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, I'm Shelley Quinn,
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and we welcome
you to 3ABN Today.
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We are so thankful
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that you're joining us,
and boy, I'll tell you what?
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We have a group with
us today that I first met
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when we were at
the General Conference
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and I interviewed them for
just a short period of time
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and said, you've got to
come and tell this amazing story
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and what God is doing
through your group in Cuba.
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And this is a story I think
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that's going to
excite you to action.
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It's a great story.
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Let me give you the scripture
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that is the banner
over their ministry,
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which Isaiah 42:12 which says,
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"Let them give
glory to the Lord,
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and declare his
praise in the coastlands."
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So allow me to introduce
you, we just go around,
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sitting in the co-host
seat today is one of our guest
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and this is Henry
Stubbs, who is the President
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for the World
Youth Group Incorporated.
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Henry, so glad
that you are here.
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Thank you so much,
Shelly, it's good to be here.
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And boy, you've got a story
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that we're gonna
get into very exciting.
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Now to my right, we
have his lovely wife Arleen.
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Arleen, you are
the Vice President
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for the World
Youth Group, right?
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Yes. Praise the Lord.
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And it's something that
we are going to find out
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that the two of you God...
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kind of gave you the
same idea at the same time,
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so that's just amazing.
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Then we have Pastor Luis Amador.
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And Luis, you
are the Vice Director
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for the Adventist
Theological Seminary of Cuba.
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Cuba.
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Yeah, and how long have you been
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with the World Youth Group?
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We have been working
with them for almost 10 years.
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Ten years, wonderful, wonderful.
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And then last but not
least is Pastor Samuel Lores.
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And, Samuel, you are the
Spirit of Prophecy coordinator
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for the Cuban Union, right?
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Yes.
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And you've been with this
group since December of 2015,
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is that correct?
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Yup. Wonderful, wonderful.
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Well, we are
just excited to have.
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So glad you all could come,
because we want to hear more.
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I was just, it was
such a thrilling thing
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to hear your story
when we were at GC,
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but today we're going to get
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into some of the
meat of their story.
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First however, we know
how much you love music
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and we have one
of the favorites,
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actually a native
Cuban and you said Luis,
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that this gentleman
is from your own hometown
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in Cuba, correct?
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Santa Clara City.
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Santa Clara City,
and this is one of,
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he seems to be a 3ABN favorite.
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He's certainly a wonderful
man, his name is Jaime Jorge,
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incredible violinist
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and he is going to do a
selection for us called,
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"Have Thine Own Way, Lord".
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That is just beautiful
and we so appreciate Jaime
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and that he has
dedicated his talent
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to the glory of the Lord.
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Well, if you
just joined us today,
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we are talking
with the World Youth
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Group Incorporated people,
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and let's just jump right off
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and tell us what
is World Youth Group?
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World Youth Group,
Shelley, is a group of youth
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that wanted to make
a difference for Jesus.
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And the Lord has
led us into the sharing
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of the practical gospel,
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trying to make a
difference in people's lives,
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which leads them to
a desire to know why,
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and ultimately the opportunity
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to be able to
share Jesus Christ.
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Amen. And this is
transpiring where?
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Well, our work
is exclusively Cuba.
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Okay, now that's the
part we wanted to get to,
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because you've
been there 19 years.
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That's right.
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We've been
working there 19 years.
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That's amazing to me,
because you'll find out
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why it's so amazing.
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It wasn't always
the friendliest thing.
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Tell us, Arleen,
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how the two of you
came up with this thought.
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How did God impressed you
to begin the World Youth Group?
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Well, the Lord impressed Henry
and I both on the same weekend
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to get involved with missions.
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And so we didn't
know how to do that.
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We'd never been
on a mission trip
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and didn't know
anything about it.
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So we got involved
with our local conference,
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we went to Chile twice,
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and then while we
were giving our report
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about our
experience in the mission field
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at our local church,
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there was a lady in
the audience and she said,
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please bring the same youth
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and come to my
country and we said,
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but what's your
country and she said Cuba.
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We said Cuba, how
would you go to Cuba?
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And she said, if
I can get you there,
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will you come?
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And we said yes, Lord willing,
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we'll bring the same
youth and go to Cuba.
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Now, Arleen, at
the time did you know
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that it was
actually rather dangerous
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or risky to go to Cuba?
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Oh, yeah, we did,
it was a real struggle
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and even for
myself the first year
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was kind of
exciting and, you know,
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you get caught up in
that in the faith of seeing
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how God was moving mountains
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and then the
second or third year,
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I had to really pray about it.
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Lord, do you really want
me to go there, you know,
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what if I get stuck in
prison and don't get out.
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There have been groups
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that had been
incarcerated, right?
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Yes, and not too many years
before we started going down,
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and those
thoughts were in my mind
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and then I also read some books
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with some pretty horrific
accounts of what, you know,
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happens in communist countries,
and I just I prayed about it
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but the Lord has been leading
all along and He still is.
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So here you are, two, you
are in the corporate world.
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What were you doing
in the corporate world?
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Nursing. You were nursing.
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I'm a nurse.
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Director of nursing
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from very large
hospital complex, right?
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For a good size
hospital in South Carolina.
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All right.
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And so, here you
are, the two of you,
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you start going
on mission trips,
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you get really brave.
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You go to Cuba for
some years and, Luis,
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how did the Adventist
Theological Seminary of Cuba.
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How did you get
involved in this?
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How did you hear
about this people?
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Well, as I told you before
I started working with them
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in 2006, almost 10 years ago.
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And in 2010 I was pastoring
in the Central Conference,
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and I was called to
work at the seminary.
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At the same time I was appointed
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as Spirit of Prophecy
leader for a Cuba Union
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what Pastor Samuel
Lores is doing now.
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And by that time we were
designing our ascetic plan
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for the next five
years and it was great.
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They were working there
for such a long in Cuba,
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we were working together,
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they were focus mainly
on the Central Conference
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and then we thought well,
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why not doing in
the whole island,
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what we have been doing in
this Central Conference so far,
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and that was the
way God used to spread
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World Youth Group all
over the island of Cuba.
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Okay, so when we
are talking about this,
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it's what were you doing?
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You were going down
there with missionary groups,
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what were they doing
with this youth down there?
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They were going to preach,
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mainly evangelistic
series in un-entered areas.
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Either small towns or big cities
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and they were focused on
evangelism, only evangelism.
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But 2009 was a make a difference
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in their ministry
because from that point on,
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this ministry incorporated
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another interesting tool
we will be talking about.
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All right, so that was
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when you began
training students,
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tell us about that
because first you go down
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and you are doing
evangelistic series
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trying to introduce Jesus
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to the Cuban
people and there is many,
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because it is a
communistic country.
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There are many areas
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that have been
un-entered by the gospel,
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but you actually began
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a training
school for Cuban youth,
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tell us a little
bit about that, Arleen?
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Well, it started when
our son went to Wildwood
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and then I got interested in it
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and I went to
Wildwood and got trained.
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And what was at Wildwood,
what did you get interested in?
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The live curriculum as
an ASI curriculum and...
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And explain that for our viewers
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that may not know what is,
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what type of curriculum is this?
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Okay, the live
curriculum is to train those
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to be involved in
medical missionary work.
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And it gets you out quickly,
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so you don't have to
spend many years on studying
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and getting a degree
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and you can get out there
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after six months of training
or even a month of training.
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They have two different
courses and even more than that,
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but anyway, it's
an awesome program
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and then what we were
able to do with this curriculum
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is train the Cubans themselves
to be medical missionaries
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and now instead
of us coming down
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with the handful
of youth every year,
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there are a team of young people
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out there working year around
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in places where we
couldn't even probably go.
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And they are helping people
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and they're ministering to them,
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with the training that they
got it's partly training with,
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helping with healing
and things like that...
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What kinds of things?
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Like with
hydrotherapy and massage
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and using charcoal
and natural remedies
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and when you know,
where you are far out
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and you don't have a car,
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you have no way to get to help
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and you have it a
medical emergency,
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it's nice to be able to have
some of those simple remedies
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to help relief suffering
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and then also
not only they trained
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any simple medical missionary
type of healing classes,
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also in spiritual classes,
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and so then they are
equipped to share the gospel
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and once you have helped them
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and with a ailment
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then you can bring in the gospel
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and even lead them to Christ
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and that's the
ultimate soul winning.
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That will be great
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showing the
viewers some pictures.
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Oh, yes. About this work.
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Let's do, we do, I
think we got a picture here...
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Yeah, that's the
picture from the island of Cuba,
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nature people, old
cars, but the other picture
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it's about what Arleen
was saying in training,
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next picture, yeah.
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That's one of the classrooms
of the seminary in Cuba,
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because World Youth
Group has been working together
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with the seminary in Cuba,
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that's the place where
they have been training.
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Wonderful.
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That's a
cafeteria, there having the...
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So were doing hydrotherapy...
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And you know, this is something
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I don't think
that people realize,
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I just, I'm not gonna go into it
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but recently I
actually told my doctor,
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there is something
that I had been doing
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for the last two years,
he'd given me medication for it
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that wasn't
working and so I come back
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and I have medical
results from test two years ago
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and a test now,
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purely natural and totally cured
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and he is going.
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When I said, I wasn't
taking your medication, he said,
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what were you doing?
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And I told him
about it, purely natural
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and now he is very excited
about wanting to share it
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with his people
so natural remedies.
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Charcoal is just one of the most
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amazing things that
God has ever given us.
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Yes.
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And we hear stories all the time
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with people who
had blood poisoning,
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they put a
charcoal poultice on it.
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So missionaries had
known about, you know,
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how a charcoal, I
should finish that thought,
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the charcoal
poultice would actually
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draw out the infection.
00:17:20.37\00:17:22.10
Missionaries had been using
00:17:22.14\00:17:23.71
some of the
these natural remedies
00:17:23.74\00:17:25.94
for quite some
time, but tell us about
00:17:25.97\00:17:29.21
how do you train
them up for 30 days
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and now you are getting ready
to start a six month program,
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then how do you go above
once they're trained, Luis.
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How do you go about
sending them out to...
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Sure.
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That's our second
pillar sending them.
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They spent almost four weeks
00:17:46.59\00:17:49.90
getting that training
in our seminary facilities
00:17:49.93\00:17:54.17
and during the
course, we encourage them,
00:17:54.20\00:17:58.37
we show them the needs of
the mission field in Cuba.
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And some of the students,
they apply us a Bible workers
00:18:03.91\00:18:10.89
to be sent as Bible workers
00:18:10.92\00:18:12.79
to those
un-entered areas in Cuba.
00:18:12.82\00:18:16.02
That's a challenge because
we have lot of municipalities
00:18:16.06\00:18:19.49
in Cuba who doesn't
have any Adventist presence.
00:18:19.53\00:18:24.60
While they are
taking the course,
00:18:24.63\00:18:26.43
they are encouraged
and there is a moment
00:18:26.47\00:18:30.94
when we call the
conference leaders,
00:18:30.97\00:18:33.88
and we interview the students
with a conference leaders
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and we select,
00:18:37.95\00:18:40.75
who is going to go to each town.
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I want to show you
some more pictures.
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You can see
there two of the guys
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who are being sent
there, they go on fire.
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One more picture
please. And these are Cubans...
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Yes.
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And they are going to places
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that we've never had
an Adventist presence.
00:18:57.83\00:18:59.97
I mean, that's
really important to say
00:19:00.00\00:19:01.80
and not only that
as Luis mentioned,
00:19:01.84\00:19:04.84
they are going
out leaving family,
00:19:04.87\00:19:07.01
leaving home, they
be leaving college...
00:19:07.04\00:19:09.11
One year or two
years. Wonderful.
00:19:09.14\00:19:12.25
So it's exciting and
they live in that community,
00:19:12.28\00:19:15.95
they become part
of that community,
00:19:15.98\00:19:17.45
become part of the
fabric of that community,
00:19:17.49\00:19:19.99
and we send them into
the most impoverished areas
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where they can find the
most disenfranchised people
00:19:24.33\00:19:27.50
and try to make a
difference in their lives.
00:19:27.53\00:19:29.36
They basic people, they
try to help them in their needs
00:19:29.40\00:19:34.84
as Jesus did, they
mingle with people,
00:19:34.87\00:19:37.31
they make friends
and sometime later
00:19:37.34\00:19:41.38
they share the
word of God with them.
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And that's what
we are quite familiar
00:19:43.65\00:19:46.48
if you may not have heard this,
if you are new viewer to 3ABN,
00:19:46.51\00:19:49.78
but we believe very strongly
00:19:49.82\00:19:52.55
that the medical work is
the right arm of the gospel.
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Jesus went out
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and He healed
them physically first,
00:19:56.62\00:19:59.09
He touched them,
met their physical needs
00:19:59.13\00:20:02.66
and then people when
they are no longer suffering,
00:20:02.70\00:20:06.43
they are then
ready to understand,
00:20:06.47\00:20:09.87
I mean open up
to hear the gospel.
00:20:09.90\00:20:12.24
But now, this is some
thing that's interesting,
00:20:12.27\00:20:15.34
all of these are Cubans, right?
00:20:15.38\00:20:17.25
These are Cuban youth
that you are training up.
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Now Pastor Samuel,
00:20:20.35\00:20:23.18
when people see these youth
00:20:23.22\00:20:28.09
coming into their
villages, poor villages,
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how did they react,
00:20:33.09\00:20:34.43
are they surprised
that these people are not,
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I mean they are doing
it for basically nothing
00:20:38.30\00:20:40.50
so how did the
people react to this?
00:20:40.54\00:20:44.31
Yeah, the people
in the communities,
00:20:44.34\00:20:48.98
when the youth people
arrived to their communities
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with their
message and health message
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to helping to
receive and many thing.
00:20:56.22\00:21:00.39
They are very happy
00:21:00.42\00:21:02.09
and when we have any
campaign in this area,
00:21:02.12\00:21:08.93
we can see that the people come
00:21:08.96\00:21:13.13
and they to us about the help,
00:21:13.17\00:21:19.44
charcoal and everything.
00:21:19.47\00:21:22.14
No only interested
00:21:22.18\00:21:23.71
in the Bible,
00:21:23.75\00:21:29.25
they are interested too
in to have a better help
00:21:29.28\00:21:33.89
and we combine
together both work.
00:21:33.92\00:21:40.20
We have health expos.
00:21:40.23\00:21:43.20
Okay, so you know you
showed that picture of the youth
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that was out and touching
00:21:46.87\00:21:51.14
and probably massaging
or treating this man's legs
00:21:51.17\00:21:54.54
and I'm just thinking,
00:21:54.58\00:21:55.91
do you pay
these youth a stipend,
00:21:55.94\00:21:57.75
if they are taking off a year,
how do you support the youth.
00:21:57.78\00:22:03.15
We give them a
stipend of $25 a month
00:22:03.18\00:22:08.19
and we in the past
00:22:08.22\00:22:10.39
when we were only doing
evangelism, we would find,
00:22:10.43\00:22:13.19
we would check
with the conference
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and try to find Bible workers
00:22:14.60\00:22:16.73
and we would pay them
$25 a month for three months
00:22:16.77\00:22:19.10
to go and help prepare
a place for evangelism.
00:22:19.13\00:22:22.87
But it's such a difference now,
00:22:22.90\00:22:24.44
because these
individuals have $25 a month,
00:22:24.47\00:22:27.31
go live full time in
that community and...
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Where they can really
relate with the people,
00:22:31.68\00:22:34.65
have develop a rapport
and I'm sure then the culture,
00:22:34.68\00:22:40.02
I mean the people began
to really appreciate them
00:22:40.06\00:22:43.69
and what, they listen to them.
00:22:43.73\00:22:45.36
Yes. Is that right?
00:22:45.39\00:22:47.30
Exactly, it's
made a huge difference
00:22:47.33\00:22:48.96
and ultimately as
Luis mentioned the goal
00:22:49.00\00:22:54.14
is that people would
get to know their savior.
00:22:54.17\00:22:56.50
Amen.
00:22:56.54\00:22:57.87
And so we praise the
Lord that's the ultimate goal
00:22:57.91\00:23:01.54
and that's
ultimately what's happening.
00:23:01.58\00:23:03.11
So sometimes at the
training, we used to tell them
00:23:03.14\00:23:07.92
you are not here
to become vegetarians.
00:23:07.95\00:23:11.45
We are here to be...
00:23:11.49\00:23:12.95
To become
vegetarians... Vegetarians.
00:23:12.99\00:23:14.96
We are not a
factor of vegetarians,
00:23:14.99\00:23:17.53
we are soul winners.
00:23:17.56\00:23:19.63
Amen. Amen.
00:23:19.66\00:23:21.16
And that's
wonderful to work together
00:23:21.20\00:23:22.53
with the seminary
00:23:22.56\00:23:23.90
and to also
incorporate the health expo
00:23:23.93\00:23:28.97
with the seminary,
00:23:29.00\00:23:30.64
that's part of their training
at the seminary as pastors
00:23:30.67\00:23:33.88
to be pastors as they
learn how to give a health expo
00:23:33.91\00:23:37.01
and it's such a
ministry to the neighborhood
00:23:37.05\00:23:40.18
and to the communities
00:23:40.22\00:23:41.85
and anyway it's a blessing
00:23:41.88\00:23:44.15
to work together
with the seminary.
00:23:44.19\00:23:46.96
This is something that God has
just put all the right people
00:23:46.99\00:23:50.69
in the right
places at the same time
00:23:50.73\00:23:52.59
to make up the component.
00:23:52.63\00:23:53.96
It's a precious work
to win Cuba for Christ.
00:23:54.00\00:23:56.10
Amen. So now...
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Let God be God.
00:23:57.50\00:23:58.83
Before at the seminary
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when you
graduated from the seminary,
00:24:00.24\00:24:01.57
did you have to go out
00:24:01.60\00:24:02.94
and do
evangelistic series somewhere
00:24:02.97\00:24:05.21
or how did that work?
00:24:05.24\00:24:07.31
Because now I understand
that now you actually have
00:24:07.34\00:24:10.88
this seminary
students coming to help you,
00:24:10.91\00:24:14.28
support the
evangelism, is that correct?
00:24:14.32\00:24:16.65
That's correct.
00:24:16.69\00:24:18.69
Luis, maybe you want to
show a couple of the photos
00:24:18.72\00:24:21.52
on evangelism.
00:24:21.56\00:24:25.79
I'll jump in here,
this is a picture of youth
00:24:25.83\00:24:28.56
that are coming
down from North America,
00:24:28.60\00:24:31.60
this ministry started
with a Sabbath school class
00:24:31.63\00:24:33.87
in North American Youth
00:24:33.90\00:24:35.24
and we want to
always keep that emphasis,
00:24:35.27\00:24:37.41
it's very
important in our opinion
00:24:37.44\00:24:39.91
that youth in
America have an opportunity
00:24:39.94\00:24:42.14
to get outside of their world
00:24:42.18\00:24:45.91
and to see a little bit
more of the rest of the world,
00:24:45.95\00:24:49.45
and to share their faith.
00:24:49.48\00:24:50.89
So we have taken a
number of academies down
00:24:50.92\00:24:54.16
and then number of youth
down and they go into the town,
00:24:54.19\00:24:57.49
where the Cuban youth
had been working six months,
00:24:57.53\00:24:59.89
twelve months or longer
and have developed an interest
00:24:59.93\00:25:04.77
and have a Bible study group,
00:25:04.80\00:25:07.34
and in that town
they share the gospel.
00:25:07.37\00:25:10.31
They let do that an
evangelistic series.
00:25:10.34\00:25:12.27
They do a harvest
evangelistic series.
00:25:12.31\00:25:14.14
They do a vacation Bible school.
00:25:14.18\00:25:15.74
They do the preaching. They do.
00:25:15.78\00:25:17.45
Wonderful All the preaching.
00:25:17.48\00:25:18.81
On the same time.
00:25:18.85\00:25:20.18
And so it's youth
working in the town,
00:25:20.22\00:25:24.42
having had a one month
medical missionary course,
00:25:24.45\00:25:27.96
being able to
share practical things
00:25:27.99\00:25:29.92
and then it's
youth from North America
00:25:29.96\00:25:31.79
joining youth in Cuba
00:25:31.83\00:25:33.70
and ultimately
sharing the gospel,
00:25:33.73\00:25:37.43
having a call to
commitment to Christ.
00:25:37.47\00:25:40.47
These people in the town
have already been exposed,
00:25:40.50\00:25:42.70
they have already been studying,
00:25:42.74\00:25:44.07
sometimes having Bible
studies but now this is a call,
00:25:44.11\00:25:47.51
this is a harvest series.
00:25:47.54\00:25:49.44
A call to give
your life to Jesus.
00:25:49.48\00:25:51.31
Amen.
00:25:51.35\00:25:52.68
At the beginning
it was different.
00:25:52.71\00:25:54.05
They only had
00:25:54.08\00:25:55.42
an evangelistic series each year
00:25:55.45\00:25:57.42
but 2014 they had three a year
00:25:57.45\00:26:02.42
and 2015 they
had like 10 that year
00:26:02.46\00:26:07.86
and this year 2016, 24.
00:26:07.90\00:26:12.37
Wow, so you have gone
from doing just one a year,
00:26:12.40\00:26:18.07
how many... you
obviously get baptisms.
00:26:18.11\00:26:21.41
I think we've got a
couple of more pictures here,
00:26:21.44\00:26:23.45
this is one of
your harvesting events
00:26:23.48\00:26:26.31
where you have sent people down
00:26:26.35\00:26:28.22
and isn't that
you Pastor Samuel,
00:26:28.25\00:26:32.32
is that you in baptistery?
00:26:32.35\00:26:34.52
Yes. You are baptizing there.
00:26:34.56\00:26:36.73
so these are the people
who are part or the youth
00:26:36.76\00:26:42.20
that are part of your group,
00:26:42.23\00:26:44.57
working with the
youth from America,
00:26:44.60\00:26:46.70
they're seeing
these people baptized,
00:26:46.74\00:26:49.37
but now did I not understand you
00:26:49.40\00:26:52.14
to say that also now
00:26:52.17\00:26:55.18
the seminary students
who are being trained go out,
00:26:55.21\00:26:58.85
and is this how you've increased
00:26:58.88\00:27:01.62
from 1 to 24 series, is
that part of the increase.
00:27:01.65\00:27:05.85
Yes, it is part of the
increase about mainly our youth
00:27:05.89\00:27:10.69
that are taken
from America to Cuba
00:27:10.73\00:27:12.89
plus the Bible workers,
00:27:12.93\00:27:14.53
medical
missionaries working there,
00:27:14.56\00:27:16.73
now the seminary
students are sent,
00:27:16.77\00:27:21.84
those who are taking
the public evangelism class,
00:27:21.87\00:27:25.94
they are sent to
those un-entered areas
00:27:25.97\00:27:29.58
where World
Youth Group is working
00:27:29.61\00:27:32.21
and they help running those
evangelistic series as well.
00:27:32.25\00:27:36.22
Okay, so are
those seminary students
00:27:36.25\00:27:38.59
the ones giving it or
is it still the youth?
00:27:38.62\00:27:42.82
The youth hold
those evangelistic series
00:27:42.86\00:27:46.19
but their seminary students,
they help in another towns
00:27:46.23\00:27:52.03
because they have reached
00:27:52.07\00:27:54.47
over 20 different
municipalities in Cuba.
00:27:54.50\00:27:58.34
They are planting many churches,
00:27:58.37\00:28:00.31
I mean, World Youth Group
and the seminary students go
00:28:00.34\00:28:03.48
and support that work.
00:28:03.51\00:28:05.65
That's amazing.
00:28:05.68\00:28:07.02
Now I wanted to mention
this about Pastor Samuel
00:28:07.05\00:28:11.15
because I
thought this was amazing.
00:28:11.19\00:28:13.72
You were ministering
as a pastor for 18 years
00:28:13.76\00:28:17.03
and how many
churches did you plant?
00:28:17.06\00:28:20.16
Eighteen.
00:28:20.20\00:28:21.53
Eighteen
churches. Eighteen churches.
00:28:21.56\00:28:24.07
It shows that there is
such a heart the people there,
00:28:24.10\00:28:28.87
if you can plant 18
churches in 18 years,
00:28:28.90\00:28:31.91
people are hungry
00:28:31.94\00:28:33.71
to hear the
truth about the Lord.
00:28:33.74\00:28:36.51
When you've been brought up
00:28:36.54\00:28:37.88
in a communist
country where it's,
00:28:37.91\00:28:42.28
you know, often they, at least
00:28:42.32\00:28:44.29
what we've seen
in communist areas
00:28:44.32\00:28:46.96
is that they
believe in evolution.
00:28:46.99\00:28:49.06
They believe, they
don't know where they're from,
00:28:49.09\00:28:50.99
they don't know
where they are going
00:28:51.03\00:28:52.49
and when they hear
about the love of God,
00:28:52.53\00:28:56.30
it's life, it's
transforming, isn't it?
00:28:56.33\00:29:00.54
How many churches or
how many Adventist churches
00:29:00.57\00:29:04.67
are there in Cuba?
00:29:04.71\00:29:09.31
Do you know how many churches
you have, church buildings?
00:29:09.34\00:29:11.98
Yeah. Near to 400.
00:29:12.01\00:29:14.18
Four hundred
churches, but isn't it true
00:29:14.22\00:29:18.15
that it is against the law there
00:29:18.19\00:29:20.59
to build new churches?
00:29:20.62\00:29:24.09
Permission is not been
granted at this time really
00:29:24.13\00:29:26.33
to any
denomination for a new church.
00:29:26.36\00:29:28.30
All right, so
then you're baptizing
00:29:28.33\00:29:30.37
all of these people.
00:29:30.40\00:29:32.10
What did you do with them? Okay.
00:29:32.13\00:29:33.54
It's a challenge. Good question.
00:29:33.57\00:29:35.60
That last
picture that was up there
00:29:35.64\00:29:37.24
which was a picture
of Samuel baptizing.
00:29:37.27\00:29:40.14
He was baptizing
a man named Ungel.
00:29:40.18\00:29:43.38
Ungel was 81 years old,
his daughter came to us,
00:29:43.41\00:29:48.08
heard that we were having
evangelistic series in her town
00:29:48.12\00:29:50.69
and says would you
come to see my father,
00:29:50.72\00:29:53.09
he has cancer
and he is gonna die
00:29:53.12\00:29:56.99
and he is very afraid to die.
00:29:57.03\00:29:59.63
She said none of us in
our home are Christians
00:29:59.66\00:30:01.76
but he had a
brother that also had cancer
00:30:01.80\00:30:05.50
and as also died
and before he died
00:30:05.53\00:30:08.60
somebody shared Christ
with him and he died peacefully,
00:30:08.64\00:30:12.91
and I want my
daddy to die peacefully.
00:30:12.94\00:30:15.28
Can he come to your meetings?
00:30:15.31\00:30:17.38
So we went and met him
00:30:17.41\00:30:18.98
and brought him to the meetings,
00:30:19.01\00:30:20.35
we provided transportation,
he said I can still see him
00:30:20.38\00:30:24.85
sitting in there
just drinking it and, and,
00:30:24.89\00:30:28.69
and ultimately he was baptized.
00:30:28.72\00:30:31.83
He made a decision for Jesus
00:30:31.86\00:30:33.73
and you're right
there without a place
00:30:33.76\00:30:36.67
in that town to worship.
00:30:36.70\00:30:39.17
Without a place
in any of the towns
00:30:39.20\00:30:41.44
where we're doing evangelism,
00:30:41.47\00:30:43.10
you just cannot
hang on to the flock.
00:30:43.14\00:30:46.24
Right.
00:30:46.27\00:30:47.61
There is no
place to get together,
00:30:47.64\00:30:49.74
you are not supposed
to be gathering together
00:30:49.78\00:30:51.81
in houses anyway,
it takes a little time
00:30:51.85\00:30:53.85
and little
challenging to get permission
00:30:53.88\00:30:55.65
to worship from the government.
00:30:55.68\00:30:58.42
But ultimately we are, because
you can't build a church,
00:30:58.45\00:31:02.42
we are buying
houses for worship houses.
00:31:02.46\00:31:05.19
Houses for churches
00:31:05.23\00:31:06.56
and the Lord has really blessed,
00:31:06.59\00:31:07.93
we were doing one per year...
00:31:07.96\00:31:09.96
Now do you have to
have permission from the...
00:31:10.00\00:31:12.27
I mean, this isn't
something that is underground.
00:31:12.30\00:31:15.17
Do you gain permission
from the Cuban government
00:31:15.20\00:31:18.71
to use these houses
as center of support?
00:31:18.74\00:31:20.98
Yes, we do, it's
a process though,
00:31:21.01\00:31:22.34
it takes, it's
not, we just go down
00:31:22.38\00:31:24.45
and apply for
permission and we get it.
00:31:24.48\00:31:26.85
But they have
to kind of watch us
00:31:26.88\00:31:28.62
and see how we are
doing and see that we are safe
00:31:28.65\00:31:31.59
and that we're not doing
anything illegal and so forth,
00:31:31.62\00:31:35.12
and overtime they'll
give us permission to worship.
00:31:35.16\00:31:37.49
First it should
be a prayer house.
00:31:37.53\00:31:40.13
Okay.
00:31:40.16\00:31:41.50
For a prayer house you
don't need any permission,
00:31:41.53\00:31:43.87
10 to 12 people,
00:31:43.90\00:31:45.40
but when it turns
into a small church,
00:31:45.43\00:31:49.34
a company, then you need
to apply for the permission.
00:31:49.37\00:31:52.17
After that point on
00:31:52.21\00:31:53.64
then the conference leaders
would deal with authorities.
00:31:53.68\00:31:58.55
But the medical missionary
work has opened up that arms,
00:31:58.58\00:32:02.12
so that by the time we
get to the authorities,
00:32:02.15\00:32:04.49
they know us.
00:32:04.52\00:32:05.85
That's wonderful.
00:32:05.89\00:32:07.22
And they appreciate
what's been happening
00:32:07.26\00:32:08.59
and we've actually been brought
before the highest leaders
00:32:08.62\00:32:11.43
and the health
palace in Cienfuegos
00:32:11.46\00:32:13.86
and another
places saying, you know,
00:32:13.90\00:32:16.36
we really
appreciate what you're doing.
00:32:16.40\00:32:19.20
You've made a difference
00:32:19.23\00:32:21.30
and in our
community we've been asked
00:32:21.34\00:32:24.11
to be on the
communist radio station
00:32:24.14\00:32:26.51
with a 15 minute spot
every week, some of our youth,
00:32:26.54\00:32:29.24
our medical missionaries
sharing what they are doing
00:32:29.28\00:32:32.78
and we've been asked to
provide the same training
00:32:32.81\00:32:36.08
that we are
doing the health expos
00:32:36.12\00:32:39.12
to all the doctors and nurses
00:32:39.15\00:32:40.56
and some of the
hospitals in Cuba.
00:32:40.59\00:32:42.09
And as a result of this work,
00:32:42.12\00:32:45.89
they're having a
lot of health expos
00:32:45.93\00:32:48.50
all over the island
00:32:48.53\00:32:49.96
and really the authorities
are really impressed with that
00:32:50.00\00:32:53.47
because one of the pillars
of Cuba is health and education
00:32:53.50\00:32:58.97
and we are giving
people what they need,
00:32:59.01\00:33:02.68
you know, training
them and helping them
00:33:02.71\00:33:05.71
with their health even.
00:33:05.75\00:33:07.68
For example, the
seminary students
00:33:07.72\00:33:09.32
they get a class about lifestyle
00:33:09.35\00:33:13.79
and they run
health expos every year
00:33:13.82\00:33:16.12
in the park of the city
00:33:16.16\00:33:18.19
where the seminary is
Santiago de las Vegas.
00:33:18.23\00:33:20.33
And a lot of people
when they get out of buses,
00:33:20.36\00:33:23.77
they go to the park
00:33:23.80\00:33:25.23
and they see what
are they doing here
00:33:25.27\00:33:26.94
and all the seminary students
are wearing white T-shirts
00:33:26.97\00:33:31.31
and physicians
are helping them there
00:33:31.34\00:33:34.28
and it's amazing.
00:33:34.31\00:33:35.74
That's fabulous,
00:33:35.78\00:33:37.38
so when you see
everybody is I mean,
00:33:37.41\00:33:40.75
it's amazing how God
is opening the doors here
00:33:40.78\00:33:43.59
but what I want to ask you about
00:33:43.62\00:33:45.22
is you see
these youth from Cuba,
00:33:45.25\00:33:49.52
are they all coming out
of the Adventist families,
00:33:49.56\00:33:52.23
the youth group
that's coming to,
00:33:52.26\00:33:54.03
are they all Adventist
families or the kids that
00:33:54.06\00:33:56.80
maybe they're just
learning about Jesus himself.
00:33:56.83\00:34:00.30
Yeah, we have a lot of
kids that have been kind of
00:34:00.34\00:34:02.97
very loosely
connect with the church.
00:34:03.00\00:34:04.47
Okay.
00:34:04.51\00:34:05.84
And so I would say
00:34:05.87\00:34:07.88
that has been one
of the differences,
00:34:07.91\00:34:11.05
you know, we have not
kind of searched for the cream
00:34:11.08\00:34:13.55
of the crop Adventist
kids from our best schools
00:34:13.58\00:34:19.19
where they have
grown up with both parents
00:34:19.22\00:34:21.26
in the church or
something like that,
00:34:21.29\00:34:23.89
and that's been
one of the blessings
00:34:23.93\00:34:25.76
because mission work
just knits people together.
00:34:25.79\00:34:31.60
It's a bond. It
draws them to the Lord.
00:34:31.63\00:34:33.87
It creates a bond
00:34:33.90\00:34:35.24
and it's an
unforgettable experience.
00:34:35.27\00:34:37.67
So you're seeing
lives changed right here
00:34:37.71\00:34:40.91
in the World
Youth Group themselves
00:34:40.94\00:34:43.58
but then like the
people who come down
00:34:43.61\00:34:46.68
are laying what kind
of effect does this have
00:34:46.72\00:34:49.28
when you bring people, the youth
00:34:49.32\00:34:51.22
from the United
States just to go down
00:34:51.25\00:34:53.72
and do an evangelistic series.
00:34:53.76\00:34:56.16
That gives them
a different focus
00:34:56.19\00:34:58.06
than on themselves of course
00:34:58.09\00:35:00.20
and it gives them a purpose
and it touches their hearts too
00:35:00.23\00:35:06.90
when you are out there
speaking about your savior
00:35:06.94\00:35:09.37
and you are actually
preaching, it changes you.
00:35:09.40\00:35:12.91
And we've had several youth
went lay away their cigarettes
00:35:12.94\00:35:19.15
and say okay,
I'm done with these,
00:35:19.18\00:35:21.75
and we've had baptisms
from North American youth,
00:35:21.78\00:35:24.92
also we've had bonds
00:35:24.95\00:35:27.99
that are still not
broken till this day,
00:35:28.02\00:35:31.03
and they're still
corresponding with friends
00:35:31.06\00:35:33.50
that they made in Cuba
00:35:33.53\00:35:35.76
and it's been a
beautiful experience
00:35:35.80\00:35:38.17
for us to watch the youth,
00:35:38.20\00:35:39.90
and then to see
how they've grown
00:35:39.93\00:35:42.17
and some of them
to become missionaries
00:35:42.20\00:35:44.01
and a lot them
00:35:44.04\00:35:45.37
are working around the
world as missionaries now.
00:35:45.41\00:35:47.38
Praise God.
00:35:47.41\00:35:48.74
So how many in
the World Youth Group,
00:35:48.78\00:35:51.28
how many do you have now,
who you are paying a stipend
00:35:51.31\00:35:55.95
to keep them as
medical missionaries.
00:35:55.98\00:35:58.92
I mean, about, you know
about what you have right now?
00:35:58.95\00:36:02.02
We do.
00:36:02.06\00:36:03.39
Right now, we've
trained 384 youth in Cuba
00:36:03.43\00:36:07.43
to be medical missionaries.
00:36:07.46\00:36:09.80
Of those we have interviewed
00:36:09.83\00:36:11.53
along together
with the conferences,
00:36:11.57\00:36:13.10
World Youth Group in
the conferences and hired.
00:36:13.13\00:36:15.90
We have approximately 60
full time workers in Cuba...
00:36:15.94\00:36:21.58
And you've had
some who've done it
00:36:21.61\00:36:23.01
going on after a year or so.
00:36:23.04\00:36:24.48
That's true.
00:36:24.51\00:36:25.85
Yeah, as a matter of fact
it's kind of a breeding ground
00:36:25.88\00:36:29.48
if I could say for the seminary
and a number of our youth
00:36:29.52\00:36:34.22
that have come to work
00:36:34.26\00:36:35.59
for World Youth
Group for a year,
00:36:35.62\00:36:37.16
I don't know many, Pastor Luis.
00:36:37.19\00:36:39.96
Like 12 or 15,
that is impressive.
00:36:40.00\00:36:42.90
Many times where I'm
teaching in the classroom
00:36:42.93\00:36:44.93
and I see those
faces there, wow.
00:36:44.97\00:36:47.44
They were at the
live school some years ago
00:36:47.47\00:36:49.67
and now they are
being trained to be pastors,
00:36:49.70\00:36:52.41
that is something awesome.
00:36:52.44\00:36:54.18
Amen.
00:36:54.21\00:36:55.54
And they get, they
come into the seminary
00:36:55.58\00:36:58.21
when they apply as
an entity that's known
00:36:58.25\00:37:01.28
because they have
been out on the town,
00:37:01.32\00:37:03.12
Shelley, working alone.
00:37:03.15\00:37:05.79
I mean, we sent two at a time,
00:37:05.82\00:37:07.16
and in some
cites we've sent four
00:37:07.19\00:37:09.46
at a time into a city.
00:37:09.49\00:37:11.56
But they have been out there,
you know, without a pastor,
00:37:11.59\00:37:14.66
without family,
without a church,
00:37:14.70\00:37:16.80
without a church support
and they are looking for,
00:37:16.83\00:37:20.14
okay, who can I reach out to.
00:37:20.17\00:37:22.24
Two guys went to a town
00:37:22.27\00:37:24.67
and they said, okay
Lord, how do we do this.
00:37:24.71\00:37:27.58
We've had one month training,
we know how to give, you know,
00:37:27.61\00:37:30.98
hot foot baths and we
know how to, we know how to...
00:37:31.01\00:37:36.69
you know, make some charcoal
or whatever but what do we do?
00:37:36.72\00:37:40.69
Well, they prayed about
it and then he said, I know,
00:37:40.72\00:37:43.86
in this city
there is no ambulance
00:37:43.89\00:37:46.90
and my
grandmother has an old bicycle
00:37:46.93\00:37:49.33
that we could turn
into a bicycle ambulance,
00:37:49.36\00:37:52.97
ABC taxi
ambulance kind of thing.
00:37:53.00\00:37:55.87
And we won't charge anybody.
00:37:55.90\00:37:57.24
And we'll just take
him to the hospital,
00:37:57.27\00:37:59.07
we'll take him to the clinic
and so that was their ministry.
00:37:59.11\00:38:01.18
You know,
everybody does it different.
00:38:01.21\00:38:03.08
And would you know that the CEO
of which we had a picture of it
00:38:03.11\00:38:07.68
but the CEO of the
hospital was baptized.
00:38:07.72\00:38:10.75
He was so
impressed, that whole town,
00:38:10.79\00:38:12.55
everybody knew those boys.
00:38:12.59\00:38:14.39
Everybody tried to pay him a
couple of pesos and you know,
00:38:14.42\00:38:17.83
what are you doing this for?
00:38:17.86\00:38:19.19
Thank you so much and they just
wouldn't accept it, you know,
00:38:19.23\00:38:22.13
and it's never had there
been Adventist in this city.
00:38:22.16\00:38:28.57
And now that's a very
strong church in that city.
00:38:28.60\00:38:31.67
So these 60,
about how many cities
00:38:31.71\00:38:34.08
are they in now?
00:38:34.11\00:38:35.44
They are in 21
cities. In 21 cities.
00:38:35.48\00:38:37.25
Praise the Lord.
00:38:37.28\00:38:38.61
And how many of the
homes have you purchased
00:38:38.65\00:38:41.32
to be the
church gathering spots?
00:38:41.35\00:38:45.82
Well, close to 30 all
together, but it was one a year
00:38:45.85\00:38:49.39
for a lot of years
00:38:49.42\00:38:51.03
and then it was
three in one year,
00:38:51.06\00:38:54.66
last year was eight.
00:38:54.70\00:38:56.67
And what is a home cost?
00:38:56.70\00:38:58.27
About 15,000 on average. Really?
00:38:58.30\00:39:00.74
And I think don't you
have some pictures of...
00:39:00.77\00:39:02.97
I do.
00:39:03.00\00:39:04.34
This is a picture of
house in the town of Calumet.
00:39:04.37\00:39:07.74
And again this is a new area
00:39:07.78\00:39:10.08
with no history of
Adventist presence.
00:39:10.11\00:39:13.05
Heritage Academy just came down
00:39:13.08\00:39:14.85
and did an evangelistic campaign
00:39:14.88\00:39:16.62
with World Youth Group and
with the youth in that town
00:39:16.65\00:39:19.45
that started that work
00:39:19.49\00:39:21.16
and they had a
precious harvest of souls
00:39:21.19\00:39:23.73
that are now
worshiping in this house.
00:39:23.76\00:39:25.33
This is just in
the last few months.
00:39:25.36\00:39:27.60
Well, that was in March.
00:39:27.63\00:39:29.30
So we're very grateful
for what the Lord is doing,
00:39:29.33\00:39:32.83
but now,
Shelley, we are building
00:39:32.87\00:39:34.94
a full time mission campus...
00:39:34.97\00:39:37.24
That's what we are seeing here.
00:39:37.27\00:39:38.61
The seminary. And we have...
00:39:38.64\00:39:41.98
God has provided
a beautiful farm.
00:39:42.01\00:39:45.15
We are starting the production
of vegetables and so forth.
00:39:45.18\00:39:48.28
We've built a girl's dorm
and we're building classrooms,
00:39:48.32\00:39:51.45
a library, by Gods
grace through faith,
00:39:51.49\00:39:55.22
that God is going
to continue to provide.
00:39:55.26\00:39:58.86
We're building an entire campus
00:39:58.89\00:40:00.53
to be able to train young people
00:40:00.56\00:40:02.50
to finish the gospel.
00:40:02.53\00:40:03.87
I would like to
emphasize something.
00:40:03.90\00:40:06.03
We've been talking
about training youth
00:40:06.07\00:40:09.20
but our viewers
00:40:09.24\00:40:11.47
they could have
been thinking well,
00:40:11.51\00:40:13.68
it is only lay people, well not.
00:40:13.71\00:40:16.78
We are planning
to train physicians,
00:40:16.81\00:40:19.18
Cuba physicians and nurses.
00:40:19.21\00:40:21.42
Glory. Yeah.
00:40:21.45\00:40:22.98
We're planning to train
00:40:23.02\00:40:24.35
all the pastors
of our Cuban Union,
00:40:24.39\00:40:28.12
with this
medical missionary tool.
00:40:28.16\00:40:30.69
We're planning to train
also the seminary students.
00:40:30.73\00:40:34.53
It means that this
medical missionary work
00:40:34.56\00:40:39.07
is turning to be one of the most
00:40:39.10\00:40:42.14
effective evangelistic
tools in the island of Cuba.
00:40:42.17\00:40:45.14
And so it just goes to prove
that to what Ellen White wrote
00:40:45.17\00:40:49.18
so many years ago
00:40:49.21\00:40:50.65
that the medical
work is going to be
00:40:50.68\00:40:54.58
the right arm of the gospel.
00:40:54.62\00:40:55.95
That's how you get
people's attention.
00:40:55.98\00:40:58.09
So as vice director
00:40:58.12\00:41:00.66
for the Adventist
theological seminary of Cuba,
00:41:00.69\00:41:03.63
that means you're kind of like
number two in charge, right?
00:41:03.66\00:41:06.63
Yeah.
00:41:06.66\00:41:08.00
Yeah, you're the
second guy there, okay.
00:41:08.03\00:41:09.73
And now you are
taking this program
00:41:09.76\00:41:13.13
because you've seen
the World Youth Group
00:41:13.17\00:41:15.87
has been so successful.
00:41:15.90\00:41:17.84
Now you gonna start training
the professionals to do this
00:41:17.87\00:41:21.14
as well as the youth
because it is so good.
00:41:21.18\00:41:23.65
That, I mean, you
see the perfect how God,
00:41:23.68\00:41:26.65
the confluence of
all of these things
00:41:26.68\00:41:28.68
at how God touches
00:41:28.72\00:41:30.19
two hearts of a couple
just in Sabbath school,
00:41:30.22\00:41:35.02
and you meet the lady who says
please send these people to my
00:41:35.06\00:41:38.66
or bringing
this missionary group
00:41:38.69\00:41:40.70
to my country Cuba.
00:41:40.73\00:41:42.16
It's amazing.
00:41:42.20\00:41:43.53
Yeah, because you've
never been to Cuba, had no...
00:41:43.57\00:41:46.03
and you had no contacts there,
00:41:46.07\00:41:47.94
but then he connects you
with people like Pastor Luis,
00:41:47.97\00:41:51.51
Pastor Samuel with the...
00:41:51.54\00:41:54.84
not only with the
seminary and the union,
00:41:54.88\00:41:57.51
but he just now
keeps exploding things,
00:41:57.55\00:42:00.48
isn't it God...
00:42:00.52\00:42:01.85
Yes.
00:42:01.88\00:42:03.22
No, I had...I keep,
you know, I get so excited
00:42:03.25\00:42:05.89
as I'm thinking
about all of this,
00:42:05.92\00:42:07.26
and I keep
getting ahead of myself.
00:42:07.29\00:42:09.26
What...
00:42:09.29\00:42:11.49
how do you support yourselves,
that's what I wanted to ask
00:42:11.53\00:42:14.80
because you've
been building these
00:42:14.83\00:42:17.37
churches or
houses, buying these homes,
00:42:17.40\00:42:20.60
you're building this new...
00:42:20.64\00:42:23.44
since you've been
going out in the seminary,
00:42:23.47\00:42:25.51
you're building
all of this new thing.
00:42:25.54\00:42:27.64
How do you support yourself?
00:42:27.68\00:42:29.34
You know, it's just
a miracle of the Lord.
00:42:29.38\00:42:32.08
We have not had time, Shelley,
to build the infrastructure
00:42:32.11\00:42:36.18
that most ministries have...
00:42:36.22\00:42:38.09
Now, let me just stop
you right there for a second.
00:42:38.12\00:42:40.49
Why haven't you had time?
00:42:40.52\00:42:42.46
You've been working full
time in the corporate world
00:42:42.49\00:42:47.00
for how many years?
00:42:47.03\00:42:48.46
For 36 years.
00:42:48.50\00:42:50.00
And how recently
did the Lord call you
00:42:50.03\00:42:53.37
and say hey,
that's enough of that,
00:42:53.40\00:42:56.17
you've got something,
00:42:56.20\00:42:57.54
I've got you do here
what the World Youth Group,
00:42:57.57\00:42:59.61
even though this has been
ongoing ministry for 19 years.
00:42:59.64\00:43:03.21
When did you make
the commitment to God,
00:43:03.24\00:43:06.11
to now go full time?
00:43:06.15\00:43:07.88
Shelley, about eight months ago,
00:43:07.92\00:43:10.99
the Lord gave a very clear
call to us that now is the time.
00:43:11.02\00:43:15.46
We've been praying for 10 years,
00:43:15.49\00:43:16.83
when do we do this?
00:43:16.86\00:43:18.33
But eight months ago the
Lord spoke to both my wife
00:43:18.36\00:43:22.46
and I and said,
dedicate all of your time to me.
00:43:22.50\00:43:28.24
And we've been willing by
the grace of God to follow,
00:43:28.27\00:43:32.47
and it's been the
most precious experience,
00:43:32.51\00:43:34.34
we've had eight
months, we're babes in this.
00:43:34.38\00:43:36.71
Yes, but well, 19
years of experience,
00:43:36.75\00:43:39.31
eight months full time so,
but you are babes as far as,
00:43:39.35\00:43:43.02
you know, this is something that
00:43:43.05\00:43:44.65
when people step out in faith,
00:43:44.69\00:43:46.92
it's so amazing
because you quit your job,
00:43:46.96\00:43:50.39
they are working full time,
00:43:50.43\00:43:51.76
they don't take a
penny from the ministry.
00:43:51.79\00:43:54.76
Everything that
goes into your ministry
00:43:54.80\00:43:57.03
is going directly to
support the ministry.
00:43:57.07\00:43:59.70
So you're not being
paid, no ones getting paid
00:43:59.73\00:44:02.10
except for the Bible workers
in the medical missionaries
00:44:02.14\00:44:06.61
that you send out
that you give the stipend.
00:44:06.64\00:44:08.78
So that comes back to
the question then how...
00:44:08.81\00:44:12.78
I know, God has been
supporting you for 19 years,
00:44:12.81\00:44:15.45
how does the support come?
00:44:15.48\00:44:17.62
How does God do it,
it's just a miracle.
00:44:17.65\00:44:20.99
You know, it's
widows giving $5 a month
00:44:21.02\00:44:24.19
but they're consistent
and they've been doing it.
00:44:24.23\00:44:27.16
We have some that have
been doing it for 19 years.
00:44:27.20\00:44:29.26
Praise God.
00:44:29.30\00:44:30.63
Twenty five dollars a month
00:44:30.67\00:44:32.00
and that
supports one Bible worker.
00:44:32.03\00:44:34.20
And, you know, we want
to go to a 100 Bible workers
00:44:34.24\00:44:36.91
and then when it started
coming to the establishing part,
00:44:36.94\00:44:39.44
Lord we need houses,
we need houses to worship,
00:44:39.47\00:44:41.88
we're getting flocks
and new congregations,
00:44:41.91\00:44:44.15
what do we do?
00:44:44.18\00:44:45.65
And I remember the first house
we've built was for $8,000.
00:44:45.68\00:44:50.32
Lord where will we ever
get $8,000, and God provided,
00:44:50.35\00:44:54.32
and then last year
eight new houses at $15,000.
00:44:54.36\00:44:58.56
That's amazing.
00:44:58.59\00:44:59.93
And these houses
are the worship centers.
00:44:59.96\00:45:02.13
We want to make sure
00:45:02.16\00:45:03.50
if somebody has
just tuned in late
00:45:03.53\00:45:05.70
that they didn't hear that part.
00:45:05.73\00:45:07.10
So now tell me
a little bit about
00:45:07.14\00:45:08.90
your typical year calendar.
00:45:08.94\00:45:10.64
What does a calendar
year look like for you?
00:45:10.67\00:45:14.38
It looks really busy, but we do,
00:45:14.41\00:45:16.28
in January we're
doing a one month school.
00:45:16.31\00:45:19.71
And then we come to the spring
and we do evangelistic series
00:45:19.75\00:45:24.19
with youth from North America.
00:45:24.22\00:45:25.82
And then we come
00:45:25.85\00:45:27.19
to the late spring early summer,
00:45:27.22\00:45:28.56
we do evangelistic series
with the seminary students
00:45:28.59\00:45:31.09
helping the youth.
00:45:31.13\00:45:32.66
And then we come to the
medical missionary convention.
00:45:32.69\00:45:39.07
We have a national
medical missionary convention
00:45:39.10\00:45:41.64
which we have
more than 500 people
00:45:41.67\00:45:43.41
coming to now in Havana.
00:45:43.44\00:45:45.91
It's become a very popular thing
00:45:45.94\00:45:47.48
and kind of the only
camp meeting in Cuba,
00:45:47.51\00:45:49.61
a little bit like ASI.
00:45:49.64\00:45:51.01
And then we do fall evangelism.
00:45:51.05\00:45:54.22
We'll be going down again
soon for a fall evangelism
00:45:54.25\00:45:58.15
in six cities, six new cities.
00:45:58.19\00:46:01.49
That's 24 campaigns per year
00:46:01.52\00:46:04.69
and then we start
at the end of the year
00:46:04.73\00:46:07.63
preparing for the
new one month school.
00:46:07.66\00:46:11.73
One month school
00:46:11.77\00:46:13.20
and then you gonna have
a six months school, right?
00:46:13.23\00:46:14.80
Yeah, starting soon.
00:46:14.84\00:46:16.17
Starting soon, and it's
just, it amazes me how you see,
00:46:16.20\00:46:21.14
how God can use to, he uses
00:46:21.18\00:46:25.21
all of us are just simple people
00:46:25.25\00:46:26.61
that He uses.
00:46:26.65\00:46:27.98
Amazes me He uses me.
00:46:28.02\00:46:30.32
But He can just
wake you up one day
00:46:30.35\00:46:33.36
and say follow
Me, and when you do,
00:46:33.39\00:46:36.79
God does amazing things.
00:46:36.83\00:46:38.96
The World Youth Group
International is a 501c3
00:46:38.99\00:46:43.77
non-profit organization.
00:46:43.80\00:46:45.80
And if the Lord is
touching your heart,
00:46:45.83\00:46:48.20
if you want to see
the gospel explode in Cuba
00:46:48.24\00:46:52.31
and God's touching your heart
that he wants you to support
00:46:52.34\00:46:56.24
perhaps one of
these medical missionaries
00:46:56.28\00:46:59.48
or maybe you would like
to go down and be part of it,
00:46:59.51\00:47:02.52
that comes down as an evangelist
00:47:02.55\00:47:04.62
or even I'm sure you
can use other doctors
00:47:04.65\00:47:07.56
as you're doing
your health expos.
00:47:07.59\00:47:09.89
You can contact
them and find out,
00:47:09.92\00:47:12.73
get their calendar,
find out what's going on.
00:47:12.76\00:47:15.70
Find out how to support
them, or how you can participate
00:47:15.73\00:47:19.00
because every time you
send a youth on a mission trip,
00:47:19.03\00:47:23.10
it is life changing and
they get connected to God.
00:47:23.14\00:47:26.21
Here is how you can get in touch
00:47:26.24\00:47:28.48
with the World Youth Group.
00:47:28.51\00:47:33.45
World Youth Group inspires,
trains and supports workers
00:47:33.48\00:47:36.62
in ministering the healing
love and salvation of Christ
00:47:36.65\00:47:39.22
to advance the
kingdom of God on earth.
00:47:39.25\00:47:41.32
If you would like to
contact or support this ministry
00:47:41.36\00:47:43.56
write to World
Youth Group Incorporated,
00:47:43.59\00:47:46.53
PO Box 1454, Westminster,
South Carolina 29693.
00:47:46.56\00:47:52.13
That's World Youth Group
Incorporated, PO Box 1454,
00:47:52.17\00:47:56.57
Westminster,
South Carolina 29693.
00:47:56.60\00:48:00.08
You can call 864-723-6442.
00:48:00.11\00:48:03.75
That's 864-723-6442.
00:48:03.78\00:48:07.22
You can also visit them online
at www.WorldYouthGroup.com
00:48:07.25\00:48:12.45
or email henry.stubbs@gmail.com.
00:48:12.49\00:48:19.39
They were just telling me
while the address was rolling
00:48:19.43\00:48:22.00
that there is
over 500 cities in Cuba
00:48:22.03\00:48:26.10
that had still not been
reached with the gospel.
00:48:26.13\00:48:29.30
That's amazing to me,
but we have to remember Luis,
00:48:29.34\00:48:32.77
you grew up in...
it's a communist country,
00:48:32.81\00:48:36.04
it still is a communist country.
00:48:36.08\00:48:38.25
Now, just a quick question,
were your parents Adventist?
00:48:38.28\00:48:42.15
Did you grow up in
an Adventist church?
00:48:42.18\00:48:44.22
No. They were not.
00:48:44.25\00:48:45.89
Yes, a year ago after
being member of the SDA church
00:48:45.92\00:48:51.03
for 20 years, I
had the privilege
00:48:51.06\00:48:53.26
of baptizing my mother.
00:48:53.29\00:48:55.83
It was my birthday, I
was getting 40 years old
00:48:55.86\00:48:59.83
and I baptized her that day
00:48:59.87\00:49:02.67
after 20 years of
being a member of the church.
00:49:02.70\00:49:05.84
Praise the Lord.
00:49:05.87\00:49:07.21
Well, we're going to go
to our second song right now
00:49:07.24\00:49:09.41
and then we're gonna
come back with a final thought
00:49:09.44\00:49:11.95
but it's just so exciting to me,
00:49:11.98\00:49:14.68
and how
appropriate that Jaime Jorge
00:49:14.72\00:49:16.62
is the one that fellow Cuban,
who is going to do the song
00:49:16.65\00:49:22.12
and you all know the words
to the song "He Leadeth Me".
00:49:22.16\00:49:26.13