Around 1900, the population of San Francisco was doubling every few years. Tens of thousands of people came to the city - and Adventists were ready to help out. They established a network of restaurants, shops and treatment centers. They provided homes for orphans, gave jobs to unemployed people and shared the love of God with them. They were working for God full-time, in a self-sustainable way. They were missional entrepreneurs.

<p>Around 1900, the population of San Francisco was doubling every few years. Tens of thousands of people came to the city - and Adventists were ready to help out. They established a network of restaurants, shops and treatment centers. They provided homes for orphans, gave jobs to unemployed people and shared the love of God with them. They were working for God full-time, in a self-sustainable way. They were missional entrepreneurs.</p>

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Hyve

The Hyve Podcast Season 1

Jesse Zwiker

Why Missional Entrepreneurship

Lyndon Sweeney

Why Aren’t We Doing This?

Helping the Church Grow More Effectively

Alistair Huong

Why I’m Excited About Financial Planning

Askwar Hilonga

Clean Water for Tanzania

Seth Hill

Failure

Can I Be an Adventist Millionaire?

Lorand Soares

How to Grow Your Business

Steven Grabiner

Our Brain Tricks Us When We Make Decisions

Gray Krause

Paying Tithes is Not Enough

Sebastien Braxton

Five Ways to Start With $0

Ellen White’s Forgotten Vision

Using Your God-Given Talents

Ivonne Restrepo

The Restaurant Failed But...

Profit is Evil. Right?

Ron Price

Dealing With Conflict in the Workplace


Eloah gives that prophecy where she says, when the cities are war, as God would have them, so we're following that method, the beehive method, then that will set in operation a mighty movement such as we have not yet witnessed, which she's talking about, the Latter-day Movement. And this is actually the real motivation behind starting hive. The biggest potential that we have within our church, right, is with the lay people. That's where all the resources are. That's where all the talent is.

And tapping into that and getting all of them involved, That is a key in advancing God's work at this time of Earth's history. There is 1 reason and 1 reason only why Hive exists. And today we're going to learn about it. Jesse Zwicker, founder of Hive, is with me in the studio. And before we're going to talk about Ellen White's vision that she had in 1876, let's start with the name Hive.

Jesse, what does that mean? So Hive comes from the word beehive which is used in Ellen White's writings just a few times, not too many. But basically it comes from a vision that she had in the 1870s. She had this vision of San Francisco being a beehive. Actually, she talks about San Francisco being a beehive.

She talks about Oakland also being another beehive. And then she describes in that vision what she saw on how we were going to reach that city of San Francisco with this beehive. And she goes on to describe all these little bees, essentially little, little businesses and ministries in the city and outside around the city, all to have that influence of really supplying the most pressing needs of society. And then being able to share with them the hope that we have in Jesus and in the gospel. So, that was really the beehive where the name comes from, the beehive in San Francisco.

That's interesting. So, Tell me a little bit more about how it looked like. How did this beehive look like in San Francisco? What was Ellen White describing? How was life like in San Fran back in the days?

You know, the Beehive, to me, it was so intriguing when I first read that, because she describes like, I don't know, at least 15 to 20 different types of activities that the people, the church members were doing to really supply the needs of society during that time. She talks about the church members starting restaurants. Actually, she talks about multiple restaurants starting in San Francisco in the same city, multiple vegetarian restaurants that were open 6 days a week, entirely closed on Sabbath, right? And then about sanitariums around the city, St. Helena Sanitarium, which is now the hospital there, she talks about, she actually mentions a lot about like orphans, us taking care of orphans, like having an agency where we help orphans, getting them off the street and providing an Adventist family to help them to take them in but not just employ and not just orphans but also employment Like helping people with unemployment trying to get them employed into 1 of our B's, you know, 1 of our entities, 1 of our businesses and ministries and getting them back on their feet.

She talks about ship mission work. She talks about the schools. She talks about like daycare, kids, schools, many things, a whole bunch, an array of like a clinic, a clinic in the city of doing treatments. They were doing ship mission work. I mean, just imagine this is in 1900, when it actually happened in San Francisco, around 1900, 1906, this is where the population in San Francisco was doubling like every few years, simply because everybody was moving into that that this is a coast I mean this is like the West Coast and everybody was coming by ship mostly coming on to the San Francisco Bay and not having showered in you know, 6 weeks or Whatever right and and you know the conditions in these in these in these Ships that were coming, you know, many of them didn't have bathrooms I mean they they weren't all going in first class, you know, and so they were coming off and and they did a lot of What they called ship mission work where where they would bring food they will bring Clothing they will bring ways for them to shower on the bay, okay?

Like on the shore, right? When they would come, Adventists were known For helping these people come off the ground. There's there's records of people Saying hey, are you guys? Adventists, you know, they're calling down from the ship, you know And and trying to make sure that they've got the evidence on the ground helping them because evidence were known for helping these all of these people a good friend of mine doug vinn he he's he he's writing his his doctoral thesis on the beehive and on on on what they were doing it's quite impressive it's amazing what they were doing and and how these cities were supposed to be worked, you know. And so they really were such a force for good, for unemployment, for orphans, for all these things, for health, right?

They were doing cooking classes they were doing also call bordering okay I mean they were doing all kinds of things reaching that city demonstrating that god really cares for these people you know and and and because of it people had this sense of man what motivates you guys to be so extremely nice to us you know like go out of your way to to do this and then she says they then conducted evangelistic meetings and they had to rent large halls to fit all these people that were interested in hearing about what they had to say, because of how they demonstrated the gospel before they tried to preach the gospel. Does that make sense? So I really love that that picture of this beehive and of all this entrepreneurial, you know, missional entrepreneurship going on in in that 1 city, not just having the pastors do the work, but really incorporating all of the lay people full-time in all of these kinds of activities reaching that city. Look at our cities today and also the Bay Area, we don't see it anymore and we certainly don't see beehives in every major Adventist city around the world.

Why didn't it happen, Jesse? You know, I think we just kind of lost sight. You know, Ellen White, there's a story of Ellen White telling repeatedly, telling the general conference president that they should not just do the Beehive in San Francisco, but really do it, especially in New York, because New York is such a hub for all kinds of cultures and everything mixing together, you know, 800 languages being represented just in 1 city. And so she really focused on New York saying, this should be the model beehive. You know, this should be the model symbol of how we should reach the cities.

And if this is the symbol, then every other city should be reached in that same way in that in this in this beehive model way where we don't just conduct evangelistic series but we really do evangelism in a much more sustainable self-sustainable way with all of these enterprises having a permanent influence in that society. So and she's like telling the conference president he needs to be doing this, elder Daniels, right? He needs to do this. He needs to do this. And then he ends up coming to visit her over in Elms Haven back in California and she refuses to see him.

And then he asks, like, why won't you see me? And she says, I have told you what you need to be doing. Multiple times and until you do what you know you need to be doing. And he had already done some stuff. He had already done some evangelistic campaigns.

He had set aside a budget to do some evangelism in New York, But it was not enough because Elohim gives that prophecy where she says, when the cities are worked as God would have them, so we're following that method, the beehive method, then that will set in operation a mighty movement such as we have not yet witnessed." Which she's talking about the latter-day movement. Okay, so it's really about doing God's work as God would have us do them, really doing this comprehensive beehive model, not just in New York, but in every city of the world. And that will produce, essentially, It will mean that we are actually listening to the Holy Spirit. We're listening. We're implementing the will of God.

And that will, in effect, allow God to pour out more of His Spirit on us and will create that swelling of the loud cry in the time of the end. So, so I really think that this work and this is actually the real motivation behind starting hive, you know, it's, it's, it's desiring to really create this system, create an organization that will allow it for every city to be able to set up these beehives all over the world and for it to just be easier for the advancement of God's work, for the incorporation of all these talents into this work and work the cities properly so that the latter rain can be more fully poured out. We know it's trickling, you know, it's coming as we do God's work, as we pray, God gives us more and more and more and but this will swell into that loud cry. So this is actually the work that we have in front of us. This is why we're doing this.

This is why we ended up calling Hive Hive, you know, is because of this being our vision. Now, how does that vision practically look like? How does your vision for Hive look like? And how can we be a part of it? You know, I wish, I really wish that we didn't have to start this organization and this topic now, because this is over a hundred years later from when it was supposed to happen.

Right. And and I don't know what has been happening for the last hundred years, but for at least from what I can see now, there is really a need for us to focus on this and try to revive this idea in the consciousness of our people and for us to really collaborate, for us to work together to do this. So what we've done to try to make this easy for people to integrate is we've started a membership so people can become a member. This is free, totally free. Anybody, any business, any ministry, any entity can become part of this Beehive network.

And right now we're just doing it on a global scale, like anybody can join, they become part of our platform where we can direct message each other and you can set up your profile or your business profile. And so we understand who does what and how can we support each other. And then long-term, we really wanna create this referral network, like kind of like the Jewish economy, you know, where we all help each other, we refer clients to each other, not just for economic purposes, but really to devise missional strategies on a local level to create these beehives on, you know, in a local level, countrywide, but then really citywide, so that we integrate with the local churches, with local conferences, with the unions, etc., to really advance the work of God, incorporating all of the lay people, you know, which I don't like that term, but you know, the business people, the professionals that are not necessarily working as pastors, but are working on their projects and incorporating that, teaching them how to do missional stuff in with their, with their business. But then, but then, but then really integrating it with the work of the local church, local conference, etc.

And with all the other businesses and ministries that are doing stuff. And so really creating these, you know, strategizing groups that are developing these kinds of beehives all over the world. That's really our focus. This is what we do. So yes, I invite you.

Be part of it. Become a member. You know, you can sponsor. You can organize a local group. Like let's do this.

Let's make this happen to advance the work of God, because I really think that the biggest potential that we have within our church is in these lay people, right? It's with the lay people. That's where all the resources are. That's where all the talent is. And tapping into that, and getting all of them involved, that—and especially businesses, actually, many businesses.

I mean, there are thousands of businesses that are owned by avid Christians, You

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