From the very
beginnings of Christianity,
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ordinary men and
women have been committed
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to sharing the love
and God with others.
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This passion has
especially been manifest
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in the history of
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the Seventh-day
Adventist Church.
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One man who typifies this
dedication is Joseph Bates.
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Early in his life, Bates
was attracted to the sea.
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Eventually, he
became a successful
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and wealthy sea captain.
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However, upon
yielding his life to Christ,
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his priorities
took a dramatic change.
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When Bates retired,
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he and his wife
Prudence had a small fortune.
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Together, they decided
that they would use their means
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to share the news of Christ's
soon return with the world.
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However, they were unprepared
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for how quickly their
fortune would be diminished.
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As Bates was
working in his study,
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his wife Prudence came in
and asked him to buy some flour.
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He took his last
coin, a single York shilling
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and purchased
four pounds of flour.
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When he brought it
home to his wife, she wept.
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The once prosperous sea captain
had been reduced to poverty.
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Later that day,
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Bates felt impressed
to go to the post office.
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There he found a
letter waiting for him.
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It contained $10, a
large some in his day.
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With that money he bought
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all the
provisions his wife needed.
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He also went to the printer.
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There he placed a down payment
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for the publication of his book.
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"The Seventh-day
Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign."
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Today, we will be
visiting Oak Haven
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and OCI Ministry
located in Michigan.
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Here the workers are inspired
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by the same spirit
that motivated Joseph Bates.
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Oak Haven has had
several types of ministries
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over the years,
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and the one that we
focused on in the last say
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25, 30 years,
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has been Country
Life Natural Foods,
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which is a huge food
distribution and ministry.
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So we go to about 17,
18 states with trucks.
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Then we are able to
ship UPS or postal service,
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and we do have the
retail store as well,
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so people come to us
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looking for the
good food that we offer.
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The store
itself actually carries
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just about every item
that would in a warehouse,
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except we would have
it in a smaller quantity.
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We have several
packaging machines
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that we are able to
take the bulk product
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and package it
down to smaller sizes
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that are more convenient.
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We are a vegetarian
store leaning towards vegan,
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but it is sort of a
crossroads for people,
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just learning
about what can I do
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if I don't want to eat meat?
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What can I now eat?
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There are good,
clean, wonderfully,
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tasty meat substitutes.
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We can hand them our recipe
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from the last
cooking class and say,
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here is a great recipe.
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You don't want
meatballs anymore,
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but here is a nut ball
that's gonna taste just as good
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and give you better nutrition.
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In one area of the operation,
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we actually have a
small production facility
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where we bake Granola.
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So we do two flavors of Granola,
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almond delicious and
a Cashew Date Delight
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is very popular.
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We bake it a
couple of times a month
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then ship it all out
with the rest of our products.
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Granola really had some
roots in the establishment
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of Country Life
back in the early 1970s.
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And they started getting Granola
then they wanted some oats
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and they wanted
some raisins and almonds.
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And so, the Granola
has been integral to them,
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the beginnings of our operation.
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We really feel that
our food distribution
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is a food ministry.
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It's not just a business.
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And so everything we do,
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every employee that
we have is a missionary.
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What's really nice these times
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when we get to
talk about the Lord?
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Doesn't get any
better than that, you know.
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So, you know, to
me this is a ministry.
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We do deliver the stuff
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which is the
main part of the job,
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but then they get
those opportunities,
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you know, the
divine appointments.
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Our goal is to really
reach people for Christ,
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to let them know
that God loves them
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and that He cares about them.
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And one of the ways
that we can do that is
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through the help outreach
because it's so non-threatening.
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We have morning worship
every morning for our staff.
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We pray together constantly.
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We look for
opportunities to help people
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and not just with physical food.
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Our retail store has
thousands of customers
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walking in the door and
so they come to buy food,
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but they come to
get more than food.
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They come because they
are beginning to trust us
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and many of them have a
longstanding trust in us
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and relationship
that we've built.
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Because we do a
lot of telephone work,
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we're always in
touch with people.
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And so our
ministry aspect is something
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that we keep in
forefront of our mind
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that every
opportunity God brings to us
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through our contact
with people is an opportunity
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to share some aspect
of His plan for their life
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or a person that just
needs a word of comfort.
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We nearly look to every contact
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that we have to
be an opportunity
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for sharing Christ's
love directly or indirectly.
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I would say that Country
Life Store is a ministry,
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the people that have
come in from the community
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become more and more friends.
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You get to know
the regular people
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on a first name basis.
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If they have a
problem, they can come and say,
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"Jorine, this is going on."
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And I can just stop right there,
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they can come in my office
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or we can just
pray right in the store,
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that's just a
really good opportunity
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get to know people
at an in-depth level.
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The Pullman
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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is located on the
campus of Oak Haven
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and we are very supportive,
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not only of the
work of the local church,
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but of the Michigan Conference.
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That's what we are here for
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to help the church
grow as lay people.
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We also have a nice arrangement
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with the Michigan Conference
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where we have Emmanuel
Institute evangelism school
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housed on a campus.
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And that's been really exciting
over the last four years
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to have them here at Oak Haven.
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Emmanuel Institute
fits in really well
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because they share
the same philosophy.
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And I remember when
we were first meeting
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with Pastor Howard
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and Emmanuel
Office associate director
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and they shared
with us their passion
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for outpost evangelism.
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And we could see that we
are all on the same page.
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And so it's a real
blessing working with-
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With them because they
do have the same vision
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for outpost ministries.
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We serve a couple
purposes and the students
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that come here
usually have two things
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that they want to learn.
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They want to learn more
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how to be
confident in their faith
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and comfortable in sharing.
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As we understand ministry,
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God's work is
not gonna be finished
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by professional ministry.
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It's gonna be
finished by lay people.
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You know, that's what we see in
a lot of supporting ministries
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is lay people who
catch enough of the vision of
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what we are about as
Seventh-day Adventist
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to take the
ball and run with it,
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to really go out and
use the talented skills
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God has given
them, to be supportive
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with the mission of the church,
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but to take their talents
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and go where God's
called them to help to hasten
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the coming of
Jesus, and that thrills me.
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In early Adventist history,
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Michigan became a
center of church influence.
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Ultimately,
Joseph Bates moved here
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as did Ellen and James White.
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It was in Michigan,
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not far from Oak Haven's campus
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that Ellen White had her famous
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and influential
health reform vision.
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In that vision, she was
shown the close relationship
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between health and spirituality.
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In her writings,
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she emphasized the
importance of health food work
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as a means of
communicating the gospel.
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Oak Haven
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not only produces and
distributes health foods,
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but they
communicate health principles
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with the community at large.
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Health Evangelism really
is what Oak Haven's all about.
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And Oak Haven was
started to be able to reach out
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to the community
in all different ways
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that would help people mentally,
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physically,
spiritually, emotionally.
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And it's a real blessing
the way it all works together.
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God has given
us this opportunity
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to reach people.
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And it's amazing even to us
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as we review week by
week the numbers of people
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that we impact.
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We have approximately
15,000 plus active customers.
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We also have some distributors,
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and that doesn't really
include the store customers
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that come through.
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So the total number of customers
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that we impact
are somewhere between
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I would say 18 to 20,000,
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then knowing that every person
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that we influence has
their own sphere of influence.
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And so there are tens
of thousands of people
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that are out there gaining
the blessing from the food,
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from the lifestyle,
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from the spiritual
component and we just feel like,
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God has given that to us
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and we want to be good
stewards of handling that.
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Aside from the work
that we do in delivering
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food across the country,
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we have quite an
active local ministry.
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We have cooking classes
that people just stand in line
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to get a seat for we are filled
to capacity in every class.
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One of the things that
Oak Haven has really practiced
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is what Jesus said,
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"Freely you have
received, freely give."
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And we've noticed
that from the time
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we first came here that
there was a spirit of generosity
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and we've tried
to carry that out.
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So we don't
charge for our programs.
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People can leave a
donation if they want to.
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We offer a lot the
regular lifestyle programs,
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diabetes reversal.
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We do
depression, recovery program.
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We've done herbal
remedies and natural remedies,
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natural treatments,
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edible wild plant
classes and just anything
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that we can do to
reach the local need
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because then we can
personally get acquainted
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with each of those
people that we impact.
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At our cooking classes,
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we try to focus on a particular
theme or topic each time.
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And so we develop
the recipes before hand
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and we show the
people how to cook.
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We try to find
some way to open up
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the word of God and show them
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that there is a
God that loves them
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and try to bring in
that spiritual component.
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It's such a
blessing to see people
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come to the
programs and to hear them,
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share how their
lives were changing,
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whether it's their
health or their family
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or just their outlook
on life whatever it is.
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And it just cheers us
on and keeps us going,
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knowing that we're being a
blessing to so many people.
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Really one of for most blessings
has been Patty and Mark.
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Just their support, you know,
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teaching us how to
make our own bread,
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whole-wheat bread.
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And even though one
time Donna was asking
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questions and Patty said,
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"I'll come up to your
house and help, you know, with-"
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We were, you know,
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an hour and a quarter drive away
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and we just
couldn't believe that
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she would offer to
do something like that.
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I think the health message
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and the gospel mesh in two ways.
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One is that the health
message opens up the way.
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It breaks down prejudice.
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So that people
are more interested
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in what we believe as
Seventh-day Adventist.
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And also, I think
the health message
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just prepares the mind
and a heart to be more open
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to the Holy Spirit.
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When our minds are clear
and our bodies are healthy,
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we are much more receptive
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to what the Holy
Spirit is telling us.
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It paves the way
for the Holy Spirit
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to do a work in our hearts.
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We have a concept in
ministry that involves churches
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around the country
that actually get our food,
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invite their local
neighbors and associates
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and then plan
an event that often
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we can have a
spiritual component
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and tie that in with
the monthly food delivery.
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So people come and
they get their food
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and they'll get spiritual food
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and some health
presentation as well.
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And that's being very successful
in many of the churches
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in the Michigan Conference,
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working with the
food co-op ministry.
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Starting this year
we've tried a new thing,
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which several churches
around the country are doing
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and it is small
meetings in your home.
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We're using a program
called Homes of Health and Hope,
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and it's a follow-up to
some of our other programs
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where we have a small group,
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come to our home
and it's really exciting
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because people open
up a little bit more,
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we get to build relationships
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a little bit
closer, pray with people,
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and that's another element that
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it's just
prevailing much of what we do.
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As one of the
field vice presidents,
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I am excited
about being part of OCI.
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It's a blessing to be a
part of the family of Outpost
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International.
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And it's really
encouraging to be able to visit
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the different institutions
and to see what they are doing.
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It's been an
opportunity to get the word out,
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more about OCI.
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And it's such an encouragement
to see the creativity of God,
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the ideas that God
gives to individuals
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of things that they
can do as lay people.
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OCI has been such a
blessing in the way that
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it has pulled all these
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different lay
ministries together
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and with the leadership training
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that it is
provided, it is enabled.
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Ministries that have
pretty much been out there
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on their own
functioning to feel like
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they're part of something.
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And to be encourage
by what others are doing.
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And I see God
just really moving to
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pull the OCI Ministries together
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and what's been
done at the headquarters
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is a big part of that.
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Something that we
can't underestimate
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is the value of prayer.
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And one of my favorite
statements is from the book
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"Ministry of Healing."
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And it's in one of
the later chapters,
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Development and
Service and that says,
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"Pray and faith can do what,
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no other power on
earth can accomplish."
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And we really
take that to heart.
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And our customers
often will just light up.
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They'll just
respond in such positive way
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just by the simple phrase.
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Can we pray for you
or can we pray with you?
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And it's really-
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It's really awesome
when hearts are touched
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by the connection
that that we have with God.
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We really believe
that God answers prayer.
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And that inspiration to people
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is coming through in our
ministry and they are often-
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Often, customers will say,
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"Please, bring it up in
your staff meeting for prayer.
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You know, mention
my name or my needs."
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And it's really
encouraging to us.
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Joseph Bates used
his talents and resources
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to communicate the
good news of Christ's return
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to this world.
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In a similar way,
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the workers in OCI
Ministries use their gifts
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to share God's love with others.
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They believe their
efforts will bear fruit
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in the great harvest that Christ
will reap when He returns.
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We share this globe with
about seven billion people.
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That's a lot of people.
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I'm 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.
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What difference can I make?
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But the fact is each of
us can make a difference.
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God is calling us to
turn our lives and our skills
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over to Him.
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Around the world,
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the individual
workers at OCI Ministries
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are letting God use them
to bring hope and healing
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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 are
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.
00:18:01.56\00:18:04.55
We'd love to talk to you.
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They are variety
of risks confronting
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today's young people.
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In Sub-Saharan, Africa,
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AIDS is a great
threat to their existence.
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This deadly virus can
affect their lives in many ways,
00:18:25.70\00:18:29.96
from them contracting
the virus to the devastation
00:18:29.99\00:18:33.00
that occurs when their parents
come down with the disease.
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Throughout Sub-Saharan, Africa,
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there is a missing generation.
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Tanzania ranks 3rd of
all the African nations
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in the greatest
concentration of AIDS orphans.
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In some parts of Tanzania,
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almost half of the population
is afflicted with the disease.
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Another of our OCI
Ministries is doing
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what it can to rescue
these at risk young people.
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Eden valley Foster Care Mission
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is dedicated to
helping AIDS orphans.
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Its focus is breaking the cycle
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that this disease has
brought to the people of Africa.
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My wife and I
spent 10 years in Africa,
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and on our way
home we decided to visit
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our son in Tanzania,
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and there is a man
who wanted us to go
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and visit a place called
Lupillo in the Makati Mountains.
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There is nothing going on there.
00:19:35.14\00:19:36.65
And so we left him some
money to hire Bible workers
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and to do the
evangelistic series
00:19:39.68\00:19:41.72
and we flew to America.
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But in America, we
began getting emails saying
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there is a lot of
AIDS orphans there.
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He came up with the
number of 25,000 once,
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another time it's 28,000.
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We thought, "Now wait a minute,
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that's an incredible number
of orphans that can't be."
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So we made another
trip back to Tanzania
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and we went up
again into the mountains
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to investigate this thing.
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We went to the public school
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and between 35 to
50% of the students
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in the public
schools were orphan.
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And at that point,
00:20:15.27\00:20:16.30
my wife decided
we've got to do something.
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However, I was the
president of Eden Valley,
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I couldn't just uproot and go
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and so we decided that she
should do what she could do.
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AIDS was the thing that
was devastating the land here.
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The whole generation
of parents were missing.
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I could see the
young people had nothing.
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There is nothing
here for the young people.
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And so once we
checked over the land
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and we found this place.
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It had water, it had a forest
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and it had some
flat agricultural land.
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We decided to go
ahead and take it.
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And now we have our
whole school campus.
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We have dormitories.
We have staff homes.
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We have classrooms.
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We have carpentry,
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beginner sewing
and advance sewing
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up to this time.
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But our goal is
not to stop there.
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It's to provide
agriculture and mechanics.
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And we've built a
mechanic shop with the pit
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and now we're just waiting
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for the Lord to
provide us a teacher,
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so this program can go ahead.
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The real goal of the place is
not just to teach him a trade.
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We are here for evangelism.
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I learned about God.
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I was converted and
was baptized while here
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and learning things that
will give you a better life.
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And I'm also
growing spiritually.
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Every morning we have 45
minute to an hour Bible class
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and then after that they
start their classroom studies
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which is carpentry and sewing.
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Every morning from 8 to
9 they have Bible class.
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I've been teaching
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and the Jesus
was also a carpenter.
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And the students
appreciate that He also did
00:22:15.52\00:22:18.24
what they are now doing.
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With the skills that
they are learning here,
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we hope that they will be
able to back into their villages
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and do the simple
work of making stools,
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tables, beds, chairs.
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And they will be
able to not only do that,
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but to reflect
Christ in their work.
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I will start my
own sewing business
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and we'll teach
others how to sew.
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One thing I would like is
to have my own sewing machine
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when I graduate.
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We don't have sewing machines
to give to every young girl
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when they graduate.
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So we have provided a
way by giving them work
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and this is a blessing to
them and a blessing to us.
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My education has
been very helpful
00:23:11.98\00:23:14.54
because now I can make a living.
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I'm so thankful to Mrs. Fournier
00:23:16.78\00:23:19.39
for helping to get
me this sewing machine.
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It is such a blessing.
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To the boys, we give
them a plane, hammer,
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saw, chisel and a measuring
tape when they graduate.
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And this has been a
blessing to them, too.
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Because right straight off,
00:23:36.98\00:23:38.57
they can start a little
business for themselves.
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After graduating, I
built this carpentry shop.
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I would like to thank
to school for my education
00:23:49.49\00:23:52.12
which has helped to me
be successful with my work.
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AID's creates many different
pressures on local communities.
00:23:58.78\00:24:02.11
It interrupts the flow
of normal community life.
00:24:02.14\00:24:06.33
For example,
00:24:06.36\00:24:07.68
the elderly are often
trust into the role of being
00:24:07.71\00:24:11.15
primary caregivers for their
now orphaned grandchildren.
00:24:11.18\00:24:15.67
Will region such is this
suffer under the weight of AIDS.
00:24:15.70\00:24:20.89
There is a need
for more education,
00:24:20.92\00:24:22.97
for better medical treatments.
00:24:23.00\00:24:26.23
Eden Valley Foster Care Mission
00:24:26.26\00:24:28.48
is doing what it
can to help alleviate
00:24:28.51\00:24:31.61
some of these
great needs as well.
00:24:31.64\00:24:34.76
We have a clothes distribution
00:24:36.34\00:24:38.08
that we do for
the elementary kids.
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They come over here
or if it's a far village,
00:24:40.93\00:24:44.63
we go to their far village
and we distribute clothing.
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We buy material and
we make dresses for them.
00:24:49.18\00:24:54.31
Last week, we had a
clothing distribution
00:24:54.34\00:24:58.27
for the old people.
00:24:58.30\00:25:00.14
And they are
always so, so thankful.
00:25:00.17\00:25:03.97
We do a lot of
dental work and wound care.
00:25:04.00\00:25:08.09
And usually there
is one or two people
00:25:08.12\00:25:10.79
sitting outside our door
when we get up in the morning.
00:25:10.82\00:25:13.86
It would be nice
to have a clinic.
00:25:15.32\00:25:17.94
We could put a
clinic in the village
00:25:17.97\00:25:19.93
or have a clinic
right here on campus.
00:25:19.96\00:25:23.76
Last week, we had
a lady come to us.
00:25:23.79\00:25:26.96
She had been in the
motorcycle accident.
00:25:26.99\00:25:30.11
Her clothes got
caught in the wheel
00:25:30.14\00:25:32.64
and it caused the bike to tip
00:25:32.67\00:25:35.25
and so then she
thrashed her foot.
00:25:35.28\00:25:38.08
It was very painful.
00:25:38.11\00:25:40.72
And so we put charcoal
poultice on it the first night
00:25:40.75\00:25:44.17
and then I had to go
away for some meetings.
00:25:44.20\00:25:47.22
I had taught her
how to do hot and cold,
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hot and cold.
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And so she
faithfully did that twice a day
00:25:52.25\00:25:55.56
which I am very grateful for.
00:25:55.59\00:25:57.63
I left there some charcoal,
00:25:57.66\00:25:59.10
showed her how to
make the charcoal poultice.
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And so this morning we
went to look at her foot.
00:26:00.99\00:26:04.49
It looks really good.
00:26:04.52\00:26:07.32
We have two Bible
workers here on campus.
00:26:08.48\00:26:10.89
They go into he
local villages here
00:26:10.92\00:26:13.45
and they teach at
the elementary schools.
00:26:13.48\00:26:18.06
They also visit house to house.
00:26:18.09\00:26:20.23
They do to know the
people and help the people.
00:26:20.26\00:26:23.63
I feel like I am a pioneer
and that I built up the place.
00:26:23.66\00:26:30.80
Now we are needing some people
who would be happy to come in
00:26:30.83\00:26:35.07
and to nurture and
mentor these young people.
00:26:35.10\00:26:39.11
So this is urgent
need of us is to have
00:26:39.14\00:26:42.83
two families who would
be willing to come here
00:26:42.86\00:26:46.25
and take over this program
00:26:46.28\00:26:48.03
and teach and
to be a part of it,
00:26:48.06\00:26:50.35
and to make it their own.
00:26:50.38\00:26:51.96
It's His vision.
00:26:53.79\00:26:55.26
This is my motivating
power. This is the Lord's work.
00:26:55.29\00:26:58.61
Helping people to know
Jesus is what we want to do.
00:26:58.64\00:27:01.41
The aim of Eden
Valley Foster Care mission
00:27:03.69\00:27:07.15
is to help the at risk
young people in this region.
00:27:07.18\00:27:10.76
By giving them practical skills,
00:27:10.79\00:27:13.58
they enable them
to earn a livelihood.
00:27:13.61\00:27:16.52
And that's escape
the destructive lifestyle
00:27:16.55\00:27:19.73
that awaits so
many of their friends.
00:27:19.76\00:27:22.92
The students here also
learn of the love of God.
00:27:22.95\00:27:26.87
When they leave the school,
00:27:26.90\00:27:28.56
they go out and they
make a significant impact
00:27:28.59\00:27:31.53
in the surrounding community.
00:27:31.56\00:27:34.25
God's blessing has been
richly felt in this ministry,
00:27:34.28\00:27:38.13
but you too can have a part.
00:27:38.16\00:27:40.61
Your prayers make a
huge difference in ministries
00:27:40.64\00:27:44.63
such as these.
00:27:44.66\00:27:46.37
I encourage you to consider
00:27:46.40\00:27:48.27
what you can do to help
the expanding work of OCI
00:27:48.30\00:27:52.72
around the world.
00:27:52.75\00:27:54.03
We value your support.
00:27:57.35\00:27:59.65
Please, visit us
at OutpostCenters.org.
00:27:59.68\00:28:02.64
To learn more about
the worldwide work of OCI
00:28:02.67\00:28:06.06
and our member ministries,
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such as Eden Valley
Foster Care Mission.
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We would also
love to hear from you
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at info@OutpostCenters.org.
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Or please call
us at 423.236.5600.
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