ASI is a
ministry that's networking
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all these
different ministries together
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with the church.
Being involved with ASI,
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meeting other
people. ASI is an excellent
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opportunity, just
a great opportunity.
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In ASI there's a
particular fellowship.
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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 the
ASI Video Magazine,
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I'm Conna Bond,
ASI has many member
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organizations
all over the world,
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each one has
committed to sharing Christ
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in the market
place in the unique way.
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They all share one
common goal however
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and that is to build
up the kingdom of God,
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one individual and
one Church at a time.
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Today we will visit
two mission projects
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here in Southern
Africa where ASI members
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are meeting the
physical and spiritual
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needs of people in
Zambia and Tanzania.
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In both of these
countries there is
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a whole lot of
building going on.
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One of the best
things about being an ASI
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member is that you
have many opportunities
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to collaborate
with other ASI members
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who share your
vision for sharing Christ
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in the
marketplace. Some have ideas,
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some have resources and some
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have the time and energy to make
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those ideas come
to life. The One Day
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Church was one of
those ideas that took
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off like a fire
storm. ASI member
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Garwin McNeilus
was inspired to design
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an affordable steel
church structure kit
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that could be shift
anywhere in the world
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and put up in a day
by just a few labors.
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Livingstone,
Zambia is a just amazing
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in terms of the
involvement of the
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members, now I have
been working different
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parts and of the
world and when I came
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down to Zambia, I never saw such
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involvement by the
members of the church.
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We've done roofs
for Africa with ASI
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funds for the past ten years,
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we've put up
probably over 500 roofs
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and churches in
Zambia. About a year
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ago I started
hearing some rumors coming
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from Minnesota of a new program
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that was going
to extend the church
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roof program and
in fact it has kind of
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enveloped it and
put it on the whole
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different footing
and when I say footing,
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I mean now the
roofs comes with feet
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or with legs as I
call it. This One day
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Church concept is
the brainchild of my
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good friend Garwin McNeilus from
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Minnesota and
it's really going to be
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a boost to the
world churches in Zambia.
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The Hill church
is one of the most
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fascinating,
interesting church for
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a lot of people,
basically the members
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of this church
are you know all stone
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crushers and if
you go down there
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you'll see them
like crushing stones
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right from the
morning till the evening,
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they got a small
pestle sort of a thing
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that they keep
breaking the stones
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with and if you went there
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you'll see this shack that,
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that's almost falling apart,
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even they have got
these termites in it,
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it's hay, do not
know when it's going
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to fall down and
when we visited this
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place and we saw this place,
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I mean it was,
they were just shocked
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with the
condition and they were so
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many members, it
was packed and when
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ASI and Maranatha went there,
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this member were so
much excited I mean they
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were so excited that
they could get a church.
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When we went
around to ask the church
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members to the
level the ground where
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the church was going to be put,
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the church
members here had a grader.
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They paid about
$300. And this is
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the only church
where they used a grader.
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So Mr. Garwin was
moved to say these
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guys are putting
in so much effort
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when they don't
even have the means.
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And whenever
there was a shortage
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of water, they
actually would carry water
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from about two,
three miles down the road,
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they dug a ditch, a
trench, so that they
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could make the
water flow, anything
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that they could do, you know,
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they used to come
and do, and they were
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so interested, it
was not like they were
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standing aside
and having look at
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the place. They
were just so thankful
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and so grateful
that they were getting
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a church. Now if you compare the
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building before the
shack and you see this,
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this a nice
building you know, and
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the people around
want to be a part of
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a church that is
nice, it's good looking,
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it's beautiful,
you know they feel
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a pride in
themselves, that they belong to
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a good church. As
the church came up
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and has been almost completed,
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the membership has
drastically increased
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and these are
not just people who
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are just gonna come and sit for
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a Sabbath and go
away. What happens
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is when they start
coming inn and they
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start getting interested in what
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has been taught
inside and on every
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Sunday, you'll
find these new people
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who have just
started coming every
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Sunday for Bible
classes, Bible studies
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and I believe the membership has
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increased by about
90 to 110 in the last
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two or three weeks or four weeks
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that the billing has been done.
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It's a miracle!
It's a miracle, actually!
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Members here
never expected. Look at
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the kind of
compound. They never thought
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they'd have such a
church. This is what
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they could
afford, and this is like a
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dream a dream
they've never expected
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to come true, so
this is a big miracle
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for the location
and for the community
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around here and
for the church members.
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We'll be reading
about miracles in the
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Bible, but they have
seen it in their lifetime.
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From Minnesota
the church is packed
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in a box and
then it arrives here
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in Zambia with no,
not an easy process,
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but once it gets
here, our job is to
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separate out the
pieces into one day kits,
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it's about 30 of
them in each container
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and we separate
them out and from
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there we have the
applications of churches
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in various places
around the country,
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we pick all
little pieces, big pieces
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put them in a truck
and start driving off.
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When we reach there the people
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are always waiting
for us, if there isn't
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ten people then
it's thirty people.
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They are there
ready to help and we put
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them to work unloading the kit
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separating the pieces, the long
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pieces here, the
short pieces here,
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the roofing
sheets here, that's part
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of my work is
directing the people
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and getting them
used to each piece.
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It's part of my
enjoyment to let my team
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work up on the
church actually doing
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this cuing and I
work with the people
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making sure that
they get to participate
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in the whole
procedure. We have seen with
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the one day
structure, it's versatility.
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First in our minds
it was churches that
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we were gonna
putting up every where
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there is a need
for a church, this is
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going to fill in a
small congregation.
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Then we had
some people coming to
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us and saying
what about a school
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we would like to
put up a pre-school or
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grades 1 to 4
here around our church
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and so the
thought came yes, this,
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this building is
versatile and can be
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used as a church,
can be used as a school,
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can be used as a
clinic and the idea
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is just started
rolling, sure enough a
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vision was developed and I think
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Livingstone is
probably a prime example of
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what a big
project with using these
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one day churches
can really come to be.
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This is a primary
school. It's being
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built by the ASI,
America. Mr. Garwin
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being behind all
the construction that
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is going on here in
Livingstone, Zambia.
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And he heard over
here that they have
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been absolutely
no Adventist schools.
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The government schools operate
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on Saturdays and
our kids cannot go
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to school on Saturdays and hence
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they would get punished, they,
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they miss their
grades because of that
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because they
have sometime exams on
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Saturdays that they missed out.
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They failed, they
repeated the same class,
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because there was
no Adventist education
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and he went back
and I think he started
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thinking about how
can I use the One Day
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church to put up
a good school campus
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and they sort of
designed the school,
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which is so beautiful, so nice
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with the One Day Church kids.
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Garwin asked if
our team here Riverside
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can go down to
Livingstone and start
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helping him layout
an idea that he had,
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a vision that he
had of a school complex
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owned and operate
by the Seventh Day
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Adventist
church, a primary school
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and so we went
down and helped him
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first staking out
things, we couldn't see,
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it was a big field
there and but in his mind,
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in his eye, he had a
whole school built up
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with flowers and
trees and everything
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around it and
then we moved about
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five kilometers
away and again another
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spot that there was
vision for, we started
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the same process
and staked out another
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school and you
know everyday is twenty
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or thirty kids all
watching us work and
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you know that
those kids are gonna be
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potential souls,
because they're gonna
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get some Christian
education that they
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may not have had
without those schools.
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So this part in
the center here will be
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a playground for
the children, maybe
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when they are
having their break,
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they'll be playing
around here. There will be
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a flag here and
they will be having their
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assembly in the
morning before they
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move into
classes. We have the other
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building right,
which is nicely painted
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there. This one
will be a dorcas room
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or a
multipurpose room where maybe
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the youths can also
be meeting there for
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their meetings,
and also the children.
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They'll be having
their chapel, their
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worship in that
same building there.
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And then the next one
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will also be a classroom.
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These volunteers
that come down here,
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the churches
that we're building,
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the schools
that we are building,
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this could not be
done without the giving
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of the ASI
members, I mean, they are
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the generous contributions,
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the sacrifices
that they may have made,
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you know reaching out
dip down their pockets,
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but that
sacrifice, that commitment,
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that, that joy
of giving, you know
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that desire to help, somebody
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whom they did not
met or seen or things
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like that you
know, has made such a
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drastic affect on
their lives of the people
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here. You can
see the Holy Spirit
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work here, you
can see the passion
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in the lives of these people,
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how committed
they are in spreading
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the Gospel and
it is so wonderful,
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that ASI and the
contribution of the ASI
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members can you know
sort of back this up,
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we have people
who are on spirit,
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who are
passionate about spreading
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the Gospel Corp,
who are passionate
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about getting
members for the church,
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but there is a
problem, they do not
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have the financial
backing to build churches,
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to build you know
sheds or just one day
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structure, so that
people can really worship.
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They impact that
these contributions
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make and you know,
you will understand
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that many of these
people is not easy,
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you know it's not
that they are all rich
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and the have money
to spare, there are,
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there are
sacrifices has been made,
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so this generous
contributions by the ASI
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members is like a big gift,
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big gift for the
people in Zambia.
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ASI members
have been involved in
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the One Day
Church project right from
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the very beginning
as planners as sponsors
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and as builders,
because of their ongoing
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efforts, people in
very primitive areas
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of the world now
have solid dry structures
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to meet in each
Sabbath. For more information
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about the One Day
Church project and
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how you can become
involved, visit the one
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day church website
at www.onedaychurch.org
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ASI makes Jesus
real for young people.
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The youth actually
do the Evangelistic
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crusade. They
learn that God can use
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them they're not
too young. You got
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to go to classes
you get more inducted-to
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your Bible. You
see God using you
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to impact other people's life.
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Once you see
people chase the Christ
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you wanna come back every year.
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There is a passion
that is infectious at ASI.
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Everybody is so
passion about Jesus.
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It's a blessing
every time just to rub
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shoulders with the
people that excited.
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If you have a passion for Jesus
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you're gonna find
no place that I know
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where you'll find more passion
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by more people
than being at ASI.
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ASI member Janet Fournier is no
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stranger to
Africa, in fact she and her
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husband Frank
raised their children here,
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friends describe Janet as bold
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and pragmatic. She
is quick to recognize
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a need and feel
it whatever it takes.
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One day someone
told Janet about a
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need in the
Makati region of Tanzania
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that's all it
took to get her going,
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And Eden Valley
Foster Care was born.
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I was in Margo
village in Makati district
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in the country of Tanzania.
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We had a high
elevation about 7000
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feet and it's
mostly a pine forest area
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with dispersed with eucalyptus.
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We have two
springs on the property
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one right near our school.
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So this is another
spring, this will give us
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drinking water for our school
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and it's not
protected yet but it's nice
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and clear and
we drink part of it
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and it comes from the way down,
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so we will get a
tank for it as well.
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Once we found
it here that's what
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made us to decide,
that this should be
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our school area, ants.
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In 2003, I heard
about this place,
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the village
Lupalilo. It was the village
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of the Senanga an old patriot of
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Kibidula and
he, he wanted me and
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coaxed me many,
many times to come out
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and visit this
village back here because
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it was his
village where he was born
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and his family and
his relatives lived
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here and he had a
burden on his heart
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for his family
to get to know Jesus
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and so we
finally did. And then he
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showed us the need
of all the orphans,
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there's over
28000 orphans in this
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district alone. We
came out, we've seen
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the need and the
need pulled out our
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hearts and so we
decided to come out
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and do something.
We came out with just
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bails of clothes,
started distributing
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clothes and
singing song with kids
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in the school
and then pretty soon
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but I saw one of
the Bible workers,
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came along and he helped me,
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he was my
translator and we would
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just go from
house to house in the
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village and then
pray with people,
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if they were sick
I had some medicines,
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I started
pulling teeth and helping
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the people with
their, with their
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simple needs.
From there the vision
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grew for the
orphans we started with
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one village and
then two and then
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three and then now
we do seven villages
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and it's over 800
children and you know
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I first thought
we'll do an orphanage,
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but as so many
children came into
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the picture, we
soon found out that we
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couldn't help
that many kids in an
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orphanage. So we
had to figure out a
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way to help them
in a better situation,
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so we decided we
would help the kids
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in the home, we
wouldn't take the kids
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away from their grandmothers or
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their family, but we
would just facilitate
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the family to keep their kids.
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Their greatest
need was clothing,
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they wore rags, they were dirty,
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they were filthy
and so we tried to help
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them by providing those things,
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we bought soft
and soap and school
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uniforms and then, then we could
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see that there
was a greater need,
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you know these
young girls were leaving
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the villages, going
out to the big cities,
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getting pregnant, getting HIV,
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coming home with a baby,
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another one for the grandmother,
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and the same with the boys,
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they would come
home sick as dogs
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for few years and
then they would die
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and I've seen
that we needed to do
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something for
these young people so
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that when they
were finished school or
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if they never
finished school, that they
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would have something
besides having babies,
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growing a family
and being at the end of
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of a hoe all day,
and so we decided to
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start to sewing school and the
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carpentry school for youth.
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The school in
Lupalilo was generous
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enough to give
us two classrooms,
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we started the carpentry school
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and then we
started the nursery school
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for the little
ones. We had a student
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missionary from the southern,
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Christy Slovene
and she wanted to teach
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little ones so I gave us her an
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opportunity to
start this program,
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so they gave us the classroom,
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our carpentry
students put window frames
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and then we put glass in it,
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put the door on,
built us the cardboard
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and put a
sealing in the classroom,
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every time I went home I brought
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bins full of
craft items and learning
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tools for them and
so while Christy was
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teaching them we
put two local people
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into the classroom
to learn how to teach,
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so when Christy
was gone and when her
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time was up and
she was going back
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to school, then we
had our two teachers
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to continue
teaching these young people.
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We rented another building and
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started our
sewing school we bought
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started with
just maybe six sewing
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machines and then added seven,
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eight, ten. Now,
we have about twelve
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or fifteen
sewing machines, I don't
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even know
anymore and so the vision
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grew again.
Margo showed us a piece
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of property here
and 35 acres with lots
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of water and
land for agriculture
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and with that we
came and put the Lord
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first we built
our campus Chapel then
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we built our pastor home and the
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classroom that
you see that's housing
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our sewing school
right now is actually
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like a little
dormitory where pastor,
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kids will be able to stay in
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transition to us in
finding them a home.
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[Foreign Language]
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This year in our
sewing class we have
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some from as far away as Mafinga
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and that is five
hours driving away
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from here and so
we're becoming known,
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that's the reason
we need dormitories
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because these
young people are just
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staying
together in rented houses
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and it's important
for us to bring all
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our students in where we can
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have a greater
influence on them.
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[Foreign Language]
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Okay, Justine what are you doing
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this here? What
are you teaching?
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I'm teaching stool. How to make
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the joints? Yeah,
joints. It only goes
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half way, yes, half
way. Yeah, half way.
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That's quite a
joint. I'm teaching chairs.
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Chairs, Stool we
are starting now. Okay.
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Yeah. Here's
the base and the top
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not playing here. And I can go
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get frames for a
window, for putting
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glass. Window
frames with the glass.
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Yes. So they have
the double benches
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and then on the inside they have
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it rounded down
so that the glass
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can fit in there.
Yeah. Yeah, that's very
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nice and so they
are made doors like
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this one. Yes, yes. Okay. Yeah.
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All furniture. All
the furniture. Yes.
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We built our
carpentry and mechanic
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shop in one block
together, our plan
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is to start
first by teaching them
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simple things like
how to fix bicycles
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then motorcycles
because there are lot
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of motorcycles
here and then from the
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motorcycles to simple oil change
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and reach job
and stuff like that,
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and then further on as we go.
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Gown sewing and
English as a second
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language and
agriculture, bee keeping,
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whatever classes we need to have
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they will be in
these buildings here.
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And then we built our cafeteria
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a place for the
students to be able
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to eat and we also want to teach
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agriculture. I
don't think I could ever
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afford to feed all
the students and so
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they have to feed
themselves, and that's
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good incentive to
learn how to grow.
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And with the
agriculture we can teach
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the cooking and
so it makes a circle.
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So you teach
students one hour Bible
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everyday? Yes,
everyday. And then health.
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And lessons are
now, okay very good.
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Before every class we have about
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forty five minute of Bible study
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and we have our Bible workers,
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and our teachers
who are well equipped
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to give Bible
studies to our students,
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so our students
were not only learning
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a trade but they
are leaning values
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that will keep them
hopefully through out
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their lives that
they will come to know
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Jesus in a special way. And
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their lives will
be changed by it.
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And how many
students were baptized?
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Last year four.
Four from here and one
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from sewing. Yeah.
Yes. Okay. Very good.
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Even though this
in a public school
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this is where we
have these classrooms
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sub wires as our
carpentry and our
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nursery school at
this point, and yes we
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are allowed to
teach Bible in health.
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And we are even
invited to teach Bible
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and have to the
whole school and we
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do that as well.
I believe the people
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really know why
I'm here to help them
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and I think they
really appreciate it
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because you know
the guy at the Dorcas,
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at the little
store where we there
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this morning, he told me several
00:25:05.70\00:25:08.34
years ago, he
says, mama, if anybody
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gives you any problem you come
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and tell us, we
will help you, they don't
00:25:14.38\00:25:19.16
want me to have
want any problems
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whatsoever, they
are very happy for
00:25:20.80\00:25:22.91
us to be here. It
is a miracle there's no
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doubt about it,
the Lord provided,
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the Lord helps us step by step,
00:25:29.79\00:25:31.84
that you know, I
have to say, who am I
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all the time that
the Lord should be so
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free to help me
you know, that He holds
00:25:39.19\00:25:42.21
out His hands to
me. It was blessing
00:25:42.22\00:25:44.57
to us to receive
a container from ASI
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it contained thirty
seven One Day Churches
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and so we put
two of our buildings
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together the
four classroom block
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and our cafeteria.
Those two buildings are
00:25:58.39\00:26:02.13
made up of One Day
Churches put together
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and to make the long buildings,
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they look so
beautiful inside doesn't
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need finishing; it's
just the greatest thing.
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I love the people,
I love helping people,
00:26:19.38\00:26:23.13
I love to serve
the Lord and the way
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I feel that I can
do that best is by
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helping other
people to love the Lord.
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And you know I'm
not the theologian,
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I'm not a great
student, but I'm a
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practical person
but I, I the Lord speaks
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to me in practical ways and
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He helps me and I
want to help others.
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The needs of
children in Southern Africa
00:26:55.81\00:26:57.43
are great Janet
Fournier and her team
00:26:57.44\00:27:00.14
of Eden Valley
Foster Care are working
00:27:00.15\00:27:02.27
to meet the
basic needs of children
00:27:02.28\00:27:03.76
in Tanzania by providing food,
00:27:03.77\00:27:06.05
medical care,
education and most of all,
00:27:06.06\00:27:09.50
the compassionate love of their
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heavenly Father.
For more information
00:27:10.95\00:27:13.43
about Eden Valley
Foster Care visit the
00:27:13.44\00:27:15.36
out post center's
international website
00:27:15.37\00:27:17.49
at www.outpostcenters.org.
If you area lay
00:27:17.50\00:27:22.29
person with the
heart for Evangelism ASI
00:27:22.30\00:27:24.82
has a place and
a vision for you,
00:27:24.83\00:27:26.50
for more
information about becoming
00:27:26.51\00:27:28.23
an ASI member visit
www.asiministries.org,
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I'm Conna Bond and
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