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 to 3ABN today.
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My name is C.A. Murray
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and allow me once again
to thank you for sharing
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just a little of your
no doubt busy day with us.
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To thank you
again for your love,
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your prayers, your
support of this ministry
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for we realize
that we could not do
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we are called to do
without your partnership.
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So we thank you from
the bottom of our hearts
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as we work together
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to lift up the mighty
and matchless name of Jesus.
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I've always been a fan of,
a lover of mission stories.
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Now the mission field
can be around the world,
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it can be next door,
it can be the next block,
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it can actually
be in your own family
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or sometimes
even in your own home.
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But today we are going to
talk about the mission field
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and work in the "mission field"
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as respects the
country of Guatemala.
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And I was telling I
guess that I've been
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to most of the
Latin American countries
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have not quite gotten
into Guatemala just yet.
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Perhaps one day we will.
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But the ministry is
called Water for Life
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and a great
story, an exciting story
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as they use water as a--
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there I say ministry to
as a an agent of evangelism.
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A platform, yes, a vehicle
to bring Christ to people
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while you are brining
something that they need
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each and
everyday of their lives.
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My guests are Timothy Rasmussen.
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That's correct.
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As opposed to
Rasmusen. Rasmussen.
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He is the
president of Water for Life
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and Berny Leonardo.
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I like that.
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Berny Leonardo is
very fusser title name
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who is a coordinator
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and really is
stationed in Guatemala
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and so takes care
of things down there.
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So we are gonna
talk about their story,
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talk about the work of
Water for Life in Guatemala.
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How it got started,
what it is, what is it doing
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and the attendant
miracles that God is brining
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to this ministry as they
serve the Lord in that country.
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So it's a great challenge.
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My wife being from Panama.
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As well known literally easier
to get in and out of Panama
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and do some things.
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Guatemala little bit tougher
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but the work of
God is moving forward
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and these two gentlemen
are gonna explain to you
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and talk to you
about and show you also
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with some pictures
little bit later on
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how God is
blessing this ministry
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that we call Water for Life.
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Now before we go to our music
I want to talk to both of you,
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just get little background
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because you didn't
start out being missionaries
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and working with Water for Life.
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Timothy, where are you from?
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I'm from
Spokane area Washington.
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I was born and
raised in Michigan.
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My father was a pastor
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Ted Rasmussen in the Michigan
Conference for many years.
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But I live in
Spokane area right now.
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Okay, that explains
all that running around.
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Moving from Michigan to--
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from Washington
to Michigan and back.
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Give me some
sense of your childhood.
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You know, you say
your father is a pastor
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so you grew up in
an Adventist home.
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Yes.
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My father was a pastor,
my grandfather was a pastor
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as well on my mother's side.
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So I grew up in
a home in Michigan,
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we traveled a lot of
difference places in Michigan
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as pastor that move around,
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at least move more
than they do now I think.
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That's true.
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But we live in
several homes in Michigan.
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I went to
Adelphian Academy in Michigan
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and then I graduated
from Andrews University
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while my family was in Michigan.
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I just want to ask you
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after two generations of pastors
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how did you escape
the cloth there I say.
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I'm not exactly
sure how I escaped it.
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Mr. Berny says
that I'm still a pastor.
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I don't agree with that.
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I'm a lawyer,
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I went to
Georgia State University
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and I studied law
and practiced for a while
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in North Carolina in Georgia
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and then about 15 years
ago I moved to Washington
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and right now my job is,
I'm the elected prosecuting
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attorney for Stevens
County, Washington where I live.
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So you are on one
side of bar sort of there
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we say jump the bar and
now you are on the other side.
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But that's an
elected office. Yes, it is.
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That's an office
you have to run far.
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Yes, I do.
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I'm on my third term
and-- Somebody liked you.
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Somebody liked me, a
majority of the people.
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And evidently--
and Lord is blessing.
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Yes, He is. Is it
a great difference?
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Is there a great difference
from being a defense attorney
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to being a prospecting attorney?
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There can be.
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I believe that a person can
do honorable work on both sides.
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As an advocate for
people that are accused.
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You know, we have--
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Jesus is our advocate. Oh, yes.
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And an advocate is
needed on the prosecution side
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there is a sense of justice
and a prosecutor's job is to do
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what is just for
people in situations.
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So I think that
Christian people can work
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on either side of that.
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How does--
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it's kind of one of
those ontological questions
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we toss at
people for now and then.
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How does your faith,
your Christianity inform
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what you have to do every day?
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I try to do the right thing
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and the Lord knows what's right.
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And many
circumstances come at me
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and I'm not sure exactly
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what I should do
in this situation.
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I take those things to
the Lord and I ask the Lord
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what is the right
thing and then I try to do
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what the Lord tells me
to do about the situation.
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So you bring
prayer into your business,
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I do. into your job?
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I do. Good for you.
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I'm in a secular
world but occasionally
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I will find an opportunity
to pray with someone.
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This last Monday
morning I met a man who had--
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his son had been
murdered that weekend
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and he came to my
office and was in tears
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and he and I
spoke for a few minutes
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about the case
and the situation.
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But then I noticed
that he was hurting
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and he was weeping and
so we were able to pray.
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He was a believer
and I was able to pray
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with him for the
Lord to calm his heart.
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What grieving father needs
just comfort from our Savior.
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And so I do have the
opportunity sometimes
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to extend prayer with people.
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So for you in
listening to your presentation
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it's not just about
getting the conviction
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it's about doing the right thing
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It is. or doing the fair thing.
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Many times it's more important
who you don't prosecute
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than who you do.
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And the prosecutor has
a duty to do what is just
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not simply to get convictions.
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That is a very did
I say enlightened view
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and proud of you, man.
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That's a good biblical work.
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Well, I have a good
helper must say the Lord.
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Praise the Lord.
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So now that's about yourself,
you got somebody with you.
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No. Yeah.
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Berny Leonardo,
you are the coordinator
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for Water for Life in Guatemala.
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Guatemala I suspect like most
of the Latin American countries
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predominantly Catholic.
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Yes, they are.
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Did you grow up
in an Adventist home
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or Catholic home?
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I grew up in non-Adventist home.
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My father was a catholic,
my mother knew the message
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but-- finally we thank
the Lord that He took us over
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to good situation
that both parents heard
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and they gave us the message.
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So finally we grew up
as a Seventh-day Adventist.
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About how old were you
when you actually became?
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About seven years.
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I praise the Lord
that I knew Him so early.
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Yes. Yes. Yes.
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And I got to ask you because
when anytime someone tells me
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"I gave my heart to
Lord at five, six, seven
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I always ask did you have any"
I call them wilderness years.
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Sometimes during
our teenage years
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you kind of stray a little
bit, the word kind of cause
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and you may kind of turn
your head that way for a while
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or did you kind of stay
with the Lord throughout?
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Well, you do have temptation
you would like to go out
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and see how things
are outside the church.
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But I thank the Lord
He led me through His path
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and He comfort me so I
didn't have to go so far.
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Praise the Lord. You
didn't wandered too far.
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How about you Timothy,
did you guys playing straight?
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I spent years in the
wilderness wandering.
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As many young
people I was baptized
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at 10 or 12-years-old
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and but it wasn't
until I was an adult.
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Then I finally realized
that what my Savior had done
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for me and I was re-baptized
when I was about 35-years-old
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I was re-baptized
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and from then I'm
gonna praise the Lord.
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I've been following
Him, sometimes not so closely
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but following Him--
Yeah, praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord.
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It occurs to me that
having a father, grandfather,
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even greater grandfather
who is an Adventist minister
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doesn't make you-- it
makes you an Adventist
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maybe but it certainly
doesn't make a child of God.
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That is a personal decision
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that you got to make one on one.
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So you can grow up
with the accoutrements
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of Adventism are around you
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but until you find
Christ for yourself
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that's when it takes
on, it takes on meaning.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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We want to go to our music
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and I want to
come back and walk--
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well, have you
guys walk us through
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what Water for Life is
and how you sort of moved
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into this because
that is a good story
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and it's doing some great work.
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Our music today comes
from Gale Jones Murphy,
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great pianist, great singer,
great friend of this ministry.
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She is going to be playing
this time "Come Thou Fount."
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Well done, Gale Jones Murphy,
a bit of a different take
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on a classic song
"Come Thou Fount."
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Very, very well done.
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My guests are Timothy
Rasmussen and Berny Leonardo,
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they of Water for Life.
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You know, I like
your email address
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or your web
address is h2oforlife.org,
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well, H2oForLife.org.
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We've done a little
bit about your past,
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I want to put you
together and how the ministry
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has brought you together.
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Tell me, Timothy,
how did Water for Life
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get started and how
did you become president?
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Since you used to
running for office,
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I know you didn't
run for this one though.
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Water for Life began as
an endeavor of volunteers
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to solve a contaminated
water problem at a school
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and orphanage operated
by International Children's
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Care in Guatemala.
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The people there were
drinking water from the river.
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And we have a film,
we have a picture of some
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ladies in the
stream and people get water
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from whatever
source that they could.
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For many people
it's just river water.
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In times when there is very
little water and little flow
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those contaminants
are very concentrated.
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So you are washing in the water,
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you are bathing in the water,
you are drinking the water,
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you are cooking with the water
and all of that's in that one.
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And so you are animals. Yeah.
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I've been in villages
where the women were getting
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water from one side of a
pond and cattle were standing
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in the water on the
other side of the pond.
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And if you say to
people this water is dangerous
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they say we know. Yeah.
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But there is no
other place for water.
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No other place, yeah.
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So Water for Life began
as an endeavor of volunteers
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to solve this problem.
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I was privileged
to be on the campus
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when they drilled the
first wells and the way
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I heard about Water
of Life I was preaching
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at the Countryside
Adventist Church in Spokane
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and I heard at a break
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Mr. Bartholomew,
he stood up and said
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the drilling rig has been
seen inside the customs yard
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at Puerto Barrio
and the general reaction
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was praisethe
Lord, praise the Lord.
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And afterwards I said to
Gary, what is this all about?
00:16:21.94\00:16:24.55
What are you
talking about and he told me
00:16:24.58\00:16:26.61
about their efforts and
that was when the first rig
00:16:26.65\00:16:29.08
was going down.
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My wife and I went
down and were there
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when the first wells
were drilled at the school
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and orphanage and
my wife fell in love
00:16:34.92\00:16:37.23
with the orphan children
and we've been coming back.
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That was about ten years ago
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and we've been coming
back every year since.
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Now how big of school
you are talking about?
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The school is
about 400 students.
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Okay, good size school.
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It's a boarding
school, it's a high school
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and the orphanage is
about 70 to 100 little children
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and that is right
next door to the school.
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So all based on
the same complex.
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Basically in the
same property. Wow.
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And International Children's
Care has done a good work there
00:17:02.25\00:17:05.75
but that's how we got started,
how Water for Life got started.
00:17:05.79\00:17:08.42
Now it is
International Children's Care
00:17:08.46\00:17:10.29
an Adventist
organization? Yes, it is.
00:17:10.33\00:17:11.99
It's from Vancouver, Washington
00:17:12.03\00:17:14.23
and is an
Adventist organization.
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So you went down
and sort of got the bit
00:17:16.80\00:17:19.57
in your mouth got
hooked? Got hooked.
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Yeah. Yeah, got hooked.
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And it came home
and continued to work
00:17:23.24\00:17:25.37
with Gary and
Water for Life has grown
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from that one
beginning where we had just
00:17:28.61\00:17:30.68
a container for a
shop and one drilling rig
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we now have three drilling rigs,
00:17:34.75\00:17:37.15
we have six other
trucks, we have a large shop,
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we have apartments for
our volunteered drillers
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who come from
across the United States
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and drill with us and
we have facilities there
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to take care of people.
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The workers eat in
the school cafeteria
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so we can feed and
take care of people.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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But Water for Life
has grown to the point
00:17:54.94\00:17:56.27
where we now have 79 wells
throughout the Peten Region
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mostly where we are and we think
00:18:00.78\00:18:03.11
that about 30,000 people
are drinking water every day
00:18:03.14\00:18:06.41
as a result of the
efforts of Water for Life.
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Now, you say that
first compound 400 kids
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plus another 70 what
kind of output do you need
00:18:13.52\00:18:17.73
a well to produce
to make that well,
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to say that this well
is a good viable well?
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Depends upon the demand
on it and a well that's only
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producing ten gallons,
ten gallons a minute running
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24 hours a day or
productive rate amount of water.
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So we now serving that campus
we have five wells that serve
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those campuses
and if one goes down
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they can switch to another one.
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The majority of wells
that we produce for villages
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are in places
where there is no power.
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So these are the old
hand pumps the green in color
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well, you have seen them before
and that's what we provide
00:18:49.76\00:18:53.63
in villages and there is about
usually between 200 and 600
00:18:53.66\00:18:57.43
people in the village
so we think with 79 wells
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we've got about 30,000
people that are depending
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on the water everyday.
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Yeah, praise the Lord.
00:19:04.71\00:19:06.04
Now how did you run into
Brother Berny over there?
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I met my friend
Berny the very first time
00:19:08.68\00:19:10.81
we were there and he
was the business manager
00:19:10.85\00:19:14.12
of the school at
that time and we were
00:19:14.15\00:19:17.19
closely associated and I
think he and I recognized
00:19:17.22\00:19:20.89
that we are
brothers in the Lord.
00:19:20.92\00:19:23.63
And our friendship has
gathered, has continued
00:19:23.66\00:19:27.43
and we have visited in his
home and he visits in our home
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when he comes north.
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But we are just friends
and our families are friends.
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Berny, when you saw that
there was an interest of people
00:19:36.64\00:19:40.41
in the United
States to come down
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and began to do wells
00:19:41.81\00:19:44.88
how did that strike you?
00:19:44.91\00:19:46.25
How did you respond to that?
00:19:46.28\00:19:48.68
Well, that influence in
us, you know, all these people
00:19:48.72\00:19:52.25
without any interest
were giving us something
00:19:52.29\00:19:56.12
that was vital for
ourselves, for the school,
00:19:56.16\00:19:59.26
for the orphanage.
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Then after that they
said, "We are drillers."
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So they started with a truck.
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The first well they made
there were two young people
00:20:07.77\00:20:12.44
just smart,
didn't had the money.
00:20:12.47\00:20:14.74
They said, we are
going to give you a well
00:20:14.78\00:20:17.75
because we were
drinking water from the river
00:20:17.78\00:20:19.71
that was contaminated.
00:20:19.75\00:20:21.55
Some of the missionaries
went and brush their teeth
00:20:21.58\00:20:24.82
and they, got sick.
00:20:24.85\00:20:26.92
I said, no, no, this can't be.
00:20:26.96\00:20:29.62
So the well was not productive.
00:20:29.66\00:20:31.39
The first well went
down but they paid it.
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The Lord gave
them the money to pay.
00:20:35.46\00:20:37.97
And after that we
started with the school.
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We do maintenance
also for the school
00:20:40.97\00:20:45.44
and people started to come
from other places they say,
00:20:45.47\00:20:49.54
you've got a rig, why
don't you give us water.
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We don't have
water. So we started it.
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Now, I see.
00:20:56.22\00:20:57.55
So the fact that you
had a drilling apparatus
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kind of made you a hot
property as I suspect and people
00:21:02.06\00:21:04.73
want you to come and
do that for them also.
00:21:04.76\00:21:06.66
That's-- the need is
huge, the need is huge.
00:21:06.70\00:21:10.17
Every village, every
village needs a well.
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People need clean water. Yeah.
00:21:12.57\00:21:14.04
It's just a basic thing.
00:21:14.07\00:21:15.74
You know, here
in the United States
00:21:15.77\00:21:17.11
we don't think about it.
00:21:17.14\00:21:18.47
We water our
lawns with clean water.
00:21:18.51\00:21:21.54
We flush our
toilets with drinkable water
00:21:21.58\00:21:24.11
and down there just a
bottle of water can save a life.
00:21:24.15\00:21:27.52
Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:27.55\00:21:28.88
We don't think about it here.
00:21:28.92\00:21:31.02
So I suspect that is, it's
00:21:31.05\00:21:32.92
and we will talk about
this in just a little bit.
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It's a great way to
show the love of Christ
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and anybody who
is drilling wells
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and bringing
that kind of service
00:21:39.89\00:21:41.40
to a village
00:21:41.43\00:21:43.03
people want to hear what
you got to say I suspect.
00:21:43.06\00:21:44.83
Yes. Yeah.
00:21:44.87\00:21:46.20
When we are in a
village drilling a well
00:21:46.23\00:21:48.27
one of the things we do is
that we have a dental clinic
00:21:48.30\00:21:51.71
in that village
or a medical clinic
00:21:51.74\00:21:54.04
with one of our volunteers.
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And at the same time
we pass out literature.
00:21:55.74\00:21:58.25
We provided
literature by the Light Bearers,
00:21:58.28\00:22:00.62
we partnered with them
00:22:00.65\00:22:02.15
and distribute lot
of Spanish literature.
00:22:02.18\00:22:05.25
And we will do
that in the village
00:22:05.29\00:22:07.09
and the people are
curious as to what's going on
00:22:07.12\00:22:10.89
and they ask, why
are you doing this?
00:22:10.93\00:22:13.09
Sometimes they think
that we are gonna charge
00:22:13.13\00:22:14.80
them for the well.
00:22:14.83\00:22:16.16
We put it in and then charge.
00:22:16.20\00:22:17.53
We say, no it's
free, it's free, it's free.
00:22:17.57\00:22:19.30
But why?
00:22:19.33\00:22:20.67
Well, because we love
you and that's because
00:22:20.70\00:22:23.30
Jesus loves you and
it's a natural opportunity.
00:22:23.34\00:22:27.08
And as the well develops
in the village and the people
00:22:27.11\00:22:30.21
get comfortable that
that we are not there
00:22:30.25\00:22:32.28
to sell them or do anything
they are willing to listen.
00:22:32.31\00:22:35.88
And free dental work
and free medical clinics
00:22:35.92\00:22:39.22
they understand
that we care about them
00:22:39.25\00:22:41.79
and it grows from there
and if there is an interest
00:22:41.82\00:22:45.26
we will hire a Bible
worker and put a Bible worker
00:22:45.29\00:22:47.80
in a village for a
year and then souls are won.
00:22:47.83\00:22:50.90
And as that
interest grows in the village
00:22:50.93\00:22:54.24
then we will think
about building a church.
00:22:54.27\00:22:56.50
Water for Life uses the well
as a platform to get the gospel
00:22:56.54\00:23:02.71
to the people.
00:23:02.74\00:23:04.08
We have built
between 13, 14 churches now
00:23:04.11\00:23:11.25
in the Peten Region where we are
00:23:11.29\00:23:13.59
and those churches are packed.
00:23:13.62\00:23:16.09
People are hungry and
thirsty for the gospel.
00:23:16.12\00:23:19.89
So this is not--
I'm getting a picture
00:23:19.93\00:23:21.30
this is not kind of a,
okay, we go and build a well
00:23:21.33\00:23:23.67
and we're gone see
you later, God bless you.
00:23:23.70\00:23:26.27
It's kind of a
comprehensive kind of thing.
00:23:26.30\00:23:27.67
Yes, it is.
00:23:27.70\00:23:29.04
So that when the well is going
and you are also doing some
00:23:29.07\00:23:30.91
parallel things medical, dental
00:23:30.94\00:23:33.38
other kinds of things that
are a value to that village.
00:23:33.41\00:23:37.31
Yes. Yeah.
00:23:37.35\00:23:38.68
And we believe
00:23:38.71\00:23:40.05
in the
sustainability of the water.
00:23:40.08\00:23:42.08
Berny is among his many skills
he is now a trained worker
00:23:42.12\00:23:46.32
for the wells, a
technician and during the season
00:23:46.35\00:23:49.46
when the drillers
aren't there which is from
00:23:49.49\00:23:51.29
January to April
Berny will maintain wells.
00:23:51.33\00:23:55.36
They call him and
they say, the well is down,
00:23:55.40\00:23:57.13
the pump is down and
he will get the crew,
00:23:57.17\00:24:01.00
another fellow that is
with him and they will take
00:24:01.04\00:24:03.30
the pump service truck
out and they will change out
00:24:03.34\00:24:05.91
the parts that
are bad on the pump
00:24:05.94\00:24:07.51
and the people are happy and...
00:24:07.54\00:24:10.38
Many time in a well
00:24:10.41\00:24:11.78
we have a dedication
of a well after a well
00:24:11.81\00:24:14.75
is put in the people are very
receptive to the Lords work.
00:24:14.78\00:24:20.36
Berny, I got to ask you
00:24:20.39\00:24:21.72
how does one go from
an accounting background
00:24:21.76\00:24:25.59
which I suspect you have because
00:24:25.63\00:24:26.96
you are the business
manager to inspect a gadget.
00:24:27.00\00:24:31.10
You know, Mr.
Fixit, you kind of,
00:24:31.13\00:24:33.20
you kind of all purpose guy
00:24:33.23\00:24:37.11
but we just pressing
that you go back to school
00:24:37.14\00:24:39.31
and just kind of learn by doing.
00:24:39.34\00:24:41.64
Well, it goes down like
you do hear in 3ABN, you know,
00:24:41.68\00:24:45.45
you like to serve and
serving people makes you happy.
00:24:45.48\00:24:49.15
So that brought me into this
and they taught me to do it.
00:24:49.18\00:24:53.25
In one of those occasions
they say, Mr. Berny, you go,
00:24:53.29\00:24:56.76
you need to go and
buy a piece of land
00:24:56.79\00:24:58.73
where we drill a well.
00:24:58.76\00:25:00.10
For what? We
need a church there.
00:25:00.13\00:25:02.86
So they send a
Bible worker there
00:25:02.90\00:25:04.70
and I was happy to
assist also, we build a church.
00:25:04.73\00:25:11.91
One day a little girl pass by
00:25:11.94\00:25:14.78
and I saw that
there was a snake,
00:25:14.81\00:25:18.05
so one of the
locals killed the snake.
00:25:18.08\00:25:20.82
Later in the
evening this little girl
00:25:20.85\00:25:22.98
was bitten by a snake
00:25:23.02\00:25:25.72
and she pass all night
at home, this is almost
00:25:25.75\00:25:29.12
two hours drive from where
we were and we were building
00:25:29.16\00:25:35.46
and they said, Mr.
Berny, are you downtown.
00:25:35.50\00:25:38.33
Said, what happened?
00:25:38.37\00:25:39.70
Says, one of my little
girls got bitten by a snake.
00:25:39.73\00:25:43.57
So we did a little charcoal
thing and took her down.
00:25:43.61\00:25:48.34
Praise the Lord,
he-- we prayed for her
00:25:48.38\00:25:50.75
and she was recovered.
00:25:50.78\00:25:52.58
Praise the Lord.
00:25:52.61\00:25:53.95
She assists that
church every Sabbath
00:25:53.98\00:25:57.49
and every time there is church
is going on they are there.
00:25:57.52\00:26:02.19
She is there, her brothers
and sisters, her mother,
00:26:02.22\00:26:05.53
her grandmother.
00:26:05.56\00:26:09.20
But when the news
spread that we gave them water,
00:26:09.23\00:26:16.20
we set a church for
them, we visit them,
00:26:16.24\00:26:20.01
we pray for them,
we help them. Yes.
00:26:20.04\00:26:23.75
So there was a lady
they called the witch doctor
00:26:23.78\00:26:27.98
and this witch
doctor, her husband died
00:26:28.02\00:26:33.86
so she became a widow
with four or five kids.
00:26:33.89\00:26:37.06
Wow. She would go and split wood
00:26:37.09\00:26:40.50
to sell it to
maintain her family.
00:26:40.53\00:26:44.30
So we visit, take some
food, attend her necessities
00:26:44.33\00:26:48.50
and she became a
member of the church.
00:26:48.54\00:26:50.97
Is that so?
00:26:51.01\00:26:52.34
And the neighbor would say,
00:26:52.37\00:26:55.98
why do you have
witch in the church?
00:26:56.01\00:26:59.51
The Bible worker
said, we wish all of them
00:26:59.55\00:27:01.18
would come to church.
00:27:01.22\00:27:04.05
I've met the lady.
God is so powerful.
00:27:04.09\00:27:07.19
Oh, man. Amen.
00:27:07.22\00:27:08.56
Our God is a living God Amen
00:27:08.59\00:27:10.26
and His mercy which
is wherever forever.
00:27:10.29\00:27:12.19
And now she goes to school--
00:27:12.23\00:27:15.43
oh, sorry, she
goes to the church,
00:27:15.46\00:27:18.83
she works at the school
00:27:18.87\00:27:21.10
and her family
assist the church.
00:27:21.14\00:27:24.87
Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
00:27:24.91\00:27:26.24
That's a
testimony for everyone here.
00:27:26.27\00:27:27.84
Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:27.88\00:27:29.21
Being a witch
doctor is not too powerful
00:27:29.24\00:27:31.51
for the Lord to
turn that, right.
00:27:31.55\00:27:32.88
No, no, that is got
to-- so you, Timothy,
00:27:32.91\00:27:35.98
you met her? Yes, I have.
00:27:36.02\00:27:37.39
Praise the Lord.
00:27:37.42\00:27:38.92
Happy
Seventh-day Adventist today?
00:27:38.95\00:27:40.42
Yes. Yeah.
00:27:40.46\00:27:41.79
That's amazing so that idea
that the young girl was healed
00:27:41.82\00:27:46.43
from the snakebite
kind of was the thing
00:27:46.46\00:27:49.96
that germinated
all the stuff. Yes.
00:27:50.00\00:27:51.40
It kind of began that.
It is very deadly snake
00:27:51.43\00:27:53.47
and the girl was
not expected to live
00:27:53.50\00:27:55.77
but through Berny's help
in getting her to the hospital
00:27:55.80\00:27:59.17
she lived.
00:27:59.21\00:28:00.54
And I've met
that little girl too.
00:28:00.58\00:28:02.41
Praise the Lord.
00:28:02.44\00:28:03.78
But she didn't
meet, I saw her picture,
00:28:03.81\00:28:05.35
I saw here sitting there.
00:28:05.38\00:28:06.72
I didn't meet her. Wow.
00:28:06.75\00:28:08.38
Wow.
00:28:08.42\00:28:10.05
The places that you put wells in
00:28:10.09\00:28:12.85
does the village as a
whole become very receptive
00:28:12.89\00:28:17.13
to the opening of the
gospel or is it kind of touchy
00:28:17.16\00:28:19.86
because you are in a predominant
00:28:19.89\00:28:21.23
Catholic country that were Yes.
00:28:21.26\00:28:22.60
and Catholicism had
been there long time
00:28:22.63\00:28:24.87
and is really in
the hearts and minds,
00:28:24.90\00:28:26.70
the souls of the people.
00:28:26.74\00:28:28.07
So now comes this new faith,
it is buttress by the fact
00:28:28.10\00:28:31.91
that you've given
themselves that they need
00:28:31.94\00:28:34.11
does that open a
door in most cases
00:28:34.14\00:28:35.84
or it just show some resistance?
00:28:35.88\00:28:38.31
I don't know if
there is resistance.
00:28:38.35\00:28:39.75
There is a lack
of knowledge about it
00:28:39.78\00:28:42.35
but the wells and the water
and the health is a universal--
00:28:42.38\00:28:46.22
has a universal appeal. Yeah.
00:28:46.25\00:28:48.09
Everybody is
interested in the clean water.
00:28:48.12\00:28:50.93
The Catholics it doesn't matter.
00:28:50.96\00:28:52.89
The atheist need
clean water as well.
00:28:52.93\00:28:54.86
Very true. Very true.
00:28:54.90\00:28:57.10
Villages who have a heart
00:28:57.13\00:28:59.87
and who care
become interested first.
00:28:59.90\00:29:04.37
It's not like the whole village
suddenly become an Advent.
00:29:04.41\00:29:06.84
Understood.
00:29:06.88\00:29:08.21
But little by
little the work grows
00:29:08.24\00:29:12.38
from one heart to another
00:29:12.41\00:29:14.38
and as we provide the
water and provide things
00:29:14.42\00:29:18.15
that they need,
00:29:18.19\00:29:19.72
their hearts are receptive
and open to it and people talk.
00:29:19.75\00:29:24.69
When we come and
drill the well I mean,
00:29:24.73\00:29:26.96
many times there were people
that they just come and watch
00:29:27.00\00:29:30.30
day after day and
these old drilling rigs
00:29:30.33\00:29:32.27
pounding away, pounding.
00:29:32.30\00:29:33.74
It takes about two
weeks to drill a well
00:29:33.77\00:29:35.77
using the old technology.
00:29:35.80\00:29:37.14
I was gonna ask, yeah, so
it's basically just turning
00:29:37.17\00:29:39.14
and pounding and
pounding just going.
00:29:39.17\00:29:40.51
It's not much
turning, it's pounding away.
00:29:40.54\00:29:43.65
Most of our well are
between 200 and 300 feet deep
00:29:43.68\00:29:47.12
and they produce
enough for hand pumps and--
00:29:47.15\00:29:51.35
but it gives-- we
are there for long enough
00:29:51.39\00:29:53.36
to have an
opportunity to get to know
00:29:53.39\00:29:55.16
some of the people. Yeah.
00:29:55.19\00:29:56.52
So of our drillers
speak a little Spanish.
00:29:56.56\00:29:58.76
Mr. Berny comes along
and he generally scouts out
00:29:58.79\00:30:01.96
the villages ahead of
times where they are asking for,
00:30:02.00\00:30:05.63
we need a well, we need a well.
00:30:05.67\00:30:07.00
So he will go and meet
with the elders of the village
00:30:07.04\00:30:10.47
and they will
kind of pick a place
00:30:10.51\00:30:12.04
as long as it's public property.
00:30:12.07\00:30:14.08
Yeah, now tell me about
that because you don't put wells
00:30:14.11\00:30:16.85
on private land.
00:30:16.88\00:30:19.75
Unless it's a church yard.
00:30:19.78\00:30:21.48
We will put
them in a church yard
00:30:21.52\00:30:22.85
but with our
churches anybody can come
00:30:22.88\00:30:25.79
in any church that we put in
00:30:25.82\00:30:27.42
they are of
course they are willing.
00:30:27.46\00:30:29.56
We were in a village of Sabaneta
00:30:29.59\00:30:31.53
and we are with the mayor
00:30:31.56\00:30:32.89
trying to find a
piece of public land
00:30:32.93\00:30:35.16
that would be
suitable for a well, yeah.
00:30:35.20\00:30:37.13
And we couldn't find any
00:30:37.17\00:30:38.50
that looked
like a good prospect.
00:30:38.53\00:30:41.20
And we told the mayor well,
00:30:41.24\00:30:42.74
it's gonna be
hard to find a place.
00:30:42.77\00:30:44.37
He said, well,
the road is public
00:30:44.41\00:30:45.97
why don't you drill
right here in the road.
00:30:46.01\00:30:47.98
And we said, well, all
right, I mean, isn't that's okay
00:30:48.01\00:30:51.51
and he said, well,
of course its okay.
00:30:51.55\00:30:53.15
He said, just right over
there, would that be all right?
00:30:53.18\00:30:55.08
And we said, well,
sure it's easy to get to.
00:30:55.12\00:30:56.95
Something that is
fantastic when you mentioned
00:30:56.99\00:30:59.25
the idea that okay, well,
00:30:59.29\00:31:01.26
better in right in the
middle of highway here.
00:31:01.29\00:31:02.62
He did.
00:31:02.66\00:31:03.99
And we came back the
next year at the well
00:31:04.03\00:31:06.49
and the road comes
up, makes a little U turn
00:31:06.53\00:31:08.56
around the well and goes. Yeah.
00:31:08.60\00:31:10.60
But the road down
there isn't like a road here.
00:31:10.63\00:31:12.70
Precisely. Track,
00:31:12.73\00:31:14.77
but there is public land
00:31:14.80\00:31:16.14
and we put a well on public land
00:31:16.17\00:31:18.27
so that nobody can
say the well is mine,
00:31:18.31\00:31:20.78
the water is mine pay.
00:31:20.81\00:31:23.35
And there was a
well that we drilled,
00:31:23.38\00:31:26.98
we didn't know at the
time that it was private land
00:31:27.02\00:31:29.98
the well didn't come
in we been down 560 feet
00:31:30.02\00:31:33.05
didn't hit nothing, Wow.
00:31:33.09\00:31:34.99
and then we found out
later it was a private land.
00:31:35.02\00:31:37.46
Well, we wondered
we didn't hit anything.
00:31:37.49\00:31:40.46
Lord's Tabernacle
gets you in messed in that
00:31:40.50\00:31:42.86
or embroiled in that.
00:31:42.90\00:31:44.23
That's controversy.
00:31:44.27\00:31:45.60
How do you know or is
there someone that tell,
00:31:45.63\00:31:47.67
okay, this part is pretty good,
we are gonna hit water here,
00:31:47.70\00:31:50.47
is there anyone that tell?
00:31:50.51\00:31:51.84
You know, what you are doing
is just kind of a crapshoot
00:31:51.87\00:31:54.71
for one of better term.
00:31:54.74\00:31:57.51
Experienced
drillers have an idea
00:31:57.55\00:32:00.15
from the topography of the land
00:32:00.18\00:32:02.48
where it might be more probable
than not but we are fooled.
00:32:02.52\00:32:07.82
Sometimes we drill 120
feet and hit a lot of water,
00:32:07.86\00:32:11.99
sometimes it's 300
feet and hit a little.
00:32:12.03\00:32:15.03
There is water
under the earth everywhere
00:32:15.06\00:32:17.30
but there are places
that are more easily accessed
00:32:17.33\00:32:21.34
and it's really the
experience of the drillers
00:32:21.37\00:32:24.31
and Berny can pick the
village and Gary Bartholomew
00:32:24.34\00:32:27.38
will go out
there and see a site.
00:32:27.41\00:32:29.54
Often it's in a
schoolyard or a churchyard
00:32:29.58\00:32:32.91
or some place
where the public comes.
00:32:32.95\00:32:35.55
After we drill a well
come back a years or two later
00:32:35.58\00:32:38.75
and there are
tracks like the wheels,
00:32:38.79\00:32:41.06
like the spokes
of a wagon wheel.
00:32:41.09\00:32:42.52
They were coming
from all directions, yeah.
00:32:42.56\00:32:43.89
To the well, to the well.
00:32:43.93\00:32:45.26
The well is the
center of attention
00:32:45.29\00:32:46.63
and the center of a fulfillment
of a need that the people have.
00:32:46.66\00:32:50.90
And then the literature
and they know that these things
00:32:50.93\00:32:54.80
come from the people
who gave us the water.
00:32:54.84\00:32:57.04
So you never just build a well
without some kind of attendant
00:32:57.07\00:33:01.34
literature distribution so
that there is this knowledge
00:33:01.38\00:33:03.65
of the Adventist are doing.
00:33:03.68\00:33:05.28
This is not who is doing this,
00:33:05.31\00:33:06.85
they know, where
this is coming from.
00:33:06.88\00:33:08.45
They know that
it's Water for Life
00:33:08.48\00:33:10.15
and Mr. Berny has continued
contact with these people
00:33:10.19\00:33:13.72
because the next year
they will need some service
00:33:13.76\00:33:16.79
on the well or the pump.
00:33:16.83\00:33:18.36
And so Berny goes
out and Pastor Rudy
00:33:18.39\00:33:20.60
or someone will go with him
00:33:20.63\00:33:22.16
and they talk
with the villagers.
00:33:22.20\00:33:23.77
Well, you know,
here's what we can do and,
00:33:23.80\00:33:25.47
you know, we are
having some meetings over here
00:33:25.50\00:33:27.24
would you like pass
out some literature.
00:33:27.27\00:33:29.44
So we stay in touch with them.
00:33:29.47\00:33:31.31
We develop a
relationship with them.
00:33:31.34\00:33:33.38
Great. Great.
00:33:33.41\00:33:34.74
And maintain that relationship
by the provision of the water.
00:33:34.78\00:33:38.01
Now I need you to
walk me through something
00:33:38.05\00:33:39.38
because what occurs to me is,
00:33:39.41\00:33:41.05
all right, we
are building a well,
00:33:41.08\00:33:43.39
we are having a ceremony,
00:33:43.42\00:33:44.75
we are-- the village is aware
00:33:44.79\00:33:46.86
that the Adventist
church is doing this.
00:33:46.89\00:33:49.16
You mentioned in some
cases you build a church
00:33:49.19\00:33:52.06
and bring a Bible worker
00:33:52.09\00:33:53.43
which you pay for, for a year.
00:33:53.46\00:33:55.13
What is critical
math by that I mean,
00:33:55.16\00:33:57.93
how do you know
00:33:57.97\00:33:59.30
when you got
enough interest to support
00:33:59.33\00:34:02.00
let's do a little bit
more here as opposed to well,
00:34:02.04\00:34:05.84
okay, they know
they got the well,
00:34:05.87\00:34:07.31
they are using the well
00:34:07.34\00:34:08.68
but they are not
really concerned about
00:34:08.71\00:34:10.85
coming to Adventism
00:34:10.88\00:34:12.21
they are just are
thankful for the well
00:34:12.25\00:34:13.88
as or this village
00:34:13.92\00:34:16.32
man there is a lot
of energy for Christ
00:34:16.35\00:34:18.42
and they are asking questions.
00:34:18.45\00:34:20.02
How do you know
when and where to peruse
00:34:20.06\00:34:22.36
and to sort of
build up that area
00:34:22.39\00:34:24.06
as supposed to going
on to something else?
00:34:24.09\00:34:25.89
You can tell by the
requests, the requests
00:34:25.93\00:34:29.30
and the amount of
baptisms that are occurring.
00:34:29.33\00:34:32.13
When we send a Bible worker in
00:34:32.17\00:34:33.87
and the Bible worker
then reports to the pastor,
00:34:33.90\00:34:36.60
we have some
people ready for baptism
00:34:36.64\00:34:38.91
and the pastor is
more and more contact
00:34:38.94\00:34:41.48
and then if we think
they can benefit from it
00:34:41.51\00:34:45.58
and if we can find a partner.
00:34:45.61\00:34:47.62
What if your life partners
00:34:47.65\00:34:48.98
with the Upper
Columbia Conference,
00:34:49.02\00:34:51.42
you partner with Amazing
Facts, with the Quiet Hour?
00:34:51.45\00:34:55.19
Those groups have come down
00:34:55.22\00:34:56.66
and constructed churches
in villages where the people
00:34:56.69\00:35:00.26
are receptive
and want the church.
00:35:00.30\00:35:03.70
And so it's
mainly, it's mainly--
00:35:03.73\00:35:07.00
I don't think that
there is a certain number,
00:35:07.04\00:35:09.04
it's just the opportunity.
00:35:09.07\00:35:10.41
Yeah, the feel of that
here's a fertile ground.
00:35:10.44\00:35:13.17
That's right. That's right.
00:35:13.21\00:35:14.61
Now you mentioned
you've done 76 wells so far?
00:35:14.64\00:35:17.41
Seventy nine.
Seventy nine wells.
00:35:17.45\00:35:19.11
And that's over
the ten year stretch?
00:35:19.15\00:35:20.48
Yes.
00:35:20.52\00:35:21.85
All of them still
in operation? Yes.
00:35:21.88\00:35:23.42
Well, there was one that
went down the day he left.
00:35:23.45\00:35:25.69
He got a call at the airport.
00:35:25.72\00:35:27.86
Which well was that, Berny?
00:35:27.89\00:35:29.82
That was in Santo Domingo.
00:35:29.86\00:35:32.36
Yes, the well is down.
00:35:32.39\00:35:34.60
So as soon as he goes
back he got to fix it well.
00:35:34.63\00:35:37.27
What are the kinds of
things because you are talking
00:35:37.30\00:35:39.43
about ahand pump well? Yes.
00:35:39.47\00:35:41.27
What are the kinds of
things would go wrong?
00:35:41.30\00:35:43.37
That the pump breaks
or because it's mechanical
00:35:43.41\00:35:46.34
it's not electrical. Right.
00:35:46.37\00:35:47.94
There is another down
there and the cylinder--
00:35:47.98\00:35:49.54
we buy the best
quality hand pumps
00:35:49.58\00:35:51.71
that we can but there is still
there's leathers down there
00:35:51.75\00:35:54.42
that ware out occasionally,
fitting will break.
00:35:54.45\00:35:58.75
It's hard to get
good quality pipe,
00:35:58.79\00:36:00.96
a pipe will snap that's holding
the cylinder in the pump.
00:36:00.99\00:36:05.26
Things ware out.
00:36:05.29\00:36:06.66
The pump that
selves they round out
00:36:06.70\00:36:10.80
its get so it's not
very efficient to pump.
00:36:10.83\00:36:13.44
Those are the things that break
00:36:13.47\00:36:15.40
and also the water has sometimes
00:36:15.44\00:36:18.14
a higher particulate matter
00:36:18.17\00:36:19.77
that wares the
pumps little faster.
00:36:19.81\00:36:22.28
If you and I had
one of these in our farm
00:36:22.31\00:36:24.51
it would probably last
our family for 20 years
00:36:24.55\00:36:26.82
but when you got 400
or 500 people using it
00:36:26.85\00:36:30.39
that gets down to a year or two
00:36:30.42\00:36:32.62
and it means to be
repaired and replaced.
00:36:32.65\00:36:35.52
We can repair them in our shop
00:36:35.56\00:36:37.66
and we do keep the
stock of repaired things
00:36:37.69\00:36:39.93
so that Berny can
switch them up if necessary.
00:36:39.96\00:36:41.40
Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
00:36:41.43\00:36:42.76
Some pumps are
being used 24 hours.
00:36:42.80\00:36:45.60
They start from one
o'clock in the morning
00:36:45.63\00:36:47.40
and they finish one o'clock.
00:36:47.44\00:36:48.77
So they make lines, you know.
00:36:48.80\00:36:50.94
When there is no water
00:36:50.97\00:36:52.81
everyone wants to
have their own water.
00:36:52.84\00:36:55.28
We are also known by--
00:36:55.31\00:36:57.55
everyone knows that we
are Seventh-dayAdventist.
00:36:57.58\00:36:59.75
Yes.
00:36:59.78\00:37:01.12
They ask us Mr. Berny,
the ministry of health came up
00:37:01.15\00:37:04.72
and said, we need a
well in our nutrition center.
00:37:04.75\00:37:08.19
These good hearted people
would maintain and nutrient
00:37:08.22\00:37:14.26
more kids than
whoever can take them there
00:37:14.30\00:37:18.83
and they say, we
have water? once a week
00:37:18.87\00:37:24.14
how can we survive like that.
00:37:24.17\00:37:27.38
They would take all the
clothes or whatever they have
00:37:27.41\00:37:30.61
for two hours driving
00:37:30.65\00:37:33.08
they would spend all
day washing on rivers.
00:37:33.11\00:37:36.82
We need a well.
00:37:36.85\00:37:38.62
So they say, okay, we will do it
00:37:38.65\00:37:42.19
through the ministry
of health you better come.
00:37:42.22\00:37:45.09
So we went and they made a well.
00:37:45.13\00:37:48.03
Now its serving
and they are so happy
00:37:48.06\00:37:50.40
that they can help
the kids in this way.
00:37:50.43\00:37:54.24
We have a nice photo of
a well in front of a church
00:37:54.27\00:37:56.47
this is the church in --
00:37:56.50\00:37:58.94
and it's a little village kind
00:37:58.97\00:38:02.08
of beside the highway
and there is the church.
00:38:02.11\00:38:05.71
Now that's the Adventist church?
00:38:05.75\00:38:07.08
Yes.
00:38:07.12\00:38:08.45
And the well is right there.
Templo Adventista Del 7 Dia.
00:38:08.48\00:38:11.59
And there is one of our
pumps in front of a church
00:38:11.62\00:38:14.62
that was build,
I'm not sure which--
00:38:14.66\00:38:16.56
which the conference built that?
00:38:16.59\00:38:17.99
That was Upper
Columbia Conference
00:38:18.03\00:38:19.66
built that little
church. Praise the Lord.
00:38:19.69\00:38:21.46
No, not little
hovels with tin roofs,
00:38:21.50\00:38:23.73
these are solid--
00:38:23.77\00:38:25.10
No, no.
00:38:25.13\00:38:26.47
That's a good looking.
That's a good looking building.
00:38:26.50\00:38:27.84
So you get there
your physical water
00:38:27.87\00:38:29.20
and your spiritual water
pretty much in a same spot.
00:38:29.24\00:38:31.61
And you see all the
ware around that pump
00:38:31.64\00:38:33.24
which is standing
around getting the water.
00:38:33.27\00:38:36.14
Indeed. Yeah.
00:38:36.18\00:38:37.51
Well, praise the Lord,
00:38:37.55\00:38:38.88
it is right there
next to the church.
00:38:38.91\00:38:40.25
And so in the minds
of the people that well
00:38:40.28\00:38:41.62
and that church are one.
00:38:41.65\00:38:42.98
Yes. You know,
they are connected.
00:38:43.02\00:38:45.29
Yeah, that is great.
00:38:45.32\00:38:46.65
Because the people
that give us the water.
00:38:46.69\00:38:48.46
Oh, praise the Lord.
00:38:48.49\00:38:49.82
Has the government
in these communities
00:38:49.86\00:38:52.53
or the national
government begun to recognize
00:38:52.56\00:38:54.56
what he is doing?
00:38:54.60\00:38:55.93
Do you get any
assistance from him
00:38:55.96\00:38:57.30
or assistance from
them or are they available
00:38:57.33\00:39:00.27
to help you anyway
to carry on your work?
00:39:00.30\00:39:03.30
What we have done is
00:39:03.34\00:39:04.67
we have donated lot
of medical equipment
00:39:04.71\00:39:07.58
to the ministry of
health in the Peten Region
00:39:07.61\00:39:10.18
and we are closely connected
with the ministry of health.
00:39:10.21\00:39:13.18
We send a container
every year with equipment,
00:39:13.21\00:39:15.28
machinery, more things
and the Deaconess Hospital
00:39:15.32\00:39:19.05
and Elco company that produces
linens for hospital linens.
00:39:19.09\00:39:25.19
They would give us
boxes and boxes of material.
00:39:25.23\00:39:28.96
Hospitals are constantly
refurbishing their equipment
00:39:29.00\00:39:31.93
Sure. They don't have anything
to do with the old stuff,
00:39:31.97\00:39:33.90
they give it to us.
00:39:33.94\00:39:35.27
We put it in a
container, we send it down
00:39:35.30\00:39:37.47
and deliver
truck loads of material
00:39:37.51\00:39:39.77
to the ministry of health.
00:39:39.81\00:39:41.61
And the ministry
of health they know
00:39:41.64\00:39:43.35
what we are giving
them in the way of health.
00:39:43.38\00:39:44.71
Yes.
00:39:44.75\00:39:46.08
We put on seminars for
the ministry of health,
00:39:46.11\00:39:48.32
for the village Bible workers,
00:39:48.35\00:39:49.92
I mean, the
village health workers
00:39:49.95\00:39:52.02
and the government, the
central government has--
00:39:52.05\00:39:56.79
they have some procedures
about getting containers in
00:39:56.83\00:40:00.33
but the procedures
are long and difficult
00:40:00.36\00:40:02.86
and these procedures
sometimes will result
00:40:02.90\00:40:04.80
in a container sitting
in the port for months.
00:40:04.83\00:40:07.70
Well, the port
charges are $120 a day,
00:40:07.74\00:40:10.51
So pretty soon
it's sucking the money
00:40:10.54\00:40:12.87
and so we just
import the containers
00:40:12.91\00:40:15.34
and having tried to go
through the central government
00:40:15.38\00:40:17.95
but the local ministry of health
00:40:17.98\00:40:19.78
they know what we do.
00:40:19.81\00:40:21.15
They welcome it and they say
00:40:21.18\00:40:23.28
that they can tell
00:40:23.32\00:40:24.75
the health of the
people from villages
00:40:24.79\00:40:26.99
where there is good water
00:40:27.02\00:40:28.36
as compared to
the once that can't.
00:40:28.39\00:40:30.26
What really amounts
to no dead children.
00:40:30.29\00:40:33.03
Right. Right.
00:40:33.06\00:40:34.40
See, that's the blessing.
00:40:34.43\00:40:35.76
And it occurred to me
you are getting buy in
00:40:35.80\00:40:37.40
from agencies here in the States
00:40:37.43\00:40:39.97
that help you with
things but you are also getting
00:40:40.00\00:40:43.41
the most important
is on that other end
00:40:43.44\00:40:45.37
because they can hang you up
00:40:45.41\00:40:46.88
and plus they
can as you intimated
00:40:46.91\00:40:49.34
suck your funds dry just
let that container sit there.
00:40:49.38\00:40:51.48
Yes.
00:40:51.51\00:40:53.58
So the government
is of value to you
00:40:53.62\00:40:55.72
because they know
you are a value to them.
00:40:55.75\00:40:57.62
I think that's
correct. Yeah. Yeah.
00:40:57.65\00:40:59.22
And praise the Lord for that.
00:40:59.25\00:41:00.59
Give me some sense, you
know, we talk about Guatemala,
00:41:00.62\00:41:06.73
where Guatemala is?
00:41:06.76\00:41:08.86
Look I said, I
know Panama down below,
00:41:08.90\00:41:11.90
up top is Costa Rica, over
here to the right is Honduras.
00:41:11.93\00:41:17.81
Where is Guatemala moving
00:41:17.84\00:41:19.17
from Panama
north towards Mexico?
00:41:19.21\00:41:21.48
Just south of Mexico.
00:41:21.51\00:41:22.84
Okay. Okay.
00:41:22.88\00:41:24.28
And the Yucatan Peninsula
00:41:24.31\00:41:26.31
and the Peten Region is
part of the Yucatan Peninsula.
00:41:26.35\00:41:30.52
So the peninsula kind of, that
00:41:30.55\00:41:32.92
piece that's kind of jetting out
00:41:32.95\00:41:34.42
towards out into the--
00:41:34.46\00:41:35.92
Yes, that's the
Peten Region of Guatemala.
00:41:35.96\00:41:38.16
Guatemala crosses
over to the Pacific,
00:41:38.19\00:41:40.30
this Pacific side but
Guatemala is the country
00:41:40.33\00:41:43.10
just south of Mexico.
00:41:43.13\00:41:44.67
Okay, so you are on the--
most on the Atlantic side.
00:41:44.70\00:41:47.14
It's about equal, so crossed.
00:41:47.17\00:41:49.80
Okay.
00:41:49.84\00:41:51.24
How is a particular
village or location determined,
00:41:51.27\00:41:55.28
by request, by
government assignment?
00:41:55.31\00:41:57.71
How do you say,
okay, tomorrow, next week,
00:41:57.75\00:41:59.68
we are gonna go to
point B to build a well?
00:41:59.71\00:42:03.08
We have requests from
all over Guatemala to come...
00:42:03.12\00:42:06.45
I suspect. and in
neighboring countries.
00:42:06.49\00:42:08.82
However because
logistically the region of Peten
00:42:08.86\00:42:12.53
is where we are concentrated
00:42:12.56\00:42:13.90
because we can work about
00:42:13.93\00:42:15.80
a couple of hours
away from our shop
00:42:15.83\00:42:18.70
but if you are further than that
00:42:18.73\00:42:20.07
and something breaks
so you need another tool
00:42:20.10\00:42:22.64
you waste too much time
00:42:22.67\00:42:24.01
going across the
country to get it and back.
00:42:24.04\00:42:26.31
The transportation
is hard in Guatemala.
00:42:26.34\00:42:28.64
There are some good roads
00:42:28.68\00:42:30.45
but we mainly
concentrate in the Peten Region
00:42:30.48\00:42:34.78
because that's where we are
and that the need is there too.
00:42:34.82\00:42:38.95
The need is everywhere.
Is every where, sure, sure.
00:42:38.99\00:42:40.66
And we can do the
best in that area.
00:42:40.69\00:42:44.63
We've got 79 wells
but in the probably
00:42:44.66\00:42:47.73
in a 50 miles radius of our shop
00:42:47.76\00:42:50.07
there's over 240 villages.
00:42:50.10\00:42:52.60
So there is people-- So
there's work to be done.
00:42:52.63\00:42:54.70
There's work to be done.
00:42:54.74\00:42:56.07
Don't have to go a
long ways to do it.
00:42:56.10\00:42:58.11
People would like you to,
we would like to do it too.
00:42:58.14\00:43:01.18
If we had more support
ever since we would be bigger
00:43:01.21\00:43:05.65
but right now
we are concentrated
00:43:05.68\00:43:07.42
in this area and we
are, we are working here.
00:43:07.45\00:43:09.45
But I see, Timothy,
00:43:09.48\00:43:11.05
that logistically
it just make sense
00:43:11.09\00:43:12.89
to kind of send to yourself
and just kind of hub around
00:43:12.92\00:43:15.86
so that you can be efficient
00:43:15.89\00:43:18.16
and try to
saturate that one area
00:43:18.19\00:43:20.76
as opposed to
just going every where
00:43:20.80\00:43:22.56
and we are not doing
anything of value kind of thing.
00:43:22.60\00:43:25.90
That is great.
00:43:25.93\00:43:27.27
Tell-- talk to me about
some of the other ministries
00:43:27.30\00:43:28.94
here in the States
that are partnering with you
00:43:28.97\00:43:30.31
that are sort of
giving you some assistance.
00:43:30.34\00:43:32.27
Amazing Facts
sent down a whole team.
00:43:32.31\00:43:35.94
Berny coordinated for them.
00:43:35.98\00:43:37.31
They built-- they built
two churches is that right?
00:43:37.35\00:43:40.38
One church.
00:43:40.42\00:43:41.75
One church and
they did a-- two wells,
00:43:41.78\00:43:45.12
they did evangelism services
00:43:45.15\00:43:47.79
for about three
weeks there, aren't they.
00:43:47.82\00:43:50.29
This and we've also had
a group from the Quiet Hour
00:43:50.33\00:43:53.13
who has come down and
done some construction work.
00:43:53.16\00:43:55.90
We have regular teams
from Upper Columbia Conference
00:43:55.93\00:43:58.33
that have come down
and constructed churches
00:43:58.37\00:44:00.67
and lately they
did a cooking building
00:44:00.70\00:44:05.94
for a special project
00:44:05.97\00:44:08.14
and that is the
Northern Guatemala Mission
00:44:08.18\00:44:10.95
is developing a youth
camp and conference center
00:44:10.98\00:44:13.82
right there on the property,
right adjacent to where
00:44:13.85\00:44:17.02
its on the same
property where we are
00:44:17.05\00:44:19.42
and they had a
big building built
00:44:19.45\00:44:21.56
and last year a hurricane came
and knocked the building flat.
00:44:21.59\00:44:26.39
This year Mr.
Berny and the conference
00:44:26.43\00:44:30.67
which Water for Life health
built that building back up
00:44:30.70\00:44:34.04
but the expense suck the funds.
00:44:34.07\00:44:38.17
Our special project that we have
00:44:38.21\00:44:39.54
is to put in a water system
in that to serve those youth
00:44:39.57\00:44:44.81
and there are
thousands of youth who come.
00:44:44.85\00:44:47.28
And the most they
have had at one time
00:44:47.32\00:44:48.65
is 5,000 campers at this place
and 50 baptisms at this place.
00:44:48.68\00:44:54.09
I mean, good
things are happening.
00:44:54.12\00:44:55.46
Yes, it is. Yeah. Yeah.
00:44:55.49\00:44:56.83
But they don't have
a good water system.
00:44:56.86\00:44:58.99
We drilled one well
there and the Lord be praised
00:44:59.03\00:45:02.20
that well is the best well
we drilled in Guatemala of any.
00:45:02.23\00:45:06.37
It produces over 40
gallons a minute of water
00:45:06.40\00:45:09.50
and now we have is a
little solar pump to get it.
00:45:09.54\00:45:11.74
Now say it again,
40 gallons a minute?
00:45:11.77\00:45:13.61
A minute. Wow.
00:45:13.64\00:45:14.98
Forty gallons. Consistently?
00:45:15.01\00:45:16.34
Yes. Does the
water ever go down?
00:45:16.38\00:45:18.51
May be a little bit
but we've never had enough
00:45:18.55\00:45:20.18
of a pumped to see it--
00:45:20.22\00:45:21.55
To get it, all
right. Okay. Okay.
00:45:21.58\00:45:22.92
But there is a
lot of water there
00:45:22.95\00:45:24.65
and what we need to do
and we are trying to do
00:45:24.69\00:45:27.09
is to get funds to build
00:45:27.12\00:45:29.62
a water
distribution system there.
00:45:29.66\00:45:31.39
They have four men's and ladies
bathrooms all built there.
00:45:31.43\00:45:34.86
There is this building
the Upper Columbia Conference
00:45:34.90\00:45:36.83
built this cooking facility
00:45:36.87\00:45:38.87
but they don't
have enough water.
00:45:38.90\00:45:40.77
You know, I told
that is a wonderful thing
00:45:40.80\00:45:42.54
but if there is no water,
00:45:42.57\00:45:44.21
not so much of
a wonderful thing.
00:45:44.24\00:45:45.57
Then it's just a piece of art.
00:45:45.61\00:45:49.78
So it doesn't do
anything for you.
00:45:49.81\00:45:51.15
Praise the Lord,
and now I want to--
00:45:51.18\00:45:52.98
there are so many questions
that are crew from that.
00:45:53.01\00:45:55.42
This is an important project
because it's a bigger project.
00:45:55.45\00:46:00.39
The tentacles if I
can say of this project
00:46:00.42\00:46:03.02
can go so many
places and go so far--
00:46:03.06\00:46:05.83
Youth. Yeah.
00:46:05.86\00:46:07.20
And its youth oriented
00:46:07.23\00:46:08.60
so this is something you
really, really want to do.
00:46:08.63\00:46:10.83
Couple of things I want to do,
00:46:10.87\00:46:12.20
I want to go to the
address roll just now
00:46:12.23\00:46:14.80
while we want to kind of
strike what they understand here
00:46:14.84\00:46:17.64
because this--
00:46:17.67\00:46:19.17
the work in general is work
00:46:19.21\00:46:20.68
that you want to support.
00:46:20.71\00:46:23.41
Water for Life
obviously the needs are there,
00:46:23.45\00:46:26.58
obviously they
are meeting a need,
00:46:26.61\00:46:28.55
obviously if they were not there
00:46:28.58\00:46:30.02
people would be dying,
00:46:30.05\00:46:31.39
children would be
getting sick and dying.
00:46:31.42\00:46:33.59
So we don't have to
beg that point to much
00:46:33.62\00:46:36.73
but this special project
really heightens the energy here
00:46:36.76\00:46:43.70
because they are doing something
00:46:43.73\00:46:45.07
that has so many ramifications
00:46:45.10\00:46:49.24
that this is just
it's just a great thing.
00:46:49.27\00:46:51.61
Should you want to make
contact with Water for life?
00:46:51.64\00:46:55.24
We are gonna talk
about little bit projects
00:46:55.28\00:46:58.61
and how people come
down to help physically,
00:46:58.65\00:47:00.48
you know, but should you want
00:47:00.52\00:47:01.95
to support this
particular project
00:47:01.98\00:47:04.32
because once you
talk about youth you--
00:47:04.35\00:47:06.52
then you moving
into a whole new level.
00:47:06.55\00:47:08.66
Here is the contact information
00:47:08.69\00:47:10.26
that you will need
for Water for Life.
00:47:10.29\00:47:14.86
Fifteen thousand
people die everyday
00:47:14.90\00:47:17.73
because of either bad
water or lack of water.
00:47:17.77\00:47:20.77
Water for Life
International seeks to provide
00:47:20.80\00:47:23.17
water to those who are in need.
00:47:23.20\00:47:25.17
If you would like to know more
00:47:25.21\00:47:26.54
or if you would like
to support this ministry
00:47:26.57\00:47:28.41
write to, Water
for Life International,
00:47:28.44\00:47:31.11
PO Box 2330, Deep
Park, Washington 99006.
00:47:31.15\00:47:37.05
Water for Life
International, PO Box 2330,
00:47:37.09\00:47:41.49
Deep Park, Washington 99006.
00:47:41.52\00:47:45.03
You can call 509-842-3952,
that's 509-842-3952
00:47:45.06\00:47:53.03
or visit them
online at h2oforlife.org.
00:47:53.07\00:47:58.41
All right,
that's the information
00:48:01.48\00:48:02.81
that you're gonna need
and hopefully prayerfully
00:48:02.84\00:48:04.55
you will take advantage
of that and ask the Lord
00:48:04.58\00:48:06.38
what you can do to help if
ever a ministry was necessary
00:48:06.41\00:48:09.92
and if ever a
ministry had concrete value
00:48:09.95\00:48:13.89
and benefits each and
every day that it is functioning
00:48:13.92\00:48:17.73
Water for Life is one.
00:48:17.76\00:48:19.16
Talk to me, gentlemen,
little bit about the projects
00:48:19.19\00:48:21.93
because you take
volunteers down for building.
00:48:21.96\00:48:25.13
Let's walk through that.
00:48:25.17\00:48:26.50
Okay, most of our
drillers are volunteers.
00:48:26.53\00:48:30.51
All of them are--
Call of the people
00:48:30.54\00:48:32.27
who come are volunteers
00:48:32.31\00:48:33.88
but we have volunteer drillers
from across the United States.
00:48:33.91\00:48:37.25
Christian men not
necessarily Adventist,
00:48:37.28\00:48:39.75
some of them are
un-churched Christians.
00:48:39.78\00:48:42.32
But I write a monthly
article in a well journal,
00:48:42.35\00:48:46.19
a drillers journal Worldwide
Drilling Resources Magazine
00:48:46.22\00:48:49.76
and in it I make it clear
that we are a Christian ministry
00:48:49.79\00:48:53.66
and invite
drillers to help us and come
00:48:53.70\00:48:56.46
and they respond and
we have a loyal cadre
00:48:56.50\00:49:00.00
of probably 15
drillers who will come
00:49:00.04\00:49:02.17
and spend from two weeks
to two months drilling for us
00:49:02.20\00:49:06.37
in these villages
and at the same time
00:49:06.41\00:49:08.98
they are getting a sense
of what Adventism is about.
00:49:09.01\00:49:12.51
And so we are working
with the drillers who come,
00:49:12.55\00:49:15.95
we also have a
great need for volunteers
00:49:15.98\00:49:18.52
in the medical fields.
00:49:18.55\00:49:19.89
We need
dentists, we need nurses,
00:49:19.92\00:49:22.69
people who will come
and run a dental clinic.
00:49:22.72\00:49:25.16
If you want to change
somebody's life give them water
00:49:25.19\00:49:28.56
but fix their
teeth it helps, it helps.
00:49:28.60\00:49:32.47
I'm sure. How
long of commitment--
00:49:32.50\00:49:35.40
time commitment,
oh, we are talking
00:49:35.44\00:49:36.77
about for I'm a dentist I
got a couple weeks to kill,
00:49:36.81\00:49:41.38
can you use me for two
weeks you want me longer?
00:49:41.41\00:49:43.65
I can use you for two weeks.
00:49:43.68\00:49:45.01
I can put you in a village,
we have dental equipment
00:49:45.05\00:49:47.28
and machinery and
tools that are ready.
00:49:47.32\00:49:49.65
We will put in a
village, we'll give you a helper
00:49:49.68\00:49:52.05
and we have a dental
chair, we have two portable--
00:49:52.09\00:49:54.76
So you got stuff. I
mean, you got equipment.
00:49:54.79\00:49:56.62
We do. We just need you.
Yeah, you just need bodies.
00:49:56.66\00:49:58.59
You don't need
to bring your chair,
00:49:58.63\00:50:01.66
you just come
00:50:01.70\00:50:03.03
and we will have the
people lined up waiting for you.
00:50:03.06\00:50:05.73
Praise the Lord. And
the same with nurses.
00:50:05.77\00:50:07.27
Yeah. Yeah. Suppose I'm just--
00:50:07.30\00:50:09.10
I'm just
somebody who is impressed,
00:50:09.14\00:50:10.84
I just want to go down and help,
00:50:10.87\00:50:12.34
I don't have particular skills
00:50:12.37\00:50:13.71
and is a nice guy
with pretty strong back.
00:50:13.74\00:50:15.08
Can you hold a paint brush?
Can you hold a paint brush?
00:50:15.11\00:50:17.05
I can hold the paint brush.
00:50:17.08\00:50:18.41
Can you help people line them up
00:50:18.45\00:50:19.78
for a dentist to see them?
00:50:19.81\00:50:21.15
I can do that.
00:50:21.18\00:50:22.52
We can use you.
00:50:22.55\00:50:24.35
Praise the Lord, so you need
the highly qualified obviously
00:50:24.39\00:50:27.79
but you need people who just
are willing to serve the Lord.
00:50:27.82\00:50:30.03
People with a willing
heart that's what we need.
00:50:30.06\00:50:33.36
Is there any particular time
I'm aware of seasons of America
00:50:33.40\00:50:37.00
and the rainy
season and the dry season.
00:50:37.03\00:50:38.93
Is there any particular
time that you tend to want
00:50:38.97\00:50:41.47
to be there as opposed
to another time of the year
00:50:41.50\00:50:44.17
when you're doing your projects?
00:50:44.21\00:50:46.61
Well, there is one season
in Guatemala it's called hot.
00:50:46.64\00:50:52.45
We are there from
the first of January
00:50:52.48\00:50:55.98
to the last part of
December with some people
00:50:56.02\00:50:57.85
getting the machinery ready.
00:50:57.89\00:50:59.72
We drill in January, February,
March and part of April
00:50:59.75\00:51:03.16
and that's when the
full contingent is there.
00:51:03.19\00:51:05.56
And that's
because these drillers
00:51:05.59\00:51:07.06
have their own
businesses in the States
00:51:07.10\00:51:09.03
and its slowdown
in the winter time.
00:51:09.06\00:51:11.57
So that's the time
when they are there
00:51:11.60\00:51:13.90
but we also send
groups at other times.
00:51:13.94\00:51:16.27
Berny assists other groups
00:51:16.30\00:51:17.77
at other times
of the year as well.
00:51:17.81\00:51:19.24
Okay, so if a
person has a desire
00:51:19.27\00:51:21.38
you could find some time
for them to do some work there.
00:51:21.41\00:51:23.85
If you want to help us
we will put you to work.
00:51:23.88\00:51:25.71
Amen and amen.
00:51:25.75\00:51:27.08
Now before our time gets well
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let's look at these
last several pictures
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and kind of give us some culture
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what we are talking about.
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These are village
people standing around
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waiting for a well.
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Nice people.
00:51:37.89\00:51:39.23
That is the rig in action,
you see Mr. Berny there beside,
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Mr. Bartholomew with his back.
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That's a well in
action, the drilling of a well.
00:51:45.70\00:51:49.20
That's a pretty
big, pretty big size
00:51:49.24\00:51:51.51
and you have five of these?
00:51:51.54\00:51:53.01
We have three of
them. Three of those.
00:51:53.04\00:51:54.41
Three of those. Yes.
00:51:54.44\00:51:55.78
What is that cost valve part?
00:51:55.81\00:51:57.61
We get them-- to
get it down there
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it cost about
$6,000 just to shipping.
00:51:59.91\00:52:02.12
To ship it. Just the shipping.
00:52:02.15\00:52:03.72
We sometimes get them donated
to us or we purchase them.
00:52:03.75\00:52:07.72
These are old
technology machine--
00:52:07.76\00:52:10.09
that drill is 1950 drilling
rig that's still in serving.
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Still serving. That's
officially an antique.
00:52:15.36\00:52:17.63
More than officially. It is.
00:52:17.67\00:52:20.24
But they still work? They work.
00:52:20.27\00:52:22.10
A piece of equipment
like that out of the box
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and it would
cost about how much?
00:52:24.91\00:52:26.74
They don't make those anymore
00:52:26.78\00:52:28.54
but if you found
those on the market
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it would be about probably
$15,000 for an old used piece.
00:52:30.25\00:52:35.05
Now the rigs are rotary.
00:52:35.08\00:52:36.95
Rotary rigs can do in one day
00:52:36.99\00:52:39.29
what we do in
two and half weeks.
00:52:39.32\00:52:41.52
Because you are kind
of smashing your way down
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and a rotary is
drilling its way down.
00:52:43.69\00:52:46.23
And that's the
modern technology.
00:52:46.26\00:52:47.96
But we can repair
these machines in Guatemala.
00:52:48.00\00:52:50.93
If you got a rotary rig
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and a high pressure hydraulic
pump quits you are done.
00:52:52.73\00:52:57.87
Down there with
a welder some pipe
00:52:57.91\00:52:59.67
you can make
that thing go again.
00:52:59.71\00:53:02.34
And you have
personnel that can do that?
00:53:02.38\00:53:03.91
Yes. Praise the Lord.
00:53:03.95\00:53:05.55
Praise the Lord.
00:53:05.58\00:53:06.92
We are gonna go to
our news break just now.
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We've got just one more picture,
00:53:08.38\00:53:10.39
I saw a baptismal
picture fly over just a moment.
00:53:10.42\00:53:12.85
Want to go back
and talk about that
00:53:12.89\00:53:14.46
but going to our news
break we will come back
00:53:14.49\00:53:15.92
and sort of put a
little bow on this
00:53:15.96\00:53:17.69
and then be done for the day.
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God bless.
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