Participants: C.A. Murray (Host), Norma Nashed
Series Code: TDY
Program Code: TDY016038A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:19 Removing pain 00:24 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:46 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:07 Hello, and welcome to 3ABN Today. 01:09 My name is CA Murray 01:10 and thank you once again for joining us 01:12 and for sharing part of your busy day with us. 01:15 Thank you for supporting the work that we do, 01:17 as together we are called to lift up 01:20 the mighty and mightiest name of Jesus. 01:21 Today's program is a very interesting one 01:23 because we're going to talk about 01:25 helping those who cannot help themselves, 01:27 giving them a little leg up dare 01:29 we say in the world that does not always treat 01:32 young children or children or young people well 01:36 when they're not supported by mothers and fathers. 01:39 There are those who have been called 01:41 to be mothers and fathers to them and so, 01:43 we're going to be talking about 01:46 dealing with orphans and some of the less fortunate, 01:48 the ministry is called Restore a Child, 01:51 and the president is here and this is Norma Nashed. 01:54 Norma, good to have you here. 01:55 Thank you. It's good to meet you. 01:58 Norma is one person who we have found 02:01 in the last little bit has energy, 02:03 and has a long track record of serving the Lord 02:05 and doing a great job. 02:07 Literally, Norma, all over the world. 02:10 Restore a Child is in how many countries? 02:13 Fifteen countries. 02:14 Fifteen countries, 02:16 do you know them off hand, the names? 02:17 Yes. Okay. 02:18 I mean, in Africa we have... 02:21 We have Ethiopia, we have Congo, 02:26 we have Tanzania, we have Zimbabwe. 02:28 That's four. 02:30 And we have South Sudan. 02:36 Hmm, five. 02:38 Five maybe I'm forgetting. 02:39 So one-third or a lot of the work is in Africa. 02:43 Because the need is great. 02:44 The need is great there. 02:45 But you've got some other countries too. 02:47 Yes, we have Indonesia. 02:48 We have seven orphanages in Indonesia, 02:51 and Indonesia has 18,000 islands. 02:56 So we have to cover each direction, 02:59 and then we have Haiti. 03:00 Haiti, yes. 03:02 We have also Jordan, which is my country. 03:06 We help students there, and then we have Ukraine, 03:10 and in the USA also. 03:13 In the USA, we help the Navajo children. 03:16 I see, I see. 03:18 So you've got really a far-flung enterprise. 03:24 Is this your baby, your invention? 03:26 I know you're the president. 03:27 Are you also the founder of this ministry? 03:28 Yes. Yeah. 03:30 I'm the founder and... 03:31 Founder and president. Yes. 03:32 And you have a staff of hundreds. 03:35 I have staff of none. 03:40 So you're carrying the bulk of the load yourself. 03:43 Yes, I do, except, you know, in the office, 03:47 you know, marketing, fundraising, everything, 03:49 I do writing. 03:51 However, the technical parts like web development, 03:56 graphic design, and translation, 03:58 we have United Nations' online volunteers. 04:02 Excellent. 04:04 We have used hundreds of them over the years. 04:06 And so, they are helping us, even right now, 04:09 they are revamping and modernizing our website. 04:12 Wow. Wow. Praise the Lord. 04:14 Give me the year that the ministry got started? 04:17 1999. 04:19 1999, bless your heart. 04:20 Now, let's go back in before that, 04:22 because as you, you alluded to a moment ago, 04:23 you're from Jordan. 04:25 Yes. 04:26 And let's get a little flavor of life in Jordan, 04:29 then I want to kind of bring you 04:31 to the States into Adventism and to this ministry. 04:33 But were you born into a Christian home? 04:36 Yes. 04:37 You were. Yes. 04:38 Was there a lot of Christians back in Jordan in those days? 04:41 Yes, we have like 10 percent Christians 04:45 and 90 percent are Muslims. 04:47 Are Muslim. 04:48 Did the Christian community, 04:50 were they free to practice their faith 04:51 or was there any pressure 04:53 against what you're trying to do. 04:54 Very much. You are free. 04:55 Now, yes, yes. 04:57 You know, Jordan is a very friendly, 04:59 people are very hospitable, 05:00 and that we don't have that animosity. 05:05 So yes, we had, you know, 05:07 I worked for 25 years in the Middle East, 05:10 in different countries in Kuwait, in Egypt, 05:15 and in Jordan, and I worked for Muslims. 05:19 All of these and 05:20 but they respected me as a Christian. 05:21 As a Christian, yes. 05:23 Because I practiced my faith. 05:25 Now Jordan is, was, I say is under a king? 05:29 Yes. You have a king? 05:31 Yes. 05:32 And so he pretty much allows you to, 05:33 I say you Christians to, 05:35 to practice your faith without any undue pressure. 05:37 Amazing, 05:38 because the late King Hussein of Jordan. 05:40 Yes. 05:41 His nanny was an Adventist from Switzerland, 05:47 I mean, it is amazing, 05:49 and her last name was Izink 05:54 and then she married an American Boyd, 05:58 and then I met her, 05:59 when I first came to the States 30 years ago. 06:01 And she gave me a book that she had written 06:03 about the king for his 58th birthday. 06:06 Birthday, praise the Lord. 06:08 So you are an Adventist growing up? 06:12 Not at the beginning. 06:13 My mother became an Adventist. 06:15 Oh, I see. 06:16 My father was never a churchman, 06:18 he never went to church. 06:20 I see, brothers and sisters? 06:22 Yeah, I have four sisters and two brothers. 06:25 A big family. 06:27 We are seven. Seven, yes. 06:28 Seven children, my mother became a widow, 06:31 a blind widow actually, she became blind. 06:32 Yes. 06:34 And we were... she was penniless. 06:39 In that seven, where are you? 06:41 The second. 06:42 Well, you're kind in the top end. 06:44 Yes. 06:45 Are any of your brothers and sisters in this country? 06:47 Yes. 06:49 Three of them are here in the States. 06:51 I see, I see. Yes. 06:52 And three are back home. 06:54 Back home, do you get home ever to see them? 06:58 I haven't been there in 15 years, 07:02 haven't been there. 07:03 Wow. 07:04 But that they come here. 07:06 Yes, okay. So I see them. 07:07 Okay, very good, very good. 07:09 Tell me, Norma, how Adventism came into your life? 07:11 My mother, somebody saw her in the market with a cross. 07:17 Yes. Wearing a cross. 07:18 So he asked her, you are a Christian. 07:20 Would you like to receive Bible studies just like that, 07:25 and she said, immediately she said yes. 07:26 All right, praise the Lord. 07:28 Amazing, and so he started giving her Bible studies, 07:31 and she would invite her friends, the neighbors 07:35 and this is how she became Adventist. 07:36 Wow. 07:37 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. 07:39 So give us some sense now, because your home, 07:43 you said you worked in the Middle East, 07:45 was it in taking care of orphans 07:48 or there some other kind of work. 07:49 No, I was like... 07:51 now they call it Administrative Assistant. 07:53 Yes. Yes. Yes. 07:54 But before it was secretary. It was secretary. 07:58 A glorified secretary. A glorified secretary. 08:00 I see, I see. 08:02 Tell me a little bit about 08:03 what brought you to these United States? 08:06 Yes. 08:08 I was working at that time for ten years 08:10 for Royal Jordanian Airlines. 08:13 And, I worked for the chairman, 08:15 for the president and chairman first. 08:18 And I told him that, if you know, 08:21 I don't work on Saturdays. 08:24 It's my, you know, because of my belief. 08:26 Yes. 08:28 And he said, but in the Middle East, 08:29 at that time the day off was only Friday. 08:32 He said, "But you need the job for your family. 08:36 And if we don't give you Saturday, 08:38 you won't accept the job?" 08:39 I said, "I'm sorry sir, I will decline." 08:43 And after two days, I got a phone call, 08:46 you're selected for the job. 08:49 So you stand up for the Lord, and the Lord stands up for you. 08:52 So you're working now for Royal Jordanian Airlines, 08:55 and that brought you to the United States. 08:58 Yes, but after ten years, 09:00 the chairman and president left. 09:02 And the new man was a military man, 09:05 a very fanatic man, so he won't give me Sabbath. 09:09 Ah, I see, I see. 09:10 So I decided it's time to move on. 09:13 No hesitation on that move? 09:15 No. 09:16 Sabbath was conflict so you have... 09:18 Yeah, no, no, yeah. Yeah. 09:20 God will provide and God provided. 09:22 Indeed He did, so where did you end up? 09:25 I end up at the General Conference, 09:26 this was the only job I had here. 09:28 Yes. 09:30 And I worked in different departments, 09:32 but the last one was in the youth department 09:35 and when I got cancer after 13 years, I left my job. 09:40 You left your job. Wow. Praise the Lord. 09:43 Was not so bad landing 09:45 at the General Conference for 13 years. 09:47 You look well and healthy, 09:48 how you're doing with the cancer? 09:50 I never went back to the doctor, not once. 09:53 Really? No. 09:55 I decided, you know, when I left my job, 09:58 it means I had no medical insurance. 09:59 Yes. Yes. Yes. 10:01 And I had no husband that means I need to trust God. 10:04 Yes. 10:06 And I did the natural way and God healed me. 10:08 Praise God. 10:09 Never went back, not once. Never went back. 10:11 No. In all these years. 10:12 Not. Bless your heart. 10:15 It's a testimony you know how God can... 10:17 It is a testimony. 10:19 God can heal you. Yes. 10:21 Can provide everything for you. 10:22 Yes. Yes. Yes. 10:24 Now, what brothers and sisters are here in this country 10:26 if any with you? 10:27 Yes, I have one who works at the General Conference 10:30 and then I have another one who became a U.S. diplomat 10:34 working for the State Department 10:36 for 25 years, he retired. 10:40 So you are diagnosed, 10:43 you have obviously beaten it off. 10:46 Was it about that time 10:48 that this ministry was birthed in your heart? 10:50 Tell me how this concern for love for children 10:54 and Restore a Child actually got started. 10:57 Yes. 10:58 You know when I was still in the Middle East, 11:01 my father died, 11:03 and one American missionary family took me to their home. 11:08 Yes. 11:09 And they took care of me, 11:10 they were like my foster parents. 11:12 And I went to school and they had good education. 11:16 And my sister is, some of them did not 11:18 even finish high school, we were poor. 11:20 I had to clean the school when I was ten years old, 11:25 walk six miles every day, 11:27 and clean the school to pay for my Christian education. 11:32 It was so important. Yeah. 11:34 So obviously education is important to you, 11:37 and you paid for on your feet, and on your hands, 11:40 and cleaning, and I guess that's something 11:44 that's kind of stayed with you all of these years. 11:45 Yes. 11:47 You know, it's how my mom told us, 11:49 taught us that whatever you do, God sees you. 11:52 Do it unto God with all your heart even cleaning, 11:55 you know, whatever it is there 11:57 and no water in the bathrooms there, 12:00 I did everything. Oh, bless your heart. 12:02 It was a tough job but it builds character. 12:04 Oh, yeah. 12:06 And that's what we are trying to do with our children, 12:08 teach them the dignity of manual labor. 12:12 Yes. Yes. Yes. 12:14 All right, you're here, you're working at a GC, 12:17 you have to quit that. 12:18 Tell me how we actually got the birth of Restore a Child? 12:23 You know, I knew when I got cancer, 12:26 God would not give me that disease to punish me 12:32 because one year earlier, I had committed, 12:34 recommitted my life completely to him. 12:37 I had peace with him, really, really I was, 12:40 you know, I'm in love with, with Jesus. 12:43 I mean, I was at peace, and then I get cancer. 12:47 I said, "God has something good coming out of it, 12:51 I had no idea." 12:53 Okay. 12:54 So I did not pray for healing not once, 12:56 and as a woman, we cry. 12:58 I didn't cry. 12:59 I did nothing, I was happy. 13:01 I was going to take treatments and coming to work, 13:04 and they say you are smiling, you have cancer. 13:07 I said, ''God is working. He has something good coming." 13:11 What's interesting is 13:12 after you give your life to Christ, 13:14 you get everything straight. Yes. 13:15 You give your life to the Lord. 13:16 Now, I get cancer you know, 13:18 it's kind of bad timing, but it didn't... 13:21 Obviously, it didn't destroy your world, 13:23 it didn't devastate you. No. No. 13:25 You took it in stride. 13:26 I knew it. Yeah. 13:28 I had a good relationship with God. 13:30 Praise the Lord. 13:31 Something good will come out 13:32 and that was the birth of Restore a Child. 13:35 So these are the days when this idea occurred to you. 13:37 Yes. 13:38 Was it in discussing with somebody else 13:40 or you just remembered your own. 13:41 Now, you didn't, we didn't really go into this too much 13:43 but, but you spent some time, was it as an orphan yourself? 13:48 Walk me through that experience? 13:50 No, I mean, because we had a good mother. 13:52 Yes. 13:53 My father was alcoholic. 13:54 Wow! I see. 13:56 And he never talked to me, I mean he was absent father. 13:59 So his death did not affected me at least, 14:04 but I had siblings who were very young. 14:06 I see, I see. 14:08 My mother had to work very hard then till she became blind 14:11 and she couldn't work anymore serving for people. 14:14 Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. 14:16 So obviously, it developed in you a certain sensitivity 14:19 for young kids who cannot help themselves. 14:21 Yes. Yeah, yeah. 14:22 So, okay, you got this love, you got this history, 14:25 you got this background. 14:26 How does that translate into a ministry? 14:28 How did you take this care, this concern you have, 14:32 and then turn that care into ministry? 14:35 One thing I wish I can explain how I do things. 14:39 Yes. 14:40 I don't have training. 14:41 You know, I didn't finish college 14:43 because my mom said, "Come back and help me." 14:45 Yes. 14:46 So I didn't have... 14:48 I don't know marketing, fundraising, writing, 14:51 I know nothing about this. 14:53 But I knew that God will help me. 14:56 Yes. 14:57 So I started this one. 14:59 I couldn't start overseas, 15:01 when there is a lot in Washington D.C., 15:04 African-American poverty like so bad. 15:06 Very much so. 15:08 So I said, "I cannot love children overseas 15:11 when I can't love the people around me." 15:14 So I started with Washington D.C. 15:16 helping children and then we grew from there, 15:19 and it became a big mystery. 15:21 And of course, I knew, I had to have a board 15:24 so we established a board. 15:26 We had to have a CPA, so I don't handle money at all, 15:30 I don't sign checks, I don't do anything. 15:32 I do the work. 15:33 So it is a ministry that is very credible, 15:38 it works with integrity, sustain... 15:41 I mean a transparency and accountability. 15:45 Yes. And that's our strength. 15:48 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. 15:49 And I don't take a salary. 15:51 You do not? No, 16 years. 15:53 Bless your heart. Bless your heart. 15:55 That's really a testament to the dedication 15:59 that you have for this particular ministry. 16:03 You had to surround yourself with competent people 16:06 and then you got to trust them. 16:07 You know, that they're doing, they're doing their job 16:09 and evidently they're doing what they're been called to do 16:11 because the ministry is flourishing. 16:12 Yes. 16:14 When did you have your first... just what I want, 16:18 your first extension of this ministry 16:20 outside of the United States. 16:22 The first one was in my country Jordan. 16:25 So when I got cancer, I went to... 16:27 I went to see my country. Yes. 16:30 I said, maybe I won't come back, 16:32 so I went to the school. 16:34 Feeling a little nostalgic. Yes. 16:35 I went to the school that I used to clean. 16:37 And I saw them sending two children home 16:41 and the kids were crying. 16:42 So I told them, 16:44 "Why did you send these kids home? 16:45 They said, "Because they don't have money to pay tuition." 16:48 I said, "You punish children because of poverty?" 16:52 And so this is when I decided I have to start helping. 16:55 You have to do something. Yes. Yeah. 16:57 And so, and I may have asked this moment ago. 16:59 Your first one was, was it in Jordan? 17:01 The first... 17:03 The first one was before I even went, 17:05 it was here in my backyard... 17:06 Okay, I understand. 17:07 In my backyard. 17:09 Okay, very good, very good, okay. 17:10 So you're trying to set this thing, 17:12 was there anybody with you to give you encouragement 17:14 or to help you with logistics, put it together 17:17 or it just sort of came out of your heart. 17:18 Yes. Yeah. 17:19 I had nobody. 17:21 Wow. Wow. Wow. 17:23 That is really something to, to you know to know 17:27 that it will spur, spur you on. 17:29 But the good news is, and we can add this that 17:32 at this point in time, the Adventist church 17:35 is officially in your corner given you help, 17:39 given you aid, given you encouragement. 17:42 How do we qualify your relationship 17:45 now with the Adventist church 17:47 'cause I know you're an independent ministry? 17:48 Yes. 17:50 I mean just for the last three years, 17:54 I have some support 17:56 from our board members and our chairman. 17:58 Praise the Lord. 17:59 Who work for North American Division 18:01 and the General Conference, 18:03 in that way because they travel, 18:05 so they save me the time and expense. 18:11 So they can be your arms 18:12 and legs and ears as well as hands, 18:15 yeah, of the ministry without you having to do 18:17 but you do, do some traveling. 18:19 No, I have to, yes. Yes. Yes. 18:21 There's nobody to get around it. 18:22 No, Africa. 18:24 I go like at least three four times 18:26 I travel a year, sometimes more. 18:30 What are you seeking to accomplish 18:34 with these orphanages around the world. 18:37 What were you seeking to do 18:38 and I know you're pulling kids off of the street, 18:41 but in a big sense, what are you trying to do? 18:44 What I'm trying to do is, 18:46 the first thing when Jesus comes, 18:49 there will be two groups of people, 18:51 one on His right, one on His left. 18:53 Yes. 18:54 And what will He judge them with? 18:56 He doesn't tell them, did you go and preach? 18:59 He will tell them, I was hungry, I was thirsty, 19:02 I was naked, I was sick. 19:04 These are the areas we work with. 19:06 I see. 19:07 Yeah, these four areas to, 19:09 you know, fulfill the command of Jesus. 19:12 So those are the kinds of things that drive you 19:14 and all of this is being done 19:15 with a grand staff of one person 19:18 just still kind of doing this on, on. 19:19 Yes. 19:21 I can't say on your own, 19:22 because when the Lord calls you to do something, 19:23 you're not on your own. No. 19:25 But you don't have a big staff supporting 19:27 be surprise what you need to do. 19:29 Yes. 19:30 I have people that I work with in the different countries. 19:33 They are mostly missionaries, who live there give, you know, 19:37 they give their life, 19:39 so I need people that I can trust. 19:42 Praise the Lord. 19:43 And that kind of, that's what this is one of our strengths. 19:46 It's the right partnership, the right people to work with. 19:49 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. 19:51 God had sent you some, some good people 19:53 sounds like down through the years. 19:54 Amazing. 19:55 Yeah. Yeah! 19:57 Trust the people because, you know, 19:58 you could end up losing your money. 20:01 But you have to be careful who you work with. 20:03 Yes. Yes, very much so. Yes. 20:05 I want to get into the actual work 20:08 that you are doing there and we want to go 20:10 to, to some of our pictures and we've got some videos too. 20:14 Before we get too far down into this 20:16 because it's hard to conceptualize 20:19 the scope of what Norma is trying to do 20:21 without seeing some representations of it. 20:26 So first of all what's, what's up first. 20:28 First is the school in Haiti. 20:30 We built last year a school 20:32 for elementary school for children. 20:35 And that these children were on the streets literally, 20:39 I had sent 75 boxes of clothing and shoes and school supplies 20:44 and they arrived when I was there. 20:46 And the school had just finished, 20:49 was completed. 20:50 So I wanted these kids, 20:52 and I would take them from the streets, 20:53 I'll tell them, "You want to go to school?" 20:54 Yes. Yes. 20:56 So I take them, wash them, 20:57 put shoes on them clothes and take them to school. 20:59 Praise the Lord. 21:00 Do you find, Norma, most over most of the world 21:02 young people want to go to school, 21:04 they want that education. 21:06 You know, when it comes to young people, 21:11 it is they want to study 21:12 but they don't want to start again, 21:14 you know, from A.B.C. 21:15 Yes. 21:17 So that's why we are concentrating now 21:19 on building vocational training schools for them. 21:22 We have elementary schools, 21:24 we have built two three for little children 21:27 and, you know, they'll grow up to high school with us, 21:31 but that boys on the streets need care. 21:35 And that's what we are doing now. 21:37 We have, this year we are building 21:39 free vocational training schools. 21:41 One was inaugurated yesterday in Indonesia. 21:44 Oh, praise the Lord. 21:45 One in Haiti and one in Argentina. 21:47 Excellent, excellent. 21:48 So you are expanding even as we speak. 21:51 Yes. You're growing. 21:53 Let's go to some of the pictures 21:54 I could, I want to, I want to get the folk to see a... 21:56 The video made. Yeah. 21:58 Oh, the video first. 21:59 Well, we got this one up, let's go with this. 22:01 Now who is this? This is, her name is Cynthia. 22:03 Cynthia. 22:05 And I found her in March, 22:06 when I went, when I was in Ethiopia-- 22:08 when I was in Haiti. 22:10 Yes. 22:11 And there I went to an orphanage 22:13 that we support, 22:14 and the guy who built it is the guy in the picture. 22:17 He's an engineer from New York. 22:20 He built a school 22:22 and an orphanage with his own money. 22:23 Wow. 22:24 So when I was there, 22:26 I saw this little girl by herself 22:28 sitting in the garden. 22:30 I said, "Who is she?" 22:31 He told me, "I don't know her. 22:34 I don't know this girl." 22:35 So we had to ask the mother "Who is she?" 22:38 And she said, "Her mother was going to sell her 22:42 as a slave girl at age three." 22:44 Wow. 22:45 And eventually she decided to abandon her. 22:47 She left her in the market 22:49 and the woman who takes care of the orphanage. 22:53 She took her to the home and she said, 22:56 "Next week, I'll take her back to find her mother." 22:58 I said, "You don't take it anywhere. 23:00 You keep her, we are responsible for her." 23:03 So that's what they call trafficking. 23:05 Yes, yes, yes. 23:06 People take little kids and amazing-- 23:09 And sell them into all kinds of things. 23:11 So I guess that's one of the things 23:12 that you're heading off is this, 23:13 this trafficking of children in some of these countries. 23:16 And some of the countries you've mentioned 23:19 have a high incidents of that. 23:21 Ethiopia is big because when I was in Ethiopia, 23:25 I saved three girls of trafficking 23:28 but two of them. 23:29 One man was running with two girls. 23:31 So I told him, I stopped him. I'm not afraid of him. 23:34 Who are these girls? 23:36 I was afraid, he said, "Are they your daughters?" 23:39 He said, "No." Okay, are they your relatives? 23:42 "No." So why are you taking them? 23:44 He said, "They have nobody." 23:46 I said, "If they have nobody, you take them?" 23:47 He said, "Yeah, if you want them, you can have them." 23:49 I said, "Yeah, I want them." 23:51 So I took them to the orphanage, 23:53 it's that easy to take girls and sell them. 23:57 No government, nobody cares. Yes. Yes. 23:59 I don't think he expect you to take him up on that offer. 24:03 He just lost part of his, his meal ticket. 24:06 So is that where you get most of your girls 24:09 or your boys and girls just take them off the street. 24:12 Are they that easy to spot? 24:14 Not all of them are like that. Yes. 24:15 Some of them are, we hear about them, 24:18 some of them just in the community, 24:20 where we work. 24:21 We just go and I see kids without parents 24:23 or even with a mother 24:25 or with a father but not a mother. 24:28 So they're not all orphans they're poor. 24:31 So we have to feed them and provide for them, 24:35 but the biggest thing is 24:37 if we are not concerned about their spirituality 24:41 and their eternity, we are losing. 24:44 It's not the food. 24:46 It's not just water and clothing. 24:50 We teach them about God. Yes. 24:52 We bring them to know Jesus. Yes. 24:54 Walk me through, Norma, if you will 24:56 how you view religion, 24:58 the love of Christ into the daily routine 25:01 because you've got school, 25:02 you've got teaching that has to go on, 25:03 and those kinds of things. 25:05 How do you view Jesus into that whole mix? 25:09 Yeah, from the first, you know, 25:11 at first we start like in a school, 25:13 the first thing we teach is for them to sing and pray. 25:17 The first thing in the morning, even, while... 25:21 Yeah, sing and pray. 25:22 While they are doing, 25:24 there is raising of flag after there is a flag. 25:27 Then they sing and pray 25:29 and then they have Bible class too. 25:32 And so it's amazing work. Yeah. Yeah. 25:35 It is 25:36 and I think it prioritizes thing so beautifully. 25:39 Before we get anything moving, let's sing and pray, 25:42 and get the day started off, started off correctly. 25:44 So it's easy, and kids you know are the most fertile soil. 25:49 Yes. They are receptive. 25:50 They are willing to learn, so this is what-- 25:53 If you want to, 25:54 in fact the lives of the future of any country, 25:58 you start with the children. 25:59 Yes. Yes. 26:01 And if you train them well, 26:02 then you can have better future. 26:04 Better future, beautiful, 26:05 beautifully said, beautifully said. 26:08 Let's look at some more stuff 'cause we got a bunch of them, 26:10 I want to get to before it gets away from us. 26:13 What do we have coming up next? 26:14 We have the video of Haiti, the school, if we can see it. 26:18 Okay, let's take a look. 26:31 Restore a Child is a humanitarian organization. 26:36 Our main focus in Haiti is education. 26:40 So we build the elementary school 26:43 which is growing every year by one class. 26:46 Now, next year we'll have grade five 26:48 and then grade six and so on till high school. 26:56 And, but our focus on orphans 26:58 because children who do not have parents 27:02 have any for somebody to care for them. 27:04 They cannot be on the streets, they need to be fed, 27:07 they need to be clothed, they need to go to school. 27:10 And that's what our role is here for 27:14 to take care of the children here in Haiti. 27:21 Jesus love the children. 27:23 Jesus said, "Let the children come to me, 27:26 and forbid them not." 27:28 And so Jesus opened His arms for the children. 27:31 He blessed them, and He loved them, 27:34 and you are not to do any less than Jesus did. 28:19 Those young people look so nice and bright in their uniforms. 28:24 And you have to provide those uniforms also, don't you? 28:27 Yes, for the most poor and the orphans we do. 28:31 Tell me what Do Fast is because our next roll is Do Fast. 28:36 What is that? 28:37 It's a new movement that I started, 28:40 and started called, "DO" 28:44 DO, stands for Defend Orphans. 28:48 It's taken from Isaiah 1:17 it says, 28:51 "Do good, seek justice, defend orphans." 28:56 So it's in the Bible and then in the Psalms 82 also. 29:00 So and then 29:02 because there are so many hungry children in the world, 29:06 6 million children die of hunger every year. 29:12 Wow. 29:13 So we combined the Do Fast, the do with the fast 29:17 according to Isaiah 58. 29:19 What does Isaiah 58 say? 29:23 "Is this the fast that I have chosen." 29:24 Yes, yes, yes. 29:26 Isn't it to deal or share your bread with the hungry? 29:29 Yes, yes. Very true. 29:31 And bring the poor to your house 29:33 and if you see a naked that you clothe him. 29:36 So this is what Do Fast is about. 29:39 It's what God wants you to do for orphans 29:43 and for a true fast. 29:46 It's not about fasting, you know, 29:48 because the beginning of Isaiah 58 it says, 29:51 "We pray, we pray, we do everything, 29:54 and you don't hear us." 29:55 He said, "This is not what I want, 29:58 take care of the hungry and the naked." 30:01 Yes, as you do I'll hear. Yes. 30:03 All right, this is what we do. Let's take a look at Do Fast. 30:13 Tonight, one in seven people will go to bed hungry. 30:17 Hunger kills more than AIDS, malaria 30:20 and tuberculosis combined. 30:22 One third of the world is starving to death right now. 30:26 Every 13 seconds, a child dies of malnutrition, 30:28 that's 6 million dead children a year. 30:31 But you can make a difference. 30:33 The second Saturday, in November, 30:35 be part of the 24-Hour Do Fast. 30:38 During the Do Fast, 30:39 people across the world would be reading Isaiah 58, 30:42 and praying for God's blessing. 30:44 God's promise is simple, "Ask and it'll be given to you, 30:48 seek and you will find, knock 30:49 and the door will be open to you." 30:52 Let's ask God to Restore a Child. 30:54 Visit restoreachild.org/dofast 30:57 and donate today. 31:00 So Do Fast then is a program that has been adopted 31:03 by at least in North American Division, 31:04 the Seventh-day Adventist Church. 31:06 Yes. 31:08 The education department. Yes. 31:10 The ministerial department and the youth department 31:13 now partner with us to promote this work 31:17 that is very important to God. 31:19 It's a biblical mandate to take care of orphans 31:21 and we are not doing it as a church. 31:25 I see, very, very good. 31:28 So your ministry is not out there 31:31 sort of winging by itself, you have the support, 31:33 the imprimatur of the Adventist church. 31:36 Well, they don't give me any money. 31:39 That support. 31:40 And that's why I say support, I put support in quotes. 31:44 You had their goodwill. Yes. 31:46 You don't have their cash just yet 31:47 but you do have their goodwill. 31:48 Yeah, and you can't take goodwill to the bank. 31:50 And then, yeah... And then the General Conference 31:53 just recently few months ago, after 16 years of me 31:58 fighting for kids for the orphans, 32:00 they have added orphans to one of their ministries. 32:04 And yeah, they have asked me 32:06 to be a member of that task force. 32:09 So we would make sure it's not a lip service 32:12 that we will take care of orphans. 32:14 Wow. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. 32:17 So that puts you in good and rarified, 32:19 rarified company for your work all around the world 32:23 to have at least the encouragement 32:25 and the expertise that the church can provide 32:28 as standing beside you as you do this 32:30 because, you don't have a big staff, 32:32 it's all on you. 32:33 Do you, are you obliged or do you have to travel a lot, 32:36 you got orphanages in 15-16 countries? 32:39 Do you get a chance 32:40 to go around and make some visits 32:42 and see what's going on in the various countries? 32:43 I have to, yes. Yes, yes. Yeah, yeah. 32:46 But this is the only way because I love kids. 32:49 I want to see my kids. Yes. 32:52 I want to see what they're doing to them. 32:54 I want them to be treated like my own kids. 32:57 Oh, praise the Lord. 32:58 I love kids and orphans are gift to the heart of God, 33:02 He's the father of the fatherless. 33:04 And I take my calling very seriously. 33:08 Praise the Lord. Yeah. 33:09 So, I... Yeah, I do travel. Yeah. 33:11 And you've been doing this quite a little while. 33:12 16 years. 33:14 16 years, I just tell the young lady 33:16 you got sometimes. 33:19 I'm not young, I'm very old. 33:23 Okay, we got some more videos, 33:24 let's talk about what's coming up, 33:26 what else we have? 33:28 Then, you know, very important 33:33 is that sponsor, sponsorship for these kids. 33:39 And there was, there is actually Dr. Bruce Dyke. 33:45 He is the top U.S. economist 33:48 teachings at the University of San Francisco. 33:52 He did research for three years in six countries 33:56 with his three of his doctorate students. 33:59 And they came up with the research 34:01 that was published in 2013, and he said, it says, 34:08 "Do you want to change the world?" 34:10 The title of the research. Yes. 34:12 Sponsor a child and he said, 34:16 "Hope" is a fuzzy concept to economists 34:20 you know, everything is concrete. 34:23 Yes, yes, yes. Let's hope. 34:25 But he said, "It is a proven theory, and it works." 34:29 And he has proved in his research 34:31 that 50 to 80 percent of the sponsored children 34:37 are more likely to finish college education. 34:41 Oh, wow. 34:42 Not even high school, they do finish high school 34:44 but even college. 34:45 And 35 percent are more likely to get a white collar job. 34:51 Well, that's a great status. Yes. 34:53 And you know these researchers were not Christians. 34:56 But they have found out that not only they finish, 35:00 you know, university 35:02 but they become community and church leaders. 35:06 Amen, amen. 35:07 It's amazing what can, you can do 35:09 when you sponsor a child. 35:11 The dividend you get back from sponsoring a child 35:15 pays long term if those, 35:18 if those numbers are to be taken literally, 35:20 that's wonderful return on your investment. 35:23 It is because, you know your money in the bank. 35:26 They don't give you much now. You know, the market can crash. 35:31 But when you invest in lives of children, 35:34 you dividend is 100 percent for now 35:37 and eternity. 35:39 And you know children are the future leaders. 35:42 If we invest in them. Yes. 35:44 We are doing ourselves good, for the future of our country. 35:48 You're assuring the stability of your country, 35:51 your church, all of those things 35:54 when you put money into a young, a young life. 35:58 Now, we're talking about young lives 36:00 and I hope I'm not out of order picture wise 36:03 'cause I want to go to some pictures we have 36:06 and what I'm thinking of you, 36:09 you've been in this long enough now, 36:10 that you've seen graduates come through your system 36:15 and then give back into the system. 36:18 Yes. Yeah. Yeah. 36:19 So walk me through some of that? 36:20 That's, great stuff. 36:22 Yes. 36:23 And in Indonesia, 36:25 we have 250 orphans 36:30 in seven homes. 36:33 And that there are many success stories 36:36 but one of them is called Marlena. 36:39 And Marlena, was taken, this is her. 36:44 This is Marlena. Yes. 36:45 And she was taken when she was 12 years old. 36:48 She was not going to school, 36:50 they had no money to go to school 36:51 and she had no hope. 36:53 And in the orphanage were we in the home 36:56 where we take care of kids. 36:59 She was a great girl, and she was quite smart. 37:03 So we send them when they are like that, 37:05 we send them to university. In university in Indonesia now, 37:09 we have 40 students, young people in university. 37:14 We have already graduated 25 of them. 37:17 Oh. Wow. Yes. 37:18 And they are giving back, 37:20 Marlena is here in the middle, in the middle. 37:23 In the middle. 37:24 Yeah, she graduated last year as a math teacher. 37:27 There is Dr. Jonathan Kuntaraf, 37:29 the former Sabbath school director 37:31 for the General Conference. 37:32 Just retired at the past General Conference. 37:34 And I think Duane McKey is now in that position, 37:39 but that's wonderful. 37:41 And he is our chairman of the board for ten years. 37:44 I see, I see. 37:46 And there so Marlena, I was there last year, 37:51 because we built a home for 42 orphan girls. 37:56 And she had her wedding when I was there. 37:59 So I took that picture of her and her husband amazing, 38:04 both of them are math teachers. 38:06 And they teach in the school 38:08 next to one of our orphanages in Kupang it's called. 38:13 And in Kupang, 38:14 not only they teach but at the school 38:16 but they come to the orphanage 38:18 to tutor the kids in math to give back. 38:21 How wonderful. Yeah. It's amazing. 38:23 Now, was the groom, the husband was he part of the, 38:26 the orphanage system too or just Marlena. 38:29 No. It's Marlena. Just she, 38:30 but they're both giving back into the system. 38:31 Yes. 38:33 Praise the Lord for that, that must make you feel so good 38:35 to have one that you plucked from the streets 38:38 as it were, trained her, sent her to school, 38:40 and now she's giving back to the institution. 38:43 We have many like that. 38:44 Is that so? Yes, yes. 38:45 And we have one, I don't have his picture. 38:49 His name is Chava, from Congo 38:52 also helped him going through middle school, 38:54 high school and then university. 38:57 He's going to graduate as a medical doctor 38:59 in June 2016. 39:02 Praise the Lord. 39:03 Yes, you know what-- 39:05 Great story. 39:06 What hope do they have if we leave them on the streets? 39:09 What option, I mean, 39:10 they are on the streets targets to terrorists... 39:13 Yes, yes. And abuse and crime. 39:15 And crime, yes. 39:16 So when you take, if we, America, 39:18 if we would go and help children, 39:20 take them off the streets. 39:21 We will be safer. Wow. 39:23 So these terrorists cannot export criminals 39:26 to this country. 39:28 Yes, yes, yes. Excellent, excellent. 39:29 Do you have any idea 39:32 because your enterprise is so far flung. 39:35 At this point in time how many young people you have graduated 39:39 who've gone through the system that you graduated? 39:43 We have maybe at least 200, 39:47 200 but from university 25 finished already. 39:52 Yes. 39:53 And that 40, are in university right now. 39:56 You know, our children are very small, 39:59 so it takes a long time for them to get to college. 40:02 Yeah, and you also get it, you got, 40:03 that's an investment of at least for a generation 40:06 or 20 years maybe, 40:07 because if you're picking up 40:09 three four five six year olds off the streets. 40:11 Be a long time before, you get them into, into school. 40:13 But I suspect you would agree that every year, 40:15 that you keep them is worth it 40:17 because that's one year less there on the streets 40:20 and being pray to some of the things that go on. 40:23 You know, on that when a child 40:24 just living on the street like that. 40:26 Yes, and being trained the right way 40:27 to be with, with character 40:30 and with values and to give back to their communities. 40:34 Very much so. That takes a lot, you know, 40:35 it takes a village to raise a child. 40:38 Yeah. Yeah. 40:39 Without pointing fingers 40:40 at any particular country, Norma, 40:42 at some of these countries I guess the idea 40:44 that young people are going to be dragged into the business 40:47 if they don't have any other people 40:49 or things to support them. 40:50 That's pretty much accepted treatment 40:53 isn't it, that young people who live on the street 40:57 are gonna get abused, 40:58 they're gonna get trafficked, they're gonna be used 41:01 unless someone puts their hand in and pulls them out 41:04 the end is not really too positive as a rule. 41:07 No. No. 41:08 Because there is no hope. Yeah. 41:10 There's no hope you know poverty creates 41:12 low self-esteem with children. 41:15 Low aspirations, they have no, nothing to live for. 41:18 But when you sponsor them, when you take care of them, 41:21 then they have dreams and they have worth, self-worth 41:27 and dignity and they do much better. 41:30 So it is, it is a must, 41:32 that we take care of children 41:35 poor and orphans. 41:37 And orphans, yes, yes very much so. 41:39 In the countries where you're working, 41:41 you're in 15 different countries. 41:42 Is there any official recognition by the government, 41:45 is there any aid by the government, 41:47 encouragement by the government, 41:49 does a government do anything to help you 41:51 or they kind of hindering you. 41:53 What's the general relationship with the government 41:56 to what you're doing in those countries? 41:58 You know, I don't believe in governments. 42:02 And I don't want their help, because of the restrictions. 42:08 I don't want them to tell me, don't teach them Christianity. 42:11 I see, I see. 42:12 Yes, and so we need to be self-sufficient, 42:16 self-supporting, 42:18 so that's why we depend on the donations of people 42:23 like your viewers. 42:25 These are the people who make us 42:27 continue to help more children, take them off the street, 42:32 give them a future and then you know. 42:36 You know, when I said, when I heard you say, 42:38 "I don't like government," 42:39 you scared me a little bit there. 42:41 But I understand what you're saying, 42:42 that with government assistance comes government control. 42:46 It's almost, almost impossible to get around 42:49 that if the government of country X gives you money, 42:52 that government's going to want to tell you 42:54 what to do with that money, 42:56 because it's my money I'm giving you, 42:57 and they probably want to tell you, 42:58 what to do with the rest of your money. 43:00 So if you can sustain yourself, 43:02 and not have to put your hand out to the government, 43:05 it gives you freedom, 43:07 one to teach the gospel to these young people. 43:09 And to do so in an unencumbered way, 43:12 way and obviously, it's working 43:14 because you're getting the results that you desire. 43:18 Yes. Yeah. Yeah. 43:19 How do you recruit people 43:20 to assist you in these various facilities 43:23 in the various countries? 43:25 You know, I go myself and scout the country. 43:32 You go and check 43:34 and then I have, we have a big board, 43:36 and very strong board and they travel, 43:39 so they recommend some certain people, 43:42 some areas where I can visit and see for myself, 43:45 the kids and the need. 43:47 And then we go from there. 43:49 Very, very good. Very good. 43:51 You have done so very, very much 43:54 now that flash telling me 43:55 before our time gets away from us. 43:56 We've got one more video of Indonesia I think. 43:59 Yes. Yeah. 44:00 And I want to ask you about, because Indonesia is, 44:02 if it is not the largest, 44:04 this is the second largest Muslim country in the world. 44:07 And yet you seem to be doing well. 44:08 So let's go to this video, 44:09 then we'll come and talk about Indonesia a little bit. 44:11 Okay. 44:13 There has been many calamities 44:14 that come to Indonesia from place to place 44:18 and there are so many orphans left behind 44:21 as the result of those calamities. 44:23 You may have heard about the tsunami in Aceh 44:27 or the earthquake in many places in Indonesia 44:30 or volcanic eruption and also many other things 44:34 which includes also the religious persecution. 44:37 As the result of those calamities, 44:40 we feel the need of having orphanages 44:43 to take care of those orphans. 44:45 For that reason we started with the orphanage in Medan. 44:50 After that we have the second orphanage 44:53 in Singkawang, another orphanage in Kupang, 44:57 another orphanage in Kawangkoan, 45:00 north Sulawesi, another orphanage in Jakarta 45:05 and also in Purwodadi. 45:08 And now I'm in the complex of the orphanage in Kawangkoan. 45:13 I'm happy to see so many children who are here 45:16 that has been taken care of by Yapi. 45:22 This is an organization that try to show our concern 45:26 to the people in Indonesia 45:29 and from the beginning of our work, 45:31 we have been working together with Restore a Child. 45:36 I really appreciate the activities 45:38 which has been led by Norma Nashed, 45:42 the president of Restore a Child 45:45 that always gives support or full support 45:48 for the operation of our orphanages in Indonesia. 45:58 And we thank Dr. Jonathan Kuntaraf for that, 46:01 that very informative video, and your work. 46:04 Indonesia, very large Muslim country, 46:06 you seem to be working there well, 46:08 no interference from the government. 46:11 No, because in Indonesia 46:13 although 90 percent of the people are Muslims, 46:17 yet, the government is secular. 46:23 They don't interfere. Okay, okay. 46:25 So that's why, I mean there is sometimes prejudice 46:29 in some remote areas and so on but not really obvious. 46:34 You know, like I went to Jakarta, 46:37 I hardly saw a church, every few, 46:41 you know blocks is a mosque, is a mosque, is a mosque. 46:44 Then I went to Medan 46:46 where we built an orphanage last year 46:48 and now we're building a vocational training school 46:53 and every block or two, 46:56 really not even a block is a church. 46:58 Is a church? Church, church. 47:00 That is amazing. 47:02 That's in Manado, Manado, it's mostly a Christian area. 47:07 You know it's interesting 'cause I've a good friend 47:09 who is from Iraq, and she is a doctor, 47:13 and she was saying that back in the days of Saddam Hussein, 47:17 he didn't really bother the Christians too much, 47:20 he was not pushing any kind of Islamic law. 47:25 If you wanted to serve the Lord and did not bother the state, 47:29 the state will not bother you. 47:30 So it is good that in some of these countries 47:32 where the government is not so religious conscious, 47:36 they will allow other groups to come and function 47:39 and benefit the country. 47:41 Yeah, freedom of religion. Yes, yes. 47:43 And we praise the Lord for that. 47:45 Yes. Yeah, Yeah. 47:46 We got a couple more pictures. 47:47 Let's take a look at those, 47:49 I don't want our time to slip away, 47:50 and then this is-- 47:52 CFC. CFC? 47:54 This is a Combined Federal Campaign. 47:58 It's a US Federal government, a list of charities 48:03 and we are a member of the list of charities. 48:06 So if any of your viewers work for the federal government 48:10 or know people who work for the federal government, 48:13 they can donate through the CFC to Restore a Child. 48:17 Our name is there but they have to donate 48:21 to our CFC ID number which is 97739. 48:27 97739. 48:29 Excellent. Yes. 48:31 So I'm happy 48:32 because this gives us some, an opportunity to grow. 48:36 There are 3.2 million employees of the federal government. 48:40 I see. More than China. 48:41 Wow. 48:45 Well, we're gonna give you some contact information 48:46 in just a little bit to help with that 48:48 in case you don't want to go with the government rule, 48:50 we gonna give you something 48:51 that is little bit more direct in just a bit. 48:53 But I think we got one or two more pictures. 48:56 Yes, this is the home we built last year 48:59 for 42 orphan girls in Manado. 49:03 And there you see is 64 young people. 49:08 We have some small ones too 49:10 but the girls are 42 orphan girls that we built, 49:14 they had no home. 49:16 We built their home 49:17 and then now we are building a vocational training school 49:21 for the boys and girls 49:23 who are not going to university. 49:26 So you realize that there may be some 49:27 who just will not ever make it to university. 49:30 They're gonna need some kind of, 49:31 something to support themselves to able to do 49:33 and you are working on that also, which is great. 49:35 Yes. Yes. Yeah. 49:36 Actually our chairman Dr. Kuntaraf, 49:39 he inaugurated that building yesterday. 49:42 Excellent. In Manado. 49:44 And let me say this, you built beautiful buildings. 49:46 You guys don't just slab together a little something, 49:48 that's good looking stuff. 49:49 Yes. Yeah. 49:51 We invest in it 'cause you know 49:54 otherwise you will be spending money on maintenance 49:56 and the repair all the time. 49:58 No, we build you know, heavy duty, 50:02 great buildings that will last. 50:04 I want to do this before we go to our newsbreak. 50:08 Robert and guys in the control room, 50:10 if you can set this up for me, 50:11 I want to go to the contact information now, 50:15 then we will come back, we'll go to the newsbreak 50:17 come back and put little bow on this, 50:19 but I want to go to that contact information 50:20 because while it still kind of hot. 50:23 If you want to make contact, this is the great ministry 50:25 and you can see it's kind of one man band 50:28 but it's one person 50:30 who is doing a great work for the Lord 50:32 who is blessed with the Lord. 50:33 She says she's getting old, I'm not buying. 50:36 She's young in a Lord. 50:37 But should you want to make contact toward this ministry, 50:40 it's a good ministry deserving your support, 50:43 Restore a Child. 50:45 This is Norman Nashed, here's how you can make contact 50:47 and support the work 50:48 that she is doing literally around the world. 50:53 Restore a Child provides the basic needs for protection, 50:57 education and healthcare of orphans 50:59 and underprivileged children. 51:02 If you would like to support this ministry, 51:04 you can do so by writing them 51:05 at 11212 Cherry Hill Road 202 51:10 in Beltsville, Maryland 20705. 51:14 That's 11212 Cherry Hill Road 202, 51:19 Beltsville, Maryland 20705. 51:23 If you would like to contact them by telephone, 51:25 you may call them at area code 240-393-7712. 51:32 That's area code 240-393-7712. 51:38 Visit them online at Restoreachild.org. 51:42 That's Restoreachild.org. |
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