Across the world
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different regions,
countries and ethnicities
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are known for their
unique style of cooking.
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In the southern
part of the United States
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the food is stereo
typically deep fried,
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full of fat, good to the taste
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for those that enjoy it
but harmful to the health.
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This diet along with
other lifestyle factors
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has combined to
give the State of Alabama
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one of the poorest
health standards in the nation
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and yet it's in this region
that one of OCI's ministries
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is making dramatic
changes in people's lifestyle.
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Not just here for
the local community
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but across the country.
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In the 1970s Doctor
Agatha and Calvin Thrash
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had a providential experience
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which led them to yield
their life to Jesus Christ.
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In harmony with
their new found faith
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they desired to learn how
to practice the healing art
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from God's perspective.
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This led them to go to Wildwood
Lifestyle Center and Hospital.
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Upon completion of
their time at Wildwood
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the Thrash's were
lead to start a center
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of Health and Healing
in the State of Alabama.
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God directed them to
purchase this 200 acre farm
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and thus Uchee
Pines Institute was born.
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Uchee Pines is a
religious educational facility
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where we have
also a live in facility
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called a Lifestyle Center.
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A Lifestyle Centre is a place
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where people can
come to learn how to live.
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Everybody knows
something that's good health.
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People know
they shouldn't smoke,
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they know they
should get more exercise,
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probably, they eat too much.
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But if we can increase
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the awareness of
certain types of factors
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that will help
people to live longer
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and more healthy
and productive lives
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that's what we want to do.
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So it's an educational facility
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and we do believe
that there is a God
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and that He has
something in mind for us.
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Our purpose at
the lifestyle center
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here at Uchee Pines
is to teach individuals
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how to live their
lives in such a way
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that they can experience
the best health possible.
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And that health is not
only on a physical level
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which is why
most people come here
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but it's a mental and a
spiritual level as well.
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I decided to come
here to Uchee Pines
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because I was very sick.
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For the last year and a half
I was in severe constant pain.
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I actually every
day sort of asked God
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before I went to bed
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if He could
just put me into rest
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because it was enough.
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It was time to make a change
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and I couldn't do it on my own,
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so I decided to
come to Uchee Pines.
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A typical program for a guest
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who comes to the
Lifestyle Center includes them
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seeing the
physician the first day.
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The lifestyle
counselor will meet with them,
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the physicians meet with
them we put together a program
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that we think will
work best for them.
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Obviously, the main
things are Lifestyle change
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so getting people on a
healthy plant based diet,
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wellness principle, water,
exercise, living temperately,
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lot of fresh air and nutrition,
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entire trust in God,
sunshine and sufficient rest.
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We have lectures for them.
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Stress managements
we have medical lectures
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and talk about
different aspects of it.
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We have nutritional lectures.
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They have hands
on nutrition class
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where they learn
how to bake bread,
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they learn how to
make healthy foods.
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And we also try to get people
outside in the garden too.
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So we've got a patient garden.
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So it's an overall program
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that we put
together to give them tools
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that is relatively
easy for them to maintain
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in their home
environment as well.
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The typical complaints
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that individuals present
with are things like diabetes,
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high blood
pressure, cholesterol issues,
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cardiovascular
disease, overweight and obesity,
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autoimmune and inflammatory
diseases different arthritities
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and on cancer as some
of our main components
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but we have individuals
of all sorts of things.
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Basically, you name it
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if they find out
about Uchee Pines
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and want to
learn how to live a new
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better lifestyle to give them
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the best health
possible within the context
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what they have then they come.
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I can tell you that I know
for a fact that God is here
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and the people that
are here are His angles.
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He uses them and it's
like they never get tired
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and they just go, go, go
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and trying to
make you comfortable.
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As their counselor
they are your priority.
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They kind of look
to you as, a mentor,
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not only physically
but spiritually most of all
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because they come
looking for something
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and they see something different
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when they come here
and they want to have that.
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They don't just want to see
it they want to experience it.
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And when you
show them those things
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it's this
relationship that builds up.
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You know, some of them
even call you their angles.
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You know, and it's just such
a privilege to be God's hands.
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One thing that we find with most
guests that come here is that
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they profoundly
notice a spiritual benefit
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and a spiritual blessing.
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To me I know its God.
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My health has changed so much
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that I can now
walk and at this moment
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I can tell you there is not
one part of my body that hurts,
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not one and I been
praising God constantly
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because its a miracle.
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The joy that I feel
I can't even explain,
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it makes me want to cry.
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The more I read scripture
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the more I read
Spirit of Prophecy
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the more I have
been convicted personally
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in regards to be
involved in a work
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that involves education,
changing their behaviors
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and making changes for eternity.
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And while we
recognize the physical things
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and while we deal
with the physical things
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we're always
looking for at the heart.
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We're always looking
for the spiritual things
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because you can heal somebody
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and they can have a
few more years of life
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but if you give
them hope of eternity
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and if they, if they have
that realization in Christ
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that they are in His care
that they can trust in Him
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and that they
can hope in eternity.
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Wow.
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We are told that the health work
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should be linked
with the gospel ministry.
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So right now our goal in life
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is to reunite the
medical and the ministerial.
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Country Life actually
began before Uchee Pines did.
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We started with a little
health food store and restaurant
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outside of my
parent's office building there
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where they practice
medicine in Columbus, Georgia.
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We had a store, a store front
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and at that time we
called it Tree of Life.
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And people came and they
bought those very same things
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that I was
preparing in my own kitchen.
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And so it began as
part of the health outreach
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just that we were doing
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as part of their
medical practice.
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In those early days
even we had a lot of people
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who would come from
the store to the institute.
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And when they came
here we incorporated them
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into everything
that we were doing.
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So the country store
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became a principle
avenue of evangelism for us
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and a lot of those people
who came from the store to here
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were to become fully
committed to the Lord
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when they were with us.
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As we've progressed of
course the lifestyle center
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is now the main
focus here at Uchee Pines
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but the restaurant is something
that you can go to everyday.
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And the health food store
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is where you can
find the resources
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that you need in order to be
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able to live the
healthy lifestyle.
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People come to
eat a healthy meal.
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They come there
to pickup supplies
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and in the process they
walk into an environment
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that people have
described just being in oasis.
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The atmosphere
changes to quieter place.
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We have some soft
Christian music playing.
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So you're kind of in a way
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bridging between
the health aspect
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and over into the
more spiritual aspect.
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People come to Country Life
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and ask some of the
most interesting questions.
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We had one individual
that came in and asked
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just as they were
going through the checkout,
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what happens to a
person when they die?
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And then there was another
whole group of individuals
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that wanted to
know the same question
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but they wanted to
know from the Bible.
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What did the Bible
answers? We know you know.
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And so they came to us
and asked that questions
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we were able to put together
few Bible texts for them.
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And sometimes you have people
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come in and ask
a health question
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but as you speak to them
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you realize
what they really want
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is that they just
need someone to talk to.
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Sometimes they
need to have somebody
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who will pray with them.
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Although we've been telling you
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I know you are a Christian
would you mind praying with me?
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And that's in my mind
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were you have a
real success story.
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The staff at Uchee Pines
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attempts to cease
every opportunity offered
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both through
the Lifestyle Center
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and the restaurant to
improve the life and health
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of those with whom
they come in contact.
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In order to keep the
vision growing and strong,
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Uchee Pines has a Lifestyle
Educator Training Program.
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This course
offers an opportunity
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to learn first hand
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the health principles
that have made Uchee Pines
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the Institute it is today.
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We have two main
training programs.
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Here we have a
Lifestyle Educator Program
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the Lifestyle Counselor Program.
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The Lifestyle Educator Program
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is a six months
missionary program
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that is designed to
teach people these principles
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that we've been talking about,
about lifestyle and how to live
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so that they can
teach it to other people.
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So there is an
emphasis on public education
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and public health training.
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The Lifestyle Counselor Program
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is little bit more
intensive and lasts longer.
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It goes for a year.
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It focuses really more on
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working directly
with Lifestyle guests
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in whatever area
of need they may have.
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And they're the
person who is with them
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through that period of time
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through the 18 days or
17 days that they are here.
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And that counselor helps
to get them over the hump
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so to speak so
hopefully they will
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start a new habit pattern
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and they will be
able to do that at home.
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When I first
came I went directly
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into the
Lifestyle Educator Course
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which is the six
month prerequisite
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for the
Lifestyle Counselor Course
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and we learned a little
bit of anatomy and physiology
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and we compared
it to the sanctuary.
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And so seeing that physical
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but spiritual aspect as
well was very eye opening,
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I had never seen
things like that before.
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We learned how
to give presentation
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on the Eight Laws of Health.
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And how to go to
Churches and present those.
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And then seeing it work
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when they would try
it in the testimonies
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that they would
give after it was amazing
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because and they were
medical missionaries as well
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and they'd go and
share those things as well.
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Going canvassing, I
take the students canvassing
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and I love hearing
their testimonies afterwards,
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you know, like on the way there
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it's like
completely silent, you know.
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It's all, it's like a
bus driving to war zone.
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You know everyone is
quite and contemplated
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and if you drop a pin in
the bus and you can hear it.
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From on the way to back
you can't get them be quite.
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They are just so
excited about the experience
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that they have had and
got to share with some,
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they got to pray with someone.
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How someone was
praying about something
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and we showed up and
offered a book on health
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or on spiritual principles
that person was longing for.
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And that, that
gets you really excited.
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Medical missionary
work is one of God's means
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for communicating His
care and compassion to a world
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that is desperately in need.
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The staff at
Uchee Pines is committed
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to sharing God's
love with the student's,
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restaurant
customers and Lifestyle guests
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that visit their institution.
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If you would like to be
part of the on going work
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of OCI around the world
please visit our website
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or feel free to give us a call.
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We share this globe with
about seven billion people,
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that's a lot of people
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and standing here
in this busy city.
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It's easy to feel
small and insignificant.
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After all I am only one person
what difference can I make?
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But the fact is each of
us can make a difference.
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God is calling
us to turn our lives
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and our skills over to Him.
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Around the world
the individual workers
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at OCI ministries
are letting God use them
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to bring hope and
healing one person at a time.
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You can make a difference too.
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you connect to more
than 80 ministries worldwide.
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visit our website
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Throughout Latin
America the City Square
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has traditionally been
the center of community life.
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This open space is surrounded
by important buildings
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such as the church
and government offices.
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It provides a place for
the people to congregate
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and relax after a day's labor.
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Yet, as with many
places traditions change.
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This is no more true
that in a country a Bolivia.
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Recent economic growth
brings with it advancement
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and yet also stresses on
the traditional way of life.
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Today, we will be
visiting a new OCI Ministry,
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Instituto Quebrada Leon.
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There aim is to help people
through this time of transition.
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Their main focus is
about serving and bringing
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healing to the
people in their community.
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We are here almost two hours
from the city of Santa Cruz.
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The city of Santa Cruz
has almost a million people.
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It's like any other big
city, lot a big buildings,
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lot of traffic, lot of people.
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And then as we come
closer and closer to our place
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you'll notice
less houses, less cars.
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The pace of life
here is much slower.
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We feel very blessed
to be able to live here.
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We are 18 kilometers
from the main highway
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and we have more than 400
acres for the work of training
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young people to be
medical missionaries.
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Twelve years ago we
were on an airplane crash
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that got my
attention from the world
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and began to think
about meaning of life.
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I was convicted at this
point that Jesus was coming soon
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and so I began to ask God
what do You want me to do.
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Then He began to put
this thought in my mind
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and so I said to my family
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I believe God is
warning us to go be missionaries
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what do you think and
my whole family said yes.
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When we told people
we're gonna move to Bolivia,
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people would pull me
aside and say, you know,
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how did your
husband get did you do this?
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I think we both
came to the decision
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at the same time.
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The thing that was missing
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in our life was that
we needed to minister.
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We needed to follow
in the example of Jesus.
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We needed to help
others to find Christ.
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And as we began to do that
we realized this is lot of fun.
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And we got the kids involved.
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My youngest is 14 and he
is in charge of the bakery.
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My oldest is in
charge of the electricity,
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he is our driver and
he preaches, he teaches,
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he is my translator and to me
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that it's been
the biggest blessing
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to work together as a family.
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One of most inspiring things
about being here in Bolivia
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is to see the
change that God can bring
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in the hearts and
minds of the people.
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We had our
discouragements but when you see
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God touching people's
hearts and really stirring,
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craving in them,
a desire in them,
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a thirst in them it's wonderful.
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The spiritual life of our
students is most important.
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And so we really
emphasize lot of prayers,
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worships morning and evening.
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We emphasize personal
devotional life of the students.
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We see them grow.
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It's a time to be away
from things to really focus
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on spiritual
classes, on health classes
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but even all the health classes
are integrated spiritually.
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You know, that's our focus
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why it's important to
share to be a missionary.
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We thought when we came here
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that we would have
students mainly from Bolivia
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better that turned out this year
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we have students
from Panama, Guiana
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one from
Germany, four from Peru,
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three from
Argentina, a bunch from Columbia
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and then about
half from Bolivia.
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So it's much more international
mix than I expected.
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I am very happy.
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I'm so thankful to God
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because he
brought me to this place
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that is a little
heaven on earth to me.
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In reading Ellen White.
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She really emphasis
how the physical labor
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is just as
important as the mental labor
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in the class room, how
people need to work physically,
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how it goes hand in
hand, how you can learn
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how the gardening
is ABCs of education.
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You know, some times
you get tired and it's hot
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and full of mosquitoes
but I think you learn a lot.
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God has so many lessons
in the garden in growing-
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you know you have
to do things on time,
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you have to weed, you
had to take care of it.
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So we really wanted
to integrate that here.
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Half day they have classes
and half day they have work.
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They can work in the kitchen,
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the bakery, carpentry
as well as construction.
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Right now we
actually don't have any body
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in charge of the kitchen
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but the students
are running the kitchen.
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So we have divided them
up into groups and they cook.
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So they're not only
learning how to cook hopefully
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but learning
how to run a kitchen
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and cook for 50 people.
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We also have a lifestyle center
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and because we have so
many students this year
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we did not have
rooms for lifestyle guests.
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All of the rooms are full
of students with tents outside
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but hopefully in a
short amount of time
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we'll be able
to accept patients.
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Currently we have 26 students
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and our goal for our students
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is that they have a
personal relationship with God
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that their lives
are transformed first,
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that they have
spiritual revival in their lives
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and as we teach them
how to share their faith
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with others
that they would learn
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how to use medical evangelism
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to reach others
for Jesus Christ.
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The Education that the students
receive in the classroom,
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the practical work and
the daily life experience
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is not the
ultimate aim of the staff
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at Instituto Quebrada
Leon rather their desire
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is that students
receive a love for service.
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They accomplish this
through their Bible work
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and their medical
missionary outreach.
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One of the key areas for
our student's education is
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that they
experience for themselves
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the joy of going out
and sharing with others.
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So we have these health expos
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where we set up booths for each
of the Eight Laws of Health.
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Like an exercise that
actually make them get up
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and do little bit
of exercising and rest.
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They get a little bit of massage
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and trust in God that
the each get five minutes
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of individual
counseling one on one
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and they get prayed with.
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And those have been
extremely well received
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some people have
said "I didn't know
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that I was
supposed to drink water."
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Something it's so
very simple especially
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when we go out to the country
they just have no idea about
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what you can do to
maintain your health
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and prevent disease.
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So we've
actually gotten requests
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from the mayor of the town,
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from the doctors that
are in charge of districts
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and we are very upfront
with the government saying
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"this is not just about
health but unless the person
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is whole spiritually
they'll still get sick.
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So if we are gonna do
this we're going to present
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spiritual health as well
we're going to talk about God
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and we've never had any
resistance from anybody.
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People here don't
have access to clean water
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or to a variety of foods.
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So we go, we share
the message of health
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and we do just as Jesus did.
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He won peoples trust.
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He was nice to people
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and then when He had healed them
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He told them follow Me.
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We always ask them would you be
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interested in Bible studies.
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In the last 20 days
we got over 100 people
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saying they would be interested
in having Bible studies.
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That's why we want
the churches to do them.
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So they can do in
their local community
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and then take these interests
and grow their churches.
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Every Saturday
night we come back
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and have a time of testimony.
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We go around
sharing our experiences
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that we had during
the day in our church
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and day afternoons
we get Bible studies.
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To me this is a
greatest blessing
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to see our students get excited
about sharing the Gospel.
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We've had a few
non-Adventist students
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and last year one of
our students got baptized.
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Her background is
from Assembly of God Church
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and her family is one of
the pillars of that church.
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The father Jhosseline
father he was so interested
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he wanted to
learn about the Bible
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he was just to open
and he just had this thirst
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for the health and
the gospel message.
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The pastor of their
church considers my dad
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one of its fundamental pillars.
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And he is worried
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that my father is
abandoning the church.
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But my dad wants to
share what he has learned about
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keeping the Sabbath.
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The desire of my family
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is that their whole congregation
would accept the message.
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You know, now that I've
lived in Bolivia for three years
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I know that my
thinking has changed.
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I know that this experience
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has been wonderful
for me and my family.
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I know that my
boys are different
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through the experience.
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Our life that we
used to live in States
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was in my little bubble
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and there're so
many people out there,
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they're hungering and thirsting
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for what we think is so simple.
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When God was calling
us to come to Bolivia
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I didn't know how
this was going to work
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and I had a
certain amount of money
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that in my calculation
it would last three, four,
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five years may be
if we were careful.
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And how hoping by
then Jesus would come
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and there would be non-issue.
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It didn't take long for us
to use up the money that we had.
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Our intension was to
have some small project
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that our family can
do but God saw fit that
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we have this
bigger piece of property.
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And up to that point
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we had may be 300 dollars
in donations that whole time.
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But the month we
used up all the money
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that's when
donations began to come in.
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I realized God
will move on people
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in different
areas, different places
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as we need- have the need
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and our job is to
use that fund faithfully.
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People ask us how
they can get involved.
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We're always
looking for volunteers
00:26:18.36\00:26:20.65
whether its
evangelism, construction
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or health work or projects
00:26:22.89\00:26:25.41
that help us to
sustain ourselves,
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groups that are
willing to come to help
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in specific projects for
one or two weeks at a time.
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God needs people to be willing
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to step out of
their comfort zone.
00:26:36.91\00:26:39.31
And so yes, I'll go
live in a place, do something
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that may be I
wasn't even trained for.
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But Lord if You train me,
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If you send me
the people to help me
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if You show me
what to do I'll do it.
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The biggest lesson
that I've learned here
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is that God calls us
to be all missionaries
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not to be a missionary
for one day or one year
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but for your whole life
00:27:01.87\00:27:03.78
and that is
giving your life to God
00:27:03.81\00:27:05.68
and letting Him work
His will through you.
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Both me and my
husband are not doing
00:27:09.77\00:27:11.47
when we went to college to do
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but I feel like I'm
so much more useful here
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and I am making a difference.
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God has a place for
every person in His vineyard
00:27:20.66\00:27:24.35
for every Christian for
every member of His church
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and we should find out
from Him where is that place.
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In the book Ministry of Healing,
00:27:33.33\00:27:35.28
Ellen White describes a scene
00:27:35.31\00:27:36.99
in which she saw
God on His throne.
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She writes that "from
His great and calm eternity
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God orders that which
His providence sees best."
00:27:43.80\00:27:48.25
It is that divine providence
that has brought workers,
00:27:48.28\00:27:51.86
equipment and donations
00:27:51.89\00:27:54.05
to Instituto Quebrada
Leon at just the right time.
00:27:54.08\00:27:58.56
If you are
interested in learning more
00:27:58.59\00:28:00.81
about the ongoing work of OCI
00:28:00.84\00:28:03.80
or being involved in
this exciting ministry
00:28:03.83\00:28:06.66
please visit our website
or feel free to contact us.
00:28:06.69\00:28:10.60