My name is Laura Labore and
I am a pilot and a nurse for
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Adventist World
Aviation and we are currently
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in Guyana South America.
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We've been in Guyana for almost
seven years now and we've been
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in particularly in Mabaruma
for about five and a half now.
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One of the things
that is so exciting.
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I mean for me personally, I
think our team could identify
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with this as well is that living
in a community like Mabaruma,
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we're not just there for
short term. We live there.
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We've been there five years now.
We've gotten to know a lot of
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people. We've built a lot of
relationships. There are many
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people there that have been
impacted very positively both
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for medical reasons as well as
just purely from a relationship
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standpoint.
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Bill and Laura Labore live
in Mabaruma Guyana in a small
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house that they rent. They
live right in the center of town
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and have constant
traffic buzzing all around them.
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Their small home is less than a
quarter mile away from the local
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public school and for many
students its right in the path
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of their daily
commute to school each day.
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One of the areas that we
are involved in that we didn't
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really plan on, is outreaching
to some of the local children.
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Some of them don't have enough
to eat breakfast in the morning
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and when we got here we noticed
that they weren't even going
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to school at all and so they
started coming hanging out at
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our house, playing with
our kids and asking for food.
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And we realized that when
they were going to school,
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they were going with empty
bellies. Now there's a school
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program at lunch that the
US pays for where they get free
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lunch and so what we started
is they come in the morning
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and usually we give
them bread and butter
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and bananas or some kind
of fruit, just the basics.
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And feed them. Have worship with
them, if we have time and then
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they go off to school. And they
just love coming to our house.
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Not only to play, but also for
food and they come to us with
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little tiny things, like
band aids for itty bitty bitty
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boo-boos that really
don't need a band aid, and
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I think what they really want
is just a little bit of love.
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And so I have boxes and
boxes of band aids stocked.
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Because I go through them like
crazy. I'll go through eight
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band-aids a day some times,
with all of them coming saying
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Sister Laura please for a plasta
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and it's been a
really good outreach.
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They started coming to
Sabbath school now and church.
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enjoying worship and also doing
better in their school work.
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They will come back from school
excited. They show me their
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exercise book and they say
look Sister Laura! Look what
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I did in school today! and
so I've kind of I guess taken on
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a motherly figure
and even though I thought
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I was busy enough with the two.
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Each morning, Laura's
house quickly fills as small
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bare feet make their way
up the stairs to her home.
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The children all feel
perfectly welcome and have added
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a stop to Auntie Laura's
into their daily routine.
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The Labore children have also
become accustomed to their daily
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playmates and gladly
share their toys and belongings
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with the village children.
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But adding all these extra
children into such a small space
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creates a hectic atmosphere.
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Yet, the Labores gladly open
their doors to any child that
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to stop by. Some children play,
others do crafts, some read
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while others just want to eat.
Laura does her best to keep up
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with all the
additional hungry mouths.
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Here in Mabaruma there
is no bakery, so Laura bakes
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all her own bread that
she feeds to the children.
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You are making tortillas?
Yah... but they're not round.
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Not at all. It's for lunch.
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Laura also finds sponsors
from the United States for some
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of the children's basic
needs like clothing and shoes.
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There is someone in the States
who wants to buy them some
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footwear. And so I'm
going to we drew up their foot,
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I took a picture and we put the
picture there and then give it
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to the people so they can
know who they are buy for.
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Six children this morning. There
will be a couple more tomorrow
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that will come by to
get theirs drawn too.
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(child singing)
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Ok you guys ready?
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Laura also has a ministry
out of her home. She engages the
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the children to sing and
reads Bible stories to them
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each morning.
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Having all these children in her
home could easily be a full time
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job for Laura, yet she manages
to do all this before 830 in the
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morning when she
switches over to her other job,
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being a pilot and a nurse.
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After worship she sends
all her children off to school.
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The local children
go to the public school,
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while her own go to Annika
each day to be home schooled.
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Annika's primary purpose
for being in Guyana is to home
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school the Labore children.
She took a year away from her
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college studies to move
to Guyana and ensure that
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Danni and Micah
receive a good education.
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She fills each day with
learning activities for them.
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My name is Annika Jenson.
I've been here for a little over
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six months now and I'm here
to support the missionaries and
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the primary way that I do that
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is home schooling
Micah and Danni Labore.
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I'm a Walla Walla University
student, and I'm here through
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their student mission program.
I've always wanted to take a
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year off and to go abroad
and so I was at Sabbath school
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in Walla Walla one day and
we ran into Greg and Crystal
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VanFossen through some mutual
friends and started talking to
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them and asked if they could use
a student nurse down here where
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they were going in Guyana and
she put me in touch with Laura
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and I ended up down here
home schooling their kids
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and it has been fantastic.
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I know that I am supposed
to be here this year and
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it has been fantastic. I think
that if I had just muscled my
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way into coming here
and done it on my own accord
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then I probably
would have been miserable.
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But if you are feeling Jesus
calling you and feeling like
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you should go, then absolutely.
Fallow that calling and go
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where you are directed.
And it will be the best thing.
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I've learned a lot about mission
and about love. That it isn't
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a lot of the things that we
tag as mission activities about
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going and giving things out
or helping the poor you know
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starving child learn how to
read and that sort of thing.
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It's more about living, here,
and living in a different way.
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Because we live differently. Not
only because we are Americans
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but because we are Christians
and Seventh Day Adventists.
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And people notice
that a whole lot more
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than any other
simple act that we would do.
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They see how we treat the
children or how the Labores
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treat their dog or things like
that. How they just go about day
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to day life. And they
notice little things like that,
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more than any of the big things.
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Any of the big
events that we could do.
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Having Annika there frees, Laura
and Bill so they can concentrate
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on their mission work during
the day while they know their
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children are
receiving wonderful instruction
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from their tutor Annika.
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I really am happy to raise
my kids to be missionary kids.
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I just think there is
just so much more that
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they are getting out of life.
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And I've had people in the
States that are always telling
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us oh what are
they going to miss out?
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You know they are missing out
on all the things in America".
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But here they're learning how
to climb papaya trees and go in
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canoes and all kinds of
wonderful things. But I think
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most importantly is, they're
learning to deal with another
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culture. That we're different.
We're the minority here.
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They're also learning
about giving, on a daily bases.
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Because the needs are so great.
And they are constantly seeing
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people in need and getting
involved with their needs.
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And so I think that's really
important for kids to grow up
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with that and just see the
true meaning of sharing Jesus.
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They have the opportunity every
single day already in their
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little lives and already
because of them, some people are
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in the church and so they are
already being good missionaries.
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Danni and Micah are not the
only mission kids that are being
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home schooled.
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In fact all three families
home school their children.
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I'm home schooling the boys, or
I was. We have a home schooler,
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that's a teacher that's
here to help with home schooling
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this year and that's been a
terrific blessing to us all.
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We tried going to school here,
but we didn't learn as much
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as we would in home schooling.
So now Tyler teaches us in all
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the subjects except for
on-line school we use West Coast
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Adventist Academy and we
talk to our teacher every week.
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My main responsibility
is tutoring Jake and Zack,
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the Wickwire children in
their daily home school routine.
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I had always felt in the back of
my mind that mission work would
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be a good thing for me
to do before I settled into
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a daily routine of the
work and a family life.
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I always felt like it would
be good to really immerse myself
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even for just a few months
in another culture and feel
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something different then
just what I've been accustomed
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to my whole life.
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And that was the main reason
that brought me to Guyana.
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A lot of the challenge of being
a missionary is learning to put
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yourself last. And it definitely
been something that's been
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a growing experience for
me. I've had to learn as I go,
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you know and not always worrying
about my own needs first.
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But I think it's something
I'm gradually learning.
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And something every missionary
needs to be open to learning is,
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to put their needs last. To put
the needs of the people here,
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your fellow missionaries and
anyone you meet before yourself
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because that's the mission.
That's the reason you're here.
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The reason I am here is for
others, not for myself. Me being
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here really frees up Karen
Wickwire at least, so she can do
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other things like go to clinic
on Thursdays and be available to
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to pick up the other
missionaries so Having more of
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us to do kind of more the
mundane tasks enables the other
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main missionaries the adults to
do some more important things.
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After Crystal and Annika finish
home schooling the missionary
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children they turn
their attention to the village
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children. They also tutor a few
of them, who are falling behind
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in the public school.
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Education here isn't like it
is in the United States where
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you have to have
mastered before you're moved on.
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They actually took the no child
left behind idea, and they said
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if the United States isn't
leaving any children behind
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we shouldn't either.
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And so, whether a child
has mastered something or not,
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they're not left behind, they're
moved on to the next grade.
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So when I started tutoring the
boy that is in standard 6 he did
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not know thirteen of
his letters of the alphabet.
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He did not know the sounds
of about half of his alphabet.
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So we just had to start with
basic reading and he couldn't
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even tell me the names of
all the symbols for the numbers.
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So we just started with really
basic stuff. His brothers were
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a little further along. And
so Anika started tutoring them,
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and I worked on
catching the older one up.
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And today he was actually
reading probably at beginning
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first grade level. And he
knows... they know spotty things
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in between so it's kind
of hard. They might not know
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their addition, by they'll know
some of the multiplications.
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So it's kind of hard
trying to figure out exactly
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what it is that they need.
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The education system here
in Guyana is government funded.
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And is a little bit of a
relic from when the British were
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in control. And they seem to
kind of put the best teachers
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in Georgetown and
then out from there ...
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Out here in Region one, it's
kind of the backwoods of Guyana.
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And by the time you get here,
the class sizes are huge and the
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infrastructure
and supplies are ...
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It's really tough for
the teachers to teach well.
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And really tough for the kids to
pick up on a lot of the things.
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And so it would be wonderful if
there was just a pack of retired
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teachers or new teachers
who wanted to come down here and
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just help educate. Help teach
to read. Help teach to count.
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Since the children all have
tutors, their parents can focus
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on other tasks while they
are studying. Even the simplest
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tasks take 5 times
longer in the mission field.
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We don't have current during
the day here. So I have to run
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the generator so that
my washing machine will run
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during the day
whenever I need to do laundry.
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Karen Wickwire has to do a
minimum of four loads of laundry
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a week just to keep up with her,
her husband and her two boys.
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However they don't have the
luxury of indoor laundry room.
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They must start the generator
and plug in the machine.
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They must fill the washer with
a hose or buckets of rainwater.
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We mostly rely on the rain water
that falls. It comes down on
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the roof and its collected
in this bin, this bin, and then
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we've got three more at the
back and one up high. Whenever
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we want to get water in
the house to drink, we normally
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collect it from either this one,
or another one that's around the
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corner, and then
we filter that water
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and that's how we
get our drinking water.
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The things that I covet here are
way different than the ones that
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I do at home. Yah when I go home
I look forward to doing laundry,
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because it's fun. You just
stick in, open up and it's done.
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It just makes me miss stuff at
home, like when I can just turn
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the machine, go do whatever.
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And know that whenever I
get back to it, it'll be done.
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Karen Wickwire cannot leave the
wash, but must keep an eye on
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load the entire time. After the
first cycle she must catch it
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in time to refill the
washer with more water
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to complete the wash process.
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Well, if it's a dry season,
I can hang it out on the line
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in the yard. And I guess
the rule of thumb is if it's up
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before noon, it should dry by
four o'clock. Our land lord told
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us that if it's up much after
four thirty, it just starts
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getting moist again from
the humidity. But if it's rainy
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season, it could sit in here for
like three days before it dries.
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All in all a very time consuming
task, however it still more
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efficient then how the local
villagers clean their clothing.
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They gather at the river and
children bathe themselves while
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the women wash everything
by hand and beat their clothing
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with wash boards in the brown
murky water. Yet surprisingly
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their clothing comes
out clean and their whites
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still shine bright.
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Despite all the difficulties
that come with living in the
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jungle, all the AWA team
members agree that their efforts
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are well worth it. None of them
consider it a sacrifice and have
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become very accustomed to and
greatly enjoy their way of life.
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While it might hold extra
work and have the hassle of not
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having the convinces,
they are all very happy
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with where God has placed them.
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I don't think it's a sacrifice
to live here at all. In fact
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I think there's lots of lessons.
It's a huge blessing! There's
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so many days and I just wake up
and just think Oh I just praise
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God for my job. I think I
have the best job in the world!
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Even though some days are
hard, every day isn't full of
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excitement and
stuff and sometimes
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just day to day
living here can be hard.
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Everything that we eat, is
pretty much made from scratch.
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I can't just go buy
tortillas, I have to make them.
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And so it gets... We're busy all
day long, but our list of things
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that we've done is very very
short at the end of the day,
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just because
everything takes so long.
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So I miss the conveniences yes.
I miss family. I miss friends.
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But it's really worth it because
of all the other things that we
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get to do here. There's no way
I could have a job like this in
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the states where I get to fly
one day, and do nursing the next
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day and you know washing the
air plane the next day and so,
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for a person who
doesn't really like scheduled
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in the box type
job, its perfect.
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I think ultimately the
sacrifices of comfort to be able
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to do mission work is worth it.
It may not seem like it at first
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but being able to see some of
the impact of what you've done
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being able to... just
know that you've helped I think
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ultimately is
worth the sacrifice.
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Any day, that I can come home at
the end of the day and know that
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even for one person, adult or
child, something that I've been
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able to do, because of God given
skills to me that can make a
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difference in their life,
then that day is a good day.
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And that is fulfilling for me.
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Serving other people, is what
God is all about to begin with.
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Everything He does, has to
do with service and encouraging,
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helping people.
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I think being a servant means
that you will be able to put
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aside what you want, and
do what God wants you to do
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to help other people.
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Mission work is so much more
about love and about living the
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way the people around you
live and following Christ,
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than it is about giving
things out or about education.
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That's an important part of it,
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but that comes as a result
of living and following Jesus.
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It's actually very peaceful.
And it's a good way to live.
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And we do have, I have
job satisfaction. And a lot of
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people don't have job
satisfaction, they hate their
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jobs and I love it! Because I
think, if you completely submit
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to God He is going to take
you and help you do what your
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talents are. He knows
best what your talents are
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because He's the one
Who gave them to you.
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And so if you submit to
Him, He's going to take you and
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grow you and make you
blossom into something
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that you never
thought you could be.
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For our family, the thing that
gives us the greatest feeling
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of accomplishment from our time
here is just the opportunity
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to show care and compassion to
the people that need it the most
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and don't often
see it from others.
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A lot of people's
lives are going to be changed
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because of the
families that live here.
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Just recently we went to
Baramita We took a flight there.
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It's about a thirty
minute flight from here.
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And as we traveled there, it
was very impressive to look out
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the window and see the...
what one of our pilots calls the
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"broccoli" out there.
There's just no place to land.
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And you can just see there is no
road, there is no infrastructure
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to get to these places. Here
this place is a thirty minute
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plane flight away, but I would
imagine, if you were to take
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a some sort of off road vehicle,
you probably couldn't get there
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within four or five days.
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To reach these people is
just incredible by aircraft.
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You know, you hear
about places like Guyana and
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that are hard to reach
places, but you don't really get
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a feel for it until you
are actually in the air.
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While we were there, we
saw a house that we had built.
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That Adventist World Aviation
had constructed. It was a sad
00:20:04.07\00:20:07.39
thing to see that the roof
is on and the walls are up.
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But it has so much needs.
It needs water. The electricity
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is starting to go into the
place. And even after the place
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is built, we're still
missing one major component.
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That's our missionaries.
Oh the desperate need for
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missionaries to live in that
area right off the air park,
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is great.
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The three families in Guyana
are looking to expand to four.
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In a village about 30 minutes
away the AWA team has built
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another house that lies
empty waiting for another
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mission family. In the
mean time the local villagers
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wait and hope that
the family comes soon.
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They watch and take
care of the property
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in hopes of new missionary
to come and join them.
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We are in a village today
of Baramita. And Baramita is a
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project that we've been working
on now for ...Oh, going on
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almost three years really.
We began here just doing medical
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evacuations and bring in
supplies for the village.
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It's a pretty isolated village.
Initially we were told that
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you know we could not
talk about our religion here
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or anything like that
but we could do the medical
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evacuations and so we
went ahead and we did that.
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Really without any purpose
other than just being able
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to help them. But as time
went on a year and a half of,
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you know literally doing the
medical evacuations, bringing
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back even their dead to be
buried here which had never been
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done before. Before we came
here, this is the first time
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ever they were to bury their
dead here in their village.
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It meant very much to them and
also you know... just building
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relationships here. A
year and half later they said
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"we want you to come
here and live among us."
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And to teach them
about what we know. And so
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they actually gave us a piece
of land which is behind me here.
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And back last year Jud Wickwire
our chief pilot and construction
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manager brought a construction
team down here from various
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areas of the United States
and they built the house that's
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behind me here. And that house
has been built specifically
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for Bible workers and
medical workers to stay at
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as we minister to the
people here in Baramita.
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When we first came in, I
remember the day we first time
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flew into this village. We had a
meeting with the village captain
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and also Sam Beard, who actually
lives behind over here and
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discussed the possibility
of coming in here and assisting
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them with some of their needs
and I just asked the question if
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we'd be able to bring a pastor
in here to actually encourage
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people and talk to them in
their homes and such. They had a
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discussion between themselves
in Carib and then they came back
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to me in English and said
"no we don't really want any
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more religions here. We have
one religion here and that's the
00:22:36.73\00:22:38.98
Jehovah Witnesses and we
don't feel we need anything
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beyond that" and I said Ok.
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We didn't push the issue too
much. So as I mentioned we went
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ahead and we did just the
medical and did health talks
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here and had a health seminar
here and a few other things.
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But now we've had the invitation
to come into the village
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and the only
church they have ever
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known here is the
Jehovah Witnesses.
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They have one church here.
we saw this as a tremendous
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opportunity really to come
in here and share more truth.
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I mean an opportunity
to talk more about Jesus
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and the plan of salvation.
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And to teach another aspect
of the gospel that we believe
00:23:09.99\00:23:13.65
the Jehovah
Witnesses don't really share.
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Now the purpose of this
house that we built here is very
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simple and very significant.
We feel the best way to be able
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share the good news here
in Baramita is to have people
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living here among them.
Every day, being present here.
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Living out the gospel in
their lives. Ministering to them
00:23:30.75\00:23:35.41
medically, ministering to
them in terms of opening the
00:23:35.44\00:23:37.86
Bible truth to them and we need
a person that actually stays on
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the ground here that can be our
contact person when we fly in
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here for weather, to find out if
there is any emergencies here.
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Set up a radio here as well that
we' d be able to communicate
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by HF. And really just have a
presence in this community where
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we can bring medical volunteers
in here and they can keep the
00:23:55.94\00:23:58.24
house so that we can
have people stay there
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when we bring people
in. Keep it in good shape.
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Manage the grounds, but most of
all to have a family living here
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among the people and then
share the message in that way.
00:24:08.71\00:24:10.45
To actually see the
gospel lived out in someone's
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life really says a lot.
Even more than a sermon.
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Our team has talked about this
village for quite some time.
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We feel that one of the major
issues need to be dealt with
00:24:16.95\00:24:19.70
here, are social issues.
Alcoholism, sexual issues,
00:24:19.73\00:24:25.13
Family planning, family issues,
that are needed to be dealt
00:24:27.51\00:24:30.37
with here. We would be very
happy to find a social worker,
00:24:30.40\00:24:35.75
couple, even an individual, who
would be willing to come here
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and develop a 12 step program
for instance for alcoholics.
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That could be
curtailed to this culture.
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Out team is very gracious. They
come here and sacrifice their
00:24:51.17\00:24:54.31
lives for as long as 5, 7,
10 years even, some of them.
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They work in condition that most
us would consider unbearable.
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But, yet they do it. Out of
the kindness of their hearts.
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We need so much here!
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And there is so much
work that could be done.
00:25:07.40\00:25:09.22
The easiest way to
show Christ to a community
00:25:09.25\00:25:12.91
is living like Christ
did. He lived with the people,
00:25:12.94\00:25:15.30
He walked with the
people. He spent time with them.
00:25:15.33\00:25:17.31
He could tell them about
the kingdom of God in ways
00:25:17.34\00:25:20.94
that they could relate to.
He talked about the sower in the
00:25:20.97\00:25:23.54
field, He talked about the
way they keep sheep and stuff
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So the way we can share
Christ most effectively is to be
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integrated into the
community. To walk with them,
00:25:30.80\00:25:33.07
to do the same kinds
of activities they do.
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And to become
personal friends with them.
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If you look at Jesus and
His example in the Bible,
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He always went into villages
and healed the physical needs
00:25:40.77\00:25:44.17
of the people first before
He shared the salvation message.
00:25:44.20\00:25:48.02
And that's really the method
that Wings for Humanity and AWA
00:25:48.05\00:25:51.63
has adopted from the beginning
is that have to show people we
00:25:51.66\00:25:54.41
care about them. We have
to show love to them first.
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And as we do that then they want
to know more about what we know.
00:25:56.77\00:25:59.88
The rest of the world
wasn't created for Americans to
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have some place to
go as missionaries.
00:26:02.29\00:26:04.50
The rest of the world was
created for other people to live
00:26:04.53\00:26:07.32
and love and grow up in and to
experience Jesus in their place.
00:26:07.35\00:26:10.20
Our job as missionaries isn't
to bring Jesus to these people.
00:26:10.23\00:26:13.77
It's to help them see where
Jesus is already at work in the
00:26:13.80\00:26:16.05
places where they are.
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(Music)
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Jesus said, in the great Gospel
Commission of Matthew 28:19-20
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that we are to go
into all the world!
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Well, Adventist World Aviation
is dedicated doing just that!
00:26:26.06\00:26:29.64
There are between six and a
half and seven billion people
00:26:29.87\00:26:32.47
now living on planet earth. And
two billion of them have never
00:26:32.50\00:26:36.55
heard of Jesus. Of the two
billion, eight hundred million
00:26:36.58\00:26:40.48
of them can only be reached
like means like aircraft.
00:26:40.51\00:26:43.72
or through aviation support.
We go into the un-reached areas
00:26:43.75\00:26:48.44
of the world.
00:26:48.47\00:26:49.84
What we find when we go in there
we find death and disease and
00:26:49.87\00:26:53.00
despair.
00:26:53.03\00:26:55.10
What we bring them is
hope, health and life.
00:26:55.13\00:26:58.54
And a great Gospel message that
Jesus loves them. That there is
00:26:58.57\00:27:01.65
somebody out
there, who does care.
00:27:01.68\00:27:03.89
They often ask,
why do you do this?
00:27:04.22\00:27:06.60
We say, because Jesus loves you!
00:27:07.03\00:27:09.03
And so the message that we
bring them is absolute hope.
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Since it's inception, 1995,
AWA, or Adventist World Aviation
00:27:13.79\00:27:18.25
has been able to relieve
over thirty five epidemics.
00:27:18.28\00:27:20.89
We've literally flown
millions of missionary miles.
00:27:20.92\00:27:24.49
We are relieving the pain
and suffering of those who live
00:27:24.52\00:27:26.95
in these remote parts
of the world. Helping them
00:27:26.98\00:27:29.33
Will you pray for us! We need
prayer more than anything else!
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If you like more information
please contact this station
00:27:33.53\00:27:36.71
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Thanks for watching!
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