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Oh My! It’s the Grandkids!

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00:28 Welcome to Issues & Answers.
00:29 Today our topic is every child's chance.
00:32 Researchers have described the key essential learning,
00:35 its common core states standards
00:36 have been adopted nationwide
00:38 so colleges have found 17 factors that are necessary
00:41 for children to thrive.
00:43 But what is the chance that every child deserves.
00:46 Our guest today is Walter M. Turner Jr.
00:48 He grew up in Los Angeles, California
00:51 and Principal Turner went to Walla Walla,
00:53 got his masters from there,
00:55 had his undergraduate degree from Oakwood University
00:58 in ministerial theology and education secondary,
01:03 you got a lot of degrees there.
01:04 Just a few.
01:05 And you served in different capacities
01:08 as principal, dean, missionary,
01:10 evangelist in United States and abroad.
01:12 Welcome to the program, Principle Turner.
01:15 Thank you for coming.
01:16 Thank you. Thank you.
01:17 Thank you so much. Appreciate the invite.
01:19 I know you had to stop the school day
01:20 and everything to be able to come
01:22 but we're so glad to have you
01:23 and you're here to share with us about,
01:25 what is every child's chance?
01:28 What does every child deserve?
01:30 Your word says that all thy children
01:32 shall be taught of the Lord,
01:34 and great shall be the peace of thy children.
01:37 I believe that, I teach that, I preach it, I live it
01:40 and it started with me way back in the third grade
01:43 when I had repeated third grade
01:46 for not doing well academically.
01:50 And but it was not until the sixth grade
01:52 that I had teachers that cared about me
01:55 and were determined that I would be a success
01:57 and not a statistic.
02:00 And we accept that Jesus Christ is our Lord and savior
02:03 in the sixth grade...
02:05 In the sixth grade?
02:06 In the sixth grade, continued on a public school
02:09 and went to Whaley Junior High School
02:11 in Compton, California.
02:12 Wow.
02:14 And it was that year that I decided
02:16 that I needed out of public school.
02:19 So you had just kind of gotten into a new faith,
02:22 had repeated the third grade
02:25 and now we're thinking that you needed a new kind of school
02:29 coming from Compton.
02:31 What did you do next?
02:32 You know, what is your family?
02:33 What kind of decisions did they make for you
02:35 so that you'll be successful?
02:36 Well, there are five of us
02:38 and we couldn't afford it
02:41 and my dad said, I would not give a one penny
02:44 for Christian education because I pay taxes,
02:48 and my mother stepped out in faith
02:51 through the encouragement of the dear sister
02:53 that brought her to the Lord
02:55 and said, I'm gonna put you in.
02:59 We're gonna put the children one at a time
03:00 and so I started at LA Union...
03:03 Oh, yeah.
03:04 In the seventh grade.
03:05 Wow.
03:07 And it was in the seventh grade
03:08 while I was having worship, the Lord said,
03:10 "Walter, I want you to be a minister."
03:13 In the ninth grade, He says,
03:15 "Walter, I want you to be a teacher."
03:17 And that's what He instructed me
03:19 to go ye therefore and teach all nations.
03:22 And that's what we've been doing
03:23 for the past 32 years teaching all nations.
03:27 So when you got that calling,
03:28 'cause not everybody gets a calling on their life,
03:31 you know, where direct kind of voice from God
03:33 at such a young age.
03:34 How did you receive that?
03:37 You know, what steps did you take after ninth grade
03:39 to be able to become that minister teacher?
03:43 Well, I listen to the Lord.
03:46 I spend lot of time in Bible study and prayer.
03:49 I did a lot of evangelism,
03:51 worked with the, the former George Rainey.
03:54 Our Pastor Samuel Myers in Los Angeles,
03:58 I worked with other evangelists in the LA area
04:01 where we raised a church every year
04:04 for about eight to nine years a brand new church.
04:06 Wow.
04:07 So I've lot of experience in evangelism.
04:09 And then as I was growing and studying,
04:13 the Lord said, go to Oakwood,
04:15 and I went to Oakwood and went right in education,
04:19 got my degree in theology
04:20 and modern history secondary education,
04:23 and from then on rest has been history.
04:26 Been rolling ever since. Been rolling ever since.
04:27 So now, like tell us some of the experiences
04:29 that you've had like, you know,
04:32 your first school was it all equipped,
04:34 did you have, you know,
04:35 every single thing that you possibly
04:37 could need in the classroom,
04:39 what was it like?
04:41 That was in San Francisco.
04:43 Matter of fact I was hired with a telephone interview
04:47 and my mother called me, she says,
04:51 "Walter. a Mister Stigner has called you,"
04:54 I said mommy, "Stignar,"
04:56 so I called the number, it was Mister Stigney.
04:59 Very fine Christian gentleman and he interviewed me,
05:02 next thing I knew my wife and I were headed to San Francisco.
05:07 Did we have everything?
05:09 No, but it was great school and several of the students
05:11 that we have taught
05:13 have gone on to be Christian professionals
05:16 in our Christian school in our small Christian school,
05:19 it went from K through tenth grade.
05:21 Yeah, I'm familiar with the San Francisco Bay area,
05:24 right, I worked there and lived there myself,
05:28 and so that's a kind of a interesting situation.
05:31 You've got a city, a big city environment there,
05:34 and a lot of private schools,
05:36 good private schools that are there
05:38 but kind of going on to what,
05:40 why was it so important do you think for people
05:43 to send their kids to a Seventh-day Adventist school
05:46 in San Francisco.
05:48 Several of the parents understood
05:51 that the foundation of their children,
05:54 the educational foundation of their children,
05:57 what they were doing at home was important
06:00 and doing for Sabbath school
06:02 church is very important,
06:04 but they always needed other tier,
06:06 and I believe in the home school
06:08 and the church approach
06:09 you need all three tiers,
06:10 and if one of those tiers is broken,
06:13 your children many time would be deficient
06:16 and it has been proven through studies
06:18 that the longer our children are in our church schools,
06:23 the likelihood of them staying in the church
06:26 and growing in the church increase, it increases,
06:31 if they've done the study, it has been proven.
06:33 And so San Francisco was a challenge
06:35 but it was good and several of those students
06:37 I've kept in touch with them,
06:39 and they're still in the church today.
06:41 Wow. Amen.
06:42 And you said they are also serving in capacities
06:44 as our Christian educators around the country.
06:47 Educators, doctors,
06:50 they worked, they worked in banks,
06:52 in other professions in the San Francisco area.
06:56 It's been a blessing. Wow.
06:58 So now you left San Francisco and did you go to...
07:01 I know, we've talked about
07:03 some of your boarding school experiences,
07:05 share us some of those life experiences with the kids,
07:08 what are some of the memories that you have from there?
07:11 Our first boarding experience was in little small school
07:16 in Pennsboro, West Virginia, self supporting school.
07:20 And that was a blessing
07:22 'cause one of the students that graduated from that school
07:26 is now a minister and has done great work
07:29 in the Adventist church.
07:31 From there another boarding school
07:33 we've worked in was Auburn Adventist Academy
07:36 in Auburn, Washington.
07:37 Great school, we love Auburn and I encourage anyone,
07:43 if you're looking for a school where your children
07:48 need to go away, please send them to Auburn.
07:50 So Auburn okay,
07:51 the question now everybody's boarding,
07:52 schools gonna say settle there, settle there, so...
07:54 Yes, there is no place like Auburn.
07:56 Okay, great.
07:57 So tell me about Auburn.
07:58 Tell me about some of the kids and some of the families
08:00 and some of the situations that you dealt with there?
08:04 Well, Auburn, Auburn was, it was wonderful.
08:06 We would on Sabbath afternoon
08:08 knowing that kids in the dorm love home cooking.
08:14 I would cook on Friday afternoon
08:16 expecting another 15 or 20 to come to the house.
08:19 Some would come on Friday night after worship and eat,
08:23 and some would come Sabbath afternoon
08:25 that we will see them mattering across the campus.
08:30 I said, young people, have you checked out the dorm?
08:33 Do the deans...
08:34 Know that you're out. And they would say, no.
08:36 I said, okay, well come on in, come on in,
08:39 and there is a kitchen go eat
08:42 and call the dorm and let the deans know.
08:46 It was just, that was one experience.
08:48 Something else that happened, our second year there,
08:53 I encouraged the juniors to take their campus for Christ
08:59 and they started their own prayer meeting.
09:01 Really, what did they do?
09:03 They divided in a several segments.
09:05 One was Bible studies, one was testimonies,
09:09 one was a music ministry, they had different ministries.
09:11 My job was simply to open the door and to monitor,
09:14 to make sure the kids were doing with,
09:15 they were conducting themselves.
09:17 And it was wonderful, several of the young people
09:21 that they brought in seniors,
09:23 they brought in freshmen, sophomores
09:25 and then around my third or fourth year there
09:28 'cause I worked there for six years.
09:30 There were students that, they said, "Mr. Turner,
09:32 we need to have our own Bible study in the afternoon."
09:36 So I opened up the dorm,
09:39 I mean up the chapel at the school
09:42 and they start off with 10 kids, 15, 25, 30,
09:46 next thing though we were in the library,
09:49 it was scores of children.
09:50 Wow, just voluntary. Yes.
09:52 Not required worship, just on their own.
09:55 Yes. On their own.
09:56 So was every job perfect at the school
09:58 that you ever went,
10:00 no problems with any of them, right?
10:01 Well, being the...
10:03 I went, I started there
10:05 as the eleventh and eighth grade,
10:07 I mean the Bible eleven teacher.
10:10 And I taught some math and some history on the side.
10:14 My fourth, fifth and sixth year,
10:17 I became the vice principal and village dean.
10:23 And someone had told me that I was gonna be a dean.
10:25 And I said, oh, no, I'll never be a dean.
10:27 But yes, I became the dean,
10:29 the village dean, the head dean.
10:31 And there were some students that we had to ask
10:34 not to return unfortunately.
10:37 One of them that we had to ask not to return, it was rough.
10:42 Yeah.
10:44 His mother and father were very hurt by it,
10:46 but they knew it was the best thing.
10:48 About a year later
10:52 spoke to the young man and his parents,
10:55 he is now giving Bible studies and bringing others to Christ
11:00 for the same reason that he was asked to leave,
11:02 he is now ministering to those type of individuals.
11:04 Wow. Wow.
11:06 So and he said, the best thing for him was
11:08 for us to ask him to depart.
11:11 It turned his life around.
11:12 How about academically, you know,
11:14 lot of times people say,
11:15 well, it's really great to be able to send your child
11:17 to a Adventist school but the academics,
11:21 you know, we know they're gonna get Jesus
11:23 and everything but...
11:26 You know, do you have any stories of were you've seen
11:28 people's lives totally turn around some kids,
11:30 maybe they came in low and you know
11:32 share with us then?
11:33 I have several.
11:37 There was one young man in San Francisco.
11:40 He was not doing well academically.
11:45 And he was a discipline issue.
11:47 We had to encourage him.
11:49 Back in those days, you could use other methods
11:52 to help them to...
11:54 And now we cannot.
11:55 Yes, amen.
11:58 But I learned that by taking this young man
12:00 and putting him in the dirt.
12:03 Having him digging the dirt,
12:04 it did something to burn off that extra energy
12:09 and his mother says, "Mr. Turner,
12:11 what are you doing to my son?"
12:12 I said, "Oh, oh, oh, wait, wait, wait, Mrs. Ramoue,
12:15 what do you mean what I'm doing to your son."
12:17 My son is not getting in trouble,
12:18 his grades have gone up, what has happened?
12:20 I said, "Oh, it's simple, I put him in the dirt."
12:23 In the dirt?
12:25 He, teacher would send him to my class,
12:27 he'd get in trouble, I send him out into the garden
12:29 and say, I say, Eakay, I need two rows,
12:33 I want all the weeds taken out, I want you to dig it up,
12:36 take all the weeds out, he did a beautiful job.
12:39 His academics went up,
12:42 his discipline issues went down.
12:44 The same young man started attending Sabbath school
12:48 and he was there before the Adventists were
12:51 for Sabbath school.
12:52 He was there at 9 o'clock 'cause he had to catch the bus.
12:55 And he also joined pathfinders he and his brother.
12:58 And thank God, it was a miracle that happened years later.
13:03 I was the only teacher
13:04 that he invited back to his wedding.
13:06 Wow. My wife and I.
13:08 That's really great.
13:09 That's just one and now there have been other young...
13:11 Tell us some more.
13:13 That have struggled over the years.
13:16 And I remember one young man
13:19 I taught in Las Vegas and the pastor said,
13:24 my son has never done well in school,
13:29 and he has turned it around and it's all because of Mr. T.
13:33 And I said, no, it's not me, it's Jesus.
13:36 I'm just loving the kids and helping them to know Jesus
13:40 as their personal savior and putting before them
13:42 that they can be whatever they want to be
13:45 and so yes, there have been students throughout the years
13:48 that have just, they did just enough to get by
13:51 and I've held the fire to them,
13:54 I said, you can be, you could do better than this.
13:57 You know, there is no mind we have been told
13:59 there is no mind that is too dull to learn, no mind.
14:01 Right, right.
14:02 So I believe it and I tell kids regardless of your past scores,
14:07 regardless of your low grades, you are intelligent,
14:10 you are smart, and they said, "I am?"
14:14 And then I help them, take them where they are
14:17 and then build them up, and then as they see
14:19 success breed success, and that's very, very important
14:23 that our audience misunderstand.
14:24 Success breed success, so if every parent,
14:27 teacher, educator,
14:31 church member will simply take the kids where they are
14:34 and continue to give them positive encouragement.
14:38 They will climb and as a result
14:41 some have become great leaders in our church today.
14:43 They've baptized many souls, so God says,
14:46 he said, Walter, go take this gospel to all the world,
14:48 teach all nations, I have done that
14:50 and those students have gone throughout,
14:52 throughout the world.
14:54 Some have been missionaries,
14:56 there two have been my own children.
14:57 Wow.
14:59 And that has been a blessing.
15:01 Well, I'm big on the Christian education too...
15:02 Yes, Ma'am.
15:04 As a Christian educator, I got my shirt on.
15:05 Yes.
15:06 Okay, and my children have gone through.
15:08 Amen.
15:09 But what can you share with your audience
15:11 what is special?
15:13 What happens like in a typical day
15:15 in a Adventist school?
15:16 What's so special about there as supposed to maybe
15:20 another kind of a school.
15:21 Why again we got to go back to that
15:23 because a lot of people are asking that question.
15:25 Yeah, you know,
15:26 if I take my kid to my children to church,
15:30 you know, helping them after school
15:32 and we're having worship in our home,
15:35 you know, and the cost for Christian education?
15:39 The cost, I deal with that first.
15:40 The cost is an investment.
15:45 It's not, yes, I could drive a nicer car today,
15:50 I could have nicer clothes and fancy house,
15:54 but knowing that my children and I've called them,
15:59 text them on Sabbath morning, they text me
16:04 and they've told me daddy we're in church.
16:07 I said, "Why are you texting me in church?"
16:10 You know, there was something happening in church
16:11 and as if is it
16:13 something exciting was happening in church
16:14 that they want me to know about it.
16:17 That is very, very important.
16:21 The foundation that we set with the morning worship
16:24 with Sabbath school and then school, why school?
16:29 We're taught, we are told about serving the Lord
16:33 that is that early education,
16:35 those first few years, many wait till college.
16:41 And I say it kindly, it's too late
16:43 because their habits have already been formed.
16:46 So we over the 32 years,
16:50 the teachers that I have worked with
16:51 were shaping and molding characters.
16:54 When a child has an issue, we can stop and we can pray.
16:58 We can encourage them.
16:59 We can put our arm around them.
17:01 And they're hurting on the inside,
17:03 they're coming from situations where home may be broken.
17:07 And we can say, Jesus is there with us.
17:11 We can do this in Jesus.
17:12 The Lord is going to anoint.
17:14 He's gonna work the situation out.
17:15 I've had to bury students.
17:17 I've had to deal with those that have lost loved ones.
17:21 And when you can take that spirituality and the academics,
17:27 then you have a holistic person,
17:28 and they're well rounded,
17:30 and they can go on to do great things.
17:32 So the typical day, yeah, but the typical day,
17:36 we start the day off with worship.
17:38 We start it off with Jesus.
17:39 I've had parents tell me, "Mr. Turner,
17:42 I know my child is active but one thing that
17:47 I'm loving above all things is him coming home
17:50 quoting scripture, singing the Christian songs,
17:54 excited about his studies.
18:00 What else can I say, it just,
18:02 and then you just continue to build on that
18:04 and continue to build on it.
18:05 And as a result every school,
18:08 every school that I administered in
18:11 several have given their life to Jesus, several.
18:16 And that's the most important thing,
18:17 you know, that's the big why,
18:19 that we want to have the kids be
18:21 able to give their hearts to the Lord.
18:23 You mentioned something that I want to go back to,
18:25 you said that you had to bury some students.
18:27 Yes.
18:28 How old were they?
18:30 One was in the,
18:31 I believe she was a first grader, she had cancer.
18:34 First grade?
18:35 So there is no guarantee
18:36 that children are gonna live a certain life
18:39 and then we hope maybe when they get older,
18:41 then they'll accept Christ and they'll kind of come back,
18:45 first grade, that's kind of young
18:47 and what was the other age of the other one?
18:49 There've been, there've been...
18:51 There was one young man, he was in his early twenties.
18:55 He had a disease, it took his life,
18:58 but there's one thing that inspired me,
19:00 he came to my house and said, Mr. T,
19:03 I know you're here, I just came back to see you,
19:05 and he began to tell me his experiences with Christ.
19:08 He says, I have this disease, the doctors have it in checked
19:13 and...
19:15 but the greatest thing that moved me was him sharing
19:20 how he's grown in Christ, his growing in Christ,
19:24 then two months later we learn that it took his life.
19:29 So I've had a few and it hurts
19:31 but knowing that the children are resting in Jesus.
19:34 Yes.
19:35 And I can't, that's worth it all.
19:39 It's worth it all.
19:40 It is, it is.
19:42 So let's say a parent decides okay,
19:45 we're gonna just figure out some kind of way
19:48 to pay for this education
19:51 and they bring the child to your school
19:54 and the student is low.
19:57 What kinds of things you said about little successes?
20:00 What kinds of things do you implement
20:02 to be able to help children achieve?
20:05 I've had students that couldn't speak English.
20:11 So I...
20:12 one thing I did with him, this is the fifth grader,
20:14 couldn't speak English, I had a few of them
20:17 and so I worked with phonics, very important.
20:22 So not only did I have my
20:25 non-English speaking students to phonics,
20:27 I had everyone do phonics,
20:29 because as you break up the phonics,
20:31 whole language is good you need it,
20:33 but there's something about phonics
20:35 because that's what turned me around.
20:37 I could not read,
20:39 I could not see the board, I need glasses.
20:41 And, but the teacher taught me phonics,
20:45 I was able...
20:46 Once I finally caught on that education is important
20:49 and my mother wasn't gonna accept anything else than,
20:53 and she caught my attention.
20:55 Right.
20:57 But the key was phonics, so I've taught kids phonics,
21:01 I believe in taking, taking the rudiments
21:04 of building up the comprehension.
21:07 And 'cause they have build up the comprehension,
21:11 there's various things we're using at our school in Alcy.
21:15 And as we're building up their comprehension,
21:17 we have discovered that as you build that up,
21:22 the test scores start going to the roof
21:24 because then they can get start reading
21:26 all types of genre because you've built up the reading,
21:30 and then of course with the math.
21:31 We've done several things with our math,
21:33 with the new math system
21:35 we have in our Adventist system,
21:36 and our kids are making strides and so we're looking...
21:41 What I like to see with my students
21:44 is two years of growth in one year.
21:46 So if a student is low, very low
21:48 you take them where they are,
21:50 you build on those low areas and success breed success,
21:54 and next thing you know,
21:55 the child says I am intelligent,
21:57 I can learn and he starts taking of.
21:59 Right, so where does the Word of God
22:02 come into this reading and math
22:06 and science and social studies,
22:08 how was that integrated in Adventist schools?
22:11 Throughout the whole curriculum.
22:13 Bible is not just taught in Bible class.
22:16 Biblical principles are expounded upon,
22:19 are shared in all of, in every aspect.
22:23 I've heard it from all of my teachers.
22:24 I've walked in the classrooms, one of which is yours.
22:27 Yeah.
22:29 And I've heard the Word of God being expressed in science.
22:32 I've heard it expressed in social studies,
22:35 that is not going to happen in public school.
22:37 It can't happen in public school.
22:39 Right.
22:40 They aren't sure... In fact they're opposite...
22:42 They aren't sure whether or not we came from monkeys.
22:43 Yeah.
22:44 Now I share with my students.
22:46 I've known individuals that look like monkeys,
22:48 they may act like monkeys
22:49 but none of us have ever come from monkeys.
22:51 They are not our cousins. Right.
22:53 We are made by the creator.
22:55 We come from His hand.
22:57 And so there is like this whole new curriculum
22:59 with Adventists that's by designed,
23:02 tell us a little bit about that as it relates to science?
23:06 It's excellent.
23:07 It is excellent.
23:08 I've had parents tell me that it is, that what she,
23:11 one of parents mission to me just recently
23:14 that what she is doing in nursing,
23:15 what she is studying in nursing,
23:17 it's being presented on a easier lower level
23:21 in our seventh and eighth grade curriculum.
23:23 And she is saying she is excited,
23:25 she says, this is the best science program
23:27 she has ever seen.
23:29 We're one of the best in the country.
23:31 Wow, so what about the common core state standards
23:34 and you know all of these other kinds of things
23:37 that are, you know, does it
23:38 will students coming to an Adventist school get that?
23:42 Will they get? That class.
23:43 Oh, yeah.
23:44 We have... It's been proven.
23:46 That a student will be average in our schools,
23:49 leave and go to public school and next day,
23:52 you know, they're top at their class.
23:55 And the parent say, well, how can it be?
23:57 It's real simple.
23:59 Because we don't have
24:00 the discipline issues of public school,
24:02 so our teachers can teach.
24:06 We're held to a higher standard,
24:08 so we're not able to...
24:09 What standard?
24:10 When you say you are held to higher standard.
24:12 what does that mean? The word.
24:13 The Word of God? The Word of God.
24:15 God says that our children are to be taught,
24:17 they had to be the head and not the tail.
24:19 That's true.
24:21 He wants our kids to be the head, not the tail.
24:23 So since he wants our kids to be the leaders.
24:27 I share with my parents and my students.
24:30 There are ten people looking for a job,
24:34 there're only two jobs.
24:37 Why not, shouldn't those two jobs go to us?
24:41 And what has happened over the years,
24:43 our Adventist children are well prepared
24:46 to go into every aspect of service.
24:51 I've had, I've known individuals
24:52 that attended Oakwood and because of their academia
24:56 and because of them pushing and doing well
24:58 on their test scores as well as in their school work,
25:02 they have been offered jobs.
25:04 One for the CIA
25:08 so I know this happens.
25:11 Wow, wow so where it is okay
25:14 so we've talked a little about the spirit,
25:15 we talked about the academics,
25:18 what about social?
25:19 Social?
25:20 That's very, very important
25:22 because our kids just like any other children
25:27 come to us with their issues,
25:32 and so we encourage
25:35 going spiritually mentally and socially.
25:38 We encourage our kids
25:39 on how they are to speak to each other.
25:42 How they are to relate to each other?
25:45 How they are to respect each other?
25:48 And if a student decides
25:51 they don't want to be respectful,
25:53 obedient, courteous, kind,
25:56 then we have to ask them,
25:58 maybe this is not the place for you.
26:00 But for the most part after much prayer, hard work,
26:04 the majority of them
26:06 through the anointing of the spirit,
26:07 turn it around and say, I want this.
26:12 And I got so many parents say,
26:13 there's something different about my child, what is it?
26:17 I said, I don't know.
26:19 Wow.
26:20 But I do, I guess I do know what it is?
26:22 It's the spirit. The Holy Spirit.
26:23 The God has promised, that in the last days,
26:26 He would pour our His spirit upon all flesh,
26:28 that's a promise.
26:30 And so I claim it,
26:31 I claim for the anointing of God upon the children.
26:33 And then, not only the children but upon their parents.
26:38 And as a result of the children hearing about Jesus,
26:41 we've had non-Adventist parents
26:44 accept Jesus as their personal savior.
26:47 One school I taught at just recently,
26:50 the whole family was baptized
26:53 because of the daughter.
26:54 I made a call during one chapel,
26:57 and the girl went to the bathroom,
26:58 got on her knees, gave her life to Jesus,
27:01 went home told her parents about it
27:04 and the whole family was baptized.
27:06 Well, Principal Turner,
27:07 this has really been enlightening,
27:09 it's been fantastic.
27:10 We didn't really get a lot into the sports,
27:11 but the sports have a part to play
27:13 in Adventist education just briefly?
27:15 Briefly.
27:17 Sports does, but I encourage young people,
27:20 God has not called us to be professional athletes,
27:24 and yes, I do know some individuals
27:26 that have had the opportunity to go into professional sports
27:29 but they have not.
27:30 Wow.
27:31 Because of the Sabbath issue. Right.
27:33 Play the sports, have fun, but don't forget Jesus.
27:36 Well, I want to thank you so much
27:38 for coming to the program today.
27:39 It's just been very enlightening,
27:41 we really appreciate your coming.
27:44 We always like to end with a prayer
27:46 for the families that are part of this,
27:48 so we probably close out today with our prayer.
27:51 Would you offer prayer for us?
27:53 Yes, let us pray.
27:54 Father God, in the name of Jesus,
27:56 we want to thank You for this privilege
27:58 to be here today to share
28:01 and to experience You.
28:02 There are many people that are listening today,
28:06 they need to put their children in church school,
28:08 they need to make a decision.
28:10 They may not be able afford it.
28:13 They may not know where the school is.
28:15 Oh, please, dear Lord,
28:16 open the door, just as You did for me.


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