I've been thinking
about all the years
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we've been coming
here to the Philippines,
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came here the first time in 1997
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and I remember when
Allen and Maritess Branson
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asked me to come up to
the village of San Jose
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up in the mountains here.
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And I went into that
village and I was just horrified
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and shocked by what I saw.
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In fact, I coined this
phrase that the people here,
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the Katutubo people
are what the Tagalogs
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call the Mangyans in this area
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where an almost forgotten people
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and it seems like
they are most forgotten
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because in the
villages I'd never seen
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any kind of conditions
like this in my whole life.
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I saw old black
and white pictures of--
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from the 1940's
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after the
Japanese were driven out
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and I saw the
pictures of the Mangyans
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or the Katutubo
people with the soldiers
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and were no different
then what I saw in 1997.
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The disease and the conditions,
the fungus on the skins.
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It's the first video
as we shot here in 1997
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have been showing
on some of our programs
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and those videos
and those pictures
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still haunt me today
because of what I saw there.
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Over the years we
hiked into the mountains
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and we got newer
footage of the conditions
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of some of the people there
with just terrible situation
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beetle nut coming
out of their mouths
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and their teeth missing
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and they hadn't
taken bath for weeks
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and living under the
bondage of superstition
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and it was just heart
wrenching and realized that
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we needed to do
something to help these people.
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And one of the things
that was really necessary was
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the need of
Christ in the villages
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to be able to free the people
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from the
shackles of superstition
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and bondage and to
be able to establish
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some kind of
self birth in Christ.
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An education was gonna
have to play an important part.
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So I remember
back in 19-- early 1998
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I asked Jim and
Moni Webb to come here
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and they retired business
people in the state of Texas
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and I knew that
they could possible come
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and troubleshoot this project
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and help us with
some ideas maybe.
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Jim and Moni Webb came here
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and they were only gonna
stay for like six or seven weeks
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and now its been
16 going on 17 years
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and they are still here.
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Working in these villages
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was an extremely hard
thing to start out with.
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So we saw that
education is gonna be key role
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but trying to
convince the older people that
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they needed to make changes
was gonna be almost impossible.
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They say old habits die
hard and that's really true.
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And so we realized that it was--
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if any kind of
change was gonna take place
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it's gonna have to be
through the young people
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or through the children.
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So we started schools
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and you know these
people are like a nomadic tribe.
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They only stay in
these little makeshift houses
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for a few months out of the year
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and then they are
up in the mountains
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doing slash and burn
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planting rice
and harvesting rice
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and just living
from one meal to the next
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and often times-- having times
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where they were starving
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and happening to dig
up poisonous root crops
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and washing them in the
rivers to try to be able to
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find some kind of
simple foods to eat
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and eating is always
called yami and cassava,
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basically food
it has no nutrition
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but puts a little bit of food
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in the bottom of their stomachs.
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So trying to establish a school
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at a place like
this is extremely hard.
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And over period of time,
we started building schools.
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In fact, we build
schools in some places
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and it just didn't
work and we had to move
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to a different place after that.
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And then places like Pinabayaan
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and we started to
having more, more students come
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and have got up to
103 students there.
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And then Cagbalete
was another village
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that we established a
school and it started growing
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and we built a campus there.
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But beings at the
people were nomadic
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the parents always wanted to
pull their kids out of school
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and they always
would say things like
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oh, we are Mangyan,
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you know, we
don't need education.
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This is the way
our fathers lived
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and our forefathers lived.
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Dreams are for the Tagalog
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or the child's of
the majority people
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but not for Mangyans,
Mangyans don't have dreams
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they just live this way.
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But we encouraged the parents
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keep putting
their kids in school,
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kids came and went
and we started setting
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a standard higher
and higher for the kids.
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And we started seeing
change starting to develop.
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Kids would come and go
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and some of the kids would stay,
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some of the kids that
only last a half year,
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and we started
to roll saying that,
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if they had three absences
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they had to leave the school
till the next school year.
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And they started
to understand that
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these foreigners,
these Americans were taking
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this education
idea very seriously
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and some of the children
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started attending
school and not missing.
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Some of the children
would come here very hungry
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the teachers would feed them.
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And over a period of time
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we started seeing the
children grow older and older
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and they started
learning English,
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they started
understanding their Bibles.
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They started
growing and maturing
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and it was a delight.
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Education is a
long time process.
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I mean we-- we
are not only teaching
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English and math to these kids.
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Actually what we ask them
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is a complete
mentality and culture change.
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We ask them to
understand new concepts of life,
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planning ahead, hygiene.
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We try to help them
to prepare for future.
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And let me remind us
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that every thing we're doing
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is to prepare
these native children
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these indigenous children
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to become missionaries
to their own people.
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That's our whole focus.
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They are used to--
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to ask and demand for
things and we try to help them.
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You can do
something with your life,
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you can be independent,
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you can prepare for
yourself if you know how
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and we are willing to teach you.
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So it's not only a matter
of teaching English and math
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there is much more behind it.
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And that takes
time, it takes time
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for the parents to
allow their kids to attempt.
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You know parents
always made it difficult,
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it seems like the
parents are constantly trying
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to pull their
kids out of the school.
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They just didn't
see a vision for,
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you know, the idea of education
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for this minority group
here in the mountains and--
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but then they would
come to church services
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and they would listen
to the missionary preach.
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They started to
listen to their children
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talk to them in their homes
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and you don't have
to-- you have to understand
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in this kind of
culture there is very,
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you know, little interaction
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between the
children and the parents.
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There is very little emotion,
there is very little affection
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and the concept of saying
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I love you to a child
is the most unheard off.
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And the missionaries here
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were talking
about the love of Christ
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and they were
touching the children.
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They were telling the
children they love them
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and they were
building these bonds
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and these kids would go home
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and share with the parents
the things they were learning
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and this change
started gradually to come.
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Some of the children
started reading really well,
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and then they
started reading Bible books
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and reading books on history
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and geography and
learning mathematics
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and learning their Bible's
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and the teachers
and the missionaries,
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the student
missionaries that Came
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year after year were
incorporating the Bible
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into their grammar
lessons, into their mathematics.
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And so the children
became more and more acquainted
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with the scriptures and
the truths the scriptures.
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And you know
there's power in the word
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to be able to
bring about change.
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And that's
probably for me personally
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and one of the reasons
I'm still a Christian till day
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'cause of the word.
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You know it's not
because of what people say
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good or bad either way
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but it's because
of the word I'm here.
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And I know it's
because of that word that
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will sustain these kids
to stay in these schools
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and to be able to be
part of a better society,
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to be able to come back
to their own people group.
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Back in around 2002,
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we decided it'd be a
really good opportunity
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as the school started to grow.
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They started having
student missionaries come here.
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I remember the
first student missionary
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was a young man by
name of Tim De La Torre
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came here from California.
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And that opened the door
for a wonderful opportunity
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for young people to be
involved with this project.
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We've had young
people who had come here
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from South Africa,
from various parts of Europe
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and also from Australia.
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And most recently we
have a young girl name Andrea
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that's here from
the country of Honduras.
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These student missionaries
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have coming on a year after year
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and they worked
with the students
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and help them with understanding
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how to read and write
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and how to study the
Bible for themselves.
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The real nuts and bolts
if I can say it that way
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of making this
whole operation successful
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is our Filipino
and Filipina coworkers.
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The-- they've come
from all different parts
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for the Philippines
to Tagalog, Visayan,
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Ilocano various different areas
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and the
Philippines who have come here.
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Frank and his wife
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have been in this
particular village eight years
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working with these children.
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And each one of
these student missionaries
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have brought with them
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a bonding
relationship of hugging the kids
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and telling the
kids that they love them
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and helping them
to grow spiritually
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and to be able to teach them
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better English
and teach them math
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and history and
geography and Bible
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and all these different things.
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But more than that
that they found out
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that world is
considerably bigger
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than this whole village here.
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And so they
started learning about
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wow, where did this
student missionary come from?
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Oh, they're from Switzerland
and they got out a map
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and they
actually started grasping
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the concept of
the globe, the world
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and that there was
these other countries
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and different
cultures and people groups
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and they were black and yellow
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and white and brown and--
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it's just been a
really wonderful opportunity.
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This is a great
opportunity for young adults
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who are college age
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to spend one year here
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and work in these villages.
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So Andrea, you are
here from Honduras,
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how you like it so far?
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It's been a good experience.
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The village, the
kids are really friendly.
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At first they were really shy
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but then when
you get to know them
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its really good
friendship you have with them.
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How long have you been here now?
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I think like a month,
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I think I don't count the days.
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And today where are you going?
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I'm going to Mangyan
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to the village I'm
going to be on tour.
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So you haven't had
the opportunity to see
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where you are going yet?
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No, not yet.
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And how you're gonna get there?
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Hiking.
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How many hours did they say?
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Some of them tell me six
hours, some of them five hours.
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I'm going to say--
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If you are anxious it's gonna be
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six and half hour probably.
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Yes. So you ready for that?
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I think, just
let's see what it shows.
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Okay, well, we will
see you on the other side.
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And see how you're doing
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when you get
there or if you make it.
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I know, I'm not
gonna be like this.
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I'm going to be all dirty
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maybe some leeches in my legs
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or something like that, yes.
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Okay, well, we'll see you
on the other side. Safe trip.
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Okay, thank you.
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We left on
Laymen Ministries boat
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that same day to go to
the village of Binuangan
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and well, Andrea
with the students
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and teachers
took a bus to Paluan
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and hike the five hour
trip over the mountain.
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We started out by
loading the boat down
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with supplies
for all the villages.
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This is what we
do every single time
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we need to take
supplies out to the villages
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where we have projects.
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Are you tired?
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How about you?
How are you doing?
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I'm okay, at least I'm here.
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I thought I was
never going to get here.
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Is this what you
are expecting so far?
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Its actually
looks more beautiful.
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More beautiful.
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I thought that they
were like wood houses.
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You haven't-- you
haven't seen inside yet though.
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The big spiders and snakes--
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They told me about the snakes.
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That's just not right, it
doesn't happen very often.
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We never had the
opportunity to be in the village
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when we were student
missionaries just arriving
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so this is kind of a
new experience for me, too.
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Oh, that's fine.
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But I'd like to
see your reaction
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but so far you seem
pretty favorable towards it.
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It's because people have
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just told me
that village is ugly
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and you're not going to like it.
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What I think is just looks okay.
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Well, this is the campus
and that's actually village.
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You got to see
the few of the houses
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where you came in
there, pretty interesting.
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This is where you're
gonna be staying right here.
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Let's see.
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I actually gone in and
kind of looked everything over
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and make sure it was
looking pretty good for you.
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Do I close my eyes
or something like that?
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So this is it.
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Wow.
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You have a nice
little living area here.
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Yes.
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And we brought
you a new mattress,
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you probably knew that.
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Oh, I haven't, yes.
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There's your new mattress
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and then you got your bed there.
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And then this is
the kitchen in here,
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and you got this but
there is no gas bottle,
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I think that they may be forgot
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to give you a
gas bottle for you.
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I can cook with
fire so that's okay.
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You know how to cook with fire?
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No. No, I can't.
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You got a lot of
things to learn here.
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Okay.
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Oh, the one thing I
want to show you is the CR.
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Oh, the comfort room.
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Take a look at this.
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Well, take a look
see what you think here?
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That's how
you're gonna take baths
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with that thing you take that.
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Yes, the deep tray.
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Yeah, the picture over your head
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and then you got to
a little toilet there.
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And you think you're
gonna be able to take that water
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and just pour it
over to you like that.
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I think but I don't know
why they call it comfort room.
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This isn't comfortable for me.
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Yeah, we always thought
that was kind of oxymoron,
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they call it a comfort room
but it's not very comfortable.
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This is gonna be your new home,
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for how long, you're gonna
stay here till April, right?
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April, yes.
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When I was hiking I was thinking
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I should have got in the boat.
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Well, that's a pretty long walk.
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How many hours,
do you have any idea?
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We started hiking from 11:30.
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This morning? Yes.
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Wow, and it's almost 05:30 now
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and this is how
the people live here.
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And there's actually
a couple families here,
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the children are back.
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This is the
homes. Hi, how are you?
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This is the new girl coming
to work here in the school.
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Let's walk down through here.
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But some of the kids
are happy to be home,
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you can see them.
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Have you ever seen
pound rice like this before?
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No.
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This guy is an
expert rice pounder.
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So take this thing,
and this is how they--
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instead of having machine do it.
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And so this is gonna
be a real common sound
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in the whole
corner of the village
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every evening about this
time you will be hearing--
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They are pounding them. Yeah.
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You want her to
try? I can do it.
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Its lot easier then it looks,
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I mean lot harder than it looks.
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Like that.
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I think you should do it.
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Okay.
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I did waste his
rice about that careful.
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Just look at it
he's got it hardly
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so just, hardly come out
his hand goes up like that.
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You want to see
like inside there?
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They have fire
burning inside there
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and it was a kitchen fire.
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We just this past week dedicated
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the first all Katutubo,
Katutubo meaning native
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or indigenous person
a high school accredited
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by the department of education
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specifically
for indigenous tribe
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in the all 7,107
islands of the Philippines.
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So, Laymen
Ministries has a first year.
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You have to understand that,
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if some of the
children in these villages
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maybe they walked
over to the mountain
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to the small town of Paluan
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which is about
a five hours hike,
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and they've seen a jeepney
or a car or something like that
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but they've never
ridden in that car or jeepney.
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They've never really
gone a further than that.
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They've seen very
little of "western society."
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These people are
really primitive people,
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and we hired a professional
big air-condition, ac bus
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to come to the town of Paluan
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and all the children
from these three villages
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from our schools
hiked over the mountains
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with their teachers.
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And you know the older
kinds not the little children
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like the kinder for
second, third graders
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but the ones that are
just about ready to graduate
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and be in high school,
next year didn't want to go.
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You know why?
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Because they were
afraid of what the Tagalog,
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what the Filipino
majority people would say
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oh, look at here
comes the Mangyans,
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here come the Mangyans.
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Hence, they didn't want to go
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because they were
afraid of being made fun off,
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but they went any how.
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The kids were coming down
into the little town of Paluan,
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there was a Tagalog man there in
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and sure enough to
kids were thinking,
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couple of the
older kids are thinking,
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oh, this guy is
gonna make fun of us
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and this guy, this
Tagalog Filipino man
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walked up to the
one boy and he said,
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oh, you are going
to that-- that school,
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that special high
school for the Katutubo's
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where they're
having a dedication there?
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Wow, you have a chance
for opportunity of a lifetime,
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you should go there
and do that best you can
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and they were surprised to see
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you know not negative response
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but positive response.
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That's why we're giving
them a first class education,
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we're grounding them firmly
in their spiritually life.
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And we are preparing
them to be able to attend
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any college here
in the Philippines,
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because when they finish college
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as a pastor, as a
teacher, as a nurse
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whatever they
will be coming back
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and ministering
directly to their own people.
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And then there were
some people of course,
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you know looking
at this large group
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of Katutubo children
walking down the street
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and they're
like talking you know
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and laughing a little bit
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and the kids were noticing that.
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And then this big bus pulls up
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this big huge
air conditioned bus
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that even some of the Filipinos
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don't even ride out
here in these island here,
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these remote island places
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and all of this
Mangyan children,
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this Katutubo children
got on this large ac bus
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and their laughing stopped.
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Then they rived
up on the property,
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this is kind of
almost parochial in essence
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because these people
considered mountain people.
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Most of the Katatubo's,
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while they have
little houses like this
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maybe down by this seashore
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majority of the
time they're way up
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in the mountains
hiding under the tree,
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sleeping in the trees,
sleeping under some branches
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and brush and
nomadic tribal people.
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And the new
academy that we built there
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is on top of the mountain,
with the wonderful view
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of the South
China Sea on one side
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and the mountains all around
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and so here is a
place, its kind of most like
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a heaven on earth
for this Katutubo.
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And they got out of the bus,
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and they've just
standing there a lot of them
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you know, they're excited
to see each other and be there
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but then they just
started looking around
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and this morning in church
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some of the
students that went there,
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started giving their
testimonies about being there.
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And one boy said, oh,
the new buildings for us.
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This buildings are not
for Tito Jim and Moni or
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its not for Laymen Ministries,
those buildings are for us.
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And those buildings
are made from mirrors.
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The doors are
mirrors, and one boy said
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and the lights, the
lights are in the ceiling.
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And when I looked down
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I could see myself
like a mirror in the floor.
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I never even thought
about anything like that.
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It's just, for them leaving
these kind of conditions here
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and then going to a place
like that with the tile floors
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and the white walls
and solar reflectors
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you know, bringing
lighting into the buildings
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and electric lights
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and it was little
bit of culture shock
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but what was unique was
the fact that they realize
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and we emphasize
this while they were there
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that is dedicated for them
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and for their future and
for their future education.
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We had a dedication
here on the mountain
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with politicians,
with our students,
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with members of
the Adventist church
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and representatives from there,
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and when Jim and I
discussed about a program
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we saw what will we do.
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Usually you dedicate
or inaugurate a building
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but we said it's
not about any building,
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any construction we
have here it's about people.
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And so we tried to shift
the focus from the building
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to the people, dedicate people.
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And while we
had the program here
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it really was a
spiritual program
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and I was impressed
also how the governor
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and the congress woman, they
felt the spiritual atmosphere.
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They even cried
there in first row
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and in the speech
the congress lady gave
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she also expressed it.
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And that a lifted--
that uplifted my soul
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and made me so happy to see it
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that our mission work
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is not only the
education of our young people
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but always to focus them on God
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and even in a
event like a dedication
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of a building of the high school
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to focus on God
and to uplift Him.
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And it's our
goal that this school
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will become a
lighthouse, a beacon on a hill,
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a bright light
amongst the Katutubo people
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that they too can come back
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and work among
their own people group.
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That they can
be nurses, doctors,
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that they can be missionaries
and Bible workers, pastors
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and come back and work
among their own people.
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