Narrator: Adventist
World Aviation has outpost
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mission locations
scattered all around the world.
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Each project differs in
the type of work done, however,
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the underlying purpose of each
of the projects is the same;
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to share the love of Jesus with
the difficult to reach people
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of this world.
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Each of the Adventist World
Aviation projects is situated
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in extremely remote locations.
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Strategically located in remote
areas, they serve the indigenous
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people of those regions.
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In light of the Gospel
Commission, Adventist World
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Aviation exists to
provide logistical air support
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in remote parts of the world,
to carry out humanitarian work.
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Jud: Nicaragua, is
a very unique project
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as are most of AWA's projects.
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They are in areas
where access is limited.
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They are in places where they
are serving people, who have
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have unique needs
for access to medicine.
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Have unique needs as
far as transportation.
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And the airplane is
able to provide that service
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to those people in
a very special way.
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It was a huge impact
on the lives of the people
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living in these areas.
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You see this project meets
the needs of the Miskito people
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in a wide variety of ways.
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We're in the Atlantic,
northeastern Coast of Nicaragua
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which is the most
isolated area of Nicaragua.
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Of course that's where the
needs are for the airplane.
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To reach the villages that have
very little other access if any.
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Of course medical is the
main need that most people need
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and umm... the Hanley's have
been able to minister to the
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people here in very
unique ways with medical care,
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with medical evacuations,
simply caring for their needs.
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And what you will see really
especially, is that they have
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touched the people's hearts
by learning their language
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by becoming part
of their culture.
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Becoming part of
their community in a way
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that most people can't do.
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That's again is a unique
part of Adventist World Aviation
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and the areas that we reach is
we become part of the community.
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We believe in sustainability.
Our projects should go on
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for as long as they
are needed in those areas.
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In order to do that, of course,
it takes a wide variety of
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resources, and primarily people.
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Volunteers that are willing to
come and serve for the long term
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Knowing, that they are
going to be calling and serving
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the people in areas that may be
a little bit difficult to live,
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some challenges, languages, but
meeting the needs of the people
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where they are at,
in very unique ways.
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Narrator - Recently, Adventist
World Aviation adopted a very
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active aviation project in the
northeast corner of Nicaragua.
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Clint and his wife
Marilyn started this project
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10 years ago with
the guidance of God.
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They've developed an
amazing, productive and
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thriving aviation mission base.
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The native Miskito people live
in dense jungles of Nicaragua.
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They are often overlooked
due to their difficult
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geographic location.
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An aviation mission outpost
located in this part of the
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country is a perfect solution
to help the Miskito people.
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The Hanley's work in Nicaragua
is truly a lifesaving mission
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to the Miskito people.
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Clint and his wife started this
project with nothing other, than
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a conviction from God that this
is what He called them to do.
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Clint flies medevac
flights often daily and is truly
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an answer to prayer for
the people of this region.
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I'm Clint Hanley and I
live in northeast Nicaragua,
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in the upper corner along
the boarder of the Rio Cocoa
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with the border of Honduras
and I live here with my family,
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2 children and my wife who is
nurse and we fly this airplane,
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a Cessna 172, for medical
work, all around this region,
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covering about 150
miles in all directions.
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Since we started flying 7 years
ago, I have flown 530 patients
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from remote communities,
or from hospital to hospital
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and approximately
50-80% of those would have,
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the doctors say
would have died for sure,
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had they not had transport.
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The rest of them needed
transport because they were
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in great pain, say broken
femurs or something like that.
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That, if they would have
transported by road it would
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have been a lot worse for them.
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So it's been a big help
to the people and we're happy
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to be a small part of it.
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Narrator - Jud Wickwire,
vice president of operations
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for Adventist World Aviation,
heard about the great work
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that the Hanley family
was doing in Nicaragua.
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Since this project is new
to Adventist World Aviation,
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Jud wanted a firsthand
view of how this base operates.
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Jud - Geographically, this
is well situated for serving
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the needs of the
people in this area.
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Maybe you could describe
why this is good geographically
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and what the needs of
the people are that you serve
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with the airplane.
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Clint: This area in Tronquera
is right on the Rio Cocoa River
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which is the border
between Honduras and Nicaragua.
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It's right in that area
and if we go up the river,
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to where the last
reaches are of the river,
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versus going to the coastline,
where the biggest town is
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where we have the big
hospital where we have to bring
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everybody to.
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We're about the half way
point in between both of those.
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So we can fly 45 minutes
one way and access the town;
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we fly 45 minutes the
other way and we are accessing
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the remotest part of
Nicaragua, that you can reach,
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of northeast Nicaragua.
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So it made sense to me
when I found a runway based
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in this location. This is
a beautiful central location.
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The Rio Cocoa River is where
a lot of population base is.
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A lot of the main towns
are on Rio Cocoa River because
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of the transportation
that it brings available.
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Fishing villages,
ranches, stuff like that.
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So when you get inland
from the Rio Cocoa River
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there's very little roads.
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So there is very
few people in there.
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So the Rio Cocoa River is where
it's nice to be based along.
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On the other side of
the river here is Honduras.
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The right side is Honduras,
the left side is Nicaragua.
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This is a boat
dock here on the left.
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Where they are loading
up boats and they go up,
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up and down the river.
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And about thirty five minutes
from here up the river we have
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a remote village we fly to
called San Carlos, Rio Cocoa.
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This boat you see coming here,
they send everyday up the river,
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boats like this. And
this is what the sick people
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have to ride on,
is a boat like this.
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Narrator - Jud tries to gain an
understanding of just how vital
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aircraft are for those living
in this region of Nicaragua.
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Without aviation,
critically injured people have
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little chance of survival.
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Without the medevacs
this mission provides,
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injured individuals have
no quick options to get to
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a higher level of care.
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To reach hospitals by land,
it often takes 2 or more days.
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But by air, Clint can
deliver patients to the hospital
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within 2 hours.
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Having this mission plane
has saved hundreds of lives.
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Often without
medevac flights, patients die
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in the long commute from
their village to the hospital.
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Jud: If someone gets sick
in that village, and needs
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an emergency medevac,
what is their alternate
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to being flown out?
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Clint: They take a boat,
because there is no roads.
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And the boats go, sometimes
once a day a boat goes.
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Sometimes they'll
skip a day or two.
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But generally a
boat goes once a day.
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That boat costs about five to
six days wages to take the boat,
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and, per person.
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And it takes 12 hours to get
to Waspam which is the nearest
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hospital they can access.
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And that's not the
biggest hospital, that's
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just the very nearest hospital.
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But if it's very major, they
need to go on to Puerto Cabezas
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which is another
five hour bus ride.
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And the bus goes
once a day to get there.
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For me to fly that all of the
way, from the time they call me
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and I start my airplane, I
can have them in Puerto Cabezas
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in an hour and a half.
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So if you have a pregnant lady
who is in labor, even to get to
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the closest hospital at 12
hours, if the boat was sitting
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right there ready to go, it
would be a 12 hour boat ride.
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Generally it's going to
be the next day or so, before
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they can get the boat.
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So it's usually a couple days,
before they are going to get
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medical help. And I can
have them in an hour and a half.
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So there has been a lot of
lives that have been saved,
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because they can get it quicker.
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Jud: And this, this is the
only option, only air option
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in the area for anyone.
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Clint: Yes, There's
no commercial flights,
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there's no other airplanes.
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Nobody flies to these airports.
In fact, in San Carlos,
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I've never seen another airplane
and for thirty years, there's
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never been another airplane,
not even military other then me.
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Narrator: Currently, this
project is the ONLY humanitarian
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aviation support
in the entire country.
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Clint: We have the only
ambulance for air travel in all
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of Nicaragua, that can
carry oxygen and a stretcher.
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Now we are the only
airplane in all of Nicaragua,
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that is able to do this.
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And we are the only
airplane, that is based
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on the whole Atlantic coast.
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Narrator: Ten years ago, Clint
and Marilyn felt God calling
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them to the mission field.
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They allowed God to show
them where He wanted them to go.
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After much prayer, they were
convinced, they needed to go
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and work in Nicaragua.
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When they first arrived in
Nicaragua, they had no idea
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what God had in store for them.
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Why, they never
dreamed they would start
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a mission aviation base.
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They offered their
willing hearts to God's
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providential leading.
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Clint: We saw that there wasn't
very many missionaries here
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and so that was the
kind of area we thought, hey,
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this is an area
where nobody else wants go.
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There is probably a reason for
that, we knew that, but that is
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the place where you can
have a greater impact, because
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the things you are able
to do, even on a small scale.
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You know as a little tiny family
as one person who is working,
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you are able to impact
a lot more people, because
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the needs are so great.
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Narrator: When the Hanley's
arrived in Nicaragua, they began
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working in a clinic,
where they were faced with
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devastating realities.
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Due to the remote nature of the
region, many people would die
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before they could
reach medical care in time.
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After about a year of working
here, Clint felt impressed to do
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something that had never
been done in Nicaragua before:
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offer air ambulance
service to jungle villages.
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This plan involved
procuring an aircraft as well
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as making a runway.
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Although he had a burden on
his heart, Clint had no idea how
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this dream would
ever become a reality.
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After spending some time
talking together, Clint offered
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to show Jud
around the mission base.
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When the Hanley's first arrived
in Tronquera, there was no
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infrastructure whatsoever.
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They had to build their
home, a hangar, clinic, and even
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a runway, if they
wanted to work in this area.
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Clint: When we first came here
to Tronquera, we didn't have
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money to really
start out very big.
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So we started out with our house
just building it really small.
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We had an outhouse out back.
We didn't have the money to put
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in a septic system, and
running water and everything.
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And we didn't have a
vehicle. We rode bikes,
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we had two bicycles.
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One for my wife and one for
me. And we could ride those the
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mile to the main road to be able
to catch the bus to go to town
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once a month to buy supplies.
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But we did have this
runway, that was all over grown
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with pine trees.
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And it doesn't take a lot
of money to go out and work,
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clearing the
runway and pulling stumps.
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And to rent a chain
saw. So I did that everyday,
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working on this.
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We hired local
people too to help, because
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labor is fairly cheap.
About four dollars a day.
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So I had two or three local
people helping me and I worked
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everyday on clearing, on this.
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And I didn't have any
possibility of getting a vehicle
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let alone an airplane.
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So I wondered at the end of
the day when I would walk sweaty
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and hot back home, and I
looked at the clouds floating
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over head the runway and I
thought "why am I doing this?
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Is there ever
going to be a chance that
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I can use this runway?" Because
I don't see any possibility.
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And even other missionaries
laughed at me and said
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"why are you doing this?
You know, you don't even have
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a vehicle and you
think you are going to
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get an airplane some day?"
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But I figured the Lord gave
this to me and He gave me the
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money to clear it.
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And so that I didn't
have anything else to do.
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I didn't have anywhere
else to go at the time.
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And so I figured, if I am
a pilot, and I have a runway,
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I am going to put all my effort
into getting it the best I can.
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And after I got it cleared, I
went and I requested permission
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from the government to be
able to get permission for it.
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I was the first person in
Nicaragua they said that had
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actually privately
cleared a runway and wanted
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to register it themselves.
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That was a new procedure.
But they figured out how the
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procedure should be
done, and they approved it.
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And then through an amazing
train of events, the Lord
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provided an airplane and I was
able to bring it down here and
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start helping people down here.
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It took about a year to get the
logistics in place just to get
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the airplane down here
and get the runway approved.
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I was the first person in
Nicaragua building a private
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runway and to go through all
of the regulations that it took
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to do that and then bring
the airplane into the country
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was a lot of work.
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But the government allowed me
to come, because of the work we
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are doing, the humanitarian
aid to the Miskito people.
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There is none, none other
available in all of Nicaragua
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doing this.
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And so it's a vital piece of
help, that the government and
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no other aid agency was able
to offer to the people to save
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lives in transport.
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Narrator: Clint had a
vision for this runway
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and the great potential
it had for humanitarian work.
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Clint: So this is our
runway. It's 3700 feet long.
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And you can see
out this direction
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there is a hill on that end.
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And down this way it
ends in a - over a river.
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And it's about twice
the length, that I need
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for my airplane to use.
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So it's nice to have a home
strip that you use all the time
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that is a lot longer,
then what you really need.
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So you have that ability, if
you have a tail wind, or a heavy
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load, that you have the ability
to have a little extra cushion
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on your flying.
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It used to be completely covered
by pine trees. These pine trees
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that you see on the edges here
were completely covering it.
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You couldn't tell any difference
in the pine trees now covering
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the runway and
on the edges of it.
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And It took about a year,
between a year and two years
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to get it all cleared,
the stumps pulled out of it.
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It took a lot of work with a
pick and a shovel and then you
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had to haul dirt in where
you pulled the stumps out.
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Fill the dirt in to places
where the stumps used to be,
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so you didn't get settling.
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Took a lot of work, but
now it's a beautiful runway
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and it works really nice.
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We cut the runway, the
grass about between every month
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and every other month,
depending on the season
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how fast the grass is growing.
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But people cut it with
a machete, just like this.
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And it takes 12
guys to cut it, one day.
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So each person
works one day on it.
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And they just cut the grass with
their machetes, and they bend
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down and cut
the grass like this.
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And they do that
all day long, cutting.
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We give each person a
size chunk that they can cut.
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And they can cut it beautiful.
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It looks really
good when they are done.
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And that enables them do get
money to use for whatever they
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need to support their families.
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Narrator: Once the runway
was finished, they focused on
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setting up a
sustainable mission base.
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Because Tronquera is such a
remote village, the Hanley's
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had to find a way to
generate power for their base.
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This far into the
jungle, why there is no power or
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communications infrastructure.
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To have a successful aviation
airbase, the Hanley's needed to
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find a solution to provide
them with both electricity
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and a way to communicate
with nearby villages.
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Clint: So running
in the background here
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is my hydroelectric system.
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This has a fourteen foot drop
and it runs a banki turbine.
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I have a twelve volt wire
you can see running across.
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And that runs to our house and
charges twelve volt batteries
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that run our
power for our house.
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With hydro, is one of the most
efficient ways that you can get
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power from and it can
run twenty four hours a day.
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I don't actually use it twenty
four hours a day, but I use it
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to backup our solar system.
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And it's a real
big advantage to have.
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It also runs our
emergency radios.
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We run two radios for
emergency communication.
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Narrator: Clint continues the
tour of the base and takes Jud
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to one of the most
vital sections of the base,
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the communication tower.
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Jud: Obviously if
you go into remote areas,
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communication is a huge factor.
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And Adventist World Aviation
is, you know our policy is
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to create transpiration and
communications infrastructures
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in remote areas. And
this is a prime example.
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Can you explain a little bit
about how your communication has
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helped with other ministries,
other organizations, government,
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health and those things and how
you have been involved in that.
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Clint: Yah when we first moved
here, there was no cell service
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of any kind.
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And so radios is what
everything we relied on.
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And we started out with
two meter radios, ham radios,
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and amateur radios is what
we call them in the states.
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And that worked, we would
put a, in a local village where
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we were flying, we'd put
a solar panel and a battery.
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And put an antenna up and then
they can communicate with us
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when there was an emergency.
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And that worked quite well and
they were able to communicate
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with us and the hospital
saw that and said "wow this is
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really working good. Could we
put an antenna up at your house
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too and you could
have a radio from us?"
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And they have their
own communication network.
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And so they gave me
one of their radios.
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They're a Motorola set up on
crystal controlled setup and so
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I put one of their
antennas up on my tower
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and have their system.
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So they can communicate from
Waspam when there's emergencies.
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So they communicate directly
with us for that and then they
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also have some of the meemessa
radios, it's government,
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it's called meemessa,
it's government health program.
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Their radios are also in
some of the remote communities.
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So they communicate directly
with us from runways that they
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have in the communities. And the
doctor in the community than can
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call directly to us to schedule
flights and tell us you know
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that there is a
person here that's coming in.
00:20:05.67\00:20:07.37
Or that somebody is coming
down the river to us right now
00:20:07.40\00:20:09.37
and we need them
to be transported out.
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So especially with cell service
not being here, radio was,
00:20:11.54\00:20:19.01
we were reliant on it
and it was extremely crucial.
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Other mission stations around,
the Tasba Raya Adventist Clinic
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that was a ways away, they used
us a lot for communications,
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as a third party because we
had internet, they didn't have
00:20:28.92\00:20:31.39
internet, but they had a radio
so with medical emergencies,
00:20:31.43\00:20:35.23
with anything they had, family,
needed to contact anybody,
00:20:35.26\00:20:38.73
they would send emails to
us, and we would tell them
00:20:38.77\00:20:40.94
over the radio what it was.
00:20:40.97\00:20:43.30
And right now on the river there
is a family up the river also
00:20:43.34\00:20:47.38
that their only
communication is a radio to us.
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They have no
other communication.
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Narrator: Having reliable
communication is essential
00:20:51.85\00:20:54.65
for the type of work Clint and
Marilyn do in this remote area.
00:20:54.68\00:20:58.39
Having an aircraft to
offer lifesaving medevac flights
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is useless, if injured
patients can't contact Clint
00:21:02.36\00:21:06.53
when they need help.
00:21:06.56\00:21:07.90
Having radios, and a way to
communicate with each village
00:21:07.93\00:21:11.47
was a large project to undertake
but it has proven to be well
00:21:11.50\00:21:16.24
worth the efforts.
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Next Clint takes Jud to show
him the airplane and hangar.
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Clint: There's one place in
Managua that builds structures,
00:21:24.95\00:21:27.52
and so I went there and
asked them about a custom built
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structure that
would fit my airplane.
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And it's 58 feet
wide and 35 feet long
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and it's covered with a tarp.
00:21:36.76\00:21:38.23
The tarp will last three to five
years and so they built this
00:21:38.26\00:21:42.53
whole thing on a jig
based on my specifications.
00:21:42.73\00:21:46.07
They bent the
metal and everything.
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This is water pipe that
they used, a type of water pipe
00:21:48.30\00:21:51.77
and they bent it,
galvanized pipe, they bent it
00:21:51.81\00:21:54.18
to fit the
standards that they needed.
00:21:54.21\00:21:57.25
And so then it was shipped
across the country in a semi.
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It took it 3 days to get here.
00:22:00.52\00:22:02.02
It used a third of a semi to get
here and we hauled it over here
00:22:02.05\00:22:06.69
across the creek because there
was no bridge to get here so
00:22:06.72\00:22:09.86
we hauled it across the
creek to make it to our place.
00:22:09.89\00:22:13.13
And it's 21 feet tall. So it
took some doing to get it put up
00:22:13.16\00:22:17.93
We used pine trees and propped
pieces up and climbed up little,
00:22:17.97\00:22:21.90
tiny, rickety ladders. We
didn't have good ladders to use.
00:22:21.94\00:22:25.27
And managed to get it all stood
up and welded pieces together
00:22:25.31\00:22:29.11
on it that we needed to weld and
the whole structure made it up
00:22:29.14\00:22:33.38
and the tarp went
over and it fit perfectly,
00:22:33.42\00:22:36.32
just like they designed it
to fit. I was very impressed.
00:22:36.35\00:22:38.99
And it has been a tremendous
blessing to have it because
00:22:39.02\00:22:43.16
the plane is out of the weather,
and also the sun damages the
00:22:43.19\00:22:47.30
interior of the airplane
even when you put stuff on the
00:22:47.33\00:22:50.00
windshield to stop that,
it hazes the windshield then.
00:22:50.03\00:22:52.50
So it has helped a lot.
00:22:52.53\00:22:55.17
Narrator: It took the
Hanley's many years to construct
00:22:56.20\00:22:58.24
this mission base.
00:22:58.27\00:22:59.61
The entire project is
built to be self-sustaining
00:23:00.48\00:23:03.95
with no access to power,
communications or public water.
00:23:03.98\00:23:08.18
The Hanley's were able to turn
this remote jungle property into
00:23:09.22\00:23:13.66
a beautiful mission compound
that is self-sustaining,
00:23:13.69\00:23:17.43
and fully operational.
00:23:17.46\00:23:19.43
They harness the local
water source for their power
00:23:20.20\00:23:23.47
and plumping.
00:23:23.50\00:23:24.83
They constructed communication
towers to reach those in need.
00:23:25.17\00:23:28.90
The airplane has a safe shelter.
00:23:29.70\00:23:31.84
But this mission
outpost still isn't complete.
00:23:32.27\00:23:35.14
There are enormous
amounts of space for growth.
00:23:35.64\00:23:38.78
So Clint takes Jud around
the property and shows him
00:23:39.78\00:23:42.98
locations, where they can
build additional homes for more
00:23:43.02\00:23:47.09
missionaries for this project.
00:23:47.12\00:23:49.26
Clint: This is another
possible building site.
00:23:49.29\00:23:51.69
A house used to be
here back in the 1970's.
00:23:51.73\00:23:54.40
It was called the green house.
00:23:54.43\00:23:55.76
And our pond is over on
that side, and our house
00:23:55.80\00:23:57.73
and this house was right here
on the edge of the Likos River.
00:23:57.77\00:24:00.20
And it's still got mango trees
and still have flowers, that are
00:24:00.24\00:24:04.47
planted in neat rows
back in the seventies
00:24:04.51\00:24:07.04
that grow every year still.
00:24:07.08\00:24:08.41
Narrator: The Hanley family
is overloaded with the amount
00:24:08.61\00:24:11.08
of work they have to
do here in Nicaragua.
00:24:11.11\00:24:14.55
The thriving missionary base
is teeming with opportunities
00:24:15.28\00:24:18.55
for service.
00:24:18.59\00:24:19.92
It has now reached a point
where there is too much work
00:24:19.99\00:24:23.36
for just one family to do.
00:24:23.39\00:24:25.33
This project is undergoing
enormous amounts of growth.
00:24:27.13\00:24:30.27
The Hanley's were excited to
invite Adventist World Aviation
00:24:31.27\00:24:34.60
to take over the project
in Nicaragua and expand it
00:24:34.64\00:24:39.47
by adding 3
families to the project.
00:24:39.51\00:24:41.54
The Kaboos family, the Karst
family and the Hansen Family
00:24:42.04\00:24:47.92
have accepted the call to
join the Nicaragua project.
00:24:47.95\00:24:51.35
Clint: The Miskito
people are extremely thankful
00:24:52.69\00:24:54.92
that we are here.
00:24:54.96\00:24:56.29
They are very very happy
with the work we do and they are
00:24:56.32\00:24:59.66
very thankful, that we are able
to help them when they need it.
00:24:59.69\00:25:03.87
And I do tell them that it's
not anybody in Nicaragua that is
00:25:03.90\00:25:08.24
paying for it.
00:25:08.27\00:25:09.60
No government, no hospital is
paying for this, it's the people
00:25:09.64\00:25:13.07
in America, the
fellow Christians, who are
00:25:13.11\00:25:15.48
sending money down
to pay for the gasoline
00:25:15.51\00:25:17.61
and help keep the airplane
flying, that's helping them.
00:25:17.65\00:25:20.52
Narrator: Adventist World
Aviation is honored to take over
00:25:21.78\00:25:24.19
such a fantastic project, that
is saving lives both physically
00:25:24.45\00:25:28.62
and eternally.
00:25:28.66\00:25:30.46
The Hanley family started
this project 10 years ago.
00:25:31.46\00:25:35.03
And During this time, God
has worked through them to make
00:25:35.76\00:25:39.67
a profound
impact on this region.
00:25:39.70\00:25:41.90
Jud: They have worked
really really hard to build up
00:25:42.54\00:25:44.51
this base, and they have shown
much ingenuity and had so much
00:25:44.54\00:25:50.55
dedication of time and
resources to put this together
00:25:50.58\00:25:55.82
and make it happen.
00:25:55.85\00:25:57.19
I mean God has
blessed the activity here!
00:25:57.22\00:25:59.49
He has blessed the
work that they have done
00:25:59.52\00:26:01.02
with the people here.
00:26:01.06\00:26:02.39
The people have benefited
enormously from the time that
00:26:02.42\00:26:04.66
they have been able
to spend here working.
00:26:04.69\00:26:06.19
And we just are so excited to be
able to continue this project.
00:26:06.23\00:26:09.46
To continue putting resources
here to help the Miskito people
00:26:09.50\00:26:13.94
and to help share the love
of Jesus with these people,
00:26:13.97\00:26:18.51
who might not otherwise
receive it without this type of,
00:26:18.54\00:26:21.58
you know the airplane and the
recourses that we can bring here
00:26:21.61\00:26:25.85
Narrator: They have been
faithful missionaries, who truly
00:26:26.25\00:26:28.82
love the people
they came to serve.
00:26:28.85\00:26:31.09
However, the Hanley's realize,
that they didn't do this work
00:26:31.12\00:26:35.86
on their own.
00:26:35.89\00:26:37.23
No, God was with
them all the way.
00:26:37.26\00:26:40.40
Clint: In this line of work,
when I walk down the street
00:26:41.43\00:26:45.70
in our local little village,
people come to me, and they say
00:26:45.73\00:26:49.44
"Thank you for saving my
life! Thank you for helping me!"
00:26:49.47\00:26:51.87
And we appreciate the fact that,
you know they will come up and
00:26:51.91\00:26:55.58
say "you've helped my brother.
You flew my brother to town,
00:26:55.61\00:26:58.21
or my sister or me, and we
want to thank you for that."
00:26:58.25\00:27:01.88
And there's very few lines
of work, that you can walk down
00:27:01.92\00:27:04.92
the street and you can look at
the people in your local little
00:27:04.95\00:27:07.92
town and know that several
of them that you see right then,
00:27:07.96\00:27:10.99
are alive because
of the work you did.
00:27:11.03\00:27:12.69
So it is very fulfilling,
but at the same time, the credit
00:27:12.73\00:27:15.46
all goes to the tools
that the Lord has given me.
00:27:15.50\00:27:17.93
I don't have any extra
expertise, or anything that
00:27:17.97\00:27:21.30
anybody else doesn't have.
00:27:21.34\00:27:22.67
All I do is use the tools
that the Lord has given me.
00:27:22.70\00:27:25.17
And I am thankful that He
has blessed me with those,
00:27:25.21\00:27:27.18
and I am able to pass on as a
channel to help the local people
00:27:27.21\00:27:32.21
what He's given me and what
you guys send from the States
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to be able to help them.
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And I am the one who gets
the benefit of seeing the smiles
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on their faces and hear
the thank you from them.
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Marilyn: We cannot do this, and
we did not do this, to live in
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Nicaragua, and
build what we have.
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We are supported by financial
supporters, we're supported
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by prayer warriors, we
are supported by the village
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that we live in,
other missionaries,
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the list goes on and on about
the amount of people, time,
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energy, that has gone
into making this mission a help
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to the Miskito people.
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And ultimately, it is through
God's power, that anything
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has been done down here.
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Through His permission,
through His allowance,
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through His divine directions,
we have been His hands.
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It's not been our
dream to build this mission,
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to work in northeast Nicaragua.
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It was His dream, and when
He called we simply answered
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that we would go.
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Since then, He has
developed this into the mission,
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that He wants it to be.
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