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00:02 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:19 Removing pain 00:24 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:46 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:09 Hello, and welcome to 3ABN Today. 01:12 Oh, I'm so excited about 01:13 the program that we have for you today. 01:16 We wanna thank you for joining us 01:18 for taking time out of your busy schedule 01:20 to be with us 01:21 because we know 01:23 you're going to be blessed today 01:24 by the information, 01:26 the stories, the interview, all of it. 01:29 God has a special blessing in this for you. 01:32 So before we get into introducing our guests, 01:35 let's have a little bit of music. 01:39 Message of Mercy is going to sing 01:41 "Total Praise." 01:47 Lord, I will lift 01:53 Mine eyes to the hills 02:01 Knowing my help 02:07 Is coming from You 02:14 Your peace, You give me 02:20 In time of the storm 02:29 You are the source Of my strength 02:36 You are the strength of my life 02:44 I lift my hands 02:48 In total praise 02:52 To You 02:55 Amen, amen 03:07 Amen 03:10 Amen, amen, amen 03:14 Amen 03:22 Amen, amen 03:35 Thank you, Message of Mercy. 03:37 I love that song. Amen. 03:39 I've heard that song for so many years 03:41 and it always kind of transports me, you know, 03:43 you just wanna lift your hands in total praise. 03:45 Amen. Amen. 03:47 And I know that you are guests have praise for the Almighty. 03:52 I mean... Amen. 03:53 He has been doing some amazing things. 03:55 Let me introduce you to our viewers. 03:57 Dr. Lela Gilbert. 04:00 You are the Medical Director for AWR360 Health. 04:05 Welcome. Thank you. Nice to be here. 04:06 Oh, it's so good to have you. 04:08 And then Pastor Kyle Allen, 04:10 you're the Vice President of Adventist World Radio. 04:13 It's good to be here. 04:14 And then Hadassah Lewis, 04:17 the Collegiate Representative for AWR360 Health. 04:21 Thank you. Welcome to all three of you. 04:23 Thank you. It's great to be here. 04:25 So good to be here. We love 3ABN. 04:26 Amen. Oh, we love having you. 04:28 So tell us first of all, what is AWR360 Health? 04:32 What is that? 04:34 Well, Pastor Kyle, 04:35 why don't you start what is AWR360? 04:37 Well, let me back up actually beyond that 04:39 and say AWR, of course, 04:41 now we've had some programs 04:42 here on 3ABN before talking about 04:45 our ministry around the world. 04:47 Adventist World Radio is the radio broadcast arm 04:50 of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. 04:51 So all of the radio stations around the world 04:54 that the Adventist Church operates 04:56 are affiliated with AWR, 04:57 over 1000 radio stations around the world. 05:00 That's amazing. 05:01 It's incredible, including, of course, 05:02 our flagship shortwave station in Guam, 05:05 which reaches one third of the world's population 05:07 from that one radio station. 05:09 That's amazing. Wow! One third? 05:10 One third, one third of the world's population. 05:13 So we've been broadcasting on the radio since 1971, 05:17 the Adventist message. 05:18 And our motto is no walls, no borders, 05:20 no limits because radio can go 05:21 where missionaries can't even go, right? 05:23 That's right. That's right. 05:25 We'd like to say, radio can go wherever air goes. 05:29 And it's incredible the testimonies 05:31 that we could share story after story about 05:33 what God is doing. 05:34 Yes. 05:35 One of the things that I know about radio is that 05:39 I've been doing some reading on Muslims, 05:43 people who are in the Islamic faith 05:45 who cannot talk about Christ, 05:47 who cannot go out but they can hear the radio. 05:50 That's right. 05:51 And so, you know, 05:53 I just think it's so incredible. 05:54 Come on, come on. I know you have a story, Kyle. 05:56 I just have to share something I wasn't gonna share this, 05:58 but just on that note, 06:00 I was talking about the shortwave, 06:02 just a couple of months ago, we heard this story that 06:06 there are Muslims in Afghanistan 06:08 living in the mountains of Afghanistan 06:10 in the Taliban controlled area. 06:11 Okay, so this is a dangerous area. 06:14 You can't become Christian, missionaries can't go there. 06:16 Long story short. 06:17 They've been listening to AWR on their shortwave radios. 06:20 Wow! 06:22 We now have 60 Seventh-day Adventist believers 06:24 in the mountains of Afghanistan because of shortwave. 06:28 They meet in homes. 06:30 They tried to meet together as a group, 06:33 but they were threatened to be killed by the Taliban. 06:34 Wow. 06:36 And so now they meet secretly in homes 06:37 still listening to AWR. 06:39 Four of them have been able to be baptized. 06:41 So by God's grace, 06:44 the whole group wants to be baptized, 06:46 but just pray for those new believers of Afghanistan, 06:49 but that was... 06:50 I just was reminded of that when you mention. 06:51 Oh, thank you for sharing. Oh, that's kind of like health. 06:54 I mean, if I can just throw that in there 06:55 because health is the same way, 06:57 you know, it breaks down barriers, 06:59 just kind of like a radio that goes to places 07:01 we can't get to. 07:03 Health meets people that otherwise we could not reach. 07:06 That's right. 07:07 And so, and on that note, 07:09 just to say what AWR360 means. 07:12 So for AWR has been broadcasting 07:15 for a long time, 07:16 but in the last couple of years, 07:17 under the leadership of our President 07:19 Elder Dwayne McKee, who's a visionary evangelist... 07:22 Yes, he is. He said, you know what? 07:24 We wanna really focus 07:25 on the total picture of evangelism. 07:28 So it's not just broadcasting, it's broadcast to baptism. 07:33 And so AWR360 leading people from hearing the message, 07:38 showing them Christ's love, 07:40 and then leading them to make a decision 07:42 to be a part of His church family, 07:44 the Seventh-day Adventist Church. 07:46 Three hundred and sixty degrees that's so... 07:47 I love it. Yeah. 07:49 And so that's where 07:50 the health component fits in because, 07:52 you know, we're told that the gospel, 07:55 the health is the right arm of the gospel, Dr. Lela. 07:57 That's right. 07:58 And you and I believe very strongly 07:59 in the combination of those two things. 08:02 In fact, Sister White says that if you separate the two, 08:05 if you separate the gospel from the medical work, 08:08 the worst evil is accomplished that God... 08:11 He wants those to be combined so great. 08:14 And, of course, that's both of our passions, so. 08:16 And doesn't it make sense to combine it 08:18 because when you can help someone 08:20 or someone in somebody else's family, 08:24 help them to feel better, 08:25 help them be able to think more clearly 08:28 to be able to even interpret the word better. 08:31 That's right. 08:32 I mean, it's just such a blessing, 08:34 they're gonna listen to you. 08:35 That's right. They trust you. They trust you. 08:38 It opens that door of trust. Absolutely. 08:40 And that's the way Jesus worked, right? 08:41 That's right. 08:43 We know that Ellen White says in Ministry of Healing, 08:45 page 143 quote that we've all heard 08:47 and it's a beautiful one. 08:49 "Christ's method alone will give true success 08:52 in reaching the people. 08:53 The Savior mingled with men." 08:55 He mingled with them, "as one who desired their good." 08:57 Yes. 08:58 And minister to their needs, 09:00 "showed sympathy for them and won their confidence." 09:03 But it doesn't stop there. 09:04 "Then He bade them, 'Follow me.' 09:06 " That's the model for AWR360 and AWR360 Health. 09:10 And so that's why we've said, 09:12 "We're not just gonna broadcast, 09:14 we want to broadcast, 09:15 we want to have the health component, 09:16 and then ultimately leading them 09:18 to that decision of, will you follow Christ? 09:19 " That's right. 09:20 So that's really where it's all about. 09:22 And, you know, Elder McKee, 09:25 our president and I both had 09:27 the privilege of knowing Dr. Lela... 09:29 For a long time. 09:31 For a few years and, Hadassah, 09:32 you were a little bit shorter then. 09:35 She's now become a wonderful young woman here 09:38 and a college student. 09:39 But I'm telling you, in 2014 we both Elder McKee 09:43 and I went to the first 09:45 Your Best Pathway to Health event, which Dr... 09:47 In San Francisco. 09:48 Yes, which Dr. Lela was in charge of... 09:50 And both of us... 09:52 And I actually didn't know him at the time, 09:54 really but both of us were very inspired 09:57 by what happened there. 09:58 Now what did you see there? 10:00 When you first went there, what did you see? 10:03 I saw a beautiful picture, Yvonne, 10:05 of God's Church coming together, 10:08 to serve people in the name of Jesus, 10:10 to show them His love. 10:12 And there's just nothing like it 10:14 when you see that happen, 10:15 and you see people's lives changed. 10:18 It changes you. 10:19 And it changed my church members 10:21 that I brought with me to that event. 10:22 And there were so many different aspects 10:24 of Adventism coming together. 10:25 You know, there was some different ideas 10:28 and different problems or different things 10:30 that everybody was working together. 10:32 Everybody was happy. 10:33 In fact, you remember this, when we were breaking down 10:36 the event in San Francisco to set it up in Oakland, 10:39 people were singing hymns together 10:41 that might not necessarily be all working together 10:44 on an outside basis. 10:45 It was beautiful. 10:47 And we had so many young people involved, 10:48 you remember that, Kyle? 10:50 Tons of young people. 10:51 Yeah, lots of young people, 10:52 teenagers, young adults coming and they're all excited 10:55 because they're doing Christ mission. 10:57 And Hadassah was there. Hadassah? 10:59 I was just gonna say speaking of young people, 11:01 we have Hadassah 11:03 who happens to be your daughter. 11:04 Yes, she is. 11:06 I can see the similarity. Yeah. 11:08 Tell us about your experience with AWR? 11:10 Well, with AWR one of the first mission trips 11:14 I went to was to Guyana. 11:17 It was trial run 11:20 for the new AWR360 mission trips 11:23 that I remember their plans. 11:25 And I remember there's this one story, 11:27 I was helping my mom 11:28 in the women's health department. 11:29 And there was a lady, she came in, 11:33 and she was complaining of pain. 11:37 And upon examination of her 11:39 we found out that my mom diagnosed her 11:42 with stage IV cancer. 11:43 And she was able to be diagnosed 11:45 and hopefully able to be 11:46 sent to the local hospital and helped. 11:49 Wow, what a blessing that she found out in time. 11:52 And at the time, you guys were high school students, 11:55 is that correct? 11:56 Yeah. Yeah Was a couple of years ago. 11:57 So it really made a huge impact, 11:59 even on the young people 12:00 at such an early age, I think of her. 12:02 Yes, yes. 12:04 So you've been involved with your mom's ministry 12:06 for a long time. 12:08 Tell us about that? Yeah. 12:10 The first events that I remember 12:12 really being involved in I was 12. 12:15 And I actually volunteered in the surgery department. 12:19 Wow! 12:21 She volunteered in the surgery department 12:23 to our viewers here when she was 12. 12:26 And she volunteered in the surgery. 12:28 And I wasn't operating. Okay. Good. 12:30 I'm glad you cleared that up. 12:33 No, don't worry. I wasn't cutting anybody. 12:36 Well, that is it, you know, that really brings out to me. 12:39 Pastor Kyle and Yvonne, you know, pathway is, 12:42 that was Pathway to Help which was the free mega clinic. 12:45 We do free medical, dental, eye care, 12:48 and surgical services to uninsured 12:50 and underinsured populations here in North America. 12:53 And again, it brings everyone together, 12:55 but the idea was so exciting to people 12:58 here in North America. 13:00 The word began to spread around the world. 13:02 What about those of us in Africa? 13:03 What about those of us in Australia? 13:06 And so we started getting requests 13:07 to come around the world. 13:09 And that's where Dr. Dwayne McKee 13:11 and Pastor Kyle really came in with 13:14 AWR360 Health to kind of answer that question 13:17 of what can we do for those around the world 13:19 that wanna combine the medical, the physical, 13:22 the mental, the emotional, and spiritual healing together. 13:25 Yep. 13:26 And so we said, "Well, you know, 13:27 we've never done this before, but AWR, 13:31 we're going to bring on a medical director. 13:34 And we are going to make health a key component 13:38 of our strategy to reach the world 13:40 because that's how Christ worked. 13:41 That was His method. 13:43 And so, and Elder Wilson has said, 13:45 and I know I've heard him say this, 13:47 "Health needs to be a component 13:49 of every ministry of the church, 13:51 not just a separate department." 13:53 And, you know, Dr. Landless, 13:54 our Health Ministries Director for the GC. 13:56 He says this too, 13:57 "Health needs to be integrated everywhere." 13:59 So AWR we said, we want to integrate this 14:01 in our efforts for evangelism in leading people 14:05 from broadcast to baptism. 14:07 And that's where Dr. Lela by God's grace came in. 14:10 And now she's a part of our team. 14:11 And it's a blessing. 14:13 It's an absolute blessing 14:14 to be a part of this wonderful dream team. 14:15 But what I wanted to get back 14:17 to is what Hadassah was talking about 14:18 Guyana being kind of like the trial run. 14:21 Our very first AWR360 Health event 14:24 happened in the Philippines. 14:25 And then we just finished India. 14:27 And we have a video to show Yvonne 14:30 that shows the demonstration of Philippines and India. 14:33 And what AWR360 Health is all about. 14:35 Oh, that's great. Let's take a look. 14:39 The purpose of AWR360 Health is to be able to provide 14:43 360 degrees of health to every patient. 14:47 That means physically, 14:49 mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. 14:51 The whole person everywhere we've gone 14:53 and the years that 14:55 we've been doing these mega clinics, 14:56 patients will come up and say, "Who are you people? 15:00 And how do I join your church?" 15:01 Their lives are so impacted, 15:03 but it's not just the individual patient's lives. 15:06 The entire communities are affected, 15:08 government officials, 15:09 dignitaries, all having a changed perspective of God's 15:13 Seventh-day Adventist Church. 15:15 But it's not just that, volunteers lives themselves 15:19 have been completely transformed. 15:21 I can't tell you numerous of volunteers 15:23 who have come somewhat disgruntled with this 15:26 or that situation and they come through, 15:28 they serve as a volunteer, 15:29 they get to be Jesus hands and feet. 15:31 And afterwards they say, you know what? 15:33 "If this is what 15:34 the Seventh-day Adventist Church stands for, 15:36 I'm in and I'm 100%." 15:38 The impact is phenomenal. 15:41 AWR360 Health Chennai 15:44 has hit a huge impact not just on India, 15:47 but I think globally. 15:49 What they've done here, 15:50 they've transformed a school into a beautiful mega clinic, 15:54 and it has served as a tremendous blessing 15:57 to the community at large. 15:58 What we learned is this can be replicated globally. 16:02 You can take schools all over the world 16:04 and transform them into medical clinics. 16:06 You can take hospitals and communities 16:09 and transform them into centers of influence 16:12 to the community around them. 16:14 As far as the impact is concerned, 16:16 I think we're touching 16:18 on what Jesus originally had planned 16:20 for our church. 16:21 And that is truly to provide 360 degrees of health, 16:26 physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. 16:29 I would recommend everyone attend a mission trip. 16:33 Our AWR360 Health mission trip, 16:36 it is guaranteed to transform your life. 16:39 You will go back to your own hometown, 16:41 your own home city, and you will say, 16:42 you know what? 16:44 What I experienced in this or that location, 16:46 and this or that country, I want for my own community, 16:49 I want for my own town, 16:51 and we have seen that since 2014. 16:54 People who participate in these mega health clinics 16:57 go back to their own home city 16:59 and they are transformed for life. 17:02 My dream for AWR360 Health is that 17:05 they can be an example 17:07 of what God wants to do globally. 17:10 We can't do mega clinics all year round, 17:13 every week, every day. 17:15 But you know what? 17:16 Each and every one of our members, 17:18 total member involvement can do this. 17:21 When we all work together, 17:24 I believe we will see Jesus come 17:26 because this is His method. 17:28 He has been waiting for us to take up the method that 17:31 He came to earth to show as He healed the people 17:34 He met their physical needs. 17:36 He fed them, He provided to them, 17:38 and then He said, "Follow Me." 17:40 When we do that, I believe our goal 17:43 as Christians will be accomplished 17:45 and we will be able to see Jesus 17:47 come in the clouds. 17:59 Wow! How inspiring. 18:01 God is so good. 18:02 That is so inspiring because you could see 18:04 the joy in people's faces, you know, 18:07 and how much they appreciate this the services... 18:09 Lives transformed. Yes, yes. 18:12 And this was in the Philippines? 18:13 That was Philippines and India. 18:15 We had footage both from both locations. 18:17 Tell us about some of the things 18:19 that happened in the Philippines 18:20 during this time? 18:21 Well, it was incredible. 18:23 Actually, we were in a stadium, you saw the pictures there. 18:26 Unbelievable activity. 18:27 And so the crazy thing 18:29 is we actually only had 300 volunteers. 18:32 It was a Gideon army. It was a Gideon army. 18:35 Very small Gideon army. 18:37 And she's not been to an event like this. 18:38 You might think, "Well, 300, that's a lot." 18:40 Sounds like a lot. 18:41 But here's the thing, 18:43 if you've been to a pathway event, 18:44 and you know... 18:45 We have 3,000 to 5,000 volunteers. 18:47 Yeah. Wow! 18:48 Serving... Six thousand patients. 18:50 Eight thousand patients max. 18:51 Max, 8,500 was the largest in Los Angeles. 18:54 So do you know how many patients 18:56 came in the Philippines? 18:57 Our Gideon army. 18:58 Just take a wild guess, 19:00 how many God allowed the Gideon army to serve? 19:02 Ten thousand patients. 19:05 Three hundred people? 19:07 Three hundred. Wow! 19:08 Now tell us some of the services 19:10 that are provided as well because we saw, 19:13 we even saw an operating room. 19:14 Yes, we have. 19:16 So what are some of the services you provide? 19:17 We do surgical procedures under some local anesthesia 19:20 overseas so for example, you know, we take off, 19:23 you know, various lumps and bumps and different things, 19:26 but then we collaborate with the local hospital 19:28 and you're gonna learn about that in just a few minutes. 19:30 In Papua New Guinea 19:31 we will be operating at the hospital. 19:33 So actually doing full general anesthesia, 19:35 but on the event itself 19:37 we'll do just some minor things. 19:39 We do a dentistry, eye care... 19:42 Dentistry is always big, no matter whether you're here 19:44 in the United States or you're overseas, 19:46 it's always a huge need. 19:47 Yeah. And then... 19:49 We have a full pharmacy. We have a full pharmacy... 19:51 Hadassah, you were in the pharmacy, right? 19:53 Yeah. Yeah. 19:54 I remember, we sat for hours organizing the medications. 19:59 So many vitamins, so many multivitamins. 20:03 You guys did great, I got to say. 20:04 Yes. 20:05 With such a diverse population, 20:07 I mean, you may have seen in the video 20:09 in the Philippines, 20:10 our youngest volunteer was eight years old 20:13 and she was helping in the pediatrics department. 20:15 That was my other daughter, Mariah. 20:17 But we have all kinds... 20:19 We look at this as a family endeavor. 20:22 If you want your family to become a missionary family 20:25 for the rest of their lives, let the young people 20:28 and the children get involved. 20:30 And that's what we do at a AWR360 Health for sure. 20:33 So if you... I'm gonna... 20:34 Go ahead, no, please, please. 20:36 I'm gonna steal something 20:37 you always say your pathway rallies. 20:39 If she loves to say that 20:41 if you have a heartbeat and a smile, 20:43 you can volunteer. 20:44 Amen. Amen. It's true. 20:45 I do say that. That's good. That's good. 20:47 If you have a heartbeat and a smile. 20:49 So there's no excuse then. That's not... 20:52 Because if you're watching this program right now 20:54 and you can probably smile, then you're eligible to come. 20:56 And you obviously have a heartbeat. 20:58 You now, Pastor Kyle, it brings us back 21:01 to the Philippines and what God did there, 21:03 both Pastor Kyle and myself have a passion 21:06 like we already mentioned to 21:07 not separate the gospel and the medical work. 21:10 Yes. 21:12 Tell Yvonne and our viewers 21:13 what happened in the Philippines with that 21:15 when we combined it at our noontime meetings? 21:17 Right. 21:19 So we actually, Yvonne, believe it or not, 21:20 with that many people coming to a clinic. 21:22 It's busy, right? 21:23 The doctors are working, the nurses... 21:24 Lots of noise. 21:26 Everybody's working, lots of noise. 21:27 We said, "You know what, 21:29 we wanna have a small period of time 21:30 during lunch 'cause we also serve food." 21:31 Because many of the people wait all day long 21:34 and even all night long to receive services 21:35 so they're hungry. 21:37 Oh... So we wanna serve them. 21:38 Tell me that, that's not also what Christ did. 21:41 Feeding the 5000. Feeding 5000. 21:43 Yes. Wow. 21:45 That's incredible. Okay, go ahead. 21:46 Yeah, so we're serving the loaves 21:47 and the veggie fish and all that... 21:49 But anyway, so during that time, 21:52 we said we wanted to have a presentation on... 21:56 To captive audience while they're eating 21:58 just that's what Jesus did, right? 22:00 That's right. 22:01 And so, Dr. Lela would present on this, 22:04 the physical health as a physician, 22:06 and then I would come 22:07 and present on some spiritual health topics as a pastor. 22:09 And so we did this three days in a row, 22:12 talking about like the importance 22:14 of what you eat and your diet, and then... 22:16 And ultimately the effect that it played on your mind. 22:18 Right. 22:19 The ability for the mind to hear the Holy Spirit, 22:21 the frontal lobes physically. 22:23 But the idea that we really wanted 22:24 the patients to be able to see the link 22:27 between the physical health and the spiritual health... 22:29 And the mental. And the mental, right? 22:31 And so we did this for three days in a row. 22:34 This is the first time we had done this. 22:35 And we prayed a lot. 22:37 We did not know what we were doing at all. 22:39 No, we didn't. So then the third day came... 22:42 And it was unbelievable. 22:44 It still gives me shivers to remember that day. 22:46 So we prayed, we knelt down and we prayed 22:48 and we were fasting and praying specifically, 22:51 and we felt impressed this time around 22:53 instead of it being just, there's the medical 22:55 and then there's the pastoral of the gospel. 22:57 We needed to do it together. 22:59 And so we stood up, and we presented, 23:02 and at the end of the presentation, 23:06 we're about to make a collective appeal 23:08 together as... 23:10 Again, the physician and the pastor together 23:12 making appeal to the congregation. 23:14 We're getting to that point, we're saying, you know, 23:16 what do you want to give your heart most importantly, 23:19 your mind to Jesus? 23:20 Are you willing to give up those things 23:22 that are clouding your frontal lobe 23:23 so that you can't hear His Holy Spirit 23:25 because you want His name written in your forehead 23:28 when He comes in the cloud? 23:30 Or I'm just about to make the appeal together. 23:33 All of a sudden, out of nowhere, boom, 23:36 crash, thunder, lightning, rain. 23:38 It was just and it was on a tin roof. 23:40 And so all of a sudden, 23:41 it was like drowning out our voices. 23:43 God took our voices. 23:44 You know how you and I were just talking about 23:46 how Satan tries to demolish something just as God's 23:48 about to do it. 23:50 God took our voices and our voices went... 23:52 He amplified your voices. 23:54 He amplified our voices, 23:55 the whole coliseum and as Pastor Kyle 23:58 made his appeal. 24:00 It gives me shivers still. 24:01 Two thousand people stood up 24:04 to their feet around the auditorium. 24:06 It was like the wave, they stood and like people 24:08 and that wasn't enough, what you do 24:09 with the people on the floor, Pastor Kyle? 24:11 I had them raise their hands... 24:12 Because we didn't know if they were already standing 24:14 or giving, people's hands were raised, 24:16 people were standing, giving their hearts to Christ. 24:19 Amen. 24:20 And then we didn't leave it there. 24:21 What did we do next? 24:23 Well, we invited them to come to the evangelistic meetings. 24:25 It started immediately thereafter the total member 24:28 involvement evangelistic series. 24:30 And so... And many came. 24:31 Many came. Many, many came. 24:32 And so quick story. 24:34 And so it was incredible, you know, to see that response 24:37 really, of the people that were there. 24:38 So powerful. That's powerful to know... 24:42 Excuse me, one second, Pastor Kyle, 24:43 but to know that God didn't let the distraction 24:47 that Satan was trying to give with the noise and the, 24:51 you know, the elements rearing up, right? 24:54 He did... 24:55 God just set that aside, amplified your voices 24:58 and the people heard 25:00 because the powerful Holy Spirit of God 25:02 took over, and people accepted the call, 25:06 that's so beautiful. 25:08 And there's a quote, it makes me think of that quote 25:10 from Counsels on Health. 25:12 And it says that, "Satan will devise 25:15 every possible means to separate 25:17 what God has brought together." 25:19 And the context is the medical and the gospel work. 25:22 But God if we're faithful will overcome 25:25 and we've seen that happen time and time again. 25:28 Amen. 25:29 Okay, so now, can I share a quick story? 25:31 Yes. Okay. 25:32 Please. Please. 25:34 So I'm gonna share a story of someone 25:35 who was actually there that day that responded to the appeal. 25:38 This man's name, will call him June, 25:41 and he had grown up on the island of Palawan 25:45 as a cripple. 25:46 So he didn't have a way to work. 25:48 He had a very... He didn't have a wheelchair. 25:49 He didn't have a wheelchair. He had a family though. 25:53 He had a wife and children 25:54 but things were very frustrating 25:56 because he couldn't work and provide for his family. 25:58 And it got to a point 26:00 where the family was struggling. 26:02 And about that time 26:05 was a few months prior to our clinic 26:10 and the evangelistic meetings. 26:12 Brother June got something very special. 26:15 A radio, an AWR radio. 26:18 You got it well, I don't know if it was a AWR radio, 26:20 but it was a radio. 26:22 Oh, it's a radio. 26:23 And so, we had been broadcasting, 26:25 starting broadcasting there on the island of Palawan. 26:28 And so he found AWR, and started to listen 26:31 to the Adventist World Radio broadcasts. 26:34 As he was listening, his heart was being warmed 26:36 by the messages, and he was learning more about 26:38 God and about Christ. 26:40 And then they had an invitation 26:43 to come to this mega clinic at the coliseum. 26:47 And he thought, well, maybe this is an opportunity 26:49 because it's so hard to get medical care 26:51 there on the island. 26:53 So, he was invited to come. 26:55 A Bible worker came, and they were 26:57 able to bring them to the clinic, 26:59 and he felt so much love there. 27:02 He saw, he said he felt Christ's love there. 27:06 And you know, for the first time 27:08 in his life, Brother June, 27:11 we were able to help him get his first wheelchair. 27:14 And more than that, 27:15 he heard an invitation, our invitation, 27:19 and the pastor's invitation 27:21 to come to the subsequent TMI evangelistic meetings. 27:25 And he came, and what happened at the very end? 27:27 Well, so he came with his whole family. 27:30 And I wish we could show you the picture, 27:32 but it's a beautiful picture of him being, 27:35 he had made his decision. 27:37 He knew that these Adventists 27:41 that had brought physical healing, 27:43 now it healed his heart spiritually 27:45 and emotionally, 27:46 and he wanted to give his full life to Christ. 27:48 And so there's a picture of him literally being 27:50 carried into the waters of the ocean being baptized. 27:54 And so... How beautiful. 27:56 And that, that is AWR360. 27:59 It is. 360 degrees of health. 28:02 Whole person healing. That's broadcast to baptism. 28:05 And that's showing the full cycle. 28:07 And so, you know, 28:09 that's just one testimony of one person... 28:11 Many, many people like that. 28:12 But we've seen that over and over and over again. 28:15 And we believe, that as we do these clinics around the world, 28:18 we will see this happen again and again 28:20 because this is how Christ reached people too. 28:23 And the beauty of AWR360 Health, you know, we did India, 28:27 subsequently, just a few months ago 28:29 in June actually, and we served 3,200 patients. 28:32 What was so exciting there, 28:34 we were actually able to do cataract surgery. 28:37 Hundreds of patients received cataract surgery. 28:40 So they had no sight when they walked in, 28:44 and God gave them physical sight 28:46 so that ultimately, 28:47 they could be acquainted with spiritual sight. 28:49 Now, can I jump in on this one... 28:51 Yes, this is good, this is good. 28:52 This is incredible, incredible. 28:54 I don't know, those of you watching at home, 28:56 if you've ever had a cataract surgery, 28:57 or if you know someone that has. Dr. Lela, Dr. Had.. 29:01 Can I call you Doctor? Future Doctor. 29:03 I'm surrounded by... 29:05 We don't even know, 29:06 she hasn't told us what she is studying in school. 29:09 Well, I guess I should probably introduce myself. 29:11 Yes, please. 29:13 I go to La Sierra University, 29:18 and right now I'm a biomed major, 29:19 so I'm going to be a doctor. 29:21 Okay. Okay. Doctor to be. 29:25 So doctor and doctor to be, 29:26 so I'm surrounded by this medical science here. 29:29 But anyway, so. 29:31 So doctors and, 29:34 Dr. Yvonne, I will call you. 29:37 Typically a cataract surgery in the United States 29:39 would take what, 15 minutes? 29:40 Yeah, probably. Okay. 29:42 And praise the Lord for our surgeons. 29:45 We have a doctor in India, who can do cataract surgeries, 29:48 and guess how long? 29:50 I don't know. Three? 29:53 Two minutes. No. 29:56 And do it well? Yes, really well. 29:58 His patients do so good. Extremely well. 30:01 And I can tell you firsthand. 30:04 I was in the operating room, 30:05 I watched him do 46 surgeries in two hours. 30:07 One patient, to the next, to the next. 30:09 It's unbelievable. 30:11 But the amazing thing is, is that Dr. Jacob Prabakar. 30:13 He's not only wanting to heal them physically, 30:16 he's actually more concerned about healing them spiritually. 30:19 And so every patient is invited to come 30:22 to the evangelistic meetings, and you know. 30:23 You know how, you know them 30:25 that they were patients of Dr. Jacob? 30:26 They got their glasses on. 30:29 So they also up with these big dark glasses, 30:31 but they're beaming, because they've been, 30:34 some of them have been blind for years. 30:36 And so now they can see. 30:38 He came to give sight the blind. 30:40 Isn't that gorgeous? 30:42 Can you imagine the feeling though 30:44 of not having been able to see, 30:46 and now you can and so you're going to say, 30:49 well, if he can help me to see this, then my heart... 30:54 Amen He can help me to see spiritually, 30:56 what I need to see. 30:58 Yes. That is so beautiful. 30:59 That's just what Jesus did. It is. It is. 31:02 It's so, what Jesus did. 31:04 Elder Wilson was in Calcutta, and preaching. 31:07 At the time when we had our evangelistic meetings 31:09 and we also had, 31:10 so we had the clinic in Chennai. 31:12 And then we had another clinic down in Calcutta. 31:14 And we had Dr. Jacob doing eye surgeries in both places. 31:17 And I remember because I was there in the church. 31:19 And I looked out, and I would see the people 31:21 with the dark glasses, and they were just smiling, 31:23 listening to Elder Wilson preach. 31:24 And some of those people decided to be baptized. 31:27 Amen. 31:28 So what we believe, I dare to say, 31:31 is that this can be replicated all over the world. 31:34 Yes. 31:35 And it's not something that AWR360 Health has to do. 31:38 Why? 31:39 Because this is the mission that 31:41 Jesus gave us as Christians. 31:43 This is our mission 31:44 as Seventh-day Adventist Christians to go 31:47 and make whole people out of broken people. 31:50 Your beautiful song at the beginning of the show. 31:52 That's our blessing as Christians. 31:54 Yes. 31:56 So I'm just really excited about 31:57 what's coming up in Papua New Guinea. 31:59 That's right. Tell us about that? 32:01 So you are going to Papua New Guinea. 32:03 I mean it's on the other side of the world from here. 32:06 It's a long way to get there, I'll tell you. 32:08 Yeah, it takes a long time... But it is. 32:10 But the need is unbelievable. 32:12 Where we're going to be is Mount Hagen. 32:14 And it's essentially an inaccessible place, 32:17 you have to fly in. 32:19 It's over mountainous terrain, 32:21 so people have to fly in to get to Mount Hagen. 32:23 For example, about a population of 200,000 people, 32:27 there are two dentists, 32:29 two dentists in the entire area. 32:32 As you can imagine, 32:34 the vast majority of patients never receive care. 32:36 Same thing with medical care. 32:37 We were there just a few months ago, 32:39 the hospital that we went into, 32:41 not a Seventh-day Adventist Hospital, 32:42 but a very mission minded government hospital. 32:45 Again, there's no primary care doctors, 32:48 the greatest need is just basic primary care medicine. 32:53 So, let alone surgeries and all the rest of the stuff. 32:57 So we are looking to do... Yes. 32:59 Very excitedly, Papua New Guinea. 33:01 Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea, March 23 to 26. 33:06 So we are needing a lot of volunteers. 33:09 So tell us what you need? 33:11 Well, we need volunteers first of all. 33:14 So you know, as we said, as Hadassah mentioned earlier, 33:17 if you have a heartbeat and a smile, we need you... 33:20 We need doctors. But we especially need doctors. 33:22 And dentists. 33:24 Because this is a very unique, challenging place. 33:26 As you said, Dr. Lela, not a lot of doctors there, 33:28 not a lot of dentists. 33:30 And literally if you can come as a doctor or a dentist, 33:33 you will make a tremendous impact 33:35 on the numbers of people that we can reach. 33:38 Now, I will just tell you, 33:39 when we showed up two months ago, 33:40 we thought our goal was maybe 2,000 to 3,000 patients. 33:43 Yeah, that's what I was telling. 33:44 You know, if this is how many, 33:46 you know, we can expect to bring about, 33:47 the same, about the same number of volunteers 33:49 we had in the Philippines. 33:51 Maybe 300, 400. 33:53 Buckle your seat belts, 33:54 because that's not what they were wanting. 33:56 The people in PNG, they have, they dream big. 33:59 They dream really big. 34:00 They do, they have a lot of faith. 34:02 They're wonderful people. 34:03 They said, "Oh, no, we were thinking 20,000." 34:06 Minimum of 20,000, Doctor, minimum. 34:09 And I said, oh, well.. 34:10 And you should have seen Lela's face. 34:14 I mean it's like. Oh ye of little faith. 34:17 Yeah, mercy. 34:19 So we need you, because in order to, 34:21 I mean, we don't know how many we're going to be 34:23 able to treat, right? 34:24 We don't. 34:25 But you gonna need physicians, nurses, dentists... 34:27 Physician, nurses, dentists, massage therapists, 34:29 but lots of non medical people too. 34:31 And the reason is this, in order to provide 34:34 20,000 patients services, 34:36 we will be doing cataract surgery 34:37 at the hospital, 34:38 we will be doing the major surgeries like 34:40 we talked about, hysterectomies and gall bladders 34:42 and various other aspects of medicine. 34:44 We will have a pharmacy again Hadassah, and we'll... 34:47 And we'll have young people 34:49 And we will have lots of college. 34:50 Yeah, speaking of, Dr. Lela, mom, 34:52 if I can butt in for a second. 34:54 Yes, yes, please. 34:56 So, it's over most institutions, 34:59 Loma Linda University Medical Center, 35:01 medical school, as well as most college's, spring break. 35:04 So, I want to just challenge every single person to, 35:10 if you're able to, to go to this, 35:12 because it's a once in a lifetime opportunity, 35:14 and it will change your life. 35:15 Amen. That's awesome. 35:17 That is great. That's awesome. 35:18 That is so great. 35:19 It's so, you know, it's one thing 35:21 when you see people who are older doing this 35:24 because you have that history with God, 35:27 and it's so special seeing young people 35:30 getting involved because they could be doing 35:32 so many other things as you could be as well. 35:34 But I'm just saying... 35:36 Well, that's special, 35:37 it's special for the young people. 35:39 There's so many distractions for young people 35:40 and to know that, 35:41 you want to do something to make a difference 35:43 for the kingdom of God. 35:44 That is huge. 35:45 If you've never gone on a mission trip like this. 35:48 And you mentioned this, 35:49 I think earlier in the program, Lela. 35:51 It can change your life... Yes. 35:53 It really can. Yes. 35:55 And it can change your family's life, 35:56 come as a family. 35:57 Absolutely. 35:59 And you will see transformation, 36:00 not only in your lives, 36:02 but in the lives of your children. 36:03 Your young adults, if they're older, you know, 36:05 I mean, it can really make a huge impact. 36:08 So I really want to appeal. 36:10 And you know, along those lines, 36:11 you know, we do need volunteers, 36:13 but things like this, 36:15 especially when you're talking about 36:16 traveling around the world, bringing in equipment, 36:19 20,000 patients worth of equipment, 36:22 we need resources. 36:25 You know, this costs a lot of money... 36:27 You need funds for this? 36:29 Yes, we do. And we have a video. 36:32 Pastor Kyle, do you want to tell 36:33 a little bit about the video that they're going to show, 36:35 that we'll talk a little bit 36:36 about the resources that we need. 36:38 But specifically, we need dental equipment. 36:41 We have instruments 36:43 and dental equipment and machines, if you will, 36:47 for about somewhere between seven dentists. 36:50 We're looking at needing at least 20 some dentists. 36:54 So, that, each of those units costs a minimum of $3,000. 36:58 Yeah, now I just want to make sure. 37:01 If you hear the appeal for funds, 37:03 don't let that be an excuse for not coming because... 37:05 Oh, please no. We want you to know. 37:07 No, coming is the most important. 37:09 What we do need. 37:10 If you can't come, supporting financially 37:12 would be a great blessing. 37:13 Now, Adventist World Radio, for those of you who, 37:17 those of our viewers that may not know, 37:19 every year we do a gift catalog. 37:21 And what this gift catalog is, 37:22 it's an opportunity where you can go through 37:24 and see specific projects that you can sponsor. 37:27 So, like for example, and a lot of them 37:29 are having to do with radio broadcasting, 37:32 or different aspects of evangelism. 37:35 So you can look at that gift catalog 37:37 and find a project that touches your heart 37:39 and then give. 37:40 What we want to show you is, we have a video that 37:42 highlights a couple of particular projects. 37:44 One of them is AWR360 Health, 37:47 and you can actually help sponsor 37:50 life saving medical equipment 37:52 that will change somebody's life forever. 37:54 And not only, again, as we said, 37:56 not only in the physical sense, 37:58 but because we're going to invite all those that 37:59 come to these health clinics to learn about Christ 38:03 and the three angels' messages, 38:05 to be a part of His remnant church. 38:06 At Elder Wilson's evangelistic series 38:08 that starts subsequent to the mega clinic. 38:11 Oh, that's gonna be wonderful. 38:13 So it's all part of the package, 38:14 the radio broadcasting, 38:16 combining with the health and the evangelism, 38:20 all with the goal of leading people 38:22 to total health. 38:24 That's right. Finding healing in Christ. 38:25 Amen. Amen. 38:26 Let's take a look at that video. 38:29 Hi, I'm Tammy Lynn, and this is AWR360. 38:56 During this time of the year, 38:57 we'd like to focus on blessing others 38:59 as we have been blessed. 39:00 That's why AWR has just released a gift catalog, 39:03 showcasing our projects around the world 39:06 in some of the most challenging areas. 39:08 The projects listed represent a broad spectrum 39:10 of AWR's evangelistic outreach worldwide. 39:15 In 2028 AWR360 Health will be holding 39:18 its largest medical clinic to date to help prepare 39:21 Papua New Guinea for evangelistic meetings. 39:24 The plan is to help 20,000 people 39:26 without any cost to them. 39:29 Your sponsorship will provide supplies, 39:31 medical equipment, and medication, 39:33 plus a sanitation kit for each person. 39:36 Help be the right arm of the gospel, 39:38 as many seek out the faith of those who healed them. 39:44 In Central and South America, 39:46 more and more people are walking into churches, 39:48 thanks to the radio. 39:50 You can help AWR360, provide training to Central 39:53 and South American radio producers, 39:55 as they learn to become evangelists. 39:58 By gathering them in a central location, 40:01 they will learn how to take a listener 40:03 from broadcast to baptism, 40:05 multiplying the results of each broadcast. 40:12 Show your gratitude by giving an AWR love gift 40:14 this Thanksgiving season. 40:16 Is there any greater joy than knowing that because of you, 40:19 the gospel was sent across the world, 40:21 reaching souls whose names will now be added 40:23 to the book of life. 40:25 Thank you for supporting 40:26 the work of Adventist World Radio. 40:28 As together, 40:29 we prepare the world for His second coming. 40:32 Have a Happy Thanksgiving. This is AWR360. 40:52 You know, it strikes me that God is doing 40:55 such amazing things around the world. 40:58 You just know that things are wrapping up, 41:01 that Jesus is coming back soon, 41:03 and that we have this mandate to go 41:07 into all the world and preach the gospel, 41:10 and follow Christ's example of healing 41:13 and teaching and preaching. 41:15 Amen. And that's what you're doing. 41:17 And it's so, to me, it's exciting, 41:19 because you're helping to prepare 41:21 the world for His return. 41:23 Amen. 41:24 And what better thing than that is? 41:26 What more can we do to get involved 41:30 with spreading the gospel in this way? 41:33 I mean, it's tremendous. 41:35 And you know what's so exciting? 41:36 As we as we watched that video, and we talked about ways that 41:39 we can get involved, 41:41 and we've talked about our need for dental equipment. 41:43 The most important way we can all of us get involved, 41:46 whether we can go across the world 41:47 to Papua New Guinea, or whether we have necessarily 41:50 the resources sitting in our bank account. 41:53 We can all pray. That's right. 41:54 Just like what you're saying, 41:56 you know that time is running out. 41:57 Yes. 41:59 And we need to be earnestly praying 42:00 and putting our mouths, 42:03 and our hearts, and our actions where it really matters. 42:07 That's right. 42:08 But I really want to challenge people, 42:09 you know, sometimes, 42:12 you know, we look at things and we look at it from that... 42:15 Oh, that seems so hard to accomplish or that it's, 42:17 might be impossible for me to go on that mission trip. 42:20 You know, God can do abundant, exceedingly, abundantly 42:23 above all that we can ask or imagine. 42:25 That's right. 42:26 And I want to challenge anybody 42:27 that may be watching to really test God, 42:31 and to step out in faith. 42:33 Come on one of these trips. 42:37 Get involved, even if you can't come. 42:40 If all of us, if all of us would do our part. 42:44 You know, each one has a gift they've been given by God. 42:47 And I think that's the point here, is that, 42:49 when we're all working together 42:51 with what God has given us, we will see, 42:55 that's when we will see the Holy Spirit poured out, 42:57 and God will be able to use this church 42:59 to reach the world for Christ. 43:00 That's right. In Papua New Guinea. 43:03 You know, we talked about the numbers that they're hoping 43:05 for the health clinic, they are actually, 43:07 their faith is so big. 43:09 It's incredible. 43:11 They are actually hoping and praying. 43:13 I don't know if you want... 43:14 Do you want me to tell you what they're hoping for? 43:15 Yes, yes, tell us. 43:17 Dr. Lela, do you want to just share? 43:19 Go for it. Okay. 43:21 Because and look, it's not about numbers, 43:23 and I'm not sharing this as a, you know, 43:26 in terms of a numbers thing, but I'm just sharing this 43:28 to say that their faith is big. 43:31 They are praying for 200,000 baptisms. 43:35 Amen. Amen. And I'm telling you. 43:38 It's hard to even wrap your mind around. 43:39 It's hard to wrap your mind around, 43:41 but just to give you a sense of how big 43:42 their effort is there. 43:44 In one conference alone, already they have 43:46 50,000 people in Bible studies for baptism. 43:49 In one conference alone? 43:50 Yes, in another conference, they've already built 43:53 300 churches in advance of the evangelistic meetings. 43:56 There's only one problem. They're all full already. 44:00 So, in addition to the health... 44:01 Well not just that, I understand there was a number 44:05 of non-Seventh-day Adventist churches... 44:07 Yes. 44:08 That have now, because of the Bible study 44:09 that the church members are doing, 44:11 they've already taken down their other church name 44:14 and put Seventh-day Adventist signs 44:16 on the outside of their churches. 44:17 Yes, that's correct. 44:18 So what their goal of 20,000 patients, 44:21 is actually, probably a low number, 44:23 I dare say. 44:24 So we are going to be focusing. 44:26 Yvonne, I forgot to tell you this, 44:27 we are going to be focusing a huge portion 44:30 of Papua New Guinea on lifestyle medicine, 44:32 because simple principles, 44:34 trash up to one's hip, walking down the street 44:38 it's just, it's deplorable. 44:41 And the chewing of beetle nut. 44:42 Beetle nut, everywhere, juice everywhere. 44:45 We walked through, and now, 44:46 I wanted to tell this one miracle story. 44:48 Okay, yeah. 44:49 We didn't know where to hold the event. 44:51 There's no big coliseum like we saw there in Philippines, 44:55 and there's really no school like we had in India. 44:58 We had nowhere to have our event. 45:01 And so they took us to a couple fields, 45:03 literally grassy fields with trash everywhere, 45:07 beetle nut everywhere, 45:08 people just lying on the ground. 45:10 Yeah. What about this place? 45:12 And I was like, I'm not feeling it, Kyle. 45:14 I was feeling it, but she wasn't, 45:17 I am like, He kept looking at me and I'm like... 45:19 I said, "But, Lela, 45:21 it's in the middle of the town." 45:22 I'm not feeling it, Kyle. I mean, I'm trying. 45:24 I'm praying to God. 45:25 I'm like, Lord, please show me, 45:26 I don't want to be short of faith. 45:28 Please show me. 45:29 And if she's not convinced, it ain't happening. 45:30 Okay. 45:32 I'm just telling you, I'm praying like, 45:33 Lord, please, help her to see this. 45:35 Okay, all of a sudden, I guess God answered his prayer. 45:37 Because, all of a sudden, I turned to my left 45:41 and I saw this dilapidated stage 45:42 that they were talking about having, 45:44 and it was like, the things falling over... 45:45 It was. 45:47 It was in the middle of the field. 45:48 It wasn't helping our case. 45:49 And I was just like, it's just not happening right now, Kyle. 45:51 It's just not happening. I was getting worried. 45:55 I looked to my left, and I saw a grassy knoll, 46:00 no joke, and on the top of this knoll, 46:03 it kind of went down. 46:04 There was all this grass. 46:06 And I kind of, all of a sudden had this idea. 46:09 Okay, Lord, we have 20, 30,000 people, 46:12 there's no way our doctors, we're never going to get 46:14 enough doctors to be able to provide services 46:16 for all these people. 46:18 If we had them seated, 46:20 and we're standing on this grassy area 46:22 while they're eating their lunches, 46:25 and we begin to present whole person help like 46:28 we did in the Philippines, when God took control 46:30 of the elements. 46:31 It would be like Jesus. That's right. 46:33 There He was on the grassy area, 46:35 and He stood up to speak to the people after 46:37 He gave them full stomachs. 46:40 And I thought, Kyle, this is it. 46:45 And... This is it. 46:47 All of a sudden it was like this. 46:48 God wants this to happen. 46:50 You had that image in your mind of Jesus... 46:51 Yes, Jesus wanted this to happen. 46:53 Preaching to the multitude. 46:54 And once that clicked in her mind, 46:56 I knew it was over. 46:57 I knew this was the place, we were good. 46:58 And then to top it all off, 47:00 we found out the name of that park, 47:01 where the clinic's going to be, you know what the name is? 47:02 No. It's called the Queen's Park. 47:05 And we found out the reason 47:06 that it's called the Queen's Park 47:07 is because Queen Elizabeth spoke 47:09 from that grassy knoll. 47:11 Spoke from that same spot. Yeah. 47:12 And, of course, we didn't know that. 47:14 And to me it said, you know what? 47:16 God is gonna provide the volunteers, 47:18 maybe there's somebody out there watching right now, 47:21 who Jesus is impressing. 47:22 Amen. 47:24 You need to come, God's gonna provide, 47:26 God's gonna provide us the money that 47:28 we need to get that equipment. 47:29 We don't have that money, 47:31 but somebody is going to donate towards that equipment. 47:33 Amen. Because this is His mission. 47:35 That's right. 47:36 And we know that, 47:37 if God has called us to do this, 47:39 He is going to make sure it's fulfilled. 47:40 That's right. 47:41 But we need you, we need the volunteers. 47:43 We need you to consider volunteering 47:45 to support financially 47:46 and of course most of all, to pray. 47:48 Because God is able to do it through His power. 47:51 And He will do it. 47:53 He is going to lay on people's hearts to give 47:56 what you need, to have this done. 47:58 The important thing is, 48:01 to make ourselves available to God, 48:04 for Him to use us in whatever way, 48:06 whether it's giving, whether it's going, 48:09 whether it's both... 48:10 That's right. Whatever we can do. 48:12 If we do what we can do, that's what God wants. 48:16 And it reminds me of a simple story, but again, 48:19 another person who gave their heart to Jesus. 48:22 A gentleman came to one of our events, 48:24 in Spokane, actually. 48:26 He was homeless. 48:27 He had very long hair, only had one outfit. 48:29 He had nothing. He came in for dental care. 48:32 He got love shown to him, 48:34 Jesus loved, he just couldn't understand it. 48:37 Who are you people 48:38 and why are you doing this for us? 48:40 He came, he got a haircut after getting his teeth fixed. 48:43 He went over, he found out our clothing department 48:46 was giving away men's suits. 48:47 He got a brand new men's suit, a beautiful haircut. 48:51 He left that facility after giving his heart, 48:53 going to the chapel and giving his heart to Jesus. 48:55 He went to a job placement agency 48:57 and God got him a job. 48:59 And he can came back. 49:00 And he told the tailor pastor, 49:03 they were kind of a tailor Pastor, 49:04 how much this event had changed his life. 49:08 Not just physically with his teeth, and mentally, 49:11 emotionally and most importantly spiritually. 49:13 So my question is, if that can happen 49:16 in Spokane, Washington. 49:17 Yes. 49:19 What can happen in Papua New Guinea 49:20 where they have no healthcare? 49:22 Can young people be involved, Hadassah? 49:25 Can we be involved when we're younger? 49:27 Yes. 49:28 Can we be involved when we're older? 49:30 Absolutely. 49:31 Can we be involved if we're not medical? 49:33 Amen. 49:34 I can tell people, 49:36 I can't tell the difference between 49:37 a stethoscope and a syringe. 49:39 But I can smile, and I can help. 49:44 And that's what counts. So we need you. 49:47 We need you. Yes, yes. 49:50 Tell, Hadassah, in 30 seconds or so. 49:53 Tell young people why they should come? 49:56 I have heard so many stories. 49:58 I've seen so many stories about people 50:00 that go to these events and some of my friends, 50:05 they've gone on mission trips, and they've come back 50:07 completely changed people, myself included. 50:09 A mission trip like this, there's no, 50:12 it can change your life. 50:14 It will. 50:15 And I encourage every single one of you 50:17 watching this, 50:18 to go and sign up, to volunteer to go 50:20 to Papua New Guinea in March. 50:22 Thank you. Very good, very good. 50:24 So, what do you expect 50:29 when you go to Papua New Guinea? 50:31 What is your expectation as to what's going to happen, 50:34 based on what's happened in the past? 50:36 Honestly, I have no idea. Wow. 50:39 I don't know what God is going to do. 50:41 When I got to India and I saw that place. 50:44 It was a school, it was 50:46 the Seventh-day Adventist school, 50:47 transformed into a mega clinic. 50:50 And God brought the people and changed their hearts, 50:54 and changed our volunteers' hearts... 50:55 Yes. 50:58 There's no words to describe it. 51:00 And I am looking forward to seeing Papua New Guinea 51:04 as a changed community. 51:06 Amen. As a changed government. 51:08 Yes. 51:09 It's amazing how many people 51:11 within the Seventh-day Adventist church, 51:12 God's already placed in positions of influence. 51:14 That's right. That's right. 51:16 So I'm not sure what God has in store, 51:17 but I know it's going to be amazing. 51:19 Amen. I know it is too. 51:21 And I know that you probably want to get involved. 51:24 There's something that you can do. 51:26 You know that they need volunteers. 51:28 They need resources, funding, prayer, all of the above. 51:32 So we're going to give you 51:34 the address where you can send funds, 51:38 you can pray for them, but we're going to give you 51:40 that address right now. 51:44 If the Holy Spirit is impressing you 51:46 to get involved with AWR360 Health, 51:49 and their upcoming trip to Papua New Guinea, 51:51 we encourage you to visit their website, 51:53 awr.org/health. 51:55 That's awr.org/health. 51:59 They need volunteers, 52:00 your prayers and your financial support, 52:02 but they especially need 52:04 medical equipment for this trip. 52:05 If you would like to help, please call them at 52:07 301-680-6304 52:11 or write to Adventist World Radio, 52:14 12501 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, Maryland 20904. |
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