In the early 1900s
Ellen White had a vision
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of the council meeting.
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One in authority
stood before the meeting
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and presented a map
to the participants.
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On that map were
small jets of light.
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Each stream of light
represented in individual
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who responded to the gospel.
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Soon the entire
map was lightened
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with these beams of light.
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Today, we'll be
visiting in OCI ministry
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that is endeavoring to
make that vision a reality.
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As Ellen White
continued to watch the vision,
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she gazed upon
that map lightened up.
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Unfortunately, that
map was soon replaced
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with one covered in darkness.
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The darkness
represented individuals
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who refuse to reflect the light
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that had shown up on them.
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The Lay Institute of
Global Health Training
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or LIGHT for short
was born with the vision
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to train medical
missionaries around the world.
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These missionaries
would carry the light
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given to them to others.
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In this way they would share
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the message of God's
love with a darkened world.
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Back in the year 2003, 2004,
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when I was serving as
a vice president at OCI,
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I got a call from
a friend from Germany
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who had been very
active in Central Asia
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supporting gospel workers.
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And he said, you know,
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because there only
using the gospel approach,
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they are having
trouble getting good studies.
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And we need to do
medical missionary work.
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Having used
medical missionary work
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in many different countries
that surely as God said
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it would work in all countries
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it would work in a moderately
Muslim country as well.
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So I went to some
of the leaders in ASI,
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I said, we'd like
to put together a team
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we would like to
put together some funds.
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And some of these
brothers thought about it
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and they said why
just do Central Asia,
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why don't we try a pilot project
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in several
different kinds of countries,
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maybe an African country,
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maybe a Western European country
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and a modernly Muslim country.
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And so sure enough they
came through with some funding
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and we put
together a pilot project
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and when the six months was over
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it was exciting to see
the change it developed
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in the student
body that was there.
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And that it was making
a significant difference
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in the ability of their workers
to reach their population.
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There's a huge need in the world
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for lay training and
medical missionary work.
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Ellen White calls
for every church member
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to take hold of
medical missionary work
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but as I've travel around
I notice a lot of lay members
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don't really understand
what medical missionary work is.
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So we offer the
four week intensive
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we call the
essentials of health evangelism.
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And it's a full month
commitment we do classes all day
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but we get the church
members active in outreach,
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while we're working with them.
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So we're both
doing theory training,
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we're also doing
hands-on training
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teaching them how to
go into the community
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and do health
expo's, door-to-door work,
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cooking classes and teach them
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that evangelism
is really a cycle.
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It should be
going on continually,
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building contacts,
relationships with people
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and that the health
message is really the-
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that the best
way to reach people.
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Now we'd like to see
that Seventh-day Adventist
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are known as
people that live healthy
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and have a really
great message to share
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about how to live
better and prevent disease
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and even reverse some diseases.
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The local church
can be a powerful tool
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in the hands of God
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to effectively
reach any community.
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When you incorporate
practical healthy evangelism
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the church
becomes a live and dynamic
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and it just integrates
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with all the other
departments in the church
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and makes it a
powerful place to be.
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Our primary emphasis is
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in developing new
training programs.
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In Asia, in Africa,
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in South
America, Central America
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we're working to develop
a permanent training schools
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that- that could be used to
provide medical missionaries
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to work in their
country and in other countries.
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And so we help to
establish these schools.
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It's a very hard
when you're trying
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to start a school to
develop your own curriculum.
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And so we have a team
of health professionals
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and experienced
missions that refine research
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keep our material up-to-date.
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We have our core curriculum
for our essentials course
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which is our shorter
program and then we also have
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curriculum for our
longer six-month course.
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We work with lay groups,
we work with churches, unions.
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If anybody wants to
start a lay training school,
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medical missionary work
where they're just to help,
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they can use our material
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and we don't
charge anything for it.
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We also translate our
material in local languages.
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Another thing that we do
to help establish projects
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is by recruiting missionary
teachers to come and help.
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We have a
network, a growing network
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of medical missionary
teachers around the world
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that speak multiple languages.
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We do what we
can but we don't run
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and we don't
control and we don't-
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we're not on their board,
we're just only there to assist.
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In this kind of work,
you can get so wrapped up
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and so busy that
it's hard to find time
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to develop your project.
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So we are- we are
in the midst right now
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of developing
advanced training programs.
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We have an excellent
one year advanced course
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that we're, that
we're developing.
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We also have floor
plans for helping projects
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develop lifestyle centers.
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Business plans for
developing restaurants.
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Agriculture plans for
developing the farm project.
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We really believe that
our school should follow
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lucrative
education that the students
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not only have a
theoretical training
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but also a practical training.
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And so we emphasize a half work,
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half study day
with the students.
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So we have
different plans and models
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that institutions can
use to develop their industry
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and get their students involved
and engaged in practical work.
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What makes LIGHT
unique is that it works
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not only to train individuals
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but it also gives
them an opportunity
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to network with
other like-minded people
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from all around the world
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who have received the
same type of training,
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the same type of background,
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who are doing the
same type of work.
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LIGHT is more
than just training,
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it's actually a network,
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a body of
like-minded individuals
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focusing on the same
direction, same goals.
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We have graduated
over 6,000 lay members
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in the last five years
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and this network of graduates
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stay in touch with us
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and when an
institution is in need
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through this network we're able
to hopefully fill those needs,
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staff needs, missionary needs.
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In some other instance we're
kind of a medical missionary
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crediting body that we
look at curriculum and say,
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well, yeah this is
definitely close enough to
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what we are
teaching in our school.
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So somebody knows what to expect
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when they get a LIGHT training
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because all of
our affiliate schools
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have a certain
level of congruency.
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A graduate student from Nigeria
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could link up
with a graduate student
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from South Africa and Zambia
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and those three
could come together
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and work to establish
a new school in Tanzania.
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They'll all be on a same page
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because they've all been
taking the same training.
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It works like that in Asia too.
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So graduates
from the Philippines
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and graduates from Indonesia
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are working together to
start a school in Cambodia.
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And so we realize how
important our curriculum is.
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So we get feedback
from all of our schools
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we're constantly
trying to improve it,
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revise it and make it
the best that it can be
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because we want it to be,
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you know, a
blessing to everybody.
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I have been so blessed since
I have been traveling around
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the Caribbean,
Central South America
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to see the
hunger that people have
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for preventive medicine
and to put into their lives
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a simple principles
given to us in the Bible
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and the Spirit of Prophecy
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that opens the
doors for spreading
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and planting the
seeds of the gospel.
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I've seen so many cases
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where
individuals received healing.
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People's lives
were changed physical
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and then they gave their
lives to Lord as a result.
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LIGHT is also
working in the United States.
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Really we want
to see an expansion
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of medical
missionary work here too
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'cause this the health message
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not only works
in the third world
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it works very much in
the first world as well.
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You know, North America stills
is a pretty big mission field.
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It's thought to be one the most
religious countries in the world
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yet church
attendance is just plummeting
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when you look at
the Gallup polls,
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pew forum you find
that people aren't really
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going to church or saying that
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they're involved with religious
organizations any longer.
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And so the idea is
we need to do something
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to reach out to the people
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who are interested
in spiritual things
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that they may say
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we're just being
spiritual but not religious.
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I could think of no better
way than health evangelism.
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You meeting felt means
and going over to unfelt means
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in a very seamless
manner the way Jesus did it.
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Church training
in the United States
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I think is so important
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and it's so easy in
the US to get complacent,
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get wrapped up in our jobs,
wrapped up in earning money
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and developing our lives.
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And yeah, helping
on church a little bit
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but not in any
real significant way
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but we want to
inspire church members
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that they can even at
their jobs make connections,
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have it always in their minds
that that they are soul winners.
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We've had churches
take responsibility
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for project and
raise money for it.
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It gives a revival.
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When we get
involved in foreign missions
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it also helps revive
our churches at home.
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Some of the OCI
projects that we worked with
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are in Amazon, in Brazil,
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in Norway, in Africa.
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One of that, that
really comes to mind is
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VIDA international in Honduras.
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In 2007 two young
guys came into our office
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and said we want to
start a project in Honduras.
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And is there any
way you can help us?
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And so this is right
when LIGHT was taking off
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as a right, I think we can.
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And so we came to Honduras
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we did a one
month school with them
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and we had our
material translated into Spanish
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and they used it
and the school grew
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and we help find a
couple missionaries
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to go on and help
teach at their school.
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And it's just amazing to see
how God has blessed our project
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and in such a short time
the project grew and developed.
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There are many people out
there that don't know Christ.
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And so the main
objective of the ministry is to
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somehow satisfy
some of these needs
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that these people might have,
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that they might see
that there's a God out there
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that cares for them
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and that they might
eventually come to Christ.
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And also be motivated
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to bring that which
they have received to others.
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The primary goal of the school
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is to hasten the
second coming of our Lord,
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by providing the
world, men and women of God
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who are able to lead in
medical missionary work.
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Another example is in Brazil,
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Brad Mills with the
Amazon Lifesavers project
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and he's been
sending lay workers
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out to reach these people,
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people that live
way back in the jungle,
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they're some of them
don't even speak Portuguese.
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Through talking with him I
realized and he also agreed
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that his Bible workers
didn't have much training.
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So we sent two graduates down
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who conducted a one
month school with Brad
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and started to
stir some interest
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and he could see
the vision of it.
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One of the biggest
needs that we have seen
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in the interior of the
Amazon is more Bible workers,
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more trained
people that would come in
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and be able to use
the health message,
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education, training and really
teach to people basic doctrines
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and study of the Bible.
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In January we actually did
our first one month lay course
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we had some
LIGHT leaders come down
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and we were able to
take 10 of the jungle people
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that we had worked with
that we had done medical work
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and evangelism
in their communities
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and that of one month LIGHT
course and it was so exciting.
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And that we had such a
success that we're actually
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wanting to implement
a full time LIGHT course
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training jungle people
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who are working with
our local union office
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of getting all the
details ironed out right now.
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We hope the
beginning of this coming year
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to start a full-time LIGHT
course so we can be training,
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river people bring them
in, put them to a training
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and then have a back
out in their own villages
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or to go to a new
village and start doing
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medical mission
pioneer work in the jungle.
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They've got graduates now
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that are getting a
more solid training
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and now instead
of just going out
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and trying to
share few Bible studies,
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they're coming into these
villages offering health work,
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health education and once
that relationship has developed
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there will be church planting
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and further in
the work in that area.
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So it's really exciting to
see this that we're growing,
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you know, it's almost
like a wheel within a wheel
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that you see
somebody from Norway
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linking up through us somehow
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and going off to
Honduras or Dominic Republic
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or somewhere else.
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Currently, LIGHT is
holding training programs
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in over 25
countries around the globe.
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Their aim is to see these
short one or six month courses
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blossom into full-time ministry.
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In a moment we'll visit
one of these new ministries
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active in the Philippines.
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When you think of missionaries,
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what do you picture?
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For many people the image
of a doctor, teacher or pastor
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in a remote
country comes to mind.
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But the truth
is God needs people
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with many
different skills in His work
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both around the
world and close to home.
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At OCI, we're passionate
about helping to connect
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mission minded
people with our network
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with more than 80 ministries.
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Each project aims to share
the gospel in practical ways
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and they need
skilled workers of all types,
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mechanics,
gardeners, cooks and designers,
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just to name a few
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of course, they also
need teachers and doctors.
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If you're interested in
serving at an OCI ministry
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visit our website for a
list of current opportunities
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or call our office,
we'd love to talk to you.
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Better Way
Foundation is a LIGHT school
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located in the northern
part of the Island of the Luzon.
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It is currently
home to 50 students,
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all of them eager
to catch and reflect
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light that
comes from God's Word.
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We run two
six-month sessions every year
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which starts in January to
June and then July to December.
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And students from all over
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normally coming from
our one month schools come.
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These one month trainings
are more about filtering process
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where students
already learned the basics
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of medical missionary work
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and when they get
here for the six months
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they get refined
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so their character is
being molded in this place.
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We live here pretty primitive,
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we live in huts
and in an environment
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where we do not
have electricity.
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When we first arrived
here the campus is really
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just like a forest and jungle.
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And I grew up in the
city, there's no electricity,
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water is a really
hard during those times.
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And there were several months
when we were staying in tents
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and now we're still here,
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we're still here
serving the Lord.
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Here in our place we
have work education program
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where our students go out
in the field every morning
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we teach agriculture here,
cooking and also construction.
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And it becomes balanced
because in the afternoon
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they sit in the
classes and we teach them
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what it is to become
a medical missionary.
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They learn the
practical things in life,
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they learn farming and
not only the mere farming
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but they are learning humility,
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especially the students
who came from comfortable life.
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We have three kinds of
students, one that is paying,
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they pay for the program.
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One is step out
of faith students
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and one is working students.
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Our working students
are the one that keep
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the agricultural program going
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and that's where we
get the additional income.
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The step out of faith student
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is when they
don't have any money
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but they do come
because they believe
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they come because
they're called by God.
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And they're here and
their faith is truly tested.
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And that we try to
find sponsors for them.
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Somehow the Lord provides,
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the Lord takes
care of all their needs.
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Right now I had too
many struggles in my family
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because they are
questioning me why I am here.
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Why not go and work
to earn your own money,
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my father told
me that- that money
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that I am looking
for it's the peace.
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I went here saying,
Lord, I may not have everything
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but just use me.
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Usually in the
morning and in the evening
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we have our
worship and I thank God
00:17:50.54\00:17:54.44
for giving me the
privilege to do opening prayer,
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to lead a song service
and hear some messages.
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In the ministry of
healing which tried for...
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to those who surrendered
their lives through His guidance
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and through His service,
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we will never be
put in a position
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where God does
not make provision,
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that's the promise of God
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that I'm really
holding on right now
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that though there are
many struggles that I'm facing
00:18:24.59\00:18:27.75
everyday in my teaching
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He will be there wherever I go.
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We're nearing at
the end time already
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and He's coming very soon
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and I can't wait to
see Him, face to face.
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And while they're equipping us-
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well, God is equipping us,
teaching us a lot of things.
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I believe that God is
preparing us for a greater work.
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And I'm so
excited to see many people
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going back to Christ.
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I pray that it's not just
me, it's not my classmates here
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in this training but I
pray that before God comes
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everybody will be involved
in this end time movement.
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It is in this place that
I can hear God so revealing.
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He's really talking to
me in the books that I read,
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from the Bible, from the
books of Mrs. Ellen White.
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And about the staff
I really love the way
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they treat the students.
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I really feel at home in here,
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it's like a one big family.
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When students
graduate from this place,
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we want them to keep
working for the Lord.
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And these different
ministries that we have
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they go there and
relieve the ones that are there.
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Also some of the
students are acquired by ASI.
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Also some of the
students are local churches
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as Bible workers
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and this is
where they truly grow.
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'Cause I believe
there's only two things,
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we can take to heaven
our character and souls.
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By them going out and
really tasting and seeing
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how good God is
that develops character.
00:20:17.67\00:20:23.36
As we know we need
to be self-supporting
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that is biblical and we have
a few income-generating ventures
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here in our on our campus,
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one of them
obviously is agriculture.
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We also have vermi worms
where we do organic gardening
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and we sell by casting
of the worms as fertilizer,
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also have mushroom farming.
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We're averaging now
about six to seven kilos a day
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and we plan to
be 50 kilos per day
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when we sell to the outside.
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We also have
bakery, so we have four
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currently running at this point
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in different parts
of the Philippines.
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Down the hill we have a
bakery and in the morning
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they are selling
this into the community.
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And the community loves
this bread so much because
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first it's healthy,
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the same price
with the other breads
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and second the missionaries
who are selling these breads
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are very kind, friendly.
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They introduce themselves
as medical missionaries
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and at the same time
they are offering a prayers
00:21:26.02\00:21:29.23
to those
families who are in need,
00:21:29.26\00:21:31.48
who needs encouragement.
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If our medical
missionaries will be able to see
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some individuals who
are sick in the family,
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then in the afternoon
they went back to that family.
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They treat them
with simple remedies
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and somehow that
paved the way in order
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they will get the
confidence of the family
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and then later
on they could start
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a Bible study with the family.
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Aside from the bakery we
also have a Jeepney ministry.
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It started from one
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and then the Lord
gave us second Jeepney,
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then we now have three
Jeepney's and we call them
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the Three
Angels Message Jeepney.
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You know, Spirit of
Prophecy says you need the way
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to go to the city.
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So we pick up passengers,
it becomes a ministry.
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They get on our
jeeps and they get a track
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and also they get- they
get to listen to Godly music.
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Every time that they
give their fare, I told them,
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wait a minute, now I
have something for you.
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Not only pamphlets
but I also distribute
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Great Controversy books,
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Steps to Christ book once a day.
00:22:33.94\00:22:36.85
So it's a beautiful
ministry, now we have equipped
00:22:36.88\00:22:41.23
our Jeepney with
really just music.
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So it's very
different because the moment
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that they enter
into the Jeepney,
00:22:46.52\00:22:48.71
sometimes we've been
hearing worldly songs
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but this Jeepney
is a very different,
00:22:51.35\00:22:53.16
a very unique ministry.
00:22:53.19\00:22:55.54
The Holy Spirit is working
00:22:55.57\00:22:57.36
even in the lives
of our passengers.
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Our relationship with
the church is very good.
00:23:00.11\00:23:03.02
We have the full support
of our mission president,
00:23:03.05\00:23:07.08
our union
president, our district pastors
00:23:07.11\00:23:09.95
because we work with them.
00:23:09.98\00:23:13.82
We run a 24-week program,
12 weeks they're with us,
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we train them how to do
health talks, how to preach,
00:23:17.36\00:23:22.24
how to do Sabbath School.
00:23:22.27\00:23:23.89
And after 12 weeks
during the weekends
00:23:23.92\00:23:26.29
we do deploy them
to different churches
00:23:26.32\00:23:29.27
because of our pastors
having 17 or 20 churches,
00:23:29.30\00:23:32.88
the work of the
pastors get easier
00:23:32.91\00:23:35.45
because now we're helping.
00:23:35.48\00:23:38.29
We encourage the churches
to have a vesper service.
00:23:38.32\00:23:41.29
We encourage the students
00:23:41.32\00:23:43.46
to be in-charge
of Sabbath school,
00:23:43.49\00:23:46.00
divine service, AY programs
00:23:46.03\00:23:48.81
and in the afternoons
they do visitations, massages,
00:23:48.84\00:23:52.66
hydrotherapy and Sundays
00:23:52.69\00:23:54.60
we encourage them
to do cooking school,
00:23:54.63\00:23:56.36
so the whole church is involved.
00:23:56.39\00:23:59.18
Every weekend they go and
have service in the church,
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help in evangelistic crusades.
00:24:03.38\00:24:07.75
And we are really convinced
that the health message
00:24:07.78\00:24:12.70
which is being taught
here is the right hand
00:24:12.73\00:24:17.42
of the gospel message.
00:24:17.45\00:24:19.01
I was asked to conduct
an evangelistic crusade
00:24:19.04\00:24:23.87
in one of the town's up north
00:24:23.90\00:24:26.04
and I asked who will
be preparing the ground.
00:24:26.07\00:24:29.51
And when they told me
00:24:29.54\00:24:30.66
that it is the better
way foundation in the LIGHT,
00:24:30.69\00:24:34.46
I was so happy because I know
that God will be using them.
00:24:34.49\00:24:39.92
And truly God used them
in breaking the prejudice
00:24:39.95\00:24:43.56
in the people
and praise the Lord
00:24:43.59\00:24:45.88
during the crusade if there was
a reaping for two weeks crusade
00:24:45.91\00:24:49.87
we have more than 70 souls
00:24:49.90\00:24:51.52
that we've brought to
the foot of the cross.
00:24:51.55\00:24:54.15
This morning we
had ground breaking.
00:24:54.18\00:24:56.40
And that has been a
dream fulfilled for us
00:24:56.43\00:25:00.33
because we've had this
vision of a lifestyle center.
00:25:00.36\00:25:03.43
Here we can
integrate what we have learned
00:25:03.46\00:25:06.01
and put it where
people will come.
00:25:06.04\00:25:09.08
It will be a monument
of how God can transform
00:25:09.11\00:25:14.41
a place like this into a place
00:25:14.44\00:25:18.28
where His name
will be glorified.
00:25:18.31\00:25:21.84
This is our prayer
and this is our hope.
00:25:21.87\00:25:25.62
Jesus can come the soonest,
00:25:25.65\00:25:27.86
that this is the
reason why we're here.
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The people that encompass
00:25:31.73\00:25:34.38
this organization
are godly men and women.
00:25:34.41\00:25:38.70
They are the ones
that help moving the work
00:25:38.73\00:25:40.95
because I believe humble people
is needed in the end time.
00:25:40.98\00:25:45.39
You know, if it
wasn't for the core
00:25:45.42\00:25:47.62
beginning
relationship with the OCI,
00:25:47.65\00:25:49.42
LIGHT would not have
had such an opportunity
00:25:49.45\00:25:51.62
to grow and develop.
00:25:51.65\00:25:53.19
LIGHT is working with
so many OCI institutions.
00:25:53.22\00:25:56.64
When the OCI
institutions that have
00:25:56.67\00:25:58.63
medical
missionary training courses
00:25:58.66\00:25:59.96
really united together
with this LIGHT project
00:25:59.99\00:26:02.83
this is when it really
helped to expand the work.
00:26:02.86\00:26:05.81
And now when we work
to develop a new project,
00:26:05.84\00:26:08.50
let's say for example
in Philippines you know,
00:26:08.53\00:26:10.10
we want to see these
projects become OCI ministries.
00:26:10.13\00:26:13.60
So LIGHT is
getting in the front line
00:26:13.63\00:26:15.44
it's trying to break new ground,
00:26:15.47\00:26:16.71
starting small or
short training courses,
00:26:16.74\00:26:18.67
build it to a six-month course,
00:26:18.70\00:26:20.62
try to develop a team
that can set up their own
00:26:20.65\00:26:24.60
nonprofit organization
that will work with the
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Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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And then once they
are established and
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after about three
years of LIGHT's involvement
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we like to see that they're
standing on their own two feet.
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We encourage them
then to become OCI members
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and then that way they
can see even a broader picture
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that there's hundred
ministries in the world
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that are also engaging
this similar kind of work and
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so we fellowship
together at OCI retreats.
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And usually at the OCI
retreats we have some little
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LIGHT sub-groups meeting here
and there and it's excellent.
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And I'm looking
for the one in Africa
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because all of our
LIGHT schools are gonna be
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coming into the
OCI retreat there
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and we're gonna be
networking and planning
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and see who else
we could work with.
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So it's very
helpful what OCI provides.
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From the
Philippines to Honduras,
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from United States to Africa,
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the team of LIGHT is
pursuing their vision
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of training medical
missionaries worldwide.
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Their reason for
existence is to equip the chosen
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to respond to God's call.
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You can be a part of
fulfilling the vision
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of surrounding this dark
world with jets of light.
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If you're interested you
could host a LIGHT school
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or take part in one of
their training programs
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or make a contribution
to their various needs.
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If you would like to support
the expanding work of OCI
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and our
ministries around the world,
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please visit us
at outpostcenters.org
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or call us at 423-236-5600.
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You can also find us on
Facebook at OCI connects.
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For OCI reports
this is Steven Grabiner.
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