ASI is a Ministry
that's networking all these
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different Ministries
together with the Church.
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We involve with ASI,
meeting other people.
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It's like convention.
It's an excellent opportunity,
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just a great opportunity.
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ASI is a particular fellowship.
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ASI is really the
stand as to glue and hold all
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the Ministries together.
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Welcome to ASI Video Magazine,
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I am Dan Houghton.
Involving many people
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in service and Evangelism
is what ASI is all about,
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after all our
motto is sharing Christ
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in the market place.
God has a specific plan
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for each one of us
and He is ready use us
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for His glory if
only we are willing.
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Today, we're going
to meet ASI members that
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have chosen to follow
God wherever He leads.
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Centro Misionero de Salud
or Missionary Health Center
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is located into the
city of Monterrey Mexico.
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It began as a medical
missionary training School
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and has since gone
into multi-faceted ministry.
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Today, it includes a
vegetarian restaurant,
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health food
store, lifestyle center,
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onsite publishing
department and more,
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and they have some
amazing stories to share
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of lives transformed by God.
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We prepare bread
that we sell in town
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and we make
normally whole wheat bread
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and also sweet bread
because people loves it.
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We export some of it
through to United States
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and also all the products
we distribute here in Mexico
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and those help us to be
a statistical initiative.
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CMS has started in 1995
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through trained missionaries.
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We have a medical
missionary training program
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that lasts six months
and over 500 students have
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gone by our program.
We teach them on how to
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they can start a bakery,
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how they can do
wholesome products,
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and according to the market
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they having their
area where they might be.
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There is a couple,
they got a training here
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and then they got a call to go
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and work in Conference
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here in the North Mexican Union
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and they had a
call to work in their
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Global Mission
Project and along with
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other 29 Laypeople
and so when they got,
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they placed each one of them
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in the area where they
were going to be working.
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For some reasons
their Global Mission Funds
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didn't came
through, at that time
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and all of them came
back to their own places
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and they again,
they were not able to
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continue
working, but our students
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they remained there
even without having that
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financial support
from Global Mission
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and they started a bakery,
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they started doing
a different products.
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They were able to
become self-supporting
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and they started a Church there.
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They got seven people
Baptized and they started
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and that Church is growing
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and is growing up to this day.
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They have food productions.
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It help us to get some income in
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as well as the Lifestyle program
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and also we have our
department of publications
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where we make a literature
available in the Spanish,
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in the States, and also we made
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some literature
available here in Mexico.
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Well, when we came here
this was all vandalized.
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They were just
two or three houses
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that were almost gone, you know.
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It has no windows,
the wires of electricity,
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anything at all. All
there was garbage everywhere
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and donkeys and
cows and so we came here
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with the help of the Lord
and saying well we will see.
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The Lord will
help us and we started
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cleaning and repairing things so
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to make it livable for us.
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We've started training programs.
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We had students
from Central America
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and from Mexico and
that was our first generation
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and then from there
on, we haven't stopped
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and now our program
is six months length
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and we help the
students, you know,
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they came from
Spain, from Central America,
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South America,
from United States
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and all over
Mexico. So, we trained them
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on Evangelism. We teach them
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on how to hold Bible studies
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and how to give
Evangelist curing pain,
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how to use different materials
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to reach the
people, to reach out,
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and also we teach them on health
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and we teach them
how the laws of health,
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how to call health
experts, preventive medicine,
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and how to also
do simple treatments,
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so they can help the people
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through the natural remedies
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as well as cooking classes,
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that gives them many
ways to also reach out,
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but that first class we
had about 13 to 14 students
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and was interesting because
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everything was in one
building - the classrooms,
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the kitchen, the dinning room,
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the dorms, the
office, the maintenance,
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everything was in one building
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and so that was the
first program we had
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and from there on
God has been blessing,
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so where we can be,
put in every department
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in their proper
place and be able to
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a better service,
better living quarters
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for the students,
and it has been wonderful
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experience to see it
how God has been blessing,
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after blessings, you
know, and it's just a wonderful
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experience to see God
working through the people
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and providing the needs
and the services through
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and continue providing
these type of training.
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Well, it has been a
blessing to know where,
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you know, that we
have the Elementary School,
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not only for our
children and also you know
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for the children of
around here in town because
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there is many
people and families
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that are looking
for something different,
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you know. We are the
first Private Bilingual School
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or any private
School there is in the area
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in the South of
this State of Nuevo Leon.
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You know to give
the license of a School
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it tastes, a
longtime, but the Lord you know
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has been very
faithful and sometimes
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I tell, hi Jamie you
are pushing too much,
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because that involves me too.
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But I know that when
the Lord praise is mine,
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he is faithful,
he trust in the Lord,
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and he just keep going
to a number of temple to
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the Lord to be
able to be close to him,
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and that really a
trust in the Lord.
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We have the Health Zone
as to go straight to back,
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to be the backbone
of the Elementary School
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unless and until it
came to a point where
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the Elementary
School can stand on its own.
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Okay, the Health Zone
is a place where different
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services are being
provided related with
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the health such as restaurant,
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vegetarian
restaurant, health food store
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and also a Spa
where the exercise and gym
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sort of a services are provided
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and some therapies and
also some publications,
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on literatures, on
health, and motto and families,
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and so forth. We
see the people very much
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with obesity and
a lot of people with
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high blood pressure,
and cholesterol high,
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and people are coming,
they have been send to us
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people from the
hospital, they come here
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and they say, well, they
sent me from the hospital.
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They've told me
that I need to eat
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what you guys have
here and they also tell us
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that the doctor have to
tell them just to come here
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and to ask us what
is that they need to do,
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so their cholesterol
will help, that will help them
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to get the cholesterol lower.
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Basically, one of
the most important things
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we do here at the
Missionary Health Center
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in the Department
Of Health For Living
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is to teach a different
lifestyle through diet,
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which is very
important and in specific cases
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we can provide
therapy, massages,
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and natural remedies.
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Also, we in a different
circumstances, you know,
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we see them
improving on their health
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and they go out so encouraged
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to change their
lifestyle, you know, they,
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that we help giving them tools
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so how they can implement,
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so they have a
different lifestyle
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and so they go out
and perhaps not fully in,
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their, achieving their goals,
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as we have people
that come to lose weight.
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We, thus, probably
one of their main things
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that we get people for.
They came to lose weight
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and some of them stay
one week or two weeks,
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one month, two months,
and, but the main thing
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we tell them is
that it doesn't matter
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how many pounds
they are going to lose
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when they are here,
the main thing is that they
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achieve a
lifestyle that when they go,
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they will continue gradually
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getting to their
way that they need to be
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in and they will
enjoy a lifestyle,
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you know, that
will give them health.
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One of the most important things
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about the
Missionary Health Center
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is that people don't just
receive immediate attention,
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but we try to give
them the tools needed
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for them to continue
with the change of lifestyle
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that will help them
to improve their health.
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We give them simple treatments
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that they can continue
to do in their own homes.
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So, this will
help them to maintain
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and improve their health.
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These Missionaries is a
great inspiration for us
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to be able to meet
with other people there.
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They have
ministries. They are similar,
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or they are, you
know, just to see how God is
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working in their businesses
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and how God is blessing
them as they share Christ
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in the market place
and that's very encouraging
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to us. Also,
there seminars has been
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blessing to us and
some financial support
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once in a while that
also has been a blessing
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and I think that
they are being able to
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relate with other ministries.
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They have the same
goals that strength us
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and help us to keep forward
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and be able to provide a
good education for children
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and also to
promote the health message
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that both
ultimate will have their
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goal of sharing
Christ and bringing people
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to Christ through education
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and through the health message.
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And it's wonderful
to see people tell us
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why don't you go
to another place?
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We had been offered
to go to other countries,
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beautiful lands,
beautiful and everything,
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and so, you know,
there is no better place
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to be where God's
will have you being
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and especially there
are beautiful mountains,
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and beautiful
ice sand over here,
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and we really love it,
but mainly the main reason
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we love it here is to
see God is working here
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through the people
and through the Ministry.
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And ASI is made up of members
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like Centro Missionario de Salud
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that are reaching
people for Jesus everyday
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all around the world.
If you would like more
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information ASI
including how you can become
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a member call 301-680-6450
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or visit www.asiministeries.org.
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ASI is committed
to involving Laypeople
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in active outreach.
LIFE, The Lay Institute for
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Evangelism, is an ASI
entity in Orlando, Florida,
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that provides
effective witnessing
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and outreach
training. They do this through
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onsite programs in
Orlando and seminars or weekend
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programs at various
sites. LIFE also offers
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Free Evangelism Training Videos
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on their website
www.thelayinstitute.com.
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Before I came to ASI convention,
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sharing Christ in the
market place or sharing
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Christ just meant going
out on personal ministries
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field day, handing
tracks, knocking on doors
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that was sharing Christ.
After I attended my first
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ASI convention I
then learned that sharing
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Christ is a lifestyle.
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Daryl and Mary Jo Oft,
live in Payson, Arizona.
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Their company
Diversified Solutions provides
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occupational health and
safety services to clients
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both locally and
across United States.
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They use part of their income
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to support Living
Waters, an organization
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they founded that
provides pure drinking water
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to people on Rusinga Island
on Lake Victoria in Kenya,
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but there is so
much more to their story.
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Well, this is our wall
of the forgotten children
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of Kaswanga and this
picture right up here
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is the original
feeding area that we found
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the children eating
at, before we even conceive
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that we would
build a Feeding Center.
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We went a little further
with that and we expanded
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to this our area of
here where we fed 48 children
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for almost two years while we
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continue to work on the water.
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These are 68 of our
new children that are,
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the orphans of
Kaswanga are no longer orphans;
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they have a mom and papa now.
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Elder McKee asked us, he
asked Daryl if he would go
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to Kenya and
preach for three weeks.
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This is like
pretty shocking like
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the farthest
thing from our minds.
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We have been very
involved in business
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after this time. It was
about growing our business,
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how we can grow more business.
00:16:05.46\00:16:06.96
We had no intensions
or ideas that we would
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think about
becoming Missionaries
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or even going on a mission trip.
00:16:11.84\00:16:13.18
We just had all
kinds of objections,
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but we went home that afternoon
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and we talked about
it, we prayed about it,
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and we decided you
know, if God opens the door
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and wants us to do
this way we will do it
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and he will take care of
all the needs that we have.
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Four weeks later we
found ourselves in Kenya
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in a very remote
area on a little island
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in Lake Victoria
called Rusinga Island,
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in the village of Kaswanga.
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It was so out
of our comfort zone
00:16:38.37\00:16:40.38
and I think the biggest
thing that we learned in
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this process of putting
on these meetings every night
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was living by faith
because you never knew if
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the equipment was gonna work.
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All the equipment - the
computers and projectors,
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had to be run by generator,
which wasn't reliable.
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We are constantly
praying at the end of our
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three weeks there, we
looked at each other and we said
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we never want to go
back home and be the same.
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So, we got down on our
knees and we just asked God
00:17:06.39\00:17:09.34
please let us go
home and be different,
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make our lives different,
and help it count for you.
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This was an opportunity
that had so radically
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turned our life upside
down changed everything,
00:17:19.10\00:17:22.39
changed our focus about work,
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now our work became a means to
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support our ministry.
We do occupational health
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services in our business.
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We started it right
here in Payson about
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nine years ago. Our
clients are employers.
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We have people that
come in that are often
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at the fringes of
society. They are coming in for
00:17:40.98\00:17:43.53
court mandated drug
screens and they have
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pretty much lost all
hope. They have regular contact
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with us and in the process
we're able to invite them
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to programs here. We are able to
00:17:54.41\00:17:56.50
minister to their
needs, give them literature
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that we think
would meet an answer
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to a question
that they are having.
00:18:01.80\00:18:03.80
Parents have come in
and said you have no idea
00:18:03.83\00:18:06.51
how you have changed
the life of my adult child
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who is coming for
these drug screens and
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how your staff
has prayed with him
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when they have asked
him, how their life has
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change around and
stories like that,
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that we know that
we're doing exactly
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what the God
wants us to be doing.
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The Meeting Place is
probably the first thing
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that happened to us and
with us when we got back
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from Kenya, the first
trip we made over there.
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This was a thing
that we felt and led to do
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with our pastor
and with the Church
00:18:34.97\00:18:37.49
to have a place for outreach,
00:18:37.52\00:18:39.60
so people would feel
like it was a neutral place
00:18:39.63\00:18:41.81
that they can come
to, we could meet them
00:18:41.84\00:18:44.33
after programs, health programs,
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and Evangelistic programs.
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The Meeting Place
is virtually a store
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outreach center.
It is 1200 square feet
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and every month we
do a community potluck,
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vegetarian potluck and
it's free for the community
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to come into and
that has been around for
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three years now and we
are at capacity every time
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we have people
that keep coming back,
00:19:07.11\00:19:08.74
the same people are
the ones that were able to,
00:19:09.20\00:19:11.59
also invite to
come into the Lifestyle
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Educational Seminars
that Mary Jo does so many of.
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God has put this in
front of us an opportunity
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of how we cannot only share,
00:19:22.56\00:19:24.94
share the love of
Jesus far in Kenya,
00:19:25.46\00:19:27.60
but near being right
here at home in Payson.
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The first thing
that really got our eye
00:19:30.26\00:19:32.31
and that we were led
to do something about
00:19:32.74\00:19:35.93
was the condition
of the water there.
00:19:35.96\00:19:37.94
As we were doing our meetings,
00:19:38.43\00:19:39.91
we were looking
around and we were so touched
00:19:39.94\00:19:42.61
with the incredible
need, that the first Sabbath
00:19:42.64\00:19:45.61
we were there, the
program lasted for like 13 hours
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and we were out
in the blazing sun,
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there was no shade
except for little shade
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that have been provided
for us over where we stoke
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and we have bottled
water, but we started looking
00:19:56.58\00:19:59.12
and nobody else
was drinking any water
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and they were out in
the sun for 13 hours.
00:20:01.50\00:20:03.71
They have water
all around them because
00:20:03.74\00:20:05.56
they live in Lake Victoria;
however the water is highly
00:20:05.59\00:20:08.44
polluted with
parasites and bacteria,
00:20:08.47\00:20:10.55
a clear glass of
water that they are used to
00:20:11.11\00:20:13.21
drinking, can and
will actually kill them.
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There was an old
windmill that used to pump
00:20:15.90\00:20:18.06
water up through the
village that was about
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two miles and it will
draw water out of the well
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and that's how they
used to get their water.
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But, because of
a five-year drought
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the water table
had dropped so much,
00:20:27.10\00:20:28.93
the windmill was
no longer functional
00:20:28.96\00:20:31.37
because all of the
technicians have died
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from AIDS five years before.
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I thought why no one,
I was raised on a farm;
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I can fix the windmill.
Well, in fact it took two
00:20:39.55\00:20:42.59
and half years to get
that done in five trips
00:20:42.62\00:20:45.18
and about $50,000
before the water system
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was complete. But
when it was complete,
00:20:48.28\00:20:50.46
we had completely
refurbished the windmill.
00:20:50.49\00:20:53.06
We had built the
water intake system
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that builds 150
feet out into the lake,
00:20:55.19\00:20:57.71
which is now 500
feet from the windmill
00:20:58.01\00:21:00.46
that draws water
through a 4 inch pipe
00:21:00.49\00:21:03.67
up to the
windmill. The windmill then
00:21:03.70\00:21:06.07
pushes the water
two miles up through
00:21:06.30\00:21:08.48
the village
where we have six major
00:21:08.51\00:21:10.49
water distributions
spots, where they never had
00:21:10.52\00:21:12.97
water before. Now,
they have running water.
00:21:13.00\00:21:15.79
We have changed
very bearable land
00:21:15.82\00:21:19.27
into a garden that
people have heard about
00:21:19.68\00:21:22.19
island's 25 miles away.
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The shocking
thing to me was to learn
00:21:32.75\00:21:34.78
that the children,
who are left orphan,
00:21:35.06\00:21:37.90
didn't live in
orphanages because
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there are no orphanages.
There are a group children
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live alone together
in these little huts
00:21:42.90\00:21:45.59
where they used to
live with their families,
00:21:45.94\00:21:48.01
their mothers and
fathers who have died from AIDS,
00:21:48.04\00:21:50.64
now they are alone
and there are fending
00:21:50.67\00:21:52.76
for themselves,
they could be from
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5 to 15 children
living in this home,
00:21:54.46\00:21:56.90
the oldest one however
old that is could be 10 to 15,
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is responsible for
all the younger children.
00:22:00.08\00:22:02.60
We started getting the
water system completed.
00:22:02.63\00:22:06.12
God just let us from
one thing into the other and
00:22:06.36\00:22:09.27
we says we need to
build a Feeding Center,
00:22:09.30\00:22:11.91
a community type
center where the children
00:22:11.94\00:22:14.17
can come and be fed
and be assured of a meal
00:22:14.20\00:22:17.14
at least one meal a
day. We started talking about
00:22:17.17\00:22:19.91
a Feeding Center
and the first Church
00:22:19.94\00:22:21.78
that we went to and
we presented the idea
00:22:21.81\00:22:24.40
to that Church came up
with a donation that was
00:22:24.43\00:22:28.57
equal to the "we had got
to build the Feeding Center,"
00:22:28.88\00:22:33.68
and one of the major
contributor said go build
00:22:33.71\00:22:37.04
your Feeding Center tomorrow.
00:22:37.07\00:22:38.92
So, within a week I
was on the plane going back
00:22:38.95\00:22:41.04
to Kenya and that
particular year I went
00:22:41.07\00:22:43.17
to back to Kenya four
times in the Calendar year
00:22:43.20\00:22:46.34
to get this Feeding
Center, which finally was built.
00:22:46.37\00:22:49.64
We started to wondering
how we actually gonna be
00:22:49.67\00:22:51.47
able to cook the food
for all of these kids.
00:22:51.50\00:22:54.02
We got this great building
that is coming together.
00:22:54.05\00:22:56.31
Now, remember we
have no electricity
00:22:56.34\00:22:59.21
out where we were at.
00:22:59.24\00:23:00.29
There is very little firewood.
00:23:00.51\00:23:02.25
The other option is charcoal,
00:23:02.28\00:23:03.94
which is way too
expensive. It's very unhealthy
00:23:03.97\00:23:06.70
for people to use and
then there is some propane gas
00:23:06.73\00:23:10.28
that you can have trucked
in, but that is completely
00:23:10.31\00:23:12.54
unrealistic and so we
started doing a little
00:23:12.57\00:23:15.01
research in the solar ovens.
00:23:15.04\00:23:16.84
Within six weeks we
had the entire amount
00:23:16.87\00:23:19.96
of money raised including
the shipping to make it
00:23:19.99\00:23:23.19
over to Kenya and
so we ordered the oven.
00:23:23.22\00:23:26.35
We had it shipped. This
oven is so big it will cook
00:23:26.38\00:23:28.84
1200 meals a day.
That will cook 270 loaves
00:23:28.87\00:23:32.88
of bread a day. There
is nothing that wears out
00:23:32.91\00:23:35.80
and the average life
expectancy is 25 years.
00:23:35.83\00:23:40.47
It's very simple to use
and now we have a system
00:23:40.50\00:23:43.87
that will cook as many
meals as we need to cook
00:23:43.90\00:23:46.61
for these children and
it costs absolutely nothing
00:23:46.64\00:23:49.45
to maintain. Well,
the connection with
00:23:49.48\00:23:52.15
the ASI really, I
don't that we could
00:23:52.18\00:23:55.16
want to take how much
they have done for our program.
00:23:55.57\00:23:59.27
I think our first exposure
to the National Convention
00:23:59.30\00:24:02.97
we were just
really highly impressed
00:24:03.00\00:24:05.29
that here is a whole
organization of people
00:24:05.32\00:24:09.04
that was on fire
that had a passion
00:24:09.07\00:24:11.54
for what they were
doing. When we joined ASI,
00:24:11.57\00:24:14.18
it gave us a whole
new view of our business
00:24:14.21\00:24:17.36
and the potential
that we had in our business
00:24:17.73\00:24:20.61
of Sharing Christ
with tha people come
00:24:20.64\00:24:22.14
come through the
doors. When we saw what was
00:24:22.17\00:24:24.27
going in the
local state chapter,
00:24:24.30\00:24:26.90
you know, wow
this is pretty good.
00:24:27.23\00:24:28.45
We like what we see.
Everybody here is really,
00:24:28.48\00:24:31.61
really, actively
involved and wanting share,
00:24:31.64\00:24:34.61
share Christ in the
Market Place and we liked that.
00:24:34.64\00:24:37.78
It seemed like a perfect fit for
00:24:37.81\00:24:39.94
what we wanted to be
doing with our business.
00:24:39.97\00:24:42.24
We have learned
from other ministries,
00:24:42.27\00:24:44.45
we've been
exposed to new ideas on
00:24:44.48\00:24:46.46
how they do things in
other places that have really
00:24:46.49\00:24:49.20
benefited us and we
feel that God has allowed us
00:24:49.23\00:24:53.61
to be part of ASI,
because a lot of the ASI family
00:24:53.64\00:24:57.75
is seeing what God has
done in us and taken a look
00:24:57.78\00:25:01.98
at the programs that
we offer and those have
00:25:02.01\00:25:04.57
become many of our
faithful supporters that
00:25:04.60\00:25:07.38
the year have
provided the finances to make
00:25:07.41\00:25:12.05
such an impact on
this little village
00:25:12.46\00:25:14.29
of Kaswanga and Rusinga, Kenya.
00:25:14.32\00:25:16.71
It was really
awesome to see the children
00:25:17.13\00:25:20.41
coming in that
first Monday and to know
00:25:20.44\00:25:24.35
that the Feeding
Center was actually operating
00:25:24.38\00:25:26.81
and the kids were
coming for a meal.
00:25:26.84\00:25:28.47
One of the things that
was hard though was because
00:25:29.05\00:25:31.56
we really got to
know the kids then,
00:25:31.59\00:25:33.68
because we got see them everyday
00:25:33.71\00:25:35.43
and when we get to know them
00:25:36.05\00:25:37.91
and see them everyday we
see it their other needs,
00:25:37.94\00:25:41.23
very first day that the
children came and we had
00:25:41.26\00:25:43.72
68 come to the Feeding Center.
00:25:43.75\00:25:45.67
We went back that
evening and we wept
00:25:46.56\00:25:48.74
because we didn't
see how we could possibly
00:25:48.77\00:25:51.16
take care of what
God has put before us
00:25:51.19\00:25:54.28
and we prayed
about it and we just,
00:25:54.57\00:25:56.63
we were
overwhelmed. Before we had left
00:25:56.66\00:25:59.38
five days later, we
realized that we had
00:25:59.41\00:26:03.15
overnight become
parents to 68 children
00:26:03.18\00:26:06.22
because now they were
all calling us Papa Daryl,
00:26:06.47\00:26:09.86
and Mama Mary Jo,
and we realized it's not
00:26:09.89\00:26:12.87
just about feeding
it's about all of the needs
00:26:12.90\00:26:15.58
that the children
have that are now.
00:26:15.61\00:26:17.37
We just had to
remember that God had
00:26:17.40\00:26:20.48
gotten us this far. He
had provided everything that
00:26:20.51\00:26:23.53
it took to get that
Feeding Center built
00:26:23.56\00:26:26.09
and operational, so he
would certainly not let us
00:26:26.12\00:26:29.21
down now. He
will certainly provide
00:26:29.24\00:26:31.35
what we need to take
care of the other needs
00:26:31.38\00:26:34.07
of the children. I will
tell you that we are now
00:26:34.10\00:26:36.63
feeding half of the children;
00:26:36.66\00:26:38.45
the orphan children in Kaswanga
00:26:38.86\00:26:40.66
were up to 100
today, feeding five days
00:26:40.69\00:26:43.86
a week one meal.
Our Goal is to get
00:26:43.89\00:26:45.88
so that we can feed
them two meals a day,
00:26:45.91\00:26:47.79
seven days a week.
We have been able to put
00:26:47.82\00:26:51.76
in place medical
care for the children,
00:26:51.79\00:26:54.28
basic medical care as
well as providing each of them
00:26:54.31\00:26:57.80
with a new uniform every
year so that they have some
00:26:57.83\00:27:00.53
new clothes to be
able to go to school.
00:27:00.56\00:27:02.36
We have found
that as we trust in God
00:27:02.80\00:27:05.67
we don't have to see the end.
00:27:05.70\00:27:07.56
All we have to do is understand
00:27:07.59\00:27:10.12
that He is leading
us to take the next step
00:27:10.15\00:27:12.15
and He is not let us
down in three and half years.
00:27:12.18\00:27:15.14
It's exciting to
see how God has used
00:27:16.30\00:27:18.50
Daryl and Mary Jo,
to benefit his children.
00:27:18.53\00:27:21.43
There are so
many ASI members like
00:27:21.76\00:27:23.94
Daryl and Mary Jo,
who are using whatever
00:27:23.97\00:27:27.13
God has given them
to bless others both
00:27:27.16\00:27:29.77
in their local communities
and around the world.
00:27:29.80\00:27:32.71
To hear their
inspiring testimonies,
00:27:33.10\00:27:35.39
I encourage you to come
to the next ASI Convention.
00:27:35.71\00:27:39.49
Find out more at
www.asiministries.org.
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You've been
watching ASI Video Magazine,
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I am Dan
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00:27:50.69\00:27:53.85
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