Participants: Jim Ayer
Series Code: MW
Program Code: MW000050
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00:01 We are close to 7000 feet elevation right now.
00:04 It's actually raining or maybe it's misting, 00:07 we are at Ngorongoro Crater, 00:10 I wish you could see it several thousand 00:11 feet below us, I'm told it's the Crater 00:14 we haven't seen it yet, we are hoping later today 00:16 it will clear off. In the bottom is the Black Rhino, 00:19 we hope to find the Black Rhino also because 00:21 it's an endangered species. There is very few 00:24 of them but right here in the park I'm told 00:26 there is about 20 of them ranging in one little 00:29 area that we hope to find later today. 00:32 If the mist clears off and if everything changes, 00:34 also I want to tell you it's stretching about 00:38 20 kilometers across, it's one of the 00:40 biggest calderas in the world. 01:16 There is a little bit of wind right now. 01:17 It's blowing away the clouds, 01:18 the sun is starting to come out and it's getting 01:20 beautiful. You can see the Crater, 01:23 all the walls I mean it is gorgeous down there 01:25 you can see the Alkaline Lake. 01:27 We're gonna see if we can find the Rhinos now. 01:32 The Ngorongoro Crater is often called 01:34 Africa's Eden, and the 8th wonder of the world, 01:37 and it's easy to see why it's gained this reputation. 01:43 The Crater is the largest unbroken and unflooded 01:46 caldera, which is actually a collapsed volcano. 01:50 The Crater is more than 14 miles wide and has 01:52 very steep walls of an average height 01:54 of 1900 feet. The rich pasture and permanent 01:58 water of the Crater floor supports a large 02:01 resident population of wildlife up to 25,000, 02:05 more importantly it is one of the few places 02:08 in the world to see the Black Rhino in its 02:10 natural habitat because it is a very highly 02:16 protected area only the indigenous tribes like 02:19 the Maasai are allowed to live and travel within 02:22 the Caldera. The crater plays host to almost 02:30 every kind of individual species of wildlife in 02:33 Eastern Africa including the animals such 02:35 as the Wildebeest, Zebra, Gazelle, Buffalo, 02:38 Eland, Hippo and Warthog. The bumps grew larger, 02:47 the dust thicker, and the animals more exotic, 02:50 as the driver of our four-wheeled vehicle 02:52 negotiated the road bringing us nearer the 02:54 Maasai Orphanage right on the border of Kenya 02:57 and Tanzania. To a great extent, 03:00 this orphanage was established because of 03:02 AWR's broadcast in one radio. 03:06 Doctor how many years have you had your 03:07 orphanage established? Five years ago, 03:10 five years ago you started it, yes, 03:11 and how many children do you have now? 03:13 35, 35, yes, from what ages, from what this age, 03:18 this age, how old this one, three, 03:21 three years old yes, you've got him from three years, 03:23 oh so sweet, from 3 to 12, yes. 03:27 And what do you teach the students? 03:29 First of all my mission was just to Evangelical, 03:34 to teach them how to know God. 03:35 To teach them about God! Yes. 03:38 So I was just Evangelizing in Maasai land, 03:41 when I recognized five children left behind 03:44 in bomb blast to die because the parents were 03:48 moving for green pastures somewhere else. 03:52 If I am understand what you are telling me 03:54 correctly the parents, they are taking their cows, 03:58 yes, to go find green pastures, 04:00 the cows more important and they leave the 04:02 children behind just to die in the hut, exactly yes, 04:03 yes, on their own. How can they do that? 04:07 A cow in Maasai land is beloved comparing 04:10 to a human being. So they leave them behind 04:13 to die so that they can get time to move 04:16 on with the cows. Man. How about all the 04:23 other children? How did you get so many? 04:25 What's happened in their lives? 04:27 Did they lose parents or what? They lose their 04:28 parents because HIV is pandemic here around, 04:33 also because of the HIV lot of these children 04:36 lost all their parents too, yeah. 05:06 We have so many songs but that one, 05:08 oh that was, praising the Lord, 05:09 praising the Lord. You know when you are born, 05:12 you don't know about the Lord, 05:13 but as we grow you are 05:15 but one day you meet someone who loves 05:17 you so much, more than anybody else, 05:20 Praise God Jesus, the Savior. 05:22 Is that what that song was singing? Yeah. 05:24 That's those were the words to that song. 05:25 Yeah. So, here we teach children how to be 05:27 self dependent, we teach them how to take 05:30 care of themselves. In the morning, 05:32 you have to brush your teeth, comb your hair, 05:34 be smart and then take something for breakfast 05:37 then you go back to class. 05:38 So, here we have a doll, this is a doll, 05:43 it made by one of the girls, she is Diana, 05:47 maybe I'll grow up and I will not have a job, 05:50 so instead of being a thief or being somebody else, 05:54 why can't I teach the child too. 05:57 So, the doll, everything was just found around 06:02 then mommy, so here we are. Now the hair, 06:06 no it's not that hair what is it? It's just the mix, 06:10 texture mixture like this, 06:11 and okay and who made it, you made it. 06:13 She is there on, who made the doll, very good job, 06:16 if she grows up she doesn't find anything to do, 06:19 instead of being a packing girl or picking things 06:23 in the street, she can be a tailor. 06:25 We have to be self dependent; 06:27 whether you go anywhere, you go to USA, 06:29 you are in Kenya; you are in Tanzania, 06:31 you have to be self dependent. 06:33 So you know for sure. I can tell it in your eyes 06:36 if some of these children going to turn out 06:37 to be doctors and yeah, yeah, yeah, 06:39 many good things. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we have it. 06:43 As you can see AWR is frontline mission 06:46 radio. Our first priority is to travel where 06:49 missionaries cannot go. We broadcast thousands 06:53 of hours each day in seventy major languages 06:56 of the world. AWR has the capability and 06:59 capacity of blanketing almost eighty percent 07:01 of the world's population. Not only do we broadcast 07:05 via shortwave radio, but our signal is on over 07:08 1000 FM and AM stations around the world as well. 07:13 Our podcast subscribers, internet users, 07:15 satellite downlinks are growing rapidly evidenced 07:18 by the hundred thousand plus e-mails, 07:21 letters and phone calls we receive each and 07:24 every year. Yes, AWR is your mission radio. 07:28 No walls and no borders. For AWR that means 07:31 change life and change hearts around the 07:33 world because God is using the airways 07:36 of AWR to reach people everywhere. 07:43 Here is another story of hope 07:45 from Adventist World Radio. 07:48 Egal and Swetlana unlike some of the Russians 07:51 have seen nothing but hard times since the fall 07:54 of communism. The agriculture industry 07:57 so vital to their rural town has plummeted. 07:59 Leaving the area in poverty, watching their 08:03 dejected neighbors fall to alcohol abuse, 08:06 they were concerned about the influence such 08:08 a hopeless society would have on their five children. 08:12 So, they search for a positive influence for 08:14 their family. They found it in 08:16 Adventist World Radio. You are the brightest 08:19 light in our hard life they wrote to us. 08:22 We are always looking forward 08:24 to your next program. Thank you for your 08:26 message of kindness and hope. 08:31 Adventist World Radio shares the hope 08:34 of Christ with millions of people everyday 08:37 in their own languages, for more 08:39 information visit awr. org. 08:48 With its stunning ethereal blue green vistas 08:51 close range viewing opportunities and 08:53 unparalleled concentrations of 08:55 wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater is one of 08:57 Tanzania's most visited destinations, 09:01 and one of Africa's best known wildlife 09:03 viewing areas. One of the first sites that 09:06 captured our attention was Lake Magadi. 09:09 It is an alkaline lake caused by deposits of 09:11 volcanic ash. The depth, never more than 10 09:15 feet varies during the year and during the 09:17 dry season it shrinks dramatically. 09:20 The lakes edges are a favorite stocking ground 09:22 for Golden Jackals, Lions and Hyenas. 09:26 It was hard to imagine, what else we discover 09:28 while enjoying the animals milling around the lake. 09:36 Flamingos, thousands and thousands of them, I've 09:39 never seen so many birds in one place in my life. 09:43 The pink Flamingos here I know in some areas 09:45 they eat shrimp to keep the pink color, 09:47 but what do they eat out here. 09:48 Out here mostly what they get is, 09:51 due to the shallow lake the formation of the 09:55 algae they called it filtrate to the algae 09:58 which is turning them pink is the only thing 10:00 which turns them pink here. 10:02 I don't think I've ever seen so many in my 10:04 life but you are saying that's not many, 10:05 that is not that much many, yeah, 10:08 it could be more that are dependent on the 10:10 water level and for very deep is not so much 10:16 suitable for them because they need really 10:18 to walk and filtrate to what they can get there, 10:20 that's why also their beak have been modified 10:23 to eat the algae because they have got a beak 10:26 which always eat up sit down for filtration. 10:28 So they turn their head upside down; 10:30 they have to turn their head upside down. 10:32 Now do you think that's modified or the Lord 10:34 did that? Of course, Lord is the one who modified 10:39 them yes, yes, yeah. And with our cameras, 10:43 we discovered swamps and even forested areas 10:46 spreading across this Vast African Wonderland. 11:57 Nami Yani, yeah, I got your name right yeah, 11:59 yeah, yeah, good because by name is Jim, 12:02 one of the syllable of yours as many, 12:03 but that's a pretty name it's Maasai yeah, yeah. 12:06 Now, here in the orphanage you've been 12:08 teaching the children and because your life had 12:12 been changed by God and it seems like you are 12:13 giving back now that true? When I join the center, 12:17 we didn't know how to the read the Bible, 12:20 you only knew about the cows and the goats, 12:22 because you were Maasai, yeah, 12:24 and the cows are extremely important. 12:27 They used to be our God. In fact, better they tell 12:32 to die more than the cow, so you more and 12:34 more over a cow dying and a child dying 12:36 sometimes, yeah, yeah, yeah. 12:38 You have to take care of the cow; 12:39 if the cow anything happens to the cow your father 12:42 will kill you. Literally, anything, your father would 12:47 really kill you; yeah it's hard for me to even 12:50 understand that you know to, it's true, 12:52 it happens it's true. But now you are here, 12:55 you are in a beautiful dress, 12:57 you are in a great school here that you are teaching 13:01 and instructing these children, yeah, 13:03 I appreciate okay before I used to wear the Kanga's, 13:05 we called them Kanga's or the Leso's. 13:08 I mean they are back to the Maasai attires, 13:09 the only thing we did not use to follow so much 13:13 is the circumcision, but most of girls, 13:17 the circumcision, yeah, and your people 13:19 didn't too much, they did it too much but 13:22 most of us are free now. Is that what you did, 13:24 yeah then you disappear. How old were you 13:27 when you ran away? Okay by that time I was 23. 13:30 The community is so tight with the 13:33 Maasai people that's very traumatic for you to leave, 13:36 right. It's so tight because the condition 13:39 there as you compare my life now I cannot go 13:42 back to the Maasai Village. 13:43 It's like you are in dreamland, 13:46 it's like it's not true, and you can't imagine 13:48 sleeping in the same room with the cows and 13:51 the goats. As an asthmatic, 13:54 I can't hardly imagine living in the same room 13:56 with the cows and the goats and the dust, 13:59 yeah you live, yeah you stay with the goat 14:00 and you stay with the cow then you sleep with them, 14:02 life goes on and that's the same 14:04 room is there, one that to cook. 14:10 You get elephants down here also. Yes, yes, 14:12 how do they get. I mean the cliffs are so steep 14:15 how does an elephant get down those hills? 14:17 Yes, elephants are very much well known 14:20 that they very good climbers of the mountains 14:23 and they can get down to a very, 14:24 very steeper slopes. It's the matter, 14:27 in fact the people have been asking question 14:30 how could elephants get down here and probably 14:34 elephant can answer that you are the one 14:37 following my way down the Crater because 14:40 they follow the elephants way to get down the Crater. 14:44 It's phenomenal to think over 6 tons coming down, 14:47 yeah, a hill is steep as these are. 14:52 Originally used only by hunters, 14:54 the term 'Big Five' refers to five of Africa's greatest 14:57 wild animals, Lion, Leopard, Elephant, 15:03 Buffalo and Rhino. As during the bygone hunting era, 15:07 the "Big Five" still conjures up the romance 15:10 and excitement of Africa's exotic destinations 15:13 and experiences. And Ngorongoro Crater is one 15:17 of the last places the Black Rhino can be viewed 15:20 in its natural habitat. The Black Rhinoceros 15:23 is a large thick skinned herbivore and 15:26 it characterized by its large size. 15:29 The most distinguishing feature is too up 15:31 right horns on his nose. The horns of a rhinoceros 15:35 are made of carotene, the same type of protein 15:37 that mix up hair and fingernails. 15:40 The black rhino has the reputation for being 15:42 extremely aggressive. They attack out of fear, 15:45 confusion and panic. They will charge if they 15:48 sense a threat, which occurs frequently due 15:50 to their very poor eyesight. 15:52 They've been observed to charge tree trunks 15:54 and termite mounds. They are very fast runners 15:57 and can run up to 35 miles per hour. 16:01 The life expectancy in natural conditions is from 16:03 35 to 50 years, but they are only 3500 Black 16:08 Rhinos in the entire world. In 1966, 16:11 there were 108 Rhinos in the Crater, 16:13 today they are around 20. Rhino poaching had 16:17 increased but today, the Rhinos are guarded 16:20 24 hours a day. Each are fitted with the tracking 16:23 device in their horn that allows rangers to know 16:25 their exact location anytime to prevent poaching. 16:29 Thanks to the Anti-Poaching Patrols Black Rhino 16:31 in the Crater are relatively safe 16:33 and the numbers are increasing. 16:41 It is so beautiful down here in the bottom 16:42 of the Crater today we've seen so many exciting 16:45 animals, been next Lions and we just name it, 16:49 it's been here. God has just blessed so much 16:52 with so many different creatures. 16:54 I think about the ark of Noah and all the animals 16:58 coming in the ark, seven clean animals, 17:00 two unclean animals God preserved all of these 17:04 animals and they are here today and we get to see 17:06 them out in His creation, it's absolutely wonderful. 17:16 Looking across such vistas and experiencing 17:18 such magnificent animals walking, grazing, 17:21 and relaxing with the mere feet of us certainly 17:24 causes us to reflect on the Garden of Eden. 17:27 What was it like before sin, 17:28 but even more importantly, what will it be like 17:31 when God restores Eden in the earth made new. 17:40 When you found Jesus Christ you've made 17:42 such a difference, yeah. God made such a difference 17:44 in your life but now you are making such 17:46 a difference in others is there someone who 17:48 we could talk to today that could share a little bit 17:51 of their story, of how they've changed 17:54 I would like to see how God has worked through 17:56 you and then through their lives too. 17:58 Okay what I can say is that when I joined the Center, 18:03 the doctor introduced me to some of there 18:04 literature while there, most of them could not copy 18:08 the situation because they were told to dress like 18:12 normal human being, they could not, 18:16 some could not even shower, 18:19 they feared water, even going walking with 18:22 shoes they couldn't wear shoes, 18:24 some could not even sit on a chair like this they 18:26 wanted to sit on a floor, then from there, 18:29 there is the one girl she was called Nasingli, 18:33 I can call her if,oh please do yeah please do. 18:35 Nasingli, hi, hi Nasingli, how are you, I am fine. 18:40 You are happy, yes. Meet my friend; 18:44 you've got a pretty smile. So tell me a little bit 18:46 of her story, as far as where she come from 18:49 and how old is she. Okay, Nasingli is 18:52 eleven years old and she has been here 18:54 for five years with me. We've been together, 18:57 but at first we could not be friends because 18:59 she used to cry so much, as time went by she became 19:02 adapted to the community and we taught her 19:05 how to read, write her name, take shower, 19:09 eat, how to eat, how to dress and now she 19:12 is smart, for now she is in primary she 19:15 is in class four. So now I understand, 19:17 she was just baptized some one the doctor told me 19:20 she was just baptized, yeah she was baptized 19:22 last month okay last month we had a crusade, 19:24 the very big crusade, but she just walk up 19:27 from the crowd and she went, she got baptized 19:30 and now she is clean now. I know Jesus and all 19:33 the angels were happy when you came forward 19:35 for baptism, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know it's 19:37 exciting to see you know, how God speaks 19:41 to one heart and in my case it's more exciting because 19:45 I have seen using the radio to speak to that heart 19:47 to you and now sharing with her now 19:49 she accept Jesus. Is there any other little girls 19:52 too that have a story here that could come 19:54 forward and, okay we have another girl she is known 19:57 as Valentine Baraki, if you don't mind 20:01 I can call her, oh sure, sure, Valentine, 20:07 she is Valentine, hi sweetheart, how are you, 20:10 oh you got such a pretty smile. 20:13 Its Valentine is it, she can speak, 20:16 she knows how to speak, how old are you. 20:19 Nine years old, nine years old, she is nine, yeah. 20:22 And what are you studying? I read many 20:26 subjects like English, Mathematics, Social Studies, 20:34 Science, all of those things yeah, wow. 20:39 When you grow up what do you want to be? 20:42 I want to be a doctor. You want to be a doctor. 20:47 You know, I think you are going to 20:48 do it with Jesus help, yeah, yes. 20:53 Through the Radio Wave of AWR, 20:54 God is reaching people around the world. 20:58 We'd like to offer you an edition of Making Wave. 21:01 It's four of our episodes brought to you from 21:03 around the world. God speaking to hearts, 21:06 the hearts of the listeners of AWR exciting stories. 21:10 We hope that you'll share those with friends 21:11 and neighbors, apprentices, anyone you come 21:13 in contact with. Join us to make waves. 21:15 It's completely free. 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Each program receives far more 22:32 questions than we can answer in one broadcast. 22:36 It's part of our effort to meet the physical 22:38 as well as the spiritual needs of our listeners. 22:43 Adventist World Radio shares the hope of Christ 22:47 with millions of people everyday in their own 22:49 languages. For more information visit awr. org. 23:01 He came when he was very sick and he was 23:02 very young, very, very young. 23:04 How old young was very young? 23:06 He was two years, and he was, two years old, 23:11 two years old. Do you speak English? Yes. 23:14 You want to be a pastor? Yes. You are going 23:17 to be a pastor, that's great. 23:19 What did you learned in the Bible? 23:21 What is your favorite Bible text? 23:30 He is saying the one who 23:32 has the word of God; He will be like a God, 23:35 who live in heaven. Alright good job, 23:40 good job! You know Jim, I am so pleased to see 23:44 this radio, why don't you pick that up again 23:47 the radio, because I remember just two to 23:52 three years ago when we ordered to buy the radios 23:56 and we shift them here to Tanzania to LaMarca 23:58 to Acubase, the radio producer and he has been 24:03 writing me about how he has distributed these 24:07 radios all around this country and especially 24:11 among the Maasai people yeah, yeah, yeah. 24:13 So now I come and I recognize one of our own 24:16 radios that is here doing its job, yeah that's nice. 24:20 We all sit together here. It does a very, 24:22 very good teaching about family, yes, 24:25 and we are suppose to tell the children, 24:27 how you are supposed to handle a man, 24:29 how you are supposed to talk to a woman, 24:31 it's so good. It's so exciting to me because 24:35 if you hadn't gone to that meeting and if the 24:37 doctor hadn't had in his heart to share at those 24:40 meetings these little ones wouldn't have ever 24:42 had an opportunity. You know, she is recently 24:45 married, would be married already, yeah, 24:49 she is only how old she is eleven, 24:51 eleven years old, alright, well thank 24:54 you so very much. Cattle are the all important 24:59 driving force in the life of the Maasai warrior. 25:02 Wives and children come in a distance second. 25:04 Their most important function in the tribe is 25:07 to have more working hands to take care of the 25:10 cattle, otherwise their value is minimal. 25:13 It's hard for me to conceive such a thing, 25:16 but when it's time to move their hut the youngest 25:18 children are sometimes left behind. 25:20 Yes, they are left behind on their own to feed 25:25 for themselves or eventually die. 25:28 This is why so important for us to do all we 25:30 can to reach these people with the 25:32 Gospel Message. Once they accept God their 25:34 value systems began to change. It 25:37 alliance with the heavenly mall and the family 25:39 unit becomes all important to these once 25:42 pardon warriors. Tell me how many years, 25:45 well like this little one at three years old, 25:49 how many years you are going to have it, 25:51 if the Lord doesn't come by that. 25:55 Do you have any idea? No. That's right, 25:59 but we certainly appreciate your work here doctor 26:01 at this case. You are doing a wonderful work, 26:04 keep it up and thank you for all you do for this 26:07 little ones and thank you very much. 26:09 It will be nice to see everyone in heaven 26:11 and I think they are going to be because 26:13 of the work that you've done and sharing AWR 26:17 too and God's blessings through that radio, 26:19 same to you, thank you, thank you. 26:23 You know viewers I want you to know that 26:25 for many of you this is your radio because 26:28 you helped to give some funds that we could 26:31 buy radios and send them to Tanzania. 26:35 I know our studio director work hard to get them 26:38 distributed to different groups and places 26:40 and this is one of those radios. 26:43 It's working here among the Maasai people 26:46 in Tanzania. You know Adventist World Radio 26:49 reaches all ages, not just adults, 26:53 but also these young people and so that's 26:56 a wonderful thing to see how the radio is even 26:59 helping here at the orphanage. 27:01 You now kids, if you are watching this 27:03 'Making Waves' program wherever you are, 27:06 you also can be benefited by the radio ministry. 27:11 We want you to be involved as much as you can, 27:14 perhaps some of you will find that your school 27:16 is having a project connected with 27:19 Adventist World Radio and we hope that you will 27:23 take hold and work hard and help us provide 27:25 more radios for places like this, 27:29 where the kids can listen. 27:31 If you would like to reach people with the good 27:32 news of the soon coming of Jesus Christ give 27:34 us a call 1-866-503-3531 or you can 27:40 write us at 12501 Old Columbia Pike, 27:43 Silver Spring, Maryland 20904 or log on to our 27:47 website www. awr. org. 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