Tampa Bay is known as
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the lightning
capital of United States.
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On any given summers day
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you almost guaranteed
by the end of the afternoon
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to have showers,
thunder and lightening.
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The showers of God's love
being poured all over the globe
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coming up next.
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Just before He
went up to heaven,
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Jesus gave us a command.
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He gave us a mission.
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Jesus said go,
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"Go, go unto all the
world telling them of Hislove."
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This is our mission,
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this is our Global Mission.
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Hello, and welcome to
Global Mission Snapshots
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coming to you today
from the Tampa Bay area
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of Florida in the United States.
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The word Tampa was
an Native American term
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for sticks of fire.
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I think that's a
wonderful metaphor,
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a symbol of mission.
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Its the sparks of
fire that burst into flame
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that grow and grow sharing
the love of Jesus Christ.
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And around the world today
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we see people planting churches,
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we see people coming to know
Jesus Christ as their Savior
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because of men and women
who have given their talents
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and gifts for
service for Jesus Christ.
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When Paul was writing to
Timothy in his second letter
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he said, "Fan into
flame the gift of God."
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For we've not been
given a spirit of Timothy
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but a power of love
and of self-discipline.
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What a tremendous
challenge we have today
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to fan the flames of
mission around the world.
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First up today we
will travel to Zimbabwe
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and there we will see a
13th Sabbath Offering project
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that will be supported
by your mission offerings.
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I came to this
clinic to find medical help.
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I was not feeling well.
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The first thing
that I discovered
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when I came was
the faith in Christ,
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and it was the first
thing that benefited me.
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Especially in my
case, I am HIV positive.
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This Seventh-day
Adventist Medical Clinic
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fills a big need in
this region of Zimbabwe.
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The patients
come from a variety of
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social and religious backgrounds
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and with a variety of symptoms.
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Many of the
patients are HIV positive
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and this clinic
is the only place
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for them to get free care.
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Nomatter came here
for physical healing
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but quickly found that
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Jesus was a major
part of the process.
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Daily we have
devotions here in this clinic.
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All people come here
for medical services.
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They take part in
devotional services.
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We have music,
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we have preaching that
is done on a daily basis.
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Nomatter used to be a Christian
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but gave up her
faith a long time ago.
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The devotions at the
clinic touched her heart.
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She decided to
re-dedicate her life to Jesus.
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She told many people
about her experience.
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The clinic has a good reputation
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in the community.
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And she isn't the only one
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whose life was transformed here.
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There are
countless stories of others
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who have had life changing
experiences at this clinic.
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When I came to this clinic,
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I was touched by
one of the sermons
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from the morning devotions
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that was being
led by the members
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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and that's when I saw the
power of God working within me.
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And then from there,
I accepted Jesus Christ
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as my personal
Savior, then I was baptized.
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Then from there, I saw that
there was a change in my life.
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This clinic takes a
holistic approach to healing.
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The nurses treat a
variety of symptoms
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and conditions.
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Anything from
treating a common cold
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to delivering a
baby can be done here.
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And it is all done at
no charge to the patient.
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They tend to
the mental, physical
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and spiritual aspects of life.
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There is even a
fulltime counselor here
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to talk to people
about their issues.
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Because this is
an Adventist clinic,
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we believe in Jesus.
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We don't believe in
our own intelligence.
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Every morning
before we start working,
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we start by praying,
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maybe just inviting
the Lord in our work.
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That's why some workers here are
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so welcoming, so knowledgeable,
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it's because there's
Jesus in this clinic.
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I am encouraged and
taught how to live with HIV
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and also to work with my hands.
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That helps me to
live a positive life.
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The need for medical
clinics in Southern Africa
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is growing every day.
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This quarter, a
portion of your 13th Sabbath
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Offerings will help build
a medical clinic in Zimbabwe.
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This clinic will be used
as a holistic medical center
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for people to be
healed, not only physically,
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but also
mentally and spiritually.
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Please pray for
people like Nomatter
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who need the support
of these medical clinics.
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Pray that God
can touch the lives
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of the people in this community.
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Thank you for
supporting Mission.
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My guests are Clarence and Donna
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who are actively involved
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in ministry to the
community here in Florida.
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Thanks so much for joining us.
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I'm interested very much in
the name Compass Communities
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is the name that you
give for your initiative.
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Where did that name come from?
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Well, when we first
got together as a group
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we kind of just
did some real research
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and came up with different names
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and for some reason
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Compass was the
one that was voted on
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so we went for it.
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Well, I kind of like
it but does it implies
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that you have some direction.
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That does help, yes, yes.
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So what is the imitative?
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How would you
describe it, Donna?
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Well, we decided to
call it Compass Communities
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because it had four
points on the compass
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and to north is Jesus Christ
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and then we decided
that we are gonna focus
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on four different
areas which is to worship,
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to nurture, to
equip and one more...
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One more good thing.
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Yes. Okay.
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And that's why we decided
to work on those four areas.
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Yeah, wonderful.
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Now it's basically a
church planting initiative?
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Yes, it is.
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What led you to
become involved in this?
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We have always
wanted to be church planters
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ever since I was
filled with God's Holy Spirit
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I just wanted to plant a church
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and find a
different way of doing church
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so that it will be a
church that's filled with love
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and not concentrate on the walls
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but to
concentrate on loving people
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and seeing what the
God, the Holy Spirit
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will do through that.
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Right.
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So you are very much
oriented toward the community?
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Yes. Right.
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Well, we in the--
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I'm gonna call it
the mother church,
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okay, in our
Sabbath school room.
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It's really
strange how we always got
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kind of strange people,
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were always
directed to that room
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and if they didn't blend in
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to the rest of any
class room or church
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as far as the main
sanctuary is concerned
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they were sent
to our class room.
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And that kind of
was the spark initially.
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You know, things
can be done differently
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and we can help
these people that
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maybe nobody else wants to
be concerned about that much
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and it took off from there.
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Okay, so you are
in Port Charlotte
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which is just south of
here in Tampa, Florida,
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how would you
describe the community
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that you are
ministering to, Donna?
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We minister to the mentally ill,
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to the mentally challenged.
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We minister to the
alcoholics, drug addicts,
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the autistic
kids, the broken people.
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Okay.
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So it's an area that is
economically impoverished,
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would you describe it that way?
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Part of it is, yes. Yeah.
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It's the part that most people
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don't want to think
that exist there but it does
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and so we minister
to those kind of people
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and we just love on them.
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Wonderful.
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So what's sort of
community activities
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are you involved in, Clarence?
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Well, I actually
the feeding program
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what we combined years ago
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with the Charlotte
County Homeless Coalition
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and decided to do
the meals program,
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the start on and it
evolved and 15 years later
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now it's tremendous.
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I mean, there are
thousands of meals every month
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that are served there
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and now its evolved where
we use the location there now
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for the actual
church for on Saturday
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to get the people to
come in and minister to them,
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to help them and
it's just fantastic
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because the people are
there and they are in need.
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So we are fulfilling
that need for the community.
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So on Sabbath morning
you have a variety of people
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coming into to worship together?
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Yes, we do.
Describe the congregation.
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Well, there is like
people there is like people
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that is mentally ill,
there is autistic kids,
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that we
actually import our kids,
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a lot of our kids are
from impoverish neighborhoods
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and we actually go
out and pick them up.
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We pick a lot of members
that don't have transportation
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with our own individual
cars and we just love on them.
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Yeah.
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What has been the
reaction of the community
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to what you are doing?
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I'd say it's
been pretty positive.
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Really, we really have
got no negative feedback
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of any sorts
that I can think of.
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Now you are not
trained as pastors
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but you are basically
leading this church, correct.
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That's correct.
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You know, we are
just lay pastors.
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So you are lay pastors?
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Right.
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How do you survive financially?
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I mean, how do you, how do you
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put bread on the table?
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Well, I still own
and run my business,
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my wife is actually retired.
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I'm thinking about
retirement this year
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so that's, you know, I'm
coming and chopping in that bit
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so this will be
very interesting.
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So you are self-employed
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but you have a
passion for ministry?
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I do.
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That's wonderful.
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Now can you
briefly tell me a story
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of someone whose
life has been touched
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through the ministry
of Compass Communities?
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That would be Olivia.
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Olivia was, now she was filled
with evil spirits I knew them,
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I saw them.
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She was one of my wildlife kids,
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I decided to get
involved with wildlife
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to go into public
schools and to just meet kids
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and invite them to wildlife
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and play these crazy
games with them and then--
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Excuse me, what's wildlife?
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Wildlife is part
of the young life
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and young life is
the mother program
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and wildlife is younger kids
and so I just went after Olivia
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and she was one that
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I targeted to
help send her camp,
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I helped raise money for
her and got to take her to camp
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and I'll tell you she accepted
Jesus as her personal Savior.
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And the change in
her from night to day
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she is my little
sunshine now but there is--
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when she first got
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there at the first night at camp
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she was knifing her pillow
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and she went to
knife the people around her
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and she was just--
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she had a lot of
evil spirits in her
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and now I see her
as my little sunshine.
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She is totally different.
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Fantastic.
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What are you hopes
for Compass Communities?
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Well, actually our numbers
have really been on the increase
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and we're actually,
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we would like to get a building,
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an actual building
that we could expand
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and we could
have some class rooms
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and do things.
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A little more
kind of like a church
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but at the same time
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making an outreach
situation to help people.
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A center of influence.
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Of course, it is
center of influence.
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Absolutely. Yeah,
that will be great.
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Fantastic.
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Donna and
Clarence, thank you so much
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for sharing with us today.
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And viewers at home,
please remember to pray
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for people involved
in frontline mission
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such as Compass Communities
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and don't go away
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we will be right back
straight after this break.
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