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Off-Session Lodging and Treatments

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November 6, 2012

Dear Hartland Friends,

My name is Betsy Mayer, I am the editor of Last Generation magazine—a 32-page, full color magazine written to share the Seventh-day Adventist message with your outreach contacts. If you aren’t familiar with Last Generation, you’ve missed out on a great way to share the Thee Angels’ Messages.

Let me share a recent story about how effective this magazine is in finding people ready for God’s last-day message.

A few weeks ago, our sales manager returned a reader’s call. His wife answered: “We’re trying to figure out how we got your magazine, ‘Back to Basics.’ We live with our children and they aren’t religious. We’re born-again Baptists and love the Lord. You can imagine how surprised we were to find this magazine on their coffee tableWe read it from cover to cover and want more copies! We also want to sign up for a subscription and sponsor some of our friends, too!”

“Back to Basics” is our special issue on the Thee Angels’ Messages and the law of God. This sincere couple “ate it up!”

Every year at this time we offer great discounts on subscriptions to Last Generation magazine so that you can send God’s truth to your friends, co-workers, and family. We regularly feature topics that interest all people—health, current events, family, the life of faith, personal conversion stories, and stories of Christians throughout history. We weave the Seventh-day Adventist message into these features in an easy-to-read format.

Last Generation comes six times a year. Our regular subscription price is $15. We offer a $12 subscription price for 10 or more addresses and a $10 subscription price for 20 or more addresses. We have great discounts on bulk quantities sent to one address, too. If we receive your order before the end of 2012, you will qualify for a 5% discount, in addition to these great prices. This applies to any current subscriptions you renew between now and the end of the year as well.

You can mail your order to us, or you may purchase all your subscriptions at our online store: www.lastgen.net.

We look forward to partnering with you in sharing God’s end-time message.

Yours in the Blessed Hope!

Betsy Mayer
Managing Editor

Click here to download order form.

October 18, 2012

Dear Friends,

God has just opened an amazing door to reach Spanish-speaking people with the Thee Angels’ Messages. Last Generation magazine has prepared a Spanish edition of “Back to Basics” entitled “Regresando a lo Básico.” Just like its English predecessor, it presents the Three Angels’ Messages in an easily understood, color format, entirely in Spanish!

The English edition, “Back to Basics,” is already doing a great work. Kelly, our sales and subscriptions manager, shares a recent story of how it is impacting readers.

“Recently, I received a phone call from a lady who found a copy of ‘Back to Basics’ on her son’s coffee table She was ecstatic about the content of the magazine and wanted to purchase subscriptions for herself and for a number of her friends. She is a dedicated, born-again Baptist, but her son is not religious. How had he gotten the magazine, she wondered? The only thing we could conclude was that her son had purchased it from one of our colporteurs in a store parking lot not far from his home.”

The same kind of exciting stories could be happening when you share copies of “Regresando a lo Básico.” How can you purchase copies?

We can pass on substantial savings when you purchase quantities of “Regresando a lo Básico” before we print. If you reserve your copies before November 30, 2012, we will honor the prices quoted below. These prices include shipping. Prices after we print will be higher and will not include shipping. Perhaps several families or your entire church can go in together to get the best price. I’ll be eagerly waiting to hear your stories!

Yours in the “Blessed Hope!”

Betsy Mayer
Managing Editor

This is a great literature project for your church or youth group!
We are offering great pre-press discounts on orders placed by November 30, 2012.

A new music ministry develops at Hartland Institute

By Natasha Towns and Kevin Wahl

“That was wonderful! Thank you so much. The music was excellent!” exclaimed the host at the Baptist Retirement Center.

“Hartland Strings” was not a planned outreach, but God has used it to reach many lives. It started when five Hartland College students arrived on campus within the same year. These include violinists Esther Borges, Christian Paúl, and Natasha Towns, violist Matthew Farley, and cellist Henry Higgins. Every one of them possessed a talent and deep love for music.

“I love music!” Natasha enthuses. “At the first college I attended, I majored in music. I had hoped I would find other musicians here at Hartland, but I didn’t expect it to be like this.”

They never imagined that their small “jam sessions” would turn into a ministry. Playing in chapel morphed into performing at Hartland convocations, graduations, and camp meetings, plus regional Generation of Youth for Christ (GYC) sessions!

Then the opportunity came to play at the Baptist Retirement Center in Culpeper. They were hosting their “Donor Appreciation Dinner,” a thank-you benefit for their supporters. “The host called me about his urgent need for musicians for the dinner,” relates Paige Stimpel, events coordinator for Hartland World Mission. “He had contacted musicians in the surrounding areas, but none could help him.”

The students were extremely busy, but each one saw an opportunity to get to know the community better, and determined to perform. They sacrificed their time to reach out to those people and were blessed. The host even placed Hartland Strings’ name on the program for the dinner.

Fortunato Jardinico accompanied Hartland Strings with his flute, while Henry started out on piano. For the first half hour, Fortunato and Henry played piano and flute music while the guests arrived.

Then, classical string and hymn arrangements flooded the air while the guests were served. They chatted over the sound of the music. Every now and then a guest would stop and just listen to the music, smiling at the musicians.

During the dinner, before all the guests, the host thanked Hartland Strings for presenting the music. After the dinner, he expressed his gratitude to each of them personally. He shook their hands, saying, “It was perfect—the guests loved the music! Please come again!”

Praise God for this new ministry at Hartland Institute!

Ten Hartland female students and five staff are enrolled in the Childbirth Education class this spring term. This class is a prerequisite to the Midwifery program which will begin fall term, September 9, 2012. Mary Ann McNeilus MD and Patti Barnes CM (Certified Midwife) are presently teaching the Childbirth class. Students who complete this course will be certified to teach childbirth classes to expectant mothers. They will also be certified as a doula, someone who is able to provide non-medical support to the mother before, during, and just after birth. A doula also provides emotional and practical support during the postpartum period.

We are very excited about how God is leading this program. Starting right here in Virginia, these students will have the opportunity to teach what they are learning at three area pregnancy crisis centers. As our students are grounded in the Three Angels’ Messages, they will be well prepared to share thee messages as they go out to minister in the field of childbirth.

“The Bible speaks of women at childbirth being attended by women, and thus it ought always to be. Women should be educated and trained to act skillfully as midwives and physicians to their sex. This is the Lord’s plan.” The General Conference Bulletin, June 4, 1909.

Today, I took a tour of our former lifestyle center and was amazed to see the sundeck repair complete, the former pool area has new windows and doors, and the wall framing is done for the entire building. God is good! Another phase of the renovation is complete!

According to our general contractor, the plans for HVAC are drawn and they are ready to start the work. This renovated facility will be used for the lifestyle center as well as provide college classrooms.

For the HVAC in the college section to be completed, the cost will be around $75,000. We are short only $20,000. The staff and students are praying that God will impress you to help with the completion of this phase so that the classrooms will be completed for the spring term, and the lifestyle center section will be completed soon after.

Thank you for your prayers and financial support.
Maria Gligor
Lifestyle Education Center Program Director

Daniel Garcia shared a report this morning in chapel on Woodland Institute of Health and Education, which he directs in Portugal. Several Hartland students have completed their internship training at this ministry. People come from all over the Western world to be trained in a one- or two-year medical missionary program. They learn how to study the Bible and to integrate its truths into their lives, as well as health evangelism, sanitarium work, and how to be self-supporting missionaries. He also conducts extension schools in Africa.

Elder Dennis Priebe, Amazing Facts revivalist, is staying here for a couple weeks to teach Life and Teachings of Jesus I, Early Old Testament History, Conversion and Righteousness by Faith, and a few sessions in Daniel.

“It is a privilege to receive instruction from this man of God,” one student remarked.

We look forward to having Elder Priebe back in the summer for our camp meeting. Check back for details as the time gets closer.

At the bi-annual meeting of the Board of Directors held on Sunday, May 2, Norbert Restrepo, Jr. was elected the new President of Hartland Institute by unanimous vote. Brother Restrepo, age 40, has been the Director of Las Delicias Institute located in Armenia, Colombia, South America, for the past 14 years.

For some years, the founding president of Hartland Institute, Colin Standish, has encouraged the Board of Directors to choose, under the Lord’s direction, the next president of Hartland Institute. The process of selection began in 2009. Nine individuals were nominated and eventually, four nominees, after much prayer, agreed to be considered. At the board meeting, all candidates were interviewed. There was deep seeking of the Lord for divine guidance of the minds of the board members.

When the consideration was narrowed to 3 nominees, the board invited students and staff to come together for earnest prayer. This was a solemn prayer session, where groups of students, staff, and board members sought for God’s plain direction. How those prayers were answered! Some stayed to continue praying as board members earnestly continued their deliberations. The board members were fully aware that God alone knew whom He had ordained to be the President. When the final vote was taken by secret ballot, the Holy Spirit had brought the 18 Board members present into one mind. It is hard to explain the sacred joy we experienced.

There will be a period of time before Brother Restrepo assumes the Presidency, when he, his dedicated wife Ivonne, and two daughters, Ivonne Alejandra, age 13, and Nelsy Giovana, age 2, will be able to move here. We will keep you updated in the future.

Some may be interested in Dr. Standish’s plans for the future. In his own words, “As long as the Lord gives me strength and opportunities, I will continue to teach, preach, and seek to warn and enlighten God’s people and those who are in darkness. I will do all I can to hold up the hands of Brother Restrepo and his family, and pray for God’s guidance in his leadership. I am deeply honored to have as my successor a man of God.”

The constituency and the Board have given Dr. Standish the title of President Emeritus. While he, his wife Cheryl, and daughter Alexandra will continue to live on campus, he and Cheryl will remain on the staff and will represent Hartland around the world.

May God bless Hartland’s partners worldwide.

J. H. Shin
Secretary of the Corporation
May 3, 2010

P.S. Please feel free to share this good news with anyone who might be interested in God’s leading here at Hartland.

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