Africa is a
continent of great contrasts,
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rich in natural resources,
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yet many of its people, are
trapped in grinding poverty.
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For centuries, the continent has
captured the imagination of many
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The stunning
landscapes, magnificent animals,
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and vibrant people,
are a tremendous draw.
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From the earliest colonists,
to the most modern-day tourists,
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the continent of Africa
still attracts attention.
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In the early 1800s, there
was a new wave of Christian,
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mission activity. Many paid
the ultimate sacrifice by giving
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their lives to spread
the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Their legacy still lives on.
Join us as we explore the work
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of OCI, active today
in the nation of Zambia.
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Zambia is a land-locked nation
in the heart of southern Africa.
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It's about the size of
Texas, with about half the
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population. A name that is
inseparably linked with the
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history of Zambia, is
that of David Livingstone.
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Born in March of 1813,
Livingstone even at an early age
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already possessed a strong
will and great determination.
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That determination, led him
to respond to the call of the
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famous
missionary, Robert Moffat.
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Moffat had written
in his journal, that:
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Livingstone determined to bring
the name of Christ to those
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unreached peoples. Not content
to build on the foundations of
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others, Livingstone
pushed northward through what is
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current-day Botswana. He
continued moving north and west,
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until he came to Luanda, the
capital of modern-day Angola.
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Retracing his steps, he
eventually came across the
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Zambezi River. It was there he
was met by this beautiful site:
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Livingstone
landed on this island.
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As he looked upon what is
now known as Victoria Falls,
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he was awestruck.
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In his journal he wrote, that
it is on sights as beautiful as
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these, that angels in
their flight must have gazed.
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For the next 32 years of
his life, Livingstone determined
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to bring the gospel
of Christ to this region.
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He set up a beacon
for other missionaries
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to follow in his way.
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Many of the early missionaries
paid the ultimate sacrifice.
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This graveyard in Livingstone
contains the remains of
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many of those
early missionaries.
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They were felled, not by
the inhabitants, but frequently
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by malaria. Today, there are
still missionaries endeavoring
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to communicate the
gospel in this region.
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Livingstone's passionate desire
to permeate the continent of
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Africa with the gospel of
Christ, was united with an
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equally strong
desire to eradicate slavery.
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Livingstone envisioned, that by
opening up the interior of the
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continent to commerce, he would
hasten the down-fall of slavery.
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To that end, Livingstone trekked
across what is now Zambia.
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His journeys brought him to
the banks of the Kafuie River.
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Tradition has it that he slept
underneath this baobab tree.
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This baobab tree is now
surrounded by an OCI ministry
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committed to
bringing the gospel of Christ
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to the continent of Africa.
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In Livingstone's day, the
majority of missionaries to
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Africa came from Europe and
the isles of Britain. Today,
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the work is much more
international and multicultural.
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Many cultures uniting together
to train Zambians in helping
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them reach
their fellow citizens.
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In 1974, on land donated by Dr.
Foster, a medical missionary,
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Riverside Farm
Institute was born.
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The vision behind Riverside
Farm was to be an evangelistic,
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medical
missionary training center.
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The focus was to equip Zambians
to carry the gospel throughout
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the country. Since that time,
thousands of Zambian men and
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women have received a quality
medical missionary evangelistic
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training here at Riverside
Farm. They have then gone out
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and shared what they
have learned with their fellow
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countrymen. The influence of
Riverside Farm has spread across
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the nation of Zambia.
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Riverside's main focus
is education and training.
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Of course we do many other
things, but that's why we exist.
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We want to train
disciples for Christ.
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So we do health through our
Wellness Ctr through our Clinic.
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We also have spiritual
emphasis on the campus itself
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and then our
evangelism outreach programs.
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We have our agricultural program
which mainly gives the income
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for Riverside and
make it self- supportive.
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Our purpose here is to educate
people in a different way.
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How we can come in contact with
people who are non-Adventists
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or people who are not religious.
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So they come here to learn
gardening or to learn tailoring.
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And in those classes we teach
the course they came here for,
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like gardening, but
also we share with them the
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health principles,
better living, and also we share
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with them the Word of God.
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So almost every course we
baptize a number of students,
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something like 2 to 5 students.
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Like the current course
we have baptized 5 students.
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So that was a big joy to us!
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We are teaching the Word of God
besides just teaching someone
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to read and write.
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Our courses here are intended to
help people be aware of eternity
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and also are a service to
other people while we are still
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here on earth.
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Here we do tailoring and our
students could go to neighboring
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school where they learn how to
make a good outfit but here they
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learn also the Word of God, and
they learn also how to care for
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their health. So this really
satisfies us! It gives us joy!
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Singing...
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When I came here I
wasn't one of the SDA members.
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I was one of the
Jehovah's Witnesses.
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When studying the Bible with our
teacher, after they explained
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to me thru the Bible. I came
to understand and was baptized.
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That's how I found myself here.
In 2005 I got married and I
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had my wedding dress here.
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With this intent we started
studying the Bible. Last month
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we had 1 baptized through
a crusade evangelism class.
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The Lord is really blessing with
the class and I'm enjoying it!
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The Lord said Go therefore and
teach. If He said go and teach,
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who am I not to
teach? So whatever benefit,
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I need to make
other people benefit.
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This program has
helped me grow spiritually.
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It's not just the scientific
agriculture that I am doing.
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There are times we
have Bible doctrine.
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Yes, we learn the Word of God.
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Also their is a time of learning
nutrition and also farm life.
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When I finish my course, I'll
first establish my Dad's farm
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It's not already
invested so I will have to
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start planning what I can plant.
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Traditionally, wherever you
find land, you dig and plant.
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There's no methodologies there.
But we do it with formulas here.
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Before you start learning
anything, you have to pray
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and you have a Bible reading.
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So this has encouraged me a lot
because in everything I have to
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first pray to God so
that He makes a way for me,
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so that I proceed with
whatever things I have to do.
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I studied medicine and right
now I'm working as a teacher,
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teaching medical missionary work
in various schools in the same
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country. People don't really
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understand true education
and everything when it comes to
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health and lifestyle.
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The devil is really at
work deceiving people and making
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people believe in wrong things
about health. I'm sure there's
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I can say there's a
need of, and I get asked,
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to go and teach the people out
there especially here in Zambia.
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I have also the
missionary spirit at heart.
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That is what part of
this course is all about.
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I feel so blessed that I
actually chose the course
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that I am doing.
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It's growth in my life, the way
you dress, talk, what you eat.
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I've learned a lot of treatments
here. When somebody is sick,
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I'll take advantage and help
with what I have learned here.
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It's different from
what man would teach you.
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When God teaches
you, it's good for you!
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I believe education is a
key aspect of evangelism.
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You know you can go and
share with somebody the gospel.
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But many people are so eager
to share the gospel with others
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when they find
Christ that many times
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they make so many
mistakes and actually
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push people away from Christ.
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But with a
little bit of training
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we can help them be successful
disciples and soul winners.
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One person can spread
the gospel to thousands.
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And that's the uniqueness
for me about training.
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That they have that foundation.
They understand the gospel
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They understand their
relationship with Christ.
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And then they can take
that message successfully and
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effectively to others!
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Riverside Farm Inst. also has an
extended family of evangelists.
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Myself, as a white
person, as they call me,
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if I go to preach the
gospel to this culture,
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I first need to
understand the culture.
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I need to understand the way
they're thinking about things
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the way they do things.
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And then from that perspective
try to help them with the gospel
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How they love their Christian
experience in a culture setting!
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But we realize their own people
do it much better than we can.
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Let's change it a
little bit. Let us get more
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train more
evangelists or Bible pioneers
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or Bible Workers
as we call them, to
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go out where we can not go.
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We find that our 65 Pioneers
or Bible Workers that we have
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at the moment, easily
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anything between 5 thousand and
10 thousand people are baptized
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within one year!
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This mission district
had only a few churches.
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So I had the passion
to wait for the Lord.
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The branch here consists of
40 people, including children.
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What makes them
stay in the church?
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It's the truth
which is shared to them!
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Because through society we
were giving some literature
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like the Voice of Prophecy
lessons we give the people.
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They study for
themselves, they know the truth.
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We encourage them to take the
Bible lessons wherever they go.
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They're going to Saka,
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they always carry
literature with them.
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We are reaching thousands
and thousands of people.
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I finish, easily I can
finish one to two containers
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of literature in a year
with the Pioneers, of course.
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If our own members here are
active. Many churches from Saka
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they come to fetch some of
the material from us and they're
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giving it out and we
know the people are reached.
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It's the silent
messenger. That's what we need.
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If That's the best method.
If we use the best method,
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and God will bless it. And He's
already doing it in many ways.
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We may not be identified to say
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this one does that, and
this one that and that and that
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But praise be to God, the
way which we have done, the
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people who came to Christ
before our labor don't forget.
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God sees you,
like in Isaiah, a unit
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and just like a mouth
speaking to the people.
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Dedicated Bible Workers like
Roy are helping to start new
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congregations throughout
the country of Zambia.
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In a moment, we'll find out
what Riverside Farm is doing to
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nurture and strengthen
these new groups of believers.
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We share this globe
with about 7 billion people.
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That's a lot of people. And
standing here in this busy city,
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it's easy to feel
small and insignificant.
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After all, I'm only one person,
what difference can I make?
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But the fact is, each of
us can make a difference.
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God is calling us to turn our
lives and skills over to Him.
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Around the world,
the individual workers at
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OCI Ministries are letting
God use them to bring hope and
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healing one person at a time.
You can make a difference too!
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When you connect to OCI,
you connect to more than 80
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ministries world-wide. If you're
interested in getting involved
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in the global ministry of OCI,
visit our website or call us.
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We would love to talk to you!
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The work of Riverside's Bible
Workers is bearing tremendous
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fruit throughout
the country of Zambia.
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New, young, flourishing
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congregations are springing up.
This is in partial fulfillment
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of David Livingstone's vision
of seeing the gospel of Jesus
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Christ permeate the
African continent. These new
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young congregations need an
appropriate place to worship.
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Riverside Farm, partnering with
Maranatha and ASI, are doing
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what they can do to
fulfill this great need.
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We have a program called
The 1 Day Church Program.
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It is to me a very encouraging
program. We had previously
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what we called The
Growths for Africa Program,
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but that stopped many years ago.
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But now how do we
provide these Pioneers,
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these groups, with churches?
One day when I was walking
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into our mission development
administrator's office he said
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to me, listen, we
have a new program.
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There's a donor that wants to or
is designing what they call a 1
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day church structure and he
wants to send 300 to Riverside.
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I just went straight
from his office on my knees!
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And said Wow! This
is an answer to prayer!
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And so now, slowly but
surely, every Pioneer's getting
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at least 4 buildings,
and we're trying to do it in
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the process of 3 to 4 years.
We're trying to finish up.
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Most of those 300 churches will
also help them and will help the
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conferences and fields to have
more churches as its growing.
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So we are very blessed to
have that 1 Day Church Program.
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The work which is happening
around here is so great!
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The 1 Day Church going around
has an impact to the communities
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Every Sabbath people
gather there in numbers
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because they had been
shared and they had the
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message which they needed for
this time. Praise God for that!
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So Riverside has
seven training centers.
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They are small centers where
we are training gospel workers.
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We have a number of them in
different provinces of Zambia
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so that we can be
able to reach at least
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the whole of
Zambia at the same time.
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Here people been studying
evangelism. The problem we've
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had is that when we
talk of evangelism here,
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all people think
about is the crusades.
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We're trying to change the mind-
set of the people to help them
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understand that actually
evangelism should be the
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lifestyle of every Christian.
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That's the main program here.
There is also training in skills
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like tailoring, scientific
gardening, and health.
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The 1 Day Program has really
blessed the 7 Riverside schools.
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By having these schools we are
broadening our capacity to train
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workers for the Lord who
can minister in those different
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places. And some
of these places, we
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don't have to
house those people.
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So they can
minister to their family
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and do this
training, which is a blessing.
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And each school has a powerful
influence in the neighborhood.
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In addition to planting new
congregations and new churches,
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there's another kind of planting
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that takes place
at Riverside Farm.
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Agriculture is an
important component,
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both for educational purposes,
and a means of support.
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The banana
plantation at Riverside
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is well-known
throughout the country.
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This provides both an
opportunity for students
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to learn practical
work, as well as ongoing
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financial support for the evan-
gelistic work of Riverside Farm.
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Bananas have always been a great
income for Riverside, since
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Dr. Foster had the farm in the
beginning. It's expanded over
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the years and is the best income
for Riverside at the moment.
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A few years ago we encountered a
disease within our bananas which
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we are trying to fight but still
a blessing to Riverside income.
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Eventually we switched over to
irrigation and we did our wheat
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growing-a huge Riverside income.
Once a year we grow wheat,
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sometimes rotate with soybeans.
We have a Milling Department.
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We used to plant maize and
mill it as a secondary product.
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But recently we've been
buying from local farmers,
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bring it to our mill, stack it
in our shed and mill it during
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year so that we
have a constant income.
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Then there are smaller things.
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We have our own vegetables
we sell in our small center.
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We have orchards as well.
Riverside received a donation
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from ASI to start a brand new
project of pineapples. We have
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planted 25,000 plants. Every
year the suckers can be planted
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and we get a
little more and it becomes
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another leg to
stand on financially.
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So God has been
blessing Riverside even through
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all the troubles we had
with the virus in the bananas,
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with hail, you know, with frost,
things like that. God has always
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been keeping His hand over
the things here at Riverside
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and we are so thankful for that.
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And we can use it to
bless others around us.
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For many years Riverside's
evangelistic and medical
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missionary outreach has been
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focused on the rural
parts of Zambia like this.
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Many Zambians labor for $4
or $5 a day. But in the cities
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is a growing upper middle and
middle class. Riverside had felt
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the burden to minister to these
affluent individuals as well.
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Although hard to reach with
a regular evangelistic series,
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they found that
using the means of health
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would be an avenue
to minister to them.
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Their solution,
a Wellness Center.
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There's a lot of people
with need out there, and I'm not
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just speaking physically.
We'd really like to know how to
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reach the unreached in
our cities with the gospel.
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We started seeing the need
in Lusaka. People that became
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diabetic, cancer picking up.
There were two malls in Lusaka.
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These malls have all the
junk food. We know, coming from
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Western culture what
would be the end result of that.
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So all these things said to us
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we needed to get
serious about a Wellness Center.
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And then we started using an
old house, a director's house,
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here against the hill.
It had a thatch roof on it.
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ASI helped us with some of the
money and we put in some money.
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Now it's
standing almost 7 years.
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Cancer's just
taking off in this country!
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AIDS is prominent in Africa.
We want to have an immune boost
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program for these type of people
that come. Of course, high blood
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pressure, diabetes, because
people in Lusaka now have very
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passive work in front of
computers as well. They get the
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same diseases as
in Western culture.
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We go to the different
ministries in Lusaka. We have
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health expos by them to awaken
their appetite so they can see,
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listen, I'm not as healthy as I
need to be. We've gotten to some
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ministries and you take blood
sugar and it's way out of range!
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You tell them this is a problem,
do you know that you are sick?
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And they're like, no it's not
a problem. I urinate more than
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other people but it's not a
problem. Or blood pressure's
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knocking and you tell them
you're a walking time bomb,
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O no they say it's not a
problem, I just take a little
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bit more pain killers because
my head hurts. People don't
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understand how dangerous
this is. So we try to get them
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here, help them physically,
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so that eventually we can
actually help them spiritually.
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That's what we want to
aim for with this whole place.
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From the start of the
Wellness Center we had quite
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a few important people
coming to it, like Dr. Kaunda.
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President Banda came here just
to visit. Our cooking team went
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to President Mwanawasa's house
to help his cooks prepare food
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for him because he was diabetic.
So in these areas we can reach
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quite a few people. They feel
this is a successful program.
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And it's something
that is not within Zambia
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or in other
places in Africa yet.
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So we have the privilege
of reaching that class.
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I heard about Riverside
Farm Institute from friends.
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I found it to be a
good place for relaxation.
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Their apartments are so
nice. Many times I've been here
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with my children and
we have enjoyed ourselves.
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Their program, it's quite
strenuous, it's quite involving.
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But I don't have headache
anymore. The blood pressure
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is very normal and I
no longer wish to take
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any of those tablets
that I had been taking.
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When you go in the treatment
rooms, the kind of equipment
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you find there is marvelous.
Before they start attending you,
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they start with
prayer, knowing and realizing
00:26:17.54\00:26:21.40
that these things are
not possible without God.
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Being our Creator,
He knows what's best
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to provide for our needs.
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And therefore the members
of staff before anything,
00:26:31.79\00:26:34.84
they ask for His guidance.
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It's a wonderful place to be.
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Many people have found Christ.
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Sometimes even if it was
just helping somebody to accept
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Jesus. Even if we can't
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do anything for them,
the disease has gone too far.
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Some people have been baptized
and we're very happy about that.
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And that's the
reason why we're here,
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to bring that spiritual
blessing to the people.
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In one of Ellen White's
visions, she saw jets of light
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illuminating an
otherwise darkened world.
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Over the years, Riverside Farm
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has become one of those
beacons of light. The influence
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emanating from
Riverside has been felt in the
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surrounding countries.
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New ministries have sprung up
00:27:18.15\00:27:20.76
following the
pattern of Riverside.
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Wherever you are in
the world, you can be
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part of this amazing ministry.
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You can pray for the teachers
and leaders at Riverside Farm.
00:27:28.49\00:27:32.72
You can pray for
the Bible Workers,
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and the guests that
come to the Wellness Center.
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You can pray that
the work of Riverside
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continues to grow and expand.
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It is through God's grace and
the support of viewers like you,
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that Riverside Farm, an OCI's
world-wide ministry, is able to
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continue the work of
spreading the gospel.
00:27:56.82\00:27:59.81
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