I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people.
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Hello and welcome to
another 3ABN today program.
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We're so glad and thankful
that you've joined us today.
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We appreciate you
letting us come into your home
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as you do each and every day.
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This is aired on radio as well.
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And obviously
there's no video for radio
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so if you're driving along
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or listening on
your radio at home,
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welcome to 3ABN.
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Now, we appreciate your prayers
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and financial
support of this ministry
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is because of the
Lord Jesus Christ and you,
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because we're a team
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that this gospel continues
to spread around the world.
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You know,
listening to that theme song,
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I want to spend my
life mending broken people.
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What a theme! It
should be for each one of us.
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And what an opportunity
we have of teaming up
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with the Lord
Jesus Christ, don't we,
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of spreading God's word,
His word around the world.
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Today, we have
an exciting program.
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You like mission stories? Yes.
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I do. You do, too,
don't you? Oh, yeah.
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We're gonna hear
some mission stories,
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we're gonna be
talking to some young people,
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and young at heart,
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and we're gonna introduce to you
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what our topic is today
this is exciting, isn't it?
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Who we have
with us? Amen, it is.
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I think any time we
hear what God is doing,
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how He is moving in
the lives of people,
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that's what we want
to bring to you at home
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as part of our 3ABN
family and to encourage you
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to get involved in ministry,
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to get involved
in mission trips,
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to share the Lord Jesus
Christ with those that you meet.
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And you would think
from the introduction here
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we're talking
about missionaries,
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and they are missionaries
of a different sort,
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we're actually going to
be talking to the president
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of Laurelbrook Academy
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and some students
from Laurelbrook Academy.
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And hearing the mission
trips, the mission work,
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that they're involved in,
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and how God is
blessing their school.
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Just before we introduce them,
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I asked them if
they had a scripture,
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that they
especially liked for the school
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and this is in Zechariah 4:6.
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This is the word of
the Lord to Zerubbabel
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or you could say you
could put your name in there,
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whatever your name is,
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"Not by might, nor by
power, but by my Spirit,
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says the Lord of hosts."
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And that's what we're
gonna be talking about today,
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the anointing and
power of the Holy Spirit,
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and how he is working
in the lives of each person
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there at Laurelbrook Academy.
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And it's a
privilege to introduce
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to our family at
home each one of you.
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We have Rich Sutton,
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you are the president
of Laurelbrook Academy.
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I am. What a
blessing to be here.
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Yeah. Welcome.
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It's a privilege to have
you and sitting next to you
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is Jairit Montilla,
did I get that right?
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Yes. And where
are you from, Jairit?
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Okay, so I was
born in North Carolina,
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but I grew up in Venezuela.
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So I came just recently
when I came to Laurelbrook.
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Okay.
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And you, we're gonna
hear a little bit more about
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your story and
mission work and testimony,
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and sitting next
to you is Leilani Lee.
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And, Leilani,
where are you from?
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I'm from
Martinsburg, West Virginia.
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And also a student,
right, at Laurelbrook?
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Yeah.
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I want to say something
too about West Virginia
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that I consider as
my growing up place,
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my parents are still
there in West Virginia.
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So it's neat
someone from West Virginia.
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Yep. Yeah, that's great.
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Now, Mr Rich, now
you're no stranger to 3ABN.
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No, I'm not.
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When I was at the call
center a number of years ago,
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working there,
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I received a phone
call from Rich Sutton,
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and at that point you
were part of Mexico missions
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which has been in
existence for how many years?
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We're going on
30 years this year.
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Thirty years.
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And the reason he was
calling the call center was
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because he would pick
up 3ABN satellite dishes,
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remember those satellite dishes
when 3ABN would sell those big,
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well, 36 inches, if you
want to consider that big,
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satellite dishes
and he would come down
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from Michigan with a group,
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and like renovated school buses.
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We did we, so many
ways, you know we did it.
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Whatever's cheap we
did, you know, but, yes.
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And what they would
do is they would swing
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by the call center and,
of course, we were close to.
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We would set out a
couple of dishes for you
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and your group as you
were going down to Mexico.
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And you came, I don't remember
how many years ago it was,
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and did a program.
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I did. On Mexico missions.
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Okay, so Mexico
missions and now here you are...
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At Laurelbrook
Academy, as a president,
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could you imagine?
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So how did God do
that quickly before
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we talk about
Laurelbrook Academy?
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Okay, I was building
churches and the conference,
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the union had asked
me to build 100 churches.
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In Mexico? Yes, I'm thinking...
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Wow, what a glory!
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I only did one or two a
year, how do you do a 100?
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So that meant I
had to leave my job
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and go forward full time.
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What was your job at that point?
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I had a body shop
in Manton, Michigan.
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And so we were
working there and so we did,
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we jumped off
the end of the earth,
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and we're down to
build those churches,
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and then
Laurelbrook gave me a call to,
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to look into being the
president of Laurelbrook.
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I said, no, I'm
doing a lot of churches,
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the work is growing
fast for me in Mexico.
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And we had just started
training school in Belize.
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And as I was in
that training school
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my son Jeff
said, dad, this is big!
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Think about what you're saying!
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Don't tell them
no, pray about it.
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And I prayed about it
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and the Lord kept
impressing me to do it.
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I said, no, Lord, I'm already,
I'm already old, you know,
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and how can these
guys do with this.
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But, no, we
really felt the call,
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and God is
blessing me at Laurelbrook
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with these young people.
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And it's just like
doing Mexico missions
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all the time
because just not once a year
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I get to be
with these guys 24/7.
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So you and your
wife are called to
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or you actually
accepted the call
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a number of years ago.
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How many years ago?
This is our third year.
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I know, I'm running a
nursing home, academy,
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and it's amazing what God
can do for and through us.
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Amen. Oh, yeah, amen.
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Can I go back for one moment?
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My mind is still stuck
back with the satellite dishes.
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What did you do with
those satellite dishes?
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Oh, Jim Acher would grab them,
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him and my son.
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They put them on the
side of the building and...
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In Mexico?
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In Mexico, we'd even bring
down televisions, you know...
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I forget about that.
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In those trailers, you
know, that's where they lived.
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You know, they
were banging around,
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but we put them
on the side of those
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with the receivers inside,
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the elders would
take care of them, and...
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In churches, homes,
schools, where do you put them?
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Normally in churches. Okay.
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If the home was
closed, we would do both.
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But that's, and then
when they lit up their eyes
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when that 3ABN would kick on.
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And I remember sitting
in a church in Poza Rica
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and a family walked in,
and all they knew was 3ABN.
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They've never had any
other contact with anyone.
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And so they announced that
in front of church, you know,
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that I Praise God for 3ABN.
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You know, and
this is what's exciting
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because here in a little bit
you're actually gonna find out
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how Laurelbrook
and Mexico missions
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are still actually involved,
and that's really neat.
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But take us to Laurelbrook
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because there's somebody at home
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that says Laurelbrook,
almost sounds like a plant
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or a creek, or maybe there
is a creek, Laurelbrook creek.
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But tell us what
Laurelbrook is all about
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and, yeah, the academy.
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Tell us a little bit about
it? The academy started in 1950.
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So it's been in
existence a long time,
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and they
followed the Madison model
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which is the
model of work-study,
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you work for four hours,
you study for four hours.
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And it's very successful.
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In the Spirit of
Prophecy as it brings that out.
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And so and that's what
we do it at Laurelbrook.
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So what my part is, the
reason God has called me,
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to re-bring missions back,
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but not only
missions but trades,
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teaching the trades again.
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And so Ellen White says
we need two trades, you know.
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Well, my boys,
they know two or three,
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and they've been very
successful using those.
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So we do the same
thing with young people,
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they need trades and academics.
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So our kids go
on to college, yes,
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or let's say that
you're not gonna go to college,
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you just want to have
a vocational training.
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We have a diploma for that too.
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So we have the different aspects
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for the young people to do.
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Okay, so what you're
saying then is at Laurelbrook
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you have some
trades that you teach.
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Yes.
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They're, okay, so give me
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some trades that you
teach at Laurelbrook Academy.
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Oh, I love to.
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Because we have a nursing home,
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so we have the
culinary with the kitchen.
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We have the CNA classes.
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We have the vocational
with the auto mechanics.
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We have the ASC certification
that we give at the school.
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As if to academy students? Yes.
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So when they graduate
they have these degrees
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and Jairit right here, she is,
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she could run the
kitchen at the nursing home.
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Let me tell you,
now, that's fast paced.
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A lot of adults
can't but this girl can.
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And so these are
some of the things.
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We also, we do construction.
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We have welding.
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If I have a short
story for you, we...
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our garbage, just
our garbage pick up
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was 350 a month and that's okay.
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And then it went to 600.
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And then it went to
almost 1100 and 1200 a month.
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And so I said,
let's buy a garbage truck.
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So we bought a garbage truck,
but didn't have any dumpsters
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and so we bought the
metal, we made our own,
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when you see our dumpsters
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they're perfect
and these kids...
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They made them,
the kids made them?
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Yeah, the kids made
them. So they welded them?
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They welded them.
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When you weld a foot,
you know, maybe you can weld.
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But when you weld 20 feet, amen?
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And they just did, I
could say they just welded
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and they were
just running around
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and then they painted
them, they looked great.
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And so that's Laurelbrook. Yeah.
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We learn by doing,
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and we're teaching those trades.
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So let me ask you, Leilani,
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so there's the
work study that goes on.
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What work have you done?
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What do you enjoy doing far
as the vocational part there
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at Laurelbrook?
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So the first quarter, I worked
in the canvassing program,
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and then last quarter I
worked in the same kitchen,
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and that was really fun,
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and I also like
canvassing a lot,
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but this quarter I'm
working institutional cleaning,
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so like I'm
cleaning the cafeteria,
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the outbuilding,
the school, the church.
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That's not so fun but...
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Still needs to be done.
It builds character, right?
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It does. It does.
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So when you do
canvassing, colporteuring,
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what type of books do you sell
and how many days you do that?
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We sell, we'd
have Ellen White books
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and we also have
like kids' books,
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Bible story books, and
we also have health books,
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we have like a cookbook,
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and a couple of
other health books as well.
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Nice. And how many
days do you do that?
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Is it two days a week
you go out and do that or...
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It's four days a week
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and then I also join the
Sunday canvassing program,
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so I was doing
it five days a week.
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So you really like it? Mm-hmm.
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You know, I really like
the work study in a program.
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It's good.
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It is good, you know
because it's good, you know,
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you're working your
mind on the academic part
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and then you get some actual
physical activity of some sort.
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And I probably
should be careful,
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you can help me on this
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but when I'm talking
about the students' work,
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I know we need to
be careful of like,
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you know, not working like
the child labor stuff, right.
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So maybe work, what I
just said wasn't correct.
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We use volunteer labor.
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You know, those things
like this, but, you know,
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back to, back to
her, she loves the Lord,
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and the canvassing
program, and things,
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but with the
freshmen and sophomores
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we tend more to use them
as students, if I could say.
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More in the, in
the nursing home,
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and different
institutions like that
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but when they get Jairit's age.
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Well, now we're
certainly keying on
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what you want to do.
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What is your vocation gonna be,
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like she wants to
work in accounting.
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Well, she's in that
office, she's there.
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But she's already
had all the training
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before that and so,
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we credit these juniors
in that and the seniors.
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So, Jairit, what have
you, what have you done
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when you've been there?
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I've done nearly everything.
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I worked in the
kitchen of the nursing home.
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And I became a supervisor.
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I've also been
working in the office,
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in the business office.
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I worked in housekeeping.
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I worked in the
elementary school
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as the assistant of the teacher.
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And also were always
canvassing, translating,
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website.
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I don't know what else. Variety.
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Yeah. Have variety.
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So you're, are
you a senior? Yes.
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You're a senior at Laurelbrook.
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And what about you,
Leilani, we didn't ask you that.
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I'm a freshman this year.
You're a freshman this year.
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Yeah, that's
wonderful, and you've been there
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how many years
since the freshman?
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Yes, since I was a
freshman. That's great.
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And what an opportunity,
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isn't it neat with
these young people?
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It is. It's exciting.
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And I spent a
little time at Laurelbrook,
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I did some student teaching
there in the elementary school.
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This was late, late
90's should I be saying that,
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so it was a few years ago.
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But it was a blessing.
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I worked with Ms Cheryl Orser,
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she was teacher there
in that elementary school.
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You know, Miss Orser? Yes.
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Yes. She's still there.
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Yeah, she's a precious woman.
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So do you do any work
with the farm as well or not?
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We do have the farm
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and you'll see some
pictures here shortly.
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You know, let's
go to that actually
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because there's
one out that shows
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a beautiful sign of the campus.
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So let's go through
these pictures right now.
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This is, boy,
now, that's beautiful.
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This is the Laurelbrook...
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The entrance coming in?
This is the entrance coming in.
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And then I think we have
some pictures following this,
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oh, a Massey Ferguson tractor.
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And we had three
of those, one of those
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we gave to Belize to
start their project in Belize,
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and were very cheerful.
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So this is part of
the, okay, a greenhouse.
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This is part of
your agriculture program.
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We do. Wow! Very nice.
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Do you market the
produce of strawberries,
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you market it and you sell it
outside the school or is it...?
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We consume everything
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if you can imagine
these kids eat a lot.
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And so that's the goal...
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Sweet corn...
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Is to consume. Isn't
that sweet corn I think?
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It is. It is. A lot of corn.
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Have you picked the corn? Yes.
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We are unique
because we call off school
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and we go pick corn.
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All right, and what is this,
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here it looks like
we're eating haystacks.
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Jairit, what is
this? It's haystacks.
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It is our fall picnic.
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Fall picnic. Fall picnic? Okay.
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Now, where do you
go for the picnic?
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Fall Creek Falls it's called.
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We have 1,700 acres
at Laurelbrook property.
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So we have waterfalls.
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We have the point, we
have all these beauties.
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But we also take the
kids off to Fall Creek Falls
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and they take their
bikes and ride down,
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my wife does not like
that because where are we at?
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We are in the mountains, amen.
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And so we have tried to
have an escort before and after
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and sometimes it becomes quite
a challenge if you wanna say.
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But, yeah, we take off
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and the kids enjoy
their time together.
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You know, that's
neat to agriculture too
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because I like the agriculture.
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So this picture is,
it looks like some music.
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What is this?
Jairit, what is that?
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Is the orchestra
playing for the church.
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Either one of you are
playing the orchestra?
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Both of us. Oh, yes.
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Both of you. What
instruments do you play?
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I play the
clarinet and the piano.
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Nice. And Leliani?
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In orchestra I started out
playing the bowed psaltery.
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The what? The bowed psaltery.
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Nice!
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It's a stringed instrument,
yeah, it's triangular,
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and I just switched
at our last practice.
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I am now playing flute. Nice.
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Okay, now do you do concerts
outside Laurelbrook or...?
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Yeah.
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They just came
back from Florida.
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And I believe you
guys did four churches?
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Yes.
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And the last church was
a first, a Baptist Church.
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Okay. And they loved us.
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They couldn't
understand a campus
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like ours willing
to come to theirs.
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You know, and they were
just thrilled with the music.
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So the outreach we're getting,
we're still getting phone calls
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and funding from that church
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and they want to
send students to us.
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Just the impact
these young people
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are making on these
churches is tremendous.
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That's wonderful.
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So we talk about the impact
you're making on the churches
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but what about
the impact Laurelbrook
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or being at
Laurelbrook has made on you.
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We'll start with you,
Jairit, what have you learned
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or grown or what has
been your experience?
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Oh, my experience at Laurelbrook
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has been a blessing.
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I learned in the
short time I've been there
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that there is no difficulties
too impossible for God
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because sometimes we
tend to limit ourselves
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to what God can do
and what cannot do,
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but God is greater than that.
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He is.
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Just the challenge of
coming to school at first like
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when I was in Venezuela, like,
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we never thought of that
until God opened the way.
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Amen. Amen.
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So you learned dependence on God
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that He can do anything?
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Mm-hmm. That's a great lesson.
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Something I'm learning.
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You know, every day
we keep learning that
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and growing, that's beautiful.
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Yeah, what about you, Leliani?
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I've learned how to work mostly
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because we
definitely have to work
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and then also
like what Jairit said,
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that God can do anything.
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And if you put your
expectations high then
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he can fulfill them,
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but if you, if you
limit yourself like
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she said, then it
doesn't really give Him
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the opportunity.
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But if you give
Him the opportunity
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then He will perform miracles.
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Yeah. Amen.
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And so you have
academics, vocational training,
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and mission trip.
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So tell us about
the mission trips.
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You just got back recently
from Mexico, is that right?
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We did.
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So I'm
incorporating Mexico missions
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along with Laurelbrook
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and so we're still,
I'm taking 85 people.
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Pamela's cooking
for over 120 in Mexico.
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So Mexico is coming
across and being with us.
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But I want that
experience for my students.
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But I don't demand
it, they choose it.
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Sure.
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And they're choosing, you know,
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and so it's
just fun to watch God
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move mightily on these kids
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because I know when you
come back from a mission trip,
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you're different.
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Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Amen?
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Have you ever
been on a mission trip?
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I know you have.
Changing for the positive.
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Yes, and for eternity.
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Yeah, that's true, not
only my life but others.
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Yes. Isn't that great?
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And the canvassing you
know is we canvass in Mexico
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and I used to say,
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I'm not real good
in my fluently in my...
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I was gonna ask that
because I don't know Spanish
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so if I were going there
kind of sell religious book,
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I don't how I would even...
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Oh, you just add
an o to everything
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that's kind of what I do.
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I do what? Oh, an o? Add an o.
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Like like real, and
so I give them a book.
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Does that work? No.
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Because freeo isn't free
in the espanpol, it's gratis,
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I've learned
that over the years.
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And so it's gratis
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and so we actually
don't sell the books,
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we give them.
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Freeo means cold. Oh, it does.
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Freeo means cold,
okay, that's different.
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Not everything works. Okay.
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It tells me, I'm not doing
very good in Spanish, yeah.
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And some of these words do,
00:19:31.57\00:19:32.90
but I just take these kids
with me and let's go, let's go.
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You guys know the language.
Let's go knocking on doors.
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So both of you, did you
both go on this most recent trip
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with Laurelbrook to Mexico?
00:19:41.44\00:19:43.68
Yes. So what did you do?
00:19:43.71\00:19:45.45
You did
canvassing, colporteuring,
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but did you do anything
else in addition to that?
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We helped to build the churches.
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We were there
we're passing out bricks,
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we were working as a
team, we were laying the blocks,
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helping with the foundation.
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How many churches? Five.
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You built five churches
in like two or three months?
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In 10 days.
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Say that again? Ten days.
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Ten days?
00:20:09.70\00:20:11.34
Five churches in ten days?
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And you're there actually
literally laying the blocks,
00:20:12.91\00:20:14.28
you're talking
like concrete blocks
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with the mortar.
00:20:15.81\00:20:17.18
Oh, there is a
picture. Here we go.
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Beautiful.
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If you could see the corners
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we don't do the
corners as normal.
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We do speed leads and so
each of these kids have a corner
00:20:25.25\00:20:28.56
that they are working with
and that wall goes up and so,
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Jairit, you have a
spot in that church,
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where is your
spot that you worked?
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The corner where
the trees closer to that
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one corner right there.
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But it's fun when
you're in the church
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and you're
dedicating that church
00:20:44.67\00:20:46.31
and Jairit standing
there and I saw her pointing
00:20:46.34\00:20:48.38
that's my corner, I
built that, you know.
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So you put the blocks, the roof.
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I'm assuming it's
a metal roof. It is.
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Okay, and then you put doors,
00:20:55.88\00:20:57.89
windows in or
is that done later?
00:20:57.92\00:20:59.25
We do now, we
put the foundation is
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in by the church,
and they fund the blocks.
00:21:02.16\00:21:04.89
Okay.
00:21:04.93\00:21:06.26
I do the roof and the metal,
00:21:06.29\00:21:07.76
I have a one day church machine,
00:21:07.80\00:21:09.23
if you want to say, a
roll machine at Laurelbrook,
00:21:09.26\00:21:11.70
and so we refinance
those roofs and the trusses.
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Wow!
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And so they ship them
down and we build the churches
00:21:18.27\00:21:20.28
and it's about $2,000 of roof,
00:21:20.31\00:21:23.31
the conference or the
churches raise the other,
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so it's kind of a
mix between the two.
00:21:25.68\00:21:28.48
Sure. It's not a
free church but...
00:21:28.52\00:21:30.82
But what a
blessing to that community
00:21:30.85\00:21:32.59
that you go to,
yeah, and minister.
00:21:32.62\00:21:34.32
What about you, Leilani,
00:21:34.36\00:21:35.69
what was your responsibility
on this recent trip to Mexico?
00:21:35.72\00:21:39.36
Well, I helped with
the VBS so like a couple,
00:21:39.39\00:21:43.50
every couple of
days, or every day the VBS
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and the Health Expo would
go to like a church or a place
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and they would
do their health expo
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and we would do
VBS with the kids.
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We had two hours.
00:21:55.61\00:21:56.95
And we just
started with creation
00:21:56.98\00:21:59.15
and just like went through
resurrection, Jesus' birth.
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And then now we
came back to the school
00:22:02.55\00:22:06.45
that we are staying at
00:22:06.49\00:22:07.82
and we had about
five minutes to go change
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and then we had to go
to the evangelistic meeting
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which was an hour away
00:22:15.20\00:22:17.07
and we rode in
the back of the truck
00:22:17.10\00:22:18.73
that was very bumpy.
00:22:18.77\00:22:22.07
And then we had VBS for the kids
00:22:22.10\00:22:25.77
while their parents were
in the evangelistic meeting.
00:22:25.81\00:22:27.91
Wow!
00:22:27.94\00:22:29.28
So you're building
churches during the day,
00:22:29.31\00:22:31.81
somehow you're finding
time to fit in colporteuring,
00:22:31.85\00:22:35.62
then in the
evening you're doing VBS
00:22:35.65\00:22:37.55
and evangelist meetings.
00:22:37.59\00:22:39.29
Wow!
00:22:39.32\00:22:40.89
Who does the
preaching? We all do.
00:22:40.92\00:22:43.69
We all, you know,
we kind of separate
00:22:43.73\00:22:46.39
and there's a
group from Grand Rapids.
00:22:46.43\00:22:48.86
Jeff Young Group we call them,
00:22:48.90\00:22:50.80
and they come and
they put on a program.
00:22:50.83\00:22:52.93
So they took a church,
Ernie and Dorothy Toppingberg
00:22:52.97\00:22:56.17
from Michigan, they
are a retired couple.
00:22:56.20\00:22:59.41
They go down before
us, and they do a church.
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I did a church, the kids preach.
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It's just dynamic to watch
00:23:05.18\00:23:07.28
and they watch them
come forward for baptism.
00:23:07.32\00:23:09.52
Oh, wow! That must be something.
00:23:09.55\00:23:12.12
And they're
young people, you know,
00:23:12.15\00:23:13.96
when they're there
giving that appeal,
00:23:13.99\00:23:17.33
and watching them come.
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It's like life-changing
in 10 days, you know.
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Do the local churches
follow up or how does that work
00:23:24.17\00:23:27.14
as far as you know the people
00:23:27.17\00:23:28.50
who wanted to come
forth and be baptized,
00:23:28.54\00:23:30.01
how does that work?
00:23:30.04\00:23:31.37
I watch and if
there's a lot of interest,
00:23:31.41\00:23:32.84
I hire a Bible worker
00:23:32.87\00:23:34.44
because we don't
want any fragments left.
00:23:34.48\00:23:36.41
So we hire Bible
worker for three months,
00:23:36.44\00:23:39.45
and then we get the reports
back of that health expo.
00:23:39.48\00:23:43.25
Sometimes I get 450 Bible
studies out of a health expo.
00:23:43.28\00:23:47.06
That's a lot of studies.
That's a lot of studies.
00:23:47.09\00:23:49.39
You know, sometimes I get 30, 40
00:23:49.42\00:23:51.23
and still that's
overwhelming, you know.
00:23:51.26\00:23:53.23
And so we hire a
Bible worker to...
00:23:53.26\00:23:55.60
Work with the local church.
00:23:55.63\00:23:57.00
And to make sure that it's...
00:23:57.03\00:23:59.03
What would be the
sense of doing all the work
00:23:59.07\00:24:00.84
and just letting it go?
00:24:00.87\00:24:02.20
No. No. And so we keep going.
00:24:02.24\00:24:05.31
So tell us is there any story,
testimony that you can think of
00:24:05.34\00:24:09.28
from your time
at the mission trip,
00:24:09.31\00:24:10.78
any one of the
three of you that,
00:24:10.81\00:24:12.61
that really spoke to
you this last mission trip?
00:24:12.65\00:24:15.68
I do, but I'd like
the kids to go ahead
00:24:15.72\00:24:17.95
and share their thoughts
and I've got a good one.
00:24:17.99\00:24:20.46
Okay.
00:24:20.49\00:24:21.82
Yeah, Jairit, you have
something that comes to mind
00:24:21.86\00:24:24.63
that sticks out that
really made an impact
00:24:24.66\00:24:26.16
on this most recent trip
or maybe some of the others?
00:24:26.19\00:24:29.73
Is this your first
one by the way or...?
00:24:29.76\00:24:31.53
This is my third
one. Your third one? Okay.
00:24:31.57\00:24:33.60
So of many of the trips,
00:24:33.64\00:24:34.97
what stuck out to
you is a powerful story?
00:24:35.00\00:24:38.44
Okay, there is this one
time I was helping with the VBS
00:24:38.47\00:24:43.48
and we left out, I
went with the pastor
00:24:43.51\00:24:47.48
and helpers I guess,
00:24:47.52\00:24:50.92
but I was the only
one that spoke Spanish.
00:24:50.95\00:24:52.59
Okay.
00:24:52.62\00:24:54.22
So and so we
left, went in the car
00:24:54.26\00:24:57.96
but somehow we got lost.
00:24:57.99\00:24:59.39
Oh, no.
00:24:59.43\00:25:00.76
We got in the middle of
nowhere in the top of mountain,
00:25:00.80\00:25:02.96
and we just didn't see anybody
00:25:03.00\00:25:05.73
and there was nothing to do.
00:25:05.77\00:25:09.97
And so we were looking for
somebody, there was nobody.
00:25:10.01\00:25:14.24
And so we decided to pray.
00:25:14.28\00:25:16.31
So we got down on
our knees and we pray.
00:25:16.34\00:25:20.22
And five minutes later,
this car comes and he's like,
00:25:20.25\00:25:24.35
"Oh, are you guys
lost, did you lose your way?"
00:25:24.39\00:25:28.22
We're like, yes,
yes. Please. Yes, we have!
00:25:28.26\00:25:31.33
And then like, oh,
00:25:31.36\00:25:34.13
I just happened to
randomly hear this voice
00:25:34.16\00:25:37.23
that told me to come
and I'm going to this place,
00:25:37.27\00:25:41.34
and we were like,
so we asked the place
00:25:41.37\00:25:43.97
where he was going
00:25:44.01\00:25:45.34
and it was the exact same place.
00:25:45.37\00:25:47.54
So we decided to follow him.
00:25:47.58\00:25:49.91
And we were kind of
late like three hours later
00:25:49.94\00:25:52.31
from our actual time that
the VBS was going to start.
00:25:52.35\00:25:55.42
It's Mexico...
00:25:55.45\00:25:56.79
And so we thought, oh,
well, maybe the kids left,
00:25:56.82\00:25:59.09
they're not home.
00:25:59.12\00:26:01.02
They're doing something
but we actually got there,
00:26:01.06\00:26:05.23
we follow this guy,
and when we get there,
00:26:05.26\00:26:07.63
the kids are just all
waiting in the sidewalk.
00:26:07.66\00:26:10.10
Three hours later
they're still there.
00:26:10.13\00:26:11.87
They see the car, they
see us, and they're like,
00:26:11.90\00:26:14.37
oh, and they come running.
00:26:14.40\00:26:15.97
Amen. And there
was about 70 kids.
00:26:16.00\00:26:18.71
So that was amazing how...
00:26:18.74\00:26:21.14
Now, that's powerful
because God spoke to this man.
00:26:21.18\00:26:23.88
Yes.
00:26:23.91\00:26:25.25
You know, it
wasn't just accident,
00:26:25.28\00:26:27.52
it was a divine appointment,
wasn't it about that?
00:26:27.55\00:26:29.68
Amen. Wow.
00:26:29.72\00:26:31.05
And he sent him along to
help you guys find your way
00:26:31.09\00:26:32.52
and the kids were still
there for VBS three hours later,
00:26:32.55\00:26:35.39
it's pretty amazing.
00:26:35.42\00:26:36.96
That shows how God is so vested
in the soul of each person,
00:26:36.99\00:26:42.50
then you think about
each one of those young people
00:26:42.53\00:26:44.93
and God knew that you
were gonna have an impact.
00:26:44.97\00:26:47.44
Each one of you as
students coming and sharing
00:26:47.47\00:26:49.47
and ministering to
them, that's powerful
00:26:49.50\00:26:51.57
and God spoke to
that person to tell him.
00:26:51.61\00:26:53.84
Praise God. It's wonderful.
00:26:53.88\00:26:55.51
What about you,
Leilani, you have a story.
00:26:55.54\00:26:58.31
Well, I guess it was probably
00:26:58.35\00:27:00.35
near the end of the
evangelistic meetings.
00:27:00.38\00:27:02.82
My church
actually had the longest
00:27:02.85\00:27:04.19
so we had more
time with the kids.
00:27:04.22\00:27:05.89
And then the last day, it
was the last day at the VBS
00:27:05.92\00:27:10.26
so we thought we were
never gonna see them again
00:27:10.29\00:27:12.49
and so me and my friend Samantha
00:27:12.53\00:27:16.03
who's doing VBS with
me, we were almost crying
00:27:16.06\00:27:19.33
but we went yet and then
the kids like surrounded us,
00:27:19.37\00:27:22.40
there were like ten
kids trying to hug us
00:27:22.44\00:27:23.87
at the same time.
00:27:23.91\00:27:25.94
And then a couple
of them started crying
00:27:25.97\00:27:28.08
and then so we
were just like bowed.
00:27:28.11\00:27:30.78
And then we actually did
get to see them again on Friday
00:27:30.81\00:27:34.32
because that's when
we inaugurated the church
00:27:34.35\00:27:37.62
and they were there.
00:27:37.65\00:27:38.99
And that was even worse though
00:27:39.02\00:27:41.56
because we got to see them again
00:27:41.59\00:27:42.92
and they were all
happy and we were happy,
00:27:42.96\00:27:45.39
and then when we had to leave
and they started crying again,
00:27:45.43\00:27:49.03
and then there is
this one little boy
00:27:49.06\00:27:51.13
who was trying
to follow the truck
00:27:51.17\00:27:53.67
and he was just walking
00:27:53.70\00:27:55.37
and then we started going faster
00:27:55.40\00:27:56.74
and he was running.
00:27:56.77\00:27:58.11
After the truck?
00:27:58.14\00:27:59.47
And, yeah, and it was like night
00:27:59.51\00:28:00.84
and like so it's
dark and he was running
00:28:00.88\00:28:02.21
after the truck
00:28:02.24\00:28:03.58
and then this like
dust cloud just comes up
00:28:03.61\00:28:05.48
from the back of the
truck he just disappears.
00:28:05.51\00:28:07.48
Oh, wow!
00:28:07.52\00:28:09.05
You know, it's amazing,
you think about the impact
00:28:09.08\00:28:10.89
that you made, you know,
00:28:10.92\00:28:12.25
you may never see
these young people
00:28:12.29\00:28:13.62
again on this earth,
00:28:13.66\00:28:15.12
but in heaven you think
about that in heaven, you know.
00:28:15.16\00:28:17.46
Someone will come to
you in heaven and say,
00:28:17.49\00:28:19.06
Leilani, do you
remember that VBS, years ago?
00:28:19.09\00:28:23.30
You made an impact on my
life. Isn't that awesome?
00:28:23.33\00:28:25.00
They will be able
to speak English then.
00:28:25.03\00:28:26.37
Yeah.
00:28:26.40\00:28:27.80
Or the Latinos
would say right, Jairit,
00:28:27.84\00:28:30.34
we'll be
speaking Spanish, right?
00:28:30.37\00:28:33.44
But the impact and the worth
of a soul, that's powerful.
00:28:33.48\00:28:37.31
It is it is. Brother Rich.
00:28:37.35\00:28:40.18
You know, as she's
telling the stories,
00:28:40.22\00:28:41.78
we give out stuffed animals
and one young girl, you know,
00:28:41.82\00:28:45.99
they always
think I remember them.
00:28:46.02\00:28:47.42
Of course I don't.
00:28:47.46\00:28:48.79
But she kept her
little penguin for nine years.
00:28:48.82\00:28:50.83
You know, that we had
given her nine years ago
00:28:50.86\00:28:52.96
and then she had married
and she's starting a church,
00:28:52.99\00:28:55.26
you know, the
VBS is so important
00:28:55.30\00:28:57.63
to start to
seeds good seed going,
00:28:57.67\00:29:00.14
this year we
built five churches,
00:29:00.17\00:29:02.17
the plan was four.
00:29:02.20\00:29:03.54
I said we can't build
five, it's impossible.
00:29:03.57\00:29:05.81
We try to do it
last year we did it,
00:29:05.84\00:29:07.51
but it was a push.
00:29:07.54\00:29:08.88
We can only do four. Well.
00:29:08.91\00:29:12.21
They had told the churches
you're gonna get a church
00:29:12.25\00:29:15.98
and then they changed.
00:29:16.02\00:29:17.35
They dropped one membership
00:29:17.39\00:29:19.62
and said we're gonna do
another church over here.
00:29:19.65\00:29:22.42
Well, that broke their heart.
00:29:22.46\00:29:23.79
I know it does because
they're looking forward
00:29:23.83\00:29:25.19
to the Mexico missions,
00:29:25.23\00:29:26.76
they're waiting
years to get a church.
00:29:26.80\00:29:29.10
And so I went up to Todd Olson,
he's our builder I said, Todd,
00:29:29.13\00:29:31.83
can we just squeeze in
one more, just one more?
00:29:31.87\00:29:34.90
And so I did.
00:29:34.94\00:29:37.11
I went to the church I said,
00:29:37.14\00:29:38.51
you know you guys got
to put your foundation.
00:29:38.54\00:29:40.14
I know everybody
else gets three months,
00:29:40.18\00:29:41.71
you gotta do
yours in three days.
00:29:41.74\00:29:43.21
I'll be here in three
days, if you don't have it,
00:29:43.24\00:29:44.71
I can't do it.
00:29:44.75\00:29:46.08
They had it. They got
their church. It's finished.
00:29:46.11\00:29:48.25
And that's the one you see with
stucco started on that church.
00:29:48.28\00:29:50.89
Oh, wow! Okay. This one here?
00:29:50.92\00:29:52.55
This one there. That's
that church that shouldn't be.
00:29:52.59\00:29:55.32
Wow! That's beautiful.
00:29:55.36\00:29:56.76
The fourth church
was on top of a mountain
00:29:56.79\00:29:59.06
and it's the evangelistic
center for the area.
00:29:59.09\00:30:01.46
The family that came up to
me afterwards they said, Rich,
00:30:01.50\00:30:04.70
we want a school like
Laurelbrook right here.
00:30:04.73\00:30:07.44
What can you do?
00:30:07.47\00:30:08.90
I said I don't
know. I'm at Laurelbrook.
00:30:08.94\00:30:10.91
I'm not building. And they went.
00:30:10.94\00:30:13.21
And they visit with the family,
00:30:13.24\00:30:16.41
the brother had left the church
for some different reason.
00:30:16.44\00:30:20.85
So I went and visited with
him. And he got disgruntled.
00:30:20.88\00:30:24.19
And I said, Brother,
00:30:24.22\00:30:25.55
don't get
disgruntled with people.
00:30:25.59\00:30:27.26
Know Jesus Christ and you
00:30:27.29\00:30:28.79
and he said there's a
prominent church there
00:30:28.82\00:30:31.83
that wanted to buy the
land that he wanted to donate
00:30:31.86\00:30:34.73
that his mother wanted to donate
00:30:34.76\00:30:36.63
and it was 2,000 acres.
00:30:36.67\00:30:38.83
And she said to her son
is there food on your table.
00:30:38.87\00:30:43.51
He said, yes, mom,
there is. Then don't sell it.
00:30:43.54\00:30:46.81
I came.
00:30:46.84\00:30:48.24
They saw the Laurelbrook plan.
00:30:48.28\00:30:50.18
The Bible, The
Spirit of Prophecy,
00:30:50.21\00:30:51.88
he wants to
donate it to Laurelbrook.
00:30:51.91\00:30:55.15
My question for Rich Sutton is,
00:30:55.18\00:30:56.99
Lord, what do you want me to do?
00:30:57.02\00:30:58.69
I'll do it.
00:30:58.72\00:31:01.02
Miracles, stories, and
that's this mission trip.
00:31:01.06\00:31:04.83
What do I do? I don't know.
00:31:04.86\00:31:07.20
Fantastic, it's neat
isn't it to see what God has
00:31:07.23\00:31:09.33
let in Laurelbrook
in all these years.
00:31:09.36\00:31:10.87
I think you said
it started in 1950?
00:31:10.90\00:31:12.83
'50. Yes. Is that right?
00:31:12.87\00:31:14.20
And here it is, even today,
00:31:14.24\00:31:15.57
you know Christian
education is so important.
00:31:15.60\00:31:17.07
It is. You know,
it was God's plan.
00:31:17.11\00:31:19.61
It is. It really is.
00:31:19.64\00:31:21.31
And now we're gonna
do some swapping here
00:31:21.34\00:31:22.68
I know this may seem, I'm
sort of used to tradition,
00:31:22.71\00:31:25.71
so if you watch 3ABN today's
00:31:25.75\00:31:27.62
you know we do a
little intro in the beginning,
00:31:27.65\00:31:29.35
then we do a little
music, then we go to the guests,
00:31:29.38\00:31:30.99
but you notice
today we had no music
00:31:31.02\00:31:33.25
and the reason we did that
is because during this music
00:31:33.29\00:31:35.69
which we're
getting ready to go to,
00:31:35.72\00:31:37.13
we're gonna do a
little swapping here
00:31:37.16\00:31:38.49
because we have another
student from Laurelbrook,
00:31:38.53\00:31:41.83
that's here and we
want to bring Mark.
00:31:41.86\00:31:44.27
We want to bring
Mark. On to the...
00:31:44.30\00:31:45.93
And hear Mark's
testimony as well.
00:31:45.97\00:31:48.14
But first we're
gonna go to the song
00:31:48.17\00:31:49.84
and we want to thank
you Leilani and Jairit,
00:31:49.87\00:31:51.97
for your heart for God.
00:31:52.01\00:31:53.44
It is exciting to see
what God's doing in your life
00:31:53.48\00:31:55.81
and how he's
growing you through the work
00:31:55.84\00:31:58.31
through the
experience at Laurelbrook,
00:31:58.35\00:32:00.92
through the mission service.
00:32:00.95\00:32:02.65
So praise God for that.
00:32:02.68\00:32:04.12
And here 3ABN family will
be praying for you both too.
00:32:04.15\00:32:07.26
Right now we're
gonna go to our pastor
00:32:07.29\00:32:09.06
the Thompsonville
Seventh-day Adventist church
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Pastor John Lomacang.
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He's singing a song
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it's a duet actually
with Celestine Barry.
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It's entitled
"The Gentle Healer".
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The gentle healer
came into our town today
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He touched blind eyes
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and the darkness left to stay
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But more than the blindness
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He took their sins away
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The gentle healer
came into our town today
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The gentle healer
came into our town today
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He spoke one word
that was all he had to say
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And the one who had died
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just rose up straight away
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The gentle healer
came into our town today
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Oh, he seems like
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just an ordinary man
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With dirty feet and
rough but gentle hands
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But the words he says
are hard to understand
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Yet he seems like
just an ordinary man
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The gentle healer
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He left our town today
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I just looked around
and found he'd gone away
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Some folks from town
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who followed him they say
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The gentle healer is the truth,
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the life, the way
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The gentle healer is the truth,
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the life,
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the way.
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Thank you so much, Pastor John
and Celestine, Gentle Healer.
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Powerful song. Amen.
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We are in the
middle of our discussion,
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talking with Rich Sutton,
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who is the president
of Laurelbrook Academy
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and we have been
talking with Jairit and Leilani,
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and we just made a
switch during the music.
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Leilani has stepped
into the control room
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and we brought Mark Felarca out.
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And Mark, we're
so glad you're here.
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Tell us where you're from
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and what year you
are here at Laurelbrook?
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I'm actually
from the Philippines,
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and I lived in all
my life in California
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but now I'm in Laurelbrook.
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So were you born
in the Philippines?
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Yes. Okay.
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Fantastic. Are you
a senior or freshman?
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Freshman. You're
freshman at Laurelbrook.
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Tell us your experience because
we talked to the others earlier
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about their vocational training,
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you know, what
job they're doing.
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Tell us what you're doing?
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Well, I first did horsemanship,
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learning how to feed the horses,
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clean the
horses, and groom them.
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And now I'm in publications
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taking pictures
for the yearbook.
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You have a lot of different
vocational options there,
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I mean I'm
thinking you had the farm
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and the welding and
the sand, the kitchen,
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the nursing home the,
CNA, that's incredible.
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The body shop,
there's sawmill. Yeah.
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You just keep asking
me I'll say we have it.
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Construction. Construction.
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Janitorial? Yes.
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It's incredible and then horses,
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that's exciting, and
taking pictures, wonderful.
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So what has been your
experience at Laurelbrook?
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Well, my first
one was in canvassing.
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I was doing
canvassing for nine weeks
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and there's nine week
shifts for vocational.
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And what we did was,
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there were several
dogs at this house and...
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Were they mean dogs?
Well, they seem like.
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Yeah, there's one
tiny one and one big one.
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Okay, yeah, I tend
to be a little cautious
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some times of dogs.
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Okay, so go on, so you
say there's a couple of dogs
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at the house.
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Yes, there is two dogs
and then they come up to me
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straight at me,
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and they are
just nudging my bag.
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I'm like, oh, okay.
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And they're like growling.
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But before that house I
actually asked Jesus, please,
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Satan get out of
here and, Lord Jesus,
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please help me to
spread this gospel.
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Amen.
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And as I did that
the owner came out...
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After the owner came
out, they just like dispersed,
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yes, you can say.
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And I was able
to talk to the lady
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on the bench with her son.
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And she didn't buy any books
but she did accept the prayer.
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Amen. Oh, that's incredible.
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And what an
impact, you have no clue.
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We know it made an
impact but even for eternity
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that prayer that you had.
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God answered your
prayer and kept you safe,
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and then you
were able to minister.
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So if they don't buy a book
that's your normal protocol,
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you pray with them?
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Amen. That's wonderful.
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Now have you been on any
of the mission trips, Mark?
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Yes, I've been
in the one to Tulum.
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And Tulum is like,
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it's near the
eastern side of Mexico.
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So when we went there, we
had an evangelistic series
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and I was talking about Daniel 2
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and prophecies of Medo-Persia,
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Babylonia, and all
those like the statue.
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And, yeah, that
was very interesting.
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I had several friends there.
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There's people
there that did VBS
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and over there I
had another testimony.
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And I forgot his name
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but I was
preaching at this church
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and I had asked
the church service.
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I had this little toy, trumphest
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It's a little top that
you wind it under a string...
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Like a string?
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Yeah, and then you throw
it on the ground and it spins.
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And this is the
guy who taught me
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how to actually do it correctly
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and that's sort of our
friendship bonded from.
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Okay.
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And then a couple weeks
later, after one week later
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when we were doing,
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I'm gonna just say
that's more evangelistic series.
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He accepted
Christ and got baptized.
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Amen. Wow! Praise the Lord.
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So you're one
of the evangelists?
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I was gonna say that
your talking about Daniel 2,
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so I'm thinking
you're preaching, prayed,
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was it, were you scared?
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Yes.
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So I guess you could say
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someone got baptized by a toy.
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Yeah. By a top.
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Isn't that neat?
God uses every method.
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You know, I think about this.
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I can only imagine
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what this must do to your heart.
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It does.
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As you were involved
with these young people,
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I know Mexico missions
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and now Laurelbrook
for just a few years.
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I mean, what
does that do for you
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to see these young people.
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I mean, they're
involved in ministry.
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They're involved in
this vocational training,
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the academics, and
you're seeing young people
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being changed with a positive.
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What does that do for you
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to be involved with
Laurelbrook like this?
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It really shows
me that God knows
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what He's doing with the call.
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You know, you
question, Lord, I'm gonna do it.
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But I think it's more
important building 100 churches
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than building 100
kids, you know, but it's not.
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Yeah.
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When you do this and
you see them up front,
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and you see
they're change forever.
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That not only
changed them, their families,
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and all they come
in contact with too.
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It just spreads.
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I was just gonna say
that, with the spreading,
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because you make an impact
on an individual, you know,
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God knows what He's
doing with your life.
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You know, Jairit, you think
about this Leilani earlier.
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Mark, you know
you can become lights.
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Which will then
spread and who knows
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what parts of the
world, incredible, isn't it?
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It is.
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When I was in Mexico
and I brought the last group
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that I brought
here, you know, years ago.
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When we started
building the churches,
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Stephen was still
with me and the pastor,
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the union president
wanted Stephen to be a pastor.
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I said no, no,
no, he's got his mind.
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We're building
churches, Brothers.
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That's more
important than being a pastor.
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He's is Norwich.
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You know, that each
pastor has 30 churches,
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and each of those
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who has congregations
he has a 1,000 people
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he's ministering to.
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And those 1,000 turn into
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and you know I was really
quiet when he went through it.
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And that's what I'm doing here.
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The same thing
pastor's telling me.
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It's building churches?
Yes. But you're building lives.
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Amen. So let me ask a question.
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So you're gonna have
some parents or grandparents
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or someone at home
that's watching this program
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and saying, boy,
Laurelbrook never heard of it
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or I've heard about it
but didn't know much about it.
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So they say,
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you know what I think
I want to check this out
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which we will
have an address page.
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So get your pencil
and paper ready soon.
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But, tell me about
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like what the day
life is at Laurelbrook,
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that's one question.
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The other one is,
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do you have like
a long waiting list
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for students to
attend Laurelbrook
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or can you take more
at Laurelbrook, Rich?
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We can take more.
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You can take more so
there are some openings for us.
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I only want to be
at 60 kids no more.
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No more than 60.
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Because I want to
train them correctly
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and I want to do
the mission trips,
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and it's very
difficult, as a tradesmen,
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to have more than five
kids with you and the trader.
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I want to actually have them
do it, two or three is best.
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And also the
academics, you don't want to get
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too many
students for the teacher?
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No, no so we want to stay at 60.
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And that's a
blessing with a nursing home
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because it's funding.
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You know, I don't, I don't
need like the other schools
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do they need that
that student base.
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So the income
from the nursing home
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is helping to fund.
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It subsidizes the
tuition and the operating place.
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And the young people
learning there, you know,
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and they can help
me in the summers.
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This is a beautiful program.
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That nursing home is
really a blessing, you know.
00:42:48.80\00:42:51.40
So, Jairit, so tell me
how early your day starts then
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at Laurelbrook?
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Is this start at
8:00 in the morning
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or give us a little bit of
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what your day would
be like at Laurelbrook?
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I know you're senior.
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So maybe a little
different than a freshman,
00:43:01.14\00:43:02.48
but tell us what your experience
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is on a daily basis?
00:43:03.88\00:43:05.21
It depends on us what time
we have to get up, I guess.
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We have a prayer. Wonderful.
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We have like a prayer group
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and this prayer group
gets up at 6:15 every morning.
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So this is how
you start your day.
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Praise the Lord for that.
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And it's not required,
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it just comes from
you, if you like to come.
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But that's good to participate.
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Which is a
blessing, a real blessing.
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We start breakfast like 6:45.
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Okay, pretty early.
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It's open all the way to 7:20
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and at 7:30 we start worship.
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So this is choired group
chapel for the school, 7:30.
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Yes, and after worship
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then we go into our
vocational trainings.
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You know, office, kitchens,
different things like that.
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Some students do
the vocational training
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in the morning
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and some others
at in the afternoon.
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And also after our
vocational training,
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of course we have lunch.
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Then we go into
our music program.
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Oh!
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It starts and gets to orchestra,
00:44:05.71\00:44:09.28
bell choir or singing.
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So everyone participates
in the music program?
00:44:10.98\00:44:13.18
Yes. Okay. Wow.
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And for me after
the music program,
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I have school till 6:00
and then we're going to supper.
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Sometimes we have
suppers in the homes
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and staff houses
with the Bible studies...
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And share
testimonies and after dinner
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I guess, we have free time.
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So we can either
come together to play
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or we also have prayer meeting,
it depends on the night.
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Sure.
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And then afterwards
we just do worship again.
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That's good.
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We pray together
and we go to bed.
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Amen. You know what I
like is the spiritual emphasis.
00:44:50.62\00:44:52.89
I do too.
00:44:52.92\00:44:54.26
A lot of time in prayer,
a lot of time in worship,
00:44:54.29\00:44:56.62
a lot of community
and that's powerful
00:44:56.66\00:44:59.06
because building
the spiritual life
00:44:59.09\00:45:00.83
is more important
than anything in life.
00:45:00.86\00:45:03.43
It sets that
foundation for everything.
00:45:03.47\00:45:05.87
Mark, tell us about...
00:45:05.90\00:45:07.64
I know obviously
your experience is similar
00:45:07.67\00:45:09.14
as far as your day,
00:45:09.17\00:45:10.51
but you were smiling a few times
00:45:10.54\00:45:11.87
when Jairit was
talking about the day,
00:45:11.91\00:45:13.48
so tell us
00:45:13.51\00:45:14.84
maybe what your
favorite parts of the day are?
00:45:14.88\00:45:16.85
Well, my day first starts off
with since I'm a staff student,
00:45:16.88\00:45:21.85
I'm actually, I
could I wake up at 6:00
00:45:21.88\00:45:25.45
and then do the same routine.
00:45:25.49\00:45:27.32
But one of my
favorite parts of the day is
00:45:27.36\00:45:30.09
actually going to the
dorm, meeting with my friends
00:45:30.13\00:45:33.03
and just playing games,
00:45:33.06\00:45:35.56
fellowshipping with
each others and I hope...
00:45:35.60\00:45:40.57
But as far as
being involved together
00:45:40.60\00:45:42.04
with fellowship is a
real blessing, isn't it?
00:45:42.07\00:45:44.27
Because, yeah that's
encouraging, that is.
00:45:44.31\00:45:45.94
You know, that's
the neat thing of yeah,
00:45:45.97\00:45:47.88
in an academy atmosphere.
00:45:47.91\00:45:49.51
And he's a sparkplug.
00:45:49.54\00:45:50.88
You know, it's fun to have
those key spiritual people,
00:45:50.91\00:45:54.08
you could bring other
people within that's Mark,
00:45:54.12\00:45:56.28
he loves the Lord
and that's a commodity
00:45:56.32\00:46:00.02
and a dorm that's just precious.
00:46:00.06\00:46:01.49
Yes. Yeah.
00:46:01.52\00:46:02.86
So your parents are
staff, what do they do?
00:46:02.89\00:46:04.43
Well, my dad is actually
billing for sand kitchen
00:46:04.46\00:46:10.27
and the nursing home
00:46:10.30\00:46:13.54
and my mom is in
California right now.
00:46:13.57\00:46:15.30
Okay. Very good. Okay.
00:46:15.34\00:46:16.84
So your dad is in
construction work?
00:46:16.87\00:46:18.74
Time, yeah, time billing... CNA.
00:46:18.77\00:46:20.34
Okay. Billing.
00:46:20.38\00:46:21.91
Billing, Thank
you. I thought building.
00:46:21.94\00:46:24.38
I'm just... That's okay.
00:46:24.41\00:46:25.75
Okay. Got you.
00:46:25.78\00:46:27.48
So our time is the wrapping
up, we have a few minutes left.
00:46:27.52\00:46:29.42
So tell us, Rich,
00:46:29.45\00:46:30.79
as far as the
plans for Laurelbrook.
00:46:30.82\00:46:32.15
Where you're at?
00:46:32.19\00:46:33.52
Where you're wanting
to go, with this corner,
00:46:33.56\00:46:35.62
you've been
there just a few years
00:46:35.66\00:46:36.99
and then you know, I
know Christian education,
00:46:37.03\00:46:38.63
that's a passion...
00:46:38.66\00:46:40.06
For you, so I know there
you're excited to be involved
00:46:40.10\00:46:42.36
with Laurelbrook.
00:46:42.40\00:46:43.73
So tell us a little
bit about Laurelbrook
00:46:43.77\00:46:45.10
and where you're planning
to go in the next few years?
00:46:45.13\00:46:47.17
We had a five year
plan that we wanted to do.
00:46:47.20\00:46:51.37
And we're right in
the middle of that,
00:46:51.41\00:46:52.77
this is my third year and
things are right on target,
00:46:52.81\00:46:55.14
we're paying off debt,
00:46:55.18\00:46:56.51
we're paying cash
for everything rather,
00:46:56.54\00:46:57.91
and God is
blessing us in that light.
00:46:57.95\00:47:00.32
Our buildings are old 1950s
00:47:00.35\00:47:02.08
when the campus has
started so it evolved.
00:47:02.12\00:47:05.25
And so we're in
the process of removing
00:47:05.29\00:47:07.36
some of those buildings,
00:47:07.39\00:47:08.72
we have a master
plan of a new dorms and...
00:47:08.76\00:47:11.93
That we have a couple
of pictures of drawings...
00:47:11.96\00:47:14.00
Sure. Right? There you go.
00:47:14.03\00:47:15.36
This is of the
main... That's a new dorm...
00:47:15.40\00:47:16.77
Okay. That we're constructing.
00:47:16.80\00:47:18.73
And like I said
now we're looking at
00:47:18.77\00:47:20.37
only 60 young people,
so 30 boys and 30 girls.
00:47:20.40\00:47:23.81
Sure. So we need two dorms.
00:47:23.84\00:47:25.41
One dorm is sufficient,
our other dorm is really lax,
00:47:25.44\00:47:28.64
we really had a
fire six years ago
00:47:28.68\00:47:31.15
or something and destroyed that.
00:47:31.18\00:47:33.05
And so the boys are
in a temporary setting,
00:47:33.08\00:47:35.88
and I want to
get them out of there
00:47:35.92\00:47:37.25
as soon as they can to
get them into their new dorm.
00:47:37.29\00:47:39.45
But the girls say,
"We want the new dorm."
00:47:39.49\00:47:41.92
Because, actually the
girls went into the boys' dorm
00:47:41.96\00:47:44.06
and they say, "Does the girls
dorm normally have urinals?"
00:47:44.09\00:47:47.30
Well, maybe not you
know, so we're changing that
00:47:47.33\00:47:49.73
but that's our goal
is to start this year
00:47:49.76\00:47:52.60
with the dorm and
then keep progressing
00:47:52.63\00:47:54.77
until the five years,
00:47:54.80\00:47:56.60
the plan in that so
we're adhering to it,
00:47:56.64\00:47:59.17
but we're paying cash.
00:47:59.21\00:48:00.54
Yeah. No debt.
00:48:00.58\00:48:01.91
That's God's plan. Yeah.
00:48:01.94\00:48:03.45
And we feel God will
bless us with that as we,
00:48:03.48\00:48:05.91
all the way
through Mexico missions,
00:48:05.95\00:48:07.72
I never borrowed a dime.
00:48:07.75\00:48:09.35
Yeah, praise the Lord for that.
00:48:09.38\00:48:10.72
He's always blessed me,
you know, so that's the thing
00:48:10.75\00:48:12.29
with Laurelbrook the same way.
00:48:12.32\00:48:14.39
A question for you,
00:48:14.42\00:48:15.76
the importance of
Christian education?
00:48:15.79\00:48:18.76
It burns in my heart,
you know and I feel this...
00:48:18.79\00:48:21.30
Why is it important?
00:48:21.33\00:48:22.66
I have five children
myself, I have 12 grandchildren,
00:48:22.70\00:48:26.43
and God has blessed me
all the way through the years,
00:48:26.47\00:48:28.47
I didn't have a lot of money
but I could always put them
00:48:28.50\00:48:30.41
through Christian education,
all the way through Andrews
00:48:30.44\00:48:32.41
and Southern and
they're missionaries,
00:48:32.44\00:48:34.08
every one of them
is a missionary today.
00:48:34.11\00:48:36.11
My granddaughter
just came back from Peru,
00:48:36.14\00:48:38.51
you know, she's got a...
00:48:38.55\00:48:39.88
It burns in me. And is
it the same with these?
00:48:39.91\00:48:43.18
Yes.
00:48:43.22\00:48:44.55
I believe that by
God's grace, we can have...
00:48:44.59\00:48:46.55
I watch school's closing.
00:48:46.59\00:48:47.92
No, we need to build new
ones. Yeah, we need to do.
00:48:47.96\00:48:50.06
Or open them back up
and then God has a plan.
00:48:50.09\00:48:52.86
He does. We just follow it.
00:48:52.89\00:48:54.53
I love the thought
of Great Controversy,
00:48:54.56\00:48:56.26
"Do what is right
because it's right,
00:48:56.30\00:48:58.20
leave the
consequences with God."
00:48:58.23\00:48:59.57
Yes.
00:48:59.60\00:49:00.94
And that's so strong,
that's all we live by.
00:49:00.97\00:49:02.60
And so with
Laurelbrook it's the same way,
00:49:02.64\00:49:04.54
I love being there
because I get to be
00:49:04.57\00:49:06.27
with these young
people and watch them grow.
00:49:06.31\00:49:09.71
But you know, I was mentioning
to you too with Jairit,
00:49:09.74\00:49:12.81
3000 to 1 is the
currency rate in Venezuela.
00:49:12.85\00:49:17.42
Oh! Could you imagine?
00:49:17.45\00:49:18.99
When I started in
Mexico, it was three to one.
00:49:19.02\00:49:22.69
Now it's 20 to one.
00:49:22.72\00:49:25.29
She's 3000 to 1.
00:49:25.33\00:49:27.66
How can she afford
Christian education?
00:49:27.70\00:49:29.36
Yeah. By God's
grace she's with us.
00:49:29.40\00:49:31.63
Yeah, and now you're a
senior. And she's a senior.
00:49:31.67\00:49:34.10
Good. Wow.
00:49:34.14\00:49:35.47
We were committed
to this girl. Yes.
00:49:35.50\00:49:36.91
And she wants to go to
Adventist colleges, how?
00:49:36.94\00:49:40.08
Mike has went to
Adventist colleges and no debt.
00:49:40.11\00:49:44.25
She's going to be the same way,
00:49:44.28\00:49:45.61
we're committed to
her in that same light.
00:49:45.65\00:49:47.72
You know, what
I'm impressed with,
00:49:47.75\00:49:49.55
is that here is a school
that God is obviously blessing.
00:49:49.58\00:49:53.09
You know, it's
been in existence now
00:49:53.12\00:49:54.46
for a number of years.
00:49:54.49\00:49:57.23
And I like it too
because you've got plans.
00:49:57.26\00:49:58.59
We do.
00:49:58.63\00:49:59.96
That we just saw a
drawing of the dorm
00:50:00.00\00:50:02.26
and others are drawing
00:50:02.30\00:50:03.63
I think of what your plan
is for the... is that the main?
00:50:03.67\00:50:05.50
The main campus. There you go.
00:50:05.53\00:50:06.90
The church is
moving through here
00:50:06.94\00:50:08.27
and then you see the back corner
00:50:08.30\00:50:09.64
of all the dorms.
00:50:09.67\00:50:11.01
Because, I believe God's
work should be flourishing.
00:50:11.04\00:50:13.21
Like you're
saying not shutting down
00:50:13.24\00:50:14.74
but growing and
plans for the future
00:50:14.78\00:50:17.08
and boy, it's exciting.
00:50:17.11\00:50:19.11
God is doing
marvelous things at Laurelbrook.
00:50:19.15\00:50:21.42
It's a wonderful thing to
see, hear your testimonies.
00:50:21.45\00:50:24.15
Jairit, and Mark... It is.
00:50:24.19\00:50:25.52
And then to hear Leilani,
and to hear your passion
00:50:25.55\00:50:27.69
Brother Rich, you know,
00:50:27.72\00:50:29.06
just what God's
doing with the school,
00:50:29.09\00:50:31.53
with the staff,
with the students,
00:50:31.56\00:50:33.80
there at Laurelbrook Academy
00:50:33.83\00:50:35.16
and just the
passion for evangelism.
00:50:35.20\00:50:37.90
And for each young
person to be able to
00:50:37.93\00:50:40.90
have a Christian education,
00:50:40.94\00:50:42.80
to be able to go to
school and learn things
00:50:42.84\00:50:45.91
to be able to go out and
go to college, do a trade,
00:50:45.94\00:50:48.84
do something and share that,
and that's a wonderful thing.
00:50:48.88\00:50:51.65
What we want to do right now
is put up Laurelbrook Academy's
00:50:51.68\00:50:54.98
contact information.
00:50:55.02\00:50:56.58
Maybe, you've been
watching this program
00:50:56.62\00:50:57.95
and the Lord has put
something on your heart,
00:50:57.99\00:51:00.32
I want to support the work that
God is doing at this school.
00:51:00.36\00:51:02.86
Yeah, amen.
00:51:02.89\00:51:04.23
Maybe, you have young people
and they're high school age
00:51:04.26\00:51:07.06
and you think, I
want to learn more,
00:51:07.10\00:51:09.36
I want to maybe arrange a visit
with my family to the school
00:51:09.40\00:51:13.03
and to check it
out for ourselves.
00:51:13.07\00:51:15.70
Here is how you can get in touch
00:51:15.74\00:51:17.81
with Laurelbrook Academy.
00:51:17.84\00:51:19.57
If you would like to
contact Laurelbrook Academy,
00:51:23.24\00:51:26.05
you can do so by
writing to 114 Campus Drive,
00:51:26.08\00:51:30.39
Dayton, Tennessee 37321.
00:51:30.42\00:51:33.52
That's 114 Campus
Drive, Dayton, Tennessee 37321.
00:51:33.56\00:51:39.69
You can call
them at 423-775-3339.
00:51:39.73\00:51:44.83
That's 423-775-3339.
00:51:44.87\00:51:49.80
You can also visit them
online at Laurelbrook.org.
00:51:49.84\00:51:53.94
That's
L-A-U-R-E-L-B-R-O-O-K.org.
00:51:53.98\00:52:00.55
Contact them today.
00:52:00.58\00:52:02.38