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00:04 ♪ I want to spend my life mending broken people ♪ 00:15 ♪ I want to spend my life removing pain ♪ 00:26 ♪ Lord let my words heal a heart that hurts ♪ 00:36 ♪ I want to spend my life mending broken people ♪ 00:56 ♪ ♪ 01:07 Hello Family. I'm Jill Morikone. We just welcome you to another 01:10 3ABN Today program. We love these programs because we have 01:14 number one the opportunity to talk to you and connect with you 01:18 our 3ABN family at home. But we also love them because we can 01:22 feature and showcase what God is doing in and through ministries 01:28 around the world. The program today is actually near and dear 01:34 to my heart because we're talking with individuals from 01:39 Hartland College. Now Greg and I attended Hartland. This kind 01:43 of starts to date us. We graduated almost 25 years ago 01:47 which is kind of a little long time. But we were blessed by our 01:51 time there. And today we're talking specifically about the 01:57 wellness center there at Hartland College. We're 02:01 talking about the correlation between health and cancer care 02:04 as well as the integration with that and education. The title of 02:10 this program is Transformative Healing, God's Touch on Cancer 02:17 Recovery. So if you need a special touch from God, if you 02:20 are looking for healing in your life or in the lives of people 02:24 that you know and love, if you're a young person looking to 02:28 attend school, this program is for you. I want to introduce you to 02:33 our family around the table. Pastor Norbert Restrepo who is 02:36 the president of Hartland College. And you came after Greg 02:40 and I were there but we've gotten to know and love you and 02:43 your beautiful wife Yvonne over the years and we're so glad you 02:47 both are here today. 02:48 Thank you so much for having us here. It's always a joy to be 02:51 here at 3ABN and there's a special connection as you just 02:54 mentioned because you're an alumni. 02:56 That's right. Absolutely. How long have you been Pastor there 03:00 President of Hartland College? 03:02 Already 13 years. We started our service in 2011. 03:07 Okay. Amen. And Yvonne every time I see you, you look younger 03:11 which is a beautiful thing. (Thank you) 03:15 I'm trying to get your title right. You are Advancement and 03:17 Development Director. So what does that mean? 03:19 It's developing new strategies. We are praying to the Lord that 03:24 our new methods to do God's work So we are seeing within the 03:29 Spirit of Prophecy, connecting with other ministries, learning 03:31 how God leads. So new programs and good news is coming we 03:35 will tell you during the program 03:37 Amen. That's wonderful. Coming around the table here is a new 03:41 face to me and my brother in Christ I just met here just a 03:45 few minutes ago. This is Thomas Mayhew and you are a 03:49 Hartland College graduate so Thomas, we're so glad you're here 03:51 Thank you. It's really great to be here with you. 03:54 And tell me what your major was and where you're from. 03:56 So my major was theology and so I started actually online which 04:02 is interesting. A lot of students don't start that way. 04:04 I started with a few online classes and then transferred 04:06 in. And I'm originally from California and now living in 04:12 Michigan pastoring there. 04:13 Okay, that's wonderful. We're going to hear more of your 04:15 testimony. Coming around the table closest to me here 04:17 Dr. David Emerson who is the Hartland Wellness Center 04:23 physician and we're so glad you're here today as well. 04:26 Always a thrill to come here. Always enjoy it. 04:30 So tell us just a little bit before we get to your 04:32 testimony Pastor let's talk just a little bit. Maybe someone's 04:36 unfamiliar with Hartland College. Give us just an 04:39 overview. What is Hartland College? 04:41 Definitely. I'll start with our mission statement. Hartland 04:45 College mission is to equip professional missionaries to 04:49 transform the world through Christ's selfless love. And the 04:53 emphasis on professional missionaries have a lot. When young 04:57 people go to college they're at a special phase in their lives. 05:01 They're transitioning from the home to being adults and they're 05:06 seeking for an identity. We want them during that phase of their 05:09 lives to find an identity in the calling that we all have as 05:12 Christians, to be missionaries. No matter what career you select 05:17 no matter what God's calling in your life, we are all called 05:21 to the supreme role of winning souls for the kingdom of Christ. 05:23 So that is our purpose at Hartland. And it's a very 05:27 practical education. We use different labs. One of them is 05:32 the Wellness Center. Each one of our students is trained in 05:35 medical missionary work so that they can be more effective as 05:38 we have known in God's word and the Spirit of Prophecy. Jesus 05:42 himself was a medical missionary and so that's the emphasis of 05:46 bringing education with missionary emphasis professional 05:50 education in connection with a life of service practical 05:54 outreach. 05:55 Amen So speaking of the Wellness Center, let's talk just a bit 06:00 about the Wellness Center and the specific focus now on cancer 06:03 care. What led to that focus? I don't know who wants to jump 06:06 into that. 06:08 I'll let Dr. Emerson address that initially. 06:10 Yeah, cancer's actually on the rise and even since 2020 cancers 06:16 have become aggressive. They have a term, turbo cancer now 06:21 where they're more aggressive than they used to be. And so 06:26 we're looking at treating, not treating but supplementing, 06:30 supporting people to strengthen their immune system so they can 06:32 deal with that. We're trying to find an opening wedge so that we 06:38 can share the Three Angels' Message with people but many 06:41 times you have to gain their trust first. And if we deal with 06:44 diseases that they're suffering with we can gain their trust and 06:49 then share more deeper spiritual messages. 06:53 So finding a niche, finding where the pain is where someone 06:59 is struggling and then seeking to meet that and then they're 07:02 more open to the gospel. (Yes) I love that. So before we talk 07:06 more about this cancer care give us a little bit of your 07:10 background and where you've served as a doctor and kind of 07:13 what led you on this journey of discovery. 07:15 Well right after residency the intern was at Kettering Medical 07:21 Center we went out to Guam. We served in a Seventh-day 07:27 Adventist medical clinic there for about eight years and they 07:30 had particular problems with lifestyle. Before World War II 07:36 they had no problems with lifestyle because they were 07:37 on a healthy diet. After World War II they adopted the American 07:41 lifestyle and diabetes and heart disease became rampant. Diabetes 07:44 became the number one problem, heart disease number two problem 07:46 So we set up after hour program like a NEWSTART program where 07:53 they'd come, be trained as to healthy lifestyle and move away 07:58 from the foods that were causing the diseases to begin with. 08:03 Following that we returned to the states set up private 08:05 practice in Ardmore, Oklahoma. 08:07 Now "we" is you and your wife? 08:08 Me and my wife, that's right. 08:10 And she is a doctor or? 08:11 She's a nurse and she does a lot of the health coaching, does a 08:14 lot of our cooking classes. And so we served there on a regular 08:21 medical practice, seeing patients in the hospital and 08:25 also addressing the lifestyle issues. And then we got called 08:29 to a lifestyle center out in Colorado. We served there for 08:32 three years. And there was an emphasis on cancer there because 08:36 that's the type of patient they had attracted in the past. And 08:42 so we were introduced to using lifestyle approaches to cancer 08:45 patients there. And then we came out to Maryland at our family's 08:52 ancestral farm. Ancestors came over from Austria in the 1700s, 08:58 set up a log cabin and then in 1800 they built the log cabin 09:02 that we're in now and then we set up a home office in that 09:10 cabin. Then we were invited by Hartland to come down and work 09:14 with their lifestyle guests and so we go down there for the 09:18 lifestyle programs and see the patients and do the histories 09:22 and physicals and monitor them through the process. And then we 09:27 give lifestyle health talks as well there. 09:29 So how many years has that been in this department. 09:31 Ten years now. So yeah, it's been a joy. We've been thrilled 09:35 to be honored to serve there. 09:38 Amen so I want to ask this at the outset. We're talking about 09:40 transformative healing, God's touch in cancer recovery and you 09:44 were talking about the lifestyle center in Colorado and how they 09:47 focused on cancer and now you're attracting patients at 09:50 Hartland and the Wellness Center there dealing with cancer 09:53 What would you say if someone? says wait a minute, I thought we 09:57 need to follow medicine and how do we integrate and you're 10:02 telling that this natural is going to cure cancer so what 10:05 would you say in regards to that? 10:06 We usually play a supportive role. We get patients from different 10:12 backgrounds, some choose to have chemotherapy and we work with 10:15 them. We do the modalities that can strengthen the immune system 10:17 things that can help turn on their immune system so they can 10:21 fight cancer. We also have patients who opt not to get 10:24 chemotherapy due to side effects and things and we do supportive 10:28 things to here again strengthen the immune system, turn it on, 10:32 to help them. And then we give cancer lectures to show the 10:38 responses to these approaches in the past. Most of the 10:44 modalities we use have been around for some for over 100 10:47 years. And they're not typically focused on currently and so we 10:53 just remind people that hey this has been used in the past and 10:55 these were the responses that they saw in the past. 11:00 So what would some of those modalities be? You talk about 11:02 what you're utilizing. 11:04 Well one of them is bringing the body temperature up. When you 11:09 get an infection your white cells sense that they release 11:11 chemicals that reset your thermostat higher say 102, but 11:15 you're 98.6 and so you feel cold You put on a blanket, you shiver 11:19 you generate heat. That brings your temperature up to 102 and 11:23 you feel comfortable now. At that higher temperature your 11:26 whole immune system's turned on white cells move faster they 11:30 gobble the bacteria faster and if you're. Interferons which 11:32 have anticancer and antiviral activity much higher levels. 11:35 You're whole immune system's turned on and then when you 11:39 clear the infection your thermostat is reset at 98.6. Now 11:42 you feel hot because your temperature's exceeding your 11:45 thermostat, you break out in a sweat, throw your blanket off 11:48 and brings your temperature down And in the old days when kids 11:51 got fevers parents watched for the sweat. When the sweat came 11:54 on they'd say ah the fever's broken, they're going to get 11:57 better. Well with cancers many times the immune system is not 12:02 turned on so we turned it on artificially. We can do this. 12:07 Actually, it was first done in the 1800s actually. Dr. William 12:12 Cohey, he was a physician at the New York hospital currently 12:17 known as Memorial Sloan- Kettering Hospital and he 12:22 treated a patient, a young girl 17 years old who had a sarcoma 12:27 in her hand. She was a girl friend of J.D. Rockefeller's son 12:29 wealthy oil magnate. There was nothing they could do. She had 12:35 it in her hand. They had to amputate the hand. They gave her 12:37 morphine for pain but it had spread and she died. So 17 years 12:42 old, tragic. So he searched the medical records and found... 12:51 looking for patients with sarcoma who had had maybe better 12:54 outcomes. And he found one, a Fred Stein who, six years ago, 13:01 had cancer in his cheek, sarcoma couldn't eat, couldn't swallow 13:05 He was having severe problems with it. They did four surgeries 13:11 It kept coming back. Finally he got a postoperative infection 13:14 streptococcus biogenesis which is a common postoperative infection 13:18 They didn't have antibiotics then. It could be lethal. He got 13:21 severe fever almost died, but after he recovered from the tumor 13:27 shrank and went away and he was discharged. 13:30 I wonder if it was a severe fever that worked with that. 13:33 Exactly. Dr. Cohey thought well maybe it was the fever that 13:37 turned on the immune system that cured it. So he said now this is 13:40 six years ago. Is this guy still alive? So he tracks him down to 13:44 the Lower East Side of New York City. He finds he is still alive 13:47 He examined him, took photos, and found that he's still 13:53 healthy six years after he's been considered terminal. So due 13:58 to that, he found 38 more patients who had sarcomas who'd 14:02 had fevers 12 of them with those fevers got better. So then 14:07 he took 10 patients and treated them all streptococcus injection 14:14 He was giving them the infections and this was 14:19 dangerous at the time. But these were inoperable cancer patients 14:23 they were considered terminal. And four of them got high fevers 14:27 they got better no more issues Four of them had transient and 14:34 lower elevations of temperature and they had temporary 14:37 remissions but two of them died from the infection. So he said 14:41 how can we make this safer? So then he used heat and activated 14:45 Strep biogenesis. He killed the bacteria first. 14:47 So there was no danger of the bacteria, okay. 14:50 That's right. They're not going to reproduce anymore. And then 14:52 he combined it with serious _ and other bacteria which 14:57 made the fevers higher and he was using that to treat cancer 15:03 patients and he was having... Some got better, some didn't 15:12 He eventually died in 1936 but his daughter Helen Cohey Knotts 15:18 took up the work and followed the patients that he'd treated. 15:23 And in 1999 working with a Dr. Stearns, published about oh 15:31 170 cases were treated just with this mixed bacteria vaccine 15:35 where about 65 percent had remissions and five-year 15:40 survival was 44 percent. And these were patients who had 15:43 inoperable cancers. (wow) In 1954 or so Helen Cohey Knotts 15:52 got a grant from JD Rockefeller of $2000 and started the New 15:57 York Cancer Institute where they do research. And now they give 16:01 millions of dollars away in grants to do cancer research 16:05 starting from that. Nineteen sixties the mixed bacteria 16:10 vaccine was determined to be experimental so it's not 16:15 available anymore but we can turn on the immune system again with 16:18 fever baths. Put people in hot water brings their temperature 16:22 up and you can get the same stimulation, the same effect. 16:26 And the reason it's so important in cancer is because most of the 16:30 time in cancers, the cancer does not turn on the immune system. 16:34 We don't get the fever and the chills. The immune system 16:36 doesn't know it's been invaded. Some cancers like lymphomas may 16:41 cause fevers, but most of them don't and so we induce the fever 16:44 artificially and that is something...It's very nice 16:48 because people can actually do this at home and that can help 16:53 strengthen the system and turn it on. 16:55 That's really fascinating because you know when you get the 16:58 regular flu you always get a fever and my parents used to 17:00 always say it's a good thing Jill. And I'd say but I'm 17:04 miserable. But no, this is a good thing because your body is 17:08 fighting. But I had never processed that with cancer you 17:10 don't get that automatic fever or with most of the cancers you 17:14 would not. And so you wouldn't engage the body's natural 17:18 immunity. So what you are saying then that if someone is watching 17:23 and they have cancer all they have to do is have a fever bath 17:26 and it would be cured. Is that what we're saying? 17:28 Not necessarily. Just like with any infection you may not be 17:32 cured. We're basically saying we're trying to increase the 17:37 benefits or the chance of recovery with these modalities. 17:43 And the other thing I should add is that when you're temperature 17:47 is elevated like this your metabolism is racing. It's like 17:48 climbing a mountain and it's exhausting. That's the 17:51 discomfort that comes with fevers. And so people with heart 17:54 disease, people that you wouldn't have exercising to 17:57 begin with you wouldn't want to give the fever treatments 18:00 because it's taxing on the heart But the nice thing about fever 18:04 treatment, just like exercise you can adapt to it. 18:07 You can get stronger with each fever treatment and tolerate 18:11 them better later on. So you want to check with your doctor 18:13 to see if you could tolerate something like that or an 18:16 exercise program. If you can do an exercise program then you can 18:19 handle fever treatments, no problem. 18:22 I love that. So what we're saying here is we're saying that 18:25 God has given us natural things natural benefits, modalities, 18:31 that can be combined. I think the best is, to me the best is 18:36 we combine medicine with God's natural and use a synthesis of 18:41 the two. We would encourage you at home to make sure you contact 18:44 your local doctor and to work in conjunction with those natural 18:49 remedies. And contact Hartland because they use, the 18:53 natural modalities combined with the medical. And see what are 18:57 some of the results and some of the stories that are coming out 19:00 of this. 19:02 Definitely. And that's part of what we do in the educational 19:05 component as well. You know God's original plan when he gave 19:10 us the health message was to enlighten the world with the 19:14 importance of obedience to the health laws. You know, the world 19:18 in darkness the way they ate, they smoked, all their lifestyle 19:22 was in complete transgression of God's natural laws. So that's 19:28 our emphasis in God. As Seventh- day Adventists he has given 19:30 us that wonderful message. But that complements the advancement 19:35 in medical technology that also God has inspired. And when those 19:40 two can be combined then we can see much better results. And as 19:44 we serve people unselfishly then they can see something deeper 19:50 of God's love, God's transformative love, 19:51 and we can bring them to the ultimate Healer, salvation in 19:55 Jesus Christ. 19:56 Amen, so I know we have a video we want to go to showing some 19:58 of the testimonies. Before we do that do you have a monthly 20:02 program or is it a 10-day program or if people at home say 20:05 I want to go to the Hartland Wellness Center and I need this 20:09 for myself and my loved one. What are the programs like? 20:11 Usually once a month. For cancer it's usually 17 days. For other 20:18 lifestyle programs like diabetes hypertension usually lasts about 20:22 11 days. And we introduce them to other modalities. Especially 20:26 cancer, we have intravenous Vitamin C, 20:28 which has been shown in 1978, 20:31 Dr. Paulin extended the life of terminal cancer patients 20:34 from an average of 50 days to over 300 days just by giving 20:37 intravenous vitamin C. We have lectures that explain how it 20:42 works. Also vegetables. They have found that vegetables in 20:48 one study in England 6000 patients they looked at what 20:53 they ate in the previous 24 hours. If they ate seven pieces 20:56 of fruit in a day following for the next years their death rate 21:02 dropped, all-cause death rate dropped about seven percent 21:06 which was not statistically significant. But if they ate 21:08 three or more vegetables for a day or in the previous 24 21:11 hours their risk of dying in the next seven years dropped 21:14 24 percent and that was statistically significant. 21:17 Oh, that's substantial. 21:18 Yeah and so you think is something special about the 21:24 vegetables and you know you think well in the Garden of Eden 21:27 they didn't have vegetables because you have to eat the 21:29 roots, the stems, the plants. You kill the plant to do that. 21:31 But when they were expelled from the garden all of a sudden God 21:34 added vegetables. I thought why did he add vegetables? And I 21:38 thought well you know when they were expelled from the garden 21:39 all of a sudden now they need an immune system to fight bacteria 21:42 and viruses and the study seem to indicate that the vegetables 21:47 are the things that help strengthen the immune system 21:49 and one program has actually used pressed juices for the last 21:55 hundred years... 21:57 What does that mean, pressed juices? 21:58 Pressed juices, well, you want to get the most phytochemicals 22:00 from your vegetables as possible and if I give you 20 pounds of 22:07 vegetables which is what they get the phytochemicals from a 22:10 day. You say here eat these. You say it's too much. But if you 22:14 press the juice with a press juicer, not a masticating, not 22:16 centrifugal juicer but a press juicer you can get the 22:19 phytochemicals from those 20 pounds of vegetables in about 22:22 three liters and this one program you drink one cup every 22:27 hour throughout the day and that gives you the phytochemicals to 22:30 help strengthen your immune system and get the benefits of 22:33 those vegetables which we were given when we were cast out of 22:38 Eden. And so this one program has used those pressed juices 22:44 and looked at stage four malignant melanoma. Standard 22:49 five-year survival mainly medicine was six percent. 22:52 they were getting 39 percent survival with five-year survivals. 22:55 So a dramatic 22:57 increase in a history. And this is something that... 23:00 these are things that you can do whether or not you're getting 23:04 chemotherapy. You can add this to whatever program you're 23:07 choosing to help strengthen the immune system and help you 23:10 fight the cancers. 23:12 Amen for not just the fever treatment. We have the pressed 23:15 juices, the vitamin C infusions and I'm sure many other 23:19 modalities as well. What is the website. Let's put that upright 23:21 now. What's the website if someone wants to go and find out 23:25 more about the Hartland Wellness Center. 23:26 So if they want to find about the Hartland Wellness Center 23:28 we have a Cancer Care specific program that they can turn on 23:34 that website and you will see it on the screen. Hartland.edu 23:38 or you can just go to Hartland.edu and then under 23:41 ministries select Wellness Center. So that's a longer route 23:45 but you will still get there. 23:46 Perfect. So you can go to Hartland.edu and under 23:49 ministries select Wellness Center. What we want to do right 23:52 now is go to that video. These are some testimonies I believe 23:55 of patients who have been through the Hartland Wellness 23:58 Center. 24:00 ♪ ♪ 24:32 My experience here I do not have the words for it but I will tell 24:37 you this. I have made a lot of friends here. There's a lot of 24:42 love here and I think I've learned more in 11 days than I 24:50 did in all my college years. Well his definition of cold is 24:55 ice. 24:56 One thing that I love about this place is that they always pray 24:59 with us before they give us treatment. When you pray for us 25:03 whatever we're going through in our heads, in our hearts, and in 25:08 our spirit we try to let it go and cling on to Jesus. It's so 25:18 important that you guys know how we appreciate it. We so 25:24 appreciate it. These are not tears of sadness, these are 25:27 tears of joy because you don't see this everywhere. 25:32 That's a hard one, I think what I've learned since I've been 25:39 here (pauses cannot go on) We're not on our own, we belong 26:03 to God. I think I learned to depend more. I think I've 26:20 learned of a different way of life, a different style. I've 26:24 always knew the Adventist way but sometimes you get a little 26:29 lost and we become so much a part of the world that we tend 26:34 to lose our way. I needed to be brought back and to be able to 26:42 put me back on the path. 26:43 ♪ ♪ 27:01 Amen. I loved that. I needed to be brought back on the path. 27:04 That's all of us needing that physical healing or restoration 27:09 or whether it's emotional or mental. Sister Yvonne why don't 27:14 you talk to us about that component with the Wellness 27:16 Center. 27:17 It's something that as we see the patients we realized that 27:21 the lifestyle choices are very important but also the mental 27:26 health aspect. We see the patients with a lot of guilt 27:31 unforgiveness, difficult relationships in family circle 27:36 so we need to deal with that because that causes to...that 27:42 takes to disease and that's an important component. We cannot 27:45 take out the approach, a holistic approach. So the mental 27:49 health is very important. And we are working with our patients 27:51 and that is when we blend with the spiritual because there 27:56 cannot be a mental health component without God. 27:58 And that's what we really want to make the connection. So we 28:02 see the souls of people realizing that probably the 28:07 hatred that they haven't taken for years or these other 28:10 feelings have been account for them to be where they are at now 28:14 So that has been a joy. And also, that is where the community 28:19 aspects come in. The healing comes in the community because it's 28:24 in community, in the love of each other and praying with each 28:25 other and talking to each other To see hope in some eyes of 28:30 young people treating them so community meant to happen to 28:35 each one is also a very important component in the 28:37 treatments that we do at Hartland. 28:39 Amen. I love that because healing is holistic, the mind, 28:43 the body, the spirit, the soul connection with the emotional 28:47 mental health and the physical health and then the ultimate 28:51 goal which is spiritual healing. I think of the paralytic. He 28:55 didn't just heal him. He said your sins are forgiven you and 28:59 that encompasses that entire healing. I remember my 29:02 experience at Hartland and the Wellness Center. It was not just 29:06 a place where the patients would come in, but the students had 29:09 the opportunity to interact there as well. So let's talk 29:13 about the integration and the correlation between the Wellness 29:16 Center and the students as well in the college. 29:20 We believe it's very important to have a practical education 29:24 not just theory and for every single major that we offer at 29:28 Hartland there is a practical lab. Even for those who are 29:31 studying for a different major like pastoral evangelism they 29:34 have opportunities to do health outreach. They have 29:38 opportunities to minister at the Wellness Center doing 29:41 devotionals and other activities But as I was saying before 29:44 there's always a practical component through outreach and 29:47 also on campus. And the Wellness Center is one of our biggest 29:50 labs that is very effective because it's medical missionary 29:55 work in action with young people involved as well. 29:59 What are the majors that Heartland offers I know health 30:03 is a component of every major but what are the majors that 30:05 Heartland offers? 30:06 So we currently offer a major in health science ministry, that's 30:09 how we call it. It's a baccalaureate degree but you can 30:12 also, choose to take an associate degree and then move on to 30:17 another college or university that has a more specific career 30:20 that you're looking for. So even though we only offer right now 30:24 four majors which is in theology in health science, in education 30:28 elementary and secondary with emphasis on religion or on 30:32 health science. And we also offer media. Those are our four 30:35 main areas. We also offer a certificate in Midwifery online 30:40 and we will speak more about this soon we'll be offering a new 30:44 major this fall which is Biblical Psychology. Now that's 30:48 a very important area and it's an area of growth and need in 30:53 our current society. Just going back...Young people might say 30:57 well majors that Hartland offers do not draw my attention 31:01 or catch my attention. I'm thinking of something different. 31:04 Well Hartland is still an option because you can go there 31:07 for one year. You can go there for two years and then transfer 31:11 your credits to another college. But you don't want to miss that 31:14 experience of combining missionary work with 31:17 professional training. Furthermore, if you think that's 31:19 too much. You can go just for three months because we offer 31:24 a summer term that is focused on missionary training at a college 31:27 level with experienced pastors and evangelists like Pastor Mark 31:32 Finley, Pastor Scott Griswold, Pastor Paul Conniff given 31:36 Discipleship and given different tools you can just do that and 31:39 you will still benefit greatly. So this is what we're all about. 31:42 It's transforming, healing, evangelism, mission work to 31:46 hasten Christ's second coming. 31:48 Amen. I love those options. So if people are interested in that 31:52 summer training program or any of the majors or going to 31:55 school you can go to Hartland.edu and you can access 31:58 all the information there. So that's Hartland.edu. So Thomas 32:04 let's bring you into this discussion. Before we do 32:05 just a moment. You mentioned the media major and it made me think 32:07 Darius works at 3ABN. He came as an intern from Hartland College 32:15 We were so delighted to have him come as an intern and as he was 32:19 even in his internship decided we wanted to hire him. So we 32:22 did. And he's a hard worker. He's a gifted young man and does 32:28 incredible work. And I think you might know him as well Thomas 32:30 Is that right? 32:31 Yes we both came to Hartland at the same time on campus. So... 32:35 So talk to us about your experience at Hartland. 32:40 Yeah, you know Hartland is... I wanted to touch on something 32:44 Mr. Restrepo said. Hartland is a place where if you understand 32:48 why you're there, you're not just there to get a degree. You're 32:51 not just there for school. You're there for an education 32:53 and there's a big difference between school and education 32:56 in many places, school is just seen as you know go get your 33:00 degree and move on with life. Hartland seeks to combine all 33:04 these other aspects that we talked about and basically give 33:09 you a holistic experience. So that you're not just going in 33:12 with just head knowledge or theoretical knowledge but you've 33:17 also gained some practical knowledge and you've become a 33:19 well-rounded and well-balanced individual. So maybe plugging 33:23 that into medical missionary work a little bit in the 33:26 lifestyle center. I am a theology, or I was a theology 33:28 major and so going to Hartland I was thinking all right let's 33:34 go for the Bible classes, let's learn how to be a pastor. That's 33:36 what I was really excited about. and I knew I was called to that 33:40 ministry. So I wasn't thinking that I was going to be getting 33:44 health outreach, health classes things like that. 33:49 Did it bother you when they said oh you're going to be in some 33:51 health classes. Were you like afraid of it or like I don't 33:53 want to do that or how did you feel? 33:55 I was afraid a little bit because...I mean we all say 33:59 these things you know, like I'll never be this or I'll never do 34:02 that. I knew I would never be a doctor. I mean I don't think 34:08 that's my calling but I didn't really feel comfortable with 34:12 anything in the medical field. It just...(Intimidating) Yeah, 34:17 Yeah intimidating is a good word but you know you feel scared to 34:21 like work on people and like do treatments and stuff like that. 34:23 I don't want to mess that up. You know I really respect 34:26 doctors like Dr. Emerson you know. So then when I saw we were 34:29 going to be doing health out reach and health classes I was 34:33 like okay that'll be interesting So at first, it was more the...my 34:37 initial attitude was we're going to do this because I need to and 34:40 that's how I graduate you know. But especially this past year 34:45 the Lord started bringing to my mind the importance of medical 34:48 missionary work and I was reading some statements in the 34:51 Spirit of Prophecy that talk about really that medical 34:54 missionary work is an all inclusive work for God's people 34:57 and that we are all called to be medical missionaries in some way 35:00 I was trying to think what that must mean you know for me and I 35:05 realized that hey this also obviously applies to me and 35:09 as a pastor then I have to think about how that translates to the 35:14 ministry I do. How does that translate to getting members on 35:18 fire for the Lord and doing evangelism, things like that. 35:20 So when I started taking part in things like the health expo 35:26 that we did for health outreach and some of the other health 35:31 classes as well. I actually saw the opportunities that I would 35:35 have and I would mingle with people in the community who 35:37 weren't Adventist or maybe not even Christian. I saw the 35:40 opportunities I had to minister to them and to give them an 35:43 opportunity to see not just God's way of healing, physical 35:47 healing but God's way of spiritual and mental healing as 35:50 well and that all of these things combined we can really 35:52 do exactly what Jesus did. You mentioned the paralytic that was 35:57 lowered through the roof, right? When Jesus healed him he healed 36:01 him in every way. Jesus doesn't do a half job. He does a full 36:04 job. He does a holistic transformation and so that's 36:09 when I started realizing that okay as a pastor I need to think 36:13 about the importance of also as a shepherd of God's flock how do 36:19 I also help to provide through the Holy Spirit, through God's 36:23 help that holistic healing. So I'm very grateful for the 36:26 experience that we got at Hartland because it's helped me 36:28 to not only have that holistic experience where I'm getting 36:33 theology and some other things but also to realize that this is 36:37 good, this is Biblical, this is right and this is how we should 36:41 do ministry. 36:43 Amen. So looking forward...that was your experience at Hartland 36:44 With that looking forward to your vision as you step in as a brand 36:48 new pastor there in the Michigan Conference how do you plan to 36:52 combine the medical ministry aspect with the evangelism in 36:54 your work? 36:55 That's a good question. What's actually really nice is in one 36:59 of the classes I'm taking I have the opportunity to think about 37:04 that and to...you know it's more open-ended. We're able to choose 37:08 different ministry projects. It's kind of the idea of 37:10 learning how to run and plan a ministry. And so I started 37:14 thinking you know a good project to think about would be to think 37:21 about a health ministry that could be connected to a church 37:23 or church district. And so I haven't had the opportunity to 37:26 implement anything specific yet but I am thinking about the 37:30 potential of using like small groups, a small group method 37:35 that you see in Acts chapter 2 and Acts chapters 3 and 4 as 37:37 well where you see that the early apostolic church that 37:43 God's people were meeting together and they were actually 37:44 having these small groups and this is how the work was growing 37:46 Yes there was preaching, yes there were all these other 37:48 things but this was really what caused God's message of Jesus 37:54 the Savior who had come and died for us. This was what caused it 37:59 to spread and to gain traction and so I started realizing wait 38:02 we can still utilize this small group method and actually use 38:06 health ministry as part of that. Invite someone over for a meal 38:09 you know, teach them how to cook healthy meals. Do an exercise 38:13 round with them, 15 minutes, 20 minutes you know and then 38:16 you have multiple small groups then you can start to introduce 38:19 them to the gospel as well. So that's kind of what I'm thinking 38:22 in a nutshell but we'll see where the Lord leads with that. 38:26 Well I'm excited just to see how God is working in your life and 38:29 to see how you're utilizing that health with the gospel and know 38:34 that the 3ABN family will be praying for you as you launch 38:38 into ministry there in Michigan. God will just bless and anoint 38:40 you there. I know we have a video. I don't pastor if this is 38:44 a good time to go to that video. This is testimony or... 38:47 Sure, sure, and as a prelude to that video I want to mention that 38:51 one of the things that really impacts our health guests is 38:54 seeing young people ministering to them. Now the expectation is 38:58 that young people are out there just focused on whatever they 39:01 want to do, whatever makes them happy. But to see young people 39:05 who are happily serving them has an impactful experience for our 39:10 health guests and in this video you're going to watch some of 39:13 the testimonies of young people including our graduate Thomas 39:17 Mayhew as he had the opportunity to minister in the area. 39:21 Amen. Let's go to that right now 39:22 ♪ ♪ 39:30 Studying pastoral ministry is unique in that pastoral ministry 39:35 is a special calling and many parts of it are very daunting 39:39 when you think about the expectation that church members 39:43 place on the pastor and you realize that as a young person 39:47 you're just not ready. 39:49 ♪ ♪ 39:53 Through this time studying for the ministry in college 39:56 it's not just been so much about gaining Bible knowledge or you 40:00 know getting good grades or things like this, those things 40:03 are important of course. But it's also been about gaining 40:08 life experience and also realizing that I need a lot of 40:11 the Lord in my life in terms of my character, just my growth in 40:14 Him. So one of the unique things I've had the opportunity to do 40:18 as part of my college experience is actually reach out to people 40:23 in the community and that's something that doesn't happen 40:27 in a lot of places. You just kind of go and do your classes 40:32 But my experience has been different. I've had a lot of 40:34 opportunities to connect with the community in many ways. 40:38 One of those ways has been through health outreach and that 40:43 has been a blessing because it has allowed me to connect with 40:47 people many of which I've not been Adventist, many of which are 40:51 just simply there to learn more about how to have good health. 40:54 I realize that through this experience that it's not about 40:58 necessarily which are called to full-time. 41:04 To this day I don't think being a 41:05 medical missionary is a talent of mine. It's not a been natural 41:09 to me, but you realize that this gives you an opportunity to 41:13 broaden your windows of opportunity to minister 41:15 to people. 41:16 ♪ ♪ 41:24 Being here has been a tremendous experience for me. It's a place 41:28 where to come in 41:29 contact with people with different elements, people from 41:33 different walks of life and people who have gone through 41:36 different things. 41:37 And there you have a special opportunity of eating 41:40 with them, being with them in the treatment rooms. And to be 41:43 able to inspire them and to share the love of Jesus with 41:47 them. 41:49 ♪ ♪ 41:52 So many times when guests come they have different fears, 41:58 different expectations. They don't know what to do and they 41:59 don't know what they're going to be facing. They're just coming 42:03 here amongst us strange people And just building a relationship 42:07 with them in the short period of time is what God really helps 42:11 us and the rest of the team to do and we just get to bond 42:14 with them because we get to eat with them, 42:16 we get to listen to their stories. 42:18 In the treatment room we sit down 42:20 we're not talking about our problems. 42:22 We're sitting down asking them, Tell me your story. 42:24 Where are you coming from and who are you? And so we get a 42:27 chance to listen to who they are to their families, through their 42:31 struggles. And at every treatment, at every breakfast, 42:34 at every opportunity we get we are praying for them and even 42:39 in our personal spaces, we are pleading for God to intervene 42:42 in their lives. 42:45 For 30 years I have just allowed myself to be larger and it's not 42:51 good for my health, you know, and I didn't think of that part 42:53 It was more mental for me. And I could cry right now because we 43:00 take life so for granted. People don't realize that something as 43:07 simple as eating it can be wrong too. I had shooting pains going 43:12 through my heart as well prior to coming here and I don't have 43:16 any of that right now. And I've only lost 10 pounds but I know 43:19 I'm going in the right direction 43:20 ♪ ♪ 43:32 During devotions, we prayed together and we sing together and 43:34 that has been an inspiration to many people. And in the farewell 43:38 they explained how they have been inspired, that they have 43:41 seen Jesus in me and for me that's the best part of what 43:44 we have learned. 43:46 Serving God is a dynamic. You know it's not supposed to be a 43:51 stale, bland, boxed-in type of experience. No, it's vibrant it's 43:56 free, it's ever-moving. God wants us to explore all sorts of 44:01 different avenues. And I've found that Health Outreach did 44:05 help me to do just that. 44:07 ♪ ♪ 44:12 Amen, praise the Lord for what he's doing at the Hartland 44:17 Wellness Center and that integration, correlation with 44:20 the students working with the guests who come through. And 44:24 seeing God work. Speaking of stories and testimonies, Dr. 44:28 Emerson is there a quick story you could share with us about 44:30 someone who's been through the program? 44:31 Sure. We have new patients come through. Some people respond, 44:35 some people don't physically. They all respond spiritually 44:38 in general. One lady came. She had a 7 cm. mass in her left 44:43 breast, invasive lobular carcinoma by biopsy. She went 44:50 through the program. She was going to have a lumpectomy and 44:52 radiation. I encouraged her to follow through with it. But she 44:56 kept postponing her surgeries, postponing and postponing. And 45:00 when she stayed on the program and a few months later she had 45:06 a mammogram and it showed it had shrunk from 7 cm down to 1.7 cm 45:11 (oh wow). Another three months it had gone to half a centimeter 45:15 so she was one that did respond. And the other nice thing about 45:20 it is whether they respond or not we do have Bible studies 45:24 with them. We have devotionals and they're all shared means to 45:31 come to a closer walk with Jesus And we always pray that Jesus 45:36 can take them by the hand and walk them through this life and 45:39 into his kingdom when he comes to take us home in glory. 45:41 Amen. That's an incredible testimony. I know Pastor Mark 45:46 Finley, you referenced him earlier, I know he always said 45:47 God always heals, sometimes in this life and sometimes at the 45:52 resurrection so we don't always know what takes place but 45:55 there's many natural modalities that can be utilized to enhance 45:59 our health now so praise the Lord. Speaking of this complete and 46:03 total health, the mind, body, soul connection. Yvonne talk to 46:08 us about the Biblical psychology program that's coming and that 46:10 mental health. 46:12 Yeah, that's very, very exciting And everything originated in 46:17 Ukraine so Hartland was invited to go to Ukraine and the Union 46:22 of Ukraine gathered 59 people, 22 psychologists and the rest of 46:27 church leaders there because they have a crisis at this 46:32 moment. People are coming to the church. So they needed spiritual 46:36 help but they come with a lot of mental health issues. Trauma, 46:39 secondary trauma, depression, anxiety and so on. So they said 46:43 how can we combine both the Biblical and mental health 46:47 aspect with 46:48 evangelism. So we were there. We were praying. It was an attempt. 46:55 We don't have experience with war but Biblical principles 46:57 apply to any situation. So for about one there it was an 47:01 amazing training. But it was in Ukraine that we saw. It works to 47:06 combine actually Biblical because the healing comes from 47:10 God and God was taken out of the psychology long ago. Right? So 47:14 we said when we combine both it works. Psychologists taking the 47:20 training said we do not know how to apply the actual principles 47:25 of healing in the Bible when we sit down to talk to someone in 47:29 regards to trauma, secondary trauma, anxiety, and depression. 47:31 So when we saw in Ukraine that it worked and they made it work 47:36 because they make a practice. After a year we had been 47:39 tracing them to see the responses. We said we need to do 47:43 this, because it works. So it's bringing the 47:48 principles of the Bible in regards to healing the mind and 47:52 helping the person regardless the religion to come in the 47:53 presence of God for healing. Of course, it's a professional 47:57 training that we will give all the basics of psychology but in 48:01 the aspect of treatment we bring in the spiritual aspect of it 48:05 and we're excited because the same commission that Jesus gave 48:10 of preaching, teaching and healing this can be applied in 48:14 the mental health field. 48:15 Oh Amen. So what was that like for you going to Ukraine. 48:18 There's a lot of trauma that's taken place as a result of war 48:22 there. What was that like for you ministering to the people 48:24 there? 48:25 Oh the stories Jill, were amazing. The story that when the 48:29 workers said what can I answer to this thing horrifying stories 48:33 Horrifying, but there was always an answer. And the beautiful 48:39 thing about the training in Ukraine is to see that the team 48:43 that came, they needed to go through their own trauma, their 48:46 own depression, especially hopelessness and frustration to 48:50 evil, a hundred percent. So when they experience the peace and 48:55 hope then we can see if it can give peace and hope 48:57 and we can do it from the mental health, 49:00 the spiritual component, as the physical 49:03 part so it was a blending of love and we have the conviction 49:06 we need to do this at Hartland as a major. 49:09 Amen. I love that. It's so needed today because God has 49:17 principles and make sure they're Biblical and apply it with the 49:20 word and God. What an incredible idea. I love that. So that's 49:24 launching this fall as a major. 49:27 Yeah, it's launching this fall and it's just amazing because 49:31 the mental health is...you know you have physical, spiritual and 49:36 mental and the mind is the connecting link between 49:40 spirituality and physical health And often it's left out of the 49:42 picture. We can understand the science of how our brain works 49:47 and then connect it with the Biblical principles that God has 49:51 given to us ultimately we were created by God. We were created 49:53 in his image so bringing all these things together are just 49:58 so powerful and wonderful. In fact, we have a situation now 50:02 that we have several majors at Hartland wants to switch now 50:05 to the Biblical Psychology and we're kind of encouraging them 50:08 you can do a minor but finish the major that God called you to 50:12 do. But, yeah, it's just an amazing opportunity that we're 50:14 so thrilled that we can offer it We've put the curriculum 50:18 together. You go to our website and you will be able to see the 50:21 program there and it's just going to enhance the tools that 50:26 we're equipping young people to be able to serve God in these 50:28 final days of being professional missionaries. 50:32 Amen. So we have just a couple seconds left here and then we're 50:36 going to go to the address for Hartland. But what would be some 50:38 of your greatest needs right now in just a few seconds. 50:41 One of our greatest needs is for scholarships for young people 50:47 who want to go to study at Hartland but they don't have all 50:48 the resources. And another great need is for people who want to 50:52 be part of the team. You can visit our website and see the 50:56 opportunities open there. We're looking for professional people 50:58 who are mission-minded and who love souls. 51:01 Amen. Okay, Absolutely. And we believe in the mission of 51:05 Hartland College. We believe in what God is doing in and through 51:08 the young people and the guests who come to the lifestyle center 51:12 as well as the staff there. We believe that God called each one 51:16 of us to be missionaries. So if you are a young person and you'd 51:22 like to go to college at Hartland, if you are an older 51:25 person with means and you'd like to support a student the 51:29 scholarship program so they can attend Hartland, if you would 51:32 like to become a staff member there or a apply to become a 51:35 staff member, or financially support the college or maybe you 51:39 want to be a guest at the lifestyle center and you're 51:42 dealing with your own health challenges, here is how you can 51:46 contact Hartland just now. 51:47 If you would like more information about Hartland 51:52 College, you can contact them at 444 Hartland Oak Drive, Rapidan, 51:58 VA 22733 That's Hartland College 444 Hartland Oak Drive, Rapidan 52:09 VA 22733. You can call (540) 672-3100 52:20 They're online at Hartland.edu or you can email them at 52:26 info@hartland.edu |
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