We're taking you
again to the Philippines
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which is located
in Southeast Asia
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in the South China Sea.
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Quarterly exams just
got over at the high school.
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And so all the kids last
week went back to their families
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in the villages and
this week we're heading out
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and going to spend a
whole week in the villages
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because kids are actually
going to be peaking out there.
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So they're taking the
place with the actual teacher.
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So it's kind of a training
program that we have here
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to help, start
helping the students feel when
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and how to take
the responsibility
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of feeling
comfortable in a classroom.
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So we pack
everything in this little van
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and started out at
4 o'clock this morning
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and we're heading out
here in about 10 minutes.
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Our Layman Ministries' III
boat is the life connection
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to the remote
villages where we have schools.
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The only other way
to get to these villages
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is a six-hour hike
over Mount Calavite
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all in various directions
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depending on the
village you want to go to.
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Over the years
we've had different boats
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but this one is the biggest
and the best of them all.
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Soon we were all
loaded and setting sail.
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Days like this do not
give an honest representation
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of what the South
China Sea can be like,
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today it's calm, smooth,
with little wind or waves
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but at other times there
can be 12 to 15-foot swells
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pounding waves
with gale force winds
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blowing water
over the entire boat.
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It's days like that
you don't want to be
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out in the boat.
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The boat ride is a
good time for Jim Webb,
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our Layman Ministries
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Philippines project coordinator
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and I to catch
up on the project.
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We're headed from Mamburao
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to the village called Binuangan.
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It takes about four
hours to get there by boat.
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This village is on the coastline
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at the base of Mount Calavite
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with a river
flowing by one side.
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Soon as we get
the boat tied off,
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we start unloading all
the passengers and cargo.
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Calm days like this make
unloading relatively easy
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but when there are big
waves, wow, it's super hard
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and even dangerous to unload.
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The student missionaries,
teachers and the kids
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are always excited to
see Jim when he arrives.
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Years ago, when
the boat would arrive,
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the children
would all go and hide,
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their fears are now gone.
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This new boat is pretty amazing.
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When we left the port
at Mamburao this morning
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it was all the way down to,
down to the words on the side,
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it was really
riding low in water
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because it had 1.2
tons of steel on there
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and 106 sacks of cement.
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So it's like a
huge amount of weight,
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plus all the
supplies for the villages
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plus there was 12 or
13 passengers on board.
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So, this new boat
is really critical
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for our operations here
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and it's really
proven to be a workhorse.
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This is actually only
the second time it's been out
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after it got swept out to
sea and was damaged really bad.
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We're running a new
rebuild engine right now too.
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So you can see
all the cement here,
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looks like a huge amount
of weight this thing carries.
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Everyone does their
part to get the supplies
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up to the school campus.
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Marie, one of our
longer term missionaries
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was busy dealing with a student
that had a bad cut in his leg.
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Marie is from the
US and has a heart
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for medical missionary work.
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Missionary life
here in Binuangan
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goes from being a
teacher, to a parent,
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to a doctor, to a cook.
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Actually it can be
anywhere it's not in the mission
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what do you think as
Africa or Philippines
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or somewhere remotes
like in remote places,
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but missionary
life can be anywhere.
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As missionary you have
to be well rounded. Yeah.
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To everything
there is an America,
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no difference
except we have the luxury
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of being in the jungle.
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You know how to do manual labor
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instead of teaching,
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you know, should
know how to do carpentry
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and anything that, yeah,
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any other things
that needs to be done.
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And all the challenges,
let's not forget that,
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but is the challenges
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that that makes us
better missionaries here
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because we are
here for one purpose
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and one purpose
only is to serve God
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through taking care
of the children He has.
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Camille will do in English.
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Ah, yeah.
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When Jim comes to the village,
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he's
communicating with the teachers
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about school
tests, problem children,
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and answering questions.
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This is a time
where the teachers
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can share their problems,
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both personal and dealing
with the school in the village.
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You know that he is
the son of the Bejari.
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Yes.
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These are the grades
for the first periodical,
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which is like
first quarter exams
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from two of Daryll students,
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one we had tremendous problems
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with the young man last
year reference attitude.
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And he's showing me
his grade three math test,
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he scored 98 on.
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And this young lady
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in a science grade 2
science scorednine...
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who was a dropout last year.
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Who was a dropout
last year scored 99.
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So we can't give up.
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Early the next morning the staff
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and our high school
students come together
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for prayer,
worship, and orientation,
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especially today as
this is the first day
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of student teaching.
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The high school students
will get a firsthand experience
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of what it's like to
be an actual teacher.
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The students always
arrive early at the school
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to help clean up
the campus grounds.
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All the children
carry responsibilities.
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Also know how
clean the children are.
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They all bathe
before coming to school.
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And at the school they
often get better morning meal
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if the parents are
up in the mountains,
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and they do other
things like brush their teeth.
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Before classes
start, the students have
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a flag raising ceremony.
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This morning, there
are special instructions
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given regarding the
high school students
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teaching many of
the classes this week.
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After this,
they're all dismissed
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to go to their
individual classes.
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Okay. And...
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This is your
typical Katutubo village.
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The word
Katutubo means indigenous,
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and this
particular indigenous tribe
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is the Orion tribe.
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I remember when we
first started coming here
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22 years ago,
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things haven't changed
that much in the village,
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but they're a little bit better,
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but the kids were like
little animals, honestly,
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they had a gloss
over look on their eyes
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and they were
terribly afraid of us,
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but now the kids
are really opening up.
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We have kids going
on to high schools,
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but this is a
way that they live.
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The Orion tribe is
basically a nomadic tribe.
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And as you notice right now,
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this village is
like a ghost town.
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There's nobody
here because they're up
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doing their rice harvesting
in the mountains right now.
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That means the kids are here
in their houses by themselves,
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taking care of themselves,
getting ready for school,
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they're taking their
baths, brushing their teeth.
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They do a lot of that
right up at the mission house,
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but this kind of gives you
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an idea where these
kids are coming from.
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These are not Filipinos.
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These are
indigenous tribal people.
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And they were here
long, long before the Filipino
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or the Malay people
or the Spanish people
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ever came here.
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I've seen pictures of them
from way back in the 1940s.
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And the 1940s
pictures and pictures of today,
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like we're taking today
are not all that different,
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but things are getting better.
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The progress is a slow work,
but it's a blessed work too
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and we have high hopes
for the high school kids
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to be able to come
back and be teachers here
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and be missionaries
in their own village.
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You can see the houses
how they're constructed here,
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really rough sawn
lumber and lumber is getting
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really scarce here to find
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because it's illegal
actually be cutting trees down,
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but the tribal
people sometimes still do it
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and they cut it up
and they make these
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really crude boards to
build their houses out of,
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and then they have this
typical grass roofs on it
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which I think it's
called cogon, but it's,
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it keeps the places pretty
cool in when the sun's out,
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and right now it's October
and it's been unusually hot
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'cause usually when
you're here in October,
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it's raining more and
it's a lot cooler out,
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but it gives you an
idea just to kind of see,
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you know, how they live like
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this is actually a
what they call their kitchen
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and they burn wood
and charcoal in here.
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And it's interesting how they,
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the native people
make charcoal here,
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they'll cut down
trees that are green,
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and they'll cut it up in pieces,
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and they'll make a big
fire pit and build a fire
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and then when all the coals
are nice and hot and stuff,
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they throw a whole
bunch more wood on top of it,
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and then cover it
with banana leaves and dirt
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and things like
that and let it smolder
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for about 48
hours until it goes out,
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and then when they dig it up,
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they have this
beautiful hard wood charcoal
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and that's what
they typically cook on
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for the rice cookers and such.
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You can see here
they're cooking breakfast
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on the outside kitchen
and whole family will sleep
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in a little house
like this one right here.
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It's hard for some people
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to even imagine living this way,
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but our
missionaries have it quite nice
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because we have
cinder block or cement houses
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for them with cement floors,
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but a lot of these
people live with dirt floors,
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very, very primitive.
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And as we came in on the
boat, you saw how this one's
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particularly really
sits right on the coast
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and there's a big river here.
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And that big river oftentimes
during rainy season floods,
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and they'll get big storms
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and so the mouth of the river
at the bay changes constantly,
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the river will go
out this way sometimes,
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the river go out that way.
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And my daughter
actually worked in this village
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for three and a half years.
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And she told me sometimes
when they have those big storms
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is absolutely frightening.
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This peaceful
river can turn quickly
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into a raging torrent,
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meeting huge waves crashing
in from the sea during a storm.
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Because of all the
illegal tree cutting
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and the slash and burn
done up in the mountains
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flash flooding has
become a real problem.
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Because the village of Binuangan
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is located next to the
steep sides of the mountain,
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the village lies
mostly on a flat strip of land
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right next to the river.
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This red line shows
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where the village's
river bank used to be
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and how the river has
progressively eaten away.
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To protect the
village from further erosion,
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our ministry
organized building large gabions
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to divert the
water away from the banks
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along the village.
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Much of this was done by
hand with a local government
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providing gabion
cages and even wages
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for the tribal
members who helped.
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We plan to build
another one of these
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right next to the village
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just to make sure
we stop the erosion.
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To save the least,
this was a huge undertaking.
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All the hard work of
operating this project
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is worth it when you
see these young children
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with their eyes
sparkling learning about God
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and getting the basic
educational skills they need.
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So 15 correct.
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Multiplied by...
I am Czarina Benosa.
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I came from
Pangasinan in Region I,
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in the biggest island of
the Philippines those on.
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And I find it very challenging,
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but fun with the students
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and with their diverse cultures.
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Forty-six, fourteen.
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Now count by six
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Eighteen, twenty-four, thirty.
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Seven...
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Ready, get, set.
Okay, get count by seven.
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Okay, ready, get set.
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Twenty-four, thirty-two,
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forty, forty-eight, fifty-six.
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What is this?
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Fox.
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So. Fearless.
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What's the first
sound that you can hear?
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Fearless.
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Then try...
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There. Then try
to do. Both of you.
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Okay, F. F.
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Again, let's try to do.
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Okay, okay, okay.
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It's 5 o'clock in the morning
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and we're loading
up the boat right now
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in total darkness to
go over to Agbalite from,
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what's the name of this place?
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Binuangan. Binuangan. Yeah.
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We're tired.
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We're going in a
small native boat
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so we're wrapping all
the bags and everything up
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inside a plastic, and
then green or rice bag.
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Hopefully, the oceans not
gonna be too rough this morning.
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So hopefully don't
get everything all wet
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including ourselves.
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We were very
thankful that the seas
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were relatively
calm that morning.
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As we navigated around the
tip of the island of Mindoro
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on our way to the
remote village of Agbalite.
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This is the village of Agbalite.
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I first came here
around 1994 and 1995
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so that was like
about 22, 23 years ago,
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we hiked over the
mountains from Pinagbyanan
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and over to here
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and it was actually
a lot thicker back then
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and there was
only just a small group
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of these nipa
huts down by the ocean.
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Somebody previous to us
coming here had carved out
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in the forest over
there, a small little area
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where they started building
a small Adventist Church.
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And that was kind of like
the beginning of our endeavor
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to try to come to this area.
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And with over the
next couple of years,
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we came here and we
secured some land up there.
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And we're the
current mission house
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and school and
everything is out.
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And we built a school here.
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And a lot of changes.
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If you look over
top of this village,
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looking at it from the air down,
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you'll see that it's actually
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a pretty sprawling community now
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and there's a
lot of houses here.
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It's actually like a small town.
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It's actual good size village.
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And some people have moved in
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and they started a
little store over there
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and you're
hearing generators running
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during the day.
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And we've had
some real blessings
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and some real challenges in
this village over the years.
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And we realized
that it's gonna take
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probably a whole generation
to start to change the way
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things are as
far as the thinking
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and the
cleanliness and the hygiene
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and such with the
people in this village.
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My wife came here
a number of years ago
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with my
youngest daughter Neselle
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and taught here for
almost seven months.
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In fact, all my
daughters at one time or another
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have come here to
the Philippines project.
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My daughter Chris
I actually went over
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and was in
Binuangan and kind of help
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was one of the pioneers
in that village over there
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and I think she taught
for a while in Pinagbyanan
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and two she was and
then my daughter Theresa
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came here and spent
one of her summer out
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from the school year coming here
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and helping Jim and Moni,
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but there's a lot
of challenges here
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in a village like this.
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And now we're starting
to see a lot of these kids
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move on to the high school
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and we have
really good attendance.
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I think they
said they have 53 kids
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in school here this year.
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And a lot of young children
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and we have good teachers here,
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but, you know, as a
community starts to grow
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these people are
like a seminomadic people.
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And the whole idea of
starting to establish homes
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and staying in an area
to have their kids in school
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is being a real challenge
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because the parents wanna
kind of like migrate around
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and live up in the mountains.
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And that makes it difficult
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for their kids to attend school.
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So a lot of the people have
actually started to congregate,
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like in villages like
this one because of the school
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and the parents
still leave and go way up
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into the mountains
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and take care of
their pile and rice,
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but they leave their
kids here unattended,
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taking care of themselves
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and some of them
are pretty young,
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and they have to
feed themselves and such.
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So sometimes our teachers
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are helping feed
the kids and stuff
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because they
come to school hungry.
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When we arrived, the
school was just about to start.
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We have a beautiful
campus and have recently built
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more classrooms
and staff housing.
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We are making
the newest buildings
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completely termite
proof and even cyclone proof
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using cement and tin.
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We have five
classrooms to accommodate
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the various age groups.
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The children start
their day with proper hygiene.
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They all brush their
teeth, and each one is required
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to come to school in
clean clothes and bathe.
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Believe me getting
them to comply with this
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has been a huge undertaking,
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but now from the years
of operating these schools,
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we are starting to see
the fruits of our labors.
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Start to sing Amazing Grace
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O the King is coming
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The King is coming
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I just heard The
trumpets sounding
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O the King is coming
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The King is coming
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Praise God Praise God Praise God
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He's coming for me
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One teacher has some of
the younger students outside
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preparing for class.
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Meanwhile, a student teacher,
a team from our high school
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is starting classes with
some of the other students.
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It's amazing to
see what God has done
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over the years
with this project.
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This young girl
is named Lozelle.
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Our desire is to
train these youth
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to become missionary
teachers to their own tribe.
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And they are, they also...
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take care of that plant...
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from so...
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I refer to this place
as the Joel Marshall house.
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It's named after
Joel Marshall, of course,
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who was a missionary
here with Laymen Ministries
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for about four years.
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Right before he
went back to Australia
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which is where he was from.
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He built this place
and I remember being here
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and helping him do
some of the finished
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carpentry on it.
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After a couple of
years back in Australia,
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he had the
missionary bug and he decided
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he just couldn't be content
with living in Australia.
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So he joined up with
Laymen Ministries project
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in Vanuatu with Dr. Trevolt.
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They're both Australians
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and worked out
really good for that.
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And he stayed
there for about two years
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and he was on some of
our videos in Vanuatu.
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And then he went
back to Australia again,
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and then he came back here.
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And the reason he
came back here was twofold.
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One is he wanted to
come back to the Philippines.
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He had a lot of
great memories here,
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but there was
also a former co-worker
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that he worked with,
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was still working here
in this village of Agbalite,
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and he wanted to marry her.
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And he had the total
blessing of myself and my wife
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and Jim, Moni, Webb,
and they were married.
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They worked here
for that one year,
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and then they
went back to Australia
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and she's getting
citizenship right now.
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And after they get
their citizenship thing
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taken care of immigrant,
they're planning on coming back
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and working with
Laymen Ministries
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in one of our projects
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most likely here
in the Philippines.
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That evening, we
headed out to the village
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to have children's meetings
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with some of the
village children.
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This is a great way to
bond with the village parents
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and with the kids
that do not attend school.
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The songs and stories
went well on into the night.
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We were up before
daylight the next morning
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and at the crack of dawn,
we were on another small boat
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headed to the
village of Pinagbyanan
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where we would spend Sabbath.
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Our school campus is located
on a small natural harbor
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at the base of Mount Calavite.
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When we arrived
that Friday morning,
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the staff and student
teachers were just starting
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their morning
worship and staff meeting.
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My name is Sophie Spannlang,
and I am from Austria.
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I've been here now
for almost three months.
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And yeah, it's
been very nice so far.
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But, of course, there are also
a lot of problems that appear
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because the
environment is so different.
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The biggest, of
course, is the culture.
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Culture is very different here.
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People just have a
different style of communicating
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with each other,
but also the whole,
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I mean, the
temperature is it's very hot.
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And, of course, there are
not so many comfortable things.
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General the luxury, but I think
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this is not
really a problem for me
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because I was
really used to go camping,
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to go outside, and that's
why I also like to be here
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because this style of
living is very simple,
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but at the same
time, it's very enjoyable.
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Today, it is a special Sabbath.
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We're having a
baptism with eight people.
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A couple of the
people are getting baptized
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are former students of ours
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that made it most of
the way through high school,
00:27:07.99\00:27:10.66
and then they decided they
didn't want to continue on,
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they came back to the
village and got married.
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We were always
really concerned about them,
00:27:15.03\00:27:16.56
but now several years
later, they've made a commitment
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to wanna get baptized.
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And there's another
lady who is also a wife
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of a public school
teacher here in the area.
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And she's had just an
amazing conversion experience.
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I guess she was gambling
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and not taking care of her kids.
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There was a lot
of things going on.
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Total change in her life.
00:27:35.32\00:27:37.02
And now she's
making a commitment
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for Christ today too,
00:27:38.42\00:27:39.85
so they're
gonna have the baptism
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down here at the ocean.
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