He leadeth me
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O blessed thought
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O words with
heavenly comfort fraught!
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Whate'er I do, where'er I be
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Still 'tis God's
hand that leadeth me
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And when my
task on earth is done
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When by thy grace
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The victory's won
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Even death's cold wave
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I will not flee
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Since God through Jordan
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Leadeth me
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He leadeth me,
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He leadeth me
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By his own hand
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he leadeth me
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His faithful follower I would be
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For by his hand
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he leadeth me
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O let me walk
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With thee, my God
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As Enoch walked
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In days of old
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Place thou my trembling hand
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In thine
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And sweet communion
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with me hold
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E'en tho' the path
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I may not see
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Yet Jesus,
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let me walk
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With thee
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He leadeth me
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He leadeth me
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By his own hand
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He leadeth me
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His faithful follower
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I would be
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For by his hand
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He leadeth me
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For by his hand
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He leadeth me
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Amen.
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Morning, everyone.
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It's time for our first members
in action segment of the day.
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And this morning I
have the Oft family with me
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from Arizona, Daryl,
Mary Jo, and their son Joby.
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And I'm gonna ask them to
tell you a little bit about
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what they've been doing lately.
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First of all, Daryl, tell us
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what your
ministry you're engaged in
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and a little bit about that.
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Good morning.
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We're very happy to
be here this morning.
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Our ministry is
Living Waters International.
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We're based out
of Payson, Arizona.
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And currently we are
working on a five-year project
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in Rusinga, Kenya.
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This is a little
island in Lake Victoria.
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We're working with
five priorities over there,
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bringing clean sustainable water
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to the people of Rusinga
there, who have no clean water.
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We're working with
providing medical supplies
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and medical assistance,
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we're putting in
drip irrigation systems
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so that they're able
to grow their own gardens,
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so that they won't
be starving to death.
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We are working with
educational programs
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and educational
assistance with supplies.
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And we're working
with approximately
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1,000 orphan children.
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Okay, you said something
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I want to target
on here a little bit.
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The name of your ministry is?
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Living Waters. Living Waters.
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And there's a reason for that.
Now you said this is an island?
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That is correct.
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So there's no lack of water.
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There's no lack of water.
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Lake Victoria is approximately
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the size of the
state of Arizona.
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There's plenty of water around,
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the water looks
very clean and fresh.
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And yet if you drink
the water, it will kill you.
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It will kill you. Okay.
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So one of your priorities
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is getting clean
water to the people.
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Now I want to find
a little bit out about
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how you got
involved with this work.
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And if you could
tell us a little bit about
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how did you get into
this particular ministry?
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Well, it was all God.
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Over a year ago,
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Daryl and I have
been praying about
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what church we
should even be going to
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whether it was
one in the valley,
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or one in our
hometown at Payson.
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And finally, in
frustration, Daryl just said,
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"Lord, I'll just go
wherever You want me to go."
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And the next week
was a Sabbath, June 4,
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we were not expected to be
in church in Payson that day,
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but we finished the
hike we were doing early.
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And we thought,
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"Well, we'll go
ahead and try to make it
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to church in Payson."
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So we did. We got there in time.
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There was a potluck that day.
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And the guest speaker
was our conference president,
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Dwayne McKee.
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I'm gonna interrupt
you a little bit there.
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Any of you know Dwayne McKee?
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Yeah, a few of
you out there know.
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Go ahead. Tell
us about the McKee.
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Well, they were
there as a guest speaker,
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and they stayed for the potluck.
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And we were
helping with the potluck.
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So when it was time to sit down,
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there were only
two seats left to sit.
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And they were next
to Dwayne and Kathy.
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We didn't know them at the time.
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And it wasn't in our nature
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to choose to sit next
to a conference president.
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But nevertheless, we
sat down next to them
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and had a great
conversation with them.
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And when the
afternoon was finished,
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and we were all
getting ready to leave,
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Dwayne turned to Daryl and said,
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"I would like to
invite you to go to Africa
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and preach for three weeks."
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And we were
just totally shocked.
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Not anything we
ever dreamed about.
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And we had lots of objections.
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The first thing Daryl said was,
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"Well, I don't see
how I could possibly
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get all those sermons ready.
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It's only four weeks away."
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There were a lot
of other roadblocks.
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But Dwayne said, well...
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He said, "It's okay,
it's all on PowerPoint.
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It's all ready for you."
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So there was that objection.
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We have a business,
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we had to worry
about taking care of that.
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If we can even get airplane
tickets in that short of time
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was going to be
very questionable.
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So lots of
things had to be done.
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But God opened all the
doors, and we ended up going.
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Now you said that it
was June 4 was the Sabbath
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that you met the McKees
and had this conversation.
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Now you said you ended
up going, when was that?
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We actually went in July, 2005.
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Just a few weeks
later, and you said...
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Yes.
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Now I'm gonna
back up a little bit.
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You said that
you had a business.
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What is your business?
Tell me a little about that.
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Our business is
occupational health.
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We have an office in
our hometown of Payson
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and then another
office 100 miles away.
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Okay.
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So again, lay
people in ministry,
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we love to see that.
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And so the next step is
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you went to
this island in Kenya.
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And tell me more.
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Well, we went, we share Him
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and did a campaign for
the village of Kaswanga,
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Daryl and I together.
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And there were
67 people baptized.
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As we shared all
of the Bible truths
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that we had basically
known all of our lives,
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it did something to us
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because we began to learn
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and understand the
things in the Bible,
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and to believe them
really for ourselves.
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Amen. Amen.
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I know that many have had
that experience, haven't you?
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When you start teaching others,
you'll learn a lot yourself.
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So you had this
experience in that.
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Did I hear you
say 67 baptisms? Yes.
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But I don't think
that's the most exciting part
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of what happened on this trip.
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That was just
the beginning for us.
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We were so
changed by the experience,
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and we talked before
we left Kenya together,
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and we said, "You know,
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we don't want to
lose this experience.
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We do not want to go
back home and ever be the same
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as we were
before this experience."
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And we knew ourselves
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that we needed to
make definite plans
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and hit the ground
running when we got back home
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so that we would
continue with evangelism.
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Okay, so you
made definite plans.
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But while you were there,
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the specific need
is what struck you,
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is that correct?
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That's correct.
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We were there on
a Sabbath morning
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and our programs generally
started about 8 o'clock
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on Sabbath morning.
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Now you have to remember,
we are below the equator.
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The temperatures
there are very hot,
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the sun is very bright.
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And we had
bottle of water with us
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and on Sabbath morning
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and there was
approximately 2,500 people
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that were sitting
out in this field,
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no shade, the sun
was burning down on us.
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And we realize that
nobody was drinking any water.
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We were there for
13 hours that Sabbath
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and nobody had any
water except for us.
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And that started
doing something to us going,
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there's something very
wrong with this picture.
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Nobody is drinking any water.
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And so then, your solution?
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Our solution was to come
back and pray to God and ask Him
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how He could direct
us to be able to go back
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and help the people
of Kaswanga and Wanyama
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to be able to bring
fresh water to them.
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So what we did is we came back,
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we started putting
some presentations together.
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We went to different churches
to different organizations.
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We went to a
Rotary clubs, Lions clubs,
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we went to California,
to Washington, to Oregon
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and started sharing our story
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and doing our
presentations and raising money
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so that we would
be able to go back
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and take some
fresh water to Kaswanga.
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Take fresh water.
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Now you didn't just take
water, you actually took what?
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Boy, this is
really hard to do it,
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two minutes left.
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But we put together a
water purification system.
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It was providential
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that God had
had us meet two days
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before I left in
April to go back,
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we were just
gonna go back and assess
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what the needs were
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and how we can
take care of those.
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And a gentleman heard our story,
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he provided us with a
fresh water purification system
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that requires no electricity,
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because there's
none on the island.
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We were able to take
that back and install it.
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The one school
where we installed it,
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they had four young men
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that were on their
deathbed from typhoid,
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75 percent of the
school had dysentery.
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And when we were back there
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this last week to
install our second system,
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all of typhoid
has been cleared up
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and almost all the
dysentery has disappeared.
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Amen. Amen.
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So you went there to evangelize,
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but you saw a need.
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Now something you told me,
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there had been
other missionaries
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before you, correct?
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Yes, the villagers
told us this, "As you know,
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we've seen a lot
of other missionaries
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come through from
different churches,
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but what is different
is you have come back."
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And we've had our third trip.
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We just came back two days ago,
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and this was our
third trip in a year.
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And this has made
a lot of difference
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because now
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those that have
given their life to Jesus
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and those that are Adventists
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are able to bring
non-Adventists and say,
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"Look at what is
happening here for us.
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Not only that they come
and share the good news,
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but they've come back
to help meet our needs."
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Excellent.
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And that is the
difference, isn't it?
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I want to talk to
Joby for just a little bit.
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We'll come back
for a little more.
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But first, Joby,
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this trip that
your father mentioned
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you just came back
from was your first trip
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over to the
area, is that correct?
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Yeah, that's correct.
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And why did you go over?
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Well, I'm a senior
at Pacific Union College
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studying public relations.
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And for that particular degree,
you have to have an internship.
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So I figured I'd
come along with these guys
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and do photo journalism
and document the project.
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And so that's why I
came along this summer.
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But that wasn't all
you ended up doing, was it?
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No, I mean, you can
only take so many pictures,
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and I started to get bored.
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So I started
helping out with the project
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and ended up
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kind of taking charge of
the drip irrigation units
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and distributing
those to the community.
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The drip irrigation unit
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so that they can
raise their own food.
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Yeah, hunger is
a big issue there,
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and it helps sustain a family
throughout the whole year,
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one drip irrigation system.
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So brings on a bunch of those.
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Excellent. Now
that inspired you?
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Oh, yeah, definitely.
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It was really great
to mingle with the people
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and learn about the culture.
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And through that experience,
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I'm planning to come
back to school this year
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and gather a group of students
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and then go back
to install 100 of them
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if we can get them sponsored.
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Amen.
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Get some of your
friends together from PUC,
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heading back over,
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putting another 100 systems.
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Now I would like you to address
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a little bit of the
impact this has had.
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Because the only
impact hasn't been over
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on an island on
Lake Victoria, has it?
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Tell me about
some of the other areas
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that this has had an impact on?
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Well, first and foremost,
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it has impacted
our lives incredibly
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with the Holy Spirit
just changing our lives,
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and we can only
praise God for that.
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That has been an
incredible impact.
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The second impact
is it has revitalized
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our church in Payson, Arizona.
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It's a very small church
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with a few elderly people there.
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And this is just
really had a positive impact
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with God working through us
to help revitalize our church.
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So later they become part
of the missionary group there?
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Absolutely.
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Our church has become
a mission-minded church.
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We figured just before
we left in the last year,
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now we have had around
30 percent of our people
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that are currently on
are going on mission trips
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out of our church.
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Amen, amen.
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Well, I want to thank
you for sharing with us
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this morning.
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And God bless you
and your ministry.
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Dan, last thing I would
like to say very quickly is
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thank you so much.
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You know, this is not
about what we are doing
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and the projects
that we're doing,
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this is all about Jesus Christ
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and how we're able to share
the good news to other people.
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And we just praise God for that.
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So thank you so
much for your time.
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Amen. Thank you.
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Next we have Claus
Nybo from LifestyleTV
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with a couple friends of his.
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And we'll just begin by asking
a little bit about LifestyleTV.
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Tell us what
that is, where it is,
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and what you're doing.
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Well, LifestyleTV
is a new TV ministry
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that is based in Scandinavia.
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And Scandinavia
is over in Europe,
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northern part of Europe,
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covering Denmark,
Sweden, and Norway.
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And we are reaching out
there through TV to one of the,
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you could say most hardest
areas to reach in the world.
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The UN, I
understand consider Sweden
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as the most secular
country in the world.
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And less than
two percent of people
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they actually go to church.
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So this is a very
hard area to reach
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that the Lord
have given as a burden
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to try and reach in
to the homes of people
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and reach their hearts.
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I was surprised to hear that.
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We think of countries
like Africa and India,
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but you're telling me
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that Sweden is the
most secular country.
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That's what the UN has
said. By the UN standards.
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Very good.
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Now, tell me a little
bit about the station.
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How long have
you been on the air?
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Well, we have been on air
for almost seven months now.
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So we're failing you,
but the Lord have blessed,
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and it's been an
amazing trip to get there.
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Maybe we should show.
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I think we have
a video clip here
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if we can get them to show that
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and that gives a little overview
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to your ministry
there at LifestyleTV.
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Claus, I noticed
quite a few young people
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in the production photos,
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and we're gonna come
back to that in a little bit.
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But first, I'd like you
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to tell us a little bit
about the vision for this.
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You said it's a
very new ministry,
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what was your background
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and what led you
into LifestyleTV?
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Well, you know,
Dan, it's amazing that
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when I think back
about four years ago,
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I was sitting in ASI
convention like this.
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That was my first ASI.
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And working in the
media, we had our own business,
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my wife and I would design
00:21:11.67\00:21:13.74
and consulting
in graphic design.
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And I was sitting, and I
was watching the cameras,
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and being in media was
very interested in that.
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And I just never had any idea
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that the Lord would call
us into this kind of ministry.
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But I remember
being very intrigued
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by what was happening.
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A year after that,
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I got an invitation from 3ABN
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to come and work for
a year as a producer.
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And then from there,
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the Lord just
started opening doors
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and laying a burden on our heart
00:21:38.83\00:21:40.83
that we should use the talents
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we had to reach out to people
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and to get
right into their homes
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and share the gospel
that He has given us.
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That took quite a
process as I understand it
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from just the vision to
actually being on the air.
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Tell us about that.
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We decided to pick up
the phone and call them.
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And as I'm talking
to the other company,
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the first
response they're giving is
00:22:01.12\00:22:02.68
"No, we're not interested.
00:22:02.72\00:22:04.05
We're commercial network.
00:22:04.09\00:22:06.02
We're not interested in anything
00:22:06.05\00:22:07.59
like a religious channel."
00:22:07.62\00:22:09.22
And I kept
talking, kept praying.
00:22:09.26\00:22:11.56
And pretty soon the guy says,
00:22:11.59\00:22:13.23
"Well, if He had to
consider anything like that,
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you'd have to give us
some really good agreements
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for why I should go on a...
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I mean, I should take
in a network like that."
00:22:22.24\00:22:24.37
And then we kept talking.
00:22:24.41\00:22:27.68
And over later, he says,
"Well, when can you meet?"
00:22:27.71\00:22:30.08
And I was quite
surprised by that
00:22:30.11\00:22:32.01
'cause he just said
he was not interested.
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So I flew over to meet him.
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And as we had a
meeting within half an hour,
00:22:35.52\00:22:37.42
he turns to me,
Dan, and he says,
00:22:37.45\00:22:38.79
"What do we need to
do to get an agreement?"
00:22:38.82\00:22:40.56
And he was offering us both
00:22:40.59\00:22:42.32
to get on the
satellite to get in the packets,
00:22:42.36\00:22:44.89
the base packets
00:22:44.93\00:22:46.26
that everybody's
receiving together
00:22:46.29\00:22:47.86
with all the other big channels
00:22:47.90\00:22:49.50
and to be part of
their promotional material.
00:22:49.53\00:22:53.00
And so here we tried
00:22:53.03\00:22:54.97
for half a year
to work this out,
00:22:55.00\00:22:56.91
and in half an hour,
00:22:56.94\00:22:58.27
the Lord did
what we could not do.
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Amen.
00:22:59.77\00:23:01.11
And that was just
amazing to just to see that.
00:23:01.14\00:23:02.98
And so essentially then
you signed a contract with them
00:23:03.01\00:23:06.95
and LifestyleTV is
on with CNN and BBC
00:23:06.98\00:23:11.05
and all the other main programs
that this satellite provides.
00:23:11.09\00:23:14.59
We have right
in the main packets
00:23:14.62\00:23:16.69
and the base
tier of the satellite
00:23:16.73\00:23:19.29
that is the
biggest in Scandinavia,
00:23:19.33\00:23:21.20
reaching over 5 million people,
00:23:21.23\00:23:23.33
which is over 20
percent of the population.
00:23:23.37\00:23:29.74
So that is a huge potential
that the Lord has given us.
00:23:29.77\00:23:33.78
And we have to share with
people about Jesus Christ.
00:23:33.81\00:23:38.25
And reaching a
couple different areas,
00:23:38.28\00:23:40.25
first of all,
how about the people
00:23:40.28\00:23:41.68
in your own staff,
in your own studio?
00:23:41.72\00:23:43.79
Well, among the
team that we have,
00:23:43.82\00:23:46.59
we like to work
with young people.
00:23:46.62\00:23:48.26
And so we brought with us
00:23:48.29\00:23:49.76
a couple of the ones
our student missionaries,
00:23:49.79\00:23:52.06
Janna and Christine.
00:23:52.09\00:23:53.43
They've been
with us for one year,
00:23:53.46\00:23:55.03
working along with a TV team.
00:23:55.06\00:23:57.70
And Janna,
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what is your
experience been in Sweden?
00:23:59.10\00:24:00.84
Well, I can honestly
say I had a lot of fun.
00:24:00.87\00:24:03.41
I mean, it was a lot
different than I expected.
00:24:03.44\00:24:05.04
But I had a lot of fun.
00:24:05.07\00:24:06.71
And I think for me,
the biggest thing was just
00:24:06.74\00:24:09.01
being able to
work with a ministry
00:24:09.04\00:24:10.91
that's on the front
lines of sharing the gospel.
00:24:10.95\00:24:13.48
And that was just really
exciting for me to be there
00:24:13.52\00:24:15.72
and to use my skills in that.
00:24:15.75\00:24:18.49
And I do
encourage any young person
00:24:18.52\00:24:20.66
who's thinking of
doing mission service
00:24:20.69\00:24:22.76
to check it out and
definitely go over there
00:24:22.79\00:24:25.39
and spend years would be
year well worth your time.
00:24:25.43\00:24:29.36
What about you, Christine?
00:24:29.40\00:24:31.13
Well, during this year,
I have really realized that
00:24:31.17\00:24:34.90
you don't have to go to
the other side of the planet
00:24:34.94\00:24:37.17
to be a missionary.
00:24:37.21\00:24:38.54
I'm a Swede,
00:24:38.57\00:24:39.91
and I'm a
missionary in Sweden, so...
00:24:39.94\00:24:41.68
Amen.
00:24:41.71\00:24:43.11
We have had them a year,
00:24:43.14\00:24:44.48
and we have really enjoyed
having these two young people.
00:24:44.51\00:24:47.25
And what we see is education
00:24:47.28\00:24:50.22
as being one of
the important things
00:24:50.25\00:24:51.75
alongside with our broadcasting,
00:24:51.79\00:24:53.56
so train young people
to be involved in this.
00:24:53.59\00:24:55.96
And, you know, the
couple of months ago,
00:24:55.99\00:24:57.39
we got an interesting request
from somebody in Malaysia,
00:24:57.43\00:25:01.03
and they were wanting
to start a Chinese network.
00:25:01.06\00:25:03.57
And they said, "Can
we send two students
00:25:03.60\00:25:05.20
to you to train to do TV?"
00:25:05.23\00:25:07.67
At first we thought, "Well,
00:25:07.70\00:25:09.07
we can't handle
to train anymore.
00:25:09.10\00:25:10.91
We're having enough as we are."
00:25:10.94\00:25:12.84
And then we thought,
"Well, the Lord trained us,
00:25:12.87\00:25:15.98
the Lord helped
give us a mission,
00:25:16.01\00:25:17.71
how can we turn
somebody else down?"
00:25:17.75\00:25:19.71
And so this fall,
we're getting two young men
00:25:19.75\00:25:22.38
that are gonna
learn how to do TV
00:25:22.42\00:25:24.79
and then go
start a Chinese network
00:25:24.82\00:25:27.12
from Malaysia.
00:25:27.16\00:25:28.49
Fantastic.
00:25:28.52\00:25:29.86
So you're
impacting the young people
00:25:29.89\00:25:31.23
that are working there.
00:25:31.26\00:25:32.59
Do you know...
00:25:32.63\00:25:33.96
Are you reaching the
people out in the community?
00:25:34.00\00:25:35.33
Do you have any
evidence of that?
00:25:35.36\00:25:37.93
That's probably one
of the biggest questions
00:25:37.97\00:25:39.60
we get when we travel
around in the churches,
00:25:39.63\00:25:41.50
people come up and say
00:25:41.54\00:25:42.87
"What is the
response that you've gotten?"
00:25:42.90\00:25:44.44
And I remember
distinctly I was just in Norway,
00:25:44.47\00:25:46.78
sharing with a
church of the ministry,
00:25:46.81\00:25:49.34
and they ask that question.
00:25:49.38\00:25:50.71
I said, "Well, you know,
00:25:50.75\00:25:52.08
we're just been on
air for three months.
00:25:52.11\00:25:53.55
You got to just give
the Lord a little time.
00:25:53.58\00:25:55.88
It's coming.
00:25:55.92\00:25:57.25
We are getting
response from people,
00:25:57.29\00:25:58.69
but things takes time."
00:25:58.72\00:26:00.76
I came back from Norway.
00:26:00.79\00:26:02.12
And that same week,
00:26:02.16\00:26:03.59
Audrey Anderson
that is here with us,
00:26:03.63\00:26:05.16
he came up to me
and said, you know,
00:26:05.19\00:26:08.30
somebody called
the union last week.
00:26:08.33\00:26:10.53
And that was a
view of LifestyleTV.
00:26:10.57\00:26:13.27
They call up the union.
00:26:13.30\00:26:14.64
Don't know how they
got the phone number.
00:26:14.67\00:26:16.60
And they said, "We've
been watching LifestyleTV,
00:26:16.64\00:26:19.67
and I want to get Bible studies,
00:26:19.71\00:26:21.38
and I'll get baptized."
00:26:21.41\00:26:23.18
And just a month ago,
the pastor came, says,
00:26:23.21\00:26:25.88
"I've been giving
this man Bible studies,
00:26:25.91\00:26:28.52
and he's gonna get
baptized now in a few weeks
00:26:28.55\00:26:30.69
when we get back home."
00:26:30.72\00:26:32.05
Amen.
00:26:32.09\00:26:33.42
And I was just confounded
with what the Lord can do
00:26:33.46\00:26:36.16
and our faith
sometime how little it is
00:26:36.19\00:26:38.43
that here we thought that
it takes much longer time,
00:26:38.46\00:26:41.13
and then the Lord after
three months of being on air,
00:26:41.16\00:26:44.03
reach to somebody
that had never had contact
00:26:44.07\00:26:46.37
with Adventist before,
00:26:46.40\00:26:47.77
and he's ready to get baptized.
00:26:47.80\00:26:49.14
Amen.
00:26:49.17\00:26:50.51
Well, thank you for
sharing this with us.
00:26:50.54\00:26:51.87
And God bless you and your work.
00:26:51.91\00:26:53.24
Thank you.
00:26:53.27\00:26:54.61
I have with me here Steve Peden
from Project Steps to Christ.
00:27:01.78\00:27:05.49
Now, Steve, tell us
00:27:05.52\00:27:07.06
what is Project
Steps to Christ all about?
00:27:07.09\00:27:10.26
Well, Project Steps to
Christ is a layman's ministry
00:27:10.29\00:27:14.06
instituted and
designed to take the gospel
00:27:14.10\00:27:17.20
to every home in
the United States.
00:27:17.23\00:27:19.37
That's 125 million homes
00:27:19.40\00:27:21.50
through the mass
mailing of truthful literatures,
00:27:21.54\00:27:23.81
that's a Steps to Christ.
00:27:23.84\00:27:25.77
Now Steps to
Christ the only thing?
00:27:25.81\00:27:27.84
No, we do an abridged version
of the Great Controversy called
00:27:27.88\00:27:31.35
On the Edge of Time.
00:27:31.38\00:27:32.71
Okay.
00:27:32.75\00:27:34.08
So this has been
your project for how long?
00:27:34.12\00:27:37.39
I've been with the
project for 10 years.
00:27:37.42\00:27:38.75
But if you're been around
in the church for a while,
00:27:38.79\00:27:41.46
it's been around
for about 33 years.
00:27:41.49\00:27:43.09
About 33 years
you've been doing this?
00:27:43.12\00:27:44.86
Yes.
00:27:44.89\00:27:46.23
But there's a unique project
00:27:46.26\00:27:47.60
that you just have been
working on over the past year.
00:27:47.63\00:27:49.90
I'd like you to
tell us about that.
00:27:49.93\00:27:51.73
Yes, in April 2005,
00:27:51.77\00:27:54.27
I was invited to
the San Francisco
00:27:54.30\00:27:56.30
Central Church to do a seminar
about Project Steps to Christ.
00:27:56.34\00:28:00.04
And at the end of the
seminar, I challenged the church
00:28:00.08\00:28:03.45
to consider to do a
mailing to all of San Francisco,
00:28:03.48\00:28:06.75
which was about 400,000 homes.
00:28:06.78\00:28:09.48
And praise the Lord,
they accepted the challenge.
00:28:09.52\00:28:12.82
And so as I left San
Francisco that weekend,
00:28:12.85\00:28:16.22
flying over the city,
00:28:16.26\00:28:17.99
I claimed that
city for the Lord.
00:28:18.03\00:28:19.83
And we went back to
our home in New York,
00:28:19.86\00:28:22.16
and we began to plan this rate,
00:28:22.20\00:28:25.20
mass mailing to
all of San Francisco.
00:28:25.23\00:28:27.04
Can you tell me why
you chose San Francisco
00:28:27.07\00:28:29.24
and why now?
00:28:29.27\00:28:30.87
Well, I believe the
Lord chose San Francisco
00:28:30.91\00:28:32.77
was all His timing.
00:28:32.81\00:28:34.41
And as we talked
there at the church,
00:28:34.44\00:28:36.88
we recognize
00:28:36.91\00:28:38.25
that the churches
of San Francisco had
00:28:38.28\00:28:40.78
the opportunity of a
lifetime to reach that city
00:28:40.82\00:28:43.79
as the following
year, April 2006.
00:28:43.82\00:28:46.42
This year, San Francisco
00:28:46.45\00:28:48.12
would be celebrating
the 100th anniversary
00:28:48.16\00:28:50.93
of the Great San
Francisco Earthquake.
00:28:50.96\00:28:53.23
So that anniversary was when?
00:28:53.26\00:28:56.60
April 18, 2006.
00:28:56.63\00:28:58.97
2006. Yes.
00:28:59.00\00:29:00.34
So when did you
send out your mailing?
00:29:00.37\00:29:03.54
Well, beginning in January
all the way through February,
00:29:03.57\00:29:07.44
we began to print and
address these 400,000 books.
00:29:07.48\00:29:11.08
These were printed and
mailed at the Review and Herald.
00:29:11.11\00:29:14.02
And then about
the middle of March,
00:29:14.05\00:29:17.09
the Review and Herald loaded up
00:29:17.12\00:29:18.45
two tractor
trailer loads of books.
00:29:18.49\00:29:21.72
Those were taken
to a rail station
00:29:21.76\00:29:23.36
nearby in Hagerstown, Maryland,
00:29:23.39\00:29:25.09
loaded on flatbed rail cars
00:29:25.13\00:29:27.20
and trucked all the way across
the country to San Francisco.
00:29:27.23\00:29:30.90
And then the
books began delivery
00:29:30.93\00:29:32.80
or the post
office began delivery
00:29:32.83\00:29:34.17
to the humps in San Francisco
00:29:34.20\00:29:35.74
beginning March 30
throughout the month of April.
00:29:35.77\00:29:39.41
Excellent.
00:29:39.44\00:29:40.78
Now you said that
this particular version
00:29:40.81\00:29:42.31
of Steps to Christ was
unique in its cover and...
00:29:42.34\00:29:45.61
Well, actually, we
didn't mail Steps to Christ.
00:29:45.65\00:29:47.72
Oh, that's right.
00:29:47.75\00:29:49.08
We actually mailed
an abridged version
00:29:49.12\00:29:50.65
of the Great Controversy.
00:29:50.69\00:29:53.25
I thought we would
mail Steps to Christ.
00:29:53.29\00:29:54.82
But then as we began to pray
00:29:54.86\00:29:56.22
and study about
what we might share,
00:29:56.26\00:29:59.33
the Lord spoke to my heart
as well as the pastor there
00:29:59.36\00:30:03.60
from the Spirit of Prophecy.
00:30:03.63\00:30:05.13
And I'd like to
just share one quote
00:30:05.17\00:30:06.50
from Review and Herald, May 24.
00:30:06.53\00:30:08.90
"The Lord is
soon to come in fire
00:30:08.94\00:30:10.84
and flood and earthquake,
00:30:10.87\00:30:12.21
He is warning the
inhabitants of this earth
00:30:12.24\00:30:14.18
of His soon approach.
00:30:14.21\00:30:16.18
O that the people might know
00:30:16.21\00:30:17.55
that the time of
their visitation!
00:30:17.58\00:30:19.21
We have no time to lose.
00:30:19.25\00:30:20.78
We must make more
determined efforts
00:30:20.82\00:30:22.45
to lead the people of the world
00:30:22.48\00:30:23.82
to see that the Day of
Judgment is near at hand.
00:30:23.85\00:30:26.69
Carefully prepared literature
00:30:26.72\00:30:28.09
on the
significance of the scenes
00:30:28.12\00:30:29.59
we are now witnessing is
to be circulated everywhere."
00:30:29.62\00:30:32.99
And so we were impressed
that we needed to share
00:30:33.03\00:30:35.33
with the people of San Francisco
00:30:35.36\00:30:37.20
a warning message,
00:30:37.23\00:30:38.63
urging them to
prepare for the things
00:30:38.67\00:30:40.54
that are coming upon the earth.
00:30:40.57\00:30:42.10
And if you are a subscriber
to the National Geographic,
00:30:42.14\00:30:46.51
in April of this year,
00:30:46.54\00:30:48.11
what was it all about
earthquakes in California,
00:30:48.14\00:30:51.25
and so it was
an appropriate time
00:30:51.28\00:30:52.81
to bring that message out.
00:30:52.85\00:30:55.08
So right over
this anniversary time,
00:30:55.12\00:30:56.99
people are receiving
this abridged version
00:30:57.02\00:30:59.45
of Great
Controversy in their mailboxes.
00:30:59.49\00:31:01.52
Has it had any impact?
00:31:01.56\00:31:02.89
Can you tell us if there's
been any results from this?
00:31:02.92\00:31:05.43
Yes, in the
first month of April,
00:31:05.46\00:31:07.63
we received 500 responses.
00:31:07.66\00:31:10.07
And then since then
00:31:10.10\00:31:11.43
we've been getting about an
average of 10 cards per week
00:31:11.47\00:31:13.67
from people in San Francisco
who are reading the book.
00:31:13.70\00:31:16.30
Now keep in mind,
00:31:16.34\00:31:17.71
even as far back
as the late 1800s,
00:31:17.74\00:31:20.11
Ellen White said
that San Francisco
00:31:20.14\00:31:21.78
and Oakland were a
literal Sodom and Gomorrah.
00:31:21.81\00:31:24.68
And we know that
00:31:24.71\00:31:26.05
out of the inhabitants of Sodom,
00:31:26.08\00:31:28.62
only Lot and his
family were saved.
00:31:28.65\00:31:30.25
So we rejoice that
even in San Francisco,
00:31:30.29\00:31:32.02
there were 800 people
that responded so far.
00:31:32.05\00:31:34.52
Absolutely. I
believe that significant.
00:31:34.56\00:31:36.42
San Francisco
is not an easy city
00:31:36.46\00:31:38.06
to evangelize, is that?
00:31:38.09\00:31:39.43
No.
00:31:39.46\00:31:40.80
In fact, for years,
00:31:40.83\00:31:42.16
the Central
California Conference
00:31:42.20\00:31:43.53
has scratched
their heads wondering
00:31:43.57\00:31:44.90
what they could
do for that city.
00:31:44.93\00:31:46.27
They had a hard
time uniting the churches
00:31:46.30\00:31:47.94
in a unified effort.
00:31:47.97\00:31:50.11
And so this was
historic for the conference
00:31:50.14\00:31:52.01
as well as they saw
the whole city reached
00:31:52.04\00:31:55.34
and all the churches working
together to make that happen.
00:31:55.38\00:31:57.85
Amen. Amen.
00:31:57.88\00:31:59.38
So you've had 800
responses up today there...
00:31:59.41\00:32:02.42
Today, yes. From San Francisco.
00:32:02.45\00:32:04.22
What's next?
00:32:04.25\00:32:05.75
What's next? Good question.
00:32:05.79\00:32:07.12
That's the name of
our book, "What's Next?
00:32:07.16\00:32:08.49
Are You Prepared?"
00:32:08.52\00:32:10.66
Well, as people began
to learn about our project,
00:32:10.69\00:32:14.03
the Northern
California Conference learned
00:32:14.06\00:32:15.86
what we were
doing in San Francisco.
00:32:15.90\00:32:18.37
And so by the end of April,
00:32:18.40\00:32:20.20
they had
committed to doing a whole,
00:32:20.24\00:32:21.87
the entire city of Oakland,
California, 163,000 city,
00:32:21.90\00:32:25.44
I'm sorry,
163,000 homes in Oakland,
00:32:25.47\00:32:27.84
which we just
completed the end of July.
00:32:27.88\00:32:31.31
And like fire in the stubble,
now the churches in Novato,
00:32:31.35\00:32:37.35
which is Marin County,
just north of the city,
00:32:37.39\00:32:39.42
they're doing
119,000 homes there,
00:32:39.45\00:32:41.86
south of San Francisco,
00:32:41.89\00:32:43.59
about 195,000 in San
Mateo County as well.
00:32:43.63\00:32:47.66
Amen. And is that all?
00:32:47.70\00:32:49.60
And that's not it.
00:32:49.63\00:32:51.30
Word got around the country,
and right now in Santa Fe,
00:32:51.33\00:32:55.37
there's a small
church in Santa Fe
00:32:55.40\00:32:56.87
that has a vision now to
cover all of Northern New Mexico
00:32:56.91\00:32:59.41
from Albuquerque all the
way to the Colorado border.
00:32:59.44\00:33:02.54
And so they are
now mobilizing troops
00:33:02.58\00:33:05.25
to coordinate that mailing.
00:33:05.28\00:33:08.28
Rochester, New
York, about 463,000 homes.
00:33:08.32\00:33:12.29
We're working with the
Breath of Life church there
00:33:12.32\00:33:13.99
and mobilize the churches.
00:33:14.02\00:33:15.46
In Dallas,
00:33:15.49\00:33:16.83
the Dallas International
Church has caught the vision.
00:33:16.86\00:33:20.50
And they have developed
00:33:20.53\00:33:21.86
a steering
committee of five churches.
00:33:21.90\00:33:24.00
And we're gonna be
having a big rally next month
00:33:24.03\00:33:26.33
to initiate a mass campaign
00:33:26.37\00:33:28.27
to reach all of Dallas-Fort
Worth, 2,096,000 homes.
00:33:28.30\00:33:31.64
Praise the Lord in all of Dallas
00:33:31.67\00:33:33.88
for Great Controversy.
00:33:33.91\00:33:35.24
Amen. Amen.
00:33:35.28\00:33:36.61
Now just briefly tell us
00:33:36.64\00:33:37.98
how people can
get in touch with you
00:33:38.01\00:33:39.48
and find out more about
Project Steps to Christ?
00:33:39.51\00:33:42.68
Well, while you're here,
I am located at the Review
00:33:42.72\00:33:45.85
and Herald booth
just next door to them.
00:33:45.89\00:33:48.12
So we have
samples of this free book.
00:33:48.16\00:33:49.92
We have
literature, we have information
00:33:49.96\00:33:52.03
on how your local
church can get involved
00:33:52.06\00:33:54.06
in either covering
in your entire city
00:33:54.10\00:33:56.90
or just doing your neighborhood.
00:33:56.93\00:33:58.80
Amen.
00:33:58.83\00:34:00.17
Well, thank you, Steve.
00:34:00.20\00:34:01.54
I appreciate you telling
us about your project here.
00:34:01.57\00:34:04.07
Anything else
you'd like to share
00:34:04.11\00:34:05.47
before we stop this interview?
00:34:05.51\00:34:08.08
Yes, I'd like to
just encourage you
00:34:08.11\00:34:10.35
to read page 612 in
the "Great Controversy."
00:34:10.38\00:34:13.68
It's speaks about the
results of our seed sowing now,
00:34:13.72\00:34:16.69
and I think you'll be
blessed by that promise.
00:34:16.72\00:34:19.69
At times, we get discouraged
00:34:19.72\00:34:21.09
that we're not seeing
any results from our labors.
00:34:21.12\00:34:22.92
But there's a
beautiful promise there
00:34:22.96\00:34:24.29
that will greatly
encourage you in your labors.
00:34:24.33\00:34:26.70
Amen. Thank you. Thank you.
00:34:26.73\00:34:28.06
Next person I'd like you all
to meet is Sebastian Tirtirau.
00:34:35.97\00:34:40.01
And I hope I said that right.
00:34:40.04\00:34:41.48
He's from Pilgrim Society.
00:34:41.51\00:34:43.71
And, Sebastian, I'd
like you to tell us briefly
00:34:43.75\00:34:46.41
what is Pilgrim
Society all about?
00:34:46.45\00:34:48.98
Pilgrim Society is a
nonprofit missionary society
00:34:49.02\00:34:51.95
established in
Canada, US, and Australia,
00:34:51.99\00:34:55.06
designed to reach
only the most remote tribes
00:34:55.09\00:34:58.33
on the planet.
00:34:58.36\00:34:59.69
The most remote
tribes on the planet.
00:34:59.73\00:35:02.03
Can you give us an
example of those...
00:35:02.06\00:35:05.53
Which types of people
you're trying to reach?
00:35:05.57\00:35:07.37
Well, for the past 10 years,
00:35:07.40\00:35:08.74
I've been working
with the Kalahari Bushmen
00:35:08.77\00:35:10.11
of the Kalahari
Desert Southern Africa,
00:35:10.14\00:35:12.07
the Amazonian
tribes in South America,
00:35:12.11\00:35:14.21
the Arctic in with
00:35:14.24\00:35:15.78
we just started a
mission couple years ago there,
00:35:15.81\00:35:17.91
Congo pygmies, Papa
New Guinea and so forth.
00:35:17.95\00:35:20.72
Okay.
00:35:20.75\00:35:22.08
So the Bushmen of the Kalahari,
00:35:22.12\00:35:24.19
you've been
working with the longest,
00:35:24.22\00:35:25.55
is that correct?
00:35:25.59\00:35:26.92
That's right.
00:35:26.96\00:35:28.29
In 1996, I
established that mission.
00:35:28.32\00:35:29.66
In 1996, you
established that mission.
00:35:29.69\00:35:32.69
Now I want to
talk a little bit about
00:35:32.73\00:35:35.20
how you got into
this particular ministry.
00:35:35.23\00:35:38.43
Why the most remote?
00:35:38.47\00:35:40.47
What led you to
this particular mission?
00:35:40.50\00:35:43.34
It has to do with my training
before I became a Christian.
00:35:43.37\00:35:47.51
Before you became a Christian.
00:35:47.54\00:35:48.88
You haven't
always been a Christian?
00:35:48.91\00:35:50.25
No, I became a Christian,
00:35:50.28\00:35:51.61
Seventh-day Adventist Christian
at the age of 22 years old.
00:35:51.65\00:35:53.62
I was a rock and roll singer
00:35:53.65\00:35:54.98
and a professional
dancer before that.
00:35:55.02\00:35:56.82
A singer and a dancer.
00:35:56.85\00:35:58.32
I think you have
another profession as well.
00:35:58.35\00:36:00.06
Yes, I was a history
teacher. A history teacher!
00:36:00.09\00:36:02.52
Now you had a remarkable student
00:36:02.56\00:36:03.96
that came into
your life at that time.
00:36:03.99\00:36:05.76
That's right. I was an atheist.
00:36:05.79\00:36:07.43
My parents are
professors of philosophy.
00:36:07.46\00:36:09.43
I grew up in an
atheist environment.
00:36:09.46\00:36:11.77
But at the age of
22, besides my nightlife,
00:36:11.80\00:36:14.70
I was a history teacher.
00:36:14.74\00:36:16.07
I had a teaching
history in grades five to eight.
00:36:16.10\00:36:19.11
And in one of
my grade 5 classes,
00:36:19.14\00:36:20.64
I had a 10-year-old girl student
00:36:20.68\00:36:23.08
who gave me Bible studies.
00:36:23.11\00:36:24.45
A 10-year-old girl
gave you Bible studies.
00:36:24.48\00:36:27.58
Why?
00:36:27.62\00:36:29.02
How did that come about?
00:36:29.05\00:36:30.39
Everybody around
called me the beast.
00:36:30.42\00:36:31.75
That was my
nickname in the school
00:36:31.79\00:36:33.12
because I had
long hair, earrings,
00:36:33.15\00:36:35.32
cut jeans, and so forth.
00:36:35.36\00:36:37.43
And everybody,
even in her own family,
00:36:37.46\00:36:39.69
people said that
this man is lost.
00:36:39.73\00:36:42.46
But she said that even
00:36:42.50\00:36:44.13
this man by the
grace of God can be saved.
00:36:44.17\00:36:46.74
So a 10-year-old girl
thought she could save you?
00:36:46.77\00:36:49.84
A 10-year-old girl showed
me what history is all about,
00:36:49.87\00:36:52.94
while I was a history teacher.
00:36:52.97\00:36:54.74
Amen. Amen.
00:36:54.78\00:36:56.11
Now also, you
had some experiences
00:36:56.14\00:36:59.25
that you said prepared you
00:36:59.28\00:37:00.95
for the work you're doing now
during that time in your life.
00:37:00.98\00:37:04.69
I was a professional
soldier at the age of 14 to 17
00:37:04.72\00:37:07.72
when my brother fled the country
00:37:07.76\00:37:09.09
to Sweden illegally.
00:37:09.12\00:37:10.53
I was put in
prison on behalf of him
00:37:10.56\00:37:13.29
to take the punishment for him.
00:37:13.33\00:37:15.16
For 18 months in
prison, I was beaten, starved.
00:37:15.20\00:37:18.00
I was allowed to
sleep two hours a night,
00:37:18.03\00:37:19.43
every night for nine months.
00:37:19.47\00:37:21.07
Four or five times a
day they were beating us
00:37:21.10\00:37:22.70
with all sorts of
tools to brainwash us.
00:37:22.74\00:37:27.81
That's why I met.
00:37:27.84\00:37:29.18
Actually, first
time I asked God,
00:37:29.21\00:37:30.55
although I didn't
know there is one.
00:37:30.58\00:37:32.28
I pointed out to
heaven one night and I said,
00:37:32.31\00:37:33.98
"Why did you put me in here?"
00:37:34.02\00:37:36.42
So your brother's the
one who committed the crime,
00:37:36.45\00:37:38.85
but you did the time.
00:37:38.89\00:37:40.76
I still don't
consider that the crime.
00:37:40.79\00:37:42.52
Okay.
00:37:42.56\00:37:44.09
In their eyes, it was a crime.
00:37:44.13\00:37:45.46
In their eyes,
it was a crime. Yes.
00:37:45.49\00:37:46.83
And I took the
punishment for him.
00:37:46.86\00:37:49.43
But in this
unit, in this prison,
00:37:49.46\00:37:51.27
God opened my heart to Him
00:37:51.30\00:37:53.00
to show me that He exists
00:37:53.03\00:37:55.10
and that there is
nothing that can stop Him.
00:37:55.14\00:37:57.47
Later on when I became
a Christian, 22 years old,
00:37:57.51\00:37:59.97
I left for
Africa as a missionary.
00:38:00.01\00:38:02.84
I studied theology in Cape Town.
00:38:02.88\00:38:05.15
And I became a missionary
to this very remote tribe,
00:38:05.18\00:38:08.55
to the Bushmen
tribe of the Kalahari.
00:38:08.58\00:38:10.69
Only in the
Kalahari, God showed me
00:38:10.72\00:38:12.45
why He allowed those
experiences in my life
00:38:12.49\00:38:15.86
to train me silently for places
00:38:15.89\00:38:18.33
that nobody else wants to go.
00:38:18.36\00:38:20.06
So what you're saying is that
after all these experiences,
00:38:20.10\00:38:22.93
you're talking about
beating, starvation in prison
00:38:22.96\00:38:26.33
that God allowed that
00:38:26.37\00:38:28.24
to prepare you for
what you're doing now?
00:38:28.27\00:38:30.21
That's right.
00:38:30.24\00:38:31.57
Nothing can be
worse than I experienced,
00:38:31.61\00:38:33.58
maybe except the North Pole.
00:38:33.61\00:38:35.38
Okay. It comes close.
00:38:35.41\00:38:37.75
Now that brings us
to a couple of the areas
00:38:37.78\00:38:39.91
that particularly you've
been working in recently.
00:38:39.95\00:38:42.52
Can you tell us,
00:38:42.55\00:38:43.89
just highlight
those two areas for us?
00:38:43.92\00:38:45.25
We have major work
in the Kalahari Desert
00:38:45.29\00:38:47.46
with the Bushmen in
Namibia and Botswana.
00:38:47.49\00:38:49.19
And we just started
work with the Arctic
00:38:49.22\00:38:51.03
and with in Northern
Canada, Northern Greenland,
00:38:51.06\00:38:53.36
where we distributed
a few thousand Bibles
00:38:53.40\00:38:55.26
to the people of the Arctic.
00:38:55.30\00:38:57.07
I have some
pictures to show you.
00:38:57.10\00:38:58.63
Okay.
00:38:58.67\00:39:00.00
Just before you do that,
00:39:00.04\00:39:01.37
I just want to call
people's attention to something
00:39:01.40\00:39:02.74
because it caught my attention.
00:39:02.77\00:39:04.97
What are these two
places have in common
00:39:05.01\00:39:07.04
The Kalahari Desert
00:39:07.08\00:39:08.98
and the Inuit tribes
up in the Arctic Circle?
00:39:09.01\00:39:12.18
Seems about as
different as night and day
00:39:12.21\00:39:14.18
until you told me
00:39:14.22\00:39:16.08
that God
prepared you for the work
00:39:16.12\00:39:18.59
with those in the remote
areas through this experience.
00:39:18.62\00:39:21.22
Tell us about now
that works specifically,
00:39:21.26\00:39:23.32
as you said,
you've got some pictures
00:39:23.36\00:39:24.69
to share with us.
00:39:24.73\00:39:26.06
I started the
mission in Africa in 1996.
00:39:26.09\00:39:27.70
And we go from place
to place in the jeep.
00:39:27.73\00:39:30.50
We sleep with
the people in huts.
00:39:30.53\00:39:33.23
And in 1996,
00:39:33.27\00:39:34.60
I left there to the
Kalahari knowing no language,
00:39:34.64\00:39:38.24
no translator, I didn't
know what we're gonna do.
00:39:38.27\00:39:40.91
So what I did,
00:39:40.94\00:39:42.28
I prayed for one
week for a mentor
00:39:42.31\00:39:43.65
that speaks
English in Bushmen language
00:39:43.68\00:39:45.01
because they speak
the Ju/'hoansi language,
00:39:45.05\00:39:47.08
which is a clicking language.
00:39:47.12\00:39:48.95
And the Lord gave me a
man who speaks 14 languages,
00:39:48.98\00:39:53.62
not only
English, but 14 languages.
00:39:53.66\00:39:55.52
A man that today is the
pastor for five churches
00:39:55.56\00:39:57.96
in the Kalahari Desert.
00:39:57.99\00:39:59.36
And in the past 10
years, I've been there 16 times.
00:39:59.39\00:40:02.93
We go from place to
place, and we build churches
00:40:02.96\00:40:05.17
as you see in the
next picture here.
00:40:05.20\00:40:07.44
We build churches
very remote in the bush,
00:40:07.47\00:40:09.60
either by with the
straw roof or brick buildings.
00:40:09.64\00:40:14.71
Then we move from place to place
00:40:14.74\00:40:16.08
in very difficult conditions.
00:40:16.11\00:40:17.65
The next picture we'll show,
00:40:17.68\00:40:19.11
we go through
deep swamps and mud
00:40:19.15\00:40:22.68
and sand and so forth.
00:40:22.72\00:40:24.55
It's a mission from scratch.
00:40:24.59\00:40:26.42
It's a mission
that... You don't see a hotel.
00:40:26.45\00:40:29.26
As a matter of
fact, tomorrow night,
00:40:29.29\00:40:30.93
it is written, it's
gonna have few words about that
00:40:30.96\00:40:32.86
because Saturday night
00:40:32.89\00:40:34.23
I'm leaving for
the Kalahari with them.
00:40:34.26\00:40:36.60
There are partners with
me right now in doing this,
00:40:36.63\00:40:39.40
so I'm gonna make sure
00:40:39.43\00:40:41.27
they really
experience the Kalahari
00:40:41.30\00:40:43.51
at the worst level.
00:40:43.54\00:40:47.01
The Bushmen are extremely poor.
00:40:47.04\00:40:48.61
They die in great numbers,
85 percent of the children die
00:40:48.64\00:40:52.41
before the age of 5
00:40:52.45\00:40:53.78
because of
malaria and starvation.
00:40:53.82\00:40:56.89
There is no water surface.
00:40:56.92\00:40:58.25
While in the Kalahari,
we installed water systems
00:40:58.29\00:40:59.99
powered by solar
technology today.
00:41:00.02\00:41:01.79
We have over 25 water systems
00:41:01.82\00:41:03.56
that we installed till date
powered by solar technology.
00:41:03.59\00:41:06.39
We have five churches.
00:41:06.43\00:41:07.76
We have an
orphanage, a clinic in a place
00:41:07.80\00:41:09.70
where people didn't know
who Christ is 10 years ago.
00:41:09.73\00:41:12.63
Over 2,000 members
come to church today
00:41:12.67\00:41:15.17
but my
translator Kambasi tells me
00:41:15.20\00:41:17.67
that at least half of
the population of Bushmen
00:41:17.71\00:41:19.71
which is 65,000 know
about the Adventist faith.
00:41:19.74\00:41:23.35
So it's moving
extremely fast in this area.
00:41:23.38\00:41:27.85
Fantastic. We'll
continue on with the...
00:41:27.88\00:41:30.19
The next project we
started was two years ago,
00:41:30.22\00:41:33.86
where I left, you can see here.
00:41:33.89\00:41:36.59
This is not
Kalahari, it's the Arctic.
00:41:36.62\00:41:39.93
I was bundled up.
00:41:39.96\00:41:41.30
And you can see
the next picture here,
00:41:41.33\00:41:42.66
the Inuit dressed
me as an Eskimo myself.
00:41:42.70\00:41:45.77
They gave me this polar
bear and caribou fursuit.
00:41:45.80\00:41:49.70
I had six pairs of pants
under those pants by the way.
00:41:49.74\00:41:53.34
Minus 60 degrees,
00:41:53.38\00:41:54.71
I traveled by dog
sled from place to place
00:41:54.74\00:41:56.64
to deliver Bible to
very remote villages
00:41:56.68\00:41:58.55
up to 84 degrees latitude north.
00:41:58.58\00:42:02.45
And I met with people
00:42:02.48\00:42:05.42
that all didn't know who God is,
00:42:05.45\00:42:07.59
like this man, Ian Natalino.
00:42:07.62\00:42:09.49
Natalino was my guide
and the hunter in the Arctic.
00:42:09.52\00:42:13.56
And this man not only
accepted me like a brother
00:42:13.60\00:42:16.46
and saved my
life in a snowstorm,
00:42:16.50\00:42:18.13
where we were buried in an igloo
00:42:18.17\00:42:19.50
for three days and three nights.
00:42:19.53\00:42:21.77
He delivered Bibles to
people around the villages.
00:42:21.80\00:42:25.64
He went to the village and
to the places then he said,
00:42:25.67\00:42:28.38
"Please take this Bible"
00:42:28.41\00:42:29.74
although he
didn't know what that is.
00:42:29.78\00:42:31.11
Now let me
interrupt here a little bit.
00:42:31.15\00:42:33.05
That was essentially
your motive to go there,
00:42:33.08\00:42:35.82
is that correct?
00:42:35.85\00:42:37.19
Was to take
Bibles to the people?
00:42:37.22\00:42:38.55
That's right.
00:42:38.59\00:42:39.92
Did you have
Bibles in their language?
00:42:39.95\00:42:41.29
Yes, Canadian Bible
Society translated this Bible
00:42:41.32\00:42:43.76
into Inuktitut language,
00:42:43.79\00:42:46.16
but it was sitting
in their warehouses
00:42:46.19\00:42:47.93
because nobody took
it up there for them.
00:42:47.96\00:42:50.07
Sitting in their warehouses,
not doing anyone any good.
00:42:50.10\00:42:53.47
And so your mission was...
00:42:53.50\00:42:54.87
So I called them and I
said, "I'd like to buy some."
00:42:54.90\00:42:57.14
And I bought few
hundred last year
00:42:57.17\00:42:59.04
and this year with the help of
it is written I took up there.
00:42:59.07\00:43:02.14
We bought 5,000 Bibles
to deliver to the people,
00:43:02.18\00:43:04.31
which the first 3,000
were already delivered.
00:43:04.35\00:43:06.55
I just came from there.
00:43:06.58\00:43:08.62
Amen.
00:43:08.65\00:43:09.98
Now...
00:43:10.02\00:43:12.39
to get them there,
00:43:12.42\00:43:14.62
you didn't just get on a plane
00:43:14.66\00:43:16.66
and fly them up there, right?
00:43:16.69\00:43:18.03
Well, I flew in a
cargo plane with the...
00:43:18.06\00:43:20.76
Which was the most
interesting experience
00:43:20.80\00:43:23.33
because the captain,
00:43:23.37\00:43:24.70
he was dressed in
a normal overalls.
00:43:24.73\00:43:26.50
And when we got in...
00:43:26.53\00:43:28.30
The only safety information
00:43:28.34\00:43:30.41
we got is that the survival
pack is in that cupboard,
00:43:30.44\00:43:32.67
when it crashes, you
just take it and survive.
00:43:32.71\00:43:35.91
That's how it was.
00:43:35.94\00:43:37.28
So the captain was
an interesting person.
00:43:37.31\00:43:39.51
We flew over the Arctic
00:43:39.55\00:43:41.72
and where you can see
the curvature of the ground
00:43:41.75\00:43:43.55
on each side as
the end of the world.
00:43:43.59\00:43:46.99
Actually the captain said,
00:43:47.02\00:43:48.36
"Welcome to the
end of the world."
00:43:48.39\00:43:49.72
So we were at
the end of the world.
00:43:49.76\00:43:51.23
And then from there,
I put them on dog sled
00:43:51.26\00:43:53.16
because the
villages are so far apart.
00:43:53.19\00:43:55.43
We can't go by ski doo.
00:43:55.46\00:43:56.80
We have to go by dog sled.
00:43:56.83\00:43:58.57
So your chartered a dog sled
00:43:58.60\00:43:59.93
to get the
bibles to these people.
00:43:59.97\00:44:01.30
We charted the dog
sled, there were 14 dogs,
00:44:01.34\00:44:02.67
and we slept in igloos
in between the villages
00:44:02.70\00:44:04.04
because there's no
other place to sleep in there.
00:44:04.07\00:44:06.04
Yeah, there are so many
extreme sports out there.
00:44:06.07\00:44:08.14
Have you ever
heard of extreme mission?
00:44:08.18\00:44:10.85
This man's an
expert in the field.
00:44:10.88\00:44:12.81
Go ahead.
00:44:12.85\00:44:14.18
Then in the
next picture we have,
00:44:14.22\00:44:15.55
let me show you
a little bit here.
00:44:15.58\00:44:17.99
It's a mission school
that we're building right now
00:44:18.02\00:44:20.36
because we open up
so many remote places.
00:44:20.39\00:44:22.99
There is a great need
for me to train young people
00:44:23.02\00:44:26.13
to go to remote places.
00:44:26.16\00:44:28.36
And we're establishing
there now two mission stations,
00:44:28.40\00:44:30.63
one in northern
Romania in the mountains
00:44:30.67\00:44:32.67
where we have a
property that you can see here,
00:44:32.70\00:44:34.67
it's already almost finished.
00:44:34.70\00:44:36.24
And for six months,
00:44:36.27\00:44:38.31
we're gonna train young people
to go to the remote places
00:44:38.34\00:44:41.01
where I've been, so
I can open new ones.
00:44:41.04\00:44:43.41
And then we start a
new one in the Kalahari,
00:44:43.45\00:44:45.95
where we're
gonna have an orphanage
00:44:45.98\00:44:47.32
or hospital for the Bushmen
00:44:47.35\00:44:48.68
because the Bushmen have
no medical care, no education.
00:44:48.72\00:44:51.22
And we're gonna
have a boarding academy,
00:44:51.25\00:44:53.46
mission school, and a farm,
and hospital, and orphanage.
00:44:53.49\00:44:57.33
Now you mentioned a
little bit ago, specifically,
00:44:57.36\00:44:59.36
you're going with
the "It Is Written" team
00:44:59.39\00:45:01.56
immediately
following this convention.
00:45:01.60\00:45:03.33
That's right. Saturday night.
00:45:03.37\00:45:04.70
What is your purpose there?
00:45:04.73\00:45:06.07
What are your plans
for this particular trip?
00:45:06.10\00:45:07.44
Right now, we're
gonna deliver small iPods.
00:45:07.47\00:45:09.54
Actually, they
call them God pods
00:45:09.57\00:45:11.31
in which we put
the Bushmen Bible,
00:45:11.34\00:45:13.61
spoken Bible on these iPods
00:45:13.64\00:45:16.85
that are solar-powered,
00:45:16.88\00:45:18.21
and we give them to
the Bushmen villages
00:45:18.25\00:45:19.58
to listen to the Word of God.
00:45:19.61\00:45:20.95
Now I want you to
just imagine for a second,
00:45:20.98\00:45:23.92
the Bushmen in skins,
00:45:23.95\00:45:25.42
hunting with poison
arrows with the headphones,
00:45:25.45\00:45:28.12
listening to the
Bible from an iPod.
00:45:28.16\00:45:30.99
So only God can do this.
00:45:31.03\00:45:33.73
Amen. Amen.
00:45:33.76\00:45:35.36
One other thing
that you mentioned to me,
00:45:39.00\00:45:40.80
it isn't only the Bible,
00:45:40.84\00:45:42.17
you have a project
underway translating...
00:45:42.20\00:45:44.94
We're gonna translate...
00:45:44.97\00:45:46.31
My translator Kambasi that,
00:45:46.34\00:45:48.48
I told you, he
speaks 14 languages.
00:45:48.51\00:45:50.48
He's coming with me to
North America in August.
00:45:50.51\00:45:53.35
He's gonna
translate the first book
00:45:53.38\00:45:56.12
ever translated
in Bushmen language
00:45:56.15\00:45:58.09
of Ellen White which
is "Steps to Christ."
00:45:58.12\00:46:00.62
So we're gonna put
it on this iPod as well.
00:46:00.66\00:46:02.59
Amen.
00:46:02.62\00:46:03.96
You said that's
not only the first,
00:46:03.99\00:46:06.39
it's the first ever book...
00:46:06.43\00:46:08.93
First ever book. In
the Bushman language...
00:46:08.96\00:46:10.57
That's right.
00:46:10.60\00:46:11.93
Is "Steps to Christ."
00:46:11.97\00:46:13.30
And God chose
Ellen White to do that.
00:46:13.34\00:46:14.67
Amen. Amen.
00:46:14.70\00:46:16.04
Well, I really appreciate
you telling us about this.
00:46:16.07\00:46:18.34
Sebastian, now people might
want to find out a little more.
00:46:18.37\00:46:20.94
How can they find out
more about your project?
00:46:20.98\00:46:22.98
Easiest way is, "It Is
Written" speaking tomorrow night
00:46:23.01\00:46:25.55
to get more information there
00:46:25.58\00:46:26.92
and also they can
go to our website.
00:46:26.95\00:46:28.45
That's PilgrimSociety.com.
00:46:28.48\00:46:30.32
Did you catch that?
00:46:30.35\00:46:31.69
PilgrimSociety.com
00:46:31.72\00:46:33.89
if you want to learn more about
00:46:33.92\00:46:35.29
what Sebastian is
doing in his mission.
00:46:35.32\00:46:37.26
Thank you for your
attention this morning.
00:46:37.29\00:46:38.66
Abide in me and I in you
00:46:53.17\00:46:56.81
Father, please today
00:46:56.85\00:47:00.18
I'll not allow one trial to come
00:47:00.22\00:47:04.12
Except I shall go away
00:47:04.15\00:47:07.99
Just trust in
me to do the things
00:47:08.02\00:47:11.43
I promise I will do
00:47:11.46\00:47:14.96
If you will just abide in me
00:47:15.00\00:47:20.14
And I abide in you
00:47:20.17\00:47:25.74
I will abide though
darkness storm has threatened
00:47:25.77\00:47:33.18
Obscure the way in me
00:47:33.21\00:47:36.55
I praise the Lord for me
00:47:36.58\00:47:40.06
I'll ask for nail scarred
hand stretch out to save me
00:47:40.09\00:47:47.36
My helpless soul cries out
00:47:47.40\00:47:51.50
I will abide
00:47:51.53\00:47:57.11
Abide in me and I in you
00:47:57.14\00:48:00.84
He's tend to me
00:48:00.88\00:48:04.25
The flowers grow not by
their care or their anxiety
00:48:04.28\00:48:12.22
I am the everlasting light
00:48:12.25\00:48:15.59
For all the world to see
00:48:15.62\00:48:19.26
As flowers turn
to sun for strength
00:48:19.29\00:48:24.00
Will just abide in me
00:48:24.03\00:48:29.97
I will abide
00:48:30.01\00:48:33.04
Though darkness
storm has threatened
00:48:33.07\00:48:37.15
Obscure the way in me
00:48:37.18\00:48:40.42
I praise the Lord for me
00:48:40.45\00:48:43.92
I'll ask for nail scarred
hand stretch out to save me
00:48:43.95\00:48:50.93
My helpless soul cries out
00:48:50.96\00:48:55.33
I will abide
00:48:55.36\00:49:01.50
For you I went to Calvary
00:49:01.54\00:49:05.17
For you into the test
00:49:05.21\00:49:08.51
Just come to me O troubled soul
00:49:08.54\00:49:12.45
And I will give you rest
00:49:12.48\00:49:16.82
The final peace I leave with you
00:49:16.85\00:49:20.22
No world can take away
00:49:20.26\00:49:24.03
Receive me and
your life will change
00:49:24.06\00:49:28.93
Abide with me today
00:49:28.96\00:49:34.84
I will abide
00:49:34.87\00:49:38.01
Though darkness
storm has threatened
00:49:38.04\00:49:42.24
Obscure the way in me
00:49:42.28\00:49:45.68
I praise the Lord for me
00:49:45.71\00:49:49.12
I'll ask for nail scarred
hand stretch out to save me
00:49:49.15\00:49:56.89
My helpless soul cries out
00:49:56.93\00:50:02.30
I will abide
00:50:02.33\00:50:09.67
Amen.
00:50:09.70\00:50:11.04
Give me ears to hear Your Spirit
00:50:32.26\00:50:38.27
Give me feet to follow through
00:50:38.30\00:50:43.87
Give me hands to
touch the hurting
00:50:43.91\00:50:49.41
And the faith to follow You
00:50:49.44\00:50:55.22
Give me grace to be a servant
00:50:58.85\00:51:04.29
Give me mercy for the lost
00:51:04.33\00:51:09.60
Give me passion for Your glory
00:51:09.63\00:51:15.10
Give me passion for the cross
00:51:15.14\00:51:21.08
And I will go where
there are no easy roads
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Leave the comforts that I know
00:51:27.15\00:51:32.65
I will go and let
this journey be my home
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I will go
00:51:38.49\00:51:41.50
I will go
00:51:41.53\00:51:43.77
I will go
00:51:43.80\00:51:48.00
I'll let go of my ambition
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Cut the roots that run too deep
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I will learn to give away
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What I cannot really keep
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What I cannot really keep
00:52:20.57\00:52:28.21
Help me see with eyes of faith
00:52:28.24\00:52:35.48
Give me
strength to run this race
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And I will go where
there are no easy roads
00:52:42.39\00:52:48.20
Leave the comforts that I know
00:52:48.23\00:52:53.54
I will go and let
this journey be my home
00:52:53.57\00:52:58.94
I will go
00:52:58.97\00:53:01.94
I will go
00:53:01.98\00:53:04.85
We will go
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Lord where Your glory is unknown
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We will live for You alone
00:53:10.59\00:53:16.26
We will go because
our life is not our own
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I will go
00:53:22.43\00:53:25.43
I will go
00:53:25.47\00:53:27.80
We will go
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