>> At this medical event, some
network motivates trains and
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equips health professionals
to share price with their
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patients. In his presence, we
and our patients find rest home
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and powerful healing take
hold of God's promised a Biden,
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his presence and
experience the surrender
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to faithfully
minister as he did.
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>> Good morning, everyone.
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Welcome. It's great
to see you all here.
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I am so glad that
all if you are here
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to worship together, too,
enjoy this conference, you know,
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much prayer and effort has gone
into this conference, putting
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it together. So I am certain
that God will speak to your
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heart through the different
programs we have for you this
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weekend.
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>> This is my first time I
never heard about a man before.
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So, yeah, my experience has
been incredible has been very,
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very cool to meet, you know,
physicians and dentist and I
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love everything that they do
from mentorship to going on the
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mission field. I'm not a lot
of cool people like to work in
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some really cool places them
at. I'm a doctor who worked in
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Guam and I never thought that
was a thing because very cool
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to see that there are
opportunities, you know,
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not just here in the U.S.
but also overseas. And yeah,
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I like the ability of
this conference is to get us
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together for us to that work.
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>> A man has
impacted me and that.
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>> Allows me to refocus on,
you know, during dental school.
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And everything is pretty
busy like, you know, special.
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It might not be as strong as
some point. So a man has really
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helped to refocus me into
seeing like my purpose as a
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health care provider and also
like my goal. And we should my
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patients, especially getting
them to like that holistic
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care, not only like their
physical needs, but also the.
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>> Our speaker for this morning,
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pediatric orthopedic surgeon
who is highly respected and
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admired.
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He has a passion for service
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and he's
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passion. Comes for our stems
from his grandfather who was a
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surgeon and served
for many years and Africa.
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Doctor Scott Nelson goes whoa,
be speaking to us this morning,
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dedicated many part, many
years of his life, his career
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to service to
humanitarian service.
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He has served in Dominican
Republic and Haiti and he was
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nationally
recognized for his work
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and 2014. He was
recipient F that Humanitarian
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award
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humanitarian of the Year award
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by the American
Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.
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He currently serves as the
medical director and I, Haiti
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Medical Hospital, the
Adventist Hospital in Haiti.
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He is blessed with 2 children.
His wife, Marina, Marni and him
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have been blessed with
2 children. Chad and Alex,
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I'm Alex is a pilot and his
wife is a fourth-year medical
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student and
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his brother. Alex is
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a 3rd year medical student.
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I am now going to turn
it over to Doctor Nelson.
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Hello, everybody.
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>> I am thrilled to be
here with you this morning.
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I'm embarrassed to admit that I
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I have never been to
an amen conference before,
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but for sure
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there will be
more. I look forward
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to coming back many
times in the future.
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I've already been so blessed
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by the messages they
have been shared with us here.
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Let's bow our heads as we start
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father in heaven.
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We thank you
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for this opportunity
to be in your presence.
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I stand before you and humility.
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I pray that my
words will be your words.
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I pray that he will be with us
as we navigate the path of life
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into your presence.
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And that because this session
in this conference will be able
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to more
effectively share your love
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with all those around us.
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I pray in a
special way for this world
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that your piece and love
will come for those who are
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suffering,
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those who are suffering conflict
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in the Middle East
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conflict in
Ukraine, conflict in Haiti,
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natural disasters in
Afghanistan, Morocco, Libya,
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and people who are
broken-hearted and desperation
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here in our own country.
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The year
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with 18 94
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and the church was in its
infancy ahead, just started in
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South Africa. But it had
yet to spread into the inner
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continent.
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One church member
there, Peter Wessels
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donated $15,000 to
start a mission in Rhodesia.
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That's about
$600,000. In today's money
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in the conference,
President Elder Robinson
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went to see so roads, the
namesake of Rhodesia and the
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head of the British
South Africa company
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to lay before him their plans.
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He wasn't very
friendly. He had a bias against
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missionaries.
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He was riding on some
papers is the day gave him their
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proposal.
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And when they
finished, he didn't look up.
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They just finished
writing on his paper,
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sealed in an envelope and gave
it to the gentleman and told
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them to deliver it to his
liaison. Doctor, Jamison in
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blue whale,
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they were able to set out
hastily on this trip. They were
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so curious to see what
was inside that envelope.
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They took it on
the train ride and then
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600 miles more
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that they had to walk
over a period of 2 months
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in order to get double the whale
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immediately. When they got
there, they delivered a letter
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to Doctor Jamison.
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After reading Mister Rhodes
Letter, Doctor Jamison said,
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gentlemen, how
much land do you want,
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Peter Standard
for a minute or 2?
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Not quite knowing how
to answer that question.
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He said, well, doctor,
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the facts are we
ought to have 12,000 acres,
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but that depends upon the
terms that we will get it.
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Rhodes commands me to give you
all the land that you can make.
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You saw said, Doctor Jamison,
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you can stake out any unclaimed
territory to the East West,
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North or south of the whale and
he gave them a guide and they
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went out
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and laid out
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the area, which is nearly 20
square miles that would become
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the Sulu Sea had
been this mission
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the following year.
The first missionaries came
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and this book
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on the Trail of Livingston
written by Harry Anderson,
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who is one of those first
missionaries. He's full of
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amazing and miraculous
stories of this journey.
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He and his wife
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move there from Indiana,
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along with the elder George
trip, their young son, George
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Junior and his wife Mary
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and a doctor Doctor Carmichael
who sold his practice in
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California to move there.
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These people are just like
us have met a couple people here
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already from Indiana. And I'm
sure there's a few doctors from
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California.
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And I don't think it was
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any easier back
then than it is now.
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As soon as they arrived,
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they set out
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building might houses
with sticks. They dug a well.
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They planted a garden
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and then a family and set in.
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They were there to help as many
people as they could all around
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them.
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But these were difficult times
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just after that rebellion broke
out and they had to flee the
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mission station. They buried a
few of the belongings that they
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could left the other things
behind and went to pull away
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where they slept under a wagon
in the rain coats at night,
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trying to keep dry
for several months.
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When they returned,
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they found that there are
things were taken and put in a
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cave by a local chief who had a
fondness for them and gave them
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back and they were
able to restart that work.
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But these challenges
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were nothing
compared to what lay ahead
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2 and a half
years after they arrive,
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Doctor Carmichael
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was taken
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by malaria.
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It was not known at that
time that the mosquito is the
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carrier of this
disease. And many feared
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the quinine was dangerous.
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One week later,
another trip died
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and then
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their son George
5 weeks after that
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died, also the same dreaded
disease leaving that poor
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mother.
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Those who look
at this situation,
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I thought this
endeavor was a complete failure
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and it was even several
more years after that until they
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would have their first baptism.
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And as the pastor is going
to do the baptism him are saying
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a person who has given his life
to Christ, the 6 people that
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had lined up behind him, fled
into the jungle because they
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thought he was being drowned.
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But then the next
day they came back.
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It saw him alive and
well. They, too, are baptized
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and many, many more since that
time. I've been baptized in the
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country. That is now Zimbabwe,
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a country where there are
now approximately 1 million
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avenues.
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You will show me the path
of life in your presence is the
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fullness of joy.
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You're right. Hander
pleasures forevermore
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when we pursue happiness.
We we oftentimes look for in
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the wrong places.
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These missionaries rather
than just pursue happiness,
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surrendered to
the lords guidance.
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And we have to remember
that the fullness of joy
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and pleasures are not
synonymous with come for an
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easy life.
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Theirs was anything but an
easy life. But I'm quite certain
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that they
experienced the fullness of joy
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in spite of the hardships.
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What we've come here
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asking ourselves
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is how do we
navigate into his presence
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and the ministry of healing?
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It says we shall find his
footprints beside the sick bed
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in the Hubble's of poverty, in
the crowded alleys of the great
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cities and in every place where
there are human heart in need
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of consolation.
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Another quote by Archbishop
Oscar Romero found in this book
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says All those who worry
about the hungry, the naked, the
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poor, they disappeared,
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the tortured, imprisoned about
any suffering. Human being are
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close to God.
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This book is a dialogue
between Paul Farmer celebrated
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Harvard professor infectious
disease specialist that started
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the largest
charity hospital in Haiti
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and worked extensively
in the developing world.
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And he dialogue with Gustavo
Gutierrez at Peruvian Catholic
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Priest, who's the
father of liberation theology,
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the movement to
liberate the oppressed people
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and combining religious
faith with aid for the poor.
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This concept is sometimes
called the UN Divided Gospel.
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The title, my talk this morning
is in the presence of the poor.
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It relate some of
the concepts in this book
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to the theme of our conference.
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These concepts are not
new. They come straight from the
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Bible. They repeated in
the Ministry of Healing.
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And I realize that being
in the presence of the poor,
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he's not the only way to be
and to guys in God's presence.
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But it's one of the ways
that I personally have felt
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most closely in his presence
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where we live in Haiti.
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Evil surrounds us.
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But we delight in
the presence of God,
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which is even stronger. It
is palpable in our hospital
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in the people that
work in our hospital
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and in the patients
who come to us seeking help
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a few years back, I had been
invited by a professor to give
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some talks in Israel.
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We landed in Tel Aviv on a
Friday afternoon and went to
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Jerusalem on that Friday
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thinking back about
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being in the presence and Jesus
as we walked those streets of
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Jerusalem,
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the professor
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who had invited us
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was an atheist who had escaped
and impressive part of Eastern
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Europe and come to
Israel for a better life.
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And he was asking me
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about why we would move
our family from a country of
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resources and opportunities to
a place of relative challenging
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hardship.
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How is trying to tell
him in a meaningful way
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why we made make a choice like
this when he suddenly stopped
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us right there in the middle of
the street and there was a long
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pause.
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He said you are lucky.
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You are lucky
because you believe in God,
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I could never do that.
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And it left me wondering
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why
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is he saying that? I'm lucky
because God's love is there for
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everyone.
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All we have to do
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his allow it to
come into our lives.
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But I've reflected more on
that. I realized that he was
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right.
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He was right because
people don't know that.
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And that is why
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we are all here today.
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Most if not all of us
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knowing that.
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I think most people
here live in North America.
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This is a place that
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he's often
called the first world
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and the country
where I live in Haiti.
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He's often called the 3rd world.
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But I would like
to propose to you
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that there is
really just one world.
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I think that's what Jesus meant
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when he told us in Mark
12. Love the Lord, your God,
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with all your heart, so
mind and strength and love your
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neighbor as yourself.
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He didn't
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consider our
neighborhood to be divided up
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by the 3rd world
for the first world
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because in essence,
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we all live in one big village.
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It is a plenary
session. It's important.
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This talk is
relevant for everyone
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discussing the problem of
poverty is a little bit like
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talking about climate change.
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The ozone layer over the
North Pole might not be right in
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front of our eyes every day.
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Just like poverty may not
come in front of every one of us
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here every day.
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Poverty is not an
accident of nature.
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It is a man made problem
and we're all partially to blame
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for it.
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But as Christians, Adventists
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medical evangelists,
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understanding poverty
is relevant to all of us.
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It's relevant to how we
ethically live our lives.
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It's relevant to where we
could send our kids to school.
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It's relevant to what
organizations we support.
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It's relevant to ultimately
how we free ourselves from the
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distractions of life in
order to call in order to follow
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God's plan for us.
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We should not just be thankful
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that we don't have
to go to bed hungry
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our live with a
treatable disability,
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that we should be
thankful that we are blessed
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to be able to do
something about it.
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My own story starts with
a visit to my grandparents
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at the age of 8 years old.
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This wasn't a typical visit
to grandpa and grandma's house.
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My grandparents lived in a
remote and wild part of the
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Belgian Congo.
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When my grandfather spent
over 20 years of his career as a
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surgeon,
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it was on that trip that I
got to see my first operation.
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This experience planted some of
the seeds for decisions I would
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make later in life.
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My grandparents
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mode here
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moved there in 1936, my
grandfather graduated from the
00:19:42.38\00:19:46.08
College of Medical
Evangelists in 1934.
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he did a fellowship and
tropical medicine. And he and
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my grandmother
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boarded a passenger ship in
Southampton, England sale for 3
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weeks with their infant son
00:19:57.66\00:20:00.26
before taking a train through
Angola and then walking for
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several more days to the
song to Mission Hospital in the
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Belgian Congo.
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My grandfather,
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I grew up in Finland. He
eventually spoke 8 languages
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in his book.
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You can read stories
about casting out demons.
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He was an ordained minister
who baptized hundreds of people
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and he laid his
hands on the sick.
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He truly
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represented
these words of Jesus.
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This is the song that ambulance
in 19 in the late 1930's,
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all missionary
doctors. He wore many hats
00:20:43.61\00:20:47.48
and one of those ways
construction projects he
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built this church. They fired
their own bricks. The fires had
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to stay hot for 3 weeks, saw it
and he had to go down 2 in the
00:20:55.08\00:20:59.02
morning to Wake up the Watchman
and make sure that the fires
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didn't cool down
in the BRICS. Crack,
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the dedication, my
grandparents, parents
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and the early advantage pioneers
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was no doubt impossible
without their dependence on God.
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They left their countries.
They left their friends.
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Families gave up their comforts.
00:21:21.41\00:21:26.18
They committed to the Lord
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and he helped
establish their plant.
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My story is a bit less dramatic.
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I held that dream
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doing mission service
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from a young age held on
to a through medical school
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through residency at Loma Linda,
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through pediatric fellow
orthopedic Fellowship in San
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Diego.
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And then a couple years of
practice at Riverside County
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Hospital.
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People told us not to do it.
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We could be
missionaries right here
00:22:00.55\00:22:04.05
and that is important.
00:22:04.05\00:22:08.49
People tried to talk us out
of it more and more as time wore
00:22:08.49\00:22:11.16
on good people, advantage
relatives, mentors, financial
00:22:11.16\00:22:15.20
counsellors. They
all had their reasons.
00:22:15.20\00:22:18.60
But fortunately,
00:22:18.60\00:22:20.20
we didn't take
them too seriously.
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As soon as I finish my
aura boards which we do 2 years
00:22:24.94\00:22:28.04
after being in practice,
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we put our house up for sale.
We didn't even wait for the
00:22:30.41\00:22:33.01
results.
00:22:33.01\00:22:34.58
We packed my things
in an ocean container
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and note
00:22:37.45\00:22:38.65
to Santo Domingo in
the Dominican Republic.
00:22:38.65\00:22:43.29
A New Year's Eve 2004, we said
goodbye to family and friends.
00:22:43.29\00:22:49.86
Maybe not quite as dramatic
as the goodbyes that have been
00:22:49.86\00:22:53.17
said in the past
where missionaries
00:22:53.17\00:22:57.07
sometimes never saw
their family and friends again.
00:22:57.07\00:23:03.01
But nonetheless,
00:23:03.01\00:23:04.65
significant for us.
00:23:04.65\00:23:07.75
This was actually
00:23:07.75\00:23:10.25
one of the first 2 of the moves
that we've made so far to the
00:23:10.25\00:23:14.49
island of Hispaniola,
00:23:14.49\00:23:16.49
which is shared by Haiti
and the Dominican Republic.
00:23:16.49\00:23:21.13
We have visited there a
few times on short-term mission
00:23:21.13\00:23:23.53
trips. But going there with
a long-term commitment is like
00:23:23.53\00:23:27.57
comparing a
first date to marriage.
00:23:27.57\00:23:31.17
We had to learn a new language,
read to learn a new culture and
00:23:31.17\00:23:34.88
suddenly the sayings became
reality without an end point
00:23:34.88\00:23:40.88
that likewise,
00:23:40.88\00:23:43.28
that commitment
00:23:43.28\00:23:44.69
brought us joy
00:23:44.69\00:23:47.16
and blessings
00:23:47.16\00:23:49.86
that last year things could not.
00:23:49.86\00:23:52.73
Our boys are and what it
was like to be a minority.
00:23:52.73\00:23:56.03
We learned what it was like
we learned about enjoying the
00:23:56.03\00:24:00.84
beautiful parts of the
Dominican culture and even
00:24:00.84\00:24:03.17
appreciating the best
part of our own culture
00:24:03.17\00:24:06.64
and blending those
into the recipe of life.
00:24:06.64\00:24:11.15
We made great friends
there and we have fun memories.
00:24:11.15\00:24:16.82
But this type of
experience doesn't come
00:24:16.82\00:24:19.49
without a dependence on God.
00:24:19.49\00:24:22.86
And we learned more than
anything how to depend on got.
00:24:22.86\00:24:26.70
And it also doesn't come
without a dependence on your
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wife.
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And I wouldn't be
00:24:32.27\00:24:34.60
where I am today without that.
00:24:34.60\00:24:38.07
She certainly has
carried many of my burdens
00:24:38.07\00:24:42.18
during that time. We also take
many trips to the other side of
00:24:48.05\00:24:51.15
the island where
I worked in Haiti.
00:24:51.15\00:24:54.66
I was focused primarily
Cure International Hospital
00:24:54.66\00:24:58.73
and Cure International is a
Christian organization focus on
00:24:58.73\00:25:01.63
a 50, 50 medical spiritual
ministry with the motto to
00:25:01.63\00:25:06.00
proclaim the Kingdom
of God and Heal the sick.
00:25:06.00\00:25:09.17
They operate a number of
children's surgical hospitals
00:25:09.17\00:25:12.84
in poor
countries around the world.
00:25:12.84\00:25:16.41
They had a need for a pediatric
orthopedic surgeon in their
00:25:16.41\00:25:19.75
hospital in Santo Domingo.
00:25:19.75\00:25:22.02
And this fit well with
my training. And it gave me
00:25:22.02\00:25:25.62
an amazing opportunity
00:25:25.62\00:25:28.02
to serve in an effective way.
00:25:28.02\00:25:32.13
During that time, I gained
00:25:32.13\00:25:34.46
new perspectives and a vision
00:25:34.46\00:25:37.13
and what mission
hospitals can be.
00:25:37.13\00:25:41.24
And it also I originally
envisioned myself working at
00:25:41.24\00:25:44.67
Adventist Mission
Hospital like my grandfather.
00:25:44.67\00:25:47.58
But this experience also helped
me appreciate my advantage
00:25:47.58\00:25:51.05
rights.
00:25:51.05\00:25:54.45
When I was looking for
when we were looking for a place
00:25:54.45\00:25:57.62
to serve,
00:25:57.62\00:25:58.95
talking to the church
recruiters, they said the
00:25:58.95\00:26:01.59
orthopedics
00:26:01.59\00:26:02.99
was not needed
in the mission field
00:26:02.99\00:26:06.63
and sometimes they
still say that today,
00:26:06.63\00:26:09.63
but poor countries
00:26:12.77\00:26:14.64
tend to be
disproportionately affected
00:26:14.64\00:26:17.74
by trauma,
00:26:17.74\00:26:19.07
natural disasters and conflict
00:26:19.07\00:26:22.91
and even more sobering.
00:26:22.91\00:26:25.31
He's a number of children
suffering in this world from
00:26:25.31\00:26:28.52
treatable disabilities.
00:26:28.52\00:26:33.96
The dream and prayer of every
parent in this world is that
00:26:33.96\00:26:37.49
their kids can they
have healthy and happy life
00:26:37.49\00:26:41.93
here in this country? We can
take our kids to the doctor and
00:26:41.93\00:26:44.40
they can receive the
treatment that they need.
00:26:44.40\00:26:47.54
But in many parts of the
world, this is not possible.
00:26:47.54\00:26:51.41
Kids parents give up hope,
00:26:51.41\00:26:55.04
treatable disabilities,
become permanent disabilities.
00:26:55.04\00:27:01.05
And let me remind you that
00:27:01.05\00:27:03.15
these are not only physical
Davis disabilities, he's affect
00:27:03.15\00:27:06.39
every aspect of their life.
00:27:06.39\00:27:08.42
These kids are marginalized.
There are cer size.
00:27:08.42\00:27:12.36
They are oftentimes not even
allowed to go to school because
00:27:12.36\00:27:15.33
they have a
twisted foot or boat lake.
00:27:15.33\00:27:18.60
But it's because of people
00:27:21.50\00:27:25.27
James and Sarah
Palin, who have spent
00:27:25.27\00:27:28.28
over 20 years of
their career, people like
00:27:28.28\00:27:31.95
DNA and all the network
00:27:31.95\00:27:36.99
Wong and his wife
00:27:36.99\00:27:39.95
who have made major commitments,
00:27:39.95\00:27:42.96
2 working in places
00:27:42.96\00:27:44.99
where these treatable
disabilities and people
00:27:44.99\00:27:47.83
suffering from disease exist.
00:27:47.83\00:27:53.34
It's because of our own
efforts that the mayor culls
00:27:53.34\00:27:57.67
have healing can take place,
00:27:57.67\00:28:00.78
James's Palace trained in
family practice. And he now
00:28:05.68\00:28:08.72
that became a general
surgeon. And now he does it 90%
00:28:08.72\00:28:12.09
orthopedics
00:28:12.09\00:28:13.69
and he does it
well, he does cases
00:28:13.69\00:28:16.32
that I can say most of my
colleagues wouldn't even touch.
00:28:16.32\00:28:21.93
They lost one of their
own children to malaria,
00:28:21.93\00:28:25.47
but they consider that
00:28:25.47\00:28:27.54
a small price for the number
00:28:27.54\00:28:30.31
of lives that they've saved
and the number of lives that
00:28:30.31\00:28:33.48
they've changed.
00:28:33.48\00:28:36.64
Our medical school was
established to train medical
00:28:36.64\00:28:40.02
evangelists to
go into the world.
00:28:40.02\00:28:42.92
And there are now over 5,000
living graduates more than any
00:28:42.92\00:28:47.42
other medical school
west of the Mississippi
00:28:47.42\00:28:52.56
and 14 of them
00:28:52.56\00:28:54.63
live and work
00:28:54.63\00:28:56.90
and the developing world
00:28:56.90\00:28:59.37
where people where the
bulk of people with treatable
00:28:59.37\00:29:02.30
disabilities and other
diseases are suffering.
00:29:02.30\00:29:05.74
But that changed on this girl's
face before and after surgery.
00:29:13.75\00:29:18.12
I can understand
00:29:18.12\00:29:19.95
why people get
addicted to gambling.
00:29:19.95\00:29:22.59
He's a country
this spiraling down
00:29:26.70\00:29:29.26
faster than the bank account
balance. If most gamblers,
00:29:29.26\00:29:33.97
people
00:29:33.97\00:29:35.60
sometimes say that I live there
just because I like risk and
00:29:35.60\00:29:38.11
danger.
00:29:38.11\00:29:39.97
But I assure you
00:29:39.97\00:29:41.88
that is not the reason.
00:29:41.88\00:29:44.25
Its victories,
small victories like this.
00:29:44.25\00:29:47.78
They give me the
irresistible urge
00:29:47.78\00:29:51.05
to keep doing it.
00:29:51.05\00:29:55.49
During our time in the
Dominican Republic, we traveled
00:29:55.49\00:29:57.63
frequently
00:29:57.63\00:29:58.96
to Haiti where the
level of poverty is even
00:29:58.96\00:30:02.46
at another level.
00:30:02.46\00:30:06.27
And during that time on a
couple of those trips, I had
00:30:06.27\00:30:08.70
the privilege of
visiting the Adventist Hospital.
00:30:08.70\00:30:12.07
And I was really
saddened by what I saw there.
00:30:12.07\00:30:16.54
There was decay,
lack of infrastructure,
00:30:16.54\00:30:20.95
lack of efficiency. It was an
embarrassing representation of
00:30:20.95\00:30:23.99
our church.
00:30:23.99\00:30:25.29
And if the
healing Ministry of Jesus
00:30:25.29\00:30:28.76
Little did, I know that it
would become my future home.
00:30:28.76\00:30:34.10
But our time in the Dr
00:30:34.10\00:30:36.03
came to an end quite suddenly
00:30:36.03\00:30:38.87
on January 10 and 1/12/2010,
00:30:38.87\00:30:42.97
I was on my way home from work.
00:30:42.97\00:30:45.04
I felt an earthquake.
00:30:45.04\00:30:47.54
It wasn't
00:30:47.54\00:30:48.81
terrible where we were.
The epicenter was more than 200
00:30:48.81\00:30:51.91
miles away.
00:30:51.91\00:30:53.18
First, it was just a
little reminder of life back in
00:30:53.18\00:30:56.05
California.
00:30:56.05\00:30:58.09
But when I realized we couldn't
communicate with anybody on the
00:30:58.09\00:31:00.56
other side of the island
00:31:00.56\00:31:02.29
and having been there many
times before, I begin making
00:31:02.29\00:31:04.63
preparations that
night to go into the unknown,
00:31:04.63\00:31:08.76
I remember thinking
00:31:08.76\00:31:11.03
what if
00:31:11.03\00:31:12.33
through this tragedy, the
Adventist Hospital could come
00:31:12.33\00:31:14.77
back to life
00:31:14.77\00:31:16.47
and once again be a
shining light in this country.
00:31:16.47\00:31:21.44
That was not a dream
that came true overnight.
00:31:21.44\00:31:25.45
But I can tell you
00:31:25.45\00:31:27.65
that were on that journey.
00:31:27.65\00:31:30.65
The idea is hospitals, a
different place. Poor people
00:31:30.65\00:31:33.15
and all other keep the
puck types of people are getting
00:31:33.15\00:31:35.16
high quality care
00:31:35.16\00:31:37.06
and life changing operations.
00:31:37.06\00:31:39.19
The Healing Ministry of Jesus
Christ is alive and people now
00:31:39.19\00:31:43.80
know our hospital
00:31:43.80\00:31:45.73
as an island of hope.
00:31:45.73\00:31:49.84
When I arrived a day and a
half after that earthquake,
00:31:49.84\00:31:53.01
there was people
00:31:53.01\00:31:54.41
lying. There were people
lying all over the place in the
00:31:54.41\00:31:57.38
courtyard of the hospital
and the yard. A few of the brave
00:31:57.38\00:32:00.22
ones actually inside
the building during all the
00:32:00.22\00:32:02.32
aftershocks.
00:32:02.32\00:32:04.02
They grabbed out at our
clothes, begging for help.
00:32:04.02\00:32:07.19
They had no food. They had
nowhere to go to the bathroom.
00:32:07.19\00:32:09.72
There were no
mattresses for them.
00:32:09.72\00:32:12.09
They were compensated
dehydrated. And there are more
00:32:12.09\00:32:15.86
orthopedic emergencies
00:32:15.86\00:32:17.83
tonight ever seen in my career
and more at one time in one
00:32:17.83\00:32:21.04
place probably than
ever and world history.
00:32:21.04\00:32:25.74
We began operating it for
the first 4 days and nights.
00:32:25.74\00:32:29.34
We couldn't go to bed because
every wasted moment that more
00:32:29.34\00:32:33.42
lives lost.
00:32:33.42\00:32:36.95
This short-term disaster
response chip that I did vision
00:32:36.95\00:32:40.76
turned into a 6 month venture
00:32:40.76\00:32:44.93
and while
overwhelmed with the patients
00:32:44.93\00:32:47.96
from this disaster, we also
00:32:47.96\00:32:50.97
received many
00:32:50.97\00:32:53.23
who had longstanding issues,
untreatable disabilities.
00:32:53.23\00:32:57.17
We also took care of
them. This is style. She's a 9
00:32:57.17\00:33:00.11
year-old girl
00:33:00.11\00:33:02.01
who came to us a couple
months after the earthquake.
00:33:02.01\00:33:05.68
That expertise and resources
never existed in Haiti to treat
00:33:05.68\00:33:09.78
a problem like this.
00:33:09.78\00:33:12.25
Some patients didn't think
they would get treated unless
00:33:12.25\00:33:15.29
they're issue was related to
the earthquake. And we had to
00:33:15.29\00:33:18.29
relatively interesting
histories about certain
00:33:18.29\00:33:20.90
deformities that
started on January. 12th.
00:33:20.90\00:33:25.57
We took care of
all of them, of course,
00:33:25.57\00:33:28.37
and not only the
lives of these people.
00:33:31.31\00:33:34.08
We're change the lives of those
who came and served for change.
00:33:34.08\00:33:38.08
We had many well-known
orthopedic surgeons that had
00:33:38.08\00:33:41.58
the opportunity to come to
our hospital and serve and they
00:33:41.58\00:33:45.22
talk about that
experience with fund this.
00:33:45.22\00:33:48.82
And I've heard the word
Adventist mentioned from the
00:33:48.82\00:33:53.09
podium of many orthopedic
meetings around North America
00:33:53.09\00:33:56.56
and other countries of
the world. Since that time,
00:33:56.56\00:34:00.24
it's they're only in it for
many of them. It was their only
00:34:00.24\00:34:03.20
interaction
00:34:03.20\00:34:04.51
with our religion.
00:34:04.51\00:34:07.18
Our family was spread out
during that time. And it was
00:34:13.48\00:34:16.25
time after a few months to
rally back together Hand Loma
00:34:16.25\00:34:19.02
Linda claim that they had a
desperate need for a pediatric
00:34:19.02\00:34:22.16
orthopedic surgeon.
00:34:22.16\00:34:24.13
Nothing seemed to desperate
for me at that time that we're
00:34:24.13\00:34:26.59
looking for a place
to go. We didn't really
00:34:26.59\00:34:29.33
cherish the idea of finishing
off far boys upbringing in Loma
00:34:29.33\00:34:33.10
Linda.
00:34:33.10\00:34:34.24
But I had a passion for working
with residents and medical
00:34:34.24\00:34:36.77
students, many of them who had
come and had experiences at our
00:34:36.77\00:34:40.31
hospital during that time.
00:34:40.31\00:34:43.35
And I read
00:34:43.35\00:34:44.55
this book again about my great,
great grandfather, Percy team
00:34:44.55\00:34:47.62
again,
00:34:47.62\00:34:49.15
who was a pioneer and
our institution, also having
00:34:49.15\00:34:52.92
reluctant about moving to
Loma Linda in 1914, where he was
00:34:52.92\00:34:56.52
called to be the
dean, the medical school.
00:34:56.52\00:34:59.93
And he saw our school through
some difficult and delicate
00:34:59.93\00:35:02.60
times.
00:35:02.60\00:35:04.47
Ultimately his quest to teach
medical evangelism with the
00:35:04.47\00:35:09.00
highest educational standards.
00:35:09.00\00:35:11.54
What what built the foundations
for what our school had become
00:35:11.54\00:35:14.24
today?
00:35:14.24\00:35:17.18
It was a very fulfilling
experience for me to work in
00:35:17.18\00:35:19.71
the Melinda. I continued to
travel back and forth to Haiti,
00:35:19.71\00:35:23.05
at least 3 or 4 times a year.
00:35:23.05\00:35:26.19
I had the opportunity to engage
medical students and residents
00:35:26.19\00:35:29.19
into firsthand
experiences of working
00:35:29.19\00:35:32.73
in this environment.
00:35:32.73\00:35:35.56
In the meantime, our boys were
00:35:35.56\00:35:38.40
going on through school and
Marni realize her career that
00:35:38.40\00:35:41.44
had been devoted to raising the
boys were soon going to change
00:35:41.44\00:35:44.41
when first Chad and then Alex
would be moving off to college.
00:35:44.41\00:35:49.61
She had some
difficult discussions with me.
00:35:49.61\00:35:53.98
Our need to move
back to Haiti full-time.
00:35:53.98\00:35:57.05
I was perfectly comfortable
perfectly satisfied and content
00:35:57.05\00:36:01.59
with my life of travel
and work element to it.
00:36:01.59\00:36:05.46
And I didn't
really see it coming a she
00:36:05.46\00:36:08.40
wasn't too happy when I told
her that I just told her that
00:36:08.40\00:36:11.13
if it was the got, if it
was God's will, then I would go.
00:36:11.13\00:36:13.90
I was pretty sure it wasn't
God willing. She was a little
00:36:13.90\00:36:16.64
frustrated because she didn't
think I was serious about that.
00:36:16.64\00:36:20.64
But as our son Alex was packing
up his gear to move off to you
00:36:20.64\00:36:24.35
see that same week,
00:36:24.35\00:36:26.51
the surgeon who had been
serving in Haiti for the last
00:36:26.51\00:36:29.52
few years announced that
he would be returning to the
00:36:29.52\00:36:32.22
United States
00:36:32.22\00:36:35.49
when God and your wife are
both telling you what to do. You
00:36:35.49\00:36:39.73
don't have any choice.
00:36:39.73\00:36:43.16
I didn't tell Marni that.
I heard that announcement,
00:36:43.16\00:36:45.70
I guess schedule an appointment
with D*** Hardt and McGahn Hall
00:36:45.70\00:36:49.64
and told him that we would
volunteer to go to Haiti at
00:36:49.64\00:36:53.17
that time. It
was just for 6 months
00:36:53.17\00:36:56.38
if he could get me out of my
responsibilities at Loma Linda
00:36:56.38\00:36:58.75
and with Dick's Passion for
Medical Mission Work, he said
00:36:58.75\00:37:01.82
he assured me that
would be no problem.
00:37:01.82\00:37:05.09
Marni was a bit
surprised to hear that
00:37:05.09\00:37:08.36
completely enthusiastic.
00:37:08.36\00:37:12.19
At that time. Our hospital
was running at 15% capacity.
00:37:12.19\00:37:15.66
It was in financial crisis.
Payroll was running 5 months
00:37:15.66\00:37:19.00
late.
00:37:19.00\00:37:20.30
Employees were asking for money
directly from the patients for
00:37:20.30\00:37:23.54
services performed.
00:37:23.54\00:37:25.54
Start your IV if
you pay me a dollar.
00:37:25.54\00:37:28.11
Well, do your operation for
$200. This further undermined
00:37:28.11\00:37:31.75
the financial
crisis of the hospital.
00:37:31.75\00:37:34.42
There were while a wallet
biopsies being performed in the
00:37:34.42\00:37:37.25
front driveway of the emergency
room. And if there was no money
00:37:37.25\00:37:40.12
found people even with
life-threatening injuries,
00:37:40.12\00:37:42.69
worse turned away.
00:37:42.69\00:37:44.69
There were marketing strategies.
00:37:47.40\00:37:49.20
They had been launched to
compete with local hospitals
00:37:49.20\00:37:51.53
and attract wealthy
people to our hospital.
00:37:51.53\00:37:55.40
Sadly, many other
mission hospitals are in
00:37:55.40\00:37:59.31
similar situation.
Sustainability is difficult.
00:37:59.31\00:38:04.25
Our hospital had been largely
depending on a contract it had
00:38:04.25\00:38:07.35
with the U.S. embassy. 60 1%
of the income from the hospital
00:38:07.35\00:38:11.35
had been coming from this
contract that was created to
00:38:11.35\00:38:16.06
provide documented physical
exams for people wanting to
00:38:16.06\00:38:19.33
leave the country.
00:38:19.33\00:38:21.46
The embassy came and
inspected our hospital and found
00:38:21.46\00:38:23.87
falsified reports.
00:38:23.87\00:38:26.43
Fortunately, they gave us a
3 month warning that when they
00:38:26.43\00:38:29.24
came back 3 months later,
they still found the same false
00:38:29.24\00:38:31.91
reports and called the contract
00:38:31.91\00:38:35.51
seemingly
00:38:35.51\00:38:37.25
a terrible problem. This might
have been the best thing to
00:38:37.25\00:38:40.12
happen to our hospital.
00:38:40.12\00:38:42.52
What was the solution? Haiti
is the poorest country in the
00:38:42.52\00:38:45.29
Americas. Our
hospital was completely broke.
00:38:45.29\00:38:49.12
And we had
00:38:52.59\00:38:54.83
to look back at
our mission statement,
00:38:54.83\00:38:59.47
the mission of our hospitals
to continue the Healing Ministry
00:38:59.47\00:39:02.34
of Jesus Christ by offering
high quality care to all
00:39:02.34\00:39:05.17
classes of people.
00:39:05.17\00:39:07.74
And there are 3 parts
00:39:07.74\00:39:10.08
to this mission statement.
00:39:10.08\00:39:13.52
I'm going to start by
first saying high quality care
00:39:13.52\00:39:17.49
that is provided
00:39:17.49\00:39:19.19
to all classes. The
second to all classes of People
00:39:19.19\00:39:24.13
Ministry of Jesus Christ
is all about. He didn't have
00:39:24.13\00:39:27.40
complications when he healed
people. They didn't get wound
00:39:27.40\00:39:30.77
infections after work
00:39:30.77\00:39:33.20
and he didn't turn away poor
people in order for us to have
00:39:33.20\00:39:36.74
the privilege have claiming
that we are providing the
00:39:36.74\00:39:40.18
healing Ministry of Jesus.
We need to provide the highest
00:39:40.18\00:39:43.98
quality care and
give it to everybody.
00:39:43.98\00:39:47.75
So when we arrived there
and I suggested to the employees
00:39:52.42\00:39:56.93
who hadn't been paid
for 5 months, who are having
00:39:56.93\00:39:58.96
difficulty keeping food on
their table, who are having
00:39:58.96\00:40:01.10
difficulty keeping
their kids in school
00:40:01.10\00:40:04.73
when the new foreign doctors
suggested that we lower our
00:40:04.73\00:40:07.47
prices and open our
doors to poor people,
00:40:07.47\00:40:12.74
see how that was going to work.
00:40:12.74\00:40:14.91
You can only
imagine the response.
00:40:14.91\00:40:17.65
This has been a long journey,
00:40:17.65\00:40:19.91
but fortunately
00:40:19.91\00:40:21.78
many have supported it.
00:40:21.78\00:40:23.95
And most of all, the Lord
has been able to in blasts S in
00:40:23.95\00:40:26.82
amazing ways by
prioritizing this mission.
00:40:26.82\00:40:32.13
When we made the
commitment to go there,
00:40:32.13\00:40:34.13
I knew that I was going to
be overwhelmed by admitted by
00:40:34.13\00:40:36.40
administrative issues.
And I wanted to be a doctor
00:40:36.40\00:40:42.17
and our church here and
Callum Mesa, California,
00:40:42.17\00:40:45.51
Jerry Chris Benge
and his wife, Marion,
00:40:45.51\00:40:48.18
have been long members that are
always interested in the work
00:40:48.18\00:40:50.58
in Haiti, had been there a
couple of times. He's a retired
00:40:50.58\00:40:52.98
it executive
00:40:52.98\00:40:54.55
and I asked him in a parking
lot after church. If he and his
00:40:54.55\00:40:57.69
wife would be willing to go
and join us for that initial 6
00:40:57.69\00:41:01.62
month period of time and
help sort out some of the
00:41:01.62\00:41:04.63
administrative issues.
00:41:04.63\00:41:06.46
He said he would talk to Marion
and the next day he called me
00:41:06.46\00:41:09.00
and said that
they were committed.
00:41:09.00\00:41:12.67
The short end of
that story is is that
00:41:12.67\00:41:15.70
6 years later morning, I are
still in Haiti, Gerry and Mary
00:41:15.70\00:41:19.44
and now 80 years old are
still in Haiti and they come
00:41:19.44\00:41:23.98
committed an
inhibited by all the dangers.
00:41:23.98\00:41:29.18
Another huge blessing to us.
00:41:29.18\00:41:31.39
But Jeff Cho and his wife Jeffs
to medical evangelist of the
00:41:31.39\00:41:35.36
highest order. I'm
sure some of you know him.
00:41:35.36\00:41:38.13
Michelle is an
architect and designer
00:41:38.13\00:41:40.46
and we needed her services at
our hospital almost as much as
00:41:40.46\00:41:44.27
he has.
00:41:44.27\00:41:46.47
Some people think
00:41:46.47\00:41:48.64
we and I should maybe say
myself for a little bit extreme
00:41:48.64\00:41:51.51
and irrational.
00:41:51.51\00:41:52.84
But the Cho family that
remember, I remind you that
00:41:52.84\00:41:55.64
these are refined
and intelligent people.
00:41:55.64\00:41:58.45
They also made a
similar commitment.
00:41:58.45\00:42:01.85
We didn't envision
00:42:01.85\00:42:04.15
that the Lord way to end their
time with us quite as soon as
00:42:04.15\00:42:07.39
he did. But they were with
us for 2 years in Haiti. And now
00:42:07.39\00:42:09.89
they've gone to expand this
same work at the hospital and
00:42:09.89\00:42:14.20
believes which has
been a huge blessing.
00:42:14.20\00:42:17.60
And we have many of our local
staff that also contribute to
00:42:17.60\00:42:20.27
this effort.
00:42:20.27\00:42:21.77
Our hospital, 75 beds. We have
250 employees. 75% of them her
00:42:21.77\00:42:27.58
address.
00:42:27.58\00:42:29.31
We have more advantages around
us in Haiti. Then I think we
00:42:29.31\00:42:33.25
do. And Melinda,
00:42:33.25\00:42:35.18
there are more than 5 churches
in at least this crowded every
00:42:35.18\00:42:38.59
sabbath morning. Within a 5
minute walking distance of my
00:42:38.59\00:42:41.29
house.
00:42:41.29\00:42:42.92
We can listen to him services
from a church overhear him
00:42:42.92\00:42:46.80
services from a church over
here and oftentimes gunfire off
00:42:46.80\00:42:50.50
in the background.
00:42:50.50\00:42:52.43
This is the administering of
or city church celebrating 100
00:42:52.43\00:42:55.30
years have education and a
rally at the stadium downtown
00:42:55.30\00:43:00.21
where
00:43:00.21\00:43:01.38
hundreds 100's of people were
baptized 7 above ground pools
00:43:01.38\00:43:05.11
where they were baptizing
somebody every 90 seconds for 3
00:43:05.11\00:43:08.15
hours that afternoon.
00:43:08.15\00:43:10.45
Unfortunately,
00:43:15.19\00:43:16.93
the country of
Haiti is in crisis.
00:43:16.93\00:43:19.63
These are our neighbors.
00:43:19.63\00:43:23.57
Armed gangs now
control 80% of our city
00:43:23.57\00:43:27.94
without any functioning
government. Gangs blocked the
00:43:27.94\00:43:30.24
roads, exploit local
businesses, kidnap rape,
00:43:30.24\00:43:33.07
kill, steal
without any repercussions.
00:43:33.07\00:43:37.38
On 7/7/2021, the President
00:43:40.52\00:43:43.95
Jovenel Moise was
assassinated in some mysterious
00:43:43.95\00:43:47.42
circumstances in
the middle of the night.
00:43:47.42\00:43:51.09
And now
00:43:51.09\00:43:52.26
our new President,
Ariel honoree and administers
00:43:52.26\00:43:55.90
neurosurgeon who was previously
the medical director at our
00:43:55.90\00:43:59.17
hospital. He's
the prime minister.
00:43:59.17\00:44:03.27
He's a good man, but his job
is almost impossible. And people
00:44:03.27\00:44:07.24
are frustrated.
00:44:07.24\00:44:10.28
2 months after this
00:44:10.28\00:44:12.45
Haiti experience, another major
earthquake where over 3,000
00:44:12.45\00:44:15.85
people lost their lives.
00:44:15.85\00:44:18.79
It happened on
a Saturday morning
00:44:18.79\00:44:22.46
as the news started coming in
00:44:22.46\00:44:25.33
from the town. Most affected
about 4 hours away from us.
00:44:25.33\00:44:29.76
I realize
00:44:29.76\00:44:31.37
that we needed to take action.
00:44:31.37\00:44:33.44
I went on the administrative
station and made an
00:44:33.44\00:44:35.37
announcement
00:44:35.37\00:44:37.17
that we would take care of any
and all earthquakes victims at
00:44:37.17\00:44:40.01
our hospital.
00:44:40.01\00:44:41.68
We didn't know how we were
going to do this. We didn't
00:44:41.68\00:44:43.58
know how we have the
capacity or the resources,
00:44:43.58\00:44:46.51
but we stepped out on faith
and we knew that was the right
00:44:46.51\00:44:48.68
thing to do.
00:44:48.68\00:44:51.32
Ambulances started coming
that night dropping off victims
00:44:51.32\00:44:55.02
soon. Our beds were full.
We had to open up the area
00:44:55.02\00:44:57.89
under construction and add
more badge add mattresses on the
00:44:57.89\00:45:00.96
floor.
00:45:00.96\00:45:03.33
These this picture
is several days after
00:45:03.33\00:45:08.27
MSF, which is Doctors
Without Borders. That's awesome.
00:45:08.27\00:45:11.07
Frontier. The standard for
offering trauma care all over
00:45:11.07\00:45:14.78
the city of Haiti, they
were bringing their patients,
00:45:14.78\00:45:17.65
referring them to the hospital
for a higher level of care.
00:45:17.65\00:45:22.82
We were much better prepared
for this disaster than we had
00:45:22.82\00:45:25.69
been in the past.
00:45:25.69\00:45:27.39
This is a 16 year-old girl that
was running out of the market
00:45:27.39\00:45:30.89
during that earthquake and
fractured both of our femurs
00:45:30.89\00:45:34.40
the person
beside or didn't make it
00:45:34.40\00:45:38.30
with a simple to our operation.
00:45:38.30\00:45:42.10
She now
00:45:42.10\00:45:43.94
he's able to avoid a
lifetime of disability.
00:45:43.94\00:45:48.64
Some people from the NBC News
crew. It stopped by that day
00:45:48.64\00:45:51.45
and they did a
small interview with her.
00:45:51.45\00:45:53.72
It was on international news.
00:45:53.72\00:45:57.02
This man is a 57 year-old who
had broken his femur 9 months
00:45:57.02\00:46:00.66
before the earthquake. It
had never been treated. He was
00:46:00.66\00:46:02.92
still in bed
00:46:02.92\00:46:04.59
in a hospital
00:46:04.59\00:46:06.23
trying to escape
00:46:06.23\00:46:08.60
earthquake struck and
he broke his femur again.
00:46:08.60\00:46:13.60
We were able to do a similar
operation for him to get him
00:46:13.60\00:46:15.97
back on his feet.
00:46:15.97\00:46:17.84
2 months after the earthquake,
00:46:20.64\00:46:23.41
17 Americans were kidnapped
00:46:23.41\00:46:27.32
across town
00:46:27.32\00:46:28.65
before this time. We thought
maybe we're a little bit immune
00:46:28.65\00:46:31.49
to some of that civil unrest
00:46:31.49\00:46:35.19
thinking that the gangsters
didn't want to mess with the
00:46:35.19\00:46:37.93
international
00:46:37.93\00:46:39.59
crisis. They didn't want to
possibly face being extradited
00:46:39.59\00:46:43.30
and have life in prison
00:46:43.30\00:46:48.44
when 6.17
missionaries were kidnapped.
00:46:48.44\00:46:52.51
It was quite unnerving for us.
00:46:52.51\00:46:55.18
I remember I was
actually here on that day
00:46:55.18\00:46:58.81
and a few days later
00:46:58.81\00:47:01.02
after everybody
pleaded for me not to go back.
00:47:01.02\00:47:05.22
I was one of the only Americans
on that plane and it was a bit
00:47:05.22\00:47:11.69
but nonetheless
00:47:11.69\00:47:13.23
dependence on God.
00:47:13.23\00:47:15.10
It was comforting.
00:47:15.10\00:47:17.60
It was the right decision
00:47:17.60\00:47:19.87
up till that time. Even the
2 doctors from our hospital who
00:47:19.87\00:47:23.17
had been kidnapped and then
released after several days and
00:47:23.17\00:47:26.17
every morning we woke up saying
our prayers that these people
00:47:26.17\00:47:28.78
would be released. There was
women, children and an infant
00:47:28.78\00:47:31.78
involved.
00:47:31.78\00:47:33.08
One week went by 2
weeks, went by 3 weeks, went by
00:47:33.08\00:47:36.79
2 people have gotten sick.
They released them another few
00:47:36.79\00:47:39.92
weeks went by 3 more people
00:47:39.92\00:47:42.52
got sick and they were released.
00:47:42.52\00:47:44.49
And on December
00:47:44.49\00:47:46.19
16, exactly 2 months
00:47:46.19\00:47:49.23
after they had been kidnapped,
00:47:49.23\00:47:53.20
been able to save a small stick
from the yard and this area
00:47:53.20\00:47:57.27
that they were locked up in
00:47:57.27\00:47:59.34
and in the middle of the night,
the guards were asleep. They
00:47:59.34\00:48:01.88
use that stick to flip the
latch and they made a daring
00:48:01.88\00:48:04.85
escape with a
one year-old infant.
00:48:04.85\00:48:07.62
The last 12 people,
00:48:07.62\00:48:10.19
the guards
00:48:10.19\00:48:12.69
who claimed that
they had been paid
00:48:12.69\00:48:15.66
the healthy ransom to allow
them to leave. Nobody believed
00:48:15.66\00:48:19.43
this story in Haiti.
00:48:19.43\00:48:22.50
His story
00:48:22.50\00:48:23.80
familiar to us
from 2000 years ago,
00:48:23.80\00:48:28.44
the U.S. State Department,
00:48:32.64\00:48:34.91
he's told all
Americans to leave.
00:48:34.91\00:48:37.48
Friends and family
pleaded for us to leave Haiti.
00:48:37.48\00:48:40.45
People question our judgment.
00:48:40.45\00:48:43.59
People who read the Bible, the
spirit of prophecy grew up with
00:48:43.59\00:48:46.29
mission story say don't go.
00:48:46.29\00:48:49.52
It's too dangerous.
00:48:49.52\00:48:51.43
Go somewhere else. There's
plenty of people in this world
00:48:51.43\00:48:53.80
that need help.
00:48:53.80\00:48:55.03
I gave you a brain.
He expects you to use it.
00:48:55.03\00:49:01.34
But Eli and those
who have gone before us,
00:49:01.34\00:49:05.04
I can tell you
00:49:05.04\00:49:06.68
the risks of living in Haiti
00:49:06.68\00:49:08.98
are nothing new.
00:49:08.98\00:49:12.18
The disciples only preach the
gospel where it was easy where
00:49:12.18\00:49:15.12
they could avoid
being put in prison.
00:49:15.12\00:49:19.65
You know, I had to 3 to find
my definition of safety. Things
00:49:19.65\00:49:23.22
have gotten progressively
danger and more dangerous where
00:49:23.22\00:49:25.39
we live people ask me at what
point will you actually decide
00:49:25.39\00:49:29.60
that it's time to leave
00:49:29.60\00:49:33.23
where they say are you safe?
00:49:33.23\00:49:35.60
And now I can
confidently tell all of you
00:49:35.60\00:49:38.74
that we are safe
00:49:38.74\00:49:40.81
because I have redefined the
definition of safety by being
00:49:40.81\00:49:44.78
where God wants me to be
00:49:44.78\00:49:49.32
bad. Things can happen to any
of us at any time. But there's
00:49:49.32\00:49:53.02
a piece
00:49:53.02\00:49:54.19
that comes with knowing
00:49:54.19\00:49:56.32
that we are what
God wants us to be.
00:49:56.32\00:49:59.23
It's not an automatic insurance
policy against kidnapping
00:49:59.23\00:50:02.93
against death against disease,
00:50:02.93\00:50:05.70
but there's a comfort
00:50:05.70\00:50:09.84
in our hospital. We care for
the band as we care for their
00:50:09.84\00:50:12.11
opponents. We have
to care for victims.
00:50:12.11\00:50:15.44
These
00:50:15.44\00:50:17.65
are people that have
made bad decisions in life,
00:50:17.65\00:50:21.65
but there's hope
00:50:21.65\00:50:23.22
many of them are young boys,
00:50:23.22\00:50:25.75
14, 15, 16 years old.
00:50:25.75\00:50:28.86
They're not in school because
the unemployment rate there is
00:50:28.86\00:50:31.29
80%. And if
they go to the effort
00:50:31.29\00:50:34.10
being in school, it won't be
worth it. Their parents don't
00:50:34.10\00:50:38.13
have jobs. There's no food
on the table and somebody comes
00:50:38.13\00:50:41.24
and offers them a
paycheck and a weapon.
00:50:41.24\00:50:45.17
What do you expect them to do?
00:50:45.17\00:50:48.44
This is the layout of our city.
Our hospital is just outside of
00:50:48.44\00:50:51.41
town.
00:50:51.41\00:50:52.61
The gangs have taken a strong
hold on the road between us and
00:50:52.61\00:50:55.45
downtown.
00:50:55.45\00:50:57.02
Now just to get to the airport,
to go to town, to get supplies.
00:50:57.02\00:51:00.16
We have to go
through a very rough
00:51:00.16\00:51:02.09
four-wheel-drive mountain road.
00:51:02.09\00:51:05.36
It almost makes you think
back on those stories and when
00:51:08.50\00:51:11.63
you're a kid and you heard
about the end of time when you
00:51:11.63\00:51:13.74
had to flee into the mountains,
00:51:13.74\00:51:16.27
in reality, I kind of enjoy the
rough mountain road. And I even
00:51:16.27\00:51:19.47
have a lot of friends here that
it's been a lot of money and
00:51:19.47\00:51:21.94
time trying to find roads
like that in this country. So I
00:51:21.94\00:51:24.65
consider it a privilege.
00:51:24.65\00:51:26.72
But 90% of all of the
missionaries in Haiti have
00:51:30.19\00:51:33.56
left.
00:51:33.56\00:51:35.62
Many Haitians are leaving.
00:51:35.62\00:51:38.39
There's a humanitarian parole
program. 7,500 per month are
00:51:38.39\00:51:42.53
going through that another
10,000 every month. They're
00:51:42.53\00:51:45.27
flying to Nicaragua and trying
to migrate the difficult road
00:51:45.27\00:51:50.11
up through Mexico.
00:51:50.11\00:51:51.91
We've lost 30 of our
hospital employees. We've lost
00:51:51.91\00:51:55.64
directors in our hospital.
People that we fostered train
00:51:55.64\00:51:59.41
through the last 6 years
who suddenly they text you that
00:51:59.41\00:52:02.55
they're on a plane to New York.
00:52:02.55\00:52:05.99
We've lost the head of nursing,
the head of the operating room,
00:52:05.99\00:52:08.66
the head doctor in the
emergency room, the head nurse
00:52:08.66\00:52:10.73
in the emergency room. They're
not just the gardeners and the
00:52:10.73\00:52:13.96
lower level labors
00:52:13.96\00:52:17.57
to difficult situation,
00:52:17.57\00:52:20.60
but it's all worth it
00:52:20.60\00:52:22.00
when we remember
the reasons we do it.
00:52:22.00\00:52:25.57
This isn't a says she's a 6
year-old girl that was hit by a
00:52:25.57\00:52:27.91
car.
00:52:27.91\00:52:30.21
She had a terrible injury of
her left leg. We had debris did
00:52:30.21\00:52:32.85
it several times.
00:52:32.85\00:52:34.88
I can show that picture of the
operation because I've gotten
00:52:34.88\00:52:37.92
in trouble and church another
likewise places for showing
00:52:37.92\00:52:40.86
surgery pictures.
00:52:40.86\00:52:43.29
But we had to edge of her for
an amputation and their parents
00:52:43.29\00:52:46.36
reluctantly can consented and
it seems like a defeat. We took
00:52:46.36\00:52:50.13
her back that day.
00:52:50.13\00:52:52.47
That operation we thought maybe
there's a chance we can just a
00:52:52.47\00:52:56.47
visual, just clean
it up. One more time
00:52:56.47\00:52:59.74
after that surgery, she started
the saturation had hemoglobin a
00:52:59.74\00:53:03.48
3.6.
00:53:03.48\00:53:06.51
At that point, her life was
in serious danger. They gain
00:53:06.51\00:53:08.98
shares had blocked the roads
around us and we couldn't get
00:53:08.98\00:53:11.15
oxygen.
00:53:11.15\00:53:13.12
We've been planning to
build an oxygen generator in our
00:53:13.12\00:53:16.83
hospital for the last 2 years.
00:53:16.83\00:53:19.43
This is a difficult process
00:53:19.43\00:53:21.53
figuring out how to make this
happen in the head, then coming
00:53:21.53\00:53:25.37
to fruition. We had to we
had received the equipment
00:53:25.37\00:53:29.77
when it came into the
port. We couldn't bring it to a
00:53:29.77\00:53:31.71
hospital because it would have
been hijacked by the gangsters
00:53:31.71\00:53:34.11
who had to put on
a boat and float it
00:53:34.11\00:53:36.31
around the 5 miles of road that
are held by the gangsters and
00:53:36.31\00:53:39.28
get to our hospital the
week before he got in there. And
00:53:39.28\00:53:42.62
that same day
00:53:42.62\00:53:44.32
we were able to turn
it on for the first time.
00:53:44.32\00:53:48.59
I'm quite certain that
she wouldn't be alive today
00:53:48.59\00:53:51.93
without that. And
00:53:51.93\00:53:54.50
it's even a greater blessing
in miracle that she's walking
00:53:54.50\00:53:58.00
today with full
function of her leg.
00:53:58.00\00:54:02.50
These guys came from opposite
ends of the island opposite
00:54:02.50\00:54:04.91
deformities. But with similar
operation, they met each other
00:54:04.91\00:54:07.81
as roommates at our hospital
and supported each other
00:54:07.81\00:54:12.01
difficulty after surgery.
00:54:12.01\00:54:14.52
This lady has been suffering
from my femur fracture for 9
00:54:14.52\00:54:18.52
years, not able to walk
the same because she didn't get
00:54:18.52\00:54:21.22
treatment for something as
simple as a femur fracture.
00:54:21.22\00:54:24.63
And again, 9 much before
that, she broke her femur again.
00:54:24.63\00:54:27.46
And then finally we found out
that we were there to take care
00:54:27.46\00:54:30.43
of it.
00:54:30.43\00:54:31.80
And now she's walking. Normally,
00:54:31.80\00:54:36.30
this is our dental clinic
that we opened up last month,
00:54:36.30\00:54:39.61
but a beautiful place.
00:54:39.61\00:54:42.98
This is made by local labors
with mostly local materials,
00:54:42.98\00:54:47.78
people that are just trying
to keep their kids in school.
00:54:47.78\00:54:52.29
We went to extra efforts to
make it a beautiful place to
00:54:52.29\00:54:55.12
make it. It's the only place
that poor people can come to
00:54:55.12\00:54:57.99
receive dental care,
00:54:57.99\00:55:00.10
but it's also the best place
to anybody can come to receive
00:55:00.10\00:55:04.03
dental care
00:55:04.03\00:55:05.30
and by putting forth extra
effort to make our hospital a
00:55:05.30\00:55:07.84
beautiful place. It
can truly they represent
00:55:07.84\00:55:11.71
the Ministry of Jesus Christ
in the high quality care that
00:55:11.71\00:55:15.78
we're getting.
00:55:15.78\00:55:18.05
This is the ward at a
hospital that we just finished
00:55:18.05\00:55:21.52
remodeling last month,
opening up fresh air oxygen now
00:55:21.52\00:55:26.92
available in every room place
to wash our hands after seeing
00:55:26.92\00:55:31.13
patients.
00:55:31.13\00:55:34.46
And these are the
reasons that we do it all.
00:55:34.46\00:55:38.07
There are many complicated
orthopedic operations, but I
00:55:38.07\00:55:40.27
can tell you there's hardly any
operation that I can't perform
00:55:40.27\00:55:43.74
at a hospital in Haiti with
the same quality that I do for
00:55:43.74\00:55:47.84
kids.
00:55:47.84\00:55:49.11
We have our own here
00:55:49.11\00:55:50.95
in California.
00:55:50.95\00:55:54.78
This girl suffered an injury
from the first earthquake in
00:55:54.78\00:55:57.15
2010 came back to our hospital
8 years later after having
00:55:57.15\00:56:01.72
growth arrest as a
result from the injury.
00:56:01.72\00:56:05.33
And we're really straighten
her leg and put her back
00:56:05.33\00:56:09.66
into a normal life.
00:56:09.66\00:56:11.13
It is our chapel bizarre
physical therapy session,
00:56:11.13\00:56:13.60
every sabbath morning where we
also have chapel every morning
00:56:13.60\00:56:16.81
of the week.
00:56:16.81\00:56:17.97
And this patient here getting
baptized, had extra fixated on
00:56:17.97\00:56:21.64
his like he came to me quite
distraught because he has extra
00:56:21.64\00:56:25.18
fixating said, I want to
be baptized, but I have this
00:56:25.18\00:56:27.88
external fixate or on my leg.
00:56:27.88\00:56:30.29
Can it go in the water?
00:56:30.29\00:56:32.19
We've got all of our patients
going swimming pools with
00:56:32.19\00:56:34.36
external fix, a nurse. I
assured him it was no problem
00:56:34.36\00:56:37.86
to get baptized with his ex
turnell fixated on it. He was
00:56:37.86\00:56:40.50
so happy.
00:56:40.50\00:56:44.87
This is doctor our service and
Doctor Connors Baby Conner's.
00:56:44.87\00:56:47.47
A graduate of Loma Linda
finishes orthopedics a year ago
00:56:47.47\00:56:50.71
and spent a year with me doing
a fellowship, learning about
00:56:50.71\00:56:54.11
mission service, learning
about global Orthopedics
00:56:54.11\00:56:57.35
and Isaac finished
his residency in Haiti.
00:56:57.35\00:57:01.22
We have residents also from
the local hospital rotating with
00:57:01.22\00:57:04.05
us.
00:57:04.05\00:57:05.62
Isaac is now after doing a
fellowship with us working in
00:57:05.62\00:57:09.19
the northern part of Haiti in
a very remote area that has no
00:57:09.19\00:57:12.26
orthopedic surgeons
00:57:12.26\00:57:14.23
in Haiti. There's quite a
few orthopedic surgeons being
00:57:14.23\00:57:17.20
produced in Raleigh
relationship to the number of
00:57:17.20\00:57:20.07
hospitals and the economic
situation. But many of them
00:57:20.07\00:57:23.17
don't have work because even if
they're willing to take care of
00:57:23.17\00:57:26.07
patients on a charitable basis,
patients can pay for implants.
00:57:26.07\00:57:29.41
They can't pay for
hospitalization. And there's no
00:57:29.41\00:57:31.65
way to get these patients with
treatable disabilities taking
00:57:31.65\00:57:35.18
care of, even though we have
surgeons able to do the work.
00:57:35.18\00:57:38.95
And that's where our
hospital has a special role.
00:57:38.95\00:57:42.42
Many of the graduated residents
from orthopedic surgery and
00:57:42.42\00:57:45.83
other programs in Haiti have
moved to the United States and
00:57:45.83\00:57:49.13
now work at fast food
restaurants where they can earn
00:57:49.13\00:57:51.67
more money than being a surgeon
and a country like Haiti where
00:57:51.67\00:57:54.94
it's needed. Most
00:57:54.94\00:57:57.11
Clifford has
osteogenesis in perfect
00:57:57.11\00:58:00.14
and after a brief operation
00:58:00.14\00:58:03.14
can now
00:58:03.14\00:58:04.58
realize the
opportunities in life,
00:58:04.58\00:58:09.22
I'm going to
conclude with a confession
00:58:09.22\00:58:13.15
because over the years I
have failed so many times
00:58:13.15\00:58:17.76
and as time goes on
00:58:17.76\00:58:19.53
more and more, I
realize how little I know
00:58:19.53\00:58:23.03
about taking care,
00:58:23.03\00:58:25.10
the suffering
people in the world
00:58:25.10\00:58:29.27
in my early years of mission
service, it was actually easier
00:58:29.27\00:58:31.94
to prepare talks like this.
00:58:31.94\00:58:34.18
I was a bit naive,
00:58:34.18\00:58:36.95
but I had a sense of clarity, a
sense of clarity that I have to
00:58:36.95\00:58:40.02
look back on.
00:58:40.02\00:58:41.45
And that's why I added this
picture to the end of my talk
00:58:41.45\00:58:44.55
from
00:58:44.55\00:58:45.55
15 years ago when I
first started working in Haiti
00:58:45.55\00:58:49.49
have become less clear with
time as I learn more and more
00:58:52.63\00:58:57.17
but some things.
00:58:57.17\00:58:58.63
I also become more sheriff
00:58:58.63\00:59:01.67
and I know for sure that
we don't have to accept the K
00:59:01.67\00:59:05.54
and lack of infrastructure as
the inevitable norm at Mission
00:59:05.54\00:59:09.81
Hospital,
00:59:09.81\00:59:11.51
high quality care
for all classes of people
00:59:11.51\00:59:15.68
with a special
preference for the poor
00:59:15.68\00:59:19.29
enables us to
share the presence of God
00:59:19.29\00:59:22.96
with everyone around us.
00:59:22.96\00:59:28.26
The how when, and where
of medical evangelism may be
00:59:28.26\00:59:32.10
slightly different
for each one of us.
00:59:32.10\00:59:34.94
But the reason
00:59:34.94\00:59:37.01
we proclaim God's love
00:59:37.01\00:59:39.51
to those around us is the same.
And that's why we're all here
00:59:39.51\00:59:42.98
today.
00:59:42.98\00:59:45.35
May you
continue in his presence?
00:59:45.35\00:59:48.45
So you and those around you
00:59:48.45\00:59:51.22
can experience
the fullness of joy
00:59:51.22\00:59:54.79
and at his right hand. Pleasure
00:59:54.79\00:59:57.76
forevermore.
00:59:57.76\00:59:59.43
Amen.
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