Well, you can see
the children behind me,
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you know, they
start out young here
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with the
lollipops and the soda pops,
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and I don't
know, the chewing gum,
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whatever it is,
but a really bad diet.
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By the time many of
them are in their 20s,
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they find that
they've got diabetes
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or the onset of diabetes.
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But Canvasback
Missions has seen that,
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they started a
wellness center here in Majuro,
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they've set up teams that
come to the neighborhoods,
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they do monitoring,
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they're finding a lot
of people with big problems
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and they're helping
them out in many ways.
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Going to have more
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what they're
doing in just a moment.
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Pastor, we're down here on
the north end of the island.
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You got people coming in and out
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and what what's happening
here and why is it happening?
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It's really important
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for the young
people need to know
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that they got
diseases like diabetes
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and high blood pressure.
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And as the most of the problem
here in the Marshall Islands.
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So our awareness
under our program
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is a good program
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to go around the Majuro
and help people to know.
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Because most of the
people they don't know,
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they got diabetes, they
got high blood pressure,
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but that's
because of this program
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they know where they have now.
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And they revert them
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to a hospital to
check with the doctor
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and try to train them on
like a medicine or a pill.
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Diabetes, I understand
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is the number one
killer in this area
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and really in
the Marshall Islands.
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So, what's
happening here right now
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and there's screening, I
guess, going on behind you?
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You know, they've been
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screening people
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since last Friday,
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I think, and they
have referred people
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to like, to see doctor,
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they can afford men and
most of the people here,
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they are happy to
have joined this program,
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especially all the core members
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and a lot of service around.
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And you can see all these people
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they come from,
they are all sick
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and be part of
this health screening.
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Now, I also understand that
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not only do you
have health screening,
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but the wellness
center partner with you
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and other
organizations are teaching them
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how to maybe grow
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their own vegetables again,
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and kind of get back
to a more natural diet?
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Yes, that's, you know, when is,
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one of the organization
here in the Marshall Islands
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is helping people to,
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you know, plan at
least on our island.
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You know, because our body needs
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what we have to eat,
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what is good to
protect our health and,
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you know, and when it's under
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is one of the organization here
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in the Marshall
Islands helping people,
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and we are so
blessed to have them here.
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I know that, you know,
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wellness center would
like to expand this program out
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to other islands
and other locations.
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What would you say as a pastor
who sees the need of people?
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What would you say to them that
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they should take this program
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up to help their
people in health?
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So I'm just going to say to,
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to the people here
in the Marshall Island
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that wellness program is,
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it can help them to
overcome their disease
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and there's, you know,
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common set they're like
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super and high blood pressure.
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Now you used the word
overcome with this disease.
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Would you unpack that
a little bit more for me?
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Like overcome is to like
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when we eat,
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like use the wheat and rice
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and all that so
we have to change
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a little bit
more of what we eat.
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Is there anything you'd
like to share with us today?
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Anything else
that's on your heart
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about this program,
about the love for the people
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and what you'd
like to see them do?
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You know, all I
can say is God is good.
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God is good,
because again, you know,
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led wellness
program to come here
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and we invite people,
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like here in the
community to offer to come
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and, you know, screening.
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In the time you've been here,
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have you seen some
changes in life that say,
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oh, that person's life changed,
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I'm so glad I was
able to, you know,
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invite them, or bring them here?
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Yeah, I see a lot of
people that changed their life,
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even not only,
like come to Christ,
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but to, you
know, change what they,
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what they need, and
they are looking good now,
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they're healthy, and you know,
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they always come here
and they say they like,
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they like this program.
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So there's not only
hope on an internal level,
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but hope on a
physical level right now too.
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Change lifestyle, feel better.
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Yeah, I see that people
that they feel better now.
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Now, another thing I understand,
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as soon as this part
of the program is over,
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then you're going to have
a cooking school to show them
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how to cook
more healthfully too?
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Yeah.
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To me that is one of the things
that I really want to learn
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how to cook like mixed vegetable
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and eat them.
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Because throughout my life,
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I have eaten lot of
carrots and cabbages
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and that's
because of this program,
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I started to eat and, you know,
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my blood pressure is
good, my sugar is good.
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And, so you're
benefiting from the program too?
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I benefited
from this program too
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and I'm so happy.
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Pastor, thank you so much
for spending time with us.
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Thank you for your
help in this organization.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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All right.
You're always welcome.
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Thank you.
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Ingrid, you seem like
you're a long way from home.
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Where are you from?
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I'm from Taiwan. Taiwan.
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What brings you to Majuro?
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We bring Majuro, we have to,
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we try to help Majuro
about the older medical things.
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Because I'm a nurse here before,
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and we try to bring us there.
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Here has a
major diabetic problem
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and a lot of issue also.
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And we try to help them to
figure out how we can help.
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And so that's why we are here.
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We do the screening here
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and let people
know they have diabetes,
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because a lot of
people they never know,
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they never know
they are diabetic.
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So we do the health check here.
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So you're working
with the Canvasback
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Wellness Center?
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Yes, yes. Okay.
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What specifically do you do?
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I get the feeling
you're an organizer here
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and help things in this area?
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Yes.
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A standard we,
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we organize that we plan,
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every year we plan
how many communities
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we're going to
visit and what's our goal.
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But we're going to
education those people,
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so we said about our schedule
and we visit the community
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every weeks, every
Friday and do the screening.
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If they are diabetic, we
refer them to the hospital
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and Tanner will
help us to organize
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their maybe
sometimes their transportation.
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And sometimes we
have to remind them
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to come to the hospital
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because people here will forgot
what they have appointment.
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Okay. Yeah.
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And now we are trying to
training the health worker
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in the community.
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So I saw you were training,
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it looked like you
were training some people.
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What were you actually doing?
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The people here they are now
the nurse to name, be trainers
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coming for the health
worker, but we need them
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to help us to help people
to measure their blood pressure
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or measure their blood sugar,
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but then we have to teach them
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how to use it and how the data
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they need to be
referred as the normal data
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why is it is diabetes,
the pre-diabetes or diabetes,
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or
pre-hypertension, hypertension,
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we have to teach them
before they do the screening.
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And after that we don't
have to be here every week.
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The health worker can help us
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to screening those
community people here
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and just show,
just give us a referral.
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How many people
they screen every week
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and how many people
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they may be
referred to the hospital.
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Okay, now, how many
people in a clinic like this?
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How many people do you find that
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have a real
problem with diabetes,
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that's looking pretty bad?
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Oh, way a lot.
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A lot. A lot.
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I can't tell the number
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because every
committee was some way bigger
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or some maybe smaller, but wow.
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Now what's a
healthy blood sugar level?
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Healthy blood sugar?
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If you are fasting, below 120.
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Below 120? Yes.
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And some of the
people you test here,
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how high are they?
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Oh, sometimes they're over 200
and sometimes they're over 500.
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That's almost
critical, isn't it?
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Yes, and sometimes
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the glucometer
can't show the data
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because too high and I...
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and we will send them,
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sometimes we will send
them to the hospital right away.
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They're too high and
also the blood pressure.
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The people here
sometimes we make sure over 200.
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So tell me what a
good blood pressure is?
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It should be all around
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to 120 over 90 is better range.
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And you get some
that are way over 200?
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Yes, way over 200
is really dangerous.
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You'll be
shocked or everything...
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I've seen with the
wellness center with diet
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and things there's,
they can help change this,
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one of these things.
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Healthy diet.
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Yes, we sometimes we teach them
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how they can
have the healthy diet.
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It's not easy to
get healthy diet here
00:11:17.67\00:11:19.84
because the
vegetables are so expensive.
00:11:19.87\00:11:22.38
But we try to help them to
teach them how to use local,
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local food to stay healthy.
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All right.
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Well, thank
you, Ingrid, so much.
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Thank you. Appreciate it.
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Thanks for all your
hard work. Thank you.
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All right.
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Rain, rain, rain.
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But, you know, that's typically
what it does in the islands.
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That's what it does here
in Majuro in this wonderful,
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beautiful atoll,
00:11:52.94\00:11:54.28
it does quit once in a
while, but it goes a lot.
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We're going to have a lot more.
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Stay tuned, we'll be right back.
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We didn't recognize the problem
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We started noticing
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And what was that like?
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I mean, when all of a sudden
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he's got a problem?
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What did you do?
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We took him to the hospital
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and to check
with the eye doctor.
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And according to
him, he said he has
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some kind of
cataract in his eyes.
00:14:00.90\00:14:06.88
And so, we asked him, well,
00:14:06.91\00:14:10.08
so what can we do for him.
00:14:10.11\00:14:11.85
Any possibility
that you can help him
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and because of,
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he wasn't sure
as of he never had,
00:14:18.82\00:14:22.96
he probably never,
00:14:22.99\00:14:25.36
he never did any operation
on small kids, children.
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So he wanted to get some advice
from abroad from his friends,
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especially from the Philippines
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because the
doctors are Filipino.
00:14:35.84\00:14:39.37
So we waited for so long.
00:14:39.41\00:14:42.14
Then he gave us and said,
00:14:42.18\00:14:44.48
"Well the only way we can do
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is to send him over
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to do surgery
maybe in the Philippines,
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but I need some advice
00:14:52.19\00:14:56.39
from my friends
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if they can help him."
00:14:58.83\00:15:00.53
So we waited so long.
00:15:00.56\00:15:03.26
How long did you wait?
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Until I think, last year he had.
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So you waited maybe at
least a couple of years?
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Yeah, maybe two to three years.
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Oh my.
00:15:15.51\00:15:16.85
So, and you're seeing
that he's getting worse,
00:15:16.88\00:15:19.51
maybe you're
starting to really realize he,
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he is virtually blind.
00:15:21.88\00:15:23.22
Right.
00:15:23.25\00:15:24.59
And when the team Canvasback
00:15:24.62\00:15:28.72
came to the island,
00:15:28.76\00:15:30.43
we started to hoping that
00:15:30.46\00:15:32.39
maybe would have done something.
00:15:32.43\00:15:34.10
But we weren't
there at the beginning.
00:15:34.13\00:15:37.03
And the doctors, they said,
"Well, yeah, we can do that,
00:15:37.07\00:15:40.80
but the problem is, they also,
00:15:40.84\00:15:43.30
they weren't sure
whether they're not confident
00:15:43.34\00:15:45.91
if they could do it.
00:15:45.94\00:15:49.54
Because of maybe as a kid,
00:15:49.58\00:15:51.75
but somehow, maybe
thank, thank God for.
00:15:51.78\00:15:55.92
Somebody came up
00:15:55.95\00:15:57.62
from within
their team a day after
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and we didn't realize that
00:16:00.69\00:16:03.46
she could have done,
she could have done it.
00:16:03.49\00:16:07.10
So they call us
early in the morning,
00:16:07.13\00:16:10.73
I think on Sunday,
00:16:10.77\00:16:12.10
or something that we
need to take him back
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to the hospital right away.
00:16:14.67\00:16:16.17
So they told us
that they could do it.
00:16:16.20\00:16:19.27
So one of the ophthalmology team
00:16:19.31\00:16:20.91
from Canvasback called and said,
00:16:20.94\00:16:22.28
"Come back to the
hospital, we can do this."
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We were...
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My wife and I...
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I told my wife and said,
"Wow, our prayers have been,
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you know, she's been
praying for her son for so long,
00:16:33.42\00:16:37.63
to help him trying to
find help than even myself,
00:16:37.66\00:16:40.83
I was thinking
that nothing happened.
00:16:40.86\00:16:44.17
I have no choice
00:16:44.20\00:16:45.53
but maybe I have to stop working
00:16:45.57\00:16:47.80
and find ways to help him,
00:16:47.84\00:16:49.77
to take him maybe to the
States and find help for him.
00:16:49.80\00:16:55.64
Which is very
expensive to do all that.
00:16:55.68\00:16:58.58
Yeah. Okay, it's
the day of surgery.
00:16:58.61\00:17:02.88
What was going
through your mind?
00:17:02.92\00:17:05.65
We actually, we
are very confident
00:17:05.69\00:17:07.42
with the team
00:17:07.46\00:17:08.79
because they said
that we could do it.
00:17:08.82\00:17:10.19
And we've been praying for that.
00:17:10.23\00:17:13.46
So you've got a
real anchor on the dock.
00:17:13.50\00:17:14.83
Yes.
00:17:14.86\00:17:16.20
And also our son was
really strong at that.
00:17:16.23\00:17:18.83
Every time when we
took him to the hospital,
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he never cries or never
even they took his blood out.
00:17:22.87\00:17:28.58
Now people like, as a small kid,
00:17:28.61\00:17:32.48
a lot of kids are always crying
00:17:32.51\00:17:35.68
if you come to
having an injection
00:17:35.72\00:17:38.75
or something with the needle.
00:17:38.79\00:17:40.22
But for him,
00:17:40.26\00:17:41.59
he was very
confident and strong.
00:17:41.62\00:17:43.39
Showing confidence
that he could do it.
00:17:43.43\00:17:47.20
Buti, mom and dad
said they call you Buti.
00:17:47.23\00:17:51.60
Can I call you Buti? Okay?
00:17:51.63\00:17:55.97
Yeah.
00:17:56.00\00:17:57.34
Were you scared when
you went to the doctor?
00:17:57.37\00:18:02.91
No. No.
00:18:02.94\00:18:04.71
Did you believe in God?
00:18:04.75\00:18:06.08
Yes.
00:18:11.99\00:18:14.89
Can you tell me what
happened when after the surgery
00:18:14.92\00:18:18.76
and the doctors
took off the bandage?
00:18:18.79\00:18:20.96
What happened then?
00:18:21.00\00:18:22.33
Yeah.
00:18:27.10\00:18:29.24
You can see?
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Yeah.
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Somebody told me who
was there at that surgery
00:18:32.44\00:18:36.01
that you pointed up to the sky.
00:18:36.04\00:18:39.05
Tell me why you
pointed up to the sky?
00:18:39.08\00:18:43.79
Actually, he
wasn't pointing at the sky
00:18:43.82\00:18:46.76
but because of his faith,
as in the church of one God.
00:18:46.79\00:18:51.86
One God.
00:18:51.89\00:18:53.23
That's where we
can point for God.
00:18:53.26\00:18:54.63
Yeah. So you're
pointing up to God.
00:18:54.66\00:18:57.43
You're thanking God
for now you can see.
00:18:57.47\00:19:00.30
How about you, dad? How
does that make you feel?
00:19:00.34\00:19:02.97
I was really, I
was really thankful
00:19:03.00\00:19:08.24
for all that what
they have done for him.
00:19:08.28\00:19:11.68
And I couldn't believe
that our prayers were answered.
00:19:11.71\00:19:17.52
Tell me what you think
of the Canvasback team?
00:19:17.55\00:19:20.02
Every time I visit the hospital,
00:19:20.06\00:19:25.19
I always see a lot
of these team members
00:19:25.23\00:19:28.16
coming back and forth.
00:19:28.20\00:19:30.57
And I never realized that
00:19:30.60\00:19:32.83
I would ever have the
chance to meet with them.
00:19:32.87\00:19:36.67
Even myself, I had eye
surgery too with the team.
00:19:36.71\00:19:42.18
And...
00:19:42.21\00:19:43.55
So now your whole
family? The whole family.
00:19:43.58\00:19:46.08
Mom had both eyes
cataracts removed, you too.
00:19:46.11\00:19:48.68
Yes. Wow.
00:19:48.72\00:19:50.45
So we were really thankful
00:19:50.49\00:19:52.92
for the great
job that Canvasback
00:19:52.95\00:19:56.62
is helping us especially
in the Marshall Islands.
00:19:56.66\00:19:59.59
It's changed the whole family.
00:19:59.63\00:20:01.83
It's changed the whole family
00:20:01.86\00:20:03.20
and we are very
thankful for that.
00:20:03.23\00:20:05.70
God has not forgotten
people of the islands, has He?
00:20:05.73\00:20:08.90
Yes, we are very
thankful for them, yeah.
00:20:08.94\00:20:13.78
I want to thank all
of you today so much.
00:20:13.81\00:20:16.11
Thank you also for. Thank you.
00:20:16.14\00:20:18.15
Thank you for inviting.
00:20:18.18\00:20:23.05
Jesus said,
"Suffer the little children
00:20:23.08\00:20:25.29
to come unto Me."
00:20:25.32\00:20:26.65
He also said, "Go
into all the world."
00:20:26.69\00:20:28.49
And that's exactly
00:20:28.52\00:20:29.86
what Canvasback has been doing
is going into all the world
00:20:29.89\00:20:32.56
and changing hearts
00:20:32.59\00:20:33.93
and lives of Robuti, his family.
00:20:33.96\00:20:36.16
But it is so exciting to see
00:20:36.20\00:20:38.43
how God is working
through Canvasback Ministries.
00:20:38.47\00:20:41.40
I hope you join
with the ministry too.
00:20:41.44\00:20:43.20
It is absolutely
amazing what God is doing.
00:20:43.24\00:20:48.34
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Jamie and Jacque
Spence are an amazing couple.
00:22:26.57\00:22:29.24
They're the co-founders
of Canvasback Ministries.
00:22:29.28\00:22:32.55
As I thought of them, I
also thought of Isaiah 6.
00:22:32.58\00:22:36.58
Isaiah 6 is a very
interesting chapter
00:22:36.62\00:22:38.75
because it starts out,
00:22:38.79\00:22:40.12
"In the year the
King Uzziah died,
00:22:40.16\00:22:42.06
I saw also the
Lord sitting on a throne
00:22:42.09\00:22:44.66
high and lifted up
00:22:44.69\00:22:46.26
and His train
filled the temple."
00:22:46.29\00:22:49.53
Here is a vision of God.
00:22:49.56\00:22:51.87
Isaiah's ministry hadn't been
going really anywhere to well,
00:22:51.90\00:22:55.90
I don't believe as
I read these chapters.
00:22:55.94\00:22:58.84
But here all of a sudden,
he sees a vision of God, high,
00:22:58.87\00:23:03.51
lifted up sitting on His throne,
00:23:03.55\00:23:05.81
His garments
filled the entire temple,
00:23:05.85\00:23:08.45
filled the entire building,
and above it stood seraphim.
00:23:08.48\00:23:11.65
Seraphim are angels and
these angels had six wings.
00:23:11.69\00:23:15.12
Two it says covered their face,
00:23:15.16\00:23:16.83
two their bodies,
00:23:16.86\00:23:18.29
two their feet
as they were flying.
00:23:18.33\00:23:21.66
Why did they do this?
00:23:21.70\00:23:23.03
Because they didn't
even want to look at God.
00:23:23.06\00:23:26.57
God is so holy, so
high and lifted up.
00:23:26.60\00:23:29.50
They didn't want to look at God,
00:23:29.54\00:23:30.87
they didn't
want God to see them.
00:23:30.91\00:23:32.94
Everything was all about God.
00:23:32.97\00:23:35.71
Then they cried,
"Holy, holy, holy God,
00:23:35.74\00:23:39.61
the Father, God, the
Son, God, the Holy Spirit,"
00:23:39.65\00:23:41.98
they recognized
the three right there.
00:23:42.02\00:23:45.92
As they continued on as
Isaiah, that as the angel spoke,
00:23:45.95\00:23:49.96
even the temple begin to shake,
00:23:49.99\00:23:53.36
it was almost
like an earthquake.
00:23:53.40\00:23:56.03
And what did he say?
00:23:56.06\00:23:57.40
He says, "Woe is
me, oh, I am undone.
00:23:57.43\00:24:00.97
I really see God
for who God is now.
00:24:01.00\00:24:04.77
I see myself the way I am.
00:24:04.81\00:24:07.71
What am I going to do?"
00:24:07.74\00:24:10.58
And it's so interesting.
00:24:10.61\00:24:12.31
An angel flew,
took tongs off the altar
00:24:12.35\00:24:16.02
the fire of God
and touched his lips
00:24:16.05\00:24:18.59
and cleansed him.
00:24:18.62\00:24:20.99
God's fire cleanses us,
00:24:21.02\00:24:23.69
God changes when
we're willing and open.
00:24:23.73\00:24:26.13
Isaiah was willing and open.
00:24:26.16\00:24:28.03
He humbled himself, He
surrendered fully to God.
00:24:28.06\00:24:32.17
Now what's exciting
about this even further
00:24:32.20\00:24:34.67
is now God
says, well, basically,
00:24:34.70\00:24:39.37
let me preface this for a moment
00:24:39.41\00:24:41.48
because Isaiah hears
the conversation with God.
00:24:41.51\00:24:46.61
And God, Father, Son,
00:24:46.65\00:24:48.65
Holy Spirit are
saying, "Who shall we send?
00:24:48.68\00:24:53.19
Who shall go for us?"
00:24:53.22\00:24:54.96
And Isaiah hears
this conversation.
00:24:54.99\00:24:56.83
He's led in on the
divine conversation of God.
00:24:56.86\00:24:59.23
He says, "Lord,
here I am, send me.
00:24:59.26\00:25:04.33
Here I am, send me."
00:25:04.37\00:25:06.74
Only after he saw
God high and lifted up,
00:25:06.77\00:25:10.24
he saw himself for who he was,
00:25:10.27\00:25:13.31
was able to say, God,
I'm ready to do Your work.
00:25:13.34\00:25:17.48
Jacque and Jamie, they had,
00:25:17.51\00:25:21.15
had traveled the world sailing.
00:25:21.18\00:25:24.15
And when God
touched their hearts
00:25:24.19\00:25:26.05
and touched their lives,
00:25:26.09\00:25:27.86
God led them in on
a holy conversation,
00:25:27.89\00:25:30.49
saying, who will we send?
00:25:30.53\00:25:32.66
Who will we send to the islands?
00:25:32.69\00:25:34.53
And their hearts were impressed.
00:25:34.56\00:25:35.90
And they said, "God, send us."
00:25:35.93\00:25:38.53
And Jacque and
Jamie for 38 years
00:25:38.57\00:25:40.64
have been serving the islands,
00:25:40.67\00:25:42.80
doing a tremendous work for Him.
00:25:42.84\00:25:45.27
Praise God that
they heard His voice.
00:25:45.31\00:25:47.51
Oh, how I love Rovis,
00:26:00.49\00:26:02.79
he grabbed hold
of my heart the day
00:26:02.82\00:26:04.89
I met him at the hospital.
00:26:04.93\00:26:07.06
And when we took
the bandages off,
00:26:07.10\00:26:09.93
and he saw his mama and
papa for the first time,
00:26:09.96\00:26:13.44
there wasn't a dry
eye among the staff.
00:26:13.47\00:26:16.81
When I asked him,
00:26:16.84\00:26:18.17
why was he
pointing to the heavens,
00:26:18.21\00:26:20.11
he said, there's only one God.
00:26:20.14\00:26:23.58
He was praising the Lord
00:26:23.61\00:26:25.28
for giving sight
to him and his mom.
00:26:25.31\00:26:28.88
I do hope you will
partner with Canvasback Missions
00:26:28.92\00:26:32.82
to change the lives of
many more of God's children.
00:26:32.85\00:26:37.26
The opportunity to change hearts
00:26:37.29\00:26:40.30
and lives right now are endless.
00:26:40.33\00:26:43.10
But we must have
your help to do it.
00:26:43.13\00:26:45.67
Our volunteers
give their time freely.
00:26:45.70\00:26:49.60
Companies donate
medical supplies and equipment,
00:26:49.64\00:26:53.14
and our services are free.
00:26:53.17\00:26:55.61
But it does take
money to make it all happen.
00:26:55.64\00:26:59.98
How much is it worth
to you to bring happiness
00:27:00.02\00:27:03.28
and sight to another Rovis?
00:27:03.32\00:27:05.82
Please partner with us today.
00:27:05.85\00:27:07.89
To be a part of
this exciting ministry,
00:27:19.13\00:27:20.94
write us at Canvasback Missions,
00:27:20.97\00:27:22.60
940 Adams
Street, Suite R, Benicia,
00:27:22.64\00:27:25.67
California 94510.
00:27:25.71\00:27:28.64
You can also log
on to canvasback.org
00:27:28.68\00:27:31.28
or call us at (707) 746-7828.
00:27:31.31\00:27:35.72
Thank you for watching.
00:27:35.75\00:27:37.09
Please join me again
00:27:37.12\00:27:38.45
for another
exciting island adventure.
00:27:38.49\00:27:40.36
Remember,
Canvasback is making an impact
00:27:40.39\00:27:43.43
on hearts and lives
one miracle at a time.
00:27:43.46\00:27:46.23