Oh Give Thanks || EJC Virtual Church || Hagley Park Preparatory School || April 28

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please caught one zero nine one zero one zero nine [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] takes grace [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] you that are longing [Music] grace will [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome once again to oh give thanks your midweek worship service which is designed to recharge your spiritual batteries and to refill your spiritual tanks i am delighted to see you today and uh to know that you have taken the time out of your busy schedule to be with us on this midweek worship service now i know you had options you could have been elsewhere we're in the virtual space now and there's so many options but we're really happy you've chosen ejc virtual church connecting you to christ as is customary i'd like to give a shout out to a couple of our uh ogt family members around the world and so i i want to bring greetings to valmor bollings bollins and marlene parker thank you so much for staying with us sandra taylor uh i want to also give a shout out to paul at brown and this name love king and also to our regular family member supporter roxanna nelson smith it's really a joy since april of 2020 you have been with us and we have had a wonderful journey to this point god has been good to all of us and today is no different there is a wonderful lineup of individuals who are here to share their stories with us as to how god has been good to them in their lives i will share much more with you about them in a little while but as is customary we're going to begin our worship service with our opening prayer and that will be coming to us from sister anne hutchinson will you join us now as we pray loving god and our father in heaven indeed you're a wonderful god we praise your name lord for the privilege that you have afforded us to be in the space oh god to call upon your name loving jesus when the devil thought we couldn't come up with the plan there jesus that we cannot meet in the physical space oh jesus long ago you know dear god that we would have this opportunity where we could come online so that your brethren would be fed and so in this midweek service we praise your name we give you thanks oh lord for your goodness and your tender mercies towards us we ask dear jesus that you tabernacle with us wherever we are in the world and as we tune into this service come there jesus come holy spirit fill our hearts almighty god you are able and you are capable and we know dear jesus that there is power in the blood of jesus we know almighty god that we can depend upon you and even now sweet jesus loving jesus come and tap and knuckle right here with us oh jesus and may your spirit oh god may the holy spirit be felt in our homes anywhere we are in the part of this world oh lord we give you thanks in jesus name amen amen amen thank you so much for that very powerful prayer and by virtue of the prayer and its contents you are given a hint as to uh our guests who are with us tonight they are from one of our powerful educational institutions in kingston and saint andrew i'll talk a little bit more about them in a little while but let me just say to you for those of you who are just joining us uh maybe you have not yet subscribed and you have been told about ogt you may have been joining us for the first time we want to expand our family and so we're encouraging you to look at the bottom right hand corner of your screen and you will see that red button uh labeled subscribe hit on that button hit the notification bell and you will be notified repetitively when we go live we thank you remember also to like uh having subscribed to share the link with your friends if you have been blessed share the link with your friend and allow all of your friends to be a part of this worship service so that they can be richly blessed and their lives amplified as we look forward to the second coming of christ now we we we not only have prayer as our signature feature we also have the reading of the word and so i invite you now to join us for our scripture reading which will be coming to us from sister natasha williamson good evening everyone our scripture reading comes to us from deuteronomy 4 verse 10. especially the day that thou stood this before the lord thy god in horeb when the lord said unto me gather me the people together that i will make them hear my words and they may learn to fear me are the days that thou shall live upon the hurt and that they may teach their children thank you so much now that's that scripture reading was specially chosen uh in light of the fact that we uh have a band of individuals here from the hagley park preparatory school i am really delighted to have uh to speak with teachers uh and principal from the hagley park prep school now listen to this the scripture reading uh bears something critical it it it is a summation of the philosophy and the principle of adventist christian education you see moses was told to gather the people assemble the people before god one that they may hear his word to that they may learn and three that they may teach their children also you see in adventist christian education we we our education is christ-centered when you send your children to us we mold them we have them fashioned we introduce them to god uh having learned about god then they will be able to impact their world to infect and affect their world in a positive way and so it's out of great delight that i welcome my guests this evening on oh give thanks welcome welcome ladies and give thanks this evening we thank you so much for joining us we know that you guys are busy i don't know how you do it you know my wife is a teacher when i hear her you know sometimes especially with the virtual space it is so difficult parents are not as supportive and cooperative uh children are loose on the platform uh but but i really thank god for the patience for the commitment that you guys have exhibited uh at the hagley park preparatory school and and can i just say hagley park is a brand am i speaking the truth now in studio we have the principle and i'm going to ask these ladies to introduce themselves i'm not going to tell you who they are i'm going to ask them to introduce themselves individually and state their their position uh in the the school hadley park prep school let me start with the the the the the lovely lady in the yellow to my left let's start here i'm kamisha taylor i'm and i'm a grateful teacher at the ugly park preparatory school okay all right very well good afternoon well good evening everyone yes it's so good to be here thanks for having us yes i'm dr gilberton yes i'm the chief administrator that's another name for the principal that's another name all right what do you call it again chief chief administrator okay all right at the hagley park uh prep school wonderful tell us a little bit about hagley park why should people send their children to have the power what's the philosophy uh at ugly park prep school talk to us a little bit about that is one of the five schools in east jamaica conference yes for prep schools and we have our high school yes but we are at 171 hager park road just opposite the hager park as the church right um why you should send your child to a huckle paper because we provide quality we say ace education that's adventist christian education oh wonderful i like that i like that i like that and the children get a's and the children get a's yes good good yes we as i was saying we have uh we have uh dedicated staff and i heard you started out by saying that the challenges use the example of your wife being you know a teacher it's a real it's just a different scenario being online right now we are fully unlearned so it it there it's a big difference yes um call videos you know bring with it creativity students get more creative teachers get more creative and as we were sharing earlier kovid brings out the creativity in teaching yes they get to do different things and i guess some students are even more motivated they get smarter they now know how to hide behind cameras and or to tell you that the mic is not working oh really while you are teaching they could be doing something else okay but for the most part i usually comment my teachers you know and really just appreciative of the way in which we hold our school together online so much so that we might have difficulty going back into physical space yeah already it's going to be online is going to be something that is going to be with us for a long time hunger park prep has been around for over 60 just more than 65 years 19 since 1954 and still going straight yes and still going strong we we live by our motto educate for now and eternity so we are not just preparing our boys and girls for this life but in the life to go and already you have gotten the rationale for sending your children to hagley park prep school because we're seeing that they are not only being prepared for this life which by the way is not the most exciting life here but also preparing them for the next because because based on what our world had has descended to you really want to get out of this place quickly and and praise god that there is an institution that is christ-centered christian-based nourishing and nurturing children and preparing them to meet their maker their god it's a wonderful philosophy and i like it i love it that's the only regret i have that i never started going to uh an adventist christianity uh you know institution but praise god i i went to northern caribbean university and i'm very very much proud of the education i received um now sister taylor uh you know you're not just here for your singing talent um but by the way i must tell you we we enjoyed the praise team earlier that's the that's not that's just a slice of the staff at the hagley park prep school and and let me tell you they're not only our teachers they're gifted teachers teachers who can sing and um you know and get the children to be animated and alive so so tell us sister taylor yes yes pastor yes go ahead yes tell us a little bit about what is the drive what is it that i i heard sister uh utchin the doctor dr dr bettenstar dr betten telling us that you know the way you guys are infatuated with with with the platform right now it's it's as though you guys seemingly there's going to be difficulty to to to to to separate yourself from it uh tell us what is happening what is working out what what drives the you know the teachers there well i can't speak for myself personally i must say it has it has been challenging brilliant has been a challenge but with my children my grade for children now i realize we're not trying new things with them yeah they're like new things so since last week i've been using the jamboard where i send it to them and they click on and they can write on the border so if i give them something to do they can solve their problems you're using the what the jamboard jamboard right talk to us a little bit about that that sounds like you're at another level no man other teachers will know of it as well what was that it's um when you go no not a software it's not a software tell us about that it's like you're like you have a um powerpoint presentation have a board like that something like that but you go in your google your google your google email yes and you click on something you'll see it comes up oh and you share your screen and the children are able to write on it so i realized that you made it on the board right and they love that yeah they love it every day every day they would ask miss we can use jamboard today especially for maths because i realized for la well the first term i was having challenges because i would give them it but they weren't able to write they would like text the answer back to me yeah it was kind of less interactive yeah so no we're on the jamboree and i can see what they're doing right there much like you give a child the marker and said go under the board and oh wow what a wonderful time whoa and we play games as well they love the games and i'm they're learning yes they're learning it's very interactive i tell you for me i really love it i love using the jam where i can see them i can see the progress i can see all right this one is making a mistake there yeah i can see it right there and then and correct it whoa no you see you know these ladies the way they describe what is happening at ugly park you know it's a great temptation i feel like i could if i could get back i could reverse time or get back to younger years i would want to be a part of it um but but let me tell you we're not just here to talk about ugly park in terms of it's you know what happens there on a daily basis in terms of operational operationally we we want to talk to these teachers and uh you know about their encounter with god because this is a christian institution and they are not far removed from the happenings in our world they the very challenges that that greet many of us or most of us you know they it they greet them too so so we want to we want and i know right now you see some of your students are watching look at miss look at this right here you know yes so you make sure you stay right there you don't go anywhere right and tell mommy that your teacher is online and the dr bettin the principal is online it's not very often we get principles and that's a great thing so we are arresting her today so so let me start with let me start with dr betten dr tell us a little bit we know you're not just an administrator sitting down there or patrolling like some people envision but but you you you have had you're a christian and you how long have you been a christian all my life all your life i i we're not going to reveal how long that life has been but uh but but but but so to you would have had a wealth of encounters and experiences with god in your life but in through the lens of the christian education right there at hagley park prep school share one one of those make an extraction from those those those many stories uh that that you've had a you know encounter with god at at the park i think i think being at the park i've been there since 2016. oh so you've gone five years roughly now roughly yes but with the march 20th entry of kovid yes and we have to transition our school online yes i think what happens there with a covered experience i think that would have made us at agra park personally and my staff and all of us there as ugly park family stronger yes um we were the school who encountered the dust on the park roads during the road construction so you are the school on the highway yes or the school and the only school on the highway yes and we went through the dust bowl and we were still there i remember during that time we entered a a competition and um we were just saying just let's let's do it a few days before we were still hustling and bustling to get the stuff ready for for the competition and um we made it to the competition and we came out on top in our category yes we we got the numbers notwithstanding all the challenges yes but what i really want to share from that yes is a student one of the students who was a participant in that competition and he you know we were talking and everything and when he realized that we have won he looked and he said he shook his head and he said something good come out of the dust [Laughter] i like that so yes and i looked at that and i'm saying we have been through yes we have been through challenges and just when we thought that the dust was over and all of that we have to be finding phones to do windows because we are missing some windows from our upstairs building and we have to be hustling to get that in because we we thought at one point we would have been immersed with with dust yes and god help us through that yes and just as if that was not enough came covered came kovit and we went through our struggle but i think being online god has you know as you said if you look at all the those who work with metal or to change something to goal or to get it it has to be purified it has to go through that all of that if there is a school that during this period that has gone through the fire and is still going through the fire is hagripa prep school yeah but god has been very good to us he has given us you know good parents who have what i call it yes and i coined this term stick-to-itiveness yes you probably go look it up and see how it is spelt yes but that's our term our parents tick with us yes they stay with us yes they are just there and you're not funded by you no no and worse no we would have lost our talk shop our canteen because we are in virtual space so you know the little things that schools would normally do like you know you would sell some ice cream some fruits yes we no longer have that so we are totally at the mercies of our parents and we just can't stop giving god thanks for these parents who are always there when we had um when kovit came in march 2020 we had just about 300 and say 315 students yes our population since then has reduced to just about 250 in 220. there so you lost a third we almost lost a third we would have graduated you know some great six students that was about 40 or so and we were really doing good in physical space with the population for the first time that year we had three grade one classes in physical space with totaling about um our class size was like 25 so we had roughly 70 75 students just for grade one but we would have lost some of those some parents are not in for the online but online is what it is god has given us and shown us a different way to do different things but i just want to give him thanks for the way and the manner in which you know he has been with hager park prep yes i when we were trying to get back into physical space our building need to be painted and i remember i was writing a letter to a particular company and i said you know i was sending off this letter and i did i did the letter and i prayed over it and within two days i got a positive response amen and as if that was not enough a few weeks after that another person people don't just walk in and tell you to ask my company to give you something so i don't know where that came from but there's this lady who just walked into school and said to us she came into their office and she said i would also no writer asks for anything yes and other people ask you how many sinner asking for anything yes i was like shocked so again we write and we tell her yes this is what we need blah blah blah and it was there amen so i mean those are just things and thereafter and anything i would just say to the staff god is going to work it out god got that that was a slogan we were using what's going on god got that god got that yes oh no no some of you are watching right now you don't know you don't know you're right and from your left hand and you don't know you know the end from the beginning but can we just borrow that is it patented is it patented god got that god got that all right wonderful god to take a break but of course we're gonna have special prayer and i'm not letting go the principle i'm gonna ask her to pray a short prayer for somebody who needs to understand that god got that will you join us now as we pray and then we'll take a special song right afterwards will you pray for us let us pray father we are indeed grateful and we just we are just so thankful we are thankful for the many things that you have done and father when you have worked in our lives we just can't help but to share it with others we want to thank you dear jesus for the many good things that you have done for us at hager park prep for our teachers our parents our students our ancillary workers for keeping our school together and for being with us in a remarkable way we give you thanks we give you thanks for this program oh give thanks an ejc virtual church we give you thanks that we can share with others and we know that amidst the circumstances the challenges amidst the difficulties that you are still in control and you have done it before for others and we know you will do it for us so we thank you for what you have done what you are doing and what you will do in the future we give you thanks we accept you continue to bless us for your sake i pray amen amen amen i can't stop saying it god got that i like it i like it and you know every time we we have this worship service you know we we we we have a take away yes we have something to run with and i know you're gonna write so right now in the chat i want you to type that if you believe it god got that i need to see that in the chat right now we're going to take a little break as sister taylor yes sister kamisha taylor will give us that special song remember god got that [Music] things change plans fail you look for love on a grander's [Music] and you place your bets on another day when the going gets tough when the rides do run when you're just not [Music] will sure be there his love will never change sure as the steady rain jesus will steer be there when no one else is true he'll still be loving you when it looks like you've lost it all and you have a god a prayer jesus will still be there time flies [Music] [Music] sometimes weakness winds and you lose your foothold once again when the going gets tough when the ride's too rough when you're just not sure enough jesus will still be there his love will never change sure as the steady rain jesus will still be there when no one else is still be loving you when it looks like you've lost it all and you have a god of her jesus will still be there [Music] jesus this love will never change sure as the steady rain jesus will still be there [Music] and you have a god of prayer jesus will still be there when it looks like you've lost it all jesus will still be [Music] amen amen what a wonderful song we thank sister taylor for that very and you know what this oldest thing this she's saying passionately from the song service what we've been seeing is people immersed in what they do and if they sing like this you can imagine how animated and alive they are in the classroom and maybe in the virtual space um as they teach the children you know teachers children must say coming online um uh you know to to see the teachers and to hear them and to spend time with them and to divorce their parents for some time in the day it must be a nice thing um at ugly park and let me tell you something there's nothing one of the things i love about advent is christian education you can actually see the the intention of the curriculum it's one thing i noted uh when i was at northern kirby university i could see when i'm doing the courses i could see the intention of the courses the purpose of the courses it's not just academic but it was it was preparing me to be a thinker not somebody who would just simply rehearse and and and bring up back what other people tell me but but i'm able to think my way through problem solving and i suspect that that is similarly what obtains at hagley park prep am i speaking the truth integration of faith and learning right tell us a little bit more about that i like that concept you know yes yes sister sister taylor i know you just sang but but but tell the folks tell the folks a little bit more more about that that concept of integrate i never heard that in any other school only i hear that only in the advent of the system right right i hear that language when we talk about um faith and learning or integrating faith and learning what we're saying is really even though you're teaching academics you're telling them about god so you're say for example you're doing measurement you're saying god made me perfect look at my right side my left side they're in perfect harmony oh so you're integrating showing that god this symmetry yes exactly yes yes exactly so so so it's more like yeah object lesson objectives the students will begin to see the connects between what i'm learning right and our creator right you know so god is there in all the different disciplines that you do if it's science if it's math such as the example at least taylor just gave and um if if it's language arts god is there so you must begin to make the connect yes perf um perfectly your oh mistakes perf wonderfully made yes perfectly wonderfully me right right right now so so you just talked spoke about language yes give me a sub look as to how you you'll make god come across in language i'm sorry i'm putting you on the spot we can do i remember when i did a lesson on when we had ejc at a platform for schools right right yes right i remember that who's online and i remember i participated in in one lesson where i was looking at um structure um yes i was looking at structure it was a language lesson i was looking at structure and we were looking at how um you look at the different semantics as it relates to the the different types of what's the terminal um different types of sleep mama and i'm looking for the word but we we were looking at in the same way if you look oh god a building is made yes and you give the different dimension what you have to do right figure speech i was looking at thank you mrs i was doing that listener the figure of speech so we're looking at at the different the different structure yes i know we may make that connection but miss taylor also did uh communities some integrated studies so she might want to yeah just we're talking about community and as as our mother said we're educating for now and eternity right so what i did i just told him about the community in heaven that's where we want to go so i made that connection so even though we're talking about the different types of community yes our aim is to meet that heavenly community that's where we want to go yes yes wow this is we're getting some practical stuff here from from the hague park preparatory school uh you know representatives from the school we have sister taylor one of the teachers and dr betten the principal and they are sharing with us um their encounter with god and god's providence through a litany of challenges boy for those of you are just joining us you missed you missed that first testimony um what the school has been through a number of individuals would have given up already but praise god for the stick-to-itiveness ah and the fact that they had in the back of their minds this concept god got that oh trust me i you know forgive me if i repeat it's over and over you see because i i i i teach too and um as a pastor you're a teacher and and when you want to emphasize something you repeat it you you know you repeat it because i'm giving you something to run with after you've finished worshiping with us giving you something to to stay with so so so tonight we're really looking at god's involvement uh with hagley park prep school you know uh through the teachers and so so tell us a little bit more now about um what a typical day is like you know at well on the virtual space now what i was gonna tell you about prep school but the prep school is where it was no well it's still agrippa virtual yes for example if we start say and i'll share with you on a monday morning it's on a monday morning it's general devotion so we all meet on a huge platform and that one is facilitated by a wonderful parent who we we just want to give him thanks and just he's one of our parents also his name is sean bolton yeah and he allows us to use it nowhere ever always thankful yeah so we use it we use this platform every monday morning for devotion did you say his platform yes platform because the ones we have cannot host our entire you know we are ever so thankful so general devotion and we would have different speakers and so forth right we'll finish that that finish about because that is followed by principal's time and then we finish now and the students would get a break 15 minutes break and then they would switch from that platform now to their regular school their regular class platform we also use uh we use smart term as our teaching learning platform we can do it's like a record book we do everything on smart term mark register choose students put your grades students we do assessment there exams the students i guess even before ms taylor came here today she would have left work for them and smart term to just go in and do it small a control platform other than just sending them out into the wider domain when they go they just go and do other things when they are in smart term they can only do the work that is there so in other words they can't go on into do videos and things because my term does not allow for that to um so it's a more controlled platform it's a platform that we have to pay for but it's it's very very very useful and then miss taylor after the students so they will get the 15 minutes where they join their class at 9 15 somewhere there that's when i'm on the morning and then they continue but tell about a regular day for you all right as i'm dr bettin said every monday every monday we'd have general devotions everybody would meet there all the school would meet and we have devotion then they'll come to class but on tuesday to thursday right might we'll have class devotion now what i do is i assign different child our different students are assigned per day to the devotion on a tuesday one child would do it wednesday another would do you mean a fourth grade that conducts devotion in the class yes you want to hear them pray oh wow yes and thursday and i do it on a friday yes so after we finish our devotion every morning we have bible class so we're going into class yes man we teach bible we're going to a bible lesson can i quickly share yes last year when i got a student well you know every year you'll get your children new student grades um september you know i was there wondering how am i going to get to know my children because this is new yeah when when we went on in march i knew my children so i knew i was dealing with but no i'm getting some new children i don't know them yes i was there saying lord oh am i going to reach them i don't have personality who am i going to you know reach them through this platform but anyway i realized going quickly i realized there was this child whenever i asked her to the devotion she would come on late so she don't do it if i said could you pray for me she deletes herself yes so she relates yes very smart they are very smart if you're not if you're not careful they'll smart you so she would delete herself from class and then she'd tie me so she know when i asked somebody else or i'd pray she'd come back so this day no i just said all right i didn't call her name i said i just said pray after me and i just prayed and she started praying and passed i must say this is just something i'm sharing with parents and teachers don't give up on your children yes when you try it once or twice because they made they may do their thing and you said go that one rule they're not going anywhere i'm not going to do it if you're here that child praying no yes when i if i call and i say all right who would want to pray she's the first one to unmute her mike what is it that same child when i speak to the mother she's saying miss i don't know what you're doing you know but this child confidence level it's like she's not afraid to do things anymore amen we can't give up on them we just can't amen look here no you see that's why i'm telling you no christian education it gets me crazy i am telling you this is what our country needs this is this is the answer to the the mess the madness the the mayhem that we're contending with we want teachers not people who just come to do a job you know what i think when somebody said you can't give me a job no we're talking about people who are committed they have a career i'm talking about a body with a job we're talking about people who see their profession as a career and they love what they do and they invest their time and a teacher imparts themselves to the students so the children are not just getting content but they're getting personality coming across and sometimes they model that before the period what a wonderful thing to to sit down and listen to these to these wonderful principal and teacher from the hagley park prep school and pasta i just want to jump in because we can't end unless we share with you our recent evangelistic series that we just i was going to come to that today but let's not touch that yet because i know that our schools have a situation where we lead children to jesus but we're gonna remember now our main feature on or give thanks is our mid our prayer session called the prayer garden now you have been pouring your requests in the chat we're delighted that you're doing so we we and you know what we wanted to do one of these days starting now starting now we want you to just pour in the chat not only your requests but if your prayers have been answered type in the chat that god answered your prayers you you know we've been praying for you because we've been praying for you and we want to get your feedback to know what has been happening in respect of that particular request that you have poured into the chat so so listen to me now we're going to go to a prayer garden right now but right now we're asking you to just continue to pour your requests in the chat if we're going to be reading samples of them if you don't hear your request at least join us in the garden so will you join us now as we pray right there in the prayer guard tonight in our poor garden we first would like to give god thanks for answered purrs colleen smith just want to say a big thank you to ejc virtual church for their earnest prayer for sahara who fell down the stairs going to her apartment she is doing better please continue to pray for myself and three girls melita dennis god is good i thank you for your purse a few weeks ago i asked her for my daughter-in-law who had a brain surgery to god be the glory she is out of the hospital and recuperating and we say thank you lord for answered prayers marcia bennett please pray for my mother joy powell she is mourning the loss of her husband francilla lawrence please pray for my sister she is very sick frank joseph daniels please pray for energy focus and strength for me at work also for me to be positive and for protection over me lynette mars please pray for my brother he has throat cancer and also pray for my two sons that they will accept jesus we are living in the last days and god is the answer for all of us marine forms please pray for my husband and sons to surrender totally to god and his plans for all of us lives and that we will follow his leadership in jesus name walin solomon requesting pearl from my grandson mark he is asking to get the sabbat off from work thank you for praying peter forrester please pray for my grandmother she has giddiness when she holds up her head joyce webber please pray for my co-worker darren and his family as they mourn the loss of their father pray that the lord will strengthen them in their time of bereavement carlene moncrief please pray for altia brown who is having faith in spells summers johan please pray that my business will be profitable so that it can expand so that i can give an helping hand to those in need carlene lowellin please pray for my friend nicole lagrand who is mourning the loss of a loved one victoria thomas requesting prayer for my children to be loving and kind to each other natanya davis please continue praying with me for healing and financial breakthrough pray also for my daughters and family members and friends pauline francis i am requesting prayer for my son and family members those that are not walking with the lord to surrender before it's too late patricia harris please pray for my mom who is not well and my sister learning that she will accept christ as her personal savior tanisha rice please pray for my family also my siblings nieces and nephews that they may surrender their lives before it's too late marvitta stewart please pray for horace who was diagnosed with a serious medical challenge sharon williamson please pray for me i am going through some struggles right now camille macpherson please pray for me the macpherson kaplan and allen family michelle ford please pray for my immediate and extended family to be ready for the lord's return at ejc virtual church is requesting your purr for cleon simpson or production team member who has lost his mom please continue to pray for him let us pray eternal god we give you thanks for today we thank you lord for ejc virtual church and we thank you for this program we give thee thanks we come before you this evening and we want to express our sincere gratitude to you we want to lift up our educational institution before you and in a special way i want a single out hagle park proprietary school i want to pray for all our workers there our ancillary staff or teachers want to pray for our students and our parents lord we want to thank you for helping us to find the resources that are necessary to keep our school afloat lord we thank you for all the good things that you have done for us and we thank you lord that you care for us in such a remarkable way we want to put before you this evening all the individuals who are watching this program and all those who are now here in this prayer whatever the challenges are that you are faced with please remember that jesus is there he's listening he hear your heartfelt prayer those of us who are praying because you might have particular health issues because you are without a job because you need somewhere to live because you are not getting along well with your family members be its spouse our siblings our other relatives we want you to know that jesus is there and that he cares we ask that you just give it all to him place them at his feet and stand still and see what he can do we give you thanks o lord for just being with us and for this program and for this platform we pray that you will continue to be with ejc virtual church you will continue to be with all the producers the technicians who make this program possible father we ask that you will help us to be mindful of each other's differences we ask that you will continue to bless us and you will continue to pour your holy spirit upon us we thank you lord once more in jesus name amen lord i won't be ungrateful i woke up this morning thank you jesus i'm here because you did it and i'm believing testimony of your goodness yahweh god you did it i won't be ungrateful to you i will praise you lord i won't let the rocks cry out i'll open my mouth and give you praise [Music] to you i won't hear i will praise you lord i won't let the rocks cry out i'll open my mouth and give you praise i won't be on grace jesus you wash my sins away uncovering the price you paid for my sins i won't be ungrateful to you [Music] i declare all my praises to you i won't come this morning thank you jesus i'm here because you did it and i'm a living testimony of your goodness yahweh god you did it i will be ungrateful to you i will praise you lord i won't let the rocks cry out i'll open my mouth and give you praise i won't be [Music] i will praise you lord i won't let the rocks cry out i'll open my mouth and give you praise i won't be ungrateful [Music] i will praise you lord i won't let the rust cry out i'll open my mouth and give you praise lord be your grace [Music] i will praise you lord i won't let your ass cry out i'll open [Music] [Music] [Music] open my mouth [Music] thank you so much the prayer was refreshing we thank god there's nothing like unburdening yourself i really really appreciate the prayer coming from the principal dr betten uh petitioning the throne of grace on our behalf intercessory prayer you know so she's not just an a chief administrator she's a chief prayer warrior and we praise god for that now we're going to take our final guest our final testimony for the night and that is coming to us from sister taylor she has had her personal encounter with god through you know through a profession of course but but but but we cannot end cannot end without talking about something that is unique to adventist christian education week of prayer let me tell you i love i love to be a part of the week of prayer when i was going to ncu week of prayer it's it's it's phenomenal speakers coming point you to god you're literally hearing the word of god and as though god's speaking to you so talk to us teachers about weaker prayer and some of the success stories of individuals children who have given by the way can i just tell you i baptized somebody from from ugly park and she's doing exceptionally well so good good good very good um what i was going to share here we do have our week of prayer yeah and we that but it's the evangelistic series is different from oh yes and we we have just concluded we had up three three evening three three evenings we started on the 14th when's the 14th of april and we went on until friday fourteen fifteen evangelistic seasons yes all online and our speakers were students from the end yes so you know we cannot go on youtube we have the recordings tell us just like me on youtube yeah let's just go yes preparatory school evangelistic series yes and it will come out you know i have to and we can subscribe yes you can subscribe good so i'm gonna i'm gonna make sure i subscribe it's there and you'll see our speakers we have speakers from grade two grade three yeah four grade five we had yeah once one of our speakers from grade two we have two great three speakers yes and we had a great four and a grade five yes two great four and a and a great fan evangelistic they can go there or those who are listening to us here tonight you can go on and see and we have been doing a number of things at agra park we had our thanksgiving service in december of last year yeah and most recently before if we had our sports day who ever heard about sports day online we had a virtual sports day running we have medals and thing where you probably won't get to run online but there are so many other things you can do you can see that sports dating on youtube too on youtube too yes okay all right i need to look at that we have this thing we say hp we say nothing can't stop we yes we say hp nothing cannot stop us nothing gets can't stop us yes nothing nothing can stop us all right so for those of you yeah can we have some folks in mexico we thank you for joining us some folks in in switzerland and and and and other other countries uh especially in the caribbean uh french-speaking caribbean nations uh and spanish-speaking folks who are tuning in we thank you for staying with us and and we know that you're not so accustomed to the jamaican tongue but it's it's it's exciting hp we say all right yes ma'am and and but we're going to take this yeah thank you so much yes mr taylor share with us your story god has been good to you man god has god has god is so good yes and i must say growing up in the church i've often you know hear people testify and so god is a healer yes and god is this and i was thinking as a child are you older i would say my god i wonder if i can experience that one time you know i wonder if i can say god is an healer for real for me yes well last year but this is a bit outside of the classroom right last year during late late july i had had a frightening experience i was home one evening and i just felt like you know somebody frightened you yeah your heart just started jumping right but nobody didn't say anything to me i was there sitting and i was there saying i started feeling dizzy and i was thinking to myself lord what does that mean to me no because it's not her quick i don't feel like shaking so about something but my heart just beating fast i had to have to go and lie down anyway when i went there for about three four days also in that way that even my sister my sister was a nurse she said to me no camisha something that seemed right and she she told me this afterwards she kept looking at me throughout the night because my heart was racing she didn't say to me but my heart was racing no i don't know if i have any any heart problem right i don't have any issues with my heart so this was new to me frightening experience anyway you know she said to me monday because this was this was about this thursday so she said to me camisha don't you come on the passing or doctor and you need to check this out anyway monday morning when i went i didn't even know that the amount of blood tests ecg they did on me i didn't i didn't even know they could test it but to find out if you're having a heart attack so can you imagine it yes yes well i found that depository yes and the doctor was there questioning me when i went to the ecg they're saying i think it was the left side of my heart slightly enlarged and it's like each time i went to job i did about five or six the news was bad and i was saying god i was there praying saying jesus that's what is going to happen that i even hear at the doctor the doctor was seen like she was she told me she had to go to her superiors he's like they were they were trying to because my sister came so they weren't telling me everything so i seen others who were trying to find out which medication was best to put me on yes but i was saying god i don't want it in our medication because i know the side effects you may be fixing this and doing something else anyway they sent me on the evening saying all right we're going to watch this you need to go and do an echo and a stress test that is the one you work with anyway when i went cutting it short i went and i did the echo about maybe two or three weeks after the echo that could be a month and i'm praising god right now yes i am praising god when i when i did the the doctor said to me nothing is wrong with your heart so i i i can say god is a healer so hold on hold on a little bit did you say that they said the left side they say it was enlarged enlarged so i don't know what went wrong there i don't know if they were looking at me or somebody else what god fixed it god fixed it amen and i'm telling you i'm praising god so i can't stand and say god is a healer whatever the devil was trying to do to me god said no not this one yes not this one time i'm sitting here healthy as ever during your video are still quarantined can i tell you from this the onslaught of the enemy exactly brothers and sisters and friends you are watching i know that some of you right now in the chat you've been pouring in the chat right now your your prayer requests up you know some of you are ill some have covered some have cancer let me tell you i've read some of those stories some of those requests that you have put in the chat and it's painful you can't read those things and remain unmoved and as i look at them i'm really happy for sister kamisha's testimony because some of you think that god is gone on vacation that is not the healing business and that is a thing of the past in the bible you know but i'm really happy that in the present day just as recent that during this covet period god has intervened he has stepped in and he has reversed what the devil has as as erected are always trying to do and what we're going to do right now we're going to ask sister kamisha because she's going to take us out with a special song to close and i'm really really delighted for that but i'm going to ask sister kamisha to give us that closing prayer because since she has experienced it there's nothing like someone praying for you who knows what it's been like yes you know i i remember a story somebody told me about a nurse who the night nurse she was she was very gentle you know what i mean she she would she would rest her body and ask the person just lean on my mind so i can ease you but the one in the daytime was just so rough and coarse and and and and so one night she asked yeah i know you want to hear the rest of it one night she asked the the one who was he was so gentle why are you so gentle you know and the one in the daytime she should be of like man she's she's so rough and the night nurse said to her well i don't know about the nurse in the day but one thing i can tell you i know what you're going through i've had the same surgery i know the pain and trust me i wouldn't want my enemy to live through it so so so to help you nobody was there to help me and to bear it but i thought it go to just help you in your circumstance and so right now sister kamisha having tasted and seen that god is good what better person to pray that closing prayer for you especially as you go through your circumstance so will you join us now as we pray that special prayer for all them requests that have been pouring in the chat before the prayer garden and even after the prayer garden because as you know all gives thanks we believe in prayer and the bible says the prayer of the righteous uh a veiled much yes and the prayer of of the righteous will heal the sick that's what the bible says so will you join us now as sister taylor pray that closing prayer for us let us pray they are kind and everlasting father i want to thank you for spiritual life to see today father thank you for providing this platform where we can learn of you god i'm just asking you just washing from the crown of my head lord yourself my feet i pray that my prayer will come up to you as me sweet smelling incense and you'd answer according to your will god you see the many um requests in the chats jesus persons are complaining from people have different complaints god just as though their our face is the first was the problem but god you are the great physician you say we're supposed to cast all our cares upon you because you care for us you say burdens are lifted at calvary's at this moment i'm putting all the requests at your feet and we're believing that you're the great healer you did it for me lord and you can't do it for anybody out there they just have to believe and trust in you god at this moment the messenger just come divine those who are having the cancer touch that spot god yes torture that is going wrong in their body touch the asthmatic person god touch the person who is suffering from kovalev at this moment god you are the healer you are the bombing gideon father just come divine and close them close to them heal them heal them of the many maladies that they are going through be with their family members father that they may support and provide the comfort that they will need in this time just bless us continually be with us as individuals and collectively continue to be with us in your holy name i pray amen amen amen i i i i know you've had a wonderful time as myself with with the principle of the hagley park preparatory school we're talking about dr gail betten and you know in studio with me likewise is sister kamisha taylor uh who who sung for us the songbird sung for us earlier and shared her powerful testimony of god's healing touch god is still the healer but remember god got that god got that you can't you can't not get that you know so so so so on behalf of our our wonderful and hard working production team i just want to as your host pastor michael lewis tell you thanks for staying with us as we worshipped our maker by celebrating his hand in the lives of people even in the classroom even in the school room even among in the lives of teachers and students we want to say thanks and we want to say to you adventist christian education is at ugly park church is educating you for now and eternity and remember always god got that goodbye to you see you next week as sister kamisha taylor take us out with this special song what good [Music] when you're up against the wall and your mountain seems so tall and you're realize life's not always fair you can run away and hide let the old men decide or you can change your circumstances with a prayer when everything falls apart praise his name when you have a broken heart just raise your hands and say lord all i need you're everything to me and you'll take the pain away when it seems to roll low praise his name when you feel you can't go on just raise your hands [Applause] [Music] that is within me you can praise the hurt away [Music] if you just praise his name [Music] oh you can overcome by the blood of the lamb and by the word of your testimony you see the darkness hope as your faith begins to grow you're not alone so how can you be lonely when everything falls apart praise his name when you have a broken heart [Music] and he'll take the pain away [Applause] [Music] when you feel [Music] [Music] is he that is within you can praise you can pray [Music] if you just praise his name you

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