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01:01 Dear Lord, we thank you so much
01:03 for the wonderful opportunity you've given us
01:06 to be here to worship together.
01:09 And we pray that you will give us
01:11 the blessings that we've come to seek.
01:13 That we would be motivated and encouraged.
01:18 Lord, may your Holy Spirit speak to us,
01:20 may your angels be next to us.
01:22 And we thank you,
01:24 may you be with those who will speak
01:26 that they can have words from on high.
01:28 In Jesus name, Amen.
01:30 Please be seated.
01:44 Good morning, ASI.
01:45 How is everybody this morning?
01:48 We're gonna have some fun now,
01:49 I've the Alvarez family.
01:50 If you can come right here
01:51 and the two young people you can stand right here.
01:54 And you two there we'll get started here.
01:57 The Alvarez family is from Harlingen, Texas
02:01 which is near the south.
02:02 You can come a little bit closer.
02:04 And we have Albert,
02:07 Alicia, Alexa age 10,
02:11 Christian age 8, and Alison age 3.
02:16 Now we're very interested
02:17 in sharing with you some inspiring opportunities
02:21 and efforts that people have made
02:24 in literature evangelism work.
02:27 This is very inspiring.
02:28 And I just want to ask you Alicia,
02:31 what inspired you to get involved
02:34 in literature evangelism?
02:36 Well, as a home schooling mother,
02:38 I felt that my job is my children.
02:42 But one morning in my devotions
02:44 I read from Sister White,
02:46 where she said that just being a mother at home
02:48 is not really enough.
02:49 You should take your children
02:51 and share the Lord with your neighbors and your friends.
02:55 And you had a goal and you started doing this
02:58 and you started just a few of you,
03:01 your older children going
03:03 and selling books and what happened?
03:06 Well, we set a goal to actually help us
03:11 to be more motivated
03:12 and of course our main motivation is
03:15 sharing the Lord with those around us.
03:17 However we said, we're gonna set a goal
03:19 to make funds to help us go to ASI,
03:23 and our goal was to make 1400.
03:26 Did you reach that goal? Yes, we did.
03:28 And they are here today.
03:29 I have...can you say, amen to them.
03:32 I was talking with Alicia yesterday about 3 O'clock
03:35 and they were in El Paso, Texas.
03:38 They came from Harlingen,
03:40 which is near the southern tip of Texas
03:42 and just got here late last night
03:44 and so I met them literally three minutes ago.
03:48 So what titles do you like to share
03:51 when you're out there?
03:53 The main ones are the "Great Controversy"
03:55 and "The Desire of Ages"
03:57 and we've two different children's books
04:01 "My Friend Jesus" and "Secret Keys."
04:05 And also we like to share something about health
04:07 which is "Foods that Heal,"
04:09 and those are main books, our main sellers.
04:13 And you've to drag the kids out there
04:15 to do this each day?
04:18 No, actually they sometimes drag me out to go selling.
04:21 Okay well we wanna hear from the young people
04:24 just exactly their experiences.
04:27 Alexa, tell us anything that may have happened
04:31 while you're out there selling books?
04:34 When we were selling books then...like what, kind of?
04:40 Did you have any experiences,
04:42 people saying something to you at the door or problems?
04:45 Oh yeah, because there is one lady that told us
04:49 that her husband was out of town
04:50 and she was actually lying to us.
04:54 And so what happened?
04:56 Her daughter came up and said,
04:57 daddy is not out of town.
04:59 And so what happened?
05:02 She ended up buying two books.
05:06 Nothing like guilt to motivate a buyer.
05:10 And Christian, have you had any experiences
05:13 in selling books that you wanna share with us?
05:16 Yeah, one house we went to, there's this man,
05:21 he was a smoker.
05:23 He said he loved to read
05:26 and he brought the biggest book
05:28 that we had is the "Great Controversy,"
05:30 and on the way back to our car
05:32 at the end of the day
05:34 we saw him taking a smoke break,
05:36 but reading the "Great Controversy."
05:38 He was reading Great Controversy while smoking.
05:41 Well that's a step in the right direction.
05:43 And what happens when you,
05:45 when somebody says, no thanks
05:47 or they slam the door, what do you do?
05:49 We just prayed for them. Amen.
05:53 Can you say amen to that? Amen.
05:54 And the whole family is involved with this.
05:56 Actually, Albert is working full time as a teacher
06:01 and then moonlights doing computer repairs
06:04 but even Alison is involved in selling books.
06:08 Do you like to sell books?
06:10 Tell us how you sell books?
06:11 What do you say?
06:12 We raising funds to get to go convention at ASI.
06:21 You sold some books to come to ASI?
06:23 And what do you say, here is what, what's this?
06:26 What do you say to them?
06:28 Here is the "Great Controversy."
06:31 Here is the "Great Controversy."
06:34 And this looks likes a wonderful book.
06:37 It's a thick book,
06:39 it's got some great pictures in tit
06:41 and great quotes from the word of God
06:44 and just some wonderful things here.
06:47 Now, Alison, can I buy this book from you?
06:52 Okay. Okay.
06:54 Let's see what we can come up with here.
06:57 What's that? $10.
07:02 Well, let's see here.
07:07 Would $60 work? Yes.
07:10 What do you say?
07:12 Say Amen, thank you.
07:13 Amen. Amen.
07:19 I don't think I've enough for the valet later today,
07:21 so I might need a ride to the bank.
07:23 But you're just an inspiration to us
07:27 and we just want to thank you so much
07:30 for how you respond to people
07:32 who might be rude to you and you pray for them
07:36 and after you've come home, it doesn't stop there.
07:41 No, actually we continue praying for those
07:44 that we sold that day,
07:45 that the Lord will move their hearts
07:47 and they will be in heaven with us some day.
07:50 And so we also pray before we go asking God to guide us.
07:55 You know, we've met people like one lady
07:57 that we showed up to
07:59 and she's a Spanish speaking lady.
08:01 But she said I been looking
08:03 for some good literature to read.
08:05 And we knew that God had guided us to her door
08:08 and she actually bought
08:10 some literature from us. Praise God.
08:11 Can you say amen to that?
08:13 Here is a whole family involved
08:14 in literature evangelism work
08:16 and this is an inspiration to us.
08:18 Thank you very much. Thank you.
08:19 You can go.
08:21 You know people can still find money
08:24 for things of value, amen.
08:27 The people, you know, are all cutting back
08:30 in different ways and getting more gas efficient cars
08:33 but when you share with them
08:35 something of value they can find the money.
08:37 Just got an email a little while ago
08:41 at Creation Illustrated, and this lady was writing,
08:44 we're having to cut back, we're falling on tough times
08:47 and we're getting rid of all of our magazine subscriptions
08:51 expect Creation Illustrated.
08:53 Can you say amen to that?
08:54 My next guest is David Overmiller,
08:57 director of SOULS West.
08:58 David, what is SOULS West?
09:01 The SOULS West is a Seventh-day Adventist
09:04 Outreach Leadership School,
09:06 that's what SOULS stands for, little closer.
09:08 Yeah. Very good.
09:09 I need to say that again? Go ahead. Okay.
09:11 SOULS West is a Seventh-day Adventist
09:17 Outreach Leadership School,
09:19 that's what SOULS stands for.
09:21 It's a two year program
09:22 that emphasis not only a classroom education
09:25 and Adventist beliefs.
09:27 But also teaches Adventist youth to do
09:30 a variety of different forms of evangelism. Excellent.
09:33 And how long has this program been going on?
09:36 This is our ninth year coming up this September.
09:38 And how many graduates do you think you have so far?
09:41 The last eight years about a 150, 200 in that area.
09:44 Very good.
09:45 And how is this program different from other program?
09:48 Well it's a hard question.
09:49 There are a lot of programs out there.
09:50 But I'll tell you what we do,
09:52 and we as a school try to balance class time
09:56 with field time.
09:58 We put a lot of emphasis on time
10:00 that students would get in the field hands on.
10:03 They do colporteur practicums,
10:05 they do a Bible work practicum,
10:07 they preach an evangelistic series.
10:08 They work with local Churches,
10:10 they lead a Magabook programs.
10:12 Our students hopefully can do almost anything.
10:16 It sounds like the literature evangelism work
10:18 though is a very strong segment in the program.
10:21 And what inspired you to make this what seems to be
10:27 a foundational segment of the program?
10:30 Well, we believe firmly in the Spirit of Prophecy
10:33 and the Lord's councils,
10:34 amen. Amen.
10:36 And Ellen White says that the best preparation
10:39 for other types of ministerial labor
10:42 is colporteur work.
10:44 And we've tried to make that our base
10:47 so that students get the best preparation
10:50 for anytime of field of labor they go into. Fantastic.
10:53 Now what is the sequence that a student might go through?
10:56 I mean, are they sitting in classrooms
10:57 for six months or what happens?
10:59 The students first have to go through
11:02 summer colporteur program.
11:03 No student that's accepted into the SOULS program,
11:07 well no student accepted that hasn't canvased.
11:10 So they first have to complete a summer program.
11:13 After that when they come to the program
11:15 we alternate between class time
11:17 and field work but their first year,
11:19 we emphasized different types of colporteur works,
11:22 Magabooks, big books, Magabook leadership.
11:25 Then their second year is when they do their Bible work
11:27 and evangelism practicums.
11:29 They preach the evangelistic series,
11:30 do Bible work in a local church.
11:32 So am I understanding you do like a half a day of classes
11:36 and half a day of colporteuring
11:37 or is this broken into segments in the year?
11:40 It's broken into segments
11:41 where they would have say
11:42 a three week block of classes,
11:44 then they would go into the field for a couple weeks.
11:46 Back into the classroom for a couple weeks
11:49 and it alternates back and froth like that
11:50 throughout the whole year.
11:52 And you're based in Prescott,
11:53 Arizona, you're just doing this in Prescott itself
11:55 or elsewhere.
11:56 Prescott is just our home, when we're actually at home.
11:59 We spend a lot of the year in the field
12:02 on the road working
12:03 everything from like last year
12:05 we worked Albuquerque,
12:06 Las Vegas, Phoenix, Yuma, San Diego,
12:09 Los Angeles, Central California,
12:11 we worked the whole west coast.
12:13 Very good and sounds like
12:16 the students can do pretty well with this.
12:19 I mean does this help with their tuition.
12:21 Well, every student is a little different
12:24 but as a general rule students do very well.
12:27 The students has the opportunity
12:28 if he's faithful
12:30 and uses His money wisely to pay off his tuition
12:32 in the course of his two years.
12:33 Can you say amen to that,
12:34 go to college and learn
12:37 and be able to graduate debt free.
12:40 Now, roughly how many books
12:42 do you think you sold in a year?
12:45 Well, over the years,
12:46 I don't know,
12:47 you know, we work together with every conference
12:49 in the Pacific Union
12:50 and I know last year that students in SOULS
12:53 in connection with those conferences distributed
12:56 more than a million dollars in literature.
12:58 Amen, that's a lot of books.
13:00 That's a lot of books.
13:01 And, so you're involved, are there any testimonies
13:04 or graduates that have done, gone on to do other things.
13:09 Yeah, the door is really open for students right now
13:12 and they can go back to school,
13:14 they can go be a nurse or an accountant
13:17 and then go into the Church as a leader
13:20 and there has been some of that.
13:21 But our placement
13:22 in the Church is very high with, students.
13:25 A lot of them work
13:26 as Bible workers in local churches,
13:28 but many of them have gone on almost every union,
13:31 excuse me, every conference in the Pacific Union
13:34 as a literature ministry director
13:36 and those directors,
13:37 except for one in this union are all SOULS students.
13:40 Can you say amen to, there's people out there,
13:42 there's young people who are committing
13:44 their lives to sharing the word
13:46 and the printed word.
13:48 And this program is the foundation,
13:52 is that the young people need to good be
13:54 committed to literature evangelism.
13:57 Their call to canvas
13:59 and before they even start their education
14:02 they've been involved in canvassing.
14:05 Daivd, thank you so much for sharing with us,
14:07 God bless you.
14:09 So there's major programs out there
14:12 and I just have to tell you that
14:14 even in our little Church
14:15 in Meadow District, California,
14:16 about a hundred members.
14:18 We have students who have gone out and done this.
14:21 There is people we have
14:22 about seven literature of evangelistic.
14:24 This just in our youth group of 30 people,
14:27 there's seven literature evangelists.
14:29 Eight people came to youth for Jesus.
14:32 Six went to Afco,
14:33 five went to Mission College of Evangelism,
14:36 four Bible workers and went to SOULS West.
14:39 Now my next guest is Nelson Urge,
14:41 and you are a graduate of SOULS West.
14:44 That's right.
14:45 And you're based with?
14:48 Central California.
14:49 And the name of your ministry?
14:50 G.L.O.W. Which stands for?
14:52 G.L.O.W. is actually an acronym it stands
14:53 for giving light to our world,
14:55 one page at a time.
14:56 It's ministry basically
14:57 where we're getting people involved
14:58 and getting back into the habit
15:00 of caring literature with them where ever year the go.
15:02 And this has been going for how long? Twenty two months.
15:04 Less than two years, friends,
15:06 less than two years.
15:07 And so how did it get started?
15:11 Well not too long ago,
15:13 22 months ago we got this idea
15:15 of getting everybody involved in literature evangelism.
15:17 So we went to the books, Spirit of Prophecy,
15:20 and pulled some blueprints out of there.
15:21 We started finding quotes
15:22 like let every believer scatter broadcast tracks
15:26 and leaflets and books continue
15:27 in the message for this time.
15:29 So we started developing a program
15:30 around those kind of principles.
15:32 And do you have any stories,
15:33 these, than developed into tracks
15:37 and that are easy to hand out?
15:40 And do have any stories of people
15:41 who have responded to these tracks?
15:44 Totally, in fact every time one of us hands out a track,
15:47 the G.L.O.W. track on the back
15:48 there is contact information
15:49 so that people can sign up for Bible studies
15:50 or request more literature.
15:52 Not too long ago we actually,
15:54 a young woman went and placed a track on a table,
15:57 the Merced County jail Chaplain,
15:58 picked up the track, read it,
16:00 called the number on the back
16:02 at the G.L.O.W. program and said,
16:03 I want this literature for all 900 of my men in jail.
16:06 We mail out 2000 pieces of literature to them.
16:08 We also had another man email into us saying,
16:11 I want to get some more literature.
16:13 I love the state of the dead track that we got
16:15 and thanks to the person
16:16 who left it in the barbeque grill
16:18 at Orchard's hardware store for me. Amen.
16:21 So you can leave this anywhere.
16:22 I know that my wife
16:23 and I between the gas pumps there is a pillar
16:25 and a brick ledge,
16:26 we've left G.L.O.W literature there. Amen.
16:28 Right in eye level.
16:29 So now, it sounds like anybody can do this,
16:33 how about the young people.
16:34 Do you have any experiences there?
16:35 Totally, we have young kids all over Central California
16:39 and in various places handing out literature.
16:40 And basically, if you have a thumb
16:42 you can carry a piece of literature
16:43 and pass it out to somebody,
16:44 you know what I mean.
16:45 In fact not too long ago
16:47 we had our whole pathfinder club.
16:50 Three quarters of the pathfinder clubs
16:51 in Central California Conference
16:52 went out on Halloween night
16:54 and they passed out literature on spiritualism,
16:57 if there is one day
16:59 to go door to door it's Halloween.
17:01 Because everyone is expecting you already.
17:04 So they get very well in sending
17:07 this out on the Halloween.
17:09 And how do people order these.
17:12 I mean? Good question.
17:15 Well, you know, you're an individual
17:16 and you wanna pick up some literature
17:18 from the G.L.O.W. Program,
17:19 we actually have a booth right here
17:20 just come by we have information
17:21 so that you can call us and order more.
17:23 Even conferences, if you wanna order an book
17:25 we work with you on that as well.
17:27 We have a website sdaglow.org, sdaglow.org
17:34 and there people can get information
17:36 to connect with us and get literature.
17:38 We can do special to iterature
17:39 and stuff for people.
17:40 So if I wanted to buy a couple thousand of these,
17:44 how much do they cost or how do they come?
17:46 Well when you buy any book get them
17:48 at a really good rates from out presses,
17:50 specific press and stuff like that.
17:52 You know, the Lord has really been blessing
17:53 the ministry thus far.
17:55 We've actually ordered four million tracks
17:57 in the 22 months that this program has been around
17:59 and over two million
18:00 have been distributed all ready. Amen.
18:02 Now it's not just in Central California,
18:06 this is spreading elsewhere.
18:07 Where is this going?
18:09 That's right, actually since the G.L.O.W has started,
18:11 we have heard reports of people passing out literature
18:15 in Scotland, the Vatican.
18:18 We've got a handwritten Bible study request
18:20 two weeks ago from a person in El Salvador
18:23 and it's spreading across United States as well.
18:25 In fact we got a call from a Baptist pastor
18:28 who is in Michigan
18:29 and he found a spiritualism G.L.O.W track
18:31 on a McDonald's table
18:33 and he signed up for Bible studies.
18:35 Can you say amen to that.
18:36 Well, it's just inspiring to hear this.
18:39 And so what are some of the titles
18:41 that people can expect?
18:42 Well, we have a various like a whole retinue,
18:44 we have Sabbath, State of the Dead,
18:46 Second Coming, Daniel II,
18:48 Judgment, Health, Does God Care That I'm Hurting?
18:51 This is one that is my favorite,
18:53 Does God Care That I'm Hurting?
18:54 I use this, I went to fill up our tank
18:57 at a gas station,
18:59 a propane tank for our barbeque.
19:00 And I said to young man, how is your day going?
19:03 He says, not too good,
19:04 my horse died and my brother got a plane crash.
19:08 And I said, well, I'll be praying for you.
19:10 And I went in and paid
19:11 and he was outside having a cigarette
19:13 and I handed him this piece of literature that says,
19:16 does God care that I'm hurting?
19:18 And he thanked me
19:19 and you just don't know what's going to happen
19:22 and how is this piece helped.
19:23 Well it's been a blessing actually.
19:25 Many people have really enjoyed this track,
19:27 Does God Care That I'm Hurting?
19:28 Not too long ago.
19:29 In fact threw and half weeks ago
19:31 we found out about a story of a man
19:33 who got a hold of Does God Care That I'm Hurting?
19:36 He was on the verge of committing suicide
19:39 when the Bible worker in Templeton came
19:41 and found him,
19:42 handed him this track on Does God Care That I'm Hurting?
19:44 And he started crying even more when he got it.
19:46 The Bible worker said, what's the matter
19:48 and he said, you don't understand.
19:49 This is a third time
19:50 that I've gotten this exact track
19:52 in the past three days.
19:54 And now he is an attending search member
19:56 and he's brought his friends with him to Church. Amen.
19:58 Now this is something everybody can do,
20:00 and in 1939 the Church was very involved
20:04 in sending out tracks. That's right.
20:05 In fact in 1939,
20:07 Adventists were passing out 20 million tracks annually.
20:11 So it was a great evangelistic outreach.
20:14 Many people were coming into the Church.
20:16 Ms. White says that whole Churches were raise up
20:18 because of literature distribution.
20:20 And so anybody can do this
20:22 and we're told in the inspired word
20:25 that there will be a lot of conversions.
20:27 What does it say? That's right
20:28 in fact Ms White says
20:30 that soon more than a 1000 will be converted in one day.
20:34 Most of whom will trace their first convictions
20:36 back to the reading of our publications.
20:38 Well, thank you very much, Nelson.
20:39 This is an inspiration to us,
20:41 can you give a thumbs up to Nelson.
20:43 I know in the creation story day six
20:47 God created humans with a thumb
20:50 to be able to grasp literature
20:52 and hand it to somebody.
20:55 Okay, Volker Schmidt,
20:56 you're from Eastlex Machine Corporation
20:59 and you have a burden
21:00 for sharing the message through literature.
21:03 What, why do you do this?
21:05 Well, Tom, the world out there today
21:07 is really in a bad shape.
21:09 There are no answers to the problems we're facing.
21:12 Not only in America but around the world.
21:14 And I know that God has given us
21:16 a message that's fantastic
21:18 because He gives us the answers.
21:19 Why we're here, what went wrong
21:21 and what hope we have.
21:22 And so what is your program.
21:24 How do you do this?
21:25 Well, you know, let me tell you
21:27 what gets me going, Tom,
21:29 is when I read Matthew 28, the last three verses.
21:32 Jesus said, "All power is given to me
21:34 in Heaven and Earth.
21:35 I can walk with the creator of the universe,
21:37 I feel very good."
21:38 Then He says, go.
21:40 And that's been the problem
21:41 we haven't visited our friends
21:43 and neighbors, where ever we are.
21:44 And we need to do that.
21:45 And then at the end He says,
21:47 the last verse says, "I will be with you".
21:50 Jesus is going to be with me, that's what excites me,
21:53 I want to be close to Him doing His work,
21:55 helping other people.
21:57 So what do you use when you do this work?
22:00 Well, I use some different things here
22:03 and let me bring this out.
22:04 Number one is I've a little folder there we made up.
22:08 But basically what it is,
22:09 it's an evangelistic folder that we use.
22:12 All I do is I change some of the things on it like
22:15 for instance the dates
22:17 and the location where we use to hold it.
22:19 Take that out.
22:20 But then put an address on it
22:21 they can contact us at the end.
22:23 And what the folder talks about is,
22:26 is there going to be a one world government.
22:27 What about all things get normal again?
22:30 If God is so good, why is the world a mess?
22:32 These are the questions
22:33 that people want to know the answers for.
22:36 And that's very important in that thing,
22:37 I use that.
22:38 Then I'll also use this
22:41 which is final events from the Amazing Facts,
22:44 which talks about what's really going to happen
22:46 and how it is going to be?
22:47 Very, very good.
22:48 And then a little book
22:49 it's called Finding Peace Within, Steps to Christ,
22:52 and then Viable Questions & Answers,
22:53 and we could use any of the ASI books,
22:55 like the Great Controversy
22:56 and so on, instead of this book.
22:58 Now what do you say when you go up to a door,
23:00 you just kind of whatever comes to your mind
23:02 or do you have a sequence of things that you do?
23:06 Yeah, Tom, let me get before that
23:08 little bit something else.
23:09 You know, it's very important
23:10 that we have something that
23:11 we put into our daily schedule.
23:14 I put this in my weekly schedule,
23:15 Tom, otherwise I wouldn't do it.
23:17 We all have good intentions but we just carry through.
23:20 So Wednesday after work,
23:21 what I do is I do nothing else
23:23 but get my books, my literature together
23:26 and I get on my knees.
23:27 It is Matthew 28 again, Lord, you have all the power,
23:31 you want me to do this
23:32 and you're going to be with me.
23:33 And I pray that He will lead and guide me
23:35 then I go out, okay.
23:37 Very important that we pray.
23:39 Then what you do?
23:40 Is there a sequence of...
23:43 All right, when I get to the homes,
23:46 I go in and I say, good afternoon,
23:48 I'm Volker Schmidt.
23:49 I live over here in Todds Road,
23:50 I want to share something with you
23:52 that is meant a lot to me.
23:53 At that point I hand them this folder.
23:55 They're looking at all the subject
23:58 and then I go on and say,
23:59 you know, I, from the study of my,
24:01 oh man, I'm getting mixed up here.
24:05 That's the way it goes.
24:06 Anyway I hand them the folder then I say,
24:09 you know, from my study of the Bible
24:12 I've come to the conclusion
24:14 that Jesus is coming very soon,
24:16 maybe you found that too.
24:18 And do you have a Bible?
24:20 And then when they answer that question
24:21 then sometimes you can find out they have one,
24:23 they don't read it and so on, anyway get to going.
24:26 Said I would like to give you something,
24:28 these are the final events
24:29 according to what the Bible has to say,
24:31 not what I say or the Church says, anybody,
24:34 I think you'll really enjoy that.
24:35 And then along with that I would like to leave you
24:37 a little book called Finding Peace Within,
24:40 and they're Bible questions you will enjoy that.
24:43 I want you to get ready for Christ's soon coming,
24:46 He loves you very much and it's goodbye.
24:49 Very good and so is this something
24:51 you just started a couple of months ago
24:53 or how long have you been doing this?
24:54 Tom, I have a burden to get our message out
24:56 because it's so wonderful, fantastic.
24:58 And, but this moral regular program,
25:01 I've been doing for,
25:02 I don't know how many years,
25:03 five, ten years maybe so like that.
25:05 And I've even written up a program how what I'm doing
25:09 and if any of you are interested,
25:10 you can contact me by volker@eastlex.com
25:17 and I can send you an outline
25:18 and if you want I can even send you what we've done here
25:21 you can make your own folders out.
25:22 And it's a bit...I can testify it's a very concise outline,
25:25 very organized.
25:27 And Volker will layout and explain to you
25:30 just exactly what you need to do.
25:32 But first of all, set that time aside
25:34 every week to go out there. Right.
25:36 Let me mention something else that's very important.
25:38 When I'm finished,
25:40 I make a little map where I have been recorded in here.
25:44 So I know next time where to continue again.
25:46 And then I also pray
25:48 that God will bless the literature
25:50 and may the providential arrangements be made
25:52 in the home, that they will read and look at it.
25:55 And really get to know this wonderful message.
25:56 And so, do you have any testimonies,
25:58 what has been the results?
25:59 Anything happened?
26:00 Well, the other day I came,
26:02 the first house I came to, a lady came out,
26:04 I could tell you she wasn't from around here.
26:06 She brought her husband from India.
26:07 We had a little talk together how I like India here.
26:09 But, you know, the beautiful thing is
26:11 with this one it has multi languages on here.
26:14 So this worked really fantastically.
26:16 And he was very happy to get and I went on.
26:19 Then another house I came to,
26:22 the man after I said, do you have a Bible?
26:23 He said, oh listen I'm an atheist,
26:25 I said, oh you will really like this,
26:27 it's talking about what's going to happen
26:29 very soon here.
26:30 And I gave him the book
26:31 I believe "The Great Controversy"
26:32 now that's another way.
26:34 I want to bring this out,
26:35 Tom, when you go there will be people who will say no.
26:39 But you know I think I'm walking with Jesus
26:42 and I can experience what Jesus experienced
26:45 when He was here.
26:46 People said no, Jesus came from heaven
26:49 He gave everything.
26:50 Then they said no, it hurt Him,
26:51 it hurts me a little bit too.
26:53 But then you get to places where people are grant,
26:56 and I wanna mention this, the last house I came to,
26:59 the man came out of the house
27:01 and I gave him the literature and made my presentation.
27:03 And he said, you know, I'm so happy that you came.
27:07 I appreciate, he shook my hand and,
27:09 you know, that makes my day
27:10 and I know Jesus was happy when people received Him
27:13 and it brings joy to my heart too.
27:15 Now you know, I'm busy,
27:17 you're busy, we're all busy,
27:18 what if I don't feel called to this
27:20 I just let others do it.
27:22 You know, Tom, this is very interesting.
27:24 Every time I go there is this hesitation,
27:28 you really don't want to go and I been over this many,
27:31 many times and you know what I've concluded?
27:33 The devil says, you don't really want to go
27:36 and visit your friends and neighbors.
27:38 And I said Lord, I'm so thankful
27:39 that you are going to be with me,
27:41 I want your experience.
27:42 So you're encouraging people
27:44 to have the personal experience,
27:45 to look people in the eye.
27:48 Frankly, it's easier just to right a check
27:50 and let somebody else do it.
27:51 In fact there's young people in our own Church.
27:54 Hanna Hooker in Mississippi this summer,
27:56 sold 40 books in one day, isn't that good enough?
27:59 Doesn't that cover for me?
28:01 Well, I tell you for me,
28:02 I appreciate what experiences I...
28:05 when I look in people eyes like you said.
28:07 And I know they've responded,
28:10 it makes my week to have the experience
28:13 of having been with Jesus
28:15 and having giving them literature that day will,
28:17 that can lead them to eternal life
28:19 and I can see that one day in heaven.
28:21 Amen, amen.
28:22 Well, this is something that everyone can do.
28:25 We've heard from people
28:26 that are going to college to learn
28:28 how to be literature evangelists
28:30 and making that part of their education.
28:32 We've seen families raising money
28:34 for their home schooling and coming to ASI.
28:36 And here Volker is giving away free literature.
28:40 Is there anyone here,
28:41 this is, this is not a just a general,
28:44 you know, raise your hand
28:45 because the person next to you is doing it.
28:47 Do you feel called,
28:48 do you feel this is part of your Christian experience
28:50 to share literature with your friends and neighbors?
28:54 Amen, amen.
28:56 We wanna have a prayer so keep your hands high.
28:58 We wanna have a prayer for these people.
29:01 Schmidt told me that if 10% of the Adventist homes
29:05 would do this once a week,
29:06 how much literature would we get out.
29:08 40 million homes we would visit.
29:11 A year? Yes.
29:12 And I'm just visiting eight homes,
29:13 I didn't mentioned that.
29:14 Eight homes all I do a week, and that's a good quantity.
29:17 But if we would do that nationwide 10%,
29:20 40 million homes would be visited.
29:23 Everybody who raised your hands stand up,
29:24 we want to have a prayer for you right now
29:26 because you're making a commitment right now
29:28 to do this on a weekly basis.
29:31 Volker, would you pray for these people? Yes.
29:33 Our Father in heaven you see us standing here.
29:37 We've neglected visiting our friends
29:39 and neighbors but we want to do that differently.
29:41 Now we feel they need the same information,
29:44 the same hope that we have
29:45 and I pray Lord that you will bless each of us here
29:48 as we're standing before you.
29:49 We want to see you coming,
29:51 we want our neighbors to see you coming.
29:53 We want to be ready for your soon coming, Lord.
29:55 Bless each one and empower us with your spirit
29:58 and your might.
30:00 I pray in Jesus name, amen.
30:01 Amen, thank you. God bless you.
30:03 You're an inspiration to us.
30:04 And this is something anybody can do, amen.
30:07 The literature work, our presses,
30:09 when the Church was young, the presses started rolling
30:11 and that's why we're here today.
30:13 And the presses are still rolling
30:15 and we need to keep them that way.
30:16 You know, the printed word
30:17 can reach people like no other.
30:19 We've cell phones and Internet
30:21 and all the rest but the printed word
30:23 we've found with Creation
30:24 Illustrated magazine has a profound impact on people
30:28 when they glance, have a reason to pick it up
30:31 and then read the truth.
30:34 There's a line that is drawn through the ages,
30:43 On that line stands an old rugged cross.
30:52 On that cross, a battle is raging,
31:00 For the gain of man's soul or his loss.
31:08 On one side, march the forces of evil,
31:16 All the demons, and devils of hell.
31:23 On the other, the angels of glory,
31:31 and they meet on Golgotha's hill.
31:39 The earth shakes with the force of the conflict,
31:46 and the sun refuses to shine.
31:53 For there hangs God's son, in the balance,
32:00 and then through the darkness he cries.
32:08 It is finished, the battle is over.
32:15 It is finished, there'll be no more war.
32:22 It is finished, the end of the conflict,
32:30 It is finished and Jesus is Lord.
32:39 I heard the king of the ages
32:48 Had fought all the battles for me
32:56 And that victory was mine for the claiming
33:03 And now praise his name, I am free.
33:11 It is finished, the battle is over.
33:19 It is finished, there'll be no more war.
33:26 It is finished, the end of the conflict,
33:34 It is finished and Jesus is Lord.
33:41 It is finished and Jesus is Lord.
34:12 Good evening.
34:14 There are so many ministries
34:16 that are going on all over the world
34:19 and sharing Christ in the market places
34:21 now worldwide for our organization.
34:25 And so this evening we have the ASI President for Europe,
34:29 and we also have, who is Angel Duo,
34:33 and we have Radim Passer,
34:35 who is the VP, Vice President for Evangelism.
34:39 They're now gonna tell us
34:41 about how Europe is sharing Christ
34:43 in the market place.
34:47 It's nice to be here again
34:49 and a blessing to be here sharing with you
34:54 the experiences that we're having in Europe.
34:57 It's challenging, the word there.
34:59 But ASI is a growing force in Europe.
35:02 In this moment, we are present in 14 countries
35:06 and our membership is
35:08 more than 700 members already and growing.
35:12 But the main challenge is
35:14 to get all the lay people moving,
35:17 working for Jesus Christ and preaching the gospel.
35:21 And that is what we're trying to do.
35:23 And we are very happy
35:26 because we are finding a lot of support.
35:29 And it is written for instance,
35:32 with whom we are developing the program
35:35 with the new beginnings,
35:37 and working in small groups in all different countries.
35:41 In Spain particularly,
35:42 we've had a great experience the last months,
35:46 with our program.
35:48 And in the few months in October,
35:53 we are going to have reaping campaigns
35:55 all over the country.
35:57 And Pastor Robert Costa is going to lead
36:01 the main one in Barcelona City,
36:03 and 25 members of ASI are going to lead
36:07 their own campaigns in different towns
36:11 all over the country.
36:13 So, this is what we want to do all over Europe.
36:18 And we assure that we're gonna do it
36:22 with the Lord's help.
36:24 We're also very active in youth evangelism,
36:28 not only evangelism also training
36:30 and Radim will talk a little bit
36:31 about that just in a minute.
36:34 But I can proudly say that
36:37 we've been working this year
36:39 in a very important city,
36:41 that is Santiago de Compostela,
36:44 that is the second Catholic city in the world.
36:49 And we have a very small church there,
36:52 but we had our young people working,
36:54 and the result has been great.
36:57 Because all our young people are,
37:00 you know, very happy with the work
37:02 they've done there.
37:04 And we've reached the number of four baptisms at the end.
37:10 And that in that place I can tell it's something.
37:13 We also have a lot of people with Bible studies
37:15 and we praise the Lord for the work
37:19 that has been done there.
37:21 But this is also being done in England,
37:23 in other countries in Europe,
37:25 but that I will let Radim that is responsible
37:29 for evangelism in Europe to go on with that.
37:35 It is my privilege to be here with you, good evening.
37:39 First of all, I would like to thank God
37:43 I can be here because if 12 years ago
37:46 anybody told to me, or put me question
37:53 about the preaching gospel in the Europe,
37:55 I would him probably what is preaching the gospel?
38:00 But God is merciful.
38:03 Europe is of course difficult to mission field.
38:06 Maybe some of you can here
38:09 Macedonian calling like Apostle Paul
38:13 from Europe few years ago.
38:15 And I think we have to be good example
38:20 for our members, because we need to wake up.
38:24 We have good tools at the moment,
38:26 we translated DVD programs,
38:28 new beginnings in many languages.
38:31 We started to use program use for Jesus
38:35 in some countries in Europe like France,
38:38 Spain, and Great Britain,
38:39 Hungary, Czech Republic and few others.
38:42 Of course it's also very important
38:45 to have schools for training our evangelists
38:49 and the missionary workers.
38:51 It is very important,
38:52 it's nice also to see every year
38:55 more and more people, including youths in Europe
38:58 to have patience of sharing the Christ.
39:01 But of course we will need much workers for God's work.
39:07 In many countries
39:08 we're starting to work with small groups.
39:11 And that's why as Angel said,
39:13 we're preparing some reaping campaigns,
39:18 in some cities like Rome, Italy,
39:20 Barcelona, Spain, Lisbon, Portugal,
39:23 and Prague, Czech Republic.
39:26 And please pray for Europe.
39:30 Because some years, some centuries ago,
39:33 we exported Christianity to the whole world,
39:35 and now we're in quite opposite situation.
39:39 Also I would like to mention a little bit,
39:42 ASI work in Czechoslovak Union.
39:45 We have about 100 members,
39:47 every year we have convention
39:49 attending approximately 1,000 people
39:52 which is about 10% of the membership
39:56 some of the Seventh-day Adventist in our country.
39:59 And usually we supported about 20 projects every year.
40:04 What is important this projects
40:06 brought already many or nice numbers of baptisms.
40:10 Also in our country we have main projects use for Jesus
40:13 and new beginnings.
40:16 And we're preparing for 2011 in spring
40:19 some reaping campaign together with It Is Written.
40:24 So we have lot of work
40:26 and we are asking you for your prayers. Amen.
40:31 Thank you, Radim and Angel.
40:34 Best of luck.
40:39 And television as we know,
40:41 is one of the main mediums by which the world will hear
40:45 about the gospel of Jesus Christ
40:47 and here we have Ron
40:52 and Marta Davis of KBLN TV.
40:55 Would you tell us about what KBLN is and does?
40:59 Well first of all I would like to say
41:01 we're so happy to be here with our ASI family.
41:05 Just love it when we're here.
41:08 We really are and would be happy
41:09 to be tell you about KBLN
41:11 and we go by...KBLN are full power station call letters,
41:16 and for television station in Grants Pass, Oregon.
41:20 The name of our organization is
41:22 Better Life Broadcasting Network.
41:24 And we were in Dallas about three years ago,
41:30 introducing the idea
41:31 that we would be purchasing a full power,
41:34 another full power television station
41:36 in Roseburg area, and then along with that
41:40 a low power television station in Eugene.
41:43 And so we're here to tell you about
41:45 the rest of the story so far.
41:48 But before we do,
41:49 we would like to show you a short video.
42:00 Hello, Better Life family,
42:01 I'm Bart Shields, Director of His Song Chorale
42:04 and I'm honored to be associated
42:06 with the ministry of Better Life Broadcasting Network.
42:09 I'm blessed today to share with you
42:11 the mighty things God has done
42:13 and is continuing to do
42:14 through His broadcast ministry.
42:17 But first, some quick history
42:18 on how it all started some 20 plus years ago.
42:22 I remember when our founders,
42:24 Delmer & Evelyn Wagner saw the need to have clean,
42:26 wholesome and inspiring television programming
42:29 in Rogue Valley area here in Southern Oregon.
42:32 Back in 1988,
42:33 they ventured out in faith seeking
42:35 how that need could become a reality.
42:37 But in 1990 Better Life was on the air
42:39 with their first over the air broadcast station
42:42 and now 16 broadcast stations
42:44 later with a 6000 square foot facility,
42:47 we reach a potential viewing audience
42:49 of over half a million people.
42:51 Very soon we will more than double
42:53 our potential viewing audience
42:55 to over one million people with the accusation
42:57 of the Roseburg full power station
42:59 and the Eugene low power station.
43:03 By operating the Roseburg full power station,
43:05 the federal communications commission
43:07 requires that all cable
43:09 and satellite providers carry a broadcast
43:12 on their basic programming packages
43:14 in that designated market area.
43:16 This will cover the counties of Benton,
43:18 Coos, Douglas, and Lane.
43:21 Next on the horizon is the opportunity to triple
43:24 our potential viewing audience
43:25 to three million people with the accusation
43:27 of a low power digital station in the Portland area.
43:31 This station will broadcasting
43:33 to 51 conference church areas
43:34 in the counties of Washington,
43:36 Clackamas, Columbia, Multnomah,
43:39 along with Clark County in the State of Washington.
43:42 What an evangelistic tool to reach our neighbors
43:44 in the comfort of their home,
43:46 with the message of hope they so desperately need.
43:49 Catch the vision of those that have seen this ministry
43:51 flourish from the roots of its conception.
43:53 Time is short,
43:55 invest today in God's Kingdom building work
43:57 right here in Oregon.
43:59 Thank you very much
44:00 and may the Lord richly bless you.
44:13 Praise the Lord.
44:14 He has been so good to Better Life,
44:17 and actually all of Southern Oregon
44:20 and soon to be all of Oregon.
44:22 We are, we believe God has given us
44:24 the directive to go ye, and into all of Oregon
44:28 and further down into Northern California.
44:30 So we're on our way to do just that.
44:33 We've taken Him very seriously
44:35 about that directive
44:36 and He is providing the opportunities
44:38 to continue to go.
44:40 And I wanted to tell you now the rest of the story
44:45 about these two television stations.
44:49 We've been working for three years
44:51 trying to get these stations.
44:52 We had disappoints about them.
44:54 They didn't work out real well at one point in time,
44:58 as a matter of fact,
45:00 they were sold before we could raise the money.
45:04 And we started praying about those stations
45:07 and asked God to interrupt that sale
45:13 for the sake of the people up in those four counties.
45:16 Because they need to hear the message of Jesus Christ,
45:19 to intervene in our behalf.
45:21 And about eight months after that,
45:24 we got a call from the seller there.
45:27 And he said, are you still interested in the stations.
45:29 And we said, yes,
45:31 well to make a long story short they...
45:35 we started off at a $4 million price
45:37 they wanted for it.
45:38 We negotiated 2.7 then they sold it.
45:41 Then they came back
45:43 and we negotiated at $1.9 million then we...
45:47 While we were raising the funds
45:49 the seller went bankrupt,
45:51 so we started all over again
45:52 and we negotiated $975,000.
45:56 And then as a result we did buy it yesterday,
46:01 amen. Praise the Lord.
46:02 It closed yesterday for $900,000
46:05 another $75,000 savings.
46:08 And now we been praying about Portland
46:13 for a long time and so we got...
46:18 I've been talking to some people up in Portland
46:20 who have stations
46:22 and comparable stations are the one
46:23 that we're negotiated a price on,
46:27 are selling for $3 million or $3 million plus.
46:30 And so, that seemed like a lot of money to us,
46:33 but we were considering it,
46:35 and out of the blue a guy called me and said,
46:38 we've been on your website we see what you're doing.
46:40 We believe that God is behind this organization.
46:44 We've a television station in Portland
46:47 and we would like to sell it to you.
46:48 And I said, well tell me more
46:50 and he said we like to sell it to you for $750,000.
46:54 Now that's a miracle
46:56 and that in that market is incredible.
46:58 But he said well,
47:00 you know, since we won't have a broker involved,
47:03 we'll sell it to you for $700,000.
47:05 So we're on our way to raising the funds
47:08 for that station as well.
47:11 Now we don't have a booth here,
47:14 but we do have a relationship with Dr. Frank
47:18 and Rosalie Hurd, they have a booth.
47:21 It's in 332, so they know how to contact us,
47:25 they're also pledging certain amount of money
47:28 for the Ten Talents Cookbook
47:32 that they have toward Better Life.
47:34 So if you wanna contact us
47:36 then you can get a hold of them,
47:37 okay, in their booth.
47:39 Thank you very much.
47:41 Thank you Ron and Marta.


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