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00:01 As you're well aware,
00:02 we're living in unprecedented times. 00:05 Join us now for Today special program. 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Mending broken people 00:23 I want to spend my life 00:29 Removing pain 00:34 Lord, let my words 00:39 Heal a heart that hurts 00:44 I want to spend my life 00:50 Mending broken people 00:55 I want to spend my life 01:00 Mending broken people 01:15 Hello and welcome to another 3ABN Today program. 01:17 Thank you for joining us as you do each and every day. 01:20 And as always, I always like to say 01:22 thank you for your love and your prayers 01:24 and financial support of 3ABN 01:26 as we endeavor to take this 01:28 great gospel of the kingdom into all the world. 01:31 What an incredible time to be alive 01:33 in the closing moments of earth's history. 01:35 What do you think? It is. 01:36 This is an amazing time 01:38 and we're so blessed here at 3ABN 01:41 to be able to highlight different ministries 01:43 that have that vision as well. 01:45 So we can carry the vision of the gospel to all the world. 01:49 What a great segue to thank 01:51 the Three Angels Broadcasting Network 01:53 and we just happened to have, 01:55 well, we can call them guests but brothers and sisters, 01:58 and we'll start with Sandra, Dr. Sandra Duran. 02:01 And then also of course, Dan Houghton. 02:03 And, Dan, you've been on almost much as I have on 3ABN. 02:06 Over the years Dan's been on, Dan's been on a lot, 02:09 but the program today that we're gonna be talking about 02:12 is Three Angels Messages for Kids. 02:15 And so you can imagine that 02:18 we're here at 3ABN we're all excited about it, 02:21 and we're proud of what you're doing 02:23 because that's where our name originated. 02:25 And we'll call you Sandy now, okay? 02:29 Instead of doctor, we could do that, 02:30 but I'm intimidated by doctor profile, 02:32 just call you, Sandy, that'd be fine. 02:34 Fine. 02:35 Now, before I go any further though, 02:38 Sandy, let's talk about who she is. 02:40 Okay. 02:41 Now, she made somebody very well-known. 02:44 She has a brother. That's right. 02:46 Now you probably never heard of him 02:47 but your brother is Mark Finley. 02:48 So if those who never heard of Mark Finley, 02:51 this is his famous sister. 02:52 That's right though. 02:53 That's way it's gonna be from now on after this. 02:55 After this program, they're gonna be saying, 02:57 oh, yeah, let's see Mark. 03:00 Isn't your sister Sandra? 03:01 You know, that's way they'll do it. 03:03 But, so we're very thankful that you're here. 03:06 And the project that you're doing on 03:09 Three Angels Messages For Kids is incredible 03:12 but when we started a network, you know, 03:14 37 years ago, I had this was looking for a name, 03:19 dreamed about it and in the dream 03:21 I saw the world 03:22 and I saw three angels flying around it 03:25 and basically it was like Three Angels Broadcasting, 03:27 each angel was blowing a trumpet. 03:29 So it was Three Angels Broadcasting 03:32 and to tell you the truth, Dan, and you knew me back then. 03:34 I did. 03:35 We met in 1985 when I was telling them 03:37 Big Sky Montana 03:39 when I was trying to tell the story 03:40 and you were recording it. 03:41 And Dan and Karen had their little cassettes players. 03:45 We recorded this testimony 03:46 the first time he gave it at ASI. 03:47 That's right ever, 1985. 03:50 He said he heard it back too one time. 03:52 On either never supported me. 03:55 When I heard that I said, 03:56 oh boy, I will never swear, had to been the Lord. 03:58 But you know, 03:59 there was a miracle in that, Dan. 04:01 Just got to comment on, 04:02 that was supposed to have been free time 04:03 that Friday afternoon. 04:05 And a lady came up with Danny and said, 04:08 "I want to hear this man's testimony, 04:09 but I want a recording of it." 04:11 You remember that? Okay. 04:12 And I said, "Yeah, we can do that," 04:14 because there's not a meeting on Friday afternoon 04:15 and we'll just go in 04:16 and because I had the PA system, 04:18 I had the recording system. 04:19 And so we made arrangements and then it rained. 04:22 And 250 people show up to here 04:24 you record for that one lady 04:26 and that tape went wild and that started things off. 04:29 It was a tremendous, 04:30 you know to catapult us out there 04:32 so people knew who we were. 04:34 And so incredible so thank you and that just moved on. 04:37 Well, I just was in the right place 04:38 the right time like you have. 04:39 The tape went around the world, 04:42 but I was impressed to build a station 04:44 called Three Angels Broadcasting. 04:46 But I didn't really I was a Seventh-day Adventist raised, 04:49 my mother became an Adventist when I was... 04:52 When actually the year I was born. 04:54 That was 1951. 04:56 I don't mind telling I'm proud of it, 04:57 you know, 1951 year I was born, and, 05:01 so I was raised in Adventist but I could have, 05:04 you know, argued with people about the Sabbath. 05:06 I use that word argue or the state of the dead 05:09 or debated them but really the three angels, 05:11 I just didn't really catch all of that. 05:14 Yeah. 05:15 So once I was impressed to build a station 05:17 and named Three Angels, 05:18 I said I better study the Three Angels' Messages 05:21 and then, of course, I found it's all about Jesus 05:22 and His love for fallen man. 05:25 And so that's what it's all about. 05:26 Amen. 05:28 And nobody does present that 05:29 better than your brother Mark Finley, 05:30 so we're so thankful 05:32 we've working with Mark all these years 05:33 and now I'm glad that we get to work with you. 05:36 Yeah, now we're doing it for kids. 05:37 That's right. So a little bit... 05:39 Why don't we, we're just gonna get into it. 05:41 Maybe, Dan, tell us how this project got started 05:44 and how Sandra got involved, and all that? 05:45 I'll do that, 05:47 but the first thing you got to say, 05:48 Danny, I am so excited about what's happening. 05:50 That I want you to know I wore my happy socks. 05:54 Here's my happy socks if the camera sees that. 05:59 Okay, here we go. 06:00 I just want you to know that I am extremely happy. 06:03 I don't know if you can see that. 06:04 Oh, there they are. 06:06 All right. They got it. 06:07 There you go. They got it. 06:09 But I am so happy and excited about what is happening. 06:12 Now I'll tell you where this started. 06:14 There was a, you know, a group of people that 06:16 started to come together because our friend Rusty McKee 06:18 had been getting honest about hey, 06:20 we got to do something on the Three Angels' Messages. 06:21 At ASI in 2018, 06:24 and you weren't there but you were watching live. 06:26 I remember because we actually had the posters, 06:29 we decided to send posters to every classroom. 06:31 And you have those, 06:32 I saw them back here in the studio. 06:35 We had that and it's the first time 06:36 I can ever remember and I've been to ASI every year 06:38 since '83 until this year. 06:40 This is the first year Karen and I missed. 06:42 But that was the first time 06:43 I've ever remembered people rushing the stage. 06:46 When we finished that basically Rusty and Mark Finley 06:49 and myself were interviewed by Steve 06:50 onstage Sabbath afternoon, the stage was rushed, 06:53 we were done and they wanted to see the pictures. 06:55 And we said okay, 06:56 if we're gonna put these in schools. 06:59 The next thing we need to have some curriculum. 07:02 And so we began a process 07:03 and we had several people get involved, 07:05 good people that were helping us get going, 07:06 but it just wasn't quite jelling right. 07:09 We had to connect 07:10 with the North American Division 07:11 that wanted all the schools to have it. 07:13 And after we had gone for about, 07:15 oh, probably nine months or so we were wrestling with it 07:18 and Mark Finley, Sandy's brother was out 07:21 in California with us for an event. 07:24 He had written the 13 presentations that later 07:26 became three cosmic messages, 07:28 which we recorded here in partnership with him. 07:31 And at that time, we were saying, 07:33 what are we gonna do to get a curriculum done? 07:36 And it just so happened, he said, you know, Sandy, 07:39 my sister is a curriculum specialist 07:41 in Adventist education has written curriculum, 07:43 has been an educator, as a teacher, as a principal, 07:47 as an education superintendent, has written curriculums. 07:50 And so we got on the phone with her 07:52 over the next couple of days. 07:54 And we've been talking with her 07:56 and she was at a point in her life, 07:57 kind of a transitionary point 07:58 and so we said, hey, what would you think about 08:01 joining our team at Heart Research Center 08:03 and helping us found a new ministry called 08:06 Three Angels for Kids? 08:07 That would actually take the Three Angels' Messages 08:10 and make it available in schools. 08:12 Danny, just like you said, you grew up 08:13 in the Adventist Church, but you didn't know it. 08:15 Not really. 08:16 And there's a lot of kids today, 08:18 how do they, how are they gonna know 08:19 what's going on? 08:21 And so basically, we sat down and started talking 08:24 and Sandy will tell you some of her responses to that. 08:27 But bottom line, she's here so, you know, she said, yes. 08:31 But she started with a blank piece of paper. 08:34 And we created 08:35 what we're gonna share with you today from scratch. 08:37 And I will just tell you, 08:38 I'm so gratified with the responses 08:41 we're getting from schools around North America, 08:46 and even there are places, 08:48 there are people you'll hear as we talk about this, 08:50 people from around the world, 08:51 we have people signing up and taking classes on 08:54 Hope Lives 365 website from around the world. 08:57 Two hundred and fifty I think were the last time 08:59 we had 250 people participating. 09:01 So we just since it's really, really awesome, 09:03 but you know, I wanna say one thing 09:05 before we jump into this 09:06 because I'm afraid we won't have time at the end 09:07 if I don't do it now. 09:09 Can I do that? Sure. 09:11 We also were on here with you shortly 09:13 after we did the four posters. 09:15 Right. 09:16 And I had, if you remember that interview, 09:18 you're both doing the same interview, 09:20 we had Larry Blackmer 09:22 from North American Division Office of Education 09:24 plus a couple teachers. 09:25 Well, we had been talking about trying to get art up, 09:30 while we actually created a series of seven paintings 09:33 with Nathan Green on the days of creation. 09:36 You also have a set of those up here back in the hall. 09:37 Beautiful. 09:39 Well, we had a donor, some donor 09:41 I should say some donors that came and said, 09:43 we would like to make those available in schools 09:45 because there's a group of us that say, 09:47 we've got to get our kids thinking, 09:49 there's so many things to distract them. 09:50 We've got to get them visually engaged in thinking 09:53 about such things 09:54 as Three Angels' Messages and Creation 09:56 which is a part of Three Angels' Messages. 09:58 So what we have done is we've made an offer 10:01 and we partnered with 10:02 the North American Division Education. 10:04 They sent a letter 10:05 out to every teacher a year and a half ago. 10:08 And we said, if you want to write a little essay, 10:12 that about why creation is important. 10:14 We will give you a set of these nice chalets 10:17 in a floating frame ready to hang on the wall. 10:19 We've had 220 of those hung, and I think they have pictures, 10:24 like you'll see those on the screen now. 10:26 These are a few of the schools 10:27 that have sent us back pictures of what 10:29 this how they've done it in their schools. 10:31 Well, one of the things 10:33 I just want to say here today is that 10:35 we have just made arrangements 10:36 for an additional 125 sets of these. 10:39 And I wanna give your viewers an opportunity to say, call... 10:44 If you have a church school in your area call and say, 10:46 hey, do we have this set of pictures 10:48 and if you don't be aware 10:49 that there's an email coming 10:51 from your educational superintendent. 10:53 It's gonna give you an opportunity 10:55 and the first 125 schools that respond and do the, 10:58 write the essay are gonna get these free 11:01 to hang in their schools. 11:02 We happen to have this church school here. 11:03 Yes, we do. Inside tract. 11:06 Well, you're one of the first to know, 11:08 but I want people to ask the teachers, 11:10 ask their principal, do we have it? 11:13 If we don't, we need it. 11:14 And it's available at no cost. 11:15 Take just a moment for our viewers 11:17 who are not familiar who... 11:19 I didn't paint these pictures. I didn't do them, 11:22 who, tell us a little bit about the artist? 11:23 Nathan Green is an incredible artist. 11:26 And he paints, in fact, 11:27 there's a picture right over here that 11:29 is one of his in your studio. 11:31 Nathan specializes in bringing things to life 11:35 out of Scripture especially, 11:37 and the Lamb of God 11:39 which is the one you have drawn on the wall. 11:41 But he was commissioned 11:42 about five years ago, 11:43 little over five years ago to create the days of creation, 11:47 one for every day. 11:48 And he has become 11:50 one of the preeminent artists in the world. 11:54 Top three in inspirational art 11:56 and he went from in the last 25-30 years 12:00 he has gone from 12:01 doing illustrations to being 12:02 one of the finest fine art painters. 12:04 And he did these seven 12:05 and we didn't even realize this is how God works. 12:07 We didn't realize we were gonna be doing 12:09 the Three Angels' Messages project after this. 12:12 And now it was all ready to go when we needed it. 12:16 And they are out there, we have them in our colleges, 12:18 all of our universities have access 12:20 to them in a larger format. 12:21 But we're trying to 12:23 draw people's attention to creation 12:25 because that's in the first angel's message. 12:26 Right, yes, yes. But it'd be okay. 12:29 I'm sorry. That's okay. 12:30 I was just gonna say would it be okay 12:32 for our viewers, 12:33 'cause most of our viewers worldwide 12:35 are not part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, 12:37 probably we're guessing 12:38 95, 98% of our worldwide viewers. 12:41 Sure. 12:42 But the Three Angels Messages short in a nutshell, 12:45 found in Revelation 14. 12:48 And so, let me do this in a sentence or two, 12:51 it's an end times message to the world 12:54 about what's gonna happen. 12:56 You can have peace in the midst of the storm 12:58 if you understand the Three Angels' Message, 13:00 it's God's love story. 13:02 He's giving you in advance 13:04 so you can see into the future, and no matter. 13:06 So I tell people and I've been telling them for years, 13:09 they'll say, talk about the times 13:11 we're living in and all of these things 13:13 and I say, I'm not concerned, I've read the back of the book. 13:16 Said, I've read Revelation, 13:17 I've read the Three Angels' Messages. 13:20 So you may wanna look into that. 13:21 We have information here. 13:23 You're gonna get a lot of information today 13:26 because it's a love message, 13:28 a warning message to a lost and dying world. 13:31 But it gives each and every one of us 13:33 lets us know God loves 13:34 and cares and has a plan for us 13:36 to spend eternity with Him 13:38 and is one of the most beautiful messages 13:41 in all the world because it's really Jesus. 13:43 And Jesus is telling us in beautiful terms. 13:47 So I love the Three Angels' Messages. 13:50 As I said, I used to, I didn't know about that, 13:52 I could knew about dark, 13:53 but to see the love of God 13:55 and how He would foretell that. 13:57 So that we now living in the end times 14:00 can look at and say, wow, thank you Jesus. 14:03 Well, Danny, just response to that. 14:05 That's what this project is all about. 14:08 We want kids being able to understand 14:11 that the back of the book is filled with hope. 14:13 All right. 14:14 And we're very excited about what's happened and, 14:16 and maybe Sandy, whenever you're ready, 14:18 she can share how she responded 14:21 when we challenged her with this idea. 14:22 Okay. Okay. 14:24 Go ahead. Yes. 14:26 So I didn't expect to get this phone call. 14:28 And when I got it 14:30 and I was asked to write this curriculum, 14:32 my first thought was, I don't know if I can do this. 14:35 I mean, to write the Three Angels' Messages 14:37 for kindergarteners and all the way up. 14:40 I was going to actually turn it down. 14:43 And then I said let me pray about this, 14:44 and I prayed about it. 14:46 And that night when I was sleeping, 14:48 a little poem came into my head. 14:49 Okay. 14:51 And when I woke up, I grabbed a pencil 14:52 and I wrote it down exactly how God gave it to me 14:55 and it became our first book, 14:57 and we have a picture of it here that 14:58 we can show you. 15:00 That's the cover and then we have a picture 15:02 of the inside of it. 15:03 But I literally, Danny, I wrote it down exactly 15:08 how God gave it to me in word for word. 15:10 That's this book and kids now love it. 15:12 And we actually have a videotape 15:14 of a couple of kids that when their school 15:16 and you want to tell about their school, 15:17 Dan came on this school 15:19 and the kids had already memorized it. 15:20 They were so excited. 15:22 Whole first grade, the whole kindergarten class 15:23 had memorized the entire book, and they recited it for us. 15:26 You'll see this here, by the way, 15:27 this is the Greenville Adventist Academy 15:29 in Greenville, Tennessee. 15:30 They're teaching it from K through 12. 15:33 Oh, it's great. Yeah, so we'll show the video. 15:35 All right. 15:36 And that was my sign from God that, 15:38 yeah, you can do this, 15:40 because He just gave me that exact poem. 15:42 So I don't know if they wanna put it up. 15:44 And you can see a little video. 15:47 Three angels in the sky. 15:50 Oh my. 15:52 Oh my. Oh my. 15:55 Ready? 15:56 Let's see, again, my story. 15:59 First Angel, give God the glory. 16:05 He's always fair and good and true. 16:10 He'll do what's right for me and you. 16:16 He maybe is in an outer space. 16:20 Now go and tell in every place. 16:26 Second Angel, the city's going down, 16:31 watch out, be safe, get out of town. 16:36 Third Angel, be patient, 16:41 trust Jesus in light and in dark, 16:45 He'll always protect you like Noah in the ark. 16:50 Three angels in the sky to 16:54 show the love of God on high. 16:58 And when their stories said and done, 17:02 we'll all look up and see God's Son. 17:07 So how can I say no to God when He gave me that? 17:09 Good. 17:10 I just wrote it down word for word 17:12 and it just turned into the book 17:13 and now kids are all loving it. 17:14 So I said, "Okay, God, 17:16 I will do this but you have to lead me," 17:18 you know, of course. 17:19 And so every time I wrote something, 17:21 I didn't know what I was gonna write next. 17:23 I didn't wanna know, it was too scary. 17:24 I mean, pre K, it turned out to be pre K 17:27 through senior year in high school. 17:29 I mean, our final unit, 17:31 we teach the kids how to be an evangelist, 17:33 and they go out and teach this themselves. 17:36 But I didn't even do the grade levels in order. 17:39 Whatever God gave me next, right? 17:40 When I was finishing one grade level, 17:42 I was starting to get really nervous. 17:43 He put it in my head. 17:45 And when it was time to go back and start writing, 17:47 I knew what I was gonna do for the next grade level. 17:49 Wow. Yeah. Yeah. 17:51 Look at how God provided for you. 17:54 He was really giving you that boost their faith as well, 17:59 letting you know that I've got you, 18:01 I'm gonna walk you through this whole process. 18:03 Very validated to my faith, to my faith personally, yes. 18:07 And to take something like the Three Angels' Messages 18:10 which as Danny said, 18:11 most people don't know or don't even know. 18:13 Yeah. 18:14 And to break it down for kids 18:16 like the city is going down, I love that. 18:18 I was like, what am I gonna do for you know, 18:20 Babylon has fallen, you know? 18:22 And we just teach the little ones, 18:24 if there's trouble get out of there. 18:26 Exactly. Get out of there. 18:28 If someone tries to tell you 18:29 to break one of God's commandments, 18:30 get out of there. 18:32 That's all they have to know at that young age. 18:33 That's right. You know? 18:34 You know, what's interesting to me, too, 18:36 is our kids are being 18:38 so indoctrinated in public schools 18:41 with just stuff that is just so anti-God. 18:44 Yes. 18:45 And here we have something that is so biblical that 18:49 we can give children, 18:51 so that they understand what's going on. 18:53 We're giving them truth, counteracting the counterfeit, 18:56 so to speak. 18:57 Yeah. Yeah. So, it's such a blessing. 19:00 And, you know, what's exciting too, 19:02 is we had a school that piloted everything, 19:05 and none of their children were Seventh-day Adventists. 19:08 And those kids loved it 19:09 and wanted to start keeping the Sabbath and everything, 19:12 so it worked even for kids who are not Adventists. 19:15 So it's kind of an evangelistic tool as well? 19:17 Yeah, it is. 19:18 So what about children who are in public schools, 19:22 whose parents want them to have this curriculum? 19:25 Is this available to anyone? You know what? 19:27 Now that you should mention that, 19:30 the ink is barely dry, 19:32 but just before I came here, 19:33 I just finished tweaking this 19:35 to make it really homeschool ready. 19:38 So you'll have to watch our website. 19:39 Be sure you subscribe to our website, 19:43 ThreeAngelsForKids.com because we'll let you know. 19:46 But this homeschool edition is now in production. 19:48 It is. Praise the Lord. 19:50 We want every child, every parent, 19:52 every grandparent that wants to make sure 19:54 their young people you know, 19:56 in fact, the Shema, I got to talk about the Shema. 20:00 You know the Jewish, our Jewish brothers and sisters 20:03 have the Shema 20:04 where they quote Deuteronomy 6:4 our God is One. 20:08 You shall love the Lord. 20:09 The Shema for the Seventh-day Adventist Church is fear God 20:11 and give glory to Him, 20:13 for the hour of His judgment has come, 20:14 the Three Angels' Messages. 20:15 And if we want to give our kids exposure to that, 20:18 we have created the way for that to happen 20:20 so that they're not afraid, 20:22 they're not freaked out about it. 20:23 Sandy will talk about that. 20:25 We're getting feedback that 20:26 this grace filled way of doing this which still calls 20:29 for obedience 20:30 and understanding the big issues, 20:32 the kids are responding and they're not afraid. 20:34 Yes. Yes. 20:36 I've actually had teachers 20:39 come to me when I do teacher training. 20:40 You know, I've done teacher trainings 20:42 all over the NAD already and this has just come out 20:44 and there's such a big interest. 20:46 I've had teachers come to me in tears saying, 20:48 "I wish we had this when I was younger." 20:51 You know because some people 20:52 have grown up with a fear about it, you know? 20:55 I actually created a mission statement, 20:57 if you want to put that up to remind myself 20:59 why I'm doing it. 21:01 And so my mission, I'm here to help students be 21:05 ready for Jesus to come 21:06 and to understand last day events 21:08 in the context of love, not fear. 21:10 Yes, yes. 21:11 And people just love that. 21:13 And we have our poster too if you wanna take a look 21:16 how do you teach 21:18 the Three Angels' Messages to children? 21:19 So if you want to show that poster, 21:21 I've had a lot of people say I wish we have this 21:25 for adults you know, so it's very basic you know. 21:29 Angel one, I don't know can you read it there, 21:31 Dan, if you want to read it? 21:32 I can't, I have to read it clearly. 21:34 I can't see that, I have to admit. 21:37 Danny, we thought Danny 21:39 was the only one but I have to admit, 21:40 I can't read it like if you have a big picture. 21:41 Little small, I don't think viewers can read it. 21:43 Yeah. 21:44 But you know when we say fear God, 21:47 it doesn't mean to be afraid of Him, of course. 21:49 So angel one, how do you teach 21:50 the judgment to little children? 21:52 You teach the judgment, God is always fair, trust Him, 21:56 He will do what's right. 21:57 So it's very broad brush you know. 21:59 Angel two, don't listen to people 22:01 when they tell you to do something wrong. 22:03 Angel three, use your mind to listen 22:05 for God's voice, use your hands to do 22:07 what God wants you to do. 22:09 Be patient, have faith, trust Jesus. 22:11 There's the Three Angels' Messages for kids. 22:13 Yes. There you go. 22:14 See that, to me this is huge because it's a crossover, 22:19 and when I'm talking about that, 22:22 our goal and our mission 22:23 as Seventh-day Adventist Christians 22:25 is to reach the world. 22:26 In 3ABN, we always say 22:27 with an undiluted Three Angels' Messages one would, 22:30 that would counteract the counterfeit. 22:33 So what you're doing is as I mentioned earlier, 22:36 I knew about, heard about three angels 22:38 but kind of scary, 22:40 but we actually two or three years ago 22:42 we commissioned some people to do a literally a music CD. 22:48 But one of the most well-known 22:51 would you say in America, 22:53 maybe around the world gospel, you know, songwriters. 22:56 He said, well, I don't know anything about, 22:59 so I want you to read it. 23:00 Now, of course, it's been, 23:01 he said just such a beautiful message. 23:03 But here's the thing. 23:04 He said, we need this because our churches we go 23:09 and we read everything except that. 23:12 We won't read Daniel and Revelation 23:14 because it's too scary. 23:15 Right. 23:16 So what you're doing is you're showing Jesus 23:19 in Daniel and Revelation 23:20 just like you would get it in John. 23:22 Everybody loves, any denomination. 23:24 They love Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, 23:26 but Daniel and Revelation we're scared of it. 23:29 So what you're doing is you're centering 23:31 this all around Jesus and His love for fallen man. 23:33 Yeah. 23:35 So to me, Dan, this thing should be 23:36 going to church any Christians everywhere, 23:40 I mean, we might look at possibilities 23:42 and even do a program of getting people involved 23:46 from other churches 23:47 because this is so important to get it out. 23:49 I just preached a sermon five reasons 23:51 to celebrate the judgment. 23:52 Okay. Oh, nice. 23:55 And, Danny, you're exactly right. 23:56 We're, you know, we're trying not to jump ahead of ourselves, 24:00 'cause we've done that before and it's not too good. 24:02 But we think that there is unlimited potential for this. 24:06 We're trying to get it in our schools first, 24:08 our homeschoolers, our families 24:09 and I think there are many Christians 24:12 who out there are saying this, 24:13 we have this but we have, but there's something missing. 24:17 Well just maybe we can guide them 24:19 to a little chapter in Revelation 24:21 called Revelation 14. 24:23 Absolutely. 24:24 And we can do it from a very basic level 24:26 for the kids that even adults, you know, 24:28 that poster that Sandy had up a minute ago. 24:30 That's, we boiled it down, you know, 24:32 it takes a lot more work to boil it down to a few words 24:35 than to expand it with lots of words 24:37 and this boil down 24:39 and so we think that it has huge potential 24:41 and only God knows how far this will go. 24:44 I just wanna make sure that we don't stand in the way. 24:46 That's right. 24:47 And their timing, you know, 24:49 it's God and like Him impressing you to do it. 24:50 Yeah. 24:51 The reason we know because we're excited 24:53 because this is life experiences 24:55 that we're experiencing. 24:56 There's another, I won't give his name, 24:58 but everybody would know it. 24:59 Wonder, to me, one of world's most renowned pianist. 25:03 And does gospel music, does, you know, all kinds of music. 25:08 He's been talking to us, he calls us and says, 25:11 we wanna know what's happening, 25:12 and for the future, and he says that 25:15 we're but we're gonna be raptured out. 25:18 We don't have to worry about any of that, right? 25:19 And so when we give him the news, no, it's like, 25:21 oh, no, I don't want to go through the tribulation. 25:24 Are you kidding me? 25:26 You know, we said, "No." 25:27 So we're studying 25:28 and what we're finding out the back of the book, 25:30 that's the most beautiful part of it 25:33 all is knowing the future. 25:35 The Three Angels Messages when you understand that, 25:38 now you go through 25:39 and you're not gonna be discouraged. 25:41 If you think you're not going through 25:42 any tribulation as soon as the devil hits you on, 25:45 ow, this is no fun, I'm gonna back away. 25:48 So knowing the back of the book and reading it, 25:51 so this to me, that's why this thing. 25:53 And, Dan, there's a reason the Three Angels' Messages, 25:56 it's a last day warning message 25:58 to a last generation on planet earth. 26:01 So putting it together, 26:02 whether it's music, like we've done, 26:04 John Lomacang's little book, this for kids. 26:07 And you did a song for children too that 26:09 broke down the Trinity which was really... 26:13 Music is powerful. It's amazing. 26:15 It is amazing. 26:16 The thing that is standing out to me too, 26:20 is that you are actually vindicating 26:22 God's character. 26:23 You're showing who God really is. 26:26 He's not a boogeyman. He's a God of love. 26:30 And you're showing this to children. 26:31 You don't have to be afraid of Him. 26:33 He loves you. 26:35 And so this is so important, 26:36 because it's showing who God really is. 26:39 Yeah, you know, I did, through Hope Lives 365 online. 26:44 I did a whole week of prayer for kids around the world. 26:46 We had over 200 devices tuning in from around the world. 26:50 And I put up some emojis and I asked kids, 26:53 pick one that shows 26:55 how you feel about the judgement, 26:56 and it was anonymous, an anonymous poll, 26:59 and most children picked the crying face. 27:02 And when I was finished with the week of prayer, 27:05 I asked them again, and they picked the heart. 27:07 Oh, yes, yes, yes. 27:10 The impact on kids is amazing. 27:12 And that's one thing. 27:14 You know, Sandy has been training all these teachers. 27:15 And by the way, we have full conferences 27:18 that are deploying this. 27:19 But not everybody is yet because it's pretty new. 27:22 But the impact on kids and I'm really looking forward 27:24 to her continuing to share about that, 27:26 because we want you to see 27:27 what you saw the kids give their recite. 27:30 But there's some other kids 27:31 that have dug into it a little deeper, 27:33 little older, it's pretty amazing. 27:34 Yeah. Just walk us through. 27:36 We're kind of getting, I'm getting all. 27:38 We got a lot of information again to through those pictures 27:40 and videos, whatever you got. 27:42 Yeah, yeah. 27:43 Let's look at the components of what we have. 27:44 So let's take a look at the pre K through two. 27:47 And we have beautiful artists. 27:48 This is a couple from Brazil that is doing all our artwork, 27:52 isn't that beautiful? 27:54 So we have our two, what we call anchor texts, 27:57 God makes a plan and three angels in the sky 27:59 for our pre K through two. 28:00 And we actually have them make paintings. 28:03 And we have some pictures of the kids 28:04 when I was piloting this, 28:06 doing their paintings, and they love it. 28:08 And we have them do crayon resist, 28:10 and we teach them. 28:11 What does it mean to resist? 28:13 Well, I can ask you, what does it mean to resist? 28:16 Or to avoid or... Yeah, yeah. 28:19 So if you're doing a crayon resist, 28:22 if you do your crayon on the paper, 28:25 and then you do a watercolor wash, 28:27 the paper is going to resist the crayon. 28:30 So if you make a white cloud, 28:31 you'll still see that white cloud, 28:33 but the paper will absorb the rest of the color. 28:36 So when we teach them that, 28:37 then we go to the text resist the devil 28:39 and he will flee from you and nigh to God, 28:41 He will draw nigh to you. Yes. 28:42 So we teach them. How do you resist? 28:44 And how do you do a crayon resist? 28:45 And they make these beautiful books. 28:47 And it turns out that parents love them. 28:49 They're their own. 28:50 The books are called Three Angels for Me. 28:52 Okay. 28:53 And so they illustrate and they make their paintings. 28:55 I had one parent that 28:56 like hugged the book close to herself. 28:58 She said, "Oh, I'm gonna keep this forever." 29:00 So that's something about our pre K through two, 29:02 then take a look at our grades three and four. 29:05 We have a story about a little girl 29:07 by the name of Beth and her life 29:09 just keeps tying into 29:10 the Three Angels Messages somehow. 29:12 It starts where she had been 29:14 going to the science fair 29:16 and her poster is blown out of her hands 29:18 and she's crying and she's embarrassed 29:20 and she doesn't want to go back to school 29:21 because her poster is messed up. 29:23 And when she finally goes back, 29:25 the school is clapping, what's going on? 29:28 They have retrieved the poster and they have cleaned it up. 29:30 And the teacher says this is a good introduction 29:32 to the Three Angels for kids. 29:35 I mean the Three Angels Messages, 29:36 I'm saying my own, 29:38 even in my company, I like it so much. 29:40 But anyway, she says, "What do you mean?" 29:43 And then the teacher talks about 29:45 how Jesus takes the mistakes 29:47 that we make and makes it beautiful again. 29:50 And then the little girl has gotten the date wrong, 29:52 she's so, well, that's okay, but I missed the science fair. 29:55 Oh, no, you got the date wrong. 29:56 Oh, that ties into 29:57 the Three Angels Messages as well, 29:59 and then they talked about the great disappointment. 30:01 So it all ties in through the book. 30:03 And I actually have a third and fourth grade teacher 30:05 who wanted to say, 30:06 a little validating something here. 30:08 These are our fifth and sixth grade materials. 30:10 But if we have the video, 30:11 we can show you the teacher that wanted to say something 30:14 about it that was in the pilot that 30:17 really loved it 30:18 when she taught it to third and fourth graders. 30:19 I don't know if you can pull that up. 30:21 Sure. Yeah, yeah. 30:22 Great. All right. Let's take a look. 30:24 There was a lot to love about the unit. 30:26 And I wanna start 30:27 with I loved how you made the Three Angels; Message 30:30 accessible to children. 30:32 I felt like a lot of them had no idea 30:34 what the Three Angels' Message was. 30:36 When we did our initial writing piece 30:39 where they were supposed to talk about 30:41 the Three Angels' Message, 30:42 most of them said, I don't know. 30:44 Yesterday, we read it. 30:46 And a lot of them wrote like 30:48 almost a full page on the things 30:50 that they've learned about Three Angels' Message. 30:52 So they were really able to internalize it 30:54 and understand its meaning. 30:58 A couple of my students were so excited 30:59 about the message that they went home, 31:01 and on their own started 31:03 studying the Book of Revelation, 31:04 and specifically the Three Angels' Message. 31:06 And then a couple of days later, 31:07 one of them came back and he was so excited 31:09 because he went even further and said, 31:11 "There's more, there's more to the story." 31:13 Yeah. 31:15 And I think that was a little boy 31:16 that was not a Seventh-day Adventist 31:17 that was so excited. 31:19 So and by the way, 31:20 that's West Coast Christian Academy. 31:22 That was April Noah, third and fourth grade teacher 31:25 down in Florida, where I live. 31:26 Yeah, yeah. 31:27 And then I think they did show you our fifth 31:29 and sixth grade materials. 31:31 So we can take a peek at those again, 31:32 but those are booklets. 31:33 There are 10 booklets. 31:35 And they are actually in sets of two. 31:37 And so the students read those two booklets 31:40 and then they get a question that has to do 31:41 with the Three Angels' Messages. 31:43 And so they tie it all together. 31:44 And you might be interested to know 31:46 that the first booklet Lost in the Jungle is about 31:49 my brother, Mark Finley, 31:51 when he was a student missionary, 31:53 and he got lost in the jungle 31:54 before the days of internet 31:56 or email or texting or anything. 31:58 GPS. Exactly. Exactly. 32:00 His job as a young student missionary 32:02 was to push somehow to get an ambulance 32:05 through the jungle terminals. 32:06 And I mean, 32:08 they went in the middle of places 32:09 where they were no other human beings. 32:11 Finally, they came across 32:13 some kind of an indigenous tribe there 32:15 and Mark did some kind of a barter 32:17 because he hadn't had food for days. 32:20 And so that we tie into bringing the gospel 32:22 to the whole world. 32:23 Okay. 32:25 And then the companion piece to that is about an older man, 32:28 Abraham LaRue, who brought the gospel to China 32:30 and then we asked them, 32:31 what does it take to be a missionary? 32:33 What does it take? 32:34 You know, and it's not about age, it's for sure. 32:37 You'll notice that there are 10 of those. 32:39 Yes. And that is an important point. 32:42 These are set for a two week curriculum. 32:44 Yes. 32:45 Okay So the teacher can put these in 32:47 into many different slots because it's gonna, 32:49 each one's gonna take at least two weeks 32:51 sometimes they'll stretch if they like it. 32:52 Yeah, that was good that you brought that up. 32:53 Yeah, it's fully endorsed 32:55 by the NAD North American Division, 32:57 sorry about the alphabet. 32:58 But it is fully endorsed by the North American Division, 33:03 they are very excited about it. 33:05 And it's something that a teacher 33:07 can just pick up and for two weeks 33:09 they get a break, 33:10 they can take a breath because we provide everything, 33:13 so it's very easy to do it and it's nice. 33:16 Some people like to do it 33:17 right before Christmas break or something, you know, 33:20 just to have a little time to relax 33:22 and we give you everything. 33:24 I have a heart for teachers 33:25 because I was an associate superintendent for 15 years, 33:27 so we give it to you and homeschoolers 33:29 we have your special edition as well. 33:32 If you want to take a look at grade seven and eight, 33:34 grade seven and eight our sponsors 33:36 said this is the grade level we want the whole enchilada, 33:40 very, a lot of detail in here 33:42 and so we integrated this one with social studies. 33:46 Okay. 33:47 So the students actually do a report 33:50 where they look through history and find a government, 33:54 a time when a government was mixing church and state 33:57 and it didn't go well 33:59 because God is the supreme ruler 34:01 and so they do a comparison there. 34:03 This is the complete message in grade seven and eight. 34:05 Complete. Oh, wow. 34:07 Good. 34:08 Yeah, if you want to show a picture, 34:09 we have a student debate 34:11 and so we have the student's debate, 34:13 can your lawyer and your judge be the same person? 34:15 Okay. 34:17 And then, of course, 34:18 we talk about in the conflict of the ages, 34:21 the conflict of the interest is the best thing 34:24 because our lawyer and our judge 34:25 is the same person, 34:27 he's on our side, he wants us to win. 34:28 That's right. 34:29 Okay, and we have a little clip also from a boy here. 34:32 Again, this is West Coast Christian 34:34 where he did a lot of our piloting 34:36 that just a short little thing that's this little boy 34:39 has to say that 34:40 I think your viewers will like to see. 34:43 I learned about the Three Angels' Messages. 34:46 Now I'm ready for Jesus to come. 34:51 That's precious. Yeah, yeah. 34:53 So that's the elementary school 34:55 and then we have grades 9 through 12. 34:57 When I finished writing the elementary I was like, 34:59 oh my God, I'm gonna be done, 35:00 and they were like 35:02 you need to do one for high school, 35:03 and then I started thinking, 35:04 you know, I don't even know if I told you this, 35:06 but I thought I'm gonna make myself 35:07 make this easier, I'll just call it a micro unit. 35:09 Well then once I did that, 35:11 I ended up having to write four micro units, 35:13 and then one full semester. 35:15 So the last one, we teach you how to be an evangelist. 35:18 What I did is I took 35:19 Mark Finley's Three Cosmic Messages book, 35:21 and I watched all his videos. 35:24 And I'm a qualitative researcher, 35:26 that's I love qualitative, you know, 35:27 you just kind of look at something 35:28 and draw out your themes. 35:30 And I thought, 35:31 what is he doing to make this effective preaching, 35:33 and then we teach the kids, you know, 35:35 have an awareness of your audience. 35:37 You know, all of that. 35:38 And then they go on for and do their own 35:41 Three Cosmic Messages evangelistic series. 35:43 So the high school is where 35:45 we do our deep dives, deep dives. 35:46 Yeah. 35:48 There's one for every year, 35:49 plus the honors unit is that last one, 35:51 for the serious students, 35:53 and it could actually be a college preaching class. 35:56 Oh, yeah. 35:58 It could be a college preaching class. 35:59 On homiletics. On homiletics. 36:01 It lays out all and it shows video examples. 36:03 I just want to say, 36:05 Sandy has recorded these stories and audio 36:06 so it's audio visual, this is not just print. 36:08 Okay. 36:09 And so we will actually show a clip out of the presentation, 36:13 we taped right here 3ABN of Mark preaching 36:15 and it'll say, here's what he's doing. 36:17 Take note of this. 36:19 So you're gonna need to put that component 36:20 into your presentation Nice. 36:21 And this is complete thing. 36:23 So when you're done, 36:24 we should talk to some of the colleges 36:25 about giving some college credit for this 36:27 because it's that good. 36:28 Oh, yeah. Wow. 36:29 Yeah, we have one school that has done it. 36:33 Remember, you suggested that school. 36:34 What was the name of that school? 36:36 That school was 36:37 is one of our supporting ministry schools, 36:38 Steve Dickman's Academy up in Harbert Hills. 36:43 And they actually had their kids 36:45 go out train with this and go out 36:46 and conduct evangelistic series 36:48 using those 13 presentations from Three Cosmic Messages. 36:52 Okay. 36:53 And they have kids from all different countries. 36:54 So they each did it in their own language 36:57 for their language group. 36:58 Yeah. How has this impacted you? 37:01 Me personally, it's been very faith building, 37:03 you know, and I've had some other experiences 37:07 with building my faith through it. 37:08 One thing was that years ago, I wrote a little book called, 37:14 what's the second book now? 37:16 God Made the World, 37:17 God Makes a Plan, God Makes a Plan. 37:19 And when I made that book, 37:21 I chose certain pictures only 37:23 because you know, if you're an amateur photographer 37:25 once in a while you get it right, 37:26 but you can't count on yourself. 37:27 Isn't that right, you know? 37:29 So I had a really good picture of a tiger. 37:31 And I had a really good picture of an ape. 37:33 So I put it in the book. 37:35 Apes Gazed Tigers Blazed. 37:39 Well, when we did this program, we decided to use that 37:42 but we have a wonderful designer, 37:44 Mark Bond is our art designer. 37:46 And so he got some really good professional pictures. 37:49 Well, we put in some Nathan Green pictures. 37:51 And if you look at those pictures 37:53 that you have there on the wall, 37:55 and God is making man who is looking on at the side, 37:59 on one side is an ape, and on one side is a tiger. 38:03 And here years ago, I wrote this little book 38:06 and it said Apes Gazed Tigers Blazed. 38:08 And God was preparing for that. 38:10 So there were so many things. 38:12 And since you asked that, 38:13 I do wanna tell you another one 38:15 that happened was when I wrote the book 38:16 about the little girl, her life keeps becoming 38:20 like something connected to the Three Angels' Messages. 38:24 I thought, I wanna have her dad 38:26 the police officer with a Sabbath problem, 38:29 you know, somebody. 38:30 And I remembered that 30 years before 38:33 at least 30 years before my... 38:34 I guess I'm giving away my age here. 38:36 But there you go. Now it's out there. 38:39 You're among friends. Right. 38:43 My husband's a pastor and a member of his church 38:47 was a police officer with a Sabbath problem. 38:49 And again, this would always 38:50 come to my head in the night when I was sleeping. 38:52 So the next morning, I said, Eric, 38:54 do you happen to remember 38:55 when you had this police officer 38:57 that had Sabbath problems? 38:58 And his jaw was to the floor? I said, what? 39:01 And he said, I have not thought about 39:02 that for decades but yesterday I found the file. 39:05 He gave me the file that thick. Wow. 39:08 And I went through all of that paperwork 39:11 and wrote that chapter. 39:13 So those are three different things 39:14 that I've told you today. 39:16 So it's been very faith building. 39:17 It's been very humbling. 39:19 I tend to be an extrovert and I said, 39:20 it's all Dan's fault, I was quarantined 39:22 before it was even a thing. 39:24 Yes, I've been in a chair writing. 39:26 An extrovert or introvert? 39:27 No I'm a natural extrovert, 39:29 and I've been writing for years now. 39:32 She's been behind that screen, look at that. 39:33 Yeah. 39:35 Before the pandemic even happened, 39:36 I was quarantined because I was writing. 39:38 So it's been very humbling. 39:41 Because it's like, okay, you know, 39:43 you're just behind the scenes, writing, just be good, 39:46 just do it or get out of the chair. 39:48 God's got a work for you to do so. 39:50 So that's been, you know, 39:52 quite an interesting part of it. 39:55 But we've had a big interest not just among church schools 39:57 has been, you know, 39:59 we've had the home school market. 40:00 We even have some pictures of homeschoolers. 40:03 And you know, this has gone so well. 40:05 These are actually the grandchildren 40:07 of our project assistant, this has gone so well. 40:09 We've hired Yvette Cooper to be our project assistant 40:13 and her daughter, Ninea, homeschools her children. 40:16 And so we wanted to show 40:17 these little homeschool children, 40:19 you see the little one and all of that. 40:21 Yeah, so we have a very big interest. 40:23 And again, we have our online classes, 40:28 we have our North American Division endorsements. 40:31 So it's just going in so many directions. 40:33 I don't know, 40:35 should we tell him about the animations at all? 40:36 Well, we can do that in just a second. 40:37 Before we get the animations, 40:39 I think it would be cool to just talk about 40:41 the different experiences you've had, Sandy, 40:43 in the different conferences 40:45 where you've been working with teachers. 40:46 Give a few reports on a couple of teachers? 40:48 Yes, yes, yes. 40:49 That has been very exciting. 40:51 You know, with the pandemic, 40:52 there has been a different kind of response. 40:55 How do you do these trainings, but some ways, you know, 40:58 it works out better, 40:59 because you can do more maybe than you could. 41:01 But I've done some in person. 41:03 And we've done some Zoom meetings with teachers. 41:07 And we do, people are very grateful, 41:09 they are thanking me, 41:10 you know, every time I do this, and actually we do have a video 41:14 of myself doing a Zoom. 41:16 And this was in the Southwest Regional Conference 41:19 and the Southwest Regional Conference. 41:22 I really have to hand it to them, 41:23 because they got behind this. 41:25 This was Buford Griffith, he's from Montana. 41:27 Do you know him? I was in college with him. 41:29 Oh, my goodness. He's a go-getter. 41:31 He jumped right on this thing. I tell you what? 41:33 And he said, we're gonna do it, 41:35 we're gonna do it for everybody. 41:36 We're gonna do a conference wide, 41:37 every teacher is gonna start the school year for this. 41:40 Not only that, 41:41 he said we're gonna get the pastors involved. 41:44 So he said, because they're gonna need 41:46 to work with people and so the pastors 41:49 and the teachers came on Zoom and you know what? 41:52 That was for a whole day practically. 41:55 Because what I did was we had everybody together, 41:58 I gave him the philosophy. 41:59 I gave him the overview, 42:01 and then, okay, pre K through two stay on. 42:03 And we worked with them. 42:04 We put them in separate Zoom rooms. 42:06 They got involved in different activities 42:09 we had them do, and then we would have 42:11 the third and fourth graders. 42:13 Yeah, so we do have the clip. 42:14 Yeah. We should see that. 42:16 The pastor that was validating this whole thing. 42:19 Good. 42:20 Elder Griffin, can I say real quick, man, 42:22 I really enjoyed the presentation. 42:25 I think this is fantastic. 42:27 I can't say enough about it in terms of the value 42:30 it would be for us in children's ministries. 42:33 And I suspect that it's because it's contextualized 42:36 for the kids is gonna benefit a lot of adults too, 42:39 because they'll work their way 42:42 with progressive revelation from understanding the basics, 42:47 moving on up so much success to this program. 42:50 Amen. Yeah. 42:51 That used to be my conference when I was in Dallas. 42:53 Is that right? Yeah. 42:54 Wow. 42:55 And we were pretty impressed with how they jumped on this. 42:58 They recognize you when you do something 43:00 like this you really appreciate it 43:02 when someone recognizes what it is, 43:04 and they did. 43:05 Yeah. Now there's been others. 43:07 I mean, I look at North Pacific, 43:08 I look at you know, 43:10 different areas around our country. 43:12 And teachers, I've... 43:14 Sandy will tell me about the teachers 43:15 and sometimes I will have opportunity 43:16 to hear from them. 43:18 And it's just like, finally, 43:19 we have something that is 43:21 within our own belief structure. 43:23 We're not having to rewrite something 43:24 somebody else did somewhere. 43:26 And this is talking about the core issue. 43:27 Yeah. 43:28 And so that has been very rewarding to me 43:30 and I noticed Sandy as well. 43:31 Yeah, something else I did, 43:34 because I have a heart for teachers 43:35 and I have a heart for teaching children to read. 43:38 You know, I never planned on getting a doctorate 43:41 or anything like that in our family. 43:43 My dad was actually a high school dropout, 43:46 because he was just passed around 43:48 from relative to relative, 43:50 he went to 17 schools in 11 years, 43:52 had a very hard background. 43:53 But then he started 43:55 his own business and everything. 43:56 But I never planned on getting a doctorate. 43:59 But it turned out that 44:00 my own son was struggling to read 44:03 and I was trying to figure my own son out. 44:05 And that's why I went and ended up 44:07 getting a degree in special education 44:09 on the doctoral level. 44:10 So I just have this passion for kids 44:13 that are trying to learn to read 44:14 and teachers that are trying to figure out 44:15 what to do about it. 44:17 So there is curriculum embedded in this is the Bible 44:22 and teaching children to read 44:23 and teaching children to become better writers is all in it. 44:26 And when I did the third and fourth grade, 44:28 you know I'm coming along, I had the idea for this book, 44:31 God put it in my mind. 44:32 In fact, I'm writing a sequel now that He put in my mind. 44:36 I got about five chapters in 44:37 and God said, you know what, Sandy? 44:40 There could be some kids in that class 44:41 that are struggling readers. 44:43 I thought now what am I going to do 44:45 and I was using a tool. 44:46 It's called Flesch-Kincaid that you can put 44:49 any piece of writing in and see what grade level 44:51 you're writing at. 44:53 And the reason I was using it. I don't wanna do that. 44:56 I better be aware what she said. 44:58 Don't be looking me in my book, and grade in on that. 45:01 What would be your guess? 45:03 What do you think that like, 45:04 Reader's Digest or something like that? 45:05 What do you think the average reading level 45:07 for the average person is on? 45:09 That's like a grade level now? 45:10 Yeah. What grade level do you think? 45:11 Like six to eight or something. Yeah, exactly. 45:14 Good for you. Yeah. Yeah. 45:15 Like Reader's Digest anything like that is the seventh grade, 45:18 seventh grade reading level is what's pitched to anything. 45:21 For adults there's usually some grade reading level. 45:23 I haven't been reading that Reader's Digest lately. 45:26 But your average magazine or something seventh grade. 45:28 Yeah. 45:30 So anyway, you know, 45:31 how do I write something for third and fourth? 45:33 So what I did was, 45:34 I read a lot of books on third and fourth. 45:36 So I was thinking like that. 45:38 And then I would write a chapter, 45:39 then I would put it into Flesch-Kincaid, 45:41 and it would tell me like 3.2, okay, 45:43 I'm on, that's third grade, second month. 45:46 But if it was too high, 45:47 then you'd have to do two things, 45:49 you have to take the vocabulary down, 45:50 and you have to take the sentence structure down. 45:53 And then if it was too low, you have to bring it up. 45:55 So I did that for five chapters. 45:57 And the Lord said, well, Sandy, 45:58 you got to write it on a lower reading level. 46:00 Now I'm like, it was bad as Dan, 46:02 give me trained literature. 46:05 So when I did, I wrote those first five chapters 46:08 on a second grade reading level, 46:09 I kept getting it down to very basic vocabulary. 46:13 And then after that, the book is 20 chapters long, 46:16 every time I did a chapter, I did it in third and fourth, 46:18 and I did in second grade. 46:20 Well, then the Lord said that, Sandy, 46:21 there could be some gifted readers in that class. 46:24 I was like, oh, so then I wrote it a third time. 46:27 So if you order our third and fourth grade curriculum, 46:30 it's written on a second grade reading level, 46:32 it's written on a third and fourth grade reading level, 46:34 it's written on fifth and sixth. 46:36 So those multi grade, I've had multi grades, 46:38 somebody in a one rates, one room, say it for me one... 46:42 One room schoolhouse. Thank you. 46:45 Did that curriculum, and every kid loved it, 46:47 like they get so excited about it. 46:49 In those booklets for grades five and six, 46:52 it's the same thing. 46:53 They're written on three different reading levels 46:55 inside the booklets. 46:56 And the reason teachers like it is that 46:58 they don't have to give you a different passage to read, 47:01 we can all talk about the same material, 47:03 it's accessible to everybody. 47:05 Yes. My brain is kind of, going... 47:08 You know, I'm thinking about... Try Writer's Ally. 47:10 On the literacy thing. 47:12 Oh, man. 47:15 If you can't read, you can't do anything. 47:16 Exactly. So this is so critical. 47:19 I'm thinking about people 47:20 who are incarcerated who can't really read, 47:23 who would benefit so beautifully from this on 47:27 so many different levels, 47:28 like you can start them out at a lower level. 47:31 So I mean, this could be an amazing. 47:33 We think, Yvonne, 47:35 we think there are many different applications 47:37 as example some that have already happened. 47:39 We have a school in Madison, 47:40 Tennessee, and our academy there. 47:42 They decided this summer to make it the VBS. 47:44 They crafted it and made it 47:45 a VBS program, Sabbath schools. 47:47 Yes. 47:48 Sabbath schools, or even Sunday schools, 47:51 they write out. 47:52 You know, this could be used 47:54 in a church Sabbath program verynicely. 47:57 So we think that there are many different things 47:58 now that the core has done. 48:00 That's why I've been telling Sandy, okay, 48:01 the core is gonna get done. 48:03 But what you're going to be amazed at what God does. 48:04 Give me one piece of time, 48:06 now that the core is done, 48:07 we're doing the second wave of the core. 48:09 I'm already writing more curriculum. 48:11 And one thing we forgot to tell them 48:13 too was about the international. 48:14 That's right. 48:16 You know, I was at as DESA, 48:19 where you have administrators of education, 48:21 and I met some people from Germany, 48:23 and they became so excited that 48:25 they asked us to do this in German. 48:27 And so we did the third and fourth grade level. 48:30 And I presented this online to Bogenhofen University 48:34 in Austria to the education majors. 48:36 So when the education majors 48:38 in Austria get out into the field, 48:40 that's what they're going to be doing is Three Angels. 48:43 That's great. Yeah and Burton... 48:46 Burton Wattenberg Conference? 48:48 Wattenberg, I think that's right. 48:49 I won't try to figure that one. 48:53 So it's going international, which worldwide take 48:55 the Three Angels' Messages into all the world. 48:58 Jesus said, "Go ye into all the world." 48:59 Now the only enemy we have here today is the clock. 49:02 And so what I want to do, 49:04 now we've done thousands of programs, 49:06 but it's not fair of you two to come in 49:09 and tell u these great stories 49:10 without telling us how we can participate. 49:13 So we need... Sandy go for us. 49:15 So tell us out all of our viewers 49:17 and we can all help you. 49:18 Yes, please go to our website, ThreeAngelsForKids.com 49:24 and you wanna scroll down on that first page, 49:27 and you wanna subscribe to the website. 49:29 So then anytime we put out something new, 49:31 you will be in the know. 49:33 If you click on shop, 49:35 you will see all of our resources there 49:37 and you'll see the grade levels on the left side 49:40 and you just go to your grade level. 49:42 And very soon 49:43 we'll have our special homeschool 49:44 button on there. 49:46 So you wanna go right to ThreeAngelsForKids.com 49:49 You can also go to our Facebook page, 49:52 which is Three Angels for... 49:54 No, Facebook.com/ThreeAngelsForKids 49:58 Facebook.com/ThreeAngelsForKids 50:01 We post things there as those things are happening. 50:04 And we also have classes on HopeLives365BibleStudy.com 50:09 for children, so there's a lot going on. 50:12 So you wanna be sure to subscribe to the website, 50:15 you want to be sure to get over to our Facebook page, 50:17 and look at those classes on Hope Lives 365. 50:20 We also have a free week of prayer videos 50:24 under the resources 50:25 on our ThreeAngelsForKids.com website. 50:29 Now, I just want to say, 50:31 she recorded a complete week of prayer 50:35 that any school can use those videos 50:37 for a week of prayer on the Three Angels Messages. 50:39 Thank you very much. Just about gone. 50:40 We're gonna go to news break in a minute, 50:43 we'll come back with a closing thought. 50:45 But I have one suggestion 50:48 'cause I still want to help some more. 50:50 I like all of this. 50:52 But do you have a Donate button on that website? 50:54 If you don't... Oh, we need to do that. 50:55 We need to put the Donate button. 50:56 You don't, you need a Donate button 50:58 because I know our viewers and when they get behind 50:59 something it's in a big way. 51:00 Okay. So I believe we have... 51:02 You know, I think that might be happening real soon, Danny. 51:04 This is a takeaway from 3ABN today. 51:08 There you go. Thank you. 51:09 Absolutely. 51:10 Donate, I'm happy about all this, 51:12 but I wanna donate how do I do it? 51:14 So on that website we'll be able to do it. 51:16 So listen, thank you so much, both of you for coming. 51:19 And, Dan, you've been for many, many years and going back 51:22 and glad Karen got to see her today too. 51:24 But we're gonna just take what we're gonna do 51:27 is take a little news break, little short break, 51:29 but we'll be back for a closing thought. 51:32 If you would like more information 51:33 about Heart Research Center, 51:35 you can write to them at PO Box. 2377, 51:39 Fallbrook, California 92088. 51:42 That's Heart Research Center, 51:44 PO Box, 2377, Fallbrook, California 92088. 51:51 You can call them at (760) 723-8082 51:55 That's (760) 723-8082 or you can find them online 52:01 at ThreeAngelsForKids.com 52:05 That's written out in letters ThreeAngelsForKids.com |
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