ASI is a Ministry
that's networking all these
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different ministries
together with the church
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and lay people.
Being involved with ASI,
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meeting other
people. ASI convention is
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an 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
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all the ministries together.
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Welcome to ASI video Magazine.
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When I attempt the
ASI convention each year,
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I am amazed to see
the wide variety of ASI
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member
ministries, businesses and
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professionals that
are all involved in
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sharing Christ
in the market place.
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No matter what they do,
ASI members are committed
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to active outrage
to sharing God's love
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and the good news
of his soon return.
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Frontline builders is
an ASI member organization
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that constructs
churches all around the world.
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They work very
closely with the Seventh-Day
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Adventist church to
provide church buildings
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for missionaries in the field.
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There are many areas
in the world for the local
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congregation could never
afford to build the church.
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Let's find out how God
has used frontline builders
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to provide for the
needs of His people.
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We have winter condition here.
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How are you,
guys? Yeah! It's chilly.
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Come on, go inside.
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It comes the toilet.
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The crack cementing block so
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the experts work on the church.
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Well, when we first
started our Ministry went up to
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South Sudan and they were many,
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many
congregations meeting up there.
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Church congregations
meeting without any
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buildings, you
know, under mango tree
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or in little grass
shelter or whatever.
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So, we wanted to
help them build permanent
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structures that
they could, you know,
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meet in our
Sabbath, so no matter
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who was reining,
you know or you know,
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whatever is going on
they can still meet and so
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we went up there
and, and Sudan is
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totally
undeveloped. We couldn't buy any
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materials there and
you know you could get,
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you know, stone for
the foundation and sand
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for the cement up
there, but other than that
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we have to get
everything from Uganda.
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In the all the
cement, roofing sheets,
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nails, anything you
had to buy you had to bring
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in from Uganda,
which was between
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24-30 hour truck
trips, on most horrible roads
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you can imagine.
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That's how we
managed to pass through about
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5 o'clock then we
said no, we have to reach
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by now even you reach
1 or 2 in the morning.
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So, then we
passed, we passed miles 13,
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where there is a
fest ridge we managed,
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mile 14 we
managed, 15 but now we are
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coming to mile 16, we
found vehicles blocked
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about 200 meters
coming this way, towards Yei.
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They said, no you
can't pass tonight because
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the place is
severe, so we have to wait
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until morning when
the vehicles will start
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passing again and start moving.
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So, we slept here.
Now, we are just waiting
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to see our fate
when we reach mile 16
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because it is a severe place.
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I've been working
here for since yesterday,
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you can see it's very dangerous.
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Yeah! We started to go 16 mile.
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We found out
something blocking our roads,
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so pushing ourselves
and now it started to get.
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So, we trying to
push with the truck,
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so that we clear the
road we can go all through.
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Our work started
because we had a burden to
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help build
infrastructure in South Sudan,
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a country that had
been a kind of neglected
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as far as our work
is, our work about church
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is concerned, they
hadn't been much building
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of infrastructure of church,
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there are schools up
there and we heard about
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the need and so we
would provide funding,
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so that we can go up
there and start building
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some churches and schools
and help the bore machines
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pioneers with the work
that they were doing up
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there in Sudan,
and we have also been
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working in
Mongolia. Number of years ago,
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we went over there
and we built one of the
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first Adventist
church is in Mongolia
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and there it's a
different challenge because
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in Sudan it's really
hot. So we tried to get as
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much ventilation
through the building as we can.
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Now in Mongolia
you know the average
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temperature is below
zero, you know, very cool,
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in the summer it's
warm, but in the winter
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it's very cool. So,
we had to learn you know
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go there and
figure out what they,
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you know, what
building materials they use
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and how they
insulate and how they heat it.
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Before we start
form is our insulation,
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is gonna put the
bricks of the outside
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and so we go on a
church there out of logs,
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and you know we
have insulated with wood,
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coal, wood and coal
burning stoves in there.
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We invested in a
couple of these hand drills,
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they are kind of expensive,
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they are almost
50 cents a piece,
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so we are trying to
be careful with them.
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Yeah. I like
that new technology.
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Yeah, everything by
hand you know there are no
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electric tools or
modern, you know, cement mixers
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or anything
everything you know hammer
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and shovel and stick.
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Our mission is a
big emphasis about work
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because their ideas
are really brilliant,
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they take local
people and train them,
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people who have had
experience in Jesus Christ
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and then convert
them, they train them,
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they send them
into this villages,
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remote areas and
all times these areas
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that are difficult to
reach and they will go
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in there and they will
work with the local people
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in that area and witness
for Christ there and start
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a company there
are a church there.
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And so all throughout
South Sudan even though
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you had 25 years of
civil war and basically
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no outside
influence you had these global
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mission pioneers
working in these areas
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and just doing a tremendous work
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and so we, we
believe in that work
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and we want to support that work
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and so our way of
supporting is to go
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and help them
build churches, help them
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built schools
provide, help provide them
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with training opportunities
with bicycles, literature,
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whatever they need to
kind to be more effective
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in the work that they do.
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We grew up
being involved in ASI,
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our parents were members
and I grew up as children
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at missionaries
who came back every
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other year or so
at 10 ASI convention
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and kind of make the
rounds and get, you know,
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meet up with old friends and,
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and talk to
people about ministries.
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So, we grew up
involved in that and involved
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in the youth meetings
and then as we started
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our Ministry it was
really people in ASI,
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who thought you
know these young guys.
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You know, we are
teenagers at that time,
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we were 18-19 years
old and they thought hey,
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you know sounds
pretty crazy you know that
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you know they have
been trying to built
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churches up in
Sudan for several years
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and heaven happen, you know,
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it's pretty crazy
that what these guys
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go up there and try,
but they were willing to
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take that risk on
us and just 100 percent
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behind us. You
know encouragement and
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in financially to
fund the work that
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we were doing and gave
us that opportunity and,
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yeah our Ministry
won't be happening today
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like it wasn't for ASI in
sub quarter they have shown.
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Is this your hammer?
Yeah. Whose hammer is this?
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Ours for work, whose
work, tell us work. Yeah,
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It's a Lord's work,
yeah. Every time at ASI
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somebody comes up
to me and says hey
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there is a real need
in this part of the world
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that you need to do.
This part of building
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collides you set
up and have a building
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project working
enough. Let's get some ideas,
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let's get plan to
get and how we can go
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and get this done,
and so it's really a
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networking place as
well, where we bring
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together ideas and
get to know the people
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that are out there
with experience, you know,
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making these things happen.
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Now we have hired
the local people to help,
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you know, dig the
foundations and to mix
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the cement by hand and
they will make the brick
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and we got the whole
community there helping
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with the project. You
know, axe was the only piece of
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development in
the village in the
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community and so
everybody was their
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building this building
and they are all excited
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about it and you
know everybody comes to
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you know celebration
when its done and now
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all these people
who haven't even really
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accepted the
gospel aren't you know
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members of the
church or anything. You know
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they feel like this
is their building because
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they have been part of
it the whole of time you
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know and so everybody
comes and and you know,
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you know, every
Sabbath you know the global
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mission pioneer
there. He is, you know,
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he has given the
message and these
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people feel like
that's their ability they want
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to be there. And so,
just the building itself is an
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evangelism tool
because the whole
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community now is in
the church, now they
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are learning about,
you know, the gospel and
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pretty soon you
know they are getting
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baptized being members.
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Alright, our hope is
to continue working in
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these areas of Africa
especially in other parts
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of the world that
really, you know, you know lot
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of Africans,
Southern Africa you had
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missionaries in
countries for over a
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hundred years you
know working their and
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there is a huge
Adventist present, but
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then you go on to
Central Africa and
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North Africa and you
have these regions that,
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our work really hasn't
been established there.
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And they have got some
reason usually, usually
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it's because maybe
because of war or you
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know this country
face huge poverty and it's
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just difficult to
work there and so our goal
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for our future is to
continue targeting these
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areas, to continue
supporting the work of
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Global mission
pioneers, and over the
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next few years we
would like to establish a
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base somewhere in
Africa, where we can
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workout of and
send teams up into
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Sudan and to
Central Africa Republic into
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these areas that
needs the infrastructure and
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the work that we been
doing and so long term
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we hope to have a
more systematic, you know,
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base the work out
of and more groups of
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young people
working with us to do this
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project. That's
where our hearts are and we
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plan to be involve,
you know in Africa and
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other places in
the world just you know
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developing helping
the church, wherever we
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can. Yeah, severe. Yes, yes, yes
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There are people with
serious needs all over
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the world including
many of our brothers
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and sisters in
Christ. I am so thankful for
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frontline builders
and other ASI members that
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are working to meet the
needs of the family of God
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For more information
about frontline builders call
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423-236-5600 or visit
www.frontlinebuilders.org
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At every ASI
convention, we have the
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special projects
offering through which ASI
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supports around 40
projects from Seventh-
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Day Adventist
Ministries around the
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world. These
projects very widely from
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construction to evangelism and
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humanitarian aid and
more, but they are all
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focused on sharing
Jesus Christ around the
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world. We are honored
at ASI to support these
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projects and to help
tell the world that Jesus is
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coming again.
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Abuse is not
something we enjoy talking a lot
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about, but the simple
fact is that it happens
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even in Christian
homes. Women's healing and
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empowerment
network is an ASI member
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organization that
provides a shelter for
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abused women. They
are also involved in
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abused prevention
programs, but such than
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apart is their
emphasis on Christ centered
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healing bringing
hurting people into the arms
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of Jesus.
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There is so much of
this in our society and as
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people become
acquainted with the
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church family and
come into the church family
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they bring these things
right into the church as well.
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I mean that's why you
drive down the road and
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people get mad and
foot each other off and
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screaming at each
other at the grocery store.
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Just because they
become acquainted with
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Christ does it mean that
they don't have a history.
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If people act
occasionally like that in
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the stores or
whatever you know they are
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doing at home.
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What I am finding
out is that domestic
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violence and abuse
especially sexual abuse, incest
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Oh! I think abuse for
the most part has been
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swept kind of relevant.
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It's very prevalent
in Christian circles.
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And really just not
help with for years and I
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think some of the
worst abuse cases happen
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most often in the
least respected families.
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This lifestyle looking
on the outside like they
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guided together, they
got the big house, they
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have got the nice
cars, they are dressing good
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clothes and they go
home and they are been
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beaten by their husbands.
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I try to educate to
prevent, but even while
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we are prevent trying
to prevent it, there are
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people that need help.
And so their needs also
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be intervention
programs, where people
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can go, counselors
that understand the
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dynamics of the
domestic violence. We
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need pastors, who,
who also understand the
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cycle of violence so
that they don't become a
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part of
perpetuating it innocently.
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We need to recognize
if person would not have
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come, the person
would not have been so forth
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right. The person
would not have put their own
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lives and repetition on
the line had it not been
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in their mind very real.
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Okay, next
scenario. My husband was
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abusing me, I told,
I told my pastor and he
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said, I should not
air my dirty linen.
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Sometimes when
you know when a couple
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comes and they are in
an abusive situation and
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they told their
pastor. If a pastor does not
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understand the
messages that he should
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give the perpetuate,
as well as the victim. You
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know, he could do
more harm then good.
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The next part goes on,
I got a divorce from him.
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The challenge here
is the church has asked
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me to leave the
congregation. Is this
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fair that I should
leave, while my husband
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continues to be
part of the congregation.
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I would encourage,
encourage her to come
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and join my chair.
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Yeah, that would
be better, get better.
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Generally speaking
that the victim is the one
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that brings it
forward. In cases like that
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unfortunately what
normally happens it's
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either, either minimized
or the victim is blamed.
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This happened in my
life, in my life and it
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was a wonderful and
I'm still at this other
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congregation. I've
grown so much there
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and I've learned so
much, so it's not fair,
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it's not fair,
however. Let's go ahead and
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move on because we
don't know what God's
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plans are and so
let's just go ahead and move
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on and go to
pastor Collins church.
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It's her choice, her
choice, that's the key.
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That's why I left him
because I don't want my
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son to put somebody
through the same thing
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later on. I did not
want my son to think it was
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okay. And I didn't
want to have a phone call
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from his significant
other telling me that he
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is doing the same
thing that his dad and his
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grandfather and his
great grandfather have
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done before. I wanted
the pattern to stop and
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I'm glad that I
stopped it before he was old
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enough to really understand it.
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Ten years ago, when I
was the director at the
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shelter in Niles,
this lady came from another
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state with three young
girls, beautiful girls and
00:19:13.92\00:19:18.03
she was escaping
out the domestic violent
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situation and she
stayed for a couple of months,
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she decided that
she was gonna leave her
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abuse for good not go back.
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A kind of check it
out on my mom since my
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dad wasn't there for me
to scream at me, it's all
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your fault, you
know, but I would say
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probably about three
years after my parents
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finalize the divorce
I ended up being out on
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my own, 16. Started
working, was working
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on getting back into
school, it's a college
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that is, I had got my
GD because I never finished
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high school because
I was jumping all over
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the place from house to house.
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Well a couple of
months ago I got a call
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from this lady with,
you know, who had these
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three daughters. She
said my oldest daughter
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is an abusive
relationship and I need
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you to help her.
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While I was working
one day, this guy walks
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into the mall and he
is very good-looking guy
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and we started talking
a little bit, he pretended
00:20:23.66\00:20:27.85
like he was looking
for shoes. And about a
00:20:27.88\00:20:30.43
week later he called
me and we start dating.
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Probably a few months
later, I started finding
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out more about him,
found out that he had a
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daughter that he
didn't planned on telling me
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anything about. He also
lies me about his living
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situation with his
current girlfriend and
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all these things
should have been a warning,
00:20:52.43\00:20:55.11
but of course I
wanted to believe him because
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he seem like a good
person, but something
00:20:57.57\00:21:00.43
in the back of my
mind kept on telling me to
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just leave it alone and
just, I just didn't listen.
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Her mom came to the
shelter, helped her mom
00:21:06.41\00:21:09.81
to get out of the
abusive relationship, but the
00:21:09.84\00:21:11.87
daughter, the
oldest daughter went right
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back into it so,
but, I think it's exciting
00:21:13.95\00:21:17.79
because when the
daughter realize that she
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needed help,
she called somebody.
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He was very angry about me being
00:21:22.41\00:21:24.37
pregnant, told me
that I needed to get an
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abortion and I
refused. He threw a big few
00:21:26.49\00:21:30.08
things out the
house, should have left, but
00:21:30.11\00:21:33.49
thinking that was
the father of my son I
00:21:33.52\00:21:37.24
should stay be a
family, I was just falling into
00:21:37.27\00:21:40.26
the same pattern in
that my mom fell into. Six
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to seven months
after my son was born, he
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laid his hands on me
one to many times and
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just, I just that's when
I called Mabel, I told my
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mom that I want to
get in touch with Mabel
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and that's when I spoke to her.
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And that's what we
are here for, we are not
00:21:56.04\00:21:57.58
trying to disrupt
relationships and we are
00:21:57.61\00:22:00.88
not trying to end
relationships, but we
00:22:00.91\00:22:02.85
are trying to
say when there is a
00:22:02.88\00:22:04.46
problem, here is
the place you can go
00:22:04.49\00:22:06.85
because more than
anyone else I believe
00:22:06.88\00:22:09.13
you know in this
Ministry I definitely
00:22:09.16\00:22:12.33
want to see couples
together. I don't, it's not
00:22:12.36\00:22:15.08
my desire that
people separate. But, at the
00:22:15.11\00:22:17.98
same time if people
are not safe then they need
00:22:18.01\00:22:20.75
to separate until it's
safe for them to be together.
00:22:20.78\00:22:23.38
And even though it
took my mom and my sisters
00:22:23.41\00:22:29.47
and a good family,
a couple good family
00:22:29.50\00:22:33.11
friends to actually
physically remove me
00:22:33.14\00:22:35.91
from the
situation, I don't regret it.
00:22:35.94\00:22:40.39
So, I spoke to the
young women, we got her out
00:22:40.42\00:22:44.78
of that situation. She
is located near us in a
00:22:44.81\00:22:50.11
home and she is being
helped and so after 10
00:22:50.14\00:22:53.92
years so what that we
did in Niles, it still
00:22:53.95\00:22:57.41
continuing because
this, this young lady now,
00:22:57.44\00:23:01.11
when she realize
that she needed help, she
00:23:01.14\00:23:03.24
decided to come to our network.
00:23:03.27\00:23:05.14
We need to start at
the younger ages and start
00:23:05.17\00:23:09.25
teaching children
in Junior High and High
00:23:09.28\00:23:11.97
School not to get
into relationships that
00:23:12.00\00:23:16.13
possibly be damaging
teaching them the signs
00:23:16.16\00:23:18.98
to work for and
also reminding them how
00:23:19.01\00:23:22.81
valuable they are to
God. We can have that
00:23:22.84\00:23:25.95
in a public organization.
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So that's why we, I feel
that secular shout, well,
00:23:27.78\00:23:30.90
well, they are
helpful, I don't want anyone to
00:23:30.93\00:23:32.85
get the idea that
we don't need them, we
00:23:32.88\00:23:34.58
definitely do, but if
a person is into healing
00:23:34.61\00:23:38.35
long-term
healing, I think what we
00:23:38.38\00:23:42.46
offer is superior.
00:23:42.49\00:23:43.79
Mabel, in her organization
00:23:43.82\00:23:47.07
puts Jesus first.
00:23:47.10\00:23:49.43
The difference with
what we are trying to do
00:23:49.46\00:23:52.37
is that is Christ-centered
because true healing
00:23:52.40\00:23:56.42
comes from Christ.
It comes through him.
00:23:56.45\00:23:58.38
And so the difference
with our program is that
00:23:58.41\00:24:00.58
we are, we are
not trying to, to fix
00:24:00.61\00:24:03.89
something
short-term, we are looking
00:24:03.92\00:24:05.56
at the long-term.
00:24:05.59\00:24:06.64
I feel like I
depended too much on my son's
00:24:06.67\00:24:11.46
father. I think
the reason why I didn't
00:24:11.49\00:24:15.70
leave before is because
I didn't feel like there
00:24:15.73\00:24:17.55
was any other choice
financially with the way
00:24:17.58\00:24:20.33
that our economy is
going right now and I
00:24:20.36\00:24:23.37
just didn't think that
it will be possible as a
00:24:23.40\00:24:25.48
single mother, so
surviving given my son
00:24:25.51\00:24:27.87
what he needed, but
now I'm seeing that I
00:24:27.90\00:24:31.94
can give from better
that what he was getting
00:24:31.97\00:24:34.07
when I was with him. I
have a great job, a great
00:24:34.10\00:24:38.09
job and I'm staying
with the most wonderful,
00:24:38.12\00:24:41.46
wonderful women in
the world, she is an
00:24:41.49\00:24:45.19
angel. I don't
know what I do without
00:24:45.22\00:24:48.66
everybody that I've,
that God has really blessed
00:24:48.69\00:24:51.88
me, so be around.
00:24:51.91\00:24:54.11
And so what we are
trying to do is help
00:24:54.14\00:24:57.12
these people find
healing, so that the
00:24:57.15\00:24:59.11
behavior stops. And
the empowerment part is
00:24:59.14\00:25:02.57
okay, now that I'm
healed. What I'm gonna
00:25:02.60\00:25:05.63
do with what I have received.
00:25:05.66\00:25:07.36
We are not just about
a shelter, we are about
00:25:07.39\00:25:10.85
healing, we are
about empowering and
00:25:10.88\00:25:14.29
setting people free.
00:25:14.32\00:25:15.43
Well I think with
ASI you know they found
00:25:15.46\00:25:19.61
the programs like
this that probably would
00:25:19.64\00:25:21.87
normally get funded
through the church, so
00:25:21.90\00:25:23.74
they have funded us
when we were part of
00:25:23.77\00:25:25.92
this place. And we
are a member of ASI and,
00:25:25.95\00:25:28.94
when I can, when I
can't afford it, I go to the
00:25:28.97\00:25:31.40
national conventions,
but you know for past
00:25:31.43\00:25:33.82
couple of years I
couldn't afford, it's
00:25:33.85\00:25:35.21
frightening even
though. It puts us in
00:25:35.24\00:25:37.58
contact with
other entities and other
00:25:37.61\00:25:40.67
organizations
other funded programs and
00:25:40.70\00:25:43.77
you know by ASI and
it also individuals who
00:25:43.80\00:25:47.21
have the money,
individuals have the
00:25:47.24\00:25:48.99
interest, they take
an interest in it and we
00:25:49.02\00:25:51.01
have gotten a few
donations from people
00:25:51.04\00:25:53.06
who have attended
ASI. Also give us exposure
00:25:53.09\00:25:56.15
too about the
Ministry does exist. And so we
00:25:56.18\00:25:59.57
have in Texas, we have
a counseling center. In
00:25:59.60\00:26:03.07
Ohio, we have every
year the group their
00:26:03.10\00:26:06.60
polish in ministries,
they have a teen girls
00:26:06.63\00:26:08.87
conference. We have
a home in New York and
00:26:08.90\00:26:13.43
also educational
program and then as
00:26:13.46\00:26:17.01
well as New York and
then in here in Spokane
00:26:17.04\00:26:21.90
we have the, you
know, the network is based
00:26:21.93\00:26:24.70
here and then of
course we have the
00:26:24.73\00:26:26.31
shelter in Niles.
00:26:26.34\00:26:27.46
I believe this is
modern day slavery, I believe
00:26:27.49\00:26:30.40
that people are
enslaved in their homes
00:26:30.43\00:26:32.82
to someone that
suppose if we loves them and we
00:26:32.85\00:26:36.22
are going to help them
be set free through the
00:26:36.25\00:26:38.81
power of Jesus and
that's what our goals
00:26:38.84\00:26:41.18
are, I believe it
will be huge network in the
00:26:41.21\00:26:43.27
future. There is
things just like anything else
00:26:43.30\00:26:46.94
started now we have
to, you know, iron out
00:26:46.97\00:26:48.68
some of our kingly
stuff, but as more and
00:26:48.71\00:26:51.41
more people come
on the board and we
00:26:51.44\00:26:54.23
become more and
more known. I believe the
00:26:54.26\00:26:56.64
people will
recognize our worth and our
00:26:56.67\00:26:58.80
success and be
able to help us to
00:26:58.83\00:27:03.19
grow even bigger.
00:27:03.22\00:27:04.19
I'm continually
inspired by the stories of lives
00:27:04.20\00:27:08.82
changed by ASI
members like Women's
00:27:08.85\00:27:11.71
Healing and Empowerment Network.
00:27:11.74\00:27:13.26
Their 24-hour crisis hotline is
00:27:13.29\00:27:16.69
509-998-7956. For
General Information
00:27:16.72\00:27:23.66
call 509-525-9999. ASI is online
00:27:23.69\00:27:30.69
at www.asiministries.org.
00:27:30.72\00:27:35.08
I'm Dan Houghton.
You have been watching
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ASI Video Magazine,
see you next time for
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more stories of ASI
members sharing Christ
00:27:42.09\00:27:45.38
in the
marketplace. God be with you.
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