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- [Mary Ann] We've
grown up in the church
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and have always been somewhat
involved in the outreach.
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But how can we get
involved in missions overseas?
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My name is Mary Ann.
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- [Lilyann] And I'm Lilyann.
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We wanted to find out.
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Join us on our journey.
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(gong sounds) To
discover the culture,
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the lifestyle--
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- [Mary Ann] The
need, and the mission--
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- [Lilyann] In two
of Southeast Asia's
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least-reached countries.
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- [Mary Ann]
Welcome to Mission Trek.
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- [Lilyann] Welcome back.
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- In the last episode,
we traveled back to Bangkok
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where we visited the
slum and learned more
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about Thai
culture from the Witsits.
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- This is a map
of Southeast Asia.
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We have been in Thailand
and now we will be traveling
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from Bangkok to Cambodia,
where we are going to visit
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Tim Maddocks and
see his projects.
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- Traveling in Cambodia is easy
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because the country's very
tourist-friendly and cheap.
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Thailand is
pretty much the same way.
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- But traveling
between the two countries
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is a little more difficult,
because crossing the border
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takes a lot of time.
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- Yeah.
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Cambodia has a
very dark history.
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They had a dictator named
Pol Pot, who ruled the country
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from 1975 to 1979.
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He established the Khmer
Rouge, who under his leadership,
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killed 1/4 of the
entire population.
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- After Pol Pot died, the
Khmer Rouge continued fighting
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for control in a
bloody civil war.
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But they were
eventually overthrown.
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Even now, the
country is still recovering
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from its destruction.
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- Tim and Wendy Maddocks
moved to Cambodia in 1992
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with their two young sons.
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They moved into the country
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right in the
middle of the civil war.
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- Because of this they are
faced with many difficulties,
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but with God's
help, they persevered.
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- From the very beginning,
they dedicated their lives
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to serving these people,
and have always made it a point
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to live like they do.
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- But before we get to
them, we met up with a friend
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who took us across the border,
and on the way we stopped
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at a monkey temple.
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We were crammed in this truck
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with all of our stuff.
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A little way out of
town, we got hungry,
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so we stopped at the
only vegetarian restaurant
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we could find.
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You have to cook your own food.
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So we ordered all
the vegetables they had.
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It looks really
bland, and it was.
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(Lilyann laughs)
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We continued our
ride on into the night.
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We got to see elephants though.
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The next morning we stopped
at what we call Monkey Rock,
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'cause there's lots of
monkeys and a big rock.
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There were steep
stairs that went up
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to a spectacular view
through a big hole in the rock.
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The entire countryside was flat
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except for this
one rock sticking up.
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It was amazing.
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- [Mary Ann] From there it
was a short run to the border.
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- [Lilyann] To cross the border
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you have to get your passport
stamped out of Thailand,
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then walk a quarter
mile through no man's land.
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We are not in a country at all.
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Finally, you go
into another building
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and get stamped into Cambodia.
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Cambodia seems much
poorer and less developed.
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Check out the load on
this motorcycle trailer,
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and there's a kid
riding on top of it!
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(instrumental music)
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Just a few hours later,
we arrived at Wat Preah Yesu.
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(light instrumental music)
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(laughing)
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We're in Cambodia at Wat
Preah Yesu with the Maddocks,
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and we are interested in
how this place got started.
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So what did it take
to start a ministry,
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a project, from scratch?
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- I think the
biggest thing was faith.
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Because it's like
we're leaving a paid job,
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we're leaving the
security of the town,
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and we're trusting God
to provide all our needs.
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One thing God
said to me very clearly
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was that we weren't
to ask anybody for funds
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to do what he
was asking us to do.
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Just ask him and
he'll deal with it.
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And so that's a
whole new way of life.
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And I've been used do
working where we'd ask people
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for money to do projects,
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and now that's
no longer an option.
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(laughs)
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So trusting God that
when he's promised us
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he will supply all our
needs, that he really means it.
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- So how did
you hear God's voice
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telling you to
start this project?
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- Well it all
happened back in 1995.
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We were living in Siem Reap,
in the town, working with ADRA.
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And in my early morning
devotionals I began to hear God
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sort of speaking to me
in like an audible way.
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It was no loud voice
but to me it was audible.
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And he began laying out this
plan that he had for our family
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to get involved in.
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And it was to set up a
center where new converts
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to Christianity here in Cambodia
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could be trained to
become leaders in their churches
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and to go out and
start new churches.
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Also to plant a church
in our local community.
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And so as I listened to God,
I got the picture in my mind
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of what he wanted us to do.
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Then I had to
take the idea to Wendy
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and ask her for her opinion.
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What was your opinion?
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(Wendy laughs)
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- I thought he was crazy.
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I didn't hear God's
voice speaking to me
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so I was wondering who it was
that was really talking to him
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to take us out of the town
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and come and live
in the rice fields
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where there were no
houses and no people
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and I wasn't sure what to think.
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- I think you need a
little more information.
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You see, at the
time, the Khmer Rouge
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was still a fighting force
not so far away from Siem Reap.
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And we had two small children.
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The youngest was four and
the oldest was seven and 1/2.
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And so we're moving them
out into the rice fields,
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away from the
security of the town,
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and we're gonna be living
in a little thatched house
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away from the village
as well, fairly isolated.
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So it was really quite a
big transition for our family.
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- So then what happened next?
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- So we had to find
land, we bought the land,
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the money we did that
with was our own personal money
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and a donation from a friend.
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And this is another
thing that God said,
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he wanted us to put everything
we had into this project.
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And when it ran out,
he would do the rest.
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So we didn't have very much.
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We had about 20, $22,000.
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And so we began
pouring that into the project
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and it doesn't take very
long before it disappears.
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But we've never been without.
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- How long have
you been doing this?
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- Well, we came here
to this land, this place,
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in June of 1996.
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And right now we're in
2017, so that's 21 years.
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- There's a lot
more projects going on
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than when you first started.
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- One of the things that
God mercifully did for us
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was not tell us
everything at the beginning.
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Because if he'd
told us everything
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I think I would have
just thrown up my hands
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and said, God, find
somebody else, I can't do that.
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But if we will trust God,
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we can do all
things together with God.
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And so mercifully, God
added one project at a time.
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So after we got the
training program going
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for new converts to Adventism,
then we added a school.
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And then a number of years
later we added an orphanage,
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and then a media
center, and then another school,
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and then another school.
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This year we plan
to add another school.
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As God builds our
faith and our trust in him,
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he gives us more to do
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and takes us deeper
into this journey with him.
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- And there's this
really cool project
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that we've heard about that
you're working on currently,
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the butterfly garden.
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- Yeah, that's a really
cool project, like you say.
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And here is where our
ministry is gonna take a shift.
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Because we've been
totally faith-based
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and the butterfly
project is a tourism project
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where we'll have a
very large butterfly garden,
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beautifully landscaped,
waterfalls, fish ponds, et
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cetera. We're hoping that some
of the more than two million
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tourists that come to Siem Reap
each year will come to visit
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here to the butterfly garden
and they'll pay to come in
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and they'll pay
for food, et cetera,
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and that way our ministry
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can become
totally self-supporting.
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It goes beyond that because
the life cycle of a butterfly
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is a beautiful way to
see how God is creator.
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And so as people come
through the butterfly garden,
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meet the butterflies,
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we want them also to
meet God, the creator.
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- Is there anything
that you would like to say
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to young people like
us that are watching?
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Like what they could do
to prepare or to help now?
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- One of the most important
things for young people is to,
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to listen to God
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through the Bible,
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through their
parents, godly parents,
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through godly
friends, godly teachers,
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and to believe that God has
a work for young people to do.
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It may be something
small, it may be something big,
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but that God has a work
for every young person to do.
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- If young people would
just give their lives to Christ
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and say I will do
whatever you want me to do,
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even if it's
different from what I wanna do,
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the journey that
God will take them on
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will be just so incredible
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they will never
even regret not doing
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what they wanted to do.
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We started out as missionaries
when we were 21 and 20,
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and it's more than 30 years now
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and it's just been an amazing
life, an amazing journey.
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Today our children have
grown up, they've got married,
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but they work with
us here in Cambodia.
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Yeah, if we had done what
we originally intended to do
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we'd be just living a
boring life back in Australia
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where we came from. (laughs)
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But living for
God, it's exciting.
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And so I encourage young
people, get down on your knees
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and ask God, what do you
want me to do for your work?
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And just surrender all.
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- Well thank you
guys for telling us
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a little bit about your
life and mission field and--
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- Thank you for interviewing us.
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- Thank you.
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(piano music)
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- We're at the Wat
Preah Yesu Children's Home,
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which is actually
undergoing a name change
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and becoming Butterfly
Paradise Children's Home.
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And it's 5:00 and
the kids are out playing,
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the sun's going down,
it's a great time here,
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everybody's happy and yeah,
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let's go and have
a look at the kids.
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(laughing)
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So here in the orphanage
the kids all live in families.
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So you have a mom and dad taking
care of their own children
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and up to 16 orphan children.
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So it's a big family but
they do everything together.
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They cook together,
they worship together,
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they garden together,
they go for outings together,
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so it's just like
being part of a huge family.
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- So are they all true orphans
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or are they just
neglected or not wanted?
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- About 70% of the
kids are true orphans.
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Then we have abandoned kids,
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and then we have kids
who have a living parent
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but for one reason or
another it's not suitable
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or not safe for them to
be with their living parent.
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So pretty much all
of them need to be here.
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And being here's good for them,
they get three meals a day,
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they have a safe place to
live, they get good education,
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bilingual
education in the school.
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They have pretty
much all their needs met.
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- Seems like a
pretty nice place.
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- Yeah.
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- So are any of
these kids HIV kids?
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- Actually we have
27 who are HIV positive.
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They all take
antiretroviral drugs
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and pretty much all of
them are in really good health.
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- Do you have any stories of
the kids that you could tell?
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- I can tell you the
story of Chay Ma here.
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One day I got a call to
the village just down the road
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and the village
leader had a child for me
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and the child was a two year
old and weighed five kilograms.
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And the mother and
father were both living
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but the child was living with
a grandmother who had dementia
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and the parents were alcoholics.
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And so I took this child
and we gave her a name, Naomi,
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but she was so weak and thin
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she looked like she'd
come out of a famine in Africa.
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I took her to the
children's hospital.
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And when the nurses saw
her at the children's hospital,
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they said, hey, she's
got a twin sister here.
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And they said, do you wanna see?
00:13:49.52\00:13:52.53
I said yeah,
sure, take me to her.
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And so they took me to another
ward and Chay Ma was there.
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Two years old, five kilograms,
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big belly, skinny little
legs, skinny little arms,
00:14:01.04\00:14:03.77
looked just like twins.
00:14:03.77\00:14:06.34
And they said, Chay
Ma's mother had abandoned her
00:14:07.48\00:14:09.88
at the hospital and
they'd tried to contact her
00:14:09.88\00:14:11.65
but hadn't been
able to contact her.
00:14:11.65\00:14:13.72
And then they
said, would you take her?
00:14:13.72\00:14:16.08
And I said sure.
00:14:16.08\00:14:17.15
So two weeks later I
took the two girls home
00:14:17.15\00:14:20.59
and they're both healthy
and happy, beautiful kids.
00:14:21.96\00:14:26.59
- Wow.
00:14:27.13\00:14:28.40
- You know sometimes
I ask lots of questions
00:14:28.40\00:14:30.27
before I'll accept a child,
but when I saw the other girl,
00:14:30.27\00:14:33.97
Naomi, it's
like, I'm taking her.
00:14:33.97\00:14:37.67
And if I hadn't have taken her
00:14:37.67\00:14:38.74
she probably would
have died within a week.
00:14:38.74\00:14:40.88
- Is there anything that
we could do or those watching?
00:14:42.28\00:14:45.18
- The best way
you can help yourself
00:14:45.18\00:14:47.32
is to come as a volunteer
and teach English in the school.
00:14:47.32\00:14:50.95
Volunteers come usually
six to 12 months at a time,
00:14:50.95\00:14:54.42
could stay longer.
00:14:54.42\00:14:55.46
Usually finished year
12 by the time they come,
00:14:56.56\00:14:58.93
but not always, some
come a little bit earlier.
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And the other way you
can help is by sending money.
00:15:01.83\00:15:05.83
It costs us about $75 a month
per child to keep them here.
00:15:05.83\00:15:10.91
- Well thanks
for sharing with us.
00:15:14.11\00:15:15.68
- Okay, most happy to share.
00:15:15.68\00:15:17.38
- We're here with Caleb who
grew up in the mission field
00:15:18.78\00:15:21.72
and we were
wondering what that was like.
00:15:21.72\00:15:23.89
- How long have you lived here?
00:15:23.89\00:15:25.02
- First 20 years.
00:15:25.02\00:15:27.02
- How old were you
when you guys moved here?
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- I was four years old and
my brother was just turning one.
00:15:28.92\00:15:33.86
- Oh wow, so you
guys were really little.
00:15:33.86\00:15:35.96
- Yes.
00:15:35.96\00:15:36.77
- What was it like growing up
00:15:36.77\00:15:38.13
being like the only white
person, you and your family?
00:15:38.13\00:15:41.44
So many Cambodians,
00:15:41.44\00:15:42.87
like, did people look
at you differently, or?
00:15:42.87\00:15:46.94
- In school would
have been the best example
00:15:46.94\00:15:50.28
because I went to the
local school, government school,
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and I was the only white
person in the entire school,
00:15:56.69\00:15:59.45
not just in my class.
00:15:59.45\00:16:01.29
I don't really
remember too much,
00:16:01.29\00:16:03.76
apart from that
everyone seemed to like me
00:16:03.76\00:16:07.10
guess I'm the
only one white color
00:16:07.10\00:16:09.53
so you gotta like
someone like that.
00:16:09.53\00:16:11.00
(laughing)
00:16:11.00\00:16:12.37
My teachers sort of, I was
their pet most of the time,
00:16:12.37\00:16:16.30
they liked me that much.
00:16:16.30\00:16:18.47
I was good
friends with the principal
00:16:18.47\00:16:19.97
in both schools I went to.
00:16:19.97\00:16:22.08
So yeah, I didn't really
notice the difference as such
00:16:22.08\00:16:25.85
in school and I didn't
get picked on too much.
00:16:25.85\00:16:28.88
I'm a little bit
taller than most Cambodians,
00:16:28.88\00:16:30.75
so that would have helped.
00:16:30.75\00:16:31.85
(laughs)
00:16:31.85\00:16:34.59
So not too many
differences there.
00:16:34.59\00:16:37.13
- How old do you have to
be to become a missionary?
00:16:37.13\00:16:39.93
- As a child you can share Jesus
with the people around you.
00:16:39.93\00:16:44.20
A child being
whatever age you are.
00:16:44.20\00:16:47.77
If you can speak, so
maybe a little bit older
00:16:48.84\00:16:51.61
than one or two
years old, I don't know,
00:16:51.61\00:16:53.81
but at one or two years
old you're still very cute
00:16:53.81\00:16:56.38
and lots of
people want to see you,
00:16:56.38\00:16:58.11
so if you make good friends
with them even at that age,
00:16:58.11\00:17:00.62
or your parents
let you be around them,
00:17:00.62\00:17:03.62
eventually when you can talk,
then maybe you'll get a chance
00:17:03.62\00:17:06.96
to share Jesus with them.
00:17:06.96\00:17:08.56
So probably
there's no age limit.
00:17:08.56\00:17:10.93
And as an adult it's
just a little bit harder
00:17:10.93\00:17:13.19
to learn the new language,
but you can still do something.
00:17:13.19\00:17:16.70
- Well thank you
so much for sharing,
00:17:17.80\00:17:19.90
letting nus ask you
some questions, and--
00:17:19.90\00:17:22.40
- No problem.
00:17:22.40\00:17:23.91
Glad I could share.
00:17:23.91\00:17:25.64
(light instrumental music)
00:17:25.64\00:17:29.21
- Now we're here with Shannon
who also grew up in Cambodia
00:17:29.21\00:17:32.81
and we wanted to ask
him as well a few questions
00:17:32.81\00:17:36.32
about his experience.
00:17:36.32\00:17:38.02
What was it like
growing up in the mission field?
00:17:38.02\00:17:40.59
- I'm not really
sure about what it's like
00:17:40.59\00:17:45.26
'cause pretty much I
haven't known anything else.
00:17:45.26\00:17:48.53
So it's pretty my life.
00:17:48.53\00:17:50.60
Growing up has been
just normal growing up.
00:17:50.60\00:17:54.27
- Well, you don't
know any differences.
00:17:54.27\00:17:56.64
- That's the
one, yeah, yeah yeah.
00:17:56.64\00:17:58.17
- So do you think
of this as your home?
00:17:58.17\00:18:00.81
- Pretty much, yeah.
00:18:00.81\00:18:02.48
I feel Cambodian.
00:18:02.48\00:18:04.51
(laughs) On the
inside I'm a Cambodian.
00:18:04.51\00:18:07.02
On the outside
I'm a something else.
00:18:07.02\00:18:09.38
(laughs)
00:18:09.38\00:18:11.62
- How do you feel when
you go back to Australia?
00:18:11.62\00:18:14.02
- I feel out of my comfort zone.
00:18:14.02\00:18:15.96
Australia is very different.
00:18:17.19\00:18:19.06
I get culture shock
when I go to Australia.
00:18:19.06\00:18:21.30
(laughs)
00:18:21.30\00:18:22.80
- Wow.
00:18:22.80\00:18:23.90
That's so opposite
from us coming here,
00:18:23.90\00:18:27.14
it's like culture shock.
00:18:27.14\00:18:29.04
And we wanna go back home.
00:18:29.84\00:18:31.27
So for you, you wanna
come back here as home.
00:18:32.37\00:18:35.74
- Yeah, I always missed
here when I went to Australia.
00:18:35.74\00:18:38.11
- Do you wish that you
had grown up in Australia
00:18:38.11\00:18:40.85
or are you--
00:18:40.85\00:18:41.92
- I actually quite
liked growing up here, so.
00:18:43.69\00:18:46.12
And I can't
wish for much better.
00:18:46.12\00:18:48.09
(laughs) - So what do you
00:18:48.09\00:18:49.76
like about here?
00:18:49.76\00:18:51.23
- Here?
00:18:51.23\00:18:52.49
I like the people,
they're socially friendly,
00:18:52.49\00:18:55.96
there's a lot happening, big
open spaces, that kinda stuff,
00:18:57.53\00:19:01.50
tropical,
tropics, I like tropics.
00:19:01.50\00:19:03.94
- [Lilyann] Nice and warm here.
00:19:04.94\00:19:06.04
- Yeah, yeah.
00:19:06.04\00:19:07.18
Love the sweat,
the dirt, lots of dust.
00:19:07.18\00:19:10.28
- So what do you do here?
00:19:11.08\00:19:13.45
- Well, I'm a multitask person.
00:19:13.45\00:19:16.72
I work in our media center
as video editor, cameraman,
00:19:18.09\00:19:21.92
everything that's needed.
00:19:22.96\00:19:24.69
I do pathfinder, I'm the
pathfinder director for here.
00:19:24.69\00:19:28.10
- So is there an
opportunity for a pathfinder,
00:19:28.10\00:19:31.03
maybe if they're in
America, to come over here
00:19:31.03\00:19:32.60
and help train and stuff?
00:19:32.60\00:19:36.04
- Yep, yeah, we're open.
00:19:36.04\00:19:37.54
(girls laugh)
00:19:37.54\00:19:38.97
Yeah we can.
00:19:38.97\00:19:40.08
If there's people who
wanna come out and help,
00:19:40.08\00:19:42.78
even for a short time,
it's nice, we really need
00:19:42.78\00:19:47.05
specialized people who
know how to do pathfinders
00:19:47.05\00:19:49.75
and can actually teach it,
so yeah, it's good work, yeah.
00:19:49.75\00:19:54.06
- Thank you for sharing with us.
00:19:54.06\00:19:55.79
- Thank you.
00:19:55.79\00:19:56.69
- God has really
blessed the Maddocks
00:19:57.76\00:19:59.23
and it's
encouraging for me to see
00:19:59.23\00:20:00.86
how they haven't let
challenges hold them back
00:20:00.86\00:20:02.93
from doing what God
has called them to do.
00:20:02.93\00:20:04.23
- Uh-uh, and it's so
amazing how many projects
00:20:04.23\00:20:06.87
have been started since
they went to the mission field.
00:20:06.87\00:20:09.54
- Yeah, and
they're not stressed out,
00:20:09.54\00:20:11.54
they're really happy people.
00:20:11.54\00:20:13.01
Whatever they're
doing, whether they're working
00:20:13.01\00:20:14.88
or playing, or anything.
00:20:14.88\00:20:16.81
- And I think it just
shows how if we're doing
00:20:16.81\00:20:19.41
what God has asked us to
do, we are given his peace,
00:20:19.41\00:20:22.42
no matter what
it is we're doing.
00:20:22.42\00:20:24.12
- Yeah, and God
has a specific task
00:20:24.12\00:20:26.52
that he calls each of us to do.
00:20:26.52\00:20:28.22
And a great example of
that is Kathleen and Ely.
00:20:28.22\00:20:31.03
They had the idea to use
horses as therapy for the kids.
00:20:31.03\00:20:35.06
- Yeah, and we had the
privilege of getting to visit
00:20:35.06\00:20:37.27
this project and see
what it was all about
00:20:37.27\00:20:39.63
while we were
visiting Wat Preah Yesu.
00:20:39.63\00:20:42.37
(instrumental music)
00:20:42.37\00:20:45.44
(people chattering)
00:20:54.98\00:20:57.95
- We're here at Hoof
Trek with Kathleen and Ely
00:21:03.79\00:21:07.13
and we wanted to
ask them some questions
00:21:07.13\00:21:09.36
about their amazing
ministry that they're doing here
00:21:09.36\00:21:12.10
at Wat Preah Yesu.
00:21:12.10\00:21:13.44
- So how did you guys
get an idea to use horses
00:21:13.44\00:21:15.90
as a ministry tool?
00:21:15.90\00:21:17.31
- Well, I always wanted
to work with horses and kids
00:21:17.31\00:21:20.51
back in Australia.
00:21:20.51\00:21:22.48
I was working at a
school just as a volunteer
00:21:22.48\00:21:25.18
with some of the horses and kids
00:21:25.18\00:21:26.95
who were having
behavioral difficulties
00:21:26.95\00:21:30.32
or struggling with
their schoolwork and stuff,
00:21:30.32\00:21:33.05
and I saw the
benefits that it had with them
00:21:33.05\00:21:34.89
and with our kids here
we always have challenges
00:21:34.89\00:21:38.36
in the classroom, so
we're kind of always thinking
00:21:38.36\00:21:40.20
of new ideas that we
can use with them, yeah,
00:21:40.20\00:21:42.56
so we thought of horses.
00:21:42.56\00:21:44.00
- How do the horses
help the behavioral problems
00:21:44.00\00:21:46.03
with the kids?
00:21:46.03\00:21:47.50
- Well, working with gigantic,
slightly scary animals,
00:21:47.50\00:21:52.44
especially when
they're so small, can often--
00:21:53.64\00:21:55.18
A horse is a reactive animal,
00:21:56.08\00:21:57.61
so it reacts, they're prey
animals, they react to fear,
00:21:57.61\00:21:59.38
they react to bossiness,
and we find that the kids here,
00:21:59.38\00:22:03.85
a lot of 'em
are very hyperactive
00:22:03.85\00:22:05.59
and they have to change
their behavior around the horse
00:22:05.59\00:22:08.62
and learn to control themselves
00:22:08.62\00:22:10.63
so that they can get the horse
00:22:10.63\00:22:11.63
to do what they want it to do.
00:22:11.63\00:22:13.80
We're not just using it
though for self-awareness stuff
00:22:13.80\00:22:16.87
with them but also for
them to learn more about God
00:22:16.87\00:22:20.14
and how much he loves them too,
00:22:20.14\00:22:21.47
as they try to make a gigantic
animal do what they want.
00:22:21.47\00:22:24.84
- Is it hard to
find horses in Cambodia?
00:22:25.97\00:22:27.68
- Yes.
00:22:27.68\00:22:28.74
There is maybe I
think they said 15,000,
00:22:28.74\00:22:32.51
but a lot of 'em are very small.
00:22:32.51\00:22:34.68
They're all stallions.
00:22:35.95\00:22:37.25
There's not any for sale
that's over three years old
00:22:38.59\00:22:41.49
'cause they get
worked quite hard
00:22:42.72\00:22:44.23
and they don't have a
very long working life
00:22:44.23\00:22:47.13
with their Cambodian owners.
00:22:47.13\00:22:49.76
So we've had to go
down to Kampong Cham,
00:22:49.76\00:22:52.50
which is over halfway to
Phnom Penh, to find our horses.
00:22:52.50\00:22:56.50
- How long have you guys been,
00:22:56.50\00:22:58.34
has this project been going?
00:22:58.34\00:23:00.14
- Well, the idea was
kind of born back in May 2014,
00:23:00.14\00:23:04.05
but we've only
started with the kids
00:23:04.05\00:23:05.71
since September of this year.
00:23:05.71\00:23:07.22
- And we've had the horses
00:23:07.22\00:23:08.58
just over a year. - Last year.
00:23:08.58\00:23:09.75
September last year.
00:23:09.75\00:23:10.85
(laughs)
00:23:10.85\00:23:11.92
- Is it popular with the kids?
00:23:11.92\00:23:13.52
- They do enjoy
riding the horses.
00:23:13.52\00:23:16.22
They'll come around
sometimes just to pet them,
00:23:17.49\00:23:20.03
just to feed them food over
the fence and things like that.
00:23:20.03\00:23:23.10
It was obviously
much more of a novelty
00:23:23.10\00:23:25.03
when we got them at the first.
00:23:25.03\00:23:26.77
It's kind of worn off but
we still have the faithfuls
00:23:26.77\00:23:28.70
that come around.
00:23:28.70\00:23:29.74
(laughs)
00:23:29.74\00:23:31.11
We have a group of trainees
that come in the afternoon
00:23:31.11\00:23:33.34
to learn how to take care
of the horses, ride the horses,
00:23:33.34\00:23:36.48
train the horses, with the
hopes that they'll eventually
00:23:36.48\00:23:39.01
be able to be used as
teachers for the program.
00:23:39.01\00:23:41.88
- Do you need any
young volunteers to help?
00:23:41.88\00:23:44.39
- This place, the whole school,
00:23:44.39\00:23:45.92
can always use more volunteers.
00:23:45.92\00:23:47.92
And anyone who loves kids
and isn't afraid of horses
00:23:47.92\00:23:51.33
is always welcome
to give us a hand.
00:23:51.33\00:23:53.19
- Do you know anybody else
who's doing ministry with horses
00:23:54.56\00:23:57.50
for missionary work?
00:23:57.50\00:23:59.40
- For missionary work, no.
00:23:59.40\00:24:00.67
There are a lot of
horse therapy places,
00:24:01.74\00:24:05.51
but it don't know
of any in this country
00:24:05.51\00:24:08.51
or in any other mission field.
00:24:08.51\00:24:11.55
- This is a
really cool project and--
00:24:11.55\00:24:14.18
- Thanks for coming.
00:24:15.18\00:24:15.98
(laughs) - Thank you.
00:24:15.98\00:24:17.25
(singing)
00:24:17.25\00:24:19.49
(acoustic guitar music)
00:24:28.20\00:24:31.87
- Our last evening there,
Uncle Tim took us into town
00:24:31.87\00:24:35.14
to shop for traditional
clothes and souvenirs.
00:24:35.14\00:24:37.77
We're gonna talk really
loud so you can hear us.
00:24:41.04\00:24:42.78
We're at a night
market here in Cambodia,
00:24:42.78\00:24:45.55
Siem Reap, actually,
and we are ordering roti.
00:24:45.55\00:24:50.22
Really thin kinda like crepes.
00:24:50.22\00:24:52.45
- And you put bananas
in it and you fold it over
00:24:52.45\00:24:55.16
and put chocolate
on top and cut it up.
00:24:55.16\00:24:57.56
It's really good.
00:24:57.56\00:24:58.76
He rolls it though.
00:24:58.76\00:24:59.83
(girls chattering)
00:25:01.23\00:25:04.23
(soft instrumental music)
00:25:55.15\00:25:58.72
Then there's more.
00:26:03.16\00:26:04.73
(cameraman laughs)
00:26:52.07\00:26:55.08
- That was so much fun.
00:27:06.52\00:27:07.89
Lots of people would be really
nervous to eat street food,
00:27:07.89\00:27:10.73
but in our opinion
it's definitely the best.
00:27:10.73\00:27:13.03
- Yeah, for sure.
00:27:13.03\00:27:14.36
And Kathleen and Ely's
project is so inspiring.
00:27:14.36\00:27:16.97
- Mmhmm, and they had to
go through so many challenges
00:27:16.97\00:27:19.80
to get that
project up and running.
00:27:19.80\00:27:21.94
They had to search the
entire country to find a horse
00:27:21.94\00:27:24.44
that was gentle
enough for the kids to ride,
00:27:24.44\00:27:26.41
and they had to raise all the
money to build the enclosures
00:27:26.41\00:27:28.98
and buy the horses
and food and everything.
00:27:28.98\00:27:31.48
- Wow.
00:27:31.48\00:27:33.11
We each have different talents
and interests that we can use
00:27:33.11\00:27:36.18
for spreading the gospel.
00:27:36.18\00:27:37.55
God has a special
place for each of us.
00:27:37.55\00:27:39.75
You just have to ask
him where that is for you.
00:27:39.75\00:27:41.89
Following him
is not always easy,
00:27:41.89\00:27:44.36
and it's
important not to give up
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and to keep going when
things become difficult.
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- We'll see you next
time on Mission Trek.
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- And remember to
pray for the unreached.
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(instrumental music)
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