Hi, friends, and
welcome to NEWSTART Now.
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I'm your host Ron Giannoni.
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In our studio, with
me, we have a young man,
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Danny Velez, all
the way from Washington.
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And I want to take a
look at when he first arrived.
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So let's break away right now.
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Well, I'm here
because I've been having
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some issues with my
lungs for about three months.
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And it's putting
a lot of pressure
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and causing pain
from time to time
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and making it hard for me
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to breathe and to speak.
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We've been to about six doctors,
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and they don't even know
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the cause of, you
know, what I have or...
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And they haven't
done much to help me.
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And so I am very hopeful
that the NEWSTART program
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will be the answer for me.
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Welcome back, friends.
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Hi, Danny. Hi.
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Thanks for taking your
time, I know you're in a hurry.
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You got to catch
a plane. Yes, we do.
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So Let's do this
real quick. Okay.
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You came here,
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and we just saw
your first interview,
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and you were dealing with what?
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What were you dealing with?
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Well, I had
inflammation in my lungs,
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and while I was here,
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I got a call
from my cardiologist
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and told me that
I have pericarditis,
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which is inflammation
of the lining of the heart.
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So I had a lot of
inflammation and pain.
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Yes. Yeah. Okay.
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And how are you doing now?
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I am a lot better.
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I'm not cured yet. Yes.
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But I'm on the
road to progress, yeah.
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Did you get a CRP Test, Daniel?
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I did, yeah.
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And did it
indicate high inflammation?
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The normal was 0-3. Right.
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And mine was a
126 when I got here.
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Wow.
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And I just found
out that as of Monday,
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mine is down to 12.
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Yeah. Amen, bother, amen.
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So it's on the right path now.
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The Lord needs you. Amen.
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He needs to use you. Yeah.
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And that's obvious.
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And I need Him.
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I know you do, for sure.
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Well, He doesn't really need us,
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but He uses us, doesn't He?
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Exactly. Yes.
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So you know what to
do when you get home
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and to continue these hot
and cold treatments and such?
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Yes.
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That was, to me, the
key, obviously the diet
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and the exercise are
part of the whole package,
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but the hydrotherapy,
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the hot and cold
treatments were the things
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that really
affected my lungs the most.
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Yes, indeed.
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So aside from
that, what did you like
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the most about the program?
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Well, you know, the people.
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It was a really
good group of staff
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and also the group that we had
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was just a neat
group to be around with,
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and to talk with, and
to hear their stories,
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and to see how God was
leading in their lives.
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It was refreshing. Amen.
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Yeah.
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It's almost like you get
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physical benefit from being here
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but also a spiritual benefit.
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Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah.
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I think it's
important for our viewers
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to know that because
a lot of people think
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what we do here is
strictly lifestyle,
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we come and we eat and we walk.
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It's more than that
as you just mentioned.
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Yeah.
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So did you do a fast by the way?
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I did.
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How was that?
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You don't want to say?
I'm glad I did it once.
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You did only once.
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You don't want to do it again?
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Not today. Not today.
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Yeah. Okay.
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But, you know, it was good.
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My lungs felt really
good during the fast,
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and I think that part of
that had to do with my body
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not having to deal with food
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and was able to focus on trying
to deal with that inflammation
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that was taking place.
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Absolutely, because your energy
was taken away from digestion
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and to dealing
with the inflammation.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Now you know about
curcumin and turmeric?
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Yes, I do.
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You do? You shared that with me.
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Oh, good. Oh, good.
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I'm glad I did. Yeah.
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That's really, really powerful.
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And I am taking it. Oh, good.
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Yeah. Excellent.
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We had some at the market here?
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They didn't have it.
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They did not
have it when I came.
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Oh, okay.
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And so someone went to
town for me and picked it up.
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Oh, good. Yeah. Excellent.
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Yeah. Excellent.
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Yeah. Okay.
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So you're going to
stick with the lifestyle
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that you've
learned here, correct?
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I have to.
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Right on. Yeah.
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And you learned how
to cook from Michelle,
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what did you think of Michelle?
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Well, she's got a lot of energy.
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She's got a lot of energy.
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Everybody says
that about Michelle.
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Yeah. She's pretty dynamic.
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But I think she's
also very passionate...
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Yes. About why she's doing it...
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And about us and
wanting us to be successful.
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That was really neat. Yeah.
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I find that as a
common denominator
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with the entire staff.
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With our nurses, our
doctors, even the lady
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that cleans the rooms, Dorothy.
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Yes.
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The students, everybody
is part of this whole...
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And Damon, God
bless Damon. Yeah.
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He's such a wonderful guy.
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Did you had some
nice one-on-one with him?
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We had only one
session together.
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Only one? Yeah.
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Oh, that's terrible.
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Our schedules, you
know, didn't match.
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Okay.
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But it was good and,
you know, it's really neat
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when you're out there walking
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and you see the
staff doing it together,
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you know, as a team.
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Yes.
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It's not like they're, you know,
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cracking the whip and
telling you to do things
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that they don't do themselves.
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That's right.
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You know, we're all practicing
the same principles together.
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That's right. Yeah.
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That's good. Yeah.
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And your water
consumption, has that increased?
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Yes. Good.
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When I was talking
to Beth on the phone
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before coming here,
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she asked me, "Do you
drink a lot of water?"
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I said, "Yes."
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And I got here and I
realized I don't or I didn't.
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What I thought was a lot
was just before breakfast here.
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My wife keeps telling me,
"Have you drank enough water?"
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"Oh, yeah."
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I never drink enough
water, even after I learn.
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It's difficult for me sometimes.
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It is. But I
have to push myself.
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You have to put
it on your schedule.
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That's right. Yeah.
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And just keep doing it all day.
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Just keep doing it, yeah.
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So, Danny, will you
be going back to work
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when you get back home?
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Yes.
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And what do you do for a living?
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I'm a pastor. You're a pastor.
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Of course, I knew that.
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But I wanted our guests
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or people watching to know that.
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So we get pastors here
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from all over the country.
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In fact, we had two pastors
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from Puerto Rico
two sessions ago.
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Oh. Yeah.
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Yeah, I'm from Puerto
Rico originally, yeah.
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I thought so. Yeah.
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And these were
wonderful men as you are.
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And I appreciate you, Danny,
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and I feel a
special connection with you.
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And I think it's
that place inside of you
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that is very familiar to me.
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I want to thank you
for opening up your life
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and your testimony
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and sharing it
with everyone viewing.
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And God bless you,
brother. Thank you.
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We'll stay in touch, okay?
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Yeah, it's been my pleasure,
and I can't thank God enough
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to be able to
have this experience
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and to go through the program
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and receive the healing already.
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And I know He's
got a lot more to do.
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And, friends, thank
you, but don't go away
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because Pastor Snead is up next.
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Welcome back, friends.
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Pastor Damon,
how are you brother?
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I'm doing well. Good to see you.
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You know, I was thinking
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if I were a pastor or a chaplain
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and I was going to be meeting
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with another pastor or chaplain
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that's come to this
program, what do you do?
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I mean, you know,
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are they kind of
like on guard or was he...
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Well, Danny is
a pretty nice guy.
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Daniel wasn't but many are.
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Some like to play
little games, huh?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But this guy is pretty...
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Tell us a
little bit about Danny.
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We know he had a
breathing problem
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and we know that
he's doing better,
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but what about
his spiritual walk?
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I mean pastors have...
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They have problems, don't they?
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Don't you?
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I got a load of
them. All pastors do.
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You can't be in
this business, and not...
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And not suffer.
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In a lot of ways,
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your health is one of
the first things to go.
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You're so busy taking care
of other people all the time.
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And a lot of my
pastor friends know this,
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you're out working,
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working,
working, working for God,
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and all of a
sudden you wake up one day
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and you got
problems, you got issues.
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And even Danny,
when he was here,
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you know, he sick,
he's got some issues,
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but he was still pastoring,
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he was still
helping those people.
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You know, I don't always click
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with every single person
there, and that group of people
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that I really
wasn't able to get in with,
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he was there ministering,
befriending, working with.
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That's his instincts, right?
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Yeah, that's
right, that's right.
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And so my heart
goes out to these guys
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when they start to break
down and they start to get sick
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because I
understand what that's like.
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Well, apparently, his
meetings with you went very well
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because I see a change in him.
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Not that, you know,
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I saw anything
terribly bad to begin with,
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but I saw a man
that needed help.
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And, of course,
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you taking care of
the spiritual component,
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our doctors taking
care of the medical side,
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and our nurses may
be a little physical,
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the whole program.
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Sure, and then nurses,
don't let them fool you,
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they're working spiritual too.
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And the
therapists, they're working,
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we're all working
kind of both sides
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but with our
specialty on one side.
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Right. Yeah.
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And with Danny, you know,
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it is tough being a
pastor losing your health.
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Boy.
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If you can't
breathe from the pulpit,
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it's difficult to preach.
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And if your
health gets out of shape
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and hospital stays,
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it gets difficult
to minister to others
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when you
yourself are getting sick.
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And one thing I was really glad
to see him and other pastors
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that's come this way is
that they recognize this
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and they know that if
they're going to stay busy
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working for the Lord,
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they've got to get
that health under control.
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You got to get
that lung capacity back,
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you've got to get
that vibrancy back,
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and you got to have
a good mental outlook.
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You get sick, you just
lose, you get discouraged.
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And so he was here
and gaining that back,
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I mean feeling better,
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you could see him
as he's progressing
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towards the end,
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he's smiling, he's working,
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he's doing what pastors
do when they get healthy.
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But they got to stay
healthy and get healthy.
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And you taught him
how to do that, right?
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Well, the doctors
had a big part with that.
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He had a great
spiritual outlook already.
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Yeah, I kind of thought so.
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And I appreciate that
and recognize that in guys,
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you know, so the
time that I've spent
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with him has really
just helping him to...
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any other ways
that I can as a pastor,
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you know, I know the pressures
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that them guys are under
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and they can reveal
things and share things that,
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you know, we don't
want to talk about,
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but that's really
about all I could do for him
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is just be a friend
to him, a fellow pastor.
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But to see him,
those numbers coming down,
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and knowing that his
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inflammation
levels are shrinking,
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which means his lung
capacity is coming back
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and he'll be back in
step doing God's work in time.
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You know, I can relate
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to how the
health can deteriorate
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when you're on the job
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because when I
first got on the job here,
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I let my health kind of go down
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a little bit and I
started noticing it,
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so I had to make some changes
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and get my
priorities straight again.
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Not that I ever left the program
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but I stopped walking
as much as I should be.
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You know, I don't
know where the time goes,
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but we're running out of time.
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Thank you so much,
pastor. God bless you.
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Don't go away,
we'll be right back.
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Every year in America,
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there are over
one million deaths
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because of type 2
diabetes and chronic obesity.
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This includes heart
attacks and strokes.
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That's 6.5 747s
crashing every day.
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What's even worse is
that the fix is easy.
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It's your lifestyle.
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Wouldn't it be nice
if you could actually add
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quality years to your life
00:15:18.05\00:15:19.38
rather than dying
one organ at a time?
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Obesity and diabetes
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are the cause of over a
million deaths per year.
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Most diseases are reversible
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because most diseases
are lifestyle diseases,
00:15:28.72\00:15:31.56
especially type 2
diabetes and chronic obesity.
00:15:31.59\00:15:35.03
Seriously now,
they can be reversed
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and the quality of
your life can be renewed.
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Call NEWSTART
Today at 1-800-525-9192.
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You will see dramatic changes
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in the first few
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and you will be on the road
00:15:50.55\00:15:51.88
to a better, more
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The NEWSTART programs
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00:15:54.72\00:15:57.59
Welcome back, friends,
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help me welcome
Dr. Roger Gallant.
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Ron, good to see you.
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It's good to see you too, doc,
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especially I know
you're such busy guy.
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Unfortunately, I am. You know...
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I'm going to
let the viewers know
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that you're involved
with a clinic on campus here
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called Stallant Health, right?
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That's correct. That's correct.
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And people could come
and see you if they wish.
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Right? Absolutely.
00:16:21.74\00:16:23.08
So after this interview,
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you're going to get
a lot of phone calls.
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Praise the Lord.
00:16:25.88\00:16:27.22
Because I'm going to
give you the number right now,
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it's 530-637-4025.
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If you want to
make a personal visit
00:16:34.89\00:16:37.76
with Dr.
Gallant, give him a call,
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make an
appointment, stop and say hello.
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I just had
somebody call me today
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who is coming to
see me on Sunday.
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On Sunday?
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You work
Sundays? I work Sundays.
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I didn't know
doctors work Sundays.
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Hey, we've got to try to get
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the patients here when we can.
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Oh, you know,
this is a good thing.
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Amen. Yeah.
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So I want to just
lead you into Danny
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because I kind of think...
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I really, really like this guy.
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He's a great
guy. He's a great guy,
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he's real lovable, he's
very kind, very generous,
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and I've seen
some things happen,
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but I don't know anything
about this kind of illness
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because it's rare,
I've never seen it before.
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And of course...
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Let me tell you, first of
all, let me just say this...
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Danny is a pastor. Yes.
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And I have a burden for pastors
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because I have
seen so many pastors
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who are in ill health,
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and if the shepherd is sick,
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he can't attend to the flock.
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Amen.
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And I believe that the enemy
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tries to keep the shepherd sick
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so the flock
flounders a little bit.
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You know, I couldn't agree more.
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I see that.
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Yeah, so, you know,
traveling all over the world,
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I've seen pastors
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who have these health challenges
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and just are not as
well as they should be.
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Do you think it's because
they're so busy monitoring
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and herding the flock
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that they forget
their own health?
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Is that the deal or...
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I think it's more than that.
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That may be the
case in some situations,
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but I think as well
that they're under attack,
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you know, and so
it's just hard, but...
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Well, when they
become weakened though,
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because of their
overindulgence...
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So they may create an
opportunity for an attack,
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you know, if they're...
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We can do it to
ourselves too as physicians.
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Oh, yeah, I've
seen you guys do...
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Yeah. So we got to be careful.
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But Pastor Danny, a great guy,
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he came to us with pericarditis,
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which is an inflammation
of the sack around the heart.
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Oh, the pericardium.
Yeah, exactly and...
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Gee, I knew something about it.
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And his doctor was recommending
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that he go on some
anti-inflammatory medicines
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and do some things
that he was reluctant to do,
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which I understand.
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And so he came to me.
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Now I've got to be honest,
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we don't see a
lot of pericarditis
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as you just said.
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And I personally
have not treated one
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at NEWSTART before.
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I know the way to treat it
from the world's perspective.
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As an ER doc?
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As an ER doctor or
as an allopathic doctor.
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But not from a
natural remedies perspective.
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So how'd you deal with that?
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So here's the catch,
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here's the caveat
of this whole thing.
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We treated him using God's plan
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just like we
treat everybody else.
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Amen. Amen.
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Praise the Lord.
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I'm telling you, people ask
me, they'll call in and say,
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"Well, do you guys do
this and do you guys do that?"
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I said, "Look,
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I never even heard of
what's going on with you,
00:20:07.30\00:20:09.24
but I can tell you this,
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I've never seen anybody
come here not get better."
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Well, praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
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Amen.
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So we had him
change his lifestyle
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and we had him incorporate
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some herbs and different things
to help with inflammation.
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And at the end of the program,
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his inflammation marker
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dropped by 90%.
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Wow.
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From a 126 to 12.
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Almost down to normal.
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Almost to normal, yeah.
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Wow.
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And it was amazing.
And that's in 16 days?
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Yeah, 18 days, yeah.
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Oh, my goodness,
isn't that something?
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But the blood tests you write
are drawn in two weeks apart,
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14 days.
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But, you know, initially,
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we said we're going
to do this and do this,
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and we're going to try
this, and we're going to see
00:21:04.03\00:21:05.56
how the Lord works through this.
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And initially, he wasn't sure
00:21:08.16\00:21:09.80
that things were getting better.
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But in the middle of the
week, the next week, I was like,
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"How are you doing?"
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"Oh, I feel so much better,
00:21:17.27\00:21:19.37
my shortness of
breath is improved,
00:21:19.41\00:21:21.48
I can walk, I'm not
having these aches and pains,
00:21:21.51\00:21:24.58
I'm feeling better,
I'm not having chest pain."
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Oh, praise God. Praise the Lord.
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You know, that's the
beauty of God's plan.
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We have patients, as you say,
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who come with many
different ailments.
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And by God's grace,
00:21:35.79\00:21:38.03
He is able to use His
simple natural remedies
00:21:38.06\00:21:41.60
to bring them
health and healing.
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I love those words.
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You know, we're
almost out of time.
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And I want to
thank you again, I do,
00:21:49.80\00:21:51.84
I kind of joked a little
bit, but I know you're busy.
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You don't have much time today?
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No.
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So I want to
thank you for coming.
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Good to see you,
Ron. And God bless you.
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God bless you too.
00:22:00.65\00:22:02.38
Don't go away,
we'll be right back.
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Welcome to
Weimar College update.
00:22:40.72\00:22:43.69
Glad you joined us today.
00:22:43.73\00:22:45.26
And there is a lot
happening at Weimar College.
00:22:45.29\00:22:47.83
It's a true higher
education institution,
00:22:47.86\00:22:50.67
a lot of people aren't aware
00:22:50.70\00:22:52.03
that we offer a four-year degree
00:22:52.07\00:22:54.34
with fully transferable
credits to major universities.
00:22:54.37\00:22:59.34
We have the
highest rate of acceptance
00:22:59.37\00:23:01.01
into US medical schools,
00:23:01.04\00:23:02.64
highest rates of publishing
in the peer review literature
00:23:02.68\00:23:06.55
for our pre-med program,
we have a nursing program
00:23:06.58\00:23:09.38
that is above the
typical RN program
00:23:09.42\00:23:14.76
with tremendous job offers
00:23:14.79\00:23:17.03
for those that come
out of our nursing program.
00:23:17.06\00:23:19.79
And we also have a program
00:23:19.83\00:23:22.03
that emphasizes
education and music,
00:23:22.06\00:23:24.63
psychology, a business program
00:23:24.67\00:23:27.20
as well for
healthcare administration.
00:23:27.24\00:23:30.11
And so you want to check out
00:23:30.14\00:23:31.51
Weimar
Institute if you are in...
00:23:31.54\00:23:33.71
Weimar College if
you're interested,
00:23:33.74\00:23:35.64
if you know of anyone
00:23:35.68\00:23:37.01
who wants to get a
top-level education
00:23:37.05\00:23:39.95
because Weimar Institute
00:23:39.98\00:23:41.72
and a third-party analysis
of all universities was shown
00:23:41.75\00:23:44.85
to be the number one
00:23:44.89\00:23:46.49
and students being able to solve
00:23:46.52\00:23:48.99
real-world complex problems.
00:23:49.02\00:23:51.39
But today, I have Don Mackintosh
00:23:51.43\00:23:55.30
who is the head of
the Religion Department.
00:23:55.33\00:23:57.50
We not only have all
these health things at Weimar,
00:23:57.53\00:24:00.34
and of course Weimar's vision
is healing a hurting world.
00:24:00.37\00:24:04.37
But we also have
a religion program
00:24:04.41\00:24:06.61
and a theology program.
00:24:06.64\00:24:07.98
Tell us about that.
00:24:08.01\00:24:09.74
Well, yes. Thanks for having me.
00:24:09.78\00:24:12.21
We have a religion program
00:24:12.25\00:24:14.22
which focuses more on
the practical side of things,
00:24:14.25\00:24:16.55
they take essentially
the same classes as theology,
00:24:16.58\00:24:19.99
the difference would be,
00:24:20.02\00:24:21.59
in the religion program,
we have a semester called
00:24:21.62\00:24:24.49
"the health program",
and so a part of that program
00:24:24.53\00:24:26.83
was that we learned how to
do practical things in churches,
00:24:26.86\00:24:30.63
maybe running a community-based
depression recovery program,
00:24:30.67\00:24:34.07
running various cooking schools.
00:24:34.10\00:24:35.57
Actually
everybody that graduates
00:24:35.60\00:24:36.94
from that program learns at
least 25 recipes themselves,
00:24:36.97\00:24:40.78
they learn how
to be health coaches
00:24:40.81\00:24:42.21
that can help,
stop, and reverse,
00:24:42.24\00:24:43.75
better yet prevent the
common killers in America,
00:24:43.78\00:24:47.68
and you teach that
class, principles in health.
00:24:47.72\00:24:50.52
So things like diabetes,
hypertension, heart disease,
00:24:50.55\00:24:54.22
and then, of course,
00:24:54.26\00:24:55.59
all the things
dealing with mental health
00:24:55.62\00:24:57.16
and not only what the problem is
00:24:57.19\00:24:58.69
but what the solution is
based on lifestyle approaches,
00:24:58.73\00:25:02.56
and it's good for pastors,
00:25:02.60\00:25:03.93
we're told, to know
anatomy and physiology,
00:25:03.97\00:25:05.97
we learn a little bit of that
00:25:06.00\00:25:07.70
as well in the religion program.
00:25:07.74\00:25:09.87
So the religion program,
00:25:09.90\00:25:12.87
again, like the
theology program,
00:25:12.91\00:25:15.04
but it
deliberately rotates students
00:25:15.08\00:25:18.65
through things like
the NEWSTART Program,
00:25:18.68\00:25:20.22
a 19-day lifestyle program,
00:25:20.25\00:25:22.15
and through the
depression recovery program,
00:25:22.18\00:25:24.35
a 10-day lifestyle program
00:25:24.39\00:25:26.05
that's held five
times a year on the campus.
00:25:26.09\00:25:28.26
And so our religion students,
00:25:28.29\00:25:30.53
when they reach their junior
and senior year especially,
00:25:30.56\00:25:33.33
they rotate through
these different things
00:25:33.36\00:25:34.86
and they see how the
Bible is practically applied
00:25:34.90\00:25:38.67
in people's lives.
00:25:38.70\00:25:40.24
That's the religion program.
00:25:40.27\00:25:42.47
Well, great. Now
that's pretty unique.
00:25:42.50\00:25:44.57
I don't know of any
other place in North America
00:25:44.61\00:25:47.21
where you can get
a religion program
00:25:47.24\00:25:49.34
with that type of emphasis
in not only healing the soul
00:25:49.38\00:25:53.88
but involved in healing
of the body and the mind.
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Oh, exactly, and I think
the other unique thing is that,
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you know, we have
basically three circles
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if I'm drawing it on the
board and one is NEWSTART,
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one is depression recovery,
and one is our local clinic.
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So we not only
go around the world
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with the NEWSTART Program
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and the
depression recovery program
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but also across the
street with the clinic
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and our students in theology
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and religion
rotate through those
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and they see how to apply that.
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But in the center of those
three circles is the church.
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And we're told that
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those that are training
for the medical missionary work
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can't really do that effectively
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if they're not
working with a local church,
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and that's the reason we
started a local church here
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that's kind of a lab sewing
both the theological side,
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we might say
orthodoxy along with orthopraxy.
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So not just knowing
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what orthodox doctrine
is based on the scriptures
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but how it's put into practice.
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And that's especially on profile
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in the religion program.
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Now many people that go
through the religion program,
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we now have a number of them
that are taking double majors
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in nursing so they can be
not only a pastor but a nurse,
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or like I like to say a purse.
So they can pay their own bills
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while they may be
planting a church.
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They don't have
to necessarily be
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basing their career
on tithe going forward
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because we know that
we're not going to be
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able to buy or sell,
but the last minister
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standing will either
be in jail ministries
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or medical ministry outside,
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and I believe that's going to be
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right up to the end of time.
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And so, you know, of
course, we don't want the church
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to not be able to pay ministers,
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but the reality is
that we've come to that time
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when we need to be
able to feed ourselves
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and there's a high demand
for healthcare and taking care
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of people's
medical and health needs.
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Well, I'm excited
about what you're doing
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with the religion
and the theology programs
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at Weimar Institute,
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and it's also not only
introducing them to health
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but how to take
people from health to him,
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and it's one of the reasons
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why Weimar has
the highest baptisms
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and conversion rate really
of any community per capita
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right now in North America.
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And so if you want
to spread the good news,
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find out about Weimar College
religion and theology programs.
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