I was hungry, and you fed me.
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I was sick and
you ministered to me.
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I was in prison
and you visited me.
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Had nothing, and you clothed me.
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You know, when I read that,
I said, you know that's going
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to be the final
question we're asked. That means
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that we don't just come,
and we just sort of baptize
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people and leave.
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We don't just come and
hand out clothes and leave.
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What that means is that
we come and these people
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become our people.
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People have often
asked, "Why are you out there?"
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Certainly, "Why are you out
there for so long? We thought
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you were going to
go for six years. "
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In our weak moments,
we have to ask ourselves
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the same thing.
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But at the core of our reason
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is that we are very,
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very certain that God called
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us to go to the native Palawan,
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and take the gospel to them.
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I'm trying to get a
hold of Mailen's husband Gin,
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for a patient we saw
last night, a pregnant girl,
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to see how she's doing. They
didn't call during the night.
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I don't know if that's
him or not. And now we are
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getting ready to go see
some other patients way up
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on the mountain.
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There's this lady.
She comes up and she says,
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my daughter is
really, really sick.
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I mean, we have to
get her to the clinic.
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I can't get her there.
She's so sick she can't walk.
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She can't do anything.
And so, I said, well just a
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minute. Let me check around.
I'll find somebody and we will
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We have a bocket - that's like
a backpack that you can carry
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people in.
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And so I started asking,
and everybody has an excuse.
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I have to work in my field.
No, we have to go there...
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We got... everybody... I
mean no matter who I ask.
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They said, oh no, that's
impossible. We can't do that.
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And I was getting
really frustrated, because this
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kid is really sick and
they are way in the jungle.
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And finally I said, well,
okay, nobody is going to help.
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And I'm going to go up there.
I don't know what I can do.
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I don't know if
I can get her back.
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We head on up and the
trail is just horrible.
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At one point I'm walking along
on the edge of a progress -
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it's like where the dirt
is fallen away, and I mean,
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one misstep and
you're down that thing.
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I finally get there about noon
and I go in this little nipa hut
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there's about, oh, six feet
by six feet in that little tiny
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nipa hut. There's six children,
and four of them are sick.
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and two girls, both teenagers,
they're so sick, the one,
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she can't even lift her head up.
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I got the bocket, and I said,
okay, well, let's get the girl
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into it. I hope she lives
until we get to the clinic.
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And I walk out the
door, and there is Meliling.
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Meliling is not a Christian,
but he is taking Bible studies.
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And he had heard that
we were needing somebody.
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And he had made that hike all
the way up there just to help.
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And I thought, man,
that is what a Christian is.
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It was so steep. I mean, every
step I took I was grabbing for
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something to hold onto
because it was just, it was
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just really, really
tough. And it was hot, and
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fortunately, Meliling, when it
got really bad, he'd take over
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when I was falling too many
times. And then I would follow
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and, you know, I would
keep asking, is she still alive?
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Anyway, it was three hours.
It took us that long to get
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her back to the clinic.
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But her sister was
almost as sick as she was.
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Well, the next day,
we sent the father back.
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We said, you light a
fire when you are ready.
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Then they appraised both
of them to see what condition
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they were in, later in the
day because they were so sick.
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Turns out that Milka had
measles malaria and pneumonia.
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And Tika, she had three
different diseases, too.
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Anyway, they were in pretty
bad shape. A few days later,
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I was down there to visit them.
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I walk into the hospital,
and of course, they are really,
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really shy, especially
down there, they are really shy.
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They're real mountain people,
so they're much more shy than
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the people around here.
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And I was talking with her mom,
and Milka wouldn't look at me
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but toward the end she
looked up and she smiled.
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And that one smile
was just worth it all.
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It's just knowing
that you made a difference.
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She very well could have been
dead if we hadn't done anything.
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And so, three hours
crawling through jungle with
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somebody on your back...
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One kid, he's a teenager.
He's been sick for months
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and months - just the
whole body swelling. He couldn't
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even see. His whole body
was just huge - big stomach and
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eyes and his face.
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And Mrs. George had been
visiting him, and eventually
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sent him out to the hospital.
And they found some kidney
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problems, and I'm not sure what
else - need to review his chart.
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The clinic is a
busy little place.
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patients a year.
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We have the ability, and often
do, have patients hooked up
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to IVs. We may have patients
with an acute or chronic
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situation where they
are needing to be under
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daily care for weeks at a time.
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We have a lot of
daily patients as well.
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Often times, 10, 15,
20, sometimes during the
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busy season, in a day.
And then, Sundays often
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60, 70 plus patients.
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So when we have in-patients
as well, it can be really
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difficult trying to do
IVs and meds and taking so
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much time with them
and also seeing these daily
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patients that are
coming. But they are really good
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experiences.
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Working in the clinic is hard.
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You're giving of
yourself all the time.
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And some days, many days,
it seems humanly impossible
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to keep up the
pace. The demand is huge.
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Other days, fortunately,
you get a little reprieve.
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Our medicines are - we
mostly get them from Manila.
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The drug suppliers are
very expensive. Probably even
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more expensive than the states
slightly. But to ship them
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from the states would
cost more. As far as where the
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money comes from,
basically, all donations.
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They come from donations.
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So this side of the
clinic we do med preparations.
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And we keep some of our
medications, but it's just
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too small, so we -
it doesn't all fit.
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On the other side is the lab
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and procedure room
and we also keep some more
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medications in here.
Any kind of dental work,
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any kind of minor
surgeries we do in here.
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We keep extra medications
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that won't fit in here,
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we keep it in
that hut over there,
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which is falling apart.
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We are in the process
of building a new clinic
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which is desperately needed.
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The clinic is pulling
in patients from all over
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southern Palawan.
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We have people that hike
from within the mountains
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six or more hours. Some
people half a day or more.
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And we have had people that
have hiked further than that.
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They come up, they
come up from the lowlands,
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from the coastal areas
they'll hike up to our clinic
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because they know
they get kind care.
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They get quality care.
We try to take their cases
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seriously and do
the right thing by them.
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We try to follow up with
them. And it's completely free.
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We don't charge them anything.
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There's one old man that they
think is about 80 years old.
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And he can't walk anymore.
And he's really miserable.
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But it's really cool because
he's basically - like last week
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when I went to visit him, I
had not seen him for five years.
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He said, when I told him I
was praying for him and I wanted
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to pray for him right
then, he said, I believe,
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he said, I believe in
Jesus. And I said, you know you
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can ask him to help you with
your pain, because it's just
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really miserable. Everything
is just going wrong with him.
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He really was very receptive.
So I'm going to visit him
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again today so I can -
I mean, it's mainly like a
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I mean it's a medical
visit, but it's more than that.
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We visit him because he -
Mrs. George has been visiting
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him in the past. But he's just
really lonely and very receptive
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to the gospel. So we're going
to go visit him today, too.
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It is through the clinic.
It's through the relationships
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that I built when I was the sole
caregiver, I think, that has
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laid the foundation for what
we do there in people's trust
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in what we do.
They know that we are
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not God, that we make mistakes.
But that we are there for them
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and that we have a God
that is there for them.
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And they trust - they trust us.
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It's bees wax.
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Kensuli was the
place where, I mean, it was
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across the river where
everybody went to get drunk
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and everything like
that. I went to visit there,
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and I didn't really like
the place. A couple years later,
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I just felt this - I don't know
why, but on Sabbaths, I would go
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there and hold a
meeting and it was just horrible
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because there would
be people who would come
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to the meetings, but I
mean, there would be yelling and
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shouting and screaming, and
you wonder... are these guys
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listening? There's one
time I stopped in the middle of
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my sermon right in the middle
of a sentence cause nobody
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was listening. And
nobody even knew the difference.
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You know, every Sabbath I
would come home and I would say
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oh man, I don't want to go
to Kensuli. I would like to
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sit down and read a
book. This is Sabbath!
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I just felt this urge
that I needed to go there.
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And I kept going
and going and going.
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And over a period of four years,
five years, I kept doing that.
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Kensuli is a totally different
place now. I often think
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what if I had decided,
no, I'm not going to go there.
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I don't feel like going.
If I had gone by my feelings,
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what you see there,
would have never happened.
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This is Niksun right
here. Niksun, how are you?
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This is our first teacher
here. He started out the year
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with close to 70 students,
and he was the only teacher.
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How old are you?
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He's 17 years old.
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Niksun is another
interesting story.
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When we first came,
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he would have
been four years old.
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When I was giving Bible studies
to my kids, Niksun joined in.
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And they were actually
baptized together. And I've had
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opportunity through all
these years to nurture Niksun
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and be a mom because
he doesn't have a mom.
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His mom died probably
when he was eight or nine.
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When we started the school
last year, we weren't even
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ready to do it, but we
went ahead anyway and we had
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about 30 students. We had
Niksun here. I mean, we just
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started out from bare bones
scratch, and it grew that year.
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It went really
well. And then this year,
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it just went up to 70 students.
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It's been just really
exciting to see his growth.
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He started teaching. He also
went away to high school for
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one year and has come back.
He has natural teaching skills.
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But spiritually, it's
been exciting to be able to
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mentor him, watching
as he is struggling and
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going down and coming alongside
side, and saying, Niksun,
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I want to lift you
up to the Lord again.
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And watching him coming back,
being on fire, and wanting to
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take that message to his people.
And he came to just staying
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over there, a little, tiny room
off the school that was built
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over there. There's tens
of twenties of them that sleep
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there most every night so that
they can have worship with him
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in the evening, worship
with him in the morning.
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Then he teaches all day, does
literacy training afternoons,
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Bible studies with
people, a 17-year-old kid.
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And he was the sole
missionary that was over there.
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And watching what that
did for him spiritually,
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has been really,
really incredible.
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The people here, they
couldn't even write their
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own name. They couldn't
even sign their own name.
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They couldn't read.
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They didn't know
rudimentary math, you know.
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If they went to the lowlands
to do business to buy something
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they could get ripped
off because nobody was,
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nobody knew that kind of thing.
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"Oba. Iba. Obi. Oboo. "
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"Aboo. Iboo. "
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I can't help but just sit
there and watch all the kids.
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It makes me feel so proud of
them. It's just so incredible
00:16:04.79\00:16:09.10
to see this happen
because a couple of years ago
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this village is where
you came to get drunk.
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That was the only
thing it was notorious for.
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You get here a 10 o'clock in the
morning, everybody was drunk.
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You just, you could plan
on it. Now what a change.
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This domain, this land
here has become God's land.
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The devil claimed it before,
but he is being driven out.
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And it's just so neat
to see that happening.
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God has grown everything.
I mean, now we have a school
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here that has 30 students.
Every morning as I see the
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students walking to
school, they're just so happy to
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be going to school. They
get two good meals a day.
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And we have an
agriculture program.
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And it is through school that
they first really got in touch
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with the Lord, became
converted, became Adventist,
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and they, in turn, are
put to work: teachers, pastors
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nurses aids, whatever.
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What we found out is that
you put a Palawano as a teacher
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and it teaches them
incredible leadership qualities.
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It teaches them how to
preach. It teaches them how
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to teach. It teaches
them all sorts of things.
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And so, actually, by
putting them in as a teacher,
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it's actually giving
them more of an education.
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We mentor them all the
time. We're developing materials
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for them to
teach from in Palawan.
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Everything is in the
Palawan dialect. So our goal
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through the school is to
raise up more and more leaders.
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that can go further
and further out. We've got
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Niksun in Kensuli. But
what about Notorhongan?
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What about the other side of
the mountain? We've got more and
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more calls coming from the
other side of the mountains
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saying, What about us?
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You know, most people
don't think about darkness
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unless we're in it.
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Darkness is a place
of shadows and fears,
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of things unknown.
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It's a place
where we go to hide.
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A place where we
wonder who's out there?
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A place of uncertainty.
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In John chapter 8
verse 12, Jesus declares,
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I am the light of the world.
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So when God steps into the
picture, light dispels darkness
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Life destroys death.
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Whoever follows me
will never walk in darkness.
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Have you ever wondered
why the Bible spends so
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much time talking
about light and darkness?
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Could it be that behind
the veil of darkness are faces?
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Faces of people
with hearts and families?
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Faces of people that God loves?
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Jesus said, you are
the light of the world.
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Will you go and bring the light
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to the people God loves?
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We're headed to the lowlands.
Good trail. We want a day that's
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cloudy and a little rain is nice
too, because it keeps you cool.
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When you hike these trails
and get to your destination,
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you'll be totally drenched
either with sweat or with rain.
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And I prefer rain.
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I put these guys in
charge. They're in charge of
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everything while I am
gone. They'll make sure
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that everything
goes right. Right?
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We got a message through
one of our Bible students.
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She was preparing for
baptism. She and her husband had
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been in the lowlands.
And she came in and she said
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the people in Mollus are
really, really interested.
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They want somebody
to come down. You know,
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they here all about of
our groups going out to other
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villages on the Sabbath
afternoons, and they would
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like somebody to
come and tell them, too.
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We're like, Mollus? I mean,
that's not only down the hill
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that's a drive as
well. And apparently, people
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know what goes on
in Kamantian. She said,
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they like what's
going on in Kamtian.
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People are cleaner, healthier.
They're happier, and we know
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it's because of the
church. So they want that, too.
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They want to learn about God.
So we said, Wow! That's cool.
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It seemed like the opportune
time to send a group out
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and from that point on,
every Sabbath, we're sending a
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group down. It started out
just meeting in somebody's -
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just outside their
house, squatting on the dirt.
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But within two weeks they
had a nice big porch. And then,
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within a few months, they
asked, Could you maybe give us
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some nails? And we
will build a church.
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We don't even have a
church built in Kamantian.
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We're still
meeting in the school.
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We said, sure we
can give you nails.
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So they built themselves a
little structure there in Mollus
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and it's where they're meeting.
30, 50 people come every
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Sabbath. After about a
year, Can we have Bible studies?
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We've just started Bible studies
down there. So here they have
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a church - they're already
meeting - no baptized members,
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just Bible studies.
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Come to find out, as
we were going through
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coming off the
mountain, you pass a village,
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go out to the main
road, drive down to Mollus.
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So every Sabbath, our truck
from Brooks Point was going
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out there, picking up
the missionaries that were
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going to go out to
Mollus, passing this village.
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The neighbor kids from those
villages would just pile in
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the truck. Well, this is
cool. Ride in the truck and then
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get to ride back and
see another village to boot.
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So they all go in there, week
after week, week after week,
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week after week. And
Bingbilong, this other village
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says, What about us?
Oh, you want one, too?
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Okay. So, stop there.
Have a service with them. Then
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they would go on to Mollus,
have a service with them,
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get back to the trail head often
after dark, and have to hike
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all the way back in the dark.
Then call us about 9 o'clock.
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We're back in. Rain or shine,
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that's what they were doing.
Eight to nine people going
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out every Sabbath,
every Sabbath, every Sabbath,
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mentoring these people.
So now, yes, Mollus has built
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themselves a little church
and Bingbilong has now said
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Can we some nails?
We will build ourselves
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a little church, too.
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Besides the church, we
are nurturing three Palawan
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pastors. We're nurturing them
to be pastors. At this point
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they call
themselves "morinuk" pastors.
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They are very humble,
and they don't want to say,
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We are pastors.
They are like just like
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pretend pastors. They
are like little pastors.
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So we are constantly
developing them as leaders,
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freeing them from their culture
enough that they are willing
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to go out. We are not
trying to westernize them.
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But we don't want them
to have that - the tie.
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That they are free to
make godly decisions is really
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what it comes down to.
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They're free to leave behind
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the cultural chains of animism.
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To go out into another area,
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minister to people and
raise up another church.
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We envision that there will
be many, many daughter churches
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that come out of this.
We currently have three
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that are actually
being developed as churches,
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and then there's other
groups that are meeting that our
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members are going to
each Sabbath and mentoring.
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It's going to raise up
new leaders within those areas
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that will then go further
out. And it just repeats itself.
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I mean, we have no end of
things that we can do to just
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expand and grow. And, so
where it ends, I don't know.
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I don't know. It's in
God's hands. It's his baby.
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But it's just exciting to
be a part of the whole thing.
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Being a missionary is -
I don't know how to say -
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It's kind of like where
the rubber meets the road.
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You get right down to
what's the purpose of your life?
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And your life is to be of
service. Your life is to give
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of yourself. Die
to self every day.
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And let Christ live
in you and through you.
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And everything that you
do is saying whether he is
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there or he's not.
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We don't just come and
baptize people and leave.
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We don't just come and
hand out some clothes and leave.
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We come, and these
people become our people.
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We become one of
them. They are our family.
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Of course, you
want the best for them.
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Of course, heaven
wouldn't be the same if
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they weren't there.
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There is nothing like
working for the Lord and being
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beyond your extremity
to having to flatly rely on
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God's strength, his
wisdom, his grace. And we find
00:26:02.91\00:26:08.24
ourselves in that
situation so many times.
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Every day, it's like he
says, This is where I want you.
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This is what you
need to be doing.
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It isn't always clear
what we need to be doing.
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And I don't believe it
is for most Christians.
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We live in the fog a lot.
But we believe in the light.
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And it's there that
God continues to draw us
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forward, draw us
forward, draw us forward.
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If you really want to
make a difference, just commit
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your total life
to God. And just say,
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God, wherever you want
me, that's where I want to be.
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And come to a place
like this and become one.
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Become one of these people.
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Adventist Frontier Missions
- reaching the unreached.
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