The world today is gripped
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in a combat that
encircles the globe.
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It's not a war between nations
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but it's a war over
the destiny of humanity.
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Often called the
great controversy
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this battle rages in
every city, town and country.
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Join us today, as we
visit two OCI Ministries
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that are engaged
in frontline battles
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in this great conflict.
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It's hard to imagine in
this peaceful country setting
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in Southwestern Tennessee
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that at one time a
fierce battle raged.
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The Battle of Shiloh which was,
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up to that point in US history
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the bloodiest battle
that had ever been waged
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on American soil.
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The northern troops
were taken by surprise
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by Confederate soldiers.
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The army was unprepared.
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One of the officers
in the northern army
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was a man by the
name of Lew Wallace.
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Lew Wallace is not
known for any great heroics
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in the Battle of Shiloh.
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What he is better remembered
for is writing the book Ben-Hur.
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The storyline and that
novel is about a man consumed
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with the desire to get revenge,
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until he meets Jesus
Christ and encountering Christ
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he lays down his weapons of war.
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Today in this setting,
students are being introduced
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to that same Jesus
Christ through the ministry
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on Harbert Hills Academy.
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Harbert Hills Academy
was originally established
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on the basis of
helping young people
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and the concept was not just
to help young people in general
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but really to give an
opportunity to young people
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who might not
otherwise have a chance
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for Christian education.
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The most rewarding
part of working here
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is getting to know the
students as an individual
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and watching them grow
over the years that they're here
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both spiritually
and academically.
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You know, I'm used to
seeing academic growth
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but working at
a boarding academy
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I get to see
them grow spiritually.
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First of all we're
educational institution
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and we are a Seventh-day
Adventist Education Institution,
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and our training
program along with the academic
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and the spiritual program
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is to give students
hands-on experience.
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So our goal for each
student that we receive
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is to give them the
basics and to have them baptized
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or re-baptized in some
cases before the leave.
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Since I've been
here I understand
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how God has really worked in me,
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how He has used me as a
tool to reach out to others.
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I really think I'm
growing spiritually,
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mentally and physically here.
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Harbert Hills
Academy is a diverse campus
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with our staff
as well as students.
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The fact that we're
able to issue I-20s means
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that we have student's
here from various cultures.
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They have
learned from each other,
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they feed off of each other.
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They grow, they learn about
other cultures and get excited
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about visiting other
cultures as a result of that.
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My favorite part for being here
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is you get to have different
friends from around the world.
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It's really cool having
people from other countries
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'cause you get to learn a
little bit about their culture
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and you get to share a
little bit of our culture.
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We go- play
basketball, play soccer,
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and some other
games called benteng,
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it's more like a database
but it's from Indonesia.
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You know here in the US
we're often centered on our own,
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you know, little
bubble that we have.
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And so the students that
come here will get a view
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that they would not
have gotten otherwise.
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I wish that when I
was in high school,
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I was in a more multi-cultural
environment than I was
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because I see the
benefits of it here.
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But the school,
you know, it's small
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and for me I
think it's a good thing
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because if it's a big school
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than there's a lot of
distraction from everything.
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We're sitting on 500 acres,
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that we've got a
good buffer zone around us
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so that we don't have a
lot of distractions here.
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It's peaceful, it's
quiet and so student can focus
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little bit better way
in harmony with the Lord.
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Here nature is all around us.
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For our Friday night Vespers
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we have a number of programs
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over the course
of the school year
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we have sacred
concerts that we do,
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guest speakers coming in,
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the student led week a prayer.
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We have a large
choir and the small choir.
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And the small choir
is like the group that
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just to go to
different churches and minister,
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do singing, the ensemble to,
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it's really neat
having other people that
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play the same instrument
and just uplifting each other.
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The young people
are here to serve.
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If someone in our
community has a need
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and we get a phone
call we go to serve.
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Last year we
went down and helped
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when the tornadoes hit Alabama.
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It was devastating over there.
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We saw people crying
and their house is gone and,
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and then you have
the other people that
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saying this is a
test from God we can-
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we'll be stronger by that.
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We do mission trips giving
young people an opportunity
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to serve in other countries.
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We've done evangelism
with the young people,
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traveled and let them be a part
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of presenting a
series of meetings
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and presenting the health parks
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and seeing people come to
Christ through their efforts.
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You know, we have the academic,
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social, spiritual and
we have the work program.
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The council that we have talks
about a work education program
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that involves spending about
half the day in the classroom
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and about half a day
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in a vocational
practical work setting.
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We just take the message
from Spirit of Prophecy that
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we should all learn hands-on
and have hands-on experience.
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We have a 49 bed intermediate
care nursing home facility.
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We have a farm, a
bakery and those are the things
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that really give the
young people an opportunity
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to earn part of their tuition.
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With the vocation
classes their hands are moving
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they are involved in
things and woodworking class,
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they are
sanding, they are cutting,
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they are sawing.
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This past year we added
a brand new vocation class,
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which was the
digital photography class
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and it's been of tremendous
boast to the students moral.
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We do macro shooting
and portrait shooting
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and our students learn
to how to work with lighting
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and auto mechanics.
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They're working on cars,
they are underneath the car,
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they are under the hood
and radio broadcasting class,
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they are on the air,
they're working with mikes.
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We have a 50,000
watt FM radio station,
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that's one of the ways that
we connect with our community.
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Harbert Hills
Academy is in a process
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of development right now.
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There's a project ongoing
for upgrading our boy's dorm.
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We're also in the process of
building a new girls dormitory.
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It's about $1.2 million project.
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We have a tornado
shelter that we're building
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into the
building in the basement.
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It will be a safe home
away from home environment.
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We're actually
working right now on a project
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to build an
addition to our bakery
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were we can process
the food that we grow
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over the course of the year.
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And we're on a mission
to do it one step at a time
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and allow the Lord to lead
us and guide us along the way.
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One of the things
that I would challenge
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is to consider becoming involved
in this kind of ministry.
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We are in need of
teachers, instructors,
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who understand God's council
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and who are willing to
put their life in God's hands.
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One of the methods that
Harbert Hills Academy uses
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to engage their
students in the battle of life
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is to teach them the
principal of service.
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There are 49 bed
nursing home facility
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located on the campus provides
an excellent opportunity
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for the young
students to minister
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to those that are
older and are in need.
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This helps teach them
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what should be their
true priority in life.
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My brother Randall Dickman
is our current administrator
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for the Harbert
Hills Academy Nursing Home.
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I've been working here
as administrator since 1992,
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and I went to school here
when I was a young person.
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I probably didn't notice as much
of the privilege of working here
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back then as I do now,
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but through the
years I've really seen that
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it's a privilege to work for God
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and not only work
here at the nursing home,
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I teach at
Harbert Hills Academy.
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We have our own CNA
training program here
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so most of our
graduates when they leave
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in addition to
having their diploma,
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they are also certified CNA's.
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When I first came
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I worked in the general
departments like housekeeping
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and I found that
working with the residents
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was an opportunity I can take
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because I love
interacting with people,
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so I found that that
would be a good way to give back
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to this community
and also give back to God
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what He has offered me.
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It makes me feel
good to help others.
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I sometimes sing to them,
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I tell them some jokes
and then I hear them laughing
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and I just love seeing
a smile on their faces.
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We're going to see
Lord come one of these days
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and what a special thing to
see a baptism in a nursing home.
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That's something you probably
will not see very often.
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Well, on opinion we
were in debate re-baptized
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for several years but I
just decided right now to do it.
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You know there's not a
lot of facilities who would
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make it available for residents
to be baptize if they wanted.
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Time and time again I've
seen them go out of their way
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and do extra things to
make our residents feel at home.
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People know that when they come
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to Harbert Hills
Academy Nursing Home
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the care they will
receive is top notch
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and it's not just a technical
care it's a loving care.
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It's really one of the
challenges in today's world
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for young people
to take up the vision
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of what it
means to really serve,
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setting yourself
aside and saying okay Lord,
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You just do
whatever you want to do.
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The staff at Harbert
Hills Academy is dedicated
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to equipping the
students become victors
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in the battle of life.
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Their aim is to
exceed the expectations
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of both parents and students,
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by not only providing
a well-rounded education
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but more importantly introducing
the students to Jesus Christ.
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In a moment we'll
visit another OCI ministry
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located in a different
part of the world yet engaged
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in the same great controversy.
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Pain, suffering and hopelessness
are everywhere we look.
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As Christians we know that
the ultimate answer is Jesus.
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We're called to
bring people to Him
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as well as to share
His love in practical ways.
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Can you imagine the
difference it would make
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if every church member did all
that we can to share our hope.
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That's what OCI is all about,
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laypeople using their skills
to reach their communities
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and bring change,
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weather through
lifestyle centers or schools,
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restaurants or clinics
the methods are diverse
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but the goal is the same,
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to bring hope and
healing to our dying world.
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In order for this
work to continue prayer,
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workers, and
funding are all necessary.
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When you support OCI,
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you support the work
of more than 80 ministries
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around the world.
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For more information about
how you can be become involved
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please contact us anytime.
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A small but dynamic OCI Ministry
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that is having a large
impact is Mukuyu Outreach
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located in the
country of Zambia,
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situated on the
banks of the Zambezi River
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this ministry was born
out of sorrow and tragedy.
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Yet under God's blessing,
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is having a far-reaching
effect into the communities
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in this remote region.
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Mukuyu is the
Tonga word for fig tree.
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This large fig tree attract
the attention of Johann Myburg
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as he was coming
down the Zambezi River.
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Johan had a vision
of making a difference
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in the lives of the
people in this remote community.
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Unfortunately Johann
was tragically killed
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by an elephant on this property.
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However his brother
Hein picked up the torch
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that Johann has laid down.
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Hain and his wife Melissa have
extended Johan's original vision
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and are making a huge
impact in this world region.
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Well, in 2002 my older
brother moved to this spot.
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He was doing work with
Riverside Farm Institute
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doing food distribution
and while in the area
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he saw the need of the
people who live around here.
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So we settled here and he
started with basically nothing.
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He got people from overseas
to help do evangelistic series
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with the help of OCI here.
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He managed to put up
two churches in the area
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and eventually a third
one and so he was only here
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for three years
before he passed away
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in a very tragic accident
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when he was
attacked by an elephant bull.
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That was in August of 2005
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and at the time that
happened I was living in the UK.
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Unfortunately
while I was living there
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my spiritual
life was in decline.
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I had a very comfortable life
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and I talked with the Lord
often and I asked Him to help me
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'cause I knew I didn't
want to go anywhere else,
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I didn't want to change
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but I knew I was
heading for trouble
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and I asked Him to
put change in my heart.
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Soon after that, that's
when the accident happened.
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And coming here for the funeral
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and seeing the reaction
of the people at the funeral,
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the love they had for
Johann and seeing first hand
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what he kept busy
with made me understand
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or realize that I
was living a life,
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it was just selfish
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and when the idea came
in my mind of moving here
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at first I didn't want
to know anything about it
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but like I said the Holy
Spirit spoke with me constantly
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for a couple
weeks and eventually
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when I made the decision
to come out here to Mukuyu,
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honestly that's
the time in my life
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when I had the
most awesome peace
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and conforming to the
will of the Lord that's,
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that's the most awesome
thing that I could have done.
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I think the Lord has
especially prepared me for this
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because when I came here I
was very wary of everything
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and but as I started living here
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the Lord just helped me
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to accept
everything that's around here
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and to learn that these things
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that had happened
is not of His doing,
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but it's of the devils doing
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because he doesn't
wants' us to be here.
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And we need to move forward
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and we cannot
look back on the past.
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The people that
live in this area,
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the biggest problem for them
is they have a lack of Christ.
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They don't know Christ.
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They don't know
how to reach Christ.
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They don't know
that He's there for them.
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I've seen specific examples
of the people around us here,
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when they meet Christ
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and they let
Jesus into their lives
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they soften up
from the hard people
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that used be to people
who actually start cleaning up
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and looking of their children
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and making
their homes look nicer
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and just improving their lives
just through knowing Christ.
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I was lucky enough to be
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in an Adventist
primary school as a kid.
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And I look back
now and I know that,
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that had a huge
impact on my life.
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It helped to, together
with the Christian upbringing
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we had in our home,
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it formed a solid base
and we really want to give
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that to the small
kids in this area as well.
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We're trying to reach
out to the people here,
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bring the Gospel to them,
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bringing the truth and
reaching out in education
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and any other way we can
help them to be there for them.
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The further one
goes from the tarmac
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and the centers of population
the greater the decrease
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in the level of education.
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Out here in rural Zambia,
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the children face a daunting
task to get a good education.
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Some of them have to
walk four to six miles
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to get to the nearest school.
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In the book
Education, Ellen White tells us
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that the work of
redemption and education are one
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and that the foundation
for both is Jesus Christ.
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Hein and Melissa are endeavoring
to lay in this community
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a foundation that
these young children
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could get an
education that will lead them
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to their Savior Jesus Christ.
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At the moment they have just
one school in the whole area
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that we are in
and in winter time
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the kids can't go to the school
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because the elephants come.
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During the dry season
there's elephants everyway,
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so the kids can't go to school,
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the older ones managed
to make the way out there,
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although its
dangers but the younger kids
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they just don't go to school.
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And because of our personal
experience with elephants
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in our family the death
that we had in our family
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we have a burden for that
and it's sad for us to see
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that kids will
have a lack of education
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because of elephants.
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And so we've put up one roof
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that's the first
structure that will form
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the lower basic school
which is the first four grades,
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which is in the village,
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what we still need for that
school is three more classrooms
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plus an office building and
then four houses for teachers.
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Well, the
orphanage we started in 2007,
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it was idea that me
and Hein got together,
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so we raised some money
and we build the orphanage.
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We can take in 12 children
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but for now we've
got eight orphans.
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Boys and girls will get a mother
that will be living in the house
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and she'll be the one to
look after them to raise them
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and we also want
to start the orphanage
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to bring some education
that will be close to the school
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that we will be building.
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The orphans outside
that they are staying
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with the relatives or friends
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they don't get the
chance to be going to school
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or learn to be self-supporting
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because usually when
they stay with the relatives
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or friends they
just use them as workers.
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So if we can start the orphanage
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they can grow
up in the right way
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by learning
things about the Lord
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and get proper education
and learn to be self-supportive.
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Obviously there are
many well-educated women
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in the country of Zambia.
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However in the rural areas
women face tremendous challenges
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in getting the
education necessary.
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In June of 2010 Melissa started
the Nanyanga women's Club.
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The purpose of this club
was to give some of the women
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in this local region some skills
00:19:00.92\00:19:03.73
that would improve
their standard of living.
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Its part of the vision that
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Hein and Melissa have
of permeating this region
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with a higher
educational standard
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than it's currently here.
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Some of them came
to me and they said
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if I could do something
for them in the village,
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so I decided I will
start by teaching them
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how to do tailoring.
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So we started
off by just knitting
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and doing some needle work
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and eventually we got
donated two sewing machines.
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And now I'm
starting to teach them
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how to make clothes
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and then I've started
with Bible classes with them
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I'm telling them Bible
stories and Bible lessons
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and I just recently
started teaching them English.
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In the beginning they came-
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they couldn't speak English,
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but some of them can
pick up English words now.
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They've learned a lot of things.
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They were lot of women that came
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they couldn't even
work on the sewing machine,
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they couldn't
even do any knitting.
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And we've showed them
and within a few months
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they've learned something new
which they never could have done
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and every day they are
learning something new.
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In our group
we've got 19 people.
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Before we started
our program we pray
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and we also
have a Bible reading.
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People they gave us
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two sewing
machines from America.
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So these days
we're knitting by hand,
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we're doing by the machine.
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Well, the
products that they make
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we try to sell some in village
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and half of the
money goes to the ladies
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and the other bit
goes to wards, our groups,
00:20:38.57\00:20:41.15
so we can buy more things
and if there's a little bit left
00:20:41.18\00:20:44.33
we put side by
side for the orphanage.
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We raise money
for the orphanage.
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We also do the tithing
of the Lord first of all.
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At the moment close to be-
we brought the orphan home.
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We've got one roof setup.
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This building once finished,
00:20:59.77\00:21:01.35
we intend to use as an
older age feeding center.
00:21:01.38\00:21:03.70
There's quite a few
old people in the village
00:21:03.73\00:21:05.27
and unfortunately in
this specific culture
00:21:05.30\00:21:09.41
the old people
aren't always looked after
00:21:09.44\00:21:11.94
as well as they could be
and we've seen many old ladies
00:21:11.97\00:21:15.39
still having to
farm their own corn
00:21:15.42\00:21:17.47
while they can barely walk.
00:21:17.50\00:21:19.18
Old ladies having to
cut their own firewood
00:21:19.21\00:21:21.22
while they
hardly able to carry it
00:21:21.25\00:21:23.59
and so we were really
touched with that need
00:21:23.62\00:21:26.57
and we intend to
have that community center
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not only as a training center
00:21:29.33\00:21:30.81
for the ladies
with the sewing classes
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but to have warm cooked meal
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ready for the old
people once a day,
00:21:34.56\00:21:36.82
just to help with
their basic nutrition
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and at the same
time we intend to bring
00:21:38.93\00:21:41.68
one of our Bible
workers in the area
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while they're eating
he can reach out to them.
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In remote areas of
the country like this
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good medical treatment
is a very hard to come by.
00:21:49.98\00:21:52.87
Along the river
there's a variety of threats.
00:21:52.90\00:21:55.55
There's the danger of
crocodile and hippo attacks,
00:21:55.58\00:21:58.86
malaria and
bilharzia are prevalent.
00:21:58.89\00:22:01.81
Even this
simplest medical situation
00:22:01.84\00:22:04.64
can develop into emergency
without good medical treatment.
00:22:04.67\00:22:08.68
The local people
find it difficult
00:22:08.71\00:22:10.71
to get this good treatment.
00:22:10.74\00:22:12.68
But Hein and
Melissa have developed a way
00:22:12.71\00:22:14.74
to bring in the
treatment to the individuals,
00:22:14.77\00:22:17.35
the families, the communities
00:22:17.38\00:22:18.94
living along the Zambezi River.
00:22:18.97\00:22:22.38
Because of a lack of
education this area for so long,
00:22:22.41\00:22:26.14
it's sometimes very
difficult to reach out to people
00:22:26.17\00:22:28.49
on an intellectual level.
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What really works well
and the spirit of prophecy
00:22:30.68\00:22:33.08
is very clear on
that as well is that,
00:22:33.11\00:22:35.77
to use the
example that Jesus did
00:22:35.80\00:22:37.10
and He met the
physical needs of the people
00:22:37.13\00:22:40.07
that listened to Him.
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We had lot of ladies
that has been going into labor
00:22:44.78\00:22:48.03
which we took to the hospital.
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We actually had one baby
that was born on our vehicle.
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And the most exciting thing
00:22:52.95\00:22:55.95
that we are having for
future is the medical boat,
00:22:55.98\00:22:58.69
the closest hospital is Chirundu
00:22:58.72\00:23:00.29
which is about two
hours drive from here.
00:23:00.32\00:23:03.24
It was a dream of my
brother to have a medical boat
00:23:03.27\00:23:07.52
and recently we managed to
get the funding for this boat.
00:23:07.55\00:23:10.71
We're just now waiting
for the official approval
00:23:10.74\00:23:14.17
from the government
00:23:14.20\00:23:15.23
so we can run the boat as
a medical service provider.
00:23:15.26\00:23:17.84
And the function
of that boat will be
00:23:17.87\00:23:19.82
to run up and down this Zambezi.
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We've got a
stretch of about 25 miles.
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Things that we will be
able to help the people
00:23:24.60\00:23:26.82
with are things like bilharzia
and intestinal parasites.
00:23:26.85\00:23:30.26
Then malaria is a
very big problem here,
00:23:30.29\00:23:33.12
especially in the kids.
00:23:33.15\00:23:34.42
AIDS is also a big problem.
00:23:34.45\00:23:36.44
And then there's things like
00:23:36.47\00:23:38.02
skin infections
and chest infections.
00:23:38.05\00:23:41.43
We've come across quite a
few people with TB in the area
00:23:41.46\00:23:44.09
and they just do
not get to the hospital,
00:23:44.12\00:23:46.03
so those are things that we need
to tackle with the medical boat.
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The boat's name is Bakwesu.
00:23:51.57\00:23:53.45
The person that
helped to fund the boat,
00:23:53.48\00:23:56.02
he's a gentleman
that lost his own brother
00:23:56.05\00:23:59.31
maybe two years ago.
00:23:59.34\00:24:01.59
And after hearing our
story he came to me and said
00:24:01.62\00:24:05.45
he'll give the funding
00:24:05.48\00:24:07.07
and he thinks it
might be a good idea
00:24:07.10\00:24:08.58
if we run this boat
as a working memorial
00:24:08.61\00:24:11.57
to both of our brothers.
00:24:11.60\00:24:12.90
And he said why don't we name it
Brothers in the local language?
00:24:12.93\00:24:16.61
And so I found out what
the Tonga word for brothers is
00:24:16.64\00:24:19.60
and it turned out to be Bakwesu.
00:24:19.63\00:24:22.34
But in the Tonga language
the words aren't as absolute
00:24:22.37\00:24:25.20
as the English language,
00:24:25.23\00:24:27.08
it means brothers and sisters,
00:24:27.11\00:24:28.81
it means members
of the same community
00:24:28.84\00:24:30.71
and it means good friends.
00:24:30.74\00:24:33.09
And so the name for Bakwesu,
I think it's quite fitting
00:24:33.12\00:24:35.98
and we are praying
that that will have the,
00:24:36.01\00:24:38.32
the same effect to be
friends to the people around us.
00:24:38.35\00:24:40.76
When we first got here
00:24:45.07\00:24:46.68
it was difficult to find
a way to support ourselves.
00:24:46.71\00:24:50.05
We came here with very little
00:24:50.08\00:24:51.80
and we were really trusting
on the Lord to supply our needs.
00:24:51.83\00:24:55.48
We've got a
beautiful piece of land
00:24:55.51\00:24:57.59
with beautiful soil that
we can use for planting stuff
00:24:57.62\00:25:00.70
and we have
unlimited water obviously
00:25:00.73\00:25:02.16
from Zambezi River but
we do not have electricity.
00:25:02.19\00:25:05.10
What we do have even
outside of our piece of property
00:25:05.13\00:25:08.59
is unlimited open grazing.
00:25:08.62\00:25:11.36
And so when we got
here my brother had 20 sheep
00:25:11.39\00:25:14.33
that he used to
keep around the house
00:25:14.36\00:25:15.95
and so we took these 20 sheep
00:25:15.98\00:25:17.59
and I put in all my
effort to keep them healthy
00:25:17.62\00:25:20.89
and keep them producing.
00:25:20.92\00:25:22.49
Six years later we have
more than 500 hundred sheep.
00:25:22.52\00:25:25.70
The Lord has blessed this
little enterprise and eventually
00:25:25.73\00:25:29.60
when we reach higher numbers
it'll be able to help supply
00:25:29.63\00:25:33.05
towards the needs of the orphans
and the community center.
00:25:33.08\00:25:36.06
There're so many
things that we want to do here
00:25:36.09\00:25:37.68
but we don't have the funding.
00:25:37.71\00:25:39.58
And in the last year
things have been going better,
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we've had people supporting us
to help us to build the things
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and to get things ready.
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But like the
orphanage we did in 2007
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and we can't finish it because
we don't have funding for that.
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The school and the community
center is the same thing,
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we've had it
there for one year now.
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So I think that is
the biggest challenge.
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We want to finish
the work for the Lord,
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but we don't have enough
funding to finish all the things
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that needs to be done here.
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As you can see where we live,
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we're so isolated from not even
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other OCI members in the
states all around the world
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but just from our neighbors.
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So it's very
easy to start feeling
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that you're alone in the world,
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especially with
the work that we do,
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it comes with a
special set of challenges.
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And I can say that since
we've joined OCI the contact
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that we've had with other
ministries not only in Africa
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but around the world removes
that feeling of total isolation
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because you now meet people
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who have the same
challenges as you.
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You are able to talk with them,
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there's experienced people that
can give you advice on things
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that they've already
encountered many years before.
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And so that's a
massive native support
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that that we feel
we, we can't go without.
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I don't think you
have to be qualified
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or cut out to be a missionary.
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I think all of us
can be missionaries.
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Even in your local
town, maybe if you're working,
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everywhere, everybody
needs to be a missionary.
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Tell the Lord
that you're willing
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to do His work
and He will lead you
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and you will see how
your life will change.
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All over the world
remote communities struggle
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with basic survival needs.
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Jesus said,
"Whatsoever you have done
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for the least of
these my brethren,
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you have done it unto me."
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On the banks of
the Zambezi River,
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Mukuyu Outreach is endeavoring
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to fulfill the
command of Jesus Christ,
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as they educate, heel, feed
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and serve the
people in this region,
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they are winning
souls to Jesus Christ.
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Wherever you are in the world
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you can have a part in
this tremendous ministry.
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Medical volunteers are needed
on a short or long-term basis.
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I solicit your
prayers for Hein and Melissa
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and your generous
support for Mukuyu Outreach.
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To learn more about
the worldwide work of OCI
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please visit us at
outpostcenters.org.
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To contact us email
info@outpostcenters.org
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or call us at 423-236-5600.
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For OCI reports,
this is Steven Grabiner.
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