Union College's school song
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maybe about slinging
the ink and push in the pen.
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But this week is all
about swinging the hammer.
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About 90 Maranatha Volunteers
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are on campus in
Lincoln, Nebraska
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to renovate the
women's dormitory.
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The work includes demolition,
painting, and carpentry.
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The project will also
require much electrical work.
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And fortunately, this team
has plenty of skilled workers.
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Among the
volunteers is Larry Road Sr.
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He was the electrician
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who wired this same dorm
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when it was first built.
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Now he is almost 90
years old and back to help.
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Another Maranatha volunteer
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Mick Ray owns
Empire Electric in Lincoln.
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He has encouraged his
staff of trained electricians
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to join the project for
as many days as possible.
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It's the
generosity of volunteers
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like Larry and Mick
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who make each
Maranatha mission trip
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a success and a
blessing to everyone involved.
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Hear more about our
projects in North America
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at our Annual
Mission Maranatha Event
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in Sacramento,
California, September 19 to 21.
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Check out our website.
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At first
glance, the small campus
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looks like a typical
boarding school in Kenya.
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There are kids in
uniform attending assembly,
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class and eating
in the dining commons.
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There are kids
living in dormitories,
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doing their laundry and chores
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and playing outdoors.
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But the Kajiado Adventist School
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and Rescue Center
is no ordinary campus.
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Kajiado is home to 150 girls
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who have endured or escaped
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female genital
mutilation or FGM.
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This is an illegal
ritual done to girls
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as young as six years old
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in preparation for
their arranged marriage
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at the age of nine.
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Kajiado was
established nearly 20 years ago
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as a ministry
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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It is a haven for Maasai girls
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who have run away
from their families
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in search of
safety and education.
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Sarah Daniel is
the school director.
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She has been working at
Kajiado for the past 10 years
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and she has personally
helped to rescue many girls
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from abusive situations
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and watch them grow into strong,
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healthy,
educated women of faith.
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More than 2000 gals have been
assisted through this center.
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And we thank God for
their beautiful future.
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We have 20 who are in
colleges and universities
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and one them
graduated last year.
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And we are happy for that.
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When I walk around
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and I look at
within their community,
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I have teachers, I have people
who are working in the offices.
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And they are testimony of these
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because they went through these
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and now they are
living a better life
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after being assisted.
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So we are really happy for that.
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And we are not
ready to stop this.
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Until we see that
every gal will be safe
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and every gal will
be given an opportunity.
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It is a worthy goal.
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Yet at Kajiado, the
momentum is being thwarted
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by a simple problem, space.
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Because of the growing number
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the dormitory that we have
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is only supposed
to handle a capacity
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of not more than 80 gals.
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But currently, as we speak,
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the population in our
dormitory is 150 gals.
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Girls have to sleep
two or three to a mattress.
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Sometimes they
push two bunks together
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to create a larger space,
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but not
necessarily more comfort.
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The cramped quarters means
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that Sarah is unable to accept
more girls in need of help.
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Beyond the sleeping situation,
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the school is in
need of upgrades.
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These are the
only toilets available
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for the 150 girls at Kajiado.
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As for showers,
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most of the
students bathe outside
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using buckets of water
and darkness for privacy.
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In addition to the girls,
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there are about two dozen boys
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who board at the school.
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The coed
atmosphere helps the girls
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to develop a
healthy relationship
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with males.
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The boys stay in
the old school library,
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which means that
books had to be shoved
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into a small nook.
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The dedicated staff
also need better housing.
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It's so small in term of space.
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And it cannot
accommodate more than one person
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and even a high
we sleeping there,
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it is not spacious for me.
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So we need a spacious room
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for us to live in comfortably.
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And finally, the
school needs a new well.
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The current well is
not producing enough
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and the school is having
to spend precious resources
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on buying water.
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Since learning
of Kajiado's needs
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Maranatha has agreed to help
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with a number of
projects on campus,
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including the
construction of new dormitories,
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bathrooms, and
showers, administrative offices,
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and the drilling of a new well.
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The work is being
completed in part by volunteers.
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Two previous groups
completed one dormitory
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and bathroom block.
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And in March,
Maranatha organized
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a mission trip to Kajiado
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for a team to build a
second girls' dormitory.
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The opportunity drew a small
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but motivated
group of 26 volunteers,
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each with a different
reason for joining the project.
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Kristi Richardson
was in the category
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of first time volunteers.
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It was a strange label to
have considering her background.
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Her parents Carl and Sue Kruger
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had been part
of the organization
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for more than 40
years as board members,
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donors, and volunteers.
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I was an
educator, I was a teacher.
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And because I was
on academic calendar
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and I was given
these are the times
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when you've had vacation,
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it never quite lined up.
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I mean, I would
have loved to it.
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It would take
Kristi's retirement
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from teaching
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to open the door to
volunteering with Maranatha.
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The Kruger family
organized a mission trip
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to work at the
Gucha School in Kenya.
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Sadly, neither Kristi or
Sue ever made it to Kenya.
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Kristi's husband had
a major health issue,
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forcing her to cancel her trip.
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And her mother Sue had cancer
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which kept her from the project.
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Sue passed away shortly after.
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Less than a year later,
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Kristi heard about
the Kajiado mission trip.
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I still had
tickets from the project
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I was unable to go on.
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And when my mother passed away,
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as a memorial, we
specified this project.
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So I thought that
would be really good
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to come to honor her memory.
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While Kristi's reasons
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for going were specifically
rooted in personal history,
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Eddie and Dwanna
Falconer were drawn
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by a more vague
calling to the mission field.
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Well, my wife and I, we
have one thing in common
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and it is travel.
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Several things in common,
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but travel is
one of those things
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that we have in common.
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And so we took a trip last year,
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as part of our vacation
and we traveled to Europe.
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But it was mostly leisure.
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We felt somewhat guilty
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when we got back
even though it was,
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we enjoyed it, but
something was missing.
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The last time we went away,
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we just felt like it was great.
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But something was missing.
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And we felt that was because
it was just all about us.
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We needed to do something
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where we combined
service and travel.
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And we thought of Maranatha.
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This is my first
mission trip and my first time
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laboring with brick and mortar.
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I chose the Kenya mission trip
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because the Rescue Center
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and the Kajiado
School just really struck me
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in a really deep
and personal place
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and I just want to serve
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and do whatever was needed
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for the young ladies
that go to the school.
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But while Dwanna was
certain of her choice,
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Eddie was apprehensive.
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As a self-employed businessman,
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Eddie was worried.
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There's always that fear
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of finance come
into the question
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where you figure, okay,
three weeks off the job.
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I'm self-employed,
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how much money am I gonna lose?
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And then you realize, well,
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God can take care of us.
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And that's where
we made a decision
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and she began to make
the plans and everything
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just kind of fell
in place from there.
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Kristi, Dwanna, and Eddie
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were joined by
23 other volunteers
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with a diversity of backgrounds.
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Volunteers who grew
up in the mission field
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and consider it home.
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Volunteers who have
found purpose in service
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and now make Maranatha a
regular part of their lives.
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Volunteers who came
seeking a new experience,
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adventure, and
purpose in their lives
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regardless of their
background and missions,
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no one could anticipate
the highly emotional experience
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of serving such a
special group of students
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at such a special place.
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When we come back,
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watch a very
special mission trip unfold
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through the eyes
of the volunteers.
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Anyone can build a church,
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simply give just $10 each month
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and your donation along
with thousands of others
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will fund a new place
of worship every month.
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The potential for
change is all around you.
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All you have to do is look.
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On the first day
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of the Maranatha
Kenya Project in Kajiado,
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the campus was
buzzing in preparation
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for the volunteers arrival
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as welcomes are a
big deal in Kenya.
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The first morning
we arrived on our buses
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the students were lined up,
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the gates opened
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and here's hundreds of girls
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and a few boys in
their matching outfits
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and they were
marching in time up
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to make two
lines to welcome us in.
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Their hearts just
full of joy and singing
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and so happy to see us.
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When we first got
here that first day,
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and I saw all of
those children lined up,
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and they seem so excited,
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I felt we're in for a
real treat at this place.
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I wanted to cry,
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where there was
so much mixed emotion
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when I saw the kids singing,
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then I saw everybody
just kind of lined up,
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I felt very small.
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'Cause this was way
bigger than I am, you know,
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so I was just
grateful when I got here,
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you know, all the
emotions were there.
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And that was just
the first few minutes.
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Little that Eddie know,
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it was only the beginning
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of what would be a
transformational week
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in many ways.
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First, there was the work.
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While many of the volunteers
were veterans at laying block,
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for others, the
construction site
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was a brand new experience.
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And so laying brick is actually
my first time doing this.
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Not going very well so far,
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I'm having a hard time
getting the hang of it.
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But I'll get it.
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The trick is to get just
the right amount of mortar
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without it all falling
off the sides like that.
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If we just lay very still,
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very quietly.
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For those who would
prefer work other than masonry,
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there were plenty of other tasks
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like teaching a health class.
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Everybody like you,
you're such a nice one.
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Now look at you. You
got germs all over you.
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Painting,
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organizing,
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cleaning,
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even shopping.
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Renee Harry is a first
time volunteer from New York.
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On the day she wasn't
on the construction site,
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she helped with one of
the outreach activities
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on campus.
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Maranatha, and I
think just on the strength
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of people wanting to help,
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everyone sort of collected items
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and clothing,
shoes, anything they think
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that would be beneficial to
the girls and the boys here,
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they collected all
those items before they came.
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And we sort of set up a
little shopping area for them,
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where they, the
girls could come in
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and choose
items that they liked.
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And then, you
know, they would be able
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to walk away with an item.
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Thank you.
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Thank you for
bringing for us these gifts
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and come back again.
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May God bless you.
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The clothing outreach
was just one of the ways
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the volunteers got to
interact with the girls
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and hear their stories.
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Over the week, what
they found were young women
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seeking
mentorship and friendship.
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Once the girls leave home,
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and the tradition
of childhood marriage,
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they're rejected
by their parents.
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Often they can never
go back to their villages.
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So what the girls want,
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what they crave is
genuine connection.
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Jane Sines is a
longtime volunteer
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who recently returned
to Maranatha mission trips
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after a bit of a break.
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In the last couple projects,
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she'd been little worried
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about how she'd fit
into the bigger picture
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as an older participant.
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But with each experience,
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she's found a way to
be long and fulfill a need
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that she would
have never imagined.
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I first started
interacting with the girls here,
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they were really
kind of hesitant,
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but the more I put
my arms around them
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and just hugged them,
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and just stood by
them and held their hands,
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they just seem to start glowing,
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and just more and more.
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And now when I would come
more recently to the campus,
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they would just come
running and wanting to hug me
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and, you know, I just
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and they started call me,
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"Grandma, grandma, grandma
come here, grandma, grandma,"
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and it was just a thrill.
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On the first Saturday night,
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the school organized
a social for everyone.
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The event
immediately broke down any walls
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that existed between the
girls and the volunteers.
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We, you know,
celebrated the end of Sabbath,
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sang some songs.
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And then we got
into the activity songs,
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action songs,
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and they were singing
a song in which they came
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and got us again out.
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And were teaching
us to do their Maasai,
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think, I can't
do it too well yet.
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And so they had a fabulous time,
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we had a fabulous time.
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And that's why
things like Saturday night,
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to model the
behavior, and to show them
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that we in Christian love
can have a really great time,
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and laugh, and
sing, and jump around
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was really a
wonderful thing to do.
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When I got here,
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I was not quite sure
what the real story was.
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But after about the second day,
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especially the night
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when they had that get together,
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I had a chance to really speak
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with some of the
girls one-on-one.
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And they were sharing
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a little bit of
their experience.
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But one of the
most profound thing
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that happened to
me, me and my wife,
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two girls were just
walking past hand in hand.
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And I waved to them
and they smiled back at me.
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When they
smiled, the other one tug
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then the other
one shirt and say,
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"Come on, let's go over there."
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They came over and we
want to take pictures of them.
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Within about 15 minutes,
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they were
calling us mom and dad.
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And...
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that took my heart.
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That really did because here is,
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they've never seen me before.
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And I don't know
what all the experiences
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in their young life
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that they have been through,
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but they were so
already to identify with us
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as part of their own family
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and to accommodate us
and calling us mom and dad.
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It really melted my heart,
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it really did.
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When we come back,
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volunteers witness a
miracle for Kajiado and more.
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From July 19 to 28,
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join Maranatha in rural New York
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at Union Springs Academy.
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We need your help in
renovating the boys' dorm.
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Work will include
removing old floors
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and installing new flooring,
replacing light fixtures,
00:19:07.51\00:19:10.35
refurbishing
furniture, landscaping and more.
00:19:10.38\00:19:13.72
Everyone is welcome to
join this mission experience
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and in exchange for your help,
00:19:16.25\00:19:17.85
you'll receive
free room and board,
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just be sure to register first.
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Then from October 16 to 27,
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we urgently need more volunteers
00:19:23.79\00:19:25.86
for our mission trip to Bolivia,
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where we'll be
constructing classrooms
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at the Entre Rios School.
00:19:29.36\00:19:31.07
We'll also need
help with roofing
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and pouring sidewalks.
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Depending on the size
of the volunteer team,
00:19:34.27\00:19:36.17
we may also
organize outreach activities
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in the surrounding community.
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The Entre Rios School
was once a thriving campus
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with more than 400 students.
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Now competition
from government schools
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has caused
enrollment to decline.
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Updated
facilities will go a long way
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in drawing more students
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to the
Seventh-day Adventist campus.
00:19:51.32\00:19:52.85
Learn more about
these projects and others
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by visiting our website.
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Maranatha is
committed to helping
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the Kajiado Adventist
School and Rescue Center
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by providing new dormitories,
00:20:04.37\00:20:06.00
staff housing, and more.
00:20:06.03\00:20:08.94
But a crucial
element of campus success
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is dependent on water,
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new bathrooms, showers,
00:20:13.48\00:20:15.01
and thriving gardens
require a strong water source.
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Something that the
campus currently does not have.
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The existing well is failing.
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And the school has
had to purchase water
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for basic needs.
00:20:26.89\00:20:28.69
Unfortunately,
hydrogeology reports reveal
00:20:28.72\00:20:31.53
that the chances of
finding a good water source
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on campus is dismal.
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The decision was made
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to drill a well
over by the church
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where based on
geographic studies,
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it was determined
to be the best location
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even though there was
an awful lot of reason
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to be skeptical.
00:20:51.88\00:20:53.52
It was determined that
if there was gonna be water
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on this property,
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that's the location
where we would find it.
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The day
actually of the drilling,
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all of the children came
out as well as volunteers
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and all staff came
out to the drilling site.
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And we had sort of
a worship experience.
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And a lot of prayer
00:21:19.37\00:21:20.71
before we actually kind
of started everything up.
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The crew anticipated they
would be drilling for days
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as any water would
be deep in the ground
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if there was water at all.
00:21:39.46\00:21:42.46
But the next day,
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the entire campus
was met with a miracle.
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Just around 11 am, there
came the operator, Gerald
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came running over to
where we were working,
00:21:52.64\00:21:55.94
you could tell he
was beside himself.
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He was, he couldn't believe it.
00:21:58.81\00:22:00.75
He was just like,
"I can't believe it.
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I just had to come tell
you people, we got water."
00:22:03.02\00:22:07.96
When I first heard
that there was water.
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And we were all
running to the well.
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My heart was just beating.
00:22:15.60\00:22:18.27
And my whole soul
was just rejoicing
00:22:18.30\00:22:21.87
that we had
water at this school,
00:22:21.90\00:22:24.51
they needed it so badly.
00:22:24.54\00:22:27.14
And it was just an
overwhelming experience
00:22:27.18\00:22:30.58
to know that God hears you,
00:22:30.61\00:22:33.52
hears these kids
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and knows what their needs are.
00:22:35.35\00:22:39.19
And as just
provided it so abundantly.
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I've never seen this done.
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I've read about this,
00:22:46.93\00:22:48.76
but to be an eye-witness
00:22:48.80\00:22:51.20
to see this
happen before your eyes,
00:22:51.23\00:22:53.70
to be able to
experience the emotions
00:22:53.74\00:22:57.84
and to experience a miracle,
00:22:57.87\00:23:00.68
it took my breath away.
00:23:00.71\00:23:02.04
It was profound, it was amazing.
00:23:02.08\00:23:05.61
The miracle of water
00:23:20.40\00:23:21.73
felt like the
pinnacle of the mission trip.
00:23:21.76\00:23:24.50
Yet just a couple days later,
00:23:24.53\00:23:26.84
the volunteers had
another climactic event,
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the dormitory.
00:23:29.67\00:23:32.31
After six days of construction
00:23:32.34\00:23:34.08
with a relatively
small team of volunteers,
00:23:34.11\00:23:36.75
the Kajiado Adventist
School and Rescue Center
00:23:36.78\00:23:39.31
celebrated the
opening of a new dormitory.
00:23:39.35\00:23:42.18
Probably, the
highlight is the girls coming
00:23:45.55\00:23:48.49
to get us out of chairs
00:23:48.52\00:23:50.69
and bring us up to the dorm.
00:23:50.73\00:23:53.50
And going in with us
and we walk into the dorm.
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I had two girls with me
00:23:58.07\00:23:59.60
and they said, "This is my bunk.
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This is my bunk."
00:24:01.84\00:24:03.84
That was kind of special.
00:24:03.87\00:24:06.24
Oh, they were so excited
00:24:06.27\00:24:09.74
that they were gonna
have a bed of their own.
00:24:09.78\00:24:13.05
I had to jump up
and down with my gals
00:24:13.08\00:24:15.98
during the dedication
00:24:16.02\00:24:18.15
of our second dormitory.
00:24:18.19\00:24:21.82
Having in mind
now that all my gals
00:24:21.86\00:24:24.79
will be occupied
in the new dormitory,
00:24:24.83\00:24:27.60
they will have the new beddings,
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the new mattresses,
00:24:29.83\00:24:31.37
their wears and some
of them were telling me,
00:24:31.40\00:24:33.30
you know, in my life,
00:24:33.34\00:24:34.67
I've never
covered myself with this.
00:24:34.70\00:24:36.87
I'm just used to a blanket.
00:24:36.91\00:24:39.64
The heart was so
filled, and I just thought wow,
00:24:39.67\00:24:41.54
I wish I could be
here the first night
00:24:41.58\00:24:42.98
that they are
able to lay in the beds
00:24:43.01\00:24:44.78
and just be here is to my
heart like a girl slumber party
00:24:44.81\00:24:47.92
in the dorms
because it's so amazing,
00:24:47.95\00:24:50.45
so amazing.
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When the dorm was finished,
00:24:52.29\00:24:53.62
the objective
of the mission trip
00:24:53.66\00:24:54.99
was completed too,
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new building,
new dorm, new beds,
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the physical goals had been met.
00:25:00.23\00:25:03.47
As for the spiritual goals,
00:25:03.50\00:25:05.90
the transformational
experience with the volunteers.
00:25:05.93\00:25:08.77
The blessings were
as ample as the water
00:25:08.80\00:25:11.21
that rushed from the new well.
00:25:11.24\00:25:12.57
For Jane, her time at
Kajiado has been surprising
00:25:15.91\00:25:18.91
given her long
history in the mission field.
00:25:18.95\00:25:21.38
For years, she and her husband
00:25:21.42\00:25:23.32
were long and
short term missionaries
00:25:23.35\00:25:25.35
that served in 40
different countries.
00:25:25.39\00:25:28.06
After her husband died,
00:25:28.09\00:25:29.52
Jane never thought
she'd returned to the field.
00:25:29.56\00:25:32.39
But now she's been on
two Maranatha mission trips.
00:25:32.43\00:25:35.30
And she says they
have changed her life.
00:25:35.33\00:25:38.50
I don't know if it's
because I know the story
00:25:38.53\00:25:42.14
of why the school was started,
00:25:42.17\00:25:45.31
and how it's saving
these young girls' lives
00:25:45.34\00:25:49.31
and just giving them life.
00:25:49.34\00:25:52.81
But this has been absolutely
00:25:52.85\00:25:54.98
the most
incredible mission experience
00:25:55.02\00:25:57.92
of my entire 80 plus years.
00:25:57.95\00:26:01.79
Kristi's first mission trip
00:26:01.82\00:26:03.16
has been a wonderful way
00:26:03.19\00:26:04.53
to connect with a cause
00:26:04.56\00:26:05.89
that was close to
her mother's heart
00:26:05.93\00:26:07.26
and understand why her parents
00:26:07.30\00:26:08.96
not only supported
Maranatha financially,
00:26:09.00\00:26:11.80
but also served
on mission trips.
00:26:11.83\00:26:15.60
What we get back
from giving on the ground
00:26:15.64\00:26:18.71
is huge.
00:26:18.74\00:26:20.08
And then I think that enables us
00:26:20.11\00:26:21.51
then as people to go
back into our community
00:26:21.54\00:26:23.85
and share with them the needs
00:26:23.88\00:26:25.88
and what goes on here.
00:26:25.91\00:26:27.25
This is a form of worship.
00:26:27.28\00:26:29.12
It's not enough to just,
I can write a check anytime.
00:26:29.15\00:26:32.19
That would be fine.
00:26:32.22\00:26:33.56
And that would
help other people.
00:26:33.59\00:26:34.92
But for me to come
00:26:34.96\00:26:36.29
and really give
an experience that
00:26:36.32\00:26:37.79
is that true
Christian in action.
00:26:37.83\00:26:41.16
Dwanna and Eddie came
in search of vacations
00:26:41.20\00:26:43.50
with a purpose,
00:26:43.53\00:26:44.87
a way to see
and serve the world.
00:26:44.90\00:26:47.70
What they found
was transformative.
00:26:47.74\00:26:50.01
It was a
transformation that started
00:26:50.04\00:26:51.67
on the very first day.
00:26:51.71\00:26:53.54
Eddie recalls the first night.
00:26:53.58\00:26:55.64
And my wife kind of
heard me sobbing that night,
00:26:55.68\00:26:58.91
which is, you
know, you just got me,
00:26:58.95\00:27:01.22
you got me right
here, really did,
00:27:01.25\00:27:02.95
and to see what
Maranatha is doing.
00:27:02.98\00:27:08.12
It changed my
perspective as a Christian.
00:27:08.16\00:27:10.76
It really did.
00:27:10.79\00:27:12.29
But I remember
something very profound.
00:27:12.33\00:27:14.73
And as I'm contemplating
it, Jesus had said at one point,
00:27:14.76\00:27:19.07
"Thy kingdom come on
earth as it is in heaven."
00:27:19.10\00:27:23.00
So now, I'm
understanding that to me,
00:27:23.04\00:27:26.88
what we can do
now for His kingdom
00:27:26.91\00:27:29.88
is far more important
00:27:29.91\00:27:31.25
than just
watching for Him to come.
00:27:31.28\00:27:32.71
Thank you
Maranatha for the new dorm.
00:27:35.68\00:27:39.99
You have done a good work to us.
00:27:40.02\00:27:43.56
May God bless you.
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