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00:04 >> I want to 00:08 [MUSIC] 00:13 [MUSIC] 00:17 [MUSIC] 00:22 [MUSIC] 00:26 >> too. 00:31 [MUSIC] 00:33 >> 2 00:37 and 00:42 and 00:44 [MUSIC] 00:47 I want to stand 00:49 [MUSIC] 00:52 2. 00:55 [MUSIC] 01:00 [MUSIC] 01:06 >> Hello and welcome to another 3, A B and today a live 01:09 program. Thank you for joining us. Is you do each and every 01:12 day. As always. Thank you for your love and your prayers and 01:16 financial support of 3ABN, as we endeavor to take this great 01:20 gospel of the kingdom and to all the world, I'm here with my 01:23 beautiful wife, Yvonne, Yvonne. 01:25 >> We're going to have a great program tonight. All we have 01:28 some wonderful guests on tonight. It shall we go 01:31 straight to lead. All right. Let's do so, right. So I 01:34 introduced yes, I I we have Doctor Andy Hunt Sacre, who is 01:40 the president of a U.S.. I good to have you. Thank you. 01:44 So great to be here at the year. And Denzel McNeil is he 01:48 is the president of assigned missions ache and than 01:52 Houghton, who is and aside board member, 01:56 OK? 01:57 >> And I know these people for years for many, many years, 02:00 hadn't you all are here. So for those of you tonight, 02:03 this going to be a great program. How do we know? 02:05 We've already prayed and asked the Holy See here for the last 02:08 things and on this program. So we want you to view if you 02:12 are not aware, maybe you're tuning in for the first time, 02:16 doesn't make any difference. What share it with the 02:18 nomination. You are. Yes, I was in the business and their 02:22 ministries in the business of people touching people around 02:26 the world, sharing the good news, the Lord Jesus Christ. 02:30 Now, what Christian doesn't want to be a part of this. 02:32 I know I do and have been for many, many years. So to begin 02:36 with what we're going to do, a doctor and is just maybe give a 02:40 little and role in each of you tell us about a s I and I think 02:45 people got to catch the vision here. And I started 1985. 02:49 And I think than you started a little earn. 83 in 1983, 02:53 OK, who wants to give us tell us about NSA? 02:57 >> You know, said again, it's just great to to be here and be 03:01 able to share. So it's time for those that do not know, stands 03:05 for Adventist Lehman Services and industries. 03:08 And I like what you said, Danny, you said spreading the 03:12 gospel around the wound and its eye has been focused on 03:16 spreading the gospel, not just mechanically, but because we're 03:20 all you know, you'll see that tonight. We're all passionate 03:23 about sharing Jesus Christ because he's done so much for 03:26 us. 03:27 And so just a little history on on a a sigh and then we'll hear 03:31 from Dennis was going to do a little bit about his testimony 03:34 and so with little down. But, 03:36 you know, it says in its its title, Lehman, 03:39 and it's the lead driven Libby lead ministry. And what that 03:43 means is that we're not ordained ministers will passes, 03:46 but were touched by the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And so we 03:50 share 03:51 and it was organized in 1947. To men. And I must say, I'm a 03:56 physician and these 2 men were physicians. So I feel 03:59 completely at home. Haha, but Sutherland use the lid and PT 04:04 Megan, by the way, 04:05 East, both on and also starred in Walla Walla College. And 04:11 that was my Mamata. And then Loma Linda P team again went to 04:15 that that time College of medical of ashes. So these 2 04:18 men, 04:19 we're physicians and the with they followed the couch with 04:23 Ellen White. And that's how it's I was born listening to 04:27 the cost of L and white. We know about that trip on the 04:31 on the river. And 04:34 we know that, you know, they were going to do something. 04:36 But why did they get on that Cumberland River in the first 04:40 place was because though, falling ill and wise counsel on 04:43 education. And so you hear as we I talk tonight, they'll be 04:47 of a theme running through following Ellen White's 04:51 council. We know that what will hopefully help get us like my 04:56 good friend as a state off this planet. And so it's a way to 05:00 link Lee ministries with the organize church and that will 05:04 be doing is sites. It's run by businesspeople and self 05:10 supporting ministries professionals all coming 05:13 together and sharing ideas how to 05:16 send the Gospel all over and just really win souls for Jesus 05:21 Christ. That's what we're about to. It's still impressive 05:23 because when you go to one of the conventions and you go on 05:27 the exhibition floor and you see all of these different 05:31 ministries, it's so impressive and you can find 05:36 I was looking for something in particular, a particular kind 05:40 of ministry. And it was they came in. It was the it's a 05:43 wonderful, wonderful or he isn't. And there's a lot of 05:46 synergy between the self supporting ministries, the 05:50 business people and the professionals, lot of synergy 05:53 and working together as we will in the kingdom. So industry and 05:57 I'm thrilled. 05:58 >> And one of the threat. But one of the things I think 06:00 is you bring up there is very important to van is that when 06:04 you come to the U.S. a convention, you're in that area 06:06 where we call the booth area where the exhibit are there. 06:09 You have 350 plus exhibits there. All people of all 06:13 talking about how there can share Christ for them are in 06:16 the marketplace and how they can use their ministry assure 06:18 Christ was even more exciting about that is the fact that 06:22 everybody wants to commute to work together. They don't want 06:25 to just to do it on their own. They want to work together. 06:28 How can I can, you know, take this ministry this ministry 06:31 bringing together and do more? Because, you know, I really 06:33 believe the Lord never adds he multiplies. Yeah, when we work 06:36 together for him. And you know, when I first went s I really 06:40 didn't want to go. I'm actually a family came into my office. 06:43 Is that Denzel? I want you to join side now at that time, 06:47 we're we're in the family business where he built 06:49 concrete mixers and garbage truck. He came into my office. 06:52 He's doesn't want you joining us. I and I said I don't want 06:55 to join another club. I'm too busy pulse to make money to the 06:58 church and let the professionals do the work. 07:01 Right. And that's what I thought were supposed to do and 07:04 do come here on the Lord is our money be needs all of us. 07:07 And 07:08 so I thought to myself, OK, how do I get this guy out of my 07:11 office has said joint. He told me how much it costs a joint. 07:15 Okay, joy. And he goes well. You got to felt they were as I 07:18 don't have time to fill up a where he'll be joined. You fill 07:21 out the paperwork. There's my conference table. You sit 07:23 there, fill it out to check what Eissa said. Get get that, 07:27 get this catch a quick kind of get in my office. So I get in 07:30 the check was signed everything up. He says great. They get 07:33 promise me. You know how when he walks into your office, 07:35 you kindly to Milan and the problem was the guy would let 07:39 go of my hand. I kept saying got to promise me, you'll come 07:42 to an end in sight convention and I go, OK, I'll come to a 07:45 convention to get him out. The the problem was I went 07:49 home. I told my wife, right? I told my wife about the 07:52 situation about this man came to visit and she goes wall. 07:55 You gave your word you're going to go to convention. This is a 07:58 convention. I go, look, you're into I have no intention of 08:01 going to this convention. She said we promised ice. 08:04 That wasn't a real problem promise to get them on my 08:07 office. Problems that out and that we're man of your word. 08:11 Yeah. All right. And so you know how it is with your wife. 08:14 You compromising end up doing what she wants to do. They had 08:17 a did literally is we argued a disgusted, I should say haha. 08:24 And then just a couple days before the convention that went 08:26 to the convention. And so it was the Lord has time because 08:29 of the glory of the New Mexico. It was in the middle of 08:32 nowhere. You had to get there. Now at that time, I was really 08:35 shy. Didn't like to see. I didn't like what I found. 08:37 I had to eat with people. I wouldn't want within buddy 08:40 and I was nervous about that. And they these big tables. 08:42 We had to sit down and eat with people in that. And and I'm 08:45 sitting there at the table and I always used to conventions 08:48 where they talk of a new boat, their new car are there new 08:51 trip for new life or whatever it is? You know, but but here 08:55 they're sitting around the table and their time. What 08:57 mission trip have you been on recently? What are you doing to 09:00 share Jesus in your market place? What are you doing to 2 09:03 in your business to reach others for Jesus 09:06 and you what? I had nothing to tell them 09:09 because I could. I never I wasn't doing it. I thought my 09:11 job was just give money now is and I don't want to diminish 09:14 the stress of giving money. But the Lord, you know, let's 09:17 face it. It's lords all his anyway, right? Yeah, yeah. 09:20 And when I met people that were giving Bible studies that we're 09:23 doing revelation, seminars that were involved in evangelism, 09:27 that we're doing things in their offices, share Jesus and 09:30 they have businesses that were larger than our business. 09:33 They were doing things that I never thought to be done. 09:36 And I thought if they can do it, I can do it. And it 09:39 completely changed my whole outlook on life and hall look 09:43 of what we're really all about. And that was a 37 years ago. 09:47 Wow, and I will tell you, my wife and I have never missed an 09:50 essay convention since that time. Wow. And you know what, 09:54 we we've been to your office and Jesus is all up in his 09:57 office. I mean, you have now pictures are those signs away 10:02 of all of these different things in your office which 10:05 lets people know that you're not in the I called the 10:08 feathers and the its bank, the United the Christian with 10:12 witness protection program, what you know, but but believe 10:16 it, I never none of those ideas are original. I got them for me 10:20 assign members. I talked to a gentleman one time. He says, 10:23 I said, How do you share Jesus? He says why put Nathan Green 10:26 art up in my office and I go I can buy are put into my office. 10:31 I bought the thin green Artan. It's amazing. The amount of 10:34 times you get opportunities to talk about Jesus by having 10:37 anything green art, you know, or or put in a desired pages in 10:40 your lobby or putting a creation magazine or just all 10:45 these various things that you that they're not original 10:48 there. Pete, their ideas that I got from other is I members and 10:51 youth. And that's the thing about it. Because when you talk 10:53 to a clergy and he tells you, well, you should do this. 10:57 Well, you know, he's paid to do that. But when a brother like 11:00 Dan tells me, I need to do something that's a whole 11:03 different viewpoint. If Dan can do it, I can do it. You know, 11:06 it's just gives a whole different camaraderie about 11:09 about the boat life and the privilege of being able to tell 11:13 others about Jesus. 11:15 >> And now it's beautiful. I loved end zone. But when I go 11:19 to his house or go to his office, I walk away feeling 11:22 like a failure because he is so organized overnight. Death is a 11:27 vast everything's in the past. Everything is in place and I 11:31 think that your house you're that way to Denver, which is a 11:33 great attribute. I wish I had it. He's kind of like looking 11:38 to 10 Commandments when you're not living right? Quite that 11:43 bad. I feel guilty when I walk ever seen a more. 11:46 >> Organize very or let's have a great assistant and great 11:51 people that work around me. They can organize who also have 11:54 a situation with Denzel where he is looking for some way like 12:00 all of us should be doing trying to find a way to open a 12:04 door for someone to think a thought about cheese. Yes, 12:07 and the use of art, the use of other kinds of things holding 12:10 seminars in the bank. You've done that. So but that's the 12:15 aside Spirit. Yeah, I think, you know, I think that when 12:19 Karen, I first came to the aside convention and in 12:22 Guntersville, Alabama, 19 12:24 83, while there may be 250 people and there were only 3 12:29 families that had kids. Our 2 were 2 of those. And our kids 12:33 stood up on the table because they were really young as 12:35 saying, OK, and will, you know, they're old timers. That even 12:39 may have been at a aside that time will remember that. 12:42 But that changed our lives in the future. We don't we don't 12:45 have, as you vacations, vacations usually have to do 12:48 with something to what they assign anymore. You know, 12:51 when we're traveling away, there's something we're 12:52 involved in a mission trip. We're in a, you know, like we 12:55 went to the Philippines, Denzel for for something. We'll talk 12:58 about a little later 12:59 and it has it radically changed our focus in like, yeah, 13:02 yeah. Again to think how can we consciously plan to reach 13:08 someone for Jesus Christ and it doesn't have to be overt. 13:11 Always. It can be very casual unsubtle. Like if you walk into 13:14 my office, you walk in the denzel's office. There are 13:17 going to be pennies. As I see right across here. You have a 13:20 beautiful Nathan Green peace here in the studio that we're 13:23 very proud of and whatever it can be done 2 to cause someone 13:28 to say, you know, 13:29 a little knowledge of the holy spirit 13:31 to look at a different way to share with other people can 13:33 listen on this planet. The only thing we take off of it 13:36 for the people, the right, that's it, man. And one of the 13:39 things talking about aside, one of the things that's really 13:42 critical for us to think about sometimes in the church, 13:46 there can be a little bit of a tension, not that I don't 13:49 really want to say tension, but just a little bit of a stand 13:52 offices between the clergy and leaders and the lay people that 13:55 can get in the organization, OK, I don't care. That's the 13:58 dilemma nation where part of or somebody else. But sometimes 14:01 you'll hear people say will lay people are getting going. 14:03 It's going to lay people. It finished the work. 14:06 You know, that's not a true statement. And I hope you 14:08 realize that. But I want to pull up that the actual 14:11 quotation of that because this is fundamental to our aside 14:15 philosophy is and this is actually found a 9 testimonies 14:19 written by Ellen White, a page one 16. And here's what it 14:22 says. The work of God in this Earth can never be finished 14:27 until the men and women comprising our church 14:29 membership, Raleigh to the work 14:32 and unite the keyword, unite their efforts with those of 14:35 ministers and church officers from. So it's going to the work 14:39 is going to be finished by lay people uniting with church 14:44 leaders. And aside is a perfect example of how that works. 14:51 It can happen in local churches that can happen in other 14:53 situations. But we are an actual illustration in real 14:57 time 14:59 of laypeople and church leadership working together for 15:02 causes. And we discovered over time that partnering 15:06 with different entities ministries together or 15:09 ministries together with the church part, just like being 15:12 with 3 Angels Broadcasting Network, our Organization, 15:15 Heart Research Center has partnered on 2 things right now 15:18 that I can think of we partnered on Mark Families 3 15:21 causing messages and we're doing 3 angels for kids right 15:23 now. That's a partnering between our ministries. Same 15:26 thing you're going to hear about partnering between 15:29 ministries and the church. Some of our greatest forward 15:32 motion has become true. Partners are working that I'd 15:36 like to go back on something because you both mentioned, 15:38 you know, you mentioned family mentioned kids. 15:41 >> That sigh when you first went, there is just a few kids 15:45 there. But that I want to talk about that just for a little 15:48 bit 15:49 because I was amazed. And so that a number of years ago, 15:53 I know I want to thank the dashon and your dad and some 15:56 some other. Yeah, we went to several countries, Cambodia, 16:00 but I remember what struck me is 16:03 kids were teenagers, I think. And they said where you want to 16:05 go on vacation and they they went on a mission trip and 16:09 praised. I mean, how many teenagers, you know, do that 16:12 enough? No one can tell me aside in infants that not gone 16:16 the first time write yours, same thing down to Loot League. 16:19 You're you're can. So I remember all you kids when 16:22 they're little and getting on the little buses and going 16:24 around paint and whatever houses and helping people in 16:27 the cities where they go. That's right. But aside has 16:30 been a tremendous springboard. So I would like to say this. 16:34 I have been asked about it. But honestly, the idea 16:38 conceived by those 2 brothers, he's maybe the greatest, 16:41 if not 16:42 one of the greatest of not on the greatest ideas to ever got 16:46 ordain ideas to ever happen because as already mentioned by 16:51 several as I as become a springboard, it's so ministries 16:55 that no one ever heard of 1985, no one ever heard of 3 ABN 16:59 because we're just getting started. That's right. Yes, 17:03 I'm with the springboard that took us to meet people that 17:06 caught the vision of 3 a B m. 17:10 We can go through ministry after ministry after ministry 17:14 now by well, somebody shows up, can I get a little booth and 17:18 show you somebody walks by and to the man, look, just like in 17:21 the past year is actually what she was looking for. She is 17:24 large and pressure in ministry. I need help. But I wonder if 17:28 there's that all they have just want to I'm still talking to 17:32 folks still working together. But I think what makes a** I 17:35 different than most as it's not one person with one group or 17:40 was a sore one. It's to lay its the church. It's everybody 17:44 working together. And so then it catapults the gospel. 17:49 So there were where one of us couldn't do it on our own. 17:51 But now, yeah. So you take the business people. You know, 17:55 we take you lay person, weathers carpenter plumber, 17:58 you know, whatever they are, what are school teachers, 18:01 then you get church leadership. You get people coming together 18:04 and sent. You know what our mission on this earth is found 18:09 in Matthew. 28 right maintained a taunting me. Jesus said, 18:12 Go ye into all the world. And so all together 18:18 we can do that. Yeah. And that's why we're thankful to be 18:21 a part of a yes, I'm we hope if you're not that you will be war 18:25 and you'll catch division because if you want to be on 18:28 the winning team, if you read the back of the book and 18:31 revelation and says We win, that's my short version of 18:33 Yahoo. We win as well. That way. You have an opportunity to 18:41 be part of people who have are taking that or does it cost one 18:45 dollar world you've done and so many ways. 18:48 >> So many ideas and so many think tanks coming together. 18:51 And I mean, it's just almost unbelievable. So when you're 18:56 out there by yourself and your ministry, you're thinking, 18:59 boy, it's earners, not another 7 other 1000 people that right 19:03 now. 19:04 >> Bell the Dow down, you know, but but wait a minute, there's 19:09 a lot of people out here I didn't know about. So it also 19:12 it is helpful in encouraging. Yeah, new can call someone ton 19:16 Ministry how you've done well, but I'm struggling as you get 19:19 to make friends. You see I mean, and it's the camaraderie 19:23 and a sense it is. So it's an incredible organization. 19:27 So if you don't know about it in a bit, will put up an 19:29 address and we want you to find out about it. 19:32 >> Dana, actually, that's one of the things that one of the 19:35 reasons why, as I started was for the ministries to come 19:38 together to fellowship, take reach other, to go back out 19:42 into their marketplace for the following year. So it's a 19:45 really up time to come together, being courage to go 19:48 forth and do go back to where you are and finish the work 19:52 that they are. And that's our convention now, the annual 19:55 convention, your convention. But there's there's one other 19:57 thing here I just want to say, and that is that no idea just 20:01 comes and myself. And you pointed this out a minute ago, 20:05 Danny, that these 2 original founders, the didn't know the 20:09 name aside, by the way, they were just helping to get the 20:11 lay people involved, Sutherland and again, Sutherland was the 20:15 first day aside. President May we say okay, but we stand in 20:20 this generation. Denzel night will be joined aside. We're 20:23 both in our 20's K so it's been a little while. But you know 20:27 what? We stand on the shoulders. So much of some 20:31 incredible individuals. And I just want to, you know, 20:35 acknowledge that right at the beginning of this discussion. 20:38 There are people like this like Sutherland's mug ends. We're 20:42 also looking at people like, for instance, O De McKee. 20:46 Yeah. Okay. At the first to convention I went to I had the 20:49 privilege to sit with Cody and his wife, Ellsworth father. 20:53 Yes. And had a chance to interact with him and then you 20:56 look at Tom's apart, Tom and violence up are a great Harold 21:00 and Joan Lance. Yes. And the Herald, by the way, I'm sure 21:03 heralds watching right now. Harold is shot out to you. 21:05 We really appreciate your sage and and your guidance and 21:09 helping us through this process and it's these individuals. 21:12 So we today stand on the shoulders and we say, Lord, 21:16 what a privilege you've given to us. Thank you. And may we be 21:19 faithful and then? 21:21 >> I can get I think for hours and Yahoo House to move us on. 21:30 We have a lot of things that sort of will. 21:33 >> The demonstrate the breath of what we do because one of 21:37 the things that we do is provide resources, yes, and not 21:40 just for PSI members, but for the entire World Church. 21:44 And we've done several projects that have affected the entire 21:47 church were not boasting it at all. We're just saying that we 21:51 have tried to be faithful to the call of God in our lives. 21:55 And so we have and all of the things that we've done you'll 21:59 see tonight have been pot in a ship with the ministries all 22:03 with the church. Many of them we don't run off on our own and 22:08 whatnot. We're very supported the church and its leadership 22:12 and the some of the organize some of the Adventist who and 22:16 so that's why I think we have our legitimacy 22:19 because of that the things that we do. 22:21 >> That's the kind of moves along if you don't mind already 22:24 have. And we have. 22:26 >> Haha. Yeah. So we have 22:29 Bush the M Den has there. The first thing that we did 22:33 begun in 1983 S what's the book project and you see, but the 22:36 good news, trace, the history of the many resources that we 22:40 have. And Joe, as we're coming along, that how God has has led 22:45 and there's going to be exciting. 22:47 >> Question. But let me jump right into this. 92 the first 22:50 year that Karen and I and our family went to the I S I 22:52 convention, the book project will be called the aside book 22:57 Project internally was born. 22:59 And at that time there was a guy. And yes, I member named 23:03 Gilbert, Wilkes and Gilbert had a printing operation. And he 23:06 actually published a Little magazine that was a kind of a 23:10 weekly shop or that was sent out all over the place and had 23:13 ads in it. And he was start put little spiritual thoughts in 23:16 there. And then you start saying, why can't we do steps 23:19 to Christ this way? And so he did. He printed the first time 23:23 we had big runs in the Church of steps to Christ he printed 23:26 and he came in 1983 and he said to the group, listen, I have 23:30 this idea, but it's bigger than me. I don't have the money to 23:32 actually be able to create and develop into the first print 23:36 run and assigned Missions Inc, the organization that Denzel's 23:39 the president of an and I serve on that board as well. 23:43 That group bought it. And out of that meeting, we saw 23:46 immediately several million copies of happiness died. 23:50 Just that was the beginnings of of them. By the way, here's the 23:54 steps to Christ. This is the this is the current rendition 23:57 of of the of the book and the newest one we've actually gone 24:01 through. This is our 3rd complete makeover of the series 24:05 in 40 years. But 24:08 >> now what's different about this one? 24:10 >> Well, this one, we have a beautiful cover and on the 24:12 cover, you'll notice that we have a crown that is a partial 24:15 gold crown and a partial crown of thorns. And so it is talking 24:21 about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the steps to Christ. 24:23 But in addition to that, in the back of this book, we actually 24:26 have a set of questions and answers on the Gospel that are 24:31 included right the back of this book. And that was something 24:33 that came as we've gone down the road. We've said, what can 24:36 we improve this way? We can tweak a little bit this way, 24:38 but this has been distributed by the millions. Okay. Now in 24:43 1989 by this time, denzel's come into the organ and the and 24:49 I'm going to have him to share how the rest of these books 24:51 started to come together because that's when it happened 24:53 Denzel. 24:54 >> Well, what happened was that we found out that the desire of 24:57 ages that the most copies that have been printed one time was 25:02 10,000 copies in a run. And Gilbert Welch again said if we 25:08 did in a large quantity because of the press, we can get him 25:11 down in cost at 10,000 and a $10,000 or 10,000 print. 25:17 We could do it for we can print it for $3.86. But we did 25:22 100,000. We could do it for 55 sets. And so we side with the 25:27 fact that not back down, but not today. And so we're sitting 25:31 around the corner on the Briton were discussing, which book to 25:34 do 25:35 and we're deciding, OK, should we do Christ object lessons or 25:38 should we do desire of ages on partial deserve a just cause? 25:41 That's all my family became at Venice's through that book, 25:44 our great controversy. And there was debating which one to 25:47 do. And I'm a young person who doesn't come for my first time 25:51 ever there. And I didn't realize that Tom's of Paros who 25:54 is always challenging everybody around them around the table 25:58 saying, well, if you do this, I'll do this and trying to 26:01 challenge people to raise money and things like that. And I I 26:03 just all of a sudden I just said book, will you like Chris 26:06 Eyeglasses? Watch you do it. 100,000 new 200,000 to 200,000 26:11 and I'll do 100,000 time. You do 100,000 and each to a 26:15 book and all of them said, yes, yes, yes, yes, all the way 26:18 around. And then Tom, just look at me and goes all right, 26:20 then, ah, her and I didn't realize until afterwards 26:24 because I challenged him or one just went ahead and did it 26:27 quickly. But out of that became we've raised the money to start 26:31 that project. That's right. And from that project we have 26:35 now printed over 9 million books distributed distributed 26:40 9 million books. And what's the beauty of it is not only do we 26:44 have the original money in that in that pro part, we also have 26:51 additional money because what we have done is we put a 26:53 contingency it joy to the cause of the book and a very in some 26:57 little bit of extra money and put it into each book just a 27:00 few pennies so that we can make a revolving fund. And so as a 27:04 result of that, we've now printed 11 different at titles. 27:08 And we've now been able to use that money to creep, keep 27:13 printing over and over again at a lower cost. And so it's 27:17 really been a beautiful concept that just started with just 27:20 that challenge. But the exciting thing of his, how the 27:24 Lord bless you and through that has seen so many books being 27:28 given out to the for the Kingdom. 27:30 >> And hows and distributed, what should distribution 27:33 network? Well, our distribution network as we again, we partner 27:37 are using that word over and over the the advent of Oksana 27:40 Pacific Press it at the original time, we still have 27:43 reviewing Herald. We are partnering with the review, 27:45 Harold and with City Press. But now it's up to the press. 27:48 And so we have provided the entire inventory. We've we've 27:51 basically it's our project within that organization, 27:54 but they handle all the fulfillment, 27:57 all the orders. And so we're going to have a Web site here 27:59 in a few minutes to put up. So if somebody wants these, 28:01 but I want to talk about the current books quickly, because 28:05 in the process of getting to 9 million say distributed 28:08 distributed, I mean, this is the start of the great 28:11 controversy alone. And by the way, our new designs were quite 28:14 pleased. You all have them around. We have we have done 28:18 these books until this just a year or so ago year and a half 28:21 ago, we decided we need to do a complete new makeover. You have 28:26 to do that in publishing refreshed. And so we did that. 28:30 And when we when we brought this and reported that 2 rsi 28:33 board, 28:34 we were saying we've got a new partnership between the LNG 28:36 white estate. They've helped us go through the whole process 28:39 and Pacific press and aside 28:41 and one of the things that we did was we said, let's tie this 28:44 into electronic or the tech world. And if you open these 28:48 books up just to the second page on the inside, you'll see 28:51 the QR code right here. Love it. And that QR code. I'm 28:55 holding the great controversy here in that QR code on the 28:58 inside will allow it will take you straight to a special 29:01 website that the Elegy, why this association has put 29:05 together this data and it has the ability to have you read 29:09 this book in 90 different languages. One can listen to it 29:13 in 25 or 30, I believe as what you can print it. You can look 29:16 at all these different things. So we're trying to expand out 29:19 so that somebody who might have this since I want to share this 29:23 is somebody in 29:25 some Asian country, yes, puzzles. You can actually show 29:29 pop this around. They can log-on to it and see what's 29:31 happening with it. And we've done this. The other thing that 29:33 we did as we put these 5 together, 29:37 we know the contour to the ages and here we all put them up 29:40 here so it can be seen of. We had never put the 5 books, 29:43 even though we were distributing them. We decided 29:46 why don't we tried putting it together. 29:48 And so we've done that. And when we presented this, I just 29:51 want to do a shout out to our North American Division. 29:55 Elder Alex Bryant, elder Bryant and his team were at the board 29:59 meeting. They looked at this and said, 30:01 why can't we could we use this? We'd like to place an order and 30:04 they have now placed an order for every person in the North 30:07 American division. That's baptized in 23 24 and won. 30:12 The division is sending the set. Wow. And here's the crazy 30:16 thing with it, Danny, most the time you think, well, how much 30:19 money would it cost to do all this? A person? The way we've 30:22 got to set up a person can say I want this set and I want to 30:26 mail it to someone for under $15 ship a hope. A multi think 30:31 anything under 50 bucks. Yeah, OK, you can buy these and 30:34 what I love what Denzel Dunn has done. Tell what you've done 30:38 with these books as well. 30:39 >> But it goes back to when I was a a S I also was involved 30:43 with helping with the Ukraine refugee situation. And so we 30:46 did a big print. He know of a literature there and in to help 30:51 with Ukraine's Ukrainians. And one story I heard when I 30:55 was over there and heard from one of the members are one of 30:59 the church members is they had a bunch of deserve ages and 31:02 great controversies in their basement. And because there you 31:06 can get paper, you can't print or anything else. And they were 31:09 given these out 2 soldiers and to everyone for the members 31:13 were to refugees as they were going by. And I thought, 31:16 well, you know, right now you we have paper shortage within 31:19 shortages. We have all these charges. So I just bought a 31:21 bunch of cases these and put in my basement. 31:24 So when the next shortage comes around, I'll be able to have 31:27 and could be ready because we're going to have and we're 31:30 going to have a sigh. So I got several 1000 of these sitting 31:32 in my basement ready to go. So I'm ready because you never 31:36 know what's going to happen. So, you know, especially 31:38 today's poppies of great controversy in the back of our 31:41 car. 31:43 >> So if we see some, we think we want to give too. We can do 31:45 that. We yes, and that's the whole idea. I think people can 31:47 buy these by the case 31:49 and just have this is not designed for 20,000 copies are 31:53 going to give out like our church. My church is given 31:55 160,000 great controversies out in the last 3 years. But this 31:59 is more for the person is is I want to give out 50 or 60 of 32:02 these really nice ones. And there's not a better low cost 32:07 unit that we know of out there and we're very proud of what 32:10 they have, what they look like and how they go into the 32:13 future. But the digital aspect, I want to just that you love 32:17 that. There may be a couple more things related to this, 32:19 but I'm not thinking, right? Do you have to tell about what 32:21 we've done with the digital Co? That's that's where I was. 32:24 I was just saying that, OK? So the digital side of this 32:27 back in probably 2005, 2006. And again, I just want to say 32:33 before I forget this, Harrell Lance was the guy who really 32:37 worked on this from 1983 onward. Yes, gentle and I have 32:40 kind of picked it up in the last 5 to 7 years. But he was 32:44 the one that was really the genius. So he's still reminds 32:46 us and helps us. 32:47 >> Hahaha, we really we need it. 32:52 >> But there was a guy that came along. He said, you know, 32:54 we need to get some translations into a different 32:57 group in India, a certain dialect of Indian. 33:00 And we start to think, well, why can't we translate some of 33:02 these books? Of course, we've done Bibles. People have done 33:05 different things, the Bible's, but some of the specific books. 33:07 So we said, well, as we can do that, you know, and we started 33:10 off on this journey to try to do some translation. We 33:12 discovered quickly after a year to a lot of work. But that's a 33:16 challenge. And so we again to curl advice we partnered up 33:21 but the elegy by the state. Okay. And we have got some 33:25 fantastic responses and results to share with you and the 33:29 audience tonight on this. 33:31 That's one reason why we put the QR code and every one of 33:34 these books. 33:35 But we begin the process of working with them. And so, 33:38 yes, I you'll notice almost every year in our offering, 33:41 we include the digital books, a villain white with the LG 33:45 Wednesday in the offering almost every year. 33:48 Right now we have I believe, and I'm going to put up on my 33:51 on my screen line. I I think I've got it. 2,997 books, 33:58 different. A different books have been have been digitized 34:03 in different languages around the world. In all these 34:06 everything is plus, I believe it's like I've been to pull a 34:08 bitter pill may be buried. 34:09 >> So, folks, that's a little hard to grasp. But yeah, 34:15 OK, thank you. Open this book. And when you get that QR code, 34:19 right, no, you go to. It's going to take you to a website. 34:23 That's right. And then you can choose the language. Yes, 34:25 light. 34:26 >> Yeah, OK, so here's here's the statistics on our project 34:31 because it's been going on now for about 14 years, 34:33 13, 14 years. The longer now 15, okay, 15 years. 34:38 We now have 2,997 books in 145 languages that are translated 34:45 in available digitally around the world. Why also 660 34:49 audiobooks available in 25 languages. 34:53 Now to get to put this in perspective 34:56 in the year 2010, when we were just starting to get going in 35:00 this, 35:01 the total number of visitors to the LNG, quite a state website 35:04 which has all of these resources. Plus many more was 35:08 around 35,000 visitors per month. 35:11 And we thought that was pretty. Yeah, OK, this is good. Let me 35:14 tell you what it was for August 35:16 of this year. 35:18 Try 10.4, 3 million visitors to the LNG White estate website in 35:24 one month. One month that in in 2021 92 million visits in 2022. 35:29 98 million visits so far this year 35:33 in 2023 through August. 31 71 Million, 230,000 visits 35:38 136 million page views of these books and 4.8 billion Web site 35:45 inquiries, 4.8 billion Web site inquiries and on on and again, 35:51 sometimes that was that phone or is that they can computer 35:53 apps. Check this out. The website queries were 4.8 35:57 billion of those and the app queries were 2.1 billion. 36:01 >> You know, that's actually a little mind boggling. This is 36:04 craziness of the mine bug. 36:06 >> The other part of this so important is it's all over the 36:09 world and a lot of places where you can't get the Gospel, 36:13 UK preach the gospel. People are reading these books in 36:17 places that you can't get to that we couldn't get their 36:20 side. And that's just so exciting. It's some point. 36:24 >> It would be selfish of us not to give the audience at 36:27 home a chance to be a part of this later on, OK, Don, so get 36:32 ready because we feel very selfish. Not let me be a part 36:36 of this talk about. And so our book never. And he says we can. 36:43 >> He's shifting commitment because the next part is just 36:46 as exciting, OK, the next part of what we're going to talk 36:48 about. But just to kind of cap on our book project, 36:52 we have not only done the the physical paper books because, 36:55 you know, I still like to read a book, okay. We have almost 37:00 9 million copies of these distributors now and we only 37:03 see blue sky in the future because as long as God allows 37:07 that to happen, as long as the presses can keep running as 37:09 long as we have distribution, these books can go out. We also 37:13 have the digital element that is really develop beyond our 37:16 wildest imaginations could have fought back a few years back 37:20 and God is in it. That's the big thing. Yeah, this is not 37:23 done by any human element. We're just instruments in God's 37:27 hands. But the holy spirit is in this and he's causing it to 37:30 explode right now because the time is right. That's right. 37:33 You know what else is? 37:34 >> Really impressive to mayor. Maybe we should think about it. 37:38 You know, new books are coming out by new authors all the 37:41 time. You know, we're not sure. 37:43 You know, what can we read? This is this truth is that 37:47 these have been established for so long that everybody in the 37:51 church and they logically and every other way there's we know 37:55 exactly what's in these books and it gives you great 37:58 security. Wait, I'm not just funding, you know, bunch books. 38:01 These are books. They're incredible book sent some of 38:05 them over 100 years. But 38:06 >> still have a I want to make one comment Tuesday to consider 38:10 before you we're fighting the view that these men I said, 38:14 I sit much about separate them. Haha. 38:20 >> I do want to make a comment about, you know, why Ellen 38:23 White books and I have met several people that have come 38:26 into the church from Ellen White's books. The most common 38:30 is the great controversy. But interestingly, someone very 38:33 close to me, someone that we met in Ireland given because of 38:37 paychecks and profits. Yes. And so I think that these books 38:42 in these times in which we're living, we are going to be 38:44 extremely it might sound dry. But when you read them in my 38:49 favorite is the desire of ages and credible. Yes, but for some 38:53 people pay trucks in profits. And this person happened to be 38:57 an atheist at the time she was. And she is currently in medical 39:02 school at Loma Linda, but she had a degree in art history. 39:07 So you'd appealing to different minds. And I like the fact that 39:10 there is a set because then people can look to and say, 39:14 oh, no, that sounds interesting. Jackson profit. 39:16 Yes, sounds interesting. 39:18 And then some of that might have a soft aside. My C the 39:20 desire of a someone that has a more global view of life would 39:25 see some more value, though. So I think it's nice that we 39:28 sell them was a set. We can so that individual as well. 39:31 But I think that these books in that time most re living this 39:35 this project, I think it's going to be incredibly yes, 39:38 important as we go on the excited about what Denzel was 39:42 saying to about 39:44 these books, people be able to access the information in these 39:49 languages where it's forbidden to teach Christianity. I I I 39:55 like to read about the persecuted Christians and how 39:59 when you over in certain countries you can't 40:01 proselytize, you can have a Bible. You can't do any of that 40:05 and to be able to access this information in the privacy of 40:09 your own home where no one else knows what you do it that such 40:14 a God thing. Yes, God is making a way for everybody to know 40:19 about him in everybody. And that's it's too. That's so 40:23 exciting is happening. It happening happening. 40:26 >> You'd be surprised how many people are doing in those 40:29 languages are reading these laws. We're not going to talk 40:32 about it because we don't want to get no, yes, anyone trouble. 40:37 But, you know, my family on my father's side came through that 40:41 came for the church to the deserve ages, really. And so 40:44 I've always had a special spot in my heart for that. But but I 40:47 also want to tell you that the other part that's so important 40:50 is that we partner. That's not just us. We're partnering like, 40:54 for example, when we these are digitized cost just under $2000 40:57 to do a book, by the way, is what it cost to get one done. 41:01 And 41:02 and we partner with a no Andrews University, the whitest 41:06 states and there are several organizations that we work 41:09 together offer gets them, Pacific Press and some other 41:12 put other organizations that we work together, partner, partner 41:16 together. 41:17 >> To facilitate this is not just us being involved. It's us 41:20 working together. We kind of care are catalysts were 41:22 catalyst that there are many players out the design as an 41:25 example of our good friend Mark bonded a beautiful job on the 41:28 design. I just want to say one last word before we move off of 41:30 this next great controversy. Denzel's family came in and 41:33 deserve. Jazmine came in and great controversy. My 41:35 grandfather in 1932. 41:38 had a young girl on the ranch that he was working at trying 41:41 to survive the depression 41:43 by 10 years old. Maybe she was helping with food or who knows 41:46 what she told her call Porter father. I think Mister Houghton 41:50 would be somebody opened to great conifers. He came around 41:53 and sold my grandfather a book in 1932. And that's why our 41:57 entire family 41:58 has become part of the 7th, the evidence family. So it is more 42:03 than gratifying for me to be able to be involved in seeing 42:06 this explode. And I know doesn't feel the same way with 42:08 deserve ages and deprive many people watching right now who 42:11 can tell the same story. But if there's any book that 42:14 was appropriate for right now, 42:17 this is the book meant that desire of a just and steps to 42:19 Christ are essential yet for your relationship with God. 42:23 And I don't do this and only the other undone, but I want to 42:26 just encourage everybody that's listening to us now. This book, 42:30 if you haven't read it 42:32 recently or ever and all you need to read the book, great 42:35 controversy, get a copy if you don't have one. I know we'll 42:39 told people how they can do that in a few minutes. Yeah. 42:42 And yet again, tell me what your church did because I think 42:44 those so special our church during the COVID situation out 42:48 and I'm from Fallbrook, California 42:51 and our church said, you know, we're stuck. We can't meet 42:54 right now. We're and we were meeting outside fortunes, 42:56 California. We we're able to meet outdoors under a roof that 43:00 we had in our church. We never had stop having church, but we 43:03 had to meet outdoors. We said we want to do something. 43:05 So we begin 43:07 a project in the fall of 2020 43:11 and we said we're going to cover the 2 towns that are 43:13 closest to us. And we went out the door to door in a little 43:15 bag and we put these on the doorstep. We we were mask. 43:19 We were trying to make sure we were very appropriate. But we 43:22 started we covered in our people, went door to door just 43:24 like the old and gathering used to me. You go door to go down 43:27 the road. You not trying to talk to people this leaving. 43:29 It had a nice letter inside. Pretty soon. We kept going and 43:32 kept going. And as as I mentioned a minute ago, we're 43:35 now out 35 40 miles away from our town, covering smaller 43:39 towns. And we've now distributed almost 160,000 43:43 copies of this book in our area around us just in 160,000. 43:49 Your people, your your churches, drought churches has 43:52 has has given 60,000 says a glass physically. I'm 43:56 incredibly kind of response. Have you gotten? We've had a 43:58 variety of interesting responses home. You know, 44:02 there's a few very few that word. What's this? A lot of 44:06 just quiet. You know, in the last year and a half, 44:11 we are busting at the seams with all kinds of new families 44:14 coming in and just opening of Angeles tick meeting a week and 44:17 a half well week and a half ago. 44:18 And we had real reservations for 800 seats. 44:25 We had to turn away. We only had room to see 300 plus our 44:28 overflow with turn away. 100 cars were seeing people 44:31 come out of the woodwork because right now everybody out 44:34 there saying some things were going on. Yes, don't know what 44:37 it is. Yeah, the feeling and if there's anybody that has an 44:40 answer for that out of the scriptures, we do. And that's 44:43 right. So the response, you know, we were telling White 44:47 says, get this out, there know the time will come when all of 44:51 a sudden people say, oh, wasn't there something they're going 44:53 to find that book the library. So we're just 44:56 >> getting on the end of ours. Told us recently to set up the 45:00 book minister is dead. What? No one dog. People don't read 45:04 books. Well, we can give you, you know, probably 1000 45:07 examples. Yeah, that one get this one on one of our books. 45:11 And I know which one it was these books. But someone 45:16 through the book away, they threw away the guy who came in 45:20 garbage truck, picked up 45:22 the garbage, saw the book, read it and came to church and that 45:26 ties Ayad was Baha. Another person was out on the ocean 45:31 getting ready to said we just what and I and the sand. 45:37 I found the books. They read the book became. So those goes 45:41 on that that that is believe me. That is not true. This the 45:45 millions and people are looking for to it. Yeah. 45:48 >> And Danny, I I think it's either where I think it he's 45:51 completely wrong because I believe in this digital age and 45:54 everything that you see today, especially in first world 45:57 countries going back to basics, going back to opening up the 46:01 Bible, going up in reading books. I think more than ever 46:05 it is what people really want that rather than trying because 46:09 we're trying to we're trying to go after this Hollywood stuff. 46:12 And frankly, how do you how do you do need to compete against 46:16 that? We have some so much better, right? 46:18 >> Well, you have the holy spirit with these best, whether 46:22 you're reading it on an iPhone or an iPad or computer or in 46:25 paper. And we're just we're actually I have to tell you 46:29 that we're a little bit awed 46:31 ourselves by what we've seen. God do with this. We never 46:35 expected to have in 2023 be sitting here with you and 46:38 telling you the story about this in these numbers. We 46:41 didn't we didn't expect that. That's God's blessing. 46:43 Mirroring simple. It's not us. It's God and man. 46:46 >> That is so willing to use anyone willing to the year. 46:49 That's right. Yes. 46:50 >> And you can see that he's flying in because we are 46:54 excited about all the things are happening in 46:57 and we have a long ways to go still. 46:59 >> We're gonna make you're going to make or intend to. 47:03 But the I've talking. Yeah. Haha. Another exciting. 47:09 >> Said of of offerings that we have its size. The new 47:14 beginnings. I call it no. The new beginning. Sweet of of 47:18 of resources that we have. We have the evangelistic series 47:22 and now we have a health and Bible study guides. And so 47:25 we're probably going to sit way into that. And then at the 47:28 other side, we'll continue with that. And hopefully we will end 47:31 up on international medical work. 47:33 >> Haha, but opening bill. 47:38 >> Well, at first, I want to just clarify that, you know, 47:42 PSI members are involved in their local church as their 47:45 involved in their local businesses involved a share in 47:48 Christ it where they are. But we also work together and 47:51 is then and collaborate. As I mentioned before, the 47:54 learner as he multiplies, we work together for him. And the 47:58 project they want to talk about right now started started back 48:01 in 2000. And it actually started with my father was one 48:06 of the one of the people that, again, it's several people 48:10 coming together 48:12 before I do that. I just want you to know that prayers. 48:15 The most important thing. I don't want anyone to think 48:18 that we're the holy Spirit does work. We just do the presenting 48:22 and might be the story of a I was at a pastor's house and the 48:27 his little to 3 year-old boy was there. It says. And there's 48:29 this great, big, huge pile of dirt on a on a wheel barrel. 48:33 And he came up to me and kept me on the shores is my again. 48:37 I move that wheel barrel and we brought it over there. And he 48:40 pointed to me and I thought, well, that's a lot like we are. 48:43 You know, we're we're we're like that little boy and God 48:45 does all the heavy lifting. Yeah, you know, and that's what 48:48 we've got a look at as we talk about this. So I want to make 48:51 sure that whatever we say, all honor glory and praise going 48:54 and then nothing that we do are we do 48:59 what happened in and we can maybe start with the pictures 49:02 that you can start because prayers. The most important 49:04 part of what we're going to talk about. Here's a picture of 49:06 a gentleman praying in a in a you in Cuba actually is in Cuba 49:12 where that picture was taken to show you pictures around the 49:15 world. But the next pitch or want to show is a picture of my 49:18 father and Bob Paulson. Now, my dad is, you know, he's been on 49:22 a sigh and we're going to talk about with one-day church in 49:25 roofs and things like that that he's been involved with along 49:28 with many other people. But what happened was dead was 49:30 billed as some churches in India and the conference spread 49:34 of the mission or excuse me, the division president said to 49:36 my father, Garland, you're as good at building churches ever 49:39 thought about killing one. 49:41 And he goes well, that can't be that hard. You know, I can 49:44 dance. So he so he says sure will do one. It's as he's 49:46 flying back. He realized the way committed to see causes 49:50 best friend Bob Paul says, Bob, let's do an evangelistic 49:53 series. And Bob says, well, I've never really done one 49:56 before, but sure I doing with your car one and debt is good. 50:00 You preaching all okah who these men went over and step 50:05 down in faith and went to India and preaching. I know you 50:09 showed this on 3ABN I was with them. You're with them. You're 50:12 with and the one the first of all, Paul, Bob Paulson. And and 50:16 they stepped out. He's in over 3,000. People were baptized so 50:21 that it that had just taken place. And so I I've had the 50:25 privilege of working with Pastor Finley and Accorded 50:28 Angeles, 6 series for him in Romania. And I was going to a 50:33 partnership and I was in the North Pacific Union and I was 50:37 there and 50:39 Benny Mor and Dwayne Key were there with me. And this is 50:44 definitely got to see this. And then in Kia just preached 50:47 evangelist 6 series in 50:51 in Africa and they digitally taking the pictures of regular 50:56 because every at that time there's one white men, white 50:59 women going to have an with weight Angels. Basically, 51:02 it's all there was American, all the artist, all the art 51:04 walk away now. So he did. Julie took a digital picture 51:07 and digitally put in Africans of African people going to have 51:11 an African angels. And when he did that, the crowd just went 51:15 wild. They showed any showed me a video that now that's when is 51:20 one megapixel cameras. It took 20 minutes just to process one 51:24 make discomfiture well. And he showed us that says what if we 51:28 could graphically do this? In culture rises another 51:31 evangelists experience at the same time, you know, dead dead 51:35 and about Paul. So just preached an and I thought why 51:38 can't we make that do book a double? What the same time. 51:42 You know, elder Falkenberg have was what year he called Boy 51:47 called Me is that I got this idea. Get laypeople to preach 51:50 like your dad. Did you know some people who would like to 51:53 preach 51:54 and I go, I don't know anyone who would like to do that. 51:59 And so the idea came about as let's design a set of sermons 52:03 that anyone could preach because right now, if you ask 52:06 me as a banker, that's what I mean. That's how I make my 52:09 living is I'm going to preach an evangelistic series first 52:14 year at the pick me up off the floor and after you get up 52:16 unless they know I can't do it right. But what you do. But I 52:19 did was is design Evangelist 6 series that anyone can preach 52:24 and make it very simple. So Bob called and so we started 52:28 working to that project process. And 52:31 and because when Bob preached his assembly met and mess up 52:35 here and apologize to get nervous up here. But what Bob 52:39 Paulson, when he did his sermons, Dwayne McKee and and 52:44 anymore, and that group helped him with the service. He spent 52:47 hundreds 100's of hours developing his sermons. As we 52:51 said, if we could have won this developed, we can make it 52:54 simple so other people could breach what that time. Bob 52:57 Hawke Umber calls me on the phone. Please messages says 53:00 Denzel, I'm thinking about getting late people involved 53:03 with the preaching. You know, anyone who would like to do 53:05 that and my wife, I was traveling time. My wife plays 53:09 that on the phone and she goes, you know, anyone who could 53:12 preach and I go, I don't know anyone who could do that. 53:15 You're all have to think about that. When you think about 53:17 that. Well, I drive home. As soon as I walk in the door, 53:21 my wife walks me to the to the at that time was a voice 53:24 recorder and plays that again. 53:27 And she and I go on 53:29 and I was wondering why you're doing that. She goes well, 53:31 she says you're trying to design a of Angeles Sixers that 53:34 anyone could breach. If you could do it, 53:37 anyone could haha. And you know, you should try doing 53:41 that. I go me. I can't do that. Well, if you can do it, anyone 53:45 can do it. You should do that. And immediately I thought to 53:47 myself, well, we've got to get a group of people get. My first 53:50 thought was I called my book, my friend and Houghton. And as 53:54 it was a good idea, right? And we called all these 53:58 different people together. Yes, to to come together. 54:03 And then in the next picture, we'll show it just to the next 54:06 picture shows us with that sub anymore and 54:14 the way to do it with the brand. But there's also many 54:16 people enough, forget it. We're blessed because the elder 54:20 Finley was involved there. And we he had a set of 54:23 graphics. And so we worked with Don great to do the graphics. 54:26 We work with Bryce Williams. We worked with all these 54:29 different between partner with it is harder than it was 54:32 written on that project. And the picture you just saw 54:34 was of a all all over. And he was there telling us about his 54:39 experience because he's an accountant and he's very shy 54:43 and I'll never forget he was over in Africa and he was 54:46 supposed to be there to pick up bags and things like that. 54:49 When he got there, he found out that they need a preacher and 54:52 there's nobody there. So you had to breach. It had never 54:55 preached before. And if you know this man, he's very shy 54:58 and timid and I'll never forget when he got back. He told me 55:01 that story. And I asked him, I says, so. How do you feel any 55:07 started tearing up? And he says, I can't describe that. 55:10 And when I when I saw that I go, I want that feeling. 55:15 I want to be able to be able to do that as well. So the next 55:18 picture you'll see a group of us. We want to the Philippines 55:22 and we have all these different people getting together to 55:26 preach of Angeles taxes for the first time. We've got the 55:29 sermons the day before we left. So none of us had time to 55:33 practice. We're really blessed to Louis Torres was there to 55:37 help us to learn how to do the preaching. Dan, you had a big 55:41 intel tell you have church. 55:43 >> I was you know, I I was in Mindanao 55:45 and we had 5,000 people in our audience. And I was I preach 55:51 that series. I had a translator was really quite. I've never 55:53 been translated before. And the union president, I forgot his 55:56 name now, but he was my translator said about that 55:59 time. He I'm on the 6 foot, 2 guy. And he sees. But man, 56:02 he's I don't know what he was saying. Haha, I knew it. 56:09 I mean, we had there were 500 people from my site were 56:12 baptized. It was really one of those mountain gratify care and 56:15 my wife, Karen, did the health talks every night. We had some 56:18 of that whole story. And it was really funny in the appeals 56:21 because they taught us do all the different things you do. 56:23 They simplified every aspect of presenting an evangelist 56:26 meeting 56:27 and I'll never forget. I mean, the appeal and I'm going 56:30 strong. Of course, I'm speaking English to all these people to 56:32 speak someone 56:35 and my translator is following me and I'm he's like, you know, 56:38 he's like I'm like a ball and chain on this poor man. We get 56:42 to a certain point. I had the whole audience or 5, 6, in all 56:45 5. I know several 1000 people standing out there. I think I 56:49 5,001 time and they're all sitting on their feet. 56:52 And I remember that all of a sudden he took off her 3, 56:59 4, minutes. He's just talking to the audience, obviously 57:01 remembers and he stops and lets go. And you know what? It was 57:05 awesome to see all those people baptized and Denzel. That was 57:08 the side you had up there. We had over 3,000 people. 57:10 Baptize March. 27, I believe, wasn't it 27 meetings that we 57:14 held simultaneously to prove the concept? Yeah, that anybody 57:17 could do. This is where can't believe this first hour. 57:21 >> I saw the doctor and you were OK, we're going to haha. 57:26 >> I did that. Stay with us and staying with us. But we've got 57:30 to put up a website and a bit when we get back that you can 57:34 go to. And then however, the lords impressed knew how well 57:37 we talked to you about a bit. But right now we're going to go 57:40 away for just a moment or 2. We'll be right back. 57:43 [MUSIC] 57:48 [MUSIC] 57:53 [MUSIC] 57:58 [MUSIC] |
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