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01:00 Good evening and greetings from the
01:03 ASI Youth Convention. Most of you are probably
01:06 aware that while you're adult meetings
01:09 are being held, we have a separate
01:11 and complete youth convention
01:12 going on for the children. Our leaders
01:16 have all been working for many months
01:17 to carefully plan and prepare the
01:20 special programs for your children.
01:22 Our goal is not to entertain
01:24 the young people, but to provide
01:27 uplifting speakers, activities
01:30 and programming to lead the young people to have
01:34 a closure walk with God and now I would like to
01:38 give you the opportunity to meet our leaders.
02:01 Well, good evening everyone my name is
02:03 Teresa Hargreaves and our family has had
02:06 the privilege of working with the
02:08 kindergarten department. Our theme this year
02:12 has been preparing to meet Jesus
02:14 and we have been learning many things on
02:17 how we can be ready for Jesus soon coming.
02:21 We first learned about the image of Daniel 2
02:24 and how God says something it happens
02:28 and that we know the God's word is true
02:32 and then we also learned that the stone
02:34 which came down and hit the image represents
02:37 Jesus soon coming kingdom and because
02:40 its easier to remember our Bible verses to song
02:43 we learn some memory verses and we would like
02:46 to share them with each of you.
02:57 The stone that hit the image became
03:03 a large mountain. And it filled the whole earth.
03:11 The stone that hit the image became
03:18 a large mountain. And it filled the whole earth.
03:33 Thy word is true Thy word is true
03:43 Psalm 119:160 says Thy word is true
03:54 And one of the ways we prepare for Jesus
03:56 soon coming is by putting the Bible promises
03:59 into our minds. So children,
04:02 what is the Bible like? Lamp, a lamp that's right
04:07 and we gonna share song about that.
04:12 Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet
04:20 And a light unto my path. Thy Word is a lamp,
04:29 Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, Psalm 119:105
04:46 So, now children when is Jesus coming?
04:49 Soon, yes you are right.
04:55 And, behold, I come quickly;
05:01 And, behold, I come quickly; Revelation 22:12
05:11 So, we have greatly enjoyed having
05:14 your children with us in the
05:16 Kindergarten department and I pray the God
05:19 will help each of us to be preparing to meet
05:22 Jesus as we have learned about
05:24 this week. Thank you. Amen.
05:42 Good evening! Good evening,
05:46 it has been so much fun to work with this group
05:50 of primaries. They have worked diligently
05:53 and memorized the Ten Commandments
05:55 and what have we studied this year? Sanctuary.
05:59 And what else? God advice because teach us that
06:04 there is transformation through Jesus
06:07 and so we would like to sing a favorite song
06:11 that the students chose and if you would
06:14 like to say the Ten Commandments with them
06:16 they would like to recite the Ten Commandments
06:19 they learned in the past couple of days.
06:36 Jesus died on the cross so you could live
06:42 with Him in heaven some day
06:45 I'll feel Thou is coming again very soon
06:49 That's why I'm a SDA. I'm a Seventh-Day Adventist
06:57 and I want the world to know it
07:01 My heart is full of Jesus serve
07:05 and I want the world to share with.
07:09 I may be from above, but there's a world of God
07:14 and Jesus shows me the way So I worship
07:19 and I serve big on Sabbath Day,
07:22 that's why I'm a SDA. I'm a
07:27 Seventh-Day Adventist and I want to world
07:32 to know it My heart is full of Jesus serve
07:38 and I want the world to share with.
07:42 "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
07:49 "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,
07:55 or any likeness of any thing
07:58 that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth
08:02 beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."
08:05 "Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them,
08:09 nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God
08:13 am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity
08:17 of the fathers upon the children unto the third
08:21 and fourth generation of them that hate me,"
08:24 "And shewing mercy unto thousands of them
08:29 that love me and keep my commandments."
08:33 "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord
08:37 thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him
08:41 guiltless that taketh his name in vain."
08:45 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
08:49 Six days shalt thou labour,
08:52 and do all thy work: But the seventh day
08:56 is the sabbath of the Lord thy God:
09:00 In it thou shalt not do any work,
09:04 thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter,
09:08 thy manservant, nor thy maidservant,
09:11 nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger
09:14 that is within thy gates: For in six days
09:18 the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea,
09:22 and all that in them is, and rested the
09:26 seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed
09:30 the sabbath day, and hallowed it."
09:32 "Honor thy father and thy mother:
09:37 that thy days may be long upon the land
09:40 which the LORD thy God giveth thee"
09:42 Thou shalt not kill. "Thou shalt not commit adultery.
09:49 Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear
09:54 false witness against thy neighbor.
09:57 Thou shalt not covet the thy neighbor's house.
10:01 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.
10:04 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's manservant
10:08 nor the maidservant nor the ox nor the ass
10:13 nor anything that this is thy neighbor's."
10:52 Good evening ASI, it's been a privilege
10:56 for our family to be serving in the
10:58 junior department. We have a variety of
11:01 students here from the ages of 10 to 12 that
11:04 they had learned many things.
11:05 This year as a theme for ASI was living for Jesus
11:11 body, mind, and spirit and we have the
11:13 opportunity to have 14 different speakers
11:17 that are energetic, Godly men and women
11:20 that came to speak to them, to help them
11:21 to lift their lives up to a higher standard
11:24 and so the children had taken this to heart
11:27 and had made a desire of this as well.
11:29 And also one of the things that
11:32 we had opportunity to do was to do an health expo
11:37 for the young people and so we had four,
11:39 four physicians, five nurses,
11:43 one nurse practitioner, a teacher
11:45 and a variety of other people that came to help
11:48 and do the health expo and so they have learned
11:50 the eight natural laws in which they each of these
11:53 young people have been assigned to a different
11:56 group named after one of the eight natural laws.
11:59 And so they have made a desire to want to live
12:01 for Jesus everyday of their lives from here on
12:05 and we praise the Lord for that. Amen.
12:08 Well this year the junior mission project
12:11 was to knit hats for people in Mongolia.
12:14 So, each child diligently worked knitting the hats
12:18 and today I have a Ileana and Reed
12:22 and they wanted to bring a sample of the hats
12:24 that we knitted and show you and these hats
12:27 will be going to Mongolia through Gospel
12:29 Ministries International and they will go to
12:32 the children there who live in very
12:34 cold conditions and we are so happy
12:37 with the enthusiasm that the junior showed
12:40 for this project and we know this project
12:42 will bless the children in Mongolia,
12:44 but the children here at ASI were definitely
12:47 blessed from that also. Amen.
12:49 Yes, we're going to be reciting a verse of
12:52 Romans 12, 1 and 2 which was our theme.
12:54 Our theme text for the last couple of days
12:58 and they have memorize it to heart
12:59 and then also they will be presenting our
13:01 theme song as well. What a joy to live for Jesus
13:03 and they want to do that joyfully to live
13:05 for Jesus everyday, body, mind, and spirit.
13:19 I beseech you therefore, brethren,
13:22 by the mercies of God, that ye present
13:25 your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
13:29 acceptable unto God, which is
13:32 your reasonable service. And be not conformed
13:36 to this world: but be ye transformed
13:39 by the renewing of your mind,
13:41 that ye may prove what is that good,
13:44 and acceptable, and perfect will of God.
13:47 Romans 12:1 and 2. Amen.
14:10 Praise the Lord who bless us,
14:14 Praise the Son of joy and peace,
14:18 Such a world of the love and beauty,
14:23 He is our King so let's sing and praise,
14:28 What a joy to live for Jesus
14:32 We're delight to say his prayers
14:37 Every praise is in his presence,
14:41 As we serve on all our days
14:47 Amen. Thank you very much.
15:54 What is it mean to live ever only all for
15:58 Jesus Christ? What is it look like
16:00 and how does our consecration to
16:05 Christ impact our service for others
16:07 that's what our family and your early teens
16:11 had been thinking about, talking about,
16:14 and praying about this weekend.
16:18 And God has been teaching us that
16:21 as our shirts say consecration to Him
16:24 means to the ever in his presence doing only
16:27 his will all the time. He has given us
16:31 a taste of the joy that comes from commitment
16:34 to him and he has granted us a thrill of
16:36 excitement about service being his hands to others.
16:59 We are His hands to touch the world around us.
17:09 We are His feet to go where He may lead.
17:18 And we are His love burning in the darkness.
17:29 We are His light shining in the night.
17:41 We are His eyes to see the needs in others.
17:52 We are His voice to tell of His return.
18:01 And we are His love burning in the darkness.
18:11 We are His light shining in the night.
18:25 Take my life and let it be Consecrated,
18:33 Lord, to Thee. Take my hands
18:38 and let them move At the impulse of Thy love.
18:48 Take my lips and let them be filled
18:55 with messages from Thee Take my voice
19:03 and I will sing, ever only for my king.
19:11 Jesus made my life a song, and
19:17 we will praise you all day long
19:21 I have my words given to Thee,
19:26 I begin in back to thee,
19:31 Take my life and let it be
19:41 Take myself and I will be
19:48 Ever, only, all for Thee Ever, only, all for Thee
21:03 Are we ever be in His presence to meet
21:07 only His love all the time our shirt
21:12 say it through our life say it.
21:19 We are training that will make us more able to be
21:23 sermon, a sermon issues no matter where we go.
22:06 I just learned a lot and I think that
22:08 this knowledge will really help me to help
22:10 people when they need help.
22:14 If there is no breath or there is no circulation,
22:17 we need several themes on this.
22:23 Just think about all that Christ has given you
22:28 and then ponder what you can give him
22:35 only you have your heart again and that's all he
22:40 is asking for your heart, your mind, your all.
22:51 Every last presence do we hold his will
22:55 or it's from tonight I am very sure we will miss it
22:59 and hide it in the presence of our king.
23:02 Just imagine the joy in his heart to look down
23:05 from heaven and see a whole classroom of Christ
23:09 turn to him and a whole classroom of
23:11 hearts choosing to be his.
24:08 Good evening ASI this is our youth division
24:12 this year and our theme is right faith,
24:16 right now. And we have really tried our best to
24:21 bring this about as an experience for the youth
24:24 to change their lives. We've defined faith
24:28 as the depending upon the word of God to do
24:31 what it says and the expecting of the
24:34 word of God to do what it says.
24:36 And we have tried an endeavor to show
24:38 the youth the foolishness of trusting
24:40 in their own hearts, in their own mind
24:43 and to fully rely upon our God.
24:45 We are going to at this time,
24:47 have our youth testify what
24:50 the program has done for them.
24:51 Let me tell you powerful things are happening
24:54 at ASI Youth Division. When I first heard
24:58 the logo I was kind of like its not boring
25:01 right faith right now what's this all about,
25:03 but as the means progress it became more and more
25:07 in-depth and decisions have been
25:10 made for Christ. When I really felt touched
25:13 it was last night, Thursday evening,
25:15 we had two powerful presenters Mark Howard
25:18 and Joshua Plohocky. So, they both gave this
25:25 really powerful messages and even more compelling
25:28 altar calls. I am not usually a big fan of
25:31 altar calls especially when they involve you
25:33 to sacrifice something, but I came forward
25:37 just like so many others who had something
25:40 to sacrifice. So many others who had
25:42 open hearts and who are willing to listen to
25:44 God's voice for me is a re-dying of self
25:49 I should say. Just completely in every bit
25:52 of this and I just encourage you all to
25:56 please pray for this meanings
25:57 powerful thinks are happening. Amen.
25:59 God's word has been proclaimed to us in a way
26:01 that many youth have never heard it before
26:03 and please pray for these decisions
26:05 and continued to pray if you have already,
26:07 the things might happen for God's word.
26:11 Alright, I can testify that the youth meetings
26:14 as well is a life changing for me
26:16 and its kind of interesting because
26:18 when I am right here in ASI I was like you know
26:21 what I don't want to go to youth meetings.
26:22 I want to go to adult meetings
26:23 and so I already made my mind I'm gonna go to the
26:26 adult meetings and hear all the seminars
26:27 that I wanna to hear and the speakers I wanna hear
26:29 and so Wednesday night found me in here.
26:31 And I heard this little voice saying Brittney
26:34 you need to go in the youth meetings,
26:36 let Lord know I want to go here
26:38 and so I remembered like okay Brittney
26:41 you been praying everyday, take my plans
26:44 and just do what you want me to do
26:46 and I remember that and so I found myself
26:49 in a youth meeting and it was like why I am here?
26:51 And anyway that night Josh gave a message
26:55 and he had an appeal. And at that appeal honestly
26:59 he was asking like how many of you have never
27:01 had an experience before we're you know
27:04 you fallen at the foot of the cross
27:07 and seen Jesus as your Savior because
27:10 you've seen yourself for what you are really are.
27:12 How many Guys have had that experience
27:13 at the foot of cross and I realized that
27:15 I hadn't had that experience.
27:17 But as a result of that appeal
27:20 I now had that experience and it's been
27:22 life changing and the whole time,
27:25 I mean right from my faith I know
27:26 why I was there. And I will tell you
27:28 the devil is gonna frightening it,
27:30 but if he is frightening someone
27:31 knows good right. So, I just wanna
27:32 praise the Lord for that. Amen.
27:35 Part of what we have been teaching them
27:37 is to just live by faith and we wanted to give
27:41 them an opportunity to put that into practice.
27:43 So, today we had Les McCoy from the
27:47 Florida Conference come in with some of his
27:49 cooperate leaders and they did a training
27:52 with our young people on how to sell
27:55 Christian literature and we're wanting to do
27:58 was to go out and to raise money to send
28:01 Bibles to Africa. So, this morning we did
28:04 some training and then this afternoon
28:06 we went out there braved at hot Florida sun,
28:08 we were sweating, we were getting bottles of water
28:12 and other things being given to us at the doors
28:15 but God was blessing and I have a peer with me
28:18 some of the young people that went out
28:19 this afternoon and I'm gonna have Joel
28:22 and Verlyn share an experience that they had
28:24 and then Jesse is gonna share one.
28:27 Well, this morning when I woke up
28:29 I was pretty shocked about going on outreach.
28:32 I always love getting out and meeting new people,
28:35 but when I walked outside I was like
28:38 oh man this is really hot. I really don't want
28:41 to do it and I came into the youth meeting
28:44 and I sat down and I saw Verlyn there
28:46 and I said you know Verlyn I really don't
28:48 think I'm gonna go on outreach today
28:50 and she said, oh come on you can do it
28:53 and I'm like no I really don't think I want to.
28:55 And then I was like you know
28:57 what I could stay back I can go swimming,
29:00 I can play volleyball and do all those fun things
29:05 but getting out there in touching lives could be
29:08 so much more productive and I've come to ASI
29:10 and I pay all this money why not make the most
29:14 of it right and minister to those who I can.
29:16 So, Verlyn and I went out and did outreach
29:20 and we had one very powerful experience.
29:23 As we walked up to this one door I knocked on it
29:26 or I actually ring the door bell
29:28 and nobody came at first and so I knocked again
29:31 and a guy came at the door and I started
29:35 with my canvas and he just said,
29:38 well I don't know ten words through,
29:41 I am not interested. He said I am busy right now
29:44 and I said alright that's fine and he said
29:46 I am working on a project and he kind a
29:48 open the door more and Verlyn and I see inside
29:50 and he said so I got to go and I said
29:54 well can I just leave you this happiness digest
29:56 and I said just for a small donation bigger
30:00 or small it doesn't matter just whatever
30:02 you can give would be really appreciated
30:04 and he said you know I'll see
30:06 what I can do and so he left and yeah.
30:10 So, I was standing there and as soon as he left
30:15 I felt so impressed and I am like I turn to Joel
30:18 and like Joel if he comes back with
30:20 more than 7 dollars we need to give him
30:22 one of the mega books and so we just
30:27 kind of waited there and he came back
30:29 little bit later and he had like five dollars
30:33 crumpled up and he handed it to the Joel.
30:36 He is like here's 10 dollars for you
30:38 and I am like how much did you say?
30:41 And he is like here is 10 dollars for you
30:43 and so Joel opened it up and you know
30:45 there was more money inside of that
30:47 and it was 10 dollars which is the exact amount
30:51 of one mega book and so we had already given him
30:55 the happiness digest and so we took the mega book
31:00 and they were three of them and so we gave him
31:02 a choice between two of them and we said you know
31:05 which one would you like and he started flipping
31:07 to them and he looked at the one on health
31:10 and daily living and he said you know
31:11 I'll take this one and he is like you know
31:13 my wife has been really, really sick lately
31:15 and you know I think it might have to do
31:19 something with how to deal with you know
31:23 lifestyle. I know that this should be really
31:28 interested in this book and that she can use it
31:31 and I am like well yeah Praise the Lord
31:32 and he is like you know. She can use the lifestyle
31:37 one and I can use the happiness digest
31:39 and I just thought it was so amazing that
31:40 we are able to live two books there
31:42 each one of them would be able to touch
31:46 these people in a way that may be
31:49 we could not touch them otherwise
31:50 and so I just praise the Lord so much for that
31:54 opportunity that we got to leave those books
31:56 with that man and his wife.
31:59 And if you guys would just pray for them
32:00 and you know just pray that those books
32:04 will touch them I know that we raised
32:06 a lot of money today and that's gonna go to help
32:08 the people in Africa but you know
32:10 we also want to minister to our community
32:12 and when we leave those books out there
32:15 they may not touch them for a longtime
32:18 but when they do pick them up it will change
32:20 their life and so I just ask you guys to pray
32:22 for them and hopefully that the Holy Spirit
32:26 will water the plants that we sown,
32:30 the seeds that we sown and help them
32:32 to become Christians because of it. Amen.
32:36 Oh, real quickly I just wanna share a testimony.
32:39 We were about done and we knock on this door
32:43 and a lady came and she is a really nice
32:46 Brazilian lady, she is really interested
32:48 into the books that we had and she ended up
32:50 buying them and before we left we offered a prayer
32:54 with her and she is like sure,
32:55 I would love that so she invited us into her house
32:58 and we had a really wonderful prayer for her
33:01 and she really seemed blessed by it
33:03 and before we left we decided to offer her a
33:05 Bible study invitation to receive Bible study
33:09 guides in the mail and Ryan he said Anne
33:12 if you fill it out now we can go ahead
33:14 and take it for and you can say it on the stance.
33:17 And so she is like alright I'll do that,
33:19 so she filled it out and we have her Bible study
33:22 and we have a lady that is going to personally
33:25 follow up on that and at the end of the day
33:27 our first level study I believe for the whole
33:30 entire outreach, which is a big blessing. Amen.
33:33 We only had about 20 or so young people
33:37 that were able to go out because
33:38 others had other commitments but
33:40 God blessed just that and we raised 120 dollars,
33:45 when we came back and we were in a publications
33:48 to match it, so 240 dollars is going to
33:51 Africa in the form of Bibles.
33:53 So, you just want to thank you so much
33:54 for your young people for the privilege of being
33:56 able to work with them this week. Amen.
34:06 Well Good evening ASI family, good evening.
34:09 Happy Sabbath, happy Sabbath.
34:11 What do you think of these young people
34:12 in the blue? Amen. Amen. My friends it has been
34:17 a privilege for Lay Institute for evangelism
34:20 to be able to host the ASI Youth for
34:24 Jesus program in 2010. We were located
34:27 on the campus of the Lady Lake
34:29 Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Guess what?
34:31 Lady Lake, Florida. And we're there
34:35 because of your generous donations to the offering
34:38 on Sabbath morning so tomorrow morning
34:40 don't forget the ASI Youth for Jesus program
34:44 because this is what happens
34:46 and you are gonna hear all about it
34:47 when your young people come to ASI Youth
34:51 for Jesus. So, we at life just want to thank you
34:55 for trusting your young people with us.
34:57 Have you had a good time? Yes, Amen.
34:59 Now, check this out, how many of you were able
35:01 to participate in a Bible study this year
35:05 at ASI Youth for Jesus. Amen. Hallelujah!
35:09 Isn't that amazing that's our goal
35:12 isn't it taking our young people into the field
35:14 to get them energized and excited about evangelism
35:19 and winning souls to the kingdom of God.
35:21 Right now what we are going to do is
35:23 we gonna show you just some pictures on
35:24 your screen there of some of the evangelistic
35:27 meeting sites and some of the activities that
35:30 we did while we were here at Youth for Jesus.
35:32 There is Nick who is preaching there at the
35:34 Leesburg Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
35:36 There is the whole crew at Leesburg who brought
35:38 music to energize that church.
35:41 Here we are in our classroom
35:42 at Lay Institute for Evangelism and here
35:46 we are preparing for a water fight.
35:48 We had to have a little bit of downtime here
35:51 again we are in our classroom
35:52 Pastor Philip Sizemore is teaching and there I am
35:55 doing morning worship. We had incredible
35:57 morning worships. Every morning my daughter is up
36:00 there singing just like she will be here
36:02 with everybody else. We had an incredible time
36:06 at ASI Youth for Jesus and we could not have
36:08 done that without you. You have been a blessing
36:12 to us and there Mike Merge gonna up here
36:15 in just a moment after our song
36:16 and he is going to share with you
36:17 what the blessing was to the community that
36:21 we were in. there we are on the river you see,
36:23 we had a couple of days where we just had
36:25 a lot of fun. What we are going to do now is
36:30 we are going to sing for you a song that was
36:32 written composed the music and everything by
36:36 Mr. Mark Bond he is father of two of our
36:39 ASI Youth for Jesus students and the song
36:43 was its called "A Temple Made of Time"
36:47 and it is about the Sabbath.
36:48 So, happy Sabbath to you and he wrote
36:51 this from a sermon; he was inspired to write
36:54 this by a sermon that Elder Mark Finley
36:57 preached about how God brings the Sabbath to us.
36:59 God didn't just make a place Holy,
37:02 he made time Holy. Amen. So, that time
37:05 can come to us every week. So, please enjoy
37:08 as the ASI Youth for Jesus participants sing for us.
37:34 God took six days and created earth
37:40 and moon the star and the sun
37:44 On the seventh day He rested from the work
37:50 that he had done. Then He blessed it made it
37:58 holy as a gift for every man
38:03 To remind us where we came from
38:08 and just how his world began
38:13 Holy day purified set apart sanctified
38:22 Enter in to joy divine in a temple made of time
38:34 See Him worship on the Sabbath
38:39 as His weekly costume was, feel the furry
38:46 of the rabbis for He would not heed
38:51 their laws. So they killed Him on a hillside
38:58 as the sun began to fade but He even kept
39:06 the Sabbath as they laid Him in the grave
39:13 Holy day purified set apart sanctified
39:22 Enter in to joy divine in a temple made of time
39:42 Oft forsaken and forgotten desecrated
39:49 and profaned But the sacred fourth commandment
39:56 is still valid and unchanged
40:01 Hear the Father gently calling
40:05 if you love Me heed each one not for merit
40:12 or salvation but because you love My Son.
40:19 Holy day purified set apart sanctified
40:28 Enter in to joy divine in a temple made of time
40:37 Holy day purified set apart sanctified
40:46 Enter in to joy divine in a temple made of time
40:56 You will find joy divine in this
41:02 temple made of time. Amen.
41:16 It's my privilege this evening to introduce
41:18 you to Mike Merd. Mike is our Youth for Jesus Bible
41:22 worker and coordinator and he is going to tell
41:24 you all about what happened
41:25 at Youth for Jesus this summer.
41:28 Well, good evening and happy Sabbath.
41:30 I just like to say that it's been an
41:33 absolute pleasure to work with this group.
41:36 I believe that we have fulfilled our commission
41:38 in the Orlando area to preach the
41:41 word of the God to everyone that
41:43 we encountered during this period of time
41:45 so I just want to share with you some of the
41:46 statistics that we were able to accomplish
41:49 by the grace of God and the power of the
41:51 Holy Spirit in these areas thanks to
41:53 your willing contribution. We began
41:56 our work in January in the Leesburg area
41:58 with our site coordinator arriving J. C. Deon,
42:01 we then followed that in February through May
42:03 with the arrival of three more of our site
42:05 coordinators for the Ocala Church,
42:07 the Plymouth Sorrento Church,
42:08 and the Umatilla Church. We had Donna McDonald
42:12 as one of our site coordinators;
42:13 James Wilson and Morris Grahm. In May 13th,
42:18 we had the next crew that arrived
42:19 and began working with the Bethel Church.
42:21 As soon as we arrived on site we began
42:24 our training of the church members
42:26 one of the things that we did was we instructed
42:28 them on the life on the edge series,
42:29 which is the series developed by life
42:31 to train lay members on how to give
42:33 effective Bible studies. We also trained
42:36 the churches on the cycle of evangelism
42:38 which is just what it says it's a
42:40 six month cycle of evangelism for the church
42:42 to keep the church on a rotating basis of
42:45 evangelism to keep it active.
42:47 So, the church members came out
42:48 it was a very good, we had a lot of
42:51 participation as far as the church members go
42:54 and we have several church members now
42:56 that are on their own going out door to door,
42:58 giving Bible studies, working in their
43:00 communities as a result of the training that
43:02 they receive. So, praise the Lord for that.
43:04 The training went very well.
43:07 We followed that up with our bridge events,
43:09 we did a stop smoking program at each one
43:11 of the locations now we follow that up
43:13 with a healthy cooking school just to bring
43:17 interest in from the community to come to the
43:19 local church, to learn these things
43:20 and then we had a health expo at each one of the
43:23 locations as well following the eight laws
43:28 of health doing the new start program.
43:30 At our peak, this being the combination
43:33 of our events we did 179 in home Bible studies
43:38 that's 179 homes not people,
43:41 179 in home Bible studies.
43:43 We had 61 drop off studies,
43:46 where those studies were dropped off
43:47 and we went back followed up with those individuals
43:50 and we had a 163 individuals to signed up
43:53 for corresponded studies that were submitted
43:56 to either amazing facts or discovery.
43:57 So, the Lord is truly blessed.
43:59 Our evangelistic campaigns began on
44:02 July 9th at all five sites including the
44:04 evangelistic campaign preached by the Naps Crew
44:06 and as a result of that we have
44:09 65 decisions for baptism. Amen.
44:12 You know, I just. Praise the Lord,
44:15 Praise the Lord. So, you know, we've had eight
44:20 of our youth for Jesus students made decisions
44:23 for Baptism as well. And you know
44:25 we had three individuals they joined the church
44:28 by profession of faith. So, you know
44:31 I hope that this will inspire someone watching,
44:33 somebody sitting in this crowd to really get
44:35 involved in evangelism. You know,
44:37 the Lord needs you he wants to work through us
44:39 and he wants to work with us.
44:40 So, you know, giving your time
44:42 He will bless you. Amen. Amen.
44:45 For the past five years, the National Association
44:49 for the Prevention of Starvation
44:51 has been holding evangelistic meetings
44:53 alone with ASI's Youth for Jesus.
44:55 So, we like to invite the Naps Crew up here
44:58 to share with you their experience
45:00 at ASI youth for Jesus. Amen.
45:03 Thank you Scott. Asvika, she will introduce
45:06 who Naps is and exactly what are we doing here.
45:09 Good evening everyone NAPS stands for the
45:13 National Association for the
45:15 Prevention of Starvation as previously mentioned.
45:18 We are student missionaries from
45:20 Oakwood University that travel
45:22 not only the country, but the world.
45:24 And the three of us standing up here,
45:25 we are a part of a group that took a year off
45:28 of school and dedicated it solely
45:30 to do in the work of God. And we were able to
45:33 travel to the United States. We even got to go
45:35 to Haiti for six weeks after the earthquake
45:38 and ended our mission here in Orlando, amen.
45:41 Yes at the end of our mission,
45:43 we usually work with ASI and Chris here
45:45 will tell us what we did with ASI in Orlando?
45:48 Yes, yes we did many different I guess
45:51 ministries while we were here.
45:53 First half, we had a summer day camp
45:55 it was four weeks in duration and everyday
45:57 we had about 60 kids and it was about
46:00 five hours long. It was like an extreme
46:01 VBS program. And we are also training
46:03 the church to do small groups, amen.
46:06 Yes and during the day we had day camp
46:08 and we had training with the small group
46:10 and in the evening we have our meetings
46:12 and Bible studies and Chris will give us
46:14 stanza on one of the Bible studies.
46:15 Yes, yes we had many Bible studies
46:20 and we also had evangelistic meetings
46:22 and at the evangelistic meetings
46:23 we had about 40 participants come out
46:26 every night and half of those people 20 people
46:29 were visitors, non-church members coming out.
46:31 And of the 20, 18 decided to be baptize
46:34 and 10 were baptized praise the Lord, Amen.
46:40 Yes we praise the Lord for that and Asvika
46:42 she had a testimony about a young man
46:44 that she met and you see how
46:45 God does not work on our time.
46:47 Yes in doing Bible studies God allowed Chris
46:50 and I to meet a young man name Calega
46:53 and he is about our age, he is I think 21.
46:56 And the day we met Calega it seem like
46:58 everything was going wrong but now
47:00 I understand because within a week of
47:03 Bible studies that seven days Calega
47:06 accepted every truth we gave him.
47:08 The signs of the time, the second coming,
47:10 state of the dead, he accepted the Sabbath
47:14 and even baptism within one week
47:16 and it proves that there are ripe fruit out there
47:18 that we just need to go and pick.
47:20 And it was such a wonderful blessing
47:22 to meet that young man. Amen, Amen and Calega
47:26 he could have make it to the baptism ceremony,
47:28 but he sent his tied offing ahead because
47:32 he knew that he was a member of the church,
47:33 so you praise the Lord for that as well.
47:35 And with the kids, the kids let us
47:39 into the homes of the parents
47:40 and Chris will tell us more about that.
47:42 Yes it was truly an awesome work
47:44 with the children. At our day camp,
47:46 we had three special children the names were
47:48 J.J, Fabian and Nelson. And at the day camp
47:51 and still in their minds the importance of prayer
47:54 how much God truly loves them
47:55 and we taught them scripture songs
47:56 as well as host of other things.
47:58 And every evening the mom will come
48:00 and pick him up and she would always tell me
48:02 how they are singing these songs,
48:04 how they learn that when you die you stay
48:06 in the ground and wait for Jesus to comeback
48:08 and they even told us like behavior changes
48:10 how they open the door for them,
48:12 how they tried to helping with the dishes
48:14 and just how they are just becoming
48:15 better and better. And they just said
48:17 praise the God for the camp you guys came
48:18 at the right time. And at the end of the camp here
48:21 this we were able to do Bible studies
48:23 with the parents and they were able to accept
48:26 everything they loved it. They know Jesus
48:29 coming back now they accepted the Sabbath,
48:31 they accepted the state of the dead,
48:32 and they said you came right on time because
48:34 we were looking for a church.
48:35 And now we wanna join your church because
48:37 we know is the true one. And now they are,
48:39 they found the truth and they are excited
48:41 and all because of the children
48:42 taking into the home, amen.
48:45 And so we praise the Lord for ASI who allowed us
48:48 to be here and we thank you so much
48:50 and at the end of our meetings the elder
48:52 came up to us and said you know what,
48:54 you guys have done tremendous job.
48:56 He said now our church was sleeping,
48:58 he said now we believe as a church that
49:02 we can do this work, amen. And as a same thing
49:04 that we are going to each and everyone
49:06 needs to go out and wake up your church.
49:08 And so we thank you ASI, thank you
49:10 live for having us, praise the Lord,
49:11 and we really appreciate you, amen.
49:18 Thanks, God is truly, truly working.
49:21 It's such a privilege to be here with you tonight.
49:24 My name is Lucille Mascara and this is
49:27 my first year attending Youth for Jesus
49:30 and it truly has been a life changing experience.
49:32 God is so good, I came thinking that
49:37 I was not going to cross the concept of
49:42 what it was. I didn't even understand why
49:44 I was really coming, but God spoke through,
49:48 through certain people and he let me experience
49:51 so many powerful things, there are so many
49:53 testimonies I could give. But, we had just
49:57 learn how to give a Bible study and that day
50:00 we wrote everything in our Bibles
50:02 and I was so impressed how much truth
50:07 there is in God's word its amazing.
50:09 And I was just excited because I was like
50:12 this is what I'm gonna tell people,
50:13 this is what God's wants them to know,
50:15 so I took my Bible we close at the next day,
50:19 we are going on outreach and for some reason
50:22 or another our members we Jonathon decided to
50:27 switch groups with Daniel which is our
50:31 Bible study group. And I was like where do I go,
50:34 you know and so I ended up being in a group
50:37 that wasn't suppose to be God is good,
50:39 he knows what he is doing and I ended up going
50:42 with a group that was giving a Bible study
50:44 and I didn't know that we were
50:45 giving a Bible study. So, when we get to the park
50:48 where we are gonna give the study.
50:49 Mind you this is the day after we have learned
50:52 how to give our first study which was based
50:55 on the word of God. So, I was new
50:59 and I never given a Bible study before.
51:01 We got to the park, I look to the chair
51:04 to get my sword its not there,
51:07 oh my Jesus what I'm gonna do?
51:10 So, I got on to the garden and I'm like Tracy
51:13 do you have your Bible, do you have the study
51:15 and our Bible worker told us that this lady
51:17 or this girl she had so many questions,
51:20 and I was just nervous, I was like all my truth
51:23 is based on the word of God,
51:25 how we are gonna answer these questions.
51:27 And I was like God just perform a miracle
51:29 so we step in and God stepped in.
51:34 Her first question she asked was how can I trust
51:39 that the Bible is true? And that was a
51:42 transitional question to enter into the
51:45 study of the word of God. And I was like
51:47 Tracy get your Bible we are gonna give the study
51:50 because we were thinking that she was gonna have
51:53 so many questions that we were just gonna have
51:55 to be answering random questions
51:56 but it ended up being right after that
51:59 first question, the next question she asked was
52:01 how do I know that people that wrote this Bible
52:04 didn't just write it just because you know
52:06 how do I know that it was inspired by God.
52:08 That was next transitional question
52:10 in that study and I was like go, go, go
52:12 and from then on the questions just
52:14 kept rolling. I was like praise God,
52:16 I don't even know what I'm saying and then,
52:17 and then one question, she was like
52:20 what is doctrine? And I look at my Bible worker
52:23 and I was trying to explain
52:24 and then all the sudden I stopped,
52:26 I was like I know what doctrine is,
52:27 why did I stop and then I look at him
52:30 with the help face please help me,
52:32 and then he didn't and I was like Jesus,
52:34 I claimed Jesus name and Jesus just worked
52:36 in just flowed and after that Tracy
52:39 she can find a Bible verse and a soft wind
52:42 came and it blew the Bible and it ended up
52:44 being at that same verse it was incredible
52:46 God is so good. And I just praise him so much
52:50 because he showed me that if we let ourselves
52:54 be used, even thought we're unprepared,
52:56 we don't know what we were doing,
52:57 we think we can be self sufficient,
53:01 we can all our trust needs to be in God
53:06 and if you trust in him he will use you
53:09 in many great ways, amen.
53:16 Our trust indeed does need to be in God
53:18 and I'm just gonna hope that he works through me
53:21 as I talk. So, my name is Daniel Fabergian
53:25 and I'm from California. And I just came to this
53:28 program a little down about Adventism as much
53:32 church would be called what do you say
53:35 I don't know where to see in something.
53:38 And so I felt like I really get to see
53:41 this spirit of God working that much
53:43 and it was kind of discouraging
53:45 and I also probably been taking a
53:48 Christian philosophy class now
53:49 in nominational, where I had been
53:51 getting a lot of you know spirit the way
53:53 they prayed was just amazing to me
53:55 and so I was thinking you know why should I be
53:56 non-Adventist you know, do I really need to keep
53:58 the Sabbath but so I mean I came to this
54:01 and you know I understand this through
54:04 the evangelistic series so that changed
54:06 my mindset on all these different truths
54:08 and then also got to see all these kids
54:12 and they are good example of how you know
54:17 God's spirit is here so yeah
54:21 that was just my thought, amen.
54:29 Good evening, God is good as he not?
54:33 All the time. Well I'm Chelsea Bond
54:36 and I'm from Texas. And this is my second year
54:39 with the Youth for Jesus Program.
54:41 And last year was extremely inspiring,
54:46 I was working with all these youth
54:48 that are extremely on fire and it completely
54:52 blew me away I mean I had grown up in a
54:54 really small church which I loved,
54:56 but you know it was amazing to see a
54:59 whole army of young people like has been
55:03 predicted will come up in and working together
55:05 and I was a part of it, and I just was brought
55:09 closer to God, I was given a new perspective
55:13 on who God is, but at the end of that
55:16 I was so excited about the spiritual high
55:18 that I didn't quite focus on getting tools
55:24 to take home with me that I could use to keep
55:28 this experience and so I started to sit back
55:33 in the mindset, well I don't think
55:34 I wanna go back, I had a great time
55:36 but you know God can let some other youth go.
55:40 But, then all of a sudden I just felt like
55:42 I needed to send an application
55:44 and I started to get really worried because
55:45 my sister had gotten accepted and I hadn't yet
55:48 and I was really worried and I prayed about it
55:50 a lot and through many events God allowed me
55:54 to get accepted, amen. And so I just took that
55:58 as a sign the God wanted me there,
55:59 so I got there this year and I was the leadership
56:03 changed and so I was you know worried about
56:06 what it would be like how different it would be,
56:08 if it would touch me in the same way.
56:10 And I'm glad to say that it did it,
56:13 it touched me in a new way and God was
56:17 so good to me he showed me through
56:22 these Bible studies that where given through
56:24 the live program they caught my attention
56:27 and not only was I learning how to give
56:29 these Bible studies these things were hitting home
56:31 with me things that I've heard all my life were
56:33 presented in a new way that just made sense
56:37 and completely hit home, amen.
56:39 And God just took hold of me they were many times
56:42 when I was so excited after the class time,
56:45 where we learned to get Bible studies
56:46 that I would call my mom crying
56:47 and she was like oh my goodness are you okay?
56:51 I said oh you don't know I'm amazing.
56:54 God is good, amen. And so if any of you are
56:59 considering any youth are considering
57:01 coming to this program God is definitely working
57:04 through this program and he has worked through me
57:06 and in me and now I have the tools to go home
57:10 and keep the spirit alive inside of me, amen.
57:18 Hello my name is Herisa and I'm from
57:21 Tampa, Florida and I wasn't really excite
57:23 about coming to Youth for Jesus this year,
57:25 but I came anyways and I was hoping that
57:28 I would learn a lot, well my experience
57:30 was on the last year of outreach,
57:32 we went in our car with our Bible worker Jessie
57:35 and he told us that we had no Bible studies
57:39 today, which meant that we have to go on
57:42 outreach door to door, well I was really excite
57:45 about that because that meant that
57:47 we would be going in the heat of the day,
57:49 in the middle of the summer in Florida
57:52 knocking on doors and you know it's really hot.
57:55 So, right before we went, we went out we prayed,
58:00 I was like Lord Jesus you know show us
58:03 what you have to see us today.
58:04 Well, we knocked on the first door
58:06 and this lady came out and she looked
58:09 really tired and I was like oh no now
58:12 she is not really gonna do a Bible study
58:13 so we talk to her, and we give here the survey,
58:15 and at the end of the survey it asked
58:17 would you be willing to have a Bible study.
58:21 And she looked at me and she is like yes, yes,
58:24 I would I've been praying for this, amen.
58:27 And after that I got so excited because
58:29 I was like yes you know that was our first door
58:31 and she wanted a Bible study.
58:32 Well at the end of the day it turned out that
58:34 we had 13 Bible studies and I know that
58:37 it wasn't through me that we have this may because
58:40 I wouldn't been able to do this
58:41 without Christ, amen. ASI family
58:47 we just want to thank you for the investment
58:51 that you are making in your young people, amen.
58:54 Hearts have been touched and lives have been
58:57 changed for eternity. And if it weren't through
59:01 your generous donations this wouldn't
59:04 have happened for these young people
59:05 nor would it have happened for those
59:07 65 people that made that decision to bury
59:11 their whole life in the watery grave of baptism.
59:14 God bless you all have a great Sabbath
59:16 and again thank you ASI family.
59:18 Can you say praise the Lord? Praise the Lord.
59:21 this wouldn't
59:22 have happened for these young people
59:23 nor would it have happened for those
59:24 65 people that made that decision to bury


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