Michigan Camp Meeting 2024: As For Me and My House

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

The Joy of Giving

Amy Austin

01 The Generous Life

03 Fill Your Toolbox

04 What Can I Do?

05 Delivering the Message

02 Intentionally Prepared

You are about to enjoy a presentation recorded at the 2024 Michigan Conference Camp Meeting held at Cedar Lake, Michigan.

We pray that the Lord will bless you as you listen.

Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for your love.

We thank you for another day of life, another day to be a blessing to those around us.

We just pray that you'll speak to our hearts and minds, Lord, and you'll fill us with the desire and the ways to reach out to others.

Alright, so yesterday we talked about 5 different tips to help us develop a lifestyle, a literature lifestyle.

Mark 16, 15 says, Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creation.

So when you think of preaching the gospel, what do you think of?

Preaching, maybe going door to door, maybe giving Bible studies, and that can be scary, right?

But the neat thing is, preaching is a whole lot more than just giving a sermon or giving Bible studies.

There are a lot of ways that we can preach the gospel in everyday life.

And so today I want to share with you a lot of different creative and fun ways that we can preach the gospel with literature.

And sometimes it is so fun to create those opportunities.

And the neat thing is it's something that everyone can do.

It doesn't matter if you're 45 or 75 or 105.

In Publishing Ministry, page 44, it says, tracks, papers, and books, as the case demands, should be circulated in all the cities and villages in the land.

Here is a missionary work for all to engage in.

I'd want you to remember this right here.

I've heard all sorts of excuses for reasons why people can't go door to door or why they can't hand out literature or whatnot.

Literature is not a talent or a spiritual gift.

Literature is a tool for every person and every ministry in the church.

I should have put it up there on the screen.

It says in pamphlet 122, tracks upon the important points of truth for the present time should be handed out freely to all who will accept them, you are to sow beside all waters.

Today we're gonna focus in on tip number 4, which was to share literature.

So the first tip was to read the literature.

Number 2 was to pray for divine appointments.

And then 5 was to share those experiences that you have.

So we're going to look at a lot of ways that you can be part of this massive literature movement every day in very easy ways.

Because really if you think about it, depending on your lifestyle, but really no matter where you are, even if you stay home, you interact with people in a lot of different places in a lot of different ways.

Cole Porter Evangelist says golden opportunities occur almost daily where the silent messengers of truth might be introduced into families and to individuals.

Alright, so The first thing we talked about yesterday is that 1 option for sharing literature is just to leave it someplace.

If you're a little timid, a little shy, you're not sure about this yet, you haven't done it or you just don't like it, this is an easy way to do it.

You can leave literature in a lot of different places.

This is actually by far the most efficient way to spread lots of tracks in a little bit of time without talking to anybody.

Just don't park way close to the door, to the shopping center or the grocery store.

Park in the back so that you have to walk a little ways.

Even if you only put 3 glow tracks on car door handles, that's 3 tracks every time you go someplace.

You don't even have to have it in a little glow track pack.

Sometimes I leave them, there's little plastic containers there that have the credit card offers or whatever.

A lot of times I leave them on the handle of the pump.

You can leave them when you go in stores.

I just laugh at that, breaking addictions.

I mean, I don't know that gum is an addiction, but yeah, the sugar is exactly.

So, but you could even leave a kid glow track there.

Oh, I was going to tell you back on this 1.

1 man rode into Glow and he thanked them because somebody had left a Glowtrak and a barbecue grill in the store.

Really any place that people sit down and people sit down in the bathroom.

A man found a stack of glow tracks in a truck stop bathroom.

He called in for Bible studies and a Bible because of that.

And then on our trip to Japan, we had, I think it was like an 8 hour layover in the Detroit airport.

And so I was like, I'm gonna leave glow tracks in the bathroom every time I go.

And I'm gonna use the same stall so that I can see if people take them.

And you guys, every time, I went back 3 times and every time I went back they were gone.

So I looked, you know, in the garbage to see if they were there.

So I don't know what happened to them and that's not my job.

So I left them and somebody did something with them.

Now I told you yesterday bulletin boards.

I have another story so that's why I have this picture again.

1 is that because of a glow tracks that were left on a bulletin board, a Mormon church member saw a track posted in a library on their bulletin board and he called for the free literature that was offered on the back.

And then right here in Michigan, a lady saw 1 of our tracts on a bulletin board in a laundromat again.

She wanted to find out where she could get more so she ended up actually calling the conference office and she asked if she could come to the office to get more glow because she really liked it.

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The Joy of Giving

03 Fill Your Toolbox

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The GLOW Ministry: A Literature Phenomenon

1. From the 1840’s to GLOW in the 21st Century: Trace the Path of Free Literature in the Adventist Church

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Plenary

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1h 9m

Everyone a Sower

1h 10m

GLOW: Giving Light to Our World

GLOW Part 2: How to Fit a Preacher in a Pocket

44m

SWYC 2009 Breakout Sessions

Seventh-day Activism

42m

ACM: 1 The History of City Missions in the Adventist Church

1h 19m

GYC 2013 Seminar: The Most Important Book Outside of the Bible - A Deeper Look at The Great Controversy

01-The Most Important Book Outside of the Bible

1h

The 21st Century Challenge

3. GROW [Your Church]

1h 7m

Seminars

Sharing the Three Angels Message Through Literature

48m

Going Nuclear

1h

Sound Doctrine