Who Is Asi?, Is ASI connected to the SDA Church? Options

[Panama_Pete]

Very weird! I was on there just a few days ago and there were amounts beside every project. Now there are not. They still have the descriptions but not how much they are giving them. Here is the link to the list--if I have done it correctly.

http://asiministries.org/article.php?id=130

If they list the amounts, other non-Adventist , non-denominational corporations with Adventist employees will realize that they qualify to apply for $150,000, too.

Based on the 3ABN criteria as mentioned in their lawsuit, Trinity Broadcasting Network qualifies to apply for ASI funding for 2008.

a. Trinity Broadcasting Network, like 3ABN, carries Adventist programming at its own expense.
b. Trinity Broadcasting Network, like 3ABN, has Adventists on staff and as on-air hosts.
c. Trinity Broadcasting Network, like 3ABN, has a unique "Return to God" message.
d. Trinity Broadcasting Network, like 3ABN, is affiliated with no specific denomination.
e. Trinity Broadcasting Network is non-denominational, like 3ABN, with a message that is intended for everyone.
f. Trinity Broadcasting Network reaches more people with Adventist programming than 3ABN, because Trinity Broadcasting Network is many times larger than 3ABN -- with more TV stations and cable affiliates in more places.
g. Trinity Broadcasting Network could even bring their trucks to the ASI Convention to carry it on the air.
h. Trinity Broadcasting Network shares a good working relationship with General Conference and the GC is grateful to Trinity Broadcasting Network for carrying Adventist programming.


Therefore, it is only fair that Trinity Broadcasting Network apply for funding through the Adventist-Laymen's Sevices and Industries. Many people have found Jesus through watching Adventist programming on Trinity Broadcasting Network, and therefore, as Danny Shelton says, "Look at the good fruits." Well, if Danny Shelton is correct, Trinity Broadcasting Network, like 3ABN, has some very good fruits.


ASI Project Offering 2007 and Amounts Proposed


2007 Projects—Contributions received will fund
the projects listed. The overflow offering will go
to the Train Them Now initiative.


ADVENT HOME YOUTH SERVICES INC.
$75,000.00
This residential care program for boys ages 12-16 with ADHD, learning
or behavior problems, needs improved staff housing. Funding will help to
build homes for families who live and work at AH to encourage longer
tenure and thus a more significant contribution to the program.

ADVENTIST SOUTHEAST ASIA PROJECTS
$40,000.00
The youth evangelism training program in Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and
Cambodia will be expanded. An additional 150 Vietnamese college-age
students will be trained; and 1.19 acres of land will be purchased in
Vietnam for a training site.


ADVENTIST SOUTHEAST ASIA PROJECTS
$10,000.00
Cambodian literacy schools teach children and women at risk of being
sold into the slave trade how to read, write and know Jesus. Within the
slums in Phnom Penh a meal program will be implemented—fifty
students attending the literacy school will receive one hot meal a day.
Additional Feed & Read projects will be incorporated into the literacy
schools in other areas.


CHINESE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL
$20,000.00
The New Horizon Training Institute in China is the only Adventist
training institute in 50 years for national Bible workers. A workshop/
food industry building will be constructed and a healthy food
program developed for hands-on training. Students can use the
program at their mission sites.

COUNCIL ON RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL LIBERTY
(Haiti Mission Outreach)
$25,000.00
Haiti is very poor, with unschooled youth and an 80% unemployment
rate. A need exists for truck and auto repair, machine work, electrical
and electronic services and refrigeration. The G. R. Institute will offer
a certificate in a trade and will teach Christian outreach. A certified
journeyman will have no problem securing a good-paying job.


DAYSTAR ADVENTIST ACADEMY
$25,000.00
A new boys’ dormitory will help to meet the needs of a growing school
—prospective students have been turned away because of a lack of
space. The new cafeteria and girls’ dormitory have already produced
positive results with increased applications and enrollment.

E. A. SUTHERLAND EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION (EASEA)
$10,000.00
EASEA is an accrediting agency and umbrella organization for self-
supporting schools. Funding will be used to hire a person to develop a
marketing program to produce added resources for improvement, high
standards and quality education among member schools.

EDEN GARDEN ORPHANAGE
$50,000.00
The second story of the girls’ dormitory will be completed with the
funding received from the project offering this year. Expansion of
will also be continued as funds allow.

FANANTENANA
$8,000.00
The project is entitled Books for All. Books will be printed for health
evangelism campaigns in the cities of Madagascar and in the Indian
Ocean islands.

FRONTLINE BUILDERS
$10,000.00
Frontline Builders works along side the church in remote regions of
Central Africa. A headquarters office is needed—for planning, repair
of equipment and gathering supplies. It will also serve as an outreach
center where agriculture and evangelism raining will take place for
men and women who will go to unentered territories as missionaries.


GENERAL YOUTH CONFERENCE (GYC)
$25,000.00

GOD’S HELPING HANDS, INC.
$10,000.00
Funding will help to build a medical and dental clinic in Northern
Guatemala to provide free health care for the impoverished people.
Space will be provided for a meeting room for health classes and
evangelistic meetings.


GOSPEL OUTREACH - Canada
$20,000.00
The Gospel Outreach Canada sponsorship of 10 Bible workers in
Nepal will accomplish a great harvest. In 2006, 190,000 Adventists
were baptized in India—in excess of 100,000 of these baptisms were
due to the efforts of US and Canada-sponsored Gospel Outreach
Bible workers.


GOSPEL OUTREACH - China
$42,500.00
The grant will help to provide nearly one-half of the required funding
to place the Conflict Series of books along with Christ’s Object Lessons
in every public library in China. The books have good illustrations and
attractive binding. It is felt they will be readily received and used.

GOSPEL OUTREACH - Islam
$32,500.00
This gift will supply workers for a previously unentered nation in Sudan.
A clan of Sabbath-keeping people has been raised. Funding will provide
workers to mentor, disciple and help these interested people. No other
work by our church exists in this nation at this time.


HEALTH MINISTRIES PROGRAM AT BOGENHOFEN
$30,000.00
In September, 2007, Bogenhofen, an Adventist senior college in Austria,
will begin to offer a two and a half year health ministries program
together with a degree in Medical Massage Therapy. A new extension to
the cafeteria will accommodate classrooms and a therapy center.

HEART 'N HOME SEMINARS
$7,000.00
Funding will cover training and educational seminars offered in Third World
countries for women's ministry and family life. Groups which demonstrate a
strong commitment to the mission of the church will be the recipients of these
programs. Young people and families all over the world have been blessed
by the sharing of the gospel in this way.


HERITAGE ACADEMY
$19,000.00
To help meet the demand for Adventist television programming video
production is being included in the curriculum. Needed equipment will
be purchased to film, produce and edit a variety of programs for various
television networks such as 3ABN and HOPE. On-location projects will
capture young people in action for God.

IN HIS SERVICE AMIANAN INC.
$25,000.00
Focus is on the Amianan, northern province of Luzon in the
Philippines. In order to prepare local people for mission work a
school is being constructed on the mission campus in Ilocos Norte
which already includes a church and a pavilion used for dorm,
children’s activities, and seminars. Training will begin this summer
in the present pavilion.

FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL
$20,000.00
Laymen in Africa are enthusiastic about soul winning, but they often lack
training. This program will enable Kibidula Training Center to expand lay
evangelism instruction in Tanzania as well as to provide the education for
four new countries \in the East Central Africa Division.

LAURELBROOK SANITARIUM AND SCHOOL INC.
$25,000.00
Laurelbrook is the oldest of the self-supporting academies, founded in
1950. The school building will be upgraded to meet current student needs
and educational requirements. Former students are serving the Lord all
over the world because of the Christian training received here.


LIFESTYLE TV (SWEDEN)
$10,000.00
The Gospel has been broadcast via satellite to 5,000,000 viewers across
secular Scandinavia for more than a year. Increased production is needed.
A make-shift studio in a dining room is serving as a studio—what is
needed is a real studio. The grant this year will help make it happen.


MIRACLE MEADOWS SCHOOL
$10,000.00
The administration/school building will be enlarged with a 4,800 square
foot major expansion to provide more classrooms, office space and an
open reception area. MMS has grown—this expansion will help to better
serve the youth and their families.

MISSIONARY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (MAP)
$60,000
MAP helps provide modest financial support to those who have left the
comforts of home to serve abroad. It also provides financial assistance
for those visiting home on furlough—for some it would be impossible to
come home to see family and friends without this help.


MOLDOVA HEALTH AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE CENTER
$20,000.00
Funding will aid in the construction of an evolving health center and
health ministry in Moldova Republic. Three former communist youth
summer camp buildings will form the Sanitarium complex—one a
kitchen, dining room and medical treatment rooms; one for patient
housing; the third, staff living quarters.


NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PREVENTION
OF STARVATION
$25,000.00
Many have been baptized in Angola as a result of evangelism, and
two churches are urgently needed. The churches to be built will give a
sense of belonging to the members. Learning to know Christ brings
people from abject poverty and ignorance to live more decent lives.


NIGERIA DESTITUTES PROGRAM
$25,000.00
This project includes building homes for the widows, orphans and
homeless in Nigeria where the need is so great—doing something in
the name of Christ which they cannot do for themselves. This is
evangelism in reality and evangelism in action.

OCI LATIN AMERICE
$20,000.00
Funds will be used for Health Expo materials and equipment to
establish an ongoing ministry with the Conferences and local churches
in Colombia; and to support a full-time Bible worker for two years to
follow up evangelism connected to the Health Expos. The hope is to
make this a permanent program.


OKLAHOMA ACADEMY
$50,000.00
Oklahoma Academy celebrated its twenty-fifth year of operation last
year. As the years have passed some of the trailers used for housing
have deteriorated and need to be replaced. The grant will be used
toward the building of a duplex to help supply much needed staff
housing.

OUACHITA HILLS ACADEMY
$25,000.00
Ouachita Hills Academy and College is equipping its new auditorium
with audio and video recording capabilities. This will facilitate the
recording and streaming of quality, Christ-centered content already
being produced and will also provide training for young people
interested in a new two-year program being offered by the College
in media production.

PEOPLE OF PERU PROJECT
$25,000.00
The crisis center for abused and abandoned girls has already
impacted the lives of many children. A dormitory facility with
increased capacity will be built for these girls. The goal is to give
the girls a safe, clean, Christian home where they can learn about
Jesus.

PERU PROJECTS INC.
$5,000.00
The Amazon Lay-Missionary Training School will provide two
3-week training sessions per year for Bible workers along the
Ucayali and Amazon rivers. New church leaders will receive the
necessary training to guide their new church congregation once
the Bible worker moves on.

PROJECT PATCH
$10,000.00
Funds received will help to provide electrical power to a remote
location outside Goldendale, Washington—500 acres gifted to
PATCH—so it can be developed.A program will be designed to
offer therapy for families in crisis. The facility will also be available
for programs for gifted and talented children.


RADIO 74 INTERNATIONALE
$10,000.00
Volunteers for this lay-operated radio ministry work in cramped
quarters—less than 800 square feet. A studio building will be built
which can also house key volunteer staff. Industrial land is also
to be purchased for FM, microwave and transmission antennas.

RIVERSIDE FARM INSTITUTE
$50,000.00
This grant will help to build a classroom and renovate the inadequate
dormitory for male students at Riverside. Evangelistic materials for
Bible workers will be provided; and a structure will be remodeled
for use as a gym by the Lifestyle Center.


SPRINGS OF LIFE FOUNDATION (Poland)
$10,000.00
NEWSTART has been very effective here. A new project is to set
up a network of health clubs as an “entering wedge” where sharing
the Gospel is difficult. Funding will provide advertising materials
and the development of health presentations to equip lay people
to share the health message.

THREE ANGELS' BROADCASTING NETWORK
$150,000.00
A current challenge for 3ABN is inadequate operating space—it has
outgrown the physical capacity of the Call Center, seriously taxing
the capability to meet viewers’ needs of services. Funding will provide
help to add 13,000 square feet of operating space.

WEIMAR INSTITUTE
$25,000.00
The campus chapel project will include a new front lockable entrance
and exterior paint. The platform will be enlarged. An HVAC system and
audiovisual system will be installed along with new windows, carpet and
seating. New blinds and fresh paint will modernize the interior.

YOUR STORY HOUR (Chas tvoegorasskaze on Russian Radio)
$20,000.00
An entire network of 30 stations located in key Russian markets will air
Your Story Hour in an excellent Saturday morning time slot—with a
potential audience of 25 million people. The funds will allow the programs
to be modified to the requested 25 minutes, making programming available
for 18 months.


YOUTH FOR JESUS
$190,000.00
The youth evangelism program began in Louisville in early spring with
the arrival of Bible workers whose purpose was discovering Bible study
interests. Your |offerings will support this exciting ongoing youth program
which culminates in evangelistic meetings at several sites in convention
host cities just prior to each year’s convention.

OVERFLOW OFFERING
DVD EVANGELISM — Train Them Now Initiative
Train Them Now is a joint effort of the General Conference and ASI to
utilize lay members to train and equip other lay members to conduct
evangelistic meetings using the multiple translations of the New Beginnings
DVD with contextualized pictures.


Among the projects -- top, campus of the school for Chinese Ministries
International; bottom row from left, the extension to the cafeteria for
Bogenhofen's health program; youth evangelism in Southeast Asia;
training will take place here for students in Haiti learning a trade.


The convention program will contain a colorful array of pictures depicting
all of this year's projects!

[runner4him]

You can find the amounts on www.save3abn.com - they have been there for some time. I remember skimming though the information when it first went up on the save3abn site and I then checked the ASI site - it was the same.

Very weird! I was on there just a few days ago and there were amounts beside every project. Now there are not. They still have the descriptions but not how much they are giving them. Here is the link to the list--if I have done it correctly.

http://asiministries.org/article.php?id=130

From what I know two people sent e-mails to ASI asking about the non-denominational status of 3ABN and why they were giving any money to an organization who claims to be non-denominational. They both apparently received the exact same response and then the declared grant amounts vanished from the web site. Go figure!

It looks like the plan is to refer it to the ASI Board for reevaluation. Could be great news!

This post has been edited by runner4him: Jul 15 2007, 09:07 AM

[sonshineonme]

If they list the amounts, other non-Adventist , non-denominational corporations with Adventist employees will realize that they qualify to apply for $150,000, too.

Based on the 3ABN criteria as mentioned in their lawsuit, Trinity Broadcasting Network qualifies to apply for ASI funding for 2008.

a. Trinity Broadcasting Network, like 3ABN, carries Adventist programming at its own expense.
b. Trinity Broadcasting Network, like 3ABN, has Adventists on staff and as on-air hosts.
c. Trinity Broadcasting Network, like 3ABN, has a unique "Return to God" message.
d. Trinity Broadcasting Network, like 3ABN, is affiliated with no specific denomination.
e. Trinity Broadcasting Network is non-denominational, like 3ABN, with a message that is intended for everyone.
f. Trinity Broadcasting Network reaches more people with Adventist programming than 3ABN, because Trinity Broadcasting Network is many times larger than 3ABN -- with more TV stations and cable affiliates in more places.
g. Trinity Broadcasting Network could even bring their trucks to the ASI Convention to carry it on the air.
h. Trinity Broadcasting Network shares a good working relationship with General Conference and the GC is grateful to Trinity Broadcasting Network for carrying Adventist programming.


Therefore, it is only fair that Trinity Broadcasting Network apply for funding through the Adventist-Laymen's Sevices and Industries. Many people have found Jesus through watching Adventist programming on Trinity Broadcasting Network, and therefore, as Danny Shelton says, "Look at the good fruits." Well, if Danny Shelton is correct, Trinity Broadcasting Network, like 3ABN, has some very good fruits.


ASI Project Offering 2007 and Amounts Proposed .................(edited for length)

So, are any of these organizations listed that received monies for 2007, NON ADVENTIST OR NON DENOMINATIONAL AS WELL (but we all know are SDA)?

Has anyone written to TBN and told them of where they can apply for some extra money to get their "unique" message out too?

[Panama_Pete]

So, are any of these organizations listed that received monies for 2007, NON ADVENTIST OR NON DENOMINATIONAL AS WELL (but we all know are SDA)?

Question 1

One of the other fine, upstanding recipients is Your Story Hour . I really enjoy their programming.

http://www.lakeunionherald.org/96/3/18086.html

The Lake Union Herald has this to say:

The first broadcast of Your Story Hour was 55 years ago this month. And God has continued to answer prayers for this ministry ever since. What started as a story time above the firehouse has grown to be a highly respected world-wide, inter-faith, non-denominational, multi-lingual broadcast ministry, and the longest-running, most-listened-to children's radio program in the world.

So, 3ABN isn't the only non-denominational animal in the woods.

Question 2

Has anyone written to TBN and told them of where they can apply for some extra money to get their "unique" message out too?

I don't know of anyone who has written to Trinity Broadcasting yet with the necessary application forms.

Perhaps our ASI friend, Harold Lance, could send out that belated letter to TBN on Monday via FedEX. Harold has demonstrated his honed skills and keen ability at writing explanatory letters here or there. So, this should be as easy as falling off a log for Harold.

Panama Pete

[Pickle]

Bob, you are I are in agreement in regard to many things. But, I must challenge your statement above about me. I invite all to check your cited source.

Sorry about the misunderstanding, Gregory.

Notice that I never said that you wrote the statement they object to, and notice that their complaint was not that Gailon wrote it. Their objection was that Gailon posted it, but he didn't post it. You posted it, but you never wrote it.

A small technicality, but one that I think is valid.

This post has been edited by Pickle: Jul 15 2007, 09:11 AM

[Pickle]

But, since the plaintiff's lawyers can't seem to be bothered with the spelling of the woman's name, we can't really place too much weight on the rest of the finer details, either, can we?

Excellent point. Especially is that the case when they appealed to common law copyright to protect the cease & desist letter, a legal doctrine the U.S.A. repudiates in the 1830's.

[Johann]

In a few days the great annual ASI covention will take place, and it is usually covered by 3ABN.

Who will attend this convention and who will be the speakers?

Let's keep an eye on ASI

[Rosyroi]

In a few days the great annual ASI covention will take place, and it is usually covered by 3ABN.

Who will attend this convention and who will be the speakers?

Let's keep an eye on ASI

Mabe a BSDA "reporter" can attend the convention and ask some of those nagging questions the 3ABN forum has been asking for the last 3 plus years (that haven't been answered yet) and see how many answers they come up with.
JMHO

Rosyroi(holding her binoculars on ASI)

[Johann]

Mabe a BSDA "reporter" can attend the convention and ask some of those nagging questions the 3ABN forum has been asking for the last 3 plus years (that haven't been answered yet) and see how many answers they come up with.
JMHO

Rosyroi(holding her binoculars on ASI)

Some did last year and found some interesting answers. such as that Brandy had chased Danny for 17 years!

[runner4him]

Some did last year and found some interesting answers. such as that Brandy had chased Danny for 17 years!

...and finally caught him or he finally said yes.... I heard he said it right in the dining room...............

[PeacefulBe]

Some did last year and found some interesting answers. such as that Brandy had chased Danny for 17 years!

Johann,

I received an email from a person who got some background to this story directly from Danny and Brandy several months before the 2006 ASI convention, so these folks who heard the interesting answers regarding his current marraige were fairly accurate in their reports. In other words, they are not spreading rumors.

----- Original Message -----
From: *********
To: *****
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:46 AM
Subject: Hi ********


Hi ********,
I've never talked to Danny on the phone. I talked to him and Brandy for about 2 1/2 hours last February while I was at 3ABN. I was staying with May Chung at her house on the 3ABN property, and it was Danny, Brandy, May, another woman (May's friend from California), and myself. He never mentioned Linda, so there was no bashing. He talked about himself, duh.

I sat there for about 2 1/2 hours with Danny and Brandy snuggled up to each other, his hands on her, hers on him, listening to Danny go on and on and on about all the miracles and how he and Brandy knew each other for over 20 years, how they met when she was about 13 or 14, when her family came to his recording studio to record some music or something.

Anyway, he told me how he had invited Brandy to 3ABN to live and work as she was going through a very hard time and she needed a change and a fresh start. He told me he had personally given her Bible studies when she came to 3ABN. Concerning the Bible studies he described a very intimate exchange involving tears, as Brandy learned the "truth". She was not an SDA when she came to 3ABN. I don't know how long exactly these "studies" went on but when all was said and done their relationship had developed into more than just "friends", as they were then engaged, annd married a month later.

The specific details of this conversation have been given to Gailon and to the woman who is writing Linda's book. You can post any of it on BSDA if you want but please leave my name out of it.

This post has been edited by PeacefullyBewildered: Jul 25 2007, 05:07 AM

[Rosyroi]

And all this time while giving Brandy Bible Studies he was also spending time with ... what's her name? Wonder if he ever got the names mixed up...( during those intimate bible study times )... well... they do sound alike.

Wonder how he did it? every other night, first half of evening with one and last half of night with the other?

Oh dear... I said that out loud again didn't I? Oh well... next time I will try to be good.

JMHO

Rosyroi

[princessdi]

All that is code for they wre playing aorund during his marriage...........chasing him for 17 years. That makes her a hot and fass!-tail gal( as some old people would say)!!!! ...and they might want to check her "age of consent". Man!! It runs in the family! They likes 'em young, girls boys, makes no difference! Ooops! did I say that out loud? LOL!!!