Messages of Jesus proclaimed
by Adventist World Radio
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are circling our globe,
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bringing hope to thousands
of searching desperate people.
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For more than 50 years,
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our mission has
been unchangeable.
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We determined to
penetrate all secluded
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and remote corners on every land
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with the gospel of the kingdom.
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I invite you to come with me now
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as we travel from the incredibly
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diverse country of Zambia
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to Israel to hear
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another
modern-day miracle story.
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We then will journey
to the island of Okinawa
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before heading to Tanzania
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to discover how a
man's faithfulness
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to God is so rewarding.
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This is Adventist World Radio.
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Welcome to Zambia,
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a land filled
with rugged mountains,
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abundant wildlife
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and many people
searching for Christ.
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God is at work in this land,
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and we are excited to see
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how lives are being
transformed through the radio.
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1,070 evangelistic campaigns
have been held across Zambia
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and the surrounding region,
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God blessed, and
it was a huge success.
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People came by the thousands.
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After the meetings,
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almost 18,000
people were baptized,
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and more than
80% of those baptisms
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came from listening
to Adventist World Radio.
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Hi, I'm Cami.
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And this is AWR360.
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We're here in Lusaka, Zambia,
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for the Zambia for
Christ 2018 meetings.
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And we have an
incredible team of evangelists
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that have come
from all over the world,
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really, United States,
and in particularly, Europe.
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We have a lot of
people that have come
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from the European continent,
who have come to Africa
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because they want to
share the love of Christ
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with the people here.
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Adventist World Radio
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has been broadcasting
in Zambia since 2004,
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but just before the
evangelistic series,
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we began a special emphasis.
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Three months before we got here,
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we started broadcasting
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on a daily basis
the prophetic message,
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the same message
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that we're
presenting night after night
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here at our
evangelistic crusades.
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And the results are showing
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because we're finding people
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who have listened to the radio
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and they're
coming to our meetings,
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and they're
accepting Jesus because of it.
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Just over a year ago,
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I was in Lusaka with Bob Peck
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and Kathy and myself,
and we were talking together,
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talking with all of the
pastors in the city of Lusaka,
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and they said to me,
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"We'll do 1,000 meetings."
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So 1,000 evangelistic meets
all in one city at one time.
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That's the first,
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that's the first
time in the history
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of the Adventist Church that
so many meetings will be held,
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and they have been held now.
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Before Zambia for Christ began,
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AWR broadcasters
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would ask the
listeners a question of the day.
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This was based on the message
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that was
presented the day before.
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Every day, one
man named Mr. Wika
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would call in with an answer
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or to ask a question of his own.
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We found out
more about this man,
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and it turns out that
he runs a small business
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repairing furniture
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and every day he
stops his work early
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so his employees can
listen to the AWR message.
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AWR has not only
reached the countryside
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but has also
penetrated through prison walls.
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After listening
to AWR on the radio,
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nearly 900 inmates
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in Zambia's
maximum-security prison
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have been baptized.
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In a nearby town,
a lady had a dream,
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and in this dream,
she saw a small radio.
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Later that very day,
her husband brought home
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the same radio she
had seen in her dream.
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When they turned it on,
AWR was the only channel that
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they could tune in, no
matter where they set the dial.
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As they listened,
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God's love
transformed their home.
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And today, they are both members
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of the Seventh
Day Adventist Church.
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The speakers here are
becoming part of stories
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like these on a daily basis.
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The Lord is using them in
a mighty and powerful way.
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I was struggling
to give the sermon
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about health on Sabbath
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because I thought the people
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I'm approaching,
they know everything.
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So I spoke about
tobacco, I spoke about alcohol,
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I spoke about clean and unclean.
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And when I did a baptism call,
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the first person who came
up was known by the community
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as being someone
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who was really
addicted to tobacco
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and had a huge alcohol problem.
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There is a
surprising, amazing lesson
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I've learned in Zambia.
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And that is when I return home
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and wherever I'm
going to go to preach,
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I will end all my
sermons with an appeal.
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There are many people
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that want to give
their life to Jesus,
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but somebody has to
challenge them to do so.
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On the fourth
evening of our meetings,
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an old lady came
and she said to me,
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"I had a dream
before the crusade started.
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I had a dream, and in my dream,
I heard a voice calling me."
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Now I didn't see the face,
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but I could hear
it was a lady's voice.
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And when she came at the crusade
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and she heard me, she
said, "This is the voice."
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She recognized the
voice from her dream,
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so she said, "I know that
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God has called
me to the meetings."
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When I see people
putting up their hands
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or giving their
lives or wanting to give
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their lives to
Christ, it gives you a feeling
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that is literally indescribable.
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It's an amazing feeling
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and you know it's
not necessarily you,
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it's Christ working through you.
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And that feeling of Christ
working through you is amazing.
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On the last Sabbath,
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all of the meeting
sites converge together
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for one mass
baptism, 17,968 people
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giving their lives to the Lord,
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walking into the
depths of the water
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and coming out new.
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We are told that
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80% of those being
baptized here today
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came from listening
to Adventist World Radio.
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We really need
your help to help us
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keep the radio broadcasting
after these meetings,
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whether it's in
Rwanda or Romania
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or here in
Zambia because, you see,
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the members came to the meetings
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because they heard
the message on the radio.
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They got excited
about the health messages,
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about the
Adventist prophetic message.
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And then after they're baptized,
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they go back to their houses
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and they still
have their radios.
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And so we still need
to continue to broadcast.
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It's not cheap.
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It does cost a lot of money,
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but we need to
keep the broadcast going
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so that they'll
listen to the message
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over and over again.
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Thank you so
much for your support
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for Adventist World Radio,
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AWR360, Broadcast to Baptism,
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as we continue to broadcast,
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connecting people with Jesus,
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training them
through the AWR360,
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that total member
involvement concept
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to witness for
Jesus, live for Jesus,
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listen and learn and study,
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as they share the good
news of Christ's soon return
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with their
friends and neighbours
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so this work can be
finished and Jesus would come.
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As Christians, our
family is much larger than
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our immediate biological family.
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And 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 log on to awr.org.
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Today, we will hear
the miracle experience
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of a near-death
escapes of one man
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as he travelled
from Zambia to Israel.
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My uncle had tried
to stone me to death.
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And now my cousins
were here to finish the job.
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Find out how God is
using Adventist World Radio
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to reach the Muslim community
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and other
difficult to reach areas
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with the gospel message.
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Adventist World
Radio is broadcasting
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to the most remote
locations of the world,
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in more than 130
different languages.
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We've been doing
this for the past,
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well, almost 50 years now.
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But I've never seen
anything like this before.
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From baptizing
rebels and assassins,
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almost daily we receive
news of amazing miracles
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taking place all around
the little old ball of mud.
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Wisam's story right here
in Nazareth is an example
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that especially
touched my heart.
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Being born Muslim,
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Wisam was taught
to hate Christianity.
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So, when his sister
decided to become a Christian,
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he was sent by his
family to kill her.
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But because of a
miraculous dream from God,
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he decided to
begin studying the Bible.
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He soon returned to Nazareth
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to share his new
belief with his family,
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and his uncle upon hearing this,
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became very angry
and ordered his stoning.
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This happened over and over
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until finally his
brother stepped in.
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Then his father advised
Wisam to flee the country.
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Years later, after
his father and uncle died,
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Wisam's mother
invited him to return.
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He immediately
saw an opportunity
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to share Jesus in Nazareth
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so he decided to set
up a centre of influence
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where he used the Bible
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to teach English
to his fellow people.
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We also gave Wisam AWR Godpods
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which he
distributed among his community.
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Recently though,
things took a turn
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for the worse as the
sons of his dead uncle
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found out what Wisam was doing.
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They too had
participated in his stoning
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many years before
and now rallied a mob
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and went to
Wisam's house to attack it.
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Wisam's wife Audrey
heard the commotion downstairs
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and rushed out to
see what was happening.
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She knew right away
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that Wisam was
in serious trouble
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and fell on her
knees and began to pray.
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Wisam's brothers
rushed to protect him,
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when he was hit
with a metal rod.
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But then his own
cousin pulled out his knife
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and stabbed Wisam.
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But to his
astonishment the knife bent,
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leaving him unharmed.
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Wisam's brother then picked
up the bent knife and said...
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Try again to
kill the man of God.
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As the mob
retreated, they threatened,
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"You will not
know where or when,
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but we will kill you."
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Several months later,
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Wisam received a
shocking phone call
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that these same two
cousins had been killed
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while riding their motorcycle.
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It just reminds me
that if God is for us,
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who can be against us?
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This miraculous event
agitated the Muslim community
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so much that Wisam
knew it was the perfect time
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to use AWR's
cell phone evangelism.
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He immediately sought out
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someone to translate
the sermons into Arabic.
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He found a man named Jamil
who readily agreed to help.
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Jamil worked for days,
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sometimes late into the night,
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translating the
Bible-based sermons.
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As he read, he was so greatly
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moved by the presentations
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that he felt
compelled to share them
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with one of his friends
from the Baptist Church.
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She was so
amazed by the sermons,
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that she shared
them with her pastor,
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who was also
impressed by what he read.
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He then sought out
Wisam to preach at his church.
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Wisam presented at
the Baptist Church,
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sharing Bible prophecy,
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our health message and
Ellen White's writings.
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Their hearts were so
convicted that the pastor
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and almost his
whole congregation
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made the decision to be baptized
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into the Seventh
day Adventist Church.
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And on a beautiful Sabbath day,
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we held a church
service at the Jordan River.
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Then one by one they
entered into the water.
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Wisam had the joy of baptizing
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these precious souls
with Elder Duane McKey.
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God is calling all who
are willing to proclaim
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His last day message.
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Adventist World
Radio not only broadcasts
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into the Muslim countries
in their own languages,
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but we are working
with people like Wisam,
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helping to share the
gospel message in countries
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that still need to hear
the wonderful story of Jesus.
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Thank you for supporting AWR.
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Jesus is coming soon,
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and he invites you and me
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to be a part of
this great movement
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that will light the earth
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with the knowledge of His truth.
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I grew up a farm
boy in North Dakota,
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till I went
away to Union College
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and met and
married this young lady.
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And two weeks
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before our
fourth child was born,
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we started medical school
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and moved up here
to this delightful
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Ooltewah, Tennessee area.
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And so we love it here.
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When we went to the rally
here and saw what AWR is doing
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and how they could
get into areas where,
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as far as I know, no
other ministries can reach.
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And some of the stories
that were given with Cami
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and places
they've gone and Duane,
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that really
impressed me and I said,
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"This is a
really worthy ministry."
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I met Jeff Wilson,
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who said he could do
our will and trust here.
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It was painless.
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It went smoothly.
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Jeff took care of it all.
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And to get the trust
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without any out
of pocket cost was
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way beyond what I expected.
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It's truly is amazing to
witness our Heavenly Father,
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our great protector,
intercedes us across our globe.
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Let's continue on
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to the African
country of Madagascar.
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Hi, I'm Cami
Hi, I'm Cami Oetman.
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And this is Ray Allen,
vice president with AWR.
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He has been with
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Adventist World
Radio for 26 years.
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And he has witnessed
some tremendous growth
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especially here in Madagascar.
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Ray tell us a little bit about
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what you've seen in
this beautiful country.
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Well, as you know,
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Madagascar is one of
the poorest countries
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of the world.
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But I remember
on my first visit,
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I was very
surprised, when the leader said
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they were planning
to start an FM station.
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I thought to myself,
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"Where are you gonna
get the money to do this?"
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But these leaders
stepped out in faith
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and they established
their first FM station in 1996.
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Since then, there has
been tremendous growth
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in number of stations.
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And today, we have 22
stations in Madagascar.
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Wonderful.
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Now if you add
this to the two hours
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of shortwave broadcasting
that we do every day,
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we have seen tremendous growth
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in the number of people
who have heard of Jesus,
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His love, and His soon coming.
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Today, we have over 40
churches in this country
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that have been
started by the radio alone.
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Now this is
really, really tremendous.
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We have a handful of paid staff
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but hundreds of
committed volunteers.
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And together, we
have produced this growth,
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and we are happy
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that the leaders
are still planning
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to establish more stations
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so that many more
people in this land
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will come to hear of Jesus
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and His second
coming and be ready.
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God is blessing Madagascar.
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And we feel blessed
and honoured to be here
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in this beautiful country
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hearing the stories
that AWR has produced.
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Adventist World Radio
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is also spreading
the hope of salvation
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through the Internet.
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Let's discover the unique way
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in which God
obtained the attention
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of a United States
marine in the island of Okinawa.
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AWR president Duane
McKey was preparing to preach
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at one of the more
than 160 evangelistic sites
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across Japan
during the recent AWR360
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and Total Member
Involvement event.
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At the same
time, our AWR partner,
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YouTube evangelist
Mark Fox contacted us
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to share testimony
he had just received.
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It was Stephen's
testimony, listen to his story.
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All right, I was in Afghanistan.
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I was doing my
first tour in Afghanistan.
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It was in 2009 through 2010.
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And it was very hard.
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We were getting, you know,
reports from other battalions
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that we've lost friends we
saw people lose their lives,
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friend and foe.
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And I thought to myself,
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"What kind of God
would allow mankind
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to be this way,
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to do these
terrible crazy things?"
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As I returned
back home to garrison,
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I was on a destructive path.
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I chose alcohol as
a medicinal purpose
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to forget the
pain and the struggle
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that I had felt when
I was in Afghanistan.
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After a few years passed,
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I met my wife in
Japan, on Okinawa,
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we decided to move back
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to Japan after a
couple spells in Michigan.
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She didn't like the weather.
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And I continued on
my destructive path.
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I drank, I smoked even
after I had my first son.
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I even told myself
I'm gonna quit smoking.
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I'm gonna drink less.
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Of course, never saying
that I'm going to stop drinking,
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but I continued drinking
and I continued smoking.
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And it just didn't seem
like I was ever gonna stop.
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And then a friend, an
angel was sent by God to me
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in the form of a friend.
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And she spoke to me of
my issues and she said,
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"Maybe you need to
pray a little bit."
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And so I started praying
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and I started getting
intrigued and interest in God.
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So I decided to
do some research.
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And I went
online, I found Mark Fox
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on the Internet on YouTube
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and I started
listening to this guy preach
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and share his testimonies
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and share these amazing
Bible prophecies online.
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And it inspired me because he...
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I could feel his emotion,
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I can feel his
passion for the Lord.
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And it inspired me.
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I felt the Holy Spirit
convicting me of the wrong
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that I was doing in my life.
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And so I knew I needed to change
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and I went
online, I found a church,
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the closest one
that was nearest to me,
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and I went and I
found Pastor Mason.
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And he's been helping me,
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you know, in the
faith ever since.
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And I've become a
vegetarian, I've quit smoking.
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I've quit drinking.
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And I don't plan on stopping.
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I want to praise the
Lord as much as I can
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because I know, without
God, I'm only going to fail.
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And I'm going to
cause people harm.
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And I don't want
to do that anymore.
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Isn't it exciting how God
used YouTube to reach Steven.
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After just a few months,
he was volunteering his time
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for the local AWR meetings
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which just happened to be
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a Duane McKey
series and he was baptized.
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Isn't our god amazing?
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I grew up in Indiana,
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and I've been a
farmer all my life.
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My father every
time, we'd plant a field,
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when we got through,
we'd always kneel down there
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and pray that
we've done our part,
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now the Lord will do His.
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And He always come through.
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After praying about it,
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my wife and I decided to
do a gift annuity through
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Adventist World Radio.
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It goes to people
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that normally is
not gonna hear it.
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And that's what
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our three angels'
message is all about,
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to every nation
and return the people.
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When you're a farmer,
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you don't have
a retirement plan.
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It was a good way to
supplement our retirement.
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It's been a blessing to us,
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and I know it's
gonna be a blessing
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to those others
around the world.
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Let's head to
our final destination
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in the country of
Tanzania in Africa.
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How evident was the success
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of one man's
faithfulness to God?
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With colourful
clothes and herds of cattle,
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the Maasai people
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are spread throughout this land.
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Watch as one very
wealthy Maasai tribal leader
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does the unthinkable,
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he puts his faith in God
first before everything else.
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This is AWR360.
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We are in Tanzania,
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a country famous
for the Maasai people,
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known for their
distinctive customs
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and brightly coloured dress.
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They welcomed me with
a native jumping dance.
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From a standing position,
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these warriors can vertically
spring over three feet high.
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Their smiles made
me feel right at home
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and they even allowed me
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to carry one of
their precious babies.
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I enjoyed every moment
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and fell in love
with these dear people,
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who received me with open arms.
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The Maasai have a
semi nomadic lifestyle.
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Even this village
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we are at right
now is temporary.
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Every aspect of their lives
revolves around their cattle.
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The cows determine
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where the village moves,
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based on where the
herds can eat grass.
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Cattle is their currency
and their main source of food.
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Nothing is left to waste,
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even their huts
are made of cow dung.
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For a man to give away
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his cattle is
foolish and unheard of.
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That's why
Abraham's story is amazing.
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He owns more
than a thousand cows.
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I have over a thousand cows.
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And I'm considered
rich by my Maasai people.
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But something was
missing in my life.
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Abraham's heart was convicted
at an evangelistic series
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and he became a baptized member
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
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Most Maasai
cannot read or write,
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so they learn from the radio.
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Abraham was
overjoyed when he tuned in AWR.
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It was the topic of tithing
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that really
caught his attention.
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They spoke of
faithfulness, and trust in God,
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and that 10% belongs to Him.
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As his eyes took
in all that he owned,
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he knew what he had to do.
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In that moment,
he made a commitment.
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Like Jacob of old, he
marked every 10th cow.
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By the time he was finished,
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more than 100 cows had
been designated for God.
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My friends and
neighbours thought I was crazy!
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To the Maasai, 100
cows is worth about $30,000.
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You just don't give away
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the most
important resource you own!
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Despite the ridicule,
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Abraham
remained faithful to God.
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His neighbours stopped
laughing nine months later.
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They were shocked to see that
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many of Abraham's
cows gave birth to twins
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and his sheep triplets!
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Cows rarely have twins.
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It's considered
historic when they do.
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Immediately,
everyone understood that
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this miracle came
from a higher power.
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After the Maasai witnessed
Abraham's faithfulness,
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they approached
the union president,
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Pastor Godwin Lekundayo,
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and said "We want to tithe too."
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Pastor Godwin was amazed
and said, "Are you Adventist?"
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They replied "No, but
we want God to bless us
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just like he's
blessing Abraham."
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And praise the
Lord, nine months later,
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their cows had twins too.
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Here is something else amazing,
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every time a thief would steal
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any of Abraham's cattle,
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the cows would
always return home,
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as if guided by unseen hands.
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Now thieves fear
stealing from Abraham.
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I praise God for
Adventist World Radio.
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Abraham credits AWR
for changing his life.
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Everyone sees
that the more he gives,
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the more he is blessed.
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Thanks to Abraham's
testimony, today over 80 Maasai,
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have accepted Jesus
and have been baptized
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and all of them now listen
to the Adventist World Radio.
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These kinds of miracles
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not only
happened a long time ago,
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they're happening today.
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Our Heavenly Father is ready
to multiply your blessings.
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The unreachable
are being reached
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by Adventist World Radio.
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Together, we
can finish the work.
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We need your faithful
prayers and dedicated support.
00:27:15.63\00:27:18.70
We all can look
forward to the day
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when we see the
fruits of our labor
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and praise God for allowing
us to be part of His good work.
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This is AWR360.
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