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Medical Missionary Work Report - Thursday Morning

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Participants: Charles Cleveland, Janet Fournier

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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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