- Hi. I'm Hilary Marcias
with the Maranatha Minute.
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It's already
November. And as we enter the
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holiday season, we're also
kicking off our annual Giving
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Tuesday campaign.
Giving Tuesday is a global day
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of giving, held on
the first Tuesday after
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Thanksgiving. And
this year, Maranatha's goal
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is to raise
$100,000 for new classrooms
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for the Kajiado Adventist
School and Rescue Center
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in Kenya. The buildings
will serve Maasai girls
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who are rescued from
female genital mutilation
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and child marriage. The
girls live and go to school
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on campus. However,
older students have to
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attend secondary
school at separate campuses,
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which can be traumatic.
So, Maranatha is expanding
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the current campus to
include high school classrooms.
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You can help Maranatha
raise money for this important
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project. Make a change
for a better future for
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these young women. Start
a Giving Tuesday campaign
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using our fundraising
website, or make a donation
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now or on Giving
Tuesday, December 3. Visit our
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website for more information.
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- Popular culture would
have you believe that the
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teenage years were a
time to celebrate aimlessness,
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wandering, or
fool- hearted decisions.
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But in this episode of
Maranatha Mission Stories,
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we're focusing on
another side of youth-teens who
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are breaking the mold
by daring to serve and
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connect with the world
in meaningful ways. First,
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in honor of Maranatha's
50th anniversary, we'll
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take a look at a program
that's been bringing teenagers
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closer to Christ
for nearly 30 years.
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In the 1980s, the United
States witnessed a seismic
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cultural shift as the
nation emerged from the turmoil
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of the previous
decade. In response to the
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counterculture
movement of the '70s,?Americans
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began embracing monetary
and professional success.
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The yuppie became
somewhat of an icon of the '80s
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symbolizing
wealth, status, and greed.
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On the popular culture
front, teenagers witnessed
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the emergence of new
technology, a new health
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crisis, and a new
type of television. The pop
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culture machine was
everywhere. It was at
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the tail end of this
decade that Maranatha
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Volunteers International
came upon a new program
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aimed at the very
young people who were being
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consumed by this lifestyle.
It was an antidote to the
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times and the
spiritual revelation for teens.
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Insight was a youth
magazine published by
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the Seventh-day Adventist
Church. One day while at
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the gym with a friend,
the editor had an idea.
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- He was working it
out with a friend at a
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convention. They said,
"This is what we do for
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our physical bodies.
What can we do for our
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spiritual growth?" And
so, they decided that the
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way that young people
can work out is through
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service. - Insight
came up with the idea of a
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teens-only mission
experience. And in 1990,
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they launched what
was named, "The Trip".
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The next year,
Inside asked Maranatha to
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coordinate the effort,
and they would market the
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project in their
magazine. The trip was reborn as
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The Ultimate Workout,
and 19 volunteers headed
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to Honduras.
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From then on, the
program steadily grew, adding a
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handful of people
at a time. By the time
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Steve Case got
involved in 1993, the number of
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participants had
increased, and the workload was
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outgrowing the
small team at Maranatha.
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Steve, a youth
pastor, was among those who
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helped to coordinate the
effort at home and abroad.
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- You had to talk
with every parent of every
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kid, and it just
simply took too much time.
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It was too costly
for Maranatha to do it.
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So, the lead into it
just was so time-consuming.
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So, I was told,
"Steve, you're going to go on
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this Ultimate
Workout. And just so you know,
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this is the last one.
We just can't afford it."
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- Steve understood
the reasoning. But when he
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returned from the project,
he was convinced otherwise.
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The positive impact on
the participants was too
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powerful to give up.
- I came back and had
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a very serious conversation
with the president of
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Maranatha Volunteers
International in his office,
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and I spoke to him not
as a friend but this was a
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professional conversation.
I let him know in no
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uncertain terms that
this had to continue.
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I understood that I was
supposed to stop it; but
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as the president of Maranatha,
Don Noble, "You must keep
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this going. In fact,
if you don't, you'll have
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to quit calling yourself
a Christian." I was pretty
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worked up. - Steve
laughs at this memory, but his
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impassioned plea
was effective. Maranatha
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decided to continue
running Ultimate Workout. And
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as they say, the rest
was history. Maranatha
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hired Steve to be
the program director for
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The Ultimate
Workout, and he kept the role
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for the next 20 years,
using his background in
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youth ministry to
hone a spiritually powerful
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project for teens
with three core components.
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- #1) It seeks to have
a spiritually transforming
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experience for the
participants. That's
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a high order, and we go for it.
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[applause and cheering]
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#2 is quality-constructed
buildings, which is a
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challenge when you
have unskilled teenagers. So
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you have to have
some key leaders who are
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willing to mentor and teach.
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And #3 is to
supplement what the church is
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already doing to
spread the gospel in whatever
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location we're in. -
As a result, volunteers
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return year after year
transformed. - It's life-
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changing experience
that I want to have every
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year. I come back and
I feel like I'm revived
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all over again. - Ultimate
Workout is not just about
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going to a
different place and seeing new
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things; it's about
connecting with other
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people, doing the Lord's
work... And you're really
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going on a journey for
yourself, looking inside
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yourself... -
Before my Ultimate Workout
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experience, I felt
distant from God; and after the
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trip, it was just a
completely different
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feeling in me and I
felt like a better person
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after it. I felt like
I made a difference in
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someone's life, and it
was a really good feeling
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and it really helped
me to connect with God.
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- Before this trip, I
never really pray on my own.
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Before we ate as a
family, we would pray and thank
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Him for the food.
But when I woke up,
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I never thanked Him
for waking me up. Or when I
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went to bed, I never
thanked Him for keeping
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me alive throughout the
day and keeping me safe.
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When I go home, I
know I'm gonna change some
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things in my family-
connecting with Christ
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and praying. -
Today, Ultimate Workout is
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Maranatha's biggest project,
and the trip draws anywhere
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from 100 to 200
volunteers each year. There have
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been more than 3,900
volunteer experiences
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in the past three
decades. While most years the
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projects are in Latin
America, twice Ultimate
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Workout landed in
the United States.
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Twice, they headed to India.
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And this year,
Ultimate Workout went to Africa
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for the first time.
Nearly three decades
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since the launch, interest
in Ultimate Workout shows
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no signs of slowing
down. - Here's my analysis of
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why Ultimate Workout
is so potent. It's normal
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in adolescent development
to find out what your
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identity is. That's
just part of normal human
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development. And the
way you find out what
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it is is you compare
it with what it has been.
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You're coming of
age, and you start to push
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back against the
powers that are there-namely
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your parents or
other authority structures.
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If you go on another
project, say with your
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congregation, with your
school, with your family,
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those people know you-
and still has a high impact,
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but you don't have that
brand new start. You know,
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the Bible says if
anyone is in Christ, they are a
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new creation, or a new
creature. The old is gone;
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a new life has begun.
Well, that truly happens
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on Ultimate Workout,
and you see it, and it's
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just truly amazing. -
You come here as a stranger.
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You come here as
just a new person, a new
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face, and you get
to share that story and
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you get to grow in
just two weeks. I mean, it's
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incredible how much you
grow. - It's just the connection
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with God and the connection
that you get to have with
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everybody here. It's a
breath of fresh air with
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His... You get to be away
from all the distractions,
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everything that's
keeping you back from having
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a relationship with God,
and you're in a different
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country that we don't
know...and having that
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relationship is
just amazing. - When we
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come back, we meet
another group of teens who are
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serving the mission field
in a different way-from home.
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- These women spend
560 minutes a day fetching
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water. Water is life...
...but your life shouldn't
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revolve around water.
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We're raising money for
water wells. Make a donation.
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Give women the gift
of time, health, family.
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Sponsor a well.
Give water; give life.
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- For most of us watching,
clean water is a given-
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a commodity taken for
granted as it pours from
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our faucets with
reckless abandon...yet there are
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many parts of the
world where water of any kind
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is a rare gift. In a
privileged enclave of
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southern California,
a group of girls heard
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about this water crisis.
Specifically, they learned
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of the plight of
women in Kenya who have to
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walk miles for clean
water. So, they decided
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to do something by walking
a mile or two in their shoes.
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This is Del Mar Mesa,
an attractive development
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in the suburbs of San
Diego. Here, long before
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the neighborhood developed
and right in its heart, is
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Hooterville
Estates. The new developers
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wanted to buy the
property but were turned away.
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Hooterville remains. Its
eclectic presence announcing
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itself at the
entrance. The seven-acre ranch
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has become beloved by
the neighbors-especially
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those with children.
Preserving a time and
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spirit that suburbs often
erode, Hooterville's owners
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and residents, Elizabeth
and Mike Rabbit, nurture a way
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of life that once was
common on these hillsides.
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Today, however...we
haven't come for the eggs.
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(Elizabeth): What
are you guys doing?
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- Elizabeth has made
the ranch the starting place
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of the First Annual
FAV and Friends Walk
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for Water. The
trick... is keeping the goats
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from eating the sign.
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But how did Elizabeth
Rabbit and Hooterville
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become the vortex of
the FAV and Friends Walk for
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Water?
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Elizabeth first
learned of the water crisis in
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Africa while volunteering on
mission trips with Maranatha.
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Having seen the life-changing
effects a well brings to
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communities there,
Elizabeth freely shared
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her passion for water
wells with her neighbors
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back at home. This included
Mia Goldman and Emma Reeves,
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two young women who have
known Elizabeth since they
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were little kids. -
Miss Elizabeth has always
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been kind of this neighbor
that I was kind of... Growing
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up, I've lived here
since I was 2, and I've always
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looked in a store,
"Oh my gosh, that farm is
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amazing! I wonder who
lives there." And finally,
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I got to meet this
amazing woman, Elizabeth, who's
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kind of just this
creative person, does what she
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wants, builds her own
things, raises horses,
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and she's kind of
just been a role model to
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me probably since I
was a little girl, and I've
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always kind of wanted
to be like her. - I met
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Elizabeth from when
I was 3 when we moved
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here. I always looked
up to her as just seeing
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this crazy place with
having all these horses
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and having me be into
horses, it really just made
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me- she just
inspired me. And by chance and
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fate, I was so lucky to
be able to keep my horses
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here. And to think,
over time, our families have
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bonded, and we really
just spend a lot of time
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together. - My girls
in this neighborhood that
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I've... They've
been coming to my ranch
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here since they were
4, 5, 6 years old. They
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were tiny, and they hang
out here. We were painting,
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and they were talking
about going to college,
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and they knew I had
been to Africa, and they were
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asking me questions
about what I learned-about what
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it was like. And they started,
just, like, brainstorming,
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and I don't know,
really, whose idea it was. And
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then they said,
"Well, we could do this," and
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"We could do that," and
they said, "Well, we have
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this club, Female
Athlete Volunteers, and we have
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to find projects
for them in order to get
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points, and the club has
to sponsor so many events
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a year. And so,
that's how it started. - FAV
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is Female Athlete Volunteers,
and it is an amazing group
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of young women, especially
in San Diego. It's got
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about 200+ members
now, and it's something I've
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been a part of for probably
six years now. We kind of
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go around San Diego and
participate in any volunteering
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events. This event,
especially, was made for
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FAV which I think was
really cool and unique.
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- And so, Emma and me
are really... You took the
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bull by the horns, and
they contacted all their
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friends and all
the club members, and
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that's why we called it
Female Athlete Volunteer
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and Friends,
because there were several
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people who wanted to
be involved that weren't
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in the club.
00:16:47.84\00:16:49.44
- The idea was to
raise money to drill and set
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a water well for a community
in Kenya. Elizabeth was one
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of 26 Maranatha volunteers
who built a dormitory at
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a school there. The Maranatha
well-drilling team was there,
00:17:01.88\00:17:10.49
too. They discovered
a source for water, and
00:17:10.59\00:17:15.96
it was one of the most
prolific water wells they
00:17:16.06\00:17:18.47
had drilled in the country.
Elizabeth saw an opportunity
00:17:18.60\00:17:24.51
to encourage Emma
and Mia back home. - Emma
00:17:24.64\00:17:27.98
Reeves and Mia Goldman
and all the female athletes...
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- Elizabeth sent us some
clips of her experience in
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Africa.
00:17:33.78\00:17:35.78
- Right after she sent
me those videos, I kind
00:17:48.76\00:17:51.23
of was tearing up because
they were talking to me and
00:17:51.30\00:17:54.60
Mia, the girls in Africa,
and I was kind of like...
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Wow, this is real.
This is really touching, and
00:17:57.71\00:18:02.04
this is actually affecting
people in Africa. - This
00:18:02.14\00:18:06.08
specific fundraiser,
I really wanted to help,
00:18:06.18\00:18:08.28
because these girls
who are my age, girls from
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5 and up to 50, they
all go and they just walk
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four or five miles a
day twice a day carrying
00:18:17.63\00:18:21.73
six-gallon buckets
of water, and it's just
00:18:21.86\00:18:25.70
crazy... I think
that they could really be
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spending a lot of
this time gaining education
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and getting social
skills with their friends, and
00:18:31.17\00:18:33.98
I really just want
to help them gain these
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kinds of skills that
could help them be successful
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later in life. - The goal
the group set for themselves-
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$15,000-the median cost
of drilling and setting a
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well in Kenya. The
event they created to bring
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attention to the need-
walking a mile to a local
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pond to collect water
in buckets and carry the
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water back to Hooterville
where it could be symbolically
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collected. - Hi. I'm
Mia Goldman. - And I'm Emma
00:19:01.17\00:19:06.74
Reeves. - And we're here
in Carmel Valley doing our
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First Annual Walk
for Water. We're going...
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- The three use Maranatha's
online fundraising platform
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to manage donations.
They would meet regularly
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to organize, plan, and
prep materials. Emma and Mia's
00:19:17.09\00:19:21.09
friends, Morgan and Megan,
also joined the leadership
00:19:21.19\00:19:23.89
team. - We just do Megan's,
the one who lived across
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the street from us,
and we were like, "Remember
00:19:28.43\00:19:30.50
when she was little-she
used to make so many of these
00:19:30.60\00:19:32.37
little arts & crafts," and
we were just like, "I wonder
00:19:32.47\00:19:34.20
if she's still into
it." And she was. She was
00:19:34.30\00:19:36.30
really willing to
come over and help us. And
00:19:36.44\00:19:38.97
one day, she just
decided to bring Morgan, and she
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was such a helpful
part of the team. I think we
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work together so
well and we just made it
00:19:44.25\00:19:46.41
happen. - All of the
girls put social media
00:19:46.48\00:19:49.32
to work for them. -
Emma drafted an email and she
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sent it out to everyone.
I went around my school
00:19:52.65\00:19:55.09
and through a lot of
social media I posted it
00:19:55.16\00:19:58.63
everywhere I could.
I made highlights on my
00:19:58.73\00:20:00.96
Instagram, I made sure
to tell all my friends to
00:20:01.03\00:20:03.83
go check out my link
and I'd send it to them,
00:20:03.93\00:20:06.23
and I had my dad send
it to all of his friends,
00:20:06.33\00:20:09.44
and I really just made
sure that everyone knew
00:20:09.57\00:20:12.44
about this, because
it's really important to me.
00:20:12.57\00:20:15.21
- Local and
regional press also took note
00:20:16.14\00:20:18.25
of Walk for Water. The
day of the event, they,
00:20:18.35\00:20:22.12
volunteers, their
friends, and even a group of 1st
00:20:22.25\00:20:24.92
graders arrived, ready
to help. And, of course,
00:20:25.02\00:20:29.12
many moms ready to lend
their support. - I tried to
00:20:29.22\00:20:33.53
make cookies. The first
batch burned; the second
00:20:33.60\00:20:35.16
batch made it. - Okay! -
It smells like burnt cookies
00:20:35.26\00:20:38.50
at my house now. - That's
good. That's a good thing.
00:20:38.60\00:20:41.34
- Each girl
received a handmade name tag
00:20:42.34\00:20:44.44
and a bracelet that
Elizabeth brought home
00:20:44.54\00:20:47.24
from Africa. They also
were given a black-and-
00:20:47.34\00:20:52.35
red checkered cloth
they could use as a sash or
00:20:52.45\00:20:54.82
bandana. In honor of
the blankets that are
00:20:54.92\00:20:57.12
commonly used during
the cool Kenyan winters,
00:20:57.22\00:20:59.39
every girl received a
bucket. The little ones,
00:20:59.49\00:21:03.06
gallon buckets. The
bigger girls, two- to
00:21:03.16\00:21:05.66
five-gallon buckets.
Without much fanfare,
00:21:05.79\00:21:09.46
they were off.
00:21:09.56\00:21:11.00
- I'll put it on my head. -
Okay you put it anywhere, honey.
00:21:19.77\00:21:22.38
- So, what we're
trying to do is represent what
00:21:22.48\00:21:25.31
African women do on
a day-to-day basis and
00:21:25.45\00:21:28.92
taking the fact that
they have to travel several
00:21:29.05\00:21:33.32
miles, several
hours, to just get water-and
00:21:33.39\00:21:37.43
it's not even clean water,
so we're trying to replicate
00:21:37.53\00:21:40.30
that by taking our
own buckets and getting a
00:21:40.40\00:21:44.13
bunch of ladies in
our community from, like,
00:21:44.23\00:21:46.63
elementary school to
high school and kind of
00:21:46.74\00:21:49.50
show them what they go
through every day. - I've
00:21:49.60\00:21:52.07
been with these kids
since they were single-digit
00:21:52.17\00:21:54.18
age. They still call me
Miss Elizabeth, they still
00:21:54.24\00:21:57.85
say they want to be
like me when they grow up...
00:21:57.95\00:21:59.85
I mean, what could make
you feel better? And unless
00:21:59.95\00:22:04.55
you're willing to
give and to share and to
00:22:04.65\00:22:06.72
invest in the greater
community... And one of
00:22:06.79\00:22:10.73
the things that I've been... I
think I've been trying to teach
00:22:10.83\00:22:14.86
all of them is that
even though we are just one
00:22:14.96\00:22:18.97
person, if you think
about it, we're more like
00:22:19.07\00:22:22.70
a beehive. We don't feel
like a beehive, but we're
00:22:22.80\00:22:24.61
all working together.
We're a huge community.
00:22:24.71\00:22:27.48
And the idea of them
being able to reach all
00:22:27.58\00:22:30.31
the way around the world
to Africa to people that they
00:22:30.45\00:22:34.58
don't know and
that they'll never meet,
00:22:34.68\00:22:36.69
to say, "We'd like
to make a difference in
00:22:37.49\00:22:39.82
your lives," is a
way for them to be part
00:22:39.92\00:22:42.52
of that bigger
beehive and to be part of the
00:22:42.59\00:22:46.46
community.
00:22:46.59\00:22:47.93
- Carrying that water
was kind of a challenge,
00:23:01.84\00:23:04.95
and I wasn't even
carrying that much water. I
00:23:05.05\00:23:07.05
couldn't believe how
difficult it would be for
00:23:07.18\00:23:09.88
girls, little
girls, to travel hours with
00:23:09.98\00:23:14.59
that much water every
day. It would be exhausting.
00:23:14.69\00:23:18.76
- It's so amazing.
It's just such an amazing
00:23:21.20\00:23:24.13
feeling to know that
I can be giving back to
00:23:24.27\00:23:26.97
other people, because
living in this bubble's
00:23:27.07\00:23:29.20
great, but I haven't
been able to really experience
00:23:29.30\00:23:32.47
the outer world. I feel
like seeing all of this and
00:23:32.61\00:23:37.05
doing all this
research and just looking at all
00:23:37.15\00:23:40.25
of this is just so eye-opening.
I just really want to give
00:23:40.35\00:23:43.69
back. And whenever
I think of people who
00:23:43.79\00:23:45.55
just have these First
World problems, I'm just like,
00:23:45.65\00:23:48.89
"Well, I mean, it
could be worse." I'm just so
00:23:48.99\00:23:53.46
happy that I can give
back. It just makes me
00:23:53.53\00:23:55.73
feel so amazing that
my peers on the other
00:23:55.83\00:23:57.87
half side of the world
can have a chance of living a
00:23:57.97\00:24:01.10
normal lifestyle. - After
the walk, the girls celebrated
00:24:01.24\00:24:06.11
with pizza. - So,
even though girls my age
00:24:06.27\00:24:09.84
may think that they
can't make a difference in the
00:24:09.98\00:24:11.71
world, if you grab a
couple of your friends together
00:24:11.81\00:24:14.22
and send out a couple
emails, it will just make
00:24:14.32\00:24:16.92
a world of change, because
we've raised over $11,000-
00:24:17.02\00:24:20.86
just the four of us-
and it's hopefully gonna
00:24:20.96\00:24:25.09
make a well for a
whole village. - As of today,
00:24:25.19\00:24:29.50
Walk for Water has
raised $15,585. A well will be
00:24:30.30\00:24:37.81
drilled and a pump placed
in a village in Kenya. The
00:24:37.91\00:24:43.51
experience of fundraising
for wells in Africa inspired
00:24:43.61\00:24:46.38
Mia to take her involvement
a step further. A couple months
00:24:46.45\00:24:49.75
after the event, Mia,
her mom, and her brother
00:24:49.85\00:24:52.25
traveled to Kenya to meet
firsthand the people to whom
00:24:52.35\00:24:55.32
Maranatha is reaching out.
They volunteered at the Gucha
00:24:55.42\00:25:00.53
School in Kisii, building
a much-needed classroom.
00:25:00.63\00:25:03.67
It's an experience that's
sure to ignite more involvement
00:25:04.50\00:25:07.20
from Mia. - We live
in a bubble! We're in San
00:25:07.30\00:25:13.64
Diego and
beautiful homes. We wake up
00:25:13.78\00:25:16.75
every morning, and just
in paradise. And you think
00:25:16.85\00:25:22.38
about how lucky we are.
I mean, doesn't that make
00:25:22.48\00:25:26.96
us responsible for
sharing our luck and sharing our
00:25:27.06\00:25:30.99
wealth with others?
I mean, if you imagine
00:25:31.09\00:25:33.26
that a world where
nobody shared and if nobody was
00:25:33.36\00:25:38.20
willing to give back-
if we all just kept it
00:25:38.30\00:25:41.90
to ourselves. I
mean, we really depend on
00:25:42.00\00:25:44.44
people and their generosity
and their need to share to
00:25:44.54\00:25:51.05
make the world a better
place and to help somebody.
00:25:51.15\00:25:54.22
- Along with Kenya,
Maranatha is drilling
00:26:08.40\00:26:10.17
wells in Zambia, India,
and Brazil. Help us bring
00:26:10.30\00:26:13.47
clean water to communities
in need by making a donation.
00:26:13.57\00:26:17.14
Go to
maranatha.org to give today.
00:26:17.27\00:26:20.08
- Get a jumpstart on
the New Year by registering
00:26:31.79\00:26:34.29
for a mission trip to
Côte d'Ivoire. From January
00:26:34.39\00:26:37.23
30 to February 11,
2020, we need volunteers to
00:26:37.33\00:26:40.90
built the? Seventh-day Adventist
00:26:41.00\00:26:43.13
Church. Currently,
this congregation is
00:26:43.20\00:26:45.70
meeting in a
partially constructed building
00:26:45.77\00:26:47.70
that is unprotected
from the rain and heat. Help
00:26:47.80\00:26:50.81
them to have a real
church by joining this
00:26:50.91\00:26:52.81
project. If you can't
make it to Africa, head
00:26:52.91\00:26:56.04
over to Alabama in the
United States for a project
00:26:56.18\00:26:58.75
at Camp Alamisco! Volunteers
on this project will help with
00:26:58.85\00:27:02.58
renovations for this Camp
& Retreat Center. We'll be
00:27:02.68\00:27:05.45
working on flooring,
demolition, electrical,
00:27:05.55\00:27:07.69
plumbing, window installation,
and much more. As with all
00:27:07.79\00:27:11.43
North America projects,
your food and lodging is
00:27:11.53\00:27:13.56
provided in exchange for
your labor! All you have to
00:27:13.66\00:27:16.33
do is get there. Just be
sure to register and receive
00:27:16.43\00:27:19.87
your confirmation of your
registration before arriving
00:27:19.97\00:27:22.50
on the job site. Learn
more about both of these
00:27:22.60\00:27:25.97
projects and others by
visiting our website at
00:27:26.07\00:27:28.81
maranatha.org.
00:27:28.88\00:27:31.05
- When it comes to making a
positive impact in the world,
00:27:34.22\00:27:36.89
there are no age
limits. Passion, creativity, and
00:27:36.99\00:27:41.09
gumption are the
only ingredients necessary
00:27:41.19\00:27:43.76
to make a change-because
whether you're nine or 90,
00:27:43.83\00:27:47.40
God sees potential
in all of us, and we are
00:27:47.50\00:27:50.73
all His messengers of grace.
00:27:50.83\00:27:54.40