Hello, and welcome to
iSITE program number 12,
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and we're outside in
beautiful Phoenix, Arizona.
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Now when we first
started iSITE number one,
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it was so cold,
do you remember that?
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It was. We were
literally freezing.
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We should've had
a hat on our head
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and something to cover my ears.
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It is definitely warmed up.
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I shouldn't have,
probably, these long sleeves on.
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But we're outside at
a very famous landmark
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here in Phoenix, Arizona,
and that is Camelback Mountain.
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Now when you see it up close,
I'm sure on the wide shot,
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you can see some
of this behind us,
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this is part of
Camelback Mountain.
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And I understand
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that the vertical
elevation difference
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is as high as the
Empire State Building.
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It's actually a little
bit higher, maybe a few feet.
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Yes.
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A little bit higher than
the Empire State Building.
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The actual elevation
of Camelback Mountain
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is 2,700 feet.
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It's the highest peak
here in the Phoenix area.
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But the vertical climb, like,
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from the beginning
of the Echo Canyon Trail
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that we're taking
all the way to the top
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is just over 1,200 feet.
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And, I think we're
ready to take a hike today.
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Well, we're going to try
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and see how far we get up there.
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I think the next
spot somewhere up here
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is called what
they say the saddle.
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So we've never
been there before,
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so this is something new for us.
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They say that over
700,000 people visit
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this landmark here
in Phoenix each year.
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And that's a lot of people.
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It is, absolutely.
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It's beautiful being on
God's nature too though.
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I tell you, it's neat to see...
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I saw a cactus, where is he at?
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He's over there, and
there's one up here too.
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That's growing, and
looks like, on bare rock.
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It's amazing.
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It reminds of trees that
are clinging to rocks as well.
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I know.
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And you think, it's
harsh, it's desert conditions,
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they said in the summer to
be really careful hiking this
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'cause it gets so warm,
and yet in spite of all that,
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you see life, you
see plants growing,
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and that's just
amazing, in the midst of that,
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arid conditions, how
God can bring abundant life.
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And we want to give
a special shout-out,
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if I can get my phone working,
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to those of you
watching on Facebook,
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and these are some
people who have liked
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or who have shared
this is Merrill, Tom Brown,
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Pat, Dee, Ronald,
Arial, Lowrey, Molly, Jenna,
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Cawaisa, Julie,
Gurlyn, Norman, Kevin,
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Tom, Chris, Kenneth, Terry,
and the list goes on and on.
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So thank you so much.
Continue to share the programs.
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We are on Facebook and
on YouTube and 3ABN.tv.
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You can stream it on
that or any of the other ways
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that you can get 3ABN as well.
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But we have a
wonderful testimony.
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I know we're going to
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the Phoenix Central
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
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and this is an
incredible testimony,
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someone who got a
flyer in the mail,
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invited them to
come to the meetings
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and made a decision to
give their life to Jesus.
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So let's look at that now.
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I'm here with my
precious new friend,
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and he has become a dear
friend throughout the evenings.
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And, George,
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tell us how did you find
out about these meetings?
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I received a flyer
in the mail the same day
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that you had your first lesson.
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So I couldn't
go to the first one
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but I went to the second one on.
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And you have been very faithful.
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Yeah, I've been
coming every time I can.
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Yeah. Doing what
I can to get here.
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Well, you know what, it
is really exciting for me
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because the
first time I saw you,
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we talked and, I know
you're in a lot of pain
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and yet God is
bringing you out every night.
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What is appealing to
you about these messages?
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Well, you give me a lot of
clarification on the Bible.
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I had some mixed emotions
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and not
understanding certain things,
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and you have brought out
things in the Bible that made it
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very clear where I need to
go and where I'm coming from.
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Praise the Lord.
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Now, George, you
have such a great smile.
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The first night I saw you,
there wasn't much of a smile,
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but I've noticed
from night to night,
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you're smiling a whole lot more.
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Yeah. It is true.
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I've seen some changes during
the time I've been coming here.
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At home, certain things falling
in place that never did before,
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but more important lesson
that I learned on television
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was a story about the
seed, being you the seed,
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being planted in
a nutritious soil,
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you yield
everything you need to be.
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Yes. Seed is what
the Lord made you.
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But if you're
planted in the areas
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where there are weeds and
rocks and stuff, what happens?
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You become that.
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And that's what
happened over the years.
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I was running around
with negative people,
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started thinking negative,
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very hateful toward
people that burned me
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and took advantage of
me, and since last week now,
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I have forgiven everybody
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and asked the
Lord to be my Savior.
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Praise God. Hallelujah.
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You know what, George,
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you are the reason
we're here in Phoenix
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because God has a
plan for your life
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and he has been bringing you,
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and it's so exciting to
see what the Lord is doing.
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He has you, especially.
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Well, we're glad.
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How long has it been since
you've been to church, George?
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About 27 years now.
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Well, and I hope that now
that you're learning the truth,
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this will become your home.
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You know, this is a
special time at Sabbath,
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it's a Friday evening.
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We're able...
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We just got through having
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a wonderful,
wonderful message by Shelley.
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But it's always fun
to sit down with Clayton.
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Clayton runs all
the IT stuff right here.
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I don't know, he tells me
that you just learned this
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10.5 years ago,
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and he's been
putting the pieces together,
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and without you, this
would be a train wreck.
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Oh, not necessarily.
This is, you know...
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Yeah, I did start doing
this about 10.5 years ago.
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But it was... It
is a God-given gift.
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Yeah.
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I have never been
trained on any of this stuff.
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It was just one of
those type of things that
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God has moved in me to be
able to put this stuff together.
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Another thing
that really amazes me
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is that you live in Mesa,
and how far is that from here?
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It's about 40-45
miles from my house to here.
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Yeah, and you have made a
covenant with this church,
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but more than anything,
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with God that you
will be here every night.
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Oh, yeah, definitely.
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Wow. He put me in this church.
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He said, "This is
where I want you to be."
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He's given me all the talents,
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everything, anything
I needed for this church
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to be able to do the
stuff we do, it's always there.
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Yeah.
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You know, the funds to be able
to do what we do, everything,
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it's like, when He tells
us to do this, it's done.
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I know that you
certainly cooperate with 3ABN
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because there's a lot
of pieces to this puzzle
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in order to get all this
with five different churches.
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Well, I guess we
got more than five
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because I know that
the Apache Junction,
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I know that Pastor Jose Marin,
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he's over there, so
with all these churches
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and all the
pieces of this puzzle,
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it takes someone
that's dedicated,
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that someone that has said,
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"Hey, I'll make this work
on my end here at Central."
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Oh, definitely.
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I mean, but that's,
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you know, this is
what we kind of do here.
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You know, the video end of it,
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you know, it's even like
when I came to this church,
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they didn't have a
whole lot of video stuff here.
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I slowly built a
system together for us.
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And in my first time, I
was doing this, I'm like,
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"What am I
going to do with this?
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I've got all the equipment
now, what do I do with this?"
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And so I started
doing the YouTube thing.
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And it's blown up crazy
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to where we've been out
of this little church here.
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We've been viewed in 180
countries around the world.
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That's just absolutely amazing.
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What a minister in itself.
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Yeah, you know,
it definitely is.
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And, you know, like I
said, all glory goes to God.
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Because, you know, when I
first started the YouTube thing,
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even I couldn't go on
and find any of the sermons
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but yet they were being
viewed in other countries.
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So it was like
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He's given me a gift to be
able to put this out there,
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and we've
actually got enough viewers
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on that watches
on a normally basis,
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we have a separate
church just on the internet.
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That's amazing.
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I know that we
had Pathway to Health,
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you were here
whenever that was going on,
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and now we've transcended
into Pathway of Life,
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what did you all do
here to prepare for this
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so that we are
where we are today?
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It was for us, you
know, preparing for...
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I mean, we had
the diabetes classes,
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we had the depression classes,
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and then they did bridging
gap which was the Daniel,
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and basically,
the gapping for that.
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Yeah.
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And I know
every night seems like
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we have new people
that are coming in.
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Yep. And it's just amazing.
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All we know that it's our
responsibility to sow the seed.
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True, true, and you know,
that's again back to my thing,
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that's when He says, "Go."
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Amen.
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And we don't ask
where, we just go.
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Amen. When he guides, we go.
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Amen.
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Amen. Great rolls.
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And we do appreciate Clayton
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and all his work on the AV team.
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And we appreciate all
the other churches as well
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that each one
has their own AV team
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that have been
participating with this series,
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and a good interview
by JD and with Clayton.
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Absolutely, it's a
blessing, you know,
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you think about
each one of the churches
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and their local
team pulling together
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and recording the
series so that each one can be
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uploaded on 3ABNPhoenix.com.
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Yeah.
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We have made it a little
bit further up the trail here.
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I'm trying not to
look like I'm sweating.
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Well, here's a
little dry in Phoenix,
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so it's a little hard to
sweat, but anyway, it's hot.
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But it's beautiful,
you can see some of the,
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I guess the city below us,
there are some of the houses,
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and like Jill said,
we're little further up,
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there's a sheer rock
cliff actually in front of us,
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but we're going to
continue up this trail.
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Now there's interesting...
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It's hard for me to kind
of see it here but they say,
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that's supposed to
be the praying monk.
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So I know that with
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some of the early
Native Americans here,
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this was actually a holy
spot here at Camelback Mountain.
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And I see a little
cactus or actually,
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it's probably a big
cactus growing right on top of
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what they say is the
praying monk, up there.
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That's right,
and it looks little
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just because it's
a long ways from us.
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But hopefully, we'll
be making it up there.
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As I think about the
people behind us, you know,
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the houses and everything
that's behind us here,
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you think about the
people in this world
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who don't know Jesus,
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people who maybe...
they heard about Him
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but He doesn't
connect with them,
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or they just think,
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"I don't know where is God
when I'm hurting right now."
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So that's the
important of this series,
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it's that people can
come to a knowledge of Jesus,
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people can find out who
He is, and that God is love
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and that He wants each one
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to accept Him and to follow Him.
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That's right. And
that's really incredible.
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We have an exciting roll
that we're going to go to too.
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This is again a song
that is been our theme song
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of the Paradise
Valley Seventh-day Church,
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and that is
"Wonderful Words of Life".
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And the crew again
have gotten some footage,
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and even on this hike,
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they're getting some footage
to go along with this song.
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So let's go to
that roll right now.
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What a beautiful song,
"Wonderful Words of Life."
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Didn't you enjoy the scenery?
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It's so beautiful
out here in the desert.
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It has its own beauty,
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and just great
shots from our crew.
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We have an
incredible production crew here
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and the music underneath
that roll was Tim Parton.
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So he sat in his
hotel room with a keyboard
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and put that together for us.
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So that was really beautiful.
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You know, I know you
saw some pictures of cactus
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and I don't know
much about the southwest.
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So there's a little
cactus, it's about this big,
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and I thought it was
baby saguaro cactus, it's not.
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It's called barrel cactus.
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And the ones with the
arms are the saguaro cactus.
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So we're starting to learn
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some of the
cactus here in this area.
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Now just off to my
left is the Piestewa Peak
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which we climbed on an earlier,
well not quite to the top.
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We got quite close.
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Yes. We had to switch bags.
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Piestewa Peak
on earlier eyesight
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and then in front of
me is what they call,
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I think, Four Peaks, and
that is about 7,000 feet.
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I know those mountains
are way off in the distance.
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But it's a beautiful scenery
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because we have made it to Echo,
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the saddleback, is that right?
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Echo Saddle, I think,
it's what they call it.
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Oh, saddle, thank you. Yes.
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And it's, I guess,
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the saddle that the
camel would have, right?
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I'm not sure.
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If you're riding the camel,
you've got the head sitting
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over here and then the saddle,
and then you've got the hump.
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So, I think,
there's two separate peaks
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here with Camelback.
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We've made it.
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We have made it
to the saddle here,
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and so what a
blessing, and you know,
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as we were coming up,
I looked just over there,
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and there is a house,
literally, on top of the rock.
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It's built on a rock.
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It's built right
on top of the rock.
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It reminds me, Jesus says,
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"Wise man built
his house upon a rock."
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And what happened?
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The rain came tumbling
down and the house stood solid
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because it was
built on the rock.
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And we want our
lives to be centered
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on the Lord Jesus
Christ because He is the rock.
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Amen, yeah, that's for sure,
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and there's again
just beautiful nature here,
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so much to learn
from our creation
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and where God has
provided for us to learn from.
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I know. What a blessing.
Where are we going to next?
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We're going to the Chandler
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Chris Shelton
had the opportunity
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to talk to a woman there
who's a member of the church,
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but she's been
learning some really neat things
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during the series.
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So let's listen to that now.
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Hi, I'm Chris Shelton,
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and we're coming to
you again from Chandler,
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Arizona at Chandler
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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And I have Sister
Shari here with me.
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And, Sister
Shari, you've been here
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every night except for two.
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Yes, ma'am.
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And I think you've got
something on your heart
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you want to share
with the folks at home
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about these meetings, don't you?
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Yes, ma'am.
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Well, I've been very
blessed to be able to come
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to these meetings and get
to meet the Shelton family.
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We watch you guys me and my mom
on 3ABN pretty much every day.
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So it's nice to
actually meet you guys and see.
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I'm really thankful
for this meeting today,
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talking about health message
'cause I've been struggling
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with like dairy products,
I'm trying to eat cleaner
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and having more
vegetarian based diet.
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This meeting
today really helped me
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to solidify that that something
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I need to change in my
life and bring me closer to God.
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That's been
really helpful for me.
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Bless your heart.
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The Holy Spirit was
speaking to you, wasn't He?
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I know He spoke to many of us.
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And I heard a
pastor say not long ago
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that a lot of people have stuff.
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And you might have
heard me say that in my prayer
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because we all have stuff,
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and sometimes this
stuff separates us from God,
00:18:38.91\00:18:41.78
and the Holy
Spirit begins to convict
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and to speak to our hearts,
and He wants us to be healthy,
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He wants to be happy Christians.
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But the beautiful thing
that we learned tonight is
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we are never left alone.
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He promises to
give us that power
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to be sons and daughters of God.
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Does that
encourage you? Yes, ma'am.
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That encourages me
very much like knowing
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my God is going to
take care of me and help me
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with the cravings and like
the desires for dairy products.
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I know that He'll
be able to hold my hand
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and keep me from temptation
when those do it right
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and lead me to
the healthier options.
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You know, we read
tonight that He is our Son,
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He's our
lifegiver, He's our shield,
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He's our protector, He
will sustain, He will bless.
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And I am so glad to get to
know you a little better too
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'cause when we're talking,
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when we're talking
to people through 3ABN,
00:19:30.77\00:19:33.23
we're talking to you and
to others who are watching.
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And we're talking
to you here tonight.
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God bless each
and every one of you,
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and thank you so
much for tuning in.
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Thank you so much for
that wonderful testimony there,
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Chris and Shari, from
the Chandler SDA Church.
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We are still in the Echo Saddle,
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but we're in a
little different spot.
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We are. Yeah.
Sitting on some rocks and...
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I feel a little
precarious. No, it's safe.
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There's a little
hole here between us
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but you won't go too far.
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But anyway, I think you
have a better view now of
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Piestewa Peak back in
the background behind us,
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and again, just a beautiful
view here overlooking Phoenix.
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And we're getting ready to
go to next is Shelley Quinn.
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She actually
did a little report.
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We've been talking about
Shelley and her sickness,
00:20:13.21\00:20:15.91
and she's actually
in the hospital actually
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when she gave us this report.
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Something in the city
of Phoenix behind us here,
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she was in one of
these hospitals back here.
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But, I think,
what's interesting is that
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you can see downtown.
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And, I think, about
where GYC started out here
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several months ago,
00:20:29.76\00:20:31.13
and the evangelism that
the young people did here
00:20:31.16\00:20:33.83
in this area and
then Pathway to Health
00:20:33.86\00:20:36.77
with all of the
free medical care.
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I believe they said
it was over $40 million,
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I believe, is that right?
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A free medical care was given
here in the Phoenix area...
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A lot, I may be
wrong in those figures.
00:20:43.77\00:20:45.67
But it's neat to see
then the Pathway to Life
00:20:45.71\00:20:48.11
that's following up,
00:20:48.14\00:20:49.48
and how God is
blessing this event
00:20:49.51\00:20:51.65
and how lives are being touched
00:20:51.68\00:20:53.55
not just
temporarily but for eternity.
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Amen. Amen.
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It's exciting to me to see
00:20:56.32\00:20:57.82
the whole city
coming together as it were.
00:20:57.85\00:21:00.02
You know, you just
see the teamwork with GYC
00:21:00.06\00:21:02.02
in the young people.
00:21:02.06\00:21:03.39
You'll see the
doctors, and the nurses,
00:21:03.43\00:21:05.06
and the people who came
in for a Pathway to Health
00:21:05.09\00:21:07.90
and other
volunteers who were non-medical
00:21:07.93\00:21:10.70
who came in to help.
00:21:10.73\00:21:12.07
You'll see the laity, you see
leadership with the conference,
00:21:12.10\00:21:15.44
evangelistic trust,
everybody working together
00:21:15.47\00:21:19.24
to help save people's lives,
00:21:19.27\00:21:21.24
to help them bring
the knowledge of Jesus
00:21:21.28\00:21:23.71
to other people.
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That is really exciting. Yeah.
00:21:25.11\00:21:26.85
So, I think, what we
would do right now is actually
00:21:26.88\00:21:28.28
go to Shelley Quinn there
00:21:28.32\00:21:29.82
and get a little
report from the hospital and,
00:21:29.85\00:21:31.69
again, we do thank you
for your prayers for her
00:21:31.72\00:21:33.56
and for the rest of
the team here in Phoenix.
00:21:33.59\00:21:35.22
Well, JD and I are here at
00:21:40.10\00:21:41.80
one of the lesser known
tourist spots in Phoenix
00:21:41.83\00:21:46.03
at the HonorHealth
Shea emergency room.
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I'm just here to make sure
that I don't have pneumonia.
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And it's a wonderful
hospital, lovely people.
00:21:53.71\00:21:58.31
But I just wanted
to thank everybody
00:21:58.35\00:22:00.58
for all of your prayers
because it has been miraculous
00:22:00.62\00:22:04.65
how as sick as I've been,
00:22:04.69\00:22:07.09
the Lord stands
me up every night,
00:22:07.12\00:22:09.56
and we've been delivering,
and I give Him all the glory.
00:22:09.59\00:22:15.06
Thank you so much
for praying for us.
00:22:15.10\00:22:17.30
When we're on the front lines,
00:22:17.33\00:22:18.67
you know that the
devil is on the attack.
00:22:18.70\00:22:20.87
So God bless you and
thank you once again.
00:22:20.90\00:22:25.97
Hello, my name
is Rodney Machokoto.
00:22:26.01\00:22:29.11
And my name is
Daphine Machokoto.
00:22:29.14\00:22:31.68
Now we're with our sons
Rodney here and Michael.
00:22:31.71\00:22:35.15
We're at Phoenix Central
SDA Church, we're members here.
00:22:35.18\00:22:38.45
We're excited about evangelism.
00:22:38.49\00:22:40.72
We are both
Pathfinder Directors here
00:22:40.76\00:22:43.36
and we also work in
the Finance Committee.
00:22:43.39\00:22:45.46
My wife here works as
well with the little children
00:22:45.49\00:22:49.10
at cradle roll,
00:22:49.13\00:22:50.97
and so we're
excited with Shelley
00:22:51.00\00:22:52.33
that who has come here.
00:22:52.37\00:22:53.84
We're excited with the work
she's doing as she's continuing
00:22:53.87\00:22:57.04
the work that we're
working in Pathfinders.
00:22:57.07\00:23:00.01
I myself am a
current PhD student
00:23:00.04\00:23:02.31
at Arizona
State University here,
00:23:02.34\00:23:04.38
studying the history of
how Adventists have gone
00:23:04.41\00:23:06.82
in different
communities around the country
00:23:06.85\00:23:09.12
using different organizations
00:23:09.15\00:23:10.92
and how they have
sustained this work.
00:23:10.95\00:23:13.52
And my wife here is
tag teaming with me,
00:23:13.56\00:23:15.89
and she actually
helps us with our children.
00:23:15.92\00:23:19.76
Yes, my job is stay-at-home mom,
00:23:19.79\00:23:22.90
and taking care of the
boys, and homeschooling them
00:23:22.93\00:23:26.57
because it's important
to teach them Jesus first
00:23:26.60\00:23:30.01
and then there on
they will be able to go
00:23:30.04\00:23:32.74
into the world and
teach everyone about Jesus.
00:23:32.77\00:23:36.48
All right, as we've been here
in Arizona, especially Phoenix,
00:23:36.51\00:23:40.82
we have noticed that Phoenix
is the fourth largest city now,
00:23:40.85\00:23:44.32
and there's a lot of evangelism
that needs to be done.
00:23:44.35\00:23:48.16
At different levels,
there's quite still have
00:23:48.19\00:23:50.66
some of the wealthiest
people in the country,
00:23:50.69\00:23:52.83
and we have some of the most
00:23:52.86\00:23:55.23
poor people as
well in the country,
00:23:55.26\00:23:57.07
there's a lot of challenges
with drug addictions here,
00:23:57.10\00:24:00.34
there's a lot of refugees
00:24:00.37\00:24:02.50
that are coming from
different parts of the world,
00:24:02.54\00:24:04.67
and so it's an exciting
place to be bringing evangelism.
00:24:04.71\00:24:08.54
So Shelly, what she's
doing, she's actually helping
00:24:08.58\00:24:11.15
to enrich the efforts
that are happening here
00:24:11.18\00:24:13.11
at Arizona conference.
00:24:13.15\00:24:14.58
We appreciate what she's doing
and we're excited about that.
00:24:14.62\00:24:18.52
Some of the things that
we're doing with the children,
00:24:18.55\00:24:20.89
she is actually adding
to that and we appreciate
00:24:20.92\00:24:24.59
what her and JD
have done for us.
00:24:24.63\00:24:27.46
They have brought excitement.
00:24:27.50\00:24:28.83
This church already
is, as people have seen,
00:24:28.86\00:24:31.00
it's a very diverse church
with different people from
00:24:31.03\00:24:34.44
different parts of the
world, we have different races,
00:24:34.47\00:24:36.71
we have people who
are Native Americans,
00:24:36.74\00:24:39.54
we have blacks, we have
whites, we have the Hispanics,
00:24:39.57\00:24:42.18
and other
different types of groups.
00:24:42.21\00:24:44.28
We have Asians that are
also part of this group.
00:24:44.31\00:24:46.75
And so what she's doing is
her work is not only impacting
00:24:46.78\00:24:51.05
one group of
people from one country
00:24:51.09\00:24:53.49
but we know her
impact will actually
00:24:53.52\00:24:55.39
travel around the world
because of what she's doing.
00:24:55.42\00:24:59.19
My wife has
already bought a couple CDs
00:24:59.23\00:25:01.83
that she was
sending to her sisters
00:25:01.86\00:25:03.37
some who are
actually in Zimbabwe,
00:25:03.40\00:25:05.13
some who are in South Africa,
and some who are actually
00:25:05.17\00:25:08.30
recently in China
might be going back.
00:25:08.34\00:25:10.37
So we appreciate
what they're doing,
00:25:10.41\00:25:12.11
and we appreciate
what 3ABN is doing.
00:25:12.14\00:25:15.78
Well, we've hiked up
the path a little bit more,
00:25:15.81\00:25:18.51
and we're here
against this rock.
00:25:18.55\00:25:20.45
But this path almost
starts to get a little dangerous
00:25:20.48\00:25:23.12
as we start to
get up a little more.
00:25:23.15\00:25:24.52
I don't know if you
can see behind us...
00:25:24.55\00:25:26.02
Oh, yeah, it gets really steep.
00:25:26.05\00:25:27.39
It's pretty
steep going up there.
00:25:27.42\00:25:28.76
Oh, very steep. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
00:25:28.79\00:25:30.13
And you see this fence
here through, there's fence,
00:25:30.16\00:25:32.09
and there's actually hand
rail here above us as well.
00:25:32.13\00:25:35.90
And a great spiritual
lesson we can give from this
00:25:35.93\00:25:37.63
because we're all
in the Path of Life,
00:25:37.67\00:25:39.37
and there are safeguards
to keep us from falling off
00:25:39.40\00:25:42.60
on the wrong side of the path
and that would be God's Word
00:25:42.64\00:25:45.74
to stay in
communion with Christ always,
00:25:45.77\00:25:48.34
and just like these
here are to protect us
00:25:48.38\00:25:49.91
from falling over the edge,
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God's Word's there to
help us and protect us.
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Amen, you know,
sometimes we think of God's Word
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as something that
is difficult, like,
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"Okay, I have to do this.
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I can't do that."
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Well, I want to go off
the path and go over here,
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but this fence is
not meant to hurt people,
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this fence is protection.
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That's true.
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Because if you're
hiking up this trail
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and all of a sudden you slip,
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you don't want to fall,
you don't want to break a leg,
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you don't want to hurt yourself,
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you don't want to die.
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So I think that's
the power in God's Word,
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it's to protect us,
and it's to keep us safe.
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And you think about that
path and those handrails,
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praise the Lord for that.
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You know, I think, God
sends people along our path,
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who can give us a hand as a rail
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and help us along that path,
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That's true.
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And we want to encourage
you to pray for Shelley.
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I know we came out of that room
that she is in the hospital,
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was just in the ER to get
tested, and they released her.
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Praise the Lord.
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And so praise the Lord for that.
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She is on the mend,
and I'm thankful for that.
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And we also heard
from a precious couple,
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he's a PhD student here studying
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and he's doing his
post-graduate work,
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and he was talking
about the drug issue here
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as there would be
in any large city.
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And there's a lot
of influx of refugee,
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and specifically studying
how we can evangelistically
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help people who are dealing
with those kinds of issues.
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Yes, true.
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You know, I was thinking
that was a great testimony too.
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You know, we all go
through storms in life,
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and thing about
Shelley too, the health issues
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she's been dealing, and
with us we're hiking here,
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see this walk this behind,
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the side that's
going up over our heads.
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And you come around
the corner, it's like,
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"Whoa, look at that behind us.
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That's like
almost insurmountable."
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You know, but the
nice thing is in Isaiah,
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God talks about being
with us through a storm
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or any challenge
that we face in life.
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So you can come around
the corner in life and like,
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"Whoa, what is this?"
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But God is there to be
with us through those storms
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and to provide the
strength that we need.
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We've been
bringing a lot of water
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and drinking the
water along the hike.
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Of course, Christ
is the fountain of life
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force and the source,
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yeah, of our water in
life here spiritually.
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Amen, absolutely.
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Well, we are going to
try to get up that hill.
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Are we? We are.
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Let's do it. No
problem. Absolutely.
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And then we have to
get back to the meeting.
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We got to change our clothes,
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and get back for
the meeting tonight
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with Pastor John Lomacang,
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and I'm looking forward to that.
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I know every night God has a
powerful message through him.
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So make sure you stay by
and be blessed by that message.
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