AMEN 2014: Joined Together

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

Breakout Sessions C

Zeno Charles-Marcel

Epigenetics

Lisa Walke

Christian Witness in a non-Adventist Work Environment

Tim Howe

Lyn Howe

The Husband and Wife Team in Health Ministry

Lyndi Schwartz

Choosing a Specialty and Finding a Residency

I'd like to start on time and it's even better to start early, so let's bow our heads.

Our Father, we are certainly thankful that we are here together and know that you are here as well, as you've promised.

We pray that as we spend this time together, our thoughts will be turned to you, and that you will teach us more about how to work together.

Well, for those of you who don't know us, this is my wife Lynn.

And she and I have been together now for almost 35 years.

And this past year was the best 1 yet, I think.

So first I thought I would share a few quotes with you.

From the faith I live by on the home, the mission of the home extends beyond its own members.

Now those of you who are physicians or those of you who aren't may have read in Ministry of Healing the chapter of the physician and educator.

It says the duty of the physician extends beyond his own patients to the community.

And now we read that the mission of the home extends beyond its own members.

So it's not just the people in your house that your mission is to.

The object of the Christian home, the Christian home is to be an object lesson illustrating the 2 principles of life.

Far more powerful than any sermon that can be preached is the influence of a true home upon human hearts and lives.

Then You've got to get the home right, right?

Think of all the sermons that can be preached, and this says far more powerful is the influence of a Christian home.

But you think, well, I've got to have this home and I've got to have it right and it's got to be this and it's got to be that.

It says, a lamp, however small, if kept steadily burning, may be the means of lighting other lamps.

Our sphere of influence may seem narrow, yet wonderful possibilities are ours through the faithful use of our own homes.

You know, sometimes you may be tempted to think, well, if I had a bigger house or if I had a smaller house or if I had this or if I had that.

Remember, it's the small lamp kept steadily burning.

But then how about those of us who aren't married or who don't have that ideal setting?

If you're all alone, you still have God the Father.

You still have Jesus, your elder brother.

We can never put forth the least effort for the advancement of the work of God in our world, but the act thrills through all the universe of heaven and makes us co-laborers with God, united with the heavenly principalities and powers.

We're always, as God's children, in family.

And that's 1 thing that I wanted to make completely clear.

If I have to be able to speak, because, you know, there may be some people who will listen to this on audio version day.

I just want to make certain to be very clear in explaining that the principles that we're talking about are for anyone and for all of us because, you know, maybe we may be in a very happy marriage, but we may have to present something on our own at some time, or we may be separated from family, or there can be a whole host of times when we may be alone, but we are never alone.

With our Heavenly Father with us, we always have his love, his care, his wisdom, his strength to stand beside us and to help us, and to give us the right words, to give us the help and the help that we need.

And as I've thought about this, 1 example that is really meaningful to me is Corrie 10 Boom.

And you think of Corrie, you know, she shared her life, she shared the stories from her family and from her experiences in prison, and universities, to very educated people, to prisoners in Uganda jails.

But wherever it was, she was able to share from her own personal experience and that sharing was able to kind of create a sense of family in the people that were listening to her so that the people were able to say, yes, you know, Cory's God is a real God and I can believe in him too.

So whatever your situation, as a Christian, you have home to share.

You have your home with your Heavenly Father, with Jesus your brother, and you have your heavenly home that you're looking forward to, as well as your Christian family.

So no 1 should feel excluded from the ability to share home and to share together.

There are several principles of working together, both in the home and if you're out of the home, presenting that we'd like to share with you.

They're simple principles, but I think they'll be helpful to you as they have been to us.

The first of them is thinking about opening your home to other people.

I would encourage you to remember the phases of life.

When you are just married, you may do things a little differently than when you've been married for a few years.

And you may do things a little bit differently when you have children than when your children are grown and gone.

I wouldn't encourage you when you're first married, those first months, that first year, to open your home and invite lots of people over.

Even in scripture, you can read in Deuteronomy how when a man was first married, he was excused from all duties of war for the first year.

There were certain things that God saw fit to convey upon a family that was just married.

And I think that at that stage, your mission is each other.

You may have heard tragic stories about families with all the best intentions that had little children and they had people come and stay with them.

When you have little children, yes, you may open your home, but be very careful.

And yes, there are angels that are strong and can protect us.

Never fail to ask for the protection of your children.

There are things that Lynn and I do today that we wouldn't have done when our son who's here, 1 of them at least, Barry, was little.

I'm not sure we would have trusted our guests with Barry around.

He and his brothers were kind of exciting and hard to keep in line sometimes.

Well the other thing that's true is that when our boys were young, we tried to keep our lives really quiet and simple.

So we didn't do a lot of things in the evening.

I didn't do lots of cooking schools in the evening.

We sat around the fire and read good books, went cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.

I had good times at home, but it was kind of home-based.

And for us, I'm not saying that the equation of how we did it is the equation, because I think God has to show each of us what's the right path.

And that may be quite different for everyone.

But for us, the right thing was for those years, we didn't do lots of lifestyle education as we have once the boys went to college.

But once the boys went to college, then we kind of went into high gear and started doing lots and lots of health education and outreach.

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Breakout Sessions C

The Husband and Wife Team in Health Ministry

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Parent Conference

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