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>> Welcome to It Is Written
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Canada.
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Thank you for joining us.
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When you meet people who are
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generous, the big question is,
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why?
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Why are they so big-hearted?
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>> Today our special guests are
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Ron and Patti Hetland, humble
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farmers from Saskatchewan who
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say, "The reason we give back to
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God is because He has blessed us
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so much in so many ways."
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>> Ron and Patti simply want to
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glorify their Father in Heaven,
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who teaches us that to live is
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to give, and the more they give,
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the more they experience the
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pure joy of giving.
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>> Here is Ron and Patti
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Hetland's story.
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[RON] My name is Ron Hetland.
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I was born in a little town not
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far from here, raised on a farm.
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There was-- I'm the tenth of
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eleven siblings, I attended a
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school in the town of Spalding
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after my older siblings needed
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high school, they had attended
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in a little country school not
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far from here, actually just a
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half mile right from where we
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are right now.
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And that was my beginning
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of life.
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>> I'm Patty Hetland, Ron's
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better half.
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I'm the oldest girl in the
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family.
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I have an older brother and then
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a sister and then three little
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brothers.
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And I lived on a farm just north
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of Quill Lake, about six miles.
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My dad was a farmer and did a
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lot of carpentry throughout the
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winter.
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He was a very hard worker.
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My mom milked cows and sold the
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cream, largely what we lived on
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for groceries and such.
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We have three granddaughters and
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then we got four grandsons right
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in a row and grandchildren are
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what make growing older fun.
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[RON] My farm is-- that I grew
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up on is actually very close
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to here.
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If you followed the crow it'd be
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less than two miles to the
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southeast of us.
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My roots are very deep
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in the farm.
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It was always a joy for me to
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ride the tractor and any time
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Dad would allow me, but my
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favourite of all was sitting on
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that combine.
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I would sit there as long as he
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would allow me.
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There is nothing more pleasant
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than the smell of the soil in
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the spring when you open it up
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for the first time.
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It is a smell that my roots are
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deeply into.
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I became acquainted with Patti's
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faith...
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...probably because my...
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...my own father was a seeker.
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He was the son of a Lutheran
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minister, my mother was a
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faithful Christian.
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Dad had a lot of very serious
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questions about religion, he
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liked to argue it a little bit.
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He-- one of the things that he
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really couldn't grasp was how a
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loving God could burn somebody
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forever in hell for a few years
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of rebellion.
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And as a result, I think it kept
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him away.
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But within a couple of years of
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his dying, my brother, an older
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brother, Ray, had come home one
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time and showed him where it
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says in Malachi chapter 4,
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verse 1, it says that the
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wicked shall be as stubble,
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that it-- they will-- that it
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will burn them up, it says,
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and...
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[PATTI] Neither root or branch
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will be left.
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[RON] Right, yeah.
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And, you know, Dad was an old
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farmer, he knew exactly what
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happens when you throw that
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match into the stubble.
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It burns up, it's aggressive
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fire, it burns up and when
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there's nothing more to burn, it
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goes out.
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And...
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...after reading it, Ray said
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that Dad just simply
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acknowledged and said, "Uh-huh."
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Some weeks later, Ray came back
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and Dad said to Ray, "I believe
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that Jesus has forgiven me for
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my sins."
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And you know it was because that
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one little gem of truth told my
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father that God wasn't Hitler,
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He wasn't Stalin, He wasn't some
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ugly tyrant who was gonna
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punish somebody forever for a
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little bit-- for a few years of
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rebellion.
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And it settled it in his mind,
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he-- it was a conversion
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experience for my father and he
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changed at that point in time.
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One significant memory that I
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have is as a little
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five-year-old standing in front
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of our farmhouse and thinking,
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"I should be a Christian.
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I should become a Christian."
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And making a conscious decision
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as that little five-year-old
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saying, "No, I'd miss out on too
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much fun."
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And later on, I would have been
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about eight years old, and I was
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playing in my garden, in the
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garden with my little farm toys
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as was common, and I saw a line
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of cars on a road just the west
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of our land, an old dirt road
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that was almost never used, a
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whole bunch of cars.
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And so I ran into the house and
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said to Mom, "Mom, what would
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that be all about?"
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And for some reason she said, "I
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think it might be the Adventists
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going down to Lake Edward for a
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baptism."
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[PATTI] That's the lake I was
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baptized at when I was about 12.
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[RON] Now, of course, as a
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teenager, like many teenagers
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do, I got through some silly
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years and things weren't going
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very well for me at home in my
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grade 12.
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And so my-- another brother,
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Ray, who had become an Adventist
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and was studying theology at
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Lacombe, invited me to go there
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to finish off my grade 12 and
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Dad heartily agreed.
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[chuckles]
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And so I went there.
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The experience there wasn't
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very good.
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It was a tough time.
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And-- but then, you know, later
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on, as Patti described earlier,
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we were-- I was baptized and it
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was a solid baptism and I
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believed.
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But you know, in 1979 we'd
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bought a quarter of land, I was
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sitting at church, I had been an
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Adventist for this time for five
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years, I was sitting there very
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bored, and it wasn't because the
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pastor had a bad sermon, it was
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because I wasn't invested in it.
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And so I got up, we'd just
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bought this land, I got up, went
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in the truck, drove out, looked
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at this land 'til I knew church
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was over, went back and picked
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Patti up and our three little
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ones at that point, and I
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realized that right then and
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there that if I didn't make my
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relationship with God my own, I
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would walk away.
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I wasn't a good reader, I hadn't
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been a Bible student, but my
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brother had given me a Living
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Bible which is a paraphrase for
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my baptism.
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I read it cover to cover.
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And it's, you know, things
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started to make sense for me.
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It was an easier read, it's what
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I needed.
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And it grounded me and I've been
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a Bible student ever since.
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It's changed-- by investing in
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it, it has changed my life, by
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investing in the scriptures.
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[gentle piano music playing]
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[RON] When did I meet Patti?
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When I was about 14 years old, I
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went to church with Mark.
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And we walked into the foyer and
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standing on the top of these
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stairs that leads into the
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sanctuary was this cute little
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girl, she was probably 11 or 12.
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And I made a very real mental
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note saying, "Hm, she's a cute
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little girl."
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Little did I know that I was
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looking at my wife-to-be.
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>> You lucky guy. [chuckles]
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I met Ron actually on a pathway
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at Marine Lake where we had-- my
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parents and my family had a
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cabin and we went out a couple
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times.
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But then by grade 12, we started
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pretty much going steady.
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And...
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...I was only 19 and Ronnie was
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21 when we got married.
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Yeah, my dad was raised in an
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Adventist home.
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His maternal grandfather had
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immigrated from England in 1905
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and on the way over, he ran into
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a storm at sea for about three
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weeks.
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And he had made a promise to God
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during that time that if He
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saved his life, he would do
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something for Him some day.
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Well, he got to Canada and
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forgot about his promise for
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about 20 years until a
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colporteur came by and sold him
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the book, The Great Controversy.
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So Grandpa read this book and
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started sharing what he'd
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learned with his neighbours,
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looked into the, you know,
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learned the Adventist faith and
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started a church.
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My dad was very active in the
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church when I was a young girl.
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Oh, and I wanted to show you
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this Bible.
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My dad gave me-- I hadn't seen
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anything, heard anything about
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this Bible until...
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...oh, probably...
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...20 years ago when he gave it
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to me for Christmas.
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So it was quite a keepsake
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because my great grandpa, the
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one that had immigrated, had
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received this Bible from his mom
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in 1870 so it's quite an
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heirloom for me to have.
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When I was eight years old, my
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grandfather, Dad's dad, was
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mixing feed for his turkeys and
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he got-- he went to step up onto
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the power take-off on the
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tractor to look and see how the,
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you know, how full the trailer
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was with the feed and he got his
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foot caught in the power
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take-off which resulted in three
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amputations because he had a
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heart condition and poor
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circulation and gangrene set in.
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And so he'd lost his foot
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initially, just above the ankle
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and ended up losing it right up
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to the top of his thigh almost.
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So my dad bought his land and
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that led to other-- that really
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changed our lives.
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Due to broken promises and
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gossip and jealousy and then the
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increased debt load that my dad
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incurred, he started to drink.
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And so our home that had once
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been so happy, was very
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different than it had been.
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But I had the privilege in 2012,
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2013, of seeing my dad come back
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to the Lord.
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He was diagnosed with cancer on
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his abdomen in May of 2012 and
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he had that tumor removed.
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And then by November of that
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year, he was told that he had
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cancer on his lungs.
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Then on December 18th, my
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youngest brother's
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daughter-in-law was working at
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the emergency hospital in
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Saskatoon where Dad was and she
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came into Dad's room that
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morning and found him sobbing
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because the doctor had just come
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in and told him that the
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treatment for the cancer on his
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lungs was now on hold because
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they had discovered cancer in
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his blood and his bones.
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So...
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It was, I mean, it was just
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horrific news for us to hear.
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But during that time, I saw...
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...I saw a change in my dad.
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When I was in Quill Lake with
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Mom helping Dad with his care,
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he would say to me in the
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morning, "Well, we'll watch the
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news and we'll listen to the
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weather and then we'll have
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worship and you can get me ready
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for the day."
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And then at night, it was the
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same kind of scenario, "We'll,
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you know, listen to the news and
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the weather and have worship and
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then you can get me ready
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for bed."
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And I hadn't heard my dad
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initiate worship since I was
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eight years old so it was really
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quite thrilling.
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One day Dad said to me,
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"Patti come here, I need to
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talk to you."
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And he said, "Do you think that
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God will forgive me for all the
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mean things I've done, all the
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people I've hurt?"
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And so I said, "Well, have you,
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you know, have you told them
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that you're sorry?
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Have you asked their
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forgiveness?"
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And he said, "Well, of course
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I have."
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And so I said, "Well, then, you
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know, the Bible tells us if we
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confess our sins, He's faithful
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and just to forgive us our sins
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and to cleanse from all
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unrighteousness."
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And then just a couple days
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later, he said, "Do you really
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think God has forgiven me for my
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sins?" and I said to him, "Dad,
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you've confessed.
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You have to believe that even
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though you don't feel that
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forgiveness, you have to accept
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it by faith because that's what
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He's promised in His word."
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And then he seemed to have
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peace.
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My dad died on February 18th, my
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mom's birthday, two months to
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the day since he got the
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diagnosis of the bone and blood
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cancer.
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He died in my brother's arms and
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because it had been my mom's
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birthday, many family were there
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to be with him in his last
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moments, so...
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>> It was interesting to see the
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change that occurred in him.
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And I saw the same thing in my
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own father, you know, within the
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last literally months of
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his life.
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It says in the Bible that God
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will wipe away every tear from
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their eyes and this is in
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heaven, this isn't, you know,
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down here on this earth.
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And so there will be some tears
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shed in heaven because when we
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get there, we will see some of
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the mistakes that we made and
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the effect that it had on others
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perhaps.
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But you know the Bible is-- all
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will be settled in heaven.
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God will wipe away the tears.
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Those tears that are there will
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not remain through our existence
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in heaven, they will be-- we
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will be free.
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God has literally settled
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everything at that point.
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We will have perfect peace.
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My brother, Ray, and his wife,
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Jane, and Patti and I have been
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doing some work in the
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Philippines since about 2013.
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I was there-- we were there for
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a period of time,
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back in 2017 again to develop
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some more work that was going in
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an area that we have
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an interest in.
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And in 2019, I was there again
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myself, met with the Director of
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Education for the area,
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who had some very interesting
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perspective on things.
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He said that the United Nations
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has stated that the...
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...education is a right,
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it's not a privilege.
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And he said there are 2,600
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children in this area that have
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no access to education of
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any sort.
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So this area is predominantly
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made up of indigenous people,
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it's the Lumads, they're--
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the areas that we are into is a
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mountainous area, the villages
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that we are working in have no
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road access.
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And so everything is gone in,
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you go in by foot sometimes,
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it's a two-and-a-half-hour walk
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or two-hour walk at least to get
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into these places.
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So we have been sponsoring
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schools and we have five
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villages now that there are
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schools involved in.
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We...
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...provide stipends for the
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teachers, the missionaries,
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we provide materials and
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occasionally some facilities
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as well.
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We also provide a stipend for an
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agricultural specialist who has
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gone into these villages and he
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teaches gardening to the
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children and the parents are
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involved.
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He actually works with the...
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...the adults, the men, to some
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extent to teach them farming
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practices.
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It's an important work, but it's
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a very rewarding work as well.
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We've found it's just necessary,
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it just needs to be done.
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There's a group here that has
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been working with the Canadian
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Foodgrains Bank for a number of
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years.
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The Canadian Foodgrains Bank was
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established in 1983 when prior
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to that, a group of Mennonite
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farmers who, at the time, were
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unable to sell their grain
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because of the quota systems
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while people in Bangladesh and
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other countries in the world
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were literally starving, said,
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"This isn't right."
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And so they would literally
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bagged up grain and sent it
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over, with the, you know,
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support of the Canadian
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government.
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From that it developed into an
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organization because other
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people from other denominations
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said, "This is a good thing, we
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wanna be involved."
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And so presently there are
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actually 15 non-governmental
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organizations, church sponsored,
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that are involved in this who,
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through the money that is
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supplied to them, draw out of
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this bank and at various
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projects that are-- that they
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have, that they're funding and
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providing throughout the world.
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Mostly emergency aid, but some
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development as well.
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The Canadian government is
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volving-- is involved in this to
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the tune of about $30 million a
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year to-- of matching funds that
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comes from the various projects
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that goes into the Canadian
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Foodgrains Bank.
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In 1998, there was two men, two
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of my neighbours that said, "We
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should look into getting a
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project going here," and so they
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did something with it.
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They called a little meeting of
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anybody that might be interested
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in getting involved.
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And so as a result, six of us
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formed a committee.
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And in 1998, we rented 40 acres
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of land out of which $3,000 was
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the net proceeds.
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It wasn't a lot, but it was the
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starting seed.
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Ninety-nine, we rented 66 acres.
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In 2000,
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it was 80 acres.
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In 2002, it took in the whole
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piece of land which was 146
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acres.
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It has raised in excess of
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$900,000 in the
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25 years and 25 crops that had
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been growing.
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Last year alone we sent in
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$90,000 to the Canadian
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Foodgrains Bank and that money
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alone multiplied by four, you
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know, which is matching federal
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money, you know, takes it into
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the millions.
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The Canadian Foodgrains Bank's
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slogan is "A Christian Response
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to Hunger."
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And so, you know, when you think
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about it, the three and a half
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years that Jesus was in His
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public ministry, a lot of the
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work that He was doing was
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simply helping others, He was
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healing, He was feeding the
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needy and...
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And so I believe this is a
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carry-- a continuation of the
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work that Jesus started.
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He not only fed them, but He
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said, He bade them, "Follow Me."
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And so through this work, we are
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providing a necessary assistance
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to people who are in great need
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and it's because it's a
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Christian response to hunger,
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because Jesus is saying, "Now
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follow Me."
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Our committee with the
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Foodgrains Bank, the local
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project committee is Spalding
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Growers, Spalding Naicam Growers
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Project, is consisting right
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now of 13 members, mostly young,
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intelligent, innovative,
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committed people, young farmers.
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And these are people who are
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doing it because it's right.
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There's nothing in it for
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themselves, they're not gaining
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any praise or any financial
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advantage whatsoever.
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It's just a group of people who
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have decided that this is
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something that is of value.
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And it is of value.
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And they're--
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I just really appreciate working
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with this group.
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>> Ron and Patti, clearly your
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faith is very important to you
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and just motivates you and I can
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see that it gets you out of bed
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every morning.
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Tell us about your devotional
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life and what that looks like.
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>> Well, this fall I picked up a
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journalling book at the ABC.
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So I'm reading through my Bible
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again and every day there's
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sections that you read in the
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Old and New Testament.
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And I've always enjoyed
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journalling and it-- so I make
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notes on what has struck me from
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the scripture and then there's
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room to, you know, put your own
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thoughts in there so I'm
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enjoying that.
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We study our Sabbath School
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lesson together and have our own
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individual time in the Bible.
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>> Patti, I also enjoy
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journalling, so...
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[Patti laughs]
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...we're one of a kind.
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>> Well, I'm a bit attention
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deficit and the journalling
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helps me keep my focus.
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[laughter]
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>> Well, I discovered many years
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ago is that the time to devote
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to the scriptures, to prayer, is
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first thing in the morning, I'm
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talking early.
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And so, you know, that time has
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for years been just the
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foundation of my day, the
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foundation of my life and
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maintain it, so...
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>> Yeah, if you don't get up in
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the morning early, there's
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always distractions that keep
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you from that special time.
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We get cut short if we wait too
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late in the day to start.
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[REN巿 Ron and Patti, do you
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have a favourite Bible verse
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that you can share with us?
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>> Well, I have several, but I
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think the one that stands out in
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my mind at the moment is 1 John
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4:8 that says...
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One of the shortest verses in
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the Bible, but it's a summation
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of His care for us.
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>> I guess with so much thinking
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about the past, the verse that
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comes to my mind initially is
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what I learned when I was young
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that says...
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But...
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...my kinda go-to verse as an
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adult has been from Psalms 46,
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verse 1 that says...
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And then verse 10 of that
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chapter that says...
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>> Ron, as we close our time
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together, I wonder if you could
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pray for our viewers.
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Maybe there's someone who is
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feeling maybe a bit down right
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now or would like to know for
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certain that God is working in
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their lives today, that they
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need to see His power.
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Do you think you could pray for
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such a person right now?
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>> Mm-hm.
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Yeah, let's pray.
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Dear Father...
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...thank You that You are a God
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of mercy, of care and love.
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And I wanna pray for each
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individual who is watching this
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telecast at this moment.
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I know there are precious souls,
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Lord, who are longing for a
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revelation of Your character, of
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Your love, of Your mercy.
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So may your hand be upon them
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right now and may the Holy
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Spirit touch their lives.
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May they lay their head on
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Jesus' gentle breast, that they
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may sense Your presence and Your
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power and Your love, oh God, and
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keep them ever in Your care,
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make them know that the God of
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the universe is by their side,
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that the Creator of all that
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there is has their very lives in
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their hands.
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This is our prayer.
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And thank You for the privilege
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we have of coming before You,
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oh God.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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[ALL] Amen.
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>> Ron and Patti, thank you so
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much for inviting us to your
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beautiful farm.
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>> Well, thank you for the
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honour of doing this and I just
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pray that this video, this
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presentation will be an
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encouragement to those that
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listen to it.
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Thank you for your ministry.
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>> It's been wonderful, the way
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God has led us providentially
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through this whole experience so
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we thank you very much for
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being here.
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[PATTI] Yeah.
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>> Friends, as Ron confessed, he
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wasn't really interested in
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going to church until he studied
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the Bible for himself.
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>> So we want to help you
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understand the Bible better and
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become wise in your walk
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with God.
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Our free offer is our Bible
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Study Guides.
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>> Our free Bible study guides
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will help you to learn what the
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Bible teaches and how the Bible
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has verifiable answers to life's
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existential questions, including
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God's will for your life.
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[REN巿 Practical answers that
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makes sense and will give you
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assurance for the present and
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the future.
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[MIKE] You, too, can experience
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the fullness of life that is
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found in the words of Jesus when
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He said, "It is written, 'Man
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shall not live by bread alone,
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but by every word that proceeds
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out of the mouth of God.'"
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中
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>> And I've had a really neat
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opportunity open up for me this
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winter.
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A student that I helped years
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ago at school in resource, he
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messaged me one day and said,
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"Mrs. Hetland, could you help my
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step-son like you've helped me
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in the past?"
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So I said, "Oh, man," and then
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he wanted me to help him with
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math which is not my strong
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point.
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So anyway, I've been teaching
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this young boy in grade 6 and
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it's just been such a blessing.
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Like last Monday we had such a
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good session and I saw such
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progress.
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And Ronnie came in the house for
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supper and I was just pumped, it
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just felt so good to see that I
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was actually...
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>> Happy wife, happy life.
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>> ...making a difference.
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[laugh]
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中
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[children singing]
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