Teacher and students lead others to truth
“Am I going to hell if I don’t keep the Sabbath?” Rosa was frightened.
“She was scared to death of hell,” says Chuck Holtry II, Hartland College Bible instructor and recent prophecy seminar speaker. Then the Holy Spirit did His work. “Toward the end of the seminar, Rosa’s fear was gone,” said Chuck.
This spring, Hartland students working with Chuck witnessed God’s power as they held a prophecy seminar at the local Amicus SDA church in Ruckersville, Virginia.
This is where Rosa had her fear removed, her life changed. But her life wasn’t the only one changed. There’s Kendra, who was planning to commit suicide. She had not only planned, but she had also prepared, assembling all the necessary equipment to accomplish her plans. Then she received an invitation to the seminar. She decided to try one last thing. “Her facial expressions at the end of the seminar were totally different,” says Chuck. “She became a new person. You could see a new creature, and that’s just awesome when you see that.”
Carl had a question about whom he should confess to. “What about James 5:16, where it says, ‘Confess your faults one to another’? Whom should I confess to?” Chuck explained that only public wrongs needed to be confessed publicly and that private sins were between him and God. At the end of the seminar Carl expressed, “You don’t know how much your answer meant to me. Thank you so much!”
Not everyone had an easy road to experiencing God’s power. Nadia, a Muslim, had been converted to Christianity by her boyfriend. Yet when she brought him to the seminar to hear the new truth she was learning, he ridiculed it. “He was mocking the things that were said,” said Chuck. Nadia didn’t come the next night. “That got me scared,” continues Chuck. “It was like, ‘Oh, no! She has given in.’”
But Nadia hadn’t given in. Two nights after the meeting her boyfriend attended, she came back. She’s now attending church.
The community was not the only group blessed by the seminar. “We saw instant answers to prayer,” said Julieta Tano, one of the students who helped with the seminar.
Another student, Lauren Simms, remarked, “As a group, we were drawn closer together for one purpose—to win souls for Christ.”
Please pray for the souls touched by this seminar. Thirteen accepted the Sabbath and six are continuing to study. Pray that the right influences come into their lives to lead them down the path of ever increasing light into that perfect day.
