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    So back in '08 in Lakeland I got a family of 5 baptized in the Holy Ghost...

    I don't know if any of you remember the story or not. I'll retell it but I'm leading up to something else.

    To make a long story kind of short, I was waiting to go into the meeting outside where everybody was lined up. I got to talking to a guy in his 40s and he was telling me about his journey from being a Catholic to AOG to Vineyard, etc. As usual when talking to somebody about these things, my 'I wonder if they're baptized in the Holy Ghost' antennae go up. So in order to find out I used the 'man, I bet it was something else when you got baptized in the Holy Ghost after coming out of Catholicism' approach to see whether he was or not.

    So he tells me he's never been filled and spoken in tongues. I don't remember the details now, but basically I talked to him about it and I said after they let us in and we put our Bibles down we'll go out back and I'll pray for you. So they finally opened the tent about an hour or so before, I put my stuff down and look for him and see him and his family putting their Bibles down and all 5 of them heading out back. This kinda made me a little nervous as I was only going to pray for him and he's got his whole family going in back of the tent.

    So we get behind the tent beside the porta potties, and there are some metal folding chairs out there from the tent, and we find 5 i think and put them in a circle. I believe the youngest boy was sitting on the mother's lap. I think he was about 10, the other brother about 15 or 16, and the girl about 17. So we open our Bibles and I take them through Acts, etc, (my usual 'method' when I pray for people) and then pray for them. When I tell them to receive the Holy Ghost all 5 of them lift their hands (as I had instructed them to) and begin to speak in tongues.

    What I left out was this guy had just resigned in '07 from being a high level executive from Hershey's chocolate. He was 'a "turnaround guy," moving from one sector of the business to another for a year at a time to bring about innovations' (quoted from the article link I'm going to post). Anyway, I have had contact with him a few times over the years, but not for several now. He contacted where I used to teach to get my email the other day, and the school didn't want to give him my email without asking me so they just forwarded his email. I just contacted him tonight so haven't heard back yet. He said in the email to the school:

    I am trying to reach [fuego]. [fuego] led me to be baptized in the Holy Spirit down in Lakeland, FL back in 2008. The result has been a rollercoaster ride for the Lord resulting in lots of incredible victories to reduce poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. If you could give him this message or supply his e-mail, I would like to send him a note of encouragement.

    So I googled him to find out what he was doing, and here's a few links. One link is to a Forbes article from '16, so it's not entirely up to date but it basically tells his entire story and worth the read to see what led to what he is doing now. The other link is to the company he started after I met him. At that link is his story as told by him. You can get to the home page from there too. I found a more current story, but can't find it right now. I'll post that link when I find it. Also is a video where he's receiving an award for his work in Africa.

    So you never know how just being bold about getting someone baptized in the Holy Ghost (or just sharing Jesus, or leading someone to the Lord, etc) can turn out and the kingdom ramifications it can have. His whole 'success' story didn't result from my praying for him and his family, but it was definitely a stepping-stone along the way.

    Why A Former Hershey Exec Sold His Porsche To Build A Cashew Business In Mozambique
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinds.../#31179d003fbb

    Sunshine Nut Co.
    https://sunshinenuts.com/sunshine-approach/our-story-2/

    The award starts at 1:05.




    And here's a video of him from '17 from his Youtube channel telling how the company started in a nutshell.


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    Awesome! Whoop upside the devil's head! I love when that happens!
    When your praise match your prayers, the answer will come.
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    Fascinating. Tells me something about how important it can be to obey the promptings of the Holy Spirit when the domino effect can be that huge. God knows about the future so he can set up domino effects like that based on our doing things that seem relatively insignificant at the moment.

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    Tremendous!!! Sunshine houses, ... transformed lives ....

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    As an update, he called and we finally talked. He said things were going great. These are from the notes I took because I didn't want to forget what he told me. He did go back into his history before being filled at my request to just refresh me where he came from. He built largest cocoa processing plant in the world in Chili while working at Hershey. He was also Hershey's 'turn around guy' and when a plant or whatever wasn't doing well he would travel all over the world and go to those places and turn them around. After he quit Hershey a large major soup company called him up for an interview and was so impressed with him that they actually created a VP position for him, "Senior VP of Excellence". It was about this time though that he 'surrendered to the Lord'. Dec. 7 2007.

    So the next year the Lakeland thing broke out and somebody told him 'I believe you're supposed to go to Lakeland'. So he drug his family down there which I think he said they weren't too thrilled to be doing that for vacation, and as they say, the rest is history as I related in the OP.

    Since then he's started the company and he told me that the company gives 90% of the profits away to helping others and toward the ministry they do. He said he is called to create 'family units' in Africa. They build or buy a home, put in a widow over it who is in dire need for someone to take care of them. They match them up with orphans to make a family. He said the government was very happy with that.

    He's spoken at the UN. He's spoken to business school in Harvard, and at Oxford in England. He is supposed to go back to Oxford this year and speak to 'scholars' and 250 MBA students. He is on QVC with his product and they want him to be on twice a month. He says they sell out what they have to offer every time he is on.

    Anyway, that's about it. Great testimony.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    Since then he's started the company and he told me that the company gives 90% of the profits away to helping others and toward the ministry they do. He said he is called to create 'family units' in Africa. They build or buy a home, put in a widow over it who is in dire need for someone to take care of them. They match them up with orphans to make a family...
    How neat that he still remembered and contacted you after all that time... especially love the 'creating family units' part of the testimony.

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    How neat that he still remembered and contacted you after all that time...
    Not really. I just make that kind of impression.



























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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    Not really. I just make that kind of impression.
    Now you need to work on the liberal left

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