ASI 2009: By Knowing Him

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ASI 2009 Plenary Meetings

Justin McNeilus

Did They Miss Her?

Jim Ayer

Footsteps of an Approaching God

ASI Members in Action

Christian Berdahl

A Bad Actor

Justin Kim

ASI Youth Department & Youth for Jesus Report with worship by Justin Kim

David Asscherick

Walking in the Light: Rejecting Antichrists

Michael Ryan

Nevertheless

ASI Presents “Spotlight on Supporting Ministries”

Art Chadwick

Creation

Dear Father in Heaven, Lord we thank you so much for this time that we've come.

As each 1 of us has come from our different places, we pray that you'd send your Holy Spirit, guide each 1 that will speak and share about their ministry.

And help us all Lord that we may be more encouraged to go forward and bring these things into practice into our different workplaces and our ministries.

And we thank you so much for the promise of your presence.

There are so many ministries that are going on all over the world and Sharing Christ in the Marketplace is now worldwide for our organization.

And so this evening we have the ASI president for Europe and we also have who is Angel Duo and We have Radim Passer who is the VP vice president for evangelism They're now going to tell us about How Europe is sharing Christ in the marketplace.

It's nice to be here again and a blessing to be here sharing with you the experiences that we are having in Europe.

It's challenging the work there, but ASI is a growing force in Europe.

In this moment we are present in 14 countries, and our membership is more than 700 members already, and growing.

But the main challenge is to get all the lay people moving, working for Jesus Christ, and preaching the gospel.

And we are very happy because we are finding a lot of support.

It is Ritson, for instance, with whom we are developing the program with the new beginnings and working in small groups in all different countries.

In Spain, particularly, we've had a great experience the last months with that program.

And in the few months in October, we are going to have reaping campaigns all over the country.

And Pastor Robert Costa is going to lead the main 1 in Barcelona City, and 25 members of ASI are going to lead their own campaigns in different towns all over the country.

So this is what we want to do all over Europe, and we're sure that we're going to do it with the Lord's help.

We are also very active in youth evangelism, Not only evangelism, also training, and Radim will talk a little bit about that just in a minute.

But I can proudly say that we've been working this year in a very important city that is Santiago de Compostela.

That is the second Catholic city in the world.

And we have a very small church there, but we've had our young people working and the result has been great because all our young people are, you know, very happy with the work they have done there.

And we've reached the number of 4 baptisms at the end.

And that in that place, I can tell you, is something.

We also have a lot of people with Bible studies, and we, we praise the Lord for the work that has been done there.

But this is also being done in England, in other countries in Europe, but that I will let Radim, that is responsible for evangelism in Europe, to go on with that.

First of all, I would like to, I would like to thank God I can be here because if 12 years ago anybody told me or put me question about the preaching gospel in the Europe, I would ask him probably what is the preaching the gospel.

Europe is, of course, a difficult mission field.

Maybe some of you can hear Macedonian calling, like Apostle Paul from Europe a few years ago.

And I think we have to be good example for our members because we need to wake up.

We translated DVD programs, New Beginnings in many languages.

We started to use program Use for Jesus in some countries in Europe like France, Spain, Great Britain, Hungary, Czech Republic, and a few others.

Of course, it's also very important to have schools for training our evangelists and missionary workers.

It's nice also to see every year more and more people, including youth in Europe, to have patience, sharing the cries.

But of course we would need much more workers for God's work.

In many countries we're starting to work with small groups And that's why, as Angel said, we are preparing some ripping campaigns in some cities like Rome, Italy, Barcelona, Spain, Lisbon, Portugal, and Prague, Czech Republic.

And please pray for Europe, because some centuries ago we exported Christianity to the whole world and now we are in quite opposite situation.

Also I would like to mention a little bit ASI work in Czechoslovak Union.

Every year we have convention attending approximately 1, 000 people which is about 10% of the membership, some day Adventists in our country.

And usually we support about 20 projects every year.

What is important, these projects brought already many or a nice number of baptisms.

Also In our country we have main projects used for Jesus and new beginnings.

And we are preparing for 2011 in spring some reaping campaign together with It is Written.

So we have a lot of work and we are asking you for your prayers.

And television, we know, is 1 of the main mediums by which the world will hear about the gospel of Jesus Christ.

And here we have Ron and Marta Davis of KBLN TV.

Would you tell us about what KBLN is and does?

Well, first of all, I'd like to say we are so happy to be here with our ASI family.

We really are, and we'd be happy to tell you about KBLN.

KBLN's our full power station call letters for television station in Grants Pass, Oregon.

The name of our organization is Better Life Broadcasting Network, and we were in Dallas about, well it was 3 years ago, introducing the idea that we would be purchasing another full power television station in Roseburg area, and then along with that, a low power television station in Eugene.

And so we're here to tell you about the rest of the story so far.

But before we do, we'd like to show you a short video.

I'm Bart Shields, director of His Song Chorale, and I'm honored to be associated with the ministry of Better Life Broadcasting Network.

I am blessed today to share with you the mighty things God has done and is continuing to do through his broadcast ministry.

But first, some quick history on how it all started some 20 plus years ago.

I remember when our founders, Delmer and Evelyn Wagner, saw the need to have clean, wholesome, and inspiring television programming in the Rogue Valley area here in Southern Oregon.

Back in 1988, they ventured out in faith seeking how that need could become a reality.

But in 1990, Better Life was on the air with their first over-the-air broadcast station and now 16 broadcast stations later with a 6, 000 square foot facility we reach a potential viewing audience of over half a million people.

Very soon we will more than double our potential viewing audience to over 1 million people with the acquisition of the Roseburg full power station and the Eugene low power station.

By operating the Roseburg full power station, the Federal Communications Commission requires that all cable and satellite providers carry our broadcast on their basic programming packages in that designated market area.

This will cover the counties of Benton, Coos, Douglas and Lane.

Next on the horizon is the opportunity to triple our potential viewing audience to 3 million people with the acquisition of a low-power digital station in the Portland area.

This station will broadcast into 51 conference church areas in the counties of Washington, Clackamas, Columbia, and Multnomah, along with Clark County and the state of Washington.

What an evangelistic tool to reach our neighbors in the comfort of their home with a message of hope they so desperately need.

Catch the vision of those that have seen this ministry flourish from the roots of its conception.

Invest today in God's kingdom building work right here in Oregon.

He has been so good to Better Life and actually all of Southern Oregon and soon to be all of Oregon.

We believe God has given us the directive to go ye into all of Oregon and further down into Northern California.

We've taken him very seriously about that directive, and he's providing the opportunities to continue to go.

And I wanted to tell you now the rest of the story about these 2 television stations.

We have been working for 3 years trying to get these stations.

They didn't work out real well at 1 point in time.

As a matter of fact, they were sold before we could raise the money.

And we started praying about those stations and asked God to interrupt that sale for the sake of the people up in those 4 counties because they need to hear the message of Jesus Christ to intervene on our behalf.

And about 8 months after that, we got a call from the seller there and he said, are you still interested in the stations and we said yes.

Well to make a long story short the the we started off at a 4000000 dollar price they wanted for it we've negotiated 2.7 then they sold it then then it came back and we negotiated at 1.9 million.

Then while we were raising the funds, the seller went bankrupt.

So we started all over again and we negotiated $975, 000.

And then as a result, we did buy it yesterday.

Praise the Lord, it closed yesterday for $900, 000, another $75, 000 savings.

And now we've been praying about Portland for a long time.

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Series

ASI 2009 Plenary Meetings

ASI Members in Action

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Other Teachings in Series

Did They Miss Her?

1h 58m

Footsteps of an Approaching God

1h 28m

ASI Members in Action

1h 58m

A Bad Actor

20m

ASI Youth Department & Youth for Jesus Report with worship by Justin Kim

1h 58m

Walking in the Light: Rejecting Antichrists

1h 27m

Nevertheless

1h 43m

ASI Presents “Spotlight on Supporting Ministries”

1h 58m

Creation

58m

Sound Doctrine