Now where did the
name Canvasback come from?
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That's a name of a
duck, a migratory duck.
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Those are often
named after birds.
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And this is a
migratory bird that...
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Sailed from north to south.
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Yeah, so it seemed
appropriate name for both...
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Because that's what
we're gonna be doing.
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Going from
California or from Oregon,
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all the way over to
the Marshall Islands
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and coming back, back and forth.
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It's little bit
warmer down here,
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in the boat it
feels little lighter.
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It's nicer to get the coat off.
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Now, this is kind of tiny
in comparison to this brand new
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about 71-foot,
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the 71-foot catamaran actually,
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so you got lots...
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It was a
catamaran. It was a catamaran.
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So lots of space though.
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Yes. Huge ship.
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How many people did it
take to really sail that thing?
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Well, we had four
in the ship's crew,
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four in the medical team
and four in the dental team.
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We had 12, no six cabins,
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six, seven stateroom cabins.
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But tell me about
your first mission
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to the islands?
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Oh, our first mission
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when we sailed the
Canvasback all the way to Majuro
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and we were assigned to go
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to a little
atoll called Maloelap.
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And we went to Maloelap
and worked on an island,
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had about 100 people in
the little island of Ira.
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And we saw every
man, woman, child,
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we did medical
clinic, we did dental clinic.
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And as we were packing up,
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we saw this man
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who'd been standing
in the corner of the room
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and he had a rag over his face.
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And we went over to
him to see what was wrong.
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And he had an abscess,
the size of a golf ball.
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He had been in
pain for over a year,
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but never occurred to him
that there was any possibility
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that he could have
relief from that pain.
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So our doctors
immediately took out
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what they needed.
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And they gave him
the medicines to care
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and took care of him.
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And he was pain free, you know.
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So I'm glad you
shared that story
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because really,
that's what Canvasback
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is all about.
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Jesus went through
villages and healed everybody.
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If you're sick, you can't
focus on eternal things again.
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That's right.
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So really, you're
the seed planters,
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you're the ones
who removes the pain
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and can point
them towards heaven
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and then God can
continue to work in their heart.
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Right, right.
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And you know, what
was so neat was the...
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The queen of the
island came out to us.
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What are all you
people doing on my island?
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And Jamie and I said,
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"Well, you know, we're
here because Christian people,
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people who believe in God acts
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have sent us here
to help your people."
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"I never heard
anything like that before."
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So the two of you were
really hooked on mission.
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Now this is
really got you going.
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Oh, yes, we were there
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because Jesus
has called us there.
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When we left her island,
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she said, "On the behalf
of the people of my island,
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we thank you from the
bottom of our hearts."
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How many years ago was that?
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Oh, that was in 1987
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is when that was about...
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I don't know.
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Canvasback has
been going a long time.
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Tell me, why
would you ask people
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or I know you do.
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Why do you ask people
to support this ministry,
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which is an amazing ministry?
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Because it really helps
people, it impacts the lives,
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it changes the lives of people.
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It removes suffering from people
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that really don't
have any other hope,
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any other source.
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The very poorest
person here in the US,
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the very poorest person
in the US lives like a king
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in comparison to the
people out in the islands.
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In the outer islands.
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I've seen some of
those people, what?
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$10, $20 maybe $30
a month is their pay
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and they have no chance
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of any medical
health whatsoever.
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No chance of any
medical health at all.
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Now this coming year,
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you're looking at
taking how many teams?
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Ten missions. Ten missions.
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Now for folks who
don't know you switch now
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from taking
people on boats so to,
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to taking them by plane.
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How come you made the switch?
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We finished the work
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that we set out
with a catamaran.
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The catamaran medical ship
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was the world's largest
two-masted sailing catamaran
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and still lives.
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She's still working for
doing oceanographic work
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with another organization.
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She was built with
volunteers entirely.
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Two hundred
volunteers worked on the boat
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before she was finished.
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We saw so many miracles
in the building of that boat.
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We set out to help establish
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an outer island
dispensary system
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in the Marshall Islands
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where there are
60 outer islands,
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and they're separated sometimes
about 300 miles of oceans.
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You think of the logistics.
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There's small populations,
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the most populated island
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had about 1,500 people on it.
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The smallest about 200.
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How are you going
to provide medical care
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over a wide expanse
of scattered islands
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in the ocean like that?
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Well, the outer
island dispensary system
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is the answer.
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You have a health assistant
who has some medical training,
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you have a little hut for him
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with shelves and some medicines,
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and you have a
single sideband radio
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so that he can talk to a doctor
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back on the main
island, the Majuro.
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That's an outer
island dispensary system.
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He has some medicines,
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he has a means of
communication with a doctor.
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He has some way to get
these medicines supply.
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That's what we helped to build.
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And once that was operating,
we'd really done the work
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that the medical
ship was built for.
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And I noticed you've
really changed somewhat
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in what you do,
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you've really
gone to a lot of it
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is training staff
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and people on the island,
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so they can help
their own people.
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Right, and surgical teams,
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and we couldn't do
surgery on the medical ship.
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So our programs
outgrew the Canvasback.
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And then the
very first president
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of the Marshall
Islands asked Jamie and me
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to help develop a
diabetes reversal program
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for the Marshall Islands.
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Diabetes is the
number one killer
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in the Marshall Islands.
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And the president
saw that the very best,
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his brightest leaders
were succumbing to diabetes
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and he wanted us to
develop a program to do that.
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Now, some
people are going to say
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diabetes reversal, you
can't reverse diabetes.
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In fact, when we got a grant
from the Department of Defense,
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and at our very
first product line review,
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our governing board, one
of the scientists came up
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and we heard that we
were going to do that
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we were going to
successfully change
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the lifestyle.
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And right there in front
of the entire review board,
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all these scientists
that were critiquing our work.
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He said, "I want to give
you my condolences in advance,
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because those
people will never change."
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And then what
happened a year later?
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A year later, we went to
product line review again,
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which means we stand and present
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before a board of scientists.
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He apologized for his comments
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when he saw the
results of our work.
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God has been with your work.
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Amen. Yes, He has.
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Again, I guess, I
get back to a question
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I'm not certain was
totally answered for me.
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Why should people
support this mission?
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The devil
doesn't need an advocate,
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so I'm not going
to be his advocate.
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But some might watch and say,
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"Oh these islands are small
and the populations are small.
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We need to help somebody else."
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Yeah, that's a factor there.
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It's not reaching
big masses of people
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like going to India.
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But who's going to
reach these people?
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Aren't they worth reaching?
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And they are.
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And they're the
most isolated people
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in the world.
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The people of these
tiny islands of Micronesia,
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the most forgotten
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and isolated
people in the world.
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Many people I
talked to don't know,
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I've never heard of
the Marshall Islands
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or Micronesia,
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and yet,
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they're an
American protectorate.
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And there were after
the Second World War,
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they were in American territory,
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the US flag flew out there.
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We have a
connection and responsibility
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and yet they are forgotten.
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And they're without
hope on many islands.
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But for God, are they...
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They're just as precious to God.
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That's right.
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They are just precious
people, very special people.
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You know, when we
talk about Micronesia,
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I thought you
might want to know.
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Micronesia spans the
area of the United States.
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If you were to
look in the ocean,
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you would see an
area of Micronesia
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of the United States.
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But if you were to squish
all those islands together,
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it would have a landmass
of less than Rhode Island.
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Well, so they span
probably 750,000 square miles
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but all, you know,
put together not much.
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Mostly ocean.
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Islands are very
small, very tiny islands.
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But God knows the
hairs on their head.
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They're all numbered too.
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So He called you guys to go.
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But it doesn't happen alone.
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You have to spend
money to get these teams
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to get all these
people out there cost money.
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That's right. That's right.
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To send a surgical team,
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we fill up a container,
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a 40-foot
container of all the supplies
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and equipment that's
needed to provide surgeries
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for two weeks.
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And that's that requires a lot.
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You know people
really would be shocked
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at the logistics
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of putting
these things together.
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It's not like a
casual medical team,
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mission trip that a
church would send out.
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It takes months of advance work,
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and an ocean container,
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40-foot ocean
container has to go on a ship
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and get out there before we do.
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Someone has to be responsible
for it when it arrives.
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All of our physicians
have licensed in the countries
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where they practice.
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There's a lot of
logistics to make this work.
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Jamie, maybe I can give
our viewers a little idea
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when you think of
a 40-foot container
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since we just
moved across the country.
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Virtually you could put
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two entire
households of furniture
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almost in a 40-foot container.
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Yes.
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So that's a lot of
stuff for a two-week period
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for these people to work.
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That's what it takes to
support a two-week surgery team.
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That's what it takes
in the hospitals here.
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But people
don't see that coming.
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According to the
World Health Organization,
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depression is the leading
cause of worldwide disability
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that happens to a lot of people.
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Are you depressed?
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Have you become
discouraged lately?
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The list is endless of things
00:11:36.46\00:11:37.83
that can trigger
discouragement, despair,
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or even depression.
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If you are someone you know
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was experiencing one or
more of these difficulties,
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we have a great
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It's written by author
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set in a lighthearted manner,
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meant to help lift you
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Understand, we
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trials and troubles,
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but we don't
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I look at this amazing
creation of God in planet earth.
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I wasn't an always a Christian.
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No, I was
actually a drug dealer,
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an alcoholic and a
thief, did all those things.
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But then God led me
to read His Holy Word.
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It's such an amazing Word.
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He's such an incredible God.
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He never sees
any situation says,
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oh, wow, I
never saw that coming.
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No.
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God is involved in
every aspect of every life,
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every heart
calling them to Himself
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and guarding them,
watching over them.
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I look at 2 Kings in Chapter 6.
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It's a story of Assyrian king
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who wants to go
at war with Israel,
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wants to take them over.
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But every time he makes a plan,
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it seems like the prophet of God
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knows what that plan is.
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And he runs and he
tells the king of Israel
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and so the king of Israel
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defeats the plan
of Assyria every time.
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Finally the king gets so mad,
he just can't hardly stand it.
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He knows there's a
traitor in his midst.
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He calls all of
his leadership together
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and said, "What are you doing?
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Who has betrayed me?"
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One of his leaders said,
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"No, no, King, oh
King, it's not us.
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It's that prophet in Israel."
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Well, the king finally decides
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he is going to
go get that prophet.
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He heads off to
where Elijah is staying,
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where he's holding up
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as it were camping
in a beautiful location
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in a small city.
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And he surrounds that
city with all of his horses,
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all of his
chariots, all of his men.
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And Elijah's prophet gets up
one morning early, he looks out
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and all of a sudden
he sees all of this army.
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And they're
there for his master,
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for his boss, the prophet.
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Well, it's very
interesting because in verse 15,
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says, "When the
servant of the man of God
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was risen early
and gone forth, behold,
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there was a whole host
that compass, this little city,
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all host of the enemy.
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But then he got his
master and his master says,
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'Fear not, fear not.'
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He prayed to God to
open his servant's eyes.
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And when the servant looked,
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he beheld there
was chariots of fire,
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all round about them,
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chariots of God's doing,
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chariots with
angels and flaming swords.
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And he says, 'Fear
not they that be with us
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are more than they
that be with Him.'"
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God loves you so much.
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God cares for you so much.
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Matter of fact, he
came to planet earth.
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He died for you.
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He died for me to
wipe away our sins,
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because every one of us
have sinned here in earth.
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We have no hope.
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If it wasn't for Jesus Christ,
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if it weren't for
Him coming down here
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and hanging on
a cross and dying,
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He cares for us.
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I just can't say it enough.
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I'd sit here, or
stand here actually
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and say it over
and over and over again
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if would make a
difference, but you know,
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it's up to me, it's up
to you, we need to choose.
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When I was that drug dealer,
that alcoholic and a thief,
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it took me a long time.
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But finally, I
heard that voice calling
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and saying, "Come
to Me, come to Me."
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And when I responded, it
was so absolutely amazing.
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This God is such
an incredible God.
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He's our best
friend. He's our Savior.
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He's our Creator,
and really our Recreator.
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He wants to recreate you.
And He wants to recreate me.
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What a God.
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As a leader in the
field of health in Micronesia,
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Canvasback Missions
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has been helping people
reverse diabetes for years.
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Yes, you heard
correctly, reverse diabetes.
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In addition,
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we are helping to reduce
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At least 34 million
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Many have no idea they have
it until it's almost too late.
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Many children have diabetes.
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It's time to
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What's the key?
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Now what's really great as
you shared with me, Jacque,
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I believe that
the amount of money
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that it really grows, a
mission dollar becomes what,
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$1,000 in how it
produces results.
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That's right. It's amazing.
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It's first, of
course, the grace of God
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and the power of volunteerism
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that hundreds of
thousands of dollars worth
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of medical
supplies that are donated,
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multiply the givers
dollar supports this mission
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for every dollar
that they invest,
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they get a 1,200%
return on investment.
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Now where can you
invest and get a 1,200% return?
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I would go for...
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I'd like to find
that management we have
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right here, Canvasback Mission.
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So that's your
dollars given to Canvasback
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multiply greatly.
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And they save
lives, they change lives.
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One miracle at a
time. One miracle at a time.
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In one trip, we can give
sight to 200 blind people
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through eye surgery.
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And every time you
give a blind person sight,
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of course, you
give him his life back.
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But you give
someone else's life back to,
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the care person that had
lead the blind one around.
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At least one care person
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sometimes
probably more than one.
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A family.
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You change a person's life
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when you change
an entire family.
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Canvasback provides
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over half a million
dollars' worth of caring
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within two weeks' time.
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And that's pretty exciting.
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We have teams that will
go out and they work hard.
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They give 110% of their effort
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to provide the very best care.
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I think I was
able to see one surgeon
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when he did retinal
surgery on a person he says,
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you know, in the United States
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I've done a $12,000 surgery
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here's to a person who
makes $20 or $30 a month,
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maybe 50 if they're lucky.
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But all of a
sudden, they see again,
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they have a surgery
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they could never afford
in their entire lifetime.
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But God has
worked through Canvasback
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to make it happen for them.
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To give sight
to the blind again.
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Right.
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Can you imagine 200
people led into the clinic
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blind by their caregivers
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and walking out
praising God, I can see.
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Hallelujah. Yeah, yeah.
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Well, I think
about the little boy
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he was pointing upward.
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And you told me this
story, Jacque, pointing upwards.
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Robert was saying
he was born blind.
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And we were able
to do surgery on him.
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And after his surgery,
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he pointed up there and
said there is only one God
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because there that little boy
had been praying with his mama,
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since he was able to
praying for his sight.
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Amen. Amen.
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You mentioned that
United States official
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I believe had challenged
you and said, "Forget it.
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It'll never happen. You
can't reverse diabetes."
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But then you came
back in the next year,
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he said, "Wow, you're doing it."
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We really didn't touch on that.
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I know you
started a wellness center,
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extrapolate it, you
know, unpack it for me?
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Canvasback received a grant
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through the
Department of Defense
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to prove that
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through lifestyle medicine,
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diabetes could be reversed
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and the populations
in the Marshall Islands
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were diabetes.
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Well, it has the worst epidemic
of diabetes in the world
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is happening there.
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And it largely goes untreated.
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And it ends in amputations,
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blindness, renal failure,
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and it's a very serious disease.
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Number one killer
in most of the islands.
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It is the number one
killer in the Marshall Islands
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and in other
parts of Micronesia.
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And to
establish this on a coral,
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to establish a program
like this on a coral atoll
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where the tallest
thing on the island
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is the coconut tree
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and the soil is like
living in coral rubble.
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It's virtually
impossible to grow food there.
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It's hard to
grow good food there,
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so we have to
teach special techniques,
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because they can't
afford imported food,
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you know, spoken
of the poverty there.
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The only hope they
have of the healthy food
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that they need to
prevent and reverse diabetes
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is to grow it themselves.
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And that's part
of what we teach.
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Through this
grant, we established,
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we built a wellness
center that still operates,
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it was built for the purpose
of doing scientific research
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for three years
to prove or disprove
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that diabetes could be reversed
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and this
population through lifestyle.
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Lifestyle simply
meant diet and exercise.
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And faith was a part,
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faith in God was
an important part
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of our program there.
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And this scientist on
the review board that said
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it couldn't be done
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was responding
to the actual data
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from that research.
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When he saw
scientific data that was done
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and, of course, he
felt compelled to apologize
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for his comments then.
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Now the wellness
center is growing
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in its kind of
tentacles and reach to witness.
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Yes, uh-huh.
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We have just developed
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the first age
physical education program
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for kindergarten
through eighth grade.
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So exciting and
we've placed playgrounds
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on all the schools,
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all the elementary
schools and gardens there.
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It's so exciting
because we recognize that
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if we're really
going to reverse diabetes,
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we have to teach the children.
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Those kids are the ones
who really drive their parents
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on what they want to eat.
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And normally that
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before they have
been taught this,
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most kids eat raw ramen
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with culi powder
poured on top of it.
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And that's a real
cheap, delicious breakfast.
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Perfect, perfect
for diabetes research.
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I understand the barbecues
aren't too much better either.
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That's right. That's right.
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Turkey tails are the
favorite for barbecue.
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When I first
heard of Turkey tails,
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I thought I
heard it incorrectly.
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Yeah, like it...
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It's going to be the
only place in the world
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that they import turkey tails.
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Yep. Yeah.
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How bad can that be for
you just a chunk of fat?
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So and then the other outreach
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that we have is to reach out
00:23:47.86\00:23:49.82
to the high risk
diabetic patients,
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many of them who are at home
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who can't even come
to the wellness center,
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because they have the amputation
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or their family members
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can't help
support to get them there.
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So we go to their homes
and see what do you need,
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what to make,
00:24:05.61\00:24:07.28
to make you
successfully reverse diabetes.
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You get
neighborhood visitation too.
00:24:09.74\00:24:11.31
Neighborhood
visitation team, do you need,
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we need to help
you establish a garden.
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And then once you
have this strange food
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that you're growing, that
you're not used to eating,
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we need to teach
you how to eat that
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and how to cook those foods.
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And you're getting requests now
00:24:25.19\00:24:26.70
from other
islands to please help us?
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That's right.
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This is one
diabetes reversal clinic
00:24:29.83\00:24:33.10
in all of Micronesia,
on the Marshall Islands.
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It has gained fame
00:24:36.50\00:24:38.54
throughout the jurisdictions
and the islands of the Pacific.
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It's well-known that
diabetes is being reversed
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not just in the individuals
00:24:46.72\00:24:48.35
who are
reversing their diabetes,
00:24:48.38\00:24:50.22
we're reversing the
epidemic of diabetes
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in the entire nation,
and other nations want it.
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I saw firsthand.
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You know where
they're and all of a sudden
00:24:59.36\00:25:00.86
the senator who
comes looking for Jacque
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finally, please
help us, we're in crisis.
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And this is from another island.
00:25:05.13\00:25:06.47
Yes.
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We have many requests
to bring this kind of care
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to other islands.
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Bottom line, you could
help if you had the funds.
00:25:12.64\00:25:14.51
That's right. We, we...
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That's all it takes.
00:25:16.58\00:25:18.45
We have requests for us
00:25:18.48\00:25:19.81
to send out more surgical teams.
00:25:19.85\00:25:21.82
I thought, "We were
going to do 10 next year."
00:25:21.85\00:25:24.29
You know, we have the
ability to send out more,
00:25:24.32\00:25:28.09
but we don't
have the funds to do.
00:25:28.12\00:25:29.59
Because the needs
are definitely there.
00:25:29.62\00:25:31.46
Oh, needs are really there.
00:25:31.49\00:25:32.86
Let me explain it this
way with the surgery teams.
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We are the specialists.
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The little hospitals
mostly have just primary care.
00:25:37.60\00:25:41.94
So if a person
needs specialty care
00:25:41.97\00:25:43.97
if he's blinded by cataracts,
00:25:44.01\00:25:46.47
if he has worn
out joints can't walk,
00:25:46.51\00:25:51.21
was crippled, bedridden.
00:25:51.25\00:25:53.72
There is no specialties
there, we are the specialists,
00:25:53.75\00:25:56.45
we are the hope.
00:25:56.48\00:25:57.82
Gynecology too.
00:25:57.85\00:25:59.19
Gynecology and ENT ear problems,
00:25:59.22\00:26:02.96
everything.
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One of the doctors
at the hospital said,
00:26:04.43\00:26:06.09
"We have nothing for the women.
00:26:06.13\00:26:07.46
We have no
women's health programs."
00:26:07.50\00:26:09.16
That's right.
00:26:09.20\00:26:10.53
That would, in the United States
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nobody would ever
put up with such a thing.
00:26:12.20\00:26:13.67
Oh, you know...
00:26:13.70\00:26:15.04
But you're helping
fill that great need.
00:26:15.07\00:26:17.21
All the dental program
00:26:17.24\00:26:18.57
so children with
bombed out rotten mouths.
00:26:18.61\00:26:24.51
We wouldn't have
that in the United States.
00:26:24.55\00:26:26.82
It would not be tolerable. Yeah.
00:26:26.85\00:26:28.65
So when you say
why should people help
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because God has
given us so much,
00:26:30.29\00:26:33.09
He has blessed us to
be born in this country,
00:26:33.12\00:26:36.39
that we can be able
to share those talents
00:26:36.42\00:26:39.53
and those gifts
that he's given us
00:26:39.56\00:26:41.40
with people in Micronesia.
00:26:41.43\00:26:44.40
And for every
dollar that they give,
00:26:44.43\00:26:46.63
they are going to get $1200,
00:26:46.67\00:26:49.07
1200% return on investment.
00:26:49.10\00:26:52.74
Phenomenal mission
return on your note.
00:26:52.77\00:26:55.31
Amen.
00:26:55.34\00:26:56.68
Guys, it has
been a real pleasure
00:26:56.71\00:26:58.05
to sit with you today
00:26:58.08\00:26:59.41
and hear some of
the Canvasback story.
00:26:59.45\00:27:00.78
I know there's a lot more
00:27:00.82\00:27:02.15
because I understand
you're writing a book too,
00:27:02.18\00:27:03.52
so we can't wait for that.
00:27:03.55\00:27:05.42
Thank you, Jim.
00:27:05.45\00:27:08.39
My husband and I
00:27:08.42\00:27:09.76
founded the Ministry
of Canvasback Missions
00:27:09.79\00:27:11.83
38 years ago
00:27:11.86\00:27:13.19
to serve the island
nations of the Pacific.
00:27:13.23\00:27:15.90
From those humble beginnings,
00:27:15.93\00:27:17.53
our medical and
dental super teams
00:27:17.57\00:27:20.24
have been changing
lives and bringing hope
00:27:20.27\00:27:22.77
to so many people.
00:27:22.80\00:27:25.01
Our teams volunteer
their time and resources,
00:27:25.04\00:27:28.68
and all of our
services are free.
00:27:28.71\00:27:31.01
But it does take
funding to make it all happen.
00:27:31.05\00:27:34.32
That's where you come in.
00:27:34.35\00:27:36.22
Your financial
support is needed.
00:27:36.25\00:27:38.79
Please join us
in changing lives,
00:27:38.82\00:27:41.39
one miracle at a time.
00:27:41.42\00:27:44.26
If you'd like
to partner with us,
00:27:44.29\00:27:45.63
you can write us
at 940, Adam Street,
00:27:45.66\00:27:48.13
Suite R,
Benicia, California 94510.
00:27:48.16\00:27:52.47
Or you can log on
to canvasback.org.
00:27:52.50\00:27:56.24
Call us at (707) 746-7828.
00:27:56.27\00:28:00.91
And thank you for watching.
00:28:00.94\00:28:02.28
Please join us again for
another exciting adventure.
00:28:02.31\00:28:04.35
Remember,
Canvasback is making an impact,
00:28:04.38\00:28:07.85
one miracle at a time.
00:28:07.88\00:28:09.32