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BILL: Welcome to the It
is Written Canada television
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program. My name is Bill Santos.
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Thanks for taking the
time to join us today.
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You know, every so often on our
program, we have special guests.
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And I have to tell you, as the
host of the program, it's always
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a treat to have guests that come
with life experiences that I
know are going to benefit
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all of us as we listen to them.
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And today, we have a guest.
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He's probably not unknown to
many Canadian viewers 'cause he
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has been on Canadian
television quite a bit.
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He is a renowned
concert violinist, Jaime Jorge.
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Jaime, thank you so
much for being here.
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JAIME: Thank you for having me.
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I'm excited to be here.
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BILL: That's great.
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Now, this is the first time you
and I have had a chance to be on
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the program.
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But like I said earlier, many
of our Canadian viewers would be
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familiar with you because you
have been on Canadian television
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quite a bit, playing.
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And God has gifted you,
man, in a mighty, mighty way.
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But we're going to get a
chance to hear you today.
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But for the benefit of those few
that may not know you, I'd like
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to learn a little bit about you.
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JAIME: Sure.
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BILL: So you know, tell us,
you know, where were you born?
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Where are you from?
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And let's get
going on who you are.
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JAIME: Well, I was born in
the Communist island of Cuba.
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And I was fortunate and blessed
to be born into a Christian
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home. My parents
already knew the Lord.
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They had accepted
the gift of salvation.
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And so I was born in an
environment of love and worship
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to God, even though we were in a
country that persecuted
Christians, oftentimes.
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But for me and my sister,
because there's two of us, I
think we didn't really
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experience the kind of reality
that my parents did, and others,
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because we were
shielded from so much of it.
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However, we still experienced
trials and tribulations at
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school. In order for you to be
a communist, you had to wear a
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little scarf. It was
called a Pioneer scarf.
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And if you didn't show up
at school wearing it, when you
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lined up in the morning with all
the other hundreds of other
students, everybody wore
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the same uniform, it was very
easy to pick out those young
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people who did not
wear their scarves.
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And so from the very beginning
of every day, teachers and the
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principal would
know who was a Christian.
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And sometimes we would
be interrogated half of the
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morning. "Why
are you a Christian?
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Why do you believe in God?
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Where is God?
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Show God to us so
that we can believe too.
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" And so we had some of
those challenges from the very
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beginning. But we were taught to
love Jesus and to serve him no
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matter what. And so when I
started playing the violin at
the age of 5, and it was
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because my mother forced me, not
because I wanted to. I want to
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make that very clear. she
recognized that I had a talent,
began to take me to violin
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lessons, and I excelled.
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And so when I was 9, I
participated in a competition
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that was at the local school.
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From there, we kept going up,
city's, province, national, and
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I got to the very last round,
and I played in an auditorium
full of people from all
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over the island, participants,
representatives from all
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over the country.
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When I finished playing and I
walked off the stage, the judges
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said, "You played so well that
you deserve to win first place.
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" And of course, I lit up.
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But one of them said, "We
know that you're a Christian.
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And in this country,
we don't believe in God.
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And we cannot
acknowledge anybody that does.
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But if tonight, you go out on
that stage and you make a public
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declaration that you will
renounce your faith in God."
BILL: Oh my goodness.
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Now, how old were you?
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JAIME: Nine.
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BILL: Wow.
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JAIME: ". we will give you
first place and the big trophy.
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" But my parents had taught me
as it says in God's word that it
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is better to obey
God rather than men.
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And so I said,
"Thank you, but no.
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" And they said, "Okay.
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" I went home,
lost that opportunity.
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Some time passed.
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And one of these same judges
came to my house to offer me a
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scholarship on behalf of the
government of Cuba to go to
Moscow to study, he said, in the
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best music school in the world,
the Moscow Conservatory of Music
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in Russia.
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He said, "You will be famous.
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Your family will
have a better life.
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All you have to do is sign
this paper that says you don't
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believe in God anymore.
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" BILL: Oh my goodness.
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JAIME: He said, "Now, I
don't care what you believe in.
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Just sign this.
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" BILL: Just sign the paper.
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JAIME: And I said, "Listen,
if that's the condition, you're
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wasting your time 'cause
you already know my answer.
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" And he stood up and
he said, "You're right.
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You're wasting my time and the
time of the communist government
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because you are never
going to be a good violinist.
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" And he stormed off and
left and I never saw him again.
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BILL: Wow.
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JAIME: But God has greater
plans than we can imagine.
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And God is always faithful.
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And when we are faithful, we're
able to see what he has for us.
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And you know, I was walking away
from the biggest opportunity of
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my life.
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BILL: Yes, of course.
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JAIME: But I was walking away
from something even bigger if I
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would've been willing to
renounce my faith in God, and I
wasn't going to do that.
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But my family got the news just
a couple of months after that,
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that we were being allowed to
leave Cuba and go to the United
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States of America. My dad had
dreamed of and tried for years
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to leave Cuba. And the
opportunity came and the Lord
opened the doors and my family
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went to the U.S.
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where I had many, many other
opportunities to continue to
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further the talent
that God has given me.
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Because really, what I do
and playing the violin is not an
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ability that I
deserved or that I earned.
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It was given to me by God.
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And my mother taught me that
I always needed to dedicate my
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talents for
God's honour and glory.
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And so now I have the wonderful
privilege to share this talent
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with others and remind other
people that their talents also
have the opportunity
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to be used in the Lord's work
to bring others to Jesus Christ.
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And as you know, because you
do God's work, there is nothing
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better to do when we do God's
will and we fulfill his calling
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in our lives. BILL: Yeah, I've
often said God can use anyone.
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He just looks for us to be
available to be used by him.
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JAIME: That's right.
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BILL: So how old were you when
you came to the United States?
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JAIME: Ten years old.
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BILL: Ten years old.
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JAIME: It was in 1980.
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BILL: That must have been quite
a shock for you to come to the
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United States. JAIME: It was
like going from black and white
television to colour
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television.
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BILL: Right, okay.
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JAIME: You know.
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I remember the day we arrived.
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I ate an apple and a
grape for the very first time.
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And I chewed gum for the
very first time in my life.
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In fact, I chewed it for
so long that it disintegrated.
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And then I wanted to swallow it
and they said, "No, no, no, you
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spit it out and
then there's more.
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" BILL: You get another one.
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JAIME: There was
more of everything.
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I had never been to a store.
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The stores in Cuba are
like this: you walk in.
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There's a counter.
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You give the person who
works there the booklet that the
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government gives you which says
how many pounds or kilos of rice
and beans you get every
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day, how many loaves of bread,
how many you get every month,
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not every day.
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And then they
weight it, bring it.
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You pay and you walk out.
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BILL: You walk out.
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JAIME: You can't choose whether
you want yogurt that's Greek
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yogurt or flavoured yogurt
or this kind of juice, none of
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that. And when I walked into a
store and I saw aisles and
aisles packed with food
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and different types of the same
kind of food, I was just amazed.
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I was overwhelmed.
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I'd never been to a clothing
store before where you could
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just choose from all kinds of
sizes and colours and styles and
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get what you
wanted; you just had to pay.
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We didn't have that before.
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It was absolutely amazing.
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BILL: Wow.
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So you pursued
your gift of violin.
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At what point did you realize
that this is something special
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here, I mean, that God is going
to, you know, do something
special with me here?
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JAIME: You know, interestingly
enough, I hated the violin.
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My mother forced me
to practice for 15 years.
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And it wasn't until I was a
freshman in college in the U.S.
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I was 18 years old.
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And I played for a
talent show at school.
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And I remember playing this
classical piece of music and I
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was scared to death because I
thought, "Nobody's going to like
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classical music. " All the other
participants were singing and
dancing and doing rock
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and roll and rap
and all this stuff.
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I thought, "When I get up there,
people are going to boo me, you
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know. " And I was scared.
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I went out there.
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My hands were sweaty.
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My palms on the inside, but
on the outside, they were stiff.
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And I just started playing.
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And I said, "Lord, help me to be
a light and an example here for
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You. " When I finished playing
that song, the whole place came
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down. People on their feet,
clapping, yelling, cheering.
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For weeks after that, they
would come and hunt me down as I
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walked around the
campus saying, "Who are you?
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Why are you different?
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What is it about
you that is different?
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" And I saw two
things there that night.
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Number one, the power of music,
and number two, the power of
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being a servant of God.
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People could tell that there was
something different about me.
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And I thought, "You know what?
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I want to use this for
God's honour and glory.
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" But I didn't want to be a
musician; I wanted to be a
doctor, 'cause I went to
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medical school.
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And it was into my second year
that the Lord called me to walk
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away from medicine to do
music medicine, music ministry
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fulltime. BILL: Earlier, we had
the opportunity to have you tape
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a couple songs. We're going
to listen to one right now.
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Maybe you can give us a brief
introduction on what you're
going to be playing
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for us.
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JAIME: Absolutely.
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You know, we don't have a
lot of guarantees in this world.
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But we can be guaranteed of the
fact that God has secured our
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salvation through Jesus
dying on the cross for us.
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And so that is an assurance
that we have of his love for us.
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It never goes away, it
never dies, it never changes.
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And this song simply says,
"Blessed assurance, Jesus is
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mine. "
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(Violin Music)
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BILL: Well, that was beautiful.
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If your mom's listening,
Mrs. Jaime Jorge, thank you for
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insisting that your
son continue to play.
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JAIME: I will let her know.
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BILL: So you leave medical
school and you pursue the violin
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as a ministry. Now, you've had
the opportunity to play all
around the world in some
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pretty interesting places.
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Is there one that
sort of stands out for you?
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JAIME: Well, yes.
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BILL: Hey, I know that's a
tough question because there's
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probably a bunch of them, right?
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But. JAIME: But you might
be surprised by my answer.
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I was in Mexico three years ago.
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And I was invited to do a number
of concerts in a couple of days.
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You know, over
there, it's just shotgun.
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You go and you go and you go.
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BILL: Right.
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JAIME: And it was great.
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And I played, I remember,
for a mayor and a governor in
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different places. And then
they took me to a hut church.
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And the floor was dirt.
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And there was no sound system,
there was no fancy lighting, but
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there were such humble
and sincere people there.
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And at the end of the concert, a
couple of them gave their hearts
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to the Lord.
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And I will
never, ever forget that.
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And it reminds me of the fact
that what we do isn't just to
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play for some president or
some king or some dignitary.
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It is to touch people's lives.
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And in the simplest of places,
there are people who are hungry
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for God's word.
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And it is our privilege to
be able to reach those people as
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well. BILL: And you have
literally played for presidents
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and kings. And isn't it
incredible to know that the
power of the King of kings
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worked through you in that
little hut church to reach those
souls for Jesus Christ?
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JAIME: That's right.
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BILL: It's eternal consequences,
citizens of the Kingdom.
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JAIME: Amen.
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BILL: Jaime, you've been
at this now for how long?
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JAIME: 25 years.
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BILL: 25 years.
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My goodness, it is a lifetime.
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JAIME: It is.
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And I didn't imagine that it
was going to last this long, you
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know. When I walked away from
medical school, I really had no
expectations that a
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whole lot was going to happen
other than the fact that I was
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allowing God to use me.
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And I say that because all
of us have that choice to make.
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Like you said, He wants to
use us, but do we make ourselves
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available to Him?
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So I didn't know
what was going to happen.
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I just knew that God was going
to have to provide 'cause the
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salary of a doctor is a little
different than the salary of a
Christian musician,
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you know.
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But I'm humbled the way that God
has blessed, not necessarily on
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human terms, 'cause I think
we look at success in different
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ways. For us, I think as human
beings, success is money and
fame and fortune and
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power.
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For God, I believe success is
how well He can use those people
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that allow Him to use them.
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Bottom line.
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And so as I look back, it almost
seems impossible and it is,
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except that God has
been the one guiding.
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And when God guides, we don't
have any reason to be afraid and
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anything to worry about because
He's going to work it out.
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BILL: Yeah, it is an incredible
experience because you know, you
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lack the security of, you know,
a fulltime employment, and
you've really placed
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yourself out
there at God's will.
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And He has sustained for these
25 years and you've impacted
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many, many lives. You know, we
just had you do a concert for us
just the other night just
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because we taped this.
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And dozens and dozens of people
came to me and said that they
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were moved by your playing,
because it's beyond. I mean,
you're definitely a gifted
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musician.
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But there's something that comes
through in that music that is
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this ministry, this call to
Jesus Christ that I think is so,
so powerful, Jaime.
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JAIME: Praise the Lord.
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BILL: And God has
used you mightily.
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We wanted to talk a little bit
about. I want to leave some time
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'cause I know you have a special
project that commemorated your
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25th anniversary. But as you
look back over, you know, your
25 years, you know, serving God
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this way, we've talked about
this special moment there in
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Mexico. Any regrets?
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JAIME: Oh, certainly.
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You always pay a
price for what you do.
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And sometimes people come
up to me and say, "Oh, that TV
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personality or religious
personality, you know, I heard
that something happened or they
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got sick or their
life sort of fell apart.
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" You know, I think one of the
most challenging and difficult
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things I've ever gone
through was losing my marriage.
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I never imagined when I got
married that this could or would
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happen. And yet, it did.
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And yeah, you
betcha, it is a regret.
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And for a long
time, I dealt with guilt.
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I dealt with these feelings
of inadequateness, until the
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Lord reminded me that it
isn't about me; it's about Him.
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Because I was thinking about
walking away and never playing
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the violin again.
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BILL: Wow.
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JAIME: How could I stand up
in front of people and tell them
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anything when my
life is a mess, you know?
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And I remember God saying to me
one time, "Go out there and play
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and talk. It's not
about you; it's about Me.
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" And it really changed my
approach because you get used to
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the lights and the
focus being on you.
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It really isn't about me.
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It's not about you.
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It's about Jesus Christ.
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And it gave me strength to
go out and it gave me hope that
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even when I make mistakes and I
make big mistakes like that or
my life falls apart, that God
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can still work in my life and
He can renew and He can change
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things and He can redo things.
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And I am thankful for what has
happened and what God has done.
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BILL: Let me ask you something:
would you be willing to come
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back next week?
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'Cause I. and talk
specifically. JAIME: Yeah.
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BILL: . about the
breakdown. JAIME: You bet.
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BILL: . of your marriage?
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JAIME: You bet.
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BILL: 'Cause I've got to believe
that there's people listening
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here that are going through,
have gone through the same
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thing. And I think
your experience can impact.
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And so is that.
JAIME: You betcha.
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BILL: . okay?
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It's not that I want to cut the
subject down right now, but I
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think we need to dedicate an
appropriate amount of time to
this, 'cause I believe you can
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truly help someone.
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JAIME: I hope so.
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BILL: Tell us a little bit about
this special project that you
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put together to commemorate
your 25 years in ministry.
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JAIME: Yes.
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Well, I was on a cruise to
Alaska with my sister a couple
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years ago, and she said,
"Why don't we do something?
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" And the idea at first was
just, "Let's do a concert, you
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know. We'll have people, we'll
invite those that have been a
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part of the ministry and have
supported," and this and that.
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And then she said, "Well,
why don't we invite some of your
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musician friends? " And then
I started thinking even bigger
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than that. "Well, why don't
we have an orchestra, a choir, a
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band? Why don't we record this
to turn into a live concert DVD
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and a documentary?
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" And so we began
to work towards this.
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The Lord opened the doors,
because when you do a project
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like this, it's
not an easy feat.
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I brought it before the Lord.
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You know, we were going to need
a lot of resources, a lot of
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time, a lot of help.
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And the Lord opened the doors.
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In November of 2012, we
had a concert in Chattanooga,
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Tennessee, and a band,
an orchestra, a choir came
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together. And then some of these
friends that I invited were also
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able to come. And so we had
duets during the concert; we
had. with everybody joining in.
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And I had the privilege of the
participation of Michael Card,
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one of the most successful
singer/songwriters in Christian
00:21:46.10\00:21:50.26
music. Larnelle Harris, one
of my very favourite singers as
00:21:50.26\00:21:54.03
well. Kirk Whalum, who
is an amazing sax player.
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He used to give Bible
studies to Whitney Houston.
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BILL: Isn't that something?
00:22:00.90\00:22:02.06
JAIME: He was her sax player.
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And they would travel together
and he would pray with her.
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And some other friends, Sam
Ocampo, Jennifer LaMountain,
00:22:04.86\00:22:07.93
John Stoddart, and we were able
to put this project together for
God's honour and glory.
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And when people are watching
this now, whether it's on
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television or after the
concerts, people are saying,
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"You know what? I want to either
give my heart to the Lord or I
want to dedicate my life,
00:22:18.33\00:22:23.70
because if God can use somebody
like you, coming from a country
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like Cuba, where you had no
future, where you had no hope,
maybe. what could God do
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with me?
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" BILL: Yes.
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JAIME: And so that is the aim.
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BILL: How can someone
get that, very quickly?
00:22:36.23\00:22:37.70
JAIME: Visiting our
website, jaimejorge.com.
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BILL: And we'll make sure that
there's a link on our website,
00:22:39.96\00:22:42.03
itiswrittencanada.ca for that.
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JAIME: Thank you.
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BILL: We want to get to
the second song that you taped
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earlier and
which one will that be?
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JAIME: A mighty
fortress is our God.
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Bill: Let's
listen to that Jaime.
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(Violin music)
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BILL: Well, that's
the end of the program.
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It goes by fast, doesn't it?
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JAIME: Man, it sure does.
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BILL: Thank you for agreeing
to join us again next week.
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JAIME: You betcha.
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It's an honour.
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BILL: Thank you for watching.
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I want to let you know that on
November the 8th, that's Friday,
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November the 8th, I will be
conducting a Bible seminar at
the Windsor Seventh-Day
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Adventist Church,
00:27:44.23\00:27:45.90
If you're in the area, why
don't you come and join us?
00:27:45.90\00:27:48.56
Visit our
website for the address.
00:27:48.56\00:27:50.06
If you're not in the area and
can't join us, don't worry, go
00:27:50.06\00:27:54.56
to our website,
itiswrittencanada.ca.
00:27:54.56\00:27:57.00
Click the "watch live" tab and
you will be able to watch that
00:27:57.00\00:28:01.60
seminar from anywhere in
the world on any mobile device.
00:28:01.60\00:28:06.73
I hope you will join us.
00:28:06.73\00:28:08.13
On the website, we will also
have a link to Jaime's website
00:28:08.13\00:28:12.13
where you can acquire his DVDs
and his CDs and this special
25th anniversary DVD that
00:28:12.13\00:28:19.53
I know you will just love.
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Well, our plan and our prayer is
that we come back together next
00:28:21.56\00:28:26.33
week. Until then, remember, it
is written: Man shall not live
by bread alone, but
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by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God.
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