We're back here in
the Philippines in Manila.
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Philippines is the seventh
most populated country in Asia.
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You can tell that by
just looking around us here.
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We're on our way to catch a
bus to go the port of Batangas
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to catch the ferry to go over
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to our mission
house in Mamburao.
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So come along with us right now.
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I'll tell you a little bit
more about the Philippines.
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We've been working in the
Philippines now for 17 years.
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It's hard to believe that
we've been here that many years
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and the work has
just really progressed
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and God's blessed in many ways.
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Right now we're
heading down to--
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it's a big bus
station here in Manila,
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take it over to
the port of Batangas
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and our bus is right up here.
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It's always interesting just
trying to get around in Manila
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'cause it's such a crowded city.
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The Philippines
consist of about 7,000 islands
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and is located in
Southeastern Asia.
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Its total land
mass is equivalent
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to that of the State of Arizona.
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Our bus is taking us from
Manila to the port of Batangas.
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We're at the
Batangas here right now.
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This is where we go and get
our tickets to get on the ferry
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and head over to Abra De Log
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which is over on
the Island of Mindoro.
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Oh, it's fun 'cause you
got to carry all your stuff
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a long ways to get
over into the ferry.
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Christian Schrock is a
pastor from Switzerland.
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He has been to the
Philippines several times.
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This is Christian.
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He's gonna
actually be working with us.
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When are you gonna
come work with the ministry?
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In February or March?
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I will be joining in
August. August, okay.
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I have to finish my
duty in the conference first.
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Yeah, it's a small
world when you're traveling.
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We're always running
into people we know all over.
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Good to see you.
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Well, we're gonna go
up there and sit down
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and we'll see up there. Yes.
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In about a year
ago Christian Schrock
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brought a team of
young Swiss students
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to hold evangelistic meetings
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in connection
with Laymen Ministries
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and to help for several weeks
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with Laymen
Ministries academy project.
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After reaching
the period Abra De Log
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we then took a bus to Sea Breeze
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which is our mission
headquarters near Mamburao.
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Laymen Ministries
headquarters in temporary
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present truth academy
is located in this building
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just outside of
the city of Mamburao.
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I am Edith Ramos.
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I came from
Artacho Sison Pangasinan
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in the northern
part of the Philippines.
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My name is Diana Baricanosa
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and my friends
usually call me Lenlen.
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I'm 36 years old and I
came from Calamba City, Laguna.
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I teach Bible subject and
I'll be teaching Filipino.
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Sir, Bible subject
is also a very big,
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a very important
part of the program
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because that is the center
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of every academic
program that we have here.
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I'm working here at Sea
Breeze in Occidental Mindoro.
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What I'm doing here
is a high school teacher
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and also an
administrative assistant.
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We have the A Beka
program because it does provide
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a consistency of
curriculum in education.
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And at the same time our
students have a live teacher
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that is with
them in the classroom
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assisting them
in their education.
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A Beka program
they have this video
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and then there's also questions,
when they asked question,
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it's the time-- it's the only
time I will give the answers.
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I play as a facilitator.
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And most of the
time the teachers,
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the video teacher
usually do the teaching
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and I only
facilitate the students
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or if the student needs
some clarifications and also,
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I try to review my students
as well if he understood,
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or if they
understand the lessons.
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The A Beka program
is a Christian program
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and while we may not agree
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with the 100 percent of
the things that they do.
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They do have quality
teachers and quality materials.
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They have a variety of teachers
with different accents too
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and that actually
helps our students.
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It helps them to learn
faster or listen better,
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plus, the way
this program is set up,
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it's like they are sitting in
a classroom with a live teacher
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and other students
that are interacting.
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So we've been very pleased
with the quality of the program.
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And our students have done well
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whether they have
studied on their own
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or whether they
have studied as a group.
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The book education has
given us a real foundation
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for our instruction here.
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And as the book of
education points out,
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the Bible really
should be our first textbook.
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And we've personally found
that, that's absolutely correct.
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When we can raise the
level of understanding
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so that our
students can read the Bible
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for themselves
and understand it.
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They are excited about it.
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Through education
these young people
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or these Katutubo could
have the self confidence
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that they can prove to the world
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that even though I am a
Katutubo I'm part of this tribe,
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I can do what
they are doing also,
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that I can also be on
top where they are now.
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Yes, some Filipinos or
the Tagalogs, they call it.
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They make fun
with the Katutubos,
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they call them
Mangyans and they said
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the Mangyans have tails,
so they make fun of them.
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To really understand where
these Katutubo have come from,
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we need to go
to these mountains.
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The word Katutubo
simply means indigenous.
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In this part of the Philippines
they are the erie tribe
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and are considered
to be some of the most
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primitive people on the planet.
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They live a semi-nomadic
life and are mostly uneducated.
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They are shy,
superstitious, animus people
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often laden in filth
and affected by disease.
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Over the last 15
years Laymen Ministries
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had brought about a great change
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to many of the young people of
this tribe and their villages.
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My name is Angelito Taasan.
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I came from the
village of Pinagbayanan.
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I'm 19 years old.
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I'm grade 9 student of
Katutubo Excel Academy.
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My name is Meleth Parisan.
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I am 16 years old and
I come from the village--
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from the remote
village of Pinagbayanan.
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I'm Benjie Parisan
and I am 21 years old.
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I came from a remote village
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Agbalite, Paluan,
Occidental Mindoro.
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I'm Bernie Villanueva
and I'm now 17 years old
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and I came from the
remote village of Agbalite.
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My name is
BongBong Parisan Lagnaan
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and I came from the
village of Pinagbayanan
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and now I am 19 years old.
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I am Dennis Villanueva
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and I came from the
village of Binuangan
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and I am 19 years old.
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My name is Rodel Punlaan.
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I am 25 years old
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and I came from the
village of Pinagbayanan.
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There are many
changes in my life
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compared to my
life in the village.
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I can see the growth in my
life especially spiritually.
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Before, when I was
still in the village,
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I didn't read Bible,
I hated reading Bible,
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it seems for me that
it is very boring but,
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when I came to high school
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I realized that
it is very important.
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I stayed with
one of the missionary
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and they teach
me about the Bible
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and also the superstitious
belief that is not really true.
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One of my favorite memory
verses is found in 1 John 1:9.
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"If we confess our sins
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He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins,
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and to cleanse us from
all our unrighteousness."
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In Christmas time
we had a short vacation
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and I had done Bible
study with my parents
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and every Sabbath I was the
one who handled the program.
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The Bible had done
to me to changed my life
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because before I
didn't know about God
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and now the proof of it is that
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I am sharing His
love to my villagers.
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When I get older I would
like to go back to my village
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and teach them also about God
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and I would like also to
help them and educating them,
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so they will not be also
treated by the Tagalogs there.
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I am so much thankful to
God that He sent people to help.
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Actually, my favorite
subject in school is the Bible.
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Jim is taking us to
see our newest grade school
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located near the
little village of Sulong Ipil.
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Then, after a short
visit at the school,
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we're gonna head
up to the mountain
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to see the new
campus of Laymen Ministries
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present crew
with Katutubo Academy.
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We have just arrived at
Laymen Ministries' newest school
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in the village of Sulong Ipil.
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This school has been in
operation for three years
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and we think
you're gonna be excited
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about our teachers
and our students here.
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Good morning, my students.
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Oh. Oh, I get a double hug.
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Thank you, thank you,
thank you, a triple hug.
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Oh, how sweet.
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The human touch
is very important
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and even the sixth
grader that finished last March
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and came here in June.
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When I first
touched her she jumped,
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she-- not all the
children are the touchy kind.
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So now she reaches
out and touches me to
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see if I noticed
that somebody touched me
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and so we're
making a game out of it.
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Did you do math this morning?
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Yes or no? I didn't hear.
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Brother. Bible?
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Oh, how exciting.
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Did you have a
memory verse this morning?
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Yes, yes. What
was the memory verse?
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(1420 indistinct )
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Oh, how wonderful.
Thank you, thank you.
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( indistinct )
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Throughout the day.
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Thank you for
hearing our prayers and amen.
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Okay, you may go
to your classrooms.
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My name is Boying Celestre.
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And my name is Mae Celestre.
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I am Mercy Jose from Mindanao.
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My name is Nora and my
family name is Senerser.
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We are working now
with Laymen Ministry.
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We've been here
for almost four years.
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I've been
working nine years now.
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I've been working in Laymen
Ministries for five years.
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I work here in the
village of Sulong Ipil.
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This is my second year here
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teaching students
particularly higher grades.
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I'm teaching
grades three and four.
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I'm teaching the kinders.
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When we came to the village
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they were also thinking
that we cannot speak Tagalog.
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So they tried to speak to
us and entertain us in English.
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And so I was so amazed with
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what the Ministry
was doing to them.
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I was not expecting
that I would see them clean
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because I was thinking
that they will be uncivilized.
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But when we came to the
village the students we served
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are clean students and
they know how to speak English.
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I found out that education
did a great part for them.
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Yeah, and our education is
not only teaching them in school
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but how to be clean and
they were filthy before,
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but now because of the education
or the program of the Ministry--
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there's a 360 degrees
change in their lives.
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The children adapt very
nicely to the Bible stories
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that the teachers
have worship our classes,
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values classes and
have grown spiritually
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because there is so much
spiritism in the villages
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that they are afraid of
this and they are afraid of that
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and now they know
that Jesus loves them
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and so that's
something wonderful.
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That's they have never been
told that somebody loves them.
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Well, in
Katutubo's situation, sir,
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their parents sometimes no
attention to their children.
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If their children are
running or playing outside,
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even though they're hungry
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because sometimes
there is no food, no eating.
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Of course if you're
hungry your stomach is aching.
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Though they're reading sometimes
there is no understanding,
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and I think food
is one of the factors
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that affects
also their learning.
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I think education a big part in
what happened to the villages.
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This was a temporary school.
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We're using this
now for grade one.
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But we want to tear this down
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and construct the
missionary house here
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and then down below
we'll enclose the open area
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and make an
additional classroom,
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so that we have
all the classes there
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and the
missionary quarters here.
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Good morning. Good morning.
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Nice to see you.
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Yes, I thought I would get a big
hug from this girl, thank you.
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We've taken a different
approach here in Sulong Ipil
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than we have in
the other villages.
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One reason is
because I'm here frequently.
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And I see what goes on,
on the day to day basis.
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And I've been able to
teach our teachers here
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that affection breaks barriers.
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And as you see I did
not ask these children
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to give me a hug this morning.
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Yeah, they just came right
out, immediate response. Oh.
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When I-- they hear my truck
'cause it's so old and rattly
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so when I'm driving
by and they are on break
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they stand on the
road and expect me to stop
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'cause they want to hug.
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And as a result
barriers have dropped
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not only with the children
but with the parents here.
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And we've not pushed
anyone to come to school
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and we've
maintained very strict rules.
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It's a privilege
to come to our school.
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And as a result our
numbers continued to increase
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as our students are
the witness in the village.
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My name is Lowell Ramos.
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I'm working here at
Sulong Ipil teaching.
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Today I'm teaching
grades one and two.
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I've been working here
since June last year 2012.
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And as you know our schools
are four of the minority.
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So I've to say,
sorry I can't do that.
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But it is well
known in the community
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and in the
department of education
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that our students excelled.
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We're halfway up the
mountain called Capowan
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which literally means
baldhead and you can see why.
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Years ago the
timber was ripped off of it
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and never been replanted
and it was burned many times.
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This is the
high school property.
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On top you see
our wind generator
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and you see the two buildings,
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these are staff housing
that one is almost complete,
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99 percent complete,
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the other ones in
maybe 70 percent complete.
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We're close enough to
the city for convenience sake
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but we're far enough
away to avoid the pollution
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and the
distractions for our students.
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So this is going to be
as you will see in a minute
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the high school site,
the high school academy site.
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We're standing
beside the academy
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that we're constructing
here on top of this ridgeline
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for our Katutubo students
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who graduate from
our elementary schools.
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We've designed the
building to be an octagon.
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To take advantage of the wind
from any direction for cooling,
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for circulation
because we're in the tropics,
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it does get hot.
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But we get the
wonderful sea breeze
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usually starting about noon
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and up here because
we're also on a ridgeline
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we get the advantage
of the uplift of any air
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that stirring as you can see
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from our wind
generator behind us.
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Now the octagon is
a 25 meter diameter
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and it will contain classrooms
and administrative rooms
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and then the next and
I hope the last building
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that we built will
be here adjacent to us
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and that will be the
dormitory and the cafeteria.
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So our goal is that
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next year this time we
will have moved everything
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from our present
location in the town
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up here to the mountain
to have our academy here.
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On top of the container
which houses the battery
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and the invertors for
our whole electrical system.
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We also have six solar
panels, 280 watts each.
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This is our battery bank
which stores our electricity
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from the wind
generator and the solar panels.
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And then comes in here
00:23:08.88\00:23:10.35
and right now we're
producing 53.9 volts
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so that's our
storage capacity now.
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These are our invertors
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and then from
here we take the power,
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either as 220 or 110
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depending on what we're using.
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Since this one is
presently being worked on.
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Why don't we go to one
that's almost finished.
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We don't have cabinets yet,
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but lighting, flooring,
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plumbing is all complete.
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This being the
cooking food preparation area.
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This is our dinning tables,
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so we can have
seats around here.
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We're in an efficiency apartment
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and we only have
about 350 square feet.
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And then here a small bedroom
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and then this will
be a master bedroom
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because it has its own bathroom.
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God has provided us here
with a beautiful location.
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We're sitting on a ridgeline.
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We have the beautiful ocean,
00:24:29.06\00:24:30.77
unobstructed view of
the ocean in one direction
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and an
unobstructed view of mountains
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in all the other directions.
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Meaning, we get really
nice breeze without pollution.
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So we've tried
to design the houses
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so that they will take
advantage of the breeze
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because it does get hot here.
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And also to
inspire both students
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and teachers in God's nature.
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Laymen Ministries
is special for us.
00:24:57.86\00:25:01.26
As a team Jim and I
have grown spiritually
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as well as having helped
other people to come to Christ.
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If you are willing to
learn and to grow come
00:25:10.97\00:25:14.94
and visit this young
people at Laymen Ministries.
00:25:14.98\00:25:19.55
Thank you for
giving and helping us
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to know more about Jesus.
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I'm so happy that I have a
privilege to have an education
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that I can learn
spiritual and academic things.
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God still gives us strength
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but we desperately need
people with a burning desire
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to help these children continue
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and to carry some of the
load that we're carrying today.
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I know that there
will be a lot of challenges
00:25:47.78\00:25:50.78
that will come in your life.
00:25:50.81\00:25:53.78
When you come here but,
if you are really willing
00:25:53.82\00:25:59.09
God is ready to help as
long as it is God's plan.
00:25:59.12\00:26:04.86
I would like to encourage
the studied missionaries
00:26:04.89\00:26:08.06
that are from the
other counties to come
00:26:08.10\00:26:11.30
and see what
our fellow Katutubos
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and help us to educate more
and learn especially about God.
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If I could speak to
you personally I would say,
00:26:24.05\00:26:28.48
one, make sure of your position
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in your
relationship with Jesus Christ.
00:26:33.19\00:26:36.89
And if you do that I
am absolutely positive
00:26:36.93\00:26:40.86
if you're
listening to His voice,
00:26:40.90\00:26:43.37
He will take you
where He wants you to be.
00:26:43.40\00:26:47.47
And I can tell you
that's the only place
00:26:47.50\00:26:50.21
you're gonna find joy.
00:26:50.24\00:26:52.41
That may be a place like
Occidental Mindoro, Philippines,
00:26:52.44\00:26:57.31
but it could also be
right where you're living now,
00:26:57.35\00:26:59.88
your own family,
your own community,
00:26:59.91\00:27:01.88
your own church.
00:27:01.92\00:27:03.42
So I can't tell you
what is best for you
00:27:03.45\00:27:09.16
but I know who knows what
is best for you and for me.
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Breaking through
this superstitions
00:27:21.07\00:27:22.74
and backwards way of life
00:27:22.77\00:27:24.17
of the indigenous
Aria tribe is a challenge.
00:27:24.21\00:27:27.68
But through
Christ centered education
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progress is being made.
00:27:35.62\00:27:37.49
There is hope for the future as
the Aria's students get trained
00:27:40.92\00:27:45.06
and go back as missionaries
to their own people.
00:27:45.09\00:27:48.50
Laymen Ministries appreciate
your prayers and support.
00:27:50.57\00:27:55.14
Together we can
make a difference.
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