I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome
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to another wonderful
program with 3ABN Today.
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My name is John Dinzey.
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It's a pleasure
for me to be with you
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during this hour
of blessing on 3ABN.
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And I'm
grateful to have a person
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that loves a Lord with me.
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And we are
speaking about Neil Hawkins,
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acting principal of the Taiwan
Adventist International School
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and we want to welcome you.
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Thank you very much.
I'm really happy to be here.
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I think it was Lord ordained
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that I was
actually able to make it,
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this with, this
little lead time.
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Wonderful.
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We're glad that you're here
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and we have a
wonderful testimony,
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plus we're going to find out
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about a school
that's changing lives.
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So we want to
encourage you to stay with us
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during this hour and during
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this opening
part of the program,
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we'd like to invite you to pray.
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And once again we encourage you
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to be part of 3ABN Ministry,
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praying for 3ABN,
praying for this ministry,
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that is bringing the
gospel to the whole world.
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As a matter of fact, you can
be part of our prayer warriors
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and we encourage
you to be a part.
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We have prayer warriors
in practically every country,
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but we always need more prayer.
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So if you want
to be part of that
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from wherever
you are in the world,
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you can contact us
and learn how to do that,
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so you can pray for
the different request
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that you will
receive through email.
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In addition to that,
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you can just pray
for the prayer request
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that you hear
throughout the day on radio
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or on the screen as
you watch television.
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We want you to be blessed
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and when you pray for
the people, you're blessed,
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so we encourage you to do that.
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At this time, we're
gonna go the Lord in prayer
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and ask for His
blessing during this hour.
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Let us pray together.
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Our loving Heavenly Father,
we want to thank You Lord
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for Your
goodness and mercy to us.
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We thank You Lord for the
way You lead in our lives.
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And, Lord, we want to
ask of You to please consider
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every request that
is put on the screen
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or that is mentioned
through the airwaves,
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so that many are blessed.
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Lord, we know there are
many seeking for spiritual help.
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Others are seeking
for financial help.
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Others are praying for
someone to come back to Jesus
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or to give their
lives to Jesus Christ
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for the first time.
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And still, there are others
facing some health challenge.
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We pray that You
will be with them,
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we pray that You will
be near them and truly
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You have already
promised to be with us
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even until the end of the world.
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We pray that You will bless them
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to know that
this promise is true.
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And we ask You
Father, to bless everyone
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that stops to
listen to this program.
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We pray that they
will be encouraged,
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inspired and blessed.
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We ask You,
Father, for these things
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in the name of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ.
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Amen. Amen.
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Well, at this time
we're gonna read a scripture
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and that is powerful.
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And unfortunately we do
not have time to talk about
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during this whole hour
because it could several hours
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to really
understand this scripture.
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Well, this is found
in Matthew Chapter 28
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and I'm going to
read it to your hearing
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and these are the words.
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Matthew 28:19-20.
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"Go ye therefore,
and teach all nations,
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baptizing them in
the name of the Father,
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and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost.
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Teaching them to
observe all things whatsoever
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I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you always,
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even unto the end of the world."
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And the verse ends with
"Amen" and I also say amen.
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So this is a powerful scripture
and I would like to ask,
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Brother Neil, do
you have any thoughts
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you would like to
share about the scripture?
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It gave me more meaning
once I actually moved to Taiwan
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and started working
with the mission there.
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It's something that
we hear in Sabbath school
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and in church if you go
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to one of our
Seventh-day Adventist schools.
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And now I can
actually understand
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the importance
of going out there
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and actually spreading the word.
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If we just sit at home and wait
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for someone else
to do all the work,
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no matter what
our jobs happen to be,
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then we're going to be on
this planet this much longer
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because the Lord
wants us to do our part,
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to share His word with
them and to give people
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who don't have
hope, the true hope.
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Amen. Wonderful.
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Thank you very
much. I appreciate that.
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And this is a message
for the followers of Christ
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and He says to you as
well to those of you listening,
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"Go ye into all the
world and there are many ways
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in which you can do that
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and the Lord will show you how."
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Our part is to say,
here I am Lord use me.
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And it's marvelous the
way the Lord uses everyone
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that puts himself or
herself in His hands.
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Mighty things and
wonderful things can happen
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and it's just a
circle of blessing
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because as you seek to bless
others, you are also blessed.
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And I'm sure
you have some things
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you could share about that.
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I do and it's
also one of the lessons
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that we try to
teach all of our kids.
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Excellent. Excellent.
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Well, we're gonna find out
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a little bit more about
Neil Hawkins and the Taiwan
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Adventist International
School in a moment.
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But we like to share
with you now some music
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that we would like to
encourage you to listen
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to considering
God's love for you
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and this is by Johann Sentana
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and the name is "Abide With Me."
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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That was very pleasant and
spiritual and we thank you.
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We thank Johann Sentana
for that interpretation.
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Praise the Lord.
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We'd like to now get to
know our guest Neil Hawkins
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and first
question I like to ask is,
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were you raised
in a Christian home?
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I was.
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I was raised in a
Seventh-day Adventist home
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and for most of my high
school and elementary years
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went to
Seventh-day Adventist schools.
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And it was for university
that I went out of the system
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and went to a secular school.
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All right. Very good.
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So there, one as,
one grows in life,
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one has to make decisions.
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And I'm curious how did you
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as an individual
choose to be baptized?
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Choose to give your
life to Jesus Christ?
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The first time, when
I was actually baptized,
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I actually went
through the system.
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I was baptized at age 12.
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I wasn't forced into
it, I chose to do so.
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You went through series of
studies and made a decision?
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Made that decision and
also wanted to understand
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a little bit more about
exactly why am I doing this?
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What does this mean?
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But to the degree that
perhaps a 12 year old can.
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Later in life, in
my high school years
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things were becoming a little
bit more in questioned in mind.
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Is this really what I want?
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Is this the
church that I belong to,
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that I really think
follows the biblical principles?
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And so I had to do a little bit
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of self
exploring or exploring God.
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I never left
God, but I would say,
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I left the church
for a little while.
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And one of the things
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that I had always
enjoyed was building things,
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but not, not construction,
I would like to make things
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that people would
remember and enjoy.
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That actually started at my
time at Monterey Bay Academy.
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I had put on a
couple of productions
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for our talent show and
really got a taste for that.
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And so, I actually even thought
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I wanted to get into
acting until I realized
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that I'm
actually a terrible actor.
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Did someone tell
you that or you came--
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You saw yourself and say,
ah, that's not gonna work out?
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Yeah.
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I'm gonna with, I did saw myself
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and I've always been
a hard critic of myself.
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But I still
enjoyed making things,
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putting the production together
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and so I wanted to get
into producing and directing.
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And so I went to
USC which is a school
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that's very strong in that area,
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but I also wanted a real degree,
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sorry Brian and I also went
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into the business program there.
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Learned many things,
really enjoyed my time
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but there was still
something tugging at me.
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There is still
something a little
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that I wasn't quite getting.
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I put that behind me,
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I kind of pushed that
voice to the back a little bit
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and I got into Hollywood.
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I worked in production,
television and film production.
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By the end of my
Hollywood career as it were,
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I was in the agency world
where you actually put writers
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and directors together,
studios and actors and so forth,
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really building the foundation,
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but it was not
satisfying whatsoever.
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What I learned
later is that my mother
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was constantly
praying for me, when--
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Praise the Lord.
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Whether she knows it or not,
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she has the gift of
intercessory prayer.
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And so her never
giving up on me in that way
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and I know my
father prayed for me too.
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I, God was always
allowed to stay with me
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and always remind me, I'm
here, I have something for you.
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I'm here, I have
something for you.
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So you can say that while
you were not attending church
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and perhaps not
even reading your Bible--
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Did you prayed
during that period of time,
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that you would
say, you were not really
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following the Lord on
a daily day-to-day basis?
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I was praying not as, often
as, either one of us would like.
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Okay.
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But there was still
and I would always remember
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what I had learned in Sabbath
school, in my Bible classes,
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but also what my
parents had taught me
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what they had raised me with.
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And I could see that
my life was in congruent
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with what God
had in store for me
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and what God
wants for all of us.
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So it got to the point
when I was at the agency
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and I would just think if I
had all the money in the world,
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what would I do?
Would I stay here?
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And the fact of the
matter was, the answer was no.
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I actually
wanted something else.
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I wanted something
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where I was going to
benefit other people.
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Okay.
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Now I enjoyed
production, people are happy,
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but that's
fleeting it's a moment.
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I want something
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where they are going
to have a lasting impact.
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Great.
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And so I thought to myself well,
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I need to do
something different.
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What had happened was, a
friend of mine had told me
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about a job he was at,
and he tried to get me.
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He tried to get me
to join his company
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and this company overpaid
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and it provided wonderful
vacation in time-off packages.
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That's very
interesting that you say,
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you said this company overpaid
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because the conclusion
most people come to is,
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I'm not getting paid enough.
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No company seems to pay enough,
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but you're saying this one did.
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This one did and I
was very seriously going--
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looking into joining them.
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Every door closed on the way,
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whether it was a certain
certification I needed to get.
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The timing of that didn't work
with other plans that I had.
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The reason I even
wanted to join that group
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was I would work for
a month or two months
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and then I'd take
a week, two weeks off
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and go on a mission trip
somewhere around the world.
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That was your
plan? That was the plan.
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Okay. It was my plan.
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God had something
a little different.
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So let me see, you
were trying to make,
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if I could say it this way,
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something of the
world to make money,
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but you wanted to
connect yourself with God again
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through mission trips.
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Yes. Interesting.
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And I thought this
was the way to do it.
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And I could even self
finance these mission trips.
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My brother got wind
of what I wanted to do.
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He had just finished
four months in South Korea
00:18:46.68\00:18:49.51
and he had said
to me well, why--
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As a missionary?
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As a missionary teaching English
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at the Sanyu Institutions.
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He said, "Why don't you make
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the mission your job instead
of doing this job thing."
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Interesting. I said,
"No, I want the money."
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Okay.
00:19:07.07\00:19:08.80
We hung up and actually
it was about 45 minutes later
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I thought how foolish.
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I can go to Taiwan
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'cause this was
something he had found.
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I can do this for a
year, that's nothing.
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And then I'll come back
and do this after a year.
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Let me ask you this
question because I'm curious.
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You were in
Hollywood, you were involved
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in perhaps producing TV
programs or was it films?
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By the end it was in the film.
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Okay. You were
involved in films.
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And during this
time did you get married?
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Were you married at all
or you were still single?
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No, I was still
single at this time.
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Okay.
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I hadn't met the one yet.
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So you have felt the
liberty to able to do
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whatever you came to your mind.
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You had--
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You didn't have
a family to say no.
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Let's not do
that, let's do this.
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You had-- You could make
00:19:58.30\00:19:59.33
your own decision
without affecting others.
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I had no ache inkers weighing
me down at this time, right.
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So now as you're considering
going on this mission trip
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and the idea of
making too much money,
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you had to weigh this two.
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What happened?
00:20:16.36\00:20:17.90
Well, I figured one
year away from this.
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Would this
opportunity would be fine.
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Okay.
00:20:24.58\00:20:25.61
And now I had made
this decision in 45 minutes,
00:20:25.64\00:20:29.51
but I neglected
to tell my brother
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that I was on board for
the next two, three weeks.
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In my mind I made
the decision we're done.
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So we started
doing some research,
00:20:36.84\00:20:38.81
finding out which
area of Taiwan we would go
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and it was about
three, four months later
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all those doors
opened up and we came out.
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My brother and I came out
and we moved to Central Taiwan.
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Now initially we were there
to set up a lifestyle center.
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This was something to
show the locals that religion
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or excuse me Christianity
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is not some quaint
western philosophy,
00:21:01.71\00:21:05.51
but this is a real lifestyle.
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Well, that ended
up not working out
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which was a wonderful blessing,
we didn't know at the time
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because he and I ended
up working at the school,
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Taiwan Adventist
International School
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which was up the
hill from the little town
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where we were stationed
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on the campus of
Taiwan Adventist College.
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While we were there I
did happened to noticed
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there was a very
attractive young woman
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who instantly
had earned my respect
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because straight out of
school she had gone out,
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thousands of miles
away from her home,
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away from her comfort zone
to teach in a mission school.
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Okay. So--
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Where was she from?
She's from Colorado.
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Oh, she's from Colorado, okay.
00:21:50.00\00:21:52.01
And so I wanted to get to know
00:21:52.04\00:21:54.18
this attractive
Seventh-day Adventist woman
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and let's just say the
interest wasn't mutual at first.
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Okay. I was, I was still too LA.
00:22:02.21\00:22:05.68
It was a challenge then?
00:22:05.71\00:22:06.78
Oh, yes.
00:22:06.82\00:22:08.06
That's actually always
what makes it worth it.
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Okay.
00:22:10.52\00:22:11.58
So I had to, I had to
work on convincing her
00:22:11.61\00:22:16.35
to get to know me, but
also I had some growing to do.
00:22:16.38\00:22:19.46
There were some changes I
needed to go through first
00:22:19.49\00:22:22.11
before I would
become the Christian God
00:22:22.14\00:22:24.87
wanted me to be and
the man she deserved.
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So at the time
did you see yourself
00:22:27.60\00:22:31.40
coming back to church already?
00:22:31.43\00:22:33.09
I mean, you're
talking about getting involved
00:22:33.12\00:22:34.86
with the Christian school.
00:22:34.89\00:22:37.08
Were you now attending regularly
00:22:37.11\00:22:39.23
at school, I mean church?
00:22:39.26\00:22:43.06
Actually yes.
00:22:43.09\00:22:44.48
Still an LA I really
wanted to find a connection
00:22:44.51\00:22:48.71
in my personal research.
00:22:48.74\00:22:51.21
I found that what the
Bible teaches wasn't lined
00:22:51.24\00:22:55.92
with what our church...
00:22:55.95\00:23:00.17
teaches.
00:23:00.20\00:23:01.68
And even there are
always going to be people
00:23:01.71\00:23:05.57
in all walks of life
who maybe a discouragement
00:23:05.60\00:23:08.15
to one person or another.
00:23:08.18\00:23:10.14
The church
itself is working hard
00:23:10.17\00:23:12.74
to be completely
in line with Christ.
00:23:12.77\00:23:14.86
Praise the Lord.
00:23:14.89\00:23:15.93
And so I had first come across
the Glendale Adventist Church
00:23:15.96\00:23:20.75
when Elizabeth Talbert
was there and then I ended up
00:23:20.78\00:23:23.99
moving on to the John
Carter Report in Arcadia.
00:23:24.02\00:23:28.08
Okay.
00:23:28.11\00:23:29.65
And just found that
00:23:29.68\00:23:31.24
there is so much
more for me to learn.
00:23:31.27\00:23:33.91
I actually had to be reminded,
00:23:33.94\00:23:36.00
you don't need to be
perfect to come here.
00:23:36.03\00:23:38.81
It was the acting head
pastor of John Carter Report
00:23:38.84\00:23:42.01
who told me, Neil, God
wants you now how you are now.
00:23:42.04\00:23:47.91
Let Him worry
about changing you.
00:23:47.94\00:23:49.57
Praise the Lord.
00:23:49.60\00:23:51.26
And I became more
and more comfortable
00:23:51.29\00:23:55.25
coming back to
the Lord not feeling
00:23:55.28\00:23:57.32
so outside of the church
as I spent more time reading,
00:23:57.35\00:24:03.08
studying, doing the different
research that I needed to,
00:24:03.11\00:24:06.88
and it got to the point
where when I did go to Taiwan
00:24:06.91\00:24:10.24
I had no problem interacting
00:24:10.27\00:24:12.96
within the Seventh-day
Adventist parameters,
00:24:12.99\00:24:16.53
that was me.
00:24:16.56\00:24:18.53
So just briefly this
question comes to mind
00:24:18.56\00:24:20.11
because when somebody,
00:24:20.14\00:24:21.99
when somebody
dares to step out of the,
00:24:22.02\00:24:27.17
the atmosphere of God's family
00:24:27.20\00:24:30.49
and steps into the
atmosphere of the world,
00:24:30.52\00:24:34.15
the devil tries
to take that person
00:24:34.18\00:24:35.99
and plunge them as
deep as possible into sin
00:24:36.02\00:24:39.04
and separate that
person completely from God.
00:24:39.07\00:24:42.58
Now apparently you didn't
have any problem with drugs,
00:24:42.61\00:24:49.67
alcohol or any of those vices
that take hold of somebody.
00:24:49.70\00:24:56.82
Did you have any problems
with those types of things
00:24:56.85\00:24:58.98
because what comes in
the news it's you know,
00:24:59.01\00:25:04.94
drugs in Hollywood
00:25:04.97\00:25:06.40
and this person is an alcoholic,
00:25:06.43\00:25:08.67
that person overdose in drugs,
00:25:08.70\00:25:10.84
in that type of industry
you didn't have that problem?
00:25:10.87\00:25:13.42
No. Praise the Lord.
00:25:13.45\00:25:14.95
What's really interesting
here is the subterfuge
00:25:14.98\00:25:18.51
with which Satan acted
when it came to my life.
00:25:18.54\00:25:23.18
I would do my
best-- I wasn't perfect,
00:25:23.21\00:25:25.49
but I'd actually still do
my best to keep the Sabbath
00:25:25.52\00:25:28.47
even when I was out.
00:25:28.50\00:25:29.98
I knew that was
a right thing to do
00:25:30.01\00:25:32.14
and so I would to a
degree I would keep it.
00:25:32.17\00:25:37.62
Well, when we do that
Seventh-day Adventist,
00:25:37.65\00:25:40.28
not Christian or now
when people keep the Sabbath,
00:25:40.31\00:25:42.95
there is a special protection
that the Lord gives you.
00:25:42.98\00:25:46.65
And so there cannot be an
over attack where it's drugs
00:25:46.68\00:25:51.41
or other bad decisions
that a person may make.
00:25:51.44\00:25:54.60
What happened here
is-- Let me explain
00:25:54.63\00:25:58.41
how Hollywood
works in this case.
00:25:58.44\00:26:00.19
Okay.
00:26:00.22\00:26:01.25
They are professionals.
They are kind to their own.
00:26:01.28\00:26:03.93
They reward hard work,
but in order to be successful
00:26:03.96\00:26:08.16
in Hollywood you must
give 100% of yourself.
00:26:08.19\00:26:13.17
That's, that's
the catch, the hook.
00:26:13.20\00:26:16.07
Okay.
00:26:16.10\00:26:17.13
And if you give a 100%
of yourself to Hollywood
00:26:17.16\00:26:21.02
whether it's
acting, writing, directing,
00:26:21.05\00:26:23.88
whatever it is, how
much is left for God?
00:26:23.91\00:26:26.66
Zero.
00:26:26.69\00:26:27.72
And that's the
hook. That was the catch.
00:26:27.75\00:26:31.25
And at no point was I willing
to completely give up God.
00:26:31.28\00:26:34.65
I got close unfortunately,
but I just didn't get there.
00:26:34.68\00:26:38.00
So I didn't reach
the levels of success
00:26:38.03\00:26:40.78
that make a
person famous or popular.
00:26:40.81\00:26:44.24
So somehow you maintained
connected to the Lord,
00:26:44.27\00:26:49.67
even though it's like
you're kind of walking away
00:26:49.70\00:26:52.26
but you maintained some type
of connection with the Lord.
00:26:52.29\00:26:54.60
So now you're meeting this girl
00:26:54.63\00:26:58.34
and she's
captured your attention,
00:26:58.37\00:27:00.72
her spirituality perhaps as
well and that attracted you.
00:27:00.75\00:27:04.26
How did this girl has
become part of your life?
00:27:04.29\00:27:11.68
What happened?
00:27:11.71\00:27:14.33
I had to work on, like I said
I had to work on myself a bit
00:27:14.36\00:27:18.29
and I had to come up
with some creative dates
00:27:18.32\00:27:22.13
to get her to know, the
me that God wanted me to be.
00:27:22.16\00:27:25.99
Okay.
00:27:26.02\00:27:27.05
Well, we had similar
interests which was travel,
00:27:27.08\00:27:31.64
share ourselves
with other people.
00:27:31.67\00:27:33.31
She has a passion for teaching.
00:27:33.34\00:27:35.81
I have a passion for building,
so there was a way for God
00:27:35.84\00:27:39.37
to use both of
us in this school.
00:27:39.40\00:27:41.84
And just to show
off a little bit,
00:27:41.87\00:27:44.44
I want to show you a
picture of my family.
00:27:44.47\00:27:46.70
Okay.
00:27:46.73\00:27:47.91
So you can see
that eventually I won.
00:27:47.94\00:27:51.49
Wonderful, praise the Lord.
00:27:51.52\00:27:52.78
So we have on the screen,
can you describe what we see?
00:27:52.81\00:27:56.27
We have my wife
Maria holding our son James
00:27:56.30\00:28:00.32
and this is when we were
able to take a Christmas trip
00:28:00.35\00:28:03.27
to my parents place.
00:28:03.30\00:28:04.81
Just this last year
which is the first Christmas
00:28:04.84\00:28:08.14
we have been able to come home,
00:28:08.17\00:28:10.20
seven years for her
and six years for me.
00:28:10.23\00:28:12.52
Praise the Lord.
00:28:12.55\00:28:13.58
I don't see any problem
with the smiles you have on,
00:28:13.61\00:28:15.62
and it seem very
natural, praise the Lord.
00:28:15.65\00:28:17.81
So the Lord blessed
you with a companion
00:28:17.84\00:28:21.45
that shares the same passion.
00:28:21.48\00:28:23.97
And tell me about the school?
00:28:24.00\00:28:25.87
Taiwan Adventist International
School was originally set up
00:28:25.90\00:28:29.71
on the Taiwan
Adventist College campus
00:28:29.74\00:28:32.89
for pastor's kids,
missionaries' kids,
00:28:32.92\00:28:36.55
people who wanted
Adventist education in English
00:28:36.58\00:28:40.31
and that's the key.
00:28:40.34\00:28:41.53
There is another
high school on campus
00:28:41.56\00:28:43.32
but it's all taught in Chinese.
00:28:43.35\00:28:44.80
Okay.
00:28:44.83\00:28:45.88
And the demand for
the school had actually
00:28:45.91\00:28:49.40
grown outside of our
church rather quickly
00:28:49.43\00:28:52.64
because the people of Taiwan
are looking for an alternative
00:28:52.67\00:28:56.21
form of education to
the rather route system
00:28:56.24\00:28:59.18
that the
Taiwanese government offers.
00:28:59.21\00:29:01.60
They want more and more
people want their kids to learn,
00:29:01.63\00:29:05.10
how to think, not
just what to think.
00:29:05.13\00:29:07.36
Okay.
00:29:07.39\00:29:08.43
So what happens
is in that system
00:29:08.46\00:29:10.17
and this is a lot of Asia.
00:29:10.20\00:29:12.53
Here's a lot of
information, memorize,
00:29:12.56\00:29:15.73
regurgitated on your
fill in the bubble test
00:29:15.76\00:29:18.53
and depending on
how well you do there,
00:29:18.56\00:29:20.56
you can go to
this level high school
00:29:20.59\00:29:23.71
this level
university and so forth.
00:29:23.74\00:29:26.94
But it does nothing to teach
them of character building.
00:29:26.97\00:29:30.16
It does nothing to
teach them how to think.
00:29:30.19\00:29:32.59
How to use the brains
that God has given them.
00:29:32.62\00:29:35.76
And more and more
as we interview parents
00:29:35.79\00:29:38.84
and prospective students
of people who want to come.
00:29:38.87\00:29:42.25
We're hearing, we want our kid
to learn character development.
00:29:42.28\00:29:46.48
More and more people are
less concerned about grades
00:29:46.51\00:29:50.10
and they want their kids
to grow up to be good people.
00:29:50.13\00:29:52.90
Praise the Lord.
00:29:52.93\00:29:53.99
And so that's exactly
what we're able to offer.
00:29:54.02\00:29:56.65
We don't hide the fact
that we are a Christian school
00:29:56.68\00:30:00.09
or that we're
Seventh-day Adventist.
00:30:00.12\00:30:01.48
We're quite open
that we are going
00:30:01.51\00:30:03.21
to share Jesus with them.
00:30:03.24\00:30:04.72
We are going to share
God's principles with them.
00:30:04.75\00:30:07.95
We are school that focuses
00:30:07.98\00:30:09.38
on three aspects of Adventist
education, mind, body, spirit.
00:30:09.41\00:30:15.08
No one has runaway from us yet.
00:30:15.11\00:30:17.78
Praise the Lord.
00:30:17.81\00:30:18.87
So the Taiwan
Adventist International School,
00:30:18.90\00:30:23.26
tell me again the
grades that you offer.
00:30:23.29\00:30:27.04
We are junior,
high, and high school,
00:30:27.07\00:30:29.04
so 7 through 12th grade.
00:30:29.07\00:30:30.52
7 through 12th grade.
00:30:30.55\00:30:31.80
And it's a full US curriculum.
00:30:31.83\00:30:34.39
We go through Griggs University
00:30:34.42\00:30:37.03
or Griggs Academy International.
00:30:37.06\00:30:39.95
And when they graduate
they have an American diploma.
00:30:39.98\00:30:44.14
Okay.
00:30:44.17\00:30:45.20
Most of our students
want to study abroad.
00:30:45.23\00:30:47.24
They want to go.
00:30:47.27\00:30:48.32
Most of them want to
come to the United States,
00:30:48.35\00:30:50.55
some Canada,
some the UK or Europe
00:30:50.58\00:30:53.88
and most of them
want to come here
00:30:53.91\00:30:55.38
and so they find it
beneficial to actually be taught
00:30:55.41\00:30:58.35
in a western system
with western teachers.
00:30:58.38\00:31:01.58
And even though we're
an American curriculum,
00:31:01.61\00:31:03.81
we actually have a
rather international faculty.
00:31:03.84\00:31:06.75
Excellent.
00:31:06.78\00:31:09.06
Does the school offer
some work study as well?
00:31:09.09\00:31:15.71
Because of the amount of English
00:31:15.74\00:31:19.46
that we have to teach
00:31:19.49\00:31:20.55
because our students don't come
with perfect levels of English.
00:31:20.58\00:31:23.62
Many of them are
actually rather low.
00:31:23.65\00:31:25.87
Most of our time is spent
00:31:25.90\00:31:28.53
either bringing up their English
00:31:28.56\00:31:30.19
through our English
language learners programs
00:31:30.22\00:31:32.90
or they have many credits
that they have to get completed
00:31:32.93\00:31:37.51
in order to get our degree.
00:31:37.54\00:31:39.23
So the work study program
00:31:39.26\00:31:40.73
is a work in progress right now.
00:31:40.76\00:31:43.61
We're still
trying to work that in,
00:31:43.64\00:31:45.27
but at the moment we
don't have that opportunity.
00:31:45.30\00:31:47.63
Does the
school-- Is the school--
00:31:47.66\00:31:50.82
Does the school offer
a dormitory for people
00:31:50.85\00:31:53.97
that come from far away?
00:31:54.00\00:31:56.15
Or is it set up for
just local community?
00:31:56.18\00:32:01.03
Because we're in the middle
of Taiwan, although Taiwan
00:32:01.06\00:32:03.71
is only the size of
the State of Maryland,
00:32:03.74\00:32:06.00
it's still quite a commute
for most of our students.
00:32:06.03\00:32:09.38
So we're a boarding school
and we only have a few students
00:32:09.41\00:32:13.07
who are day students,
00:32:13.10\00:32:14.13
most of them are kids of faculty
00:32:14.16\00:32:17.17
or missionaries right
around or right on the campus.
00:32:17.20\00:32:20.78
So everyone else boards
00:32:20.81\00:32:22.77
and that actually
lends greatly to our program
00:32:22.80\00:32:27.74
because we have
a captive audience,
00:32:27.77\00:32:30.98
we have a tremendous program
00:32:31.01\00:32:33.39
where we are actually
able to build the characters
00:32:33.42\00:32:36.37
that the parents
want for their kids.
00:32:36.40\00:32:38.89
And that's where a great
amount of progress is made
00:32:38.92\00:32:41.79
and how we're able to
reach or touch the hearts
00:32:41.82\00:32:46.07
and really make an impact
on the lives of our students.
00:32:46.10\00:32:49.87
Can you help,
describe how this is done?
00:32:49.90\00:32:53.54
Is there a simple
way that you can explain?
00:32:53.57\00:32:56.05
What the process is for building
00:32:56.08\00:32:57.66
the characters of the students?
00:32:57.69\00:33:01.67
We work to teach them,
00:33:01.70\00:33:03.73
first of all
responsibility for their actions
00:33:03.76\00:33:06.81
and to try to show
them that there are affects
00:33:06.84\00:33:10.04
to anything that they may cause.
00:33:10.07\00:33:13.57
A lot of the students--
00:33:13.60\00:33:15.12
In fact most of the
students come from families
00:33:15.15\00:33:17.52
that work so
much that there isn't
00:33:17.55\00:33:19.85
a lot of what we'd
consider quality time
00:33:19.88\00:33:23.12
between mom and
dad and the kids.
00:33:23.15\00:33:24.61
Okay.
00:33:24.64\00:33:25.67
And so we are
surrogate parents in that way.
00:33:25.70\00:33:29.41
What we've done this year
00:33:29.44\00:33:30.63
that I'm actually really proud
of within our spiritual program
00:33:30.66\00:33:34.61
is implemented a small group
00:33:34.64\00:33:37.14
and with this
small groups program,
00:33:37.17\00:33:39.34
every Friday night
when the kids are on campus,
00:33:39.37\00:33:42.11
every other
weekend they will go home.
00:33:42.14\00:33:44.11
Okay.
00:33:44.14\00:33:45.17
As we have vespers
in the faculty homes.
00:33:45.20\00:33:49.30
So we will have the kids
broken into different groups
00:33:49.33\00:33:51.99
and that same group will
go to a faculty sponsors home
00:33:52.02\00:33:56.58
and we talk about
the theme of the week.
00:33:56.61\00:33:59.76
In the beginning
it's a lot more organized
00:33:59.79\00:34:02.33
in terms of having the
same discussion topics,
00:34:02.36\00:34:06.06
but as the year has gone
00:34:06.09\00:34:07.29
on each groups
develops a life of its own.
00:34:07.32\00:34:10.01
Kids have
different questions depending
00:34:10.04\00:34:12.08
on where they are in
their spiritual walks,
00:34:12.11\00:34:14.35
where they are in age.
00:34:14.38\00:34:16.20
And what I had noticed
00:34:16.23\00:34:18.65
as a result of this
small group program,
00:34:18.68\00:34:21.39
is in church when
we do get together
00:34:21.42\00:34:24.28
for the divine service,
they are much more energized
00:34:24.31\00:34:28.17
and involved than they
have ever been in the past.
00:34:28.20\00:34:31.06
Wonderful. Wonderful.
00:34:31.09\00:34:32.47
So they come over Friday
night, we have dinner with them,
00:34:32.50\00:34:35.40
then Sabbath
school or Sabbath morning
00:34:35.43\00:34:37.60
before Sabbath
school they will come
00:34:37.63\00:34:39.44
and at the same house
we'll have breakfast together
00:34:39.47\00:34:42.68
and then everyone joins together
00:34:42.71\00:34:43.94
for our divine service.
00:34:43.97\00:34:45.91
Magnificent.
00:34:45.94\00:34:47.17
What is the
capacity of the school
00:34:47.20\00:34:48.91
right now as far as students?
00:34:48.94\00:34:51.18
The maximum we
can have would be 84,
00:34:51.21\00:34:54.27
if you don't
count any day students.
00:34:54.30\00:34:55.72
Okay.
00:34:55.75\00:34:56.80
Instead has to
do with dorm space.
00:34:56.83\00:34:59.36
Long term goals, the
maximum we would want to be
00:34:59.39\00:35:02.70
is about 120
because we want to keep
00:35:02.73\00:35:05.24
the familial
environment that we have.
00:35:05.27\00:35:07.90
Wonderful. Wonderful.
00:35:07.93\00:35:09.52
Now you have, the
school has been opened
00:35:09.55\00:35:12.83
for how long and
besides what you mentioned,
00:35:12.86\00:35:16.45
are there other goals in mind?
00:35:16.48\00:35:19.99
We've been opened,
this is our seventh year
00:35:20.02\00:35:23.12
even though I joined
00:35:23.15\00:35:25.39
at the beginning of
the second year myself.
00:35:25.42\00:35:29.12
And our goals are to reach--
00:35:29.15\00:35:33.28
Well, in this case the children,
00:35:33.31\00:35:35.06
as many children of
Taiwan as we can to show them
00:35:35.09\00:35:39.66
that there is such a
thing as unconditional love.
00:35:39.69\00:35:42.49
They don't have to get
straight A's to be loved.
00:35:42.52\00:35:45.09
They don't have
to earn this love.
00:35:45.12\00:35:48.48
They will be disciplined
when they do something wrong,
00:35:48.51\00:35:51.66
but it doesn't mean we
don't like them anymore,
00:35:51.69\00:35:54.09
it doesn't mean
we're ashamed for them
00:35:54.12\00:35:55.95
and this is
part of the obstacles
00:35:55.98\00:35:58.29
that we have to face.
00:35:58.32\00:35:59.35
The culture presses upon them
00:35:59.38\00:36:03.02
that they must obey their elders
00:36:03.05\00:36:06.59
or which is a good
thing, but without question,
00:36:06.62\00:36:11.18
without knowing why.
00:36:11.21\00:36:12.95
And tradition is more important
than an individual's rights,
00:36:12.98\00:36:19.18
desires and
things of that nature.
00:36:19.21\00:36:23.65
Not questioning a teacher
00:36:23.68\00:36:26.49
is part of what
makes it difficult
00:36:26.52\00:36:28.73
to teach how to think
because in order to know
00:36:28.76\00:36:31.69
how to think one
must ask questions.
00:36:31.72\00:36:33.62
Yes.
00:36:33.65\00:36:34.68
And so when they come
it's a big culture shock
00:36:34.71\00:36:37.43
when we actually ask,
what do you think about this?
00:36:37.46\00:36:40.93
If A and B take place,
what would C look like?
00:36:40.96\00:36:45.55
Stone silence.
00:36:45.58\00:36:46.84
It takes about
six to eight months
00:36:46.87\00:36:49.37
for someone to
reorient to our culture.
00:36:49.40\00:36:52.67
Okay.
00:36:52.70\00:36:53.76
And start to become comfortable
knowing I can ask questions
00:36:53.79\00:36:58.12
and if I answer a question
and I'm wrong, it's okay.
00:36:58.15\00:37:03.31
That's very interesting--
00:37:03.34\00:37:05.34
What I've just
heard is very interesting.
00:37:05.37\00:37:07.16
So it's a
learning process for them
00:37:07.19\00:37:11.09
and it's a
growing process as well.
00:37:11.12\00:37:13.51
Let me ask you.
00:37:13.54\00:37:14.57
You mentioned
the word obstacles,
00:37:14.60\00:37:15.63
that was one of
the questions I had.
00:37:15.66\00:37:17.95
What are the
obstacles or challenges
00:37:17.98\00:37:20.34
the school is facing?
00:37:20.37\00:37:24.63
We have three major obstacles.
One is the cultural difference.
00:37:24.66\00:37:30.88
The language barrier is part
of what the school is about,
00:37:30.91\00:37:34.80
is to teach them English
00:37:34.83\00:37:36.92
and have them
improve their English skills.
00:37:36.95\00:37:40.37
But because of the
spiritual program that we have,
00:37:40.40\00:37:43.28
because we are introducing
the true character of Christ,
00:37:43.31\00:37:46.86
Satan does not want us there.
00:37:46.89\00:37:48.89
Since the first year
he has been working hard
00:37:48.92\00:37:51.03
to shut this school down.
00:37:51.06\00:37:55.15
In Taiwan it's generally a dark
country spiritually speaking.
00:37:55.18\00:37:59.59
Okay.
00:37:59.62\00:38:00.65
This is a county whose
major religion is Buddhism,
00:38:00.68\00:38:03.17
but in Taiwan Buddhism is
an amalgamation of Buddhism,
00:38:03.20\00:38:07.28
Daoism and ancestral worship.
00:38:07.31\00:38:10.49
There is a lot
of spiritism there,
00:38:10.52\00:38:12.56
whether people are
aware of it or not.
00:38:12.59\00:38:14.05
So the, the type
of Buddhism that I see
00:38:14.08\00:38:17.40
there is very different
than what maybe portrayed
00:38:17.43\00:38:20.17
in television, movies
what not here in the US.
00:38:20.20\00:38:24.06
Let me give you one example.
00:38:24.09\00:38:25.68
I had a student--
When I first went there,
00:38:25.71\00:38:27.50
I was the dean, boys' dean
and I had this student Wallace
00:38:27.53\00:38:31.52
who was--
00:38:31.55\00:38:33.22
he was a high maintenance child.
00:38:33.25\00:38:35.47
He knew how to get
under people's skin.
00:38:35.50\00:38:38.18
Everyone has that
button that can be pushed
00:38:38.21\00:38:40.51
and he knew how
to get to everyone.
00:38:40.54\00:38:44.53
When we did have
our church services
00:38:44.56\00:38:46.34
he couldn't stay awake at all.
00:38:46.37\00:38:48.82
It's just like all the
energy was sucked out of him.
00:38:48.85\00:38:51.67
I tried to spend
some time with him to get
00:38:51.70\00:38:53.35
to know more about
him and what I learned
00:38:53.38\00:38:55.86
is he actually had a
friend let's call him.
00:38:55.89\00:39:00.08
Now this was a spirit friend.
00:39:00.11\00:39:02.47
And this spirit friend of
his, I asked him eventually
00:39:02.50\00:39:04.40
what is his name
and he told me, Louie.
00:39:04.43\00:39:07.36
So Louie was the
spirit friends name.
00:39:07.39\00:39:09.92
Louie would actually
give this boy a lot of energy
00:39:09.95\00:39:13.71
so he could do whatever
it was that he wanted to do.
00:39:13.74\00:39:16.68
He was actually very smart kid.
00:39:16.71\00:39:18.82
He was pretty good in sports,
00:39:18.85\00:39:22.32
but when it came
time to go to church,
00:39:22.35\00:39:25.57
well, it turns out Louie
wasn't allowed in the building
00:39:25.60\00:39:28.48
and so his source
of energy was gone.
00:39:28.51\00:39:31.31
There was-- I
would talk to him about,
00:39:31.34\00:39:34.12
why it was hard for
him to make friends.
00:39:34.15\00:39:35.99
He didn't
understand what it was,
00:39:36.02\00:39:37.77
what the problem was.
00:39:37.80\00:39:39.36
His room was completely filthy.
00:39:39.39\00:39:42.07
He was personally or
rather dirty individual.
00:39:42.10\00:39:45.07
He would push those buttons
00:39:45.10\00:39:47.60
whether it was
teachers or students
00:39:47.63\00:39:49.51
and I asked, why do you do this?
00:39:49.54\00:39:52.11
Well, Louie would tell
him to do these things.
00:39:52.14\00:39:55.13
And as a result he
didn't have friends.
00:39:55.16\00:39:58.04
Not having friends,
00:39:58.07\00:39:59.32
he would go to
Louie who was his friend.
00:39:59.35\00:40:02.07
Louie would also
grant him certain things
00:40:02.10\00:40:03.86
that he would use
00:40:03.89\00:40:05.36
in order to try to win
the favor of other students.
00:40:05.39\00:40:08.46
He had a limited
amount of clairvoyance,
00:40:08.49\00:40:10.23
so if a student lost something
00:40:10.26\00:40:11.87
he could ask Louie, where is it?
00:40:11.90\00:40:13.71
And he would find
it right away for them.
00:40:13.74\00:40:16.12
He said that, if
someone did upset him,
00:40:16.15\00:40:18.56
he was given an
ability to make some face
00:40:18.59\00:40:22.33
and produce some kind of roar
that would really startled kids
00:40:22.36\00:40:25.38
and it actually scared
a few of them quite a bit.
00:40:25.41\00:40:27.93
Wallace told me he
tried to do that to me,
00:40:27.96\00:40:29.79
but it would never
work, he couldn't do it.
00:40:29.82\00:40:32.14
I explained it's
nothing special about me,
00:40:32.17\00:40:35.33
it's my father has
more power than Louie.
00:40:35.36\00:40:38.83
You should really conside
00:40:38.86\00:40:40.85
what we're trying
to teach you here.
00:40:40.88\00:40:43.78
At one time the
principal at the time
00:40:43.81\00:40:46.53
and I were talking with
him trying to counsel Wallace
00:40:46.56\00:40:50.93
and he would use this circular
logic of why God was bad,
00:40:50.96\00:40:57.22
why the Bible was not helpful,
00:40:57.25\00:40:59.77
why following these
Christian principles
00:40:59.80\00:41:02.40
were not in his best interest.
00:41:02.43\00:41:06.31
At one time he
even said this line
00:41:06.34\00:41:08.75
which I thought
was a bit concerning.
00:41:08.78\00:41:11.47
We don't want to be saved.
00:41:11.50\00:41:14.09
So he used the word "We."
00:41:14.12\00:41:15.39
He said "We."
00:41:15.42\00:41:16.45
Okay.
00:41:16.48\00:41:17.68
We're calling--
We want to call it,
00:41:17.71\00:41:19.96
call it as it is--
There was a demon working
00:41:19.99\00:41:24.71
through this Louie
character that was his friend.
00:41:24.74\00:41:29.52
Definitely. There's
no doubt about that.
00:41:29.55\00:41:32.82
Louie was not
allowed in my office,
00:41:32.85\00:41:34.50
but he could talk to
Wallace through the wall
00:41:34.53\00:41:37.11
and when Jeremy the
other former principal
00:41:37.14\00:41:40.63
and I were talking to
him, it finally dawned on us,
00:41:40.66\00:41:43.39
we're not talking to Wallace.
00:41:43.42\00:41:44.99
So we had asked
him, are we talking--
00:41:45.02\00:41:46.90
Wallace, is this you?
00:41:46.93\00:41:47.96
Are we talking to you?
00:41:47.99\00:41:49.44
He just remained quiet,
00:41:49.47\00:41:50.92
so we stopped right
there and we prayed.
00:41:50.95\00:41:54.18
Let it be just us, just
us 'cause we need to talk
00:41:54.21\00:41:57.77
to Wallace no one else.
00:41:57.80\00:41:59.68
Amen.
00:41:59.71\00:42:00.74
And then his entire demeanor,
his eyes were different,
00:42:00.77\00:42:06.41
his voice was a
little bit different.
00:42:06.44\00:42:08.38
We had our student back.
00:42:08.41\00:42:10.59
All right. Praise the Lord.
00:42:10.62\00:42:12.79
Even then when we
wanted to discuss the Bible
00:42:12.82\00:42:15.84
and talk about
this with him, he would,
00:42:15.87\00:42:18.42
he couldn't touch the Bible.
00:42:18.45\00:42:19.91
He would
describe it as very warm,
00:42:19.94\00:42:21.52
but if he touched it, he
himself would be very cold.
00:42:21.55\00:42:24.68
So these kinds of spiritual
interactions particularly
00:42:24.71\00:42:28.98
in the beginning were
actually a lot more common
00:42:29.01\00:42:31.60
and this is-- These
are some of the ways
00:42:31.63\00:42:33.43
that we're being fought.
00:42:33.46\00:42:36.58
I'll just quickly mention
a current student of ours
00:42:36.61\00:42:39.70
whose name I'll not mention.
00:42:39.73\00:42:42.14
So to close the story
about Louie and Wallace,
00:42:42.17\00:42:46.64
how was God victorious in this?
00:42:46.67\00:42:51.42
Wallace knew that
God was more powerful.
00:42:51.45\00:42:57.64
What I'm able to do is I'm
able to touch share with people,
00:42:57.67\00:43:01.74
that there is-- There are powers
00:43:01.77\00:43:03.52
and principalities at work.
00:43:03.55\00:43:06.34
One of the
things that I share him,
00:43:06.37\00:43:07.63
I am actually very
pleased to share with people
00:43:07.66\00:43:09.92
because I want
them to be encouraged
00:43:09.95\00:43:11.32
knowing God is
physically present with us,
00:43:11.35\00:43:14.03
Christ is present with us,
00:43:14.06\00:43:15.52
it's something
that Wallace could see.
00:43:15.55\00:43:16.92
Amen.
00:43:16.95\00:43:17.98
When we were in
church, Wallace could see--
00:43:18.01\00:43:22.59
He described to
me beams of light
00:43:22.62\00:43:25.74
with six wings harmonizing
with us as we were singing.
00:43:25.77\00:43:29.79
Praise the Lord.
00:43:29.82\00:43:31.93
And this doesn't
just happen in Taiwan,
00:43:31.96\00:43:33.83
this is around the world.
00:43:33.86\00:43:34.89
So music is so powerful,
00:43:34.92\00:43:37.52
it is immensely important
that people keep music,
00:43:37.55\00:43:40.59
praise and worship music
in all of their services.
00:43:40.62\00:43:43.26
The angels are
harmonizing with us.
00:43:43.29\00:43:45.51
Amen.
00:43:45.54\00:43:46.66
Before you
continue the other story,
00:43:46.69\00:43:48.96
I would like to see if
we can put the pictures
00:43:48.99\00:43:51.69
that you came
with, you can share those
00:43:51.72\00:43:53.79
and kind of
briefly go through them,
00:43:53.82\00:43:55.40
so that-- We get a picture here.
00:43:55.43\00:43:56.80
What we have on screen now?
00:43:56.83\00:43:59.05
This is Longshan
Temple in Taipei.
00:43:59.08\00:44:03.04
This is the
typical form of worship
00:44:03.07\00:44:05.72
that we would see in Taiwan.
00:44:05.75\00:44:07.90
Incense being
burned, what you can't see
00:44:07.93\00:44:10.38
is that they are
facing different statues,
00:44:10.41\00:44:13.14
so it's blatant
direct idol worship.
00:44:13.17\00:44:16.17
And this one is a statue?
00:44:16.20\00:44:17.39
This one is of a dragon.
00:44:17.42\00:44:20.51
I took this photo
because of how happily
00:44:20.54\00:44:24.05
I thought it would
describe, who people,
00:44:24.08\00:44:27.57
who are worshiping
idols are truly worshiping
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whether they know it nor not.
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Interesting, next one.
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This is a
picture of the mountains,
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early morning when I
went out for jog of...
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Beautiful.
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Taiwan Adventist College campus,
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and the fog
rolling in beautifully
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and this is not Photoshop,
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this is the way
the photo was taken.
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Let's go to the next one.
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This is a picture of
some of our students.
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We have outreach
programs that teach the students
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not only the benefit of
taking things for themselves,
00:44:57.48\00:45:01.12
but when you give
your time, your energy,
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your blessing both to
people you help and yourself.
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Praise the Lord.
00:45:07.82\00:45:08.86
And these are
some of the activities.
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We take our kids
outside into nature
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because of where we are,
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we have some wonderful
nature not only on our campus,
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but also around the campus.
00:45:18.32\00:45:20.37
This is a local
swimming hole and we go there,
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at least once a year.
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And the kids don't
want to go swimming,
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then they end up going in
and just having a great time.
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We have week of prayer
every, we have two a year.
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And this is where
some of the most violent,
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spiritually speaking
attacks come against our school.
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The week before every single
week of prayer we have attacks.
00:45:40.23\00:45:45.56
This year we had a government
threat to shut down our school.
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Last year we had,
someone became very ill
00:45:50.31\00:45:53.25
and he actually
had to leave abruptly.
00:45:53.28\00:45:55.85
We had the year before that,
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two years before
that a student...
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who had made some poor
decisions regarding let's say,
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playing with a Taiwanese
version of a Ouija board,
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had actually invited spirits in.
00:46:08.41\00:46:10.76
And these spirits did not
leave him alone particularly
00:46:10.79\00:46:13.90
during the week of prayer.
00:46:13.93\00:46:16.02
He had washed some
clothes and the only shirt
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that came out
smelling like rotten milk
00:46:19.48\00:46:21.63
was the shirt that
said, "Jesus Saves" on it.
00:46:21.66\00:46:24.80
He showed me the shirt, I
smelled it and it was putrid.
00:46:24.83\00:46:28.50
I was speaking to
him trying to comfort him
00:46:28.53\00:46:31.49
and let him know--
Okay, Jesus is more powerful.
00:46:31.52\00:46:34.46
We need to pray,
it got to the point
00:46:34.49\00:46:37.15
where I needed to
call in our chaplain
00:46:37.18\00:46:39.77
and we spoke to him and he
ended up doing much better,
00:46:39.80\00:46:43.97
but this, my point is
this is the kind of attack
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that does happen
while we're there.
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Well, we definitely
want to ask our viewers
00:46:49.96\00:46:51.99
and listeners to
pray for this school
00:46:52.02\00:46:55.14
because they are
facing day-to-day challenges.
00:46:55.17\00:46:57.38
And praise the Lord, a victory
is at hand and we see victory.
00:46:57.41\00:47:02.94
We've already heard some stories
00:47:02.97\00:47:04.07
of the victories they have had.
00:47:04.10\00:47:05.13
I'm sure there are many more.
00:47:05.16\00:47:06.72
But at this time to share,
00:47:06.75\00:47:09.79
you had another
story, you wanted to share.
00:47:09.82\00:47:11.40
We have briefly time
for another one maybe,
00:47:11.43\00:47:13.52
and then we need to
get ready for the address.
00:47:13.55\00:47:16.24
So if you would like to
write the address information.
00:47:16.27\00:47:20.41
Why don't we go here first?
00:47:20.44\00:47:21.91
Do you have any needs
at the school, teachers...?
00:47:21.94\00:47:28.42
We have two major needs.
The first and foremost prayer.
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Please add us to
your prayer lists
00:47:32.70\00:47:35.82
and I mean actively pray,
don't just say we'll do so.
00:47:35.85\00:47:38.76
We really need this prayer.
00:47:38.79\00:47:40.99
With this government,
00:47:41.02\00:47:43.39
a new government certification
that we're going for,
00:47:43.42\00:47:48.33
it allows us to
operate more smoothly
00:47:48.36\00:47:50.00
and most importantly
teach Adventist principles.
00:47:50.03\00:47:52.97
We can teach Bible
class, we can teach creationism,
00:47:53.00\00:47:57.22
and we can continue
with the American curriculum.
00:47:57.25\00:47:59.70
So pray for the people
who are in charge of that,
00:47:59.73\00:48:02.99
who have the stamp and that
the teachers continue to have
00:48:03.02\00:48:07.79
the energy and enthusiasm
to do what we're doing
00:48:07.82\00:48:11.43
'cause everyone there works
very hard and it is rewarding,
00:48:11.46\00:48:15.29
it's incredibly rewarding.
00:48:15.32\00:48:17.33
And yes, we need teachers.
00:48:17.36\00:48:19.61
I need English
language teachers.
00:48:19.64\00:48:21.53
I need high level math teachers,
00:48:21.56\00:48:24.32
science, chemistry, physics
00:48:24.35\00:48:27.42
because we have
some missionaries
00:48:27.45\00:48:28.89
who are moving on
to the next mission.
00:48:28.92\00:48:30.66
We have some people
who are returning home.
00:48:30.69\00:48:33.11
And we have a need to
just fill these slots.
00:48:33.14\00:48:37.58
We need an academic director.
00:48:37.61\00:48:39.75
So please I'd like
to hear from people
00:48:39.78\00:48:42.92
who are interested in this.
00:48:42.95\00:48:44.92
And I can talk more with them
about what life is like there.
00:48:44.95\00:48:49.70
Some of the things that we
offered to make life easier.
00:48:49.73\00:48:52.55
I'll just say one thing,
sometimes people are afraid
00:48:52.58\00:48:55.80
that mission work means
that they have to go into debts
00:48:55.83\00:48:59.57
or that it won't
provide for them in that way.
00:48:59.60\00:49:03.07
When I got married we
had about $30,000 in debts,
00:49:03.10\00:49:07.92
student loans and so forth,
00:49:07.95\00:49:09.74
completely debt
free in 18 months.
00:49:09.77\00:49:11.64
Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
00:49:11.67\00:49:13.49
So while you cannot
say about the school,
00:49:13.52\00:49:15.90
just you said
about the other job
00:49:15.93\00:49:17.21
that they paid too
much, the people are benefited
00:49:17.24\00:49:22.53
and that they are not gonna
be starving or in great debt.
00:49:22.56\00:49:26.49
They will be well taken care
of by both the Lord and by us.
00:49:26.52\00:49:30.77
Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
00:49:30.80\00:49:32.22
Well, we have
very little time left.
00:49:32.25\00:49:34.31
We want to make sure
00:49:34.34\00:49:35.40
we put the address
on the screen very soon.
00:49:35.43\00:49:38.41
So we want to
invite you to pray.
00:49:38.44\00:49:40.15
Do you have something brief
00:49:40.18\00:49:41.26
that you'd like to share with us
00:49:41.29\00:49:42.32
before we go to our break?
00:49:42.35\00:49:45.47
We have about two minutes.
00:49:45.50\00:49:47.00
Yes, I want to tell you about
00:49:47.03\00:49:49.09
our mission trip
that's coming up.
00:49:49.12\00:49:51.53
We're taking the kids to
India in just a couple of weeks.
00:49:51.56\00:49:56.02
Wonderful.
00:49:56.05\00:49:57.09
And this is great because I had
asked our spiritual committee
00:49:57.12\00:50:00.27
for two mission trips.
00:50:00.30\00:50:02.25
Excuse me, I had asked
them for one mission trip,
00:50:02.28\00:50:04.68
they gave me two.
00:50:04.71\00:50:06.12
And we're headed to
India. We had set up a budget.
00:50:06.15\00:50:10.47
I had already told
the parents about this,
00:50:10.50\00:50:12.72
collected a
certain amount of money,
00:50:12.75\00:50:14.41
then when we got
the actual numbers back,
00:50:14.44\00:50:16.83
it was about $13,000 more than
00:50:16.86\00:50:20.70
what we had
asked for or collected.
00:50:20.73\00:50:22.42
Praise the Lord.
00:50:22.45\00:50:23.67
No, the budget was
more. We were short.
00:50:23.70\00:50:26.01
Oh, you were short? Yeah.
00:50:26.04\00:50:27.79
Okay. Misunderstood.
00:50:27.82\00:50:29.58
So we had prayed about this.
00:50:29.61\00:50:32.83
We had prayer
groups in the states going,
00:50:32.86\00:50:34.84
I saw a Facebook post
00:50:34.87\00:50:36.23
by a friend of mine Richard
who said, I have a minute.
00:50:36.26\00:50:38.71
You have prayer
request, send them my way.
00:50:38.74\00:50:40.86
I said, yes, pray for this.
00:50:40.89\00:50:43.26
Within 19 minutes my friend
00:50:43.29\00:50:46.30
who is
organizing this whole event
00:50:46.33\00:50:49.84
got an email that
had actually explained,
00:50:49.87\00:50:52.56
our entire
problem had been solved.
00:50:52.59\00:50:55.02
Praise the Lord. Now
we say praise the Lord.
00:50:55.05\00:50:56.49
Now, it's praise the Lord.
00:50:56.52\00:50:57.55
Praise the Lord. Fantastic.
00:50:57.58\00:51:00.07
So the Lord is working for us.
00:51:00.10\00:51:01.81
This mission is
running successfully
00:51:01.84\00:51:05.21
because of the
people we have there
00:51:05.24\00:51:07.01
and because we are following
00:51:07.04\00:51:08.41
what God has
instructed us to do.
00:51:08.44\00:51:10.26
And as long as we
stay on that path,
00:51:10.29\00:51:12.32
He's gonna
continue to protect us.
00:51:12.35\00:51:14.40
Praise the Lord.
This is marvelous.
00:51:14.43\00:51:16.55
We have more to find
out about the school,
00:51:16.58\00:51:20.21
but we need to take
a short break right now
00:51:20.24\00:51:23.68
because we want to
share with you the address,
00:51:23.71\00:51:25.50
contact
information for the school.
00:51:25.53\00:51:27.26
Those of you that are interested
00:51:27.29\00:51:28.51
in becoming teachers,
you need to contact them
00:51:28.54\00:51:31.77
and we also want to encourage
you to send them an email,
00:51:31.80\00:51:35.98
contact them to say,
you are praying for them.
00:51:36.01\00:51:38.43
And you can even ask them
00:51:38.46\00:51:39.49
what other specific
needs they may have.
00:51:39.52\00:51:41.58
So right now we like
to go through the address
00:51:41.61\00:51:43.97
and then we have
news from 3ABN with you,
00:51:44.00\00:51:46.64
so we'll be back.
00:51:46.67\00:51:48.00
If you would like
to support this school,
00:51:50.42\00:51:52.08
you can write to, Taiwan
Adventist International School,
00:51:52.11\00:51:55.92
39 Chunwen Lane,
Yuchih, Nantou County 55542.
00:51:55.95\00:52:01.82
That's Taiwan
Adventist International School,
00:52:01.85\00:52:04.94
39 Chunwen Lane,
Yuchih, Nantou County 55542.
00:52:04.97\00:52:10.68
You can call +866-0-49-289-9778.
00:52:10.71\00:52:16.59
That's +866-0-49-289-9778
00:52:16.62\00:52:22.29
or visit them online at tais.tw.
00:52:22.32\00:52:26.35
Or you can email
Neil at neil@tais.tw.
00:52:26.38\00:52:31.93