3ABN Today

Experience The New Accredited Weimar College

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Program Code: TDY190035A


00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people
00:12 I want to spend my life
00:18 Removing pain
00:24 Lord, let my words
00:30 Heal a heart that hurts
00:34 I want to spend my life
00:40 Mending broken people
00:45 I want to spend my life
00:51 Mending broken people
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01:53 I love the Today program
01:55 because we get to feature guests and ministries
01:58 from all around the world.
01:59 We get to see what God is doing in and through
02:02 other people's lives.
02:03 And sometimes we share testimonies,
02:05 what God is doing
02:07 and this particular Today program is a ministry.
02:09 Amen.
02:10 It would not be a stranger to you
02:12 if you're at all familiar with 3ABN.
02:14 I'm speaking of Weimar College
02:16 and we're gonna talk about Weimar Institute
02:18 and our guests here.
02:20 We have some of the students
02:22 who are currently attending Weimar,
02:24 but our special guest is no stranger to you at 3ABN
02:28 because Dr. Neil Nedley has been on 3ABN.
02:31 Do you know this is putting you on the spot?
02:33 When was the first time you came on 3ABN?
02:34 Do you remember how many years it's been?
02:36 It was the '90s and probably, you know, early...
02:39 Probably early in '90s.
02:41 Yeah, early to mid-90s.
02:43 You remember the program that...
02:46 Wonderfully Made, I think it was.
02:49 Yeah, few years ago
02:50 and, of course, here those that followed 3ABN
02:53 through the years you have four wonderful sons and a wife.
02:57 So tell us because I'm...
02:58 This is just going back a little bit reminiscing.
03:00 So your boys played
03:02 on some of the kids' programs, violin...
03:03 They did.
03:05 They sing?
03:06 They do sing, but I don't think they sang on 3ABN,
03:08 it was mostly the instrumental part.
03:10 They're growing up.
03:11 And so tell us what they're doing now?
03:12 Yeah.
03:14 So our oldest Joel, who played the violin,
03:16 he's a physical therapist,
03:17 and he's in full-time practice of physical therapy.
03:20 Oh, wow.
03:22 Our second oldest who played the viola is a physician,
03:25 and he is in orthopedic residency.
03:27 So he's gonna be a surgeon.
03:30 Good for him.
03:31 That's great.
03:32 And specializing in the bones and muscles
03:34 and all of those sorts of things.
03:36 And our third just finished with a business degree.
03:40 And he's actually working in our Oklahoma office
03:42 of the Nedley Health Solutions
03:44 that we help support those that are putting on programs,
03:47 community programs around the world.
03:50 And our youngest is at Weimar Academy actually,
03:54 so he's in his senior year
03:55 and he's gonna be in the college soon.
03:58 Wow! It's amazing.
03:59 It is a privilege to have you back here
04:01 at 3ABN, Dr. Nedley.
04:03 Maybe you're watching and you're saying,
04:05 I'm not even sure I'm familiar with Dr. Nedley
04:08 because I'm a brand new 3ABN viewer.
04:10 So Dr. Neil Nedley is the President
04:13 of Weimar Institute.
04:14 He is also a doctor.
04:17 He is a gastroenterologist
04:19 with specialty in internal medicine
04:21 and gastroenterology.
04:22 Yeah.
04:24 And the difficult to diagnose patient?
04:25 I'm not sure I get everything.
04:26 Yeah, you got it. That's pretty good.
04:28 He's doing a good job.
04:29 And I know you've written, I think it's four books.
04:31 I'm thinking off the top of my head,
04:33 Proof Positive and Depression,
04:34 The Way Out and what else have you written?
04:36 The Lost Art of Thinking and Optimize Your Brain.
04:39 Okay.
04:40 And I know you do a lot with, I wanna say the brain
04:43 but as far as emotional intelligence,
04:46 and depression, and anxiety recovery program.
04:49 So talk to us just a moment about
04:51 some of those 'cause they're incorporated
04:52 with your program at Weimar as well.
04:54 Yeah, absolutely.
04:55 And so we run residential depression
04:57 and anxiety recovery programs there,
04:59 as well as community programs
05:01 that the students help out with,
05:04 but the residential, they also get an opportunity
05:07 to help out with
05:08 and those are for those
05:10 that are severely depressed or anxious.
05:12 Most of our patients
05:13 actually are thinking of ending their life almost every day
05:16 before they come to our program.
05:19 Or they have panic attacks multiple times a day,
05:21 so severe mental illness conditions.
05:25 And then we treat them in a comprehensive manner,
05:27 leaving no stone unturned and getting to the root causes.
05:31 And the amazing thing is these mental illnesses
05:34 that are thought to not be able to be
05:36 eradicated are eradicated
05:38 and they're not just controlled,
05:40 they can actually be cured through nutrition, lifestyle,
05:43 and comprehensive measures.
05:45 And these students get to see this real time.
05:47 So that's one of the advantages of being at Weimar.
05:50 Amen.
05:51 You know, that must be just incredible though
05:52 because you're really providing hope.
05:54 Absolutely.
05:55 People are that, I mean, basically they're hopeless
05:57 they think there's no...
05:58 They can't change.
06:00 It's just, it's life
06:01 for the rest of that I can think of.
06:02 And here you're able to by natural ways change that.
06:06 Exactly, exactly.
06:07 I know that you speak,
06:09 not just in Seventh-day Adventist institutions
06:11 but around the world.
06:12 And I know Jill and I were in Minnesota
06:13 here some time back.
06:15 And we saw that Dr. Neil Nedley coming to Mayo Clinic
06:19 to give lecture there.
06:20 So you share with us that the opportunities
06:22 that God has opened up for you
06:24 and being able to share what He can do?
06:26 Well, you know, God has blessed
06:27 speaking of that Mayo opportunity,
06:29 you know, the interesting thing
06:30 as I was speaking on a Friday evening,
06:33 and it was before Sabbath,
06:36 but at the end of that presentation,
06:38 in fact, I had asked the people who had brought me,
06:41 I said, "You know, I don't travel on the Sabbath,
06:43 if you could get in touch with the Adventist Church,
06:45 they might be interested in me speaking there."
06:47 I didn't get in touch with them,
06:49 but they did.
06:50 And they actually helped to line up some things
06:53 that they want me to speak on there as well.
06:56 And so at the end of that presentation,
06:58 at Mayo the person who brought me there
07:01 who's not an Adventist,
07:02 but at Mayo he said, you know what?
07:05 You had to pay for this event to hear Dr. Nedley,
07:08 but tomorrow if you go
07:10 to the Seventh-day Adventist Church
07:12 where you can hear him for free four different times,
07:15 but you have to register online,
07:18 but it's free.
07:19 And so they had 170 visitors from the Mayo Clinic.
07:23 Oh, wow!
07:25 A hundred and seventy visitors?
07:26 A hundred and seventy visitors came to Mayo
07:29 and many of them stayed the whole day
07:31 for all four of those presentations.
07:34 And they were introduced
07:35 in not just the nutrition and medical side of things,
07:38 but the fact that the spiritual side
07:40 is so key and important.
07:41 Praise the Lord.
07:42 And so, yeah, they had never seen
07:44 the parking lot so full.
07:46 They had to park in all sorts of other places.
07:49 That's a good problem.
07:50 But it was exciting and many of them are physicians
07:52 and high-end people.
07:53 One of the physicians who's high-up in Mayo
07:55 was filming me the whole time and asked if he could film me
07:58 just to show me to his patients.
08:01 And he wanted to have that resource
08:03 for his patients avail.
08:05 Amen.
08:06 Amen. Praise the Lord.
08:07 God's done open those opportunities.
08:09 God's given you a gift, and to be able to use that gift
08:12 to help people, minister to doctors,
08:14 and lay people, and students,
08:15 speaking of students we wanna introduce.
08:17 Transition.
08:19 We'll introduce each one of you and then we'll come back
08:20 and hear some of your stories and what brought you to Weimar
08:23 and what your major is and all of that.
08:25 But we have Natalie Fish.
08:28 And then next to Natalie and, Natalie,
08:30 you are a natural science student.
08:33 And then next to you is Bailley Schmidt.
08:35 And, Bailey, you are theology, you've taken theology.
08:38 And then next to you is Matthew Loredo
08:41 and you're a nursing student.
08:42 Correct.
08:44 So let's, we'll do ladies first I guess.
08:46 Coming back to Natalie
08:48 and tell us what brought you to Weimar?
08:51 Well, the reason why I came to Weimar originally was to do
08:54 the four-month health program.
08:57 And what we pretty much learned in that program
08:59 is how to minister to people through health evangelism
09:03 and do community programs such as diabetes undone,
09:06 depression recovery, smoking cessation clinics.
09:10 So just different things like that.
09:11 And so at the end of that,
09:13 we get a certificate in health coaching.
09:16 So we work with patients during the program
09:19 like teaching them different things.
09:22 They can learn health wise...
09:23 So, you know, I was just talking,
09:25 thinking about this Weimar, so Weimar is where?
09:27 Are you from...
09:29 Well, tell us where Weimar is located first?
09:30 And anybody can jump in?
09:32 Yeah.
09:33 Weimar is located in the foothills of the Sierra,
09:36 in California, Northern California.
09:38 And, yeah, we're all from different places.
09:40 I'm from Washington.
09:41 Just gonna ask you, are you all from California then?
09:43 No.
09:44 I am.
09:45 You are?
09:47 Are you from California, Matthew?
09:48 I am from California.
09:49 What about you, Natalie?
09:51 I'm from Washington as well.
09:52 You're from Washington as well. Okay.
09:54 So that's a pretty part of the country to go to Weimar.
09:55 I've been there...
09:56 It was been a few years back, but it's beautiful.
09:58 Beautiful area.
09:59 So location is nice.
10:00 But then...
10:02 Yeah, continue on then, Natalie.
10:03 Yeah.
10:05 So anyway, after the end of that,
10:06 so we get the certificate and then I decided to stay on
10:08 and go through the natural science program
10:10 to be a dietitian.
10:11 So I'll get as many classes as I can
10:14 in from my prerequisites
10:15 and I hope to go to Loma Linda after that.
10:18 Become a doctor?
10:20 No, to be a dietitian.
10:21 A dietitian. Okay.
10:22 So the natural science program then would be like a feeder
10:24 for different types of degrees.
10:26 Would that be right?
10:27 Correct.
10:29 Yeah, you can do physical therapy.
10:30 You can do dentistry, pre-med.
10:34 Most of our natural science students
10:36 are there for pre-med or pre-dent.
10:38 But we have quite a few there for physical therapy
10:41 and some for dietitian or you can have,
10:43 you know, all sorts of different graduate avenues
10:46 that you can go to, some just get their masters
10:48 in public health and do just public health afterwards.
10:53 Now Weimar's made an educational,
10:55 I don't know if it's an educational shift,
10:56 but it's recently accredited,
10:58 and I don't even know how recently
11:00 it's been accredited 'cause I don't know that,
11:02 but it didn't used to be accredited.
11:04 And now it is.
11:05 So talk to us a little bit about that journey?
11:07 Yeah, it is recent, March of 2019...
11:09 Okay, so this recent.
11:11 When we were notified of our accreditation,
11:13 but they did something very unique
11:15 and that is they made it retroactive
11:18 for a year and a half, which is kind of unheard of.
11:21 So our previous graduates actually also graduated
11:25 from an accredited university
11:27 and this is the highest level of accreditation,
11:29 you can achieve in America.
11:31 It's called regional accreditation, Stanford.
11:35 Places like Harvard have regional accreditation.
11:37 Okay.
11:38 And so this is the highest level
11:40 that you can get
11:41 and it makes it a lot easier
11:42 as far as transferability for the students
11:45 and opening up a lot of avenues that way.
11:48 Praise the Lord.
11:49 You gonna say something?
11:52 Well, I guess so that's unique is that I guess three of us
11:56 all chose to come to Weimar before it was accredited
11:59 and there was a lot to do
12:01 with the principles and the values
12:03 that the institute stood for.
12:05 And what we saw there the education
12:07 and making that choice even before it was accredited.
12:10 And so now it's just, it's a blessing
12:11 from the Lord, I think,
12:13 and the way he's led the institute, so...
12:15 So you're a theology student.
12:16 Yes, I'm a theology student.
12:17 Why did you choose theology?
12:19 Why did I choose theology as a major?
12:21 Well, it kind of happened
12:24 through my academy experiences and growing up.
12:27 I've been around leadership
12:28 and involved in church ministries
12:30 through Pathfinders and different things.
12:33 And I had never heard of Weimar until going away to academy
12:37 and I was first introduced there
12:39 through health expo training, and I got to witness
12:43 the students and their lifestyle.
12:46 And one of the professors who came along and I was,
12:50 I saw something that, you know, just wasn't normal
12:52 from other colleges.
12:53 And I remember talking
12:56 to the one professor and he told me,
12:57 he's like if you want to be involved
12:59 in medical ministry come to Weimar
13:02 and through prayer and God opening doors clearly.
13:06 He's led me to Weimar to study theology.
13:09 And it's been a blessing to see how Bible based the program is.
13:12 Amen.
13:13 And how it upholds the Spirit of Prophecy.
13:15 It's just, it truly is a blessing to see that,
13:18 that at our institute.
13:20 So when you say, Bailley, you saw something there
13:22 that was not normal or that was different
13:25 as it were from the other colleges,
13:27 what set it apart?
13:28 I know you mentioned a few things here,
13:30 but what specifically in your mind set it apart?
13:33 Well, one of those was the spiritual focus
13:35 that the students,
13:37 you could tell that it wasn't just something
13:39 they were doing,
13:40 wasn't something they were faking
13:42 but it was, they had an experience.
13:44 And that was something that
13:46 I was blessed to go to a good academy,
13:48 but I wanted to continue that experience
13:51 outside of just my academy years
13:54 and so that was a huge thing.
13:57 Another thing is the practicality
13:58 of the program and we can touch on that more
14:00 but there's a lot of opportunities to get out
14:03 to not just be in the books
14:05 because education is so much more
14:06 than book knowledge.
14:09 It's the practical application.
14:10 And that's something that is unique to Weimar
14:13 and how much opportunity you have to do that.
14:16 Amen.
14:18 So then, Matthew, you're a nursing student?
14:20 I am. Yes, I'm a nursing student.
14:22 I just graduated.
14:23 In fact, I did
14:24 the associate's degree in nursing.
14:26 So it's one year pre-reqs,
14:27 and then two years of nursing school,
14:29 and you graduate
14:31 and you're able to take your board exam
14:32 so I'll be going back home soon to do that.
14:35 Amen.
14:36 Back to Washington.
14:38 Just enjoying it now. California.
14:39 Yeah.
14:40 Back to Washington, California.
14:42 You got it.
14:43 We're gonna get it together.
14:44 Yes.
14:46 I don't know have a test doctor...
14:47 Okay.
14:49 So you enjoy then the health field,
14:50 because I know we often talk about the health message
14:53 being the right arm of the gospel.
14:55 Right. Certainly.
14:56 So why did you decide to pick the health field
14:57 for that reason?
14:59 You know, definitely.
15:00 And, you know, something that was unique,
15:02 I think for me was growing up, my mom did
15:04 a lot of the depression, and recovery, anxiety programs
15:07 in our local church.
15:09 And she did it with a friend there.
15:11 And so seeing that growing up and just realizing
15:14 what a power there is in health evangelism,
15:16 I looked at Weimar and I realized that,
15:18 you know, I could go to any nursing school,
15:20 but that Weimar in particular would give me the opportunity
15:23 to learn from people like Dr. Nedley,
15:25 and be able to, you know, apply the knowledge
15:28 that I was learning directly during my clinicals there.
15:31 So it was very fun, it was unique to be able to,
15:34 you know, study disease, in my nursing textbooks,
15:36 and then at the same time study alongside it,
15:39 treatment from,
15:41 you know, principles found in the Spirit of Prophecy
15:42 in the Bible that could be used
15:45 instead to really impact these patients' lives,
15:47 and then to go to the hospital
15:48 and to apply it and to do that alongside,
15:50 you know, physicians and instructors
15:53 who had that is our primary goal.
15:55 So that was definitely unique
15:56 and something that I'm very grateful
15:58 for going on in my practice.
16:00 Matthew actually rotated with me
16:02 and a hospitalist shift at the local hospital.
16:08 And that was part of his clinical training.
16:10 So he doesn't just learn from nurses
16:12 as important as that is.
16:14 Right.
16:15 But he was able to learn from the physician perspective
16:18 and see how he related to the nurses
16:20 and see also how lifestyle
16:23 and spiritual interventions can work
16:24 in an acute care setting.
16:26 And that does make Weimar unique.
16:29 In the other places, the nurses don't have that opportunity.
16:33 How many classes do you teach, Dr. Nedley?
16:35 Well, I teach three, principles of health
16:38 and optimize your brain,
16:39 and depression and anxiety recovery.
16:40 But I'm also involved in clinical sites
16:43 that aren't necessarily course.
16:45 But they're part of a course of med-surge course.
16:48 But I'm just one of the clinical instructors
16:51 that he has along with many other good ones.
16:53 Yes.
16:55 So how many majors then at Weimar?
16:57 Right now, we have seven if you add it all up.
17:01 So we have the...
17:02 Theology.
17:04 The Theology, the Health Science.
17:05 Right.
17:07 Nursing.
17:09 We have business,
17:11 particularly emphasizing
17:12 Healthcare Administration or Management.
17:14 We also have Education.
17:16 Nice.
17:18 On top of that, and we have an interdisciplinary program.
17:20 That's a psychology emphasis.
17:24 And that's something it's very important to train
17:27 the right type of psychology counselors.
17:29 Yes.
17:30 And Weimar is very unique and how they do that,
17:33 but they become exceptional counselors.
17:35 And then we also have the health evangelism
17:37 and leadership training program that Natalie finished.
17:40 Nice.
17:42 That's a lot.
17:43 So talk to us a little bit about the practical aspects
17:46 of some of your training.
17:47 So I know you talked about the clinical
17:49 and being able to do that with Dr. Nedley,
17:51 but what about a program called TCI?
17:53 Tell me what that means
17:54 and how you all are involved in that?
17:55 TCI, it stands for Total Community Involvement,
17:58 a Total Campus Involved
18:00 and essentially what it means is that
18:02 we want to get as involved as we can.
18:04 We want every campus member,
18:06 every student to be involved in the community,
18:08 you know, to go out not just to learn,
18:10 but then to apply
18:12 and to live the principles that,
18:15 you know, we're being taught in practical application.
18:17 So it's really unique, we go on to the community,
18:20 we have different teams that go to different areas
18:23 in the surrounding towns.
18:25 And we do it every Wednesday in the afternoon
18:28 for about three to four hours and we go out
18:31 and, you know, for most people that we come to their door,
18:33 it's a very unique experience because they're expecting,
18:36 you know, some sort of person selling vacuums or,
18:39 you know, trying to get them to buy some cleaning product,
18:42 but instead we're coming there and asking
18:44 how we can just improve their lives,
18:46 you know, and meet the needs that they have.
18:48 Okay, so let me just ask you.
18:49 So is this unannounced then
18:51 you're just going to someone's door?
18:52 Correct.
18:54 Okay. So you knock on my door.
18:55 So I open the door and say hello.
18:56 Hi. How can I help you?
18:58 Yes.
18:59 How would you...? Tell me.
19:00 I would say Hi, my name is Matthew,
19:02 and I'm a student from the Weimar Institute.
19:03 Have you ever heard of the Weimar Institute?
19:04 I haven't.
19:06 No, tell me about Weimar Institute.
19:07 Weimar Institute is a small college academy
19:09 as well as a health institute that's just north
19:10 of the Auburn area in the Colfax.
19:12 Oh, I know where Auburn is, okay.
19:13 Yes.
19:14 And so we have a school up there.
19:16 And every week we come out and it's really our goal
19:18 as a campus to get involved in the community
19:20 and see how we can meet the needs
19:22 that our community members have and to interface with them
19:24 and develop relationships.
19:26 So that's why I'm here
19:27 and how can I best improve your life and help you.
19:29 Wow, are you saying that you see all these leaves
19:32 or pine needles on my front yard,
19:33 are you saying you might clean those up?
19:35 I would love to, we could pluck with you.
19:37 We can give you a massage.
19:40 I'm signing up.
19:43 So there's got to be a catch here,
19:45 what will I owe you?
19:46 I mean, sure, you're not just gonna do for free.
19:48 Completely free.
19:50 Completely free. Yes.
19:51 And why would you do that for free for me?
19:53 Because I feel that it's really why we're placed here on earth
19:56 to alleviate suffering
19:58 and so any way that I can best do that,
19:59 I think would be the highest calling
20:01 and the greatest thing that I could do
20:02 would give me the most fulfillment.
20:04 Well, it touches my heart,
20:05 and I give you some lemonade or something.
20:07 Cookies.
20:08 That's powerful.
20:09 That is powerful though, every Wednesday.
20:11 Go ahead, you gonna say something.
20:13 No, that's often the response people as we give,
20:16 they give back.
20:17 And that's been a blessing because,
20:19 you know, I didn't come to Weimar just to study,
20:22 I came to learn to be a godly minister.
20:26 And so I've had the privilege actually
20:27 to lead one of our groups,
20:29 we divide the college into like,
20:30 14 different groups and our professors
20:33 are going out with us.
20:35 And so I'm working actually
20:36 with one of my religion professors planning,
20:38 organizing, door-to-door work,
20:40 ministry, Bible studies,
20:43 health coaching, all that stuff.
20:44 And I remember particularly
20:46 actually it was when we first began
20:49 we showed up at this mobile home park
20:52 and knocked on a door.
20:53 And this lady came out and she says,
20:57 "You're not supposed to be here.
20:58 There's no soliciting. Get out of here."
21:00 So I went to the next door and the same response
21:02 and I was going to the third door
21:04 and this guy pulled up and he told me to get out
21:05 or he's gonna call the sheriff.
21:08 I'm like, okay, I should probably leave so I...
21:09 It's getting all stressful.
21:11 Yeah.
21:12 So I was getting...
21:14 We were heading out
21:15 and actually this lady comes out.
21:16 And she turned out to be the manager of the park.
21:18 She said, "What are you guys doing?"
21:19 Said "Well, we're here we're trying to help
21:20 through these different means," as Matthew shared with us?
21:24 And she says, "That's awesome."
21:26 She says, "We have a newsletter,
21:27 write it up.
21:28 And I'll put your phone numbers in."
21:32 Later that week, we had a call from that lady
21:34 that had first turned me down.
21:36 Oh, wow.
21:37 Since then, yeah.
21:39 Asking for help?
21:41 Asking for help.
21:42 Just with their yard, and it's gone from yard
21:44 to helping her with her diabetes, too.
21:46 Oh, wow.
21:48 Getting into the word and it's just it's taken,
21:50 you know, two years but it's a blessing
21:53 to form those friendships to not just
21:57 go out sometimes you,
21:58 you know, if you've ever canvas or something,
21:59 you see somebody wants
22:01 but this is developing friendships
22:02 that I believe will last for eternity.
22:05 And that's practical.
22:06 And it makes a difference
22:08 not only in their lives, but ours.
22:09 I mean, what an incredible program
22:11 and you can just see the excitement
22:13 on these young people's faces.
22:14 And so we haven't heard from you, Natalie,
22:16 I'm sure you have an experience pertaining to TCI.
22:19 Yes.
22:20 So during the, I think it was about the first month
22:23 on my four month health program,
22:24 we started a program called Diabetes Undone.
22:28 And it was our first program.
22:30 And we had a lady come in with her husband.
22:33 And the first time she came in, she was walking with a walker
22:36 and she was bent over,
22:37 she looked like she was in a lot of pain.
22:39 And she went through the first night
22:41 she seemed very enthusiastic about it.
22:43 She was asking lots of questions.
22:46 And she got to the end of that night
22:47 and they left and went home
22:49 and they came back the next couple weeks
22:52 and then one day she finally walked in
22:54 and she didn't have a walker anymore.
22:55 Wow!
22:56 And she was walking.
22:58 Praise the Lord.
22:59 Yeah, without a walker, she's walking very well
23:00 and she is telling us that a lot of her pain had left.
23:04 And it was amazing to watch
23:06 as she continued to come to the rest of the programs.
23:09 And she came to a couple of the other ones
23:11 that we put on.
23:12 And just recently,
23:14 she came to the evangelistic series program
23:15 at the end of the school year, so it's amazing to see.
23:18 One of my friends was her personal health coach.
23:21 And she has told me some of the stories,
23:24 and it's amazing to see the transformation
23:26 that can happen in one person's life
23:28 by these lifestyle measures.
23:30 So that's definitely been
23:31 one of my best experiences to see that.
23:33 What an amazing thing,
23:34 you know, you think about Christ's method alone.
23:37 How it brings true success, you see the needs,
23:40 find out what the needs are and seek to meet those needs.
23:44 And then, what does it say?
23:46 Then he bade them follow me.
23:48 So first of all, we get in the community
23:50 and share Jesus and love, as you all do with these people
23:54 and meet their needs,
23:56 and then they're interested in those spiritual things.
23:58 We have a video
24:00 not all the students obviously from Weimar,
24:02 we just brought a few here, Dr. Nedley brought a few.
24:05 But there's a video dealing
24:06 with the religion program and Jules.
24:08 So let's take a look at that video.
24:12 My name is Jules Karasira.
24:15 I'm a second year religion major
24:17 on a pre-med track.
24:18 And this is my Weimar story.
24:21 I'm kind of used to being the unique one.
24:23 I'm Zimbabwean by birth with origins from Rwanda
24:26 and I grew up in the States.
24:28 This 'cause being an Adventist at a public college in Texas,
24:32 I was unique.
24:33 That changed when I got to Weimar.
24:36 With all these backgrounds and cultures,
24:38 everybody here is different.
24:40 In my religion classes,
24:41 I'm taught by professors from around the world.
24:44 We have all kinds of unique faith situations,
24:47 like a Rwandan genocide survivor,
24:49 or a pastor who's a nurse,
24:50 or a professor who grew up in post war Croatia.
24:54 The rest of my life here is pretty extraordinaire too.
24:57 I work in the development office,
24:58 I'm seeing the special generosity
25:00 and life stories of our donors.
25:02 I'm also learning
25:04 from the unique life stories on campus
25:05 when I eat with my lunch crew, hang out as staff houses,
25:09 or play basketball with my friends,
25:11 go to the gym to work out or play some ping pong.
25:15 With a unique focus on a healthy body and mind
25:18 there was so much to do here.
25:20 There's a lot to do in the area
25:21 of the total community involvement.
25:23 It's an unmatched program
25:25 because it's not just a one-time or one-day deal.
25:28 We go back a week after a week
25:29 to stay connected with the people that we meet.
25:32 Personally, my connection to God
25:34 has grown exponentially here.
25:37 Living out my faith through music ministry,
25:39 the spiritual programs,
25:40 and even conversations with my classmates,
25:43 it all challenges me
25:44 truly thinking about what I believe.
25:46 It's giving me a distinct worldview
25:48 based on a solid faith.
25:50 Here being unique is well normal.
25:55 That's my Weimar story.
25:57 Come to Weimar and discover yours.
26:07 Wow!
26:09 That's powerful testimony right there, Dr. Nedley.
26:11 It must have warm your heart to see the young people
26:13 and the impact that Weimar is making in their lives.
26:16 Absolutely. Yeah.
26:18 So, Bailley, I know that you're a theology student.
26:21 Tell us just a little bit more about that major
26:23 'cause Jules is in that major that we saw.
26:25 Yeah, well, actually, just this past semester, Jules
26:28 and the rest of my theology classmates,
26:30 we had the opportunity to actually plan and organize
26:33 the evangelistic series that Natalie mentioned.
26:37 And so we were speaking for it, we were planning the budgets.
26:39 Oh, really.
26:40 We were organizing the program, all of that,
26:43 and that was a really good experience
26:45 'cause we got to work with the church pastor,
26:46 which is Pastor McIntosh,
26:47 and we had to work with the elders
26:49 and get that experience
26:51 of what it is like to be involved
26:54 practically in church ministry
26:56 and so that was just
26:57 different aspects like that from,
26:59 it's a small program right now so we need more.
27:01 If you're feeling the calling to go into ministry,
27:04 I would encourage you to consider Weimar
27:06 because it is really a blessing to see the focus
27:10 and our professors just constantly pointing us
27:14 to search our own hearts
27:15 to make sure that Jesus is abiding there
27:17 because it doesn't matter what we do if Christ
27:19 is not in us, so...
27:21 Dr, Nedley, we're getting ready to do some
27:22 musical chairs here in shortly
27:24 with some more students that you brought with you.
27:26 So I wanna just then talk to you to Matthew,
27:28 just a couple of seconds of
27:30 why someone should attend maybe Weimar college
27:32 or something that's on your heart right now
27:33 before we switch out the seats here?
27:35 Certainly, you know, I think of Amos 3:3,
27:38 you know, "Can two walk together
27:39 unless they have agreed?"
27:40 And like Jules stated in the video,
27:42 you know, being unique is normal.
27:44 And so it's nice to be in a place
27:46 where you feel like you have students around you
27:48 that, you know, are desiring the same thing,
27:51 like Bailley said,
27:52 are desiring to have a relationship with God.
27:54 And so, if that's truly the desire of a student,
27:57 you know, and they're wanting to be in environment
27:59 where they can grow
28:00 and where they have teachers who are not as focused
28:02 on their academic success as on their spiritual success.
28:06 And on them,
28:07 you know, having a relationship with God,
28:09 then I would encourage them to come.
28:11 Amen.
28:13 What about you, Natalie?
28:14 I know you just went through your freshman year, right?
28:16 So tell us why someone should attend
28:18 or something that's on your heart?
28:20 I think, a big thing for people,
28:23 especially who wanna go into the medical field is,
28:26 if you come to Weimar you can learn
28:28 how to be a medical missionary,
28:29 and that's so important for the work
28:31 that we have to do in these last days.
28:34 And if it's, if someone really is truly desiring that,
28:38 then Weimar is a place for them to live.
28:39 Amen.
28:41 I feel like I need to go back to college.
28:43 I want to go Weimar, you all have inspired me,
28:45 and at the end of the program we would definitely put up
28:49 the contact information for Weimar
28:51 because we want you to get involved,
28:53 not just financially but maybe you have young people
28:56 or you're a young person yourself
28:58 and God is calling you to attend Weimar College.
29:01 Thank you so much, Natalie Fish, Bailley Schmidt,
29:04 and Matthew Loredo,
29:06 for coming and sharing your heart
29:07 and your story with Weimar with our family at home.
29:10 We're gonna go to a song and then we'll change out
29:12 and we will have some other students here
29:14 and you'll get to meet them as well.
29:16 This is Alessandra Sorace.
29:20 I hope I pronounced that correctly.
29:21 She is a beautiful young woman.
29:23 She has a heart for God,
29:24 and she will be ministering a song "I Will Go."
29:55 Give me ears to hear Your Spirit
30:00 Give me feet to follow through
30:06 Give me hands to touch the hurting
30:12 And the faith to follow You
30:22 Give me grace to be a servant
30:27 Give me mercy for the lost
30:33 Give me passion for Your glory
30:39 Give me passion for the cross
30:45 And I will go where there are no easy roads
30:51 Leave the comforts that I know
30:57 I will go and let this journey be my home
31:03 I will go
31:25 I'll let go of my ambition
31:31 Cut the roots that run too deep
31:37 I will learn to give away
31:43 What I cannot really keep
31:56 Help me see
32:00 With eyes of faith
32:04 Give me strength
32:07 To run this race
32:11 And I will go where there are no easy roads
32:18 Leave the comforts that I know
32:24 I will go and let this journey be my home
32:30 I will go
32:38 Lord where Your glory is unknown
32:42 I will live for You alone
32:48 I will go because my life is not my own
32:55 I will go
33:24 Amen.
33:25 Beautiful song wonderfully done.
33:27 We love Alessandra Sorace here.
33:30 She just has a beautiful spirit and a heart and when years ago,
33:34 she used to sing on Kids' Time,
33:36 and I had the privilege of playing the piano for her
33:38 a couple of times so,
33:40 so good to see her again on that song.
33:42 And a great message too, you know that?
33:44 Great message, I Will Go.
33:45 I Will Go, very much fits the program
33:47 we've been talking about here Weimar.
33:48 Amen.
33:50 And I know we're many minutes into the program,
33:52 but we're talking about Weimar College
33:54 and what God is doing in and through the students
33:58 and the faculty there.
33:59 We have Dr. Neil Nedley,
34:01 who is the President of Weimar Institute
34:03 and sitting next to you is Ryan Branson.
34:06 And, Ryan, you're an education major.
34:09 And we'll hear a little bit more from you.
34:11 And I'm going to do my very best
34:13 to pronounce the rest of these names.
34:15 We have Karolina Mikulaskova.
34:19 All right.
34:20 Maybe you should pronounce for us.
34:22 Mikulaskova.
34:24 Oh, thank you, much better.
34:25 You're a psychology... You did fabulously.
34:27 Oh, thank you.
34:29 You're a psychology student and we hear about that.
34:32 And then at the end is Tino Tsikirai.
34:34 Yes. Good job.
34:36 And you're Business Education, Business Administration.
34:39 Yes. Business Administration. Exactly.
34:41 Okay, so why don't we start with you, Tino.
34:43 Talk to us about Business Administration
34:44 and the major there
34:46 and what you're learning there in Weimar?
34:48 Okay, great.
34:50 When I first heard about Weimar,
34:52 I was actually interested in the pre-med program.
34:55 And my dream as a pre-med student
34:57 was to eventually go into Healthcare Administration
35:00 as a doctor.
35:01 A couple years into pre-med,
35:03 I decided I wanted to study the business side of healthcare
35:06 and focus on that.
35:07 And that's around the time our business program started.
35:10 Actually, it was Dr. Nedley's
35:11 new daughter-in-law, Laura Boyer.
35:14 Now Nedley, who started that program for us, and...
35:17 I didn't know that. Yeah.
35:19 Wow.
35:20 The one that married the orthopedic doctor
35:22 we talked about earlier.
35:23 Yes, yes.
35:24 So the business program has two tracks.
35:28 One is in Healthcare Administration.
35:30 That's what I'm pursuing.
35:31 The other is an Organizational Leadership.
35:34 And so I am just so thankful that I was able to be in this
35:38 that I am able to be in a small school
35:40 where I can learn about the business side of healthcare
35:44 because I think there's a need
35:46 for missionary healthcare administrators,
35:49 we hear about missionary doctors,
35:50 missionary nurses, missionary teachers,
35:52 but how many times do you hear
35:54 about a missionary healthcare administrator?
35:56 So I'm looking forward
35:57 to filling whatever role God puts me in
36:00 after I graduate, hopefully soon.
36:02 You know, one of the things I should mention about
36:03 the startup of this program is Dr. Hart,
36:06 who is been President of Loma Linda for years,
36:08 he has a passion for admissions.
36:11 And he was telling me
36:13 that we can't find administrators
36:14 for these mission hospitals around the world.
36:17 And it's just so difficult.
36:19 And we want mission administrators
36:21 who are going to be mission-minded
36:23 to bring in souls as well.
36:25 And that's like an impossibility.
36:27 So I realized, you know, Weimar centering in on health,
36:29 we needed to provide that gap.
36:32 And so Tino in her senior year is gonna provide that gap
36:36 and be able to be a real medical missionary
36:38 from the administration side,
36:40 which is a critically important part.
36:42 If the administrator is off base,
36:43 the whole institution is gonna be off base.
36:45 Sure. That is a good point.
36:46 So it's a relatively new major.
36:48 It is, yes.
36:49 Our first graduate, graduated this May.
36:53 Yay! That's great.
36:55 You know, that really fits the niche then
36:57 that Dr. Hart was mentioning.
36:59 Yes.
37:00 Yeah, well, that's great. Fantastic.
37:01 And you've done well, Dr. Neil,
37:03 'cause you brought basically students from all majors...
37:05 Yes.
37:06 From Weimar here to visit with us today.
37:08 So, Karolina, tell us then your major
37:10 and then what brought you to Weimar?
37:13 So I'm a psychology major, the way that it's set up.
37:16 It's an interdisciplinary program
37:18 and I'm emphasizing in psychology,
37:22 also minor in music.
37:24 So it's been a privilege.
37:27 What brought me to Weimar is actually,
37:29 I attended the academy prior to joining the college,
37:35 and so I was in Weimar Academy
37:37 and the first inspiration
37:41 and kind of calling I felt to psychology
37:44 was my sophomore year of high school.
37:46 And I saw the need, I was inspired
37:48 by the depression recovery program.
37:51 And I just, I knew that God was calling me
37:54 to help people with depression, with anxiety.
37:58 It runs in my family and I saw how prevalent
38:02 it was in society, especially today,
38:04 with all the young people,
38:06 especially young people now,
38:08 they just, they're losing their identity.
38:10 They don't know who they are anymore.
38:12 And there's a lot of confusion.
38:13 And so I knew that there
38:14 I was being called in this line of work.
38:18 But there's one problem,
38:20 Weimar at that time
38:21 did not offer a psychology program.
38:24 That's a problem. So that...
38:25 For me that was a problem
38:26 because I saw the methods that depression recovery used,
38:30 and incorporating lifestyle and CBT
38:34 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which is very important.
38:36 Looking at the thoughts,
38:38 how are the thoughts affecting who or how you feel.
38:41 As a man thinks in his heart so is he, right?
38:43 Yes.
38:44 And then that will affect your actions.
38:46 And so it all works together.
38:48 And so this was very important to me,
38:50 and I was praying about it, Lord, I want to do this,
38:53 but You're going to have to provide
38:55 a means to study this line of work and so...
39:00 Sure enough, senior year rolls around,
39:04 and it is announced that they're going to start
39:07 a psychology program that following fall.
39:10 At Weimar College. Yes.
39:12 So it was an answer to prayer.
39:14 Amen.
39:15 It was a godsend.
39:17 And it was clear to me, Lord,
39:18 that the Lord wanted me to go into psychology.
39:21 There's such a need,
39:22 we do not have enough Christian psychologists,
39:24 let alone Adventist psychologists.
39:27 And so I started the program.
39:29 And it was the best decision that I could have made.
39:33 Wow, it's a unique program.
39:35 It's unlike a lot of the other programs.
39:37 That's the interdisciplinary aspect of it as well.
39:41 And so, yeah,
39:42 she'll even learn the music therapy,
39:44 parts of things that will improve the brain
39:47 and have it be a more comprehensive type of training,
39:50 but she'll also learn
39:52 all the different psychological diseases,
39:54 and the pathologies,
39:55 and all of the biochemistry behind it as well
39:58 and so she's gonna be set up to be an exceptional help
40:01 to the Lord's work in mental illness.
40:05 What I appreciate is that it's Bible based.
40:07 So we cover all the scientific theories
40:10 and all the general theories that you were in other places,
40:14 you have to know even the ones that you might not agree with.
40:18 But then we compare it to the Bible's method.
40:22 And that's been so cool to see.
40:25 You look at the Bible and how different characters
40:28 and even Jesus how He dealt with people
40:30 also reading Spirit of Prophecy,
40:32 and seeing the council that is written on this topic.
40:36 And it's been so enlightening.
40:37 It's been very, very educational,
40:41 but also very practical.
40:43 Amen.
40:45 Then, Ryan, you're in the...
40:47 Education. Educational field.
40:48 That's right.
40:49 So what drew you to Weimar but then also teaching?
40:52 Right.
40:54 Starting off with what drew me to Weimar,
40:56 I'd say finding a school that was small in size,
41:01 was really a special thing to me.
41:04 I looked at the student count
41:06 and when I first came under 100 students,
41:08 I thought, where can you go to college
41:11 and have a student body that's under 100,
41:13 I mean, that's almost unheard of.
41:15 Now we have a little bit more than that now.
41:17 But I thought what a special opportunity
41:21 to be part of a school environment
41:23 that is the size
41:27 where you can feel like
41:28 there's more of a family atmosphere
41:32 that may not be quite the right term.
41:34 But somewhere along those lines,
41:35 you know,
41:37 you can get to know more people,
41:39 build relationships easier.
41:41 And so I think that was a real plus that drew me,
41:45 but also the healthy lifestyle that Weimar promotes.
41:51 It was important for me to find a school
41:54 that promoted some of the same lifestyle habits
41:58 that I wanted to make values,
42:00 you know, placing these values in my own life.
42:02 Far as like what you eat and exercise.
42:04 Right, right.
42:05 Fresh air. Yeah.
42:06 Water. NEWSTART, right?
42:08 The acronym.
42:09 So finding the school that takes those things
42:11 and says we're gonna promote these.
42:12 Yes.
42:14 And encourage our students,
42:16 you know, to be a part of it as well.
42:19 I found that to be encouraging
42:20 'cause it coincided with what I decided.
42:22 This is the course I want to pursue in my own life.
42:25 And last but not least,
42:28 Weimar, they really hold to the core
42:33 teachings of Adventism, you know,
42:35 and it's a wonderful experience to be there.
42:38 And once you're there and you go through,
42:41 you know, the year or two, you begin to realize,
42:43 wow,
42:45 this is really what Adventist education is all about.
42:50 Well, even going back to the history of our,
42:53 you know, education, we realized that it built,
42:57 training people to spread the good news of the gospel,
42:59 Jesus is coming again,
43:01 you can be ready because He loves you
43:03 and He died to save you.
43:04 That's what Weimar is doing.
43:06 They're training people to go out and give that message,
43:07 such a blessing.
43:09 I'm just happy to be a part of it.
43:10 Amen.
43:12 And you chose the educational field
43:13 and we have a video where we wanna go through as well.
43:14 But tell us why education for you?
43:16 Yeah, that one's a little bit harder for question to answer.
43:20 But teachers really influenced me,
43:23 you know, in life growing up.
43:24 Okay.
43:25 And so finding kind of a niche to get into where you think,
43:29 well, how can I be an influence?
43:31 How can I help in the Lord's cause?
43:34 I looked at what Weimar offered and I thought,
43:37 I think I'll fit in best in this program.
43:39 So that in short, that pretty much does it.
43:42 Should we go to that role now, do you think?
43:44 Let's do that.
43:46 That's talking about the educational program
43:47 and this testimony is with Bailey.
43:51 Hi, my name is Bailey Gallant.
43:52 I'm a second year education student
43:54 and this is my Weimar story.
43:57 I'm learning the basic and specific skills
43:59 of being a teacher in my methods
44:01 and classroom management courses.
44:03 What I really appreciate though is Weimar's work study program.
44:07 I'm only a sophomore,
44:09 but I've had experience in a classroom
44:10 since my very first semester.
44:13 Now I'm teaching a kindergarten math class.
44:16 Instead of waiting until my last semester of college
44:18 to experience a classroom and student teaching,
44:21 I am deciding from the very beginning
44:23 if education is the right fit for me.
44:26 And thanks to Weimar, I already know that it is.
44:29 Plus I could add a psychology, music, or religion emphasis
44:32 to expand my career options.
44:35 I also love getting to know people here.
44:37 I serve as the secretary
44:38 for our college student association.
44:40 And we meet every week to plan activities
44:42 so people can get to know each other better,
44:45 whether it's a social night, going out for Thai food,
44:48 walking the loop,
44:49 or setting together in the library.
44:51 There are plenty of ways
44:52 to make some great friends here.
44:54 I've also gotten to know some great people
44:56 through our Total Community Involvement or TCI program.
45:00 Every week for the last two years,
45:02 my TCI group has visited people in the same area.
45:06 Our new friends share their needs
45:08 and we offer some practical help
45:10 and something even better
45:12 through pointing them to Christ.
45:14 TCI has helped me know both my classmates
45:16 and the people in my community better.
45:19 The spiritual activities here like prayer meetings,
45:21 small group Bible studies,
45:23 and Sabbath services have helped me know God better.
45:26 And personally, I think that's the best education of all.
45:30 That's my Weimar story.
45:32 Come to Weimar and discover yours.
45:39 I love these vignettes.
45:40 What an incredible story to get to hear
45:42 just a little bit of each one of the student's stories.
45:45 And Bailey Gallant is in education
45:47 and I know Ryan, talk to us a little bit about
45:50 that practical aspect of education
45:52 being able to be involved in this classroom
45:56 setting early on in your education?
45:57 Right.
45:59 Yeah, it's really been a blessing because we've...
46:02 Well, usually in an education program,
46:03 they have what we call student teaching,
46:05 but it comes right at the end.
46:07 It's at the end. Oh, yeah.
46:08 And so you spent, you know, three and a half years,
46:10 maybe four years,
46:12 and you really don't know
46:14 whether you enjoy the classroom setting,
46:17 you've learned a lot of theory which is helpful.
46:19 But you don't know for sure if that's what you want
46:22 to spend the rest of your life doing.
46:23 So at Weimar, it's been a really great,
46:25 they've implemented what we call the work ed program.
46:28 Each student work six hours per week in minimum of that.
46:32 And education students get to do that work
46:35 at the Weimar Elementary School.
46:37 So they get in the classroom...
46:39 Freshman year.
46:40 That's right. Yeah.
46:41 First semester there. First semester?
46:44 Okay.
46:46 So, you know, right away if this is a fit.
46:47 Right, you get in there,
46:49 you take the theory, the head knowledge
46:51 that you're learning in your classes,
46:53 you get in the classroom, you acted it out,
46:55 you practice it,
46:57 you build skills and routines that
46:59 you're gonna be able to take with you
47:00 throughout your career
47:02 and you're gonna figure out whether you enjoy it or not.
47:04 That's the main thing.
47:06 And you can apply that those earnings
47:10 towards your tuition as well.
47:12 So it's a win-win for everyone.
47:13 It's a really a great program.
47:15 And the elementary teacher actually is a professor
47:20 at the college as well.
47:21 Nice.
47:23 And so, you know, when she's teaching
47:24 classroom discipline, in theory,
47:26 then you go apply it, you know, in the classroom,
47:29 and then she can critique you
47:30 and do all of this sort of thing.
47:32 And so that's why our Weimar education students
47:35 come out way ahead
47:36 and being able to have classroom management
47:39 and all those types of things
47:40 'cause they've been doing it for years
47:42 before they actually graduate.
47:43 That's great.
47:44 That's vitally important for a teacher to learn that.
47:46 I think classroom management was the hardest thing for me
47:49 to learn when I did education.
47:50 That was me. Yeah.
47:51 So, Tino, I'm not sure we asked you
47:53 why you came to Weimar.
47:55 We talked a little bit about the business
47:57 and you're a major,
47:58 but talk to us about why you came?
48:00 Why did you choose Weimar?
48:02 Okay, that's a really good question
48:03 because I didn't really choose Weimar, God chose it for me.
48:08 When I was in high school, I was homeschooled.
48:10 And up until high school,
48:12 I was trying to make the decision on the next step.
48:15 And I had a list of schools that I was hoping to go to.
48:18 And I was really searching and praying
48:20 for where God wanted me to go,
48:22 but I knew where I wanted to go.
48:24 After being overwhelmed with suggestions
48:26 from people trying to give me ideas on where I should go.
48:28 And as I mentioned earlier, I was interested in pre-med.
48:32 All of a sudden, every school seemed
48:34 to have the best pre-med program
48:36 that would offer me a certain advantage
48:38 and I was overwhelmed.
48:39 And I prayed one night,
48:41 spent several hours just wrestling with God,
48:43 and I'm asking Him for guidance
48:46 and to make His plan for me clear.
48:48 Over the next couple of weeks,
48:50 God orchestrated events in such a way that
48:54 I found myself in a pastor's office,
48:56 and he pretty much told me straight,
49:00 Tino, if I were you,
49:02 I would suggest that you go to Weimar.
49:04 And I was not expecting
49:06 that particular conversation to end that way.
49:08 But I knew that God had been speaking
49:10 and I hadn't been hearing His voice.
49:12 So after I was praying about it,
49:15 was literally the scariest decision of my life
49:18 because back then Weimar was not accredited.
49:21 And there are other things
49:23 that I just didn't know about the school,
49:24 but I knew God was leading me that way.
49:26 And he spoke to my parents as well.
49:29 And so we visited the campus and liked what we saw.
49:33 But when we visited the campus,
49:34 I knew that this was where God was sending me to this.
49:36 I wasn't like the typical student
49:38 who had visited campus because I knew
49:40 while I'm here anyhow for the rest of my education
49:44 and so God leads in different ways.
49:46 I learned a lot through that experience
49:48 about trusting God when it doesn't make sense.
49:50 Amen.
49:52 Yeah, that's the greatest lesson
49:53 I think I've learned so far.
49:54 Oh, that's powerful.
49:56 You know, Dr. Nedley,
49:57 it's neat to see the young people
49:58 'cause this is just a small sampling of the students
50:00 that are at Weimar,
50:02 but as we're wrapping up here...
50:03 This first hour has gone by, with an hour this is,
50:05 I said this is a two hour program,
50:06 this hour has gone by in a hurry,
50:09 but Dr. Nedley as the President of Weimar Institute,
50:13 tell us the goals, the vision, the future for Weimar,
50:15 where you see Weimar going and where you see God leading?
50:18 Well, Weimar heals a hurting world.
50:21 And we need a lot more healers
50:24 and so many different lines of work.
50:27 And now, our dorms have filled up to capacity.
50:31 To capacity.
50:32 And we are building new housing.
50:35 We really need to be able to take the input in.
50:38 It's kind of a, it's a problem.
50:41 But it is a good problem to have.
50:43 And so the Weimar campus is really maxed out,
50:46 our programs are maxed out,
50:48 even depression, anxiety, recovery,
50:50 there's waiting list for that, NEWSTART,
50:52 all of those things
50:54 and so we really need to expand the infrastructure
50:57 to be able to train more people
51:00 utilizing God's methods of education,
51:03 and we know that
51:06 this can be multiplied 100 fold.
51:08 What you're saying here can be multiplied 100 fold, 1000 fold.
51:13 But that's our need.
51:14 And so, if anyone would like to support a student
51:18 that would not be able to come otherwise,
51:21 help the housing project aspect of things
51:23 because we can't have them there
51:25 unless there's housing
51:26 'cause the students come from all over the world.
51:28 And that's really good.
51:29 We're getting ready to go to the address role
51:30 that we call it here.
51:32 It gives your contact information
51:33 of how you can reach out to Weimar Institute,
51:35 and I'm sure your website
51:37 or they can just call and you guys can say,
51:38 oh, yeah, this is how you can donate money
51:40 to help for the building fund and to help young people.
51:43 You think about this, you are educating young people,
51:46 they're gonna make an impact
51:47 and that are making an impact in our world today.
51:50 So let's go to the address role.
51:52 Then we'll go to a short break and we'll be right back.
51:56 If you would like to learn more
51:57 about the new accredited Weimar Institute
52:00 or if you would like to financially support them,
52:03 as they expand their infrastructure
52:05 and find new opportunities to help teach
52:07 and heal those in need,
52:09 then please visit their website Weimar.edu.
52:13 That's Weimar.edu.
52:18 You may also call them at 530-422-7923
52:23 or write to them at Weimar Institute,
52:26 PO Box 486, Weimar, California 95736.


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