The key principles you need to know in organizing a center of influence in your community.

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ASI Pacific Union

Lorna Gabuco

How To Start A Center of Influence

Who among you here believe that the health food is the right arm of the third angel's message?

And so I would like to share with you how I got into this kind of ministry.

Now in my journey, in my experience having this kind of ministry, I thought of this 3 things, how to start a center of influence because I consider the restaurant and the cantin concessionaire as a center of influence.

1, of course, you have to have a passion to share God's Word.

If you have the passion to share to other people God's Word, then don't think twice.

Your commitment to the mission and that is to share Christ in the marketplace.

Now in the restaurant work, we put tracts on the table and I thought of putting also my back issues of the devotionals.

And surprisingly, they're reading it and some, they're asking for those books to bring home.

So I let them bring home the back issues of our devotionals.

I made the, this is the program of American Lifestyle Medicine.

If you notice at the back of the wall in the restaurant, we designed it like this.

White stated in her book that we are not to feed people, but we have to instruct them.

We have to educate people, not to feed them.

So with this kind of placemat, normally when we introduce them to this kind of program, they would ask this kind, the cleaner 1, then they bring this home and they put this in their fridge as their guide every time they do their meal planning.

Now, we will tell them that the power plate, This is the complete meal.

When you eat, as a vegetarian, you have to have the 4 kinds of food.

You should have the fruits, the legumes, the whole grain and the vegetable.

And in 1 eating, you're getting the whole nutrient the body needs.

So they really appreciate it and they asked for this.

We also have the New Start brochure, the materials coming from the division, and we put them on the table.

You should have your training and expertise.

Now, I was prepared by the Lord to do this kind of restaurant work before I was a concessionaire in 1 of the largest companies in the Philippines.

And think about feeding 5, 000 people on a three-ship, 24-hour operation.

That means I have to do an eight-week cycle, not repeating the same kind of food in 2 months' time.

They asked me to submit a food cycle where I have to have 6 dishes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

And for 2 months, I will not repeat that.

So I was able to accumulate a lot of recipes for the past 10 years.

So if I write a vegetarian book, it's going to be this big.

And another thing is that I was called to cater officially in the division office.

Every time they have their own annual meeting or convention, I have to prepare food for those who have food allergies.

So I have to make recipes for people who have the nuts allergy, the soy, the wheat, yeah, peanuts.

But I have to create a recipe so that people can eat, not only those who have food allergies, but everyone can eat it.

And so I was able also to gather recipes for this.

For the past 7 years, I've been catering for the division and for the seminary.

You cannot, you know, you cannot be in a health food ministry if you are not convinced, if you are not a vegetarian.

So if you are a vegetarian and if you have the passion to share cats' work, and if you are committed to the mission, then put up a health food ministry.

White counsels us in her book that restaurants should be clean, hygienic restaurants.

Another 1, These are the things I remember in her writings.

Food should be simple and easy to prepare.

I have a variety of dishes in the buffet area, but those are vegetables, purely vegetables.

I only used 2 kinds of meat substitute, the tofu and the gluten.

And she also told us that it should be palatable, wholesome, and appealing to the eyes.

I just combined different kinds of color to be appealing to the eyes, and so people would love to see this.

Vegetarian food should not be that expensive.

The food we have in the restaurant, we have the cheap approved meal and the other 1 I call it the transitional vegetarian.

Meaning if you're not vegetarian, if you want to try the vegetarian, we have a lot of dishes in the restaurant.

White told us that diet reformations should be progressive.

So they can taste the non-chip, and then after getting used to the vegetarian, after they discipline their tongue, they can go to the cheap food.

So it's a mixture of the cheap and the non-cheap.

So if you combine every little food in the restaurant, it's perfect.

That's why a lot of people who come in the restaurant said it's very delicious because they combine everything.

It's a combination of so many vegetables and other items.

Now, the restaurant was closed last month.

Because I should have listened to David when I opened the restaurant.

As Pastor Ted Wilson mentioned, it is only opposite AUP, the university.

The university has 4, 000 students and further away, a few kilometers, is the division office and the seminary.

Now, we were thinking we can have the market of the Adventist in the surrounding.

We pay about $1, 200, that's 63, 000 pesos in pesos, so if I convert it, it's like $1, 200 plus the other expenses like the salaries, the light, and the water, it could end up up to $2, 000 and that's a lot.

So we were not able to sustain because of the high rental.

So first, the location, it's not strategically located.

And number 3, the Adventist community support.

Only little Adventists are vegetarian, correct?

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