It's about five
o'clock in the morning.
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We are loading the boat have
to go out through the villages,
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picking up some of the supplies
to the missionaries there.
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The villagers were the heartbeat
of the educational program
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goes on here at
Laymen Ministries.
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We're excited to take
you with us this morning,
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go out and see what's happening.
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We are pulling out
of port in Mamburao,
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heading across Paluan
Bay on the South China Sea
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to the remote
village of Binuangan.
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The trip started out uneventful
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as the morning
sun lit up the sky.
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The closer we got to open sea,
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the more the wind and
the waves began to pickup.
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Our boat was greeted
by all the school children
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and the missionaries.
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This is what happens every time
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the boat brings in
supplies to the missionaries.
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Every one helps
to unload the boat.
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This children who
belong to the Aryan tribe
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and were once so
shy, they would hide,
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bombarded me with hugs.
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The wind was blowing
about 40 miles an hour,
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when we was cross
Paluan Bay this morning.
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And the waves were
probably about two meters tall
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which you've got six
feet tall with whitecaps
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and so we weren't able to
get very good video footage
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this morning on the boat.
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You can see here, the wind
is just blowing, like crazy.
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I am Jeff Lloren,
Lloren from Mindanao,
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the Southern part
of the Philippines.
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My name is Franklin Gonzales
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and I came from San Jose.
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My name is Janice
Lloren and I'm from Mindanao.
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My name is
Lowella Grace Gonzales.
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My name is Chesa Lamagui
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and I came from
Pili and it's in Biliran,
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a part of-- a
former part of Leyte.
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I'm from Central Visayas.
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Here in Binuangan,
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I work as a teacher
and I'm teaching grade two.
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Also in the Church
during Sabbath day,
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I work also as a church pastor.
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And we preach to the people
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and we give them
also Bible studies.
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I work here in
Binuangan as a kinder teacher.
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I'm teaching here in Binuangan,
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and actually
this is my first year
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to be back from college.
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I'm teaching the
grade six students.
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I work in Binuangan as a teacher
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for grade one and grade three
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and we are also
serving as village leaders.
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And sometimes we
also serve as doctors.
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We knew already,
they told us everything
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that we are going to teach but,
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what surprised me a bit is that,
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I didn't know that,
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our work is not
really to teach the children
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but to teach the whole village,
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like everybody
from young to old.
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I thought that we are just
going to teach in the classroom
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but actually we are teaching
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parents also and
everybody in the village.
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Knowing that the
kids learn form you
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and it's really a great feeling,
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and I don't know,
I cannot describe,
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it's really it really gives you
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an incomparable happiness.
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This will be our four years
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of working in the
Laymen Ministries.
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But, actually we
didn't think that
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we were able to
stay that period of time
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because when we came here
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we thought only of
staying here for seven months.
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But when God calls us to work,
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then we cannot
really say no to Him.
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Without knowledge of God's word
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then these people
will not be able to know
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Jesus in their life.
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It's really an important thing
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for us to teach these
people about the word of God.
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To destroy the kale.
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( speaking in foreign language )
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What do you use
to put out the fire?
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Water. Okay, water.
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You said right.
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You sense sometimes
right to put out the fire.
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This is a command.
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Verses or stories or sentences
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from the Bible
that is the declarative.
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The village of Binuangan
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is one of the
most recent villages
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that we entered
about eight years ago
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on this end of
Island of Mindoro.
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And lot of challenges
when you first start a project
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like this in this
remote Katutubo villages
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but by God's grace,
there's been a lot of progress.
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Last year, we had
two German missionaries,
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group missionaries,
actually they came here
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and they raise
some funds from Germany
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to build this new
church in Binuangan.
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And so now have a
very thriving village here
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with a lot of things
happening with the education
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and it's amazing to
watch the young kids,
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actually leading out in
the church services here.
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'Cause really the purpose
that Laymen Ministries here,
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is to train the nationals
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to be able to
minister to their own people.
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Our job, even though it
might be kind of a long haul
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is going to try
to train these people
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to become teachers
to their own people,
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to be preachers
to their own people,
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working among
their own people group.
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Ultimately, they
put Laymen Ministries
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out of business in this village.
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Laymen Ministries
doesn't just come in and work
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for like two
weeks and so some kind
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of evangelistic
series and leave.
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We're in the long haul
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to set a proper type
of grounding to take place
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so that these
kids can actually do
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what we are doing right now
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within amongst
their own people group.
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When we first came here
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the students were very shy
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like, would not
stand for people,
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and would not sing.
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Well, they sometime covered
their faces when they sang.
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But, as time passed by
there was really a change
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in their behavior
and their confidence.
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Now they are more confident
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and what really amazes us
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is that they are
now leading the church.
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They share with others
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what they have
learned from the school
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and from the church.
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And it's really
amazing to see our young people
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leading in the church.
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And not only
leading but preaching.
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( singing in foreign language )
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We left this
morning at five o'clock
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for Pinagbayanan
in pitch black dark
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'cause we thought
maybe the Amihan winds
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would be a lot less.
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We are out there and down
that they won't long last,
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so we are battling waves
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and probably 40, 45
mile an hour winds plus
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and we made it here.
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And we have a sheltered
bay here in Pinagbayanan.
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It's kind of nice
to park in the boat.
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I was excited
to meet old friends
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and the new student missionaries
here in Pinagbayanan.
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We have arrived right
when they were starting
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their flag raising ceremony.
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We had worshiped
together with the staff
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where I shared
words of encouragement.
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My name is Sarah Harms
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and I'm 23-years-old
and I'm from Germany.
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Hey, my name is
Kelvin Moses Arellano,
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I'm 23-years-old
from Oriental Mindoro.
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My name is Sunshine L. Trapse,
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I'm 21-years-old.
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I'm Matthias
Stroeck, I'm from Germany.
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I'm now 18-years-old
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and I'm from the
city of Cuxhaven, Germany.
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I am a missionary teacher,
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I am teaching
grade two in Pinagbayanan
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in a small village
in the Philippines.
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I'm teaching here in
Pinagbayanan Katutubo Excell.
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Pinagbayanan
Katutubo Excell School.
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I'm here as a missionary teacher
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and I'm teaching kinder A.
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Working here in
Laymen Ministries
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Pinagbayanan
Katutubo Excell School
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as grade one teacher.
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Life in the Philippines,
you know, it's very different
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form Germany or from the USA.
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I was first a little bit shocked
when I saw all these huts,
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and how the
people are living here.
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It's very
exciting and adventurous
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to teach in this village.
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The people here still
believe in some spirits.
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It's sometimes also hard for us
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to influence
them in Christianity,
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if they still have
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sometimes the
background of some spirits.
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It seems for me that Jesus is
closer here, or something else
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because we don't
have the technology
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like cell phone,
cell phone we have,
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but we're not
using so much like TV,
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like radio and all those things,
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and it seem that
without all those things
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I'm closer to Jesus.
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Very nice to be a missionary
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because here I'm
very far from city life
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And I can live here
in a quite and peace.
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This is an
experience you will have
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for your whole life.
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This is a time
where you can build up
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a relationship to Christ
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which you will have no where.
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Here no internet.
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No telemo, telecommunication.
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And so you can really focus
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in your
relationship and you can pray.
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And through all the experiences
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you have here in the village,
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you experience
Christ and God in your life.
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This is what I'm
happy about here.
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During Sabbath
afternoon we had outreach,
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and we visited some
places on the mountain,
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a remote area with
children like a Katutubo
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and it really
impressed me like that.
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If ever that God touch you
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or call you don't ever hesitate.
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Accept, grab the opportunity
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and teach and be a missionary
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and ambassador of Christ.
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I can only encourage every,
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everyone, everybody to
come here to the Philippines
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and experience for yourself
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what God will do in
your life when you come here.
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What we are witnessing right is
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what is referred to as Amihan,
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which means the
prevailing Northeastern winds.
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The gushes are probably around
40, 45 miles an hour and more.
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The swells on the
ocean are around two meters
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which is about
six, seven, eight feet
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right in there up and down.
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We actually left the
village of Binuangan,
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Binuangan in this
morning, really early
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before day break in
the dark, on the boat,
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hoping that the sea
would be quite calm.
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But we ended up
getting into some
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really gale force
winds and big huge swells.
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And it was quite frightening,
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'cause we were in the dark,
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the first half hour,
45 minutes of our trip.
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And it's been like
this is the whole time
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we've been on this
side of the island.
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Now what we're
wondering is should
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we actually take the trip
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with the boat tomorrow morning
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around this end of the island,
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right into the
Amihan and try to get
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to the village of Agbalite.
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I think it helps you
to have an understanding
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of the challenges
that the missionaries
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have in getting supplies
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to some of these villages,
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different times of the year,
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depending on the
weather conditions like these.
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Well, the decision has
been made this morning,
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we're gonna walk
all the way to Agbalite,
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because the Amihan
is too big for the boat
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to be able to go around there,
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too dangerous for the boats.
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So as you can see
the waves are pretty big,
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part of the way that we
have to walk along the beach.
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And then we have to go
up into the mountain lines
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some trails that
are harder to even find
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and then make our way
over to Agbalite, this morning.
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When we arrived to Agbalite,
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we are greeted by Din,
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a long time missionary
with Laymen Ministries.
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The kids were clean
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and very
attentive to their studies.
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Well, this was exam time too
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so they were
really concentrating.
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I am Dino Pernia. And
the people call me Din.
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I am Isabel Alplaus Paz.
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I'm 26-years-old
and I'm from Sablayan,
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Occidental Mindoro.
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I am Dada Indico Pernia.
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And I came from Region V Naga.
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I'm teaching grade one and two
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and, I'm enjoying my
work here as a teacher.
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Being a
missionary is a matter of--
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putting yourself
into a commitment
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with God that whatever happens,
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you would trust God
with whatever challenges
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you might
experience in the village.
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My friends would say
like my classmates would say,
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"Oh, you're in the jungle
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and you couldn't even go
to the town for five months,"
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like that, but I had been,
I had been telling them that
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its rewarding to work
here with this Katutubo,
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my students and
with the people also.
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In this village many parents
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are not supported too,
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to finish the
education of the students,
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and the old
folks here discourage
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the students to
continue their studies.
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With my students
they inside the classroom,
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it is a
challenge that my students
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before they were so
shy to express themselves
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and right now they
can express themselves,
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they can express their
thoughts and that's what I think
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one of the best encouraging
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experience I have here.
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This is Nardi. And
how old you are, Nardi?
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I am sorry. Ten years old.
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Eight? Ten.
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Ten. You're 10 years old.
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And you live in, what village?
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What's the name of your village?
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You don't know where you live?
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This is Agbelite, isn't it?
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Now she is decided
that she's gonna show us
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where she lives
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and so we wanted to
take you to Nardi's house
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and to see how her
Katutubo home is in for her.
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Is your mother
home at your house? No.
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Your father, tatay.
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Your tatay or your babae?
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Her mother
passed away. Oh, okay.
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So you want to go to your house?
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Let's go.
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I've been coming to
Agbelite for many years,
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so I know this
village really well.
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I let you go
first. After you, ma'am.
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This is her
typical Katutubo home.
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I guess the father,
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they call tatay is
not feeling too good.
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( speaking in foreign language )
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And he's got a nice house here.
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Shall I go in? Okay.
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Oh, she is been really shy.
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This is a
traditional Katutubo home.
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The family will sleep
together on one bed here.
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And this is sister.
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( speaking in foreign language )
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And they do their
cooking like this.
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This is the kitchen table.
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And the typical patch roof here.
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And then sometimes they'll
have like another bedroom,
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like up here, where
the family will sleep.
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So this actually house has a
couple of different bedrooms.
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And then I'm not really
quite sure what this room is,
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they have a couple
of little rooms here,
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where they have some
different things in it,
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but you can see
how simple they live,
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they have like, a dirt
floor, cooking with wood inside.
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And really, just
really simple construction,
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also these lumbers
made with chainsaw.
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And it's a fairly hardwood that.
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So it's just a
standard typical Katutubo home.
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Some times, it could
be like five, six children
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and mother and father
living in a place like this.
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Today is Friday morning
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and we're going to drive
all the way over to Sablayan
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to visit Louie and Abel the
Prison Ministry for Sabbath.
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This is a little
bit of a Deja vu,
00:21:37.73\00:21:39.26
because probably about
five, six, seven years ago,
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we did exactly the
same thing on video,
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except we were
driving a beat up little van
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that we
borrowed from our friend.
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And we really
question weather or not
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it was gonna make it all
the way over there or not.
00:21:49.74\00:21:51.84
But now we're
driving Laymen Ministries
00:21:51.87\00:21:53.54
little ranger pickup truck
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which we are
being blessed with here.
00:21:54.74\00:21:56.18
So we're gonna
check out what's happening
00:21:56.21\00:21:57.61
with the prison ministry
and we're gonna show you
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just a few sites
along the way on the drive
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all the way down to Sablayan.
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About 10 years ago,
when we used to do this
00:22:23.00\00:22:24.84
drive to
Sablayan, we take the buses
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and about two thirds
of this road was gravel
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and it was terrible.
00:22:30.31\00:22:31.38
You would have to have a
cloth to put over your mouth
00:22:31.41\00:22:33.28
and the dust was
just building up.
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By the time you got there,
00:22:34.92\00:22:36.08
you really need
to take a quick rest,
00:22:36.12\00:22:38.22
just to get the
dirt off your body.
00:22:38.25\00:22:39.69
In the Philippines,
agriculture is a very big part
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of their culture,
00:22:59.21\00:23:00.94
much of its
sinners around planting
00:23:00.98\00:23:02.68
and harvesting rice,
which is a main staple here.
00:23:02.71\00:23:05.85
Another common
agricultural product
00:23:26.50\00:23:28.50
in the Philippines is corn.
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A good part of the corn harvest
is used to feed livestock.
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The green kernels are
laid out on a flat surface
00:23:41.95\00:23:44.35
like a basketball court
or a highway to fully dry.
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This way the corn can be stored
for a longer period of time.
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On Sabbath morning, we
took Laymen Ministries'
00:24:31.77\00:24:34.14
miracle Jeepney to the prison.
00:24:34.17\00:24:36.10
We call it a miracle Jeepney,
00:24:36.14\00:24:37.67
because it is proven itself
indestructible over the years,
00:24:37.71\00:24:41.41
even being swamped once in
a river for nearly two days.
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This is a regular
routine every Sabbath
00:24:46.15\00:24:48.48
as lay member from churches
in the surrounding areas
00:24:48.52\00:24:51.05
are picked up
to go help minister
00:24:51.09\00:24:53.15
and participate in
the prison church services
00:24:53.19\00:24:55.76
with the inmates.
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( singing in foreign language )
00:24:59.19\00:25:03.87
My name is Abel Miralles.
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I have a wife and two daughters.
00:25:21.12\00:25:23.89
I work in the prison ministry
by the Laymen Ministries.
00:25:23.92\00:25:28.32
I've been working
with the Laymen Ministries
00:25:28.36\00:25:31.59
in the prison
ministry about 13 years.
00:25:31.63\00:25:36.06
I've been involved
with the prison ministry
00:25:36.10\00:25:38.50
for about 12-years now.
00:25:38.53\00:25:42.47
The area of the
prison facilities
00:25:42.50\00:25:46.21
is about 62,000 acres.
00:25:46.24\00:25:50.08
It's a very huge facility.
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The objective of prison ministry
00:25:52.45\00:25:54.55
is to educate
inmates spiritually
00:25:54.58\00:25:59.32
because we want to recover
00:25:59.35\00:26:02.19
their lost moral
and spiritual aspects.
00:26:02.22\00:26:06.49
Every Saturday from
the Sabbath School program
00:26:06.53\00:26:08.36
down to the hour
of worship service,
00:26:08.40\00:26:12.10
they are the ones
doing the program alone.
00:26:12.13\00:26:15.34
As we teach the inmates
00:26:15.37\00:26:16.50
there are consistent
discipleship happening
00:26:16.54\00:26:20.61
because of the evening
Bible study inside the dormitory
00:26:20.64\00:26:25.68
where the inmates are
teaching their fellow inmates
00:26:25.71\00:26:29.08
and also the things
that they are learning
00:26:29.12\00:26:31.59
when we are around.
00:26:31.62\00:26:33.72
That's one of the great
factors that we should consider.
00:26:33.76\00:26:38.73
The inmates come and go
but as the inmates go inside
00:26:38.76\00:26:46.13
when they were released
they went out as a missionary.
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There are inmates
who have been released
00:26:51.54\00:26:53.88
and they are living
now outside the prison,
00:26:53.91\00:26:56.41
most of them are in the
central part of the Philippines,
00:26:56.44\00:27:00.38
and we have
communication with each other,
00:27:00.42\00:27:03.65
especially during Friday
evening they send text messages
00:27:03.69\00:27:10.56
telling that
they are in the church
00:27:10.59\00:27:15.43
attending the vesper
00:27:15.46\00:27:17.77
and greeting us "Happy Sabbath!"
00:27:17.80\00:27:19.83
It's very rewarding to hear
00:27:19.87\00:27:24.57
that after the
inmates were released
00:27:24.61\00:27:26.98
they still
continue with their faith.
00:27:27.01\00:27:28.68
According to 2
Peter 3:18 "Grow in grace
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and the knowledge of
our Lord Jesus Christ."
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