Participants: Janice Smith
Series Code: JA
Program Code: JA000008
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00:03 I'm really looking forward to mail man Kenny coming today
00:06 because he's going to have a package in the mail for me. 00:09 So, I'm eager to see when he'll get here. 00:12 It's 10.30 now, and he usually gets here any time between 00:16 10.30, or closer to 11, so I shouldn't be concerned 00:20 because he's always on time, and he's always dependable, 00:23 rain or shine, but I just really want my package to come. 00:29 Well, I'm sure he'll be here any minute. 00:33 Have you ever really looked forward to something coming, 00:36 like I'm right now? 00:39 You really just can't wait for it to happen, right? 00:42 I think I'll look again. 00:45 He's there, and I think he's actually a little bit 00:47 earlier than usual, so I'm going to check if he can 00:50 have time to come in for a little visit. 00:55 [Music for Credits] 01:01 It's so good to see you again. 01:05 Come up for a visit my friend. 01:10 There's so much to do, I have so many things 01:13 planned for you. 01:18 We'll laugh and we'll play, 01:21 we'll sing and we'll pray. 01:23 I'll tell you a story or 2 01:27 and we'll be friends, you and I, 01:32 yes, you and I and Jesus. 01:40 I'm happy you're here once again. 01:44 It's so nice to have you as my friend. 01:52 Before I introduce you to mail man Kenny, I want to 01:54 remind you about the mystery word, Ok? 01:56 Remember the keywords that I say will come up on this side, 02:00 and then the important letter will be bigger and brighter, 02:03 and it'll jump out and come right over into the 02:06 correct spot in the mystery word. 02:08 It looks like today's mystery word has 8 letters. 02:11 So, are you ready to start? Pay real close attention. 02:14 Well, mailman Kenny, I'd like to introduce you to my friends. 02:17 Hi there. 02:19 And it looks like you've brought my package for me. 02:21 You been looking for this? 02:22 Oh, have I ever. Oh, and a letter too. 02:25 Yeah, you've got a letter there also. 02:27 I didn't expect that letter, that's great. 02:29 Well, I've been wondering. When do you start working? 02:32 When do you finish each day? 02:35 Well, we start about 7 o'clock in the morning. 02:37 Early. 02:38 I spend about 3 hours in office, casing mail, before I ever 02:44 get ready to go out on the route. 02:45 We finish about 3.30 in the afternoon, something like that. 02:50 Now, what's "casing mail"? 02:52 Well, that's when we get the mail, it comes in trays, 02:56 and it's set on our case, and in our case we have partitions 03:03 and all the house numbers, street numbers, 03:06 are printed on that. When I pick up the mail 03:09 I take my mail and look at it, and I'll look at the street 03:12 address and then I find that spot on my case 03:16 and put it in there, and then I have to do all my letters 03:19 and magazines like that too. 03:22 When I get this all done, then I pull it out in delivery 03:26 sequence and put it in trays and put it in my truck 03:30 and away I go. 03:31 So it's like it's in order, to make it easier for you. 03:34 Right. 03:35 Well, that makes sense. I wondered how you did that. 03:38 Do you go to the same houses every day? 03:41 Just about. I've been on the route now 29 years. 03:45 - Really? - Yes. 03:48 Now you said first you spend your 3 hours in the office 03:50 and then once you get out you get going. 03:52 What about if you got tired along the way 03:54 and you just, say it was a hot day, you just wanted to take 03:57 a nap in the shade of a nice tree for an hour or so, 04:00 can you do that? 04:01 I'm afraid that'd be out of the question because we've 04:03 got just so much time to deliver the mail 04:05 and we have to be on time. 04:06 People expect us, about the same time, like you probably 04:10 did today. 04:11 Yeah, I was expecting you about the same time 04:13 because you seem to always get here about the same time. 04:16 I've had people tell me they can set their clock by me. 04:18 Really? 04:19 So that's what people are counting, dependability, 04:21 they entrust us with their mail and we like to give them 04:25 the service because they deserve it. 04:28 What's the most important kind of mail that you deliver? 04:31 Probably the most important would be registered mail 04:35 where someone is sending cash or bonds, something like that, 04:38 jewelry through the mail, but to me it's all important, 04:42 whether it's a post card, or registered mail, 04:44 or any kind of mail because people have entrusted it, 04:48 whether it's a child or a grown up, they give it to us 04:51 and they depend upon us to get it there to the destination. 04:54 I like to give my people good service. 04:57 I've become more of a friend and part of their lives, 05:01 I like it to be that way. 05:04 Well, I don't want to keep you if someone's setting their 05:06 clock by you, so thank you for coming day. 05:10 It's quite alright. 05:11 Don't get too hot out there. 05:13 I won't, thank you. 05:15 - Ok, bye-bye. - Bye. 05:17 Well, I'm not going to wait any longer to open this up. 05:21 I can hardly wait to see what it looks like. 05:25 You know what it is that I ordered, did I tell you? 05:28 Do you want to guess? It's a book. 05:31 And it's an appointment book. It's just the blue 05:34 that I wanted, good. I wasn't sure what the blue 05:37 would look like. Oh, this book is going to be 05:40 so great, it'll help me to be so much more organized 05:44 because it has a page with each day so you can keep track 05:48 of what you need to do that day. 05:50 Back here is where you can put people's addresses 05:54 and phone numbers, and then here you can keep track of any 05:57 specific projects you need to do, this is great. 06:01 Then this is just a little scratch pad, oh, there's even 06:05 a little zip lock that I can put receipts, or something in. 06:09 It's so nice to be organized. Do you know what I want to do? 06:13 I think that God talks about being dependable, 06:18 and I know there's a text in Luke somewhere, and I'm 06:21 just thinking that if I look it up and read it to you. 06:25 It's Luke 16:10, this is wonderful: 06:29 "Whoever can be trusted with very little" 06:32 "can also be trusted with much", and that's what I'm hoping 06:36 this book will help me do, to be more dependable. 06:40 That's neat, trustworthiness, that's important, isn't it? 06:44 You know what I want to do? I'm going to write down 06:46 right here, Luke 16:10, and then later on 06:51 I'm going to remember to print it somewhere nice in this book. 06:57 Oh, my letter! I almost forgot about my letter. 07:03 Dear Janice. I have a surprise for you. 07:06 I will arrive at 4 o'clock, see you soon. 07:11 I'm not going to tell you who it's from. 07:13 Shall we see if this person is dependable 07:16 and if they arrive right on time? 07:26 Ranger Connie, I'd like you to meet my friends. 07:28 Hi. 07:29 What can you tell us about the tides, and how the tides work? 07:32 Well, the tides work because of the gravity of the Moon 07:35 and the rotation of the Earth. As the Earth rotates around, 07:38 the Moon pulls on the Earth, and whatever side of the Earth 07:41 that's closest to the Moon, the Moon pulls all the water 07:44 to that side and creates a high tide, and the low tides 07:47 are on the opposite side. 07:48 Ok, so then, how many times a day or a week, 07:52 will the tide come in and go out? 07:54 There's 2 high tides and 2 low tides in a 24 hour period. 07:58 - Every day? - Every day. 08:01 Can you be sure that will happen always? 08:03 Yes, that happens every single day, 08:06 and it's predictable, the phases of the Moon, 08:08 so we can predict it years in advance. 08:11 Years in advance? So you can pretty well know 08:13 what time the time will come in next week on a certain day? 08:16 Yeah. The tide books are available, and you can get those 08:19 at book stores or bait shops, that sort of thing. 08:22 I bet fishermen and boaters study the tide. 08:24 Definitely need to know those. 08:27 What do the tides effect little animals that live around 08:30 in the ocean. 08:32 All the critters that like right in this area here, 08:35 you have a good example here of the barnacles 08:37 and some muscles and limpets. 08:40 Which are the barnacles? 08:41 The barnacles are these little guys. 08:43 They're called "Buckshot Barnacles", and then you have 08:47 these here, are limpets, and these dark ones in here 08:51 are muscles, they're little baby muscles. 08:54 Okay. 08:55 These guys depend on the tides too because right now there's no 08:59 water around them, but as the tide comes in, 09:02 they're going to get wet, and the water will bring in food 09:05 for them to feed on, and also bring in more moisture, 09:09 although with the rain they don't need it. 09:11 But maybe the rain is the wrong kind of water, perhaps? 09:13 Exactly. 09:15 They need to have salt water, and when the fresh water 09:17 comes in, they need to have the salt levels higher than this. 09:23 So even the rain washes the salt off them. 09:25 Oh yeah. 09:27 And you said the salt water has little bits of food in it 09:29 - for them. - Right, little microorganisms. 09:32 How does food get into a barnacle? 09:35 These are little guys here, the animal's actually 09:39 down inside of that and they are shaped like a triangle, 09:44 a cone, and they open up a little bit and they have 09:47 a feeder, they have an arm that comes out and sweeps 09:50 at the water, it looks like a big feather, 09:52 and it'll sweep out all of the nutrients and the microorganisms 09:56 to feed on. 09:57 And then take it into it's house and eat it? 09:58 Yep. 10:00 Well I think that's neat that tomorrow 10:02 God's going to bring the tide in again 10:03 for those barnacles and all those little creatures. 10:10 The tide comes in, the tide goes out. 10:14 Tomorrow God will do it again. 10:18 The geese come in, the geese go out, 10:22 next year God will do it again. 10:27 They know where to go, and the route to take, 10:31 just like the ocean with it's big big waves. 10:35 Things grow up, things grow out, 10:39 tomorrow God will do it again. 10:44 Hey kids, if you love all the fun things you get to do 10:47 with Janice and her friends, you'll flip over this: 10:51 It's Janice's activity book. 10:53 Loaded with fun, this book teaches scripture through 10:56 mazes, puzzles, dot to dot games, coloring and more. 11:00 And the best part is it's free. 11:03 Let's take a look inside. The scripture on this page says: 11:06 [text on screen] 11:11 Now, let's circle the pictures that are the same. 11:14 That's right, you've got the idea. 11:17 There are many more fun filled activities in this book, 11:19 just waiting for you. By the way, did I mention 11:23 it's free. 11:25 To get your very own copy, have your mom or dad 11:27 write to or call: [information on screen] 11:41 Don't wait, order yours today. 11:46 - Hi, Doctor Neblett. - Hi Janice. 11:48 - I'm sure you're dependable. - I'm delighted to be here. 11:51 You know what? We just came from the ocean, 11:53 and Ranger Connie was there, and she was explaining 11:56 the tides to us, and how they work: fascinating! 11:59 They just come in and out every day, like clockwork. 12:02 You mean, it's very dependable. 12:03 - Exactly. - There's something else 12:05 that's very dependable, it's about as big as your fist. 12:08 - As my fist or your fist? - My fist and your fist? 12:11 - Well, what about their fist? - There's too. 12:14 What do you think it would be? 12:15 - You tell me. - It's your heart. 12:18 Neat. Tell me about it. 12:19 Your heart is in the center of your chest, 12:21 let's use Frank as our model here, let me take this 12:24 off very quickly, and this is just like what my body is like 12:27 - inside. - That's right. 12:29 And here, in the center of your chest, is your heart. 12:32 Everyone's heart is about as big as their fist. 12:36 Your heart is made up of a muscle. 12:38 Let me show you right here, there are 4 chambers 12:40 to your heart, let me open them up, 12:43 All of this inside the size of their fist? 12:47 That's right, and what's really important are these valves 12:50 right here, because they allow the blood to only move 12:53 in 1 direction as the heart is pumping the blood in your body. 12:57 Why does the heart need to pump the blood? 12:59 Well, it if didn't work, we wouldn't work at all. 13:04 Now, let me show you how dependable this pump is. 13:07 Right here I have a model in front of me. 13:12 It has a valve in it, just like the heart does. 13:15 It only allows the, in this case, red fluid, 13:18 it looks like blood, to move only in 1 direction. 13:21 I'm going to hold this end down to make sure it works. 13:23 Let's see what happens when I pump. 13:26 Oh, it comes out, sure enough. 13:28 That's exactly the way our heart works. 13:30 It pumps blood from one end to the other, and the valves 13:34 don't allow it to go back, it's very important. 13:36 So they're kind of like those doors in shopping centers 13:39 - that only open one way. - Like a trap door, exactly. 13:42 Now, there's something very important, we have to remember 13:45 to keep this heart healthy and strong. 13:47 I'll say, if it's that important. 13:48 That's right, we do that with exercise, and we do that 13:51 with eating the right foods. 13:52 Very important. Why do we need blood 13:55 to be pumped throughout our bodies? 13:57 Why is that important? 13:59 Well, this heart is very important to pump the blood 14:02 that caries oxygen out into our tissues and it brings 14:05 back carbon dioxide that we breathe out into the air. 14:09 That's what our heart does, and it makes sure 14:11 that all of our organs work beautifully. 14:15 If it weren't for the blood, we wouldn't have oxygen 14:17 and we wouldn't live. 14:18 That's why it's so important that it be dependable, 14:21 and it is, it beats 60-80 times every minute, 14:24 as long as you live. 14:27 And you never have to think about it. 14:29 You don't, God made is very dependable. 14:30 Well, I think we better take good care 14:32 - of our heart pumps then. - I think we should. 14:36 Now, there's something that I do when I take care 14:39 of patients; I use this. 14:41 - Oh, what's this called? - This is called a stethoscope. 14:44 I put this end in my ears, and you put that end 14:47 over your heart, remember where it is. 14:50 - Right over here? - That's right. 14:53 Can you hear anything? 14:54 I sure can. 14:55 I can hear your heart beat. [Sound of heart beating] 15:01 If you use a stethoscope you can hear your heart beat: 15:04 pump pump pump pump. 15:07 The valves open up and close with the back beat: 15:11 pump pump pump pump. 15:13 From toes to tummy, and heart to head, 15:16 when you're playing outside, when you're sleeping in bed, 15:19 that heart keeps pumping your blood so red. 15:22 It's so dependable God has said. 15:29 Pump pump, God has said. 15:32 So dependable, pump pump pump. 15:40 Well Mr. Molder, I just love coming and seeing God's animals, 15:43 and the LA Zoo is a wonderful place to come, isn't it? 15:46 - What are those ones? - Those are ring tailed lemurs 15:49 from Madagascar. 15:50 They're so beautiful. It almost seems like they 15:53 depend on each other and stay together. 15:55 - They do. - Are there any other animals 15:57 that you can tell me about that depend on one another? 16:00 There's the meerkat, and that's right here. 16:04 You see him watching the sky there? 16:08 He's watching for predators and all the rest of them 16:12 can go around their business and he's the look out. 16:16 So you're saying that one of them stands guard so the others 16:20 can play and have a nice, relaxing time? 16:22 Well, it keeps the all of them safe. 16:25 That's wonderful. 16:27 Tell me, what do meerkats eat? 16:29 They eat lizards and snakes and insects. 16:33 They don't seem to be vegetarians, 16:36 but they seem to like those animals. 16:38 What kind of danger is the little meerkat watching for 16:41 right now? 16:42 These would be hawk-like birds that would swoop 16:46 down on them, and these have been watching here at the zoo 16:51 for the red tailed hawk. 16:54 You don't see the red tailed hawk in view, 16:56 but when he's near, they certainly are on guard. 17:01 Well, Mr. Molder, what advice could you give to people, 17:05 to children, about what they can learn from how dependable 17:08 the little meerkat is? 17:10 Well, if you can be trustworthy, not just to look out 17:14 after yourself, but to look out after each other, 17:19 not only your friends, but everyone. 17:21 Well that's a neat lesson, I think I'd like to try 17:24 and do that myself, and I think that my friends would too. 17:27 We appreciate you coming, we have so many more things 17:31 to do now, so don't go away, because there's something 17:34 exciting coming up. 17:37 I have something I want you to think about with me. 17:40 Think about how the mail man must have felt when he brought 17:44 me my package right on time, what do you think he felt like? 17:49 I think so too. I think he must have felt 17:51 so proud of himself for arriving just at the right time 17:55 with my package. It's good feeling to be 17:58 dependable, isn't it? 18:00 Have you ever been dependable? How did you feel? 18:04 Maybe you started the dishes without being reminded 18:07 that they needed to be done. I bet you were proud of yourself 18:10 when someone came in and said "Thanks for doing" 18:13 "those dishes". I bet you felt good, didn't you? 18:16 Or maybe you made your bed real smooth, 18:19 without any wrinkles, that's a good feeling too, isn't it? 18:23 It's a good feeling to do a job well and to be dependable 18:27 about doing it. Now don't go away 18:30 because when we come back, we're going to have 18:33 a guessing game about some people and things 18:36 that are dependable, see you then. 18:41 Did you know that one of the best ways to become a good 18:43 friend of Jesus is by spending personal time with Him 18:46 every day. Well, adults do that by praying 18:49 and by reading their Bibles, but if you can't read 18:52 it's kind of hard, isn't it? Or maybe you just like 18:56 listening to tapes, well here's a fun way to have your very own 18:59 devotions every morning when you get up. 19:02 Janice has made these morning time devotions for her kids 19:05 and for you: complete with songs, prayers and stories. 19:10 For more information have your parents write to or call: 19:12 [information on screen] 19:44 This looks like fun, there's a lot of things in my basket today 19:53 Okay, get it all the way up here. 19:56 You know what? I think we should have a guessing game. 20:02 As I look at these things, I think they are all things 20:06 that are dependable. Ok, that's your first hint, 20:09 and the first one that I want to tell you about 20:13 is shaped like this, do you know what it is? 20:17 I'll give you another clue: it's very light. 20:21 Okay, shall I show you? A light bulb. 20:27 We need lights, don't we? Lights need to be dependable. 20:30 This one I'm not going to say anything, I'm just going to pull 20:33 it out slowly and you start looking at it from the top. 20:38 Do you know yet what it is? 20:45 Do you have anything like this? 20:48 You need glue to be dependable, if you want to glue something 20:51 together, you need it to be dependable and hold together, 20:54 don't you? 20:59 Oh, this one, boy, people sure depend on this: 21:03 look at it, I'm just going to show part of it at first. 21:07 Do you know what that is? 21:10 A little bit more. 21:15 Have you guessed? A faucet. 21:19 You sure like it when you turn on that faucet, 21:21 you're sure glad if the water comes out, aren't you? 21:25 We really depend on faucets to give us water. 21:28 You know, we depend on a lot of things 21:30 and a lot of people, don't we? 21:35 Wouldn't you like to be someone that people can depend on? 21:39 I want to be that way. 21:46 The bed gets made, the clothes picked up, 21:50 tomorrow we will do it again. 21:54 The toys put back, the table set, 21:58 tomorrow we will do it again. 22:03 Doing your best with nothing hid, 22:06 that's what God wants from dependable kids. 22:11 Kids grow up, kids go out, 22:15 tomorrow God will help us again. 22:23 Are you ready for a story? [Kids] Yeah. 22:25 Remember, last week we found out that the villagers 22:28 couldn't figure out why there were noises in the cave, 22:32 and then a boat disappeared all on its own, 22:34 and then came back. They didn't know what had 22:37 happened, and the very next day, a horse, belonging 22:41 to one of the villagers just disappeared. 22:45 Well, they were all about to plan a search to go looking 22:48 for the horse when it appeared back in the barn, 22:52 in its stall, with the gate latched and shut, 22:55 and furthermore, the horse was tied up properly. 22:58 Now, horses can't open doors to barns. 23:01 Horses can't latch the stall, horses can't tie themselves up. 23:05 Everybody was curious, and they were just getting over that 23:09 when one of the poor widows in the village 23:12 who had been very sick, became so surprised 23:14 because one morning when she woke up, on the table 23:17 beside her bed was a little box of crackers, 23:21 3 little herring fish and 2 little loafs of bread. 23:26 She didn't know who had put them there, it had just come 23:29 there during the night when she had been sound asleep. 23:32 Everybody was saying "Who did all of this?" 23:34 "Is it something to do with the cave and the noises" 23:37 "in the cave?" Nobody could figure it out. 23:40 Well, in Longview Village, one of the excitements each week 23:44 was when the steamer came from Glasgow, and that brought 23:47 the mail, and packages, and sometimes people. 23:51 This particular week, when the steamer came, 23:54 all the villagers were on the beach watching, 23:56 because it was an exciting thing to have it come, 23:59 and as they were watching, one man had a telescope. 24:04 He was looking through the telescope and he said: 24:08 "There's some people getting off that I've never seen before." 24:11 Everybody was wondering who it was. 24:13 They got off the boat, and into a little row boat 24:16 and then rowed into the shore. 24:18 Well, it turned out "those people" was a boy and a man. 24:23 Roy was the boy, and Mr. Wallace was the man. 24:26 They were coming to spend Roy's summer vacation 24:30 visiting Roy's uncle, and his uncle was the store keeper. 24:34 Well, as you can imagine, very quickly after Roy 24:38 arrived in the little town, everybody started to tell 24:41 about the stories of all the interesting things that had 24:45 been happening. Mr. Wallace, Roy's dad, 24:48 he wasn't all that interested, but Roy's ears were flapping 24:52 in the breeze, because this was so interesting to hear 24:56 all these mysterious things. He would listen to this one, 24:59 and listen to that one, and then one evening 25:02 one of the villagers said: "you should go visit" 25:05 "Oscar and Bruce. They're boys about your age." 25:07 So Roy tried to visit them, but they weren't home. 25:10 So he went back, and then the next day 25:13 someone said: "you should go for a swim." 25:16 "The water in the bay is wonderful for swimming." 25:19 So, Roy went out for a swim. He would swim from this rock, 25:23 and then he would swim over to another rock 25:25 because you get tired when you go swimming for a long time, 25:29 but he was having a lovely time swimming. 25:33 Everything was really nice, and that night, 25:36 something else happened. 25:39 One of the villagers had just bought a brand new, 25:43 very expensive, lovely life jacket. 25:47 He was so proud of it, when he wore his life jacket 25:50 he would strut his shoulders back because he was so proud 25:53 of his jacket, and it disappeared during the night. 25:58 You can imagine that he was very upset about that. 26:02 Well then, it had only been gone for maybe a day or so, 26:09 and the next morning when he got up, he opened his door 26:13 at 5.30 in the morning when he always got up, 26:16 and there, hanging from a nail, right by his front door 26:20 was his life jacket. Now, how did it come back? 26:26 And how did it go away? And did that have anything to do 26:29 with the widows crackers, and did that have anything 26:32 to do with the horse that tied itself up in the stall? 26:35 And did that have anything to do with the noises in the cave? 26:40 Roy was wondering, and so was everyone else in the village. 26:45 Are you wondering who's doing all those things? 26:48 [Kids] Yes. 26:49 Next week we'll find out some more, okay? 26:53 Now did you write down our mystery word yet for today? 26:57 What is it? Reliable, you're right. 27:00 Reliable is like being dependable. 27:04 If you're a reliable person, I know that I can count on you 27:07 for something. And I'm glad that you watched 27:10 again today, that was good, and I'm looking forward 27:13 to seeing you next week. Bye for now. 27:17 [Music for Credits] |
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