This is the first part
of March in Northern Idaho
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and they say that
this has something
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to do with global warming.
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Anyhow, this is
the time of the year
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that we go over
to the Philippines
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so we're gonna go
from this to this.
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It's hot and sweltering
here in the Philippines.
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Over, 95 degrees
today, high humidity.
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Why we are here
in the Philippines?
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We're gonna take you
over to Sablayan and show you
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the Prison
Ministry that's going on.
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We're gonna take you
out to the remote villages
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and show you the
work and the missionaries
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and the student missionaries
are doing out there.
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Manila is the
capital of the Philippines.
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The Philippines is the
12th most populated country
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in the whole world
with over 90 million people.
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You know what that
means, that means crowded.
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This is Joe and Ellen Beazley
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they came over to
Philippines here in December.
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Right now we're, we
just met him here last night.
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We're gonna hop on this bus.
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We're gonna head over
to the port of Batangus
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and cross over to
island of Mindoro.
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And go see our
mission house there.
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So you guys are ready to go?
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We're ready. Okay, let's go.
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On reaching the Batangas
we've to check through security
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before boarding the ferry
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to cross over to
the Port of Abra.
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Ferry schedules can vary
and prolong with bad weather.
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Well, sometimes you can get
stuck at the port for hours.
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We're gonna take this ferry
over across to the port of Abra
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and then we're
gonna take a jeep or truck
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and cross over to
the town of Mamburao
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where we have our mission house.
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The Philippines is
made up of 7,107 islands.
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Some of the
islands are huge landmasses
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where other ones are
just not even inhabitable
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because they are so small.
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The very windy
day here on the ferry.
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We're looking
forward to getting over
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to our mission
house this afternoon
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probably, around 2 o'clock.
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The next step is to find a taxi
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which in most
cases is a small minivan.
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The distance to
our mission house
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is about 30
kilometers and that's 19 miles.
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It takes around 45 minutes.
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Soon we arrive at
Laymen Ministries mission house
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located outside
the town of Mamburao.
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Mamburao was a medium sized town
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that has a lot of hustle
and bustle and well noise
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because of the constant driven
of motorcycles and jeepneys.
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The open market is a
beehive of activities.
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You can find an
interesting assortment
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of such things as fresh fruit,
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a lot of different
types of fish, and well, meat.
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The mission house
is full of activities.
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It's used as our
main business office,
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also a temporary high school
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for our graduate
students from the villages,
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then we also hold
our training seminars
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here for all of
the missionaries.
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During the school
hours Ellen Beazley helps
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tutor our high schools
students on laptop computers.
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To fully appreciate this,
you need to better understand
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where these students came from.
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These students are from a
regional tribe called Ryans.
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They refer to as Katutubo
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which translated
means native or indigenous.
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The Ryan tribe
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is one of the most primitive
people groups in the world
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living a semi-nomadic lifestyle
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in the mountainous
regions of this area.
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They live in very
simple crude homes
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that change from month to month.
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There're times they
simply live out in the jungles
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making the trees and
the branches their home,
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foraging food crops
and other things to eat.
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Diseases extremely
prevalent among these people
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as many do not understand
basic hygiene or nutrition.
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I will explain more
to you in a little while
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about what is created
the change you see here
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but it is truly a miracle
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that these kids now
use laptop computers.
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Lead out in worship services,
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do public
speaking and read and write
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better then many of
the national children
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in the public schools.
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Anna Lin teaches the classes
using DVD home school materials
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from America along
with other textbooks.
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The kids love to learn
and well, quite frankly
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they can do math
much better than I can.
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Joe Beazley leads
out in Bible classes
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with the
students on a daily basis.
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The students are
responsible for also leading out
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in evening and morning
worship services with the staff.
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Moni, Webb and Ellen
Beazley work together
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on the book
keeping and monthly budgets
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for all the villages
and the prison ministry.
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Speaking of which, as
this day comes to an end
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tomorrow I want to take
you to see the prison ministry.
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This morning I wanted
drive this trustworthy hopefully
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trustworthy little
minivan over to Sablayan,
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it's about 90
kilometers from here
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and we're gonna go see Louie
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in while over
to prison ministry.
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I'm hoping this
minivan makes it,
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it's not the most
that, it's not the most,
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I don't know how to say it
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but I hope it's dependable.
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The tyres are a
little bit worn on it
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and it has few rust
holes that they keep telling me
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that there is a good chance
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that this will make
it over there in back
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so we'll find out this morning.
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The trip is
mostly over dirt roads
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intermixed with a few
smooth areas of pavement.
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It's around 70
kilometers that's 45 miles
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and it takes around
three hours to drive
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due to the
conditions of the roads.
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The trip is hot and dusty
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especially when
trucks and jeepneys drive by
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leaving huge dust clouds.
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They use the roads it's a
dry a lot of the grains out.
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They actually spread
them out on the highways
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and cars and trucks oftentimes--
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we just drive
right over top of it
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and that kind of
helps threshing process.
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And then they
rake in several times
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and they pick it
up and put it in bags.
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The planting, cutting
rice is a difficult task
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especially when you
consider how hot it is outside.
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Right now they are taking
the real mature husks crops
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and they're putting
them through the thresher
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separating the
kernels from the husks.
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Life here in the
Philippines extremely difficult
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and this is just bare,
the bare existence for them
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trying to survive,
trying to do this kind of work
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and provide for their families.
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At the prison Luisito Benitez
and Abel Miralles lead out
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in training the
inmates to do outreach.
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When we have the idea
of turning the 62,500 acre
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Pino colony
into a Bible seminary
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we thought that it
was kind of a crazy idea
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but over the
years it's turned out
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to be actually quiet successful.
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The inmates here
as you've witnessed
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they, they conduct
their own church services.
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They're trained in such a
way that they basically run
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their whole organizations
inside the prison by themselves.
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The church service today was
done completely by the inmates.
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We had one native that
came from Paradise church
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who did special music
but all the special music
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and even the sermon
which was very well done today.
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It was done by the inmates.
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And this is the second
church Laymen Ministries
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has helped work together
with the inmates to build.
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We don't just give them
money to build the church
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what we do is we give
them some of the cement
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and we use an intensive program
to get the inmates involved
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with being able to get
wood and cogan for the roof
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and such so that when
they build the church here
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this church is
actually their church.
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Recently we had 93 inmates
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who sealed their
decisions to accept Jesus Christ
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as their personal
savior through baptism.
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And Pastor
Pernia did the baptism.
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For 10 years working
in the Prison Ministry
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and nine years working
with the Laymen Ministries
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I would say that God
sustained all our needs.
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For me working with the Lord
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and Prison Ministry
was a big privilege.
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My life before
was on the dark side
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but something
happened God called me
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to work for the Prison Ministry.
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He changed my life.
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By now we have prison guard
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who is regularly attending
our Sabbath worship with us.
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He is also studying the
Bible and together with his wife
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they came to
attend every Sabbath.
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I can say that
I'm an ordinary layman
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but with the power
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and the blessings
of the Holy Spirit,
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God used me mightily.
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If you have the willingness
and commitment to do God's work
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you can be a
powerful worker for that.
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After a busy and
dusty trip to Sablayan
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we'll get some rest
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and tomorrow we'll
be off to the villages.
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We went shopping
for our groceries
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for the
missionaries for the month
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and we're sorting
them and packaging them
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and boxing them up
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to put on the boat to
take to the missionaries.
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It's early in the morning here
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about supposed to
5:30 in the morning
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and we're getting ready
to go out to the villages.
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This is a really
nice time in the morning
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because the humidity is down
and the temperature is down.
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We're gonna be
loading up the boat here
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and we're going to spend
probably about almost two weeks
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about ten, eleven,
twelve, days out in the villages
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to see what missionaries
are doing and checking
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on the student
missionary down there.
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We're gonna move
the boat over right now
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and load it up in
and head on this morning.
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Jim had just told
me time and time again
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that he can really rely
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with lot of those
old Adventist camps
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you know, like
throughout the lifeline
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and all those song
that have do with sailing
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because the
ocean current is black,
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the water is clean white
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and billowous and
it is rough indeed
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but today by God's
grace its just as calm
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and its
beautiful as it could be.
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They got a dirty kitchen here.
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That's a cute
little place. Yeah.
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And have you had any
problems with snakes or--
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Oh, just a few. Big spiders?
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Big spiders.
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Oh, have you were
afraid of spiders?
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Oh, just a little.
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So you even got a
sink upon concrete here.
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Yeah.
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So tell us about your
little house, what do you got?
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This is my house
and this is my kitchen
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and my living room altogether
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and this is my room here I
share with another missionary.
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This is your bedroom?
Yeah, this is a bedroom.
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I see you got
your mosquito nets up.
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Definitely,
because the spiders out.
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And so what do
you have on over here?
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This is my
lowest bathroom, my CR.
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Why do they call
them CRs? Comfort Room.
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Oh, it's a comfort room.
Is this a comfortable room?
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I mean it depends.
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So how do you take a bath here?
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This is my shower and
I just take the dipper
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and this my shower.
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So when you knew that
you're going to be out here
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did you think it was
gonna be this primitive
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or is this better
than you were hoping?
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This is better
than I was hoping.
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And when you saw this toilet?
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I was a little bit shocked.
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I was thinking
in my expectations
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where I was
gonna be very primitive
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and it was gonna be
glorified camping which it
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mostly is but its
enjoyable glorified camping.
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And then you don't
think about it after a while
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becomes like a nature.
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I work in Binuangan
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its one of the three laymen
villages in the Philippines.
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I work with the Katatubo people
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they are primitive
people in Mindanao.
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Working with the
children has been
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a wonderful blessing for me.
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I love kids and these
kids are very sweet and gentle
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and the
experience has been wonderful
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the bonding has been awesome.
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This is our first
graduation of Grade 6.
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Grade 6 is the end
of the elementary school
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here in the Philippines
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and after this our one graduate
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today will be going to
Mamburao to the home office
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where we have an
immediate junior high school
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and then further high school.
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Our next stop is at the
village of Pinagbayanan.
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Boni Hosea who has been
working for us here seven years
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along with his
wife Mercy greeted me.
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And of course,
there are the kids.
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It's hard to believe at one time
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these children were so shy
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they would hide
from us when we arrived.
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Well, this is the
group from Pinagbayanan
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and this is our
teachers from this last year.
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Michelle who is also
one of the Katatubo teachers
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she went back to the village
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but we thought
maybe we'd give you
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a tour of the places
that are, the buildings
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that are on the
facility here and their houses
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and just kind of take a
general look at the campus.
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So where should we start?
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The accommodations
are rustic and simple.
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We have power by
only solar panels
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which provides
light and some power
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for charging cell phones
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that is if it's not
raining too much outside.
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This couple here
they, they were teaching
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last year in different villages.
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Yes.
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And then you decide
to tie the knot, right?
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Yeah.
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And they got married
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and they're planning long
term missionary work here.
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And this is your
little house up here?
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Yeah.
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A really nice campus.
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There is
everything is nice and clean.
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The classrooms are
made from cement or bamboo
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using thatched or metal roofs.
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In this village we
have four school houses
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consisting of six classrooms.
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So this is where you're teaching
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and what grade
pupils you have here?
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Kindergarten.
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And did you do all
this beautiful artwork here?
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Yeah, interesting.
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God is love, 1 John 4:8.
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We have a clean
kitchen and a dirty kitchen?
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A dirty kitchen.
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And when we talk
about dirty kitchens
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here in the
Philippines we are not saying
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that their kitchen is dirty.
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It just means
it's an outdoor kitchen
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where they cook with
charcoal and wood, yeah.
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And so they have
an outside kitchen.
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And sometimes it's really dirty.
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Yeah?
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Now they're ready
for the graduation, right
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and its all setup
for graduation right now.
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Yeah.
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And how many people
you said are gonna come?
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Five hundred people.
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And today they have practiced
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and they practiced and practiced
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and can be a lot of people here.
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Nice roomy classroom
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its kind of metal
roof it's been insulated.
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And how do you actually say it?
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Pinagbayanan. Pinang?
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Pinag.
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I will never learn Tagalog.
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This is Andy.
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Andy is gonna demonstrate
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how they actually
climb these coconut trees
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and harvest the coconuts here.
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Believe me, Andy makes this look
much easier than it really is.
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I tried this once and I
got about half way up the tree
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but I decided it was a
life threatening situation
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and returned to the
ground well with a "thud."
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They call this
young or tender coconut
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because it's newly picked.
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The juice inside is refreshing.
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And coconuts are major
staple in the Philippines.
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They're used for making
soap, oil and even candy.
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You can make
right now, is the spoon
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out of the
outside of the coconut
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because the inside of
the coconut is really soft.
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And you could
pick it out like this--
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and get it.
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Tender coconut,
it's really good.
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This is Neng-Neng and
how old are you Neng-Neng?
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You know? Thirteen.
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Thirteen, she is 13 years old
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and exactly one year
ago almost exactly today
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we had her in
Mamburao to see Dr. Baron
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because she had a
really severe cleft palate
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and we worked with Dr.
Baron and he actually told us
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that he would
donate the operation
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to correct the problem.
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And that Laymen
Ministries have just paid
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for the hospital expenses.
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And Jim and Moni
worked with them to do that.
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And lot of times so
that we have other children
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that have come to ministry
that have different problems
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and we have special
situations like this
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for people in
America donate funds and help
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with doing different types
of corrective surgery here.
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One boy we took to Manila
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and he had some extensive
corrective surgery done
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and today he is
functioning normal.
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He was actually
born without a rectum
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and they did
reconstructive surgery
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on him to have that fixed.
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So there's some
serious things here
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and lot of time the
kids will never have a chance
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to live a more normal life
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if there wasn't the opportunity
for missionaries to be here
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at to really help
with the situations.
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Then we pull that
one going out here
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so that there will be--
we're going to palate them.
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Today she is really
beautiful and looks good
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and the surgery
turned out really good
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and she is living
here with Boni, Mercy now.
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And she is happy and
she's got a beautiful smile.
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And what, what grade are you in.
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In grade one. In grade one.
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I think after that.
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So you'll be
great one next year?
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Yes.
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Oh good. That's good.
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The change in my children's
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or my students got here
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the way they treat
the people around them.
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It really show their
love, their affection
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and like before it did.
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They hide it and
it's their very bashful
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or they're very
shy with those people.
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But now they're really
trying and they've been matured
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and their level of
education is improved.
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And it's very nice
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and the words
that came from them
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really encourages me to still
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or to teach more of
this kind of students
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although its
hard but its worthy.
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Our village projects here have
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continued to
grow and be blessed.
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Over the 12 years
that I've been here
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I watched the quality
of education increased.
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Seeing the ignorance disappear
and the kids burning to read
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and write and learn basic Bible.
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We have a lot of young students
in this particular school.
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And we're now ready to enter
to the next level of education
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and Biblical training and that
is with our high school project.
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Now, we want to
build some new buildings
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and such on a piece of
property we've already acquired
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so that these kids as
classes keep growing and growing
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we have more and more graduates
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so they'll have a
place to be able to go
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where they can have
good solid Biblical teaching
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and to be able to
advance in the academics.
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This is the closest
village to the property
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that we've purchased
for building a high school.
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Now that
property is behind this.
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We actually
can't see the property
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exactly from where I'm standing.
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It's over this next ridge line.
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Our plan is to build a road
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to the property from
here from this village
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and establish a working academy
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for our native graduates
from our elementary schools
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so that they can get
a high school education.
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This way they can come back
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to be missionaries
to their own people.
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We have quiet a number
of young students right now.
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Eighteen, nineteen years old
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that are ready
to go to that level
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that have a burning desire
to comeback to the villages
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and to really work
amongst their own people
00:23:36.46\00:23:38.61
and we're very
excited about this.
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This is really a
wonderful opportunity.
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We need to build real buildings,
we need to put a road in,
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we need people that
would be willing to come
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and be staff for our
academy or high school
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and also to be
involved with building.
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So I just ask that
you would pray with us
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as we move
forward to this next level
00:23:54.51\00:23:56.25
because it is a wonderful
opportunity to serve God
00:23:56.28\00:23:59.95
with a Katatubo people
here in the Philippines.
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This is village of Agbalite
and we are really blessed
00:24:20.85\00:24:24.94
because the way is really big,
00:24:24.97\00:24:26.46
we probably
gonna have to swim in
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but we are actually able to
get the boat right up to shore.
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This is where
Neng-Neng and Joe and Bilgrade
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and Lindsay are working.
00:24:36.34\00:24:38.80
We'll be spending a
Sabbath here with them.
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Oh. Hello.
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Hi, how are you?
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It's kind of hope when I
get it toward your house.
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Looks like you
got a new place here.
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Yeah.
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Now my name is Lindsay Charlton
and I'm from Helena, Montana.
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I'm 18 years old and I've
been here in the Philippines
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for about 10 months now.
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Being here is
really made me realize
00:25:14.48\00:25:16.54
the need to have a one on
one relationship with them
00:25:16.57\00:25:20.60
and that you need them everyday.
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And to have that
extra support from God
00:25:24.49\00:25:28.03
is just like to
have a peace of mind.
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The second year has been exactly
00:25:33.48\00:25:39.24
what I could ever wanted to be.
00:25:39.27\00:25:42.82
It has been a year for me
to get closer with the God
00:25:42.85\00:25:48.15
and to expand and grow my faith
00:25:48.18\00:25:52.45
so that I now have much
more confidence in my God
00:25:52.48\00:25:56.72
then I did before I
became a missionary.
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Sulong Ipil is a newest village
project that we've started.
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Located at the
base of where we want
00:27:05.56\00:27:07.13
to build our secondary academy
00:27:07.16\00:27:09.29
we seek to help these people
00:27:09.32\00:27:10.92
find a new way
of life in Christ.
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