Hello and
welcome to iSITE Review.
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We are here in Phoenix,
AZ, at the Paradise SDA church.
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And it's hard to believe
we're already in program #3.
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The time's already flying by
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and we're inside of the
fellowship hall I believe
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of the Paradise SDA church.
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And it's been a great time
already here at this church.
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It's neat to see how God is
working; we're hearing great
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reports. Hopefully you've been
following along with the iSITEs
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and hear reports from all the
churches and the evangelistic
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series that is taking
place here: Pathway to Life.
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And we have with
us Dr. Lela Lewis.
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Nice to be with you
guys. And this is YOUR church!
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This IS my church. And you're
not a stranger to those that
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view 3ABN because you're in-
volved in a very important work.
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And I'll have my wife ask
you a couple of questions about
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what's going on here and
how God has been blessing.
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OK. Tell us, Dr. Lela,
about Pathway to Health.
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because I know you're president
and CEO of Pathway to Health.
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But tell us what took
place here at Christmas
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and then we'll talk
about the follow-up.
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You are so right, Jill.
Pathway to Health over Christmas
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December 25, 26, and
27 we saw 6,770 patients
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in 2-1/2 days.
Amen? Praise the Lord!
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It was such a miracle!
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And it was $40
million in free health care.
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Unbelievable! It was the
most amazing Christmas gift,
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not just to the
patients but to us individually.
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What a wonderful
blessing. So Dr. Lela, those are
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amazing numbers that
you actually just said.
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How many people were
processed? 6,770 patients!
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It was a lot! And you said
40 million dollars' worth of...
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over $40 million
in free health care.
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Praise the Lord!
Yes... amen... absolutely!
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Incredible! So when
we help people physically
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then sometimes they're more
open to help in other areas.
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Maybe something with a marriage
or something spiritually.
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So what is some follow-up
taking place after that
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Pathway to Health in preparation
for the Pathway to Life
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evangelistic series? You know,
we have what's called the Health
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Information Centers
which are our SDA churches.
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The patients are
assigned to those locations
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and that's where they pick
up their lab results, their Pap
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smear results, their glasses...
AND they're offered health
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courses. It's been unbelievable.
This has been going on
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for the last couple months,
so the patient have really had
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a wonderful exciting
adventure in whole-person care.
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Wow! So I'll put
you on the spot here:
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how many churches are involved
in these HICs? These Health
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Information Centers?
Twenty-five different churches
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throughout the
Phoenix area! What a blessing!
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What an amazing blessing!
Right here at my home church -
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Paradise Valley SDA church -
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we had over 90 people
coming four times a week
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as follow-up to that
event: Pathway to Health.
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So it was a very
exciting adventure.
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Praise the Lord! So I know
going on behind us right now...
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What's going on behind us now?
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So right over here you'll see
those are actually my parents
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George and Linda Gilbert.
My mother is a physician.
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And they're actually providing
free cholesterol and glucose
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screening for the patients
that are now coming to the
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Pathway to Life
series, a continuation of the
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Pathway to Health. You know,
I think what's really incredible
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as I see we're getting ready
to start this evening's meeting
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with Pastor Lomacang, and here
you're again bringing the public
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that have been served -
absolutely - several months ago
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here to the church. What a
great segue into the series!
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What is so exciting is
that the patients that came
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into the health information
courses... some of them came to
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the Diabetes Undone, the Natural
Lifestyle Cooking School.
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They got their cholesterol
checked the beginning;
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they're getting it checked again
now to show the demonstration
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of a healthy lifestyle. And at
the end of Pr. Lomacang's series
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they have the
opportunity once again to see
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God work in action. So it's
really an exciting opportunity.
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Do you have any stories?
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Any stories that have
come out of Pathway to Health
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or these health information
centers or this local church?
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What's going on
in people's lives?
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So many many stories.
You know, just yesterday
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a man said... You know,
he has been unable to afford
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getting glasses - he's
been essentially unable to see -
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and he's been praying and
praying that those glasses
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would come in. He got
the robocall yesterday
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to come and pick up his
glasses, and just yesterday
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he put his glasses on and
for the first time he was able
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to see, right here at the
Paradise Valley SDA church.
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What an incredible
ministry! Did I meet him?
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Was he the gentlemen
I met going out? He was!
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He is planning to come
tonight to Pr. Lomacang's series
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so we're very
excited about that.
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Praise the Lord! What
an incredible ministry!
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How do you see the health
message being... I know we say
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it's the right arm of the gospel
but how do you see the health
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message and the truth in
God's Word working hand in hand?
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They're inseparable. You know,
what I see over and over again
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just like Jesus did
when He was on earth:
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first He met
their physical needs
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and then He told
them: "Come follow Me.
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Come learn more about
your mental, your emotional,
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and most importantly
your spiritual healing
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that I offer you. "
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And that's exactly
what we see happening here.
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Amen. And we also appreciate
because you don't get to see
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this at home but there's
also a little pre-program
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that goes on here at
this Paradise SDA church,
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at the other churches.
But here locally you're giving
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a health talk each evening
for those that are coming
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to the meetings here on site.
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And I can see your
enthusiasm for the message
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that you have to
share. What a blessing!
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It is an awesome opportunity
to work with all of us.
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All of us working
together for one common goal
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and that's really to
share Jesus with those in need.
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Um-hnn. What are some of
the topics you're covering
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prior to Pr.
Lomacang's meeting every night?
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And I know you're bringing in
other doctors from your church
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as well. Yes... that's
correct. We're bringing in other
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doctors every night. I'm serving
kind of as the moderator,
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but we're looking at God's
doctors, God's perfect doctors,
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those 8 doctors that you're not
going to want to miss out on.
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I'm sure 3ABN has touched
on those many many times.
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Those eight doctors are so
important. They really are!
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The health message is so
important 'cause when my mind
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is clear I can better
hear the voice of God.
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And that foundational
principle doctor: trust in God.
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The most important of all of
them. Everything else builds on
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that. Amen! Thank
you so much Dr. Lela.
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Know that at 3ABN we love you.
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I love you, too. We
so appreciate the work -
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that's right - that you are
doing with Pathway to Health
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and then these
health information seminars.
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What we want to do right
now is go to the Phoenix Central
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SDA church and hear
what they have to say.
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We've been busy working about
this church getting ready for
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some exciting meetings. Let
me back up for just a moment.
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You may know that
we've had Pathways to Health
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over Christmas time down at
the Phoenix Convention Center.
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Free services of
all areas of health.
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We followed that up with 2 sets
of meetings here in this church.
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We had Diabetes Undone
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and Depression Recovery.
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Well received by
the community people.
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Now we're getting ready for
a very special set of meetings
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with J.D. and
Shelley Quinn from 3ABN.
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Hi, I'm Pam Howerton. I'm a
member of the Phoenix Central
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SDA church. I'm
the treasurer here,
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and my husband and I have
been members here since 1981.
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And we have really
loved our church because it's
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a community-minded church.
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We love helping
people and it can make
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a big difference
in a person's life.
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And we are very fortunate that
our conference and our church
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and 3ABN have partnered together
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and we now have Shelley
Quinn here, one of my favorite
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teachers from 3ABN. I
love her; I've got her books.
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And if you don't know her
you will find that she's a great
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teacher and she can really
help us cut through some of
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this stuff and learn
how to live a better life.
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Wow, what a great report from
the Phoenix Central SDA church!
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That's Shelley and
J.D. Quinn's church.
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And it's just great to hear
the reports of how people have
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been preparing for
this evangelistic series
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in Phoenix, Arizona.
Even they told us a little bit
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about the follow-up
from Pathway to Health.
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And it's just great to see
how everyone works together.
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You know, we all have the
talents and abilities that God
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has given us, but
together as a team
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we can make something
happen for the cause of God.
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I have in my hand
here several stones.
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And you can see... well,
they'll get a camera shot of it
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I know... but we're standing
on a whole lot of what they call
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gravel here. And as
you see these stones
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each one has its own unique
shape, its own unique look.
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And you say: "Oh,
that's just one stone. "
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Well if I toss these down here
along with these thousands of
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other pieces of gravel it
makes a wonderful rock bed
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to walk on. So together
we can make something happen
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for the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen!
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You know, we
started inside the church.
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Now we're outside the
church here at Paradise Valley
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SDA church, and you can
see the 3ABN production truck
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behind us. That brown
thing behind Jill and myself -
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is a palm tree. That's
right... it's beautiful!
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We are in Phoenix, Arizona,
and you have a palm tree.
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It's really neat; right
between the two doorways
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going into the
truck. That's right.
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You can hear the little
generator that's supplying
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the power for the
trucks just off to my right.
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And anyway it's a
blessing to be here.
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It is... absolutely. And
right now we want to go to the
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Chandler SDA church.
That's a little south, southeast
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of Phoenix. And we
want to go to that church.
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Chris Shelton had a chance
to catch up with a couple people
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there, and we want to
go to those interviews now.
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Hi, I'm Chris Shelton
and we are in Chandler, AZ,
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getting ready for a
big evangelistic series.
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And we are so excited, and
I have the brains behind the
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Chandler church. I can say
that because she's the secretary
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and we know that secretaries are
the ones that know everything.
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So Sr. Lolitha
Holcombe, what do you think?
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I mean a few weeks
ago I spoke to your pastor
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and about the second time I
found out he was not going to
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be here. He was
moving to? Hawaii.
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Hawaii.
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And you guys didn't even know
for sure we were going to come.
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But I know that
since you have found out
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you guys have been
on a roll and moving.
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You want to tell us
a little bit about it?
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Well, we have called
our elder board together
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along with
deaconess, head deacon
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and a bunch of
people that met weekly.
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And so we just looked
at what we needed to do.
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The different e-mails...
we pulled all of them in.
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I set everything up, and we
just started working together
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to try to pull
everything, get our flyers done.
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We have done all of this in
I think it was a little under
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a month. It was a
little under a month.
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You sent out what?
Like 20,000 flyers?
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20 or 30 thousand. OK.
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Plus we had our
Pathfinders hand deliver 1,000.
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And then we made available
another 1,500 for the members to
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distribute to
friends, family, co-workers.
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And you know what I've
been doing is I've been praying
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over those and I hope
that you guys have been praying
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over those 'cause we know that
God has people in this area:
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people that need to get
these flyers, need to see
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all of this
advertisement and come out!
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Jesus is calling his people
out of spiritual confusion
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and into the
marvelous light of truth.
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And I am looking
forward to these meetings...
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how about you? I am as well.
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We asked each speaker for the
month of February to focus on
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evangelism. So we asked
all of them to bring a sermon
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talking about evangelism as
well as promoting this program,
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this evangelistic
series that's starting.
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So we have been
praying. More prayer more power.
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I love that! More
prayer more power.
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Pastor Kenny and I
before we left the hotel
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to come here
tonight that's what we said.
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We are just broken vessels
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and we are absolutely nothing
without the Spirit of God.
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So folks, you at home:
please pray for the Chandler...
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I know that there's
churches all around our area
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that are holding these
evangelistic series for 3ABN.
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Pray for us all.
Remember Pastor Kenny and I.
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Remember Lolitha and
the Chandler SDA church.
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Hi, I'm Chris Shelton and
I'm here in Chandler, Arizona,
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with my husband,
Pastor Kenny Shelton.
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We're getting ready, in
fact this is going to be
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our first night of
an evangelistic series
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here in Chandler.
Chandler is a suburb of Phoenix.
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You guys have heard
all the advertisements
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for this movement
in Phoenix, Arizona.
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We're just in a
little suburb called Chandler
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and we're looking forward to it.
I have a behind-the-scenes guy
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Curtis Hite from 3ABN.
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If it wasn't for Curtis,
none of you would be able to see
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what we're going to do here.
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And hopefully it's going
to be a blessing, Curtis. Yes.
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And he's actually going
to try to operate two cameras
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single-handedly. So we hope
that this turns out really well.
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Curtis, tell us where
they can watch these programs.
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So I think you can
watch them on YouTube
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and they'll be also on
the Phoenix2018 website.
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Yeah, that should be
where you can get 'em.
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OK... a man of few
words but you know what?
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It's people like
Curtis that keep us going,
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that actually are behind
the cameras doing the work
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so that all of the programs
that you are blessed to watch
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can be seen. Curtis, we
thank you very, very much
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for being brave enough to
step on this side of the camera.
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Keep us in your prayers.
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Amen. Thank you so much. What
a blessing to hear the reports
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from the different
churches. How exciting to see
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the preparation that they've
been doing for the campaign,
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the thousands of pamphlets,
flyers, that they've mailed out
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there at Chandler
for advertising purposes.
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You know, it really
takes an entire church
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to put on an
evangelistic series.
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It's not just the speakers
or those of us from 3ABN
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coming in... it is the
local church leadership
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and the members
joining hands together
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to help spread the
gospel message around the world.
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And what an incredible privilege
to partner with each one of
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those churches. And that was
pretty fun to get to see Curtis.
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He's always behind the camera...
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and to get to see him and what
he's doing there at the Chandler
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church. Very true. You
can probably hear the traffic
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going by. Jill and I are
actually at a different spot
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here outside of
Paradise SDA church.
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We're standing
right by the front sign.
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You can see the sign
probably over our shoulder.
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There's a main
thoroughfare of vehicles.
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3ABN's truck is perpendicular
to the road so it's good
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advertising there. But I think
about all these people going by.
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Each person is going somewhere.
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They all have a story in life.
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They... all of us...
have that "God-sized hole"
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that's right - where we
all need the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And we pray that these people
here that are going by that
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may be tuning in to 3ABN flip-
ping channels. We don't know.
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We pray for them.
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We pray for those
that we may never meet
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but in heaven someday. So
we just again want to thank you
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for your support and
prayers for the ministry of 3ABN
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for the campaign here in
Phoenix: Pathway to Life.
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What a privilege it
is to team up with you
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in spreading the
gospel around the world. Amen!
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And right now we're going to go
to the Desert Cove SDA church.
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C. A. Murray had the chance
to sit down with the head elder
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and his wife, so let's
have a listen to that interview.
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Hi, I'm C.A. Murray and
we are at the Desert Cove
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Seventh-day Adventist church.
We just concluded our 1st night
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and I'm here with first elder
Randy Fields and his lovely wife
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Cathy... who have done much
in the set-up and preparation
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for these meetings and I
want you to give me just a feel
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of the energy in the church
in advance of the meetings
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and what you observed
from the meeting tonight.
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I think everybody was pretty
excited about even just the idea
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of having these meetings here
and what this was going to bring
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the opportunity to the
area to the people here.
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And I think that
showed through tonight, too.
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They were all very happy
with what they saw and heard
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and it sounds like
everybody's coming back.
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So I think it's
very successful so far.
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Praise the Lord for
which we are very thankful.
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Cathy, you're kind of the
behind-the-scenes person here.
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You make may I say on
camera a wonderful soup
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and you bake your own bread
for which we praise the Lord.
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But just some the things
that you've been doing as far
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as operations and
behind-the-scenes work.
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Well, I helped put all
the special music together
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and get all the
pianists for each night.
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I did a lot of the advertising.
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Hopefully more people
will come tomorrow night.
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Just kind of getting the
schedule, putting everything
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together, making sure
everybody's going to be here
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like they're
supposed to be. Um-hmm.
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And praise the Lord.
Now 3ABN has a viewership
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of around they say half a
billion, so you're going to have
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to make more soup.
Oh... OK... I can do that.
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Elder Randy, you mentioned to me
yesterday when we were talking
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that this church
is a miracle church.
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Give us just a little
bit of the flavor of that...
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that history that got
this church to this spot
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at this time.
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This church - this
building - has been in existence
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for four years but that
dream was started over, close to
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thirty years ago by a
group... they did a church plant
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from the Paradise
Valley church actually.
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And the idea was to
have a church of their own.
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And the process that that
took, took that many years
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just trying to get to
where they could have it.
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Buying a piece of
property that didn't work out.
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But God blessed that.
They were able to not only
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sell that property for
much more than it was worth -
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literally more
than it was worth -
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buy this piece of property,
be in a position to build
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yet had to wait. And then
merging with another church
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that was in the same position:
they wanted to have their own
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place to worship, wasn't
able to do it on their own.
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We merged the two
churches and were able to
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build this facility, this
first phase of this facility.
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And without those pieces
this would have never happened.
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Um-hmm. So I just believe that
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through those series of miracles
even the building of the church,
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the cost, some of the things
we were able to accomplish,
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we just didn't have... there
was just no way to predict it.
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They came together at the
right time and the right place.
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And that's why we're here
today being able to have these
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meetings in this
place and this community
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is because of
all of those miracles
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that God started working
nearly 30 years ago. Amen; amen!
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Praise the Lord! So
this is a church that
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expects miracles and
has seen many many miracles
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in its past, and we are
expecting many more miracles
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in the future and
through these meetings
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Pathway to Life.
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Music is such a
vital part of my life
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and I am always attracted
to other musicians, people
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who... music plays a
big role in their life.
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And today I'm with
Claudio Marsollier.
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Marsollier? Marsollier.
OK... I'll go with that one.
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He is the music minister here
at Paradise Valley SDA church.
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And we're standing right here
in the front of the platform
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where you lead worship here
at the church. That's right.
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How long have you
been here in the service?
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I've been here
for sixteen years now.
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Sixteen years. I understand that
you have a very musical family.
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The family is very musical.
I did take a few lessons
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but I myself don't
consider myself musical.
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OK. Do you play an instrument?
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I do play the trumpet and I can
get in trouble with the piano.
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But other than that I just
lead out and direct the choir
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and the orchestra.
Great. I was going to ask you
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your roles here as far
as... You do have the choir.
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Yeah. A choir is such a
vital part of ministry - yes -
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in my estimation. Kind
of a dying thing actually
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in a lot of churches. Right.
But I'm glad to hear about
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the choir. Yeah we organized the
Paradise Valley sanctuary choir
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in 2001... actually right after
September 11 it came together
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and we've been
doing this ever since.
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So do you sing every
Sabbath? Once a month at least.
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We also have a bell choir that
plays so we kind of take turns.
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And then the rest of
the time we let our guests,
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visitors,
musicians be here as well.
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Wonderful. And I understand
that this is a volunteer...
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you do this. Volunteer. I'm not
a musician... I'm an architect
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so I design
buildings but I do enjoy music.
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So we do this on
a volunteer basis.
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Wonderful. The
people that you have...
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You've made a family...
I know, in my experience
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being a part of the
family of music it's like having
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your own little
subculture in a church.
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And you have an opportunity to
probably speak into their lives
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and kind of be a mentor to
a lot of the choir members.
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Well you know, this church
is a very flexible church.
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They have also made me an elder
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and they allow me to be
the elder of the choir members.
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Nice. So that's a way
that my wife and I... we work
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together on this and
we can minister to people,
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talk to them. We have prayer
time, 1/2 hour prayer time,
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before every choir
practice on Friday nights.
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Wonderful! It's a wonderful
way to bring in the Sabbath Day.
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Right! So... yeah. Thank
you very much for again your
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service here in this church;
thanks for leading worship.
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And we encourage
everyone to sing in the choir;
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sing out; sing unto the Lord.
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Make a joyful
noise unto the Lord.
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Thank you,
Claudio... God bless you.
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I've been here... I'm new here
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so I've been
here since December,
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yeah, and we're
just excited to be here
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and be part of this energy.
You can see, you can hear
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what's going on
and it's exciting!
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You know, earlier on we
talked with Mr. Dave Nelson,
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right? who's playing the
guitar right now. Correct.
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And your wife is there leading
the song service with him.
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Yes. So there's a lot of
excitement with the young people
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and I'm excited to see how
the Paradise Valley church -
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I know the other
churches are, too -
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are investing in the young
people because they're a very
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important part of
this series as well.
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Yeah, this is a great
church to be a part of
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because they do... they
support our youth program
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and not only with
finances but with effort, too.
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They come out and
help us all the time.
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So, yeah, it's exciting.
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So tell us... what's the plan
for the children's meetings?
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During the entire series
when the adults are being fed
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spiritually from the Word
of God by Pastor John Lomacang
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you and your wife and the
team are working here with the
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children. So what's the
nightly plan for the children's
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meetings? The nightly plan is
that we're doing what's called
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The Creation Case. And
so we're taking the kids
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through creation,
teaching them about creation
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but also bringing them to
have a relationship with Jesus
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which we feel is important.
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Creation Case with Aguilera.
Yes, with Rich Aguilera.
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We love him on 3ABN!
It's a great program.
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And you've been working
to develop a cave as well.
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Yes, we built a cave and
so we're going to go there
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in a little bit
and see the cave.
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Wonderful! Thank you so much.
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Well if you want
to go get your wife
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we want to talk to
her for a minute, too.
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Its' incredible to see
what God is doing - Oh, it is! -
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with the young
people because we always say
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they're the future of the
church but they ARE the church.
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Amen. Yeah... absolutely.
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Now we have with
us Pastor Hugh's wife.
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You're doing a good job.
Alyssa Barton. Praise the Lord!
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How are you guys
doing? Oh, we're doing well.
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So tell us your role
with the kid's meetings here.
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Yeah, well, we wanted to do
something special for the kids
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so that they can know
how much God loves them.
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So we are
teaching about creation.
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I don't know how much
Hugh described already.
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He said you're going through
Creation Case with Aguilera -
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that program - but that was it.
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And so we want them to
know that God created them.
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You know, it's not
evolution but it's creation.
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And so we've been trying
you know - at a kid's level -
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to be able to
explain it to them.
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So we decorated in dinosaurs
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and animals and
we're singing songs.
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And they're
happy and we're happy.
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Yeah, I see the beautiful
murals on the wall. Right.
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And you put them together for
the kids showcasing creation.
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Right... right...
showcasing creation
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and actually go through... Did
he tell you about the rock cave?
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Yeah, we're getting
ready to go see that...
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We want to go look at
that cave. Oh, right now?
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Well, shortly. Oh, OK, cool!
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Yeah... let's see... we
did all the different animals.
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We talked about
rocks and creation... like
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as evidence. We
talked about evidence
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to prove that
God created the world
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because we have so much evidence
that they show evolution
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so we kind of need evidence
to show that God created us.
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Yeah... so that's what he does.
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So... yeah...
Well thank you so much.
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You're welcome! And
right now we're going to go
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over to the cave
'cause we want to take a look
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at what's going on at
the cave. That's right.
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Do I get to go? Yeah!
Yeah! Let's go... all right.
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Wow! We're actually now
inside this beautiful cave.
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It actually, Pastor Hugh,
almost seems like I can see
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a bat hanging from the ceiling
and like a little drip of water
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coming down.
This is so realistic
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but yet we're...
Oh yeah, no bats.
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But we're actually
inside of a classroom
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and this is phenomenal.
What is this cave made of?
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It's made of... We made
the structure out of 1 by 2's.
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And then on the
inside we covered it with
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basically it's like craft
paper and we crinkled it up
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and stapled it to the frame.
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Wow! And we're
actually by a little fire.
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You can almost feel this warmth.
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What a great job! Why a cave?
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And why would you do
this for the young people?
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'Cause there's a lot
of work went into this.
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Well... it's for the
youth and so anything we can do
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to bring them a
sense of who Jesus is
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that's what we're all about.
And so we wanted to make a cave
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because we're talking
about creation and dinosaurs
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and things like
that. So we talked about it
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and we just thought: "Hey, a
cave would be kind of cool. "
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So we went on the Internet
and looked up some information
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on how to do it. And we didn't
know how it would turn out
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but wow! It turned out
better than we thought.
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You know, it's incredible.
It really looks like a cave,
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especially when you're in here
and you don't have all the big
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lights on and just a
little fire and it's incredible!
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You know, what a special
thing for the young people
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to be able to feel like
they can come and they can learn
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about Jesus but
have a good time as well.
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Right... definitely... yeah.
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I really love young people
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because they're so energetic
and they're always smiling.
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And they're so happy to
just be a part of a program
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you know. So we go in there
and we start singing and I just
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see all their smiling
faces... makes me so happy.
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Amen! Yeah. Well,
thank you so much Pastor Hugh
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and Alyssa Barton.
They're just an incredible
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pastoral couple
here at the church.
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Welcomed us with open arms
and we're just so grateful to be
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here and what they're
doing with the young people.
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We're going to see a
little bit with the kids I think
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and then we need to get ready
and go in and hear the meeting
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tonight with
Pastor John Lomacang.
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So right after you
see some of the kids
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stay tuned because
the next program will be
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Pastor Lomacang.
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