Elder Tindall's Model of Gospel Medical Evangelism
“soon there will be no work done in ministerial lines but medical missionary work"
- Counsel's on Health, p.533
You, Will be Tempted to Try this Elder Tindall's Model of Medical Evangelism after reading this...
John H.N. Tindall (1880-1972) was a pioneer in Gospel-Medical Missionary Evangelism.
He successfully won and baptized hundreds of people, had an enormous retention rate among his converts, and trained future church leaders. He was the first person to answer the vision given to Ellen White on February 27, 1910:
“During the night of February 27 a representation was given me in which the unworked cities were presented before me as a living reality, and I was plainly instructed that there should be a decided change from past methods of working. For months the situation has been impressed on my mind, and I urged that companies be organized and diligently trained to labor in our important cities. These workers should labor two and two, and from time to time all should meet together to relate their experiences, to pray and to plan how to reach the people quickly, and thus, if possible, redeem the time”—Manuscript 21, 1910.
In the First five campaigns, there was an average of thirty-six baptisms per campaign. That's not bad. But there was something that continued to bother him. The testimony from Ellen White had called for "Companies" of workers, and his little team of four to six didn't seem like a company. What was he to do, since there was no budget for more workers? In a sense, he did the same thing Jesus did; he recruited volunteers; lots of volunteers.
