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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

David Kim

Brown M&M’s

I'm going to share my full testimony tomorrow morning.

So I won't say too much more than the introduction that Esther gave me today.

But 1 thing I will do is I will share with you something that you may have noticed, but just in case you haven't noticed, and that is I'm Asian.

And if you know any Asians, I know there's some Asians here, there's some Asians here.

But if you know any Asians, you know that when a group of Asians get together oftentimes or when you meet someone who is Asian, particularly when they're from Asia, Asian, but not always, even Asian immigrants, 1 of the first questions that will often come up is, how old are you?

Often, the Asians are nodding because they know that oftentimes the question will come up, how old are you?

In fact, there was 1 gentleman who was a friend of ours when my wife and I were back in Chicago and we had a friend and he was in medical school at the time and whenever there would be a group of people together he would always go around say how old are you and then he'd point at each person in the group and work all the way around And then he would of course tell us how old he was.

And I'm, actually my wife said this to me, her theory on why he did this all the time is because he had skipped some grades along the way and so he was 1 of the youngest people in medical school.

So I think he just wanted to highlight that fact.

Now, so that was 1, but when I was speaking at another camp meeting last year, I was sitting at a meal time in the cafeteria, and I was sitting across from 1 of the young people there.

I was speaking to, actually, I was at the Vietnamese camp meeting, and I was speaking to the English group there, English-speaking group there.

And there was a gentleman across the table from me, and he asked me, how old are you?

And now, whenever someone asks me that question, I always answer the question with a question.

So I always ask them, how old do you think I am?

And he said, you're probably in your late 20s or early 30s.

And I thought and I said to him, you are either the most wonderful person or not very perceptive.

So everyone else is either a baby boomer or a millennial?

Well, the boomers are the old folks now, excuse me.

All right, so we have a few Gen Xers here.

And when it comes to Gen X, we're really talking about people who came of age in the 1980s.

Who was actually alive during the 1980s in this group?

All right, so for those of you who are alive during the 1980s, what are some of the things that iconic, cultural, or political, or social things that you remember from the 80s?

The Soviet Union was around in the 1980s.

What about on the social, cultural aspects?

I heard someone say music, what about the music?

Yeah, so A lot of things in music, specifically I think electronic music sort of really emerged during that period of time.

Some other things that you might remember from the 80s.

And going along with shoulder pads was big hair.

Remember the poofy in the front, big bangs with lots of gel?

Acid washed jeans, That was a thing during the 80s.

And then going back to music, there was the electronic music.

And the other thing that was quite popular during the 80s was what was known as heavy metal music.

Of course, we're Adventists, so we didn't listen to it at that time, I'm sure.

But you may have had some awareness that such a thing existed, heavy metal music.

Now, does anyone remember 1 of the well-known groups?

And Van Halen was probably 1 of the most iconic heavy metal bands during that time.

And they had the hair and they had the attitude and they had the skin tight, whatever.

And there were some interesting things about Van Halen.

Specifically, they were 1 of the first bands to do highly elaborate shows.

Very elaborate shows with lots of equipment and lots of electronics and lots of special effects.

And in fact, they would go town to town with 9 18-wheeler semi trucks full of equipment.

9, 9 18-wheelers going from town to town to town to town, And when they would tour, they wouldn't only go to the major cities.

They would go to what we would consider some secondary and tertiary cities as well.

And they brought the most elaborate shows to the secondary and tertiary series.

Cities like Syracuse or Rochester, where I went to school for a time.

And so they would bring all of this stuff.

It was very complicated and there was a lot involved.

And so in order to make sure that they could put on the show, they had a very detailed contract, a very detailed contract.

And it was, in fact, 53 pages long, 53 pages long about all kinds of things, technical specifications, security specifications, the physical plant, the layout, and even things like food.

Everything was specified in this 53 page document.

And I actually have a copy of some of the pages from this document.

I have pages 35 through 40 of this document.

So I'd like to share with you some of the degree of specificity and the items that were articulated in this contract.

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