, there's a kitchen 41:31 dinning room and class room facilities for the 41:34 students. This institution support itself with 41:37 some serious industries in the nearby commercial 41:40 buildings that they were able to purchase through 41:42 providence. They have in that building the 41:45 Chapel, their bakeries, their press and if you 41:48 see the little red box on the side of the 41:49 building, the town's post office run by our 41:53 institution. They do bread baking there in a 41:56 serious way not loaves by 10s, 20s, and a 100s 42:00 but the loaves by the 1000s as you see here 42:03 pictured they go by semi truck all over Norway, 42:06 Denmark, and parts of Sweden. 42:10 There outreach program is pretty vigorous, 42:12 they work in the malls, they present health 42:15 expo programs. Here you see them in the mall 42:18 and then inside the mall as the people come in 42:20 to shop, they are invited to go through 42:23 the health expo. It's a wonderful way to 42:25 contact people and make friends through the 42:27 exercise step test. And when everything 42:30 is done on the screening program, 42:32 you can always surely satisfy them with a nice 42:35 anti stress chair message. Let's move now to the 42:39 Eastern Europe to Huggley a health center there 42:43 in Romania. Here this lifestyle center the 42:47 busiest lifestyle self supporting lifestyle 42:49 center in the world taking an average of 50 42:52 patients a session started only in 1996 and 42:56 since then have served over 7000 people not for a 43:00 one or two day program these are 2 weeks program 43:03 consecutively follow throughout the year. 43:07 To the southern part of this facility is the 43:10 beautiful pastural views to the valleys. 43:12 It's on of the most beautiful sites that 43:15 we have, the rooms are very comfortable for 43:18 anyone to come there. They give excellent 43:21 treatments there as well, they have a well 43:25 developed campus that now includes not only 43:29 the original building when this facility started 43:32 there was a Soya bean field and all these 43:35 buildings had been added since 1996, 1999 the 43:38 school buildings were added for a medical 43:41 missionary training program. And in the next 43:44 picture you see God's rainbow blessing right 43:47 over the school and sanitarium. 43:49 In the last picture from Herghelia we'll show 43:51 one of the classroom shots. We train students 43:55 from eight surrounding Eastern European countries 43:58 who come there to receive medical missionary 44:01 training. Let's go a little further East and 44:04 North into the former Soviet Union up into 44:07 South Ukraine to Krakow to the new life, 44:11 lifestyle center who has 11 days sessions 44:14 repeatedly. Here you see their little sanitarium 44:17 building; they can now take about 16 patients 44:20 per session. People told us in the Soviet country 44:24 where medicine is free, people will never pay 44:26 to come in and pay privately but ever since 44:30 the facility opened there's been a 6 month 44:32 waiting list because they get real treatments in 44:34 a real center, and so people are happy 44:37 to come there. Next picture shows just 44:39 behind the sanitarium you are just a stones 44:42 throw from the huge Boog river that you can 44:45 overlook from the sanitarium. 44:47 They have excellent physician care one on one 44:50 there with our physicians and the massage 44:53 therapists are very experienced in the work 44:56 they have done since 2000. And outside the 45:00 group together in our last 45:02 picture for a group of the lifestyle guests and 45:05 some of the staff gathered with them. 45:08 Then God bless for another sanitarium in 45:10 Ukraine that opened in January 1 of 2002 called 45:14 Novi Obihody or the new Novi Obihody. 45:17 This lifestyle centre also has 11 days programs 45:21 repeatedly. This facility as you see there 45:24 pictured the large building is the health 45:26 center for about 24 patients now and the 45:29 homes as you see further down there we purchase 45:32 for about $300 each they weren't finished but 45:35 we're able to originally buy the property land, 45:38 buildings and everything for around $300 each. 45:42 They grow flowers profusely there as we were 45:44 counseled to do for our sanitariums. 45:47 The patients get a good education program, 45:50 they have a regular cooking classes and how to 45:52 make good healthful food. The physicians spend 45:56 time with their patients answering their 45:58 questions and lecturing with them. 46:01 Then they go outside as a patients staff groups 46:04 and get warm up exercises but in Ukraine it's not 46:07 always spring time. And there are times when it's 46:10 winter but you know they tell the patients there 46:13 isn't any bad weather there's just bad clothing 46:16 let's go anyway. And you don't have 46:19 to tell the Ukrainians more than that once and 46:21 they are out and walking. In the spring time its 46:25 serious agricultural time. They grow almost all 46:28 the food they use in that busy sanitarium, 46:31 and so when harvest time comes all the staff 46:34 help including the physicians to make 46:36 sure there is plenty for the whole year because 46:38 they also have several months waiting list of 46:41 people just wanting to come and get that 46:43 beautiful treatment at Novi. Besides running the 46:47 program there on the campus they are constantly 46:50 out throughout the country and teaching programs, 46:52 they run an excellent medical missionary program 46:55 this is their community outreach program. 46:57 And besides that they don't forget their local 47:00 village of Novi and there they are going door to 47:02 door offering programs including Bibles studies. 47:06 Let's come back to America to the west coast 47:10 to Weimar Institute for the well known Newstart 47:13 program. Newstart program ministers over 18 day 47:17 wellness program and has done for number of 47:20 years. There are number of trails when you are 47:23 at Weimar in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada's 47:26 that you can hike and choose from, 47:28 so it's a wonderful place to do some good 47:30 walking. Then there is instruction on how to make 47:33 good quality food and then when that's all over 47:37 with you have the pleasure of getting together 47:39 and enjoying it that's at Weimar. 47:42 Next we like to take you to one of the oldest 47:44 health centers in America that follows the 47:48 Madison style that was the Wildwood Lifestyle 47:50 Education Center and hospital some 65 years 47:54 and full time service offering 8 day programs. 47:58 This is the entrance to their campus near 48:00 Chattanooga Tennessee. And the next slide is the 48:04 picture of their lifestyle center. 48:06 Then Wildwood has had years of experience in 48:10 treating their patients, they have the college 48:12 of healthy evangelism next to the hospital in 48:15 that building there. We'll show you the 48:17 picture of the classroom with James who is the 48:20 director of the program there. 48:22 They have massage training and cooking 48:25 classes as well with some fruits for their labor, 48:29 and they are very active in working in 48:31 Chattanooga. Here is the picture downtown at 48:33 the university working in with the students. 48:37 Two more institutions we'd like to, 48:38 three more we'd like to show you briefly 48:40 Riverside institute in Zambia, an overview of 48:44 their 3000 acre farm, there are support by 48:47 bananas and other agricultural products. 48:50 Here's a picture of all the Riverside farm staff 48:53 gathered together at their new health center. 48:56 And the next picture shows us brand new premier 48:58 center that is there overlooking the campus. 49:02 The next one is their dining room and their 49:05 patients sitting out together on the verandah 49:07 looking over the Kafue River and the farm. 49:11 We'd like to now take you to Lisbon, Portugal 49:14 with Dr. Viriato Ferreira who was interviewed 49:17 earlier in the Lisbon downtown clinic, 49:21 his wife is also a physician 49:22 Dr. Mary Ann Ferreira there on the right doing 49:25 the cooking classes. And during their 49:28 experience and working with patients, 49:30 they also work with the local Portuguese Union in 49:33 running with us in OCI several pilot projects on 49:36 medical missionary training, here's one of 49:38 the school groups, here's another year's 49:40 training. And now recently they finally secured 49:44 after 5 years of negotiation a property 49:47 near the city up on the hill that you see in the 49:49 background the town of Fenella. 49:51 This beautiful property we just have one picture 49:53 to show you, these are some of the buildings 49:56 that'll begin to remodel now into a sanitarium, 49:59 a medical missionary school, housing and 50:00 everything so their staff may continue. 50:04 Finally I would like to show you a couple of more 50:05 pictures of new endeavor in Sweden called 50:08 Lifestyle TV. Here is Dr. Nedley speaking there 50:12 in Sweden and what's unique about this self 50:16 supporting television program is they are able 50:18 to broadcast over Scandinavia their health 50:22 message but then offer health expos as a follow 50:25 up and then go out as a TV group to work in the 50:28 communities, they advertised for and 50:30 do follow up with that. And by the way there is 50:33 the health expo being offered in the exhibit 50:36 hall by them and several of us cooperating 50:38 together. Well we have been featuring self 50:42 supporting institutions since they were the 50:45 reason that ASI actually began. 50:48 But in the last few minutes that we have here 50:50 I would also like to extend just a few minutes 50:53 to interview several people that now represent 50:56 individuals who have also the medical 50:59 missionary vision. I am so glad it's not just 51:02 only related to institutions that 51:05 do this kind of work. But the reality is that 51:08 there are many Adventists lay people who have 51:10 realized from reading God's council that medical 51:13 missionary work is the right arm of the Gospel. 51:16 I'd like to introduce to you Karen Houghton who 51:19 comes from Fallbrook, California. 51:22 And she has been conducting cooking classes 51:26 in her local church for a number of years. 51:29 And I think you average between a 100 and 130 51:33 people is that right. That's correct. 51:35 And that's a pretty good size cooking school. 51:37 And Karen as you share with them recipes as 51:40 they sample your food, what else do you try to 51:43 do in your cooking programs to help 51:45 the people? Well, I always give health 51:47 lectures and about 12 years ago when I started 51:51 my cooking schools, I had to create my own 51:53 health lectures and I based them on the natural 51:56 laws of health. But then The Abundant Living 51:59 series became available and I think that was 52:02 around 2001 or 2002, and I was just thrilled 52:06 when I saw that because it has excellent 52:08 graphics, colored pictures that just really 52:11 get their attention and so I have used that. 52:14 And what I really liked about their program is, 52:17 you can insert as more research is done and 52:20 you see studies that have been done they back 52:23 up our health message. That's right. 52:25 You can insert that into your PowerPoint so 52:27 it keeps the program very current. 52:29 Very good, and Karen where else have you had an 52:32 opportunity to use The Abundant Living series 52:35 the health talks? The health talks are used, 52:37 the first time I actually used them was in the 52:40 Philippines, I gave the health lectures just 52:43 prior to when my husband preached and I found 52:46 it there it worked very well in the Philippines. 52:49 And then last year I used the series in a cooking 52:53 school in Phoenix, Arizona. Shawn Boonstra 52:56 asked me to come and do a cooking school 52:58 just prior to his meetings. 53:00 And that's when we had a 130 people come out 53:02 and a good number of those people transferred 53:05 over into the evangelistic meetings and were 53:07 baptized, so our health message is the opening 53:10 door. Amen. You know Karen I think that you have 53:13 learned as we have that we reach a class of 53:16 people when we use the health work in our 53:18 evangelism that we wouldn't reach otherwise, 53:21 did you find out that to be true also? I found 53:22 out that very true. Thank you so much for 53:24 sharing with us today. Thank you. 53:26 You can find in the copies of The Abundant Living 53:28 if you come back to the health expo clear to 53:31 the back of the exhibit hall in Isles 100 and 53:33 200, 200 and 300, they would be available there. 53:37 Dr Naren James you come here today from Kentucky, 53:40 you are from Kentucky is that right? 53:42 Correct, right here in Kentucky. 53:43 And I understand that you represent an 53:46 organization that's not very old called AMEN, I 53:49 like that name. That's right that's called 53:52 Adventists Medical Evangelism Network, Amen. 53:55 And when you spoke to me Dr. James you said that 53:59 you had a couple of objectives, but maybe even 54:02 before sharing that so this is Adventist Medical, 54:07 help me out, Evangelism Network. Okay. 54:13 And who are you targeting? Well our target 54:16 currently is physician and dental community, 54:18 and we hope to expand that to a larger medical 54:20 community but that's our target currently. 54:23 And how old of an organization are you now? 54:25 Barely two years old going on. 54:29 And about how many members do you have? 54:31 We are close to, pretty close to a few members 54:33 short of a hundred right now. 54:35 Is that right a hundred, nearly a hundred 54:37 enthusiastic vision oriented physicians and 54:41 dentists; I think that's pretty powerful? 54:43 Amen that's a great journey for two years. 54:46 What are some of your objectives? 54:47 What would you like to do? 54:48 Well first I like to just mention our mission 54:51 AMEN, I mean our mission really is to, 54:53 is geared towards equipping our physicians, 54:57 Adventists physicians and dentists to be 54:58 effective medical evangelists. And so that 55:00 takes the form of two main objectives one, 55:02 it's training our physicians and dentists 55:04 to become effective in their offices and the 55:08 work place to be evangelists and 55:10 seeing the patients differently beyond usually 55:13 encounter being an opportunity to cure is an 55:17 opportunity to invite that patient to 55:20 relationship with Jesus Christ. And secondly we 55:23 would like to invite our physicians and dentists 55:25 to be involved in overseas, to be 55:26 involved in overseas missions efforts in 55:28 episodic way. Okay, and so you are trying to 55:31 equip them somehow? Oh sure part of our 55:33 annual conference which we finished two annual 55:36 conferences so far. We have seminars like 55:38 we do it at ASI would give specifically to 55:40 physicians and dentists towards equipping them 55:42 how they can actually share Christ within their 55:45 marketplace which is a medical dental practice. 55:48 Now just historically when you came up with this 55:50 idea and I think Dr. Mike Arledge was involved as 55:55 well, did this kind of brainstorm right here 55:58 in the ASI meeting? Well this is an amazing 56:00 story of ASI and that's what so exciting, 56:02 I mean I started coming to ASI 8 years ago at 56:04 2000 session. And year after year I became more 56:09 and more ministry oriented in my practice. 56:11 And four years ago at the Albuquerque Convention, 56:13 I happen to sit at breakfast with gentleman named 56:16 Michael Arledge who was just finishing family 56:18 medicine at that time. And he said we marched 56:19 today. He said we marched today, 56:21 and we were brainstorming how we could energize 56:23 the medical work among the physician dental 56:25 community. And we left and some time later 56:28 after that I was in the midst of my own 56:30 personnel devotions. I was just, I just having 56:33 an amazing time, just rehearsing what God has 56:35 done in my life, so I got up from there 56:37 and thought we should do something beyond that, 56:39 and I called Michael and I said, how about if we 56:41 do lunch at ASI and I was at Cincinnati 2004. 56:45 We had a first lunch in at ASI we had 80 56:48 professionals were also attending, and that were, 56:51 that's were Amen started. Did you have a guest 56:53 speaker that day or anything? 56:55 We had like five different physicians and dentists 56:57 sharing what they do their in their practices, 57:00 and that was the theme of our, and our theme was 57:03 energizing the right arm. And wasn't 57:06 Elder Mark Finley interested also in 57:08 encouraging you? Yes, subsequent I 57:10 have to mention ASI leadership had been a 57:12 great, great powerful support to us. 57:14 We were offered a teleconferencing built 57:18 with ASI to be able to meet and teleconference 57:20 after that. And sometime in that, 57:22 that next winter Elder Finley offered to us that 57:25 if, that he was coming to Cohutta Springs. 57:27 And if we could get a group of physicians and 57:28 dentists together that he be willing to come and 57:31 present three messages on medical evangelism. 57:34 Well we network within four weeks, 57:35 we had 40 plus professionals came down. 57:39 He presented those messages and we felt 57:41 impressed at that time to start our organization 57:43 which is now called Amen. 57:45 One more question that we have time for 57:47 what about a media ministry, 57:49 if I heard something brewing with that as well? 57:52 Yeah certainly, and this is an exciting thing 57:54 about last year at out annual conference 57:56 in Santiago, we were challenged by one of 57:57 our speakers though, to enter a media were people 58:01 are and people need to be reached. 58:02 And so at that time we raised that at one meeting 58:06 over half a million dollars towards that project 58:09 and subsequently that the board invited the 58:11 membership to contribute to make additional 58:13 commitments that currently we have a total of 58:15 over three quarter million dollars committed over 58:17 next three years towards the medium ministry 58:20 where we can share the health message. |
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