Adventist World Radio
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is proclaiming
Jesus' soon return
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all over this world.
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Follow along as I am travelling
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to uncover the incredible
stories of lives transformed
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through the airwaves.
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From the dangerous
red zone in Madagascar
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to terrorists
in the Philippines,
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the three angels' messages
are encircling our globe.
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Madagascar is one of
the poorest countries
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in southern Africa.
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But despite this in 1996,
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church leaders
managed to step out in faith
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to establish one
of the very first
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Seventh-day Adventist
FM stations in Africa.
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Today, there are
more than 22 FM stations
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covering the urban areas
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and this combined with two hours
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of daily shortwave broadcast.
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This has triggered the
birth of over 40 churches
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with just a
handful of paid staff
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and the hundreds of
committed volunteers,
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God is using AWR in a mighty way
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to proclaim the
good news of Jesus' love
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and His soon coming.
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I am in Madagascar
and this is AWR360°.
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I used to hate the Adventists.
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If they had evangelistic series,
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I would throw
stones on the roof.
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One day Tisholavo watched
as many beautiful young ladies
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walked into the
Adventist meetings,
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an idea popped into his head.
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I need a good wife he thought,
maybe I can find one here.
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He entered the meeting
and sitting in the back
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surveyed his options.
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One girl stood out to him.
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And after the
meeting, he introduced himself.
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I didn't tell
her about my bad past
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and I started
praying to impress her.
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We were married soon
after, but instead of marriage
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and a beautiful
wife fixing my problems,
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things got worse.
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Tisholavo had a criminal
record which caught up to him
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and after being
found guilty of murder,
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he was placed on
the most wanted list,
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realizing his situation,
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Tisholavo fled
to a remote forest.
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He lived here for four years.
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I was living like
an animal in the woods.
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I had made a mess of my life
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and felt like
there was no hope for me.
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Like the prodigal son,
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who realized he
had nothing to lose,
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Tisholavo
ventured out of the forest,
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knowing his family
had surely abandoned him,
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he went to the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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An elder met him
and assured Tisholavo
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that his place
was in the church,
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and he was always welcome.
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These words brought a
glimmer of hope to his heart.
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Though the church
elder was very welcoming,
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the other members avoided me.
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My past began to
haunt me again and in fear,
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I returned to the woods.
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But this time,
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Tisholavo took
something with him to the woods,
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a radio.
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This was his only
connection to the outside world.
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And he listened
eagerly to different programs.
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One day, he stumbled
across an AWR broadcast.
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The word stirred his soul
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and he became to fall
in love with the Jesus
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who would forgive
a sinner like him.
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Excited about
his new friend Jesus,
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Tisholavo began inviting
other thieves and criminals
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in the area to come and
hear the AWR programs too.
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Convinced of their salvation
through the blood of Jesus,
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Tisholavo and 15
other ex-criminals
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came out of the
woods and were baptized
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into the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Together with my
friends who were once thieves,
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we built a church
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where we all
worshiped together on Sabbath.
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Today, Tisholavo also
leads out in a small group study
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where they
listen to AWR programs
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and pray together.
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Tisholavo preaches
like John the Baptist,
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wherever he goes and
he's often called apostle
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by those who know him.
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AWR changed my life.
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Through it, I found
forgiveness and hope.
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As Christians, our
family is much larger
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than our
immediate biological family.
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In fact, we have
brothers and sisters
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that live in more
than 200 countries
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all around the world.
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We want to remember
them in our state plan.
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We can help you
with that process.
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Just call 800-337-4279
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toll free or log on to awr.org.
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Adventist World
Radio has been broadcasting
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God's last day message to
the unreached people groups
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of the world in
their own languages
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from its very beginning.
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AWR began 48 years ago in 1971.
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And our mission and vision
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have grown
beyond all expectations.
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I believe Jesus is
coming very, very soon
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and all God's
people must take part
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in spreading the
gospel all around the world,
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all around this old ball of mud.
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Our expanded focus of
AWR360° broadcast to baptism
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reaches people not
only through the radio,
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but also through
most media platforms,
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cell phone evangelism
and mobile medical clinics.
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Now incredible
results are happening
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all over the world
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because of this
enhanced direction
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which by the way was
the dream of Allen Steele,
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the founder of
Adventist World Radio.
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One of those meetings
took place one year ago
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on the island of
Mindoro in the Philippines.
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Along with the broadcast,
many meetings took place
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and more than
2,000 were baptized.
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Then soon after
over 77 new villages
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turned their
lives over to the Lord
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as the layman radio
hosts kept preaching.
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But then some of
the new listeners
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made a surprise visit
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to one of our AWR radio
broadcasters, Robert Dulay.
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As he was biking home one day,
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he saw four
strangers at his front door.
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They told him they were rebels.
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On March 29, 1969
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the New
People's Army was formed.
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Armed with weapons,
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they gradually
infiltrated the country.
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Their goals have been
to overthrow the government
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and establish a Maoist
style communist regime.
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They regularly ambushed
police and military forces.
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Are these men and women to
be feared for the brutality
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to be rejected and abandoned?
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Or is God calling His faithful
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to go out into the highways
and byways to preach there too.
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They pleaded with
us to send someone
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to the village to preach.
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As they had been
listening to the radio
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and wanted to
know more about Jesus.
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It is now four months later,
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AWR360° is heading to
the forbidden mountain area
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in the midst of
where these rebels live.
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Where Jesus went, He
often healed those around Him.
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In like manner, we are bringing
in a team of medical laymen
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who are committed to
following God's healing message
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across the Philippines.
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Helping take
the medical supplies
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to the staging point is
the Philippine military,
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the Fourth
Division Scorpion unit.
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Seeing the good
work that AWR has done
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in reaching the rebel soldiers,
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they put forth
their full support
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of what we are doing.
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They load the supplies
and before we head out,
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we have a prayer, AWR,
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the medical
laymen and the military,
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all praying hand
in hand to our God
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for His blessing in
what we're about to do.
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Finally, after a
long and difficult drive,
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we reached the staging point.
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As we wait, we
noticed many porters
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coming down the trail.
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They will help
carry the supplies
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the rest of the
way up the mountain.
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This will be a long
trip with a very heavy load.
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Some of the porters are
members of the rebel group.
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Once again we have a prayer
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and then the supplies are loaded
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for the journey ahead.
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We say goodbye to the
laymen and the villagers
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as they make
their way up the trail.
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It will be a tiresome
trek through the jungles,
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rivers, and mud.
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It will take at
least eight hours
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for some to reach the village.
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For others it will
be an overnight walk.
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The next morning we board
a small mission helicopter
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and it takes us to
the top of the mountain.
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I smile as I
relive God's miracles
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in how He reached
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the rebellious
militant minded soldiers
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that we were about
to meet face-to-face.
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As the
helicopter comes to a halt,
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I look at the
crowd gathered before us.
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They are lit with smiles.
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We are welcomed and the
natives eagerly give us a tour.
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It's amazing to see how
these precious people live.
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Then I sit down with Efren,
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the first one who
started listening to AWR.
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My life was always on edge.
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I did many things I
would rather not talk about,
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but one day as I was
listening to the radio,
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something different came on.
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It was AWR's Health Program.
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As I listened,
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I discovered that these
people were helping many
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with their health problems.
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They also talked
about the supreme healer,
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one whose life was devoted
to others rather than himself.
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This thought appealed to him
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and he felt the need
to share it with others.
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Then he began to
wonder, who are these people
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who are sharing
this loving message?
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He knew he had to
find out for himself.
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I had to know more.
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So I sought out the
speaker of this program.
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I sent fellow members
of my unit to invite him
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to the mountaintop.
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The road they
took down many times
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had been used
to hurt or injured,
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but this time it was different.
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My friends asked him,
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"Please, come preach
to us in the mountains."
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As they met, a friend shared
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how he has a desire
to learn more about Jesus
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and AWR360° was happy to oblige.
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Many laymen pastors
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also climbed the
mountain to preach.
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And soon many new
rebels heard about God
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through the radio
and Bible studies.
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And they too have a
need to share it with others.
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And then the day
came when Efren himself
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walk down the mountain
with one final request.
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I want to be baptized
and so do many others.
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And so on top of this
once dangerous mountain,
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laymen doctors
healed those who were sick
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and the mouths were cleaned
by the volunteer dentists.
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Our AWR360° team
spoke with many villagers
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and prayed with many more.
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Additional rebels arrived
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because they were
interested in witnessing
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what was going on.
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Our team preached to them
and then it was time to baptize
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those who had made
their decision for Christ.
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It was a joyous walk
to the baptismal site.
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And I believe all of
heaven was rejoicing with us
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as we watch
Pastor McKey baptized
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five rebel generals
along with 60 other soldiers.
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These men who were
once killers in the land
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have now die to self.
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They have laid down
their earthly weapons
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and exchange them
for a heavenly reward.
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What I witness
today was truly a miracle.
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In one of the most
dangerous places on earth,
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Adventist World
Radio boldly went forth,
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so yearning ears
could hear the mercy
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and forgiveness of Jesus.
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Lives were changed for eternity.
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And now many more have a
new hope of heaven forever
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and this is only the beginning.
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Travel with me from
the war torn mountains
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in the Philippines,
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to the island of Okinawa,
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to witness how one
man's loyalty to God is tested
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under extreme circumstances.
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I am in Japan
standing on Hacksaw Ridge.
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This is where the
true story of Desmond Doss,
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a Seventh-day
Adventist stood boldly for God
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and his convictions.
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He was here in Okinawa
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during the bloodiest
battle of World War II
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and saved 75 men without
firing or carrying a gun.
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As an army medic,
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he singlehandedly
evacuated the wounded
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from behind enemy lines.
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Braved fire while
attending to the soldiers
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and was even
wounded by a grenade.
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But God preserved his life.
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Desmond was loyal to God
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and is a witness
to the whole world.
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What is more important than
being loyal to our Redeemer?
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All through the ages,
God has had moral heroes,
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and he has them now.
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Just like Desmond Doss,
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AWR listeners
from around the world
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are taking their stand
for Jesus at all costs,
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even at the risk
of their own life.
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We must stand up
for all God's truth
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and live a life of
prayer, Bible study
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and witnessing to others.
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Friends, we need a
generation of believers
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who are not
ashamed of the gospel,
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an army of believers
that hate to be lukewarm
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and will stand on God's
Holy Word above all else.
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Friends, we need to
learn to fight on our knees.
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There is
limitless power in prayer.
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Only the Lord knows
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how many countless
lives have been touched
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by the testimony of Desmond Doss
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and the
testimonies of AWR listeners.
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You too can make an
eternal impact on lives today.
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The Holy Spirit is ready
to work through you, just ask.
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I welcome you to
our website awr.org
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where you can
read miracle stories
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and watch more
testimonial videos.
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My friends, remember
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that those who stand for
Jesus in these last days,
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He will stand for you
in the courts of heaven.
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Just like Desmond's prayer,
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let us each pray please, Lord,
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give us just one more.
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Just one more.
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Now let's travel
together to Argentina to witness
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how the Holy Spirit
used an AWR broadcast
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to save a man in
his darkest hour.
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Adventist World
Radio is in Argentina.
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With our many radio stations,
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the message of
the Lord is going out.
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And because of the broadcast
many churches have started
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thanks to this ministry.
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Sometimes the
people discover the radio,
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thanks to a friend.
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Other times it is
thanks to godly people
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passing out flyers
on how to listen to AWR.
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Today we are in Rosario,
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a city with no
shortage of people needing God.
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I am here to meet German.
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As we greeted each other,
he began to tell me his story.
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I have many
regrets about my past,
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opportunities
wasted, relationships broken.
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I know the Lord
was trying to call me
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but I just didn't listen.
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German lived a life
of earthly pleasures,
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a man of the world.
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He has had multiple
marriages and many girlfriends,
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but then he started to
date someone different.
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She called herself an Adventist.
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She was different
from all the other girls
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I dated.
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She even got
him to go to church.
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But then, he did
something he would regret.
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He didn't speak to
us about what happened,
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but I could see his pain.
00:18:21.33\00:18:25.03
He turned his back on God
and went back to the world,
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hoping to block out his regret.
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Life was empty,
00:18:32.11\00:18:33.74
and I felt the worst I
had ever felt in my life.
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At work the darkness
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brought back all
the bad memories.
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But even in the
darkness, God can bring light.
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While on a break at work,
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he decided to
listen to the radio.
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As I was tuning, I
stopped at a channel
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I never heard before.
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It was AWR Radio.
00:19:06.54\00:19:09.01
And as the
music filled the room,
00:19:09.04\00:19:10.81
it also filled his soul.
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He continued to
listen day after day,
00:19:12.95\00:19:15.15
and he began to feel
Christ's love for him.
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Light was entering his heart.
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I started to see that
Jesus had forgiven me.
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Back at home, he
started studying his Bible.
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Each passage gave him strength
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to believe his
past was forgiven.
00:19:36.37\00:19:38.84
German wanted to know more.
00:19:42.54\00:19:44.25
He went to a
local Adventist Church
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requesting Bible studies.
00:19:51.92\00:19:55.72
He was falling
in love with Christ,
00:19:55.76\00:19:58.33
and he knew he had
to share this message.
00:19:58.36\00:20:00.26
I couldn't stay silent,
00:20:03.47\00:20:05.63
the love of Christ had
to be shared to others.
00:20:05.67\00:20:08.60
Even as he was still
studying the lessons himself,
00:20:11.41\00:20:14.44
German invited his sister
and niece to study with him.
00:20:14.48\00:20:18.41
And soon both he and
his sister were baptized
00:20:18.45\00:20:20.95
into the Adventist Church.
00:20:20.98\00:20:24.29
Words cannot express
how thankful I am to AWR.
00:20:24.32\00:20:28.99
I am in the church
today, thanks to this ministry.
00:20:29.02\00:20:33.96
It is testimonies like these
00:20:34.00\00:20:35.63
that make me
grateful for the work of AWR.
00:20:35.66\00:20:38.87
So many people
living in darkness
00:20:43.51\00:20:46.01
are searching
for hope and truth.
00:20:46.04\00:20:48.61
God is using AWR
to light their path.
00:20:48.64\00:20:52.51
Together with your support,
00:20:52.55\00:20:54.12
the gospel is being
spread around this world
00:20:54.15\00:20:56.38
like beacons of
light, no walls, no borders,
00:20:56.42\00:20:59.75
no limits.
00:20:59.79\00:21:01.12
This is AWR360°.
00:21:01.16\00:21:03.46
I grew up in Indiana
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and I've been a
farmer all my life.
00:21:19.37\00:21:22.41
My father every
time we plant a field,
00:21:22.44\00:21:26.08
when we got through
we'd always kneel down
00:21:26.11\00:21:27.88
and have prayers.
00:21:27.92\00:21:29.25
We've done our part,
now the Lord will do His.
00:21:29.28\00:21:31.85
And He always comes through.
00:21:31.89\00:21:33.92
After praying about it,
00:21:37.69\00:21:39.13
my wife and I
decided to do a gift annuity
00:21:39.16\00:21:41.83
through Adventist World Radio.
00:21:41.86\00:21:44.10
It goes to people that
normally is not going to hear
00:21:44.13\00:21:48.27
and that's what our
three angels' message
00:21:48.30\00:21:51.31
is all about to every nation,
00:21:51.34\00:21:53.58
kindred, tongue and people.
00:21:53.61\00:21:56.75
When you're a farmer,
00:21:56.78\00:21:58.11
you don't have
a retirement plan.
00:21:58.15\00:22:00.42
It was a good way to
supplement our retirement.
00:22:00.45\00:22:03.89
It's been a blessing to us.
00:22:03.92\00:22:05.69
And I know it's
going to be a blessing
00:22:05.72\00:22:07.06
to those others
around the world.
00:22:07.09\00:22:08.89
The Holy Spirit is being
poured out all over Madagascar,
00:22:15.10\00:22:19.13
and I am returning to witness
00:22:19.17\00:22:21.07
how the radio is
the pioneer of pioneers
00:22:21.10\00:22:24.24
in the most
dangerous part of this country.
00:22:24.27\00:22:26.41
Isolated in the Indian Ocean,
00:22:30.88\00:22:32.71
80% of all the
animal and plant species
00:22:32.75\00:22:35.58
on this island are found
nowhere else in the world.
00:22:35.62\00:22:39.05
From its towering
Baobab trees in the desert,
00:22:39.09\00:22:41.82
to the dense
rain forest jungles,
00:22:41.86\00:22:43.93
this is a land of wonder.
00:22:43.96\00:22:45.66
Come with me as I discover
00:22:48.20\00:22:49.76
how AWR is reaching
00:22:49.80\00:22:51.53
into the most
dangerous part of this country.
00:22:51.57\00:22:54.30
I'm in Madagascar,
and this is AWR360°.
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There are three things
they hate, cars, military,
00:23:01.24\00:23:07.98
and well dressed people.
00:23:08.02\00:23:10.65
They kill when
they see these things.
00:23:10.69\00:23:13.76
They are taught
from a young age,
00:23:19.83\00:23:22.60
how to steal cows.
00:23:22.63\00:23:25.47
When they get older, all
they do is drink alcohol,
00:23:25.50\00:23:29.57
and steal and kill.
00:23:29.60\00:23:33.58
They are called Dahalo,
00:23:33.61\00:23:36.24
which means bandits
in the Malagasy language.
00:23:36.28\00:23:40.42
Who are these Dahalo
00:23:49.26\00:23:50.73
and what the cow
thieves have to do with AWR?
00:23:50.76\00:23:53.86
I'm on a journey to find out.
00:23:53.90\00:23:57.73
I am here in
Madagascar with Ray Allen,
00:23:57.77\00:24:00.34
one of our vice presidents.
00:24:00.37\00:24:02.10
As we travel, I have learned
00:24:02.14\00:24:03.94
that nearly
one-third of this country
00:24:03.97\00:24:06.21
is locally
referred to as red zones.
00:24:06.24\00:24:09.71
This amounts to an area
the size of South Dakota,
00:24:09.74\00:24:12.81
where the government
exerts little or no control
00:24:12.85\00:24:16.55
and where banditry thrives.
00:24:16.58\00:24:19.09
Stricken by poverty,
00:24:19.12\00:24:20.49
the majority of the
population in Madagascar
00:24:20.52\00:24:22.92
live on less than $1 a day.
00:24:22.96\00:24:27.23
Deprivation drives
theft and the stealing of cows
00:24:27.26\00:24:30.60
and illegal exploitation
of natural resources
00:24:30.63\00:24:33.34
is the pulse of the
culture in these areas.
00:24:33.37\00:24:36.30
This makes them
extremely dangerous
00:24:36.34\00:24:38.21
and difficult for the
outside world to reach.
00:24:38.24\00:24:40.48
A Seventh-day Adventist
couple named Andrea and Rashu
00:24:44.78\00:24:47.75
are bravely
working to share the gospel
00:24:47.78\00:24:50.59
in these remote
and dangerous areas.
00:24:50.62\00:24:53.15
Both are nurses
00:24:53.19\00:24:54.52
and through
their medical treatment
00:24:54.56\00:24:56.22
of all people
including the Dahalo,
00:24:56.26\00:24:59.09
they have influenced in a region
00:24:59.13\00:25:01.23
that many others do not.
00:25:01.26\00:25:02.80
One Sabbath we
traveled to a distant village
00:25:06.74\00:25:09.90
and we're surprised
to find a group of people
00:25:09.94\00:25:13.21
worshiping
together and praising God.
00:25:13.24\00:25:15.84
We have never seen this before
and started to ask questions.
00:25:20.45\00:25:26.22
Andrea and Rashu have
found out that many years ago
00:25:26.25\00:25:29.32
the group leader
discovered an AWR broadcast.
00:25:29.36\00:25:32.83
Fascinated by what he heard,
00:25:41.00\00:25:42.67
he continued listening and
soon organized a little group
00:25:42.70\00:25:46.37
that began
meeting every Sabbath.
00:25:46.41\00:25:48.78
That group has grown
00:25:48.81\00:25:50.48
and though they have never seen
another Adventist met a pastor
00:25:50.51\00:25:54.68
or been to a church before,
00:25:54.72\00:25:56.58
they sing together
and teach the truth
00:25:56.62\00:25:59.55
they have heard from the radio.
00:25:59.59\00:26:02.89
And what's more,
00:26:02.92\00:26:04.26
the leader is a
converted Dahalo cow thief.
00:26:04.29\00:26:10.40
We could hardly believe
00:26:10.43\00:26:11.87
what we were seeing and hearing.
00:26:11.90\00:26:14.50
Truly, miracles are
happening through the radio.
00:26:14.54\00:26:18.01
Isn't God amazing?
00:26:26.35\00:26:27.82
I love what a
district pastor here told us.
00:26:27.85\00:26:30.65
He said that he views the
radio as the pioneer of pioneers
00:26:30.69\00:26:35.19
in these distant and
difficult to reach areas.
00:26:35.22\00:26:38.99
So what do
Dahalo and cow thieves
00:26:39.03\00:26:41.13
have to do with AWR?
00:26:41.16\00:26:43.50
They are people whose
lives are being touched
00:26:43.53\00:26:45.83
and transformed by Jesus
00:26:45.87\00:26:47.94
and the truth
heard on the radio.
00:26:47.97\00:26:50.27
We know there are other stories
that have not yet been heard.
00:26:56.95\00:27:00.08
Other Sabbath
keeping groups meeting
00:27:00.12\00:27:01.92
unknown to the outside world,
00:27:01.95\00:27:04.02
other cow thieves
yearning for truth.
00:27:04.05\00:27:07.09
Thank you for
supporting Adventist World Radio
00:27:07.12\00:27:10.06
and helping the good
news of salvation penetrate
00:27:10.09\00:27:13.03
into the dark
corners of the globe.
00:27:13.06\00:27:14.66
I can't wait for heaven
00:27:18.10\00:27:19.77
to hear more stories like these.
00:27:19.80\00:27:21.97
Together we are making waves,
from broadcast to baptism.
00:27:22.00\00:27:26.04
Until next
time, this is AWR360°.
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