It was a divine
appointment in the
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marketplace, one person from one
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direction another
from a hard distance
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in another
direction, the two of them
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meeting and an
entire village is changed.
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Africa, second only
Asia in size and population
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covers over 20
percent of the earth's
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total land area,
almost 15 percent of
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the world's human
population lives on
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the African continent.
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Foreign Language
When Maasai women
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gather together
they sing and dance
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among themselves,
they chant lullabies,
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hymn and sing songs
praising their sons.
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Women wear various
forms of beaded ornaments
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in both lobes and
smaller piercings at the top
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of the ear. It is
occasionally used as a way
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of displaying
wealth, status or rank
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and sometimes as a
part of religious practices.
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It is difficult to
find out how or why some
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traditions started
as with many things
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people do, its just the way
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we've always done
it is often the answer.
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Do some of, does the
ornamentation have special
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meaning of
different things because
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some of the ladies different.
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Foreign Language
.We wear these ornaments
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for special occasions
and ceremonies especially
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when we receive
guests or have marriage
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ceremonies and
how about this lady
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with the one almost
all the way to the ground,
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does that have special meaning.
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This is special for
the woman who has given
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birth to warriors, so it's a,
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they wear that as
pride that they have
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warriors in the family. Yes.
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Well tell the
ladies I appreciate
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it so much, may I ask one more
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question and again
maybe its too personal,
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but I noticed
they have pierced ears
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and some are very
long, some are short.
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Ask a question.
Okay, well how do
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you get yours ears so
long, how do you do that?
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I would make this
whole by placing a piece of
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wood in my ear lope
and it would get bigger.
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How long did it take
to get hers that, that
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long? I made the hole when I was
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a little girl and
gradually added larger
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wood pieces then I
cleaned it and placed this
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weight on it and
it stretched longer
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and longer, ask the
ladies if they've ever
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heard of Adventist World Radio.
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Yes, we like that radio program.
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Well please keep
listening ladies.
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We've heard so
many exciting stories
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of the Maasai people
and conversions through
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the power of radio. Ben,
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it is wonderful. It
is and we in Adventist
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World Radio have been
working for the Maasai
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just in the last
few years but you know
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the exciting thing is
that there is a prophecy
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in the Bible that
many people think refer
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to the Maasai people, really?
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It's found in
Isaiah chapter 18 and its
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embedded in a
prophecy against the nation
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of Cush, now Cush is
a country located south
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of Egypt into the
area of Ethiopia and Nubia
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in that area. Now
those people had some contact
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with the nation of
Israel and this prophecy
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kind of prophesize
punishment for Cush
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because they did
not follow the true God
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and they did
not witness properly
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to other people. Now
it says here in Isaiah
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18 verse 2 it says
"go swift messengers
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to a people tall
and smooth skinned,
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to a people feared far and wide,
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an aggressive nation
of strange speech whose
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land is divided by
waters. " Now this description
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many people think
fit the Maasai people
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very well. Now of
course at the time
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this was written it
was the early family
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of people that lived in
that area and eventually
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migrated down
through Kenya and into
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Tanzania in this area.
Definitely a tall people
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and a fierce
people, proud people
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and aggressive,
but then verse 3 says,
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all you people
who live on the earth
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when banner is
raised on the mountain
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you will see it
and when a trumpet
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sounds you will
hear it. A trumpet,
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a trumpet sound,
I want to come back
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to that. It says,
at that time predicting
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some point in the
future gifts will be brought
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to the Lord
Almighty from a people tall
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and smooth skinned from a people
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feared far and wide,
an aggressive nation of
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strange speech, whose
land is divided by rivers,
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the gifts will be
brought to Mount Zion,
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the place of the
name of the Lord.
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But here we have a
prophecy that these people
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whoever they are,
will come to the Lord,
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they will bring
their gifts to the Lord
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and they will no doubt
respond when the banner
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is raised on the
mountains and the trumpet
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is sounding, so at a
certain point in time,
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yes they will
respond. Now what is the
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logo of Adventist World Radio?
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Oh the trumpets,
the three trumpets,
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which symbolize the
Three Messages of the
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Book of Revelation,
the three angels messages.
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Now it just seems
like that the Maasai people
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have all these
years not responded
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at all to Christianity.
For many years it was
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so difficult to
make even one convert,
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in fact they were no
converts to Christianity
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for many years but just
in the last maybe 50 years
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or so, the Maasai
have begun to be reached.
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Now I'm not saying
that Adventist World Radio
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is the only agency
that has reached Maasai
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people of course
but I think Adventist
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world radio is one
of the agencies that God
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is using to reach
the Maasai people and
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we can see that so
evident in the stories
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that we have seen.
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Men women boys and girls,
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everyone is listening
to Adventist World Radio
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from Cairo and
the great Pyramids,
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to the barren lands of Ethiopia,
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from the vast plains
of Kenya and the Maasai
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lands of Serengeti to the slopes
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of Mount of Kilimanjaro.
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All the way here to
the exotic shores of
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Zanzibar and beyond.
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As you can see AWRis
front line mission radio,
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our first
priority is to travel where
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missionaries cannot
go. We broadcast thousands
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of hours each day
in 70 major languages
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of the world AWR
has the capability
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and capacity of
blanketing almost
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almost 80 percent of
the world's population
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not only do we broadcast
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via short wave radio but our
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signal is on over
1000 FM and AM stations
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around the world as well,
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our podcast
subscribers, Internet users,
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satellite downlinks are growing
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rapidly, evidenced
by the hundred thousand
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plus emails,
letters and phone calls we
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receive each and every year.
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Yes, AWR is your mission radio,
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no walls and no borders.
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For AWR that
means changed lives and
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changed hearts around the world
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because God is
using to airwaves of AWR
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to reach people everywhere.
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It's kind of amazing to me
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that we're on our
way out to the Serengeti
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and here in the
middle of nowhere was
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a Maasai village,
we're greeted by these ladies
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who have set up a little, almost
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a little shop
here, selling their craft
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to make a little bit more money,
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they danced for
us and then above
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all things I asked
them if they've been
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listening to
Adventist World Radio
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and they said they
have and they like it.
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Out here in
nowhere its pretty exciting
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to well I guess
you never know what's
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you're going to find any place,
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it seems like the radio waves
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are getting everywhere.
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As a
historically nomadic and then
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semi-nomadic people
they have traditionally
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relied on local,
readily available material
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to construct their housing.
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The traditional
house is designed
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for people on to
move and not designed
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to be permanent,
the Inkajijik or house
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is generally circular
and constructed by the
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able bodied women in the group.
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The structural
frame work is formed
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of timber poles fixed
directly into the ground,
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and interwoven with a lattice of
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smaller branches,
which is then plastered
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by hand with a
mixture of mud, sticks, grass,
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cow dung, human urine and ash.
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Within this space
the family cooks, eats,
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sleeps,
socializes and stores food,
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fuel and other
household possessions.
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Traditionally, their
diet consisted of meat,
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milk and blood from cattle.
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The mixing of
cattle blood and milk
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is done to
prepare a ritual drink for
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special celebrations and is
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nourishment for the sick.
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After asking my
new friends about
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the cow's blood
they told me that
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as Christians they
no longer drink it.
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More recently,
they've grown dependent
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on food produced in
other areas, such as
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corn meal, rice,
potatoes and cabbage
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known to the
Maasai as goat leaves.
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I've talked with many
men about what life is
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like here in Africa, but
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what's it like for the ladies?
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The Maasai people are very far
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behind than other
tribes in development.
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In education,
we're not very good but
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we're getting
better, and in spirituality
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we're also getting
better and growing.
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So, the women in
Christian culture Maasai
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are treated better than
if they weren't Christian
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The Maasai women are spiritually
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ahead of the men.
So they are problem
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that remain between
Maasai women and men.
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Are you married? Yes.
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Before we became
Christians, our lives
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were very tough,
because my husband was
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drinking alcohol. It
took me a long time to
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approach him and ask
him not to drink alcohol,
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but now he is a Christian
and has changed his life.
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We're happy at
home because we pray
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together and share
in home activities.
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May I ask you also,
did you get to chose
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your husband or
was that arranged
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for you as a
child? It wasn't my choice
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because I didn't
know until I grew up
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and matured as a women.
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One day
suddenly my parents said,
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that's your
husband, it was not my choice
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according to our culture. I was
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also thinking
one more thing too,
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I've heard that
the Maasai people,
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the men before the Christian may
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have many wives, is that true?
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Yes. Are there more wives, does
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your husband have more wives?
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No, only one wife to my husband.
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She's probably very
happy about that, yeah.
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I understand that
you listen to radio,
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how does the radio help
you, the Christian radio
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help you in
your walk with Jesus?
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After hearing the
good news of Jesus Christ
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on the radio, we
changed our lives,
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we moved from the
dark to the light,
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when we received
Jesus light, we came
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to love our
neighbors and each other.
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And now we have
hope for our future
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together with God.
I'm glad that you're
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part of the family
of God, but I, yeah,
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you probably have
to get to your family
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so we'll, we'll go ahead and
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we'll walk on home
and let you go here.
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Well you and the
others were off interviewing
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an individual who had
a special story and here
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were all the others in the
village kind of looking on,
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wondering what was going on.
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So, I took them
aside and visited with them
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with a translator
and I actually summarized
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the plan of salvation with them.
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And I asked them if
they were able to worship.
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No, they said, we need
an evangelist or a pastor.
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I said, well you
know, you can worship.
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right here among yourselves.
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You know how to
sing, we'll get you a Bible
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so you can read a
Bible passage and discuss it.
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It's so hard for me at
least in a western mind
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or western culture
to think that someone
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doesn't even know how
to worship, that's right.
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What's exciting
though is the Holy Spirit
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is able to work
with what we're doing
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to produce tremendous results.
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Yes, I have been emphasizing
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in our training
of our producers,
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the concept of
contextualization,
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we want to put our programs
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in the proper
context, so that the
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people will
understand them simply
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and they will be
familiar with the illustrations
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and the messages that we give.
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A good example to
me is on this trip,
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the Maasai people to
get into the villages
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and see people who
a very short time ago
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had no concept of
God at all. Exactly,
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and but they
love the programs and
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they're wanting
to change their life.
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And as they change
their lives there are certain
00:14:52.70\00:14:55.06
universals that
the Bible teaches about
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what it means to be a follower
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of God and Jesus
Christ. But there are
00:14:59.53\00:15:02.66
other things that we
westerners have a tendency
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to impose upon these
people that don't have
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a religious issue to
them, it's just a different
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way of life,
different kind of clothing,
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sometimes a
different kind of music.
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I am a very
conservative person, but even
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I realize that being
able to travel in many parts
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of the world that we
can't make cookie cutter
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westernized
Christians of these people.
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They even jump in
praising God, you know
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that sounds like
the Old Testament.
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Now, we don't do that very much,
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we feel a little
inhibited and uncomfortable,
00:15:36.80\00:15:39.60
but they are
singing praises to Jesus and
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they are jumping
in praise of God. and
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I think it's a lesson
for us that we shouldn't be
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too quick to judge
these people in the
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growth of their
Christian experience, because
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you can tell their genuineness,
00:15:53.80\00:15:56.30
they may not look
exactly like us in their
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practice of worship
and how they live yet,
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but they're still
growing, they're still
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experiencing this
and I think God honor's
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them for their commitment.
00:16:07.83\00:16:09.06
What I've seen Ben is
there's this golden thread
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that's woven through
every single experience,
00:16:11.80\00:16:14.33
every single
person that we interview
00:16:14.33\00:16:16.10
and that's the
power of God to change
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their lives and
these people are changing.
00:16:18.56\00:16:20.70
You know some
might just say they're
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in different stages,
but they are changing.
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And you know I think we have to
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allow God to lead them.
00:16:26.23\00:16:28.20
They started out
without our help,
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because so many of
these groups kind of
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spontaneously
formed. Now it's true
00:16:34.80\00:16:37.36
they may have listen
to our radio broadcast
00:16:37.36\00:16:39.90
but they kind of
naturally formed groups
00:16:39.90\00:16:42.96
and got together
and began sharing
00:16:43.80\00:16:45.60
and I think God continues to
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lead them step by step.
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There is no doubt
of the Holy Spirit
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is being poured out
of them, that's right.
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People are
responding everywhere, amen.
00:16:53.80\00:16:56.70
About a year ago,
you met these people
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again kind of for
the second time that
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you met these
people in the market,
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and as I
understand that they had
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been Christians many years ago,
00:17:24.10\00:17:27.43
but they had no
fellowship, no support,
00:17:27.43\00:17:30.20
no one to talk to, so
they just kind of fell away.
00:17:30.40\00:17:33.03
So you told them to
turn on their radios
00:17:33.80\00:17:36.73
and listen to a particular
program, is that right?
00:17:36.73\00:17:38.90
I have introduced them to the
00:17:41.30\00:17:42.96
Maasai language
programs, they continued
00:17:42.96\00:17:45.73
to listen and I've continued to
00:17:45.73\00:17:47.76
follow up with
them, so now they desire
00:17:47.76\00:17:50.26
to have their own
church, so they can
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continue to grow in their faith.
00:17:52.63\00:17:54.40
Isn't it amazing
that God directed you
00:17:55.73\00:17:58.30
to go the market at
that time, on that day?
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I was so happy
because the place we met
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is so different
from the place I live,
00:18:06.50\00:18:09.20
when I was at the
market this Maasai lady
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was kneeling at
my feet crying as
00:18:13.40\00:18:16.10
she held my
knees, please we need to
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hear something
about the word of God and
00:18:19.13\00:18:22.13
that's when I
introduced them to the programs.
00:18:22.13\00:18:24.86
How does it make
you feel now to see
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the growth of these
people simply because
00:18:27.60\00:18:30.70
you met them in the market and
00:18:30.70\00:18:31.73
said, listen to this program.
00:18:31.73\00:18:33.30
I am so excited to
know that the influence
00:18:35.13\00:18:37.80
of the programs
is growing and I pray
00:18:37.80\00:18:40.46
that I continue to
influence more people to
00:18:40.46\00:18:43.00
listen to these programs.
00:18:43.00\00:18:44.80
It's so good to be used
00:18:45.50\00:18:46.66
by the Holy Spirit. Amen.
00:18:46.66\00:18:49.13
Radio has played a
major role in bringing
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the gospel to people everywhere.
00:18:54.76\00:18:56.70
Not only does it
provide the very first
00:18:57.23\00:18:59.20
opportunity for
them to hear about
00:18:59.20\00:19:01.06
God's love, but AWR
offers comfort companionship
00:19:01.06\00:19:05.33
and instruction
for continued growth in
00:19:05.33\00:19:07.63
the life of the new
Christian. In India,
00:19:07.63\00:19:10.13
we provided 50 radios
to workers who use them
00:19:10.13\00:19:13.16
as soul winning
tools and within two years
00:19:13.16\00:19:15.93
they had won
6700 people to Christ.
00:19:15.93\00:19:18.96
We are experiencing
the same type of success
00:19:20.10\00:19:22.80
right here in Africa
using solar powered radios.
00:19:22.80\00:19:25.66
Bible workers and
pastors are not always
00:19:26.16\00:19:28.53
able to travel
to meet with those,
00:19:28.53\00:19:30.46
they have been studied with,
00:19:30.46\00:19:32.36
so they are directing
their students to listen
00:19:32.36\00:19:34.40
to the radio
presentations in their absence.
00:19:34.40\00:19:36.83
Radio is the
perfect gospel partner.
00:19:37.56\00:19:39.90
When I was
introduced to you, I was told
00:20:17.00\00:20:19.03
that you are the
head of the family here,
00:20:19.03\00:20:20.76
is that correct? You are right,
00:20:21.20\00:20:23.70
I am the one. When
we pulled in you were
00:20:23.70\00:20:26.40
leading the group
singing, are you the one
00:20:26.40\00:20:29.83
who gets everybody
together to sing here?
00:20:29.83\00:20:32.43
Yes, I was told by
the translator that they
00:20:33.00\00:20:36.03
were singing a
Christian song, so have
00:20:36.03\00:20:38.70
you always had them
singing Christians songs?
00:20:38.90\00:20:41.20
We used to be
Christians before but
00:20:47.93\00:20:50.00
for six years
after we moved to this
00:20:50.00\00:20:52.50
new location we
had no contact with any
00:20:52.50\00:20:55.10
other Christians
and we had lost our way.
00:20:55.10\00:20:58.10
This year when we
met this lay evangelist
00:20:58.10\00:21:02.00
is when we were
introduced to the AWR programs.
00:21:02.00\00:21:05.36
So, we have only
been listening to AWR
00:21:06.46\00:21:09.83
for a few months
now, since then we have
00:21:10.30\00:21:13.36
started to sing
Christian songs again.
00:21:13.63\00:21:16.10
So that gave you
strength and courage
00:21:17.96\00:21:19.40
and as you began
listening to the radio.
00:21:19.60\00:21:21.23
Yes, now I'm
curious, how often do you
00:21:22.70\00:21:24.53
go to the market? I don't go
00:21:24.53\00:21:27.20
there very often.
It is a rare occasion
00:21:27.46\00:21:29.93
that I take a trip
to the market. Why did
00:21:30.26\00:21:33.33
you go on that
particular day do you think?
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On that
particular day I accidentally
00:21:38.16\00:21:40.10
went to the
market and met this lady.
00:21:40.33\00:21:42.20
I asked her why
she had forsaken us
00:21:42.20\00:21:44.66
for six years. So, do you really
00:21:44.66\00:21:48.06
think it was by
accident that you ran
00:21:48.06\00:21:49.96
into her on that
day? I think it was
00:21:53.13\00:21:54.10
God's plan because I
didn't expect to see any
00:21:54.10\00:21:55.90
Christians there,
but she was there.
00:21:55.90\00:21:58.16
So I thank God for
coming in contact with her.
00:21:58.60\00:22:01.00
AWR is frontline mission radio.
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00:22:11.43\00:22:14.13
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Tell me now that
you've begin listening to AWR,
00:24:37.43\00:24:39.93
you've started
your own choir here,
00:24:39.93\00:24:41.80
how is that
changing the village?
00:24:42.63\00:24:44.10
Since we started
listening to the programs in the
00:24:46.80\00:24:49.73
Maasai language,
we have been blessed,
00:24:49.73\00:24:52.16
we can finally hear
the word of God which
00:24:52.80\00:24:54.70
we missed for a long time.
00:24:54.70\00:24:56.30
Can you tell us how and
when and what time a day
00:24:57.36\00:24:59.70
that you all get
together as different families
00:25:00.06\00:25:02.06
to listen to the
radio? When we are through
00:25:02.06\00:25:06.53
with day's
activities and we've taken back
00:25:06.53\00:25:09.56
the cattle, we
come together and listen
00:25:09.56\00:25:11.83
to the programs.
What kind of radio is it,
00:25:11.83\00:25:14.80
is the one of our
radios that cranks?
00:25:14.80\00:25:17.06
Yes, we
received a radio from AWR
00:25:18.76\00:25:21.63
and this is the one we
listen to collectively.
00:25:22.16\00:25:24.30
So this is the
Maasai program that we
00:25:25.13\00:25:27.23
had that we
distributing radios out amongst
00:25:27.23\00:25:29.30
the villagers, so you
have one of those radios.
00:25:29.30\00:25:31.20
Yes, we're benefiting from
00:25:34.50\00:25:36.90
one of those radios
that were distributed
00:25:36.90\00:25:39.80
to the Maasai
people. It's so exciting
00:25:39.80\00:25:43.03
to us to see
people's lives changed by
00:25:43.03\00:25:47.30
the power of the Holy Spirit
00:25:47.30\00:25:48.36
through radio, amen, amen, amen.
00:25:48.36\00:25:52.50
Have you been
sharing with others I know
00:25:53.13\00:25:54.50
there's other
families in the area, are you
00:25:54.50\00:25:56.83
sharing with them
too now? Yes, we've been
00:25:56.83\00:26:00.10
sharing with others
about the radio programs.
00:26:00.10\00:26:02.93
It's such a
privilege to be able to know
00:26:04.00\00:26:06.50
and to meet people
from all cultures and
00:26:06.50\00:26:08.63
realize they were all one
family of God. Amen, amen.
00:26:08.90\00:26:13.30
In this village it
was the women that took
00:26:14.30\00:26:16.06
the initiative to
respond to the radio
00:26:16.06\00:26:17.96
broadcasts and to
accept Jesus Christ
00:26:18.23\00:26:20.76
as their savior.
They are the ones that
00:26:20.76\00:26:23.80
saw a value in
what they were hearing,
00:26:23.80\00:26:25.80
particularly in
the music, as I was
00:26:26.43\00:26:28.53
talking to one of
the mothers here in
00:26:28.53\00:26:31.50
this village, she
said, she just loved to
00:26:31.50\00:26:33.66
listen to the
music, about Jesus and
00:26:33.66\00:26:36.96
the praise of
God. So much so that
00:26:36.96\00:26:39.76
they formed their
own choir, they've
00:26:39.76\00:26:42.00
now learned 30
songs about how to praise
00:26:42.00\00:26:45.26
God and talk about
their love for Jesus,
00:26:45.26\00:26:48.10
but you know
they don't even have a
00:26:48.86\00:26:50.86
Bible in this
village. I asked them and
00:26:53.90\00:26:54.90
I was surprised,
they have no Bible.
00:26:54.90\00:26:56.33
Adventist world
radio is gonna bring a
00:26:57.13\00:26:58.63
Bible to this
village. We want to help them
00:26:58.83\00:27:01.60
learn how to
worship God on their own,
00:27:01.60\00:27:04.60
because that also is
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00:27:04.60\00:27:08.20
does, bringing
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00:27:08.20\00:27:10.96
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