The colorful country of Romania
is located in Central Europe
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at the top of
the Balkan Peninsula.
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The countryside in identified
with the Carpathian Mountains
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the Danube River
and the Black Sea.
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Romania's temperate
climate and varied landscape
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have contributed to the fact
that throughout recorded history
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Romania has been inhabited.
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As its common
throughout the world
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the Romanian
people have cherished
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the ideal of personal freedom
yet there have been times
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when they have
fallen short on that goal.
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Join us today and
we visit an OCI member
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that is introducing
people for the freedom
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that they can
have in Jesus Christ.
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The context between
freedom and oppression
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which is such a
recurrent theme in human history
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has surfaced many
times in Romania's path.
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According to JN
Andrews in his book
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the History of the
Sabbath in the 1500s
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they arose a group of
Sabbath keeping Christians
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in Transylvania,
a region of Romania.
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In the mid 1600
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they were the third largest
religious group in Transylvania.
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Eventually due to continued
persecution and oppression
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the majority fled the region
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or assimilated into
other religious faith.
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In the decades
following World War II
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communism ultimately exerted
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its oppressive
control on Romania.
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The ongoing struggle for freedom
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became evident here
in Timisoara in 1989.
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Within December of that
year that a reformed pastor
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by the name of Laszlo Tokes
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gave an interview to
some foreign journalist.
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He decried the oppressive
nature of the Ceausescu regime.
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He first was
sequestered in Timisoara
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and then was to be
exiled to a small village.
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But before that
happened on December 15 of 1989
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there was a groundswell
of support for the pastor.
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His church members
surrounded the church.
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They prohibited the
military from reaching him.
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That initiated a very
bloody revolution in Romania.
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The next week
saw many of thousands
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put to death by the military.
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However over the
course of that week
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the military changed sides.
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Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife
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who had ruled the
country for decades
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were ultimately
captured and put to death.
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But the flame of liberty was
once again kindled in Romania.
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Following the fall of communism
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a new way of freedom
swept through Romania
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seizing upon in this opportunity
Herghelia Institute was born.
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Using an
attractive lifestyle center
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and a well-rounded
health education program
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Herghelia frees people
from the wrong habits of life,
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more than that
they introduce people
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to the freedom that's
found in Jesus Christ.
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I grew up in a
family where I learned
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to be concerned
about people around me
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and we loved the church
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but we love very much
the people outside the church
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and we were concerned
that they will somehow
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understand the
three angels message,
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the present truth and will
be prepared for Jesus coming.
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And so for me as
a medical student
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it seemed natural to embrace
the medical missionary work
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as a mean to get to
the closer to the people
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and to convey to them Gods love
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and the calling each one of
us has to join in His kingdom.
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God's vision for His people was
to a establish lifestyle center
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or a sanitarium
near every big city
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and in His wisdom he
knew that people today
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are very hard to be
reached to tell or just ideas
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they need something practical
related to their health.
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There is a great
concern today about health,
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health
improvement and God knew that
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this will be the last
avenue to reach people.
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Most of the patients they come
to Herghelia lifestyle center,
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they come with
cardiovascular problems.
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Ischemic heart
disease, high blood pressure
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also many of them
has diabetes type II,
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obesity it's a big problem.
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Usually they come in a
quite advanced state of disease
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and they learn step
by step also the program
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that's going on here
helps them to see to understand
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to feel how it is
to live in another way.
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In 2008 my doctor told me
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that three of my
heart arteries were clogged.
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I was hospitalized at
the heart institute in Cluj
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and was urged to
have heart surgery.
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They told me that if I
wasn't operated on right away
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I would die.
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But I decided not
to have the surgery.
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I prayed that God would help me.
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I heard about
Herghelia on the Internet
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and after one
session I was much better.
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Before coming to Herghelia
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I was hardly able
to walk up a few steps
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but after a few
days I was running
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and playing
tennis and I felt great.
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From my view
point as a physician
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the health systems in general
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particularly in
the developed world
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they are struggling
with chronic diseases
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that are the result
of lifestyle choices.
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And also the choices
of the healthcare system
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and how they've chosen to meet
the needs of those problems.
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Both of those are on a
path it's totally unsustainable.
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The only real way
to turn things around
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is to get the root problems.
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Now the choices people
make the lifestyles are living
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and places like this
have a very significant role
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because that's
what they're doing.
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I came to Herghelia
for the first time in 2004.
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I was very
scared when I first came
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because I was diagnosed
with high blood pressure.
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My doctor had told me
I would be on medication
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for the rest of my life.
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So when I found this oasis I
realized that they were wrong.
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I made many changes
after I came to Herghelia.
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First I changed my diet then
I started physical exercise.
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All my friends were asking
what I had done at Herghelia.
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They saw I was smiling,
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I had a look of
peace on my face,
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I had a joy for life.
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And that's easy for
me to be friendly now.
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I have given up my
blood pressure medication
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and now I have a
normal blood pressure
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from the
lifestyle changes I've made.
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You can almost
picture the patients
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they come through here as seeds
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that are being planted
in communities all over.
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After about 16
years of operation
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people, church members see
that this is very efficient
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and this encouraged
another health center
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in the eastern
part of the country.
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And there are at least
six other health centers
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in Romania in the making.
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So we are coming close
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to have lifestyle
center in each country.
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And I would say Romania
it's not a very rich countries
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neither poor can be a
model for other countries
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that it's possible when
the church and the members
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and the standard
power of such ministry.
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It's clear that
God wants doors open.
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And I don't think what I've seen
in other places in the world
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He is not waiting for
political doors to open,
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He's just waiting for doors that
medical missionary work opens.
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There's a lot of potential
that's just waiting to happen.
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What we try to teach them
here is to find the real support
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that they need in
the process of change.
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You know the inspiration tell us
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that in medical missionary work
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applying these
natural remedies by faith
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we are going to see
supernatural results
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and actually this
is what is happening
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at Herghelia day by day.
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The Lord really touches
the hearts of the people.
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Every one of them is
taught in a special way,
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yet their
experiences are so different.
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I knew God and I had a
relationship with God before.
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But here I felt God's presence
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through the
staff that work here.
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I used to pray privately,
but when I first came in 2004
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I was very surprised
that before each procedure
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the therapist or
nurse who pray with me.
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Here at Herghelia I've
learned a lesson about service,
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about giving yourself for
the needs of those around you.
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It's amazing how
peaceful it is here
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that something we all
need in our fast paced lives.
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By faith, by prayer,
by reading step by step
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we are empowered and we
are able to be an example
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and we influence the workers,
we influence our patients.
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Many patients say we
found God in Herghelia,
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it's a quarter of
heaven, it's a warm atmosphere,
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it's a home and that
motivates us to go forward
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and to pray for
and to trust more
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no matter what difficulties are.
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Growth is natural
and for a long time
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we've been dreaming
to have our own chapel
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and a place where to worship
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but also a place where we can
gather people for a conference,
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for a medical
conference, for lifestyle
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its such a blessing
to have such a place
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and to have maybe camp meetings
for our Adventist community
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and we hope by God's grace to
be able to complete the project
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we started these sand saw
of a multifunctional building.
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Even before we
started the lifestyle program
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we had a burden for the
whole country of Romania
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to educate the people
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in lifestyle
diseases, in prevention.
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So the journal
developed little by little
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and in the year of 2000
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we were able to join
with Seventh-day Adventist
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union
publishing house in Romania
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and actually since then
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they are doing
the stuff publishing
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for our journal and
also the distribution.
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And the feedback that we receive
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is that the Journal
is a very efficient tool
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in all of the church
out reaching programs
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in the whole country of Romania.
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The church is
not the leadership,
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the church is
some of all the source
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out of living
witnesses of Christ.
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We cherish very
much this health center
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for what we can
do with their help.
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At the time we have 150 churches
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and we spend money, time, energy
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in producing
short time health expo
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and full-time health expo's.
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In big cities we
had tremendous success
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and it has done
not by the church,
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but by Herghelia
center and the church.
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Two years ago my
husband and I were impressed
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to come out with a cookbook.
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Our patients were
asking please we are going home
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we need something to
connect to Herghelia.
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Not only recipes
but also information,
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nutritional information.
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So people have
learned step by step
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from the traditional
Romanian omnivore diet
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to a healthier diet
to a plant based diet.
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We just looked
out we saw the need
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and providentially our cookbook
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ends up in being the
syllabus for a course
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in the first school of
nutrition and diabetics
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that started in Romania.
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This June we had
the first conference
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of the Romanian Association
for Nutrition and Dietetics.
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And we've been able to invite
important people worldwide
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like the president of the
American Dietetic Association
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and we have other
invitees from France,
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from England, from Australia.
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So we have a roster of
speakers very well-known
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and very well grounded
in the science of that epic.
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So this helped the
students to get receive a vision
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and I think you know Herghelia
is now in the forefront
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of what's happening in nutrition
and diabetics in Romania
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and I think this is
good for the institution
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and its good for
ourselves Adventists
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because we know a lot of things
which other people don't know
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and it's our duty to share.
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People are
interested to know more
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and so we very much
encourage the people
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who read the book
Ministry of Healing
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together with Desire of Ages,
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the Great
Controversy, our cooking book
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and also we have the
magazine health plus life.
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This is very well
read by physicians,
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by educated people
in fact its the only
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scientific
lifestyle magazine in Romania.
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Central to our health
ministry is representing God
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and people observe that
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and patients who come
to the lifestyle center
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they are very much impressed
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because we pray with them
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and we are concerned
about their spirituality
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about their trust in God
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and we try to
help them to understand
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that God is our Creator.
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He invented our physiology
the way our body function
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inventing the
mechanism to which we recover
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and we are just helpers
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and so they need to turn to Him
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and enjoy life and enjoy
happiness in that relationship.
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Having this sanatorium
affects the whole country
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you meet all this
influential people
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that from Romania
from all over Europe.
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And you have
opportunity to share God
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in a wonderful
way and many times
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when they hear about Adventist
they think about Herghelia.
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And so Adventist for time is
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what they see in Herghelia
and this is a wonderful thing.
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They are watching
us from the first day
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when they are
stepping in the program.
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And they are so
curious because they feel
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the atmosphere is so
different than the world.
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And each morning in our
devotional with the staff
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we connect with our Savior
and we ask for His wisdom,
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for his power to sense
the window of opportunities
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to be able to be a
weakness for this patients.
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The lifestyle center
has been an effective tool
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to minister to many
people within Romania.
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In a moment we'll see what
the Herghelia team is doing
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to reach the
surrounding countries.
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When you think of missionaries
what do you picture?
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For many people
the image of a doctor,
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teacher or pastor in a
remote country comes to mind.
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But the truth
is God needs people
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with many
different skills in His work
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both around the
world and close to home.
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At OCI we're passionate
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about helping to
connect mission minded people
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with our network of
more than 80 ministries.
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Each project aims to share
the Gospel in practical ways
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and they need
skilled workers of all types.
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Mechanics, gardeners, cooks
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and designers just to name a few
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and of course they also
need teachers and doctors.
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If you're interested in
serving at an OCI ministry
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visit our website for a
list of current opportunities
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or call our office,
we'd love to talk to you.
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Jesus said, "You
shall know the truth
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and the truth
will make you free."
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The team at Herghelia has
taken this admonition seriously
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therefore they have
incorporated education
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as an interval
part of their ministry
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and they're growing outrage.
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The young people are coming here
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to learn to be better equipped
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and trained in
medical missionary work.
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This meaning two
aspects working outside
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as a public health educator,
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trained to
organize health expo's,
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health clubs and is training
them to live a better life.
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And then the second
part they are trained
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to work in the
lifestyle centers.
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The emphasis is on
massage, physical exercise,
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hydrotherapy, cooking classes,
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cooking
demonstration, health lectures,
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and of course the Bible
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and spiritual
background for all of this.
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We have been studying medicine,
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massage and things
that have to do with health.
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How to be a good teacher,
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how to teach
others to be healthy,
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to stay healthy, to do exercise
and all new such things.
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It's a big blessing
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to have the medical
missionary school here
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because we have the opportunity
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to train medial
missionary workers.
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And in this way the
impact of this place
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becomes wider and wider.
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It's a bigger
influence in our society.
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Well, it's a blessing
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because the school is
close to the sanatorium.
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The students can
practice in the health center
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they have a work-study
program four hours each day.
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They work in
different departments
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they help as much they can
but more than that they learn.
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And we would learn
about every small thing
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that it must be
done in a sanatorium.
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And we also go with the patient
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and then we spend time with them
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we are talking we
go to work with them
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and learn about their
disease why are they sick,
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what they have
done, how they feel now.
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Before I came to Herghelia
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I had a desire to
do missionary work,
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but I do not have-
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I wasn't secure that
I could do it on my own.
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I don't have enough knowledge,
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I don't know where to start,
what to do and all these things.
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So coming to Herghelia
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the Lord has
taught me many things.
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First of all it strengthened
me in my relationship with Him.
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Secondly, it
helped me to love people.
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I became more mature in
the faith and also as a person.
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I was challenged in many areas
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so I could search it out
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and be more ready for
the field, missionary field.
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The first
ingredient is to read the Bible
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and the Spirit of Prophecy
and catch God's vision for us
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because God's Son
was a medical missionary.
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He came here
and He became humble
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and He came poor and
He cared for every soul
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and He helped them, healed them
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and make God known to them,
that is what He wants us to do,
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it's very simple if we trust
God and we catch this vision.
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We didn't work very
much for these village
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because Herghelia is
here from 25 years now
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and all the people
know what we are doing here.
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This year we've been focused
more about other villages
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and other places where
there's nothing about health.
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We've been to Targu
Mures that's very close
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and we've been
visiting hospitals
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and we had lots of
activities in the city.
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There are a lot
of requests out there
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and the people are
coming here and asking
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can you send me a man or a woman
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I need here in this institution
or in that institution.
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The church needs-
they employed already
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a lot of our graduates
for the health department
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or as church planting
and they are still searching.
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I mean, even now
we have five requests
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for our conference here
and we are not able to provide.
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In all the fields
there is need of workers.
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When I first
came here I said that
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here is a different world
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and when I was to the sanatorium
and they saw the people,
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the sick people
how they are treated
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and all the
atmosphere you can feel
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when you open the door.
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I just felt that I'm in
another place on the earth.
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You know a place of heaven.
I really enjoyed being here.
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And I really enjoyed
because I've changed a lot
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in just one year
my life has changed.
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Well, we are
living in special times
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and I'm happy on
one side I see problems
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and people having
more and more issues
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and they need more and more
advise counseling and so on,
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but on the other side
they see a great opportunity.
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We see everyday
people that are coming to us
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and say please teach us.
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I can see you
have something special.
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I can see that you
live a different lifestyle.
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I can see that you have
something that we don't have,
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teach us how to live,
teach us what to believe.
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And it's amazing that they
ask also even who is our God
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or what we believe or what we do
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to be so happy to be rejoicing
00:24:06.22\00:24:08.38
this time of
crisis all over the world.
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But they can see that we
have something they don't have.
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And medical missionary work
is the right work for today.
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If you have a
passion to do God's work
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and to be what He
you wants you to be
00:24:23.31\00:24:25.51
you want to be better equipped
00:24:25.54\00:24:27.65
to do medical
missionary work do massage,
00:24:27.68\00:24:30.54
physical therapy, hydrotherapy,
00:24:30.57\00:24:33.07
teach cooking classes
and do lifestyle counseling.
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I really will be
happy if you join our team.
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God's stirring up a
lot of people's interests
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families just start
something, start something.
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And church administrators that
are wise are facilitating us,
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encouraging and not
trying to control others.
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And I'm glad our World Church
leaders now are encouraging
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the other administrative
levels to work with us.
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As a pastor I
have no way of knowing
00:25:01.62\00:25:04.72
what God wants each of
my church members to do.
00:25:04.75\00:25:08.01
God will tell you what to do,
00:25:08.04\00:25:10.28
and don't come to me
to find out what to do
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listen to God
and He will tell you.
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After working here until 2011
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and after
getting married last year
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my wife and I've move to a
place an hour and a half away.
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I mean, we started
working as missionaries.
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One thing we focus
is not to do but to be
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and we are trying
to help our students
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to couch all
students, first of all to be
00:25:40.09\00:25:42.68
to experience in their own life
00:25:42.71\00:25:44.98
and then to
share it with others.
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And that's what Jesus did
00:25:46.86\00:25:49.39
and that's what medical
missionary work is answering
00:25:49.42\00:25:53.33
to the needs the real
needs of the people around.
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As every beginning
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in the beginning was
very hard very difficult
00:26:00.03\00:26:02.90
and we've been blessed
to be helped by Wildwood
00:26:02.93\00:26:06.79
by Uchee Pines by Loma Linda
00:26:06.82\00:26:09.01
and it's natural for
us to help other projects.
00:26:09.04\00:26:13.53
We knew Wildwood, Uchee Pines
and then we were introduced
00:26:13.56\00:26:16.91
to the larger
family of OCI ministries
00:26:16.94\00:26:20.26
and it was a blessing
to become part of OCI.
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It's like you
are alone in a family
00:26:24.68\00:26:27.54
no brother and sister
and it is the big difference
00:26:27.57\00:26:29.94
between having some brothers,
sisters not being alone.
00:26:29.97\00:26:33.53
And that's really
OCI there is a family
00:26:33.56\00:26:37.10
and we share
knowledge, share resources,
00:26:37.13\00:26:40.10
help each other and it's
a blessing to represent OCI
00:26:40.13\00:26:45.32
in this part of
the world as a vice-
00:26:45.35\00:26:47.42
field vice president
helping other institutions
00:26:47.45\00:26:50.78
to get on their feet
and also learning from them.
00:26:50.81\00:26:56.12
It's encouraging to see how God
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has blessed the
Ministry of Herghelia
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as they have
pressed through the opening
00:27:02.52\00:27:05.13
created through
the fall of communism.
00:27:05.16\00:27:08.48
They have ministered
to thousand of individuals
00:27:08.51\00:27:11.90
as well as
inspiring and encouraging
00:27:11.93\00:27:15.14
a generation of young
people to take the message
00:27:15.17\00:27:18.55
and spread it
throughout the towns
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and villages of Europe.
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God has an open
door for you as well.
00:27:23.27\00:27:26.60
Are you willing to
follow His providence
00:27:26.63\00:27:29.90
and to press in
to the opportunities
00:27:29.93\00:27:32.12
He presents before you?
00:27:32.15\00:27:35.22
I encourage you to consider
00:27:35.25\00:27:36.92
how you can help the expanding
work of OCI around the world.
00:27:36.95\00:27:41.56
We value your support,
00:27:41.59\00:27:44.79
please visit us at
outpostcenters.org.
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To learn more about
the worldwide work of OCI
00:27:48.42\00:27:51.96
and our member ministries
such as Herghelia Institute.
00:27:51.99\00:27:56.96
To contact us email
info@outpostcenters.org
00:27:56.99\00:28:03.43
or feel free to
call us 423-236-5600.
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We would love to hear from you.
00:28:10.39\00:28:13.75
For OCI Reports
this is Steven Grabiner.
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