3ABN On the Road

Wednesday Evening Members In Action

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01:01 Good evening, everyone.
01:03 I hope you're happy you're here.
01:05 About a year ago,
01:06 as you all know the economy began to meltdown
01:09 and I was worried that maybe ASI
01:11 wouldn't be quite the same this year.
01:13 But you know what a privilege
01:14 it is that God has organized it for us to be here.
01:18 And I don't know if it goes through your mind
01:20 but He has to do a lot of work
01:21 to get this many people here for the blessing
01:24 that we're about to enjoy.
01:25 I'm going to invite you to stand
01:28 to thank God for this blessing.
01:33 Heavenly Father, Lord, you're awesome.
01:36 Thank you for bringing us here together.
01:38 Thank you for working out our protection
01:41 and preparing our mind for the things
01:44 that are about to happen.
01:45 And, Father, more and more
01:46 we ask that you would help us
01:48 to feel our need because we do need you.
01:51 And we know that you've prepared for us a feast,
01:53 help us to be hungry for it this evening
01:56 and as the days follow through.
01:58 Bless the seminars. Bless all the speakers.
02:01 Bless us individually so that as we return home
02:05 we'll return home stronger than
02:07 how we came to be a blessing to a greater number of people.
02:10 Thank you for being our God and blessing
02:12 ASI this year in Jesus' name, amen.
02:16 You may be seated.
02:22 Good evening, we are excited to see
02:26 such a lovely crowd out here this evening.
02:28 Are we not, Ramon?
02:30 Yes, beautiful from up here.
02:32 It is a beautiful sight and we're also happy
02:35 that we have our 3ABN audience with us
02:38 and our Hope Channel audience with us.
02:41 That's wonderful.
02:42 Greetings to all those folks out there watching.
02:45 Absolutely. We know it's warm here
02:48 in Phoenix but it's even warmer in here
02:50 because we are with our ASI family.
02:53 It's cool in here, right?
02:56 I hope you're gonna stay in here
02:57 the entire rest of the week.
02:59 We're gonna keep it warm outside for that reason.
03:02 That's right. Now why would
03:05 we want them to stay in here?
03:07 Because we have a fantastic
03:09 lineup of speakers and presenters.
03:11 You don't want to miss any of the programs.
03:14 That's right. We do have
03:16 a lot of special plans for you during this special weekend.
03:19 And we don't want you to miss anything.
03:22 But there is one particular area
03:24 that I must mention and that's the exhibit hall.
03:27 What all are we gonna find there, Ramon?
03:29 Well, there are over 200 hundred exhibits over there
03:31 and these people have worked very, very hard
03:34 putting together what they have in display for you.
03:37 You don't want to miss what's there.
03:39 Tonight between 9:00 and 10:30
03:42 we invite you to go to exhibit hall,
03:44 the far left of this corridor when you exit this auditorium
03:48 and tomorrow and Friday, from 11:00 a.m.
03:52 until 5 o'clock in the evening.
03:55 Don't miss going into the exhibit hall.
03:59 You'll meet friends, network
04:01 and learn a lot of new techniques,
04:04 how to share Jesus in the marketplace?
04:06 That's right and isn't there also a one-day church?
04:10 One-day church and a one-day school.
04:13 You'd want to go and see that.
04:14 The one-day school, we're gonna be hearing
04:16 a little bit more about that but that something
04:19 we do wanna see.
04:20 Yes, by all means.
04:22 All right I want to see something
04:24 from this audience tonight.
04:26 I wanna know how many people
04:28 are attending for the first time.
04:30 If you are attending for the time stand up.
04:33 Let's see. Wow. Amen, amen.
04:37 Amen. How exciting.
04:42 We're so happy you're here
04:44 with our AS--to join our ASI family.
04:47 Whatever we can do to make you feel welcome
04:49 please don't hesitate to tell us what you need.
04:52 We're happy you're here.
04:53 And what's happening in the morning
04:55 for these people, Ramon?
04:56 Well, after you have a nice breakfast
04:59 you want to be right there.
05:01 Because there will be a service
05:03 and you don't want to miss what's going to happen here.
05:06 And is there a special breakfast
05:09 for these first time attendees?
05:10 Yes, the first time attendees
05:13 you will be eating with your fellow first time attendees.
05:17 Go through the line,
05:18 get your meal and follow direction.
05:21 There's a special place for you inside the cafeteria.
05:24 And I'm gonna be there, Roman is going to be there
05:26 and we want to meet you.
05:28 It's very important that you get to know us
05:31 and we want to get to know you also.
05:34 Now in your packages,
05:35 you probably got some special things.
05:38 What do you think
05:39 that we gave you this year is this first thing,
05:43 what is this, Ramon?
05:44 It says, "Fellow Workers with Him."
05:49 And the author is W.D. Frazee.
05:53 That's right.
05:54 You know he's a special man believe it or not.
05:57 Even though Elder Frazee is not alive anymore
06:00 I still listen to his sermons.
06:02 My husband downloads those sermons into my iPod
06:06 and as I am walking
06:08 I am being blessed by those sermons.
06:10 You must not miss listening to that sermon.
06:15 It will be such a blessing
06:16 and we appreciate so much
06:18 that we have this as a part of our package this year.
06:22 We've got something else.
06:25 The "Acts of the Apostles."
06:27 Its a new book, ASI book.
06:29 You probably received one when you registered today.
06:32 We wanna make sure that you get a copy.
06:34 This is another one of the classical books
06:37 that ASI has printed over the years.
06:39 And as you open the book you'll see the other books
06:42 that are available through the Pacific Press of course.
06:45 Wonderful book, reasonable price,
06:49 you need to buy one, buy a dozen,
06:50 buy a hundred and share them with your friends.
06:53 Oh, I like that word share.
06:54 That's what we're about here at ASI.
06:56 We want to share Jesus, don't we?
07:00 -Amen. -We've got a world to tell
07:02 and there are so many opportunities
07:04 and ways of witnessing.
07:05 And speaking of witnessing,
07:07 what is going to be given out on Friday night, Ramon?
07:10 You know I have purchased a lot of books,
07:13 this made simple that made simple.
07:15 Well, one of our own put together,
07:18 compiled a little booklet called,
07:20 "Witnessing Made Simple."
07:24 In this little book you will find a lot of resources,
07:28 source of material that you can use
07:31 to help you enhance your ministry.
07:33 This is a wonderful resource
07:35 and you want to keep it very handy.
07:37 You won't be receiving that until Friday evening.
07:40 Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you got it today in the packet.
07:42 That's okay, that's okay.
07:43 He is so enthusiastic and excited.
07:45 He wants you to have it right now.
07:48 But you will be blessed by this little book.
07:51 Our vice president for membership
07:52 and recruitment has been working hard on this.
07:55 And we are excited to share it with you Friday evening.
08:00 Well, we want you to be spiritually blessed.
08:03 We want you to go away knowing Jesus even more.
08:09 What's our theme this whole weekend, Ramon?
08:12 "Changed by Knowing Him."
08:16 We do want you to be changed.
08:18 We aren't here to entertain.
08:20 We're here to know more about Him.
08:22 We're here to learn new ways or even do things
08:28 that we've never done before for Him.
08:31 We want to be witnessing.
08:32 We know Jesus is coming soon.
08:35 We can't wait.
08:37 You know I believe in the Bible.
08:39 And I'm interested in the Bible.
08:42 But I believe in our Bible.
08:45 I believe in the truth that we've been given.
08:48 And tonight and throughout this weekend it's my prayer
08:51 and in fact it's our entire team's prayer
08:55 that you will be blessed abundantly.
08:57 So thank you for being here.
08:59 God bless you and we look forward to sharing
09:02 -this time with you. -Amen.
09:09 [Music]
13:18 Well, good evening, ASI.
13:20 Oh, no, come on.
13:22 Can we try that one more time. Good evening, ASI.
13:24 Good evening.
13:25 It's so good to see all of you here
13:28 for our opening night for our 2009 convention.
13:31 I wanna ask you a question.
13:33 How many of you got one of these in your packets?
13:36 "The Adventist Review." Okay.
13:39 This is something that we're very excited about.
13:42 And I have my good friend
13:44 Bill Knott here with me tonight.
13:46 Now, Bill, you have something to do
13:47 with this magazine, what is it?
13:49 Well, they call me the editor
13:50 but actually I just get to direct
13:52 the talented team of people
13:54 who help bring out good quality material every week.
13:57 Wonderful. Now many of us
13:59 at convention have grown up with the Adventist Review.
14:02 It's played a major spiritual role
14:03 on our church for a longtime.
14:06 Can you tell us a little bit more about
14:07 what this journal is meant to the church all these years?
14:10 I was thinking about this last week
14:12 because last week was the 160th anniversary
14:15 of that 8 Mile Walk James White took with the first copy
14:19 of what is today the Adventist Review.
14:21 Taking it to the printer in Middletown,
14:23 Connecticut. He said at that time
14:26 that he wanted to publish
14:28 present truth for the scattered flock.
14:31 For James and Ellen White
14:33 that was about three or four hundred persons in 1849.
14:37 Well, today the mission is remarkably the same except
14:39 that the flock is scattered to about 17 million people
14:43 in about 200 countries.
14:44 But the mission is still the same.
14:46 Now I've noticed because I like reading magazines,
14:49 I'm into design.
14:51 I've noticed that you've changed
14:52 the cover and the format a little bit.
14:54 But you've done more than that.
14:55 There's something that is changed
14:57 in between the covers.
14:58 Tell us a little bit about that.
15:00 In 2008, we went through a process literally across
15:03 the United States visiting college campuses
15:06 and congregations and church leaders.
15:08 And saying, tell us what matters
15:11 to you in this magazine.
15:12 Tell us what you want to see week by week
15:14 that will feed you, that will convince you
15:17 again that you're in the right place
15:18 as part of God's remnant people.
15:20 We heard many wonderful things.
15:22 We also heard some things we needed to fix.
15:24 We came out with a new design last October.
15:27 Again a new version of the new review
15:29 as some of you have called it but we change things
15:32 by making it much more timely.
15:34 Updating information, making sure that news of
15:36 the church was very current and relevant.
15:39 By clearly marking off sections at the magazines
15:42 so that it's easy to find your way
15:44 and find your favorite sections.
15:46 We did that with the team that's really dedicated
15:48 to listening well to the church and that's why
15:50 we're here at this convention again this year.
15:53 You know I was paging
15:54 through this Adventist Review.
15:56 And I don't know, if you haven't looked at this yet
15:58 you need to because this is the first time that
16:00 we've actually had a collaboration between
16:03 ASI and the Adventist Review.
16:05 And as I was going through you'll seethat there are
16:07 ministry features, all different types of articles.
16:12 One thing I noticed specifically was that
16:14 you have something called Kids' View.
16:16 In the magazine I noticed that there was ASI theme
16:18 which I was very happy about but I know that
16:20 you're working on trying to communicate
16:22 with some special specific groups.
16:24 Kids' View is one of those.
16:25 Tell us about Kids' View but also some of the other
16:27 groups that you're working on reaching out to.
16:30 We decided some years ago to focus on populations
16:33 in the Adventist Church that needs
16:35 special support and care.
16:37 One of those was children between
16:39 the ages of 6 and 12.
16:41 And today Kids' View our publication for
16:44 Adventist kids goes to 25 thousand students
16:48 in Adventist Elementary Schools.
16:51 Grades K through 6 and also is stapled into the magazine
16:57 every month so about 50 thousand copies
16:59 specifically targeted in a child friendly way with
17:02 the message of hope that the rest
17:04 of the magazine maintains.
17:06 We also focus on new believers.
17:08 We work with conferences across North America
17:11 to sponsor of one year subscriptions to the
17:14 Adventist Review to new believers
17:16 in every conference.
17:17 Thousands of persons who've been baptized
17:19 in the last year get their first sustained picture
17:22 of the world church they've joined by reading
17:25 this magazine every week.
17:27 We've recently launched a literacy project to
17:30 reach out to individuals who are learning about
17:32 Adventism in India.
17:34 And many, many of you in this hall
17:36 responded with contributions.
17:38 We exceeded our goal by three times because
17:41 people like you said, we wanna help people
17:43 learn to read the Bible in India.
17:45 And we found that project another one that help
17:49 communicate the gospel to a target population
17:51 that really needs support.
17:54 Now I just wanna come back to
17:55 this ASI themed Adventist Review.
17:58 I know you and your editorial
17:59 staff put this together.
18:00 Tell us a little bit about what that process was like,
18:03 putting together the specific
18:04 ASI themed Adventist Review.
18:07 Well, Danny is being modest about this but we talked
18:10 a lot with ASI officers and members of the staff.
18:14 We wanted to find out how we could get across
18:16 the story of ASI to a world church
18:19 that sometimes doesn't know the dynamic things that
18:22 happen not only at this convention but year round.
18:25 And we found that the partnership talking back
18:27 and forth sharing ideas, sharing story ideas and
18:30 program ideas helped us craft an edition that
18:34 we think will represent your story well
18:36 to the rest of the church.
18:38 Every month more than a hundred thousand people
18:40 pick up this magazine either on the web or in print
18:43 and look at it. They hand that on.
18:45 They hand that information on.
18:47 We reach a large percentage of the Adventist church
18:49 in North America through this journal and through
18:52 Adventist World literally around the world.
18:54 We're trying to tell that story because we believe
18:56 the church is a lot bigger than the building I work in.
19:00 The church is a lot bigger and much more widespread
19:03 with its message than anything
19:05 we can convey in one structure.
19:07 And so telling the ASI story is doing with this journal
19:10 it was intended to do from the beginning.
19:12 To tell the story of God's remnant people
19:15 wherever they are and wherever they go.
19:18 Well, Bill, I just wanna tell you thank you
19:20 on my behalf and on behalf of our ASI membership
19:24 we appreciate the collaboration and we hope that
19:26 that can continue in the future.
19:27 We're delighted to do that. Thank you so much.
19:31 Couple of other things that I want to share with you--
19:34 we have been really making some strides in our
19:38 ASI website and I think that we have
19:40 that website, I'd like them to put on
19:42 the screen right now if they can.
19:45 Couple of things I just want you should
19:46 be aware of and know about.
19:48 This convention is the first year or we are
19:51 going to be not only capturing everything that
19:55 happens here at convention both the seminars,
19:57 the plenary sessions here.
20:00 We're gonna capture all that and we're gonna post it on
20:02 the internet where you can access
20:04 and download it for nothing.
20:07 And we're trying to do that in a timely manner.
20:09 We're trying to turn it around in
20:11 a 24 hour time period.
20:13 There are a lot of other things
20:15 that happen on this website.
20:16 There is a newsfeed where you can go.
20:19 We regularly give updates
20:20 about different ASI ministries.
20:21 Things that might be of interest to you.
20:23 And I want you to go visit www.asiministeries.org
20:28 and checkout all the resources
20:30 that we have there.
20:32 One other thing I also wanna promote,
20:34 we have our ASI update that goes out every two weeks.
20:37 It's an email that we send out, that talks
20:40 about different ministries, it has news
20:42 and announcements, talks about
20:44 some of the different projects and updates
20:46 on those projects as they are happening.
20:49 We have about 2,000 people that we send
20:51 this to and we found that only one-third of you
20:53 open these up when we send them to you.
20:55 So we want- please take note of those,
20:57 open those, look at them.
20:58 If you're not subscribed to that list
21:00 you can go to the website, you can plug in your email
21:03 and instantly be-- start getting news,
21:07 notes and different events that are happening for ASI.
21:11 So we would encourage you to take advantage
21:13 of the resources that we there to stay connected
21:16 with the ASI family. Thank you so much.
21:29 Good evening, ASI.
21:31 Are you excited to be here tonight? Yes.
21:34 One of my favorite parts of ASI is always
21:37 the members and action. How about you?
21:39 Tonight we have two ASI members
21:42 Darry and Ginny Campbell.
21:44 And we're excited to hear what they've been doing.
21:48 And what ASI and their involvement with ASI
21:51 has helped encouraged them to do both around the world
21:54 and also in their hometown where they're at.
21:57 So where are you from? We're Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
22:02 Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
22:03 Now I know you're gonna tell us some stories tonight
22:07 and experiences and providences from
22:10 a little ways away Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
22:12 Where has God led you to be experiencing his providence
22:16 in his working in other parts of the world?
22:18 We've had a few trips to Thailand.
22:21 Okay, how has that gone?
22:25 How you've seen God working in your trips to Thailand?
22:28 Well, the one thing you can always be sure of
22:31 if God calls you to do something
22:34 He makes himself responsible for the success
22:36 of what He calls you to do.
22:38 Our part in it is to answer the call. Amen.
22:42 And so He's blessed us in many ways.
22:45 The other thing you can be sure of is that
22:47 He is going to surprise you many times. That's right.
22:50 And as He asked you to go and sow seeds
22:53 you never know what's gonna grow from those seeds.
22:57 And I'd like to share a story that has happened
23:02 in Lampang, Thailand. Please.
23:05 In Lampang when we first went there
23:08 about 7-8 years ago we found
23:11 a little church with 14 members.
23:14 They were meeting at the pastor's house
23:16 in the middle of the city.
23:18 Lampang has about 200,000 people.
23:22 Surrounding area has another half a million people.
23:25 But they were meeting in their home.
23:27 I think I have a slide here
23:29 showing where they were meeting.
23:32 It was the carport of the pastor's house.
23:36 And they would set that up
23:38 and have their church meeting here.
23:40 The children would meet out under the trees.
23:44 But as we met there we had evangelistic series.
23:50 There are about four times.
23:52 And one of the projects that we took on was to help
23:55 them to build a new church.
23:57 And so about four years ago we were able to build
24:01 a new church for the city of Lampang
24:05 and I think that church is on the screen also.
24:08 It's a beautiful church.
24:11 The congregation has grown and they have
24:18 many plans for evangelism.
24:20 One year we were there and they said, we'd like to
24:24 introduce the people to the health message and
24:27 could you help us to raise the money we want
24:30 to start making whole wheat bread
24:33 so that we can introduce
24:34 the people to healthy living.
24:38 Whole wheat bread is not a mainstay of the Thai diet.
24:43 And so we didn't know what was going to happen
24:45 with that but we came back to our chapter.
24:47 We presented the project to them and we were able
24:51 to buy some bakery equipment for them.
24:54 And we bought them a mixer. We bought them some ovens.
24:59 And they started producing whole wheat bread
25:01 for their people there and using that to witness
25:05 and also to provide labor for the ladies at the church
25:08 so they could make a living.
25:11 And that when you say our chapter that's the
25:12 Lake Union Chapter of ASI, right?
25:14 That's the Lake Union Chapter.
25:15 And so we started with that and as they were going out
25:21 and sharing that bread they shared it with a lady
25:25 who owned a radio station.
25:28 And the lady was so impressed
25:29 with the health message that she offered them
25:33 time on her radio station for a fee of course.
25:37 She wanted $300 a month and they could be
25:40 on the radio 3 or 4 hours every day.
25:44 And so that was a burden for them.
25:46 They presented it to the Thai Mission.
25:49 The Thai Mission was not able to afford it and so
25:53 one of the businessmen over there pledged to pay
25:56 half of it if the church would pay the other half.
26:00 So the church promised to pay the other half.
26:02 They weren't paying it so the pastor
26:04 was paying it out of his pocket.
26:06 When we found out about that we presented that
26:09 as a project again to the Lake Union Chapter.
26:12 And we sent funds over to help him pay to keep
26:16 the radio station on the air.
26:20 After a year on the air, with the support of ASI,
26:25 people at the TM Nation saw
26:29 the benefit of the radio station.
26:31 Last year, actually this February when we where
26:35 there Thailand Mission bought the radio station
26:39 and has relocated it to the church.
26:42 And today they have 10 new members
26:46 in that church attending that church
26:48 because of that radio broadcast.
26:50 All from whole wheat bread? All from whole wheat bread.
26:53 Amen. God surprises us.
26:55 We plant the seed and we never know
26:57 what will grow. Amen.
26:59 Now tell me a little bit about
27:01 what you are doing right here at home.
27:06 There's a lot that you could share i've been
27:08 hearing stories and tit bits from you all evening.
27:12 Just a little bit about what God is doing
27:14 in your own community through you?
27:17 I'll let Ginny share about her Bible studies.
27:21 You know after working overseas
27:22 she can't help but bring that desire and the fire
27:26 back to our people here.
27:28 Our little church in Beaver Dam
27:31 was almost snuffed down.
27:33 The years had come and gone and only
27:35 a few members were going there.
27:38 We were called to come back to Beaver Dam.
27:42 In the last two years our membership has went from
27:46 8 to 15 active members to 49 on a daily basis. Amen.
27:52 The people are so on fire that they have decided
27:55 to start a company in Fond du Lac
27:58 about 40 miles away.
27:59 So the Lord is working but He's called me to give
28:02 Bible studies and just the last few months the Lord
28:06 has given me 8 to 15 people that I can touch.
28:10 And I praise the Lord on a daily basis because
28:15 we must be his ambassadors here as well as overseas.
28:20 But we have to be willing vessels to be used by Him.
28:24 And I praise Him for the opportunity.
28:27 Amen. God is good.
28:29 And as we step out in faith
28:31 He gives us the opportunities. Amen.
28:33 Thank you, Darry and Ginny, for being willing to share
28:36 for yourselves and for sharing this members
28:39 in action with us, ASI family tonight.
28:42 Our next members in action is from
28:45 Feeding His Lambs, Lisa Quade.
28:48 She's going to share with us about this unique ministry.
28:52 What is Feeding His Lambs, Lisa?
28:55 Well, its child evangelism.
28:58 In the scope of preparing our children to stand
29:01 before kings and judges in these end times and
29:03 preparing them to have characters fit for heaven.
29:07 Okay, I think you have a number of
29:08 slides here also.
29:10 And just tell me a little bit about when
29:13 Feeding His Lambs was born
29:15 the idea of Feeding His Lambs.
29:18 Well, as a child and feeding my little lambs
29:21 I realized that there was one thing I needed
29:23 to be very particular about.
29:25 And that was giving them pure warm milk.
29:29 And of course you can translate that
29:31 into spiritual application.
29:33 For one thing I found 30 minutes
29:36 of feeding that little lamb,
29:38 taking care of them with pure warm milk and
29:40 they would follow me for life and then I could
29:44 try all my life to teach a grown stubronb sheep
29:48 to follow me. And I was almost fruitless.
29:51 Now why is it so important?
29:52 You've touched on it there but why is it so important
29:54 for us to reach out to young people
29:59 while they're just children?
30:01 Well, one thing we saw and you saw it there
30:04 the greatest returns are in reaching
30:07 children ages 5 to 13.
30:10 And those children ages 5 to 13 have
30:14 a 32% probability of accepting Christ.
30:18 Teens just 4%, adults just 6% who else knows this.
30:23 Think about Macintosh Computers.
30:26 They put the computers in the schools.
30:27 McDonalds the playground, the largest church
30:31 in the world the Catholic Church.
30:33 Barna Research showed us that evangelism's
30:36 greatest returns come from the children. Okay.
30:39 So tell us about your ministry and your
30:42 materials and how you are trying to accomplish
30:46 this task of reaching the children
30:47 while they're young. Yes.
30:49 Well, we do public evangelism
30:51 that's coordinated evangelism.
30:53 So for example when we worked
30:54 with Pastor Doug in prophecy code.
30:56 He preached on the mark of the beast.
30:58 The children learned about
30:59 the mark of the beast very same night.
31:02 We do evangelism training that's workshops,
31:05 equipping others, producing training DVDs
31:08 that help others to do this work.
31:11 We also do internet evangelism for children.
31:14 We have over five websites.
31:15 Four hundred people a day come to those websites
31:18 watching more than a hundred children's Bible
31:21 videos with our truths from the word every week.
31:26 We also do church development
31:28 and we partnered with ASI in training the church
31:32 across the country of Zambia to reach
31:34 our children more effectively.
31:36 We produce Bible videos every week.
31:39 Filming our Bible class at church.
31:41 Multitude of different things.
31:43 We're very busy you can tell.
31:44 Oh, it's exciting all for children?
31:46 Yes. All for children.
31:48 Now are any of these programs
31:50 available for others to use?
31:52 Yes, we have a children's program
31:55 called "Discoveries for Children."
31:56 Its evangelistic program and this evangelistic program
32:00 is like the new beginnings for adults or the Share Him
32:03 but it's the children's version of that program.
32:09 And what makes these programs unique
32:12 as opposed to the adult versions?
32:15 Well, there's many things you'll have to taste and see.
32:17 But one of them is really exciting to us
32:21 and we call that Digital Felts.
32:23 Digital Felts? Yes.
32:25 We have to cut them out?
32:27 Well, we do all the cutting for you on the computer
32:31 rather than the old phonograph board
32:33 we have to put the felts up.
32:34 These are digital so they happen on the screen.
32:37 You see here some images that each piece is separate,
32:41 just like the felts.
32:42 Here is the millennium.
32:44 But you build the scene, we build it for you.
32:46 And you can share the Bible lessons
32:49 with the children in a highly graphic way.
32:54 So these are graphics that can be used to teach children,
32:57 but you can manipulate them and change them
32:59 and arrange them as you wish?
33:00 Yes, that's right. And--
33:03 I think adults would like that,
33:04 don't you think? Isn't that we need?
33:06 Well, I know the children are on the edge of their seats
33:08 and we've tried that on adults and they seem to be, too.
33:12 In fact, we have a video clip
33:15 that will show you not only the still images
33:17 but show you these digital felts in action.
33:20 Instead of the hand moving the felts across the board
33:23 you just click your mouse.
33:25 And here you see the children going to visit Jesus
33:29 so they can be blessed by Him.
33:32 Many of these digital felts have been used
33:35 in many countries already.
33:37 Canada, Hungary, Ukraine
33:38 and of course, across the United States.
33:40 There you see the stars falling,
33:42 science of the times,
33:43 the man digging for the treasure
33:46 and here he has found the treasure
33:49 and what is he going to do.
33:51 Can't you just see the children
33:53 sitting on the edge of their seats watching?
33:55 We can see the adults
33:56 sitting on the edge of their seats and watching.
33:59 Yes, and we have these built for you
34:02 or you can build your own story,
34:05 any story in the Bible, you can build with these.
34:09 Quickly share with us some testimonies
34:11 of how these have been used
34:13 and impacted children and adults and others.
34:16 Yes, well, we have seen,
34:19 as we've used these in evangelism,
34:22 we have seen children who have attended
34:27 and I think particularly of Christine and Daniel.
34:31 They were there on the edge of their seats every night.
34:34 I was giving the appeal on the subject of Babylon,
34:37 holding up the commitment card
34:40 and Daniel raised his hand.
34:41 I thought, oh, no, a distraction
34:44 not now when I'm making the appeal.
34:46 But I called on him and I listened.
34:51 Daniel said with all seriousness,
34:52 I've got to tell my father
34:55 we can't go to church on Sunday anymore.
34:57 Those are the churches of Babylon,
34:59 Jesus wants us to come out.
35:02 They were receiving the message
35:04 and taking it to heart and taking action.
35:07 Joseph was another boy.
35:09 I went to his home for a clearing visit for baptism.
35:13 He was baptized.
35:14 Oh, what a precious experience to see him
35:17 take his stand for Christ.
35:19 And then I visited his home after baptism.
35:22 I took him the book "Christ Our Savior"
35:24 which is Desire of Ages for children.
35:27 He excitedly ran to the corner,
35:29 sat down, opened it up and before I left
35:32 he read three chapters.
35:35 Talk about, excited about the word of God
35:38 and God changing their hearts.
35:43 One last experience I wanted to share with you
35:45 is the impact that it has not only
35:48 on the children and teachers
35:51 who are using our program are excited
35:53 and call us nearly every week but on the family.
35:57 Rachel and her family we're on their way
36:00 to the fireworks in Massachusetts,
36:02 4th July our meetings open that night.
36:05 But it rained so hard that the fireworks were cancelled.
36:11 She looked at her mom and dad and said,
36:13 I received a flyer about this children's program, can we go?
36:17 Her parents said, only this once.
36:19 We're 2½ hours away we will not come back every night.
36:23 So they attended the first one.
36:25 But you can tell me the rest.
36:27 They were back every night.
36:29 Their family learned the truth from the word of God.
36:34 Father at first said they went with his arms crossed
36:35 very unhappy he had to come.
36:38 But slowly Holy Spirit worked in his heart.
36:41 The mother Monica told me that children are changing at home.
36:45 I see them more helpful, more obedient,
36:47 Jesus is working in their hearts.
36:50 The father saw the change.
36:52 He decided Jesus could help him, too,
36:54 and asked how to stop smoking.
36:57 The whole family took their stand for Christ
37:00 and was baptized to a new life in Christ,
37:03 vibrant Christian family following Christ.
37:06 Because the little lambs,
37:09 their children wanted to follow Jesus
37:13 and the parents followed Him, too.
37:16 Amen. If you'd like more information
37:18 about Feeding His Lambs you can stop by booth 232
37:23 and Lisa will be happy to share with you more
37:26 about what they are doing and what you can do
37:29 and also tomorrow morning you have a seminar. Is that right?
37:32 That's right. Yeah, 10:45 in the morning
37:33 we have a seminar called "Leading Little Ones to Christ."
37:37 It can also be described as child evangelism powered.
37:40 You want some power to reach to children
37:43 within your scope of influence.
37:45 Whether it be children's story, the grandchildren,
37:48 Sabbath school or your own children in your home
37:51 or just your neighborhood children
37:52 across the street, come.
37:55 Thank you, Lisa, for sharing with us
37:57 and also for sharing with God's littlest children.
38:01 Praise the Lord. Thank you.
38:03 Our next interview, our next members in action
38:07 are from a very special organization
38:11 I know to many of us here at ASI.
38:13 And we have Alonna Smith and Chelsey Jordan
38:17 and these are really actually ASI young people.
38:24 Alonna I think sort of grew up in ASI.
38:26 How many years have you been coming to ASI, Alonna?
38:29 Yes, I sat down last week through the math
38:31 and this is my 18th convention.
38:34 Now Alonna likes math.
38:37 Her father is Stan Smith our finance vice president.
38:41 And Alonna also has a special role,
38:45 an important role in an organization called GYC.
38:51 She is the logistics vice president.
38:54 Tell us a little bit about GYC, Alonna.
38:56 Yes, well, to me GYC and ASI are closely connected
39:01 and ASI has been intricately involved
39:04 in the mentoring and growth of GYC.
39:08 And some of you are probably wondering
39:10 a little bit about GYC and what it's all about
39:12 and since I work in logistics and it's all about numbers
39:15 I'll give you a few numbers from last year
39:18 and we were in San Jose last year
39:21 and we had 25 countries represented.
39:24 And we had 3500 people registered
39:28 and almost we were over 5000 on Sabbath for church.
39:33 Amen. Praise the Lord.
39:35 GYC stands for Generation of Youth for Christ.
39:37 These were young people, mostly young people,
39:39 who were coming together to focus
39:41 on studying the word of God
39:43 and learning more about Him.
39:46 and I believe we have a video.
39:49 Right? Yes, we do.
39:50 That we're going to share now
39:52 about GYC in the coming convention.
40:10 What's the right thing to do with the life God gave me?
40:12 I'm opinion for this purpose to draw a line in the sand.
40:17 I wanna go out and the limit tell us
40:19 that purpose is to be the generation
40:21 that actually finishes the worse.
40:23 Say Lord my life is yours.
40:25 What do you want me to do? You fill it in.
40:28 I struggle a lot with my faith.
40:30 Basically I'm kind of drifted away from God.
40:34 So what happens if we have a reoccurring sin in our lives
40:37 something that we're struggling with?
40:39 I don't know how to take it to the next level.
40:41 How do I make sure that I don't get softened
40:43 to the worldly philosophies?
40:45 I just got a question and my question is--
40:47 My question is this regarding marriage.
40:49 What prospective we should have on politics?
40:51 Dating. Music styles and also worship.
40:53 How can we separate ourselves from the world?
40:55 And how do I keep on fire after I live here.
41:01 GYC really represents a movement.
41:03 It's about young people that you can see out here.
41:06 Young people that come together
41:07 and they want something better in their life.
41:09 This upcoming generation is not just
41:13 in the Seventh-day Adventist church but in every movement.
41:15 We see that the more orthodox,
41:16 the more conservative,
41:18 they're tired of their baby boomer generation.
41:21 They're tired of the fake. They're tired of power point.
41:23 They're tired of the guitars and the spotlights--
41:25 and you know these are all okay things.
41:28 But I think you know they're going back to the apostolic,
41:30 the real faith, the organic.
41:33 What caused the early church to start?
41:36 There is a whole new youth revival movement.
41:40 That is that kids are saying to themselves you know,
41:44 you know, I can play, I can do all the things
41:47 that young people do but in the end
41:50 that it's not gonna give me what I really want to have.
41:53 And people, young people are finding
41:56 in Christianity in an authentic experience
41:58 with Jesus Christ that there's something more
42:00 and I think God is bringing about a revival of young people
42:05 who are catching that vision
42:07 and participating in the mission
42:09 and is giving their life some serious meaning.
42:11 GYC or Generation of Youth for Christ is an event
42:14 which will teach you how to implement your talents
42:18 into witnessing and finishing the word for God.
42:21 We're supposed to take ownership of our church,
42:24 the Adventist church is more than a church,
42:26 it's a movement and it was started by young people
42:31 and I believe its gonna be finished by young people
42:33 and this is just a program where we can come together
42:36 as God's remnant church.
42:38 His youth and learn
42:41 how to spread the gospel more effectively
42:43 and bring this great controversy to a close.
42:46 The very first year I believed there were 17 buses.
42:49 This year there were 50.
42:51 So the number of buses,
42:53 there are so many people that wanna go,
42:55 outreach becomes the highlight of GYC for many people.
42:58 They come here and they're so excited
43:01 through the whole week for Saturday
43:02 so they can go on outreach.
43:04 And they do surveys.
43:05 They pass out Bibles to the cars.
43:07 They pass out literature.
43:08 They pray with people at the door.
43:10 Incredible experiences take place.
43:13 And God orchestrates divine appointments
43:15 for those young people.
43:16 I will say what really inspired me
43:18 was going door-to-door.
43:19 I was so afraid as I missed the bus,
43:21 I had no idea who I was gonna go with
43:23 and I was absolutely terrified.
43:24 Yeah, we don't necessarily look like
43:26 the Bible worker type of people.
43:27 So this is our first time doing this sort of thing.
43:30 And we had gone to this door,
43:31 and the door opened up
43:33 and a lady who is dressed in scrubs
43:35 said, yeah, what do you want?
43:36 At first it was a little bit skeptics.
43:38 As soon as we mentioned religion
43:39 and God his face completely changed.
43:42 He was-- oh, talking about God.
43:44 My son, my son just tried to commit suicide last night.
43:48 All the same time they've lost job.
43:51 Their spouses have left them.
43:53 And they've had a death in the family.
43:54 Can you guys pray for me?
43:56 He lost nine family members within eight months.
43:59 And he just continued to share
44:01 why would God allow this to happen. Why?
44:05 Right in there, it was a moment saying
44:08 we need to come and pray with you.
44:09 Can we pray with you?
44:10 And they all came together,
44:11 there was mellow music in the background
44:14 and we asked the family to come gather around.
44:16 They gathered around and they just, you know,
44:19 wide knuckle just clenched, confused,
44:22 wondering why their son had done this.
44:24 And we got down there and we prayed with them.
44:27 And we encourage them with our prayers.
44:28 But as soon as we pray
44:30 the Lord just started opening up things for us.
44:33 Yeah, we went out there not knowingly.
44:36 You know a whole of the guy--
44:37 it's just like God can use anyone.
44:39 It's like God led you to us.
44:40 as the God did lead us, God did lead us to you, man.
44:42 Like--this is like, this is rare.
44:44 It was the coolest thing.
44:45 Right when we get off the bus man
44:46 it was the most encouraging things.
44:47 My first year it seems like God's moving.
44:50 Praise the Lord.
44:51 And GYC exist because hundreds
44:54 and thousands of countless volunteer hours
44:57 go into the organization.
44:59 Its young people that come together
45:00 that say we want to be used by God
45:03 and as a result we get meetings like this.
45:05 We get evangelism like this.
45:07 We get new outreach materials.
45:09 We just get a whole spectrum of things
45:12 because God says, yes, young people,
45:15 you know, we don't have all the right words to say
45:17 or a lot of our deficiencies shine through
45:20 but God says I can use that.
45:22 And young people pick up that and they say, what can I do?
45:25 And as a result you see things like this.
45:28 Since we've been here we've just seen,
45:30 I've seen two of our young people
45:32 giving their hearts to the Lord
45:33 and I just see a transformation
45:36 going on in their hearts and their minds.
45:38 The messages, the things that they're hearing and seeing,
45:42 they're being challenged, they're being inspired,
45:44 they're seeing true Christian life.
45:49 Well, it's so inspiring to be here
45:52 and to hear so many powerful preachers
45:54 and we have so much to choose
45:55 from that you can even decide which one to go.
45:59 They said they just could watch it on in TV.
46:01 But it's not the same. Yeah, it's not same.
46:03 Yeah, it's a lot better to be here in person.
46:04 Because you got to see everybody here and like--
46:06 You need to do it.
46:07 You get to feel of it's energy
46:09 and it just makes it more big here.
46:11 Next year will be our best conference
46:13 we've ever had by far. And I'll tell you why.
46:16 We're gonna have the same inspirational speakers.
46:18 We're gonna have the same exciting evangelism.
46:21 We're gonna have those same things improved from years past
46:25 or we're gonna add a few things.
46:26 So we picked the unashamed,
46:28 the kind of portray the message
46:30 that God wants to use you where you're at,
46:32 at that point no matter what you're doing.
46:35 And we've actually have a few exciting projects
46:39 that we're gonna launch designed by young people,
46:42 four young people at our unashamed conference.
47:10 ASI as a young person you came
47:11 to the youth for Jesus program.
47:13 I think its 2004 and have been a Bible worker
47:17 or now you're evangelism director for GYC.
47:21 Tell us a little bit about how GYC is involved
47:25 in public evangelism.
47:27 Well, for me the first thing that impressed me about GYC
47:31 when I went the very first year
47:33 was that at the heart of GYC is evangelism.
47:36 They're putting young people on the frontlines
47:38 and on Sabbath afternoon we always have an outreach day
47:42 where this last year 50 school buses,
47:45 packed full of young people
47:46 went out door-to-door in the community.
47:48 They knocked on almost on 24,000 doors in San Jose.
47:52 Amen. Amen.
47:53 And over 1,300 people requested Bible studies
47:56 in just those couple of hours on Sabbath afternoon.
47:59 Praise God. And we're thankful for ASI because this last year
48:02 they helped to sponsor us to have young people
48:05 preach an evangelistic meeting after.
48:07 And I wanna tell you about Leonard.
48:09 Leonard was 22 years old.
48:12 Two GYC young people knocked on his door.
48:14 And they told him they would come back
48:16 and do Bible studies
48:17 and with the help of the sponsors
48:18 we had a team of young Bible workers there.
48:20 They went back to study with Leonard.
48:22 Leonard had been waiting and waiting
48:24 and he wasn't really interested at first
48:25 but he was wondering
48:26 when these people are gonna come, they said they'd come.
48:29 Aikel one of the Bible workers showed up at his door
48:32 and he was excited 'cause it was a young person
48:34 another young person excited about studying the Bible.
48:37 Leonard started studying the Bible
48:38 and I was just told that he's been attending
48:40 the camp meeting, he is very involved in the church,
48:43 very involved in the young people
48:45 and he is going to be baptized very soon.
48:48 Praise the Lord that through that evangelistic meeting
48:51 that he came to through the young people working.
48:54 Through your sponsorship
48:55 we were able to reach more people
48:57 and as young people be on the frontlines.
49:00 Thank you, Alonna and Chelsea,
49:02 for what you're doing at GYC.
49:03 And thank you, ASI, for supporting the mission
49:06 of young people who want to be taking
49:08 the gospel this Three Angels' messages
49:10 to the world in this generation. Thank you.
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