Hello, this is
the Maranatha Minute.
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Last week the Dominican Republic
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welcomed a burst of energy
in the form of team volunteers.
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Approximately 300
alternate workout participants
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began arriving in
the country last week
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to build churches and
classrooms in Barahona.
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This is the 24th year of these
teenagers only mission trip
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and it's the largest
Ultimate Workout till date.
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The teen trip
came on the heels of
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another
Dominican Republic project,
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the annual summer
family project wrapped up
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just days before Ultimate
Workout leadership arrived.
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This team of a 112 volunteers
built three one day churches
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in the suburbs of Santo Domingo.
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Keep up with what's happening
on the Ultimate Workout,
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the family
project and other trips
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by going to our
Maranatha Facebook page.
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We'll post photos and updates
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from project
sites around the world.
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Go to Maranatha.org/facebook.
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Coming up, learn why
a small group of parents
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have permission to be part
of teenagers only mission trip
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and what they
learned from the experience.
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This is Ultimate
Workout, Tumbaco, Ecuador.
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And one of the things
I'd like you to notice
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is how the kids are
the ones doing the work.
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Most of the time
it's almost impossible
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to find any adults around here
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because the kids are
actually building walls
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and doing important things,
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it's impossible they
ever going to take a break.
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But every once in a
while you run into the elders.
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You guys still alive? Barely.
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Barely. Barely, I'm hanging on.
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If I didn't have
Gary here to hold me up
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I'm don't know
what would happen.
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Kindly give me
your interruption.
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Oh, man, look
at this, ice cream.
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This show is about old
people on Ultimate Workout.
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Over the past 23
years the Ultimate Workout
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has evolved to be
one of Maranatha's
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most popular and
epic mission adventures.
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How could a project designed
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exclusively for
teenagers be anything less.
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Only its not just
teenagers on the trip,
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there are handful
of special grown-ups
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who are granted access
and they willingly trade
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the comforts of home for
a tent and concrete floor.
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I don't like camping,
I don't like solo shower,
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I don't like the cold,
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let's see what
else do I not like.
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But I love the ministry.
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Loretta is a
writer and mother of five.
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In 2003 she went
on Ultimate Workout 13
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as a correspondent
for Inside Magazine.
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She was impressed by the program
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and the teens who served.
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She became one of the
Ultimate Workout leaders
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and she's been
back year after year.
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My love of the
ministry is great enough
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to cancel my dislike for
all of those other things.
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So, that's why I
love Ultimate Workout.
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The Ultimate Workout
is an annual mission trip
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designed to mentally and
spiritually transform teenagers
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by pushing them out
of their comfort zones
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and into the mission field.
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For two weeks volunteers
are asked to negotiate life
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in a new culture
with new friends.
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Guiding this process are
a few dozen adult leaders.
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They are carefully selected
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based on their
passion for missions
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and most
importantly for their commitment
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to the spiritual
development of teenagers.
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Steve Williams has
recently coordinated
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Ultimate Workout
to medical outrage.
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But his involvement in
this mission experience
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stretches back
more than 20 years.
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These young people who
are interested in serving
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and even if initially
they are not interested
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in serving their transmission
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there is a spiritually
transforming experience
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and they come back and
they, they participate.
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But what keeps me
come back is the kids,
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I love them, every one of them.
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We have so much that we don't
do for a teens back at home.
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We don't give
them leadership roles,
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we don't let them grow, we
look at the way they dress,
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we look at the way they act
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and think that they
should be more mature,
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should have
different dress you know,
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should not wear make up
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should have this
much nail polish on
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but that's really
not what's important.
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What's important is
where their heart is
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and what I saw with this was
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it helped to
connect hearts with God.
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And if we don't give
them that opportunity
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where do they get it.
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A young lady told
me the other day that
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because she's been called out
and pulled out to be a leader
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on here on this Ultimate Workout
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they should take that
and transfer and go home
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because she says, I
don't even know construction
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and if I can be a
leader on a construction site
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surely I can be a leader
for the youth in my church.
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So, I think that's what
it's about just training them
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and helping them to
become better leaders,
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to be willing
to lead their peers
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and to lead others
as their lives continue.
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The leaders work
with the team volunteers
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on the construction site,
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medical clinics and
during outrage ministries.
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The interaction gives
the adults opportunities
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to mentor the teams,
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a task that can feel
intimidating at first.
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I love children
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and I work with the younger
children in Sabbath school
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and I just-- but teens
were different story to me,
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so last year was a big challenge
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whether I would be
able to be like teens.
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They just love to
be into their group
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made me part of their group
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and that was no
issue with me at all.
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I tried to build relationships
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by just taking
kids where they are,
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in helping that
they'll do the same with me.
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A lot of kids have been
through experiences that
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at their ages, you
know, it's really surprising.
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Sometimes it's really
sad, and yeah they don't need
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our judgments
and they don't need--
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sometimes they don't even need
our counsel they need our ears.
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You know our
listening and our openness
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to see what they can be
and to see what they are,
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what they want to be
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and what they want
out of this experience?
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Sometimes they
don't know what they want
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out of their
experience you know,
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and they don't
know why they are here
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but I find and just trying
to take them where they are
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and to see them for
the people that they are
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and what they
can be that you know,
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its just kind of growth
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and by the end at least
based on my first experience
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I didn't wanted to end
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and I could see many
cases they didn't either
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because we found
a place that safe
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and they kind of get a
sense that cares about them
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just as they are.
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Mark is an
emergency medical technician.
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Both his kids have
been on Ultimate Workout
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and he has served as
a leader for two years.
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He says he returns because of
the connection with the teens.
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But he and the other
leaders admit there is more
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to why they
return year after year.
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I personally needed
it spiritually to be here
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and to be able to be
focused on something,
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some what else than other folks
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and something than
just work all the time.
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So I'm very
grateful to have been here.
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Who gets more out
of this experience
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is the real hard one to pen down
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because I know its something
that is really worrying for me
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and I continue
to grow spiritually
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and learn
different ways of connecting
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with different kids
and their personalities
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but I think it's
a two way street,
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I mean, God definitely works
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on both the young
people and the adults.
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After all no matter
whom it's designed for
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the Ultimate Workout is
ultimately a mission trip.
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And missions have a
way of changing people.
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It's fulfilling and
it's true that I do this
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because it's great for the kids,
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it's spiritually
transforming for the kids
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but the other thing is
added to little selfish
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and its
spiritually transforming for me
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and it just helps me to
get my perspective in line.
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And I see that it
does for the participants
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every year, every time
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and so that's why I'm
addicted and I can't stop.
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I told a friend online today
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about building a
church for just $10.
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He said for just 10 bucks
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I could just buy a
couple of smoothies.
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My friend Frank
assumed that a $10 church
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had to be a print back building.
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I posted a picture,
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one of these beautiful
buildings in Buenos Aires.
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He couldn't believe it.
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Then my bud Jason joined in.
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He's been a member of
this club for 10 years.
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He built a church every month
somewhere in the world for $10,
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that's 120 churches.
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Tina is also a member.
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We found that by
skipping something
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a simple as a soda twice a week
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we can pitch
into building a church
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'cause its just $10.
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Go to marantaha.org
and see for yourself
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how easy it is to
be part of mission.
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Join us, be a
member of the $10 church.
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Every once in a while I
get to interview somebody
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that's just plain fun
because of experiences
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we've had before in our
lives, today is one of those.
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Here on Ultimate Workout I want
to introduce you to Steve Case
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who is the
grandfather of Ultimate Workout.
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Steve, you've been on
Ultimate Workouts forever.
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In the process
of doing all of this
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I've watched you do three things
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that I want to
talk about real quick.
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One of the things I've
watched is you lead by leading.
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How do you do that?
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I've a tremendous
confidence in the other people
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that are here and
for lot of these people
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they've already
demonstrated some leadership
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and so to rely on them is
really an easy thing to do.
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I've tremendous
confidence on the power of God
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in these situations, I
believe in young people
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and so we've found that
if there's a need some place
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and we expect God to act,
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we expect the participants
to step in and do it
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and over and over
they do amazing things.
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So that's why my
confidence is high.
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Couple days ago
I sat with or stood
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with four of the leaders,
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the adult leaders who
are doing construction
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and we were way up at
the other end of the site
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watching a group of kids work.
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And they were chuckling
about how Marge was doing
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and how Fred was
doing and look at that,
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watch what's gonna happen now.
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They're gonna have
trouble with the mud
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and he's gonna fix it,
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you watch Carl's gonna go down
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and yep, see and Carl gets down
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and goes and solves the problem
and what-- Isn't that amazing?
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It absolutely
is. It's a miracle.
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But really if you want to
look from heavens perspective
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and what adults are doing
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I expect the same kind of
conversation is happening.
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Hey Gabriel, watch this.
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Dick Duerksen is gonna try this
and then this is gonna happen
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and he's gonna have
to do this practice.
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That's why it's
gonna be saved by Steve
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coming in from
the back coming up.
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Now or an angel
or another person
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or your wife or somebody else
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and so I think that
happens all the time,
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we just don't expect it
to happen with young people
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and I say it's the
same the God so why not?
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So why not?
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Also I'm a Seventh-day Adventist
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and so the roots of my
particular denominations
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start with young people.
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That's true.
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So I expect young people to
be able to take off and lead
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because age is
irrelevant to God.
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It doesn't matter how
old or old young you are,
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if you have God
you got everything.
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Then why is it that
so many of us all dudes
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who cross our arms and
lean back in our chairs
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and are afraid that somebody
is gonna take our chair.
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Well, the reason I do it
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is because I'm afraid
somebody will take my chair
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and my chair is
all my confidence is in
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and if I give that
up what do I have left
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and I think the
answer is I only have Jesus.
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And is that enough?
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It's not enough then I'm
gonna keep hold of my chair
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and not gonna allow
somebody else take it.
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So I should be very
comfortable letting my chair go
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because I've already got Christ
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and if somebody else
need to sit in my chair, cool.
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If I have
Christ then I'm willing
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to give my chair to anybody.
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How do you find adult leadership
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for Ultimate Workout?
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Always on a lookout for that
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and the thing
that we're looking for
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there are really two
qualities we look for
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in an adult leader
for Ultimate Workout.
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Number one, do they love God?
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Number two, do
they love young people?
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If they have those two qualities
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that's really all that's needed.
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But you're looking
for some skill level.
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Yes, yes I'm looking for skill
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but that would be something like
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somebody who can lay block.
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If I personally lay block
they are many who can lay block
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but they may not love God.
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Well, our adult
leaders we tell them,
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your primary role
on this mission trip
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is to be a mentor
for the young people.
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Your primary role
is not to lay block
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that's your secondary role.
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So if you like your primary role
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you better go on another project
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where all the
counts is laying block
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but we're building people.
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I was talking to Glenda Davidson
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the other day she is the nurse
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on this part of the project here
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and she said that one
day she was staying at home
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and she got a phone
call and that she was sure
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it was a
telemarketer, somebody said,
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hi, I'm Steve
Case and I'm working
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and I need you to go
to blah, blah, blah, blah,
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and she just listened
as you did this long spiel
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as you did this
long spiel on the phone
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about something
important you know.
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Tell me about Glenda
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and how you
recruit people like that?
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We're quite serious
in praying every year,
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a very basic prayer
and it was like this,
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Lord, please bring
the people You want
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and keep away the
people You don't want
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and it may not make
sense to us at times
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but we're gonna trust You.
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And that's a difficult thing
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when we come down
to the nitty gritty
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because we're
always recruiting people
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and some we think really should
be there and they are not.
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And they don't come.
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And we have to say, God,
didn't you hear the prayer?
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This doesn't makes wait.
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No, He says wait, I
did hear the prayer.
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Exactly.
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And so then our
faith gets tested.
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And then when I called
Glenda we had lost a site nurse
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and we were desperate
and out of this happens
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every year on some person,
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something comes up and
so here we're with two days
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to go or a week to go
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and who, who and
so we tried calling
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and they referred
us to somebody else,
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I think Glenda was about
number three down the line.
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I never heard of her
and she never heard of me
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so I called and introduced
myself and she said yes.
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And she came and
we're just an excellent fit
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and excellent
because she loves God,
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she loves young people.
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She has nursing
skills that I don't have.
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Right. You know--
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And she could use those.
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But if she were
nurse and didn't love God
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or love young
people she wouldn't fit.
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No, no.
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Take me to you and
a job you don't have
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and that's you
as a Bible teacher
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had a large Adventist academy.
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And you've got a group of kids
who love playing basket ball
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with local people who
are not church members.
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Would you
encourage your students
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and their friends to come
on Ultimate Workout and why?
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If you want to go
out of your comfort zone
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to get to a situation
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where you have to trust in God
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then this is a
golden opportunity.
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Okay.
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But the challenge is we
can out ourselves in situations
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back home where we
have to trust in God
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but we usually don't.
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We'll be go with
what's comfortable,
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with what's
familiar and yet young people
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always want something beyond.
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They want some
kind of excitement
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and as adults we
say, no, no, no, no,
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let's keep it all under control.
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And it's a mirage to say
that we are under control,
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we're not under control at all
but we risk so little for God
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because we want to hide
under this image of control.
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And on a mission trip
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we're dependant
on God from day one.
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One more question for you.
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So, you get 60 kids
and you come to the site
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and everything's changed,
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all of the plans that
you had laid are gone.
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How do you deal with that
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and how does that compare
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with what Jesus
did with His disciples?
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Yeah.
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We jokingly say that one of
these years in Ultimate Workout
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we're just gonna name a country.
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Give it at least a
city, okay or at least a part.
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Some place where
the plane to land.
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Give it a GPS, coordinate.
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And we're gonna say,
okay, Jesus, take us.
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Because we joke about that
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and what we actually do
is we plan as much as we can.
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And then when it comes to
the actual trip we're flexible.
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And so we go with it, when
it changes you change with it
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and you just take this
as a divine opportunity
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and this has
happened year after year.
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One year when we were in Chile
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things were changing so
much in the planning process
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where we were gonna be,
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that when we made
up with the T-shirts
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and put the names of
the locations on the back
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we actually put one
and called it other.
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Saying their flying is something
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we don't even know about it yet
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while the
T-shirts are being printed.
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Yeah, I love it.
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I ended up being a
leader of the other site.
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We didn't even know what existed
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and there was no church to
be constructed at that site
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so we went there
with no construction
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and so what did we
do, we said, okay God,
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what do you want us
to do to build a church,
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it's not gonna be we lay block
00:17:29.64\00:17:31.66
so how do we build
a church right here?
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And our construction leader
for that particular project,
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her first year as
construction superintendent
00:17:38.82\00:17:40.79
with no building was a
person named Rebecca Widmore,
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is now the brains
behind Ultimate Workout
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in the office at Maranatha.
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That's right.
00:17:48.78\00:17:49.81
And so she took
something where her job is
00:17:49.84\00:17:51.57
just taken away for her
and what does she gonna do?
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Gonna make it a success.
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How does all of
this compare with Christ
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leading His disciples?
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Well, I think
it's the same thing.
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You see the disciples
fumbling over and over
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and not knowing how
to handle the situation.
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And yet Jesus sticks with them
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and every opportunity
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is another growth
situation for them
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and so I think is very much
being a follower of Jesus today
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is much of the
same kind of thing.
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Here we go for the ride.
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The Black Hills of South Dakota
are home to Mount Rushmore
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and six national parks.
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It's a must see destination
in the United States.
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And now you can visit this area
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while serving on a mission trip.
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The Hermosa Adventist
Company in the Black Hills
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is in need of a church.
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This group of 40 people
have no place to worship
00:18:34.26\00:18:36.77
and Maranatha is going
to build them a new church.
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But we can't do it
alone so we are inviting you
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to help
construct a new sanctuary.
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This project is
from August 4th to 21.
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Food and lodging is provided
00:18:46.95\00:18:48.20
and all you need to
do is get to South Dakota
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then if you've got
time you can drive west
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from the Black Hills project
to Federal Way, Washington
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where another group awaits
your help for building a church
00:18:56.57\00:18:59.57
for the Russian, Ukrainian,
Perusia Adventist church.
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There are about 100
members and they are thrilled
00:19:02.52\00:19:04.94
to finally have a
space of their own.
00:19:04.97\00:19:07.02
This project is from
August 18 to September 4.
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To apply for either of these
projects go to maranatha.org.
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To come along
on Ultimate Workout
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you have to be somewhere
between 14 and 18 years of age
00:20:21.41\00:20:24.52
and not a
graduate from high school
00:20:24.55\00:20:26.73
and yet every year
the Ultimate Workout team
00:20:26.76\00:20:29.46
includes tons of
all dudes and dudesses
00:20:29.49\00:20:32.25
who are far beyond 18.
00:20:32.28\00:20:35.53
How is that
possible? Well, it's biblical.
00:20:35.56\00:20:39.20
Remember the Prophet Samuel,
the moment his mother Hannah
00:20:39.23\00:20:43.81
had delivered him she was
already working out solutions
00:20:43.84\00:20:46.85
to get Samuel
back into the temple
00:20:46.88\00:20:49.73
where Eli could be his mentor.
00:20:49.76\00:20:51.80
Now you and I both know
Eli was a not good mentor
00:20:51.83\00:20:54.81
to most of
anybody except Samuel.
00:20:54.84\00:20:59.84
God sent Samuel
back to the temple
00:20:59.87\00:21:02.30
to be able to
experience Eli and his wisdom
00:21:02.33\00:21:06.32
and in the process of all that
00:21:06.35\00:21:08.09
Samuel became one of the
greatest of God's prophets.
00:21:08.12\00:21:11.68
You know, it's interesting
how the experience and wisdom
00:21:11.71\00:21:17.27
of older people
00:21:17.30\00:21:18.94
it kind of
serves like miracle grow
00:21:18.97\00:21:21.43
in the lives of the young.
00:21:21.46\00:21:24.13
In another
illustration young King Josiah,
00:21:24.16\00:21:28.49
now what young King Josiah took
over the throne at age eight
00:21:28.52\00:21:32.13
and I don't know that
they were ever very many
00:21:32.16\00:21:34.86
intelligent wise and
great eight year old kings
00:21:34.89\00:21:39.84
but Josiah had a gift.
00:21:39.87\00:21:41.46
He knew how to
lean on older folks.
00:21:41.49\00:21:44.04
You read all of Josiah stories
what you find in the names of
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Hilkiah, Shaphan, Azaliah
and of course the prophet.
00:21:47.60\00:21:52.52
Prophetess Hannah.
Now that's really special.
00:21:52.55\00:21:56.28
Here is a young kid who says
00:21:56.31\00:21:58.90
I want to do the
best I possibly can.
00:21:58.93\00:22:01.91
At age 16 after
being king for eight years
00:22:01.94\00:22:05.01
he began completely
redesigning the temple for God.
00:22:05.04\00:22:10.19
Everything in his life
seem to be just right on target.
00:22:10.22\00:22:12.95
In fact, he is the
only king in scripture
00:22:12.98\00:22:16.23
where the words describe him as,
00:22:16.26\00:22:18.47
and Josiah followed the word
in all of his way never turning
00:22:18.50\00:22:23.07
either to the
right hand or to the left
00:22:23.10\00:22:26.14
and I calling that
the straight arrow king.
00:22:26.17\00:22:29.58
He was a king who understood
the value of having adults,
00:22:29.61\00:22:36.43
wise mentors close by.
00:22:36.46\00:22:40.60
Here's another illustration,
remember doorman Mordecai?
00:22:40.63\00:22:45.79
Yeah, and his niece Hadassah.
00:22:45.82\00:22:49.74
Its miracles happen there.
00:22:49.77\00:22:51.84
All we really
know is that Mordecai
00:22:51.87\00:22:54.21
who was the doorman to
King Xerxes had a niece,
00:22:54.24\00:22:57.27
don't know if there
was a woman in the house,
00:22:57.30\00:22:58.95
we don't know
anything more than that,
00:22:58.98\00:23:00.21
all we know is Mordecai gift of
wisdom rubbed off on Hadassah.
00:23:00.24\00:23:06.63
So that when the time came
she was ready to be the queen
00:23:06.66\00:23:11.55
and so we have the
story of Queen Esther.
00:23:11.58\00:23:14.53
Yes, it was Queen Esther story
00:23:14.56\00:23:17.39
but key to that story
is the worst of Mordecai.
00:23:17.42\00:23:21.68
Every summer when we
began with Ultimate Workout
00:23:21.71\00:23:26.43
doing the planning we make sure
00:23:26.46\00:23:28.37
that we invite a very special
group of wise aged mentors.
00:23:28.40\00:23:34.38
People who really know
how to deal with teenagers,
00:23:34.41\00:23:36.82
people know how to love,
00:23:36.85\00:23:37.95
people whose connection
with God is bright solid.
00:23:37.98\00:23:41.79
Ask the kids about them I
know what they'll tell you.
00:23:41.82\00:23:45.26
They'll
immediately begin describing
00:23:45.29\00:23:47.05
long all night conversations
00:23:47.08\00:23:49.92
with this mentor or that mentor
or with that old person with--
00:23:49.95\00:23:53.54
you know, there is
something that happens
00:23:53.57\00:23:55.85
when they get together
00:23:55.88\00:23:56.91
and they be learned
to trust each other.
00:23:56.94\00:23:58.90
As one of the old
fellows said to me the other day
00:23:58.93\00:24:01.43
I can walk into a group
of Ultimate Workout teenagers
00:24:01.46\00:24:04.27
and feel like one of them.
00:24:04.30\00:24:07.62
That's pretty cool.
What the teenagers say?
00:24:07.65\00:24:11.71
They've got to make
sure that while they are here
00:24:11.74\00:24:14.02
on Ultimate Workout
they learned to lay a block
00:24:14.05\00:24:16.11
as well as Jessup
00:24:16.14\00:24:17.47
or they learned to give a
shot as well was Williams.
00:24:17.50\00:24:20.56
Let me put it this way.
00:24:20.59\00:24:22.54
I believe that the brilliance
of youth shines brightest
00:24:22.57\00:24:28.93
when buffed against the loving
wisdom of aged Christians.
00:24:28.96\00:24:35.35
That's part of what
Ultimate Workout is all about.
00:24:35.38\00:24:37.71
We're doing our
best to change lives
00:24:37.74\00:24:40.81
and help create leaders
for the future of our church
00:24:40.84\00:24:44.71
for the future of the world.
00:24:44.74\00:24:46.57
Talk to the kids about
what they learned here.
00:24:46.60\00:24:48.99
One of the things
you'll learn very quickly
00:24:49.02\00:24:50.73
is that they have
learned wisdom from the adults.
00:24:50.76\00:24:54.13
In fact, you
will hear young voices
00:24:54.16\00:24:57.06
speaking with
wisdom, with creativity,
00:24:57.09\00:24:59.78
with convection
far beyond their age.
00:24:59.81\00:25:03.18
That happens when they
get to spend their time
00:25:03.21\00:25:07.11
with people who love Christ
and can communicate it clearly.
00:25:07.14\00:25:10.80
In fact, I think you'll hear
kids talking with the wisdom
00:25:10.83\00:25:15.92
that comes form Christ
00:25:15.95\00:25:17.95
and live it that wisdom
with Christ's servant heart.
00:25:17.98\00:25:24.50
This morning I
receive several photos
00:25:24.53\00:25:26.53
of one day churches Maranatha
built this week in Angola.
00:25:26.56\00:25:30.43
Our team is
working in and around
00:25:30.46\00:25:32.09
the capital city of Rwanda
00:25:32.12\00:25:33.83
building churches for
existing congregations.
00:25:33.86\00:25:36.94
These four congregations
will have a new church
00:25:36.97\00:25:39.25
to meet in this coming Sabbath.
00:25:39.28\00:25:41.42
The members will move
out of less permanent course
00:25:41.45\00:25:43.87
and will soon
start building the walls
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of their one day church.
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The current request from Angola
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for churches and
schools is quite large,
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1,000 one day
churches and 6,000 classrooms.
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That is not an
unreasonable request.
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The need is definitely there.
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Maranatha is committed
to building 400 churches
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and 200 one day
classrooms in Angola.
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These churches and schools
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will positively
impact thousands of lives.
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Construction is also starting
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on a large
school campus in Rwanda.
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An education in
evangelism center
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and 30 one day school
classrooms will provide
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space for kindergarten
through high school.
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This new campus will be
the flagship educational center
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for the Seventh-day
Adventist church in Rwanda.
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This work has
begun in Angola on faith
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that the funds will come in
to meet this critical needs.
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I'd like to invite you
to get involved in Angola.
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Pray about the needs there.
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Praise God for
the open opportunities
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that exist right now
and support the construction
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of churches and
schools with the donation.
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To support the needs in Angola
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call the number on your
screen or visit maranatha.org.
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Well, this program
is been about old people
00:26:55.24\00:26:57.78
you know, like me
and may be like you.
00:26:57.81\00:27:00.68
My wife and I
sometimes are the oldest people
00:27:00.71\00:27:02.58
on a Maranatha project.
00:27:02.61\00:27:03.80
In fact, we're really
glad when faith comes along
00:27:03.83\00:27:06.72
and we're no longer the oldest.
00:27:06.75\00:27:08.52
It's fun.
00:27:08.55\00:27:09.96
But Ultimate
Workout is extra special
00:27:09.99\00:27:12.13
and as we've talked
about for the last little while
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there is a place for wisdom,
00:27:14.70\00:27:16.40
the aged wisdom that comes
with the folks who were here
00:27:16.43\00:27:19.61
mentoring the
teenagers of Ultimate Workout.
00:27:19.64\00:27:22.74
If you are one of the kids
say thanks to your old dudes.
00:27:22.77\00:27:26.69
If you were one of the old dudes
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grab a couple of kids
and give them a big hug
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where the future leadership
of the church and our world.
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I'm Dick Duerksen host
of Maranatha Mission Stories
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still doing okay.
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See you again next time.
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