Man, to think of
it, a short time ago,
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I was in a warm, warm,
warm, even hot, Pacific.
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And now here in
San Francisco Bay
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in the cold, cold.
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And actually I got a cold.
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But so I sound a
little bit different today
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but I'm here especially to
meet Jacque and Jamie Spence.
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This is where they're located.
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Benicia, California
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is where their office is located
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for Canvasback Missions.
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We're going to find
out a lot more today
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because we get to
talk with them in person.
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Stay tuned.
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Jamie and Jacque,
good to be with you today.
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Although it's a cold
day in San Francisco.
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Cold! Yes. Yeah.
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Not like the
islands for sure. No.
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But I came here today
because I want to find out
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and I know the
viewers want to hear,
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how did this
mission start 38 years ago
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or even it reaches back
before that, doesn't it?
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It does.
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We started out just sailing
our little 31-foot trimaran
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from San Francisco's Golden Gate
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to Australia's Barrier Reef.
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And on the way we found God.
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Now how long
have you been sailing?
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Over 20 years.
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20 years?
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So you had a
little bit of experience
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under your belt?
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Yes.
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And Jacque and I are both
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merchant marine
masters licensed captain.
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And the boat that we
sailed on was the second boat
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that Jamie had built.
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He built the little sea spider
31-foot sea runner trimaran
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and that we
sailed for seven years
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to get to the Great Barrier Reef
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in Australia.
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Jacque, you'd mentioned to me
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when we were in
the islands that,
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you and Jamie
actually contracted
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with boat owners
to bring their boats
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out here during
hurricane season.
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Right.
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It's difficult sailing
up the California coast
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from Mexico.
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And people like to sail down
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and then pay someone
to make the hard voyage
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against the winds back up here.
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Were there any jobs
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that specifically
stick out on your mind?
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Oh, yeah, definitely.
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Yeah, definitely.
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There was the sea wolf.
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Sea wolf that was a...
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A 65-foot wooden
vessel built for Adolf Hitler.
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And we slept in
the same state room
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that Hitler slept in.
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And that boat seemed diabolical
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like it was
always trying to harm us
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in some way.
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Now, this...
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We brought it from
Mexico up to San Diego.
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This is before
you're Christians?
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This was before
we were Christians.
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Yes.
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You're not feeling
the evil of that mode?
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Yeah. We were. Yeah.
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Well, tell us now you
talked about sailing out
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through the
Golden Gate, I guess.
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And that was a journey
where God touched your hearts.
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That's right. Yes.
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Before we left, a
couple that we knew,
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as far as I know,
they weren't Christians,
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but they gave us a
little Christian book
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and said God has a
plan for your life.
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And here we were
headed across the ocean
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with kind of didn't know
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where our lives
were going to go.
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And we believe that
and we were seeking God,
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our entire voyage
across the Pacific.
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We, you could feel the
presence of God out there
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under the stars of the universe.
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So you had a little
time to read and think?
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Yeah.
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We knew there was a God.
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We were so,
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but what's that got
to do with me, you know?
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Jacque, I'm going to
kind of look to you on this,
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was God working
on both your hearts
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a little bit at that time?
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Well, he probably
was working on our hearts
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but we weren't listening.
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Jamie and I
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weren't really
interested in Bible
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or what anyone
had to say about God.
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We just were going
to do our own thing.
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And what was your own thing?
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Well, we were
sailing. We were seeking.
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We were, we knew that
there were some answers
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to the life's questions,
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but we just didn't know
exactly where we were heading.
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Okay. Okay.
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So take me on this
sailing journey then,
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what's the next thing
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in this evolution of
Jamie and Jacque Spence?
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Well, when we started out,
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well, we're the last
generation of star navigators
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actually before GPS.
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And but we weren't that
good when we started out
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and we got lost at sea.
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We were lost for three days.
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And that was pretty
scary, especially at night.
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You don't know which way to go
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when you're lost.
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And I finally gave
up on figuring it out
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because we were
drawing lines on the chart
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and taking shots with a sextant,
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and it showed that we were
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somewhere north of
Mexico City in the mountains.
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North of Mexico City?
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Yeah, and I
couldn't accept that.
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I wonder why.
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So I gave up on my own ability
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and I sat down in
the cockpit and said,
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"God, if you can hear me,
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send me a sign to
show me which way to go."
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But you weren't a Christian
or anything at this time.
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No, but I knew there was a God
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because stars
that are so orderly
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that they can show you
your position on earth.
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You know, that
doesn't come out of chaos.
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We knew that there was a
controlling person somewhere,
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controlling God.
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So he was speaking to
you through the creation?
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Yes, He was. That's right.
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Very much so. We
knew there was a God.
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But...
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Birds in the air
and the fish in the sea,
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I mean, definitely
there was a creator.
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And hundreds of
light years out there
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somewhere, there's a God.
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But what's that
got to do with me?
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But I told God, how to fix it.
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I said, "God, show me a
sign, show me which way to go."
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So you'd asked him
about, "Lord, where are we?
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We need a little
bit of help here."
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Yeah, I asked God for a
sign to show me which way to go.
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And within minutes,
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a little bird was
hovering over my head,
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I could feel these
wingbeats in my hair,
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and then he flew to the north.
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I thought, I've never
seen that behavior before.
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It came back
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and it hovered
over my head again,
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it flew to the north.
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And I thought, well,
I did pray for a sign
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to show me which way to go.
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The little bird came back,
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and he hovered over
my head once more time,
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one more times, and
as he flew to the north,
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I took a bearing on the
direction of its flight.
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And I turned the boat
to that compass course
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and it took us
to our destination.
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Now that took a
lot of faith, I get,
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just turn the
boat and follow a bird?
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We knew we had asked for a sign.
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And what else could it be?
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You know.
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But that showed me
that God heard my prayer.
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This God that's as
big as the universe
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hears my prayer,
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why would he have
anything to do with me?
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And he can control a bird?
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Who can do that?
Who can control a bird?
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Now I've got to ask
you out there, on the sea,
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what kind of bird was this?
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Did you recognize it?
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Well, I think God
has a sense of humor too.
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Because the bird
was a sooty tern.
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A turn. T-U-R-N.
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Turn is what we needed to do.
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We were going the wrong way.
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Praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord.
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Now what happened next,
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you still you didn't accept God.
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But this must have been
a really big impression.
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But after sailing a little bit,
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Jamie and I decided
that we had enough experience
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that we were going to
jump off the edge of the world
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and sail from Baja California,
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all the way to
the Marquesas Islands
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to French Polynesia.
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And so we were
preparing the boat,
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getting things ready
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and a little boat
came up to us and said,
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"Hey, we want to give
you all of our canned goods.
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We're hauling our
boat out of the water.
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We want to give you
all of our canned goods."
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And I said, "No, no, no,
we really don't need that."
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But they insisted and
we took those canned goods
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and put them
to, stored them away
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and I thought I'd
never use that stuff.
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I just don't eat
that kind of food.
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So we sailed all the
way across the Pacific.
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We took 21 days
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and ended up in
the Marquesas Islands.
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Beautiful islands!
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Lush islands, you could,
fruit all over the island.
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And the women just sat there
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and waited for the
fruit to drop off the trees.
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And after a while Jamie said,"
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Okay, now we're
going to do our next leg,
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we're going to go to
the Tuamotu Archipelago,
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which means
dangerous archipelago.
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They are coral atolls
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and there's
nothing on the island
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except for the coconut trees.
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So that was a
three day crossing.
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And Jamie said, "Hey,
provision for six days.
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We're going for three
days, provision for six days."
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So we sailed there,
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and it was too late for
us to enter into the pass.
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And he said, "Let's hold off."
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I knew what was going to happen.
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It was too late
because of tides?
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No, because I
knew what was coming.
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It was a calm,
the barometer dropped.
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I knew that a storm
was coming and I couldn't.
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It would be
dangerous to go into the pass
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in the storm
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and I couldn't get
in before the storm hit.
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So we batten down the hatches,
turned away from the reef,
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there's Fakarava reef,
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and this storm
would be blowing us
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right at that reef.
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So I started clawing
offshore getting as far, as away
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as I could before the storm hit.
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To make a long story short,
we got caught in the hurricane.
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And I was being
blown down on that reef.
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I was holding
up against the wind
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as much as I could.
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But soon, well, we
tried to get star shots,
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I strapped myself
in on the cabin top.
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And when we were on
the top of the wave,
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I tried to get the
horizon to get the sun.
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And we did get
a line of position
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that showed that we
were clear of the reef
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but I knew that line
wasn't very accurate,
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but I couldn't hold up anymore.
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The seas were starting
to crash over the boat.
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One nearly washed me
right off the cabin top.
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How high the seas?
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They reached as high
as 55 feet in the big sets
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in the hurricane.
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It was like
hearing a freight train
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coming down.
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And it would just snap
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the pillar out of
my hand and it took...
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Top of the wave, the
swinging with a shriek
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and at the bottom of the
trough it would go quiet.
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But the seas were
breaking all around us.
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And if the sea
was a 40-foot sea,
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10 feet at the top
of it might be breaking
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and that was slammed down on us.
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It would sound like
sledgehammers on the deck.
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You guys figured
you probably could die
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at any moment.
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Yeah, we did.
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The water was squirting
in, in every crevice and crack
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and everything was wet.
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We started out our usual
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four hours on
and four hours off.
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Before it was over.
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It was one hour off,
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slopping around in a wet
bed and one hour fighting until.
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Jamie wrote on the hatch board,
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"I can make it" no,
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"The sea spider can make it"?
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"Jacque and I can
make it with God's help."
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So God is leading you
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through this
storm closer to Him.
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Oh, you know, there
are no atheists at sea.
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In a hurricane
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there's no
atheists in a hurricane.
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We rigged a
automobile tire with a,
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dragging a chain behind the tire
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to the stern of the boat
to hold her up into the waves
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because she was
screaming down these waves
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and just a little
postage stamp of a storm swell
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on the head stay
to keep her head down
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and the tire to
keep her stern up
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and she would
still reach 15-20 knots
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screaming down these waves.
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We were in survival
conditions for five days,
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because we just couldn't get out
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of that hurricane.
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But in the end, we
were out for 23 days.
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Now do you remember
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how many days had we
provisioned for, Jim?
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Six. Six days.
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Twenty-three days.
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And the food that we survived on
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was the food that
those people gave us
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a year before.
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And when we finally got
to a port, I wrote to them.
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I wrote a letter to them.
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And it came back.
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It was return addressee unknown.
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And that was quite puzzling.
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In Baja
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when they were
giving us the food,
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I asked the man on
board his name and he said,
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"I'm Dr. Angel."
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I said, "What kind
of work do you do?"
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He said, "I work on hearts."
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Now, I've never
heard a cardiologist say
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I work on hearts.
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And his wife said,
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"I help my husband
in his heart work."
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That's right.
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Doctor and Mrs. Angel,
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and when we tried to find them
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and in the town that they
said they were from and...
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Never found them.
No record of them.
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No one had ever heard of them.
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So I don't know.
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I just don't know.
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Can an angel have a
boat and canned goods?
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I just don't know.
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What's the next chapter now
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in the life of the two of
you and Canvasback Missions?
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Well, after we
recuperated a year
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from that hurricane
in French Polynesia,
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we set off for another
island called Penrhyn island.
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It was an island
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that had not
been visited by boats,
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had been closed
off to boats for years.
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And we went there.
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And three days
before we arrived,
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there was a little boy
who had died of pneumonia.
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And they had no
medicine on that island.
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Nothing that could
have helped that boy.
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We had the medicine on the boat.
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And we just started thinking,
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I think that that
little book we told you about,
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God has a purpose
for everyone's life.
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It started working on
our hearts, and we said,
00:15:55.65\00:15:57.75
we want to do something
00:15:57.79\00:15:59.89
with the skills
that God has given us,
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to help these people.
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So let's look at from the
time you received that book
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to this time, now how
long, how much time had passed?
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Three years.
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Three years, God
never gives up, does He?
00:16:11.43\00:16:13.27
He never gives up.
He kept nudging us.
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In a quiet lagoon,
00:16:17.17\00:16:20.61
Jacque had to leave the boat
00:16:20.64\00:16:22.21
because of family
illness in the family,
00:16:22.24\00:16:26.58
leaving me alone
in a quiet lagoon.
00:16:26.61\00:16:29.65
And I was sitting
and meditating about God
00:16:29.68\00:16:33.25
because by this time,
we were earnestly seeking.
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The Bible says,
"Seek and you shall find."
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And we were seekers.
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We're seeking in
all the wrong places
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in Eastern
religions and Shamanism
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and the witch doctors
on the islands, you know.
00:16:45.63\00:16:48.94
But we were
seeking for the true God
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because after the bird incident,
00:16:51.51\00:16:53.54
and God showing
me it was personal.
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I had to find it. I
had to find out who He was.
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I thought it might be
enlightened in a flash,
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blinding flash, I had no idea.
00:17:01.98\00:17:04.92
But as I was
meditating about God,
00:17:04.95\00:17:09.02
about finding
God, I heard a voice.
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I'm all alone on the
boat on a quiet lagoon,
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and the voice said,
"It all began in Zion."
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What does that mean?
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And then I heard...
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Look around the boat to
see if anybody else was around.
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I looked around to see
if someone was on the boat.
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This was a voice.
Someone's on the boat.
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But then I heard
an inaudible voice,
00:17:31.25\00:17:33.72
if that makes
sense, but it said clearly,
00:17:33.75\00:17:36.48
"But first, a
little background."
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And then a Bible
appeared before my eyes.
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Just there.
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Yes, this is, did it look real
00:17:44.56\00:17:46.16
like you can
reach out and grab it?
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It looked like I
could take it and open it.
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So I knew something
was unusual was going on.
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I felt like it was God
and I had a Bible on board.
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I had carried it around.
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My mother gave it to me
when I was 14 years old.
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It had my name in
gold on a leather cover so,
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and I always
carried it all my life
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and the cover was all beat up.
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But the inside pages
were nice and clean and white.
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I started like any other book,
I started reading in Genesis.
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And as I read that Bible,
00:18:17.56\00:18:19.79
everything that pointed
forward to Jesus just lit up,
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it was very clear.
00:18:24.47\00:18:25.80
Even the small,
insignificant things
00:18:25.83\00:18:28.20
that pointed forward
to Jesus, just lit up.
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Now I've talked with you before.
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So lit up really means
lit up and just in your heart
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but literally on the pages?
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We were planning,
when we got to Australia,
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to continue
across the Indian Ocean
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and go to India,
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and see this Maharaja
Sawan what's-his-face,
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you know, that
we've been reading.
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And we thought he
could help us find God.
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As I was reading Genesis,
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the scripture came off the page,
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and it just came up
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and stood in front
of my eyes like this.
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And it said, "You
don't have to sail
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across the ocean to find God.
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Everything you need
to know is in this book."
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And went back on the page.
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Now I quoted that
scripture to people for a year
00:19:14.42\00:19:17.99
until I quoted it to
a pastor and he said,
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"Where was that?
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I don't think
that's in the bible."
00:19:22.76\00:19:25.26
I said, "Well, it's
in mine. I'll show you."
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But I never could find it.
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You know, God can speak
to you through the Scriptures
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even when it is
written in the Scriptures.
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I'm going to ask
you one question.
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How old were you now,
00:19:36.64\00:19:38.04
your mother gave the
Bible 14, how old were you?
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I'm in my 30s at this
time. You're in your 30s.
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So mothers never give up?
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Amen. That's
right. That's right.
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My mother prayed for me
every day, throughout my life,
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mothers never give up.
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Exactly right.
00:19:50.82\00:19:52.15
So another chapter now.
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How do we get to the
point God had touched your heart
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on the islands about the
need of the island people,
00:19:56.42\00:19:58.69
what happened next?
00:19:58.73\00:20:00.33
Well, we started thinking about
what we could do with our lives
00:20:00.36\00:20:03.60
and decided that
we could build a boat,
00:20:03.63\00:20:07.64
a larger boat to
go back to the islands
00:20:07.67\00:20:11.04
and provide
medical care to them.
00:20:11.07\00:20:14.28
So we ended up in Australia
00:20:14.31\00:20:16.75
and the newspaper came
out to do a story on us.
00:20:16.78\00:20:20.78
And we asked the
community to donate picks,
00:20:20.82\00:20:23.99
shovels and mattocks to us
00:20:24.02\00:20:26.09
and to send it back
to an island that had...
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Stone age island. It
was a stone age Island.
00:20:28.59\00:20:31.29
So an atheist came on board
00:20:31.33\00:20:34.06
and became our very good friend.
00:20:34.10\00:20:36.10
And after hearing about
00:20:36.13\00:20:38.10
what we were
reading in the Bible, said,
00:20:38.13\00:20:40.97
"I know I have a
friend, you ought to meet him."
00:20:41.00\00:20:43.64
And out came...
00:20:43.67\00:20:45.01
He is religious too.
00:20:45.04\00:20:46.54
He came out with
a big bushy beard
00:20:46.57\00:20:49.18
and black set eyes
and a Bible under his arm.
00:20:49.21\00:20:52.08
And he got right into
Daniel and Revelation.
00:20:52.11\00:20:54.08
And Jamie and I went,
00:20:54.12\00:20:55.45
"Whoa, that's a
little too much."
00:20:55.48\00:20:57.62
But this man
brought his pastor out,
00:20:57.65\00:21:00.49
and his pastor
became our very best friend.
00:21:00.52\00:21:03.73
You know what was interesting?
00:21:03.76\00:21:05.53
Max Mulligan is
the name of pastor,
00:21:05.56\00:21:07.96
he and his family were
our friends for a year.
00:21:08.00\00:21:10.97
He never opened
up that Bible to us
00:21:11.00\00:21:12.53
for a whole year.
00:21:12.57\00:21:13.90
But anytime you
saw us on the street,
00:21:13.94\00:21:16.34
or any of the church members
saw us on the street, they say,
00:21:16.37\00:21:18.61
"Where are you going?
00:21:18.64\00:21:19.97
"Oh, we're going
back to the boat to eat."
00:21:20.01\00:21:21.54
"No! You have to
come to our house to eat,
00:21:21.58\00:21:23.88
have to come for tea."
00:21:23.91\00:21:25.28
They won us
through our stomachs.
00:21:25.31\00:21:27.78
And anytime Max was doing
00:21:27.82\00:21:30.72
like a five-day
stop smoking plan
00:21:30.75\00:21:33.25
or health assessment
plan or anything like that,
00:21:33.29\00:21:35.69
or needed music to be played
at a Vacation Bible School,
00:21:35.72\00:21:41.23
he would ask us,
00:21:41.26\00:21:42.60
he always asked
us to come and help.
00:21:42.63\00:21:44.23
I was always involved
in everything that Max did.
00:21:44.27\00:21:46.87
And he was and I guess he
still is the greatest friend
00:21:46.90\00:21:50.87
I've ever had in my life.
00:21:50.91\00:21:52.67
All of this is
happening at the time
00:21:52.71\00:21:54.18
you're building
a bigger boat now?
00:21:54.21\00:21:55.54
No, we're thinking about it.
00:21:55.58\00:21:57.31
We're thinking and...
00:21:57.35\00:21:58.98
This is in Australia
00:21:59.01\00:22:00.35
and before we're still living
00:22:00.38\00:22:01.72
on our little
31-foot sea spider.
00:22:01.75\00:22:03.39
And we had decided
that we were going to sell
00:22:03.42\00:22:05.65
that 31-foot boat in
Australia, but no one came out.
00:22:05.69\00:22:10.16
No one came out
to see that boat.
00:22:10.19\00:22:12.43
And finally Max
sat down after a year
00:22:12.46\00:22:16.93
of listening to us
talk about reincarnation
00:22:16.97\00:22:19.83
and stuff like that and he said,
00:22:19.87\00:22:21.20
"We're having a Bible study."
00:22:21.24\00:22:23.87
He just slammed the
Bible down on the desk,
00:22:23.91\00:22:25.44
he said, "Sit down.
00:22:25.47\00:22:26.81
We're going to
have a Bible study."
00:22:26.84\00:22:28.51
When you've
known a guy for a year,
00:22:28.54\00:22:30.15
you're going to do
what he tells you to do.
00:22:30.18\00:22:32.21
That's just like Jesus,
you become friends first.
00:22:32.25\00:22:33.98
Yes. Yeah.
00:22:34.02\00:22:35.35
Absolutely.
00:22:35.38\00:22:36.72
And so he told us
about the sanctuary.
00:22:36.75\00:22:40.52
That was our Bible
study, we thought, wow!
00:22:40.56\00:22:43.39
About the tabernacle,
00:22:43.43\00:22:45.13
and all the details
of all the symbolism
00:22:45.16\00:22:48.80
in the building of the tower.
00:22:48.83\00:22:50.17
And that stuff I just read
through real fast, you know.
00:22:50.20\00:22:53.13
And what won me about that was,
00:22:53.17\00:22:55.64
"Wow, this guy knows
so much about the Bible.
00:22:55.67\00:22:58.91
I want to study with him."
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So finally, Max said to us,
00:23:01.68\00:23:04.35
"We're going to have,
00:23:04.38\00:23:05.71
there's going to
be a camp meeting.
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And we want you to come down."
00:23:07.15\00:23:08.48
And we went, "Oh, I don't know
00:23:08.52\00:23:10.12
if we can be with
all those Christians
00:23:10.15\00:23:11.55
for over two weeks," you know.
00:23:11.59\00:23:12.92
So we said we'll
go for an overnight.
00:23:12.95\00:23:16.32
And we got down there
and our hearts really opened.
00:23:16.36\00:23:20.43
Just we're really
touched they, someone asked,
00:23:20.46\00:23:24.27
there was a
pastor, who said, you know,
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"You want to give
your heart to Jesus"
00:23:26.00\00:23:27.37
and I stood up, I said, "Yes."
00:23:27.40\00:23:28.97
So we, instead
of continuing south
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to see a boat builder
that we were looking at,
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we decided to turn
back and get baptized.
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We were baptized
in the Boyne River,
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where the platypus swim.
00:23:40.68\00:23:42.05
Everybody came out to
this little camp spot.
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And then after that weekend,
00:23:45.22\00:23:46.99
we went back into
town and you know what?
00:23:47.02\00:23:49.46
There was a note in
our, in our mailbox.
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Someone had seen our
boat and they wanted to,
00:23:51.59\00:23:53.90
they wanted to look at it.
00:23:53.93\00:23:56.26
And in fact,
they bought the boat.
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And we...
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When we told the people
in the church about that,
00:24:00.44\00:24:03.57
this, six months,
00:24:03.61\00:24:05.04
we had tried to sell
this boat without a nibble,
00:24:05.07\00:24:09.08
and the people in the
church, when we told about this,
00:24:09.11\00:24:11.68
so excited, "Wow!
00:24:11.71\00:24:13.05
Somebody's going
to buy the boat!"
00:24:13.08\00:24:14.42
They went, "Oh,
yeah." They said, "Oh, yeah.
00:24:14.45\00:24:15.78
Yeah, we know." I
said, "What do you mean?"
00:24:15.82\00:24:17.39
They said, "We've been praying
00:24:17.42\00:24:18.99
that someone would buy your boat
00:24:19.02\00:24:20.46
just as soon as
you got baptized."
00:24:20.49\00:24:22.46
Amen. Amen.
00:24:22.49\00:24:24.16
It was in our box
00:24:24.19\00:24:25.53
when we came
back from the baptism.
00:24:25.56\00:24:28.56
Wow, God's amazing, isn't He?
00:24:28.60\00:24:30.53
God is amazing. Yeah.
00:24:30.57\00:24:31.90
He's in control.
00:24:31.93\00:24:33.87
So we sold the boat,
00:24:33.90\00:24:37.21
we had chosen the
design of the boat
00:24:37.24\00:24:40.98
that we wanted to build
00:24:41.01\00:24:42.34
and we came back
to the United States
00:24:42.38\00:24:44.88
to look for a place
to build Canvasback.
00:24:44.91\00:24:49.05
And we went...
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Someone told us the best
place for you to build the boat
00:24:51.02\00:24:54.99
is in Astoria, Oregon.
00:24:55.02\00:24:56.73
And we went, "Where is that?"
00:24:56.76\00:24:58.33
This was a missionary in
Thailand who told us that.
00:24:58.36\00:25:01.76
And where is that?
00:25:01.80\00:25:03.33
We told him what we needed.
00:25:03.37\00:25:04.80
We needed a maritime community,
00:25:04.83\00:25:08.10
with people with knowledge
00:25:08.14\00:25:09.77
and availability
of boat supplies.
00:25:09.80\00:25:13.78
So then we went to Alaska.
00:25:13.81\00:25:16.01
And then that
person we met said,
00:25:16.04\00:25:18.68
"Astoria is the
place to build that boat."
00:25:18.71\00:25:20.75
And we're going, "What?"
00:25:20.78\00:25:22.82
Then we flew back to
my hometown in New York.
00:25:22.85\00:25:25.85
And the very day
that we arrived in,
00:25:25.89\00:25:28.29
on the front page
of the 'New York Times'
00:25:28.32\00:25:30.09
was an article
on Astoria, Oregon.
00:25:30.13\00:25:32.33
Really?
00:25:32.36\00:25:34.26
We looked in Texas, and
we looked in California.
00:25:34.30\00:25:36.77
We looked in Washington.
00:25:36.80\00:25:38.13
We looked in
Washington, we thought,
00:25:38.17\00:25:39.97
let's go look in Astoria.
00:25:40.00\00:25:41.34
This is God's word turn
again, telling you where to go.
00:25:41.37\00:25:43.27
Yeah.
00:25:43.30\00:25:44.64
And you know, the day
that we landed in Astoria,
00:25:44.67\00:25:47.71
it was sunny.
00:25:47.74\00:25:50.35
Only day.
00:25:50.38\00:25:52.98
And it was the perfect
place for us to build the boat,
00:25:53.01\00:25:56.25
just great.
00:25:56.28\00:25:57.62
Everything we needed,
all the resources we needed.
00:25:57.65\00:26:00.56
Two aluminum boat builders
in the town, boat supplies,
00:26:00.59\00:26:05.69
everything we needed.
00:26:05.73\00:26:07.06
I could get on the
telephone and have anything
00:26:07.10\00:26:08.70
I wanted the next day.
00:26:08.73\00:26:10.87
And, you know, you think
about starting a mission,
00:26:10.90\00:26:13.40
you think, well, everything,
00:26:13.44\00:26:14.80
if God called you to,
it's going to be easy.
00:26:14.84\00:26:18.37
The very, in the
very beginning, it was,
00:26:18.41\00:26:20.81
it was challenging our faith.
00:26:20.84\00:26:22.71
We had to build a
building to build the boat in.
00:26:22.74\00:26:26.25
And we had gotten
00:26:26.28\00:26:27.62
all the food together
to do that and had every,
00:26:27.65\00:26:30.15
we thought we had a
whole group to come.
00:26:30.19\00:26:32.35
And we found out at
the very last minute
00:26:32.39\00:26:35.56
that they weren't
going to be able to come
00:26:35.59\00:26:36.99
and Jamie and I were
just racking our brains
00:26:37.03\00:26:40.50
and thinking, "Lord, why
did You call us to do this
00:26:40.53\00:26:42.83
when it was going to fail?"
00:26:42.86\00:26:44.47
And the very first morning
00:26:44.50\00:26:45.97
that we were going
to build that building,
00:26:46.00\00:26:48.57
I fed 21 people and
thought, "Well, that's,
00:26:48.60\00:26:51.47
we're not going to get that."
00:26:51.51\00:26:52.84
This won't do it.
00:26:52.87\00:26:54.21
"We're not going to be
able to build that building."
00:26:54.24\00:26:55.71
And by that afternoon,
00:26:55.74\00:26:57.18
we had 62 volunteers
show up from all over,
00:26:57.21\00:27:01.38
we didn't even know them,
00:27:01.42\00:27:02.75
but they had
heard about this project
00:27:02.78\00:27:04.85
and they came out
and we had that building
00:27:04.89\00:27:07.09
built in three days.
00:27:07.12\00:27:08.79
My husband and I
00:27:08.82\00:27:10.16
founded the Ministry
of Canvasback Missions
00:27:10.19\00:27:12.29
38 years ago
00:27:12.33\00:27:13.66
to serve the island
nations of the Pacific.
00:27:13.70\00:27:16.33
From those humble beginnings,
00:27:16.36\00:27:18.00
our medical and
dental super teams
00:27:18.03\00:27:20.70
have been changing
lives and bringing hope
00:27:20.74\00:27:23.27
to so many people.
00:27:23.30\00:27:25.41
Our teams volunteer
their time and resources,
00:27:25.44\00:27:29.11
and all of our
services are free,
00:27:29.14\00:27:31.45
but it does take
funding to make it all happen.
00:27:31.48\00:27:34.78
That's where you come in.
00:27:34.82\00:27:36.69
Your financial
support is needed.
00:27:36.72\00:27:39.25
Please join us in changing lives
00:27:39.29\00:27:41.76
one miracle at a time.
00:27:41.79\00:27:44.76
If you'd like
to partner with us,
00:27:44.79\00:27:46.13
you can write us at
940 Adams Street Suite R,
00:27:46.16\00:27:49.56
Benicia, California 94510
00:27:49.60\00:27:53.00
or you can log on
to canvasback.org.
00:27:53.03\00:27:56.64
Call us at 707-746-7828.
00:27:56.67\00:28:01.38
And thank you for watching.
00:28:01.41\00:28:02.74
Please join us again for
another exciting adventure.
00:28:02.78\00:28:04.81
Remember,
Canvasback is making an impact,
00:28:04.85\00:28:08.35
one miracle at a time.
00:28:08.38\00:28:09.98