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

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

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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

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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 because 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

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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. Two and message of hope gave me a much-needed a half weeks of our lives, a (not so) cheap lift.” We treasured these opportunities to plane ticket, cramped quarters in a van, and minister to secular young people. 28 concerts—why was this worth it? “I don’t like music. I almost lost my This brings us to another question: taste for music, but your music really “Why do we sing?” Why do Hartland stu- touched me,” a lady at the College Place dents journey across the nation and spend Church in Washington State told us. In their breaks floating words on chords? Is the Three Angels’ Chorale, we believe that our “performance” to awe others with our the Holy Spirit works a miracle between musical abilities, as we had obviously done our mouths and our audience’s ears. This for the man in our Washington audience? lady was evidence of that. One lady in Shady Point, Oregon, said, Why does God perform this miracle? “I was so inspired by your music! I know We go back to the answer to the original that the Holy Spirit worked through you question: God sends us to perform a mission last night. All of you are like little lights effectively. So we keep singing, not to glorify that have come from the East Coast to the ourselves, but to fulfill with our trembling West Coast to spread truth.” She answers voices the work God has for us. v

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Joseph’s

Dreamby Lynette Allcock

ord,” Joseph prayed, “if it is Your “Lwill that I attend Hartland Col- lege, please show me tonight whether I should proceed with my application.” Joseph’s first application for a visa had been denied. What if he were turned down again? That night he had a dream

in which a thin American man wearing Joseph Bruce applying a long sleeves approved his visa application. medical treatment at the “When I applied for the visa the Lifestyle Education Center. next day,” says Joseph, “I was surprised to see that the man whom I saw in my one gave me $900 to pay for my ticket, and dream was the one interviewing me for I hadn’t even asked him for help!” my appointment. When he saw my ap- Joseph arrived at Hartland in the fall of plication—to be a gospel missionary—he 2008 as a Pastoral Evangelism major. “I’m asked, ‘What are the teachings of Seventh- learning many things here. The subjects day Adventists?’ So I preached to him for presented draw me closer to God. My Bible five minutes about the Sabbath, the Law, classes help me to be humble, to be like and the health message! Then he told me Christ, to die daily.” When he finishes at my application was approved.” Hartland, he plans to return to the Philip- Joseph Bruce Palange, from the Philip- pines to establish a school similar to Hart- pines, dreamt of studying nursing so he land College. “When you have the spirit and could train young people as medical mis- character of Christ, you will be a successful sionaries. He enrolled in a nursing course, worker. I believe the lessons I’m learning but when he began attending, he believed here are preparing me to train young people that this was not where God wanted him. to be workers for God. So God led Joseph to come to Hartland “I praise God that there’s an institution instead and gave him a visa, but the story like Hartland to train young people to be doesn’t end here. “I had no money for a humble instruments of God in these last plane ticket, so I prayed that God would days, but I wouldn’t be able to study here if provide one,” Joseph continues. “I reserved it weren’t for the Missionary Training Fund,” the ticket, but was told that if I couldn’t pay Joseph says. “I really thank those who sup- for it, it would be canceled and given to an- port the MTF students. The Lord has made other person. Ten hours from the deadline you instruments to support those of us who to pay, I received an unexpected call. Some- need training as laborers for God.” v

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BotswanaAn army of young workers Hears rises. the Call

by Don Ball and Aaron Baker

will never set foot in an Adventist Ready, Get Ready, Get Ready!” The people “Ichurch or have anything to do were riveted. “We only have one opportunity with God,” Magattalena determined. each year to hear this type of messages,” said Magattalena had been attending our camp Nkosi. They meticulously took notes as if meeting in Botswana when she received they would never hear these things again. news that her father had a serious accident Thomas Jackson contributed the health and was in the hospital. Shortly thereafter, element, giving health lectures and natural yet another trial arose. Her faith was so remedy demonstrations. We witnessed first- severely tested that she vowed she would hand the power of the health message work- have nothing to do with God. ing with the Three Angels’ Messages. As we But her conscience wouldn’t leave her ministered to the needs of the people, barri- alone. One evening she came to us with ers were broken down and many doors were many questions. After a long talk, she said, “I opened to pray and counsel with people. want to start attending a Seventh-day Adven- As a result of the meetings, three people tist church.” We knelt with her, and she asked asked for rebaptism. Several young people Jesus into her heart. By God’s grace, Magat- asked for applications to Hartland College. talena and many others made recommitments One of the hardest things for us to cope to the Lord and left the camp meeting with a with was seeing so many eager young people much deeper relationship with God. wanting to be educated for the ministry, In Botswana, there is much opposition to yet held back because of lack of funds. But the preaching of the Three Angels’ Messages. praise the Lord—two are already here, and Adventists do not often have the opportunity possibly two more will soon be on their way. to hear their distinctive doctrines being taught. All four have the desire to go back and raise These circumstances led our brethren to spon- up a school in Botswana after their training sor a camp meeting to teach and train church at Hartland. members from Botswana and South Africa. God is organizing a mighty army We joined with Hartland graduate Ray in Botswana. We praise God for the de Carlo, ’89, and Thomas Jackson (from opportunity He gave us to share His Word M.E.E.T. Ministry in Tennessee) to pres- and to help equip this squadron of His ent over 30 sermons with the theme, “Get remnant. v

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The Trainby Martin Evangelist Colebank Last Generation takes to the rails. harles* was always hungry to un- Loago boarded the train to his univer- “Cderstand the Bible, final events, and sity, his backpack full of Last Generation many other things,” recalls Loago, a litera- magazines. Every day, he got off the train, ture evangelist from Botswana. “When his backpack empty. he read Last Generation magazine, he was Loago met many highly-educated people able to learn about these things based just commuting to the university. “I was in the on the Bible. It was wonderful!” second class in the train. Several passengers “He wrote to the address on the maga- could have had a doctorate or a master’s zine, which was the address of the ministry degree, and most probably had a certificate. I was working with. We sent him The Many of them were university students.” Great Controversy, and he studied further,” He says, “You know university students shares Loago. “He was speaking with an don’t read just anything, but they were excited heart. You could tell that he had ac- curious to know the truth found in Last tually been redeemed from the deceptions Generation magazine.” that had been taking place in Africa.” “Last Generation is unique. Because it Stories like Charles’ are not unfamiliar is so attractive, hardly anyone will turn to Loago Setswalo. Loago is originally against it,” Loago says. “It’s the most from Botswana, but when he went to a effective magazine I’ve seen for winning university in South Africa, he met Last souls. The Holy Spirit seems to have been Generation magazine for the first time. poured upon it. Ever the alert literature evangelist, he “If you want to reach secular people, you looked into it to see if it would fit into his must catch their attention and give them witnessing. “Frankly, I don’t like distrib- good stuff. You have to give them quality uting something that I haven’t read,” he paper, as well as professional literature that explains. “So I read it, and it was inspiring gives them something they can actually to me. I thought, This is well written. It’s think about. Last Generation magazine was good material.” good for that,” says Loago. “I wanted some- He put it to work. “Every time I went thing with which to witness and reach out to the campus, I’d get a bag full of Last to souls. I knew Last Generation would be Generations. Then when I got into the the best magazine to reach the heart.” v train, I’d give them out to the people who were in the same rail I was in.” Every day, *Not his real name

10 Hartland ministry report | Feb.-Mar. 2009 new Staff Maria Gligor

Maria Gligor, a 2002 graduate of Hartland College, is from Romania. “I first heard about Hartland in 1998,” she remembers. “I learned about it from a young pastor who met Dr. Standish in Germany.” After graduating from Hartland College with a health ministry major, Maria worked in our Lifestyle Center as a lifestyle counselor. For the last three years, however, she had been helping Diego and Mélissa Silva at Taquara Institute in Brazil. Because there has been a delay in starting their lifestyle center, the Lord led Maria to help with the Lifestyle Education Center here. We are delighted and blessed to have you back, Maria!

Barbara Russo

Barbara Russo, previously an office manager for a small software firm, learned about Hartland from some church members. “They came back from a convocation and told me it was great, so I wanted to go see for myself,” she recollects. “When I did, I was impressed by the dedication of the students and the fruits that I saw in their lives.” Toward the end of her previous job commitment, she sensed God’s call to work in a place that used uncompromised methods of ministry. Hartland and its needs came to her mind. We are blessed to have Barbara as our Stewardship office manager. Welcome to Hartland, Barbara!

Frank and Mary Barker, by Karen Johnson Gloria Patterson, by Richard and Betty Seabolt WalterIn Barker, Memory by Jerry and Karen Johnson of Vicky Ortiz Reyes, by Angela and Deanne De-Leon Howard and Flora Dugan, by Mescal and Otis Dr. Russell R. Standish, by William J. Koenig Burke Brenda Whitaker, by Jamie Whitaker Betty Gerard, by Jerry and Karen Johnson Joan Heinbaugh, by Karen Johnson Lyle Jewell, by Jerry and Karen Johnson Clayton Johnson, by Jerry Johnson Vera Johnson, by Jerry Johnson Jerry and Karen Johnson—34th Wedding Anniversary Evon Kelstrom, by Jerry and Karen Johnson In Honor of Rachel Perry, by Lucille Riley Swithers LuWana Lang, by Jerry and Karen Johnson Sheri Trueblood, by Friends at Decatur Mike Maybrook, by Iryna Maybrook SDA Church

540-672-3100 | [email protected] | www.hartland.edu | www.egntv.com 11 lessons from history The Unknown Reformer by Joseph Ware You’ve probably never heard of Jacob Arminius, yet he played a pivotal role in restoring vital truths lost during the Dark Ages.

e wasn’t a martyr. He never did any- Hthing heroic. He was no Luther, Huss, or Wycliffe. He was Jacob Harmenszoon, a pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church and a professor at the University of Leyden. Yet he played an important part in the chain of events that restored truths lost during the controversial belief that man could choose Middle Ages. to reject or to accept God’s grace. After his So much truth had been forgotten during death this became known as Arminianism. that dark millennium that God could only Under the Wesleyan revivals of the 18th gradually restore truth, gradually remove century, it spread to North America. error. His people could take only small Arminianism helped pave the way for amounts of light at a time. An example the great religious revivals of the 18th and of this is God’s use of the Reformer John 19th centuries, including the great Advent Calvin. Today we are hard on him for his awakening begun by William Miller, and predestinarian views (the belief that God culminating in the rise of the Seventh-day alone decides whether a person will be Adventist Church in the mid-19th century. saved; humans have no choice in the mat- The controversy between Calvinists and ter). As flawed as this belief was, during Arminianists had only just begun when the Reformation, the view that your eternal Arminius died in 1609 at the age of 50. This destiny was in the hands of a just God controversy still rages today among Chris- rather than a fallible priest was a step in the tians, yet the Bible is clear. Joshua in the Old right direction. Testament commands, “Choose you this day But God still had to move His people whom ye will serve.” Joshua 24:15. John in forward in truth. Another one of His instru- the New Testament pleads, “And the Spirit ments to do this was Jacob Harmenszoon, and the bride say, Come. …he that will, let more commonly known as Jacob Arminius. him take the water of life freely.” Revelation Arminius was a student of Beza, who 22:17 (RV). How grateful we should be for had studied under Calvin. But Arminius brave men who were willing to advance the embraced neither of their views. First light of truth against popular opinion. And as a pastor, and then as a professor, he how grateful we should be that God has became known in Calvinist Holland for his given us a choice. Choose Him today! v

12 Hartland ministry report | Feb.-Mar. 2009 questions & answers

Dr. Standish responds to the following question and a series of related questions. If you have any inquiries about Hartland, please email them to [email protected].

One of the major objections to Hartland is that it solicits tithe. In light of Q. this, wouldn’t it be wise to not accept tithe?

A. This is a commonly asked question. Let the Lord’s treasury, it is not a matter that me first explain Hartland’s practices. We do should be commented upon.” (Letter not solicit tithe, but quite a few of Hartland’s 267, 1905, pp. 1, 2; To Elder Watson, supporters do return tithe to Hartland. Jan. 22, 1905, emphasis added.)

Q. How do you explain Malachi’s command “I commend those sisters who have placed to bring tithe into the storehouse? their tithe where it is most needed to help to do a work that is being left undone; and if A. Many believe the only storehouse this matter is given publicity, it will create is the church. With this I agree, if the knowledge which would be better left as church is defined as the congregation of it is. I do not care to give publicity to this believers. This was the main translation work, which the Lord has appointed me to do of ekklesia in the early Protestant Bibles and others to do.” (ibid., emphasis added) of the Reformation, e.g. the Geneva Bible and Tyndale’s New Testament. The Strong’s Q. For what do you use tithe? Concordance’s primary translation of ekklesia is “(a religious) congregation.” However, A. Only for those uses which inspiration many Seventh-day Adventists use the indicates, e.g. ministers, Bible teachers, term “church” to mean the Seventh-day medical missionaries, Bible workers, Adventist denominational organization. evangelism, soul-winning outreach, and free Christian literature and media Q. Does not Sister White support the for those not able to purchase it. concept that the storehouse is the General Conference exclusively? Q. How do you justify your position on tithe?

A. No. She writes: A. God’s instruction is abundant in both the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy. My brother “I have myself appropriated my tithe to and I wrote a book: Tithes and Offerings, the most needy cases brought to my Trampling the Conscience. I encourage you notice. I have been instructed to do this, to seek to understand this issue from the and as the money is not withheld from divine counsel presented in that book.

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The Cureby Joseph Ware Millions are dying without this vital substance.

f I told you of something that people lack Iso desperately that they are dying in need of it, would you be interested? And if you learned that you could help supply the lack to these dying people, would you be curious? You might say, “There are so many things lacking in this world. We hear of food shortages in third world nations, of gas shortages in Eastern Europe. We hear of companies with deficits. Countries like Somalia, Af- ghanistan, and Thailand lack peace. All these shortcomings are so big. Where could some- one as small as I help? What lack could I fill? economy is doing well.” Our God is infinite, Besides, with the economy the way it is, I’m unconstrained by the economy. He is the beginning to lack things myself.” infinite Supplier who will fill us And I would answer, “This need with power. of which I write is not something You ask, “But where do I fit?” like food or money, of which there The last part of the verse will never be enough. There is no answers this: “according to the such thing as an infinite supply of power that worketh in us.” God food or oil, but there is an infinite has chosen us to be the channels supply of this mystery thing. For of His mighty power—the power

a Christian, there’s no excuse for Joseph Ware that can change the way you act, having less of it even when the Student Editor that can spark love in your heart economy is plummeting.” for the unloved. “Don’t keep me waiting,” you would say. There is a world ignorant of the power of “Tell me what this mystery substance is.” God to save. You can play a part in dispel- The Bible says in Ephesians 6:20, “Now ling that ignorance. As you receive power unto him that is able to do exceeding abun- from God, you will be empowered to share dantly above all that we ask or think, accord- with those who are perishing for a lack of ing to the power that worketh in us.” Unto this power. The cupboards might be bare, whom? God, of course—the God of power the clothes threadbare, but nothing says that and love, the God of our salvation. Notice a Christian can’t have an infinite supply of the verse doesn’t say: “Now unto him that is the power of God. Do your part to fill this able to do exceeding abundantly when the lack and tap into the power of God. v

14 Hartland ministry report | Feb.-Mar. 2009 president’s perspective My Call to Self-

Supporting Workby Colin D. Standish I never thought I would leave denominational work for self-supporting work. How wrong I was!

hirty years ago, I left denominational Riding back from that constituency meet- Twork for self-supporting work. Since ing, I breathed a silent prayer, “Lord, if you then, I have occasionally been questioned want me to remain president of CUC, please why I, as an ordained minister of the give me strength. But if there is somewhere I Seventh-day Adventist Church and former can serve You better, please send me a call.” I president of two SDA colleges, chose self- had no thought of self-supporting work; only supporting work. My answer has always denominational work. Almost immediately, a been the same: I did not choose self-sup- call came from the newly-established Weimar porting work! While I admired the work Institute, asking me to be the leader of the yet- that self-supporting people were doing, I did to-be-established Weimar College. I had not not believe that it was the work to which told anyone of my silent prayer. My shock was God was calling me. How wrong I was! great! But I had made a promise that if a call In February 1978, Columbia Union Col- came, I would accept it. That I did. lege (CUC) had the opportunity to follow Since then, He has enlarged my ministry God’s call to relocate to the country. As pres- for Him. It has been the toughest respon- ident, I strongly supported that initiative. In sibility; the alienation by many denomina- two surveys taken throughout the Columbia tional leaders has not made it easier. But Union, church members voted 70 percent false rumors and criticisms are small con- in favor of moving CUC to the country. My cerns when weighed against the knowledge passion to move the college, however, was that I have followed God’s will. not because of a poll, but the result of my In these closing moments of Earth’s his- study of the Spirit of Prophecy. tory, I urge you to place your life on the altar Sadly, the initiative was voted down by the today. Ask the Lord, “What wilt Thou have Columbia Union Constituency. The deceit- me to do?” This is the least we can do for the ful politicking involved only reinforced my One who gave all for our salvation. belief that the vote was not of God. God’s people had let Him down!

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