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Devotional

by Bill Tucker

TRANSFORMED

BY HIS PO WER

SUMMER 2014 • VOL. 77, NO. 03

Founder J. L. Tucker, 1895-1989

Executive Editor Bill Tucker

Editor Steve Hamstra

Layout Harding Design

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV. I never cease to be amazed at how God fulfills this passage.

I’ve seen it so many times, people totally transformed by His power.

One life immediately comes to mind that was changed right before my eyes.

Kihei was a Japanese businessman. He had moved from his home country down to General Santos, Philippines, to set up a business.

A few weeks before my evangelistic meetings began there last year, Kihei met a Seventhday Adventist businessman. They quickly became good friends as well as partners in business.

Kihei was not a Christian.

He had never met an Adventist Christian until now. He didn’t know anything about the Bible and was also a heavy smoker.

Yet his faithful business partner began to share the gospel with Kihei. And he invited Kihei to our evangelistic meetings.

When our meetings began, these two men showed up together night after night. Kihei was fascinated with the topics.

I had the opportunity to visit Kihei in his home. It was amazing all that he now understood and

believed from the meetings.

Then I asked him about his smoking habit. He was convicted it was wrong to smoke. He wanted to quit. We prayed right there that God would take the desire for smoking away and give Kihei victory in his life.

When Kihei arrived at that evening’s meeting, I could see something had happened. He was exuberant about what God had done. His desire for smoking was completely gone!

That night, when I asked people to come forward to surrender all to Christ, Kihei was the first to come.

Over the following days, it was amazing to see the Lord transform Kihei. He truly had been made new by the power of God. I invite you to join one of our upcoming evangelism mission trips. Come and witness the transforming power of God like you never have before.

It will be a life-changing experience for you too! 

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MAILBAG Tom B., Lowell, MA

Thank you for the Bible studies you sent me and for being so kind. The Bible studies are wonderful.

These studies bring so much faith and love to my life. There is much to say but I’m lost for words.

Frank O., Ghana

I was among the people baptized by your ministry in Ghana in 2004. The church you built in Kwesimintsm will be ten years old this August 2014. We would like to invite you to come for the big celebration.

Deidre P., Dallas, TX

I am 12 years old and do not have a lot of money, but I’ve always wanted to help others. I hope that my money will help others in Africa that don’t know about God. I hope that when Jesus comes everyone will go to heaven with Him.

Tom W., Midland City, AL

I’ve been praying about this and am sending you a gift. I got an increase in my retirement and I want to make a difference in someone’s life.

Debra Kay S., (via Facebook)

Went on the India mission trip last year. It has changed my life around – for the better of course!

Asiah B., Annandale, MN

I hope you can use this money for God’s work. I can only give you three dollars because that is how much I have to give. (I am 11 years old.) I was saving up for something but I was impressed to give the money to you. I hope God helps you to use it for the reason God told me to give it to you.

Letters may be edited for clarity and space considerations.

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Through My Eyes

TO HIM BE

by Esther Hilde

ALL THE PRAISE

I’VE JUST RETURNED from leading my first mission team. The trip— to Barahona, Dominican Republic—was an amazing one.

We were told to expect a maximum of 40-50 kids at our children’s programs. Attendance was double or even triple that!

The children were packed in the small rooms shoulder to shoulder. And our team members were pressed against the walls.

What a challenge and blessing!

Each evangelistic meeting was also well attended, more than doubling the amount of visitors they had anticipated. I loved seeing the Holy Spirit inspire our teenage speakers.

We expected about 50-80

patients per day in our medical and eye glass clinics. But ended up seeing 1,478 medical patients and doing 526 eye exams!

Our group of teens was amazing as they worked hard to keep our clinic operating—doing eye exams, helping people with glasses and triaging patients.

Our construction crew at the church building site worked as human bulldozers, getting enough dirt and stone hauled into the foundation forms to level it out.

Then they laid blocks up to the gables and even had a few sheets of metal on the roof by Friday.

Elder Saulo, the local mission president, was amazed to see the Lord work through our team. He was overwhelmed with all the work accomplished. “You all never stopped working,” he told me, “you worked 24 hours a day.”

His words echoed those of all the mission staff, local pastors and congregations who were so gracious toward us.

During my team leader training, we were encouraged to remember this beatitude: “Blessed are the flexible, for they will not get bent out of shape!”

How true that proved to be.

As a team leader, the secret is trusting the Lord with all your heart, praying constantly for His help and protection. And then just following as He leads.

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Our group of teens was amazing as they worked hard to keep our clinic operating— doing eye exams, helping people with glasses and triaging patients.

When challenges arise, as they always do, you send up an SOS to the real leader, our heavenly Father.

And it all works out.

Keeping a song in your heart and a smile on your face is crucial.

As is remembering that everyone back home is praying for the whole team.

Just know He’s in control. And He makes every trip an amazing, never-to-be-forgotten experience.

To Him be all the praise! Amen!  After completing our mission team leader training in February, Esther Hilde’s led her first mission trip in April to the Dominican Republic.

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STORIES OF GOD AT WORK THROUGH OUR PANAMA MISSION TEAM

by Geraldo Alonso

STARTING OFF THIS MISSION TRIP I have to confess I didn’t know very much about Panama. On previous trips I’d usually researched and planned ahead.

Now I felt like I was blind going into a brand new opportunity for service. As such, this mission trip was completely different.

Despite having a laidback personality, the unknown was starting to make me a little nervous.

As youth pastor at Chisholm Trail Academy in Keene, Texas, I was a trip sponsor. I was helping lead our group of 26, mostly teenagers.

I find when things are outside my control I have to work really hard to trust God all the more. Also I must remember all the times He has worked things out in the past.

Hebrews 10:35, 36 helps me remember this.

“Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which

 Team member Lindsey Johnson (upper right) checking in two people for the medical clinic.

has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.” (NKJV).

Here I’m reminded to not lose confidence in God. He will continue to provide for me as He has always done.

Above all I try to remember that God is always in control of everything!

Even before we left for Panama it was obvious this mission trip would be a God thing.

One of our students, due to some challenges early on, wasn’t sure if he would be able to join us.

But in the final hours leading toward our departure, God provided all the funding necessary for the trip and cleared up the other challenges too.

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Panama Evangelism Repor t leading despite the various challenges that arose.

Early on, the company providing us with transportation failed to show up for an appointment, wouldn’t answer our calls and never showed up again. After lots of negations with several companies our trip leader shared the situation with us.

We decided as a group to have a special time of prayer. Several students prayed and then I closed.

TWO MINUTES had not even gone by before our leader found a new bus. And less than FIFTEEN MINUTES from the time we ended our prayer session the bus arrived at our hotel!

While sitting on the new bus we took a moment to praise and thank our God for providing the transportation we needed.

I love seeing God perform amazing miracles!

That’s an awesome thing about mission trips.

I’ve shared two miracles that happened early on in our trip. And while we were in Panama I kept asking myself, “Why don’t we see miracles like these back home?”

I can only think of one answer. The reality is we are too comfortable and enjoy being in control of our lives.

When I came to this realization it really hit home.

Sometimes we do God’s work while thinking we are the ones making things happen. When in reality we need to surrender things to God. As I was in Panama I reinstated an old phrase I used on previous mission trips to remind us that

God is in control. We started saying to one another, “Smile for Jesus.” Because at times things do not work as we would like. But He is still in control.

As our team started sharing this phrase it reminded us we were there for a greater purpose, not just our comfort or our own experience.

In Panama I saw some members of our team really blossom as they did things they would never do back home.

As their pastor I was proud to see some of our more introverted students actively participate in the children’s programs.

We also had three young ladies who preached every night. It was great to see how they connected with the people at their meeting sites. Despite their nervousness they had a willingness to serve and they did an incredible job sharing Jesus!

It was great to see the doctors and students do some incredible things in the clinics. We helped educate people on things like diabetes and high blood pressure.

The truly amazing stories came out of the eye clinic, where on more than one occasion we had grown adults almost start crying as they saw clearly for the first time in years.

One man told me with an ear to ear smile that for the first time in 20 years he was able to see the leaves

 Team member Oscar Claros taking blood sugar readings in the medical clinic.

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on faraway trees. We had the amazing privilege to bring sight to those who did not have it before.

Now, the humbling part of placing your will on hold and trusting God is how He lets us partner with Him to work out some miracles.

The most humbling experience I had on this trip was a conversation. I met a local woman who had opened her house as a place of worship for fellow Seventh-day Adventists. Her name was Sindy.

Every day at the worksite she took great care of us. Sindy in a lot of ways was an answer to prayer with her kind hospitality.

However, the part that gets me about her story was when she shared with me that her little house church had been praying for years to have a church building. Sindy also shared that her faith became stronger by the simple fact that we were there to work with them on that church!

We never expected to be an answer to prayer.

We had every intention to help people. But we never realized that we literally would end up being the hands and feet of Jesus!

To hear that we were an answer to prayer left me speechless. God gave us the awesome privilege of being miracle workers.

Not that we had the power to provide the miracle. But He let us be His instruments in Panama.

It was an awesome privilege to be there and help.

If you ever wonder whether or not it is worth going on a mission trip let me tell you that it is worth every penny and then some!

God will place you in situations where you will be so outside your comfort zone. But I find when we

 At the conclusion of our evangelistic meetings, 16 people were baptized!

allow Him to take us to that discomfort, that’s where He uses us the most.

Remember that God is always in control and all that He requires of us is a willingness to trust Him. I started off with a confession and I think I will end with one as well.

Sometimes it’s easier to be a Christian abroad than it is back home. Frankly, at times I do not want to return home.

When I am away on a mission trip it seems as though God is more real in other places. However, what I have taken from this experience is that God is alive and in control in all places.

If you need to see God in a way that is real and powerful, definitely go on a mission trip. But don’t leave God in the mission field either. Go back home with the same faith and desire to see miracles happen.

I can’t wait to see what other miracles God will perform here at home, just as He did in Panama.  Geraldo Alonso was one of the leaders of our evangelism mission trip to Panama City, Panama.

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A COSTA RICA MISSION TEAM MEMBER REFLECTS ON HER FIRST MISSION TRIP

by Shaina Mclellan

A TIME OF SERVICE, A TIME OF selflessness and a time of Christ-like love are how I would describe the Rocky Mountain Conference 2014 mission trip to Costa Rica.

 Shaina (center) with other Rocky Mountain Conference youth on our Costa Rica mission trip.

Sent by God to help people both physically and spiritually, our group worked on two construction sites and held 15 simultaneous evangelistic series.

All of this done by teenagers!

Both construction sites were churches. One involved building a wall around a church and the other building the church itself.

At first the feeling of uselessness was felt throughout our group. The tools provided us were antiquated and our knowledge of construction basic in every way. Yet God used our hands to create safe places of worship for His people!

Preaching was a different experience in itself.

Imagine 10 messages preached by teenage students to much older adults! For once in our short lives the roles had reversed.

Quite frankly, most of us speakers walked up to the pulpit not knowing exactly what we were going to say or how to even speak in front of everyone. By the end of our trip we had well over 100 baptisms!

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I hadn’t planned on going on a mission trip this year. Being a junior at a new high school can make a person somewhat timid.

I hadn’t done any big dreaming or intense leaps of faith. I couldn’t bear to ask my parents or family to give money for a short term mission trip.

Especially since I’m a pastor’s kid whose family was struggling to come up with money for a Seventhday Adventist education.

I thought, “Maybe my senior year, if the money comes in.”

But I see now that God had other plans.

About a month before the mission trip, my Spanish teacher walked up to me and said, “Shaina, we had somebody drop out of the mission trip and we have a grant. Would you like to go?”

“Sure, why not?” I told him, while in my head

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 Shaina (preaching at right) led evangelistic meetings at the Guapiles Seventh-day Adventist Church. Eleven people were baptized from her meetings!

thinking, “It’s a free trip, might as well take it.”

About a week later the pastor called me up, saying, “Shaina, we had somebody drop out of preaching. Would you like to preach?”

Even though I had never spoken at anything in my life, I told him the exact same thing, “Sure, why not?”

So there I was, on a plane headed to a foreign country to preach the Word of God and asking myself, “What have I gotten myself into?”

Looking back, I realize God had a plan all along.

The next thing I knew I was speaking in front of a church with a translator by my side. By the time my first message was over I had learned that speaking to people, especially about God, is much more than reading words off an electronic device.

After that first meeting, another team member and I cut our slides to around 50 and began to focus on the most important thing: the love of God. God had all the building blocks. He just needed us to lay them. You could see God working to close the language barriers and allow His love to take over.

The enemy was hard at work trying to close construction sites and bring doubt to the preachers by having translators walk out mid-sermon.

When the enemy shuts a door God breaks down a wall. When we had construction sites close down, God opened more. When we had translators walk away He had more ready to replace them. God was always a step ahead of the enemy!

Every night after I preached, one of the pastors and his wife would take me and two of my friends to a bakery and tell us a part of their love story. I always looked forward to these nights. One night there was a man cleaning the sidewalks outside of the bakery.

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Suddenly the driver clipped him and then honked at him to get out of the way.

As we witnessed this, my friend got up, went to the counter and ordered some baked goods. Then handed them to the man. The shock on the man’s face over such a small act was extraordinary. His smile created such a feeling of warmth and love inside of me that I will never forget it.

It reminded me of what Jesus’ ministry actually was. It wasn’t just going to church and paying tithe.

It was so much more than that. It was the love and kindness that He showed—and that today we show one another.

I wanted my last words to these people to be memorable and filled with love. But I couldn’t think of that to say. So I handed it over to God. The last words he had me speak at my meetings were, “I am excited to see every one of you again, whether it be in this life or when we spend eternity together with our God.” When I look back on this trip, I see how my relationship with God has changed and what He has taught me. If we strive to be like God we should strive to show the love God showed us.

We can do well at focusing on doctrines and being good people but we can lose sight of the foundation of our doctrines. That cornerstone is the unconditional love of God. Without that we would never have our doctrines and perfection wouldn’t matter.

I realized that God doesn’t just show love or create acts of love, He is love. God is love!  Shaina Mclellan was part of our mission trip to Costa Rica. She joined a large team of youth from the Rocky Mountain Conference who shared God’s saving grace in the region around Turrialba.

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PROJECT UPDATES EVERY DAY THERE IS SOMETHING GOING ON AROUND THE world that’s part of Quiet Hour Ministries’ outreach. Whether it’s church construction, gospel workers giving Bible studies or evangelism teams proclaiming Jesus, there are always projects happening that are furthering the Lord’s work. And these projects only happen through your generous support.

In an effort to keep you up to date on what’s going on in our worldwide outreach, here’s what’s happened in the various areas of our ministry over the last few months: WORLDWIDE EVANGELISM – Evangelistic meetings were held in the Philippines, Peru, Panama, Dominican Republic and two locations in Costa Rica.

Our team members held evangelistic meetings and children’s programs and also gave health and family talks. More than 700 people were baptized through these efforts!

CHAPELS AND CONSTRUCTION – Thanks to your generous gifts, mission teams helped renovate and build churches in Panama, Peru, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and the Philippines.

BIBLES – Thanks to your gifts, each new believer at our evangelistic meetings in Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Dominican Republic and the Philippines were given a Bible to read in their own language. Plus, you helped provide more than 500 Bibles for evangelism in Africa!

CHILDREN’S OUTREACH – Coupled with each evangelistic meeting in Peru, Panama, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and the Philippines, were Bible school programs for kids—which included games, stories, crafts, felts and songs. In the Dominican Republic alone, more than 600 kids were reached!

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GOSPEL WORKERS – Some 25 local gospel workers hit the streets in the Philippines, Peru, Dominican Republic and Costa Rica, preparing communities for the evangelistic meetings.

MUSLIM OUTREACH – Our Muslim outreach workers continued to study with hundreds of people eager to know more about Jesus. And we’re laying the groundwork for an evangelism mission trip to Egypt!

MEDICAL CLINICS AND EYE CLINICS– At the eye clinic in Dominican Republic, volunteers saw a 99-year-old man who said he very much wanted to read his Bible again. After giving him an eye exam, they determined he needed 4.0 readers, which they didn’t have. He was so sad.

Then our team leader told him to try putting on two pairs of 2.00 readers and she showed him how to do it. He picked up his Bible and got a huge toothless grin and said, “I can see! I can see!” Medical clinics were also held in Peru, Costa Rica and the Philippines with patients receiving general care as well as muchneeded eye glasses..  www.qhministries.org | www.facebook.com/qhministries

2014 PROJECTS #

PROJECT

2014 GOAL

STILL NEEDED

RAISED

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Worldwide Evangelism

$134,750

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Worldwide chapels

161,700

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Gospel Workers

97,000

126% 122,457

Thank you!

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Bibles

58,520

190% 111,558

Thank you!

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Children’s Outreach

71,400

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Muslim Outreach

60,000

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Medical Clinics

57,750

$81,517

39% $53,233 67% 108,090

5% 3,669 18% 10,653 14% 8,222

53,610

67,731 49,347 49,528

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ETERNALLY IN MY HEART THE SPECIAL BLESSINGS OF MISSION IN GUATEMALA

by Kaitlyn Froelich

IT WAS MY LITTLE SISTER’S birthday, February 28, when we left for Mazatenango, Guatemala.

She had passed away a few years ago.

I came on the trip not only excited for the opportunity to serve Christ. But to also celebrate my sister’s birthday by telling children about the God that both she and I fell in love with at such a young age.

I was hoping to ignite Christ’s flame in the hearts of the children in Mazatenango. My dream is to one day see them all again in heaven and introduce them to my little sister.

Although I will not know for certain if all the children I reached out to will meet me again in heaven, I cling to the faith that they will.

At the end of the week, three of these wonderful children were baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church! My heart was filled to the brim with joy during that moment.

As a children’s leader, I know I am supposed to be a blessing to them. However, each child uniquely touched my heart in such a way that they all ended up being a bigger blessing to me than I ever could have been to them.

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Kaitlyn with children in Guatemala.

set of programs I had planned turned out to be a complete bust.

I was so disappointed in myself. I wrote in my journal my thoughts of, “How could I expect to be a missionary after I graduate, if I couldn’t even plan a successful week of outreach for children?”

However, after dusting myself off, I prepared even harder for the next few nights. Over the course of the week, I put my absolute all into planning each lesson.

By doing so, I opened myself up to the church family and children there.

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Guatemala Mission Repor t callused hands. Yet I look at it all with a smile on my face because I know that great friendship ties happened while getting every single one of them.

Who knew that laying brick in the tropical heat and carrying cement bags on your back would create lasting memories?

The other students on the trip quickly became my close friends. We all shared experiences that no one else on our campus had. It was an amazing feeling to know that you are all working together to achieve a common goal: saving lives for eternity!

Overall, this mission trip was an immense blessing. I know that being a missionary is something I am truly called to do. And it is something I certainly want to do.

With an excited heart, I am looking forward to what else God has up His sleeve in my life as I continue on with missions.

It almost felt wrong coming back to Southern’s campus. I was not ready to leave Guatemala.

And I still felt as though there was more work to be done with those kids. I cannot put into words how much I miss them still. They all will be eternally in my prayers and in my heart.

With an elated and joyful spirit, I look forward to seeing the people of Mazatenango again, reunited in heaven. Oh, what a wonderful day it will be! 

love with the culture, people, foods, smells and even the crazy drivers. But most of all, I fell in love with the children.

The rest of the nights were incredible and went exceedingly greater than I could have ever imagined in my mind. I was able to create close ties with the children of the Bilboa Adventist Church.

During the day, we also had a church construction project and a health clinic. I found myself on the construction crew.

Working at the construction site was not a walk in the park. But being able to work together with other Southern Adventist University students on the trip, as well as the locals, was a great experience.

Many women would probably cringe if they counted 36 bruises on their legs and felt their newly

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Kaitlyn Froelich was part of our mission team of Southern Adventist University students in Mazatenango, Guatemala.

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BY GOD’S GRACE

A DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TEAM MEMBER’S TESTIMONY

by Gina Webb

FOR YEARS MY VIEW HAS BEEN that my mission field is right in front of me. I often thought not enough mission work is done within our own communities. Therefore why would anyone need to go on a mission trip?

It soon became clear God had great things in store for our group. He blessed us through dawn-todusk construction work, medical clinics, health talks, children’s programs and evangelistic meetings.

He blessed us through close bonds with the local conference and five area churches. These positive working groups really made the long days a joy.

I observed firsthand how ministering to medical needs was a vital first step to showing God’s grace and love. Our medical team treated nearly 1,500 people! Our eye clinic examined 526 people and distributed 336 pairs of eyeglasses!

God also blessed our evangelistic meetings, with a total attendance of 4,781 people between the five sites.

And 4,707 kids attended our children’s outreach!

At the end of our evangelistic meetings, praise God, 102 people were baptized! And an additional 1,012 people gave their lives to Christ and began preparing for baptism!

As I mentioned, we had developed strong bonds with the local people. When our time among them came to a close, there were tears, hugs and a realization that we would probably not meet again this side of heaven. So we committed to meet again when Jesus returns and we reunite in His kingdom.

On this mission trip, I gained a new perspective. Reaching out of your comfort zone allows God to use you in ways you may never experience in your own backyard. My views on air conditioning may not change. But by God’s grace I know anything can happen! 

So you can imagine my thoughts when Ron Holloway, chaplain at Ozark Adventist Academy (OAA), asked me to go to the Dominican Republic.

Would I lead the medical clinics during OAA’s mission trip through Quiet Hour Ministries (QHM)?

I must admit I was not eager to accept the call.

And I even demanded a few comforts, such as air conditioning, in an effort to deter Ron’s efforts. Little did I know!

Ron continued to ask. I promised to pray. And next thing I knew we had air conditioning arranged and I committed to go.

If you knew me, you’d understand the comments I heard from family and friends when I mentioned the mission trip. Several people laughed and replied, “No way!”

They knew a mission trip was completely out of my comfort zone. Only by God’s grace did I accept the call.

On April 2nd, I left with 37 OAA students and sponsors on our journey to Barahona, Dominican Republic.

I had no idea what to expect. I had prior conversations with QHM staff and Esther Hilde, our amazing team leader. But I totally didn’t see the great task that lay ahead.

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Gina Webb led the medical clinic during our mission trip to the Dominican Republic in April 2014.

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AN ADVENTURE WITH GOD A REPORT FROM OUR URCOS, PERU, EVANGELISM MISSION TRIP

by Austin Greer

WITH BLEARY EYES AND EXCITED FACES 58 GRAY-T-SHIRT-CLAD TRAVELERS stepped off the buses into the crisp air 4,681 miles away from home. We had arrived in Peru!

Our group consisted of high schoolers, parents and teachers from Fresno Adventist Academy, along with others from the community. We had traveled from Fresno, California, to join Quiet Hour Ministries in sharing Jesus in Urcos, Pinipampa, Cusipata and Quiquijana, Peru.

None of us knew exactly what to expect. But we were hungry for an adventure with God. What would He do with 12 days of surrendered service to Him? Here are just a few ways God worked on this trip.

During our time in Peru, we held nine children’s programs. Children in the surrounding communities learned about God and His endless love for them.

Our nightly programs consisted of praise songs in Spanish, a Bible story and a craft. The kids absolutely loved to sing.

They also had a great desire to learn English.

Whether they were learning an entire verse of “My God Loves Me,” how to pronounce their names or just the word “chair,” they were eager for us to teach them.

Each night they came and absorbed the simple, yet impacting stories.

At the Urcos site, one little girl came each night and really enjoyed the meetings. At one point, she came up to our team members and shared how when she arrived home the previous night, she received a spanking from her mother.

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about the spanking, because her desire to learn about Jesus was greater!

A medical team made up of nurses, doctors, students and other volunteers worked to serve the poverty-stricken community.

If you were to observe the long lines waiting for treatment, you would see patients ranging from infancy to elderly. All were anxiously awaiting their turn to receive medical, dental or vision care.

Vanessa Greer, a registered nurse, treated a woman widowed four years ago following the sudden death of her husband. She was now raising four children on her own.

Vanessa knew it was more than just age causing

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Peru Mission Repor t the pain in the woman’s face and the trembling in her body. The woman opened up about the three jobs she worked in order to provide housing and food for her children. And the constant back pain and anxiety that prevented her from sleeping.

After receiving treatment, we had a prayer session with her. Seeing her the next day, she was all smiles following the first good night’s sleep she’d had in four years. As she received the gift of rest for her body and mind, God lifted her burdens!

All-told, our medical team saw nearly 600 people in the clinics.

At the same time, the construction crew actively set about their work.

Our first day was spent assessing the needs of the time-worn local churches. Restoration quickly began on the two structures that needed it most: the Cusipata and Quiquijana churches. Major needs such as paint jobs, roof and bathroom repair as well as electrical installation were met by our team.

Additionally, two of the students painted a beautiful, simple sign for each church.

Not only did we share Jesus through our actions, we also shared Him through our words. Eight high school students were used in a mighty way to reach the thirsting hearts of the people.

Each night, they preached sermons that revealed the Bible’s validity through prophecy and ended with a study on baptism. The people soaked up every message they heard. And as a result, many children of God made requests for baptism.

In Pinipampa, team member Taylor Stanic was amazed and humbled to see the appreciation of the people.

At the end of the evangelistic series, many of the church members were in tears as she and her team were leaving. They gave them small gifts to show their appreciation.

In reflection, Taylor said, “It amazes me that these people, who have nothing, are so willing to give everything to people who could give so much more.

Our trip to Peru definitely showed me life from a different perspective and taught me that Jesus is truly all I need to be satisfied.”

Many unforgettable moments of this trip belong in their own category, such as seeing the mist hanging over the mountains when we flung open our curtains in the morning, dashing through sheets of rain and flashes of lightning after a meeting, or trekking around a rockslide while evading oncoming traffic.

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One day is vividly imprinted on our minds, as we left at 2 a.m. to see Machu Picchu!

The multiple ruins, incredible architecture and vast natural beauty were breathtaking. Better yet, this wonder of the world provided an unexpected reminder: just as one could travel to this amazing place and be distracted by the endless miles of staircases or the glare of the sun and miss out on the experience, so we could be present in the very courts of God and fail to notice the wonder of His presence all around us.

Likewise, while our Peru adventure may be over, the adventure of partnering with the Holy Spirit is far from done.

As our group arrives home, we pray that our hearts will be open for God to continue to use us in mighty ways every day.  Austin Greer was part of our mission team to Peru in March, 2014.

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Our Peru team gathers for prayer with local believers.

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The medical team treated nearly 600 people!

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IN MEMORY OF...

Quiet Hour Ministries gratefully acknowledges the many gifts given in memory of loved ones to help share God’s saving grace with the world. If you wish to honor a loved one through a memorial gift, please indicate so with your donation and provide the individual’s name. We will be happy to include your gift in a future Echoes magazine. Should you wish to make an anonymous memorial gift, simply note that as well and we will respect your request.

In Memory of

Campbell, Lawrence G. by his wife, Wilma

Gaspard, Elizabeth

by John H. Mathews

Chalker, Byron by his daughter, Donna Ruckgaber

Goede, David A.

by Jim & Judy Culpepper

Allen, Kristian X.

by Pastor John & Sheryl Hersom

Charles, Alice E.

by Kenneth & Dolores Dennis

Greenhill, Carl Evans

by Glen & Irene Sibley

Archer, Betty by her daughter, Marlene Sitler

Ching, George & Bessie

by Quiet Hour Ministries

Greer, Gary R. by his wife, Bonnie

by M. Evon Romano

Abrams, Edna M. by her husband, Paul

by Marvin & Nathalie Bischoff

Bates, Harlan C.

by Sharline Adams Bechthold, Raymond & Elizabeth L. by her sister, Ferne V. Davick Beck, Alvin by his daughter & son-in-law, Joyce & John Azevedo

by George B. Bohl Boccheciamp, Elias by his wife, Lorraine

Clemenson, Grace by her son & daughter-in-law, Gary & Sharon Clemenson Cloud, Carl T. by his wife, Flo & their children Cook, Virginia

by Don & Maxine Rogers Cowan, Vyca G.

by Paul & Luryne Estew, Jr. Curry, Gordon T. by his wife, Phyllis

Bowes, Dena Kay

by Jim & Judy Culpepper Bowser, Edith P. by her granddaughter, Marilyn R. Springer Bowyer, Goldie E.

by Leonard & Mavis Shockey Boyd, Aubrey

by J. Rita Vital

Dean, Myrle by his wife, Anna Dean Dopp, Janice

by Don & Maxine Rogers

Eversley, Marilyn by her husband, Wilton

Brizendine, Harvey & Eloise

by Farrel & Bobbi Brizendine

Flemmer, Herbert by his sister, Olga Rodin

Burke, Kenneth I.

by Elmer & Katie Baker

Franks, Dianne

by Elmer & Katie Baker

Cacic, Marcella Elaine

by Marilyn Wallace

Gaede, Ida & Menno by their daughter, Mary Jane Nevis

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Garner, Arthur D. by his wife, Betty

Jenicke, Eldon by his wife, Irene Johnson, Bonnie

by Annemarie Johnson Jones, Owen P. by his wife Alyce

Halley, Vernese H. by her daughter & son-in-law, Jerri & Richard Boggess

Keeler, Anna by her daughter, Juanita

Hardesty, Gladys M. by co-workers of her daughter, Gail Garcia

King, Almeta P. by her daughter & son-in-law, Lonetta & Roger Williams

Heitzmann, Alvina by her sister, Olga Rodin

Kingham, John by his wife, Anna

Hensel, Joyce by her husband, Donald Herzel, Edward & Mary Lee by their daughter & son-in-law, Judy & George Halleron Hickman, Albert Lester

by Al Wiggins

Brand, James E. by his wife, Ann

Calvert, Jean B. Meyers by her daughter, Marilyn R. Springer

Hall, Phyllis Miller

by Marilyn R. Springer

Jauch, Sadie Boss by her son & daughter-in-law, Bob & Virginia Jauch by her daughter & son-in-law, Doris & Richard Williams

by Mary Jane Nevis

Hill, Leonard

by Joseph P. Stoia Hollenbeck, Denny by his wife, Edna Holm, Melvin G. by his sister, Olive A. Holm White Hopkins, Rita

by Farrell & Bobbi Brizendine Hull, Carol

by Mary Jane Nevis

Jaramillo, Adolfo D. by his wife, Vera

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Lehman, Nancy Lou

by Ann Hoyt Liebelt, Ardy & Mrs. by his sister, Ferne V. Davick Liebelt, Arthur & Marcella by his sister, Ferne V. Davick Liebelt, M J & Lydia by their daughter, Ferne V. Davick Litvin, George by his wife, Josephine Lowry, Beth by her husband, Morris

Mayer, Jeffery by his parents, Earl & Doris Mayer Meyers, Marcia Ann by her sister, Marilyn R. Springer

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Memorial Gifts

Meyers, William H. by his daughter, Marilyn R Springer

Renschler, Herbert by his wife, Mary Jane Renschler Nevis

Miller, Leona by her sister, Olga Rodin

Richardson, Laura A.

by Marilyn R. Springer

Mondary, Ellen Jane by her grand daughter, Marilyn R. Springer

Rott, Pauline by her daughter, Leta M. Knipper

Morford, Alvin Melvin

by J. Rita Vital

Rushold, Harry & Irma by their daughter & son-in-law, Udene & Marlin Allen

Morikone, Arnold

by David Morikone Morikone, Jimmy

by David Morikone

Samarza, Driggs

by Dr. & Mrs. Philip Gold

Morikone, Roy & Eileen

by David Morikone

Santangelo, Donald F. by his wife, Rosemarie

Moses, Keith Warren

by Dorothy Holm

Scott, Wayne Tom by his wife, Angela

Nelson, Milan & Carol

by Marilyn R. Springer Nephew, Harry D. by his wife, Helen Nevis, Lucinda by her mother, Mary Jane Nevis Newbury, Tressie

by Al Wiggins Nielsen, Calmar & Marion

by Anne Caviness Noel, Robert Lee

by Marvin & Nathalie Bischoff

Shaffer, June by her sister, Iris Donaldson Shields, Ruby by her sister, Wanda Radford Shockey, Dollie by her son & daughter-in-law, Leonard & Mavis Shockey Skeggs, Thelma by by J. Rita Vital Smart, Iva by her sister, Wanda Radford Snell, John G. by his wife, Ruby Stapleton, Samuel

by J. Rita Vital

Parker, Albert by his wife, Kathryn Myers Parker Tallman, Patricia Hoxie by her husband, Gary Radford, Albert & Mary by their daughter, Wanda Radford Radford, Dollie by her sister, Wanda Radford Radford, Pearl by her sister, Wanda Radford Reile, Lloyd

by Jehu & Delores Miller

Taylor, Charles R.

by J. Rita Vital Testman, Jackie by his sister & brother-in-law, Bobbi & Farrel Brizendine

Thomasson, Clyde

by Claudie & Georgia English Tucker, Alma

by Jeannette Baldwin

by George & Irma Chen

by Margaret & Jose Dayao

by Gerald & Naomi Fillmen

by Reba Hargrove

by William & Barbara Heisler

by Evelyn J. Johnson

by Mari Ann & Christer Joreteg

by Eva Kennedy

by Vierra Koko

by Erma Landis

by Linda Levisen

by Dorothy Salhany

by Anneliese Schermann

by Colene Schwandt

by Jean Zachary Tucker, LaVerne E.

by Marilyn R. Springer Turner, Harold & Elsie Turner

by Marilyn R. Springer

Below are corrections for memorials listed in our previous issue. We apologize for the errors.

Huffaker, Erma

by Ruby Sorensen Hyde, Irma by her husband, Gordon by her son, Bradley by her son, Rodney

by Stanley Sterling

IN HONOR OF . . .

Anniversary Gilliland, Dennis & Jane for 32 years

by Melvin & Freda Gilliland Gilliland, Duane & Pattie for 42 years

by Melvin & Freda Gilliland

Van Pelt, Leah McNeill by her niece, Marilyn R Springer

House, Myron & Jan for our 25th Wedding Anniversary

Venden, Morris L.

by Marilyn R. Springer

Kramer, Herb & Karen for 26 years

by Melvin & Freda Gilliland

Wallace, Sterling A. by his wife, Marilyn

Birthday

Waters, Stanley by his wife, Gertrude

Merkle, Edith 100th, by Ruth Hartsock

Wentz, Roy & Josephine by their son & daughter-in-law, Eldon & Jeanette Wentz

Thankfulness

Werner, Joan

by Marilyn Wallace

Bowers, Clara Jean for weekly Sabbath transportation

by Al Wiggins

Wieder, Timothy

by Clarence & Esther Brummett

by Stanley & Vaneta Condon

by Percy Lui

Eastin, LaVerna for 66 years

by Melvin & Freda Gilliland

Yarwood, Emily Margurite

by Don & Maxine Rogers

Testman, Sharon by her sister & brother-in-law, Bobbi & Farrel Brizendine

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Corrections

Farrell, Ann for 66 years

by Melvin & Freda Gilliland Hunsaker, Bill & Betty by the Vista Church Family Smith, Harold F. & Jane for 70 years together

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Mid-Year Repor t

THOUSANDS REACHED g THE GOSPEL A MID-YEAR REPORT ON OUR OUTREACH

by Randy Bates

IT WAS ONLY THE SECOND MEETING OF OUR EVANGELISTIC SERIES IN COSTA RICA. YET MARIA KNEW SHE’D FOUND SOMETHING SPECIAL. The messages about Bible prophecy, about how God knew her and loved her even before she was born, touched Maria’s heart.

When a call was made at the end of the meeting, Maria responded. She didn’t just want Bible studies. She didn’t just want ask Jesus into her heart. She wanted all that and more. She wanted to be baptized!

Maria is just one of the thousands of people you’ve helped reach for Christ so far this year!

As we approach the half-way point of 2014, I’m excited to share with you this mid-year report!

Praise God for everything accomplished so far!

I’m just amazed at what He is doing through your gifts, prayers and participation.

Yet, as I mentioned, this is just a mid-year report.

Imagine what God has yet in store!

At Quiet Hour Ministries, we have a vision to reach more than 200,000 people for Christ this year.

That’s a big goal!

Furthermore, our vision is to reach more than 1 million people in the next couple of years. That’s an even bigger goal!

But we serve a really, really big God! That’s why I’m so thankful to be coworkers with you, serving our Savior. With Him, there truly is no limit!

Thank you for all you’ve done to share the gospel with people around the world. Trust me when I say that your investment in the kingdom of God has already paid enormous dividends.

And as even more people accept Jesus into their hearts, just like Maria did, I know they will be a treasure in heaven waiting for you! 

BECAUSE OF YOU, SO FAR IN 2014: Z More than

30,000

people reached with the gospel in 7 countries.

1,000 Z 269 Z $1,486,140 Z More than

people baptized.

team members sent to the mission field.

Randy Bates is CEO of Quiet Hour Ministries.

given for missions.

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2014 TO SEEK AND TO SAVE AMBASSADORS

OF HOPE

As a special thank you for your yearly commitment of $1,200 or more, you’re warmly invited to join our leadership for an Ambassadors of Hope weekend! Come and enjoy inspiring messages and music, the latest mission reports, comfortable accommodations and tasty vegetarian meals.

TWO OPPORTUNITIES REMAINING!

September 5-6, 2014 Park Vista Hotel Gatlinburg, Tennessee Oct 30-Nov 1, 2014 Skamania Lodge Stevenson, Washington

“FOR THE SON OF MAN CAME TO SEEK AND TO SAVE THE LOST.” Luke 19:10 ESV.

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