Every nation,
society and culture
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struggles with inequality
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and disparity
in social standing.
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But love is a powerful motivator
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to overcome these divisions.
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Today, we will be
visiting an OCI Ministry
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that is motivated by love
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to restore harmony
to a fractured society.
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Among other things, the
Taj Mahal is a testimony
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to the
restorative power of love.
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In the 1600s Shah Jahan
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first met his
future bride Mumtaj Mahal.
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He lived in the palace,
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she sold goods
in the marketplace.
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But even as
teenagers, it was as often said,
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love at first sight.
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She became his favorite wife
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even accompanying him
on military campaigns.
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When she died in childbirth,
the Shah was grief-stricken.
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As a testament to
his love for his wife,
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he had the Taj
Mahal constructed.
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But more than
that, the Shah envisioned
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the Taj as a place of asylum.
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He wrote that, "If the
guilty should seek asylum here
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that they would
be as one pardoned,
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freed from the
guilt of their sin."
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Truly in this world
there is only one tomb
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from which flows
forgiveness of sin
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and it is an empty tomb,
the tomb of Jesus Christ.
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India is a nation with
a rich cultural history
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and a very
ethnically diverse population.
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Unfortunately, for many years
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the cast system has
borne sway in Indian society
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with the Brahmin
caste at the pinnacle,
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and the
untouchables at the bottom.
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These untouchables
where often considered
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disposables by
the wider society.
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But this is not unique
to the nation of India.
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Nations all around
the world segregate
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their population
according to wealth,
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social status or power.
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Fortunately, there have been
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many women throughout history
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who have endeavored
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to overthrow these structures
and minister to everyone.
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Mother Teresa stands out
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as an iconic figure
in India's histories.
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At the age of 18
she was convicted
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with the desire to give her life
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to reach the lowest of the
low, the poorest of the poor.
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Living Springs Overseas Missions
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is an OCI ministry
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that has the same
spirit of compassion
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to reach out to the
poorest of the poor.
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Their aim is to
minister to the most vulnerable
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members of the Indian society,
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children who
are often neglected,
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abused or cast
off by their families.
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Lois and I have been
working here in India
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for a little more than 20 years.
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But we first came
to India 38 years ago
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and established a
couple of orphanages
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and then a couple
of Bible seminaries
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where we're
training young men and women
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and then we established a
midwifery training school here
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for training village midwives.
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One of the
things that we've seen
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all along in our work here
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are so many children
that have no education,
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many that have no home
and even if they have a home,
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even if they have parents,
many are drunken parents
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and the children
are greatly abused,
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especially the
girls are greatly abused.
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Kidnapping is
very prominent here
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so as soon they're-
they reach their puberty
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they will be married
off or they are kidnapped.
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So we had a real burden
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to take some of
these children in
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and try to help them
and give them an education
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and help them to
find Jesus in their life.
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We started off
with just a few children
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but it didn't take long
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till everyday they
were coming to the door
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bringing orphan
children, semi orphaned children
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and some
children that have parents
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but have no way to
really care for their children.
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So we started
taking the children in
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and we have now somewhere
around 150 and more children
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and we have
total care about them.
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We have to supply their food,
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their clothes
everything they have,
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we have to supply for them.
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They have no
support from anyone.
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It's a big expense.
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And there's a lot of teachers
and a lot of salaries to pay
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and the cloths
and the education,
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the books and everything else
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that runs up to a lot of money.
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Our work would be impossible
without the donations.
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It would be
absolutely impossible.
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And so we've been able to save
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a lot of
children in a lot of lives
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with the donations
that have come to us
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and we appreciate it so much.
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Uncle Bill, he
is such a great man.
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He has struggled
very hard to gather
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some money to buy this land
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and provide a school here
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so we can come
here and learn about God
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and give us some good education.
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And I hope I can be
like Uncle Bill one day
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and help God.
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When I came here
I got love from him
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because after my father died
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nobody loved me like him.
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I hug him and he's
like my daddy, you know.
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Many of our children have
experienced severe traumas.
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I- when I first came
there were two boys here
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whose father had
been killed by a tiger.
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I think more traumatic
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are parents they
have been murdered.
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We have one or two
girls they came to us
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almost straight from a
brothel at about the age of 13.
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I would say sexual
abuse is very, very common
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not spoken about much though.
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The children don't talk about it
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but you can see evidence of it.
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Jesus is the great healer
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and I believe that introducing
these hurt children to Him
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will help to heal their wounds.
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I also believe
that providing them with
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something that they can do
to be a benefit to their society
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and make a better
place for their children
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will help them
feel better and heal.
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I think that our vocational
program is good for that.
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Our girls are
learning to sew and to bake
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and do many things.
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The children from the
time they are seven years old
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or younger they are learning
to wash their own clothes,
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make their own bed,
care for their own things
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and older children
help the younger ones.
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Everybody just
works together as a team.
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Every morning they work together
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to keep the campus
clean, it's like a family.
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My friends are like
my brothers, sisters.
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This is like my family.
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This has been the
greatest joy in my life
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is having all of these children.
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Many of them
growing up right with us,
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they're like our
own sons and daughters
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they act like our
own sons and daughters.
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They love us like they
were or own sons and daughters
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and we love them
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as if they were our
own sons and daughters.
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I just don't
understand why there aren't
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so many more people out
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doing the same
thing that we're doing.
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It's the
greatest joy in the world.
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It's been really amazing to see
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how much the
children have changed.
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They just grown up so much
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and many of my girls are
making plans for marriage,
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whishing to be married.
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They start feeling that pressure
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very early
actually probably 15, 13.
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So their whole
outlook on life is different
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but I see that many of them
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have developed a
sense of self-worth
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and they are excited about it.
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Eunice is very special.
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The family was very poor,
the father was a hopeless drunk
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her mother was Christian
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but the father sold her to
a Muslim family down south.
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We were quite
disturbed to say the least.
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We sent the president of
our school Springs of Love.
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He contacted the lady
who was the go between.
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He spoke and said
we want this girl back.
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She was very upset.
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She said you have to
pay a redemption price
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is what they call
it a redemption price
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and what it cost
for getting her back
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with going there and paying
to get her back was about $150
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which was more than
more than well worth it.
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We were Christian but my
father was drinking alcohol
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and so I don't know much
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but I used to go to church
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but not knowing
so much about God.
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So after I come here
only I came to know about God.
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The value of a
child in India depends,
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one thing on their gender,
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of course, the boys are a
lot more valued than girls are.
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Some families
really love their children
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and really care for them,
they mean everything to them.
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In India, if you
don't have children
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you're really
looked down on as a family.
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There are many children
that are from very poor families
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that really have nothing.
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Of course, in the
cities they're on the streets
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out in the villages
they're in the fields working.
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Children are treated
as slaves some of them.
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And the little girls are
really abused very badly.
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And so we have
had a great desire
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to take these little children
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and put them in
a safe environment
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where they can get an education
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and training to do
all types of useful labor
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and trade so
that they are able to-
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they're able to make
a go over in the world.
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When I came
here, I was so happy,
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so I was praying,
"Lord, please help me
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that if can pass 10th standard
whatever You'll say I'll do."
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So I finish my 10th standard
God gave me more than that.
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Because I said
only the 10th standard
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but now I am doing 12 also.
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And I did
midwifery and seminary also.
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So God gave me
more than what I want.
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Many girls are
trained in tailoring
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and boys are
trained in mechanics,
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welding and electrical work.
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There are so
many educated people
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in this country but with no job
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but if you are
trained in location arts
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they can survive on their selves
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when they leave this place.
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The most educational systems
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you take
children out of villages,
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you put them in a
school in dormitories.
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The only thing they do is
study, study, study, study
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but they never really learned
to support themselves with work.
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So when they
finish their education
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they can't go back to
their village and work
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because they don't
know how to harvest rice,
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they don't know how to plant,
they don't know how to farm
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and they don't have
any desire for it anymore.
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So I've been very
much against all about
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and I have really desired
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for our
children to learn to work
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and make a living
in a village setting
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and if they
choose to go to a city
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then they can still go.
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If they choose
whatever they choose
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but they have in their
mind the practical skills
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of being able to support
themselves with their hands.
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We have given
each child a garden
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they have sense of ownership,
they feel good about it
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when they can care
for their own garden.
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And we see them out
early in the morning
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and especially in the
evening attending their plants
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and sometimes we
buy the food from them
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and serve it in the cafeteria.
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You know, the other
kids in different groups
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and their group
makes the money together.
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You know, it
teaches them about business.
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It'll teach them
the value of work.
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They grow their own vegetables
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and they sell
them in our cafeteria.
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We buy them and they
use the money for offering
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or for buying
their own personal needs.
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You know we've had our
children now for many years,
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since about 1995 we've
started our first orphanage.
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And many times I refer
to them as my diamonds.
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We have a whole
building full of diamonds,
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of male and female diamonds,
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of boys and girls.
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You know, it's such a joy
to work with these children,
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such a joy to just be
a part of this program.
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Living Springs
ministers to children
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that are otherwise unwanted,
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endeavoring to show
them the love of Christ
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in practical and tangible ways.
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In a moment, we'll see
what this ministry is doing
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to help children
even before they are born.
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We share this globe with
about seven billion people,
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that's a lot of
people and standing here
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in this busy city it's easy
to feel small and insignificant.
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After all, I'm only one person
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what different 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
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and our skills over to Him.
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Around the world,
the individual workers
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at OCI Ministries
are letting God use them
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to bring hope and
healing one person at a time.
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Every five minutes, a
woman dies in childbirth
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in the country of India.
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This is frequently
due to poor prenatal care
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or the unsanitary conditions
in which the birth occurs.
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Almost 80 percent
of all childbirths
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take place in a local village,
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frequently among
unhygienic conditions.
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To help remedy this situation,
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Living Springs is training
a small army of midwives
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whose focus is
to help these women
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deliver strong
and healthy babies.
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Our midwifery program
actually started here on-
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at our Bible
seminary on the same property
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with the Bible seminary.
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My wife Lois
started that program
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and we didn't have
much space but there we-
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everybody crowded
up a little tighter
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and we took in the girls
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and started a midwifery program
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and that has grown to where now
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we've graduated
73 girls as midwives.
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And they're out in
villages, in hospitals,
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many of them have gone
back to their own villages
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and they're delivering
babies, caring for mothers,
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working with people
in their own villages.
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I had been a midwife for decades
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and I always wanted
to do a training program
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because I see a need in America
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as well as here for the
training of young women.
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We were here, and they asked me
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if I could help
with an auxiliary
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nurses training program
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and this just
sounded too big for me
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because I'm really
not a nurse so to speak.
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I'm a medical missionary
who specializes in midwifery.
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And so then they said well,
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could you just teach midwifery
and my heart just jumped
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and I said, wow that would
be a wonderful opportunity.
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And we really didn't know
if it would be acceptable.
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We didn't know
how it would fit this,
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this culture but
it has just proven
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to be a
wonderful blessing to me,
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to our students
and to the women.
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They really do
want natural childbirth.
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When I was small, that
time only I was thinking
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that my goal was
to become doctor.
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The first time I did delivery,
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first time I was
afraid after that I was-
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I did nicely, I did 80
deliveries, 80 births I did.
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God has helped me so much.
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I was afraid but He gave
me courage to do this work.
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By His grace, I am
able to do this work.
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We tried a place
our graduates in areas
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where they can
observe natural childbirth
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and there are some hospitals
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where this is offered
and our midwives are working
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in those hospitals promoting
the natural childbirth theme.
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This little clinic
was started six years ago,
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there was an old
church that was falling in
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and they had moved the
congregation to a new church
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and they were thinking, well,
what should we do with this
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and immediately as I
looked inside the church,
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I said this would
make a wonderful place
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for birthing center.
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And it's just actually
a church sanctuary small
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but divided into two sections
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and then utility
room in the back.
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We'd try to
provide in the clinic
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things for intervention or
for the safety of the mother
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or the baby,
such things as oxygen,
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medicines for hemorrhage
if that should happen.
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The other thing is we
have hot water and heat,
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which many homes don't
have out here in the country.
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We have a generator if
we need lights at night
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and we do have an ambulance
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that we can transport a
mother if she needs help.
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That's really one
of the biggest problems
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out in the village is
getting transportation
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if you have an urgent situation.
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The general
practice in the village
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for having a homebirth,
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it was carried on by
the village Di, DICOM
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we call it the work of the Di.
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And they have
many wonderful customs
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but then there are other customs
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that are definitely detrimental.
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It's a widespread
custom in this area
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to starve the baby out,
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so they cut down on the rice
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and you can eat
other little things
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but they really don't
want that baby to get big,
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plus they don't understand
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the brain is
developing at a tremendous rate,
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you know, its just
one of the worst things
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that they could do.
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They believe if you eat pumpkin,
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you said if you eat
pumpkin, you get joint pain,
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you get body pain
and when you become old,
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you won't be able
to, you know, work.
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You know they
believe that, you know.
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We see so many children
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who's having night blindness
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because they don't
eat yellow vegetables.
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We started our
work over here in 2006
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and after the baby out
delivered we cut the cord.
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And mothers and
relatives and village Di's,
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they don't allow us to
cut the cord before, you know.
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And their belief is
that if you cut the cord
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the placenta will
go up in your chest
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and the patient is going to die.
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That's what they believe.
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And since we are
working with them,
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we teach them
ahead to the mother
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before they deliver,
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you know, this is what procedure
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we are going to do and
you all think that this is,
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you are believing,
it's- no, it's superstition
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you are thinking about.
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The midwifery has impacted
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the lives in a
very positive way.
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So in the
community our reputation
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is for saving lives
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and for caring about mothers.
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Sometimes our midwives are out
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by five or six in the morning
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if they have
mothers who are pregnant
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and they can't
check them any other time,
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they'll get up and
go out to the village
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and people notice these things.
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We just had a graduation.
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There were 600 people who came
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and I would say at
least a third of them
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were mothers with babies
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and they were
just beaming to see
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these young women
progressing in life.
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And our statistics
and that which we've done
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has been so transparently good,
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everyone is like, yup,
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your girls are saving
lives and helping people.
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We teach our
children as they get older
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how to help other people
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of a medical
missionary type work
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and many of our children say
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when we finish high school,
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we want to go to
the Bible seminary
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and we want to do
medical missionary work.
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We have, you know,
three phases in the spiritual,
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in the scholastic academics
and also in vocational.
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We want them to be able to
support themselves financially.
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As Paul was a
tentmaker and supported himself
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and was able to give the gospel,
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that's our main thrust
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and we want everyone
to have that ability.
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Now some people were going
to full time conference work
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and we were happy for that.
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We want them to
still have that trade
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if they can fall
back on and then we know
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that they're gonna
be some people that
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well not really do
much of all the spiritual
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but at least they're not
gonna be begging for a hand out,
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they know how to
take care of themselves.
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And we believe later
on, they're gonna say hey,
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you know what I got
there when I was a child,
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that was when I was happiest
and I want to get that back.
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Most of them were quite poor
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and they probably
would go on to college
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if they were able
but they're not able.
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They have no
possibility of doing that
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and we've taken in
these young men and women
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and we're trying to give them
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a very
practical training for one
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so that they can do welding
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and tailoring and all
types of practical skills
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as well as we give them
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a good medical
missionary training program
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where they learn hydrotherapy,
massage, nutrition.
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We teach them
of course the Bible
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and the writings of Ellen White.
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We get our young
people out visiting homes
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and they've done
tremendous amount of good
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just even in our local
village, in our local area.
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We're just beginning to
get some better picking up
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on setting up their
own practical skill program
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to be
self-supporting missionaries.
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We also are gonna
do teaching as a trade
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and our hope in that is that
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some of the students
were going to village
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where they can
start their own school
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and we want to teach
the Christian principles,
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you know Christian education
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which is to restore
them to the image of God.
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I had the
privilege of being a part
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along with a few
men that started OCI
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and being a part
of a family like OCI
00:25:02.44\00:25:05.11
helps the church at large
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to understand that
our supporting ministry
00:25:07.61\00:25:10.68
of the church is a
legitimate ministry
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that we're trying
to work with the church
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as a team to
accomplish God's work,
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the mission for the Church.
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You know the work
is going to be finished
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by lay people not
by the church workers,
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that I truly believe it.
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We have a very
close relationship
00:25:32.26\00:25:34.03
with the Seventh-day
Adventist Southern Asia division
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and with all of the
local sections and union.
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We work very
closely with our church,
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with our
leadership and always have.
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I know Bill Dull from the time
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that I came to know him.
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I feel that he is
really an apostle to India.
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His life has really touched
00:25:57.35\00:25:59.81
the heart of our
people and his ministry.
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He's humble and mingling
00:26:03.18\00:26:05.70
with all classes
of people freely.
00:26:05.73\00:26:10.64
He's a true missionary to India
00:26:10.67\00:26:13.05
and we know that
God has blessed him
00:26:13.08\00:26:15.68
and he has been an instrument
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in hand of God
to reach out to the,
00:26:17.82\00:26:20.39
we don't know how
many, but I believe that
00:26:20.42\00:26:23.73
reaching to the
millions of people in India.
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And I believe that
this is the kind of work
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that is going to
finish the work in India.
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I truly believe it.
00:26:32.41\00:26:34.54
Our leaders are really behind us
00:26:34.57\00:26:36.53
and they're doing
everything they can to help us.
00:26:36.56\00:26:39.06
We have several
people that we have found
00:26:39.09\00:26:41.74
to be very
dedicated supportive men
00:26:41.77\00:26:45.01
that are part of our
board and part of our leadership
00:26:45.04\00:26:49.10
for our
direction of our program.
00:26:49.13\00:26:52.48
So we're very happy for that
00:26:52.51\00:26:53.82
and we're thankful to be
able to work with the church.
00:26:53.85\00:26:57.92
Through their
ministry to the poor,
00:26:57.95\00:26:59.92
Living Springs Overseas Missions
00:26:59.95\00:27:02.46
is ministering to Jesus Christ
00:27:02.49\00:27:04.26
in a very real way
00:27:04.29\00:27:06.54
through their orphanage school
00:27:06.57\00:27:08.88
which helps children
00:27:08.91\00:27:10.11
who have been
castoff by their families,
00:27:10.14\00:27:12.90
to the midwifery program
00:27:12.93\00:27:14.69
which is helping to bring
healthy babies into this world.
00:27:14.72\00:27:18.57
And then their
Bible seminary program
00:27:18.60\00:27:20.61
which is training
young men and women
00:27:20.64\00:27:22.87
to carry the vision
of service for Christ
00:27:22.90\00:27:26.14
throughout the country of India.
00:27:26.17\00:27:28.79
Would you consider assisting
this heartfelt ministry
00:27:28.82\00:27:32.75
that is ministering
to the poor of India
00:27:32.78\00:27:35.15
in real and concrete ways?
00:27:35.18\00:27:39.33
Please visit us
at outpostcenters.org
00:27:39.36\00:27:42.37
to learn more about the
growing worldwide work of OCI,
00:27:42.40\00:27:46.18
and our member ministries
00:27:46.21\00:27:47.47
such as Living
Springs Overseas Missions,
00:27:47.50\00:27:51.40
to contact us, email
info@outpostcenters.org
00:27:51.43\00:27:56.38
or please call
us at 423-236-5600.
00:27:56.41\00:28:02.62
We would love to hear from you.
00:28:02.65\00:28:06.30
We deeply value your support.
00:28:06.33\00:28:09.09
I encourage you to
consider what you can do
00:28:09.12\00:28:11.52
to help the expanding
work of OCI around the world.
00:28:11.55\00:28:17.27
For OCI reports,
this is Steven Grabiner.
00:28:17.30\00:28:20.12