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CREATION MOVIE..... Continued from page 11

Tour. Not any old non-descript hall had
been chosen to present the event, but a
rather impressive, very large auditorium
called the “Orphesus House.” This was
meant to send a signal. The same strategy
was not only used in Apeldoorn, but in all
other cities hosting the tour. In Emmen, it
was the “Utopolis,” a facility that opened
up only three years ago (they even rented
it out three times in a row), in Meppel the
“Ogterop,” and in Groningen the famous
“Martini Plaza.”
Posters inviting people to watch the
Creation film were put up everywhere.
Three presentations were sold out.
In the meantime, I was still working on
the production of the Dutch version of
the Creation movie. The language still
presented a hurdle. Then, emails and calls
started coming in with information on how
things were progressing locally: Radio
interviews were scheduled (with stations
contacting us), followed by a 30-minute
TV appearance featuring Johan and a local
SDA preacher. It had become a very public
event. It was no longer stoppable. Even
the Adventist congregations took notice.
But not only them - the Union

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leaders were surprised and delighted and
now wanted to get involved after all…
but with a bit of caution and from the
sidelines, as it were. God is powerful!
He touches hearts and moves people,
including the leaders.

Brothers and sisters in the faith would
regularly meet, praying for the tour to
be successful, for wisdom when meeting
other people, and for faithfulness, because
each and every piece of marketing material
included the sentence: “Organizer:
Seventh-day Adventists”. But this was
not all. The Apeldoorn preacher told me,
“Before, when we planned an event as
a congregation and wanted to distribute
3,000 flyers, most of those flyers never
moved, nobody would make an effort.
When the 20,000 flyers for the Creation
Tour were laid out for distribution and
I wanted to take some
for myself, they were all
To
gone. The congregation
God be
y!
the Glor
was so into it; they were
so dedicated. It was
incredible.”

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...for His Fr

I was born in Germany and grew up a
Catholic. Even in my teen years, I knew
that this was not the true religion. All
my life I was looking for something
el
more true to the core of the Bible and the Gosp
had to come to Canada
message, and I always say I
to fill this hole in my soul. In 2004, my husband and
s
I received a flyer that came to all Penticton home
in BC advertising Dr. Walter Veith’s Total Onslaught
in
series. My husband was particularly interested
tfully, we
the political side of these seminars. Regre
could only be there for four evenings but it changed
our lives. This was our first introduction to the
I
Seventh-day Adventist Church and was the truth
the meetings,
had been searching for. As a result of
we joined a local SDA church. I am so thankful the
Holy Spirit led me and my husband to attend Dr.
Veith’s well-researched seminars. Since my husband passed, I was baptized by Victor Gill and now
have a mission to live for at age 75.
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E.S.

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I then was approached
by another preacher,
and we talked a long
time about his event
in Groningen that
was scheduled for the
following week. He
said, “Henry, I would
never have thought that
such a thing would be
possible in our country.
Last Sabbath we took
Communion. Usually
there are hardly any
people there who join
us for that. But last
Sabbath, everyone
had come!” His eyes
welled over with tears.

“When we had to make a decision which
hall to use for the showing of the Creation
film, one that has 900 seats or one that
seats 1500, a young girl piped up saying
,“Do we trust in God, or do we trust in
ourselves?” So, the decision was made
right there and then. You know, we’ve
never experienced anything like this
before. The congregation pulls together,
we all pray together. For now, it has
been a true blessing, and I would never
have thought this possible. God does
powerful things.”

Sunday, March 11, 2012 arrived - the day
when it was all supposed to start. The local
radio station had sent someone over. He
did not only come for the interview in the
morning. He stayed for lunch, watched the
last minutes of our preparations, sensed the
anticipation through the microphone, and
listened to us pray. He recorded everything
and asked many questions. He even joined
us in prayer. A few days later, his interview
was broadcast and reached thousands
of people.
At 4:30 in the afternoon, the SDA members
were sitting in this enormous movie
theatre with tears in their eyes. They could
not understand what was happening. The
brand new, powerful projector was set up
at a distance of 50 m and that was good,
because the screen measured 200 square
meters. The Evangelism director of the
Netherlands Union was also there.