克里夫顿‧格拉斯哥（Clifton Glasgow）

推进工作的三大要素

新西兰的布道会之所以可以成为强大且不断发展的属灵推进器，完全依赖于——祷告、全体总动员，和希望电视台。

     五个月以来，教友们每天早上六点都会聚在一起，为布道会能被圣灵充满而祷告。

     教友们已经主领四周多的聚会了。他们不仅组织聚会，还会邀请亲戚朋友参加。

     给他们带来惊喜的就是电视台的事工。这项由《希望电视台》负责推进的一项工作，他们在2016年的时候获得了第十三安息捐的资助。

      “虽然教友们也会邀请家人和朋友来聚会，但大多数人都是通过《希望电视台》的节目来聚会的。”克里夫顿• 格拉斯哥（Clifton Glasgow）就是这次帮助协调在新西兰最大城市奥克兰的15个聚会点的负责人。

     这次布道会使大概200人受洗接受基督。下面是其中的四个见证。

崔西（Tracey）

     崔西是一位有五个孩子的单亲妈妈。在她为滥用药物而痛苦的时候，她几年前曾去过复临教会的母亲便建议她收看 《希望电视台》。

     当崔西看了那些高举耶稣的节目后， 圣灵开始做工了。没过多久，她就和母亲一起去教会聚会了。

     时年30多岁的崔西开始查经，在参加布道会期间开始戒毒。现在她不但受洗了，还在深造，准备做一名高中老师。

     “她好乐观，”克里夫顿说。“在她谈到上帝的时候，你就能看到主赐给她的喜乐，就像上帝充满了她一样。”

欧文和蒂娜（Owen and Tina）

     欧文是奥克兰怀赫科岛的一位退休人员也是社区主任。他的妻子蒂娜在看了《希望电视台》和一个当地复临信徒创办的电视台节目后，接受了复临教会的信息。他们把电视台的节目刻到DVD上，然后在岛上到处分发。他们为能够建立一间教会祷告同时也在寻找一些房产信息，他们想上帝会怎么兴起一所教堂呢？。

     在教会领袖开始筹划奥克兰的布道会时，欧文积极的担任义工。他不但自愿为当地的聚会寻找聚会场所，也自愿担任其他后勤工作。晚上来布道会的有30人，大部分都不是复临信徒。后来欧文和蒂娜成为了这个岛上第一批受洗的复临信徒。这个教堂现在也会提供给其他教会来使用。

     因为这场布道会有两座教会成立了，而这座岛上的就是其中之一。

西斯和西慕妮（Heath and Simone）

     西斯是一名训练过陆军精英部队的格斗专家。他开始和他的妻子西慕妮一起看《希望电视台》。曾在建筑公司工作的他从一个现任员工那听说的《希望电视台》。

     西斯和西慕妮因《希望电视台》的节目而悔改，他们心里产生了与耶稣建立关系的渴望。他们开始参加安息日崇拜聚会，又参加了布道会。并且在布道会期间受了洗。

奥黛丽和唐（Audrey and Don）

     奥黛莉和唐是一对老夫妻。他们在转台的时候碰巧看到了《希望电视台》的节目。他们对复临教会努力寻求遵循《圣经》的教导感到惊讶。他们的教会有背离《圣经》原则的情况。他们决定试试复临教会。

     唐和奥黛莉开始在当地的复临教会聚会。在参加布道会的时候，他们决定要加入复临教会。他们的行为，鼓励了他们同住在新西兰和法国的女儿们，也开始在复临教会聚会。

     80岁左右的唐，在医院和其他地方发传单，积极鼓励人们收观《希望电视台》。

     “《希望电视台》已经成为见证的一部分，”克里夫顿说。“它是一个奇妙的窗口，让我们可以向这个需要希望的世界， 宣扬耶稣美好的信息。”

来源：本文译自《圣工消息》（社会青年季刊）2022年第四季

Three Powerful Ingredients

       Three ingredients are credited with turning New Zealand evangelistic meetings into a spiritual powerhouse that is still yielding results. The ingredients are prayer, Total Member Involvement, and Hope Channel.

       Church members gathered at 6 a.m. weekly for five months to pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the meetings.

       Members also took ownership of the 4 ½-week meetings, organizing them and inviting relatives and friends.

       But the surprise ingredient was television ministry, propelled by Hope Channel, a recipient of a Thirteenth Sabbath Offering in 2016.

       “Church members engaged families and friends, but a big component was a lot of people were engaged through Hope Channel,” says Clifton Glasgow, who helped coordinate the meetings at 15 sites across New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland.

       About 200 people were baptized through the meetings. Here are four stories.

Tracey

       Tracey, a single mother of five, was struggling with substance abuse when her mother, who had visited an Adventist church several years earlier, suggested that she watch Hope Channel.

       As Tracey watched programs that uplifted Jesus, the Spirit started to speak to her heart. It wasn’t long before she and her mother went to church.

       Tracey, who is in her 30s, took Bible studies and quit illegal drugs during the evangelistic meetings. Now baptized, she is studying to become a high school teacher.

       “She is so positive,” Clifton says. “You can just see the joy of the Lord in her when she talks about God. It’s like He’s just there.”

Owen and Tina

       Owen, a retiree and community leader on Auckland’s Waiheke Island, and his wife, Tina, became convinced about the Advent message after watching Hope Channel and another television channel run by local Adventists. They burned the television content onto DVDs and distributed them around the island. They also prayed for a church and looked at properties, wondering how the Lord would provide a building.

       When church leaders began planning evangelistic meetings for Auckland, Owen eagerly volunteered to find a community hall for local meetings and to take care of other logistics. Evening turnout reached 30 people, most of whom were not Adventists. Then Owen and Tina were baptized, becoming the first members of a Waiheke church plant that meets in a building provided by another church.

       The island church is one of two churches planted through the evangelistic meetings.

Heath and Simone

       Heath, a martial arts expert who once trained elite army troops, began to watch Hope Channel with his wife, Simone. He had heard about Hope Channel from an Adventist coworker at the construction company where they worked.

       Heath and Simone were convicted by the programs on Hope Channel, and a desire grew in their hearts to have a relationship with Jesus. The couple began to go to Sabbath worship services and then attended the evangelistic meetings. They were baptized at the meetings.

Audrey and Don

       An elderly couple, Don and Audrey, stumbled across Hope Channel while flipping through television channels. They were amazed by how closely the Adventist Church sought to follow Bible teachings. In their church, there had been deviations away from Bible principles. They decided to try out the Adventist Church.

       Don and Audrey started attending a local Adventist church. During the evangelistic meetings, they decided to become members. At their encouragement, their adult daughters, based elsewhere in New Zealand and in France, also started attending Adventist churches.

Don, who is about 80, actively encourages people to watch Hope Channel by handing out leaflets at hospitals and other places.

       “Hope Channel has become an integral part in witnessing,” Clifton says. “It provides a wonderful platform to share the wonderful message of Jesus to a world in need of hope.”

Please find the original article at: https://am.adventistmission.org/mqa22q4-08