The Rocky Mountains
stretch hundreds of miles
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from Canada in the north
to New Mexico in the south.
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These towering majestic
peaks have an effect on many
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of drawing their
hearts and minds up to God.
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Join us today as we
visit an OCI ministry
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nestled in the
foothills of the Rockies.
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The territory that now
comprises the state of Colorado
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is filled with natural beauty.
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Tourists and outdoor enthusiasts
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come to this state year around.
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The territory was
originally the home of a variety
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of Native American tribes
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among who were the Arapaho,
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the Comanche, the
Shoshone and the Cheyenne.
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In the 1850s, a
huge demographic shift
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took place in Colorado.
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Gold was discovered
along the Platte River.
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At first the
discovery of gold was small
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and almost inconsequential
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but then in 1858,
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a major discovery was unearthed.
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Those individuals
that came to Colorado
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were called the '59ers.
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They were seeking
wealth and treasure.
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Today, many
people come to Colorado
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for a different
kind of treasure,
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the enjoyment of
being out of doors,
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the challenges of hiking some
of the peaks in the Rockies.
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Eden Valley
Institute and Lifestyle Center
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assists those who were seeking
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for the treasure of good health.
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This year is
our 50th anniversary
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so the purpose was established
a long, long time ago.
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And they started
with a nursing home
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which developed
into retirement center
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and then we expanded to
have a lifestyle center.
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And really behind all of that
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the purpose is to
reach the community somehow
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with the gospel using whatever
avenues at our disposal.
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And right now I think
are most effective approach
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to ministry is
the lifestyle center.
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We've had a lifestyle
center here for 20 or 25 years,
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it's been very successful.
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We've been blessed,
the Lord has done a lot
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for us through us
it's been wonderful.
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And because science advances,
because knowledge advances,
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we keep getting new
techniques and new approaches
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and we're putting them
all in the same buildings
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and the buildings are
becoming very crowded.
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Right now the
patients have to shuttle back
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and forth between two buildings.
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They have to go
to one for meals,
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they have to go to
another one for lectures,
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men's treatment
is in one building,
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women's treatment
is in one building.
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And so we really have a-
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a sense that a new bigger
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one building, one
floor lifestyle center
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would be very, very ideal.
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And so we're
working with the county,
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we've got our master
plan approved by the county
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and I would
hope within two years
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to have a new lifestyle center.
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A lifestyle center is a place
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where we receive people
who have degenerative diseases,
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especially for cancer.
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And we would like to bring
their lifestyle into harmony
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with God's program of healing
which is very, very natural.
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So we have a
couple of doctors on staff
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and we have
therapist and we use massage
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and we use
hydrotherapy treatments,
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hyperbaric chambers and fasting
and juicing and supplements
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we use everything we can use
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in an effort to help the
people with their health.
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But the main ingredient
in all of this is the aid
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what we call the
eight laws in health.
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We have a little rock
garden it has "New Start."
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Those described the eight
laws of health that we use here.
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The 'N' stands for nutrition
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and we tend to
emphasize nutrition a lot
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because it's one of
the main ingredients
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where America is
really kind of gone off track.
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Exercise is the 'E,' it can
decrease your risk of cancer.
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It can decrease your
risk of the current cancers
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if you've overcome cancer.
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Water, is encourage as
well drinking plenty of water.
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The 'S' stands for
sunshine, 'T' is temperance,
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avoiding completely
all things that are bad,
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cigarette
smoking, alcohol, caffeine.
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And we get to the
'A' which is fresh air.
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'R' is for rest and
lastly, trust in God.
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Stress has been shown to-
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to affect our
ability to fight diseases,
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infectious
diseases, cancer diseases.
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And when we try to
shoulder the responsibilities
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that only God can shoulder,
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we're gonna fail and
we're gonna come under stress.
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We have an hour's
devotion with everyone everyday
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and the whole effort is to
get to increase their faith.
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Because if a person
will be very positive,
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if a person will be optimistic,
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if they will have
confidence in faith
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and in the God
outside of themselves
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then they can find healing.
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Probably 60% to
70% of our patients
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are now cancer patients.
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And it's so amazing
cancer is just the pandemic.
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I mean, I-you know, they say
heart disease is the number one
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but I think cancer's
going to be soon overtaking that
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and we've been
reading lot of other studies
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that suggests that
that's really a reality.
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Obesity is rampant,
diabetes is rampant,
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osteoporosis is rampant,
heart disease is rampant-
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its epidemic and lifestyle
changes need to be made.
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In 1900 lifetime risk of getting
cancer is just one in forty.
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By 1945 it was one in twenty.
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And now it's around
one in three people,
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in their
lifetime can expect to get
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like form of
some form of cancer.
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We have established a reputation
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for being very aggressive
in dealing with cancer.
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And there's been
a degree of success
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and that- it is
finding its way out there.
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What we do mostly here
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is to boost
people's immune systems.
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You know, God has designed
our bodies to heal itself.
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And our immune
system is just amazing.
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It's the most powerful agent
for healing more than drugs,
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more than
anything that man can do.
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Everybody has cancer
cells in their body, everybody,
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it doesn't matter who
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but if your immune system is
compromised for whatever reason,
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environmental,
lifestyle, stress,
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you know, whatever the reason is
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if your immune
system is compromised
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and the cancer overcomes you.
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One of the couples
that came this session
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is Pete and Martita.
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They're fully
immersed in the program,
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they're participating 100%.
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And we really, really
like patients like that
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because they get
the best results.
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I found out about it
probably late September of 2011
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I had diagnosis
of cancer and it was-
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it was not a
good prognosis either.
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So it was kind of
tough and we were-
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I was able to a find a
procedure that would help,
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you know, help with
the cancer treatment.
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I had the
procedure done and came back
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and everything
seemed to be pretty good
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but I wanted to follow up
with some post care so to speak
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and so we decided to come here.
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And I was having some problems
or some issues with the-
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from anxiety and
stress as a result of the-
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everything that I'd gone through
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or we had gone through together.
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He had cancer 19
years ago almost 20.
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At that time he was
also given a poor prognosis.
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And that with no hope
and this second time around
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it was a devastating for
us to hear that this cancer,
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a different type of
cancer had come about.
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And in the professional opinions
expressed by the physicians
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that we saw,
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this was also very poor
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and there was
nothing to be done.
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We brought it before the
Lord and He has been so merciful
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and given us every opportunity
and we feel that Eden Valley
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has been the place for
us, it opened up the doors
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and has brought
about so much restoration
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in every aspect spiritual,
physical, mental, emotional.
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That-we praise
God for everything.
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We've been very impressed
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and very blessed
with the staff here
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and the people that are
involved in the organization.
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They do-they really are caring
and they really look after
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you know your
needs when you're here.
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You know, they- they
make you feel as home
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as much as they possibly can.
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They become like
family after a short while.
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Our goal is to
have patients experience
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a lifestyle change here
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and learn how to do it so that
they can continue it at home.
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So we have cooking classes,
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we have lectures
to encourage them
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as to why these things work
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and how they can
shown to be working.
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In lifestyle programs
many times we'll ask patients
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"You know, hey how many think
you're gonna have no problem
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continue this when you leave?"
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And 90% of them raise their hand
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because it's so easy
in a setting like this.
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And say well,
actually the 10 % are probably
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they're more correct.
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And so we say, you know, we
would like while you're here
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to connect into a power
that can help you maintain
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the choices you've made
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and that's where
spiritual component comes in.
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We found a lifestyle program
without a spiritual emphasis.
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leaves patients with
the knowledge of what to do
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but without any
power from God to continue
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on what they're- what
they are deciding to do.
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There are some people who
come here and they don't know
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that they've come
for spiritual healing.
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We've had
experiences with people
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who have been
Christians all their lives
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but when they get to the
end of life or somebody have-
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they have cancer all of a
sudden they start to question
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whether they really
have salvation or not.
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And a huge fear
enters their hearts.
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And I believe with all my heart
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that the Lord has able to
give us the words to speak
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and of course
there's all the promises
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of God in the gospel itself.
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And somehow the Lord
has been able to use us
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in giving people the assurance
that they lack when they come.
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The Scriptures have a
very specific power within,
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a power to convince and
convict and to give assurance
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and seeing that
I do the devotional
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with the lifestyle
guests and I specifically aim
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at making the gospel as
attractive and as simple
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and as understandable
and as applicable as I can
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to these lifestyle guests
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I get a monthly dose
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of my own
medicine, not my medicine
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but it's the medicine
I dish out in any case.
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And really I don't- I don't know
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if there's anything that's more
of a blessing to me than that.
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A change in diet
is an important part
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of the lifestyle program.
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The guests are taught
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how to prepare a
variety of different foods
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and as
importantly how to incorporate
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a lot of fresh
foods into their menus.
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To help facilitate that
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Eden Valley's farm
provide fresh organic produce.
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In addition the farm provides
a bridge to the local community.
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The neighbors are able
to come and participate
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in Eden
Valley's U- Pick program.
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The team attends
various local farmers markets
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providing produce
to a wider audience.
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In this way Eden Valley's farm
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serves as a
ministry to the guests
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as well as reaching
out to the local neighbors.
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We've always wanted
to keep the farm going.
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First of all as
an educational tool
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but it turns out to be
far more than just that.
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We want to learn
to grow our own food
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we know there's coming a time
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when we're gonna
need to grow our own food.
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Well, of course, we
have the lifestyle center
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and it's the
center of everything
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that we do pretty well here.
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But the organic
farm plays a huge part
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and it's going very, very well.
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We've got one of the
best farmers I've seen so far.
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We have Japanese eggplant here
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and I have two different
varieties of bell peppers.
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And I have another
Italian eggplant over there
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and another variety of
bell peppers in the other side.
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And on that side I
have Brandywine tomatoes,
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black cherry tomatoes,
yellow cherry tomatoes,
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red cherry tomatoes and
then I have slicing tomatoes.
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We supply our lifestyle
center with fresh produce.
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Mainly we try to grow everything
that our lifestyle center use
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as they buy a lot of
stuff for their programs
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and we grow mainly
everything they use
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except for their fruits.
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And then the remaining
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we send them to the
local farmers markets.
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Agriculture is the ABC
of our education program.
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But it's really
hard to make money on it.
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But we had to farmers market
that we supplied last year
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and we actually made money.
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The country store
makes money every month,
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it's stuck away in
a corner of her campus
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but it's in the
black every month.
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We want to eventually
move it out to our road
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so that it's more visible.
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Now you know
that we can reach out
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to a wider scope of customers,
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and that is the
community service too.
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You know, everything that we do
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we want to be an
outreach somehow.
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We also have a U-Pick program
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where people from
the community come
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and get involved they
come and pick their own stuff.
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You know, Eden Valley is
sort of known for U-Pick.
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We actually went
out to the community
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and we did a community survey
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and most of them knew
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what Eden Valley's
U- Pick program was
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and they wanted that again.
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So last year we
started the U-Pick program
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but on a limited basis.
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But this year
we're going to expand it
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and we've already sent
out flyers to the community
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and yeah they're-
they're interested.
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We have this greenhouse
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and then we have another
three greenhouses down here
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a little smaller than this
one plus the orchard up here,
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we just started this
year and the raspberry patch.
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Out in the field we
have conventional produce
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like broccoli,
cauliflower, cabbage.
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It produces for
the lifestyle guests
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organic, fresh vegetables,
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you know, almost all the year
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and that's a huge
boom when you can do that.
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And then of course we
can sell it to the neighbors
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and stuff like this.
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So it's-it's outreach,
its outreach far more than
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we understand, just doing it.
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And we're anticipating using it
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of course in the
education program
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and the lifestyle guests,
they get to see what's going on,
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they get to eat the
food, we get the benefit.
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Many of the guests that visit
Eden Valley's Lifestyle Center
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find the treasure
of restored health.
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When we return, we'll
explore another avenue
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in which Eden Valley
uses the healing arts
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to communicate the
gospel of God's grace.
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Pain, suffering and hopelessness
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are everywhere we look.
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As Christians we know that
the ultimate answer is Jesus.
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We are called to
bring people to Him
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as well as to share
His love in practical ways.
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Can you imagine the
difference it would make
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if every church
member did all that we can
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to share our hope.
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That's what OCI is all about.
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Lay people using their skills
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to reach their
communities and bring change,
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whether through
lifestyle centers or schools,
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restaurants or clinics.
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The methods are diverse
but the goal is the same,
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to bring hope and
healing to our dying world.
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In order for
this work to continue,
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prayer, workers and
funding are all necessary.
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When you support OCI,
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you support the work
of more than 80 ministries
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around the world.
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For more information about
how you can become involved,
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please contact us anytime.
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In order to
broaden their outreach,
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the team at Eden
Valley has incorporated
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an educational
component into their ministry.
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Utilizing their farm,
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practical skills
taught in the wellness center
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as well as classroom activities
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their aim is to
equip their students
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with the necessary tools
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that they can be
effective servants for Christ,
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wherever He leads them.
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We used to have an
education program here
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it called the
World Mission course.
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We would train young adults
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in everything that we thought
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would equip a person
in the mission field.
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So there would
be natural remedies
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and there would be
hydrotherapy, massage
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and there would be agriculture
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and they would
also do evangelism.
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Eden Valley used to be known
for their World Missions course.
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And it had sort
of two tracks to it.
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There was agriculture missionary
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and medical missionary training.
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And the agriculture missionary
training used to be huge.
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And so we want to
restart our education program
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not focus so much on agriculture
to the extent that it was
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but we are going to
have two tracks for people.
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People can come and learn about
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agriculture missionary
programs or medical missionary.
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But both programs are
going to be very heavily
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mixed in with evangelism.
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Another exciting thing
about here at Eden Valley
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and with our education
department is the organic farms
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we're integrating
that into the program
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so that students can
come and get experience,
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hands-on experience in
an organic agriculture.
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We want people not just to learn
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about medical missionary
and agriculture missionary
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but what to do beyond that,
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to bring the people
that they're working with
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to a decision for Christ.
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The main goal is to
make people practical
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in the hope that they'll go
to the mission field and use it.
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So the name a
program is entitled,
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The Well at Eden Valley
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and it stands for
Training Health Educators
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With Evangelism
Lifestyle and Leadership.
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If you look at John Chapter 4,
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the Samaritan woman
she came to the well
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to relieve her
physical necessities
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but then she found
Jesus there at the well.
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So there's three areas
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that we want to focus
on in our in our training
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is not only personal but
public and health evangelism
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so that you can go
back wherever you work,
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may be in your home church
as a Bible worker or overseas
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but you can lead
out in evangelism.
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As you look in this world
look around what's happening,
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you can see that the
times that we live in dictate
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that we need to
have a call for action
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that we need to do something,
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we need to spread
the three angels messages
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because there's people out
there that are, that are open,
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that are hungry, they're waiting
00:20:31.67\00:20:33.71
for somebody to
come share the joy,
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the peace, the love
of Christ that we have.
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And if we don't do it, who will?
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You know, I worked
with ASI Youth for Jesus
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and one of the
most common things
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that I've heard
from my Bible worker
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was it they wish they could
help people in their homes.
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Because so many homes you
go into to do Bible studies
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they have health problems,
they have health issues,
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they have, you know stress
and smoking and alcoholism,
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all those kind of things.
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And so if the Bible
workers could learn,
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you know, the basics of
medical missionary health
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it would just be huge.
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I find that
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the majority people aren't
really open to Bible studies
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but you find the people
are really open to health
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and the health message.
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So I think now is
a- is a great time
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to be able to take
the message of health
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to people in the community.
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And there's a specific
quote that I think of, it says,
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"Relive the physical
necessities of your fellow men
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and their gratitude
will break down the barriers
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and enable you to
reach their hearts."
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And so the
method is very simple,
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if we can bring
health into people's homes
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into people's lives
in simple practical ways,
00:21:49.92\00:21:53.05
you know, that
will break down barriers
00:21:53.08\00:21:55.46
in people that
aren't too readily
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interested in the Bible studies
00:21:57.40\00:21:59.00
and so that we can share
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the Gospel of
Jesus Christ with them.
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Because of the fact
that people are open
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to the message of health
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we've established a certified
wellness coaching program.
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And I think it's
really interesting
00:22:14.61\00:22:16.15
that the term wellness
coach is really a trending term
00:22:16.18\00:22:22.04
that people are really
getting more interested in.
00:22:22.07\00:22:24.36
So what we're doing is we're
training medical missionaries.
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But when we go
on to the community
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we send them as wellness
coaches in order to reach people
00:22:29.27\00:22:34.79
maybe they're not
open to Bible studies
00:22:34.82\00:22:37.77
or maybe they're not
readily interested in Bible
00:22:37.80\00:22:40.08
or prophecy or
anything like that.
00:22:40.11\00:22:41.95
But here's an extra avenue
that you come and get trained
00:22:41.98\00:22:45.16
and you can reach people
00:22:45.19\00:22:46.96
by His promises in
the spirit of prophecy
00:22:46.99\00:22:50.52
that they will-their hearts
will be open to the message.
00:22:50.55\00:22:53.71
I grew up in a in a home
00:22:55.48\00:22:58.70
where everyone
was miners and loggers
00:22:58.73\00:23:00.40
nobody went to school,
00:23:00.43\00:23:01.46
there was no highly
educated people in the family.
00:23:01.49\00:23:05.44
And so with a family
of three kids and a wife
00:23:05.47\00:23:08.03
and a home and everything else
00:23:08.06\00:23:10.22
we had it just
didn't seem feasible
00:23:10.25\00:23:12.71
to go and get an education.
00:23:12.74\00:23:15.33
But it wasn't long in
studying the scriptures
00:23:15.36\00:23:18.01
we really wanted to be involved
in missionary work somehow
00:23:18.04\00:23:22.44
and we found it, we found
it at OCI, we found it at ASI.
00:23:22.47\00:23:26.78
You can see the wisdom
in the Lord in organizing
00:23:26.81\00:23:31.08
some entities like OCI and ASI
00:23:31.11\00:23:34.15
who could make room for people
00:23:34.18\00:23:35.80
who wanted to serve the Lord
00:23:35.83\00:23:37.12
but did not have the
master's degrees or the PhD's.
00:23:37.15\00:23:39.91
There's plenty of
places that need workers.
00:23:40.31\00:23:43.16
I mean, Jesus Christ said that
00:23:43.19\00:23:44.70
the harvest is great
but the laborers are few.
00:23:44.73\00:23:47.04
So there's not a shortage of
places where somebody can go.
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There's people out
there that need our help
00:23:51.80\00:23:53.94
this is why we're here.
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We're going to be doing
00:23:55.73\00:23:56.85
an evangelistic
meeting this fall.
00:23:56.88\00:23:58.33
So we're starting to do
00:23:58.36\00:24:00.67
a community outreach
event every six weeks.
00:24:00.70\00:24:02.69
So we've done
three cooking schools,
00:24:03.64\00:24:06.28
we've done a simple remedies,
natural remedy seminar.
00:24:06.31\00:24:10.44
We've down health
emphasis weekends.
00:24:10.47\00:24:12.07
We have a core group of people
00:24:12.83\00:24:14.44
from the
community that are coming.
00:24:14.47\00:24:16.67
Every single one they love it.
00:24:16.70\00:24:18.84
And then Messiah's Mansion
from Oklahoma Academy is coming,
00:24:18.87\00:24:23.11
they are gonna set up their
sanctuary on Interstate 25.
00:24:23.14\00:24:26.60
And there's four area
churches that are all involved,
00:24:27.66\00:24:30.30
our church is one of them.
00:24:30.33\00:24:32.31
And that is getting
really a response already.
00:24:32.34\00:24:36.38
And will be
holding cooking schools,
00:24:36.41\00:24:39.04
medical seminars,
agriculture seminars.
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They haven't done
an evangelistic program
00:24:41.46\00:24:43.21
in this church for a while.
00:24:43.24\00:24:44.94
So we're really
looking forward to that.
00:24:44.97\00:24:46.87
We just hired a
young Bible worker
00:24:48.12\00:24:51.12
and we're hoping
that she will build up
00:24:51.15\00:24:54.16
a group of people
who are really interested
00:24:54.19\00:24:57.34
in knowing the Scriptures.
00:24:57.37\00:24:58.52
We're following that
with the Messiah's Mansion
00:24:58.88\00:25:01.63
and we're hoping that's going
to draw a lot of interested,
00:25:01.66\00:25:04.72
usually it does
and then from that
00:25:04.75\00:25:06.77
we're going to
advertise an evangelistic series
00:25:06.80\00:25:09.76
in October based
on the sanctuary.
00:25:09.79\00:25:12.20
We have several missions that
we're directly involved with.
00:25:12.23\00:25:16.84
We don't really do the
management of those ministry
00:25:17.50\00:25:20.54
but we were responsible
for raising funds for them.
00:25:20.57\00:25:23.75
So the AIDS orphan
program in Tanzania,
00:25:23.78\00:25:27.39
the orphanage program in India,
00:25:27.42\00:25:29.55
the outreach to the
Tarahumara Indians in Mexico.
00:25:29.58\00:25:32.67
Dominican
Republic, the country life
00:25:33.20\00:25:35.41
and lifestyle center there
00:25:35.44\00:25:37.78
Mount Akagi in Japan.
00:25:37.81\00:25:40.28
You know, these
are all ministries
00:25:40.31\00:25:42.62
that really need support.
00:25:42.65\00:25:44.72
And these are
ministries that are-
00:25:44.75\00:25:47.62
they're not big,
they're not large
00:25:47.65\00:25:49.81
but their
ministries that are doing
00:25:49.84\00:25:53.18
a tremendous amount of outreach.
00:25:53.21\00:25:55.12
Well, I'm especially
close to the OCI family.
00:25:56.70\00:25:59.12
I had the
opportunity of working there,
00:25:59.95\00:26:02.05
personally as the
executive vice president
00:26:02.08\00:26:04.87
and even today I'm
the board chairman of OCI.
00:26:04.90\00:26:07.99
So there's been a very close,
close connection for me to OCI.
00:26:08.02\00:26:13.80
But as an institution
it's also invaluable.
00:26:13.83\00:26:16.71
The yearly retreats
00:26:16.74\00:26:18.65
and the networking
that we're able to do
00:26:18.68\00:26:22.27
and the family just that
by itself would be enough
00:26:22.30\00:26:25.50
to be long to a group of people
00:26:25.53\00:26:27.48
such as Seventh-day
Adventist Christians laypeople
00:26:27.51\00:26:30.73
even organized to
do as much as we can do
00:26:30.76\00:26:34.60
for the Lord is been huge
a blessing, it really has.
00:26:34.63\00:26:39.39
I believe in Eden
Valley only because I believe
00:26:43.24\00:26:45.90
that this is
where God has set us up.
00:26:45.93\00:26:48.24
This is where God wants to work,
00:26:48.27\00:26:49.90
this is where God has worked.
00:26:49.93\00:26:51.36
There's been a
wonderful years at Eden Valley.
00:26:51.39\00:26:55.05
And there's also
been years of decline.
00:26:55.08\00:26:57.95
And we are praying in working
00:26:57.98\00:27:02.88
to reestablish Eden Valley
on the more solid footing.
00:27:02.91\00:27:08.06
I- we're near, we're close.
00:27:08.09\00:27:09.90
The Lord is blessing
more and more and more.
00:27:09.93\00:27:12.45
For fifty years,
00:27:14.96\00:27:16.57
Eden Valley has kept
their goals steadfastly in view.
00:27:16.60\00:27:19.88
Their aim is to help
restore people to health,
00:27:20.97\00:27:24.75
mentally, physically
and of course spiritually.
00:27:24.78\00:27:27.83
They long to
introduce the people
00:27:29.29\00:27:31.23
that they meet to Jesus Christ.
00:27:31.26\00:27:33.51
You can have a
part in this ministry.
00:27:34.93\00:27:36.95
Perhaps you know
someone that would benefit
00:27:37.91\00:27:40.50
from their lifestyle program.
00:27:40.53\00:27:42.07
I encourage you
00:27:44.06\00:27:45.17
to consider what you can do
not only to help this ministry
00:27:45.20\00:27:49.48
but the
worldwide ministry in OCI.
00:27:49.51\00:27:52.52
We value your support.
00:27:52.55\00:27:55.43
To find out more,
please visit us on the web
00:27:55.46\00:27:58.76
at outpostcenters.org
or you can send an email
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from you in person as well,
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feel free to call us.
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Our phone
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For OCI Reports
this Steven Grabiner.
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