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00:01 Stay tuned to meet a man
00:02 who dared to dream 00:04 and has followed God's call around the world. 00:07 My name is Yvonne Lewis-Shelton, 00:09 and you're watching Urban Report. 00:34 Hello, and welcome to Urban Report. 00:36 My guest today is Dr. Philip Baptiste, 00:39 secretary/treasurer of ASI North American Division, 00:44 and follower of Christ. 00:46 Welcome to Urban Report. 00:48 Thank you. It's a pleasure to be with you. 00:50 Oh, it's so great to have you. Awesome. 00:52 There's a special reason that I said follower of Christ, 00:55 because a lot of our guests are followers of Christ, 00:59 but you have a special journey 01:02 and I really want our viewers to know where you've been, 01:05 and how God has taken you from place to place. 01:08 So let's talk first of all about where you were born 01:11 and how you were raised. 01:13 Where were you born? 01:14 I was born in Canada, actually. Oh, wow. 01:16 And my dad's a pastor. My mom is a teacher. 01:19 And two older brothers, the baby of the family. 01:22 And so we grew up in Western Canada. 01:25 And at a young age, I had a call to ministry, 01:28 I won my first person to Christ 01:30 doing community religious surveys, 01:32 knocking on doors at the age of 10. 01:34 And I started preaching at the age of 12 01:36 and I just have always had a desire 01:40 to follow the Lord, and to serve Him, 01:41 and to enter into pastoral ministry. 01:43 Now, you know, 01:45 what's interesting to me is that you're a PK 01:47 and a lot of times PKs kind of go off to the left a little bit 01:51 and then they come back and, you know, but... 01:54 And sometimes they don't, most of the time 01:56 they do come back at some point. 01:59 But it sounds as though you had a call early on. 02:04 And so did you ever have that period 02:07 where you strayed some and came back? 02:09 No, you know, and I tell people, 02:11 I don't have like some radical, you know, conversion story. 02:15 I just, I was baptized at the age of 10, 02:17 and I always just wanted to grow in Christ 02:21 and serve Him. 02:22 And I started preaching and evangelizing in high school 02:26 at Crawford Adventist Academy in Toronto, Canada. 02:29 I was Student Association pastor. 02:31 And then at 17, I went to Andrews University 02:34 and I did prayer conferences with Joe Ingle Meyer, 02:37 and Ruthie Jacobson, 02:38 and youth events with Jose Rojas, 02:41 and plan the international Pathfinder Camporee 02:43 with Ron Whitehead, 02:45 and, you know, went through college, 02:47 and university, 02:49 and did my bachelor's in religion and theology, 02:51 went back to the seminary, and did my masters, 02:54 and then I started pastoring, 02:57 and just been on the Lord's side. 02:58 Wow! 03:00 You're one of those who has known from early on 03:04 what he was called to do, 03:06 and then you just followed that which is really a blessing. 03:11 Because a lot of times, you know, like I said, 03:13 you can kind of get sidetracked, 03:15 but even in that God is merciful. 03:18 And He allows you to build experiences and things 03:20 that will contribute to whatever it is, 03:23 He has spirited you anyway. 03:24 That's right. So God is amazing. 03:26 So you went from being, 03:31 you know, the PK into basically into ministry. 03:35 Let's talk about how you evangelized at 10? 03:39 What happened at that particular, 03:42 when you went door to door? 03:44 What happened at that door? Yeah. 03:45 Well, our church said, my dad was a pastor, 03:47 we were doing community religious surveys. 03:49 And so we knocked on doors and we said, 03:52 "You know, hi, my name is Philip. 03:54 And, you know, 03:55 we'd like to just ask you a few questions. 03:57 We're doing a short community religious survey 03:59 in the neighborhood." 04:00 And we said, "Okay, you know, in your opinion, 04:02 is there a God? 04:03 You know, is there life after death? 04:05 Who is Jesus according to your understanding, 04:07 Son of God, Prophet, Messiah, not sure." 04:10 And at the very end, we said, "If you have the opportunity, 04:12 would you like to study the Bible more?" 04:14 And I remember this lady, she said, "Yes," 04:18 you know, there was an older lady, 04:19 and she was like, in her 70s. 04:21 And so I'm so excited. 04:23 And so they told me, well, you're the one 04:25 that signed her up, 04:26 you have to come back and give her Bible studies. 04:28 At ten? 04:29 So my Dad and I came back, he helped me, 04:31 and we gave her Bible studies, 04:33 and then she was ready to be baptized and I said, 04:35 "I want to be baptized as well." 04:37 And so we both got baptized together. 04:39 Oh, that's beautiful. At the age of 10. 04:41 That's beautiful. 04:42 So after you left school, 04:45 what did you do after you left college? 04:47 Yeah, after I left college, 04:49 I pastored in the Seattle, Washington area, 04:52 and was a social youth director of the Washington Conference. 04:55 And then I went to seminary and I worked with Dwight Nelson 04:58 as associate youth pastor at Pioneer Memorial Church. 05:01 And I worked with the Center for Youth Evangelism, 05:04 planning the Faith on Fire, Pathfinder Camporee 05:07 and coordinating that. 05:08 And then I got a call 05:09 from seminary to the Rocky Mountain Conference, 05:12 and I pastored there for five years, 05:14 I was associate youth director of the conference, 05:17 and then I got a call 05:19 to the Central States Conference. 05:21 And it was all in the Denver, Colorado area. 05:24 And I was a senior pastor of a large church there. 05:28 And then they also asked me to be 05:30 the communication director of the conference. 05:33 And so that's what I did. 05:35 And also it was in that time when I was a single pastor 05:39 for many years. 05:40 And, you know, 05:42 I used to walk around my apartment singing lonely, 05:44 I am so lonely I have no body 05:48 And one evening, 05:50 I had just finished doing communion service 05:53 at my church, New Year's Eve, 05:55 and it was the early days of Facebook, 05:57 the chat feature had just been introduced. 05:59 And, you know, someone popped up and said, 06:02 "Happy New Year." 06:03 And I said, "Happy New Year." 06:05 And they said, "How are you?" 06:06 In five minutes into the conversation? 06:07 She said, 06:09 "So what's a handsome guy like you doing single?" 06:11 And I said, "Well, you could give me your number 06:12 and find out." 06:14 And so she sent the number and I looked at it for about, 06:17 you know, 10 seconds. 06:18 And then I remembered Sister White said, 06:20 "The final movements will be rapid ones." 06:22 So I called her immediately on the phone. 06:25 And we talked from 10 o'clock that night 06:27 to 10 o'clock the next morning. 06:29 You talked for 12 hours? Yeah, we talked for 12 hours. 06:31 It's like a full time job. Oh, my goodness. 06:34 And the next morning, I called my mom. 06:36 And I said, I have found her, she's an angel. 06:40 And so we got married about two years later 06:43 at the Slagle Church, Willy, Anne Layn, 06:45 all of did our wedding from the General Conference. 06:48 Yes. So we're so excited. 06:50 And then after that, we... 06:53 Yeah, I pastored in Colorado Springs, 06:56 and was communication director of the conference there. 06:59 And we were praying that the Lord would open a door 07:01 because before we got married, my wife was teaching 07:04 as a teacher in Greater New York Conference. 07:07 But where we were, 07:08 that was not an Adventist school 07:09 where she could teach. 07:11 And so she was teaching in the public school. 07:12 So we were praying the Lord could open a door 07:14 for both of us to work for the church. 07:17 And so I got a call 07:19 from the East Central Africa Division 07:21 in Nairobi, Kenya, to Maxwell Adventist Academy. 07:25 And the call was for me to be the boys' dean, 07:27 and for my wife to be the principal 07:29 of the elementary school. 07:31 And so the first year we got the call was 2013, 07:35 and we turned it down. 07:37 We felt like the Lord still had more work 07:38 for us to do. 07:39 When the call came again, one year later in 2014, 07:42 and then we prayed about it, and we accepted the call. 07:46 And all my friends said, "You know, this is crazy. 07:49 How could you leave 07:50 as conference communication director 07:52 to go down to be boys' dean of an academy, you know." 07:56 But we felt the Lord leading in many ways in Kenya. 07:59 Wow! 08:00 So... 08:02 It's interesting to me that, you know, 08:04 you got a call as a missionary, basically, 08:09 to leave your comfort zone 08:12 and go over to another country with another culture. 08:16 Yes. How was that? 08:18 How was it leaving here and going to another culture? 08:22 That was quite an adjustment, 08:24 but it was a blessing to see the fervor and passion 08:27 for mission and ministry of the people over there 08:30 and to learn from other cultures. 08:32 It really opens your perspective, 08:35 you know, and broadens your horizon. 08:37 And, you know, here we baptize, 08:40 I think, I baptized hundred people 08:42 one time over here, 08:44 but we're baptizing thousands of people. 08:46 And there's such a hunger and thirst 08:48 for the Lord over there. 08:49 And I was boys' dean at the academy for a year. 08:53 And that was good 08:54 because it taught me how to say no, 08:56 you know, I'm a nice guy. 08:58 I don't like to say, no. 08:59 It taught me how say no. 09:00 And I got asked to help out at the division 09:05 with some communication projects. 09:06 They said, 09:07 "You were a communication director in the States, 09:09 can you help us with this." 09:10 And they had a project to do a video for GC session 09:14 and a deadline, and it kind of had fallen apart, 09:17 and so they asked me to take over, 09:18 and I wrote a script overnight, 09:20 and that was the video that was shown 09:22 in the 2015 General Conference session. 09:25 And after I produced that video, 09:27 then they called me to serve as the Special Assistant 09:30 to the President for the East Central Africa Division 09:33 in Nairobi, Kenya, 09:34 in charge of leadership development, 09:36 strategic planning, ASI, media, communications, 09:40 assessment, and few other things, 09:43 mission to the cities. 09:44 So all my friends said, "Wow, look at God. 09:47 You left communication director of a conference, 09:50 you went, "down," 09:52 but there's no up or down in God's eyes. 09:55 But you went to be a boys' dean. 09:57 And then you went from being boys' dean 09:59 to now assistant 10:00 to the president for the division." 10:02 And I served there for four years as a missionary. 10:04 That's incredible. 10:06 Look at how God works. 10:08 Now had you said, "No, that job is beneath me?" 10:12 Right? "I'm not doing that. 10:16 I'll do this, but I won't do that." 10:17 Right. 10:19 With God, it's go from here to here. 10:23 But it's not really down 10:25 because you're getting trained just like Joseph. 10:28 Right. 10:29 You know, I thought about Joseph, 10:31 as you were telling about your journey. 10:33 I'm thinking, you know, about Joseph 10:35 and how he went into slavery basically. 10:39 But he was being groomed for a higher position. 10:44 That's what God did. 10:45 And you were obedient. 10:47 What a lesson. 10:49 What a lesson there is, and just being obedient 10:52 and doing what God calls you to do. 10:54 Yeah. 10:55 And then being humble and just trusting the Lord. 10:57 Yes. Yes. 10:58 And it was an honor to serve, and I learned many things. 11:01 And I was able to finish my doctorate degree as well, 11:04 my doctorate ministry in communication and leadership 11:07 while I was there, 11:09 and they asked me to kind of 11:10 lead a leadership development on initiative 11:14 and train all the leaders in the division. 11:18 I was in charge of leadership development 11:20 for all the conference presidents, 11:21 union presidents, for the whole division. 11:23 And so it was a real honor to serve in that way. 11:27 And I developed actually a bunch of videos, 11:29 a bunch of resources on leadership development 11:33 which is available online now, on our division website, 11:37 and also on PhilipBaptiste.com, 11:40 with tips and resources to help you communicate 11:43 with clarity, with creativity, 11:45 and for change, and lasting impacts. 11:47 That's awesome. 11:48 And we have a sample of that video, 11:50 and we're going to show it. 11:52 Set it up for us this particular video? 11:55 This particular video is on how to mediate conflict. 11:58 And many times, you know, leaders are struggling 12:00 with how do I mediate a conflict, 12:02 people come to you and, you know, 12:04 two parties are at odds with each other, 12:06 and, you know, 12:07 they're expecting you to resolve it. 12:08 And what do you do? 12:10 And so this video, kind of, give some tips, 12:11 a brief introduction on how to mediate conflict. 12:13 That's awesome. Let's take a look. 12:15 Okay. 12:16 Welcome to communication that connects 12:21 where we share resources and strategies 12:23 to help you communicate with clarity, with creativity, 12:27 and for change, and lasting impact. 12:29 Today, I want to talk about how to mediate a conflict, 12:35 how to mediate a conflict. 12:37 So we talked about in the previous video, like, 12:40 what do you do when someone's upset at you? 12:43 How do you respond? 12:44 We talked about how do you respond 12:45 if you're the one that's upset at someone, 12:48 but suppose you're a leader, 12:49 and you have two parties that are upset at each other? 12:52 How do you mediate that conflict? 12:54 Well, I want to share an idea that I kind of got 12:57 from a conference president of mine. 12:59 Now, it was many years ago, 13:01 and there was someone frustrated at me, 13:04 and I was a little frustrated at them. 13:05 And he brought both of us as pastors into the office. 13:08 And he sat us down. 13:10 And he said, "I want you to write these two questions. 13:13 The first question is, why are we here? 13:16 Why are we here? 13:17 And the second question is, 13:19 what have I done to contribute to this problem?" 13:22 So why are we here? 13:23 And then what have I done to contribute to this problem? 13:26 And in writing those down, especially the second question, 13:29 what have I done to contribute to this problem, 13:32 all the things that you want to say 13:33 about the other person kind of fade away, 13:36 because now you have to focus on what you've done, 13:39 and it always takes two. 13:41 And so here's my tip for mediation. 13:43 Ever since that experience, I've grown, I've learned, 13:46 and I use this strategy 13:48 when I'm resolving conflicts with people is 13:51 sit people down, 13:52 and have them write those two questions, 13:54 you know, why are we here, 13:56 and then what have I done to contribute to this problem. 14:00 Then, when you're mediating, 14:01 you can use a technique that I've learned 14:03 from counselors and professionals 14:06 called the floor. 14:08 And so when you use the floor, you get a little object, 14:10 something flat, and you give it to the person that's speaking 14:14 and they're the speaker and then there's the listener. 14:17 It's called the speaker-listener technique. 14:19 So the speaker begins, 14:21 and he has to share using I words, 14:24 so I feel hurt, or I felt sad, 14:26 or I felt discouraged, or I felt disappointed. 14:29 And then the listener has to just act like a mirror 14:31 reflecting back. 14:33 So what I heard you say is that you feel hurt, 14:35 so you feel sad, or you feel disappointed. 14:38 And the goal of the listener is not to respond, 14:41 is not to say, "You're wrong, I disagree," 14:43 is just to listen. 14:45 Because remember, 14:46 the greatest gift you can give someone you love, 14:48 is to listen. 14:49 And so you just have them exchange back and forth 14:52 and listen to each other. 14:54 You know, the Bible says, "Come, let us reason together." 14:57 And that's what this technique allows you to do 15:00 is to allow each party to share, to listen, 15:03 and to own, to actually own 15:05 what they've done to contribute to the problem. 15:08 And in doing that, hopefully, 15:10 you'll be able to help them come up with a solution. 15:13 And in listening to each other, 15:14 in hearing each other's different point of view, 15:17 oftentimes, compromise can be achieved 15:20 and resolutions can be found. 15:23 Another tip for resolving conflicts 15:25 is just simply have people get out a piece of paper 15:28 and write 10 ideas, 15:30 brainstorm 10 tips for resolving this difference. 15:33 So if there's like a big conflict, 15:36 they can write down, 15:37 here's 10 ways that we can maybe resolve it. 15:40 And so I want it this way, you want it that way, 15:42 we can brainstorm, 15:44 and then each person can share their list, 15:45 and hopefully they can come up with something 15:47 that can work for everyone. 15:49 That was really good, really good. 15:53 What a blessing to have that resource available, 15:56 so that if someone is dealing with conflict 15:59 within their own organization, or whatever, 16:01 they can watch that and get some ideas 16:03 as to how to resolve it. 16:05 What other kinds of videos do you have on your website? 16:08 So there's tips for writing sermons, 16:09 tips for giving Bible studies, tips for hospital visitations, 16:13 tips for communication, 16:15 tips for, you know, writing news stories, 16:18 tips for sharing board meetings, 16:20 all kind of practical tips for leaders, 16:23 for ministry people, 16:25 for anyone that wants to just be involved in mission. 16:29 That's awesome. 16:30 And your website again is... 16:32 PhilipBaptiste.com. PhilipBaptiste.com. 16:36 Yeah. Yeah. And it's free. 16:38 And it's free. 16:39 Just like God's love is free. That's right. 16:41 You can't get any better than free. 16:42 I mean, that's amazing. 16:44 That's awesome. So you have the website. 16:47 And you're using that as part of your ASI... 16:53 Yes. Whole niche. 16:55 Let's talk about ASI. 16:56 What is it? How did it get started? 16:58 How did you get involved with it? 17:00 Yes. So that's a great question. 17:01 So when I was at the East Central Africa Division, 17:04 Ted Wilson, our GC president 17:06 said to each division president, 17:08 he said, "I wanted you to invite you to ASI. 17:11 And I want you to bring someone with you 17:13 that can be in charge of ASI from your division." 17:16 And so I was the one selected from our division 17:19 to lead ASI. 17:21 And so we went to that first ASI convention. 17:24 Then we had Steve Dickman and Kyle Allen come 17:26 and do training in our division. 17:28 And I actually successfully launched ASI 17:31 in that part of African, 17:32 we started ASI and we did some wonderful things with ASI 17:36 in the eastern part of Africa. 17:37 And because of my work there, 17:39 I was called to serve at the North American Division. 17:42 But actually, 17:44 before I was called to serve at the North American Division, 17:46 we received the call 17:48 from the Central States Conference 17:50 and from Union College to be a pastor in a church, 17:55 in Lincoln, Nebraska. 17:57 And also... 17:59 So to come from Nairobi, Kenya... 18:00 To come from Nairobi, Kenya... 18:01 Back to the States. 18:03 Back to the States to pastor and to be an adjunct professor 18:04 at Union College in the theology department. 18:07 And we prayerfully accepted that call after four years 18:10 of General Conference mission service. 18:11 And all my friends said, "You're crazy, Philip. 18:14 You're leaving, 18:15 you're like the vice president of the division 18:17 and you're going down to pastoring." 18:19 And I said, listen, I tell young people this, 18:21 you know, "God's call on our life 18:24 is a call to be faithful, it's not a call to position. 18:27 It's a call to faithfulness, wherever He places you, 18:30 bloom where you're planted, be faithful, 18:32 wherever He calls you to serve." 18:33 So we accepted that call. 18:35 And we went to Lincoln, Nebraska, 18:37 we move there, and we are excited. 18:39 And I helped that church, I needed a church building. 18:42 I helped them kind of find some church building solutions 18:45 that they can pursue. 18:46 And in three months, 18:47 we got a call after three months to serve 18:50 at the North American Division, 18:51 where they asked me to be 18:53 the departmental director for ASI 18:54 and the secretary treasurer for ASI. 18:57 And so all my friends said, 18:58 "Wow, now you're moving from pastoring 19:01 all the way to the division." 19:03 And it just goes to show, don't chase position, 19:05 just chase the relationship with God and follow Him. 19:08 See, now that is to me, that is a very key point. 19:14 Don't chase the position, chase after God. 19:17 That's it. 19:18 Follow Him. Be faithful to Him. 19:20 He's going to show you 19:21 if you know that He's telling you to... 19:24 Okay, so you're here. 19:26 And it looks like you're taking a position here. 19:28 If God is telling you to do it, He's going to restore you. 19:32 He's training you right here. 19:33 That's it. He's preparing you. 19:34 He's preparing you. That's it. 19:36 And so, what you're saying is so important 19:39 for our young people to hear, don't chase the position, 19:43 follow after God and be faithful to His calling, 19:47 and just let Him be God, let Him do what He does. 19:50 So ASI, now what is it? 19:53 A lot of people don't know what ASI is. 19:55 What is ASI? 19:56 ASI is department of the North American Division 19:59 and it stands for 20:00 Adventist-Layman Services and Industries. 20:03 And they just left out the L. 20:04 And... 20:06 Yeah. 20:07 You always gonna get confused like Adventist Layman, 20:09 but where's the L in ASI? 20:10 Well, Adventist and layman it's like one word, together, 20:13 it's like hyphenated, Adventist-layman meaning, 20:15 meeting Adventist Church members, 20:17 Adventist lay people, and services and industries. 20:21 And so ASI is about mobilizing lay business people, 20:25 lay ministry people, 20:27 and lay professionals to engage in our mission 20:30 of sharing Christ in the marketplace. 20:32 And so we do that through the ASI convention 20:36 which we have every year. 20:37 And we also do that through union chapters. 20:40 Each union has a chapter and they have meetings. 20:44 And then we have special tools that we've developed, 20:47 and designed to mobilize people to engage, 20:49 and sharing Christ in the marketplace. 20:51 That's incredible. 20:52 And how long have you been with ASI? 20:54 So I've been working, 20:56 you know, for the past three years, 20:57 in the East Central Africa Division, 21:00 but officially with the ASI North American Division, 21:03 I started in August of 2018. Okay. 21:07 And what are some of the programs 21:10 that come under the umbrella of ASI, 21:13 because ASI has so many facets to it. 21:17 It's a wonderful, wonderful program. 21:21 It really is. It is. 21:22 So tell us some of the programs 21:25 that fall under the umbrella of ASI. 21:27 So some of the special projects 21:29 which ASI has initiated, 21:31 and you probably may have heard of is 21:33 one of my favorite is called 21:34 the New Beginnings evangelistic series. 21:37 And it was developed about 20 years ago, 21:40 and New Beginnings, it's evangelism in a box. 21:43 And so it's designed for lay person, 21:45 someone that's never preached before 21:47 to be able to just use this tool. 21:49 It comes with 26 sermons. 21:51 Mark Finley wrote the sermons, and PowerPoint presentations, 21:55 and you know, the way it's done, 21:56 I've preached it in several countries 21:58 around the world, in Rwanda, in Belize, 22:00 in Brazil. 22:02 And the way it's done is that the script is right there. 22:06 So you can just read the script. 22:08 And we had a 12-year-old in Rwanda, 22:10 and he baptized like 500 people just reading the script 22:13 from the sermons. 22:15 And so it's designed for anyone, 22:16 it's saying anyone can be minister, 22:18 can be an evangelist, God's call is for everyone. 22:22 And we've also developed more recently, just actually, 22:25 this past week, we had delivered 22:28 our first shipment of 7,500 picture rolls. 22:32 And you know when you were in Sabbath school, 22:34 they had those picture rolls, and you learned about Jesus. 22:37 And so we were preaching, 22:39 we baptized 100,000 people in Rwanda. 22:42 And Ted Wilson, Nancy Wilson were there, 22:44 and so many people were preaching 22:46 simultaneously 3,000 evangelistic series 22:49 at the same time. 22:50 And we realized that many people 22:53 had PowerPoint presentations. 22:54 But where we were the power, the electricity went out. 22:59 And do you know that 23:00 there's 1.2 billion people in the world 23:03 that have either no access to electricity 23:06 or limited access to electricity. 23:08 And so what ASI has done is 23:10 we've developed these picture rolls 23:12 where we've taken these same 26 New Beginning sermons 23:16 and we've put them in beautiful attractive picture roll form 23:19 and you can use it as a tool to preach around the world. 23:24 But you can find out more about that at picturerolls.org. 23:28 And then there's project funding 23:29 that's available as well. 23:31 So if you are a church, if you have a ministry, 23:33 if you're a person with a passion for Christ, 23:37 or for sharing His love with others, 23:39 or people that are less fortunate, 23:41 you can go to asiministries.org\projects 23:45 or click on projects, 23:47 and you can find out about project funding, 23:49 our deadline is every December. 23:51 So at each ASI convention, 23:53 we pick up an offering for special projects 23:57 and at our last convention 23:59 that offering was divided among over 40 different projects, 24:04 different ministries were able to benefit. 24:06 Our goal for the offering was 1.4 million 24:09 and we raised 1.8 million. 24:11 And I'm happy to say that 3ABN... 24:13 In one offering. Was a recipient of our. 24:15 Yes, praise the Lord. 24:17 Yes. Yes. Not the 1.4. 24:19 Not the 1.4, you are one of the 40 millions... 24:22 Praise the Lord. 24:23 And you know that's such a blessing 24:25 because ministries need help. 24:27 That's right. 24:28 All of these ministries rely upon donations. 24:33 And so to get a donation 24:36 from a group like ASI and from you individual donors, 24:42 I mean what a blessing that is 24:44 because we in order to function you have to have money, 24:47 that's the bottom line. 24:49 So, ASI, make sure that there are certain ministries 24:54 that you sponsor each year 24:56 and if you have a ministry, you can apply. 24:59 Apply for funding. Right. 25:01 How would they do that? 25:02 So they would go to asiministries.org, 25:04 and click under projects. 25:06 There's an application form right there 25:08 that you can fill out. 25:10 Before filling out the application form, 25:11 I recommend watching the video it says, "Watch video, " 25:14 most people don't watch it, 25:16 it's like a small video by Herald Lance. 25:19 But it has an hour video on tips 25:22 for how to like better increase your chances 25:25 of your application being approved. 25:27 So if you watch that video that can really help you 25:29 in filling it out. 25:31 Nice. 25:32 Kind of a little tutorial essay how to push you, 25:35 boost you up in the line. 25:36 That's right. 25:38 That's awesome. Yeah. 25:40 So what would you like our viewers to know about ASI, 25:45 those who are not familiar with it? 25:47 I would like them to know that, you know, 25:49 ASI is specifically for, you know, church members. 25:54 It's not for like pastors 25:56 or people that are employed by the church. 25:58 We like to say, 26:00 if your institution is in the Adventist Church yearbook, 26:03 then, you know, you can partner with ASI. 26:06 But in terms of becoming ASI member, 26:09 you need to be a lay person. 26:11 And, you know, you can become an ASI member. 26:14 In fact, we have something new called young professionals. 26:17 And we just started that and that membership 26:19 is only $25 for the year. 26:21 And if you're 18 to 35, and you're in college, 26:24 and you're studying, or you know, 26:26 you're a young up and coming professional entrepreneur, 26:29 or even a nurse, or doctor, you can join that way. 26:33 And then there's a professional membership. 26:35 That's if you are, say you're a doctor, a lawyer, 26:38 and you're like the owner of a practice, 26:40 you would qualify for professional membership. 26:42 Or if you, maybe you're not the owner of the practice, 26:45 but you work in the practice, you're an associate, 26:47 then you can qualify for an associate membership. 26:50 Or if you're an entrepreneur, 26:52 you can qualify for business and nonprofit membership 26:55 or for profit membership, 26:57 or your organization can qualify for membership. 27:00 So there's various ways, 27:02 you could find that out asiministries.org, 27:04 and just click under membership, 27:05 and there's the application right there, 27:07 and all the information is there for you. 27:09 That's awesome. 27:11 Thank you so much for being with us. 27:12 Absolutely. 27:14 You have given us a really good information. 27:15 And it's so good to see 27:17 how God has led you all these years 27:20 from where you were to where you are now. 27:24 Yes. And He has more to go. 27:26 Yes. 27:27 There's more to come, you know. 27:28 But we're grateful 27:30 for all the work that you're doing, and for ASI, 27:33 and the way you're leading with ASI as well. 27:36 So thank you so much and thank you 27:37 for sharing with our viewers. 27:39 Thank you. 27:40 Make sure that you check out ASI, 27:41 you know, the every year, 27:43 they have a convention, go to the convention, 27:46 you will be amazed. 27:47 First weekend of August. Okay. 27:49 You will be amazed at all of the exhibits. 27:53 Well, we've reached the end of another program. 27:55 Join us next time 27:56 'cause it just wouldn't be the same without you. |
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