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00:04 I want to spend my life mending broken people 00:14 I want to spend my life removing pain. 00:25 Lord let my words heal a heart that hurts 00:35 I want to spend my life mending broken people 00:56 ♪ ♪ 01:05 Hello friends. Welcome to 3ABN Today. I'm Ryan Day. I work here 01:09 for the 3ABN Pastoral Department Now as always it's a blessing to 01:13 have each and every one of our family, our 3ABN family, joining 01:16 us. We want to thank you so much for your viewership, your love, 01:19 your prayers and support of 3ABN Ministry because we wouldn't be 01:23 here or doing what we're doing without you. So thank you so 01:26 much for allowing God to use you to join with us in efforts of 01:32 sending the gospel around the world. This is 3ABN Today so 01:36 we're going to have a special program today. We have 01:39 Ouachita Hills College in the house with us. I'm excited and 01:42 we're going to be doing some formal introductions but I gotta 01:45 say, How are you ladies and gentleman doing today? 01:46 Doing well. 01:49 All right, all right. We've had a little bit of time to discuss 01:53 and prepare. I'm excited about what we're going to be talking 01:56 about today. We're going to be highlighting all of the 01:58 wonderful benefits of Adventist education as well as giving you 02:03 a detailed breakdown of what in the world Ouachita Hills College 02:06 is and how you can know more about that. So before we get 02:10 into that though we have a very special musical number that's 02:12 going to be brought to us by Miss Farah Barry and she's 02:16 going to be for us A Quiet Place 02:21 ♪ ♪ 06:34 Praise the Lord, praise the Lord Love that. Thank you Farah for 06:38 that beautiful song. Always enjoy her beautiful piano 06:42 playing. Thank you so much. All right. As I said we have 06:45 Ouachita Hills College in the house. I'm excited. We've been 06:50 having some good laughs, a good time here. I want to encourage 06:53 you my friends, if you have any young folk in the room, mommies 06:56 and daddies, everybody, get everybody together because 06:58 this is an opportunity for you to learn who and what Ouachita 07:02 Hills is and what they're about. It's going to be an exciting 07:06 hour together. I'm going to start the introduction, go all 07:08 the way down at the far end of this big table. Of course, you're 07:11 no stranger here Dr. David Shin, President of Ouachita Hills 07:15 College. Always a blessing to have you brother. How you doing? 07:18 This is an honor to be here in this capacity and like you said 07:22 I've had the privilege of coming to 3ABN for the last few years 07:25 as a pastor but recently I've transitioned to administration 07:30 in education and so it's a privilege to be able to come 07:33 here and share about Ouachita Hills College. 07:35 Amen, praise the Lord. So you are the president now of 07:39 Ouachita Hills College and probably a little bit different 07:44 in responsibilities than the pastoral work, right? 07:47 Yeah it's quite a bit of difference and there's some 07:52 parallels and overlap but we moved from Anchorage, Alaska 07:55 to Amity, Arkansas. So quite the transition; in temperature, in 08:02 time zones and so forth. But it's really a privilege to be 08:06 here and to be able to share more about the college and how 08:09 the Lord is blessing us. 08:10 I'd like to second that. I've never been to Alaska. I've been 08:13 close to there. But I grew up in Arkansas so I know that's a 08:16 drastic difference in geography. 08:19 Oh, drastic in temperature, everything. 08:22 Climate, Yeah absolutely, absolutely. You brought some 08:25 guests with you today. We're excited to have Judith. I'm 08:29 saying this. I almost said Judith but it's not Judith. It's 08:31 Judit Magdaleno. It's a blessing to have you Judit. Tell us a 08:34 little bit about yourself, where you're from and your association 08:38 with Ouachita Hills College. 08:39 That's it at the end. You got it right, no H. Just a T. Yes. My 08:44 name is Judit. I am Hispanic. I was born in Mexico but I only 08:48 grew in Mexico for two years. I grew up in the U.S. And then I 08:53 moved to Kentucky where I lived most of my life, most of my 20 08:58 years. And there was this one day that I said a specific 09:03 prayer and with that prayer that's how I got to Ouachita. 09:07 And it's so interesting because God really wants to restore His 09:12 image in us and one of the ways is through education. And I 09:16 remember I was reading through the book Education and I was 09:21 like...you know, all my life I went to public school up until 09:25 college. And it said in true education you're supposed to 09:31 read the Bible. You're supposed to you know pray in class which 09:34 in public school, you don't do. And I was reading this, my heart 09:40 was convicted. I was in my junior year of high school. And 09:43 I said Lord if you want me to receive this education you're 09:48 going to have to open the door because I don't know how, where. 09:51 And there were Adventist schools near where I lived in Kentucky 09:54 but it just wasn't as the ideal the sample that God had, the 10:02 blueprint. And lo and behold, two years later the Lord brought 10:07 people that knew about Ouachita. And I was like, at first I'll be 10:12 honest, I was super reluctant. And I was like in the middle of 10:15 nowhere, no internet, and like out in the boonies. And so I 10:21 will say it's been a privilege, an honor to see how the Lord has 10:26 brought me from where I was to where I am now. And currently 10:31 I did graduate from Ouachita so I'm an alumni and I'm also 10:36 an administrative assistant since I already graduated. 10:37 I work for the school now. 10:39 Praise the Lord. That is so awesome, that is so awesome. 10:42 Great testimony and I can relate to you on that whole education 10:44 experience because I as well also went to public school all 10:48 of my life until college. That's when I got my feet wet in 10:53 Adventist education in college. But I can tell you it's... 10:55 there's a blessing to it. It was one of the experiential facts 10:59 but at the same time Education as we're going to find out in 11:01 just a moment for Pastor or Dr. Shin here. We're going to talk 11:04 about the philosophy of Adventist education, the purpose 11:07 and I can tell you it's a blessing that I missed out on a 11:11 lot of my childhood upbringing but powerful story. But we're 11:14 not finished yet with introduction because we have 11:16 Miss Sarah Mc Roberts. And Sarah tell us a little bit about 11:19 yourself, where you're from and your association with Ouachita 11:23 Hills College. 11:24 Yeah, so I was actually born in Virginia. I lived for a long 11:28 time in Colorado for nine years and then we moved to Florida 11:31 where I'm living currently and most recently now I go to 11:35 Ouachita Hills College. I'm a freshman there and I'm studying 11:38 music. 11:40 Music. All right, all right. I like music. So just...We're 11:43 probably going to get back to this in a little bit more detail 11:45 in just a moment but what's your experience so far? What do you 11:48 think about it? 11:49 Oh, it's been such a blessing. Ouachita's really been a place 11:52 where I can grow spiritually, physically and the staff is 11:56 amazing and coming from a family who actually grew up 11:59 homeschooling and just transitioning to Ouachita 12:03 College has been very easy because of the loving staff and 12:07 just the spiritual atmosphere there and the mission-minded 12:09 students. It's been such a blessing. 12:11 Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord I have friends who have attended 12:14 Ouachita Hills College and every one of them have said it 12:17 just changed their life. So Dr. Shin, I've got to come to you 12:20 now. There may be someone watching right now that says 12:24 Ouachita Hills College and they keep hearing Adventist education 12:29 You know this is a Seventh-day Adventist College. And so what 12:35 really...Let's talk about the philosophy of Adventist 12:36 education and what sets it apart from the other educational 12:41 opportunities that the world has to offer? Just kind of expound 12:43 on that for a little while. 12:45 Yes, yes. I'll get to the philosophy of Adventist 12:49 education. I just have to add a couple notes here. Judit is the 12:50 administrative assistant to the president. Yeah, yeah. So she 12:55 keeps me together. I mean brilliant logistics and she's 13:00 got a logistical mind background in business. She's a business 13:03 major and grad. She's being very modest. I got to add that and 13:08 Sarah, interesting fact about Sarah. I went to college with 13:12 Sarah's mom. Don't let this face fool you. I've found the secret 13:18 of the fountain of youth. Twenty years ago, 20 years ago, I went 13:22 to school with Sarah's mom, Reluca. Amazing canvasser, we 13:27 big booked together selling Bible Story books in New England 13:31 and it's surreal to have someone I went to college with, their 13:36 daughter is now a freshman in the college that I happen to be 13:38 president of. So that's the back story there. But Sarah is 13:41 an amazing violinist and we've been creating sacred music 13:47 videos in that regard. So just a couple details to add some 13:52 dimension there. But yes, going back to your question about 13:57 what is Seventh-day Adventist education, what is the 14:00 philosophy of Christian education. And there's a book on 14:04 education by Ellen White that is foundational to the philosophy 14:09 of Adventist education and she says in chapter one, she says 14:12 that in the highest sense the work of education and the work 14:16 of redemption are one. In other words, education equals 14:23 salvation. She says that it not only has to do with this life 14:26 but the life to come. The service that we have in this 14:30 life and the greater joy of service in the life to come. She 14:34 indicates that our educational perspective is too narrow. 14:38 It just takes into consideration the 70, 80, 90 years of 14:42 existence you know. I mean typically you go to any 14:46 educational endeavor today and it's like hey you go out there, 14:49 get your education so that you can get your job so that you can 14:57 get the house in the suburbs with the white picket fence and 15:01 the golden retriever and you drive your SUV and you have your 15:06 2.5 kids. There is no such thing but it's a statistic. You have 15:10 your two kids and you have your home and then you build your 15:13 nice little nest egg and then you retire and then you die. 15:18 So that's kind of the vision of education. Now there's nothing 15:23 inherently wrong with those types of things but the book 15:27 Education indicates that that's too narrow. In other words our 15:31 educational endeavor needs to take into consideration the 15:33 total possible existence, the potential of existence possible 15:40 to man. Eternity, eternity. So if your educational endeavor is 15:43 only preparing you for 70, 80, 90 years of existence versus 15:48 eternity it takes on a totally different frame. You know. And 15:52 that's a revolutionary paradigm, revolutionary paradigm. So it's 15:57 not even apples to oranges. It's like...I don't know what the 16:01 analogy is but it's a totally different perspective in terms 16:05 of the focus and the emphasis. So if education equal salvation 16:11 automatically we need to come to the conclusion that if our 16:16 education is going to diminish our love for Christ is going to 16:21 take away our relish for spiritual things is going to 16:25 make us more challenged spiritually or even degrade our 16:30 spiritual sensibilities or lead us into a lifestyle of sin and 16:35 licentiousness or if we're going to have to have an education 16:38 in which we have to choose between making it in society 16:44 versus having a relationship with Christ according to 16:46 scripture that's a false education because ultimately 16:50 the work of education is the work of salvation. Your 16:53 education should save you, should save you and so the 16:57 perspective of education goes beyond just a career. It has to 17:02 do with a calling. It has to do with service. It has to do with 17:07 sacrifice. And so when we think about education and we look at 17:11 the history of education every time there has been a revolution 17:15 it's always been linked back to education. There's a statement 17:19 that says change the university and you change the world. In 17:22 other words if you want to change society, if you want to 17:26 impact civilization you start with education. And the greatest 17:30 educator in history, Jesus Christ, look what he does. He 17:34 comes on this earth and for three-and-a-half years he takes 17:39 a bunch of losers, quote unquote, from the perspective of 17:43 the world. Jesus doesn't call the qualified. He qualifies the 17:46 called. So he takes a bunch of these uncouth, rough, unrefined 17:53 men and he says follow me for three and a half years. 17:58 He changes the world. Turns the world upside down and afterward 18:06 in the book of Acts when Peter and John were speaking before 18:09 the Sanhedrin they were like, now we've seen this before. 18:12 And the Bible says They took note of them that they had been 18:16 with Jesus. And that's the ultimate goal of education. 18:20 To make us like Jesus. Education is powerful. 18:25 Yes, it is. 18:26 And you want to revolutionize society and change the world you 18:29 do it through education. Now look at the history of education 18:32 Typically when it comes to Biblical education even from the 18:36 beginning, all right, it starts in heaven, two philosophies of 18:39 education, propaganda of Satan versus truth. So the division 18:43 was already in heaven. It comes down to earth. And then after 18:46 the fall you can see two lines of education coming down 18:49 through scripture. The descendants of Seth versus the 18:53 descendants of Cain. The descendants of Cain congregated 18:56 in cities. The descendants of Seth were in the country. And 19:00 you have that lineage that continues on the schools of 19:02 the prophets and down through Jesus's day. And as Sarah 19:06 mentioned she's home schooled. Nothing wrong with that, good 19:09 company. Jesus was home schooled Interesting. (That's right) And 19:13 now we're not against conventional education, we're 19:15 not espousing that but what I'm pointing out is many times when 19:18 you look at the education of the world versus the education such 19:22 as in the case of Jesus. Sometimes there can be this 19:25 idea of like hey that's unusual. Or even a stigma that can be 19:33 associated, right? So it's kind of like...remember Jesus when he 19:36 was growing up and even in his ministry they're like how does 19:40 this man have learning having never learned? He didn't go to 19:44 school to the rabbis. And so you can see that typically from a 19:48 worldly perspective even in the time of Jesus if you're going to 19:54 raise a world changer it can't be a conventional education. 19:59 That's right. 20:00 You're going to keep getting the same results. But in order to 20:03 raise the individual that's going to change the world 20:05 forever, Jesus Christ, unconventional, even stigmatized 20:12 And he was raised up. Look at John the Baptist...out in the 20:17 wilderness, dress reform. come on now, health reform. You know 20:23 he was eating a little bit differently and this guy came 20:26 out and the book Desire of Ages indicates that if he had gone to 20:29 the school of the rabbis it would have unfit him for service 20:34 Unfit him for service. So you can see that in our world today 20:39 the morals are falling apart. School shootings. There are 20:46 places where you can't even pray in school. Transgender, all 20:51 gender, no gender. I mean this is the society that we're 20:53 living in, growing up in today and there's an educational 20:57 system that is being raised up to raise up a generation in the 21:00 end of time that's going to receive the mark of the beast. 21:03 You have to believe that God has an educational system too that 21:08 is preparing a people to receive the seal of God. And that is the 21:13 foot race in the end of time and that's why when I received a 21:17 call to...Look let me be honest. I never dreamed, I never desired 21:26 to be president of an institution. I mean if you're in 21:30 right mind, you don't covet these positions. And I certainly 21:34 didn't. I thought one day when my son Hudson, who's now five, 21:37 no, he's going to be five, I said oh maybe one day when he's 21:40 you know, around academy age I'll go and get on my knees and 21:44 beg the academy to go and teach Bible someday and when he goes 21:48 to college do that, but now when the call came to be president of 21:55 the college I was like all right Lord, um I'll do it. Not because 22:02 I'm qualified, he qualifies the called but in the end I 22:08 recognized that for such a time as this. There's a need to 22:13 raise up a generation of young people that don't fear to call 22:20 sin by its right name. Like the book Education say, who stand 22:23 for the right though the heavens fall, are true to duty as the 22:27 compass needle is to the north pole. I generation who'd rather 22:31 die than lie and dishonor God. That's the passion that I have 22:37 for education and individuals like Judit and Sarah is what 22:44 keeps me going. Because you can see as you contribute to an 22:50 environment, lead an organization, teach in the 22:53 classroom and you sense the young people grasping and 22:59 developing these ideas. Education's tough. It takes time 23:03 But in the end, you can't minimize the impact of what 23:11 education does. 23:12 Oh absolutely, absolutely. You can take that whole segment, 23:14 everything that you just said... This whole program's going to 23:18 post on YouTube and be out there on 3ABN Plus. We just need to 23:21 just trim that one little segment down that you just went 23:23 through and tweak that, Facebook that because the world needs to 23:26 hear that beautiful explanation. You know, Judit I just want to 23:29 come to you for just a moment because you can relate to a lot 23:32 of what he said. I know as you were speaking I'm over here just 23:36 going through my history and I can tell you, being raised in a 23:41 public school system especially within our culture which says 23:45 you know here's religion and here's education. They're two 23:47 different things and you certainly shouldn't amalgamate 23:51 the two. And understand I'm not trying to in any way trying to 23:54 violate the principle of the freedom or our constitution 23:57 but yet at the same time even our founding fathers understood 24:00 that once you take religion out of our country, take religion 24:03 out of our educational experiences then we would start 24:07 going downhill. And I can just go back and just rethink back my 24:11 experience growing up the educational system was built, it 24:15 was designed to tear me away from my God. And it wasn't until 24:18 my adult years, until I got out of it. Praise God, have mercy on 24:23 me. I look back now and I say God thank you that you got me 24:26 back on track, because I as heading down a hill, and I know 24:29 you probably had that same experience. Now coming into 24:31 Ouachita Hills, it had to have been somewhat of a shock for you, 24:34 kind of a culture religious shock. Talk a little bit about 24:36 that. 24:38 Definitely. And you know even as Dr. Shin was sharing some of 24:42 these thoughts are coming in because it's true. I went to a 24:45 public school. I had straight A's. I was going to get my 24:50 scholarship fully paid for college. People knew me. I used 24:55 to cuss. I used to dress entirely different. 24:58 Same here. 25:00 National Honor Society, you name it. I wasn't a student that was 25:04 like you know like not getting good grades or anything. And it 25:08 got to the point that in my school there was a student that 25:12 was going through that trans gender process and he fought for 25:16 it, he really did. And so he's like I'm a lady, I get to go 25:20 into the women's restroom and so he would go in. And to me 25:25 that was a shocker. You know we study about these things, Great 25:28 Controversy, we see it in the Bible that men shall be lovers 25:31 of themselves more than God and aren't following God's commands. 25:36 And so when I'm seeing this I was like Father, I'm in this 25:42 system. What am I going to do about it? And I will tell you 25:45 that even though I grew up in an Adventist home. Bible, like 25:51 was my only day off because Sundays we would have prayer 25:56 groups, Wednesday was Pathfinders, Thursday I had 25:59 piano lessons, Friday is vespers Sabbath is spend time with Jesus 26:02 Even people that are within the Adventist circle and they know 26:09 about this, if they don't take education as Dr. Shin was saying 26:14 that the work of redemption and the work of education are one. 26:18 You can be lost even if you're having the Adventist education. 26:24 And when I started hearing about Ouachita I'm like wow. They 26:32 started telling me about canvassing. I didn't know what a 26:35 canvasser was. I was like painting. 26:37 I bet you thought you paint on that. 26:38 I thought it was painting. I mean I can draw. 26:42 (Indistinguishable conversation) And so my mind 26:46 starts being opened. It's like no, you go door to door. You talk 26:50 to people, you don't know. You pray with people you don't know. 26:53 And at that point when I was in public school I was at the point 26:57 where talking about my faith I was ashamed about it. I was. 27:01 I did everything that everybody else did because that was just 27:07 the environment I was raised in. And so once you know I said the 27:13 prayer as I already had mentioned then the Lord starts, 27:16 All right Judit you want to get your education? Let me open the 27:18 door for you. And so you know these people...I went to a 27:23 church that I usually never go to, I meet them, their speech is 27:28 different, their dress is different. They're saying hi to 27:31 everybody at church. And I was like wow Lord, like that's what 27:35 I want. That's what I want. And And so then I started to get 27:40 everything ready. And they're like you know in order for you 27:42 to get your schooling you've got to raise this amount of money. 27:45 And I'm like how am I going to get that. My parents are...you 27:49 know, we're not financially strong. And they're like, go 27:53 canvassing. Okay, all right. And I said Lord if you want me to go 27:57 to Ouachita Hill, you're going to have to raise this money. And 27:59 school was starting two-and-a- half weeks before I started 28:04 canvassing. So in this two-and- a-half weeks the Lord had to 28:09 raise about $1,500. Mind you, I'm a new canvasser. For people 28:12 who know about canvassing it's an art that the Holy Spirit teaches 28:17 you how to canvass. There's an eloquence that the Holy Spirit 28:22 gives to the person and I was like all right Lord like how are 28:24 we going to do this? So there goes the first part of education 28:29 you know. Learning how to share your faith. What is it that you 28:34 believe in and why? Can you stand up for it. Are you making 28:37 your own decisions because you're making it or because 28:44 that's the pressure. Even though it's a good pressure, but you 28:46 have to come down to the point that this is my decision. And I 28:51 will say that my first semester I was going to leave. It was different 29:01 the food. Everybody was supposed to be in bed by 9:30. I was used 29:02 to going to bed at 3 A.M. Social media was my thing. There's not 29:08 a lot of good signal there. So that's why...(laughter and 29:16 (indistinguishable conversation) 29:17 And so everybody_ experience. Yeah you're about to 29:23 be pristine college, get you know, your dream job, your dream 29:29 car, you raise your family. But God is like I'm trying to have 29:31 you live through eternity. I'm not trying to have you just live 29:37 for you know your 70 average years that the human race lives 29:42 up to. So yes I definitely yeah... 29:45 That is just...You are living proof that the Lord can take us 29:49 out of that you know because everything you're saying, I'm 29:51 just like yep that's me, yep that's me, yep that's me because 29:53 that was me as well. I grew up as a pastor's son. I was in the 29:56 church but I was not connected to Christ so I...You know the 30:00 educational experience played a huge role in my lukewarmness and 30:04 my having one leg in the church and one leg in the world. So 30:07 yeah absolutely. Judit, or excuse me not Judit, Sarah. 30:11 Sarah now your education experience was a little 30:13 different. You were home schooled so you're coming in 30:17 from that other perspective where your parents are living 30:23 proof that the education system the right Christ-led educational 30:25 system, it works. And so tell us just briefly a little bit 30:30 about your experience growing up You know maybe there were some 30:32 different than maybe what you saw in other families or what 30:36 other kids got to experience. But yet here you are living proof 30:38 that God can take a person and shape and mold them into a 30:42 vessel of honor through the educational experience. So talk 30:44 a little bit about that. 30:46 Yeah I was actually just talking to Judit in the car saying you 30:48 know sometimes there's a temptation to think oh I don't 30:50 have a testimony. You know I wasn't out in the world. 30:52 I didn't have this big...you know I didn't do all these 30:54 things. But no, it's a testimony of when you follow God's plan 30:59 like it's so beautiful. Yeah I grew up in the country. I home 31:06 schooled and a lot of ministers involvement. My dad was head 31:10 elder a lot of the time at the current church. My mom was the 31:13 evangelism coordinator. My brother is AV director and I was 31:17 the music director there actually. So just a lot of 31:20 involvement in the church and I'm just transitioning into 31:23 Ouachita Hills, just continuing with that true educational 31:26 experience. has been such a blessing. And you know it was 31:31 hard for me deciding what college. There was like a lot of 31:34 pressure, oh where are you going to school, what are you doing? 31:37 You feel like I don't have that aim, I don't know what I'm doing 31:40 Just tell me and I'll do it, right? But he's like I have some 31:44 things to teach you first. And so I ended up doing a fast, a 31:50 _ fast, like fruits and vegetables through the weekend. 31:52 I'm like Lord just give me clarity on this. Show me where 31:53 I should go. Because we had been to Ouachita Hills to visit 31:58 because like Dr. Shin said my mom knows him and then she also 32:02 knew the founders of the school and so we're like let's check it 32:05 out. So we go to check out Ouachita Hills and I'm like wow 32:08 something's so different here, the students they're different. 32:11 Like they're so mission-minded like God is at the foremost of 32:15 their thoughts. I'm like wow, this is what I want too you know 32:18 But I wasn't sure because I had my mindset you know that I 32:21 wanted to go somewhere else. I had other plans. You know I want 32:24 to know the future. But the Lord's like, yeah, the Lord said 32:28 let me teach you something. So it's like Sarah you need to 32:31 surrender the need to know the future. You need to surrender 32:35 you know all your plans your whole life to me. I'm like okay 32:38 Lord, I surrender that to you. And I'm not just going to pray 32:40 about the problem now I'm going to give it to you, because 32:42 there's a difference there. So on the last day of the fast you 32:46 know I was reading this quote about how we want to know the 32:49 future and how many of us are unsettled when we don't know 32:52 the future. But think about Christ. He didn't know. He just 32:55 day by day... 32:57 Only what his Father revealed to him. 32:58 Only what his Father revealed to him. And so we should depend 33:01 upon God that our lives might be the simple outworking of his 33:05 will. And I was like wow this is so different you know from what 33:09 I was thinking, you know wanting to know the future. But what if 33:12 I just trusted God day by day? I said okay Lord I surrender the 33:16 need to know the future. I was hoping at the end of the fast to 33:22 know where I was going. I'm like Lord I really want to know. 33:24 You wanted him to split the sky and You're going to go here 33:25 (very deep voice) but it didn't happen like that at all. 33:27 It didn't happen like that. He said, No, you need to surrender 33:29 the need to know the future. So then the next day my mom was 33:34 actually talking to Dr. Shin on the phone asking him some 33:36 questions about something and I overheard them talking about the 33:38 mission and the aim of Ouachita Hills and that was to create 33:42 thinkers, not just mere reflectors of other men's 33:45 thoughts. And this is not just an ordinary education to get an 33:49 ordinary job like Dr. Shin was saying to live an ordinary life. 33:52 This is something different like they want to educate at 33:55 Ouachita, world changers. And I'm like whoa that's where I 34:00 want to go, that's my vision that's my mission. 34:02 I want to go to Ouachita Hills. (Laughter) Praise the Lord. 34:07 You guys have powerful testimonies. I can just sense 34:11 the Christ just beaming from you so praise the Lord. Dr. Shin 34:16 I got to come back to you. Let's talk about Ouachita Hills 34:18 because I've heard these powerful testimonies. It's 34:21 working obviously. So let's talk now about Ouachita Hills, you 34:25 know. How did it come about? You know. Let's just break it down 34:29 and tell everyone about what Ouachita Hills has to offer. 34:32 You know at the core, at the core of the philosophy of 34:35 Adventist education and ultimately what Ouachita Hills 34:38 College strives to follow is this principle that acquaint now 34:44 thyself with him, communion with God is the highest place in 34:49 education. Adam and Eve enjoyed face-to-face communion with God 34:52 and through the Bible, through prayer we can have communion 34:57 with the infinite mind of God. There's people that pay millions 35:02 of dollars, one person paid 6.4 million dollars to have lunch 35:07 with Warren Buffett, have lunch with the brightest mind arguably 35:13 in the world, in the financial world. They asked these 35:15 individuals, because they have an auction every year before 35:18 COVID, for the last 20 years and they asked all these guys, 35:21 millions of dollars was it worth it. And they're like 35:24 absolutely, to have communion. And I'm like how much more to 35:29 have communion with God. Can you imagine, just talk...I mean like 35:36 every conversation you come away I mean it blows your mind, like 35:40 every conversation. And the part of education that the world is 35:51 missing is that you can get knowledge apart from God, that's 35:58 the Achilles heel. All these scientific discoveries and 36:04 everything like that but if you really want to be educated like 36:06 you said take God out of it. But the book Education and the Bible 36:10 points out that no you can't see without light. You can't see 36:14 without light. And if you want to have education you need to go 36:16 to the source. So that is at the heart of education and what 36:22 we're trying to do. You go back in history a little bit in terms 36:26 of the history of Ouachita Hills College. There was a school that 36:29 was started in 1900, Madison College under the inspiration of 36:33 Ellen White. She had helped start schools like Emmanuel 36:40 Missionary College, Battle Creek She helped start Avondale. 36:44 But near the close of her life she was led to have 36:48 E. A. Sutherland and Megan who had helped start Emmanuel 36:51 Missionary College and Battle Creek to start a school called 36:55 Madison. And she indicated that Madison was to be a school of a 36:59 different order than the schools that had been prior. It was to 37:03 called like a supporting ministry of the church much like 37:07 3ABN. It was to be lay-led. They would have manual training, 37:10 practical skills and she said that you follow this model that 37:17 you will be like a beacon on a hill. This is what she did right 37:20 before she died. So Madison took off and in its brief 50-year 37:27 history presidents, world-renown leaders would visit Madison 37:32 astounded at what was taking place there. It was very simple. 37:37 Foundation of education was acquaint now thyself with him. 37:42 Education and redemption are one Manual training, manual training 37:46 The Bible was to be the textbook Does that sound familiar? You 37:50 know all these types of things and it created a generation of 37:53 leaders that out of Madison grew ASI. Ahhh. ASI came out of 38:02 Madison. Placed like Ouachita Hills College in the philosophy 38:05 of Madison, 3ABN in the philosophy of Madison, Amazing 38:11 Facts in the Philosophy of Madison. All of these things are 38:17 in the lineage of Madison. GYC lineage of Madison. And so when 38:23 you look at scripture you have these two veins that go through 38:27 it. You have the organized work which was the priest. And then 38:33 you have laity that the Lord would tap on the shoulder and be 38:36 like Hey I want you to do something too. Prophets and 38:42 priests. Very interesting. That lineage that went down through 38:45 And if any time for instance in the case of priests if there was 38:52 any deviation among the priests God would raise up a prophet. 38:56 Now there were false prophets too so it's not all...and I'm 38:59 not saying that all supporting ministries but seen these two 39:03 lines we can't disregard and so this lineage continues down 39:07 through history and then you see it in education, you see it in 39:11 Adventist education and you see the supporting ministry of 39:14 places like 3ABN, Amazing Facts, GYC, ASI, Ouachita Hills College 39:20 In Ouachita Hills College we really began with the academy. 39:25 Dr. Clark, Herriot Clark, he graduated from Loma Linda with 39:29 a dental degree, D.D.S. He could have settled down anywhere but 39:34 he decided do dark county evangelism and he picked star 39:38 county, Clark County in Amity, Arkansas. Amity, Arkansas in 39:44 Clark County and they planted a church and started an academy 39:48 in their home, in their home and I didn't say this in the 39:53 introduction but I was back in 1994 I was an academy student 40:01 at Ouachita Hills Academy. Yeah, yeah. So it comes full circle. 40:04 Twenty-five years later I come back as the president. So I went 40:08 there and look I landed there I was a mess, all right? And 40:11 look, there were no facilities ladies, men. Well we were in 40:17 this white house you know and we were eating in this other house 40:21 in the middle of nowhere and it was just like the concrete 40:24 floors but it was about the people. It was about the people. 40:28 Raised up a generation of leaders that are in the ministry 40:30 today that it's just amazing. So when I went there it changed 40:34 my life. I mean it was a pivotal moment in my life. I was 40:37 canvassing and Eugene Pruitt was my leader, you know, pioneer in 40:40 canvassing. Changed my life. Took the call to ministry. 40:45 And so for me, it was that pivotal moment in that change 40:48 and I think that if you could get the essence of what Ouachita 40:52 Hills College endeavors to do by the grace of God is to 40:57 introduce every young person to Jesus Christ, to Jesus Christ. 41:01 Because look, if you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and 41:05 and Lord, from that foundation Jesus is like, I can take you 41:09 anywhere, I can take you anywhere. I can teach you 41:13 everything that you need to know but first, you need to give your 41:17 heart to me. So it's an environment fostered for 41:20 spiritual growth you know. Is it perfect, No. Are we striving Yes 41:24 Is it made up of people that are faulty and put on their pants 41:27 like everybody else? Absolutely. But that is the core philosophy 41:31 of Ouachita Hills College to have an environment where you're 41:37 giving the Holy Spirit a fighting chance. You know? 41:40 Where you're not inundated with all of the filth of the world, 41:47 the junk of the world, where you can eat a diet where you 41:49 actually have a clear mind so you can hear the Holy Spirit and 41:51 study. Where you can be in an environment where you don't 41:54 have everything that looks around you is manmade and you 41:56 see nothing but...But you can be in nature and get to know 42:02 nature's God. And where you can work with your hands and have 42:05 this balance of the mind and the body and recognizing that look 42:09 you don't lose time when you're doing manual training and 42:13 there's certain things that you learn from manual labor that 42:16 build character, like being persistent in your 42:20 responsibility of cleaning tables and sweeping floors and 42:23 not sweeping it under the rug. Joseph was trained in Potiphar's 42:30 house as a servant. So it's the faithfulness in little things 42:33 because like look if you run with the horsemen and you're out 42:36 of breath what are you going to do when you run with the 42:39 chariots? And people are like ah, I'm so much more talented 42:41 that this. There's people that come to our school that have 42:46 ACTs that are off the charts. They could go to Harvard and 42:49 Yale. These two right here they could have gone anywhere. They 42:51 could have gone anywhere. And you take a young person that is 42:56 very accomplished, brilliant and then you're like um you know uh 43:02 in our tasks and responsibilities 43:04 in your vocational training um janitor. Not these young ladies 43:09 but I'm not...but some young people are like wait a minute 43:14 like do you know who I am? I'm not saying, they don't do that 43:18 they're very...You know they... 43:19 I can imagine some would show up when they found that they are to 43:23 clean...(indistinguishable) 43:25 But if you're honest even all of us there's a certain element of 43:29 like you know do it but in the back of your mind your like come 43:33 on now...Are you serious? And I remember when I had my education 43:40 I had to split wood and thinking is like what, what, I mean, what 43:45 I mean like what does this have to do, I mean do you know...You 43:47 know all these types of things. But ultimately it's a character 43:50 that you build. Elisha was called to be a prophet not being 43:57 like Elijah I mean here's my resume you know prophet of God 43:58 I mean you know I'll do a good job right. No, he was out there 44:02 with his servants plowing and it was in the midst of that 44:06 labor that God called him. Jesus carpenter of 30 years and he was 44:12 doing just as much of the Lord's work in those 30 years as he 44:15 did in the three-and-a-half. That made the foundation. And 44:17 so we teach faithfulness in little things, character 44:22 building and it's those types of things that the fabric, because 44:24 the character is the harvest of life, it's the harvest of life. 44:28 And it's when you do that, that you're able to build a 44:32 generation of leaders that can really change the world. 44:36 That's amazing, that's amazing. So a student decides they're 44:39 going to come Ouachita Hills and they're going to pursue 44:43 their education. What kind of majors are we looking at as a 44:45 student you know to shoot for. 44:47 We have four main majors. We have theology, preparation for 44:51 ministry, Bible work, pastors. We have education, teachers 44:55 and then we have sacred music. Sarah can elaborate on that. 44:58 And then we have business. You know ASI is our business. 45:03 Those are our four majors. We may explore having more but 45:06 those the four that we've put the emphasis on. But let me 45:09 talk a little bit about sacred music and I'll segue into Sarah 45:12 and you can talk about business too. Is that in the school of 45:16 prophets when Israel was in a crazy time in the book of Judges 45:21 when everyone did what was right in their own eyes, the person 45:24 that really put a stop to the crazy cycle was Samuel. And what 45:28 Samuel did was I'm going to raise up a school, the school of 45:31 the prophets. And the school of the prophets had a very simple 45:35 curriculum, be in nature, manual labor, the Bible, and sacred 45:42 music. And I think in our church we need a good conversation 45:48 about sacred music. So Sarah tell us a little bit about music 45:50 sacred music. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 45:53 Music is a passion of mine. I started the violin at six 45:57 actually but the last five years I've taken it seriously 45:58 with a Russian trained violinist But coming the Ouachita it was 46:03 so amazing to have professors you know you know that pray with 46:07 you before you start. Like Lord teach us how to play, teach us 46:10 how to sing. And being able to practically apply music. Actually 46:17 I'm teaching academy students for part of my work. I'm also a 46:20 music coordinator. We record music videos, do recording 46:26 during church to make music for the ears. We tour around doing 46:28 concerts on the weekends and it's just so amazing to be able 46:31 reach music. Ellen White says it's the most effective means 46:35 of impressing spiritual truth on people's hearts. And so just 46:40 being able to do that is so amazing. And when I saw Ouachita 46:45 Hills, when we came to see it, I was so impressed that at a 46:49 small school like this, they had such amazing professors, 46:51 high level 46:52 that have masters and have just dedicated their lives to coming 46:56 to Ouachita and, yeah, teaching us more about music, how to 47:00 perfect our skills more for Christ's work. 47:02 Praise the Lord, praise the Lord O man that sounds so fun, it's 47:06 so awesome. Praise the Lord. So you know we have give or take 47:10 about four-and-a-half minutes before we take a short little 47:13 break here, but Pastor I just want you to talk here about 47:17 you know if there's someone watching right now, there may be 47:20 someone watching right now that's just highly impressed 47:22 by what they've heard today, about Ouachita Hills and 47:25 considering maybe sending their grandchild, maybe their son or 47:28 their daughter, or maybe there's a young person watching right 47:31 now. Man I really would like to come here if you had an 47:35 opportunity to sit down with these folks and talk to them and 47:37 maybe encourage them further, to say anything to encourage them 47:42 to pursue this educational experience you know-how 47:46 how would you... 47:48 I would say to a young person even if we don't have a degree 47:52 that you feel like is the perfect fit...Look let's be 47:56 honest in the first two years you're taking generals anyway. 47:58 You're taking generals in any liberal arts education. So what 48:02 I tell young people and parents is this, look what's the point 48:06 of getting an education if you're going to have to sell 48:09 your soul in order to get that education. And so come to a 48:13 place where look the Lord may call you for one year, two years 48:16 three or four years, whatever. But come to a place where you 48:20 can receive a foundation in the word of God in your relationship 48:23 with him and be grounded in truth so that if the Lord does 48:30 call you anyway, any other place that you can have that 48:34 established foundation. Because here's the thing. If you take an 48:39 18-year-old and you place them at the feet of an intellectual, 48:44 they don't stand a chance, they don't stand a chance. Because 48:50 look you stack the deck, right? And it's over, it's over. I mean 48:55 I heard one Christian professor in a secular university and he 49:00 had the students come to him and say, You know professor I really 49:02 loved your class. It's like I believed in God for that entire 49:05 semester. You know, I didn't believe afterward. But anyway 49:08 it was just kind of one of those things but it really portrayed 49:11 that when you sit at the feet of somebody...Let's say if they're 49:17 agnostic, if they're atheist, if they have pantheistic views 49:21 or philosophic or hedonistic world view that really comes 49:24 from the enlightenment period that is antithetical to God 49:26 it's that you're going to come out differently, you're going to 49:29 come out differently, especially at this critical time. And so 49:32 what I tell people is like look come to a place like Ouachita 49:35 Hills College where you can give the Holy Spirit a chance to work 49:41 and be grounded in truth, in Biblical understanding. You gain 49:46 other skills too. But build that foundation and give your heart 49:50 to God and then let him lead. And if you're already coming 49:54 from a solid home, an environment where your parents 49:57 really invest in your educational system and perhaps 50:00 you're in a situation like Sarah then you can come to a place 50:04 that is a continuation of the philosophy that your parents 50:08 gave. And you can build on that experience moving on and you can 50:13 get...really get established. For an individual like Judit 50:15 that is looking for something different, something more, 50:18 something radical in the positive sense then they can 50:22 come and be like all right this is what I'm looking for. I'm 50:25 tired of messing around. I'm going to get serious about the 50:27 Lord Jesus. And ultimately we want to raise up a generation of 50:31 world changers that are willing to make an impact and wanting 50:36 Praise the Lord, praise the Lord I can just sense this whole 50:41 college experience at Ouachita Hills is very Christ-centered. 50:45 It's very Biblical in it's curriculum and its approach. 50:49 As you were talking this came to my mind, a scripture from 50:52 Matthew chapter 11 verses 28 and Come unto me, Jesus says, 50:56 All you who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. 50:59 And in verse 29: Take my yoke upon you and learn from me 51:05 it says for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find 51:09 rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. 51:13 You come to a school like Ouachita Hills and can't help 51:16 but to learn of Christ, learn of his way, learn of the scripture. 51:20 I'm so excited about what you guys are doing, what's happening 51:22 at Ouachita Hills. You may have been impressed by what you're 51:25 watching and I hope that's the case. I believe that's the case. 51:27 In that case, we're going to show you right now how you can 51:31 come in contact with Ouachita Hills for more information. 51:34 Maybe you want to go. Maybe you know someone, a family member 51:37 who wants to attend. Here's how you can do that: 51:39 ♪ ♪ |
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