Welcome back to
the Liberty Insider.
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I'm sure like me,
you've been captivated
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by hearing Pati tell of
some of the real world projects
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that have
presented themselves to you
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as you've made
yourself available.
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And in particular, during COVID,
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there are greater
risks for many people,
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but greater opportunities.
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Exactly.
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And, you know,
I'm amazed to hear
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of this simple washing station
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and the opportunities
that's provided for you.
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It's portable, it's lightweight.
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And I can give you a number.
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It holds five gallons of water,
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and in Skid Row one day,
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I washed probably close
to about a hundred hands off
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about five gallons of water.
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And it doesn't take much,
but it leaves a big impact.
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And then to give
them a clean mask.
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And I tell you, I
thank them all day
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for letting me help them.
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And I think Ellen White
said, I'm going to paraphrase.
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I think she said,
if we only really knew
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what the work of God really is,
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there's no end to
the opportunities.
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I know.
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And that is so
true. There's no end.
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And Jesus says the
poor you'll always have,
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which means
there's plenty of poor.
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But the main poverty is
hunger for God's Word and for...
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It is.
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So I'm sure you have opportunity
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to speak that
word in season, right?
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Yeah.
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And just for helping them,
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it will raise a
question in their minds.
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You know, what lies beyond that?
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Why is someone doing this?
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And especially during COVID,
I'm sure a lot more people,
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or a lot of people that
normally would have been
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out in the
homeless encampments aren't.
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Yeah.
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The hygiene is very important.
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You know, CDC is telling us,
wash your hands, put masks on.
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Yeah. They need it too.
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They need it too.
Social distances, we keep it.
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Social distances.
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Yes, they're not, but we try to,
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when we're out there,
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we hold to all the requirements.
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And also with COVID,
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it's put a change
in how I reach out
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also to our churches.
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Because what I've been
doing for the last three years
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is I would visit churches
within Southern California,
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San Diego
County, Riverside County,
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and I would visit our
churches and let them know,
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this is what I do
for church state council,
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Public Affairs,
Religious Liberty,
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North American
Religious Liberty Association.
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They need to know
that we're out there
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as an organization and
just build relationships,
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raise up the
awareness in our churches
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because when we do have events
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like I did for our home church,
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we had a
community Christmas event,
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which was always
the dream and the vision
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of our community
services director.
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This was his, and it
was so richly blessed,
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but when you involve
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and it doesn't have to be
a lot of elected officials.
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One elected official,
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when you involve
a county resource
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to be there at your event,
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ready to sign up
people for I guess,
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well, for services
for emergency money,
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food stamps.
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When you, and when you let the,
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I had let the LA
County supervisor,
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I let her aware
of what we were doing
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in our community.
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She's, well, we'll give funding.
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So we wanna give free lunches.
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We have $998
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it's a good
amount of money for food,
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but also free marketing.
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The County Services Department
put out our flyer on there
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saying, we're going to be here.
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Because they need to
let the community know
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where they're going to be.
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So they can sign
people up for help,
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let them know
where they were gonna be.
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It's a win-win. Free marketing.
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You're helping the
society, they're helping spread
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the awareness
of Adventism and...
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Exactly.
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Help with the questions
about what we're doing.
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I mean... It's amazing.
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I mean, there's just
no end to the blessings
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that flow from this.
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No, and the elected
official who's table
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who I invited there that day
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was the one again going back
to the chocolate chip cookie.
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Anyway, when I
accidentally ran into
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or not accidentally,
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providence brought me to
this certain assembly man.
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I invited him to be there.
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We're gonna have to
rewrite the story to a tofu...
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I know tofu, sorry about
that. I keep forgetting it.
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I'm struggling
with that one. No.
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It's just a joke. Cheap joke.
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But I gave him a flyer
since he was gonna be there.
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Yes, we will be here at
my home church, Long Beach.
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If I could say that
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Long Beach
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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The email blasted it out.
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Our pastor did
amazing marketing himself
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with Facebook.
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So we got the word out there.
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We had about 400,
600 people show up
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and we were prepared for 150.
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But we made it
work. We made it work.
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It was wonderful.
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But now with COVID,
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I've obviously heard of
our churches closed down.
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I don't visit our
churches like I did.
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No, they're not all
closed down, are they?
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They're not all closed
down. But my reason also...
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You know, recently,
when I visited there
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you were able to
get me to speak at what?
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White Memorial. White Memorial.
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And they were meeting
outside under an awning
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which I thought was a
naturale and very safe.
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You know, they were
keeping social distance
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with masks and so on.
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But at least they were meeting.
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Yeah.
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They had a good
amount of people show up.
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But have all of the
churches that you know
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of in the area are opened or?
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No, no.
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Pretty much
they're still all closed
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because what I was...
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Unfortunate. Yeah.
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What I was trying to
do was let them know,
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look, let's hold
resource fairs at your churches.
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I can, within your district,
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bring the elected officials in.
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I can bring nonprofits in.
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I'd let the community know
that you can be a resource hub
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for your community.
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Let them know if
they're looking for help,
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whether it be, I don't
know, maybe attorney's aid,
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there's a Legal Aid
Foundation of Los Angeles.
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Maybe if they need
help with social services.
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If they need help with runaways,
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if they need any kind of help,
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I have the
resource tables for it.
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Now the community
will know you're there.
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They will.
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If they need help, they
will come to your church
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and I'll leave you
with stacks of brochures.
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You know, when you
go into the stores,
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you see those little turnarounds
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with brochures,
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put one of these in your
foyer, community comes in,
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give them, or even your members.
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So I was working
on raising that up
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for our churches.
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I travel and go into stores.
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I check out what those little...
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Little turn tables.
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I just wanna see
the types of groups
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and organizations.
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Exactly.
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And I've thought many times,
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why couldn't we
put our stuff there.
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That's what I was working on.
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I wanted to work
on having it there.
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They're tall,
little tall metal stands
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that flip around put all.
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I would furnish everything.
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I would furnish everything
and keep up on the supply.
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And if they do
hold a resource fair,
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free marketing.
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I would get the free marketing
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from the nonprofits
and county services.
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They would meet, email
the blast out the community,
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just be there to
welcome the community in.
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And let them know
you have resources
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other than our own resources.
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And this sort of thing works
about putting the materials
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where people are normally,
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it's another
magazine and another place.
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But I remember many years ago,
when I was at Pacific Press,
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there was a pressman
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who had a
vision like you to get.
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He came to talk to me about
the magazine I was editing,
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which was the
drug education journal.
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And I didn't have
any way to work with him.
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He'd rather have done it
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because it meets
an immediate need
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in the community.
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So in the end, he quit his job.
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And with the
trailer, went around,
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driving all over the US
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pitching with different churches
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and organizations
to place a signs box.
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They would pay
the fee for the books
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and he would leave it with
them and then subscriptions,
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and they would be stocked,
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and putting
these in public places.
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There was a point where,
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you know, they sent him
out to die in the wilderness,
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the management, they were happy
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for free labor and, you know,
figured he wouldn't do much.
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There was a point
where that was the majority
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of the
circulation of the magazine
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one man in placing.
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He was doing 50,000 subs a year.
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So I know the
potential of this sort of thing.
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This is what I
was wanting to do,
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then COVID hit.
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The Bible says,
where are the workmen?
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The workmen are few.
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If it's ready workmen
that the harvest will come in,
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and that's what I'm
waiting for in COVID.
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This is an emergency
that we didn't anticipate.
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It may or may not be
the beginning of a sequence
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for the very end of time,
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but it's the type of
thing that we can expect.
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And, I'm still
hoping and expecting
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that God's Spirit will
sweep over our membership
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and we will
rally and come forward.
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This is not the time to
go back and sleep at home.
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And yes, Zoom
can work to a point,
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but Zoom is not a substitute
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for these many
and myriad contacts
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that we're called to make.
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And we can still do it.
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And now I hear people say
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church isn't in the
walls of the church.
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Churches isn't a building.
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Well, then go
out in the streets,
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then go out, please.
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With a mask, but go out.
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Go out because
let's meet people,
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Christ method alone.
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Let's you can still
meet people where they are.
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Even if you take literature out,
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walk the streets.
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Even if you take resources,
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take pamphlets of nonprofits
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that are feeding and
where they're going to be.
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Or if your church is
still open for food banks,
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go out in your neighborhoods,
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pass out the pamphlets
and say our church food bank,
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this day, this time.
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Like a little church,
where I, when I'm around,
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when I attended in Hagerstown,
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they've got a drive
through food bank every week.
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I think my son
had been working on it
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particularly.
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I think it was on the Friday
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and they'd been quite surprised
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that the number of
families in the area
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that depend on that.
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Not just
appreciate it. Thank you. Yes.
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Without that, they
would be on starvation level.
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Out of work because of
COVID and other difficulties.
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Exactly.
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My home church, Long Beach,
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our community
services director threw it all.
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He has opened up our food bank,
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still every third Sunday,
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we probably have
close to 60, 70 families
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that come to us.
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We bag up about a
month's supply of food.
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Where would they
have gone otherwise?
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And I, I think, you know,
what you're doing is amazing,
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inspiring every time I
hear something about it.
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But as we sit in
the middle of COVID,
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I think in the middle,
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I don't believe this is
the end of the adventure.
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There'll be at least
most of next year to go.
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The emergencies are
going to increase the need.
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Of course, the spiritual,
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underlying
spiritual leaders is crying.
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But the
approach to discover that
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is often food and
contact and human support.
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COVID is a disease,
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but I believe
that we're entering
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into an uncharted
territory on the finances.
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We're very likely to see
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a almost a Great
Depression again,
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and people will
be literally needy
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for the most common things.
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Not just that
old diapers. Right.
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You know, maybe
children's diapers,
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maybe shoes,
the simplest things,
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even in our
so-called advanced country.
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There are people that are living
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in the most
abysmal, basic circumstances,
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and they need our help.
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They do. And it's not difficult.
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If you can start
out with one day a week,
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it doesn't have to be
burdensome and it's not.
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It can be one day a week.
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And if church is
outside the building,
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then go outside, then go
outside of your home also.
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And I was building
a lot of relationships
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with several churches
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because I would
visit pretty often.
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What I can say good about
Zoom and the conference calling
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is that I am now on
some days I can be on
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with two or three
different churches
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at the same time
building relationships.
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Yeah.
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And there are
great opportunities.
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I shouldn't bad
mouth it totally.
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But I just don't think
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it's a direct alternative
to the personal touch.
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But, yeah,
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you know, it's
inspiring what you're doing.
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And the takeaway from this
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is that it's not
just do good-rism.
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It's directly linking
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to our Religious
Liberty Public Affairs agenda,
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isn't it?
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It is.
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And, you know,
like I said before
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it's real heartwarming.
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We are spreading the gospel.
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They do see and know
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and hear about
Seventh-day Adventists,
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our church and what we're doing.
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And they see us as an asset
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and as a positive influence,
the elected officials,
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the community, the nonprofits,
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and it's a wonderful feeling
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to be called on for
requests as a resource.
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When they call me and
say, "Pati, can you help?"
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And I say, "Yes, I can."
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It's quite a few years now,
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since as a young man
with my parents and siblings,
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we took the long way
back from the US to Australia.
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And we stopped off in India
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and I will never to my dying day
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forget some of
the scenes that I saw.
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Of course, India
has moved a long way
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since then in most ways.
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But to see the degradation
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that existed in
certain places then,
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poverty on a
level as a westerner,
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I could have never
imagined the degradation,
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people with broken
arms and legs deformed
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by their parents often,
so they could be beggars.
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It's worth remembering
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that COVID with its
death and destruction
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on many families
in the United States.
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It's not the only
thing that's going on,
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whether it's in India
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or in the inner cities of the US
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or the working towns in Europe,
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there are people
in desperate straits
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and COVID should not
blind us to this crying need.
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We should like Jesus
Christ in His ministry,
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see the needs,
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physical and spiritual
of people all around us.
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And even though people are dying
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and in desperation,
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they are desperately of
need of the word of salvation,
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that they are free in Christ.
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And that the great liberator
and healer is soon to come.
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For Liberty Insider,
this is Lincoln Steed.
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