Some people argue that religion
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is the root of all
the world's problems.
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Well, this claim
is clearly debatable.
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Those who profess
to have faith in God
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need to be willing to
examine whether their lives
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and their beliefs
rightly represented.
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A perceptive author has written
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that the world is dark
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with misapprehension
of the character of God.
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Partial or incorrect truths
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can bind us into a
kind of spiritual slavery.
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Join us as we
explore an OCI Ministry
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that is working to
free people from wrong ideas
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about the character of God.
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The beautiful island of Zanzibar
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has a rich and varied history.
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It's well known
for its many exports.
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Unfortunately
there's a dark side
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to Zanzibar's history as well.
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In the 19th century for decades
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Zanzibar was the center
of a horrific slave trade.
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Behind me is where slaves
from the mainland we're taken
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and then sold to slave traders.
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These poor individuals
were ripped from their homes
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and disbursed
throughout the region.
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Zanzibar is now
connected with that mainland
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through being part of
the Republic of Tanzania.
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The Tanzanian
people are very diverse,
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yet they are united through
a common culture and language.
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Religion plays a
dominant role in this society.
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The three main religions
are Islam, Christianity,
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and the animist
for local religions
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each of them comprising about
30 percent on the population.
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Tanzania is also the home of
an OCI Ministry called Kibidula.
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It is set in the
region of Mafinga
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and located on
a 4,700 acre farm.
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The National and
international staff
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are united together
in doing what they can
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to free the Tanzanian people
from the spiritual slavery
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that comes from misapprehension
of the character of God.
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This farm belong
to colonial farmer
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back in the colonial era.
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His wife was a
Seventh-day Adventist.
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When this country
gained its independence
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he chose to return to
his homeland, South Africa.
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And when he left he
donated the whole farm
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to the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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The church tried to do
different projects here
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and never had much success,
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finally the church
contacted Riverside
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and asked if they
would be willing to try
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and set up a self-supporting
mission station on Kibidula.
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Our goal here is to be
of service to the church,
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to spread the
gospel in Tanzania.
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One of the things
we would like to do
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is to help strengthen
the existing church members
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in their knowledge of God.
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And many times
it's easier for us
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to have a wrong understanding
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of how God is and
the plan of salvation.
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And we're trying
through our training programs
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and in seminars and our teaching
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to continue to
strengthen church members
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in their understanding of God
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and of the plan of
salvation and His love for us.
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At the school we have,
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now we have 80
students this year.
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The children who come here
they are from six year old,
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so they have
one year pre-school.
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And then they start
what we call standard one
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which is grade one and
then go up to seventh grade.
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So they end up primary school
here in Tanzania is seventh
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and then they go on
to secondary school.
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Our goal with the
school is to give the students
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a good education in English
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because in the
secondary schools here,
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everything is in English
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and so it can be a
big challenge for people.
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Another reasons why we
have the school in that
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we want the kids to know Christ.
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Every day we start with worship
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and we take the kids out
to visit churches and villages
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to help them get an experience
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in sharing their
faith with others
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and I think that one of
the most rewarding things
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about working in a
place like this is to see
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how Christ is pulling on
the hearts of these children.
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Ask questions
and some are anxious
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to know that Christ is
coming back soon and that-
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to have their successful
and happy life here on earth
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and in for eternity to know
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Christ is the most important
thing that they can do.
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The children that
come here to school
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they don't pay
school fees to come here
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because we don't want the school
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to be just an option
for the rich children.
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And so all the children
they come here for free.
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And so the parents
which are very happy
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for this option
for their children,
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they have decided that
they would like to come
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and do this field press
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and so they're here today
planting soybeans and maze.
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From time to time
we take a few hours
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to cut the grass
and clean the paths
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and this is where they live
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many hours
every day, every week,
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you know, and
feel to keep it tidy
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and it's nice that children
are participating in that.
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Today we're making a
park like a wooded area
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where they can eat their lunch
and things like that, yeah.
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The goal of this
school is to reach the laymen
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that don't have the
opportunity to go to school
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and get the theology training.
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And we have just discovered
that they are many people
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that church members
that have got their gifts.
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They have their
talents, they have-
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they are ready to
present the gospel
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but they're
lack of the training.
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And so we tried to
organize our program
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to reach basically
to layman themselves,
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just to keep them
with some knowledge
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so that they can be
able to reach other people.
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Realizing that we
have many students
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that come even from Muslim areas
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we have funds and
people that are gifted-
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that have been well
trained in that area.
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So in every session that
we have we asked them to come,
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they come for a week to give
that training to our people.
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And those that come
from the Muslim areas
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they get lot of blessings.
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I was born into a Muslim family,
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from 1992 to 1998
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I was trained in
the laws of Islam.
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Then in 2006, I
made the decision
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to become a Christian.
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The top Islamic
leaders were called
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to convince me, to come back,
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but they were unable
to answer the questions
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that I was asking them.
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In my studies here at Kibidula,
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I discovered I do not have
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the deeper
understanding of the scriptures.
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But when I came here
my mind was expanded.
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I had much more understanding,
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especially lessons that
had to do with the law of God,
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prophecy and much more.
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And this is
making me more confident
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in what I am doing and I
know I've made the right choice.
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The country of Tanzania
has two economic engines.
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The first one that usually
comes to mind is tourism,
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with the towering
mountain Kilimanjaro,
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the iconic
plains of the Serengeti
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and the long
coastline with the many beaches.
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But it's really agriculture
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that is the powerhouse
behind Tanzania's economy.
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Almost two-thirds of
the Tanzanian workforce
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is involved in
someway in agriculture,
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whether it's growing crops
for local consumption or export,
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the large tea estates
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or the large tracks of
timber that's used for lumber.
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Agriculture
contributes to almost 50 percent
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of Tanzania's
gross domestic product.
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Many of the
people in the rural areas
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however are subsistence farmers.
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Kibidula is to
help these rural farmers
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improve their
agricultural skills.
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Many of the young people
in the villages around here
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don't get the opportunity
to go on to secondary school.
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And see you got
all these young people
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with little
future in front of them.
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And so we've set up
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the school of
agriculture with the idea that,
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if they're going to
become subsistence farmers,
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at least they
could do good at it.
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While they're here they
learn principles of agriculture,
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you know, gardening, field crops
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but also principles of
health and Bible classes
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and we teach them English
and other general subjects,
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maths and science,
and help them through life
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to live life more successfully
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even if they don't go
on to higher education
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but become leaders in
their village, in their setting.
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I've been learning agriculture
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especially how to
care for the soil.
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Also here at Kibidula
we've been studying the Bible,
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how to have a good
life here in this world
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and in the future life to come.
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We've been
studying these classes
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and we see their importance
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for getting ready
for Jesus second coming.
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When I leave Kibidula
my life will be different
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because when I go back home
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I will be practicing agriculture
that takes care of the soil.
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Before I wasn't
following the Bible
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but now I will
try to live my life
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in accordance with the Bible.
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Now over the years
much of our outreach
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and ministry has been
supported by fundraising
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and in recent
times we found that
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the fundraising has
become more difficult.
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The need to rely on
what we can generate here
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has increased and
put pressure on us.
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Since I've been here
we've had avocado trees growing
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and we've noticed
they are excellent fruit
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and somehow it didn't
cross our mind for many years
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that that could
be a commercial item.
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There's areas of Tanzania
where they grow lot of avocado's
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and we just never got into it,
but people started to mention,
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hey, your
avocados are much better.
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Now we have about a
thousand trees planted
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and we do have another
thousand trees in seedlings
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getting ready to be planted.
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I believe that as a
self-supporting institution
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we always aim to support
ourselves through our industry
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and agriculture has not
always been very good here.
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We've tried field crop, wheat,
barley, triticale in past years.
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But right now with the
possibility of avocados,
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we see potential
there for sustaining
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at least part of
Kibidula with growing avocados.
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Another project towards
self sustainability here
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is the sheep project we've
started a couple of years ago.
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We have a lot of land here
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and even though
it's not very fertile,
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the grass grows well.
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Sheep eat the grass
and so the idea is that
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we could support
quite a bit of sheep here
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and in turn sell the
sheep and support Kibidula.
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We started with 10
sheep two years ago
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and they worked out great
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so then we
increased it slowly overtime.
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The interesting part
has being to studying
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to the soil fertility
to see also that probably
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people are lacking in the
same minerals as the sheep do
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and these might help us to
develop new ways of farming,
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so we can help the
villagers improve their crops.
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I think working with
sheep gives us insight
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into a different
culture of herdsmanship
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and that's the Bible culture.
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And working with
sheep is something
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that makes you humble
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and realizing that
herdsman are the ones
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that God has chosen to
announce the arrival of Christ.
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I pictured the same
herdsman like the Messiah,
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you know people with
not much school education
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but with open heart for
nature and for Christ coming.
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Wrong images of God's character
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are routed in
wrong thinking patterns.
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Clearly the ability to read
the Bible is an invaluable aid
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to forming a right understanding
of God's character.
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In a moment, we'll be
exploring some other avenues
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that Kibidula is using
to accomplish this aim.
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We share the globe with
about seven billion people,
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that's a lot of people
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and standing
here in this busy city
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it's easy to feel
small and insignificant.
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After all, I'm only one person
what 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 at OCI Ministries
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are letting God
use them to bring hope
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and healing one
person at a time.
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You can make a difference too.
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When you connect to OCI,
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you connect to more
than 80 ministries worldwide.
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If you're
interested in getting involved
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in the global ministry of OCI,
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visit our website
or call our office
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we would love to talk to you.
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The team at Kibidula has
been using a variety of tools
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to teardown the strongholds
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of the misunderstanding
of the nature of God.
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Producing and
distributing literature
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is one of the
divinely inspired methods
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to bring a clear
focus of who God is.
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The printed words I find
it's especially effective
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because you know
long after will be gone
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that'll still keep preaching
wherever it's been scattered.
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Kibidula
translates Christian books
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and health books into Swahili
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and has them printed at
different printing presses
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in America, in Korea
and even here in Tanzania.
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We get one or two
complaints per year
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of books to Dar Es Salaam
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and then its stored near that.
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We just built a
new facility there
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where we can
store the books nicely
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and it's uplifting the country
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and we have a
person there in charge
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who delivers the book.
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So whenever there is an order
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he makes it ready and
then we ship it from there.
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There are about
2,000 colporteurs
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in Tanzania selling our books
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and so we're able to move
quite a large number of books
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and not only is it outreach
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but its outreach
that pays for itself.
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We've heard from different areas
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that the whole congregations
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have gotten hold
of our literature
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and have been converted
to the Adventist faith.
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Evangelism in Tanzania
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like anywhere else
has its challenges.
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Here in Tanzania,
especially we face
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maybe half the
country claims to be Muslim.
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There's a lot of
spiritualism and witchcraft
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even within the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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there is a lot of
struggles with legalism,
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its just understanding
simple justification by faith,
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a simple Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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But here at Kibidula I think
that we have been in our light,
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the local community
in Tanzania as a whole.
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Some 40-odd
students we each here and go,
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back in to Tanzania as graduates
from our school of Evangelism
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and their trading
companies doing Bible studies,
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starting churches,
spreading the gospel.
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Kibidula supports
35 lay evangelists
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and these people are
doing the groundwork,
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cutting-edge evangelism,
you know, that we want to see.
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So far we have
53 lay missionaries
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who are in remote areas.
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What encourages me?
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It's the heart should
be how for their work?
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They are saying we know for
sure that God has called us.
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We move forward no mater what,
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that kind of a
spirit is from God
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and He's encouraging so much
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that you can keep
on praying for them
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that they can continue
with their work in those areas.
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The one day churches are simple,
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steel structure that can
be put up in a matter of hours
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with no prior site
preparation basically.
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Between Maranatha and ASI
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we've been given about
180 one day churches so far.
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It's designed for
people who can't effort
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to put up a
fancy church structure.
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They can't afford to put
a roof on their own church.
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And so here we can come
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and build a church
for them in one day
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or in a matter of hours
and then in their own time
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they can put up
the bricks, the walls,
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the very same day after
we put up a church building.
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They can actually
start having meetings,
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if there's out of the rain,
or they are out of the hot sun
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and it provides good
meeting place for them.
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Many people have
pointed out to us,
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that as soon as they have
the church built interests
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increases in the church,
that they suddenly feel like,
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they are part of
our real church that's,
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you know, not
just a couple of people
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meeting under
some trees somewhere
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that the church in general
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is growing at a
rapid rate in Tanzania.
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We've hardly been
able to touch the need,
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you know, with the 180 churches.
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We have a stack of requests
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and people all over
the country want churches.
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They can afford the bricks
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because they
make them themselves.
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They can't afford the tin.
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So when we come in
and throw up a structure
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and walkway and give them
the ten, they just love it.
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It's been a real
blessing for Kibidula
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to be part of this project
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because it ties us, you know,
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close to the people out
there because the congregations.
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They realize this
blesses coming through us
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by way of the one day church.
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They know that you ask
Kibidula for one day churches
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and once they
know about Kibidula
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and they ask more
questions and soon they realize
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we've school of evangelism,
we have a school of agriculture,
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we have
different programs going on
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and its good PR for Kibidula.
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The best part of
building a one day church
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is having a
congregation of people that
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they had no church
or sub-standard building
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that they are worshiping in
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and to rejoice after having
a church finished for them.
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Up to now we don't
have a campus church,
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we've been meeting in the
community church off campus
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but now I feel the time has come
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that we need a campus church
to meet together every Sabbath
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and to draw our staff
and our student's altogether,
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keep the vision
strong amongst ourselves.
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We've just started
construction on a campus church
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that will be large
enough to accommodate
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all of our staff
and all of our students
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and visitors
right here on campus.
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I've been the
pilot here since 1994.
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I did the flying
in medical services
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and then I got
my mechanics license
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so I did the
maintenance as well.
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We used to have a
medical clinic here
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and so we did
village medical programs
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about three days a
week we would go to villages
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to the medical
clinics in the village.
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We weren't carrying patients
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but we were doing the
treatment in the villages.
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Eventually we didn't
have a doctor anymore
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and our medical services closed,
00:21:48.80\00:21:51.13
so we started just
servicing our lay missionaries
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who live in remote places.
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It became clear
that plane was too small
00:21:57.71\00:22:00.85
for the long
distances we were traveling.
00:22:00.88\00:22:03.88
So then we started
building a four seater plane
00:22:03.91\00:22:07.45
that can also
land on short runways.
00:22:07.48\00:22:10.44
And if we ever got
medical going again here
00:22:10.47\00:22:14.33
than medical aviation
servicing our lay missionaries
00:22:14.36\00:22:17.45
again would be easier,
we could carry equipment,
00:22:17.48\00:22:19.85
fly out to
village and do some things
00:22:19.88\00:22:21.60
with the
missionaries in remote places.
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There's been very little
understanding in Tanzania
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of Adventist health message.
00:22:31.47\00:22:34.05
Many people don't understand
00:22:34.08\00:22:35.50
that there
actually is a lifestyle
00:22:35.53\00:22:37.73
that can prevent
lifestyle diseases
00:22:37.76\00:22:41.51
because even though
Africa has been poor
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and has lagged
behind the rest of the world
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in many of the western diseases.
00:22:46.25\00:22:48.79
It's coming at a
rapid rate and diabetes,
00:22:48.82\00:22:52.41
high blood
pressure, heart disease,
00:22:52.44\00:22:54.53
cancer, it's all here now.
00:22:54.56\00:22:57.35
And so we're
starting a lifestyle course
00:22:57.38\00:23:02.25
in our training center here
00:23:02.28\00:23:04.28
to teach people
principles of health
00:23:04.31\00:23:06.78
and then in turn we would
teach them how to teach others.
00:23:06.81\00:23:11.95
Kibidula's Bible
workers carry a heavy burden.
00:23:16.01\00:23:19.56
They do a lot of
personal evangelism,
00:23:19.59\00:23:22.02
distributing literature,
00:23:22.05\00:23:23.37
giving Bible
studies from home to home.
00:23:23.40\00:23:26.15
In addition to this,
00:23:26.18\00:23:27.64
they conduct
full-scale evangelistic series,
00:23:27.67\00:23:30.90
often being gone from
home for weeks at a time.
00:23:30.93\00:23:34.56
However they don't labor alone,
00:23:34.59\00:23:37.40
with them is the supportive
and loving work of their wives.
00:23:37.43\00:23:41.94
These women face
special challenges
00:23:41.97\00:23:44.73
in order to meet their needs
00:23:44.76\00:23:46.89
Kibidula invites them
back to the campus once a year.
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While here they enjoy the
fellowship of other women.
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They receive
revival, encouragement
00:23:54.12\00:23:57.06
and special training
adapted to their needs.
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We have realized that sometimes
00:24:01.49\00:24:03.69
men will find it very difficult
to go if they have got wives
00:24:03.72\00:24:07.06
that don't understand
what their calling is.
00:24:07.09\00:24:09.81
So we thought of
helping them to understand
00:24:09.84\00:24:12.82
that this
responsibility is a team work.
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If a husband and wife
can understand their goal,
00:24:16.29\00:24:19.27
the call that God has given them
00:24:19.30\00:24:21.15
then they can give
support to one another,
00:24:21.18\00:24:23.10
they can give the
encouragement to one another.
00:24:23.13\00:24:25.23
And sometimes just their blend
itself would make the husband
00:24:25.26\00:24:29.26
get that which is
lacking in himself,
00:24:29.29\00:24:31.38
which the woman couldn't do.
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Usually twice a year we
have all our lay missionaries
00:24:32.83\00:24:35.79
from different areas of
Tanzania come to Kibidula
00:24:35.82\00:24:38.14
and we spend a
weekend with them,
00:24:38.17\00:24:40.17
rubbing
shoulders, exchanging ideas
00:24:40.20\00:24:42.65
and they tell us, you
know, some of the work
00:24:42.68\00:24:44.59
they have accomplished
and we receive their reports.
00:24:44.62\00:24:47.47
This time we decided
to invite their wives.
00:24:47.50\00:24:49.90
These wives face challenges that
are unique to their situations.
00:24:49.93\00:24:54.67
Here ladies have hard lives,
sometimes many little children.
00:24:54.70\00:24:58.91
I've seen and heard often
00:24:58.94\00:25:01.47
where the lady
becomes discouraged or tired
00:25:01.50\00:25:04.87
and ultimately it cuts down
on the husband's performance.
00:25:04.90\00:25:08.31
My husband goes
house-to-house as a missionary
00:25:08.34\00:25:12.84
and gives public
meetings at night.
00:25:12.87\00:25:15.98
I'm very happy because
even before we were married
00:25:16.01\00:25:18.69
I was doing the same work.
00:25:18.72\00:25:23.00
One of the
challenges I face as a wife
00:25:23.03\00:25:25.27
is that my husband is
doing this missionary work
00:25:25.30\00:25:28.82
and sometimes
there are little results.
00:25:28.85\00:25:31.68
He becomes
discouraged and I have to try
00:25:31.71\00:25:34.12
to help him keep moving forward.
00:25:34.15\00:25:37.46
Sometimes we have
struggles, not enough money
00:25:37.49\00:25:40.63
or not enough
things to meet our needs
00:25:40.66\00:25:43.56
but as we pray and are patience,
00:25:43.59\00:25:45.79
the Lord has
always been faithful.
00:25:45.82\00:25:49.65
Even these meetings
that are happening right now
00:25:49.68\00:25:52.45
it's like the Lord
prepared them especially for me.
00:25:52.48\00:25:55.38
I see the Lord's hand
helping to encourage me
00:25:55.41\00:25:57.85
for the challenges I have
been facing over the past year.
00:25:57.88\00:26:00.87
It's like He has opened a door
00:26:00.90\00:26:02.56
and He's
revealing to me His will
00:26:02.59\00:26:04.51
and how to move forward.
00:26:04.54\00:26:06.56
We are humans,
we're all the same,
00:26:06.59\00:26:08.90
we are all going
through similar experiences
00:26:08.93\00:26:11.17
and one of the
greatest encouragements
00:26:11.20\00:26:14.02
to fellow believers
or even non-believers
00:26:14.05\00:26:17.41
is that they can see that
there's hope for that person,
00:26:17.44\00:26:21.98
that person's
going through a hard time
00:26:22.01\00:26:24.07
and yet there's some power
00:26:24.10\00:26:26.42
that he or she is experiencing
and that might lead people
00:26:26.45\00:26:30.13
to inquire about that or ask,
you know, why can you go on?
00:26:30.16\00:26:34.47
Where do you find your strength?
00:26:34.50\00:26:36.45
Why is it that you can
keep serving in this village
00:26:36.48\00:26:39.33
when everyone's
treating you with hostility?
00:26:39.36\00:26:42.51
It's nothing less than a miracle
to keep giving of yourself
00:26:42.54\00:26:45.77
and you're not
receiving anything back
00:26:45.80\00:26:48.00
and I think that
is what the gospel
00:26:48.03\00:26:50.41
correctly
understood can do for you.
00:26:50.44\00:26:53.04
A misunderstanding
of God's character
00:26:57.38\00:27:00.25
is not restricted to
any one region or religion.
00:27:00.28\00:27:04.68
Since the entrance
of sin into this world
00:27:04.71\00:27:08.03
the great adversary of souls
00:27:08.06\00:27:10.34
has been doing what he
can to misrepresent God.
00:27:10.37\00:27:14.91
Wrong concepts of God bring
people into a dark slavery.
00:27:14.94\00:27:20.25
A team at Kibidula
is doing what they can
00:27:20.28\00:27:23.98
to free people from that slavery
using literature, education,
00:27:24.01\00:27:29.87
evangelism and
service to the community.
00:27:29.90\00:27:33.72
They are dispelling the darkness
00:27:33.75\00:27:35.85
of the misapprehension of God.
00:27:35.88\00:27:38.34
You too can be
part in this great work.
00:27:38.37\00:27:41.13
Wherever you are you can
reflect God's true goodness.
00:27:41.16\00:27:46.94
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00:27:46.97\00:27:50.05
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00:27:50.08\00:27:52.79
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00:27:52.82\00:27:56.44
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00:27:56.47\00:28:01.39
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