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

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

AMEN 2006 Plenary Sessions

Lorayne Barton

Serving God, Saving Souls: The Purpose of Medical Evangelism

AMEN 2006 Progress Notes, Part 1

Don Mackintosh

God’s Right Arm Revealed

Rod Willey

Pews to People

Arthur Weaver

Health Education as Introductory Contact

AMEN 2006 Progress Notes, Part 2

Ted N.C. Wilson

The Spiritual Foundation of the Right Arm

God’s Right Arm Resurrected

Naren James

Sam Soler

From Medical Practice to Ministry: The Experience of the Bluegrass Clinic

Mark Finley

Healthful Living through the Eyes of Grace

Jerry Finneman

Donn LaTour

Allen Lloyd

Phil Mills

Medical Ministry Panel Discussion

AMEN 2006 Progress Notes, Part 3

God’s Right Arm Connected

Zeno Charles-Marcel

Do You Want to be Well? The Challenge of FAITH in Clinical Practice

I would like to just say a few words about our speaker tonight.

We will be blessed to hear Elder Ted Wilson from the General Conference.

He's a general vice president of the General Conference.

There's actually 9 of them, and we're privileged to, I believe, have 2 of them here tonight.

Isn't Mark also a General Vice President?

And actually, Both of these men would make exceptional General Conference Presidents as well.

And actually, Ted and the nominating committee, he didn't tell me any of this, but I know a little bit, came within a few votes of being it in the last session.

I'm certainly looking forward to the time when the Lord takes the reins in His own hands, aren't you?

Ted is involved in several things at the General Conference level at Venice World Radio.

He is also involved in the advisory fashion to the Health Ministries Department of the General Conference.

And he will be speaking to us tonight, insights in regards to the spiritual foundation of the right arm.

And we are very privileged to have you here, Ted, and we're certainly looking forward to your message.

When Neil was asking how he should introduce me, I told him just tell them I am their brother.

Because really, when it comes down to it, when you think about this room and all the people in it, all the education that is represented by each 1 of you, all the degrees behind your names, when it comes down to it, when we kneel at the foot of the cross of Jesus Christ, we are simply brothers and sisters.

I want to tell you how thrilled I am to see this group, how exciting it is to see how God is leading a group of people who have a passion for the mission that for the mission that Jesus himself has given to his church.

What a beautiful acronym, Adventist Medical Evangelism Network.

It is a privilege for me to be the advisor to the Health Ministries Department and I'm going to return and give Dr.

I wasn't here last night and I wish I had been.

I know that the presentation was excellent because I heard about it, But I've been here since this morning, and what a privilege it has been to hear lectures, presentations, and God's Spirit poured out in a wonderful, wonderful way.

You know, you've You know, you've chosen a theme that is uncanny and powerful in its relevance for today.

The right arm, the right approach, right now.

It couldn't be more relevant as we stand on the very edge of the end of this earth's history.

For truly, I believe that Jesus is coming very soon.

It is a privilege to be part of health ministry and health activity.

My wonderful, precious wife Nancy is a physical therapist, loves her work and her patients, is a godly person.

What a wonderful thing to have a godly spouse.

My daughter's Emily, our oldest, will be here tomorrow.

She has her MPH and works with Loma Linda in placing students in different short-term mission arrangements.

Elizabeth, our second daughter, is a surgical nurse.

She and her husband are in an evangelistic field school in Medford, Oregon right now.

Her husband is a pastor at the seminary, taking classes there.

Our youngest, Catherine, is down in Argentina.

She just graduated from PT and is volunteering for a few months helping with their new PT program that they have down there for the last 4 years.

So I'm kind of surrounded by health professionals, kind of surrounded by people who love Jesus and who love to help people in a physical and a spiritual way.

I want to tell you the church at large needs people like you, people in the health professions, people who have a passion for medical missionary work.

Now, we're told in the Spirit of Prophecy that the last work that will be done will be medical missionary work.

I think we're not too far away from that period of time.

We're going to see that the only kind of work that will be done will be that which will touch people's lives in a very personal, personal way.

In a seminar that I attended today, David DeRose and Neil and Tini Finley, presented aspects of medical missionary work, the right arm, and how to integrate it into daily activity.

Now this particular subject has fascinated me for a long time.

When I was in college at Columbia Union College, went to school with Phil there, And at that time I applied to different conferences to become an intern, and I was graciously received by some of them.

And My father told me, if you really want a challenge, go to Greater New York Conference.

And so I decided, through God's blessing, to do that.

In spite of the fact that I had asked the conference and told them of my plans, they agreed to accept me, because at that time we had a conjoint program between an MDiv at the seminary and an MSPH at the School of Health at Loma Linda, and they agreed.

And since that time and the integration of an understanding of spirituality and health, I have had a fascination with what medical missionary work really is.

Working in New York City is an enormous challenge.

In fact, during that time is when I met Mark and Tini.

They were up in southern New England, and ever since that time we've had a bond because we love God's special work for cities and medical missionary work.

We haven't seen the fruition of everything, but we've seen God's blessing in so many ways.

And the indication of your presence here at this conference tells me that the Holy Spirit is working in a marvelous way to bring about people to renew an interest in this dynamic subject.

For truly, medical missionary work will be the last work that we will be able to do.

And I'm convinced that an emphasis on this area is needed more and more as we come to the very end of time.

You are part of the great Advent movement, a movement around the world.

I'm really very impressed about the emphasis that you've given on an international aspect.

For these reports just before our special music, India, Africa, your evangelistic meeting in Ghana.

I lived in West Africa for about 9 years, so I know the kind of heat that 1 can talk about and can experience.

But I want people here to pray for also places that are so tough and difficult, such as your homeland.

It's dwindled since the difficulties of recent times, and yet God has a people there.

And I want you to pray for the people of the Middle East.

Next April and May, God willing, my father and I are going to return to Egypt where I grew up, and we're going to hold an evangelistic series in the Heliopolis Church in Cairo, Egypt.

I want you to pray for our people in Egypt, because all across the Middle East, people Adventists have felt the burden and pressure of the difficulties of that region.

Whereas we had many members in certain areas, we have very few now.

In the city of Cairo with 15 million people, we have approximately 125 Seventh-day Adventists.

But the emphasis that you have in this organization on reaching out internationally and in your own practices, in your own settings, is exactly what God wants to see happen.

The right arm, the right approach right now.

You know sometimes that right arm is withered, atrophied, limp, even twisted.

I appreciated so much Don's presentation early this morning.

Come tomorrow morning for another installment.

But you know that right arm sometimes cannot really work in the way that it should, but it doesn't mean that it can't work that way, because the Lord can infuse it with the power through you to accomplish what that right arm is to do.

In fact, you know, we don't like to twist arms necessarily, that's not the Christian way, but in a nice kind way the right arm can also help to twist maybe the left arm in the church to accomplish what God wants to see happen in medical missionary work.

So in a very careful and kind way, I encourage you to work with your local pastors, to work with the church structures, to keep working and working so that people understand what medical missionary work is.

God, through prayer and through the Holy Spirit can accomplish so very, very much.

I just returned from Russia a few days ago and I had a pastor come up to me, and some of you may be interested in this, After the meeting or tomorrow you may come up and say, look I'd like to email this pastor.

A pastor came and told me, his name is Sergei Shalov, he works in southern Ukraine, And he told me that there is an organization that has provided a whole area of a renovated sanitarium in the Crimea on the Black Sea for use by Seventh-day Adventists in a health lifestyle arrangement if we are willing to do so." And he didn't know what to do.

I said, well you know I'm gonna be speaking to a group in just a few days and I'm gonna mention it to them.

There may be someone whom the Lord will place a burden on, who will say, you know, at least let me investigate to see how I can try and help and advise or encourage in that particular situation.

Because you see, the pastors and the physicians and the dentists and the health professionals must work together to reinvigorate the power of the right arm.

Medical missionary work, the right approach for the right time.

What is that power that provides us with an understanding of what it truly means to be part of God's great advancing movement in a blended ministry.

Well, in the spirit of prophecy we can read many different approaches and many different counsels that the Lord has given to us.

I don't know if you have this little book.

It was referenced actually this morning, A Call to medical evangelism and health education.

If you don't have this little book, a compilation of some beautiful quotations by Ellen White, Spirit of Prophecy, you need to get it.

I think you can still get it at the Adventist book center.

Doug Sales, who's here from the Review, may be able to help you obtain 1.

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