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Series Code: OTR
Program Code: OTR000834
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03:40 How many of you saw a Newsweek this week
03:43 with the special feature on Islam in America, 03:47 could I see your hand. Oh a number of you. 03:50 How many of you a colleague 03:52 or a business associate, investment counselor, 03:56 a fellow physician, who may eat hummus 03:59 and tabouli regularly, who may go to the 04:02 mosque on Friday and you may wonder 04:04 how in the world can I talk to this person 04:07 about Jesus Christ? If you have thought about that, 04:10 if you thought you know this is an enormous 04:13 market of people that we're not reaching, 04:15 what in the world do I need to do to become 04:18 equipped to touch those people? 04:20 Bryan Gallant is the leader of 04:23 Enoch's Passion ministry in Atlanta. 04:26 Now Brian how is that you got interested in the 04:30 people from the Islamic community. 04:33 Enoch's passion actually is now ministry 04:35 of The Quite Hour, but our journey began 04:38 when we went overseas with the Adventist 04:40 Frontier missions to live in Cambodia, 04:43 where we're surrounded by Muslims, 04:45 although Cambodia is a Buddhist country, 04:48 there is a 7 percent Muslim minority 04:50 which we then lived with, and that began our 04:52 journey where we began to study about Islam 04:55 or we actually decided to read the 04:57 Quran for ourselves, and in fact God began 05:00 to teach us many things because it's one thing 05:02 when you all learn is about the news and 05:05 you think they are all terrorists and 05:06 you wonder about those things, 05:07 but it's another reality when they are 05:09 your neighbors, when they are your landlords, 05:12 when they are your best friends, 05:13 and you find out that they are normal people 05:16 that laugh and cry and dream and hope for the 05:20 same things that you do. I had one experience 05:23 that really began to challenge 05:24 my understandings just as I finished reading 05:27 the Quran for the first time, 05:29 and reading it from the perspective of a 05:31 broken parent. My wife and I as some of 05:35 you heard our story before, 05:37 our first two children died in a car accident 05:39 in 1994 and as you won't fully imagine, 05:45 but that forced us to test all of the simplistic 05:49 answers to the very core either God is able 05:53 to hold us, or he is not. 05:56 And we've found that our God is faithful, 05:59 but it has broken us, it has changed us. 06:03 And in fact a week ago we just had our fourth 06:06 child since then, praise the Lord, 06:08 so I want to just say that the 06:09 God of Jobs still lives. God is faithful. 06:15 And so as we were there in Cambodia as I read 06:18 the Quran from a broken big picture perspective 06:22 of our heavenly father who is passion about 06:24 saving all of his kids right, not just the ones 06:28 that we like but all of them I began reading 06:32 the Quran from that perspective, 06:33 and one day I actually walked into a trap, 06:36 I didn't know that, but God does. 06:40 I walked in and there was a Muslim teacher there, 06:44 he was fluent in a number of languages, 06:47 English, Cambodian, Komi, Arabic, Cham. 06:50 He knew the Quran far better than most of us 06:53 know our Bibles even though it's only 06:55 half the size or less, and there he had opened 06:58 to a very difficult section, and he said 07:00 what do you think about that, 07:02 and I must admit there was no good answer, 07:05 and I began to squirm, I began to wonder 07:09 and I also began to pray because we've learnt 07:12 that when God sends you somewhere 07:13 he takes care of you. And there is also a promise 07:17 that says when you are brought before 07:18 people he will give the words to speak. 07:21 And so as I began to search through the Quran, 07:24 having only read it for one time, 07:26 I tried to find an answer that would respond 07:29 a little bit better than what he was looking for, 07:31 and I couldn't find anything and as you might 07:34 imagine it was a very challenging feeling 07:36 to have his eyes staring in the time 07:39 to elapse very slowly, or finally God led my eyes 07:43 to verse that I didn't knew existed. 07:45 I gave it back to him, and he read the verse 07:47 in 29:46 which says do not argue with the people 07:52 of the book, but say to them we believe 07:56 in that which has come down to us, 07:58 and in that which has come down to you, 08:01 our God and your God is one, 08:04 and it is to him that we bow in submission. 08:07 So how are you equipping the people of the book 08:09 who have a desire in their heart to reach 08:13 this great percentage of people around the world? 08:17 From that experience and others as we came back 08:19 in United States and began the ministry 08:21 Enoch's Passion which is calling all people 08:24 to a walk with God like Enoch had and still has. 08:29 He has historically before Abraham, 08:31 Ishmael, and Isaac, and so the opportunity 08:34 is to call to the heart of people into a closer 08:37 walk with God through the messiah 08:38 in preparation for return of Jesus. 08:41 And so we begun Enoch's passion which is now 08:43 a bridge building ministry of The Quiet Hour 08:45 that seeks to reach out to Muslims here 08:48 in the United States, and preparing them 08:49 for the return of Jesus, but also to equip 08:52 other believers as to how they can describe 08:56 their faith in such a way that it resonates 08:58 with the ears of the Muslim, 08:59 touches their heart where you describe 09:01 who you are instead of just a label. 09:04 We actually say I believe in the one true 09:07 creator God. I believe in living my life 09:10 in preparation for the second coming. 09:12 I believe in healthful living. 09:14 I don't eat pork, I don't drink alcohol. 09:16 I believe what the Bible teaches 09:17 and by the grace of God choose to live that way. 09:20 When you share that way with the Muslim, 09:22 they will be surprised and you have so many 09:24 amazing bridges you can build on, 09:26 and part of my work within The Quite Hour 09:29 and in the Atlanta area is helping to educate 09:31 more people, so there will be more voices that 09:35 Muslims can realize that there are some true 09:36 people of the book that are still choosing 09:39 to obey God and live in preparation 09:41 for the day of judgment. Well we have opportunities 09:44 when foreign students came to this country 09:46 where he can become interested in them 09:48 and invite them to our homes, 09:50 but when you have colleagues and business 09:52 associates who have the same herds that we have. 09:56 Your are equipping churches and groups to 10:01 actually be able to minister these people. 10:03 How would someone find out how to get 10:05 more information, so that they could have 10:08 their church involve? Thank you, 10:09 I'm glad you asked. We do have, 10:12 we have created through the 10:13 North American division, Adventist Muslim 10:15 Relations Study Center, we have created 10:17 a reference, a training manual entitled called 10:21 To Display His Glory, both giving 10:24 and being the loud cry. And it's something 10:26 that can be done in your church, 10:27 in your homes, we actually right here 10:30 in time for ASI we have the DVD's of the session 10:32 that was done in Georgia, so you can get 10:34 the manual and the DVD's right there 10:37 and take back with you, or you can contact us, 10:40 and we will communicate and come to our 10:41 church as well, working with The Quite Hour, 10:43 and with Adventist Muslim Relations, 10:45 our goal is to create a core of people 10:49 that are choosing to love Muslims, 10:52 instead of allowing the ignorance 10:54 and the prejudice turn into hatred. 10:58 We've actually heard sometimes the attitude 11:02 of people is nothing Christ like at all to the 11:05 point where they are like or maybe 11:06 we should nuclear for city, wait five days 11:08 and warn them before you nuke another one, 11:10 that is not the character of God. 11:13 And we of all people need to be the most loving, 11:17 the most open, the most kind willing to meet 11:20 people and build on truth, 11:24 the principles of our work is to test all things 11:27 and hold that which is true, 11:30 that's how we build relationships, 11:32 and we need to meet people where they are. 11:34 Thank you so very much Bryan, 11:36 God bless you in wit. 11:40 Our next guests are Gary and Rod Bartholomew, 11:42 and their ministry is called Water for Life, 11:46 and these men are actually able to. 11:50 God has given them the opportunity to make 11:53 a difference in the lives of all kind of people 11:55 through the Central America. 11:57 Please tell me Gary, how did you get involved 12:00 in this ministry? Well we saw a tremendous 12:03 need in Central America, and so our first efforts 12:06 were in International Children's Care Orphanage 12:08 and School to bring safe water. 12:11 And as result of that how has it grown. 12:14 Now we're out in the villages, and clinics, 12:17 and planning on hospitals and other things in the 12:22 surrounding area. So you are drilling rig 12:25 actually goes from town to town, 12:27 village to village, and it started all with 12:30 International Children's Care on their campus. 12:32 That's correct and we shipped another rig down 12:34 last winter, so we have two well drills there now. 12:37 And how did the communities respond 12:40 to what you have been doing. 12:41 Well they Mayor of the area actually is over 12:45 several different villages. He is excited about it 12:49 because he has pure water now for 12:52 many villagers, and he choose the site 12:55 where to drill and which village to go next, 12:59 and he comes in then after we drill a well 13:02 and puts in water lines etc. 13:05 Well sometimes they need capacity 13:09 to store this water, what do you about that? 13:12 We do have some slides and we have, 13:17 we have build some water reservoirs. 13:20 The first slide shows you know when you take 13:23 a well drill into village you can't hide, 13:26 and the village just comes out in mass. 13:31 This is the way that we get close to their hearts, 13:35 and this particular drill that you see 13:38 there was donated by someone from the 13:41 Christian community out of the State of Oregon, 13:43 and that picture you see there now with the water 13:46 flowing is always a high day. 13:49 The Mayor was present that day 13:52 where he started up the pump there in that village. 13:55 I was able to have prayer for him, 13:57 and thank the Lord for that water. 14:00 Well and what about storage capacity? 14:05 We have now built two 40,000 gallon reservoirs 14:09 at the orphanage and school campus 14:12 that lets the water we can fill each one up in, 14:17 even if they don't have power then they are able 14:20 to get gravity flow to the campus, 14:24 the one in the middle that you can't see 14:26 very well is the old reservoir, 14:29 and it did not have any covering on it 14:31 or anything, so it was very unsanitary, 14:33 that's where the birds came and perched 14:36 and many other things, 14:37 and so the new reservoirs have electronic switches 14:44 on them that turn the pumps on through 14:47 solar power, and fill the reservoirs up, 14:50 and then shut them off, 14:52 and they have a concrete top on them, 14:54 so that they are sanitary. 14:55 How did you get the resources to be able 14:57 to do this kind of thing? 14:58 Well it's a little bit tough there are no premix 15:01 trucks there for us. We use little cement 15:06 mixtures and bunch of people and wheelbarrows, 15:09 and it's a pretty big undertaking 15:12 when you pour several thousand pounds 15:16 of concrete you know hundreds of bags 15:18 of concrete, a lot of rebar and all of that. 15:21 And, of course you have all the equipment 15:23 and the expertise at building these, right. 15:25 Well the amazing thing is that Mt. Baker 15:29 Silo out of Washington State donated the 15:32 funds to build these reservoirs and the design 15:36 and all of that, and they were, 15:38 they just gave it to us, and said here take it 15:40 down there, and again just another miracle 15:44 that we were able to have those down 15:46 there to use. What kind of publicity has occurred 15:50 among your profession, among the trade nationally, 15:54 how did people learn about what you are doing? 15:56 We shared this magazine last year the worldwide 15:59 drilling resource magazine, from that 16:03 ten people joined us on the project this year 16:06 from the Christian community, 16:08 from New York, Ohio, Utah, California, 16:13 one man from Utah, excuse me from Ohio 16:16 will be here this Sabbath to see 16:19 what ASI is all about. 16:27 I know that drilling water, or providing 16:31 water for these villages has increased 16:34 your credibility down there, 16:35 how are you expanding what you are doing 16:37 for the people as result of the trust 16:40 that you and bond you have build with them. 16:44 As I said this is the way we get close to the 16:46 hearts of the people and so we have been able 16:49 to share with evangelistic meetings 16:52 in the villages, 15,000 people a day die 16:57 worldwide because of the lack of water, 17:00 or because of contaminated water. 17:02 It's more than we can imagine in this country 17:05 where we flush our toilets with 17:07 drinking water, and so it's a huge issue 17:10 and so we have done, we did five evangelistic 17:15 series this last year, maybe our next picture 17:19 here will show us what we did there last year. 17:24 Actually this is having to do with dental work 17:28 in some of the medical missions that we do 17:32 while we are down there, 17:34 one of those was a little girl had a prosthesis, 17:39 she needed some knee sleeves, 17:42 we got a businessman from Spokane, 17:45 donated those sleeves. He, Galvin sent a letter 17:50 back to him saying thank you 17:53 for these sleeves, and that letter coming 17:57 back to him, he had not been, 17:59 he was an ex-Adventist 25 years since he had been 18:03 in a church. He is now going every Sabbath, 18:08 he has a catholic wife, who is now coming 18:11 almost every Sabbath, and they are just totally 18:16 changed how he was living his life, 18:19 he gave up alcohol, all of these other habits 18:24 and is now just from that little thank you 18:29 note coming back from Guatemala 18:32 has come back to church. 18:38 He is going to be baptized the 25th of this month. 18:43 Praise the Lord, amen. How is the Lord 18:48 expanding further opportunities for you now 18:50 in more drilling. Well we've been asked to go 18:53 into Belize, and we've been asked to go into 18:55 El Salvador, and further than that, 18:58 and Chad and Cameroon, Africa, 19:01 and we don't know where the Lord will lead us, 19:04 but it's the Lord has just escalated this program 19:08 and there is a tremendous need in any of these 19:11 third world countries. Well now you have been 19:13 in this trade or profession for a number of years, 19:17 could you have ever imagined in your early 19:19 days that God would use you in a way to impact 19:22 the whole nation, a whole region, 19:24 and you can see results for the Kingdom of Heaven, 19:26 did you ever imagine that? 19:27 No, never imagined it all. We went down 19:31 just to help the orphanage, 19:33 we had a failed well down there, 19:35 the contractor that work for us in the country, 19:38 and now they are without well. 19:40 We've background of drilling maybe we've to go 19:42 and drill, and then we say why we had that 19:45 failed well. What is the reaction of the Mayors 19:48 and Governors of the region? 19:51 Well they are delighted and they want to help us 19:53 import things into the country which you know 19:56 the logistics are tremendously difficult, 19:59 and so they are very happy, 20:00 they are also gaining credibility of course 20:05 further up politicians are up on the line 20:08 but they appreciate that school of ICC 20:12 there in the education, in the practical education, 20:17 and we hope to find someone there to actually 20:19 train in the drilling profession. 20:22 Well you know our favorite author says 20:26 Christ's method alone will bring true success 20:28 in reaching the people. Now you mingled 20:30 with one as one who desired they are good, 20:33 and he won their confidence, 20:35 and that's exactly what you are doing down there, 20:37 isn't it, yeah. How is it that you are getting 20:42 the Mayors involved in your whole operation? 20:46 We ask them if they will choose the site, 20:49 we will provide the drillers, 20:51 and the equipment and we're asking them 20:54 to buy the well casing for the well. 20:57 And so they have invested in it, 20:59 and it's just working out wonderfully, 21:02 and then you know it takes us two or three weeks 21:04 to drill a well with one of these old cable 21:07 tool rigs, and that's just the amount of time 21:09 that's needed to do evangelistic series. 21:13 Our next slide shows our five evangelists, 21:18 you know if any of you are thinking, 21:20 oh I wonder if could do it, or somebody 21:22 ask me to do it, the youngest boy there 21:24 in front is 11 years old, the oldest one is 80, 21:28 and the 19-year old in the white T-shirt in back, 21:34 there is a special story about him. 21:36 First I want to go the 11-year old in front. 21:39 He carried on a complete series in the village 21:42 of Pope town, and one evening 21:44 a 33-year old woman came to him 21:48 and asked for prayer for healing. 21:50 She had been in that terrible accident 21:53 involving damage to her kidneys, 21:56 to her spleen, to her liver, 21:58 she was bleeding internally, 22:00 and Aaron prayed for her. 22:03 She went to the doctor in Guatemala City 22:08 just within a couple of days there, 22:11 and she came back, she said you know 22:13 I didn't have to have surgery, 22:15 her abdomen was not extended anymore, 22:18 she was completely healed, thank you Lord. 22:25 Dear ones if you ever thought that 22:29 in your business, or your profession you couldn't 22:33 share the good news about Jesus Christ, 22:35 and that you couldn't minister to people 22:38 in a way that would be meaningful to them, 22:40 think again, if it can happen in a water well 22:44 drilling operation, it can happen where you work, 22:46 and where I work. One more slide, 22:50 and this shows Jeremy, 22:53 Jeremy was the 18-year old evangelist 22:55 who had been visiting our church for three months. 22:57 He agreed to go with us, 22:59 he says I'll help you on those reservoirs, 23:01 then he said you know I'll do that 23:02 evangelistic series, here he is being baptized 23:06 at the end of his own evangelistic series. 23:09 Praise the Lord, thank you very much Gary and Rod. 23:16 Dr. Willard Regester practiced 23:19 general medicine for 45 years, 23:21 a veteran physician. But Dr. Regester for 23:25 a long time you had a passion about evangelism, 23:29 and you have offered lay evangelistic series. 23:33 Now you have your own television show, 23:35 but you have been doing more and more 23:36 from that. What prompted you to get involved 23:39 in sharing the gospel with your patients, 23:42 with your community where you live? 23:45 Well initially I had a re-conversion, 23:48 and so I have since that time I had a passion 23:51 for souls, wonderful. And that's the only thing 23:54 worthwhile for anybody in this audience, 23:56 or in the television audience is winning souls 23:59 for the Lord Jesus Christ. 24:02 Well how is that you got involved, 24:04 I mean you were doing public evangelism, 24:06 I know you have often met in conference center, 24:09 in other places, how did you get that going 24:12 and where you trained as the theologian. 24:14 No, I went to college, and I took just 24:17 what was required as far as theology, 24:19 I had the major in biology and physics 24:21 and chemistry for medicine. 24:24 But when I got this re-conversion in 1985, 24:29 I decided to go back in the medicine, 24:31 and then one day I said to my wife, 24:33 I said I think I'll do a seminar, 24:34 so I went to where a pastor was doing 24:38 a seminar, and the only thing I found out 24:40 was how not to do him. Oh my. 24:45 So, I'm sorry if there is any pastors here, 24:51 but, be kind, be kind you are in over 24:54 a cooperative ministry. 24:55 I did call up, I did call up somebody, 24:57 and they walked me through my first one, 25:00 and we had 15 baptisms that first time, 25:04 and from then on when the bug bite you, 25:07 you are dead man. Okay, alright. 25:10 And so since I had time as most people here 25:12 know I know I've been here, 25:14 I've been to ASI once before, good. 25:17 And I've done about 30 seminars, 25:21 five of them in Romania, evangelistic series, 25:25 we built five churches over there, 25:27 and each time of course 25:29 I had an evangelistic series, 25:31 so it just keeps on, it keeps on, 25:33 but one day I moved, okay, and I was 25:36 in a different venue, and I'm getting old 25:39 and rickety you can tell that you know. 25:42 Well I know that after we had a number of birthdays 25:44 we start running out of warranty on certain parts, 25:47 yes I know. It's right. It comes from tearing 25:49 too many pages off that calendar, okay. 25:53 So, I decided I was little angry at God, 25:57 and so I was arguing with God one morning 26:00 devotions and God said well Regester, 26:04 why don't you put an ad in the paper. 26:05 Alright, so what you do about it. 26:07 So, I got up and I thought that's 26:08 the craziest thing I've ever been told by God, 26:12 and I thought ad in the paper, 26:14 ad in the paper now, what I'm gonna do. 26:18 So, I called up the local newspaper, 26:20 and I said I want to put an ad in the paper, 26:23 and she said what do you want to put, 26:25 and I said Jesus is coming soon, 26:27 do you want to talk about it. 26:30 Now I'm saying this because this is the only 26:33 reason I'm at ASI this year, alright. 26:37 So, that you will go home and do it, 26:39 and before we get all done, 26:41 and I want to show of hands because 26:42 there is not one person in this auditorium 26:46 that can't do what we're gonna talk about. 26:48 Well let's talk about it. So, she said I can't put 26:53 that ad in the paper, and I said well if I said 26:56 Allah was coming soon, would you put that 26:58 ad in the paper, she says let me talk 27:01 to my boss. So, when I came back she said 27:05 yes I can take the ad. I said alright 27:09 I want to put Jesus is coming soon, 27:11 do you want to talk about it. She said 27:12 you have to put your name, 27:14 and so I said my name is Willard, 27:17 and she says and your telephone number, 27:18 I gave her my name and telephone number, 27:21 and within two weeks, two weeks, 27:24 I had a lady call me up and said Dr. Regester, 27:28 I said how do you know, I am Dr. Regester, 27:31 and she says because I watch you on TV, 27:33 so I put Willard together with Regester, 27:35 so you must be Dr. Willard Regester, 27:38 I said that's me. She says I think I've sinned 27:42 against the Holy Spirit. 27:45 And I said you know the fact that you called 27:46 me proves to me that you did not sinned 27:50 against the Holy Spirit, so I right way try to 27:53 make a contact with these people. 27:55 I gave her Bible studies, I gave here the book 27:58 the 27 doctrines, 28 is out now. 28:02 We need another two or three, 28:03 so I hope for 30. And it's not that 28:09 we have too many, we don't have enough, 28:12 do I hear an amen, amen. 28:15 And she said she would study, 28:19 and I said I want you to come to my 28:21 Sabbath school class. She came to the Sabbath 28:23 school class and then one day she called up 28:26 and says I'm ready to be baptized. 28:30 Now many of you read that in the ASI magazine, 28:33 I know that. But let me tell you other things 28:35 that happened, I got a call one day from 28:37 a young fellow, he said I've the inability 28:43 to leave this house, I think he had an anklet 28:46 around his ankle, the police were monitoring 28:49 and he said I need a Bible, 28:51 I want to change my life, 28:53 and I was looking out the window, 28:54 and I decided I got to change my life. 28:58 And I said why did you called me? 29:01 And he said well you know it's funny, 29:02 I was looking out the window, 29:04 and I turned around, and there laying 29:07 on the table was the classified ad wide open 29:11 and my eyes fell on this strange ad, 29:14 Jesus is coming soon, do you want to talk about it, 29:17 I figured if a guy would put that ad 29:18 in the newspaper, he would also have a Bible 29:21 for me, so that night I delivered him a Bible. 29:27 What's been the result of that? 29:29 I haven't heard from him, oh okay. 29:32 But I did get a call from prison, 29:35 there is a fellow in prison that he said 29:37 I saw your ad would you send me some literature, 29:40 I send him literature, and I got a call 29:42 cost me $2.65 every time I took a call, 29:47 and I got a stack of calls this long from AT&T 29:50 I can show it to you. I'm always answering 29:53 the phone because his girlfriend 29:54 was also in prison, and he shared the 29:57 literature with her, and they both wanted 30:00 literature for the other jail mates, 30:03 their friends, so I have a prison ministry 30:06 going from that ad. Now this is something 30:10 you can do, I will be asking you how many 30:13 of you are gonna do it, so start thinking, 30:15 get those wheels turning. 30:16 The other day I had a fellow call, 30:18 he is agnostic, he wanted to argue, 30:21 and I don't argue, I won't argue. 30:24 I recognize you are really, really timid. 30:26 Yeah, I am. 30:31 You are so perceptive, you are so perceptive. 30:35 Well that's the spirit, that's the gift. 30:37 Yeah that's the gift. Tell us about some other 30:40 results you have had from this ad. 30:41 Well this fellow called and he said 30:43 I'm writing a book, it's in Barnes & Noble; 30:46 it is in Barnes & Noble I brought it. 30:48 I'm not going to tell you the name of the book 30:50 because I don't want to advertise for this fellow, 30:53 but he talked, it's telling why there is the worst 30:57 book in the world, and he is talking about 31:00 God's word, is that blasphemy, 31:03 and I pray for him. I had a fellow call me 31:07 just Friday before I came here, 31:10 and he wanted to talk to me. 31:12 I said what you want to talk about; 31:14 I said do you want to talk about Jesus coming. 31:16 He said the first thing I want to talk about 31:18 is what is your denomination? 31:21 And I said I'm a Seventh-day Adventist. 31:23 He said we have nothing to talk about. 31:27 Now you are gonna hear if you do this, 31:31 and I'm gonna ask for a show of hands 31:33 pretty soon. I'm watching the clock, 31:36 but I'm gonna take two or three minutes 31:37 more than that says, and I said to 31:44 what was I saying? 31:47 In the next minute you have, 31:49 would you summarize. I asked this fellow 31:54 what do you wanted to talk about, 31:55 I know he asked me if I was, 31:56 what kind of a Christian I was, 31:58 and I said I'm a Seventh-day Adventist, 31:59 he says we have nothing to talk about, 32:01 and he hung up. Now listen friends 32:04 when you do this and this lady at the newspaper 32:09 said you are gonna get all kind of crazy 32:10 people you know calling you and I have had 32:13 a lot of crazy mostly drunk in the middle 32:16 of the night. But I'm a doctor, 32:18 I'm used to those night calls, 32:20 it doesn't bother me a bit. And I told the lady 32:23 at the newspaper I said you know what 32:25 they are going to think that guy who put 32:27 that ad in the newspaper, 32:29 he is the crazy guy. I don't care, 32:32 I want to be crazy for the Lord Jesus Christ. 32:36 So I don't care if they think I'm crazy, 32:38 so I just drop the phone on the floor, 32:42 and I go ahead and sleep that night, 32:44 the rest of the night. But you will get strange 32:47 people like that. Now that soul that we baptized 32:51 cost $29.95. Tell me any evangelistic series 32:59 that you can win a soul here I saw an evangelist 33:02 sitting over here while ago, he is over 33:04 here for $29 you can't do it; 33:07 I've had a lot of evangelistic series that 33:09 cost me $30,000. Dr. Regester, 33:12 lets see how many people might like to get 33:14 involved in this, how many will be willing 33:16 to go home and a put a classified ad in. 33:22 Jesus is coming, well lets see your hands common, 33:25 Jesus is coming soon, would you like 33:28 to talk about it, common lets get your hands up, 33:30 I want everybody in the North American division 33:33 to see this one person in one in every church 33:37 in the North American division, one baptism, 33:40 one ad till the Lord comes, 33:42 it will cost you $29 a month. 33:45 Dr. Regester you have been a great inspiration 33:47 to us to a number of people. 33:49 I'm leaving here till I see more hands, 33:51 people know that those are all zeroes 33:55 and I haven't seen that many hands. 33:57 Okay, lets try one more time, 34:00 one ad for one month try it out, 34:03 okay common, lets go, okay. 34:08 Okay you are timid, you aren't, 34:10 thank you very much. Thank you very much. 34:19 Guylaine and Rafael Font-Piguer 34:23 are from Madagascar, and God put in their heart 34:28 the desire to go and make an even greater 34:30 difference in the world than 34:32 they were already doing. 34:34 The name of your organization 34:37 is Fanantenena, Fanantenena, 34:41 see we can all learn, can they. 34:44 Tell us what is it that prompted 34:47 you to go to Madagascar? 34:50 Well we were just looking to set it to go out, 34:54 and we went to France and we got a call 34:58 from OCI to go to Madagascar to open 35:01 our medical center, so we went there 35:06 and we started from the beginning 35:09 there was nothing, we found the property, 35:12 we brought it, we start building our houses 35:14 and we didn't know about cyclones but 35:18 we have to learn because the first year 35:21 when we just put our tent on, the next week 35:28 we had a big cyclone and the tent of course 35:32 was blown over, or blown out, 35:36 so we just found us more shelter in house 35:40 that was nearby. We stood there holding 35:45 the roof because the wind was so strong, 35:47 and well this was our fifth experience 35:51 and then we start building our 35:54 another shelter for ourselves 35:56 and next month another cyclone came 35:59 and the house was away, so you see 36:04 It was three months three cyclones, 36:07 very strong ones. It sounds like that someone 36:10 was trying to discourage you from the work 36:13 you are doing. Yeah, we got the message. 36:18 And but from that work and starting in year 1992, 36:24 yes, from that work what has been the result. 36:29 Well we started with the medical clinic, 36:32 we had a doctor, then we started 36:36 medical missionary training program 36:38 for church members in Madagascar. 36:42 Then we had also, now we have a secondary school, 36:48 we've over 200 children from this region. 36:54 And now since three years we are doing 36:58 a health exposing day in main cities of Madagascar. 37:02 You know I suppose that the church has been 37:04 providing funding for you 37:06 or the Government has been giving you funding 37:08 for this work. Well we're self supporting, 37:12 but we're mostly supported by private 37:16 donations, and mostly by ASI family, 37:19 and we want to thank you for that. 37:23 Thank you ASI family. 37:28 What are some of the results of lives 37:31 that had been changed in Madagascar from your work? 37:36 Some people, the people are very poor, 37:40 this is the east coast of Madagascar, 37:44 and this is one of the unentered area 37:47 and there this is a kind of neglected people, 37:52 and they had no medical, 37:58 they had no medical health, and so we helped them 38:03 with these going into their huts, 38:07 or when we were doing outreach 38:10 we met different people that have a very badly 38:13 done hurt. For example, there was a lady witch, 38:19 a lady she was a witch, and her hut got burned, 38:25 and she was neglected by the neighbors, 38:29 because they don't like witch, 38:31 they are afraid of them. 38:33 And so she was like this in her hut without 38:36 any medical care, she was starting 38:40 to get infected, and we were doing evangelistic 38:46 outreach that day, and we met her, 38:49 and we brought her to the clinic, 38:52 and we helped her, we put some clay poultices, 38:57 we cleaned the skin, and after one month she was, 39:05 she was okay, she was healed. 39:07 Now here in America where you know about 39:09 charcoal poultices and so on, 39:12 but how is that the clay is used as a poultice. 39:16 As Europeans we know clay that has a good 39:21 property anti-inflammatory properties and also 39:25 it is very soothing because it is cool, 39:27 and when you have been burned, 39:29 it's really painful and it is soothing, 39:32 and so we applied clay poultices like you would 39:36 apply charcoal poultices. Well I'm wondering 39:42 how have you seen God's hand involved 39:46 in the work that you have been doing 39:47 specific example. For example with this 39:51 lady to finish the story, she was so happy, 39:58 we told her, we came in your little hut because 40:03 God led us there, and she started to open up 40:07 to the idea of there was a God that was taking 40:10 care of her, and she started to come to church 40:15 every Sabbath, and she doesn't know how to read, 40:20 and she doesn't read and doesn't write, 40:25 but she is able to listen to the sermons 40:28 and to the Bible studies, and she wants 40:29 to be baptized. Praise the Lord. 40:35 Now how has the work expanded now, 40:38 what new opportunities have been opened for you? 40:41 So now this last month we've been doing 40:44 health expos in the main cities of Madagascar. 40:48 We went to the mission the 40:51 south mission in Madagascar, 40:53 and the mission president was very surprised 40:58 by this program, so surprised that now 41:02 he is offering us to OCI property for us 41:07 to open our lay pastor training because 41:13 in the south of Madagascar is a big field. 41:15 They have no money, they would like to send 41:20 lay pastors in these unentered areas 41:23 as most of these, and they will be kind of 41:26 self supportive lay pastors, so this is a, 41:29 for us it's a real opening and we want 41:32 to follow God. Well so you are providing 41:37 training for pastors, and lay pastors, 41:40 how much money would a lay pastor receive 41:43 for month over there? 41:45 A lay pastor gets about $30 a month. 41:50 And a full time pastor a little bit more. 41:53 Yeah full time pastor is about $60 or $70, 41:57 that's per month, a month, yeah. 41:59 So for very little money it is possible 42:03 to put additional pastors in the field, 42:06 and you are being invited to help provide 42:07 the training, yes. If somebody wanted 42:12 to find out more about your ministry, 42:15 and to be able to receive your newsletter, 42:16 how could they learn more about what you do? 42:21 We do not have the booth here at ASI 42:25 but we're with OCI and you can go to the website 42:30 of OCI and find out everything about 42:33 our ministry in Madagascar. 42:36 Well we have the booth of OCI, 42:38 they have a directory of all the OCI ministries 42:41 around the world, and the ministry in Madagascar 42:44 is the first one featured in the book, yes. 42:47 So, you can find it be a very wonderful resource, 42:51 and it can end up being a manual over 42:53 which you pray, not only you might decide 42:57 that you would like to support this because 42:59 you must be getting a wonderful level 43:02 of results from a very small investment. 43:05 Yes, well what we see there, 43:09 what is encouraging to us is to see this school 43:13 can be a very powerful thing because 43:17 this region is animist; people don't have 43:19 any religion at all. So, to see this young children 43:24 come to our school and get it acquainted 43:27 with the gospel and every year we have baptism, 43:29 we had seven baptism last month before 43:31 coming here, so this is really something that 43:35 our heart, so we invite you to being involved 43:39 with something, some kind of ministry because 43:41 it's really rewarding. Would you invite 43:44 ASI members to come over and visit you? 43:47 Oh yeah, we don't get many visitors, 43:49 so we please come. You would get inspired 43:54 if you go there, and you may decide to give up 43:57 all and stay and work because that's what 44:00 you folks did when you left France 44:01 to go down to Madagascar, 44:03 didn't you. Right. Well you have been 44:06 an inspiration for us, so what final word of 44:08 encouragement do you have for those of us here 44:11 in North America. Well I would say it is, 44:15 I don't know it is easier to, it is much more, 44:20 I don't know how to say, 44:23 to do something it is much more important 44:27 than to think or to think something, 44:30 I mean what you think is important 44:33 but what you do is much more important. 44:35 So you are encouraging us to be doers not just 44:37 hearers of the word. 44:39 Thank you Guylaine and Rafael. 44:46 Our next guest is Julia O' Carey 44:49 and Pastor Isaiah Duong. 44:53 You folks are involved with the 44:55 Southeast Asian Ministry, the Adventist Southeast 44:59 Asian Project. And it's a wonderful group of 45:06 countries down there that you are working on, 45:08 how did that ministry get started, 45:11 how did you get involved and what 45:12 were your interest, and then we want to hear 45:14 how it's been, how it's been blessed? 45:17 Well it started many years ago 45:19 in the early 80s when Judy Aitken, 45:22 the founder of ASAP was working in the 45:25 refugee camps in Thailand when the Laos, 45:29 Cambodian and Vietnamese were all put into camps 45:33 during the war. And during that time 45:36 over 10,000 people came to know the Lord, 45:39 and to make a long story short, 45:42 Judy still has this passion, and she is still 45:44 sharing Christ, but the neat thing is that 45:47 these people that came to know Christ 45:49 in the refugee camp, a really difficult situation, 45:53 they have returned, many of them 45:55 to their countries, and now they are 45:56 sharing Christ, and they understand the culture 45:59 and the language, and God is just opening up 46:04 the doors in an amazing ways right now. 46:07 And our motto at ASAP is Christ is coming ASAP 46:12 reach Asia now. And you know He says in 46:16 James 5:8: Establish your hearts, 46:18 for the coming of the Lord is at hand. 46:20 And you know He is doing so many miracles 46:23 in these countries as His coming is getting 46:26 closer and closer. Can you tell us a miracle 46:29 or two please? Pastor Isaiah heads our 46:34 underground house church movement in Vietnam, 46:36 and he can share a story and then I would like 46:38 to share one from Cambodia. 46:40 You know about 15 no, 10 years ago, 46:47 we began the radio work to Vietnam through AWR, 46:51 Adventist World Radio. And then we the Lord 46:55 have blessed our radio program we have thousand 46:57 and thousand of people come to the Lord 47:00 and wanted to joining the church, 47:02 but you know Vietnam is still under 47:04 communist control, so we have no freedom 47:07 for evangelism in Vietnam. 47:09 Then we began the underground church 47:15 in Vietnam with the help of ASAP to support 47:19 the lay workers over there. 47:21 And I can tell you some of the story, 47:26 several months ago I talked to a man 47:29 who is 80 years old, 80, and he one day 47:38 he receive, you know he listened to radio 47:41 program for a while, and then one day 47:44 he also received a DVD and he studied 47:48 the DVD. You know he told that for 47:51 seven days and seven nights he could not sleep, 47:55 he could not eat, and he was so shocked. 47:59 He told me that during his life for 80 years, 48:03 he always believed that he is in the right church, 48:08 he is right, and he will go to heaven. 48:11 But then he discover everything was wrong, 48:14 and he told me that in seven days 48:16 and seven night he could not sleep and eat 48:19 and that after that you know what happened, 48:22 after that he decided to live for Jesus 48:25 and he told me that he use his bicycle, 48:29 and everyday he went out on a bicycle, 48:32 and he asked me for the DVD and the literature, 48:35 and then he start to share to his 48:38 friends in Vietnam. And the police of course 48:42 gave him some trouble, arrest him, 48:46 forced him him to stop, and he said that you know 48:49 I'm 80 years old, I would have died anywhere, 48:52 any day, so if you killed me you will help me 48:57 to rest in my Lord, but whatever time 49:01 I've left for my life I'll use that to share 49:04 this message to my friends, 49:07 and he is doing that, he is still doing that 49:10 voluntarily on his bicycle every day right now. 49:14 And, Julia I'm wondering what prompted you 49:19 to get passion about this personally, 49:22 and how where you equipped to do it? 49:25 Well I grew up in the refugee camps 49:29 in Thailand, Judy Aitken, the founder is my mother. 49:33 and I went through school, got an education, 49:35 and then God brought me back to this ministry. 49:38 I just had such a passion for these people. 49:42 The Southeast Asians are my family, 49:44 I feel like I've a tie hard in an American body, 49:48 but I went over there in March. 49:53 And I was so touched by this project called 49:57 Feed and Read which we felt great for the ASI 50:00 is also helping to support, 50:02 but there is one girl I'm gonna tell you about, 50:05 here name Mai, and she is a Vietnamese girl 50:08 living in Cambodia, and the Vietnamese 50:10 in Cambodia don't get treated in the same way, 50:13 and she was running the streets, 50:17 gambling just really a difficult child, 50:22 and she was at her last year, 50:25 and her parents didn't know what do with them, 50:27 but her parents were pretty mixed up too. 50:30 Teacher Kahn one of the literacy teachers 50:33 that ASAP supports found her on the streets, 50:36 and asked if she wanted to change her life, 50:39 and he convinced her to come to the 50:41 literacy school. She came to the school, 50:45 and God touched her heart and radically 50:49 transformed her life, she became peaceful, 50:53 she stopped swearing, she was so different 50:57 at home that her parents started becoming 50:59 interested in the school that changed their 51:02 daughter dramatically. And now when I saw her 51:07 in March, she was a teacher's assistant 51:09 at this literacy school, and teaching other 51:12 little girls, and she is not going to be sold 51:20 as a prostitute because she has a future 51:22 and hope now, so we praise the Lord for 51:25 how He works in so many ways. 51:27 Amen, how have people in leadership been reached 51:31 over there, I mean you are reaching all classes 51:33 of people from those down in orders, 51:35 to those in leadership, 51:37 how are you reaching them? 51:40 Well the Lord have different way to reach 51:43 the people in every class of society, 51:47 but I can tell you that one of quick story, 51:50 she listened to AWR, she became Adventist 51:55 with the underground church, and she is in 51:59 the fourth year of her study in college, 52:01 and when she become Adventist she had to keep 52:03 a Sabbath and they kicked her out of school, 52:06 so she could not finish her fourth year, 52:08 anyway she started to go out and 52:11 to do literature and witness, and the DVD. 52:16 And she told me the story that one day 52:19 she walked to a doctor office, 52:22 she gave the DVD to the doctor. 52:24 The doctor checked you know look watch 52:27 the DVD and then he said oh my life, 52:30 I've searched for the truth, 52:33 and now I've found it, and now he is with you know 52:37 the Adventist Bible study and he try to use 52:40 our literature to share to all of his patients 52:43 in Vietnam, so you know the Lord have different 52:45 way to do. And that's really true, 52:48 how would someone who wanted to find out 52:51 more about your ministry, and learn how to get 52:54 newsletter or to be able to contribute to 52:57 what you are doing, how could they 52:58 learn about you more? 53:00 We've a website asapministries.org. 53:05 And you are welcome to log on to that. 53:09 Also we've a booth here at ASI booth 317. 53:12 We would love to meet and tell you more, 53:14 and tomorrow at 1:30 PM Pastor Isaiah Duong 53:20 is going to be giving a special mission report 53:23 in room 104, and if you are inspired 53:26 and you want to hear more stories 53:28 of what's happening please come, 53:29 we love to see you there. 53:31 Thank you, and before, before we go, 53:34 I just want to tell you we're prayer ministry, 53:36 and we ask for your prayers, please lift us up. 53:40 God said if you abide in Me and 53:42 My words abide in you, you ask what you desire 53:45 and it will be done for you. 53:47 And we want souls won in Asia, 53:49 so please join us in praying for 53:51 the people in Asia. So mark that down with 53:54 your pencil room 104 tomorrow what time. 53:58 1:30 in room, seminar room 104, 54:01 we would love to see you. 54:03 There are ways that you and I can get involved, 54:06 and we can end up supporting those who 54:08 already are involved and the Kingdom of Heaven 54:12 can be expanded here in now. Thank you very, 54:16 very much for both of you for your 54:19 significant ministry, and for challenging us all. 54:37 What a Friend, such a Friend, 54:45 What a Friend, such a Friend, All sins to bear! 55:01 What a Friend, such a Friend, 55:08 Everything to God in prayer! 55:16 O what peace we often forfeit, 55:23 O what needless pain we bear, 55:30 All because we do not carry 55:38 everything to God in prayer. 55:49 Have we trials and temptations? 55:55 Is there trouble anywhere? 56:03 We should never be discouraged; 56:11 take it to the Lord in prayer. 56:18 Can we find a friend so faithful 56:26 who will all our sorrows share? 56:34 Jesus knows our every weakness; 56:42 take it to the Lord in prayer. 56:53 Are we weak and heavy laden, 57:02 cumbered with a load of care? 57:10 Precious Jesus, still our refuge, 57:22 take it to the Lord in prayer. 57:32 Do your friends despise, forsake you? 57:38 Take it to the Lord in prayer! 57:46 In His arms He'll take and shield you; 57:57 you will find a solace there. |
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