It's not what I
do. It's who I am.
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I am a missionary
where the darkness is thick,
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and the valley's deep,
lift me up to overcome,
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the battle is the Lord's,
souls are perishing for Christ,
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they need me to bring.
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I can do all
things through Christ
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who strengthens me.
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Adventist World Aviation
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is a humanitarian
crisis centered ministry.
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Therefore reaches the
individual of great needs,
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saving lives,
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making the
principles that Jesus left us.
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A few like healing the sick,
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heal a sick if you can
be a witness of the death
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in their health and
they're interested in
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or as to why you're
interesting in doing this,
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so we're able to reach them
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with the gospel as a result
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of attending to
their physical needs.
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Jesus spent more time healing
than He did anything else.
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And so, Adventist World Aviation
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has been doing that since 1995.
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It's essential to get help
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go immediately
as quick as we can.
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Sometimes the
only option is aviation
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to get there quickly.
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Even in today's age of
bio component research,
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technological age,
you would think that
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we would have other
methods to reach people.
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But there's, sometimes
there's just no options,
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especially when
there's lives at stake.
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To rescue is, is
important of the gospel.
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There's 800 million
people in this world
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who never heard of Jesus.
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Those 800 million
people, I should say,
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are those that are
beyond geographic barriers,
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that can only be
reached by means like aviation,
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or if you're willing to
send somebody in with a donkey
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travel up to 30
days into a jungle
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or two mountains or whatever.
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Traversing the
seemingly impossible,
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will 30 or 40 days later,
but nobody, nobody does that.
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I mean, it's hard to do that.
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Well, we can make a
flight in an hour, maybe two,
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and reach the
unreached of this world.
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And that's the
800 million people
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that we're after,
that's our target.
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Our target
audience is 2 billion people
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that never heard of Jesus,
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but 800 million of them
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can only be reached
by means like aviation.
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In spite of the rapid
technology advancement
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in weather reporting
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and weather
observation stations,
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the distances are so great,
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the weather can
change very abruptly
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on any given long
cross country flight.
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And so you've got low terrain,
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we have, you know, 500
feet or less above sea level,
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even into the
interior of Alaska.
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But yet we have
the tallest mountain
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in North America.
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And these mountains
present formidable barriers
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to general aviation
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because the
minimum en route altitudes
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across these mountains
is in excess of 10,000 feet
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on the lowest routes,
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and many of them
are 12,000 or 14,000
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minimum en route altitudes.
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The mountains are
formidable barriers
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that have high winds.
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They make their own weather
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and they, these
are the challenges
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that mission
aviation pilots face,
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hauling heavy
loads at high altitudes,
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you know, it requires experience
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and very good judgment
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as to when to
launch, when to stay,
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and how to safely
negotiate these obstacles.
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We offer services of mercy
that had can reach anything
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from the kindness
of an angel flight
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to involving youth
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in something that's different
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than what youth are
being offered today,
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to medical
emergencies, to epidemic relief,
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flying in water, and disaster,
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you know, where
disaster has hit,
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fundamental needs.
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So Adventist World
Aviation was developed
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primarily to serve humanity.
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It's extraordinary to see
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what the level
of kindness can do
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in that capacity to
someone in their life
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and in their walk in the world,
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that people aren't
expecting that kind of kindness
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for someone to
go out of their way
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to help them like that.
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And these angel
wing flights that we do,
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they're 100% donor supported.
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So thank you for
everything that you give.
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The patients that we
fly don't pay a dime.
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We take care of them,
just as God takes care of us.
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Freely we've been
given, freely we give.
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The other
flights that we've taken
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that also
involved cancer patients
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that we've had
the pleasure of flying
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to and from their appointments,
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sometimes they're just,
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they're really
nauseous and they're sick
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and then a car
ride for 10 to 12 hours,
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that's not gonna work.
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So it's a pleasure
to be able to be there
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to help them in
their moment of need.
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And then we have say
about two and a half hour
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or so flight at most,
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as opposed to a
12 hour car ride.
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So the angel wing
flights are needed.
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And they're an
incredible ministry,
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they've touched us.
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We have lots of
doctors' appointments
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and scans, MRIs, CTs,
PET scans, all the stuff.
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And then you read
the results and things
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and driving home
one day from doctors,
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I was like in tears.
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And it's those
moments when it is like,
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why even bother.
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Part of my chemotherapy
when I was, you know, so weak.
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You feel just like
you want to die and...
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But I'm not that kind of person.
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I just had to,
you know, suck it up
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and realize that
there's something else for me,
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and God's got plans for me.
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And it's not my time,
and it's time to keep going.
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But you lose your courage,
it's very easy to do that.
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You just have
to keep focusing on
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what God has in store for you
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and not giving up.
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It's lesson that
you do need people.
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You need people to help you.
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And to let go of
that is difficult
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for somebody like me.
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Part of me is like no,
you know, I can handle,
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we can handle
driving, we can manage it.
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The other part of me is
like Melenie, just let go again,
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and let God's gift
to be part of your life.
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I was so grateful.
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Oh my gosh, the
amount of gratitude for AWA
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and for the people in my life
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that put me in
touch with AWA and Ric,
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and yeah, my flying
experience has been great.
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All that, Ric and all the pilots
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and everybody
has been wonderful.
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And I just feel
like a bonding to it,
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I guess, so to speak.
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I've been so
grateful for the blessings
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that AWA has offered me.
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Understand
there's a power out there
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that is helping
us if we allow it.
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If you let go and let
God, life will be so much easy.
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One of the interesting
things about angel flights
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is that you never know when
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or how they're going to
actually fully conspire.
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When we flew Butch from
Savannah, Georgia up here
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to North Carolina to
be with his daughter.
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He and his daughter Kris
started doing Bible studies
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with Pastor Ric
and long story short,
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they were baptized.
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I got to be there with them
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at their
baptism along with Kyle.
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And it was incredible
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because we went
from angel flight
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to then baptism
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and I even
studied with them as well.
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And then shortly after that,
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Butch ended up
getting an infection,
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he fell ill, he was in
and out of the hospital.
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He just went downhill so fast.
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It was incredible.
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This is why in just a few
weeks after he was baptized,
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and he suddenly
then was put on hospice.
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And Kris, his
daughter was just with us
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for the whole thing.
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It was hard on my heart to
see Kris have to go through that
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as well as even just seeing
Butch laying there in bed.
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There is one gift that I
know that God has given me
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and I use it as often as I can.
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I was so restless
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and oftentimes I will
sit especially in the church,
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so I figured the
one thing that I know
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is super soothing to people
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when they're going
through a hard time is music.
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And that was all that
I could offer right then
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because I didn't have any words.
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And so God wooed
me to take some time
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and put any fears aside
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of singing outside
of the church setting
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and just sit there
in the room and sing.
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And as I began to sing,
it lifted Kris's spirits,
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she began to sing
along with me quietly.
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And we also
noticed that it regulated
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that peaceful environment
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and then music began to regulate
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Butch's breathing
and his heart rate,
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and he calmed down,
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and he was no longer gasping.
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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him!
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How I've proved
Him o'er and o'er
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Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
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Oh, for grace to trust Him more!
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For grace to trust Him more!
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Missionary is
someone who feels a calling
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from God to serve.
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It doesn't start overseas,
it starts in your own backyard,
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it starts in your
home, starts in community,
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throughout your state,
your country, and then abroad.
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You could be in
airport back in the States
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and have missionary opportunity.
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Missionaries being
a witness or disciple,
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apostle for Christ.
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And you want to share Christ
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in every encounter
you can with people.
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Yeah, anybody can
join Pakistan borders,
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join the military,
join the State Department,
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Peace Corps, USAID and
serve in a foreign country.
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That's not what it's about.
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It's a calling, it's
about calling response,
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serving the response
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that the Holy Spirit
calling you to be something,
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do something that takes
you out of your comfort zone.
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And when you do,
you'll grow exponentially,
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I submit, if you allow
the Holy Spirit to work in.
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I was in line, was a long line.
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And behind me was a
man who was coughing like,
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you know, coughing constantly.
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And you know, with
COVID, you know, it's like, oh,
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you don't want to
get COVID, you know?
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So, I felt the Holy
Spirit impressing me
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to talk to this man,
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you know, and
even the Holy Spirit
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was right there,
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right in front of me
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with a bottle of water.
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Right?
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But I didn't want to
listen 'cause I was afraid.
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I was overrun by my
fear that I could get COVID.
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And so even though I knew
that the Holy Spirit was saying,
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"Why don't you ask the man
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how he's doing and
give him a bottle of water."
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I didn't do it.
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I left knowing that
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I have grieved the Holy
Spirit by not listening.
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And so, but, you know, I
know God has forgiven me,
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but it's those
things that happens here.
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That if I was overseas,
it would become so easy,
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because, you know, I'm very,
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and I also didn't know
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if I would be
accepted by this man.
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You know, I
was, I would give out
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normally what I would do
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if I wasn't overrun
by fear is I would say,
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Hey, how you doing?
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Would you like
a bottle of water?
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Here's a tract.
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I would, I know normally
that's, that's what I do,
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I give them a tract, you know,
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but I was overrun by
fear of getting the COVID, so.
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Being afraid,
especially for the boys.
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But what I think
and I believe is,
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is that if God wants me,
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or wants us to be there,
He's gonna protect, protect us,
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He'll send His angels.
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And everything is
gonna be all right,
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so that brings me peace.
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There's a quote that
says the safest place to be
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is in the Center of God's will.
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And that place
might even be burning
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at the stake for some people,
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you know, what
about the martyrs?
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Well, you know,
that's where God wanted to be
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and still was the safest
place in the world for them.
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And for us, it's just
wherever God wants us to be.
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My salvation is secure.
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I know that.
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I know that is
true for my family,
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because I...
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We worship together and I
know where their hearts are,
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or God knows more than I do.
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But I'm secure in our salvation.
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And so, you know,
while we may suffer
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or die in this life,
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that is, that's a vapor.
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And, you know, the
eternity is incomparable
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with the span of time,
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if we lived 100 years on
this planet, it's nothing.
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So, again, we don't
want to be presumptuous,
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I'm not looking to put
myself in a dangerous situation,
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and much less to put my
family in a dangerous situation.
00:15:04.07\00:15:08.17
But again, if we choose
not to go the way God shows us
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He wants us to go.
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And I feel like
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that is the most
dangerous place to be.
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The devil has been attacking me,
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I'm getting car
emergencies fixes,
00:15:22.12\00:15:25.22
I'm getting things
wrong with my health
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that are expensive.
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And it just seems like
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he's making it
difficult for me to be up here.
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But, again, or trying to make me
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difficult for me to be up here.
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But I have faith that the
Lord will take care of me,
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He'll keep me up
there, He wants me here.
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He made it very clear
that He wanted me here.
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The move up here was
as smooth as it could be,
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especially in this
housing crisis time.
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I mean, I bid on my
first house up here,
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and they accepted.
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It was the smoothest move
that anyone could dream of.
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It's just now that I'm
here, the devil is attacking me.
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So I know that I'm here
where I'm supposed to be.
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And I know that
the Lord will make sure
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that I can stay here.
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Bruce got sick, Bruce.
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And we found out later
on his kidney was failing.
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So he was gonna,
you know, with focus on,
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go on dialysis and everything.
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So we went back to the States.
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And I was a little frightened.
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I said, Bruce,
because I was also afraid,
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you know that,
you know, go back.
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I said, Lord, I
don't want to go home
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if my husband's gonna
be on dialysis, you know?
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So I said...
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Yeah, I, you know, I, you know,
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I don't want
this for my husband.
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And so we went to
the States in Arizona.
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And, you know,
miraculously, God hears prayers,
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a lot of people
were praying for Bruce.
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So he started improving,
his kidney started improving,
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and until it became normal,
00:17:13.56\00:17:15.46
but they wanted
to watch his kidney.
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So you know what I did?
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I said, I'm going
back to Guyana by myself.
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So I went to Guyana by myself.
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Bruce stayed in Arizona,
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and I continued
managing the project.
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And a lot of people, you know,
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you know, you ask
about the questions,
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aren't you afraid,
you know, with all these
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kidnapping and all that?
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When you're not afraid when,
then you also become a witness,
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because me living by myself.
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People were saying, "Man,
you must really trust your God,
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because you're
here by yourself."
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That itself was a
witness to the people in Guyana,
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in our community
that I was there,
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you know, by
myself without my husband,
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being there for
the people of Guyana.
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Courage that happens with fear.
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If you're in
something stepping out in faith,
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despite the fact
that you have some fear,
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a level of fear, you
won't have a level of fear
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that it's going to paralyze
you from doing anything.
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So you're looking behind a
bush where some can go wrong.
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So faith and courage
are synonymous together,
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I believe, to
take risks with crime
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setting on phases in America.
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When I went back,
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you know, the mosquitoes
didn't bother me anymore,
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they were still there.
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It's not that they
did decrease in number.
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They were still there.
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But it didn't
bother me as much anymore,
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or hardly any anymore.
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Because I knew that I was
going to start living there.
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I think one of the things that
missionaries need to realize
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when they go to another country,
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that that is your home now.
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When you put it in your
head, that that's your home,
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then everything else is,
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you know, it's
going to be normal.
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The back down was still there.
00:19:05.11\00:19:07.28
Although we did build a
lifestyle learning Center
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afterwards and no more.
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No more a family of
eight that and you know that,
00:19:12.28\00:19:16.28
but, yeah,
that's my mission story.
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I can do all
things through Christ
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who strengthens me.
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Not many people would sign up
00:19:24.99\00:19:26.49
for what is
essentially less money
00:19:26.53\00:19:29.20
and more work hours,
00:19:29.23\00:19:30.57
but at the same time,
00:19:30.60\00:19:33.00
you're not going to make
this kind of a difference
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working for Wall Street.
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I bought car, but I've
been growing as a person
00:19:36.54\00:19:41.64
because of taking this role on.
00:19:41.68\00:19:44.28
And I feel like my
journey has just started.
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Definitely, I mean, whatever
God calls you to is worth it.
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You know, at so many
times, I had that question.
00:19:52.59\00:19:55.92
You know, in the midst of it,
you know, it's just worth it.
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God, is this worth my time?
00:19:57.53\00:19:58.86
Is it worth my
money and attention,
00:19:58.89\00:20:00.93
other people's money
was being invested in me,
00:20:00.96\00:20:03.50
you know, is it
worth that I hate for it
00:20:03.53\00:20:05.40
to be a waste of my
time other people's time,
00:20:05.43\00:20:07.17
my money, other people's money?
00:20:07.20\00:20:09.07
You know, is this
really what you want me to do?
00:20:09.10\00:20:11.97
But then do you
know, doors would open up,
00:20:12.01\00:20:15.31
you know, and we'd have
the place to move forward
00:20:15.34\00:20:21.28
in the trail to having
all of our accreditations,
00:20:21.32\00:20:25.42
you know, licenses and things,
00:20:25.45\00:20:26.79
you know, all, so
many doors opened up,
00:20:26.82\00:20:28.42
you know, friends
have encouraged me,
00:20:28.46\00:20:30.03
money would come in,
free things would come,
00:20:30.06\00:20:33.40
you know, opportunities
of some form or another.
00:20:33.43\00:20:36.70
And God worked through
so many different things
00:20:36.73\00:20:39.17
to get us there.
00:20:39.20\00:20:40.54
Financially, yeah, we
believe it was very tough.
00:20:40.57\00:20:43.54
And those opportunities
that were presented to me
00:20:43.57\00:20:47.21
to make more money in
aviation or something else.
00:20:47.24\00:20:50.71
My boss told me at the airport,
"And I'll take care of you
00:20:50.75\00:20:53.01
if you want to
move up in the world
00:20:53.05\00:20:54.38
here at the airport,
00:20:54.42\00:20:55.75
you should be director
of maintenance eventually,
00:20:55.78\00:20:57.72
and we'll get
you on the fast track
00:20:57.75\00:20:59.29
to getting all your licenses
00:20:59.32\00:21:00.66
and then we'll get you flying
more and making the big money."
00:21:00.69\00:21:05.06
And he said, "But you want
00:21:05.09\00:21:06.43
to still do the
mission field thing,
00:21:06.46\00:21:07.80
I totally, totally get that."
00:21:07.83\00:21:10.20
Yeah, it's flattering,
but I want to be a missionary.
00:21:10.23\00:21:14.47
Because what could I say to God,
00:21:14.50\00:21:16.10
you know, if all these doors
00:21:16.14\00:21:19.27
that He's thrown open
for me to work for Him,
00:21:19.31\00:21:21.84
and I go and just work
for myself or for the world,
00:21:21.88\00:21:24.08
how do you want to put it,
00:21:24.11\00:21:25.45
you know, what
am I going to say?
00:21:25.48\00:21:28.02
And it always had to be no,
00:21:28.05\00:21:30.42
you know, I work
for somebody else,
00:21:30.45\00:21:32.62
ultimately challenges.
00:21:32.65\00:21:34.12
Maybe at the beginning,
in my case, I was thinking
00:21:34.16\00:21:37.69
how am I going to
get financial support.
00:21:37.73\00:21:42.63
So because it was so
big, in my head, I told God,
00:21:42.66\00:21:47.57
this is Your
ministry, this is Your project,
00:21:47.60\00:21:50.61
it's in Your hands,
there is nothing we can do.
00:21:50.64\00:21:54.21
And the Lord has
been touching people.
00:21:54.24\00:21:57.15
And I mean, without even asking,
00:21:57.18\00:22:00.82
I mean, people
just comes and say
00:22:00.85\00:22:02.68
I want to support the mission,
00:22:02.72\00:22:04.52
I want to support the mission.
00:22:04.55\00:22:06.49
And I am surprised because we...
00:22:06.52\00:22:10.29
I don't know we
asked like straight up
00:22:10.33\00:22:12.59
one person for
support, they just come.
00:22:12.63\00:22:16.26
But our prayer is always, Lord,
00:22:16.30\00:22:19.30
touch the heart of the person
00:22:19.33\00:22:24.27
to help and to
support the ministry,
00:22:24.31\00:22:25.64
because this is not ours.
00:22:25.67\00:22:27.18
And I don't want them seeing us
00:22:27.21\00:22:29.34
as the, you know, the ones
who are behind the ministry,
00:22:29.38\00:22:33.75
it's really You.
00:22:33.78\00:22:35.12
And if you want this work be
00:22:35.15\00:22:39.45
or your gospel be spread,
00:22:39.49\00:22:41.46
it has to be through Your power,
00:22:41.49\00:22:44.49
not us, so He's doing it,
00:22:44.53\00:22:46.86
He's really doing it
and we praise Him for that.
00:22:46.90\00:22:49.83
The challenge being is
the time given to your kids,
00:22:49.86\00:22:53.50
because that's
everyone's first mission
00:22:53.54\00:22:55.54
field is their children.
00:22:55.57\00:22:57.31
If we fall short on that,
00:22:57.34\00:22:58.67
you know, what are we doing
in someone else's work forum,
00:22:58.71\00:23:02.54
trying to convert them to Jesus,
00:23:02.58\00:23:05.01
but I think that's the
most challenging things,
00:23:05.05\00:23:09.02
getting too busy, you
know, working on the project,
00:23:09.05\00:23:13.69
and the mission in country
00:23:13.72\00:23:15.69
can sometimes
take your focus off
00:23:15.72\00:23:17.49
of your own family.
00:23:17.53\00:23:18.86
That's a place where
a lot of missionaries
00:23:18.89\00:23:21.26
have fallen short.
00:23:21.30\00:23:22.63
And people, you know,
just her living in the States,
00:23:22.66\00:23:24.70
you know, with American dream,
00:23:24.73\00:23:26.07
chasing business
or whatever it's also,
00:23:26.10\00:23:27.70
you know, same
kind of situation apply.
00:23:27.74\00:23:29.47
That's the biggest
challenge is making sure
00:23:29.50\00:23:31.44
that the children
have time, it's not,
00:23:31.47\00:23:33.48
you know, being
in another country,
00:23:33.51\00:23:35.91
necessarily.
00:23:35.94\00:23:37.28
It's not, you know, raising them
00:23:37.31\00:23:40.38
in that place where,
00:23:40.42\00:23:41.75
you know, it's a
third world country
00:23:41.78\00:23:43.12
instead of first world
00:23:43.15\00:23:44.49
where we're having
all these struggles to,
00:23:44.52\00:23:46.49
you know, acclimate ourselves
to the local way of life
00:23:46.52\00:23:48.86
and whatnot, the language.
00:23:48.89\00:23:50.69
You know, those are challenges.
00:23:50.73\00:23:52.53
But not the
biggest challenge for sure.
00:23:52.56\00:23:57.20
You know, we're often,
00:23:57.23\00:23:58.63
both of us are
often called away to,
00:23:58.67\00:24:01.34
to do angel flights, need
to do maintenance on aircraft,
00:24:01.37\00:24:05.94
in places that are far,
far away like Philippines.
00:24:05.97\00:24:11.41
But it's just a
matter of letting,
00:24:11.45\00:24:14.38
also letting
Hadassah know, our daughter,
00:24:14.42\00:24:18.92
why we're going,
what we're doing,
00:24:18.95\00:24:20.96
and keeping in
touch with her over,
00:24:20.99\00:24:24.13
you know, thankful
to technology nowadays,
00:24:24.16\00:24:26.80
even in third world
countries, you can still,
00:24:26.83\00:24:29.16
you know, text and send pictures
00:24:29.20\00:24:31.13
and do video calls,
00:24:31.17\00:24:34.40
whenever we have
access to internet.
00:24:34.44\00:24:37.34
You can, it's a struggle,
00:24:37.37\00:24:38.71
but it's also
teaching our daughter
00:24:38.74\00:24:41.14
that serving is
the right thing to do.
00:24:41.18\00:24:46.48
It's what God
wants from all of us.
00:24:46.51\00:24:51.12
Well, first off, Jesus
healed the sick and second off,
00:24:51.15\00:24:56.76
He fed thousands of people.
00:24:56.79\00:25:00.60
And third, He died
for us in our sins.
00:25:00.63\00:25:04.77
I'm Enoch Rene,
I'm 11 years old.
00:25:04.80\00:25:08.47
And I'm a missionary
in training with AWA.
00:25:08.50\00:25:11.67
My name is Jodana
Rene, and I'm 12 years old.
00:25:11.71\00:25:16.11
And I'm a missionary in
training to go to Nicaragua
00:25:16.14\00:25:20.92
with AWA.
00:25:20.95\00:25:22.78
Oh, man, I have
this mental image of...
00:25:22.82\00:25:25.89
It was the most
beautiful scene I have ever seen
00:25:25.92\00:25:30.53
and can imagine was when a...
00:25:30.56\00:25:35.13
There was a group of
people on the shore of a lake,
00:25:35.16\00:25:38.83
and I was watching
and everything was silent.
00:25:38.87\00:25:42.14
And one of the
people went into the lake,
00:25:42.17\00:25:46.61
and there was someone waiting,
and that person got baptized.
00:25:46.64\00:25:51.08
And after that
person got baptized
00:25:51.11\00:25:52.75
and came up out of the water,
00:25:52.78\00:25:56.12
the crowd on the shore,
00:25:56.15\00:25:57.75
all raised their hands
and do this in silence.
00:25:57.79\00:26:03.32
And I realized that
this was a deaf community.
00:26:03.36\00:26:08.46
And I started weeping.
00:26:08.50\00:26:12.80
There's something
about watching a person
00:26:12.83\00:26:15.10
give their life to Christ,
00:26:15.14\00:26:17.01
and that there's
nothing, nothing like that.
00:26:17.04\00:26:20.34
And so to be able
to help people that is,
00:26:20.38\00:26:23.38
that just charges my batteries,
00:26:23.41\00:26:25.98
but to watch them
00:26:26.01\00:26:27.42
actually make a
decision for Christ,
00:26:27.45\00:26:29.72
that is my ultimate dream
00:26:29.75\00:26:33.05
for what we're doing
with Adventist World Aviation.
00:26:33.09\00:26:36.42
You raise me up
00:26:36.46\00:26:39.73
So I can stand on mountains
00:26:39.76\00:26:44.87
You raise me up
00:26:44.90\00:26:48.07
To walk on stormy seas
00:26:48.10\00:26:53.68
I am strong
00:26:53.71\00:26:56.58
When I am on your shoulders
00:26:56.61\00:27:01.65
You raise me up
00:27:01.68\00:27:04.62
To more than I can be
00:27:04.65\00:27:09.96
You raise me up
00:27:09.99\00:27:13.09
So I can stand on mountains
00:27:13.13\00:27:18.23
You raise me up
00:27:18.27\00:27:21.47
To walk on stormy seas
00:27:21.50\00:27:27.08
I am strong
00:27:27.11\00:27:30.01
When I am on your shoulders
00:27:30.05\00:27:35.38
You raise me up
00:27:35.42\00:27:38.39
To more than I can be
00:27:38.42\00:27:43.53
You raise me up
00:27:46.53\00:27:51.93
To more than I can be
00:27:51.97\00:27:57.94