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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 ♪ 00:25 ♪ Lord let my words heal a heart that hurts ♪ 00:37 ♪ I want to spend my life mending broken people ♪ 00:58 ♪ ♪ 01:06 Hello friends. Welcome to 3ABN Today. I'm your host Ryan Day 01:10 and it's always a blessing for you to join us from wherever you 01:13 are all around this world. Today on the program we have Be Ye 01:19 Clean Ministries in the house. I know you're probably saying I've 01:22 never heard of this before. Well that's because this is the first 01:25 time they've ever been on 3ABN but we've got Spencer Scott with 01:28 us today. Brother, it's a blessing to have you and I know 01:33 people have got questions who in the world, what in the world is 01:35 Be Ye Clean Ministries, who is this Spencer Scott. And we're 01:38 going to get right into that. In just a few moments we're going 01:41 to introduce you. We're going to talk about what Be Ye Clean 01:43 Ministries does and we're going to talk about the great outreach 01:47 effort that they're going to be presenting to us today that you 01:50 very well could help, become a part of and to bless so many 01:53 people. But before we get right into that conversation we're 01:56 going to be blessed by brother Gene McDonald and also our 01:58 brother Tim Parton and they're going to be bringing us a song 02:01 entitled He Kept Loving Me. 02:05 ♪ ♪ 02:16 ♪ I was lost. With loving hands he restored me ♪ 02:27 ♪ So tenderly he sought to give me victory ♪ 02:37 ♪ Yet stubborn me I would not heed the Savior's plea ♪ 02:49 ♪ Patiently He Kept Loving Me ♪ 02:59 ♪ He kept right on loving when there was no love in return ♪ 03:09 ♪ He kept right on pleading with his voice I was spurned ♪ 03:19 ♪ And though I went my selfish way ♪ 03:23 ♪ And I failed him miserably ♪ 03:28 ♪ Patiently He Kept Loving me ♪ 03:41 ♪ ♪ 03:46 ♪ Today I know that it was only grace ♪ 03:49 ♪ That set me free ♪ 03:55 ♪ God could have just as easily gave up on me ♪ 04:03 ♪ Oh persistently He dealt with me until I let him in ♪ 04:14 ♪ Oh I thank my God that He Kept Loving Me ♪ 04:25 ♪ He kept right on loving when there was no love in return ♪ 04:33 ♪ He kept right on pleading when his voice I would spurn ♪ 04:45 ♪ And though I went my selfish way and I failed him miserably ♪ 04:52 ♪ Oh I thank my God that He Kept Loving Me ♪ 05:05 ♪ Oh praise the Lord He Kept Loving Me ♪ 05:33 Wow, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord. Thank you so much Tim and 05:37 Gene for that beautiful song. He Kept On Loving Me. That's a 05:41 beautiful song. That's a true gospel message. Spencer Scott. 05:45 My brother. (Yes) It's a blessing to have you hear BYC 05:51 Ministries stands for Be Ye Clean and we're going to get 05:56 into how that all came about in just a moment but I just want 05:59 to introduce you to our audience This is your first time being on 06:03 3ABN. So tell us a little bit about yourself, your background 06:07 where you're from and a little bit about who Spencer Scott is. 06:11 Okay great. It's a pleasure to be here. I come from a 06:14 background that's splashed with Worldwide Church of God and 06:19 Baptist. That was my father's experience. My mother learning 06:23 about the Baptist church and coming in. That's her background 06:27 But she learned the Sabbath through her father-in-law and 06:31 along the way an Adventist evangelist had a tent meeting 06:35 going and they attended it and that was it. You know the family 06:41 chose that they would follow the Sabbath and continue on in that 06:44 vein. So I had the privilege of having the exposure to the 06:48 Adventist church and then the Baptist church, splashes of it, 06:52 you know coming up and coming along the way. So it's been good 06:57 And the mechanical trades and construction trades have been 07:01 something that from a very young child, because of rental 07:03 properties my parents have, we learned and we were the crew to 07:07 get those things done. That was our schedule. So learning that 07:11 but in the background agriculture was looming there 07:14 because of our family and our so many being share croppers and 07:19 so forth never knowing that that bud was growing and germinating 07:23 So commercial farming is one thing that I've taken up as a 07:29 profession along the way. I've been able to learn it, study it, 07:33 teach it, travel overseas helping one our universities get 07:38 their ag programs back online and that's become a feature in 07:44 my life. It was during one of those experiences that I learned 07:49 about what we're going to talk about today. 07:52 Right. That's amazing brother. That's amazing. So Farmer Scott. 07:57 Is that it? 07:58 That's it. That's it. That's it. 08:00 Praise the Lord, man. It's a blessing to have you here and we 08:03 know that you are going fill us will all kinds of incredible 08:07 information of how the Lord helped you to launch, you are 08:11 the founder of Be Ye Clean Ministries, so how did that come 08:15 about? Give us a little bit of the history and the story behind 08:18 the inspiration to bring about Be Ye Clean Ministries. 08:23 Okay. I'm one of the team members. I hate the founder. 08:25 You know but I'm one of the team members to make it happen but 08:27 nevertheless one day working on a farm that was close by the 08:32 highway I'm noticing all these cars coming down the highway. 08:33 Very eclectic and so many of them. I'm like what in the world 08:36 just by the thousands coming through and making their way. 08:41 So I went to go investigate and see what that was a learned 08:43 about a festival that had been ongoing for years in the desert. 08:48 This is when I was coming back from overseas. In the desert and 08:51 just the type of nature that it was. Immediately after 08:56 understanding that I'm like my goodness. I went to some of the 08:58 people that I know in the area in the church and said is 09:02 anybody engaging these people as they come in and go out. 09:07 Often most persons were considered to be low-grade and 09:10 not...you know, just leave them and let them do what they do but 09:13 I said no. We quickly scrambled the next year to get water 09:19 and make some signs up. And we said well go and give ice cold 09:24 water away and to take Eight Laws of Health and Great 09:27 Controversies and Steps to Christ. And as we can talk to 09:29 people and engage them we'll give them these things to go 09:35 home with. And that started things off. This is the 13th 09:39 year in that direction. So it started things off and moving in 09:43 that direction. But in the evenings and as cars are going 09:47 I says look there's got to be another way to slow more people 09:49 down. Thousands of cars are passing you by and you can only 09:52 just touch a handful. So the idea came along the way to begin 09:56 a car wash because it was something that was needed. The 09:59 cars come off a lakebed and they're filthy from that playa 10:03 so it just hasn't...you know. Got the tools together and 10:08 equipment together it was necessary to start. Everything 10:10 off grid to begin that. And there were five, six, eight of 10:16 us. By the midday we were out of gas. We were overwhelmed with 10:23 vehicles pulling in and wanting to get...and it gave us that... 10:26 so we recognized that by God's grace this is a tool that we can 10:31 use to be able to engage people and move forward. 10:35 That's amazing, that's amazing. I think we got a video. Did you 10:36 want to go to that at this time? 10:38 Please, please. 10:39 Let's go and watch the video at this time. 10:40 ♪ ♪ 11:01 The Black Rock Desert is in the state of Nevada located 11:03 approximately 90 miles northeast of the city of Reno. 11:09 ♪ ♪ 11:12 In this place in the desert a makeshift city is set up to 11:16 accommodate 80,000 people off grid for nine days. 11:25 As we approach the end there will be large gatherings and 11:28 that preparations must be made to present the truth at these 11:31 gatherings. Seek to learn ways and methods of reaching those 11:36 who are still in error and darkness. 11:41 Persons are attending from all over the world. What happens 11:44 there we won't describe. To Well meaning people a masterpiece of 11:46 design has been put together in the desert for people that 11:50 are caring, that are loving, that are gregarious and outgoing 11:53 looking for a sense of community only to be distracted from 11:57 finding true peace and happiness 11:59 We have no time to lose. We must make more determined efforts to 12:05 lead the people of the world to see that that day of judgment 12:09 is at hand. Satan will employ every possible device to prevent 12:13 the truth from reaching those who are buried in error. 12:18 In 2011 we chose to go out and take health literature, to take 12:23 the materials that we have, Steps to Christ, Great 12:26 Controversy, a truck load of water and ice and share the 12:31 literature with people as we could talk with them and just 12:33 see where their journey in life had taken them. And as we sit at 12:38 night and watched the cars go by During the day just watched more 12:42 and more cars go by. We said Lord there's got to be a way to 12:44 to be able to slow down more people. Finally, the idea came 12:50 for a car wash because the vehicles that come off that 12:53 playa lake bed pick up a dusty plaster that covers the cars 12:58 that under areas inside completely at a car wash is 13:03 something that was needed. So we set up the equipment. Next 13:07 year we began a car wash and we've continued to do it wanting 13:11 to do it at a very different pace than done before. June 12 13:17 five, six people, we were worn out after a day's wash. So we 13:21 made a decision to make this wash one that would be able to 13:26 gather the exposure and to slow down thousands of cars. August 13:35 27th, 2023 through the 4th of September, those are the dates 13:40 that the event goes on. As the event was closing we began the 13:44 car wash except on Sabbath but for two or three days before 13:47 they close for the three or four days that it takes to empty 13:51 80,000 people out of this city that has been built in the 13:54 desert. We're making this invitation to you as we're 13:56 making it all over the United States for people to come that 14:00 have met Christ, that have met their Savior that know what true 14:06 happiness really is and that are understanding and realizing what 14:09 it is. This is a mission project to send heralds of love back 14:14 with people that have traveled from all over the world that are 14:18 looking for happiness, that are looking for something that 14:21 they've not found yet. 14:23 At all such gatherings there should be present men and women 14:28 whom God can use. Leaflets containing the light of present 14:32 truth should be scattered among the people like the leaves of 14:36 autumn. To many who attend these gatherings these leaflets would 14:40 be as the leaves of the tree of life which are for the healing 14:44 of the nations. 14:47 In the book of Hosea the 4th chapter our creator has this 14:51 word. He said, hear the word of the Lord ye children of Israel 14:54 for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land 14:59 because there is no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God in 15:03 the land. There are people amongst us that have no idea 15:08 who their creator is and they're living life searching but not 15:13 finding. The Holy Spirit is saying to his servants that this 15:18 is to our shame is we know and we have met the Lord. If you're 15:23 someone that Christ has touched and you want to share what God 15:26 has done for you and you want to share it with people that are 15:29 looking for something that they're not realizing. They're 15:34 looking for happiness, they're looking for community. We want 15:37 to put something in their hand to take back home that the Holy 15:40 Spirit can use in their quiet moments to direct their minds 15:44 and their thoughts to what really matters, we offer you a 15:48 personal invitation to prayerfully come and to make 15:51 connections, enlarge your prayer list, share good seed that will 15:56 grow into a fertile field according to the power of the 15:59 only eternal Creator. Help us with this mission project to 16:04 reach your brothers and your sisters in Christ. 16:11 We're asking for your help in these four ways: We are calling 16:13 for individuals from young adults to those wise in years 16:16 to come and join us in reaching these souls for Christ. We are 16:22 asking churches, groups and ministries to sponsor 16:25 missionaries to attend this mission project. Your monetary 16:29 support to help to make this mission outreach a success. 16:31 Please keep our ministry in prayer that this mission will be 16:36 a blessing and that God may be glorified. In Mark 1:17 this 16:41 invitation is given:... 16:49 Please contact us with your commitment today. Kindly submit 16:53 any questions or comments to info@byccarwash.com. For more 17:10 information please visit our website at: 17:13 ♪ ♪ 17:27 Thank you and may the Lord bless you greatly. 17:31 Wow. That's so cool man. You guys have a really great idea in 17:36 reaching these people but I have to ask about this Burning Man 17:41 Festival. What in the world's that all about. So 90 miles 17:45 north, I think the video said, of Reno, Nevada out the middle 17:49 of the desert. So what are these people gathering to do. You said 17:53 a sense of community, but what is they're trying to accomplish 17:56 here. 17:57 It's a festival, it's a hedonistic festival that's 18:00 completely off the hook. A masterpiece has been built 18:03 because you have some of the most intriguing art and 18:07 engineering and so forth that's put together. Effigies that are 18:10 three stories high that are burnt afterwards but there's a 18:15 spiritual focus underlying. One of our team members someone 18:21 approached her to say that you know before they burn the temple 18:25 at the end, we take all of our desires, all of our you know 18:31 aches and different things that we have going on and place them 18:33 on cards and write them and set them inside and then burn them 18:36 and the cathartic energy and feeling that you know things 18:41 have been washed but there's nothing there. 18:48 There's no Christian connection there that these people are 18:52 praying or celebrating to who knows what kind of power. 18:57 But they're seeking what Christ is offering. They're just 19:00 knocking on the wrong door. 19:03 That's where you guys come in. You're helping to point them to 19:05 the right door. It's so cool. 19:07 We have the benefit of little preachers you know to be able 19:13 to use and this is a tool that we use that we share. It's no 19:18 more than just a Steps to Christ But just with a different cover 19:21 on it. And then the eight laws of health. Very simple along 19:27 with you know other books that God has given us to share. And 19:30 those are the things that we are...As we can talk to people 19:33 we place them in their hands to be able to focus on. I want to 19:38 share in Psalms chapter 69 in verse 33 For the Lord says that 19:46 he hears the poor, he hears the poor and he doesn't despise the 19:52 prisoners, his prisoners Satan's prisoners. And we all can 19:55 testify that's the 19:57 gospel that moves us is the fact that the Lord loves our...has 19:58 loves us even though we were deeply embedded and engaged in 20:07 Satan's work in what he was doing. And these people are no 20:11 more different than that. And I'm encouraged in the Bible as 20:14 I go through even in the book of Isaiah the 14th chapter and 20:22 verse...I think it's verse 16 where the Lord tells us that 20:25 in going through speaking about Satan, he says in verse 17 that 20:31 he will not open the doors of his prison house. So the larger 20:36 the event, the greater the situation or the circumstance, 20:40 the enemy is engaged in locking people into maximum security 20:45 prisons that there's no exit unless the Lord is the one that 20:51 does it. Now we all are familiar in Luke the 4th chapter and the 20:57 18th verse where Christ tells us that he was anointed by the 21:02 Holy...He said the Spirit of God has anointed me because he has 21:06 asked him to...he has called him to preach the gospel to the poor 21:11 sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach 21:16 deliverance to the captives. Powerful. 21:19 Yes, yes, yes. That is the example that he's put for us as 21:24 high priests, a royal priesthood we're a priesthood, we're a 21:31 peculiar people (both voices). This is what he's asking of us 21:33 to do. So it's our desire... these people, as the invitation 21:39 was given to the wedding these are the individuals in the 21:42 highways and the hedges of life. If they smell religion they're 21:47 running in different directions because their hearts have been 21:50 broken, they have been bruised by it but if we can come to them 21:55 on their grounds, and this is what we're doing, entering into 21:58 their grounds legitimately being amongst them but yet sharing 22:03 what they're looking for. Sharing the life and the 22:05 preachers that we leave with them to echo the Holy Spirit's 22:08 voice. That's our purpose. 22:11 I just think as you're talking and we're looking at this, I'm 22:16 very much thankful for what you guys are doing. There might 22:19 be somebody at home that's saying man why do they go out 22:22 there and put themselves in that atmosphere. Surely there's other 22:26 ways of reaching these people without having to go these 22:28 hedonistic celebrations. What would be your response to that 22:32 person who might be a little critical toward you guys' effort 22:36 to actually go there and place yourselves in that atmosphere? 22:39 I want them to pull up a map that we put so the viewers can 22:45 see. We are 73 miles from the festival. It's the only way 22:48 coming in and the only way going out but we positioned ourself 22:51 an hour and 20 minutes from that festival. As the men and woman 22:55 are leaving that event that's when we want to engage them on 22:58 their way home so they can consider and think about whether 23:02 or not this is something that really we should have filled 23:07 nine days with. So we're not actually in the event. We're a 23:13 long ways from it. 23:14 Got you. But you're catching the traffic coming out of there. 23:16 We're catching all of them as they come...as they leave. 23:18 That's so cool. That's so cool. Wow. That's amazing. That's 23:23 amazing. So somebody who's just chiming in because there may be 23:26 someone who just turned the channel and they're watching 23:29 this right now and they're hearing all about this car wash 23:33 what again was the inspiration behind the car wash. 23:37 The whole focus in doing it is to be able to engage the 23:43 individuals that are traveling from...these people travel from 23:44 all over the world. One of our team members that was helping 23:49 started to make a note of all the different countries the 23:53 people he had engaged that day that we were working. There were 23:57 over 12 countries before he had gotten to noon of people that 24:01 are coming from Israel and Sweden and this one and this one 24:04 coming to this event. And they're dedicated and focused to 24:09 have a community of people that think like they do, that are 24:12 open. Many people come just to look and see what is this and 24:17 what's going on? But it's a tool that the enemy has designed 24:21 to hold and engage people, there are people that have come for 29 24:26 years to the same event. 24:29 Wow, that's amazing. Do the people when you're engaging 24:32 obviously you're causing them to slow down, you've got them for 24:35 anywhere from 15 to 20 minutes while you guys are out there 24:38 washing their vehicle, knocking off this dirt, the sludge and 24:42 stuff. How receptive are they? 24:46 I tell you we had a family that came out from Washington one 24:49 year to be with some friends. And when they left they were 24:53 just on a high because the people asked if they could pray 24:57 with them and the people said absolutely. Pray with me and 25:00 they accepted the literature warmly. Never do we have a 25:05 belligerent attitude. Almost we can't count over the years the 25:08 times that that has happened. But there's always a willingness 25:12 to accept it, to look at it, and then to move forward. So it's 25:19 a very gregarious crowd. They're just. They've spent time with 25:22 people they don't know from other places so they're 25:25 talkative, they're willing to speak with you and to move 25:29 around now. Last year we engaged a detail to be able to clean 25:34 their vans and clean their motorhomes and buses and so 25:37 forth. That gives us three hours to two-and-a-half hours with a 25:41 group of individuals. Usually there's five, six, seven, eight 25:43 people in a coach. So that even extends the time even greater 25:48 which is a benefit. This year we're hoping to have some 25:52 medical missionaries come out to engage them and just have some 25:56 quizzes that they can fill out and just talk about you know 25:58 life styles and so forth so we can focus in a direct way. 26:03 At least plant those seeds so that later the Holy Spirit cab 26:06 echo them as they make their way home and get on the plane and 26:09 go back to where they've come from. 26:12 That's amazing, that's amazing. I can imagine out in the middle 26:14 of a desert there's not a lot of water out there so how in the 26:18 world do you get that much water in a place like this with 26:23 relatively no water, very dry climate, washing this many 26:27 vehicles as they're coming through? 26:29 Everything is off-grid so we have to bring in all of our 26:33 resources, 26,000 gallons of water we brought in last year to 26:38 be able to do the wash that we endeavored to do. But as the 26:43 the scripture that we read earlier where the Bible says 26:47 that the Lord tells us that Satan will not release his 26:49 prisoners. All along the way we were paced because we have a 26:54 drop dead date. By the time they're leaving from that event 26:58 we are to have everything set up and ready to go at that point 27:01 so delays were in process all along the way with flat tires 27:08 and blowouts and bearings and different things going on along 27:12 way to slow down and to bring us to the point when we got to the 27:17 time for the people to leave that we were not ready and in 27:21 sequence it happened in that direction. We had so many 27:24 different things happen. Leaving New York with two of us hauling 27:31 vehicles coming back. I met in Virginia along the highway...I 27:39 pulled off. A motorist kind of flagged me down saying there was 27:42 something going on. So I pulled over. I'm driving a dump truck 27:44 and a travel trailer behind me. Pulled over to take a look at 27:47 what was going on and by the time I had sorted out what was 27:51 wrong and got back on the freeway, light coming, cars are 27:53 coming around me, trucks are coming around me because I'm a 27:55 slow something moving. I look in the rearview mirror and a truck 27:58 is coming up on me and I didn't pay attention. I just kept 28:01 going and figured it'd move around like the rest. And look 28:05 again and he's not moving. At 70 miles an hour I was rear 28:08 ended on that highway coming making my way. 28:12 Oh my goodness! Okay I think we have a picture or the truck and 28:15 the trailer. What a blow. 28:19 This was one of the delays that the enemy was endeavoring to 28:23 bring. He ate up the travel trailer. Drove straight through 28:27 it. (That's part of the travel trailer) The frame work of the 28:33 travel trailer was tangled underneath the tractor (Wow!) 28:37 Punctured the fuel tanks, punctured the oil pan. It was 28:41 only that that slowed him and brought him to a stop. But the 28:47 Lord is merciful because I walked away from that bad 28:50 accident. Hurt and damaged but my life was secure. 28:56 I mean that's why obviously the viewers are seeing that you have 28:58 the whole sling thing going on. This is something that you're 29:03 still recuperating from. 29:04 Yeah, just coming out of a surgery with the rotator cuff 29:07 surgery on one shoulder. But by God's grace we're going forward. 29:13 Reminds me of John chapter 10 where Jesus talks about the 29:15 enemy has come to steal, kill and destroy and he no doubt that 29:20 day was trying to take you out, right? Oh this guy's got 29:22 something great going on and he's going to. Him and his team 29:26 are trying to make a difference. I'm going to see if I can put an 29:30 end to this. 29:31 Amen brother. We look at it also in this regard. Remember when 29:37 Christ came upon the gentleman that was in the Gadarenes, the 29:43 demoniac. And as he was being cast out in another instance the 29:48 Lord asked what is your name. He mentioned, My name is Legion. 29:51 Which is 5000, 6000 soldiers. Satan is very tactical. If a 29:59 masterpiece has been set up it's been set there to hold 30:01 individuals that would do him damage if they get loose. Satan 30:05 understands clearly the message of the pearl, he understands 30:08 clearly the message of the leaven and the mustard seed. 30:12 If the gospel reaches individuals that he is holding 30:17 the damage in these groups are the Saul's, are the apostles, 30:24 other individuals that would be stalwarts in the gospel. That's 30:28 why Christ said he has sheep that are not in... 30:32 Sheep that are not in this fold. I love that. I love that, man. 30:35 That is so cool. So you're washing these cars and I'm 30:40 guessing is it during or at the end of the process of washing 30:42 the car that you present them with the literature? What's your 30:45 technique? 30:46 Typically it has no rhythm but as we're able to talk to them we 30:51 have individuals that come just floating. They're not washing, 30:55 they're not doing anything in that regard. They're greeting 30:57 people because there's so many different stations and things to 31:00 do. They're greeting and just engaging them and looking for 31:05 that door to be able to share with them something to go home 31:08 with. Yeah. 31:10 That's so cool, so cool. Now as we were preparing for this 31:14 program here, we were going through some slides that you 31:17 were wanting to share with us. I saw some in there where it 31:21 shows kind of the layout of what this thing visually looks like 31:25 and also your plans for the future so maybe you want to 31:30 walk us through this site. (Certainly, okay) So what are we 31:34 looking at here? 31:35 This is the layout for...this is last year's layout in diagram. 31:41 The goal was to be able to wash 60 cars at one time. So it was a 31:47 3-acre site that we had to grade off, do underground water supply 31:51 for it, put a detail tent up so that when cars are coming in 31:57 we have that option. Pressure washers, we had 60 positions for 32:03 pressure washers. We were able to run 42 because not only was 32:08 the enemy not satisfied with all the things that happened 32:12 along the way. By the time we finally got all of our 32:16 infrastructure there and were busy putting things in place 32:18 we're leasing land on tribal land. So the families... 32:23 Is it all tribal land that you're on? 32:25 It's all tribal land we're on. So the owner of the land had 32:30 passed away some while ago and passed that along to their 32:32 grandchildren. The tribe decided once they saw how big an event 32:36 we were going to do that they would limit us back to a 1-acre 32:41 from a 3-acre to an acre-and-a- half postage stamp. Now the 32:46 meeting was done on a Friday evening. They finally came to 32:49 their decision on a Friday evening and the word came to us 32:53 that by this time tomorrow evening as the clock rolls 32:58 everything that's outside the boundaries on the 3 acres has 33:00 to be brought in with this. If it's not there we will seize it 33:04 and it will become tribal property. Now this is Sabbath. 33:07 We made a decision, we're not going to work during the Sabbath 33:10 in that fashion, moving and hustling things around so we 33:16 continued, enjoyed our worship for the day and as sunset came 33:19 we called all the guys together and told them where we were at 33:22 and ladies and what was in front of us. The Lord blessed us. 33:25 Within 41 minutes to take down, move big tents, move our kitchen 33:30 trailer, books, everything to get them back within the 33:34 boundaries. Now... 33:36 Is that's what's happening here? 33:37 That's what's going on in that slide. Now when that had 33:41 happened there's a police standing by so they can be ready 33:45 to tag whatever it so it becomes tribal property. 33:47 All right. I got you. 33:48 So now as...we didn't know this at the time but rain began on 33:55 Friday evening when they finished their edict of us 33:59 moving things in, rain began in a playa. We're 73 miles away. 34:04 When we'd gotten everything in the next morning discouragement 34:07 started setting in with some of the individuals because now it's 34:09 time for people to leave, not knowing that it's raining there. 34:13 But we're not ready for them. We don't have all of our stuff 34:16 together and infrastructure in the ground. So all the time that 34:20 was spent...But I was recognizing the next morning we 34:23 started getting rain and I was rejoicing because I know they're 34:26 on a lake bed. If it gets wet that fine silt turns into just 34:30 glue. It's just undoable. And Sunday rains came in and the 34:36 rains increased. Everything was locked up. No cars coming in, no 34:40 cars going out. It was a lake but nobody could move. And I 34:46 laughed to myself in a way that you know the Lord has the last 34:50 laugh when Satan is doing things Three days they were locked 34:54 there which gave us all the time that we needed to get prepared 34:56 so that when they were left to come out we were ready to go. 35:00 And this is what we're seeing here? 35:02 This is the aftermath. The lake bed was full of water, cars were 35:10 stuck, people had tremendous Tow bills for those that tried 35:14 to leave and got stuck in that mess. 35:16 I imagine that was a mess. So what are we seeing here? 35:18 We're seeing the actual festival and the volume of water that was 35:23 setting out there. Now it has to warm up in order to be able to 35:28 get out. Now just as a reference point: 2022 the temperatures 35:34 were at 117 degrees. Last year temperatures dropped to 40 35:41 degrees during the time it was raining. So there was very 35:44 little evaporative help. But people were in hoodies. Nobody 35:51 imagined that we would have almost winter temperatures 35:53 during the summer. 35:55 Summer, middle of summer. But this is usually an annual event 35:57 that they do every year in August? 35:59 It's an annual event every year right around the last holiday 36:02 labor day. That's the last holiday of the summer. So August 36:06 it touches the end of August and the edges of September every 36:10 single year. 36:11 And I have driven through Nevada in the middle of August first 36:15 part of September. It can be very hot. So you're saying that 36:20 the temperatures dropping that low is...nobody was expecting 36:23 that. 36:24 No. Nobody was prepared for the clothing that was necessary to 36:29 be able to manage that. So we promptly let the missionaries 36:34 know that are coming to bring an arrangement of clothes so...The 36:39 desert can be unpredictable. 36:40 That's amazing. That's so true, that is so true. So The Burning 36:43 Man Festival, this is something that you guys still participate 36:47 in and plan on participating each year looking forward. 36:51 Every single year moving forward This year we're putting plans in 36:54 motion to able to meet them this year as they go. Fortunately we 37:02 still have several goals that we want to try to nail down. 37:08 Literature is all that we're about and making sure that we 37:09 get these things. We still have printing of this to do at least 37:13 60,000-120,000 units of this. Then 2500 packets of 150 printed 37:22 of the eight laws of health. 37:26 So essentially that's Steps to Christ, and the eight laws of 37:28 health that you're hoping to get printed more and more and more 37:33 that you guys can pass out at future events down the road when 37:36 you do this. All right. Now is this something...really I got a 37:39 bunch of questions on my mind right now. I could imagine you 37:44 said 26,000 gallons, now to me that's a lot. I can imagine you 37:48 blow through a lot of that in a day's time. So for all of the 37:53 cars you're washing, have you every run out of water? 37:55 We've not run out with the setup that we have but we've run out 37:58 in the past. We were working from a 2000-gallon tank and we would 38:03 be gone in two hours, not with the footprint that you see here 38:05 but otherwise. Yeah that water would have been exhausted during 38:08 that time. So the 126,000 gallons gives us enough capacity 38:13 so that as we start getting low and tanks are coming down. The 38:19 gentlemen can start...tanker trucks can start delivering 38:21 water and bringing water to us. 38:22 That's amazing, that's amazing. So what other beyond the Burning 38:27 Man Festival, I'm sure you guys have future plans, things that 38:30 you want, you want to develop this same model, this same 38:33 practice. So what are your future plans down the road in 38:36 terms of what Be Ye Clean Ministries want to do. 38:39 Future plans for Be Ye Clean Ministries are to hit in two 38:43 areas. Since we're 73 miles away from the Burning Man Festival 38:48 as they release we would like to set three other stations up 38:52 along that 73 miles doing characteristic different things 38:57 but being able to also engage more individuals on different 39:03 platforms as we go, as they're coming out, etc. Also, we have an 39:09 inner city ministry that we are planning to be able to...Our 39:13 inner cities are melting down. For the sake of being able to 39:16 come in and to engage we have shower trailers that we are 39:20 endeavoring to plan to get built to be able to engage those that 39:24 are out of a home. There are many working people that are 39:29 still working, sleeping in cars, but yet are not able to address 39:33 themselves as they would. We want to be able to engage these 39:36 people and give them the hope and encouragement that the Lord 39:39 loves them, that his purpose and focus for them is beyond the 39:44 circumstance of the moment that they feel locked into. So that 39:48 also is a goal that we approach down the way. Our mobile kitchen 39:52 that we have, we're using it in different ways. We are wanting 39:57 to engage in disaster relief and we have connected with one of 40:01 the ministries that has actually come here. We've been having 40:05 conversations and talking back and forth that as they're out on 40:10 missions that we can also bring the tools that we have to try to 40:14 engage and to encourage the people that have lost everything 40:17 and now are trying to figure out how to bring their lives back 40:20 together in one piece after tornadoes go through and 40:23 hurricanes and so forth. 40:25 Absolutely. Now I love your name because when I first saw BYC and 40:32 then I saw the little...pull that back up with the car. I 40:37 love this. BYC Car Wash. But I when I first saw BYC I didn't 40:43 know that it stood for Be Ye Clean. I thought it meant bring 40:46 your car. Bring Your Car Ministries. I thought that's 40:49 cool. It's a car wash ministry. But then when I realized it's 40:51 Be Ye Clean Ministries you know you're using these methods of 40:55 car wash, as you have done, but I love the fact that you're also 40:59 extending out into, you just mentioned portable showers. You 41:06 know you're using the eight laws of health and the health message 41:09 to go help people you know to bring them and just draw them. 41:12 Talk a little bit about that in the, I guess you could say, the 41:17 purpose, the goal, I guess you could say the motto behind what 41:23 you guys are doing. Be Ye Clean. That spiritual message but 41:28 you're also fulfilling that in a very physical way. They're 41:31 getting the physical clean but you're trying to connect them to 41:34 the one who can make them clean spiritually forever. So talk a 41:37 little bit about that. 41:39 One of our team members chose the BYC, the Be Ye Clean, and 41:46 the Lord has given us that injunction as his servants, as 41:49 his students, his desire is that if we're going to bear the 41:53 vessels, if we're going to bear the oracles of the Lord, we're 41:56 going to share his word, he's asking us personally to allow 42:01 him to clean our hearts because it's only that way that the Holy 42:05 Spirit can freely dwell with us. In the scriptures, the Lord 42:13 shares with us I think it's in Psalms, it's in the 11th chapter 42:18 of the book of Isaiah where the Bible says that there would be a 42:23 rod that would come out of the stem of Jesse and it speaks of 42:28 Christ in this regard, that he would not judge according to 42:32 what he heard, he would not judge according to what he saw, 42:35 but he would judge a righteous judgment. So it's in that 42:43 fashion that we are engaging people and we also consider in 42:48 our lives that he said the Spirit of God would rest upon 42:52 him in that scripture. So the desires that God's Spirit can 42:58 rest on us, there's no fighting there's no struggling within us 43:04 but God's Spirit can rest on us and work with us and the angels 43:07 can work with us to assist us in what we do. That's where the BYC 43:10 the Be Ye Clean initially and where it stems out of. If we can 43:16 be clean vessels in God's eyes to work for him then the angels 43:21 can work with us. The Holy Spirit can have his way because 43:26 we're not struggling and fighting and still trying to 43:27 serve the devil. 43:30 Absolutely. You know as I'm learning more about your 43:31 ministry as you're talking about it during this interview time 43:34 and before you know I've had to talk to me what you guys are 43:39 doing is the very essence of the gospel because a lot of times we 43:42 think as a people that our job is solely just to go share the 43:49 message or to go give the message and that's certainly a 43:52 major, major important part. We are to go ye out and share the 43:58 message and to take the gospel to the world, but in taking the 44:02 gospel to the world it's not just about sharing the message. 44:05 Sometimes people, let me see if I can say this correctly, my 44:09 brother says this all the time. He says that people don't care 44:14 about what you have to say to them until they see how much you 44:18 care for them, or something like that. I probably just butchered 44:23 that but the idea is basically Ministry of Healing, 143 concept 44:28 that Christ method alone brings true success in bringing souls 44:32 to Christ and so he mingled with men. That's what you guys are 44:36 doing, right? You could easily come up and put some literature 44:41 here, here, here, here and sometimes that method works and 44:43 I'm only saying this because I know we have people watching and 44:46 sometimes our mentality is it's our job just to go out and put 44:51 the word in people's hands and it is to a certain extent but 44:54 you have to prepare the soil of the heart and I love what you 44:57 you guys are doing because it's not like you're out there just 45:01 handing out literature and I'm not saying that that's a bad 45:04 thing if that's all you're doing Praise God if you're out there 45:06 sharing and just sharing literature because we need to do 45:09 that as much as we can but for most people you have to prepare 45:14 the soil of their heart you have to mingle with them, you have to 45:18 show sympathy to their needs. You have to sympathize with them 45:21 You have to befriend them and become a friend and once you 45:24 gain that confidence, once you've got that trust and they 45:26 see the Christ in you, they see that love in you, then they're 45:30 going to be more willing to trust you with what you have to 45:33 share with them. So talk a little bit about that. I know 45:36 you guys are out there engaged in this. You're not just handing 45:39 out literature but you're connecting with these people 45:41 on a personal level. 45:42 Christ couched that description that you just shared, he couched 45:47 it in the terms of fishing. He says that if you follow after me 45:53 I will make you to become, that's the book of Mark, and 45:57 Matthew says I will make you fishers of men. Now all of you 46:02 listening that are fishers, fishermen, fisherwomen, 46:04 you don't go out to the lake and throw all the bate in the water. 46:08 No, you learn about first of all what fish are in the water, 46:14 their...do I fish at night, do I fish in the day, what they like 46:18 to eat, what they don't like to eat, I'm not slapping the boat 46:20 and making noise, you know, you're focused on your approach 46:27 and if they want hamburgers I don't give them sushi. It's that 46:37 understanding, that's how we meet people. Because Satan has 46:43 used the tool of religion to twist and to hurt and to bruise 46:49 individuals they're untenable with that presentation first but 46:58 if you can engage them on a level of personal interest and 47:05 personal care then that heart starts to open a bit because 47:09 it's neutral and then they'll receive something about how to 47:13 eat better or, Man I don't drink enough water, you don't drink 47:17 enough water? Now we have something common and we all have 47:21 things to work on in these eight laws of health. So it works. 47:26 You know it's just coming into my mind as we were talking was 47:28 this passage here in Matthew 25 where it says...Matthew 25 47:32 beginning with verse 34, it says Then the king will say to those 47:35 who are on his right hand, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit 47:38 the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world 47:41 For when I was hungry you gave me food, when I was thirsty you 47:48 gave me drink. I was a stranger and you took me in, I was naked 47:53 and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me. I was in 47:57 prison and you came to me. Then the righteous will answer him 47:59 and say Lord when did we see you hungry and fed you and thirsty 48:02 and gave you drink and when did we see you a stranger and take 48:06 you in, or naked and clothed you or when did we see you sick and 48:10 in prison and come to you. And the King will answer and say to 48:13 them, assuredly I say unto you inasmuch as you did it to one of 48:17 the least of these my brethren, you did it to me That's powerful 48:21 So we're not just ministering to a bunch of random people that 48:25 we don't know. I mean Jesus says when you've done this to them 48:28 you're doing it to me. You show them you care. 48:32 His heart is touched. (That's right) You know there are many 48:36 people that can't come to the inner city of Los Angeles or 48:40 Oakland or Chicago or otherwise. And we understand that. We're 48:46 asking that those individuals be our cheerleaders, our cheer 48:50 leaders in prayer as we go forward, our cheerleaders in 48:55 support, you know, just be there in that regard. And those that 49:00 can go we want you to come. People that have had a 49:04 relationship with the Lord they have a testimony of what God has 49:07 done for them. It's that message in the ears of others that 49:14 lights a fire. They can see it in your eyes. People understand 49:18 hate and they understand avoidance but when they see love 49:22 in a person's eyes, when they see love in a person's demeanor, 49:25 their engagement with them it creates a whole different 49:30 atmosphere. 49:31 Amen, absolutely. So we've got about two minutes. We're going 49:33 to share with them your information how people can 49:36 connect with you and get in contact with you. But real quick 49:38 how do...people watching right now say well I want to get 49:40 involved, I want to help in some way. How can they help. How can 49:44 people get involved with Be Ye Clean Ministries. 49:47 They can help by coming to some of the events that we do. You 49:51 can come to our website, go to our website and just see where 49:53 our coming events are, what our schedule is for this year and 49:57 the years that are moving forward. They can help in that 50:00 regards. Those that can help in a monetary fashion we have so 50:05 much...if you, as you see what it takes to put this together 50:11 It happens every year. It's tremendous. I don't even want to 50:14 scare people with the numbers but it's tremendous yet God 50:19 has blessed to allow this to happen. And every year it's the 50:22 same thing. So those are the things that we can help with. We 50:25 have another round that we're engaged in with our youngest, 50:29 the army. Eight to 18 year olds recognizing that a lot of the 50:37 army that God would prepare are in public schools and as a 50:41 result of that being in public schools from eight o'clock in 50:44 the morning to three o'clock at night the enemy has their 50:47 attention. Early drinking, vaping, marijuana use, fentanyl. 50:53 All these things are put in front of them to choose. And 50:59 some of these folks and some of these carrots are being picked 51:04 up. We want to encourage this group to be the ambassadors that 51:08 Christ has and to understand that there's a power through the 51:13 cross, through Christ, to say no to that you know and to move 51:18 forward. 51:19 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord So what's that website again? 51:20 BYCMinistries.com or BYCCarwash, you can find it 51:26 there as well. But BYCMinistries.com 51:29 That plugs you into our website That plugs you into a way to be 51:33 able to connect with us and to to share with us. 51:35 Amen, Praise the Lord. My friends you've heard it here. 51:37 We're not quite finished yet. We're going to take a short 51:40 break. We're going to put the information up on the screen 51:42 right now for how you can connect with BYC Ministries. 51:46 We'll be right back in just a moment. 51:48 If you would like more information about BYC Ministries 51:53 you can write to them at P.O. 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