(majestic music)
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(bright music)
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- [Narrator] We are taking
you again to the Philippines
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which is located in Southeast
Asia in the South China Sea.
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(calm music)
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- It's a Tuesday morning here
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at the medium
security prison in Sablayan.
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It's a maximum, medium,
and minimum security prison
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facility here on
this 62,000-acre facility.
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And today we're
gonna be having baptisms.
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It seems like a Sabbath
but it's a Tuesday morning
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and they've made special
provisions for us to come here
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and shoot video and see
the activities for today.
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(men singing solemnly)
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- [Narrator] Laymen Ministries'
success in this large prison
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facility is due to
these two dedicated workers:
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They have worked with
us for nearly 20 years!
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Over these years we
have seen lives changed
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by hearts surrendered to Christ,
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and we have
witnessed nearly 800 baptisms.
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(solemn music)
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- This is also a time
where we have new beginnings.
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(interprets in Filipino)
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- [Narrator] Several years ago,
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Laymen
Ministries built this church
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inside the medium
security section of the prison.
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We shared words of
encouragement with those
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that were going to be
baptized that morning.
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- There are only
two options in life.
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(interprets in Filipino)
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Either God is God or I'm god.
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(speaking in Filipino)
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Because people...
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(speaking in Filipino)
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Because without Christian,
without Christ in our life--
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(interprets in Filipino)
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- Do you want to be saved?
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(interprets in Filipino)
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- Yes! - Do you
believe the Gospel?
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(interprets in Filipino)
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Do you want to be baptized?
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- [Men] Yes!
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- Amen. - Amen.
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(praying in Filipino)
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(gentle music)
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- Amen!
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(singing in foreign language)
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- [Narrator] When we first
talked about turning this 62,000
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acre prison and penal farm
into a Bible Training school,
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it seemed impossible.
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But that's
exactly what has happened.
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Inmates are
trained to teach inmates,
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and by the simple Biblical
principle of teach to teach
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as it says in Matthew 28:19,
"Go ye therefore, and teach
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"all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father,
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"and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost:
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"Teaching them to
observe all things whatsoever
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"I have commanded you."
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Also in the second chapter
of the Book of Mark, Mark says:
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"Thou therefore, my son,
be strong in the grace that is
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"in Christ Jesus.
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"And the things that
thou hast heard of me
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"amongst many
witnesses, the same commit thou
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"to faithful men, who shall
be able to teach others also."
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- [Pastor] Bless
them in a special way.
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- So when we have
a baptism like this,
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do you think that these guys
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are really
grounded in the truth?
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- Jeff, to be honest with
you, I think these brethren
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are much better
grounded in the truth
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than many people who
joined our churches by baptism.
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The program here
from the very beginning
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has been teach to teach.
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Our two faithful
workers of almost 20 years
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are training
inmates to be disciples.
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And they are the ones
who hold the prayer meetings
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and the Bible
studies in the dormitories.
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They're the ones
who preach on Sabbath.
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Of course our
coworkers intermingle and teach
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and help and preach also
but the majority of the work
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is being done exactly as the
Bible says it should be done.
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That is we are teaching
new people who come to Christ
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to go out and teach--
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- And make
disciples. - And make disciples.
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They are the ones
bringing Him in and I remind us
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that with the baptisms
today we, the Layman Ministries,
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prison ministry has
baptized almost 800 people
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from the time we were
first allowed to baptize.
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- Amazing. - At first
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there was objection,
we could not baptize,
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but almost 800.
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And we still are in
touch with many of the inmates
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who have been
released who are faithful
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Christians in their
communities, in their families,
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in their churches.
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So praise God!
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It is working. -
That's good to hear.
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- And I will
also tell you, Jeff,
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that with the use of the Bible,
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the Amazing Facts Bible Study
Guides which they allowed us
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to translate into Tagalog and
with Spirit of Prophecy books,
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I'm not bashful to
tell you that I believe
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that our men here admitting
that this is a captive audience,
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our men here had
probably read more of the Spirit
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of Prophecy than most people
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and the churches
around the world.
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And I also think it's exciting
to tell that every Sabbath
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there is a Sabbath service,
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and each of these four
facilities here in the prison.
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And people who live
outside the prison choose
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to come to the
prison to worship God.
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- Yeah, amazing.
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- Because
they're being fed also.
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- [Narrator] Laymen Ministries'
Jeepney has been a faithful
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workhorse for many
years hauling church members
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to worship with the
inmates week after week.
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Some times there are so
many people they are riding
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on the roof!
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It's hard to realize how
large this prison facility is,
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literally having to drive
from one section to another.
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- We just got done being
over at the medium security part
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of the prison
we baptized 27 men.
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This is a minimum
security part of the prison
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and this is the baptistry.
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The men will be
baptized in a barrel.
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It's the only
accommodations we have in this
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particular part of
the prison facility.
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(calm music)
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(singing in Filipino)
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And the reporter
asked the same questions.
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(interprets in Filipino)
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He said, what would you
do if you were free today?
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(interprets in Filipino)
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And the inmate asked
the reporter a question.
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(interprets in Filipino)
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Are you free?
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(interprets in Filipino)
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And the reporter said,
I'm asking the question here!
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(interprets in Filipino)
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And the inmate
said, I'm free already.
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(interprets in Filipino)
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And the reporter
says, you're not free,
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you're in prison.
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(interprets in Filipino)
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No, I'm free in Christ.
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(interprets in Filipino)
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Jesus Christ has set me free.
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(interprets in Filipino)
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I'm free at my heart.
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(interprets in Filipino)
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And he looked at the
reporter and said, Are you free?
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(women singing in Filipino)
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- [Man] No, he
will change his clothes.
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- That's okay,
I still wanna hug.
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- We're outside of
medium and maximum security part
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of the Sablayan Prison.
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This is our third stop.
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They said there are 17
inmates here that are gonna give
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their life to
Christ through baptism.
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These inmates not only
have been studying the Bible
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for themselves but in
their cellblocks in the evenings
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they're having
group Bible studies.
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I wish we could get in
there and take pictures
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and some of that but
they won't allow us to take
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video cameras in those
portions of the prison.
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(singing in Filipino)
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- [Narrator] Lukas, a
former Laymen Ministry student
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missionary from
Germany, who continues to return
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to the Philippines,
shares with the inmates.
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What happens next is
almost too hard to believe.
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The prison officials allowed
the inmates to leave the prison
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with us to go to the
river to be baptized!
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I noticed the security
guards who accompanied us
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with weighted sticks wore
green Laymen Ministries shirts.
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When I inquired about this,
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I was told they
were all church members
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who were previously baptized!
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(calm music)
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Another amazing
thing that happened
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was one of the
inmate's wife and daughter came
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and they were all
baptized together!
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(calm music)
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I praise God for
the hard work and years
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of dedication by Louie and Abel.
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Prison ministry
is not an easy task,
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and there are and
have been many challenges.
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And also donors,
such as yourselves,
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have helped with
support of these workers,
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along with simple provisions,
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Bibles and spiritual literature.
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Thank you!
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(calm music)
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The heart of Laymen Ministries
operations takes place
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on top of this
mountain called Kaupawan,
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which when translated
literally means Bald Mountain.
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It's now a campus for
our indigenous academy.
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When we first
bought this property,
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the local people asked
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"Why would you want
the dry bald mountain top?
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"You can't grow
anything up there!"
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But today we have
thousands of trees planted
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and it's green and beautiful.
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It's a picture perfect
place to help young adults
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to grow mentally,
physically and spiritually!
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To the left is our
dormitory and cafeteria
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and to the right is our
admin building and classrooms.
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The cafeteria serves as
a place for not only eating
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but for social interaction
and worship services.
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This octagon building
houses several classrooms
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and an administrative
and accounting office.
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Let me take you inside to
see some of the activities
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taking place today!
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We have strict
account procedures
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which are audited regularly.
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In this instance,
our boat captain Mario,
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is giving an account for
recent repairs on our boat.
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Christian Stroeck, an
administrative assistant
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who came to us from Switzerland,
does our accounting.
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When I visit this
project I go over the books
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to see how the
funds are being handled.
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I'm very proud about the
level of integrity our team has.
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Every peso can be accounted for.
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We operate the only
indigenous boarding academy
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in the country
of the Philippines.
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God has blessed, and
our students test higher
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than those
attending the public schools
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and this is with a people
group that the Filipino majority
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say are not capable of learning.
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- My name is Isabella Franca.
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I'm from Brazil.
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And I heard about this
project through a friend
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that owns a
mission YouTube channel,
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and I saw some videos of
her here and so I got in touch
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with her to find
out a little bit more
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about Laymen Ministries.
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- It's actually my
second year already
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working here in
Laymen Ministries.
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It was actually a friend of
mine, also my classmate before,
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Ma'am Jam
Mabell, who referred me.
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- Well, I'm with
grades seven and nine,
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so I help them
through English, Math,
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Social Studies and Science
when they take the video lessons
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so I help them on that, but the
actual teaching is my favorite,
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which is Music
Arts PE and Health.
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- Currently I'm
teaching grades 10, 11 and 12.
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Well, here in the
high school in Kaupawan,
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you have to teach
basically all the subjects.
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Although we have video
lessons already for English,
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Math, Science,
and Social Studies,
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we still have to basically
know all those subjects.
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In case students have
questions, we should be ready.
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(speaking in Filipino)
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(calm music)
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- I am here to help teachers
to improve their teaching style
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and helping the
students also to learn better.
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That means sharing
with them some strategies
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for teaching and learning.
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And actually this is a thing
that I'm very passionate about
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because I am a great
supporter of education,
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but I believe
education has to be done right
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in order to
really make a change.
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So my idea of education
is very centered not only
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in the Bible but also
all we have from our pioneers
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and so on in the sense
that I believe is very important
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that education is
making people more autonomous
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and able to
think for themselves.
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In the sense that when
we just memorize things,
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we are not really
giving students a chance
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to really succeed in
life because they won't have
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the tools to go about challenges
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that will come
their way and so on.
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And sometimes teachers
also are trained in a way
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that is just a repetition
of what their teachers did
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in the past and so on,
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so it's nice to
have some time to talk
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and really think
about the strategies
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and go through even new
ways of approaching education,
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and that's what I'm doing
here for the next five months.
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- We are very blessed
here at Katutubo Excel School
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to have a large
enough piece of property.
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Let's see, we have 38
hectares which is approximately
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100 acres that belongs to the
school, deeded to the school.
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And we have an
elevation difference
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because the school
buildings are up on the ridge
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of a 150 meters, so
that would be about 450 feet
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down to a creek where we
have relatively flat area
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for our school garden.
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And here at the garden it gives
employment for the students
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but also, and food
for supporting the school
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but also teaches the
students how to grow a variety
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of foods, which later
our goal is that they would
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duplicate that in their villages
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to improve the nutritional
standard of the natives
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here in this area.
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We are using tunnel
greenhouses in addition
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to our walk-in greenhouses,
and we actually like
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these much better.
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We are using a lot
of organic material
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to loosen this clay soil.
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It is hard as cement, in
the summer time it's washed out.
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It's been badly
abused over the years
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and we're trying
to teach our students
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how to recover the soil.
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Now, I haven't
been here for a month
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but I'm going to just
show you with my fingers
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how easy it is for
us to use just our hand
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to work in this beautiful soil.
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Now, in addition
to a lot of compost,
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which we make ourselves,
and carbonized rice hulls,
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we also have our own
worm production, vermicast,
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vermifuge. So we are trying
in multiple ways to become
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self-sufficient but we are
super happy that we can do this.
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- So you're telling me
that you wanted to build a shop
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here and we're talking
about doin' it right here
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with the containers are at?
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- Yes, basically
we're here coming to the end
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of our road.
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You know here on top there's
the wind generator and then
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the housing of administration.
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So here we are at
the end of our road
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and we have containers with
some of the material donated.
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And the idea is since we
have a wide open space here
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to start building
a maintenance shop
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where you can also
put equipment storage
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where you can
train the young people
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how they can
learn about carpentry,
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about welding,
about repairing things
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that they get
equipped with practical skills
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not only knowledge in school.
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- [Jeff] So you're gonna use
the container that we've been
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shipping over somehow for
building walls or something.
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- Exactly, it will
be an outside wall.
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Then the idea is to
have two containers apart
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by about 15 feet and on
top we will have a rolling,
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I don't know how you
call it, like a tripod
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with a chain hoist.
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- Oh yeah, it's
like an I beam steel
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for moving heavy
equipment. - Exactly, exactly.
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So you can put a
generator on a truck.
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You can get an engine
out of a truck if you need
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to replace things.
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So we try to use what we have.
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- All the years that
I've been coming here
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it's like we
have all these things
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that need to be maintained,
but we don't really have a place
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to really take care
of any of the equipment,
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so having a shop would be
a place to be out of the sun
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because even right now
this is blistering hot.
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So to be able to be
in the shade some place
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and have a place for
the tools and everything
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could be locked up
would be really good.
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I was just talking to Don.
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Don is the maintenance
man for the whole project here
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and he's been
working in that little teeny
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generator building is what it is
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to try to fix things in there.
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He doesn't have
the space to do it,
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so this is a
really important thing.
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- We estimate that the
floor dimension will be like
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80 foot by probably 30 feet.
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- That's a pretty good
size. - That's a good size, yes.
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Yes, good size.
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We have a donor in the US who
is willing to donate I beams.
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So that's good
for some of the posts.
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And we have to use metal.
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The termites are so
bad they eat anything
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which is out of wood, so we
want to have a metal structure.
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I beam posts and then
metal trusses and simple roof
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but it adds up.
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Cement and steel and the labor,
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so probably we're
looking at about $25,000--
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- But really isn't that bad
for building a shop that size.
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- But for here
it's a big amount.
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- (chuckling) Yeah.
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Yeah, it's a next step
though for really being able
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to make this
operation work better.
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- [Narrator]
Laymen Ministries operates
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Church schools projects
in three very remote villages
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as well as one school
at the base of the mountain
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where we have our academy.
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To staff and supply
the remote village projects
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we're extremely
dependent on our boat.
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The only other way
to get to these villages
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is by a six hour
hike over Mount Calavite!
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- Over the 20 years
that we have operated
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as Laymen
Ministries Philippines,
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we have had three boats
because we have to travel
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to remote native
villages and we have to travel
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on the open ocean,
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and the South China
Sea is very treacherous.
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Our Laymen Ministries II
boat had become very dangerous.
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It had become
rotten and at that point
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we decided to build a
new boat that would better
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meet our needs because
of the size of our operation
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has grown so we're
dramatically many times we have
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building supplies
and a lot of people
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and we need to be very safe.
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Our typical trip on
the ocean to the villages
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could be five to
six hours on the ocean.
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Then in July of 2018 when the
boat was only six months old,
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Mamburao
experienced a major flood.
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Mamburao is the
city in which we live
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and the river in
which we anchored the boat.
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- The boat is at the
harbor in the Mamburao River
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and there are
many boats around us.
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That's the shelter for storms.
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You go in the river,
you tie your boat up tight
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and you protect
that against the typhoons
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and the severe weathers
which are happening here.
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The water rose so
much that it almost went
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up to the bridge at the back.
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It pulled out to the ocean
one of the construction boats
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and with it all the other
boats which were nicely tied
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to the piers.
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- 50
predominantly fishing boats,
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ours was the
only non-fishing boat,
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that was parked in the river,
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were all washed
out into the ocean.
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- The provincial government
tells us it was the worst flood
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since 40 years.
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People had to be
evacuated whole sections
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of the town were evacuated.
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The main road was
underneath of the water.
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It was terrible.
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- Our boat had two
anchors on it plus three or four
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ropes tying it to
different secure areas
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but when a two-meter
flood, two-meter rush of water,
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wall of water, two
meters is six feet roughly,
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washed through and boats
started breaking their tie,
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then one would be
stacked against the other
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and then finally just wash
the whole river totally clean.
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Water can be extremely powerful
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and in this case
with all of these boats
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stacking up on
each other and tumbling,
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they got washed
out into the ocean.
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- When our captain
informed us about what happened,
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we immediately prayed.
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We did not know the full story.
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He himself was evacuated
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and he didn't
know the full picture.
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We went to the
coastguard, to the police,
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to the military, to
the provincial government.
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We asked
everybody we knew for help
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to find our
boat and retrieve it.
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- In other areas
where there was no flood,
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the fisherman
could get on the ocean,
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they stripped the
boats including ours.
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When we found our boat
it was submerged to within
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maybe a meter of
the top of the boat.
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And we were able
through a very kind gentleman,
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who own a fishing
boat, to hire him to pull
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our boat in near Mamburao.
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We finally got it
beached and emptied the water,
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emptied the sand that was in it.
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Our boat had extensive damage.
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Not only broken
ribs, broken side walls,
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of course being
totally submerged
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the engine had to
be totally rebuilt.
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There was also
major damage to the shaft
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and the propeller.
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And the total cost
of repairing the boat,
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making it sea worthy
again was an excess of $12,000.
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We really are
appreciative for the donors
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who stepped in and
helped us rebuild our boat
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so that we could
again service our schools
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in these remote areas.
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So thank you very much
for joining hands with us
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and putting our
boat back in condition.
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(triumphant music)
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Just this last
Sabbath we had eight adults
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baptized in one
village by their request.
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This is a long time in coming.
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It's a major, major
change in these people's lives
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that they would
accept Christianity
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and accept the need
and the desire to want
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to serve the creator, God.
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(gentle music)
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