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 Robert Zollinger Talks About What God Wants Us to Do  Services at the Laurelbrook Seventh-day Adventist Church on August 29, 2009 began with a Sabbath School song service led by Lois Davis, accompanied by Donna Kanna. The opening song was “Joy By and By”. Donna Rigdon had prayer and read the following Scriptures:Psalm 18:1 “And he said, I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.”
1 John 3:1 “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.”
1 John 4:7-8 “7 ¶ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”
Laura Mae Zollinger welcomed everyone and told a story about a boy who helped a lady when her packages fell all over the place. She complimented him. This remark inspired the boy, and eventually he became the town’s mayor. She emphasized that the theme for her Sabbath School program was “Loving and Caring”. Beth Brandt then played “My Jesus, I Love Thee” on the marimba. Beth Brandt mentioned that she was inspired by a Mexican marimba group. At the beginning of her senior year, her parents got her a marimba. Providentially that year there was a music teacher who knew how to play the marimba; Beth Brandt further learned more about the marimba while attending Southern.
Rubye Sue and Louise Faatz read a mission story from Ecuador about a high school girl who found Christ in an Adventist school. Leeann (senior) and Cassandra (junior) collected the Laurelbrook Missions Offering, which helps students and staff members go on mission trips. Laura Mae Zollinger concludes with a few remarks about love. A number of people read thoughts about love. Marvel Owen closed with prayer. The adults became one Sabbath School class to study the belief we should have in Jesus; the students studied a lesson from the young Disciples organization.
Following are notes from Laura Mae Zollinger’s talk:
1. We should even love people who are illogical.
2. Bad things do happen to good people.
3. Don’t hold back from doing good when it is in your power to do so.
4. Jesus wants our recognition and wants people to come to Him so they can have life.
5. If you want something to cure you from being unloving, using bad words, and bad temper, read The Great Controversy by Ellen White or your Bible. The rest of Ellen White’s Conflict of the Ages series will help as well.
6. If you have a hard time reading the English of the King James Bible, use a contemporary version like the Contemporary English Version. Read one version through and then start on another.
Following are notes from the Sabbath School lesson taught by Fred Douville:
1. If you don’t believe in Jesus as the Son of God, there is no hope beyond the grave.
2. 1 John 4:15 “Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.”
3. Marriage is a visual representation of the relationship between Jesus and us.
4. As two people are married for a long length of time, they come to reflect each other more and more.
5. As we have interaction with God, it won’t be very hard to live the life God wants us to live.
6. Love and faith are synonymous.
7. When raising children, as Christians we are trying to move them away from thinking of self all the time.
8. We have to spend time with Christ if we are going to build that special relationship with Him that we need.
9. When we give to people in the world when God has given us, we are showing the love Christ expects us to show.
10. The only reason we are still here in this world is due to the love God has for us. Only a small distance (considering the size of the universe) further away from the sun would make major changes in this world’s life.
11. If we keep our eyes on Jesus, we lose that self-centeredness that people who are not Christians have.
12. Christ laid down His life willingly, not knowing whether He would rise again, but knowing that He had gained the victory over Satan.
13. When we first know Christ, it becomes a total experience for us for a while. But then we get an attitude where we stop paying attention because Christ is not the center of our focus. We have lost our first love.
14. Only the believer in Christ can receive eternal life, but they must be willing to do whatever Christ asks us to do to be partaking of the divine nature. This is necessary for us to go to heaven.
15. If we are Christians, should people ever be able to question that we love Christ?
 When services resumed at 11:00, Robert D. Zollinger had the invocation or opening prayer. David Moses welcomed everyone and made the necessary announcements. Everyone then sang “The Lord in Zion Reigneth”. David Moses had the Morning Prayer followed by the congregation singing “Hear Our Prayer”. David Moses then called for the offering, which was for Georgia-Cumberland Academy and Atlanta Adventist Academy; and David (senior) and Katie (junior) collected the offering. The congregation sang the doxology, and Eugene Avila prayed for the offering and then read Isaiah 43:7 “[Even] every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.”
Beth Brandt played “Saviour! Thy Dying Love” on the marimba for special music. David (senior) told the children about one of his mother’s experiences mentioned in one of her letters to him. A dragon fly was stuck to a piece of onion, dragging it along with him. This was all that was keeping the fly from being zapped. God also puts experiences in our lives to slow us down from getting involved in an experience we shouldn’t be involved in.
Robert D. Zollinger preached on “What Are You Doing Here?”, the congregation sang “All the Way My Saviour Leads Me”, and Eugene Avila had closing prayer.
Personnel Other Than Students:
Beth Brandt – wife of Clayton Brandt, one of Laurelbrook’s maintenance men currently assigned to the vehicle shop
David Moses – academy teacher teaching 9th grade and junior Bible
Donna Kanna – head of the Laurelbrook Music Department
Donna Rigdon – works in the housekeeping department in the Laurelbrook Nursing Home
Eugene Avila – teaches biology and Bible to the academy sophomores
Laura Mae Zollinger – retired nurse living with her husband Glenn next to the campus
Lois Davis – Laurelbrook Academy registrar
Louise Faatz – member of Laurelbrook’s retirement community, wife of Jack Faatz, who retired as Laurelbrook’s purchasing agent some years ago
Marvel Owen – member of Laurelbrook’s retirement community
Robert D. Zollinger – retired former president and former board chairman of Laurelbrook, currently head church elder
Rubye Sue – member of Laurelbrook’s retirement community living with her husband Bill near the campus fire station
Following are notes on the sermon:
1. 1 Kings 19:9 “And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD [came] to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?”
2. We can look at the question in two ways – the events that brought you here or the reason you are here.
3. Elijah was there because he had just come from his experience on Mt. Carmel, where he prevailed over the priests of Baal. Jezebel frightened him by threatening his life. Elijah ran for 40 days and then hid in a cave.
4. Before we were born, God wrote in His book a schedule for our whole lives.
5. Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.”
6. Isaiah 49:1 “Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.”
7. Examples of this: the Persian king Cyrus, Mary’s baby’s name (Jesus). Each person fits into a great plan that God has.
8. Isaiah 43:7 “[Even] every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.”
9. No wonder why God asked Elijah what he was doing here!
10. Ellen White in Patriarchs and Prophets says that Elijah should not fled from his post of duty. Had he remained where he was God would have given him yet another great victory.
11. Too many of us think that if something wrong takes place that we are in the wrong place.
12. Ellen White also says the Lord sends angels to battle for us to stay the right course. Satan lays well-established plans, but God overrules these after He sees that we are sufficiently tested.
13. Elijah jumped up and ran from what God had brought him to do. He forgot about the battle going on between good and evil.
14. After the cave experience, Elijah found God talking in a small voice. The first thing God told Elijah was to go back the way he came and anoint a king of Syria and anoint Jehu as the king of Israel. He didn’t give him a rest period.
15. God leads us all in life. I have often wondered why God led me and my brothers and sisters, orphans all, from the mountains of Colorado to Little Creek School in East Tennessee.
16. Ellen White says there should be many little schools, not big schools.
17. The first impression on my mind at Little Creek was that I had only a change of clothes. Professor and Mrs. Straw took me with them on vacation and sat me with them on the front seat. She had me read a book about the sights they were going to see. She insisted that I read the book in spite of my reluctance to do so. They gave me five dollars, something I had never had, and explained that this money was for admission fees to the places they were going and for souvenirs from these places.
18. The Lord knew why I was there and what I needed. Little Creek taught me about the Bible and many other things to prepare me for the work I was to do.
19. The Straws decided that I should live with Granny Baker, who had a small cabin on the Little Creek property. She loved nature and taught all about the subject. I learned to play the clarinet.
20. Everyone at Little Creek helped pick strawberries. While doing this during my 10th grade year, Prof Straw asked me what I was going to do with my life. He told me that the Lord needed young people to build the small schools that were needed. This was the first impression I had that I could help young people.
21. The Lord knows what you will need and will keep putting you in circumstances that will teach you what you need to know in preparation for your life’s work.
22. I didn’t know at that time I would be head of Laurelbrook where the question came up was what to do about food. The Lord in our ignorance helped us grow some things.
23. We started the sanitarium with two patients in the old Big House. When I was a senior, Little Creek was building their hospital. Prof Straw put me and another senior boy in charge of laying block and putting in terrazzo floors. Later these skills helped me to help others.
24. At Little Creek, the boys at that time lived in six little Army shacks. Behind one of these was a basketball goal. I thought it was fun to play there. One evening a strong impression came to me, a question of what I was doing there using my time to play the game. This made such an impression on my mind that I asked Prof Straw to let me know if there was anything I could do to help.
25. Prof Straw let him know that at 5:00 to 6:30 a.m. he kept the student account books and he would be glad to teach me how to do it. Later I was boys’ dean at Laurelbrook and needed to know how much was in the accounts. $32. I had to figure out how to make some money to keep Laurelbrook open.
26. Ellen White says in the unpublished testimonies sent to Sutherland and Magan that the students should take part in the running of the school. If you do this, the Lord will put ideas and concepts in young people’s minds.
27. A young mind trying to help another young mind develops concepts it will not get any other way. This is the reason teachers and students should be closely working and living together.
28. What are you doing here at Laurelbrook?
29. There are all types of things everyone can do to help others. I grew a garden because people around here need food. Ellen White says the very best place to get your exercise is in the garden.
30. God has a certain plan for His work and His institution. As long as we follow His counsel and His plan, God will bless our institution.
31. What are you doing here?
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