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 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
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that holds all the
ministries together.
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Welcome to ASI Video Magazine.
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I'm Conna Bond. As an ASI Member
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Organization Outpost
Centers International or
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OCI has been
sharing Christ in the
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marketplace for
a very long time.
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Based in Apison,
Tennessee OCI is actually
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a family of lay
ministries located all over
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the world. Each
ministry works with the local
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Adventist church
leadership to strengthen
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the church and its
mission. Today, we will
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visit two of
those ministries that
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are sharing Christ in Africa.
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Riverside Farm
Institute was established
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in the 1970s by
Wildwood another ASI and OCI
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member. Its large
gardens and banana
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plantations help to
support the ministry located
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on the edge of the
Kafue River in Zambia, Africa.
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Riverside Farm a
tremendous ministry,
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it's been in
existence for close to
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30 years and in a
very diverse program
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and then we have
a tremendous means
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of support a very active farm.
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They grow maze,
they have a mill,
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which grinds maze
into a flour which is one
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of the staple
foods in Zambia and
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a fantastic banana plantation.
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One of the great
strength of Riverside
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Farm Institute is
division that the original
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founder or start
of this place had.
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This was Dr.
Foster, he was a doctor who
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worked in Lusaka
had a medical practice
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and he liked
farms and he bought this
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place in the 1950s
from a British farmer.
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At that time of
course it was a smaller
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much smaller
undertaking then it is
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currently, but he
saw the potential of the
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place because it was
immediately along the
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river which is a
huge asset to now that
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we are using
everyday almost and then
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he saw that it was
close to the town where
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just about an hours
drive from the capital,
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so these strategic
location is just perfect.
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It's exactly what
Ellen White says should be
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the case for ozur
lifestyle centers and
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we are greatly
benefiting from that today.
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Our primary purpose
really is four fold.
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Number one, we
are trying to be self
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supporting meaning
that our operational
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expenses is
generated through our
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industries. Number
two, we are trying to
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be active in
Evangelism and we are and
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the Lord is blessing
greatly. Number three,
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we are trying to
provide community services.
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We do this
through mobile clinics.
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We do it through
our static clinic,
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vaccination
programs, children under
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five and to natal
care, etc. We are also
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doing it through
our lifestyle centre,
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where we reach
upper and middle classes
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and finally we are
also very active and have
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always been in
education. So, we are offering
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four adult education programs.
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One in tailoring
for women, who want to
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learn how to make
their cloth. Then we
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have a scientific
gardening seminar,
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where people come
either self sponsored
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maybe the sugar industry sponsor
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somebody, so that
they learn more about
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agriculture,
horticulture and then go back
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to work on their
farm and we also have
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an Evangelism
program where we train
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potentially lay
Bible workers to go out
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and work with Pastors, with lay
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Evangelists and
raise new congregations are
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helping their churches
and finally we also have
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a Medical
Missionary Program and we
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train people to be
medical missionaries
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using natural remedies.
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Our course goes for four months,
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and now they have
done just about one and
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a half month. So
they have gone so far.
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After they are
done, some they have
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their own
machines at home, some go
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and buy their
machines and they start
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working yeah on
their own when they leave
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this place they
are really tailors.
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Because here they
are making their suits,
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so they
continue making their own
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clothes and some for selling.
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We do devotion
here. We share the Word of
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God, not only
sewing yeah. And when that
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they go out there
they have to make sure
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the clothes they make
it brings glory to God.
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Our students
when they come here,
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they come to
learn gardening most of
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them only
gardening, but when they
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come here we share
with them every week.
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They learn the
Word of God. They learn
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health lessons.
And so it helps them to
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change their
lifestyle habits and also
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grow spiritually.
Almost every year we
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baptize some of
our students who are
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non-SDAs, because you know,
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the tailoring
course and the gardening
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course is open to
people of all faiths and
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those who don't
profess any faith.
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And so students
learn more than what
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they applied for. That is a big
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blessing to the communities.
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ASI has been
supportive to both OCI
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and his members in
lots of ways primarily
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there is that
spiritual dynamic at an ASI
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convention, where
you hear reports in
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your fellowship.
OCI and its members get
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that spiritual
benefit as well ASI has
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been a tremendous
resource financially
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to help a lot of
projects. For example,
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Riverside is able
to take care of its own
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operating costs.
It supports its own
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Evangelism, all its
salaries through its
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industries, but
when Riverside had the
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vision of starting
a lifestyle centre we
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needed some extra
help, some capital
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funding and ASI
came through a very
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strategic time for
us to get us over an
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important hump in order to
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get the lifestyle centre going.
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The centre
officially opened in 2006,
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the beginning of
2006, but it took a
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period of about two
years in the planning
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and the
construction and getting it
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altogether before
the actual opening.
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The visitors
coming here to our centre
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are mostly from the city Lusaka.
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We are aiming at the
higher income groups,
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so we have many
government officials,
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ministers from the
government that are
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coming here. I
think one of the most
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interesting high
profile visitors we have had
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at our centre is a
visit by his Excellency
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Dr. Kenneth
Kaunda who is the first
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President of
Zambia. Now he has played
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a very important
role in the government,
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in the history of
Zambia and the people love
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him and His
Excellency retired and yet
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he is still full of
energy, but he felt a
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need to come to the centre to
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just get a
little kick start again.
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And I've been a
vegetarian ever since,
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and I've enjoyed it. When I came
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here, stayed
here, I've felt at home.
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I think by the
time guests come to the
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centre when they
have made the decision.
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They are
reasonably open, but they have
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some
uncertainty, some fears maybe.
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When they start on
the program and they
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experience plant
based foods, a two
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meal a day plan.
That is little bit
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threatening to
them. In the first two,
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three days I think
a lot of adaptation
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takes place, but
once they come through to
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the fourth day, the
fifth day. They start
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flying and then
you hear the positive
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responses and then
they get enthusiastic
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and then the fears are gone.
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I learned to have my
breakfast and enjoy it,
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to have my lunch and enjoy it,
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but no supper.
It just affected my
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life very well
indeed. And I'm grateful.
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ASI has been a
major impact on our
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campus here. They
have helped us with
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the dormitory you
see behind us here.
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The Wellness
Center that we have up on
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the hill, there are
major factor in helping
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get that up and running for us.
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Cafeteria is one of
our projects that was
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about ten years
ago before that it was
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just a little hole
in the wall where they
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squeezed in and
some of them had to come
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in and as some left
others could fed into
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their and it was a
kind of a tight quarters,
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but its been a real
blessing the Cafeteria.
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One of them are
recent projects ASI has
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contributed to us
are, enlarging our banana
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plantation. The
bananas have been a
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basis of our
economic viability here
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at Riverside for so many years.
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As long as
Riverside has been a farm,
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before it was
bought by Dr. Foster it
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was already a
banana place and its still
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is. And with the
help of ASI, we were able
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to bridge a huge
problem that we had
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in 2005 when the
whole banana plantation had
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to be ploughed under
and destroyed thousands
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of trees are
machetes their call had
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to be destroyed
because of the virus
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disease and with
the help of ASI we were
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able to restart it
and it is doing quite okay
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now. We are still
scouting vigilantly and
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we are able to
harvest 500 tons in one
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year and we are on track to keep
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going and growing even more.
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The growing of
bananas like that helps
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ordinary people
come and learn how to
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do that. What is
in many ways more
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important is the
spiritual side of teaching
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here. It is extremely important.
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It's practical. They
help many other young
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people to learn how
to look after themselves
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physically, to
look after themselves
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spiritually. It's
the center of great
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importance in my humble opinion.
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The main goals
have been to, you know,
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to hasten the
coming of Jesus; to reach
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people, many
Zambians who don't know
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about God and
about the preparation for
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the life to come.
That our life is not just
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this life, but
there is a life to come.
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So that has been
our main interest in the
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people. It is to
help people with the
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Gospel and with better living.
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Well, I'll say to
everybody who wants to
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start a project like
this. It's only possible
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with plenty of self
sacrifice. If we are,
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where we are now
and we are truly a
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lighthouse to
many people. There are
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thousands of
people that have come to
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Riverside as either
a staff, but many many
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come as visitors
also. We send our workers
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out sometimes to
conduct to go to churches
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to share what
churches do, seminars in
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churches and all of
that is only possible
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because before us
many people have been
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willing to
sacrifice to come here and
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selflessly serve for
very little money under
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difficult circumstances.
Its blood, sweat and
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tears, but they
have come back and gone
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back blessed and they
have not regretted it.
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There are so many people who are
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looking for
opportunities to go and
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God has opened
doors for them whether
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it's coming on a
mission trip to Zambia,
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I welcome. Whether it's helping
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financially in the
projects that ASI is
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supporting and
we are doing here at
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Riverside Farm.
Those are great blessings
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as God opens
that opportunity to be
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able to make a
difference both in your
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lives and the people's
life that you can touch.
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Riverside Farm is
a Tranquil Paradise
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where Zambians
can learn about health
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and healing and
about the God who loves
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them and will soon
return to take them
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home. Riverside
Farm is just one example
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of ASI members
working together and
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responding to a
unique calling on their
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lives. For more
information about Riverside
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Farm Institute
visit the Out Post
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Centers International website
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at www. outpostcenters.org.
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Youth for Jesus is
really great experience.
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Hearing all the
difference speakers.
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You learn how
stand up for your faith.
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You learn how to
share with others,
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you make friends
that will last your
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lifetime. It's
indescribable. If you
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want an experience
with God, if you want
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your life to be
changed. You have to come
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to the Youth for Jesus program.
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You will wanna
comeback every year.
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There is a passion
that is infectious at ASI.
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Everybody is so
passionate about Jesus.
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It's a blessing
every time just to rub
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shoulders with
people that are excited.
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If you have a passion for Jesus.
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You are gonna find
no place that I know
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of where you
will find more passion
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by more people
than being at ASI.
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Kibidula Farm in
Tanzania, Africa is a
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place where seeds
are sown and crops
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are grown, but
it's so much more than
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that. As a
member of OCI's family
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of ministries, it
takes ASI's model of
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sharing Christ in
the marketplace to new
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heights. Kibidula
was established on a
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4776 acre farm in
1989 by a team from
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Riverside Farm
Institute. It has a
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dental clinic,
an aviation center,
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an agricultural
school and a primary
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school, but
Kibidula's main focus is
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publishing books in
Swahili language and
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training lay
missionaries to support
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the work of the Tanzania union
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of Seventh-Day Adventist.
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Kibidula is in the
Southern Highlands of
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Tanzania, which is
somewhere over 6000
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feet in elevation
here. Which makes for
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a fairly cool
climate considering, where in
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Africa and on our
campus we have a lot
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of nature, we have
the Acacia trees which
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is that typical
flat top African tree
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that you picture
in a African savanna
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with the giraffe
in the background.
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Kibidula borders a
large marsh land that's
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canoeing that can
we done on the marsh
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land. It's a
beautiful place to live.
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This originally
was a farm belonging
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to a colonial
farmer in South Africa and
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when the country
gained its independence
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in the 1960s. He
decided to return to
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South Africa, so
he left the whole farm
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to the Adventist
Church. The church
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really was not
able to do too much with
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the place. They
didn't have the money to
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invest the
resources, so it was with a
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caretaker for most
of the years from the
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1960s to the late
80s when they asked
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Riverside Farm if
they might be able to
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do something with
the place. Riverside came
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and looked at the
place, made an agreement
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with the church
here and formed the team
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and they moved to this place
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and started really from scratch.
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The main focus is
Evangelism and important
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part that has
become more and more
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important to us is
the part of education.
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Education is not
available to every
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person in Tanzania.
Many people have never
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even finished a
secondary school and a
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high school and
to get any kind of
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training here,
you know it's almost a
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pre-records that
you have to have high
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school. We offer our
training in Evangelism.
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It's the only
possibility many people ever
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have to get any
schooling along those
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lines, we don't
require secondary school
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you know we take
everyone as they come.
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After they finish
our school and have
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worked as a lay
missionary out in the
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village several of our
successful lay missionaries
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have been hired by
the Church as pastors,
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so its like a
stepping stone that
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no where else could define that.
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I think the
Evangelism around here is
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the Evangelism that they secured
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towards people at
the lower socioeconomic
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level and one of
the main needs is are
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the basic, basic
needs of life and that's
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where agriculture also comes
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in and plays, plays the role.
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My name is Jean-
Luc Waber. I come
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from Switzerland,
I was born in Africa
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and come around
and yeah I got the
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virus for Africa,
so I came back eight
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years ago. First,
I came here to be a
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farm manager of
this big farm and then
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we had the
opportunity to start this
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training program
and that's what we
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really think is
important is to train the young
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people. So, they
learned small scale
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agriculture by hand
and then working with
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animals. In the
second year, they have
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tailoring class
especially the girls and
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we wanted to, for
the boys to have the
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carpentry class and
building experience,
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but the idea is
that they learn by doing,
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by working in the fields and
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getting experience and not
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just theoretical knowledge.
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We do a week study program.
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In the morning,
we do the classes and
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afternoon we do
some other work around
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here. You know how
to do the cleaning,
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maybe get firewood,
maybe getting to the
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gardening, different
kind of activities and
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then it was the
end of the session we
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normally go out of
way two to three weeks
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of Evangelistic
meeting. Now, we give them
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the opportunity
to put into practice
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those things that we have
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been learning in a class.
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The primary
school was launched when
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we decided to start the
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program for our
workers children.
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Some of the
challenges of getting the
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school going was
the registration.
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We, it took us like
three years to become
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registered and so
for the longest time
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we didn't have
that many students
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because people were afraid that
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maybe we will be close down,
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but at the end of
2007, we got registered
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and after that its
just exploded. And we are
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not even taking a thought of the
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people that would
actually like to come.
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So there is a big potential.
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Just starting
next month, we planned
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to begin
construction on new classrooms
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for the primary
school. The idea is to use the
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One Day Church
structure and put up about
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three new classrooms
and a teacher's office.
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Kibidula Farms has
a very strong aviation
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program, where
the Bible workers are
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supported through
the aviation program
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where they go out
and they will bring
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supplies and own
ministry to the Bible
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workers and
that aviation program
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got its initial
jump start through ASI.
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What we have
been doing in the last
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two years is
supporting lay missionaries.
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The hard of what
this thing should be
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doing is medical,
but we don't have a
00:21:27.84\00:21:30.40
doctor right
now, so we have been
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taking the missionary support.
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We have 32 lay Bible workers.
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We have runways
accessing above half
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of them and others
are not in this areas
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are too far away,
completely out of range,
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so we haven't been
able to reach them at all.
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It is a big interest of ours.
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A major focus that
we spread the Gospel
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in areas that no
one else is reaching
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so far and these
are tend to be the most
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remote areas. That
hardest to get to places.
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If there is a
big vast area with no
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Adventists, it
really takes a long time for
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that area to get
covered and so we are
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trying to start in
the middle of those
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areas and branch out from there.
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[Foreign Lanaguage]
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Well, Swahili is a
major language in this
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world. There is
not a lot of available
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resources in
Swahili. You don't get
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spirit prophecy
books are very many of
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them that have been
translated into Swahili.
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You know in our
school of agriculture
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we teach basics in agriculture,
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but if someone wants to advance,
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usually you find
books in the area in the
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line that you
want to go into and so
00:23:03.70\00:23:07.03
without being able
to use English you are
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very limited in
how you can study,
00:23:09.41\00:23:11.15
how you can go on or communicate
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with anyone from the outside.
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We felt the need for a long time
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to so publish
the books in Swahili.
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The publishing work
of Kibidula has grown
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over the last, I
would say seven or
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eight years as
far as I remember.
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They have now
reached a level where
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we operate 22
book stores all over
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the Tanzania. We are
also creating new books.
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Yeah, that's an
important part now that
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we are
translating books either from
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English or from German we have
00:23:40.66\00:23:41.98
been doing that into Swahili.
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I see myself as we are calling
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ourselves a supporting ministry.
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I don't see myself
so much being upfront
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and doing the
Evangelism effort for
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example myself
preaching myself, but I
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would rather try
to empower the local
00:23:57.97\00:24:00.03
people give them
the tools in the hands
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that they need to
do the work. We have
00:24:02.09\00:24:04.78
just received now
two containers from
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Livebearers to
extract in Swahili language.
00:24:06.86\00:24:09.62
So, we encourage
church members and our
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own lay missionaries to go out
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and do Bible
studies with the people
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in their local language.
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Every program has
an Evangelistic aspect;
00:24:18.87\00:24:21.08
our main focus
is on true education
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which is basically
the work of redemption.
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Our goal is not
mainly just to give them
00:24:31.96\00:24:34.96
some theoretical
knowledge or just few
00:24:35.05\00:24:39.94
techniques to
improve their lives,
00:24:39.97\00:24:42.22
but our main goal
is to build character.
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And we see with
the young people if
00:24:46.68\00:24:49.12
they learn to grow
their character to be
00:24:49.22\00:24:52.32
faithful, to be
trustworthy, to be religion
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tends to take upon
responsibility for their
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lives. If they grasp
this and learn this they
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have learned the
most important thing
00:25:04.28\00:25:06.11
and then
naturally to know Jesus.
00:25:06.35\00:25:08.36
In the morning
all three groups meet
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in the second farm
unit, which is in the
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middle and they
have worshiped together.
00:25:21.94\00:25:24.38
They sing nice
songs. It is nice to hear
00:25:24.98\00:25:28.12
them the quire when they sing in
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church or when we
are at this place.
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There are
several projects that ASI
00:25:43.75\00:25:45.79
funds have contributed to.
00:25:45.87\00:25:47.99
There is the first
thing that comes to
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my mind is the
roof over Africa program
00:25:52.07\00:25:57.06
that we run in the
past, where Kibidula was
00:25:57.45\00:26:01.02
involved being
helping the Adventist churches
00:26:01.07\00:26:05.64
to be roofed in the
territory of Tanzania.
00:26:05.68\00:26:08.61
A part of these
school buildings and
00:26:09.75\00:26:12.57
also of the
agricultural farm units
00:26:12.71\00:26:15.68
out there they
were sponsored by ASI.
00:26:16.63\00:26:19.49
Then another program
is the lay missionary
00:26:19.65\00:26:23.85
school which has
profited also from
00:26:23.95\00:26:28.22
contributions toward
the agricultural school.
00:26:28.34\00:26:31.96
Another part is a
vehicle for the lay
00:26:32.70\00:26:36.03
missionary school that has
00:26:36.18\00:26:37.99
been funded partially by ASI.
00:26:38.02\00:26:41.62
The main sponsor
for the agricultural
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school was with
Switzerland, but major
00:26:45.41\00:26:48.37
big part was also
ASI. So, we are glad
00:26:49.12\00:26:52.74
that these two
organizations enabled
00:26:52.82\00:26:56.22
us to do this,
this program here.
00:26:56.26\00:26:58.78
Many ASI members have never have
00:27:00.45\00:27:01.78
the opportunity to visit Africa,
00:27:01.81\00:27:03.41
but their presence
is felt here through
00:27:03.75\00:27:05.64
prayer and
sacrificial giving. At each
00:27:05.85\00:27:08.27
ASI convention a
special projects offering
00:27:08.30\00:27:10.68
is gathered to
support missions like
00:27:10.71\00:27:12.54
Riverside Farm
Institute and Kibidula Farm.
00:27:12.72\00:27:15.00
We love to have you
join us at the next ASI
00:27:15.49\00:27:17.51
Convention. It will
change your life and
00:27:17.64\00:27:20.04
best of all it will
give you a vision for
00:27:20.19\00:27:22.14
how you can share Christ in your
00:27:22.21\00:27:23.79
marketplace. Visit
www.asiministries.org
00:27:23.85\00:27:28.69
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information about ASI or
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the next ASI
Convention. I'm Conna Bond
00:27:30.74\00:27:34.03
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00:27:42.54\00:27:44.58
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