In this episode of Quality Living With Peaceful Support, radio voice Amanda Whittemore talks with Pastor Barry Kimbrough, a Seventh Day Adventist pastor, about his journey in ministry and perspective on quality living. Barry shares his passion for faith, peace, and community, reflecting on his lifelong calling to ministry, which began at age 14. Barry […]
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Okay. Here on the Quality Living with Peaceful
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Support program, we get into
exactly
that,
that being quality living.
Where does it come from?
How do we get more of it? We
bring in
various types of humans.
We've had a couple of animals on the
show. It's it's a lot of fun.
And, all walks of life.
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And today, we are super, super
grateful to have
Barry Kimbo.
Barry Kimbo is the pastor of the Seventh
day Adventist Church
here in Brookings and Gold Beach and Cave
Junction. Yes. All three of these Seventh day
Adventist churches.
Thank you, Barry, for being here in the
station with us. Thank you for inviting me.
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Absolutely.
It's such a super special gift. We're very
appreciative.
Glad to be here with you. Oh, how
how did you get here to Brookings?
Well, pastors get around.
So I'm originally from the West Coast, grew
up in Southern California,
but my pastoral ministry started in Idaho. I
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worked there for a number of years,
went back down to Southern California where I
had grown up,
had a few years of ministry there, and
then got an invitation to the East Coast,
spent
almost fifteen years in Massachusetts,
then four years in West Virginia.
And then about 2018,
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we were
informed that there was,
some vacancies out here in Oregon,
and my wife had,
some family here in Oregon. And, we had
been
looking for a milder climate Mhmm. For some
family needs. Mhmm. And so, fortunately,
the door of opportunity opened to come here
to Brookings. We had an interview with a
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church,
or I should say churches
Mhmm. Because I do more than one church
as you mentioned.
And we moved here in 2018
Mhmm. And have been here since then. Wow.
It's a view we love living here. It's
just gorgeous living here on the Southern Oregon
Coast.
Nice. Nice. And
your family is totally content with all the
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moving around and being here and it's been
a while since you've gone somewhere. Are you
gonna stay?
I would like to have a longer stay.
You know, you kinda have to be careful
how you plan your life, though. You never
know what the future might hold. Mhmm. But,
yes, we have enjoyed it here in Quacken.
We live on top of a mountain on
several acres. Mhmm. And
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four minutes down the road to the beach
Oh. And it's up in Gold Beach where
we live. So
then being in Gold Beach, Brookings, and Cave
Junction, how does that happen?
Fortunately,
the churches have leaders that can run the
church services when I'm not there, including doing
sermons Mhmm. Elders who do sermons. And so
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because we've got good leaders in all three
of the churches, they run like a well
oiled machine,
and I get around to on a on
a rotation
basis
and, cover all the churches.
Sometimes doing more than one in one day,
but not always. Okay.
And, with all of everybody's help,
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it makes it doable.
That is quite a variety
of locations.
It gives the local
church members
more leadership.
Right. And a a different
variety of
humans giving a a different sound of voice,
a a way of presenting, and something that
they can
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have new energy to. That's true. Yeah. There's
a variety of speakers. Mhmm. Variety of leaders.
Mhmm.
We have, you know, the towns are different.
Oh. Gold Beach, smaller. Mhmm. Brookings being the
biggest town. And Cave Junction actually was added
only within the last year, so I've gotten
acquainted with the town of King Cave Junction
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now for the last many months. Nice. And
I had a great time. Yeah. I could
imagine. It adds variety. That's true. Mhmm. Mhmm.
And so with the
being a pastor, did you always were you
have you always been a pastor into your
with your ministrationship?
It is the only full time career that
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I've ever had. That's true. I I studied
in college to be a pastor.
I did work at a few other jobs,
you know, part time as a student such
as that.
But,
yes, since 1988
Wow. Full time at it.
So
I,
really had
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no question
from about the age of 14 Mhmm. What
I wanted to do with my life. Mhmm.
At that time,
I reached a point where I had seen
some real brokenness in life. Mhmm. And I
I really wanted to find answers. How do
you live
at peace with yourself? How do you live
at peace with others? Mhmm. How do you
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live at peace with God Mhmm. So that
you can have a peaceful and happy life?
I was very, very keen
to find out
right about the age of 14. Mhmm. I
I I don't remember before that, you know,
being on such a quest. Mhmm. But at
that age, it became a a real intense
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interest,
just a,
almost an obsession, I would say. Right.
And and it was at that age that
God became very real to me,
where I felt that I had,
the answer to my questions.
And also my career choice
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started at that point. Before that, I think
I thought more about making a lot of
money. Okay. And trying to, you know,
just enjoy a lot of material
things in life. I'm not against material things.
You gotta have them. But you don't want
them to have you. You don't want them
to rule you. Mm-mm.
So
I
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was,
really,
that at that time during at at the
age of 14, I started
to read the Bible for the first time
on my own for my own interest Mhmm.
Not just for, like, a class at school
Right. Or for church or something. And
and I will say that
I had a wonderful experience
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Mhmm. That
pointed me in the direction that I'm in
now.
Phenomenal. And so with this quest for
how do
you live in peace when there's all this
chaos or this hardships or these things that
are just knock us down,
did you what was your answer?
Well,
that's a good question.
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And I would say that
part of it was coming to an understanding
of,
you know, why is there
chaos in the world? Mhmm.
A lot of us just don't really know
why that is. We we see that it's
bad.
Okay. I'll introduce her. Oh.
Yes. So I I learned that as the
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Bible says that, you know, God created a
perfect world, and Adam and Eve were in
harmony with God and everything was perfect.
They chose to go a wrong direction with
some you know, God had given them a
little test Mhmm. Which they
they made a choice
to go against that, and it plunged the
world into
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what we would call
sin or evil
that we understand.
And yet, fortunately,
the rest of the Bible story is about
how God wants to set it right again,
and he want he he does have a
a better world,
his beautiful world of tomorrow.
And so
the fact that it's gone wrong is not
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the end of the story. Right. So he's
found it within you found it within his
words Yes. Through the bible. That's beautiful. It
sounds like we have a caller tapping in
calling into the station here.
We wanna hear more about this. Is our
caller on?
Yes. Hello. Hello there. You're on the KCIW
radio station with quality living and peaceful support,
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and we have Barry
Kimbrough, the pastor of Seventh day Adventist Church
in the station. Did you have a question?
I do have a question. Tell us who
you are.
Oh, well, you know me as,
being part of the radio station,
Bobby Goldman. Hi, Bobby.
How are you? And so,
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I was asking about the pastor because I
have been to the Seventh day Adventist churches,
and I love them. Absolutely.
I do love them.
And I respect them, and they're amazing. But
my only one question is regarding that.
Why don't they ever talk about the New
Testament?
And I don't know who to ask that
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question to
except for a pastor.
Okay. Well, thank you for your question.
I appreciate that.
And,
yes,
we believe in the Old Testament and the
New Testament.
We don't
only hold to one or the other.
And,
I'm sorry that you got the impression that
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we don't believe in the New Testament because
without the New Testament, we would not have
the gospel. We wouldn't have the resurrection of
Jesus. We wouldn't have the hope of eternal
life as it is presented
so beautifully in the New Testament.
A lot of my sermons are from the
New Testament, and
so I think probably one of the reasons
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why, though, that some people might think that
we
do have a very high regard for the
Old Testament
is because
we believe
in the book of Genesis,
and that was the book of beginnings.
And God gave two beautiful gifts
to humanity in the book of Genesis. He
gave
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the gift of marriage.
Adam and Eve was the first wedding that
was performed,
and he gave the Sabbath as a gift.
And we cherish the Sabbath as a gift,
and it is presented there in the Old
Testament. But, of course, it's mentioned many times
in the New Testament as well.
Jesus Christ did many
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wonderful miracles of healing on the Sabbath,
and He had some conflict with the Pharisees
of His day because they had set up
all kinds of man made rules
about how the Sabbath should be kept and
had turned it really into a burden rather
than a blessing.
And so he came to show the true
meaning of the Sabbath that's to be a
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blessing for for all people of rest and
refreshment
once a week.
And so, no. We do believe in the
New Testament very much so,
and we believe the the Old Testament and
the New Testament,
fit together beautifully. Yeah.
Absolutely.
And I totally agree with that. And so
when I have been to your Seventh day
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Adventist church, the one in Rockland, which I
had prayed for for four years to come
alight to the Seventh day Adventist, guess what
happened? I was in the apartment,
and right across the street, guess what?
Vacant lot. And guess what happened?
A Seventh day Adventist church was born.
And pastor,
Gray
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or Guy Gray or Guy. I think pastor
Gray led it, and I was so happy.
Oh my gosh. And I went to that
church, and I washed the feet, according to,
what that day was of the women being
with the women and the men being with
men washing their feet and whatnot. And it
was amazing.
And so
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then I moved to Brookings, Oregon, and I
found out that,
the, Greg Goodchild,
who is, I think,
a pastor or
I don't know what you call them, youth
pastor
over at the, church on Norwood,
for the Seventh Day Adventist Church there, and
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he comes up to Brookings, Oregon.
And I was like, oh, do you are
you familiar with pastor Greg Goodchild?
You're asking me
that question? Okay.
You know,
I have not met him.
One of the nice things about our church
is that it's big enough that you can't
know everybody.
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Oh, okay. And so
so I I you know, I have not
I've never heard his name, and I've never
met him, but I'm glad that you
had a positive experience at the church there
with with him as the pastor.
And so I'd like to meet him someday,
but,
haven't had the privilege of meeting him yet.
Okay. Have you ever met the pastor over
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in Rockland
from that church?
Yeah. Mister Gray?
Nope. Nope. There's another one I don't know.
You see, I've been here in
Brookings for about six years,
and, we have our churches organized by region.
So Right. When I attend a meeting with
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all the pastors,
I only meet those that are from, actually,
from Western Oregon. We call it the Oregon
Conference.
And Gotcha. Those that live in Northern California,
they've got their own. They have their own
meetings,
and we don't have national meetings
hardly ever where we would all come together.
And even if we did, there would be
so many that, you know, you wouldn't be
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able to meet everybody. But sounds like a
possible opportunity in the near future. Someday, yeah,
someday, we That's what I was thinking. Okay.
Yep. So yeah. So I just wanted to
you know, because when,
I went to the church on Norwood, which,
Norwood,
in California
off the exit of Norwood.
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And I went to that church, and, I
was there for a while. And all they
talked about was the Old Testament. I'm like,
why don't you guys ever preach on the
New Testament
and about Jesus and why?
And so,
yes. Pastor Barry for bringing that to the
light and seeing the connection and that they
do utilize all parts. And we thank you
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for your call today.
Okay.
And we will talk to you in the
near future. You can, contact Barry directly. Can
you go ahead and tell her how she
could email you? Or
Sure. You can send me an email at
barrykimbro7@gmail.com.
That's lowercasebarrykimbr0ugh,thenthenumber7@gmail.com.
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And anyone who's listening is welcome to send
me a question on email if you'd like
to send one.
And are you in Brookings, Oregon?
I am.
I serve the Brookings Church.
I also serve the Gold Beach Church and
the Cave Junction churches.
Wonderful. Thank you so much, Barry. Alright. Thank
you, Bobby. To meet you today.
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Have a good day.
Thank you. Good night. Good night.
Alright. So we are on the Quality Living
with Peaceful Support show, and that was a
call in. Everyone's welcome to do that anytime
they want. (541)
661-4098.
And we're gonna continue our talk here with
Barry Kimbo Kimbro
of the Seventh day Adventist Church.
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And we
have a normal question that we ask everybody
on the show,
because we are on quality living with peaceful
support. We ask them, what exactly does
quality living or what is
let's start with one question at a time.
Let's go even
further. What does living
your what is your favorite part of living?
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My favorite part of living is giving.
Oh,
nice.
Yeah. I enjoy
receiving
and giving.
Nice. And I think that
the best way to happiness
is to make others happy.
Oh, yeah. So when we give
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another one of my favorite little stay quotes
is what we
give forever
is our own
in the sense that we we give. I
mean, we maybe we give something up in
that sense, but
we cherish the memory of
being able to enrich the life of another
person.
Oh, yeah. So Yeah. That's very true. That's
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very true. Okay. And then our other question
we have is
what how does
what does quality living represent to you? For
me,
quality living is enjoying
God's blessings
and sharing them with others. Mhmm. So we
need to have
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enough for our own needs. You know? God
has
every blessing that he wants to give to
us, whether it's something
physical,
tangible, material,
whether it's something more spiritual Mhmm. Emotional
Mhmm. Relational.
Whatever kind of gift it is Mhmm.
We can be a blessing to others with
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gifts of God. Oh, yeah. We love that
part.
And it seems to flow, like, unconditionally and
without effort when it's in that that form.
You don't even know how you even obtained
what you obtained to give but, you know,
when you're doing things for other reasons and
you're trying so hard and you just can't
seem to get it all together and you
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realize
you let go, you let God and
the abundance flows.
The the wonderful
truth is that,
God is able to fill up our needs.
We find our our need for love is
filled with the love of Jesus Christ,
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and
our opportunity
and need to
serve is in the process of
blessing other people with those blessings. Definitely. Yeah.
Definitely.
And
your
path or your mission,
goes very well with peaceful support. And so
how do you
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get more of that or how do you
present that to your community? What are some
ways of providing peaceful support?
It's important to
understand what the needs of people are.
We have done food ministries
in our churches. Mhmm. And
we've we've had it in the past, and
we we still do it. In Brookings, we
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have a free luncheon every Saturday
after our church service.
Not I'm sorry. Not every Saturday. The second
and the fourth Saturdays of the month. We
do a free luncheon. Everybody's invited to come.
It is at 12:45PM
that we serve that lunch. And will you
tell our listeners where your church is? 102
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Park Avenue.
It is next to the Village Rehab Center.
Mhmm. And,
just in that section, you can actually see
the church from the main
street. If you're, standing by the cinema Mhmm.
You can look up and see the church
right up there. There's a stained glass in
the window,
and,
the services are on Saturdays.
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And we have bible study at 10:00
Mhmm. And worship service at 11:15.
Mhmm.
And anybody is welcome to join us anytime
for for our services. We're happy to have
visitors,
and
we,
look forward to having folks come. Nice. Thank
you so much. It's such a gift. It's
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a gift, really, to the community. And,
we hear that it's mostly vegetarian or all
vegetarian?
Yes. The luncheons are all vegetarian.
Very nice. Yeah. That's a tradition that we
have.
It's another thing that we take from the
book of Genesis because,
originally,
there was,
you know, there was no death. There was
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no killing originally.
Mhmm. And so,
we like that. Now we do not make
it a rule for church members to be
a vegetarian. It's something that we encourage
and we promote it,
but,
we don't make that a requirement.
Mhmm. Mhmm. Yeah. Everybody is accepted. Everybody's the
on a you know, we're we're not all
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made the same way and,
there's
differences among us, you know, variety of the
spice of spice of life. So
Very well said.
Sweet.
Nice. So with,
all these services and
your rotation in the different communities,
is there anything
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that you see even though you see the
differences? Is there a common
union that you see within the three locations?
You know, there's certain ways that all people
are the same. Mhmm. Everybody
responds to kindness. Mhmm.
Everybody has certain basic human needs Mhmm. For
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peace, for answers in life Mhmm. For their
physical needs to be met,
whether that's food, clothing,
or,
in some cases,
information that's helpful. Mhmm.
So,
yeah, each community is a little bit
different in a way, and yet
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also the same in certain ways. Mhmm.
I've worked in communities where it seemed like
most people
had never ever been outside of that community.
Wow. I've worked in other places where you
just have people from all over the world,
you know, living there. Mhmm. I pastored a
church that had a
university within walking distance from the church. Oh,
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nice. We had students from all over the
world. Right. And they were coming to the
church, and that was a great thing. Mhmm.
So, yeah,
Gold Beach
used to be
a town where they had a lot of
the lumber industry going on. Mhmm.
And, but I've come along since that's long
since really kind of in the past.
So,
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we don't have as many people up there
as we used to,
but we're glad for the ones that we
have. That's true. And,
Brookings,
we
we have
a lot of people who are
senior age, retirement age Mhmm. And a younger
age as well. Glad to have
every age group in the church. We're thankful
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we're getting more and more young people,
kids. We started a church school, an elementary
school, this last fall in our Brookings Church.
Nice. So if anybody's looking for an alternative
for education for their children, we'd be happy
to talk to you about that. Oh, fancy.
And had they email you? They sent me
an email. Okay. Yep. And,
now Cape Junction
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is something new for me. So I've gotten
acquainted with the church down there, and
that is
not like right on the coast,
like these other two churches are. So but,
I've had an opportunity to
get to know
folks there
and have
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really
enjoyed
getting to know some new people Mhmm. Who,
yeah, live in a different part of our
Southwestern
Oregon area here. Mhmm.
Nice.
For,
people in university or in school or thinking
about a career or wondering where
their path may take them, would you encourage
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them? Because it's not
too commonly
heard throughout, you know, as a kid of
myself who's gone through junior college or trade
school or university. It's not
hasn't been in the circle of being a
career or an option.
You're talking about, like,
working for the church? Would you recommend somebody
going to college to
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find this path, or do you feel that
they need to be called to it? Or
how would you direct somebody who's looking for
I think everybody
should
seek God's answer to that question. Mhmm. Our
calling in life,
to a large degree, is determined by the
capabilities
that God has given us. Mhmm.
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Some people
could make an outstanding
physician Mhmm. For example,
because of the talents and interests that they
have.
Others would make wonderful
early elementary school teachers. Mhmm. And they might
not be a great university professor Right. But
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they work really well with kids. Or the
opposite. Mhmm. Mhmm. Some are just called to
the higher levels of education.
As for other things like ministry, you know,
you need to ask God what,
Lord, is your calling for my life? What
do you want me to do?
And, the the way you find that out
really is by doing the best you can
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with whatever you're doing right now. That is
so true. There's an old saying that, you
know, God does not
steer a parked car.
The amen to that. You need to be
active doing something. Exactly. And you'll find out
if that's working out for you or not.
And, you know, God will guide you
along the way. Thank you, Pastor Barry. That
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is so true. A %.
Absolutely.
Is there anything you wanted to say to
the listeners before we close-up here?
I would just like to say
that
I believe
that
there is a
a wonder
and a blessing
in knowing God.
And in seeking Him and having Him in
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your life,
surrendering your life to Him, you'll experience the
greatest amount of freedom that you've ever felt
in your life
if you will submit to Him and let
Him work in your life. The Bible tells
us that God is love, and He loves
all of us.
And as we learn to trust him
and seek him in his word and experience
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the wonder of spiritual realities
through Christ,
we can enjoy the greatest blessings
that he wants to bring to us. Thank
you so much for being here on KCIW
Quality Living Show.
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Okay. Here on the Quality Living with Peaceful
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Support program, we get into
exactly
that,
that being quality living.
Where does it come from?
How do we get more of it? We
bring in
various types of humans.
We've had a couple of animals on the
show. It's it's a lot of fun.
And, all walks of life.
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And today, we are super, super
grateful to have
Barry Kimbo.
Barry Kimbo is the pastor of the Seventh
day Adventist Church
here in Brookings and Gold Beach and Cave
Junction. Yes. All three of these Seventh day
Adventist churches.
Thank you, Barry, for being here in the
station with us. Thank you for inviting me.
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Absolutely.
It's such a super special gift. We're very
appreciative.
Glad to be here with you. Oh, how
how did you get here to Brookings?
Well, pastors get around.
So I'm originally from the West Coast, grew
up in Southern California,
but my pastoral ministry started in Idaho. I
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worked there for a number of years,
went back down to Southern California where I
had grown up,
had a few years of ministry there, and
then got an invitation to the East Coast,
spent
almost fifteen years in Massachusetts,
then four years in West Virginia.
And then about 2018,
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we were
informed that there was,
some vacancies out here in Oregon,
and my wife had,
some family here in Oregon. And, we had
been
looking for a milder climate Mhmm. For some
family needs. Mhmm. And so, fortunately,
the door of opportunity opened to come here
to Brookings. We had an interview with a
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church,
or I should say churches
Mhmm. Because I do more than one church
as you mentioned.
And we moved here in 2018
Mhmm. And have been here since then. Wow.
It's a view we love living here. It's
just gorgeous living here on the Southern Oregon
Coast.
Nice. Nice. And
your family is totally content with all the
(03:27):
moving around and being here and it's been
a while since you've gone somewhere. Are you
gonna stay?
I would like to have a longer stay.
You know, you kinda have to be careful
how you plan your life, though. You never
know what the future might hold. Mhmm. But,
yes, we have enjoyed it here in Quacken.
We live on top of a mountain on
several acres. Mhmm. And
(03:49):
four minutes down the road to the beach
Oh. And it's up in Gold Beach where
we live. So
then being in Gold Beach, Brookings, and Cave
Junction, how does that happen?
Fortunately,
the churches have leaders that can run the
church services when I'm not there, including doing
sermons Mhmm. Elders who do sermons. And so
(04:10):
because we've got good leaders in all three
of the churches, they run like a well
oiled machine,
and I get around to on a on
a rotation
basis
and, cover all the churches.
Sometimes doing more than one in one day,
but not always. Okay.
And, with all of everybody's help,
(04:31):
it makes it doable.
That is quite a variety
of locations.
It gives the local
church members
more leadership.
Right. And a a different
variety of
humans giving a a different sound of voice,
a a way of presenting, and something that
they can
(04:51):
have new energy to. That's true. Yeah. There's
a variety of speakers. Mhmm. Variety of leaders.
Mhmm.
We have, you know, the towns are different.
Oh. Gold Beach, smaller. Mhmm. Brookings being the
biggest town. And Cave Junction actually was added
only within the last year, so I've gotten
acquainted with the town of King Cave Junction
(05:11):
now for the last many months. Nice. And
I had a great time. Yeah. I could
imagine. It adds variety. That's true. Mhmm. Mhmm.
And so with the
being a pastor, did you always were you
have you always been a pastor into your
with your ministrationship?
It is the only full time career that
(05:32):
I've ever had. That's true. I I studied
in college to be a pastor.
I did work at a few other jobs,
you know, part time as a student such
as that.
But,
yes, since 1988
Wow. Full time at it.
So
I,
really had
(05:52):
no question
from about the age of 14 Mhmm. What
I wanted to do with my life. Mhmm.
At that time,
I reached a point where I had seen
some real brokenness in life. Mhmm. And I
I really wanted to find answers. How do
you live
at peace with yourself? How do you live
at peace with others? Mhmm. How do you
(06:14):
live at peace with God Mhmm. So that
you can have a peaceful and happy life?
I was very, very keen
to find out
right about the age of 14. Mhmm. I
I I don't remember before that, you know,
being on such a quest. Mhmm. But at
that age, it became a a real intense
(06:34):
interest,
just a,
almost an obsession, I would say. Right.
And and it was at that age that
God became very real to me,
where I felt that I had,
the answer to my questions.
And also my career choice
(06:57):
started at that point. Before that, I think
I thought more about making a lot of
money. Okay. And trying to, you know,
just enjoy a lot of material
things in life. I'm not against material things.
You gotta have them. But you don't want
them to have you. You don't want them
to rule you. Mm-mm.
So
I
(07:18):
was,
really,
that at that time during at at the
age of 14, I started
to read the Bible for the first time
on my own for my own interest Mhmm.
Not just for, like, a class at school
Right. Or for church or something. And
and I will say that
I had a wonderful experience
(07:38):
Mhmm. That
pointed me in the direction that I'm in
now.
Phenomenal. And so with this quest for
how do
you live in peace when there's all this
chaos or this hardships or these things that
are just knock us down,
did you what was your answer?
Well,
that's a good question.
(08:00):
And I would say that
part of it was coming to an understanding
of,
you know, why is there
chaos in the world? Mhmm.
A lot of us just don't really know
why that is. We we see that it's
bad.
Okay. I'll introduce her. Oh.
Yes. So I I learned that as the
(08:22):
Bible says that, you know, God created a
perfect world, and Adam and Eve were in
harmony with God and everything was perfect.
They chose to go a wrong direction with
some you know, God had given them a
little test Mhmm. Which they
they made a choice
to go against that, and it plunged the
world into
(08:44):
what we would call
sin or evil
that we understand.
And yet, fortunately,
the rest of the Bible story is about
how God wants to set it right again,
and he want he he does have a
a better world,
his beautiful world of tomorrow.
And so
the fact that it's gone wrong is not
(09:04):
the end of the story. Right. So he's
found it within you found it within his
words Yes. Through the bible. That's beautiful. It
sounds like we have a caller tapping in
calling into the station here.
We wanna hear more about this. Is our
caller on?
Yes. Hello. Hello there. You're on the KCIW
radio station with quality living and peaceful support,
(09:27):
and we have Barry
Kimbrough, the pastor of Seventh day Adventist Church
in the station. Did you have a question?
I do have a question. Tell us who
you are.
Oh, well, you know me as,
being part of the radio station,
Bobby Goldman. Hi, Bobby.
How are you? And so,
(09:49):
I was asking about the pastor because I
have been to the Seventh day Adventist churches,
and I love them. Absolutely.
I do love them.
And I respect them, and they're amazing. But
my only one question is regarding that.
Why don't they ever talk about the New
Testament?
And I don't know who to ask that
(10:10):
question to
except for a pastor.
Okay. Well, thank you for your question.
I appreciate that.
And,
yes,
we believe in the Old Testament and the
New Testament.
We don't
only hold to one or the other.
And,
I'm sorry that you got the impression that
(10:31):
we don't believe in the New Testament because
without the New Testament, we would not have
the gospel. We wouldn't have the resurrection of
Jesus. We wouldn't have the hope of eternal
life as it is presented
so beautifully in the New Testament.
A lot of my sermons are from the
New Testament, and
so I think probably one of the reasons
(10:51):
why, though, that some people might think that
we
do have a very high regard for the
Old Testament
is because
we believe
in the book of Genesis,
and that was the book of beginnings.
And God gave two beautiful gifts
to humanity in the book of Genesis. He
gave
(11:12):
the gift of marriage.
Adam and Eve was the first wedding that
was performed,
and he gave the Sabbath as a gift.
And we cherish the Sabbath as a gift,
and it is presented there in the Old
Testament. But, of course, it's mentioned many times
in the New Testament as well.
Jesus Christ did many
(11:32):
wonderful miracles of healing on the Sabbath,
and He had some conflict with the Pharisees
of His day because they had set up
all kinds of man made rules
about how the Sabbath should be kept and
had turned it really into a burden rather
than a blessing.
And so he came to show the true
meaning of the Sabbath that's to be a
(11:52):
blessing for for all people of rest and
refreshment
once a week.
And so, no. We do believe in the
New Testament very much so,
and we believe the the Old Testament and
the New Testament,
fit together beautifully. Yeah.
Absolutely.
And I totally agree with that. And so
when I have been to your Seventh day
(12:13):
Adventist church, the one in Rockland, which I
had prayed for for four years to come
alight to the Seventh day Adventist, guess what
happened? I was in the apartment,
and right across the street, guess what?
Vacant lot. And guess what happened?
A Seventh day Adventist church was born.
And pastor,
Gray
(12:34):
or Guy Gray or Guy. I think pastor
Gray led it, and I was so happy.
Oh my gosh. And I went to that
church, and I washed the feet, according to,
what that day was of the women being
with the women and the men being with
men washing their feet and whatnot. And it
was amazing.
And so
(12:54):
then I moved to Brookings, Oregon, and I
found out that,
the, Greg Goodchild,
who is, I think,
a pastor or
I don't know what you call them, youth
pastor
over at the, church on Norwood,
for the Seventh Day Adventist Church there, and
(13:16):
he comes up to Brookings, Oregon.
And I was like, oh, do you are
you familiar with pastor Greg Goodchild?
You're asking me
that question? Okay.
You know,
I have not met him.
One of the nice things about our church
is that it's big enough that you can't
know everybody.
(13:36):
Oh, okay. And so
so I I you know, I have not
I've never heard his name, and I've never
met him, but I'm glad that you
had a positive experience at the church there
with with him as the pastor.
And so I'd like to meet him someday,
but,
haven't had the privilege of meeting him yet.
Okay. Have you ever met the pastor over
(13:58):
in Rockland
from that church?
Yeah. Mister Gray?
Nope. Nope. There's another one I don't know.
You see, I've been here in
Brookings for about six years,
and, we have our churches organized by region.
So Right. When I attend a meeting with
(14:18):
all the pastors,
I only meet those that are from, actually,
from Western Oregon. We call it the Oregon
Conference.
And Gotcha. Those that live in Northern California,
they've got their own. They have their own
meetings,
and we don't have national meetings
hardly ever where we would all come together.
And even if we did, there would be
so many that, you know, you wouldn't be
(14:39):
able to meet everybody. But sounds like a
possible opportunity in the near future. Someday, yeah,
someday, we That's what I was thinking. Okay.
Yep. So yeah. So I just wanted to
you know, because when,
I went to the church on Norwood, which,
Norwood,
in California
off the exit of Norwood.
(15:00):
And I went to that church, and, I
was there for a while. And all they
talked about was the Old Testament. I'm like,
why don't you guys ever preach on the
New Testament
and about Jesus and why?
And so,
yes. Pastor Barry for bringing that to the
light and seeing the connection and that they
do utilize all parts. And we thank you
(15:20):
for your call today.
Okay.
And we will talk to you in the
near future. You can, contact Barry directly. Can
you go ahead and tell her how she
could email you? Or
Sure. You can send me an email at
barrykimbro7@gmail.com.
That's lowercasebarrykimbr0ugh,thenthenumber7@gmail.com.
(15:47):
And anyone who's listening is welcome to send
me a question on email if you'd like
to send one.
And are you in Brookings, Oregon?
I am.
I serve the Brookings Church.
I also serve the Gold Beach Church and
the Cave Junction churches.
Wonderful. Thank you so much, Barry. Alright. Thank
you, Bobby. To meet you today.
(16:08):
Have a good day.
Thank you. Good night. Good night.
Alright. So we are on the Quality Living
with Peaceful Support show, and that was a
call in. Everyone's welcome to do that anytime
they want. (541)
661-4098.
And we're gonna continue our talk here with
Barry Kimbo Kimbro
of the Seventh day Adventist Church.
(16:30):
And we
have a normal question that we ask everybody
on the show,
because we are on quality living with peaceful
support. We ask them, what exactly does
quality living or what is
let's start with one question at a time.
Let's go even
further. What does living
your what is your favorite part of living?
(16:54):
My favorite part of living is giving.
Oh,
nice.
Yeah. I enjoy
receiving
and giving.
Nice. And I think that
the best way to happiness
is to make others happy.
Oh, yeah. So when we give
(17:14):
another one of my favorite little stay quotes
is what we
give forever
is our own
in the sense that we we give. I
mean, we maybe we give something up in
that sense, but
we cherish the memory of
being able to enrich the life of another
person.
Oh, yeah. So Yeah. That's very true. That's
(17:36):
very true. Okay. And then our other question
we have is
what how does
what does quality living represent to you? For
me,
quality living is enjoying
God's blessings
and sharing them with others. Mhmm. So we
need to have
(17:56):
enough for our own needs. You know? God
has
every blessing that he wants to give to
us, whether it's something
physical,
tangible, material,
whether it's something more spiritual Mhmm. Emotional
Mhmm. Relational.
Whatever kind of gift it is Mhmm.
We can be a blessing to others with
(18:17):
gifts of God. Oh, yeah. We love that
part.
And it seems to flow, like, unconditionally and
without effort when it's in that that form.
You don't even know how you even obtained
what you obtained to give but, you know,
when you're doing things for other reasons and
you're trying so hard and you just can't
seem to get it all together and you
(18:38):
realize
you let go, you let God and
the abundance flows.
The the wonderful
truth is that,
God is able to fill up our needs.
We find our our need for love is
filled with the love of Jesus Christ,
(18:58):
and
our opportunity
and need to
serve is in the process of
blessing other people with those blessings. Definitely. Yeah.
Definitely.
And
your
path or your mission,
goes very well with peaceful support. And so
how do you
(19:19):
get more of that or how do you
present that to your community? What are some
ways of providing peaceful support?
It's important to
understand what the needs of people are.
We have done food ministries
in our churches. Mhmm. And
we've we've had it in the past, and
we we still do it. In Brookings, we
(19:41):
have a free luncheon every Saturday
after our church service.
Not I'm sorry. Not every Saturday. The second
and the fourth Saturdays of the month. We
do a free luncheon. Everybody's invited to come.
It is at 12:45PM
that we serve that lunch. And will you
tell our listeners where your church is? 102
(20:02):
Park Avenue.
It is next to the Village Rehab Center.
Mhmm. And,
just in that section, you can actually see
the church from the main
street. If you're, standing by the cinema Mhmm.
You can look up and see the church
right up there. There's a stained glass in
the window,
and,
the services are on Saturdays.
(20:23):
And we have bible study at 10:00
Mhmm. And worship service at 11:15.
Mhmm.
And anybody is welcome to join us anytime
for for our services. We're happy to have
visitors,
and
we,
look forward to having folks come. Nice. Thank
you so much. It's such a gift. It's
(20:44):
a gift, really, to the community. And,
we hear that it's mostly vegetarian or all
vegetarian?
Yes. The luncheons are all vegetarian.
Very nice. Yeah. That's a tradition that we
have.
It's another thing that we take from the
book of Genesis because,
originally,
there was,
you know, there was no death. There was
(21:06):
no killing originally.
Mhmm. And so,
we like that. Now we do not make
it a rule for church members to be
a vegetarian. It's something that we encourage
and we promote it,
but,
we don't make that a requirement.
Mhmm. Mhmm. Yeah. Everybody is accepted. Everybody's the
on a you know, we're we're not all
(21:26):
made the same way and,
there's
differences among us, you know, variety of the
spice of spice of life. So
Very well said.
Sweet.
Nice. So with,
all these services and
your rotation in the different communities,
is there anything
(21:47):
that you see even though you see the
differences? Is there a common
union that you see within the three locations?
You know, there's certain ways that all people
are the same. Mhmm. Everybody
responds to kindness. Mhmm.
Everybody has certain basic human needs Mhmm. For
(22:07):
peace, for answers in life Mhmm. For their
physical needs to be met,
whether that's food, clothing,
or,
in some cases,
information that's helpful. Mhmm.
So,
yeah, each community is a little bit
different in a way, and yet
(22:29):
also the same in certain ways. Mhmm.
I've worked in communities where it seemed like
most people
had never ever been outside of that community.
Wow. I've worked in other places where you
just have people from all over the world,
you know, living there. Mhmm. I pastored a
church that had a
university within walking distance from the church. Oh,
(22:50):
nice. We had students from all over the
world. Right. And they were coming to the
church, and that was a great thing. Mhmm.
So, yeah,
Gold Beach
used to be
a town where they had a lot of
the lumber industry going on. Mhmm.
And, but I've come along since that's long
since really kind of in the past.
So,
(23:11):
we don't have as many people up there
as we used to,
but we're glad for the ones that we
have. That's true. And,
Brookings,
we
we have
a lot of people who are
senior age, retirement age Mhmm. And a younger
age as well. Glad to have
every age group in the church. We're thankful
(23:33):
we're getting more and more young people,
kids. We started a church school, an elementary
school, this last fall in our Brookings Church.
Nice. So if anybody's looking for an alternative
for education for their children, we'd be happy
to talk to you about that. Oh, fancy.
And had they email you? They sent me
an email. Okay. Yep. And,
now Cape Junction
(23:54):
is something new for me. So I've gotten
acquainted with the church down there, and
that is
not like right on the coast,
like these other two churches are. So but,
I've had an opportunity to
get to know
folks there
and have
(24:15):
really
enjoyed
getting to know some new people Mhmm. Who,
yeah, live in a different part of our
Southwestern
Oregon area here. Mhmm.
Nice.
For,
people in university or in school or thinking
about a career or wondering where
their path may take them, would you encourage
(24:37):
them? Because it's not
too commonly
heard throughout, you know, as a kid of
myself who's gone through junior college or trade
school or university. It's not
hasn't been in the circle of being a
career or an option.
You're talking about, like,
working for the church? Would you recommend somebody
going to college to
(24:59):
find this path, or do you feel that
they need to be called to it? Or
how would you direct somebody who's looking for
I think everybody
should
seek God's answer to that question. Mhmm. Our
calling in life,
to a large degree, is determined by the
capabilities
that God has given us. Mhmm.
(25:19):
Some people
could make an outstanding
physician Mhmm. For example,
because of the talents and interests that they
have.
Others would make wonderful
early elementary school teachers. Mhmm. And they might
not be a great university professor Right. But
(25:40):
they work really well with kids. Or the
opposite. Mhmm. Mhmm. Some are just called to
the higher levels of education.
As for other things like ministry, you know,
you need to ask God what,
Lord, is your calling for my life? What
do you want me to do?
And, the the way you find that out
really is by doing the best you can
(26:02):
with whatever you're doing right now. That is
so true. There's an old saying that, you
know, God does not
steer a parked car.
The amen to that. You need to be
active doing something. Exactly. And you'll find out
if that's working out for you or not.
And, you know, God will guide you
along the way. Thank you, Pastor Barry. That
(26:23):
is so true. A %.
Absolutely.
Is there anything you wanted to say to
the listeners before we close-up here?
I would just like to say
that
I believe
that
there is a
a wonder
and a blessing
in knowing God.
And in seeking Him and having Him in
(26:44):
your life,
surrendering your life to Him, you'll experience the
greatest amount of freedom that you've ever felt
in your life
if you will submit to Him and let
Him work in your life. The Bible tells
us that God is love, and He loves
all of us.
And as we learn to trust him
and seek him in his word and experience
(27:04):
the wonder of spiritual realities
through Christ,
we can enjoy the greatest blessings
that he wants to bring to us. Thank
you so much for being here on KCIW
Quality Living Show.
Thank you. It's been great to be with
you.
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