SWYC 2013: ONE

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GYC Southwest

Don Mackintosh

Keala Thompson

Andre Waller

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So would 1 of you mind praying and then we'll do introductions?

Father in heaven, we're thankful for the opportunity to come and reason together.

We ask that we could learn from 1 another, but most importantly from your Spirit.

And so we invite your presence in our midst again, in Christ's name, amen.

All right, we'll start from the audience's left and work the way right, make introductions because I don't know that we know everyone on stage.

From Hawaii, from the big island of Hawaii.

And I've been passing there at the Honokau Church for 14 years.

My name is Yvette Thompson, and I'm also from Hawaii.

But my name is Andre Waller, and I am the co-director of TACOA Missions.

It is a missionary training school in New Hampshire in the Northeast, and we are very interested in establishing a fully functioning Outpost Center.

So, that's what we're about, that's what we're doing, and just very grateful to be here for the second year, and grateful for the kindness that all of you have given us.

I'm Alpha Waller and everything else that he said.

Outpost Center that we would like to establish and we're in New Hampshire right now.

I'm the chaplain at Weimar Institute and also director of the health program, which is a health evangelism and leadership training program.

We serve as an outpost center near Sacramento and San Francisco.

And some of our graduates are actually working right now in San Francisco, and we're excited to do a similar ministry on the other side of the country that's blending the gospel work and the medical missionary work in the context of a sanitarium and also training program and then an outreach program.

Thank you all for asking so many questions.

We won't get to all of them, and there are some that I will reference, but I'm gonna have you actually listen to last year's Q&A on AudioVerse.

Sorry you don't get to hear the answer live, but AudioVerse has it.

A couple of those are, we are told to move out of the cities before the coming crisis.

What do you do if you're single and no future of marriage?

I'm going to talk about a couple of questions.

Told to move out of the cities before the coming crisis.

If you go on audioverse.org, SWIC 2012 Q&A, you can find it.

The other 1 that was on there, and I apologize to all of you single people, but it's, do you have dating or courting advice, and when's the right time to ask, all those sorts of things.

All right, so we're gonna start off with some easy ones, like last year, and then we'll get to some ones that people don't, you don't really want to answer.

What do you do when you know that your church is sleeping and you try to do things to wake them up, but no 1 supports or listens to you?

Would it be okay to go to another church that is more active and on fire?

So the question is, what do you do with a dead church?

Well, you know, I guess since no one's answering, You know, I remember I went to a church that had 3 members.

They were all over 70 years old, and that appeared to me to be dead.

But as I talked to them, there was 1 lady who was very interested in doing something in the community.

And she said she was willing to open her home and go door to door.

So we started to go door to door, And she knew everybody in the city and their kids and their grandkids and their great-grandkids.

And pretty soon the church grew to about 30 or 40 members.

So all I would say to you is try and find the person in the church that's the most alive, work with them, and you can see revival come in any church.

Don't ever fall for the idea that this is the hardest church that there ever is.

God can work in any place, And especially if you're using the medical missionary work.

Next question, still an easy question, then we'll get into others.

Excuse me, Have you ever canvassed before?

If you have, what was your best and worst experiences?

First time canvassing was when I was 13 years old.

I run a literature evangelistic school, so we train young people how to do literature evangelism.

I'll tell you my worst experience and I'll tell you my best experience.

My worst experience, which is really 1 of my best experience, but nonetheless, 1 of my worst experience was I went to a door, they said no.

They kept saying no at every house, every single solitary door.

1 door slammed the door so hard, so hard, that I myself was vibrating when the door was shut.

That whole day, at the end of the day, I was used to being the top sales guy.

By the end of the day, I had, I think, $1 to my name.

And I went to this last house, and I asked the lady, you know, would she buy the book or whatnot?

And she said no, and I walked away real sad.

I mean, I had my bag to my side, dragging it to my left-hand side, just walked away with my head to the ground.

I'm supposed to be the missionary, you understand?

But anyway, I'm walking away real sad, and the lady sees me and she says, you know what, I'm going to do missionary work for him.

She gives me a little bit of food and some water.

So I go to my room and I ask God, why is this so hard?

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