I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I wanna 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 wanna spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I wanna spend my life
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Mending broken people.
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Hello, and welcome to
another 3ABN Today program,
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thank you for
joining us as always.
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Thank you for your
love and your prayers
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and support of 3ABN
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as we endeavor to take
this great gospel of the kingdom
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and to all the world.
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There's a number of ways
we can do that, we can...
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There's preaching
and there's singing,
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there's all kinds of
things that we can do,
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a lot of folk will
call it entertainment,
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we don't call it
that, we call it taking...
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Fulfilling the
mission that God has given us.
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But there's other
ways that's very important
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and in fact is talked
about in the book of James
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and it basically
says without going on,
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I'll paraphrase it,
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but it's helping those
who can't help themselves
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and I have some
friends today who're in,
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I'm not calling in the business,
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in the Lord's
business of helping those
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that need help in
a great time in need
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and it's good to have
Brother David Canther again.
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Thank you.
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David, it's good to
see you, it's been a while.
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Yes, going back to Katrina.
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Your President of...
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So it's interesting but, Danny,
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you knew of us as
ACTS World Relief...
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Yes, that's right.
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Now we've grown, so now
we have an ACTS 911 Division
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which is about
church growth strategy.
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Today we're gonna focus about
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our more recent
division last couple of years,
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GR3 International,
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Global Rescue
Relief and Resilience,
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about emergency response
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using volunteers
around the world.
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All right.
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So we're gonna be talking
about some incredible things
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and those of you watching
the news around the world,
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you know, that
disasters are happening
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and it's sure good to
have people like these
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come out by the
hundreds and even thousands
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to help and what a witness
it is to those around us.
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We're gonna find out more
about that in a little bit
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so, yeah, we went
all way back to Katrina
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with you all, back...
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When was that?
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2005 or 2006 and
it's been a while
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and actually we
got to experience that
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and see what you do
and the kind of work
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and the difference that
you make in people's lives.
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It's definitely a ministry
that's God ordained for sure.
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Now we have Peter Cousins.
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Peter, where are you from?
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North Carolina. Okay.
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And currently at
Tri-City Christian Academy
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which is in the Piedmont Triad,
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north center part
of North Carolina,
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High Point,
Greensboro, Winston-Salem area.
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Okay, now you're a
principal there of the academy?
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I've been there for seven years.
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Seven years, okay, but
you're originally from?
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Indiana. All
right, neighboring state.
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Hoosier state. Yeah, Hoosier.
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Neighboring state over there
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and I found out he
plays basketball too...
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Yes.
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So he's another Larry Bird
in the making, you know, so...
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For sure but
appreciate you being here
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and you got a couple
of young guys with you
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from the school and
we're gonna talk to them
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a little bit later on
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but before we get
into any more of this,
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we're gonna go
to some music today
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and we have one
of my best friends
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and buddies and
brothers in the world
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and also a very
talented and gifted preacher
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but also singer.
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So CA Murray's
gonna be singing, "Stand."
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You just stand
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When all your
courage seems to fail
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Stand, when it seems
that evil will prevail
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Stand, for He shows us in detail
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That His love will never fail
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And He'll stand with us
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You just stand,
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when you've said
all that you can say
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Stand, and trust
the Lord to make a way
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Stand, and live
your life from day to day
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Trust God to make a way
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And then walk through it
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For God has not
given us the spirit of fear
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He's given us love and power
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The courage to
resist the tempter's snare
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Be not weary in doing well
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For only time will tell
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The work He's begun in you
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Will help to see you through
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You know God's word is true
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And everything He
promised He will do
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So having done all to stand,
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you just stand
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You just stand,
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when you feel no
one's on your side
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Stand, defy the
urge to run and hide
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Stand, though gloom
and darkness override
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Trust God to turn the tide
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And pull you through it,
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He'll do it In
the name of Jesus,
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Stand
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For He is always there for you
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Stand, and watch the
Lord pull you through
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Stand, and though
you know not what to do
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Know that He's
looking out for you
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And He won't fail you.
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For God has not
given us the spirit of fear
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He's given us love and power
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The courage to
resist the tempter's snare
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Be not weary in doing well
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For only time will tell
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The work He's begun in you
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Will help to pull you through
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You know God's word is true
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And everything He
promised He will do
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So having done all to stand,
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stand Plant your feet
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and stand.
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Thank you, Pastor
Murray, beautiful "Stand."
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Well, we're gonna talk about
standing up for Jesus today
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and again I've
got David Canther,
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we've got Peter Cousins,
thank you all for being here.
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We've talked a little
bit about your ministry
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and I saw when I was in Katrina,
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a number of us
when we said, you know,
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you all are helping thousands
and thousands of people
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but not just the
physical of giving the water
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and giving the food
and cutting, you know,
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up the timber,
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the trees that's
falling on a rope
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but the impact you
make on people spiritually
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and that's really
what it's all about.
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And so in fact, I
read a little letter
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that someone had
written in the neighborhood
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where you all were
staying at a church
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and the letter was
talking about the young people,
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how much respect they have,
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not only for the
people they were volunteering
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and serving but each other.
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So a neighbor from across
from the Adventist Church said,
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we've been
watching and so in fact,
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they've attended recently
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and so it's really neat to
see the kind of organizations
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and the people that
you surround yourself with.
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So, David, tell us a little bit
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about some of your latest things
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that's been happening,
we wanna get to Matthew,
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that's one of most recent
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but I understand you've
been in the Philippines also...
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Yes, and, Danny,
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I love what you are
just sharing when it...
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You know, when the
Bible talks about standing
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for our Savior
through a sermon ensues
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the gospel is best illustrated
when we show our love,
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Jesus' love to meet
the needs of people first.
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And when He met those
needs, their hearts were open,
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so the testimony you
were just sharing is powerful
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because, here's a
teenager and their family
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who lived right across
the street from a church
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that hasn't
grown in years, okay?
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And they're trying to
figure how can we grow?
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Well, now when the storm comes
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and we refuse to let
Satan have the last word.
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You bring in
youth who are trained,
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they're highly skilled
and they get networking,
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helping out these people.
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Lo and behold,
they come to church.
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And so it happens over
and over throughout the years,
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we've been in over
a 100 deployments down
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and around the world.
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I'm an adject with Harvard
in their program of disaster.
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Medicine taking
doctors and but, you know,
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the amazing thing
is the more and more
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we live in the last days,
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storms are increasing
as the Bible tells us.
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But remember,
Jesus says to prepare now
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and too often people are praying
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that they don't happen
which is contrary to the Bible.
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So God says,
"If you prepare now,
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then you will be an effective
witness in evangelism."
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And this happens over and
over of some of the testimonies
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you're gonna hear
today and our viewers,
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of basically how that's happened
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over 400, 000 volunteers.
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So what used to
be Acts World Relief
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has now grown into
those two divisions
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and basically
we try to emphasize
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that Evangelism 3
Emergency Response
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that you saw a lot in Katrina
but, you know, the Philippines,
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I mean, we're talking now
typhoons are super typhoons,
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they're
happening 12 months a year
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and because of that we're
gonna show the first slide.
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Showing basically
in the Philippines,
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we were just
there a few months ago,
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the Union Office,
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the pastors, the
teachers, volunteers,
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we trained over 200 the
last time we were there,
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brought in over $14 million
of resources to help them...
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Wow.
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But basically they're
saying trainer pastors,
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trainer teachers.
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Steve Littell is shown
in this particular picture
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here, Steve is
the head of Security
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and Safety for McKee Foods.
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Okay, all right.
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There's a little box right
here in front of the planter...
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I see that.
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McKee's has been helping
working with us more and more.
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In Hurricane
Matthew, they sent 18 pallets,
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you're gonna see a picture...
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Oh, wow. Yeah.
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In the second segment,
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with us that a lot of
our volunteers distribute it,
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unwrapping a smile.
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So it's about
partnering together,
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whether it's schools,
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whether it's with
the Heritage Academy
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that have been featured
many times in here, our youth,
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Tri-City, many schools,
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so there were five
academies in this deployment.
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But the Philippines is unusual,
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in that we had
that great training,
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teaching them
everything from spiritual
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and emotional care to medical,
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how to help people
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and so you're trying to train
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the holistic
approach to training
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because remember, preparedness
is the main emphasis
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that Jesus wants
us to be prepared.
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So that when you go out,
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the youth understand
how to work as a team,
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safety and security
over and over is stressed
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and so to that, we're
gonna show the next slide
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and that kind of
leads into Peter.
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Okay.
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And what he experienced
in a most recent training
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and how ironic it was, Peter,
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share with us
about this picture,
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what it's illustrating
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and what kind of a training
happened with Jim Ingersoll
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of the Southern Union
Education training academies
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but you hosted it
right at your school.
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That's right.
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So this is
actually our third event
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that we have been
involved in for training.
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The second one,
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that's been at Tri-City
Christian Academy and...
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Just a little side note,
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when we built our school
which is two years old now,
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$6.3 million project,
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we built it with service in mind
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and we added showers,
we had a different things
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'cause we wanted people to
be able to come and stay there
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and do this kind of
thing and other things as well,
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so it was part of the mindset
that went into the building.
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So when Jim
Ingersoll approached us
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about having
Heritage Academy come
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and to do the training there,
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we were all excited
about it 'cause like I said,
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just fit right into the mission
of the board and what we had,
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what we wanted,
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what we had envisioned
things happening there.
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So the local fire
department also got involved
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with a simulation
of a lightning strike,
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for this particular picture
that we were just looking at,
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and Heritage Academy came
in, they did the training,
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their students were
training our students
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which was phenomenal.
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We had other schools come in,
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other junior academies
and they stay on the floor
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because that simulates
the circumstances you have
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when you go and serve,
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we were 45 people
sharing two showers.
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Oh, wow.
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Sleeping in a
fellowship hall, okay, so...
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Yeah.
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Not a lot of adults
will sign up for that
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but kids will, right?
00:14:04.57\00:14:05.91
Just get them together
and they're ready to go.
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You don't have to
explain a whole lot to them.
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And so this simulates that,
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they come and they
stay on the gym floor
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and then they go through
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the intensive
training with a cert.
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It's about two day
training, pretty intensive,
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a lot of safety
information is shared there,
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it's very important for us
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that the kids are very
safe and know how to be safe.
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And then we did the
simulation on Friday
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and the fire department came in,
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Heritage Academy knows
how to do what's called,
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'Moulage' where
they do the make up
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and make the injuries look real.
00:14:36.64\00:14:39.11
Oh, okay, all right.
00:14:39.14\00:14:40.48
And Glenn, one of the...
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Well, he is the head guy
there in the High Point area
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for organizing the event
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told us in 20
years of doing this,
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he's never seen
wounds that look so real...
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Wow.
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He was just excited
and amazed at what these...
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And in very short
time, like in an hour,
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they had all this ready to go.
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So these kids were
phenomenal and so the kids are,
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they get into this, right?
00:15:04.60\00:15:05.93
And they love to
act, so they're yelling
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and screaming
and the fire people,
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you know, the firemen,
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they take them to a certain area
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and say, 'stay here.'
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Well, they don't
stay there, right?
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Okay, 'Where's my brother?
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And they're wandering around,
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they've got to them
back and so they love that,
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really it's a good outlet
for the kids, it's hands on
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and they get to see in
action some of the stuff
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they've been learning
as the fire department
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is doing the triage
and then different things.
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So it was very neat
to be a part of that
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and highlight of
our year actually...
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Amen, so when
Matthew came along,
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I know we can talk
about some of that now
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or you wanna wait till later.
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Yep, go ahead.
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But Matthew came along.
So what did you actually do?
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So a week after
we did our training,
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literally one week after...
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Week after you trained.
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David called us and said,
00:15:49.31\00:15:50.71
"Hey, you guys wanna
put that training to use?"
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So we were very
excited about that.
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So we said, "Sure."
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So we got together, I got to...
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This is a very,
highlight of my year,
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I got to say, I
got to run a truck,
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a 4250 truck, I
usually drive a minivan.
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All right.
00:16:08.00\00:16:09.33
And I got to drive it all way
down to Florida upon a trail,
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I was very excited about that,
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we got to take our
chainsaws and different things.
00:16:12.43\00:16:14.50
We got down there, we
joined Heritage Academy,
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so there were about 83
kids, high school kids,
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9-12 that were down
there participating,
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we had three
activities we basically did,
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30 or so kids were able to
go and do warehouse sorting
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and food distribution
00:16:29.98\00:16:31.52
and the group
that went up there,
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the lady told us
that in three days,
00:16:33.56\00:16:36.56
they did over
50,000 food basket things,
00:16:36.59\00:16:40.66
she said that's more
than they do in three months.
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Okay.
00:16:42.23\00:16:43.57
These kids went up
there, in three days
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and did more than
they did in three months.
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Then we had two other groups,
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one group that
went out cutting wood
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which I was able
to be with that group,
00:16:49.90\00:16:51.37
which I was really
excited about that too.
00:16:51.41\00:16:52.74
I grew up cutting wood,
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every Sunday was
wood cutting day,
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so I was all over that...
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All right.
00:16:56.88\00:16:58.21
And then there
was another group,
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that went and did house mucks
where they mucked out the homes
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and that means
they have to go in
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after water damage and just...
00:17:02.35\00:17:03.69
Oh, sure.
00:17:03.72\00:17:05.05
Everything comes out,
even sheet rock, floor,
00:17:05.09\00:17:07.12
cabinets, furniture,
00:17:07.16\00:17:08.62
they're mucking the
house and they were doing good
00:17:08.66\00:17:11.19
if they did like two of
those in a day and on for us,
00:17:11.23\00:17:14.96
for cutting the wood,
00:17:15.00\00:17:16.33
we would do like
4-9 homes in a day,
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so it kind of intensity of
house muck is pretty intense
00:17:19.43\00:17:23.47
but it was really neat
00:17:23.51\00:17:24.84
because this merged the
skills of every ministry
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I've ever done
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and what I mean by
that is I've been a teacher,
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I've been a principal,
00:17:34.42\00:17:35.75
I've been a
literature evangelist
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and I was able to cut the
wood, to go and find the need.
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Here's the need,
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you go in and these
people have been told
00:17:43.22\00:17:44.56
it's gonna cost two
to five thousand dollars
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to have this work
done that they don't have.
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You come in and
introduce yourself,
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you go out there
and you start working,
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they are blown away,
00:17:53.67\00:17:55.60
that someone is
here doing this for us.
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You don't charge them?
We don't charge them a dime.
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Wow.
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And one house, I was
cheer with in particular,
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it was Friday and
the lady's name was Kay.
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And as we went there,
she had five trees down.
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She told us it was
quite an expensive,
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it was gonna be
thousands of dollars...
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Sure.
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Nothing hit the house,
00:18:14.76\00:18:16.09
so insurance
didn't wanna cover it.
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Okay.
00:18:17.49\00:18:18.83
As we're cutting the
wood, every water break,
00:18:18.86\00:18:20.20
she comes out and shares
00:18:20.23\00:18:21.56
a little bit of
her story, right?
00:18:21.60\00:18:22.93
First time, she
comes out and shares,
00:18:22.96\00:18:24.30
you know, her dog had
passed away back in February,
00:18:24.33\00:18:27.34
it had been her
dog for 12 years,
00:18:27.37\00:18:28.70
she was really
emotionally upset about it,
00:18:28.74\00:18:30.61
teared up and she goes back in.
00:18:30.64\00:18:32.94
Next water break, she comes out
00:18:32.97\00:18:34.31
and she shares
with us, you know,
00:18:34.34\00:18:35.68
"Two weeks after that,
00:18:35.71\00:18:37.05
my husband got brain cancer
00:18:37.08\00:18:38.58
and he died very
shortly after that."
00:18:38.61\00:18:40.82
Oh, wow. And she's
sharing this with us.
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She goes back in
the house, teared up.
00:18:42.45\00:18:43.95
She can't finish the story.
00:18:43.99\00:18:45.79
We're just
listening, we weren't,
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we didn't have
any special technique
00:18:47.56\00:18:49.59
that we had learned, you know,
00:18:49.62\00:18:50.96
I'm saying about how to deal
with them, we just listened.
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That's all we did was
listen, listen and help and so,
00:18:53.46\00:18:57.73
when we got down which is
what we did at every home,
00:18:57.77\00:18:59.60
we got together
and we had prayer.
00:18:59.63\00:19:03.04
And then we'd
have a Steps to Christ
00:19:03.07\00:19:04.47
and we would share
again, very simple.
00:19:04.51\00:19:06.21
This is why we do what we do
00:19:06.24\00:19:07.88
and we hand it to
them and leave it to them.
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So the next day was church...
00:19:09.74\00:19:11.08
So you give them a
book instead of a bill?
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That's right. Okay.
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I think anybody's
gonna accept that.
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That's right.
00:19:17.62\00:19:18.95
Well, the next day in church,
00:19:18.99\00:19:21.12
her friend's name was Jen
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and Jen came up and talked to me
00:19:23.32\00:19:25.79
and she told me
the rest of the story
00:19:25.83\00:19:27.33
which was really neat.
00:19:27.36\00:19:28.93
She said that, that
Friday evening after we left,
00:19:28.96\00:19:31.27
she had come home, not home
00:19:31.30\00:19:32.63
but came to a
Kay's home to visit
00:19:32.67\00:19:35.37
and when she walked in,
00:19:35.40\00:19:36.91
Kay was sitting in a
chair reading that book we left,
00:19:36.94\00:19:39.01
she's reading Steps to Christ.
00:19:39.04\00:19:40.38
Oh, praise God.
And it gets better.
00:19:40.41\00:19:42.41
So they get ready to have supper
00:19:42.44\00:19:44.51
and, normally, she said,
00:19:44.55\00:19:46.98
Kay has never
wanted to pray with her.
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She's asked
her, will you pray...
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Meal time or other
times and she says, "No."
00:19:50.29\00:19:53.52
They're talking, talking,
talking and they get ready
00:19:53.56\00:19:56.09
and Jen says, "Can I
have my prayer before I eat?"
00:19:56.12\00:19:59.36
and she said,
00:19:59.39\00:20:00.73
"Why don't we pray
together this time?"
00:20:00.76\00:20:02.10
Oh, wow.
00:20:02.13\00:20:03.47
That Jen told me,
00:20:03.50\00:20:04.87
Jen teared up at church
when she's telling me that.
00:20:04.90\00:20:06.74
She said, "Peter,
she has never said,
00:20:06.77\00:20:10.07
'Let's pray together.'
00:20:10.11\00:20:11.47
" So that's the impact
that this has, you know,
00:20:11.51\00:20:13.61
you come in and you
look at what they need,
00:20:13.64\00:20:17.25
you fulfill that
need by God's grace
00:20:17.28\00:20:20.48
and now the
hearts are open, right?
00:20:20.52\00:20:22.68
The hearts are open and
that's what's so powerful,
00:20:22.72\00:20:25.02
literature evangelism,
teaching the students,
00:20:25.05\00:20:28.46
that's gonna be on here next is,
00:20:28.49\00:20:29.82
one of them is Nigah.
00:20:29.86\00:20:31.19
Anyone tell the
story about Nigah
00:20:31.23\00:20:32.96
because we were at one home
00:20:32.99\00:20:35.46
and we've been
giving the Steps to Christ,
00:20:35.50\00:20:37.07
we're getting ready to
pray, he was next to me,
00:20:37.10\00:20:38.63
had the Steps to
Christ in my hand
00:20:38.67\00:20:40.84
and he leans over and
says, "Can I do this one?"
00:20:40.87\00:20:44.14
Okay.
00:20:44.17\00:20:45.51
So, so the kids
are learning, right?
00:20:45.54\00:20:47.31
Yeah, absolutely.
00:20:47.34\00:20:48.68
They're learning by
what we model to them.
00:20:48.71\00:20:50.05
So that's why, to
me, this was so powerful,
00:20:50.08\00:20:51.81
it was so powerful to be
the hands and feet of Jesus
00:20:51.85\00:20:55.18
and to see the hearts open
up as you minister in this way.
00:20:55.22\00:20:59.32
Yeah, you know, David.
00:20:59.35\00:21:02.02
When we hear this,
the amount of money
00:21:02.06\00:21:04.73
that you're talking about
00:21:04.76\00:21:06.26
because you're just
kind of throwing out,
00:21:06.29\00:21:08.13
while the food
packing more than they've done
00:21:08.16\00:21:11.03
and it takes three months.
00:21:11.07\00:21:12.77
You know, thousands of meals.
00:21:12.80\00:21:16.44
Millions of dollars
that from the Philippines
00:21:16.47\00:21:19.57
whether it's here around,
you must be a wealthy guy.
00:21:19.61\00:21:23.04
Yeah, that's, you know,
00:21:23.08\00:21:24.41
and I praise God when
people say that to me.
00:21:24.45\00:21:26.15
Yeah.
00:21:26.18\00:21:27.52
And I say, "Man, you
know, the image is powerful."
00:21:27.55\00:21:30.75
Yeah.
00:21:30.79\00:21:32.12
But, Danny, you know,
00:21:32.15\00:21:33.49
you and I can both
relate to this journey of life.
00:21:33.52\00:21:35.49
It's a faith ministry,
we're not a part of the,
00:21:35.52\00:21:40.33
let's say, church structure,
Yeah, organisation, sure.
00:21:40.36\00:21:43.63
where basically,
we're supporting ministry,
00:21:43.67\00:21:45.60
it is by faith.
00:21:45.63\00:21:47.00
Now actually in
the last hurricane
00:21:47.04\00:21:49.20
with Matthew, you
have to be very careful
00:21:49.24\00:21:51.37
because when you were
out there with us in Katrina,
00:21:51.41\00:21:55.58
it was literally
costing us 60, 000 a day
00:21:55.61\00:21:58.01
in that
deployment, that's by faith.
00:21:58.05\00:22:00.02
Yes.
00:22:00.05\00:22:01.38
When you have no real donors
00:22:01.42\00:22:05.35
that are a part
of an organization,
00:22:05.39\00:22:07.82
it's really by faith.
00:22:07.86\00:22:09.56
So hurricane Matthew,
00:22:09.59\00:22:10.93
it's like Jim
would call me and he say,
00:22:10.96\00:22:12.39
"Can you send an, you know,
00:22:12.43\00:22:13.76
one of your mobile kitchens
and your shower trailer and,
00:22:13.80\00:22:16.73
you know, other
trucks and what not."
00:22:16.77\00:22:18.60
And I said, "Yes, Jim, we
can but I need to tell you.
00:22:18.63\00:22:22.20
I just talked to my accountant,
00:22:22.24\00:22:24.24
we put the word out
there on our faithful donors,
00:22:24.27\00:22:27.38
$200 is coming."
00:22:27.41\00:22:28.74
Okay?
00:22:28.78\00:22:30.25
So there's this
challenge you face.
00:22:30.28\00:22:33.68
You know, even here at 3ABN,
00:22:33.72\00:22:35.45
you're always
trying to say, "Oh Lord."
00:22:35.48\00:22:36.82
Always.
00:22:36.85\00:22:38.19
You know, it's one day at a time
00:22:38.22\00:22:39.55
and so some people
like to say, "Oh, Pastor,
00:22:39.59\00:22:42.52
are you making so much
money and you must be wealthy
00:22:42.56\00:22:44.89
and created this
thing to make money."
00:22:44.93\00:22:46.80
You and I both know,
00:22:46.83\00:22:48.16
we face a lot of that criticism,
00:22:48.20\00:22:50.20
on the positive side though,
we respond back positively,
00:22:50.23\00:22:53.03
we thank people
for their donations.
00:22:53.07\00:22:55.17
I make literally less
than I did as a pastor
00:22:55.20\00:22:57.37
for 32 years now.
00:22:57.41\00:22:58.74
Yeah.
00:22:58.77\00:23:00.11
So what I do though
is it's a faith ministry,
00:23:00.14\00:23:03.91
I restore classic cars,
homes that supports ministry.
00:23:03.95\00:23:08.98
Okay.
00:23:09.02\00:23:10.35
So you see the
Bible talks about this,
00:23:10.39\00:23:12.29
it gets into our hearts, we
do it for a passion to help.
00:23:12.32\00:23:16.12
And so I do appeal to our donors
00:23:16.16\00:23:18.56
because we don't
have levels of bureaucracy
00:23:18.59\00:23:20.80
and administration and salaries.
00:23:20.83\00:23:24.27
We operated like out of
1% cost and so the money,
00:23:24.30\00:23:28.07
it's going directly
into young people's lives,
00:23:28.10\00:23:30.97
changing their lives and, yes,
00:23:31.01\00:23:33.58
we wish we could pull out
a lot other things and feed,
00:23:33.61\00:23:35.98
we could have fed
thousands of people
00:23:36.01\00:23:37.58
with the mobile kitchens,
00:23:37.61\00:23:39.21
didn't have the
financing to do it.
00:23:39.25\00:23:41.25
And so you do what
you can do by faith
00:23:41.28\00:23:44.02
but you're always
trying to straddle that,
00:23:44.05\00:23:46.02
you know, how far do you
go but it is an opportunity
00:23:46.05\00:23:50.99
for donors to understand
that if you wanna help ministry
00:23:51.03\00:23:53.40
and maybe, it's
not even at dollars,
00:23:53.43\00:23:55.50
maybe you have a
classic car, a vintage car,
00:23:55.53\00:23:58.20
a home or something that
you haven't donated to 3ABN
00:23:58.23\00:24:01.97
and, you know, you'd like...
00:24:02.00\00:24:03.94
Because it's all networking,
it's working together
00:24:03.97\00:24:06.64
and so you guys have graciously,
00:24:06.68\00:24:09.38
really more than anyone
else help support this ministry.
00:24:09.41\00:24:13.88
When donations have come to
you, you pass them on to us.
00:24:13.92\00:24:16.99
That's all about
working together.
00:24:17.02\00:24:18.89
It's about networking together.
00:24:18.92\00:24:20.72
It's about letting people know
00:24:20.76\00:24:22.39
what the reality
is of credibility,
00:24:22.42\00:24:25.59
of being transparent.
00:24:25.63\00:24:29.10
We can talk about at the end,
00:24:29.13\00:24:30.47
"Why millennials are
searching for ministries
00:24:30.50\00:24:34.47
and the church
to become involved
00:24:34.50\00:24:35.94
and why they're
leaving the church?"
00:24:35.97\00:24:37.44
They want relevancy.
00:24:37.47\00:24:39.47
They want transparency
but they want to be involved.
00:24:39.51\00:24:42.64
And so, you at 3ABN and
we are the same in many ways.
00:24:42.68\00:24:47.02
There's a lot of similarity.
We both use volunteers.
00:24:47.05\00:24:51.29
The salaries are not
what attracts people to us...
00:24:51.32\00:24:53.62
Right, absolutely.
00:24:53.66\00:24:55.09
And God blesses
that paradigm shift.
00:24:55.12\00:24:57.49
Yeah.
00:24:57.53\00:24:58.86
Well, what we have in
common is the mission,
00:24:58.89\00:25:02.23
taking the Gospel to the world.
00:25:02.26\00:25:03.60
Yes.
00:25:03.63\00:25:04.97
And then being able to
realize that there's some hands
00:25:05.00\00:25:08.54
and some feet and
some mouth and, you know,
00:25:08.57\00:25:11.47
all of this together
make up the body of Christ.
00:25:11.51\00:25:14.64
And so you can do
things and you're prepared
00:25:14.68\00:25:17.51
and trained to do things
we can't do and vice versa,
00:25:17.55\00:25:20.72
we can help let people
know what you're doing...
00:25:20.75\00:25:22.78
Yes.
00:25:22.82\00:25:24.15
So they'll have the opportunity
to support you financially
00:25:24.19\00:25:27.42
and so what I've
seen over the years,
00:25:27.46\00:25:29.49
the things now, tell us
a little bit about Haiti,
00:25:29.52\00:25:31.99
I mean, you're not
just here in the States,
00:25:32.03\00:25:33.96
you started in the States
00:25:34.00\00:25:35.33
but you continue to
grow into other areas.
00:25:35.36\00:25:38.60
Yes, the tragedy
is, the reality is
00:25:38.63\00:25:41.37
I don't like to look at it,
00:25:41.40\00:25:42.74
it's all bad and negative
in the sense that God says,
00:25:42.77\00:25:46.54
"It's gonna happen in the end,
it will increase, be prepared."
00:25:46.57\00:25:50.65
And so Haiti
actually was much worse
00:25:50.68\00:25:52.91
than it affected the U.S.
00:25:52.95\00:25:54.82
Haiti was devastated
00:25:54.85\00:25:56.48
and I've been to Haiti 38 times,
00:25:56.52\00:25:58.75
helping with a lot of response,
you know, I was even reminded,
00:25:58.79\00:26:04.23
this little testimony is from
Dr. Scott Nelson from Haiti.
00:26:04.26\00:26:08.03
He was the lead
poster child at Loma Linda,
00:26:08.06\00:26:10.80
that we came in and
supported with Haiti
00:26:10.83\00:26:13.20
and here we brought over
00:26:13.23\00:26:14.57
7000 medical care
providers in to Haiti...
00:26:14.60\00:26:16.67
Seven thousand.
00:26:16.71\00:26:18.04
Two were Adventist
Hospital helping support him
00:26:18.07\00:26:20.68
'cause he was
really the lead Doc,
00:26:20.71\00:26:22.04
orthopedic surgeon.
00:26:22.08\00:26:24.01
He wrote this
letter and he said,
00:26:24.05\00:26:25.95
just a few highlights he said,
now he wrote this last year.
00:26:25.98\00:26:28.38
This is, you know,
00:26:28.42\00:26:29.75
this is a number of
years after the earthquake.
00:26:29.78\00:26:31.82
And he says,
"There are many things,
00:26:31.85\00:26:33.59
you know, in 2010
when that happened.
00:26:33.62\00:26:35.96
Although, you know,
00:26:35.99\00:26:37.76
David and his team
were the first to arrive,
00:26:37.79\00:26:39.39
he certainly was
not the first to leave.
00:26:39.43\00:26:41.93
He led a well
organized team of people
00:26:41.96\00:26:44.10
and briefings in
the morning and evenings
00:26:44.13\00:26:46.23
and utilized his volunteers
00:26:46.27\00:26:47.80
in a efficient
and effective manner,
00:26:47.84\00:26:50.17
collaboration left a
lasting imprint in my mind
00:26:50.21\00:26:52.84
of his unique and
impressive capabilities."
00:26:52.87\00:26:54.98
So in other words,
00:26:55.01\00:26:56.34
it's all about that
thing of networking,
00:26:56.38\00:26:58.21
working together.
00:26:58.25\00:26:59.58
None of us are
anything by ourselves
00:26:59.61\00:27:01.25
but we all bring a
little significant drip
00:27:01.28\00:27:03.89
but when we unite
together, it's powerful.
00:27:03.92\00:27:07.29
It's life changing, so,
Haiti, yes, hurricane Matthew,
00:27:07.32\00:27:11.53
full strength as
it hit into Haiti,
00:27:11.56\00:27:14.46
a category four-
five right in there,
00:27:14.50\00:27:16.70
about the worst you can get
00:27:16.73\00:27:18.07
but this time it
hit not Port au Prince,
00:27:18.10\00:27:20.17
not around the
Adventist Hospital,
00:27:20.20\00:27:21.84
remote area.
00:27:21.87\00:27:23.77
These people are
lucky to make it by road
00:27:23.81\00:27:25.97
before a storm,
out to their, you know,
00:27:26.01\00:27:28.21
remote villages but
a very unique people,
00:27:28.24\00:27:31.25
only 20% of the
people in this area
00:27:31.28\00:27:33.85
had drinkable water, 20%
of your children, families,
00:27:33.88\00:27:37.62
when the hurricane Matthew hit,
00:27:37.65\00:27:39.25
it brought it down to 0, 0%
had drinking water which means,
00:27:39.29\00:27:44.83
lot of the ones
that you heard of dying
00:27:44.86\00:27:47.53
were because of
lack of water and food.
00:27:47.56\00:27:49.43
What a shame.
00:27:49.46\00:27:50.80
Okay, so in other words,
they have their drinking water
00:27:50.83\00:27:53.17
that you and I would not drink
00:27:53.20\00:27:54.90
and they drink and
they get diarrhea too.
00:27:54.94\00:27:58.07
So the mothers
that are drinking that,
00:27:58.11\00:28:00.01
they give
diarrhea to their children,
00:28:00.04\00:28:01.51
their children die.
00:28:01.54\00:28:03.01
And so, the thousands of people,
00:28:03.04\00:28:06.48
actually the media only
covered not even a half of those
00:28:06.51\00:28:10.12
who died but here
you're talking about,
00:28:10.15\00:28:12.35
we sent in a mental
health team first of all,
00:28:12.39\00:28:14.89
'cause we've been
there many times training.
00:28:14.92\00:28:16.89
In the past, you know,
I had like 45 translators
00:28:16.93\00:28:19.79
after the earthquake but going
many times training, a lot of,
00:28:19.83\00:28:23.57
another one of our
partners, as World Vision, ADRA.
00:28:23.60\00:28:28.34
World Vision has
been one of, you know,
00:28:28.37\00:28:30.27
1400 Adventists
employed by World Vision,
00:28:30.31\00:28:33.68
tremendous networking together.
00:28:33.71\00:28:35.64
But basically training a lot
of the youth of Haiti to respond
00:28:35.68\00:28:39.41
'cause they are
the first responders,
00:28:39.45\00:28:41.18
they're there and
they kicked into action,
00:28:41.22\00:28:43.49
trained the whole
staff at World Vision office,
00:28:43.52\00:28:45.45
they kicked into action helping,
00:28:45.49\00:28:46.99
we brought in a
team of specialists
00:28:47.02\00:28:48.52
they requested once again
00:28:48.56\00:28:50.06
and they just came
out about a week ago.
00:28:50.09\00:28:52.66
We're going back in
with a medical team,
00:28:52.69\00:28:55.23
we've helped millions
and millions of dollars
00:28:55.26\00:28:56.73
in Haiti
00:28:56.77\00:28:58.10
but they're suffering right now.
00:28:58.13\00:28:59.50
So if our donors wanna help
things like that once again,
00:28:59.53\00:29:03.17
no administration levels,
we go and we help the people,
00:29:03.20\00:29:06.54
they can see a
direct cause and effect.
00:29:06.57\00:29:08.21
In just a minute or two,
00:29:08.24\00:29:09.58
we're gonna put an
address up on the screen
00:29:09.61\00:29:11.18
rather than wait
till the end and be sure,
00:29:11.21\00:29:14.15
if you get a pencil
and paper or something
00:29:14.18\00:29:15.78
that you can get this address,
but I wanna ask you a question,
00:29:15.82\00:29:18.65
I don't know if anyone's
ever asked you this or not.
00:29:18.69\00:29:21.42
You said, you were a
pastor, for how many years?
00:29:21.46\00:29:23.69
Thirty two
years. Thirty two years.
00:29:23.73\00:29:25.36
Now as a pastor, you had a body,
00:29:25.39\00:29:28.86
you had a membership, a church.
00:29:28.90\00:29:31.10
How would you
compare what you're doing now
00:29:31.13\00:29:35.87
as compared to the 32 years
of preaching to church members
00:29:35.90\00:29:41.98
in general versus preaching
00:29:42.01\00:29:45.68
basically to
the world in general
00:29:45.71\00:29:48.38
through this
type health ministry
00:29:48.42\00:29:51.59
versus just word ministry?
00:29:51.62\00:29:54.69
It's a powerful ministry,
00:29:54.72\00:29:56.12
my wife reminds me when I
say I was a pastor for 30...
00:29:56.16\00:29:59.49
She says, "Now
you're still a pastor."
00:29:59.53\00:30:01.23
And so I have to be careful,
00:30:01.26\00:30:02.60
pastor of a
congregation like you're...
00:30:02.63\00:30:04.27
But a different type.
00:30:04.30\00:30:05.63
It's a different type,
this ministry is global,
00:30:05.67\00:30:08.74
in the sense that I love youth.
00:30:08.77\00:30:10.61
I love...
00:30:10.64\00:30:12.14
Let's say a group of physicians
came in with hurricane Matthew,
00:30:12.17\00:30:14.71
they called me and
they said, "We have planes,
00:30:14.74\00:30:17.41
we have our own planes,
we have our own chainsaws,
00:30:17.45\00:30:19.38
we love doing this.
00:30:19.41\00:30:20.88
We're anesthesiologists
and if you clear and screen,
00:30:20.92\00:30:26.86
where we know our time
is well invested to take off
00:30:26.89\00:30:29.49
to fly and to do it."
00:30:29.52\00:30:30.86
Those are the kind of
volunteers that sign up.
00:30:30.89\00:30:32.39
Wow.
00:30:32.43\00:30:33.76
So in other
words, if you make sure
00:30:33.80\00:30:35.80
that their time is well
spent and they leave fulfilled,
00:30:35.83\00:30:38.83
when youth by the thousands,
over 400,000 volunteers,
00:30:38.87\00:30:41.80
when they have
fulfilled lives in Jesus Christ,
00:30:41.84\00:30:45.07
they've helped somebody,
to me, that is a ministry
00:30:45.11\00:30:48.14
that is so
powerful it makes me cry
00:30:48.18\00:30:50.41
because I see how God in
His goodness, in His mercy,
00:30:50.45\00:30:54.48
that we're able to
unite together in a ministry
00:30:54.52\00:30:57.15
that helps people
in a very tangible way
00:30:57.19\00:30:59.55
but like Peter was sharing
it opens up into the spiritual
00:30:59.59\00:31:02.02
because we're very
intentional about that
00:31:02.06\00:31:04.06
and we could name
many people ever baptized
00:31:04.09\00:31:06.66
and joined the church.
00:31:06.70\00:31:08.03
But I like to take
it back to our youth,
00:31:08.06\00:31:09.93
when I was a little guy,
00:31:09.96\00:31:11.40
the preacher would
beat on the pulp and say,
00:31:11.43\00:31:13.03
"Youth are leaving the church."
00:31:13.07\00:31:14.40
And I'd go up to
him after and I go,
00:31:14.44\00:31:15.90
"What are we doing here
to make that difference?
00:31:15.94\00:31:18.01
Why we wanna stay?"
00:31:18.04\00:31:19.37
Rather than telling us
that we're all leaving.
00:31:19.41\00:31:20.81
So to me it was all
about, when I was a pastor,
00:31:20.84\00:31:23.11
our church was
about the community.
00:31:23.14\00:31:25.68
When I came there, we only
had one family in the church,
00:31:25.71\00:31:28.92
12 years later,
when I began doing this,
00:31:28.95\00:31:32.45
we had five services going,
00:31:32.49\00:31:34.32
we had a over a
hundred ministries
00:31:34.36\00:31:35.69
going on in the community.
00:31:35.72\00:31:37.06
Wow.
00:31:37.09\00:31:38.43
So church growth happens
through practical evangelism.
00:31:38.46\00:31:41.96
And it's watching
this in the lives of youth,
00:31:42.00\00:31:45.07
you see this is
a church they know,
00:31:45.10\00:31:46.57
it's to get out and help people.
00:31:46.60\00:31:48.50
Other youth go,
"We're not involved."
00:31:48.54\00:31:50.47
Millennials say,
"If we're not involved,
00:31:50.51\00:31:51.84
we're leaving the church."
00:31:51.87\00:31:53.21
So it is making that impact,
00:31:53.24\00:31:55.71
when donors see how they're
changing the lives of those
00:31:55.74\00:31:59.65
who served first and then
in the lives of that community,
00:31:59.68\00:32:04.32
we entitled
actually this broadcast
00:32:04.35\00:32:06.22
because the pastor and
I were talking about this
00:32:06.25\00:32:08.52
in St Augustine,
a retired Church,
00:32:08.56\00:32:10.99
hardly no young
people and we called it
00:32:11.03\00:32:13.43
'Revival Amongst
Hurricane Matthew Rubble.'
00:32:13.46\00:32:16.56
The pastor saw a
revival happen in his church
00:32:16.60\00:32:19.87
who really didn't
want us to come there,
00:32:19.90\00:32:21.54
about 50% of churches
00:32:21.57\00:32:23.04
do not want you to
come to their church,
00:32:23.07\00:32:25.04
it might hurt their paint,
their grass, their something...
00:32:25.07\00:32:26.98
Oh, my...
00:32:27.01\00:32:28.34
Okay, 50%.
00:32:28.38\00:32:30.21
The pastor said, "I'm
not gonna ask my board
00:32:30.25\00:32:32.61
because I'm pretty sure
how they'll answer my request
00:32:32.65\00:32:36.28
about you coming and
bringing a bunch of volunteers."
00:32:36.32\00:32:38.25
So he said, "I'm not gonna ask.
00:32:38.29\00:32:39.99
I'm gonna apologize."
00:32:40.02\00:32:42.06
Okay.
00:32:42.09\00:32:43.43
And so basically ask
for their forgiveness.
00:32:43.46\00:32:44.79
Yeah.
00:32:44.83\00:32:46.16
But see, it caused
revival in their church.
00:32:46.19\00:32:47.53
Sure.
00:32:47.56\00:32:48.90
And that's the kind of thing
we see happen over and over,
00:32:48.93\00:32:51.33
that's ministry
in a worldwide way.
00:32:51.37\00:32:53.94
Absolutely, and
that's why it's important
00:32:53.97\00:32:56.10
for church leaders to
understand that Jesus said,
00:32:56.14\00:33:00.28
"Go ye, and to all the world..."
00:33:00.31\00:33:02.34
to allow others to be involved,
00:33:02.38\00:33:04.85
as you're talking
about the millennials,
00:33:04.88\00:33:06.72
if they're not
involved, they're gonna leave.
00:33:06.75\00:33:08.95
Yes.
00:33:08.98\00:33:10.32
So we sometimes
are so protective,
00:33:10.35\00:33:12.39
well, I don't know, maybe
they're too young to do this
00:33:12.42\00:33:14.36
or maybe we can't
put this responsibility.
00:33:14.39\00:33:16.22
That's right.
00:33:16.26\00:33:17.59
But we need to be in charge
00:33:17.63\00:33:19.06
and we're the
root of our own problem
00:33:19.09\00:33:22.83
as to why we're not helping.
00:33:22.86\00:33:24.20
So thank you for opening
our eyes and letting us know
00:33:24.23\00:33:26.87
that this is what we need to do,
00:33:26.90\00:33:28.60
young people to get involved.
00:33:28.64\00:33:30.37
They get
grounded, they get rooted
00:33:30.41\00:33:32.21
and they continue then to
do what we maybe just started,
00:33:32.24\00:33:35.94
you know.
00:33:35.98\00:33:37.31
And sometimes then to denominate
00:33:37.35\00:33:38.68
shell structure as you're aware,
00:33:38.71\00:33:40.45
sometimes control
has to be an issue here,
00:33:40.48\00:33:43.02
unless everything
happens through this department.
00:33:43.05\00:33:45.79
Yeah. It cannot happen.
00:33:45.82\00:33:47.16
Yeah, absolutely.
00:33:47.19\00:33:48.52
And we've rubbed against that
for years in a way of saying,
00:33:48.56\00:33:50.36
"No, no, no."
00:33:50.39\00:33:51.73
So thankfully people within
the Adventist denomination
00:33:51.76\00:33:55.00
have tried to expand
their thinking saying, "Well,
00:33:55.03\00:33:58.10
you know, what they
do is youth and schools.
00:33:58.13\00:34:00.84
So let's run through
the education department."
00:34:00.87\00:34:03.20
In that way, it's
not a perception of,
00:34:03.24\00:34:05.44
it has to be
through another department
00:34:05.47\00:34:08.01
and so when we're
out internationally,
00:34:08.04\00:34:09.91
if it's not through ADRA,
00:34:09.94\00:34:11.38
well, maybe it could
be through something else.
00:34:11.41\00:34:13.98
People like choices. Sure.
00:34:14.02\00:34:15.62
And people like to know that
00:34:15.65\00:34:18.02
with some
supporting organizations,
00:34:18.05\00:34:20.82
there's a much lower overhead
00:34:20.86\00:34:23.43
and they can be very effective
than what they do in ministry.
00:34:23.46\00:34:26.19
All right.
00:34:26.23\00:34:27.56
What we're gonna do
is, we want you to pray
00:34:27.60\00:34:29.53
and ask the Holy Spirit
what He would have you to do
00:34:29.56\00:34:32.80
in support of this
great organization,
00:34:32.83\00:34:34.80
so we're gonna put
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00:34:34.84\00:34:37.17
and if the Holy
Spirit's impressing,
00:34:37.21\00:34:39.11
you can send a donation
00:34:39.14\00:34:40.48
or you may just
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00:34:40.51\00:34:41.98
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Well, is the Holy
Spirit's impressing
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and I know you'll do
what He's impressing you to do
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and that's to support
this great organization.
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We're back with David and, hey,
00:35:42.17\00:35:44.67
we've replaced the
principal with some students.
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We have Jeremy
and it's Adonijah,
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and you guys are from where?
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Where are you from, Jeremy?
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I was born in Connecticut
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but we now live
in North Carolina.
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All right, it's Jeremy Spivey?
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Yes, sir. Is that right?
00:35:59.19\00:36:00.52
And, Gilmer, is
that right? Last names.
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Okay, you guys
are students of what,
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what academy?
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Tri-City Christian Academy
in High Point, North Carolina.
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Okay, and you're what year?
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I'm a senior. Senior.
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Freshman. Freshman, okay.
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And they're both
basketball players
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'cause I played
with them last night
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and they're good too.
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They're good
ball players for sure
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and just go and get better.
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I tell them, "The older you get,
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the better you should get."
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That's the way things
are in life, you know,
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that's where it goes,
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but we wanna hear a little
bit from your perspective,
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we're hearing about from
your principal, of course,
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and talking about
young people in action
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and so tell us a little bit
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about your last experience
and maybe, it was Matthew,
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is that where you got involved?
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Yes.
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Tell us a little
bit of what you did
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and how you're trained
and how you even got involved?
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Well, we had
training at our school
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and then like you
heard earlier, week later,
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we're invited to
Jacksonville, Florida,
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to go and help
with the disaster relief
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after hurricane
Matthew and we would go around,
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we would cut down
trees that had fallen
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and we take them
to side of the road
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and then a
truck would come by...
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Now, Jeremy, did
you cut the trees down?
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No, no, no, no.
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Our teachers...
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You had...
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Yeah, we had to
move the, move the logs.
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Our teachers, Mr.
Cousins, out just here
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and then our Bible teacher
also had another chainsaw.
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So they were back
there, they were cutting down
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and we would move them
out to the side of the road.
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Yeah, they got the fun job
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and you got the
tougher job, right?
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They're by likes
to have a chainsaw,
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I got one in winter, you
know, you cutting stuff but...
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So, but you guys did
the labor and that's...
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Hey, you're good and young
and strong and that's good.
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What made you
decide to go there?
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I mean, it was a choice,
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you didn't have to
go do the work, right?
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It seemed like a
great opportunity
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is we that could go
down and help other people
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and go have good
time with our friends.
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Okay.
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And, Adonijah,
same thing with you?
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Well, it's a good
opportunity to go down there
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and then all the
cutting that we had to do,
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sweat, sleep, back
to work, sweat again,
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take a shower, that was it.
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So you're
getting a taste of life.
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What it's gonna be like
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when you get an
adult life, right?
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You're gonna have to do,
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get into all the
work and kind of,
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not so much into
the studies, what...
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Tell me, what
impacted you the most?
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I mean, sometimes I'll
say from my perspective,
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when I started this ministry,
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my goal was to help people
but, you know, what I found out?
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People helped me.
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And people of, you know,
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we're here to mend broken people
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but people, you know, I've
been broken through the years
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and people but, you
know, tell me the impact,
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did you get to talk to
any of the folks there,
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any of the people
you're working with?
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They both have a
powerful testimony.
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Well, I wanna hear it.
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We're getting to...
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All right, Jeremy, tell us.
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Okay, it was on the
last day, it was Friday,
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we went to this guy's
house, his name was Mark.
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He was 92 years old...
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Oh, wow.
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And he had, a tree that
had fallen in his backyard
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and it fallen on another tree
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that has
sentimental value to him
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and so when we got there,
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he asked us, if we
could save that tree.
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If we could near a
little bushes on the ground,
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he wanted to save his will.
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So our Bible tutor, Dr. Jay,
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was back there with a chainsaw
doing his thing, you know,
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trying his best not to let
the tree fall on the other tree
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and while we're doing
that, we're pulling the stuff,
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I'll bring it to
front and we got it done.
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We were able to save
the tree and now afterward,
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while we were
working, his wife went inside,
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she made us cookies
and she was very grateful,
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she came back outside
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and tearing up
and things like that.
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And afterwards like,
we do all the houses,
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we prayed with them and
we handed her Steps to Christ
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and it was a good experience.
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Wow, that is
profound 92 years young
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and still
concerned about the yard
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and the trees and all of that.
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So how did that
make you feel, I mean,
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versus I know
everybody needs to go to school
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and be in school
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but now you're instead
in school, you're there,
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how does that that impact you?
00:39:56.06\00:39:58.93
It felt good to be
able to help somebody,
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it was like couldn't
do it for themselves,
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so it was a good experience.
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Have you considered
what line you're going into
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maybe in college,
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what you're gonna
be studying or...?
00:40:09.07\00:40:10.91
I wanna do
Political Science as a major.
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Political Science? Yes, sir.
00:40:13.31\00:40:14.64
Okay, all right, good.
00:40:14.68\00:40:16.28
It's great to have
dreams and aspirations
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and know that with God
all things are possible.
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So whatever it is
that you wanna do,
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you're able to do it and
we praise the Lord for that.
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All right.
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Adonijah, there you go...
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Adonijah or
just Nigah for short.
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Oh, Nigah, I'll do that one.
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Nigah, well, I got to playing
basketball with him last night.
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Okay, Nigah, tell
us your testimony.
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Oh, we got the
truck and other people
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from out the minivan.
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So as we're coming
out, we have everything set
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and this man comes
out, he's crying, he's like,
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"I need help and there's a
tree that has fallen on his roof
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and has holes in it
and as we're going there,
00:40:59.05\00:41:05.26
he started talking to us
about how he went through his...
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How he went to school
and how he did great in it
00:41:09.93\00:41:13.13
and how he succeeded in college
00:41:13.17\00:41:17.04
and how he dropped out.
00:41:17.07\00:41:21.21
And so, as we're
cutting off the tree there,
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few of us were
trying to make measurements
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how to cut it
because it was slanted,
00:41:27.18\00:41:29.35
so how it was and
we're making measurements
00:41:29.38\00:41:35.09
and he's talking to
us about how he got that.
00:41:35.12\00:41:40.03
How he had a nice car
00:41:40.06\00:41:41.43
which was right
in front of his yard
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and we told him that
he had to back it out
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which he does it, which we...
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We don't wanna mess
up by cutting that tree.
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Certainly.
Absolutely. That's amazes--
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Yeah.
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Yeah, and they're
cutting on the tree
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and he was like, "This is great.
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Thank you all for
coming and helping me
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and so as Mr. Hernandez,
00:42:05.82\00:42:09.96
which is one of the
teachers at Heritage Academy
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gives him the Steps to
Christ book, he was like,
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"I'll give this to my daughter
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which his daughter is
a Seventh-day Adventist."
00:42:16.93\00:42:19.40
And we didn't really
know how to react to that,
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obviously, he'll give
this to his daughter and said,
00:42:23.10\00:42:25.37
he would just read it.
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So we prayed with them
and it was a miracle to him
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and he was filled with
joy when he got in the house.
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All right, so his car
was saved too, all right.
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And but how does
that make you feel?
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I mean, is that...
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Oh, yeah.
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When people need help
and there's some people
00:42:44.16\00:42:47.16
who wants to go out and
help that person, they just...
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It made you, made you feel good.
00:42:51.93\00:42:54.07
Yeah, you're filled
with joy and thank God
00:42:54.10\00:42:57.44
that you're that
person to help that person.
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Yeah, and have
you noticed something,
00:42:59.91\00:43:02.11
when you help people
and you get to know people
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'cause today, we're looking
at a lot of race problems
00:43:04.78\00:43:07.65
even here in the United States,
but when people need help,
00:43:07.68\00:43:10.65
right, there's no
color, there's no denomination.
00:43:10.69\00:43:13.86
You didn't go ask him,
00:43:13.89\00:43:15.22
"Let's see now,
'Are you an Adventist?
00:43:15.26\00:43:16.59
Are you a Baptist?' "
00:43:16.62\00:43:17.96
Danny, you couldn't
say that more powerfully
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and that is so true.
00:43:19.36\00:43:20.70
This evangelism what
we're talking about here,
00:43:20.73\00:43:22.86
it unites people.
00:43:22.90\00:43:24.23
Yes.
00:43:24.27\00:43:25.60
Any background,
any denomination.
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It's miraculous, all that drops
00:43:27.20\00:43:30.91
and everybody is
united in a cause together,
00:43:30.94\00:43:33.24
it's a powerful
source of evangelism.
00:43:33.27\00:43:35.68
So you're so right...
00:43:35.71\00:43:37.05
Yeah, now I was
thinking about that,
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I mean, I love it
because that's what it does
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and that's what
true Christianity does,
00:43:41.75\00:43:44.65
is it breaks down barriers...
00:43:44.69\00:43:46.52
Yeah. To you see, you know what?
00:43:46.55\00:43:49.49
We may come from
different backgrounds
00:43:49.52\00:43:51.89
and cultures and education and,
you know, all of these things,
00:43:51.93\00:43:55.60
different areas geographically
00:43:55.63\00:43:57.83
but when it
really comes down to it,
00:43:57.87\00:43:59.97
we're all sinners
in need of a Savior...
00:44:00.00\00:44:01.84
And you're all equal
at the foot of the Cross.
00:44:01.87\00:44:03.64
Absolutely, and so for...
00:44:03.67\00:44:06.51
To have a ministry
because sometimes as you say,
00:44:06.54\00:44:08.78
we're preaching but
we're preaching to the choir
00:44:08.81\00:44:10.78
so to speak but to be
able to get out and like,
00:44:10.81\00:44:13.85
you young guys are doing,
00:44:13.88\00:44:15.48
to actually physically help,
00:44:15.52\00:44:17.65
you save these people
probably thousands of dollars
00:44:17.69\00:44:20.36
and maybe they didn't have
it and if they did have it,
00:44:20.39\00:44:23.12
they sure didn't
wanna spend it on
00:44:23.16\00:44:25.19
having to hire people
to do all of this work,
00:44:25.23\00:44:27.56
that makes an impression
because you know what?
00:44:27.60\00:44:29.80
A lot of young folk
get bad raps nowadays,
00:44:29.83\00:44:32.60
we can rap, they
think everybody's rappers
00:44:32.63\00:44:34.60
or everybody's just into that,
you know, certain cultures.
00:44:34.64\00:44:39.44
So young people
don't get it, you know,
00:44:39.47\00:44:42.54
a lot of times credit for
doing a lot of good things.
00:44:42.58\00:44:45.21
So this is amazing
because now they see
00:44:45.25\00:44:47.85
hundreds of you out in the areas
00:44:47.88\00:44:50.79
doing physical work
00:44:50.82\00:44:52.35
for people you
didn't even know...
00:44:52.39\00:44:53.72
Yes.
00:44:53.76\00:44:55.09
And you weren't
asking them for any money,
00:44:55.12\00:44:56.46
that goes against
the grain of everything
00:44:56.49\00:44:59.89
that most of us know.
00:44:59.93\00:45:01.70
We have our own
little home or me,
00:45:01.73\00:45:03.37
myself and I and I'm
here and you're there
00:45:03.40\00:45:06.60
and don't come into my yard
with your dog and don't do...
00:45:06.63\00:45:09.34
And then all of a sudden,
00:45:09.37\00:45:10.71
everybody's
helping each other...
00:45:10.74\00:45:12.07
That's right.
00:45:12.11\00:45:13.44
And it's like, why
would you guys do that?
00:45:13.48\00:45:15.08
Would you like to see a few
pictures of them in actual...
00:45:15.11\00:45:17.05
I love it. All
right, this first one.
00:45:17.08\00:45:18.98
This shows them
unloading 18 pallets of...
00:45:19.01\00:45:22.38
Right here, little Debbies...
00:45:22.42\00:45:23.85
Little Debbies, all right.
00:45:23.89\00:45:25.39
Now unwrapping with a smile.
00:45:25.42\00:45:28.06
We'll get a shot
of that in a minute.
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This is powerful because
that's what they were doing,
00:45:29.59\00:45:31.79
as they were unwrapping
with a smile 18 pallets,
00:45:31.83\00:45:34.23
getting ready to do
like on Saturday afternoon,
00:45:34.26\00:45:36.87
Sabbath afternoon.
00:45:36.90\00:45:38.23
They're going out
and handing these out,
00:45:38.27\00:45:39.93
doing something
a little different
00:45:39.97\00:45:41.57
and giving these out for
every home that they help.
00:45:41.60\00:45:44.04
Yeah.
00:45:44.07\00:45:45.41
And so it's neat
when you give people,
00:45:45.44\00:45:46.78
give, give, give...
00:45:46.81\00:45:48.14
Absolutely.
00:45:48.18\00:45:49.51
And you see a smile come out...
00:45:49.54\00:45:50.88
Who doesn't
want a Little Debbie,
00:45:50.91\00:45:52.25
you know, come on.
00:45:52.28\00:45:53.62
But, you know, we
appreciate partners like this.
00:45:53.65\00:45:54.98
It's showing here,
00:45:55.02\00:45:56.35
these are all
networking partners
00:45:56.38\00:45:57.82
that you see on the screen.
00:45:57.85\00:45:59.39
But you see to do
effective ministry,
00:45:59.42\00:46:02.36
it's about partnering together
00:46:02.39\00:46:04.46
and we've been doing
more and more with Mckee foods
00:46:04.49\00:46:08.40
because they said, we
want an image of humanitarian,
00:46:08.43\00:46:11.27
and helping people
and with their vast means
00:46:11.30\00:46:14.30
to be able to say, wow,
00:46:14.34\00:46:15.67
if we're helping
keep youth in the church.
00:46:15.70\00:46:18.64
We're helping communities,
00:46:18.67\00:46:20.88
a lot of big
companies in the world today
00:46:20.91\00:46:23.98
were wanting to go up.
00:46:24.01\00:46:25.35
And I wanna say
something about the family.
00:46:25.38\00:46:27.58
That's where
their heart is. Yes.
00:46:27.62\00:46:29.18
They're not just saying,
00:46:29.22\00:46:30.55
"Let's say what would look
good to, say, public to do."
00:46:30.59\00:46:33.86
I've known the
family for over 30 years
00:46:33.89\00:46:36.79
and from Ellsworth
to Debbie to Rusty,
00:46:36.83\00:46:39.73
you know, down the line.
00:46:39.76\00:46:41.43
It's so number,
oh, a great family
00:46:41.46\00:46:44.43
and that's their
heart, is been mission,
00:46:44.47\00:46:48.27
is to help and so for
them to be able to do this...
00:46:48.30\00:46:50.84
Yes.
00:46:50.87\00:46:52.21
And so 18 pallets,
they sent you, right?
00:46:52.24\00:46:54.88
So I might add they didn't
ask me to hold this up today.
00:46:54.91\00:46:57.58
As a matter of fact if
I would have asked them,
00:46:57.61\00:46:59.51
they would have said, "No."
00:46:59.55\00:47:00.88
That's the kind
of people they are,
00:47:00.92\00:47:02.38
they like to
help behind the scenes
00:47:02.42\00:47:04.45
but it's a wonderful thing
when we unite in ministry...
00:47:04.49\00:47:06.92
Will do like the
preacher will apologize later.
00:47:06.96\00:47:09.49
Yes, yes, and so that picture,
we're showing a next picture
00:47:09.52\00:47:13.93
is showing us
some basic demucking
00:47:13.96\00:47:16.63
as Peter called
a little earlier,
00:47:16.67\00:47:18.90
going out,
removing a lot of muck,
00:47:18.93\00:47:20.67
tearing out dry wall,
it's called the next shot
00:47:20.70\00:47:23.04
and it shows a lot of
these youth in action.
00:47:23.07\00:47:25.44
This is a powerful shot here
00:47:25.47\00:47:27.54
because here's Steve
Littel, the one hugging,
00:47:27.58\00:47:30.31
standing behind the
one hugging actually,
00:47:30.35\00:47:32.31
one of our other
leaders at a school,
00:47:32.35\00:47:34.78
always hugging people.
00:47:34.82\00:47:36.62
You know, and
praying with people.
00:47:36.65\00:47:39.15
This is what changes lives,
00:47:39.19\00:47:41.36
taking time to help them
emotionally and spiritually.
00:47:41.39\00:47:45.49
You know, a lot
of groups can come in
00:47:45.53\00:47:47.03
and they can do
something and leave
00:47:47.06\00:47:48.40
but it's when you're bonding
with them, praying with them.
00:47:48.43\00:47:52.30
Many times we're not
intentional about that enough
00:47:52.33\00:47:54.44
and miss wonderful opportunities
00:47:54.47\00:47:57.04
and so it's in
doing things like this.
00:47:57.07\00:48:00.48
Last shot, I
like most importantly,
00:48:00.51\00:48:02.28
there it is...
00:48:02.31\00:48:03.65
Okay.
00:48:03.68\00:48:05.01
And you see this is
another typical family.
00:48:05.05\00:48:06.38
There's Peter, praying
with those families together.
00:48:06.41\00:48:09.78
You have to be
intentional about that
00:48:09.82\00:48:11.92
and some people when you're not,
00:48:11.95\00:48:14.42
you missed your
best opportunity.
00:48:14.46\00:48:16.32
Absolutely.
00:48:16.36\00:48:17.69
And so it's these youth
00:48:17.73\00:48:19.36
whose lives as
they look back in life,
00:48:19.39\00:48:21.26
that is the church,
the only church they know.
00:48:21.30\00:48:24.07
They want to be
a part of action.
00:48:24.10\00:48:26.63
They look at that as normal
00:48:26.67\00:48:28.30
versus a lot of
other youth who go,
00:48:28.34\00:48:32.01
'What relevancy does this have?'
00:48:32.04\00:48:34.64
And so when we're
in helping communities,
00:48:34.68\00:48:38.61
you know, we shared
that one about Loma Linda.
00:48:38.65\00:48:40.98
Here's a little letter that
just, this is from Jeff Kelly,
00:48:41.02\00:48:43.52
the Emergency
Management Director in Texas,
00:48:43.55\00:48:46.96
one of our deployments and Jeff
wrote this letter afterwards
00:48:46.99\00:48:50.76
and then he followed it
up with hurricane Matthew,
00:48:50.79\00:48:52.66
he wrote another one.
00:48:52.69\00:48:54.03
He said, "David Canther,
00:48:54.06\00:48:55.40
it's a good time for me
to remember the good work
00:48:55.43\00:48:56.77
that you guys
did in Orange County
00:48:56.80\00:48:58.37
following Hurricane Ike.
00:48:58.40\00:49:00.10
I'm only a phone call away
and want to return the favor.
00:49:00.14\00:49:03.07
God bless you and your family."
00:49:03.10\00:49:04.84
That's an
emergency management director
00:49:04.87\00:49:07.81
and so to share
positive things about people
00:49:07.84\00:49:10.71
when you work with them,
00:49:10.75\00:49:12.68
they're not
trying to kick you out.
00:49:12.71\00:49:14.42
They love what you do
00:49:14.45\00:49:16.38
and to get letters like
this are very significant
00:49:16.42\00:49:18.82
'cause a lot of
people don't just do that,
00:49:18.85\00:49:21.19
you know, from the
Florida conference,
00:49:21.22\00:49:22.56
Mike Cawley.
00:49:22.59\00:49:23.93
From the
Philippine Union Conferences
00:49:23.96\00:49:25.93
expressing their thanks.
00:49:25.96\00:49:27.30
You're empowering youth,
you're empowering young adults.
00:49:27.33\00:49:31.13
Here's from the
Share Memorial Hospital,
00:49:31.17\00:49:33.07
Dr. Molly, he requested a
team of Heritage Youth to come
00:49:33.10\00:49:37.21
and some of you,
00:49:37.24\00:49:38.57
some of the viewers may
have seen to train pathfinders.
00:49:38.61\00:49:42.14
And so some of
the criticism occurs,
00:49:42.18\00:49:44.35
you're faced with those,
a bunch of untrained youth
00:49:44.38\00:49:46.25
going and no, no,
these were highly trained,
00:49:46.28\00:49:48.55
FEMA courses, CERT trained,
00:49:48.58\00:49:50.49
emotional and spiritual,
psychological first aid.
00:49:50.52\00:49:53.36
These youth take
it seriously. Okay.
00:49:53.39\00:49:55.62
And so Dr.
Molly thanked the team
00:49:55.66\00:49:57.83
for coming in and
all that they did.
00:49:57.86\00:50:00.00
So that summarizes
I think of ministry,
00:50:00.03\00:50:04.17
when you're trying to emphasize,
00:50:04.20\00:50:05.70
in order to do ministry,
you need to be prepared.
00:50:05.73\00:50:08.30
You need to be trained.
00:50:08.34\00:50:10.21
So that you can be...
00:50:10.24\00:50:13.07
Jesus didn't call
those disciples and say,
00:50:13.11\00:50:15.14
"I call you to be disciples
and I guarantee safety."
00:50:15.18\00:50:18.31
Okay, you'll all be safe,
00:50:18.35\00:50:19.68
nothing will go
wrong if you follow me.
00:50:19.71\00:50:22.05
And too often,
sometimes structures look at,
00:50:22.08\00:50:25.92
"Oh, you can't do this and
you can't do that for liability,
00:50:25.95\00:50:28.39
" somebody may, you know,
00:50:28.42\00:50:29.76
if liability is driving
the mission of your church,
00:50:29.79\00:50:32.06
you're in trouble.
00:50:32.09\00:50:33.43
We overcame that years ago,
00:50:33.46\00:50:34.96
we worked with risk management
in the Adventist realm
00:50:35.00\00:50:37.97
and we have our own,
00:50:38.00\00:50:39.67
actually it's the same company
00:50:39.70\00:50:41.04
that helps
ensure risk management
00:50:41.07\00:50:43.41
and we said, "We want
the best insurance policy
00:50:43.44\00:50:45.97
liability
coverage you can have."
00:50:46.01\00:50:47.74
It only costs about a
dollar and a half a day,
00:50:47.78\00:50:49.91
so when they're out,
00:50:49.94\00:50:51.28
if something goes
wrong and it will,
00:50:51.31\00:50:53.85
that you have the
best coverage also
00:50:53.88\00:50:56.42
and so we
overcame that paranoia,
00:50:56.45\00:50:58.95
the fear factor of losing money
to say, they could be covered.
00:50:58.99\00:51:03.02
They could be
trained and we assure them
00:51:03.06\00:51:04.53
all the safety training we do.
00:51:04.56\00:51:06.26
We've worked together
with risk management for years.
00:51:06.29\00:51:09.53
That's how you
overcome obstacles.
00:51:09.56\00:51:11.83
So it's a neat
thing when ministry,
00:51:11.87\00:51:13.44
you can look at a challenge
00:51:13.47\00:51:14.80
like you've
done in 3ABN and say,
00:51:14.84\00:51:17.64
we can overcome
that by faith in God.
00:51:17.67\00:51:20.44
Amen.
00:51:20.48\00:51:21.81
I don't know if they can
put that last graphic back up
00:51:21.84\00:51:24.58
where they're
standing in the yard praying.
00:51:24.61\00:51:26.88
But to me, I was wondering
what would be the chances
00:51:26.92\00:51:30.82
if you went to your
church on Sabbath and you said,
00:51:30.85\00:51:33.52
"Hey, let's go
out this afternoon
00:51:33.56\00:51:35.12
and go and knock
on this person's house
00:51:35.16\00:51:37.63
and get him come out in a yard
00:51:37.66\00:51:38.99
and hold hands
and pray with you."
00:51:39.03\00:51:40.93
I mean, that's be
almost zero, right?
00:51:40.96\00:51:42.66
'Cause nowadays
people are guarded
00:51:42.70\00:51:45.47
and you don't
just knock on doors
00:51:45.50\00:51:47.10
and get people but when there's,
00:51:47.14\00:51:48.84
there's emergencies
like this or disasters
00:51:48.87\00:51:51.87
and you're there
volunteering, look at this,
00:51:51.91\00:51:54.68
nobody's forcing these people,
00:51:54.71\00:51:56.51
now they say,
"Wow, this is something."
00:51:56.54\00:51:59.91
And you're able
to pray with people.
00:51:59.95\00:52:01.55
I mean, you
couldn't just knock on doors
00:52:01.58\00:52:03.62
and get very many people to pray
00:52:03.65\00:52:06.12
with you or take
books and read it.
00:52:06.15\00:52:08.29
So what an incredible ministry
and I'm so glad, you guys,
00:52:08.32\00:52:11.66
at such a young
age have got the vision
00:52:11.69\00:52:14.23
and you'll only, this will
help you be even rooted more,
00:52:14.26\00:52:17.63
I would say grounded
to find out, you know,
00:52:17.67\00:52:19.93
it's special to be
able to help other people.
00:52:19.97\00:52:22.97
It's nice to get
help when you need it
00:52:23.00\00:52:25.51
but God blesses
those, I believe,
00:52:25.54\00:52:27.94
the blessing may
always say is on the go.
00:52:27.98\00:52:29.74
When you go and you're
willing to help others,
00:52:29.78\00:52:32.61
then God blesses you
in many, many other ways.
00:52:32.65\00:52:35.22
So we're gonna pray God's
richest blessings on you guys
00:52:35.25\00:52:38.75
in your schooling and
as you get a little older,
00:52:38.79\00:52:41.06
should the Lord tarry,
00:52:41.09\00:52:42.42
you may be taking David's place
one of these times, who knows.
00:52:42.46\00:52:44.99
That's right and that's
what our ministry is about
00:52:45.03\00:52:46.46
is letting those that you've
trained take over leadership,
00:52:46.49\00:52:49.26
that's what it's all about.
00:52:49.30\00:52:50.63
Absolutely.
00:52:50.67\00:52:52.00
I'm taking away your job
'Millennials versus Retired.'
00:52:52.03\00:52:55.04
Millennials want relevancy,
00:52:55.07\00:52:56.74
they want transparency
and they want to be involved.
00:52:56.77\00:52:59.64
This ministry does exactly that,
00:52:59.67\00:53:01.94
your ministry here
at 3ABN does that too
00:53:01.98\00:53:04.71
and so getting people involved
where the action counts.
00:53:04.75\00:53:08.25
Absolutely.
00:53:08.28\00:53:09.62
And so millennials
want to see a church
00:53:09.65\00:53:10.99
that is out there
doing things to help others,
00:53:11.02\00:53:14.86
less
administration, more ministry.
00:53:14.89\00:53:17.16
Absolutely. All right.
00:53:17.19\00:53:18.53
What we're gonna do,
00:53:18.56\00:53:19.89
we're gonna take a
short break for just a moment,
00:53:19.93\00:53:21.73
we'll be back
with a closing thought.
00:53:21.76\00:53:23.23