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Hartland Ministry Report February-March 2009 Volume 15 Number 1 HARTLAND MINISTRY REPORT Our Lifestyle Program Is up and Running Again! p. 2 God Opens The Train Joseph’s Dream 2 a Window 7 10 Evangelist LIFESTYle EDUCATION CeNteR When a Door Closes, GOD OPENS A WINDOWby Betsy Mayer ttention, Hartland family!” The impossible for us to legally operate in “Avoice on the campus intercom the original building. Today, despite paused. “The Lifestyle Education that building’s impressive facade, Center has just passed county it is still useless until it meets state inspection!” regulations. Estimates to bring it Hearty cheers rang throughout to that level range from $800,000- campus. I stopped my $1.5 million. A serious fund-raising Our Hartland lecture, and my students campaign is underway to accomplish lifestyle program and I knelt to thank God this, and by God’s grace it will reopen. is up and running for another miracle. The The closing of that building was a again. day was Friday, January staggering blow to the Institute. The 9, 2009, and five health college Health Ministries department guests were scheduled to was especially hard hit. Our health arrive on Sunday, January 11, exactly students receive their clinical training eighteen months from when the last in the lifestyle center. Without it, a Hartland lifestyle session had ended in core training component is missing. July 2007. Despite this setback, potential health Who would have ever dreamed guests have continued to call, and stu- that our 23-year-old lifestyle program dents desiring to study health ministry would suffer a tragic setback of at Hartland continue to arrive. God eighteen months? But in the next has not given any indication that we several weeks following that last should cease this vital work of healing program, a series of unanticipated and training. In fact, we are told that events unfolded that made it medical missionary work will be one of 2 HARTLAND MINISTRY REPORT | Feb.-Mar. 2009 the last gospel agencies still function- ing when preaching and teaching are no longer possible. An Interim Program In March of 2008, when it became evident that the lifestyle center would be closed for a significant time, the college voted to conduct a temporary program in the newly completed ladies’ L to R: Dr. John Kelly, Jesse Ravencroft, Ayumi Hashimoto, Maria Gligor. dormitory and to move the college ladies back into the mansion dormitory. Our first visiting physician was John A number of other alternatives were Kelly, MD, MPH (Executive Director, considered, but in the end, this was Rocky Mount Lifestyle Health Center, the only viable option. In preparation Virginia). He was here one day a week. for this move, the mansion dormitory received long-overdue refurbishing and Despise Not the Day of Small the new ladies’ dorm was altered to Things accommodate treatment rooms. The interim program is being A WINDOW Next, we had to find staff for the in- conducted on much the same plan as terim program. When the old program our traditional program, with some closed down, lifestyle staff members practical modifications. As only one either left or were incorporated into commercial kitchen is presently func- other open campus positions. tioning on campus, Finding a program manager was the college cafeteria our first hurdle. Taquara Institute is preparing food offered to loan us one of their staff for both menus. members—Maria Gligor, a Hartland The health guests health ministry graduate who worked eat their meals in for four years in the Hartland Lifestyle the mansion’s small Center before going to Brazil to help cafeteria. pioneer that school and health center. The modified (Read more about her on page 11.) In facility can ac- November 2008, the U.S. Embassy commodate seven granted her a five-year religious visa, health guests. The Health guests during a cooking class. our first miracle. rooms are lovely, with Ayumi Hashimoto, a Uchee beautiful hardwood floors and a sink Pines-trained lifestyle counselor who in each room. The treatment area in specializes in health education, is the the basement offers a variety of hydro- program coordinator. Jesse Ravencroft, therapies and full body massage. a Hartland graduate currently serving There is a homey atmosphere in this at Wildwood, helped for one month lifestyle education center like the feel- as our male therapist and exercise ing of a close-knit family. The common counselor. Our student therapists and sitting room is warmly appointed with chaplains assist throughout the day comfortable chairs. The kitchen/din- and on weekends. ing area is used for cooking schools 540-672-3100 | [email protected] | www.hartland.edu | www.egntv.com 3 LIFESTYle edUCATION CENteR and health lectures. hath despised the day of small things?” During the rebuilding of Jerusalem, when Zechariah 4:6-10. circumstances were formidable and obstacles In a way, we are facing that great mountain loomed large, the Lord sent a message to again. And this is always good, for we are governor Zerubbabel: “Not by might, nor reminded how the work can still progress by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD despite setbacks. We can show our students of hosts. Who art thou, O great mountain? how to improvise, training them to make before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a the best of whatever resources they may find plain…and thou shalt know that the LORD when they leave Hartland to push God’s of hosts hath sent me unto you. For who work forward in new and untried areas. v HARTLAND LIFESTYLE Receive massage, hydrotherapy, vegan cuisine, and EDUcatION CENTER individualized counseling from caring health professionals. Each 18-day session allows up to seven guests to participate in healthful activities designed to help combat lifestyle-related illnesses. Enjoy a relaxed, home-like setting complete with exercise equipment and kitchen facilities for health classes and cooking demonstrations. Sign up for Hartland’s NEW Lifestyle Education Program! Contact us today for a healthy new you. Call 1-800-763-9355. 4 HARTLAND MINISTRY REPORT | Feb.-Mar. 2009 AlUMNI Seeking theby LynetteLost Allcock Hartland helped me be a guiding hand in the lives of young people. avid Preisner was studying at a Dcommunity college in Utah when he David Preisner discovered God’s calling for his life. He saw and his wife, Tasha. that many youth were losing their way be- cause no hand was there to guide them. He ing the lasting impression of a star.” That knew that God wanted him to be one of night, David again dedicated his life to those hands. Without hesitation, he signed God, determining to let Him guide his up for the Christian Secondary Education future. major at Hartland College. In January 1998, God led him to an “One thing that stands out in my mind internship at Oklahoma Academy. There about Hartland, and the reason that I he met and married his wife, Tasha, and attended, is their continual today they both continue to passion to hold the standard serve at the academy. Tasha is high,” says David. “Hartland Hartland passed the accountant, while David continually calls for those on to me the serves as a teacher and the who are willing to put all on high standard of vice-principal. The effect of the altar.” excellence. his time at Hartland contin- One of his memorable ues to impact him and those experiences as a student hap- around him. “In addition to my pened one Friday evening after vespers. classroom duties as a teacher,” he says, “My good friend Daniel Lombard and I “I direct the communications depart- sat watching a field where thousands of ment, overseeing the school newsletter, lightning bugs were flashing their secret website, yearbook, and other productions. messages to each other, while above us Through it all, my motto is this: All for unnumbered hosts of planets, stars, and God.” galaxies made ordered patterns in the sky. “Although Hartland was only a small We contemplated the goals and direc- part of my life,” David concludes, “it gave tions of our seemingly insignificant lives, me tools for my ministry. It passed on to knowing that in the scope of eternity our me the high standard of excellence. Al- lives are like the brief flash of a lightning ways upward, always honor God, always bug, yet they have the possibility of mak- seek to save the lost.” v 540-672-3100 | [email protected] | www.hartland.edu | www.egntv.com 5 THRee ANgelS’ cHORAle The Sound of Light by Joseph Ware mazing,” he whispered as our last the question. She gives the reason God “Anote died away among the pews. sent 18 people across the country. He had On tour in Washington State, the Three a mission for us: He wanted us to spread Angels’ Chorale had just finished singing, light. And in spite of our weakness, God a cappella, the beautiful Christmas carol “I gave us strength to fulfill His purpose. Wonder as I Wander” in a rural church. “You came all the way out here to sing for us?” The young man slumped on the bench as he asked his question. It was our “You are like little lights that have very first concert in a prison in Northern come from the East Coast to the Idaho. He turned to his buddy, “Wow! West Coast to spread truth.” People do care about us!” —Concert attendee During the tour, we were able to conduct two music workshops in public This past winter break, the Three Angels’ schools. At the elementary school we Chorale traveled to the Northwest to bring went to, the music teacher told us, “My tidings of comfort and joy to Idaho, Wash- father passed away last weekend, and your ington, Oregon, and California.
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