Hello, this is
the Maranatha Minute.
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Recently more than
50 Maranatha volunteers
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returned from
Brazil, where we organized
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our first volunteer project
in the country, since 1997.
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The primary purpose of the trip
was to construct two churches
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for congregations who
lacked proper places to worship.
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Both groups previously
rented worship facilities
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but a lack of space
limited their ability to grow.
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Thanks to the hard
work of volunteers.
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Both
congregations now have churches,
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they can call their own.
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In addition to construction,
volunteers spend time
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in the community
promoting healthy living.
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Local children
learned about fresh air,
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exercise and dental health
through games and activities.
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Brazil is just one
of several countries
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Maranatha will be
focusing on in 2014.
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So learn more about
how you can be involved,
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visit our
website at maranatha.org.
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Coming up, we go to Panama
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where families
are working together
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to build a school for
a community in Santiago.
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The schools and churches
that Maranatha volunteers
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have built for
the people of Panama,
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continue to have a huge impact
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on the country and
on our congregation.
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So much so that
Adventist church leaders
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have invited
Maranatha to come back
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and build more
schools and more churches.
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The volunteers who are
working on this one right here
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are putting
together a brand new school
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in Santiago, Panama
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right in the
centre of the country.
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Hi, Dick. Hey, guys.
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Good to see you,
Ernie, Seth everybody.
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Yeah, you can see,
doesn't matter what age you are,
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you can make it a
difference through Maranatha.
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In Panama, this is
the summer family climax.
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Maranatha.
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If we were one of those ants
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if we were like a
miniature, this is them
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and we have to carry out
probably weigh about 100 pounds.
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On Sabbath we went
to the certain church
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out in the country,
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and the children
learned more than
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what--what's transpired
during the church service
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because right outside
the church they could see
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there is a large
trail is the leafcutter ants
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that they could see
them working so assiduously.
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Wow.
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The kids were
absolutely fascinated
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by watching them carry
their leafs to these paths
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and I think they saw
the hard work in the ants.
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And it was a
better lesson for them
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than they got from
the church so here its--
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Can't go back, oh man,
this didn't go around the way.
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How can they always
know the sense of direction?
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Oh, they collect them, too.
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Pancakes are awesome.
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Yep, and the fruit from
Panama, pineapples are amazing.
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We have two young
boys and they are getting,
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almost to teenage
years and, you know,
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we felt that we
want to give them
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a little bit of perspective,
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you know, may be getting
appreciation for how they live
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and give them sort of an
understanding of the value
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and how fortunate we do have
things in the United States.
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Yummy fish, Omega-3,
that might be catfish there.
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I knew it's gonna be all right,
the very first day we got here,
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because my kids
nigga ready to have once
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a dinner the first night.
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They went outside and
then they just explore nature.
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And they came back with
all of these amazing creatures,
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though I had not
even known were out.
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The place is Santiago, Panama.
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And the activities that
has these parents talking
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and the kids and all
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is Maranatha's
summer family project.
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Maranatha
Volunteers International
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as the name implies,
creates volunteer opportunities
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for people all over the world,
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twice a year, summer and winter.
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The focus is
specifically on families.
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Yeah, we know that it was
really impossible for our kids
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to really understand lot of
the things we read in the Bible
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about taking care
of the least of these
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and going and
teaching all nations
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while we sat
comfortably in our community.
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Well they have all
of their needs met.
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They never even met anybody,
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that didn't get
three meals a day.
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You know wanted to
make sure they understood
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the reason why God had
given us the blessings we have.
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Living in America I see a
lot of our kids growing up,
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in a very self-directed society.
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It's all about me.
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People want to take care
of themselves in general,
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and I wanted for
my kids to be able
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to look outside of themselves
to be able to help others
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and this has more than
exceeding my expectations.
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It has opened their
world that they have must--
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that they can do
something to help others
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but also has given them a bigger
picture of what our mission is.
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Maranatha goes to great lengths
to make the worksite safe.
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The leaders, construction
professionals themselves
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also lead spiritually.
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You know, being a
construction superintendent,
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do I want to
produce a bunch of blocks
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that are laid correctly.
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Yes, that is Jesus interested
in moraine those blocks
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being laid correctly
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for the manner in
which they get laid.
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So the manner in which we
work makes all the difference.
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For me, it starts
with worship in the morning
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before we start work.
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Yeah after lunch we have
another time to set apart
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to listen to what Gods
doing in my heart, your heart.
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What does it look like
to worship while you work.
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We got a lot of
friends asking that question.
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I came into this trip,
really with expectation
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to as such to build a school.
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My family and my
wife and myself felt
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there was gonna be a
construction project,
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really where we felt
that we would be contributing
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by helping, you know,
build a physical plant
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and I think what we
have taken out of this trip
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is so much more.
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It really has been
a daily walk with God
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its essentially
24x7 worship and prayers.
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Yeah, that we really have
been completely surprised by.
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Take your mat and go home.
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So he got up and
ran all the way home.
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When you come back you
will see that a family project
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is much more than laying block.
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Ten dollars, no
its not much by itself,
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but with my $10 and your $10
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and dozens and dozens
of others $10 it heads up.
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With Maranatha
here is what happens.
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All of this
cash builds a church.
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A church in a place
where $10 is hard to come by.
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If you see one of these
churches you quickly realize
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how significance
your $10 gift is.
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Your little fellow
$10 church friends,
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you've done far or more
that build place of worship.
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This is where community happens.
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At this church you helped
build, we welcome new life,
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celebrate love, share
each others grief and mourning.
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Your $10 not only builds a
church, it builds community.
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We think it's so important,
we have created $10 church plan.
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Signup today at
tendollarchurch.org
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and for just $10
you will help establish
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a new Christian community
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for the
construction of a new church.
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Maranatha
Summer Family Projects,
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always include construction.
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They shares project
in Santiago, Panama.
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Also included a
number of other activities
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planned in otherwise.
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If you were
musical you could enjoy
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the impromptu
band serenading diners.
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For the
adventurer there was a hike
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deep into a
highland tropical forest
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for a natural
spring and waterfall
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provided beauty and sport.
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There was opportunity to visit
places like the Panama Canal,
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one of the modern
Seven Wonders of the World
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or swim in the
Pacific Ocean waters
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streaming into
the Gulf of Panama.
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Most meaningful
for the volunteers
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was hosting a health expo
at a nearby elementary school.
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Seven stations run by volunteers
of all ages taught children
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important health
and life principles.
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In the evening, team
leaders with medical training
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visited nearby churches
and offered health lectures
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benefiting the local community.
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Many of the mom's
and dad's on this project
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were medical professionals.
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Part of their mission to Panama
was a one day medical clinic.
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We drove out couple hours into
an indigenous part of Panama
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and, you know, that
up with the local people
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and when we first got there,
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there was only about
10 or 15 people in line
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that sort of knew we are coming.
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So all we ended up doing was
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with pretty
concise communication
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amongst members of the
team and with our volunteers
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essentially down from the
high school and colleges kids
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organizing
sermons of triage process
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where they can have an
initial intake assessment
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done by medical
provider or medical doctor
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and from that area
sort of disseminate
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to the proper
resource to the pharmacy
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or medical
clinic or dental clinic.
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Many of these
people had, you know,
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medical
problems, some were minor,
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some were little more serious
and we did the best we could.
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But I think they really
don't have much exposure
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to physicians and nurses.
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And we even had
dentists on the trip
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and they extracted
about 40 or 50 teeth.
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And so I think just being there,
being able to pray with them,
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giving then reassurance
that they were doing well,
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that their heart sounded good,
that their lungs sounded good.
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And I think a lot of them
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getting the
blessing out of that.
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Being there literally about
half an hour to set up clinic
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that ultimately at the
end of the day tallied over,
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over 300 members of community
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that we actually
ended up treating
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with a variety of
medical and dental services.
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Family projects also
give parents some alone time.
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Usually when we go places
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we always divided one
with this kid, one with that.
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So our goal this mission was
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to try to do
something's together.
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So we had an opportunity to
actually pair up in painting
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and paint this one
section of the wall.
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And she took the
roller, went up and down
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and I came behind and try
to kind of filling the cracks.
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It was really kind of neat.
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My wife and I been looking
for chances all week long
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that we can try to
do something together
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because we kind of wanted just
to be a little bit of warming
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experience for the two of us.
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And so it was really actually
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very nice to be
able to do that together.
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A family project is
the perfect place to bond.
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It has also
become the perfect place
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for families to
plan for baptism.
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For Grayson
Slacker's this special event
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was with his
grandfather in the hotel pool.
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For Nicolas
Abrahams and Isaac Brunbowl
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it was on the ocean.
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One thing that's so
inspiring to be about this trip
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is that there are
great families, great people
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that come on these trips
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and they really love God,
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they love Christ, they serve.
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They have a missionary heart.
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And being around
these people here
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makes me want to be like them.
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And you know that's
what church is all about
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and being here had been almost
like being a church for me.
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You know, that a good thing
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because everyone here
really has inspired me.
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And I am hoping I
can take this back home
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and try and gain
inspiration for others
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that I come in contract with.
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Last night we were
discussing our prayers,
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each one of us in the family,
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our prayers for this church
building, for this school.
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And my son Phillip,
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it will touch my
heart that he said,
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well, my prayer is that
from this church building,
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from this school many
schools and many churches
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would be built as a result of it
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and that maybe in the kingdom.
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And that touched
my heart very much.
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Well, that was the whole
point that I wanted for them
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to think of others
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and to mention as
Seventh-day Adventists
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and for him to
want to see this church
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and this school prosper and grow
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and make any
source of the kingdom,
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that's the very
point of coming here.
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And to see the change in
him, I am thankful for that.
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One other things I
really do talk about is
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at several times is
that it doesn't matter
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whether you are eating or
whether or you are doing worship
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or whether you are
teaching a guy to lay block
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it's kind of
ministry or worship.
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Worship.
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I think this
trip I was on a plane,
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having been on a trip so usually
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I have to fly. Yeah.
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Just talking with the Lord
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and it was really
there's something special
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that you like to see happen
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or is it going to be
another back like mission trip.
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And I thought of
worship came my mind
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and as soon as that
thought came I remembered
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I grew up on a farm
where we worked a lot.
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A lot. Yes, early in
the morning, late at night
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and the cows was always there.
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Yeah, I used to get
up and milk the cows
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before I went to school,
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I used to come
home, feed the cows
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and then I, during the summer
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I would have to go
harvest all the egg.
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It was work. I hear that.
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Work, there's W,
that's a big letter.
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The thought came to mind is
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what if we first of all...
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set a goal to worship
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instead of set a goal to work.
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So taking actual part
let's just assume that
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you got your
own farm land. Yeah.
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And you got six
cows and budget. Yes.
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How would you transfer
this concept to that farm?
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Are you gonna make
milking the cows to worship?
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I start by not
doing it by myself.
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Oh really. Yeah.
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We get a different experience
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when we're with other people
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and on a Maranatha
mission trip that's one thing
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that's usually
planning all these people.
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And it's easy to worship
when you doing stuff together?
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Oh man, it's like
God shows up in you,
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and it is funny today
and He makes me laugh.
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For example He shows
up in a seven year old kid
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with his big
huge fat smile. Yeah.
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It invites us
not to stop working
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but to focus more on
why we are actually here.
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And did you said, something
that's really intrigues you,
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God shows up as a
seven year old child
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with a big smile or
somebody who is laughing.
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Did you sense
that, that the volunteers
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that you work with are like
God showing up in your life?
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In a huge ways.
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And this is what's
really sobered me to the idea,
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let's worship not that
most first time volunteers
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are rather
uncertain and insecure.
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That's' very true.
With their capacity to work.
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It's like the lady
who was working here
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on self discover
this afternoon who said,
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I can't remember-- told me,
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I just didn't worry
about the blocks I figured
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oh, don't be
professionals there to do that.
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Yeah, guess what?
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Jesus is gonna make
you the professional.
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And that's a
part of worship. Yes.
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To realizing that as a
leader on a mission trip
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I have a big
responsibility to make sure that
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I am bringing up
that volunteer and
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I can't do that
because I am a contractor, man.
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I know how to get it done.
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If I don't, my
family doesn't eat.
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Yeah. And so if these
people don' get it done,
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your workers don't get it
done, you find new workers.
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Yes. But on a mission trip
it's a goal is not so much work
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but you just
take your offerings,
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one day at a time no matter
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whether you are a
better block layer
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or me or you are a better
cook or you are seven or 87,
00:18:03.34\00:18:06.75
it's a goal is to worship.
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It's crazy because God,
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He gets everything done the same
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that we get
worship while we work.
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There's nothing better
than taking an influence
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the first time
volunteer who doesn't even know
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what a trowel is. Yeah.
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And then five days later
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we want the best
block layres on the trip.
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That's what God
does with me, right.
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And it start out I
want to be the best husband
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or dad or I want
to be a good student.
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I make a mess of it and
till I give it to the God
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and then I went back and said,
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how did you do
that? It was miracle.
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So I had a volunteer
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and he really didn't
want to lay some block,
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he was part of the team
doing something else, right.
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But I like that moment
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when the person is
busy doing that things
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because they honestly
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aren't really good
at laying the blocks.
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The block, yeah.
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When they get it
and they say, I am done,
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it's a God moment, right? It is.
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So I grab that person,
I said, come over here.
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I want you to
lay couple of blocks
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and it wasn't couple of
minutes, it was about 25 minutes
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and as I walk by I can see that
he was struggling with that.
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It's a hard work. Yeah.
00:19:33.03\00:19:35.13
And I looked at him
and assisted and in fact,
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I didn't see what was going on
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but the block would
not go down to the string
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and he looked to me and I
looked to him and I said--
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The string is
wrong. The string is wrong.
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No, it's not. The
string is actually always...
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Right. Yeah.
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Something is going
on with this block.
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And so I took the block off
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and there laying hidden in
the mortar was this rock, right.
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Which changes everything.
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You couldn't get it to
where it supposed to be
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and you twist it
and move it and tap it
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and he looked at
me and I looked at him
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and I just took the rock out
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and this block-- Just settled.
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Settled right on the string
00:20:18.88\00:20:20.87
and he spent like 25
minutes trying to figure it out.
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And I, we just looked
to each other and smile
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and its like isn't--
isn't that what God does.
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He invites us to
something that's holy.
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Yeah, and his
string is where it is.
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Yet there are things in our life
00:20:39.14\00:20:41.46
that are keeping
from happening, right.
00:20:41.49\00:20:44.85
And He comes along and
takes that rock and says,
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here it is, this is the culprit.
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And it came back
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right where it supposed
to be in like 30 seconds.
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And this string goes
up. One block at a time.
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And worship does happen.
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In a totally different
way, totally different angle
00:21:03.98\00:21:07.66
every single experience had
the different way it happens.
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Like there's not just,
this is worship, right.
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No, no, no, like,
worship-- Every part of it.
00:21:15.55\00:21:18.70
Every morning it's different,
every afternoon it's different.
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Unique to you, to me, to
the guy laying the block.
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That's a creative God.
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What you are talking about
00:21:29.59\00:21:30.76
in its simplest
form is John Chapter 15,
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when the Holy Spirit
comes to lead you in the altar
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and everyday, all day
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he's busy whispering and blowing
00:21:40.22\00:21:42.02
and sound of the gentle
whisper and all of the rest.
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And it's just
exciting to think of that
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as constantly happening
on Maranatha Mission trips.
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It does.
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And then you don't
have to be a professional.
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In fact it's
best if you are not.
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Are you looking for
a volunteer opportunity
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that doesn't
require a long airplane ride
00:22:04.60\00:22:06.69
or a passport?
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Maranatha's work
to build churches
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and schools
includes North America.
00:22:10.02\00:22:12.27
And we have two projects
this summer that need your help.
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First, Maranatha is
organizing a project
00:22:15.87\00:22:18.25
at the Faith Adventist Christian
School in Summit, Mississippi.
00:22:18.28\00:22:21.85
This small school
has been in operation
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for the past four years
00:22:23.98\00:22:25.50
and they need help
expanding their facility
00:22:25.53\00:22:27.57
so they can reach more
students and their families.
00:22:27.60\00:22:30.64
You can help
them reach their goal
00:22:30.67\00:22:32.42
by volunteering June 11
to 25 then from July 9 to 23.
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Join us as we help
the Hardeeville Spanish
00:22:37.99\00:22:40.24
Seventh-day Adventist
church in South Carolina.
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Their previous church
building burned down in 2011
00:22:43.03\00:22:46.65
and they are
stepping out in faith
00:22:46.68\00:22:48.39
to rebuild with
Maranatha's assistance.
00:22:48.42\00:22:51.19
There is no participation fee
for either of these projects.
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All you need to do is get there.
00:22:54.37\00:22:56.73
For more information
on these projects and more
00:22:56.76\00:22:59.34
visit our
website at maranatha.org.
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There's something
incredibly special
00:23:02.49\00:23:04.34
about Maranatha Family Project.
00:23:04.37\00:23:07.10
It doesn't matter
where it takes place,
00:23:07.13\00:23:08.61
doesn't matter
what they're building,
00:23:08.64\00:23:09.93
doesn't even matter
how many people come,
00:23:09.96\00:23:11.39
or who comes,
it's always the same.
00:23:11.42\00:23:14.58
This project celebrates
three incredible gift of God,
00:23:14.61\00:23:18.62
marriage which of course was
00:23:18.65\00:23:20.57
what He created
on the seventh day,
00:23:20.60\00:23:23.08
marriage and love.
00:23:23.11\00:23:24.69
A good friend who says that
00:23:24.72\00:23:26.35
got spent six days
putting the world together
00:23:26.38\00:23:28.20
on the seventh
day God created love.
00:23:28.23\00:23:31.56
Well that's something
we experience and celebrate
00:23:31.59\00:23:35.38
on a Maranatha Family Project.
00:23:35.41\00:23:38.33
The second is the
arrival of children
00:23:38.36\00:23:41.26
and the way they grew up,
00:23:41.29\00:23:43.98
that was
important to Adam and Eve.
00:23:44.01\00:23:45.35
And you can imagine how
absolutely awestruck they were
00:23:45.38\00:23:49.03
when their children
started coming into the world.
00:23:49.06\00:23:51.68
We get to play with kids,
00:23:51.71\00:23:53.86
we used to play
with kids from long time,
00:23:53.89\00:23:56.82
solemn, husband and
wife, father, mother homes.
00:23:56.85\00:24:01.77
We used to play with
kids from broken homes,
00:24:01.80\00:24:03.97
we get to play
with adopted kids,
00:24:04.00\00:24:05.55
we get to play
with every kind of kid
00:24:05.58\00:24:06.97
you can dream up.
00:24:07.00\00:24:08.43
They all come on
Maranatha Family Projects.
00:24:08.46\00:24:11.60
They come supportive by
those who love them most.
00:24:11.63\00:24:16.55
The third thing we get
to celebrate is service.
00:24:16.58\00:24:19.26
During this project
these kids, they have helped,
00:24:19.29\00:24:23.43
worked in
teaching other children
00:24:23.46\00:24:26.94
basic principles of health.
00:24:26.97\00:24:28.48
They've talked
to them about God,
00:24:28.51\00:24:29.90
they talked to them about Jesus
00:24:29.93\00:24:32.11
and they have
celebrated with their families
00:24:32.14\00:24:35.57
what it means to
belong to Christ.
00:24:35.60\00:24:38.66
There's a fourth
special celebration.
00:24:38.69\00:24:42.00
It seems like it always happens,
00:24:42.03\00:24:43.60
every time we
have a family project
00:24:43.63\00:24:45.98
doesn't matter
whether it's Christmas
00:24:46.01\00:24:47.15
for the middle a summer
00:24:47.18\00:24:48.71
we get to celebrate
the ordinance of baptism.
00:24:48.74\00:24:52.17
Remember what
Jesus said about baptism,
00:24:52.20\00:24:54.26
you can't really be whole
00:24:54.29\00:24:56.66
until you die
and are born again.
00:24:56.69\00:24:59.72
We see that happen on
every single family project.
00:24:59.75\00:25:05.53
I think often as I
watch these kids about the day
00:25:05.56\00:25:09.17
an angel woke up
Phillip and said.
00:25:09.20\00:25:11.44
I got a job for you,
00:25:11.47\00:25:13.06
it's gonna be a
quick one, hang on.
00:25:13.09\00:25:15.58
And he ended up in the
desert down by Ethiopia
00:25:15.61\00:25:18.97
next to a pool of water
00:25:19.00\00:25:20.75
as a unit comes
pounding by with his chariot.
00:25:20.78\00:25:26.00
He gets up onto the chariot,
00:25:26.03\00:25:28.03
he talks to the
man about what it means
00:25:28.06\00:25:30.26
to accept Jesus Christ as
your personal Messiah, redeemer.
00:25:30.29\00:25:35.87
And the guy says, wow
this has changed that way
00:25:35.90\00:25:38.25
I think about everything.
00:25:38.28\00:25:39.69
Can you baptize me,
00:25:39.72\00:25:40.75
there's a pound of
water right over here?
00:25:40.78\00:25:43.17
Phillip baptizes the
eunuch on the way home.
00:25:43.20\00:25:48.82
That happens on
every family project.
00:25:48.85\00:25:52.19
I baptized children and adults
on Christmas family project.
00:25:52.22\00:25:56.77
Today Steve
baptized two teenagers
00:25:56.80\00:25:59.61
right here on this project.
00:25:59.64\00:26:02.43
Love, kids, service,
baptism, they all go together.
00:26:02.46\00:26:07.95
And on a
Maranatha Family Project
00:26:07.98\00:26:10.81
they all work together
to strengthen God's kingdom.
00:26:10.84\00:26:17.35
This week we receive
an update from Brazil
00:26:17.38\00:26:20.19
where Maranatha has
build 345 one day churches.
00:26:20.22\00:26:24.17
Meet Claudio Medonsa.
00:26:24.20\00:26:26.41
He lived in the North
Eastern city of Recife
00:26:26.44\00:26:28.76
and was an active member
00:26:28.79\00:26:29.82
of a Seventh-day
Adventist congregation there.
00:26:29.85\00:26:32.41
About a year ago
Claudio felt that
00:26:32.44\00:26:34.18
it was time to
start a new church
00:26:34.21\00:26:35.51
in a near by town on Orinda.
00:26:35.54\00:26:37.39
Soon he had a group of
six worshiping each Sabbath
00:26:37.42\00:26:40.60
but they didn't have a
permanent place to worship.
00:26:40.63\00:26:43.62
In September 2012
Maranatha arrived to build
00:26:43.65\00:26:46.92
a one day church
structure with the expectation
00:26:46.95\00:26:49.59
that this small
congregation complete to build.
00:26:49.62\00:26:52.98
Today that group of six
has turned into a group of 45.
00:26:53.01\00:26:57.04
They are excited, they
are sharing their faith
00:26:57.07\00:27:00.02
and the church is growing.
00:27:00.05\00:27:02.35
This past
weekend four additional
00:27:02.38\00:27:04.44
people were baptized
in a new Orinda church.
00:27:04.47\00:27:07.93
The congregation
has worked very hard
00:27:07.96\00:27:09.71
to finish the church building.
00:27:09.74\00:27:11.52
They still have
a little ways to go
00:27:11.55\00:27:13.10
but they know
that in a short time
00:27:13.13\00:27:14.90
a beautiful new
church will stand
00:27:14.93\00:27:16.63
in their Orinda community
00:27:16.66\00:27:17.85
as a testimony to
the God they worship.
00:27:17.88\00:27:20.76
When you support the
one day church project
00:27:20.79\00:27:22.81
great results take place.
00:27:22.84\00:27:24.58
A new building is
built but more importantly
00:27:24.61\00:27:27.22
you are supporting a group
of people with simple goals,
00:27:27.25\00:27:30.26
to spread the love of
Jesus to everyone they meet.
00:27:30.29\00:27:33.89
If you like to make
the one day church possible
00:27:33.92\00:27:36.23
for a
congregation like Claudia's
00:27:36.26\00:27:38.04
we need your help.
00:27:38.07\00:27:39.68
There are many
congregations on our list
00:27:39.71\00:27:41.75
that are waiting for a church.
00:27:41.78\00:27:43.48
Contact us today to find
out how you can get involved.
00:27:43.51\00:27:47.86
Thanks for joining us today
on Maranatha Mission Stories
00:27:47.89\00:27:50.50
coming to you
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I am Seth. I am Pulith.
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Johnson. I am Joseph.
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I'm Jewel. I'm
Raoni. I am David.
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I am Hanna. I am Seth.
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You are not Seth.
You got to come join us.
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It's never boring.
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