AMEN 2006: The Right Arm, the Right Approach, Right Now

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

AMEN 2006 Friday Afternoon Breakout Sessions

Lloyd Dayes

Arthur Weaver

Ministry After Retirement

John Chung

Richard Hart

Mission Possible: Short and Long Term Overseas Opportunities

Mark Finley

Foundations of the Adventist Health Message: What Makes Adventist Doctors Unique?

Phil Mills

Edwin Nebblett

Maria Nebblett

Ministering to Your Own Family While Ministering to Others

Our Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this time we can come together and talk about mission to other places of the world.

I pray that you be with us with your Holy Spirit and open our hearts and minds to receive you and with the things that we learned today, help us to put it to action.

I'm going to be speaking about short-term missions and Dr.

Hart will be speaking about long-term missions.

You know if you think about Jesus, He did both, didn't He?

He was, when He came down to this earth, He came as a long term missionary.

But when He was on this earth, He went to different villages.

He didn't stay there for a long time, right?

But he was very effective in his ministry in those small villages everywhere.

And you know, I've had experience with...

Hart will address the long-term mission, but I've done, over the last many years, short-term missions, 1 week to sometimes 2 weeks, And I've been really, really blessed by that.

A lot of times when we do mission service, it is we who get blessed.

And The very first time I ever went to a mission trip, it was to Guatemala.

We went to a village, a very, very remote village.

And no physician had ever gone there, none, from anywhere, Not even from their own country.

And here I was with 2 other doctors and these people living in you know just like cardboard boxes and and they gave us an incredible meal.

I mean, they brought out everything they had to give us a meal.

And, you know, there are kids there trying to eat the food.

They go, no, no, no, make sure nobody eats that.

Only the doctors and those people came to.

What really touched me was there was a man who came, heard about us and he came for 3 days.

He walked for 3 days to come to our to the clinic and when we got there when he got there we had run out of all the medications except Tylenol And he had classic symptoms of ulcers.

And as you know, ulcers, you don't treat ulcers with Tylenol.

And so here, You know, I felt so bad at that time.

Because they said He came for 3 days and he was having so much pain.

And I said, we can only give him what we have.

Hopefully, this Tylenol can give him some relief.

But the thing is, the missionary mission trip, the medical mission trip, was in conjunction with a spiritual.

We had a minister there who gave the gospel message to all these people and they were very very receptive and this man went to the pastor learned about the truth of the gospel about Jesus and you know what?

We couldn't give him the prescription for his medicine, but we actually gave him the prescription for eternal life.

Every single person that we reach or we talk to or we cure in this life they all die.

Every single person that Jesus raised from the dead, where are they?

So mission service, missionary work, short term mission, we may not think it may do any good, but it can lead somebody to, you know, eternal life.

My daughter recently went to Panama, And when she was there, she went with a doctor who was a radiologist.

And they met a student, a medical student, a fourth year medical student, who was totally bald and had no eyebrows.

And they found out that he had this mass and they didn't know exactly what it was, but they knew it was some type of a cancer.

And so what they did was they tried to treat it with some type of chemotherapy, but it was not a specific 1 because they didn't know exactly what cancer they were treating.

So this radiologist said, why don't you come to the United States?

And so he came, and now he's living at our house, and they're trying to figure out what he has.

Finally, they did a PET scan and all these, and they did a retroperitoneal biopsy, and they found out he has a poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma that has spread all over his body.

And last Wednesday, which was 2 days ago, 2 nights ago, we had an anointing service.

And he gave a testimony about how this mission trip had affected his life, how it changed his life And his testimony was so beautiful.

He said, you know, instead of blaming God, he said, You know what?

This, I'm so thankful that because God has given me time for me to prepare.

He already has this great perspective in life.

And hopefully through this, through American medicine, he may be cured.

I mean, we don't know exactly what's going to happen to him, but we're all praying that he'll get better.

But in that 1 earnting service, there were 3 people that had been coming to our Bible studies every once a night for some time.

Yesterday, I got a call from them and said, John, I'd like to say something.

Her name was Michelle and her husband and 1 of their friends.

You know we were so moved by that worship service that you had.

How do I become, how do we become Seventh-day Adventists?

So here was just a small, just a mission service, a short short term, just going there once.

It has changed 3 people's lives who are already here.

And there may be more people being affected by it, by the service and by his testimony.

And so, you know, when Jesus went from town to town, there was basically a short-term mission.

Although his mission was a long-term mission on this earth, but he did a lot of short-term missions all over the world.

And what did he do when he died, after his death?

Converted the world by what he did on this earth.

And I'm sure all these people who listened to him after his death were converted.

So, you know, some people criticize the short-term mission thing, but I think it has a lot of benefit because you don't know who you're going to reach.

And there are so many organizations that you can go and...

My daughter went with share him you know that is this with doctor I mean a for Falkenberg right global evangelism And also you can go with It is Written and also with Amazing Facts.

I think with Amazing Facts you have to go for 3 weeks because you're going to India.

Places like that, if you're going to a long-term place, I mean places far away, you need to put aside at least 3 weeks to do that.

It takes about 4 days to get there, I think, another few days to get back.

So Don't expect to go there, set aside a time for a week and go to India and stay there for like 3 hours and come back.

I don't really have that much more to say about the short term mission.

Now I'm going to turn over my time to Dr.

I'm sitting here trying to think whether I've ever been in an audience where I've been talking to both a former teacher and my students.

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