Welcome to the
presidential update.
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It seems we're still on lockdown
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throughout most of the world,
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yet we here at
Adventist World Aviation
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are doing our best to help
the local indigenous peoples
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around the world
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as well as those
in the United States
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that we can
bring some relief to.
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Throughout the world, we
are offering comfort care.
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However, we are challenged
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with the fact
that our missionaries
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are locked down in
many cases as well.
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Not to mention the shortage
that we have of resourcing.
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Resourcing means
everything in times like these.
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And, well, we have
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many opportunities to help.
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We have limited
resources in order to do such.
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When you live your life
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in a country
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that has very few
modern conveniences
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that we take in
the United States
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for granted, things like food,
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clean food, clean water.
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How do you survive?
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The reality is
many of them don't,
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the attrition rate of children
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in some of these
regions is so great
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that they don't
even name their babies.
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And until they reach,
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when they're school
aged that they get a name,
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they'll nickname
their kids in the meantime.
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I guess it's a way so
they don't become attached
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but, you know,
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you love the baby
the day it's born.
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Children die all the time.
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So many of them
can be prevented,
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when we go into an area
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the attrition
rate goes way down.
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And we're able to save
by medevacing these kids out
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when they're ill right away.
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The pandemic that's
been sweeping the world is,
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it got us all on lockdown.
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We're doing the best we can.
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Right now, we need
help more than ever.
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Life in the jungle
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isn't always exciting.
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You know, we think of movies
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like Indiana Jones and Incision.
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But life isn't like
that, reality is harsh.
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Death is real.
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The needs
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for food, water,
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clothing, something
as simple as clothing.
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A lot of people
want to send us clothes.
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We don't need
you to send clothes,
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we could buy clothes locally.
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In fact, it costs probably
four or five times as much.
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We don't know
what to do sometimes
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because people
will send the items
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and really it costs
sometimes four or five times
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as much to ship
those items as it would be
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if we would just
have the resources,
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the financial resources
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to be able to
purchase the items locally.
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Yeah, sometimes
they're a little inferior,
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but we can usually purchase them
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much at a much
lower cost than we could
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if we were to ship the stuff
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from the United
States or from Canada
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or from somewhere,
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make it part of
your monthly program.
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A dollar a day saves a life.
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It really takes
about 365 bucks per flight
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that we take on
average, you know, some is less,
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some are little bit more,
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but $365 can definitely take
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a flight out of the jungles
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into a city
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where a hospital physicians
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or maybe life
support such as clean food.
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We bring into them
rice and beans and things
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that they can make
that's clean to eat.
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I can't tell you how many times
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we've seen people eat
vermin just to stay alive.
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You know, it's part of
their natural diet and,
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of course, with the events
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that have
happened in the world and,
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of course eating vermin.
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Supposedly this
virus came from bats.
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I don't know if it
was that's what happened.
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But you know, it's potential
and those things do happen.
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People get diseases
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from eating these unclean things
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that nowhere in the
Bible does it say that
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we should eat these
things and, but yet we do
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and then the
world faces a pandemic.
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Help us help them.
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Most of the
world faces challenges
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that we in the United States
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or North America
don't understand.
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With such challenges
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come unique
solutions and certainly
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one of the unique
solutions is aviation.
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And that's what we
bring to the table to be
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able to reach into
areas that are unreachable.
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People travel for
miles on small trails,
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like you see back here,
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small trails or down
creek beds or streams,
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because that's,
that's the thoroughfare.
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And so, the needs are
met by the jungle basically.
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And so, we come in
and we help people survive
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in a hostile environment,
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whether it be the
jungle or even in the city.
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We're able to help
in unique ways there.
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Turn the program over now
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to our project
manager in Brazil, Brad Mills.
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Hi, I'm Brad
Mills and I work here
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at the Institute of Missions
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called Northwest Brazil
Union Institute of Missions.
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And we're located in
the capital city, Manaus,
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of the state of
the Amazon in Brazil.
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And the
Institute of Missions here,
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we promote mission opportunities
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to do church
planting, reaching villages
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where the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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has here to for not entered.
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And I'm actually standing
here inside the building
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at the entrance of
our school of missions.
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We train here Bible workers
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that come to donate one
to two years of their life
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to serve people in the area
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and unreached
villages in the Amazon.
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Here they come,
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they live in our
schools, in our dorms,
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and they study every
day for about three months
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where they're being prepared
to be pioneer Bible workers,
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then we place them
out into villages to serve
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and live among the people.
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If you look here in the map,
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what we have here
is the city of Manaus,
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the capital city of nearly
two and a half million people.
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But then they go
out and they serve this
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whole vast region
living in villages.
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Our Bible workers sometimes
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live only among
unreached tribes,
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where we have no
Adventist presence
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where they're living
with the village people,
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hunting and
fishing and planting,
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trying to enter
into their lives,
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to make friendships,
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understand their worldview,
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and be able to
present the gospel.
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Each little place
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where we have a
church here is places
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that we've
actually built churches
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through our pioneer workers
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that had been
living in villages.
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And you can see here,
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we have every
little dot is a place
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where we have Bible
workers living with the people.
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So, we have here, actually,
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I'm in front of our School
of Missions training school,
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where we train people
to go out into villages.
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We run the Luzeiro boats,
a ministry that takes people
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out with medical professionals
to open up the villages.
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We do short term mission trips
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also as a form of
serving the villages.
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And all of this combined a way
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to take the gospel to areas
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that we haven't
been able to reach yet.
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Just in our area, we
have hundreds of languages
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and people groups
that live in isolated areas
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that were able to
serve through our boats
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and our pioneer Bible workers.
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So, we want to
thank you for what you do
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and combining with
us and working with us.
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In one day, we
hope to have an airplane
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here to be able to go out,
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sometimes our
boats are 8 to 10 days
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out into the jungle
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and be able to service that area
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to take care of
our Bible workers,
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taking more
medical professionals,
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supplies and continue
God's work in this area.
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For you to have an idea,
you can leave the capital city
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and you can travel over 30 days
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by boat to come to
these farthest reaching cities
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out of the jungle, where
we're planning to provide
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the workers this year,
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living with the people
and planting new churches
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for the spread of God's kingdom.
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We're thankful that
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you're
partnering with us in this.
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And imagine one day
we have a plane that
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could travel
this whole distance.
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What could take 30 days
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by boat could
take one day by plane
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to reach these areas
and attend our Bible workers
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and continue growing
God's work in this area.
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You guys right might remember
the story of the Luzeiro boats
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and what they've
done for the history
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of the Adventist
Church in this region.
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In fact, Leo and Jesse Halliwell
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in 1931 inaugurated the
very first Luzeiro boat,
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they sailed out of Belem Para,
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and they came
up the Amazon River
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going into
otherwise unreached areas.
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Our first Adventist
churches were planted
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specifically due to the
work of the Luzeiro boats.
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For over 80 years
the Adventist Church
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has been
maintaining Luzeiro boats
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coming and providing
medical care, social work,
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providing help for
the people's needs,
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thereby gaining their
trust, working with them,
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showing God's
love and being able
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then afterwards
to plant churches.
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Today, we're still
doing the same thing.
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Today we
administered the Luzeiro boats,
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where we put volunteers
that are willing to come,
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dentists, physicians,
nurses, physical therapists,
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and Bible workers.
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And these people
live on the boats,
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they come out
sometimes for a year at a time
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to live on the boat.
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Will live with
the jungle dwellers,
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providing them medical
care, visiting in their homes,
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and being able to
then make friendships
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and start Bible studies.
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Then after the Luzeiro boats
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have come in and
opened up the area,
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we're able to put
pioneer Bible workers
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to live in the villages
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and work with the
people and help them.
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We want to thank you
for partnering with us.
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And imagine what a partnership
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with an airplane
with AWA will do.
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When we have a boat
that's 14, 15, 16, 17 days out
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into the jungle
and we need an emergent
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or urgent care,
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the plane can takeoff right here
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on the river in
front of our base
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and land out by the boat,
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bringing in much
needed medical supplies,
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Bible supplies,
workers, volunteers, food,
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and to be able to
continue growing our project
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to be able to serve
God's kingdom in this area.
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Thank you for
partnering with us.
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Brad Mills has been
doing a fabulous job
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of holding things together there
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while we institute a
new flying program there.
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Pray the Lord of harvest
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that we find the right
pilot for that project.
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We have the plane,
we just need the pilot.
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Partner with us.
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Thank you and God bless.
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This is my story
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This is my song
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Praising my Savior
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All the day long
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This is my story
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This is my song
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Praising myself Savior
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All the day long
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Traversing
through along narrow path
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along a riverbed is
romantic on a camping trip,
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but when you have to
come down to a local stream
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on a daily basis to get
water, that becomes challenging.
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In Nicaragua, we have
met the needs of the people,
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so they don't have
to drink river water
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which is okay as long
as it's properly processed.
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But they can now
drink fresh water
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from living water in Nicaragua.
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Thank you to Enrique and others
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that have gone before
him to put a well in place
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and offer living water.
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It becomes challenging to
meet the needs of this world
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when times are good.
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Now with the world
basically on lockdown,
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it becomes even
more challenging.
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However, missionaries
like Enrique give us courage.
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The work that he's doing
there has been such a blessing
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to the local indigenous people
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as well as the
leadership of the community,
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supplying water and supplies
and medevacing with the truck.
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We have a missionary that
soon to be deployed there.
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We'll make more
announcement about that later,
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but we've had an accepted call.
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Up in Alaska Jim Kincade
has been flying supply relief
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to our missionaries.
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We're getting loaded
for a trip to the village
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of Shungnak and Selawik
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with a load of
shelf stable food items.
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Much of it just
like you at home.
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We've got two loads here.
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We've got flour,
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you can make bread out of that.
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We've got rice.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic
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many of the
villages are in danger
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of running out of food
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so we're trying to restock
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their food banks for them.
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There's a pancake flour.
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Macaroni.
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And we've got buckets full
of shelf stable food in them.
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We team up with
Adventist community
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services to do this run.
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Food packed kale,
that's always good.
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Everyone needs to
eat their green beans.
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And we've got sweet corn.
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We've got about 800
pounds of food in here.
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And we're gonna be
headed out in a little while
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to help these villages
out in this time of distress.
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So, God bless and thank you
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for your support
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that keeps our
airplanes operating
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and keeps us going up
here on the frontlines.
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Thank you very much.
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As I travel along,
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I wonder how others survive.
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We like watching
television shows like Survival.
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And we look out at wilderness
much like you see here.
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And we say, wow,
that's really something
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to be able to survive in
an environment like this.
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But people live like
this, they're not surviving.
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They live like
this on a daily basis,
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it's not a reality
show, it's reality.
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In the Philippines,
our team, our local team,
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as well as our
foreign missionaries,
00:17:15.20\00:17:18.20
the Wilkerson's have
been working very hard
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working with everyone there,
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making sure that
encouragement is kept high.
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Meeting the needs of the
locals there is challenging
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because they
too are on lockdown,
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but they're doing it.
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I'm Bruce Wilkerson.
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I'm the Executive Vice President
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for Adventist World Aviation.
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As I said, from
the airplane over here,
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we taken in the
last couple months,
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we put this airplane together,
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it's up and
running, that's great.
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But now the big problem is
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getting this
2000-foot airstrip finished.
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Well, from the
end of the airstrip
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is the village of Sapangan
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and down there just forward
a bit about 50-100 meters
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is where the airstrip starts,
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and it goes about 2000 feet
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all the way down
in this direction.
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And at the end there with,
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right before the
jungles where it stopped.
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So, we have lots of jungle
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that surrounds this
end of the airstrip.
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And there's fencing around
the whole 74 acre property.
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And in the 74 acres we have,
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we have lots of weeds
and vines down fencing
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and part of the Civil Aviation
Authorities requirements
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is for us to clear
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and make sure we have a
secure perimeter to prevent.
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But not just
working on this base
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where we're restricted to.
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We've taken opportunities
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to continue our
worship practices
00:18:35.18\00:18:36.51
here with our team.
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The Espinosas they come across,
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we worship on
Wednesdays and Sabbath.
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And hopefully we're building
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more
relationships with these people
00:18:44.25\00:18:45.59
that when we start flying here,
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we can start making
additional physical difference
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in their lives
but more importantly,
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we can introduce them
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to the loving
relationship with Jesus.
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That's why we're here
folks is to introduce people
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to a loving
relationship with God
00:18:57.43\00:18:59.40
and His Son, Jesus Christ.
00:18:59.43\00:19:01.14
Back home here in
the United States,
00:21:01.32\00:21:05.96
our maintenance department
00:21:05.99\00:21:07.33
is working diligently preparing
aircraft for the field.
00:21:07.36\00:21:10.77
We have been blessed
00:21:10.80\00:21:12.73
to have the
Stevenson Family join our team.
00:21:12.77\00:21:16.30
Kyle is turned out to be
more than just a mechanic.
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He's quite an engineer,
00:21:19.97\00:21:21.71
he's been able to
create solutions out of areas
00:21:21.74\00:21:26.41
that we thought we
would never be able to solve.
00:21:26.45\00:21:31.82
We now turn to Guyana
and Monique Wilkerson.
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Our Guyana
project needs your help.
00:21:36.39\00:21:38.49
With the COVID-19
travel restrictions worldwide,
00:21:38.53\00:21:41.73
our mechanics, our inspectors
00:21:41.76\00:21:43.87
and our missionaries
are unable to travel
00:21:43.90\00:21:46.37
to conduct those inspections
00:21:46.40\00:21:48.27
and continue the work
that we have in Guyana.
00:21:48.30\00:21:51.97
And so, in God's perfect timing,
00:21:52.01\00:21:54.84
our missionaries would
like to return to Guyana
00:21:54.88\00:21:57.35
to conduct the work there.
00:21:57.38\00:21:59.38
And so, we ask for your prayers.
00:21:59.41\00:22:02.52
We ask for your
continued support
00:22:02.55\00:22:05.52
and Guyana need help.
00:22:05.55\00:22:09.26
In Canada, Ray
Young and his wife Julie
00:22:09.29\00:22:12.69
are working very
hard to make sure that
00:22:12.73\00:22:14.86
our global
operations are running smoothly.
00:22:14.90\00:22:17.97
He's also been working
with the Ontario project
00:22:18.00\00:22:20.07
making sure that
00:22:20.10\00:22:21.77
our aircraft is
going to be ready
00:22:21.80\00:22:24.04
just as soon as possible.
00:22:24.07\00:22:26.31
We've had some issues there
that we need to take care of,
00:22:26.34\00:22:29.58
unexpected issues,
00:22:29.61\00:22:31.18
seems that the
cylinders are out of service,
00:22:31.21\00:22:34.95
they can't be used anymore.
00:22:34.98\00:22:36.89
That's going to cost
several thousand dollars,
00:22:36.92\00:22:38.89
probably in the neighborhood
of $7,000 to $10,000
00:22:38.92\00:22:41.52
to replace those cylinders
00:22:41.56\00:22:43.89
before we can fly
00:22:43.93\00:22:45.26
to the first
indigenous nations there
00:22:45.29\00:22:49.00
To look out in Ontario, Canada
00:22:49.03\00:22:52.20
is another one of
our bases of operations.
00:22:52.23\00:22:54.90
We'll be deploying
this summer a float plane
00:22:54.94\00:22:57.24
to get to remote villages
00:22:57.27\00:22:59.27
and people that
are hard to reach
00:22:59.31\00:23:00.88
or impossible to reach by road.
00:23:00.91\00:23:03.51
As we have learned, no matter
00:23:03.55\00:23:04.88
which country
we're operating in,
00:23:04.91\00:23:06.95
the indigenous
people seem to be the people
00:23:06.98\00:23:09.42
of that country
that are suffering
00:23:09.45\00:23:11.22
and are in need the most.
00:23:11.25\00:23:12.72
At AWA, we try to
bring medical supplies,
00:23:12.75\00:23:15.99
dental clinics, medical clinics,
00:23:16.02\00:23:19.69
save injured people,
00:23:19.73\00:23:21.63
help them to get to hospitals.
00:23:21.66\00:23:24.93
But because of their remoteness,
00:23:24.97\00:23:26.40
the only way
generally to get to them
00:23:26.43\00:23:28.74
is with the use of an aircraft.
00:23:28.77\00:23:31.54
To look out we'll soon have
00:23:31.57\00:23:32.91
a beautiful red
and white Cessna 185
00:23:32.94\00:23:36.48
and fin float plane.
00:23:36.51\00:23:38.41
This aircraft can land on
land runways and on water.
00:23:38.45\00:23:43.25
Our newly established
project up there in Ontario.
00:23:43.28\00:23:48.72
Elder Mansfield Edwards
00:23:48.76\00:23:50.09
has joined our
board of directors
00:23:50.13\00:23:52.93
and is proving to be
a tremendous resource.
00:23:52.96\00:23:58.43
In Africa, we have
a new project manager
00:23:58.47\00:24:00.97
that we're interviewing.
00:24:01.00\00:24:02.50
His name is Pastor Livingston,
00:24:02.54\00:24:03.87
he's been there
living for quite some time,
00:24:03.91\00:24:06.04
working with our
local leadership there.
00:24:06.07\00:24:09.78
We hope to be making
00:24:09.81\00:24:11.15
some very
exciting news announcements
00:24:11.18\00:24:12.71
about our Uganda
project here very soon.
00:24:12.75\00:24:17.19
Here in the United States,
00:24:17.22\00:24:18.55
we are working
with local hospitals,
00:24:18.59\00:24:21.46
perhaps they have needs
00:24:21.49\00:24:22.82
of flying test
materials or tests themselves
00:24:22.86\00:24:25.16
to the testing
locations to get them back.
00:24:25.19\00:24:28.46
Our Angel Flight
program has slowed down,
00:24:28.50\00:24:30.63
which is heartbreaking
00:24:30.67\00:24:33.00
because I know
that there are people
00:24:33.03\00:24:34.57
that are needing
their cancer treatments
00:24:34.60\00:24:36.47
or whatever
treatments that they need,
00:24:36.50\00:24:39.74
but they're putting it
off because of the fear
00:24:39.77\00:24:41.98
of what's
happening around the world.
00:24:42.01\00:24:44.11
Pray for them. I ask
that you pray for us.
00:24:44.15\00:24:47.25
I ask that you pray
00:24:47.28\00:24:48.62
that our missionaries
will remain safe and healthy.
00:24:48.65\00:24:52.09
I ask that you pray
that God will supply
00:24:52.12\00:24:54.69
the necessary resources
00:24:54.72\00:24:56.99
so that we can
accomplish the work.
00:24:57.03\00:25:00.43
The work is very challenging.
00:25:00.46\00:25:03.70
But we can't do it without you.
00:25:03.73\00:25:06.03
Without your help
and without your support,
00:25:06.07\00:25:07.77
without your
prayers, nothing gets done.
00:25:07.80\00:25:11.07
Think about setting up a
monthly regular donation.
00:25:11.11\00:25:16.04
While we
appreciate the one-time gifts,
00:25:16.08\00:25:20.32
those are so needed.
00:25:20.35\00:25:22.38
It's the monthly donations
that help us understand
00:25:22.42\00:25:25.79
what we can do on a daily,
00:25:25.82\00:25:28.16
weekly and yes, monthly basis.
00:25:28.19\00:25:32.33
They ask why do you do this?
00:25:32.36\00:25:34.93
And our answer is simple.
00:25:34.96\00:25:38.03
Because we believe in a God,
we believe in a higher power.
00:25:38.07\00:25:42.10
They've been led to believe
00:25:42.14\00:25:46.01
all sorts of
superstitious things.
00:25:46.04\00:25:49.68
Few of them know about Jesus,
00:25:49.71\00:25:52.25
few of them know
about the kindness
00:25:52.28\00:25:55.05
that's in the heart of God.
00:25:55.08\00:25:59.69
And so, with that we
meet their physical needs.
00:25:59.72\00:26:03.69
We meet their spiritual needs
00:26:03.73\00:26:05.66
as best we can
by praying for them.
00:26:05.69\00:26:09.60
They make a decision
sometimes to follow Jesus.
00:26:09.63\00:26:12.57
Some do and some don't.
00:26:12.60\00:26:15.97
We don't force anyone.
00:26:16.00\00:26:18.17
We simply show
them the kindness,
00:26:18.21\00:26:21.81
the kindness that
Jesus left us with,
00:26:21.84\00:26:24.58
in His example
of healing the sick,
00:26:24.61\00:26:27.48
feeding the hungry
and helping the poor.
00:26:27.52\00:26:30.89
And so, by doing just
that, they are touched.
00:26:30.92\00:26:36.76
Now, we need you to
help us get that job done.
00:26:36.79\00:26:40.83
In closing, I want to thank you
for being friends and partners
00:27:25.77\00:27:30.55
with Adventist World Aviation.
00:27:30.58\00:27:33.11
These past 25 years
00:27:33.15\00:27:36.15
have been made possible by you.
00:27:36.18\00:27:38.39
We work very
hard to make sure that
00:27:43.22\00:27:45.39
we're doing the
right thing always.
00:27:45.43\00:27:49.33
It is important for us to
get it right the first time.
00:27:49.36\00:27:53.27
Aviation can afford no mistakes.
00:27:53.30\00:27:56.77
Doing God's work can
afford no mistakes either.
00:27:56.81\00:28:00.38
We try to get it right.
00:28:00.41\00:28:03.31
Continue to pray for us,
00:28:03.35\00:28:05.15
continue to
support that which we do.
00:28:05.18\00:28:08.28
We will do our
best to be responsible,
00:28:08.32\00:28:11.09
both fiduciary and
spiritually as well.
00:28:11.12\00:28:14.92
Words alone don't express
our heartfelt appreciation
00:28:14.96\00:28:19.59
for all that you've
done, all that you do.
00:28:19.63\00:28:23.53
But most importantly,
00:28:23.57\00:28:24.90
it's what you're about to do
00:28:24.93\00:28:27.64
that we need more
than anything else.
00:28:27.67\00:28:30.34
And I pray that the Holy Spirit
00:28:30.37\00:28:32.81
will impress
upon you to help now,
00:28:32.84\00:28:35.34
like never before.
00:28:35.38\00:28:37.01
If there ever was a time
00:28:37.05\00:28:39.51
that AWA needed
your support, it's now.
00:28:39.55\00:28:44.05
Thank you. God bless you.
00:28:44.09\00:28:48.36
And we'll see you next month.
00:28:48.39\00:28:50.13