ASI is a ministry
that's networking all these
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different
ministries together with the
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church and lay
people. Being involved with
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ASI, meeting other
people. ASI convention is an
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excellent opportunity,
just a great opportunity.
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In ASI, there is
a particular fellow.
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ASI is really the stamp,
it's the glue that holds all
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the ministries together.
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Welcome to ASI Video Magazine,
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I'm Dan Houghton. ASI
members are people and
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organizations
committed to sharing Christ
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in the market place.
ASI members are people
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known for their
humble and loving service,
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people who constantly
look for ways to help others.
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Today, we are going to
meet two members of ASI.
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That are involved in
Christian service, both
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at home and
thousands of miles away.
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Heritage Academy is
an ASI member boarding
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school in Monterey,
Tennessee. The school has made
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service a paramount
part of its program.
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Among their
service activities Heritage
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students work as call
porters and participate
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in the school's
aviation ministry, an area of
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particular emphasis
is disaster relief and
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Heritage students
have been involved in a
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variety of disaster relief
projects across North America.
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Alright, smile, pray,
you bringing a hand and
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pass those cards.
God bless you, bye, bye.
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This is funny he is
sitting here for two hours,
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he is driving with me
from since, from Heritage.
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This one is funny. He is
canvassing with us today.
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I work in a
European Czech Republic as a
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full-time call
porter for ADRS and now five
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years here in United
States with students,
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with those
negative views. Let me show
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you, this is Piece of
the Storm, original version
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to steps to Christ actually.
We sold almost four thousand
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pieces of the steps to
Christ. The small version,
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they're happiness
digest. I can tell you, it was
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such a book, the
little book that I brought 17
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years ago in my country
and brought me to Christianity.
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Then we've Desire of
ages from Ellen G. White,
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it's one of the best
means I see for today's
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Church, how to help us
get out of our shell from
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our Churches, you
know, don't be hidden,
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just a nice piece,
the Church, but to really
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work face-to-face.
Okay good job Rachael.
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Okay, keep going and
you'll meet Derrick okay,
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there's Derrick
walking towards you. Do you
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have those flyers?
Alright Jibby, Jibby.
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You know the kids, it's hard,
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it's really front line ministry.
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We work in every
weather, everyday,
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no matter the weather,
no matter if it's dry or
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hot or if it's raining
or snowing or freezing.
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The school is first
and foremost focused on
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preparing the
students to go out and serve in
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the mission field,
wherever God calls them.
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They see how
what they do on a day
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to day basis
has lasting results.
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It's really not a job,
it is definitely a life.
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When they have
somebody at the door,
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who is challenging
their faith, you know, maybe
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the person, who is an
atheist or maybe they're
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from a different religion.
And they are questioning,
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you know, what you
as an Adventist believe.
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That is so much
different then a Bible class.
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There are also
students that come as a freshmen
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to school and they
don't want to be involved in
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the canvassing work.
They would rather cut
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the woods or do something else.
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But, when they're
trying and they go with the
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experienced ones, they
see man it's something,
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something really good you know.
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It's doing good
things for the people?
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Nothing wrong is in
appreciating the people.
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And they started liking
it. Oh! Well, what I like
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mostly about this
school is that, it has a very
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spiritual
environment. It's something very
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helpful, if you
wanna grow a strong
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relationship with
God to give you a lot of
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opportunities, so you
do, lot of call porting
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and like definitely
tried to give up Bible studies
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and things like that.
On Sabbaths, we can go out
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to the nursing home,
sing to the people their
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and we do, we try to
do a lot of ministries so,
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we do on a
disaster response with acts.
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Right after the
hurricane came through,
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they were going door
to door talking to people
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at their homes and doing
damage assessment for FEMA.
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We, our first respond
to any natural disaster, so
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if there is any
disaster. We just recently went
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to Florida and
Texas so, because of the
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hurricanes and
the topical storms.
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And entering in data
and these little cell phone
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like devices that
uploaded to the database.
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Umm! Umm! That
FEMA has in Washington,
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other students got to work
in one of the mobile kitchens.
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Distribution line.
Right and then, there was
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a phone center there as
well. That's true. That's true.
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That the
students were working at.
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And we walked away
from that saying, you know,
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we need to be better
trained and so all of our
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students, by design are
trained in first aid and
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CPR through the
American Red Cross
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and all of them are
trained through what's
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called CERT one
hundred, which is
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Community
Emergency Response Teams and
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they all have a hard
hat and a vest that's
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recognized by any
government or FEMA
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organization
anywhere in the country.
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So, because we're a
boarding school, these
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kids go home and
who knows what might
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happen in their neighborhood.
But they're trained and
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by the training that
they've had and the way
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that they can help,
they can hit the ground
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running in any kind of
disaster and be a leader.
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We refocused the
school on Ellen White's
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principles that she
spoke of in the book Education.
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That it's an equal
balance between academics,
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spiritual and vocational.
Our students spend their
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school day, part of their
day they're in class, part
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of their day, they're
in the vocational area.
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Part of the day, we
are having worship, they're
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having personal
devotions and so we are
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intentionally educating
in all of those areas to
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develop the whole
person. All the students here on
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campus work, there is a
lot of different vocational
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areas like that we have kitchen.
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We have grounds;
we have office works,
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school cleaning, dorm
cleaning, call portering,
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and video
productions. We've greenhouses,
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where our freshmen
have a class in agriculture,
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so they get their own
little plot of land and
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they get to pick
what they grow and they
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weed it, and they
care for it and then they
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harvest it and we all
get to eat in the cafeteria
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and they get excited
because that's what they made.
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These are where all
our meals are prepared.
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We've our cook here
Ms. Linda, she is doing
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of course,
prepares our delicious
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meals at this school.
I always get the opinion
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of the kids
called third opinion is
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very important to
me. In fact if they make
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something better,
I'm sure they can do it.
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You know, I like to see
my food eat, not thrown away.
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Well, I think that
we've really been blessed that
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we've 1200
beautiful acres in Tennessee.
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And 600
Adventist Woodlands and 600
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Adventist total acreage,
we've beautiful overlooks.
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Lot's of really neat
terrain to take kids.
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We involve them in
outdoor activities, in biology.
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This is our outdoor classroom.
This is where some teachers
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come out and do their
classroom, their classes
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sometimes, like there
is like lot of chairs and
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tables down there,
so you can actually sit
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down or if you want to
come up for devotionals
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or anything, you can
come on, just sit out
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under the tress of the
shade on all those tables
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with your friends, if
you would like. This here is
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our school building and
office building, this is
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where we take most,
all the classes, we have a
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lab here, where we
do our chemistry and
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physics lab reports and
things like that, we also
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have our own
computer lab with the new
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computers, that
we just got also.
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And we take the
students a lot of places,
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where they have, hands
on learning experience,
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for example last week,
we had our junior class
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up in Battle Creek, Michigan.
At the historic Adventist
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village and so
they're having hands on
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experiences with
the Heritage of the
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Adventist movement
and that's something
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that we feel is really important
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in education is
that. That education be
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connected to life and
it makes the things, that
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students study that
are much more meaningful.
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The girls, one of
their vocational training
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programs is
cooking. For the guys, one of
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their vocational
programs is in my
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wife's class
learning construction, where
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they actually go out
on the campus and they
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build things like
decks, ponds, sidewalks and
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it's exciting because
now they're taking the
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tape measure that
they learned how to read
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their freshmen year,
they're learning these
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formulas in
their freshmen year and
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they're using them in
a practical situation in
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their sophomore
year. We don't have regular
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desks, we've
tables in our classroom.
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And that's because
we use a variety of
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education techniques
to teach students to work
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as a group, to think as
a group and work together.
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Then by the time
they graduate, they have
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skills to offer right
out at high school to earn
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money towards
college or to go straight
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to the mission field.
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Well, ASI has been
such a blessing in so
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many ways. We've been
able to take some of our
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students down to help in
the children's divisions,
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to be able to lead
out to care for them and
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because a lot of
ASI members bring their
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children and there
needs to be a ministry for
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them as well. They also have the
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chance when the
meetings are over to
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walk into this huge
exhibit hall and see that
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they're a part of
a worldwide church.
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Now just a little part
of a Church right here in
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the middle Tennessee or in
their own little home town,
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but a worldwide
Church, where the Holy Spirit
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is moving and
living and breathing.
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ASI has a lot to do with
why we've a flight program.
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Don Sterling sent us
an email that somebody
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had made a donation
for us to have a plane and
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you know the Lord
brought to us a couple
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years before that a pilot,
who wanted to teach history.
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And then the Aeroplane
was delivered this past
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June and the
program started this fall.
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I've setup a course,
that if a student wants to go
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at age 18. They
graduate from Heritage,
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go straight to the
mission field with their
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commercial pilot's
license. We've a program
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structured for that.
They start flying as a
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sophomore, they
receive their private
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pilot license when
they turn 17. They receive
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their commercial
license when they turn 18 at
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which point they can go straight
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to the mission field.
The idea and it probably
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sounds crazy the way I
express it, but the idea
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is to put together
a school that's really
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being led by the
students and we do it in
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a number of ways, our
year book editor is a student.
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We've a student, who is
leading out in our video
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production group.
We've the members of
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the SA regularly, I put
them in charge of things
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and tell them you
know, to go do things,
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organize recreation or
activities and you know
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that way, that
way they're making the
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decisions, they're
thinking and that's
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really the goal.
Last year, there was a
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student, who is
sharing with me and she was a
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senior and she said
when I came to the school.
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I looked at the
juniors and seniors, and I said
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to myself there are so
big and they're so smart
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and they are such great
leaders and just you know,
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she had trouble ever
imagining herself going
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up into that role.
Umm! And then you know at
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graduation, she spoke
about that in her senior speech.
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But, now she had become
all of these things over
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the course of her time
here. And that's you know
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that's a big things
that, you know, you're
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developing a
Christian character, you're
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developing
leadership. You are developing
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decision making cooperative,
cooperative abilities to be
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able to work with other people.
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ASI like heritage academy
firmly believes in involving
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youth in service and outreach.
There is no better time
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to be nourishing a
love of Jesus and our
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fellowman in our
young people through acts of
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humble service. For
more information about
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Heritage Academy
call 931-839-6675 or visit
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www.heritagetn.org,
ASI has committed to
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affective
evangelism, to that end we are
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sponsoring a train them
now. A program that trains
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lay people to conduct
evangelistic meetings in
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their homes, using
the new beginning's DVDs,
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around the world
more then twenty thousand
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people have been
trained so far and they
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in turn have held
over one hundred thousand
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evangelistic
meetings resulting in tens of
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thousands of
Baptisms. When you come to ASI,
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you've an opportunity
to network with other
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individuals of like mindedness.
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ASI has helped me meet
many, many others professionals.
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Rubbing shoulders and
hanging out with people
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that are committed
to the Lord soon coming.
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You need to come to
ASI, just network and hear
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the testimonies
because it will change
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your life, it really works.
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You and I couldn't
go very long without
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water; quite simply
we need water to live.
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In the same way, we need the
living water of Jesus Christ.
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To truly have life
Jesus is the only answer,
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Garry
Bartholomew owns a water well
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service business in
Spokane, Washington.
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On a daily basis, he
is able to share this
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analogy with customers
and tell them about Jesus.
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There's 15,000 people
everyday that die worldwide
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because of bad water
or the lack of water.
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Any faucet that we go
to, you know, it may have
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a little chlorine in
it. We don't like the taste,
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but it isn't gonna
kill us or give us amoeba or
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hepatitis or any of
these nasty diseases.
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Another way of saying
that is that 80 percent of
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the hospital beds in the
world are filled with people
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from waterborne diseases
or from the lack of water.
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We've one village that
had just kind of a little
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pond type thing that
they got their water from.
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You wouldn't let your animals
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drink out of this water.
I mean it is just absolutely
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gross and people
were dying because of it.
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So, I am able to share
that in my business and
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it brings some very
rewarding conversations.
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It take those
people's minds off their poor
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troubles that Oh! Boy,
I don't have water this
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morning and it
allows me to share this
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dynamic ministry
and sometimes a lot of
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books or literature. Our
ministry is water for life
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international and it
got started basically from
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my wife and I going
to Guatemala for the last
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12 years, four years
ago we started drilling
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wells in Guatemala. It's
a beauty from ashes story.
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We hired a contractor
in Guatemala to drill a
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well for
international children's care
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orphanage there. We spend seven
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months, went about
200 ft, told us we had 300
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gallons in a minute,
we'd never use all that
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water and when we
got down there and put a
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pump in it, we had
nothing, we had less
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then three gallons
a minute and it was
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contaminated water.
We decided well we come
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from a drilling
family, drilling background.
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Let's try out ourselves.
So, we started drilling
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four years ago, what we
began with was providing
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safe water for the
orphanage and school there.
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And just miracle
after miracle from there on
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has brought us to
where we are today with two
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drill rigs, a pump
truck and what other
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equipment down
there. We've a shop down
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there now and this
pick up is actually going
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down this winter,
is gonna be driven down
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towing a trailer to the project.
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Now, we are drilling
in surrounding villages,
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clinics. This year,
we hope to do another
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orphanage in El
Salvador and a hospital
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in Belize and more,
more wells right around
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the orphanage and school there.
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It's a third world
country that doesn't
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have much for water
system, so typically it's
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come out of the river
and that's where it still
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comes from. Of course
all the villages upstream
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from the source, you
know, use the river for
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their waste also and
so the further the river
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goes, more
contaminated it is and you now,
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it looks like water. But,
it's, it's water and a lot
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of parasites, lot of
problems. We started out with a
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differential item in
'89 Lincoln town car,
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because it had about the
right gear ratio and then
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modified the opinions,
so that we could get an
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eccentric vertical
lift. Now they have a hand
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pump, they have no
electricity, so they can't
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run an electrical pump.
But, they have actually a
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merry go round pump
is what we put on their
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well and when they
play on the merry go
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round, it pumps them
water. In the beginning it was,
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you know, it was
noble and it was new and
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there were a lot of
kids just playing on it.
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Also we don't just
provide safe water, we
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provide the water
of life, we do a lot of
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sharing of the
Gospel and we've seen scores
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of Baptisms, very rewarding.
I work with the drilling
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part of things to a
degree, but I've been
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consumed more in the last
few years with the evangelistic
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side of things.
That's how we open the
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door though is to
give them clean water, show
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the people that
we're there to help them.
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Show them that we
care about them and then
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they're willing to
listen to really truly what
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we're down there for
and that is tell them
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and give them the
true water of life.
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I was in India doing
some drilling 25 years ago.
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And I start up the
drill rig in the morning and
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within a few
moments, I would have three or
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four hundred people
standing around that
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drill rig and I had
the impression that,
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Oh! If only I could
have a picture roll. I wanted
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anything to tell
these poor people how it was
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that they could get the
scabs out of their hair or
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they could get the
flies off their face and
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whatever else and I
vowed right there in my
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own heart that I
would never work overseas
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again, if I couldn't
tell the people about Jesus.
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A 12 year old boy
from our Church does a
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series of meetings each
year. He has done it two years,
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he will be
going again this year.
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I went and I
preached the first meeting and
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afterwards a young
woman came up to me
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and she looked about
6 months pregnant and
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through the translator
I learned that she had
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been in a cab and
bus wreck and it has
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squeezed her abdomen
and she had few fluids
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leaking inside of her,
so we got down there in
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my building and
we prayed for her.
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And she says, I'm
leaving tomorrow to go
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to Guatemala City.
The doctors are insisting
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comedown for my second surgery.
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They're gonna take
out part of my colon,
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part of my pancreas,
part of my, there is lot
00:21:13.12\00:21:16.56
of her abdomen stuff,
so it wouldn't leak and she
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said there is a 50
percent chance that I'm
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going to die or if I
live. She came back in just a
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few days, she says. I
didn't have to have surgery.
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And about the next
night, she was there.
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There she was, flat stomach
and all, and I was amazed.
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And she came back to say thank
you to that 12-year-old boy
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and to the Lord. She was healed.
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To watch those
people respond to Christ.
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When presented
with people from, a few
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years old to 80 years
old, it doesn't seem to matter.
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I haven't seen a failure
yet. It's what the Lord taught
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us to do, it's what
he came here and did,
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was took care of
people's physical needs
00:22:00.70\00:22:03.21
and then, they were
able to talk spiritual things
00:22:04.18\00:22:07.46
and that, that's
extremely satisfying.
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Their health has
improved, the medical
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bills went down 60
percent in the first year
00:22:12.43\00:22:15.10
at the orphanage,
just by having safe water
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and we see a lot of
parasite problems, a lot
00:22:17.89\00:22:20.86
of deaths from that
and with safe water, which
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just makes a difference
between night and day.
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ASI has shown
me and I'm a person
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that learns by example.
I see something and I learn
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that and they have
shown me, they have modeled
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to me sharing Christ.
It is just more fun then
00:22:39.82\00:22:45.82
a barrel of monkeys to
come and be able to see
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people that are
witnessing in their marketplace.
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That are sharing
Christ in their marketplace.
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The networking that
we experience at ASI
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is something we
can't get anywhere else.
00:23:00.17\00:23:03.14
Because we see other
people that, that may
00:23:03.64\00:23:06.01
have a ministry
and maybe they're just
00:23:06.04\00:23:07.57
across the border in
another country, but we
00:23:07.60\00:23:10.07
see people that would
love to go learn how to
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drill a well or we
see people that would like
00:23:13.53\00:23:16.60
to go help built a
church or do some sharing of
00:23:16.63\00:23:20.67
the Gospel in an
evangelistic series and
00:23:20.70\00:23:23.95
we see people that
print literature, Spanish
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books or
literature, that we take down.
00:23:26.85\00:23:29.98
We took 14, we
took 9000 pounds of
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literature last year
in our container when we
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shipped them. So,
this year we are taking
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Bible, Spanish Bibles
and literature and the
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message books and so,
all of these things we
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find at ASI conventions
and I don't know of any
00:23:44.24\00:23:47.51
other place we could find that.
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A dozen years ago,
I started being more
00:23:49.59\00:23:53.20
active in the
drilling associations in the
00:23:53.23\00:23:55.55
different states, I
could never really understand
00:23:55.58\00:23:59.34
and I asked myself
what in the world am I going
00:23:59.37\00:24:01.55
to play golf with or
we want to camp out with a
00:24:01.58\00:24:05.92
bunch of well
drillers because industry looks
00:24:05.95\00:24:09.71
at me, at some of those
people who are dirty all
00:24:09.74\00:24:12.39
the time and some
of them have language
00:24:12.42\00:24:16.35
similar and this kind
of thing and we put people
00:24:16.38\00:24:20.29
in a box. I have found
a willingness among the
00:24:20.32\00:24:24.80
drillers, among
the manufactures.
00:24:24.83\00:24:27.60
Some of these people
I have called them up
00:24:28.17\00:24:31.24
from Guatemala and
said this is our problem
00:24:31.27\00:24:34.22
and he says do I
understand you are doing
00:24:34.25\00:24:36.48
mission work down
there, I said yes.
00:24:36.51\00:24:39.07
He says I'm prepared
to donate this if you do
00:24:39.10\00:24:42.60
the freight on it.
There's pump suppliers
00:24:42.63\00:24:45.01
that supply pump
and pipe and wire.
00:24:45.04\00:24:47.64
There's electrical
suppliers that supply
00:24:47.67\00:24:49.91
electrical things, there's
well drill suppliers that
00:24:49.94\00:24:52.96
supply tools and
bits, things that are
00:24:52.99\00:24:55.43
expandable and those
people are just, they're
00:24:55.46\00:25:00.42
happy to help, they
want to help and that
00:25:00.45\00:25:02.71
encourages me.
And I've seen people
00:25:02.74\00:25:06.29
that I thought were
in a box and the Lord has
00:25:08.13\00:25:11.26
showed me I was
wrong. You know, I do water
00:25:11.29\00:25:15.16
well pump systems
and so I'm involved with
00:25:15.19\00:25:18.50
water in my everyday
work. Now, I'm finding it harder
00:25:18.53\00:25:22.80
and harder to
separate my ministry and my
00:25:22.83\00:25:26.95
everyday work to me
they're one, it allows
00:25:26.98\00:25:30.02
me to share this
dynamic ministry and
00:25:30.05\00:25:35.63
sometimes a lot of
books or literature.
00:25:35.66\00:25:39.38
One of my favorite
books is Child of the
00:25:39.91\00:25:42.21
Crossfire, because
it's about a boy in
00:25:42.24\00:25:44.61
Guatemala, that
actually ended up at that
00:25:44.64\00:25:47.36
orphanage and his dad
was part of the guerrilla
00:25:47.39\00:25:51.32
forces and so the
government captured him,
00:25:51.35\00:25:55.12
kill his dad and
then wanted to get
00:25:55.15\00:25:57.78
information out of
him and then the, when the
00:25:57.81\00:26:04.28
General Lucas
was flying over this
00:26:05.06\00:26:07.12
devastated village
taking this boy to the
00:26:07.15\00:26:09.76
orphanage. He looked
down, he saw a little girl
00:26:09.79\00:26:12.04
in the garbage dump at
the edge of the village.
00:26:12.79\00:26:15.81
The only form of life
left that he could see.
00:26:16.71\00:26:19.66
He landed right there
picked her up and took
00:26:19.91\00:26:21.97
her with him to
the orphanage and we
00:26:22.00\00:26:24.88
adopted that girl in
1985 and that's our daughter,
00:26:24.91\00:26:28.99
and so that book
talks about that and so I've
00:26:29.63\00:26:33.52
shared a lot of
those books with people
00:26:33.55\00:26:35.25
because it also has the
wonderful Sabbath message,
00:26:35.28\00:26:38.88
because the Sabbath
is part of the program at
00:26:38.91\00:26:42.32
the international children's
care orphanage and has just
00:26:42.35\00:26:46.34
lots, lots of good
promises and a good message.
00:26:46.37\00:26:49.77
Our focus is on
reaching out to others and
00:26:49.80\00:26:53.48
in my mind, that's
made a healthy difference
00:26:53.51\00:26:56.42
in our Church. Its
working like the Lord
00:26:56.45\00:27:00.48
said it would. It's
more blessed to give then to
00:27:00.51\00:27:03.25
receive and I can see
it. When I first started
00:27:03.28\00:27:07.19
going down of that
while a couple weeks,
00:27:07.22\00:27:09.50
that's quite a bit of
time to take and last year
00:27:09.53\00:27:12.51
I took two months and it's
feeling better all the time.
00:27:12.54\00:27:14.97
What a wonderful
example of sharing
00:27:19.13\00:27:21.14
Christ in the marketplace,
stories like Gerry's
00:27:21.17\00:27:24.48
inspire me to get out
of my comfort zone and
00:27:24.51\00:27:27.61
witness to those around
me. If you would like to here
00:27:27.64\00:27:30.79
more testimonies
like Gerry's, I encourage
00:27:30.82\00:27:33.81
you to come to the ASI
convention, it's filled
00:27:33.84\00:27:37.04
with stories of
people being used by God to
00:27:37.07\00:27:40.37
reach others both at
home and around the world.
00:27:40.40\00:27:43.76
Find out more at
www.asiministries.org.
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You've been
watching ASI Video Magazine,
00:27:50.86\00:27:53.89
I'm Dan Houghton,
join me next time for more
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stories of ASI
members sharing Christ in the
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marketplace.
May God be with you.
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