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 word
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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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My name is Jill Morikone.
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And I feel a
little lost right now
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because I'm not
sitting next to Greg
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though we are delighted
that you have joined us today.
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Greg was not able to be here
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but I'm so
excited about the program
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that we have for you today.
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We're featuring
Young Disciple Ministries
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and I think
probably 20 years ago
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maybe I was involved
with the Young Disciple
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as, you would say I'm young now,
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but back then I
was even younger.
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And we did our
Young Disciple Bible camp
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and I was a counselor
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and it was an
incredible experience.
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They have an
incredible ministry.
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If you're
familiar with 3ABN at all,
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you know that we have
featured this ministry before
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and that they are a vital part
of the ministry of ASI as well,
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but we want to introduce
them to you at this time.
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I have sitting right
next to me Ted Evert,
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and you are the camp director
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and the Mission Experience
director, is that correct?
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Yeah, that's right.
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I'm coming from
Inchelium, Washington
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and so we've just gotten back
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from our latest
Mission Experience
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to the Philippines
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and looking forward to
sharing some stories today.
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Amen. We're so
excited about that.
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And Ted and Greg and I
and Ted's wife Christina,
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all went to school
together 20 years ago.
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And so it's just a joy
having you come back here
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and just share
with the 3ABN family.
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Great to be
here. Thank you, Jill.
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And sitting next to
you is Casey Reiswig
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and it's just a
privilege to have you here
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and what is your role
there at Young Disciple?
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In Young Disciple, so I
work part time in development
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and helping out
with donor relations,
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just part time right now.
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Amen. That's wonderful.
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And you had
obviously a vital part
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in the Mission Experience.
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I'm usually involved in
Mission Experience and camps
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and I just love it,
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I love the energy,
and the young people
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and the things that God
does in young lives every year.
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It's exciting. Amen.
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And sitting next
to you is Gabriela
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or we'll call you Gabby Garcia
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and we're just so
glad to have you here.
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Where are you from? Connecticut.
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Okay.
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And you just recently went
on this Mission Experience?
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Yes, I went on
this last mission trip.
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Okay, that's wonderful.
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And she actually preached,
we're gonna hear about that
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and some wonderful
testimonies of what took place
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and how you got
involved in Mission Experience.
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And sitting next to
you is Joshua Pestes.
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And, Joshua, we're
so glad you're here
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and where are you from?
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I'm from Walla
Walla, Washington.
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And you just went on
this Experience as well?
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Yeah, it was a
great blessing to me.
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I really enjoyed it,
there were some new experiences
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but God really worked through.
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Amen.
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We're so excited and I
know you preached as well,
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we're excited just
to hear the testimonies
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of changed lives,
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the impact it makes
on the people who go
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and the people
who hear the meetings.
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And we want to talk
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and unpackage a
bit of Young Disciple,
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if you're not familiar
at all with that ministry,
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what it is and how
it impacts young people
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all around the world
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and we want to talk about that.
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But first we'll do
the scripture and a song
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and then we'll get
into the interview.
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I asked Ted if there
was a certain scripture,
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and this is one you used
on the Mission Experience.
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Is that correct? Yes.
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We memorized this passage.
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The entire
chapter of Isaiah. Yes.
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Chapter 61, we won't
read the whole chapter,
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but let's read the
first three verses.
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We're in Isaiah 61:1, 2 and 3,
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"The Spirit of
the Lord is upon me,
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because the
Lord hath anointed me
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to preach good
tidings unto the meek.
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He hath sent me to
bind up the brokenhearted,
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to proclaim
liberty to the captives,
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and the opening of the
prison to them that are bound.
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To proclaim the
acceptable year of the Lord,
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and the day of
vengeance of our God,
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to comfort all that mourn,
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to appoint unto
them that mourn in Zion,
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to give unto
them beauty for ashes,
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the oil of joy for mourning,
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the garment of praise
for the spirit of heaviness,
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that they might be
called trees of righteousness,
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the planting of the Lord,
that he might be glorified."
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What an incredible few verses.
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Amen.
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And that really speaks to
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what you were
doing with the ministry,
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with preaching,
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proclaiming the
year of the Lord,
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but preaching deliverance
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because we're all bound in
some sort of addiction and sin
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and Jesus came to set us free.
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So we want you to stay with us
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to hear all about
what God is doing in
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and through the lives of
the young people impacted
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by the Ministry
of Young Disciple.
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But first,
let's go to our music.
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We have Jennifer
LaMountain with us
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and the song she
will be ministering
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is titled "In Your Mercy".
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In Your mercy
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You have shown me
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Your salvation
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Undeserving of your favor
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I am free
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And I'll never be the same
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All my life I will remain
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In your mercy
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Tender mercy shown to me
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In Your mercy
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You have promised to be near me
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I am resting
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In the shelter of Your wings
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Every fear I leave behind
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Every confidence I find
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In Your mercy
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Tender mercy shown to me
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So great is Your love
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It is higher than the heavens
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Your faithfulness
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Reaches the sky
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Be exalted O Lord
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Over all the earth
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Let Your glory
be seen in my life
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In my life, in my life
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In Your mercy
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You have given
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Of Your life blood
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One last
heartbeat and redemption
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Was complete
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What a debt of love You paid
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With Your death
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My soul was saved
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In Your mercy
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Tender mercy
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Shown to me
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Thank you so much, Jennifer.
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What a beautiful
song, "In Your Mercy".
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If you're just joining us,
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we have the privilege
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of talking with
Young Disciple Ministries.
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It's an incredible ministry,
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both Greg and I
had the opportunity
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back in the '90s
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to be involved
with this ministry
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with the youth
camps that they put on.
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Greg is a camper
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and then later we
were both counselors
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and Greg, I think
worked a little bit
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with Young Disciple as well.
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Yes, yeah, he did.
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So we're just
delighted to talk about
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what this ministry does.
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We have Ted Evert,
Casey Reiswig, Gabby Garcia,
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and Joshua Pestes with us
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and we're just delighted
to have each one of you here.
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So, Ted, since
you're the camp director
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and you've been there,
really your mom and dad
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you could say
founded the ministry.
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So take us back to
the beginning of YD.
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why was it established?
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And what was,
because you kind of
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have a three-pronged approach
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with what you do
now, but tell us,
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first of all, why was YD
established, Young Disciple?
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Yeah, we just had
our 25 year anniversary
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when the magazine
and the ministry started.
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It started with
Young Disciple Magazine.
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And maybe I'll just show you
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some samples of
what it looks like.
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Here are some
Young Disciple Magazines.
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And it's changed over the years,
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it started out
as black and white,
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and then it went
two color and then,
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you know, it's been full
color for a number of years now.
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And the purpose for
Young Disciple Magazine
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is to help young people learn
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how to love to study
the Bible for themselves.
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And that was at the core
of Young Disciple Ministries
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from the beginning,
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help young people not only study
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and read their Bibles,
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maybe learn a
passage or memorize something
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but to actually enjoy it
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and find ways
that work for them.
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And so that's where it started,
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the next year Young
Disciple Camps began.
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So the magazine was
actually first to begin.
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You began with
the magazine first
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and then the
camps began after that.
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That's right. Yeah.
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And so I want to just
share if I can our mission.
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And that I think says
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it better than
I could otherwise,
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and I'm going to read it here.
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It says, "To lead young people
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to accept Jesus as
their personal Savior."
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Amen.
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"To teach them to study
God's Word for themselves,
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to equip them to share
their faith with others
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and to encourage them to devote
their lives fully to God."
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Amen.
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And so that's how
Young Disciple Magazine
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which is used all over the world
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by Sabbath Schools,
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by individuals
for daily Bible study
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for young people grew
into Young Disciple Camps.
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And of course, that's
my, I'm the camp director,
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so that's where I get
the most excited about
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here is how the camps
give them an opportunity then
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to meet other young people,
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they may feel like
they're the only one out there
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that is interested in
the things they are really,
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maybe feel somewhat alienated
from other young Christians.
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They get a chance to meet
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with other
Christians of their age
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who have the same goals
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and then during camp
they have different classes,
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life skills classes,
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recreation classes,
and outreach classes.
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And the outreach classes
are kind of the next clue
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or the next key into what
the Mission Experience is.
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So I remember
when I was involved
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with Young Disciple,
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you had a class
called Deep Bible Study.
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Yes.
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You still do that or you get in
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and really study the Word of God
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and then they get
out and do outreach?
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Absolutely, every camper attends
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the Deep Bible study class,
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and as many
staffers can as well.
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And it's kind of,
there's many chances
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kids have to do
things in their summer,
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I'm just thrilled
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that there are so
many 80 to 100 campers
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every both weeks of camp
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that want to come and
want to be at a Bible camp.
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And, yes, there's fun
things, they do canoeing
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and, you know,
wilderness survival,
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mission pilot ground school.
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But they're there for purpose
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and they know what that is
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and it's just exciting to
be a part of that activity
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that kids are taking part in.
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Amen. That's wonderful.
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In Young Disciple, you said,
you have two camps every summer
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and you've been doing them
for 20, 24 years, is that right?
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Yeah, 24 years, yeah.
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Wow! It's incredible.
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Think of all those young
people and the testimonies
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and the impact that's made
on their lives for eternity.
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Yeah, just calculated
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that I've probably spent
years of my life at YD camp,
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even though it's only two years,
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two weeks each
summer, it's amazing.
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Amen. That's wonderful.
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Now before we get to
the Mission Experience,
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I just want to go back to
the magazine for one moment.
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Can I take a
look at this magazine?
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Absolutely.
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So in the magazine,
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what age range is
it for specifically?
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It's for 10-16 kind of
that junior early teen range.
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It's a wonderful magazine.
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I know we do it
here at our local church,
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the Thompsonville,
Seventh-day Adventist church.
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And Dee Hilderbrand teaches
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the kind of the
early teen class.
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And she uses it
and it's a blessing,
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you know, the kids
really enjoy it so.
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It's nice to hear that
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we always love to hear
from people who are using it.
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Amen, amen.
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So this is a subscription based?
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Yes.
00:15:07.20\00:15:08.54
There's 52 issues a
year so it's a weekly.
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It keeps coming up,
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every single week we
got to get another one out.
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And, you know, as you can
see, it's filled with stories,
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with character building stories
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with Mission Experiences,
00:15:20.48\00:15:22.92
with personal testimonies,
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with reformation articles
00:15:24.32\00:15:26.89
that have been
adapted for young people
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to really gain the most from,
00:15:28.76\00:15:30.99
but the core is the
daily Bible study guide.
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And it's set up in such a way
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that even the
youngest, the 10 year olds
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and the 11 year olds
can understand the basics,
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and then there are
sections for older young people
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for those who have
had more experience
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and to dig in deeper.
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So there's a
study-for-yourself section,
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there's a dig-deeper section.
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And so it really can meet
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a wide variety of
needs and interests.
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Amen. That's wonderful.
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It's an incredible magazine
00:16:01.92\00:16:03.26
and we want to encourage
you at the end of the program,
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we'll put up the
contact information.
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But we want to
encourage you, your church,
00:16:07.00\00:16:09.26
your family to get a
subscription to Young Disciple
00:16:09.30\00:16:12.50
and to use it
00:16:12.53\00:16:13.87
and to be impacted for eternity,
00:16:13.90\00:16:15.74
that's wonderful.
00:16:15.77\00:16:17.11
We want to move now
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'cause the focus
of this interview is
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really the Mission Experience,
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the Young Disciple
Mission Experience.
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So when did Young Disciple
Mission Experience come?
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You said, it was kind of
an outgrowth of the camps.
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Is that correct? Right.
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So after they'd come to camp
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and they had taken
the various classes,
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maybe the outreach class,
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they wanted something
more that they could do.
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And so we thought well,
maybe we can do a mission trip.
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And it was just at that time
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when young people were
kind of starting to get the idea
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of being involved in
outreach and evangelism.
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And so we tried what,
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at that time it
was really year 2000,
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a kind of new idea
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and that was to have
the young people doing it
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with us as mentors.
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Wow.
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And so that's how the
Mission Experience began
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as I would call a
Field School of Evangelism.
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Amen.
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And the young people would
come on the Mission Experience
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having had some training
at YD camp or other places
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with similar skills and classes
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and then we'd spend about
a month in the Philippines.
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Wow.
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Okay, so every experience
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you have gone to the Philippines
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when you do your
Mission Experience.
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You go to a different section
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or a different part
of the country or...?
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Well, yeah, in the Philippines,
it's just kind of it's a safe,
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it's a friendly country,
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it's easy to get to
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and a lot of
people speak English
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which is really nice.
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And so we've
moved to different areas
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but now we have
our support team there,
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we have the same cooks
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that served us every single time
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when we work together
with the leadership there
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and we just really feel
like, it's just a welcome,
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it's a home away
from home for us.
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Oh, that's incredible. Yeah.
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So I want to jump
over to Casey for a moment
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and then we'll
come back to you, Ted.
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How did you first get involved
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with the Young
Disciple ministry?
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Well, I remember
being at a meeting
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where the magazine
was being announced,
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this was in '92, I
believe, maybe summer of '92.
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And I remember
seeing the very first issue,
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I was 12...
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Wow. I was about 12 at the time.
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You were at the target
age range at that time.
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Yeah, yeah, I can still picture,
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the picture in the front
of that very first issue.
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And so we
subscribed immediately,
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I remember going through
the lessons as a young guy.
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It made the Bible study fun,
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I wanted to do that
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instead of play games,
hang out with my friends,
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I wanted to study the Bible.
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And the stories and
lessons, they were just powerful
00:18:36.44\00:18:39.21
and, of course,
the magazine has grown
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and has become more
rich and full ever since
00:18:40.62\00:18:44.02
and so that was my first
introduction to Young Disciple,
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I kind of after I
subscribed to the magazine,
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I wasn't really involved.
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Camp started up, but I really
wasn't involved until 1996.
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Okay.
00:18:54.26\00:18:55.60
When Young Disciple
was doing a camp out west
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because the camp
started back east in Virginia.
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There's a lot of
young people in the west
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that wanted that experience
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but they couldn't
fly by themselves.
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Their parents couldn't take,
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you know, two
weeks to drive them
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across the country and back.
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And so it was at Albion at
the Pacific Union College...
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Field station.
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Field station for Marine Biology
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or something like that.
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And I went and
helped at our camp,
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it was tremendous
blessing, it was amazing.
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That's wonderful.
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It seems like my sister took
that journey across with you
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all over to camp west,
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I think you called it
at time west or something.
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Yes, yes, great memories
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driving straight
across the country
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with swapping out drivers
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and just we never
stopped, we just kept going.
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Yeah, so, Casey,
when did you get involved
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working actually with the
ministry of Young Disciple?
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I think I was relatively
uninvolved after that,
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and still I
believe, it was 2007,
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I got a call out
of the blue from Ted
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and, "We need counselors
at camp, are you available?"
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Well, I had my
summer kind of booked up,
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I was working
00:19:55.66\00:19:56.99
and to me it was, it
was kind of a sacrifice
00:19:57.03\00:19:58.96
but I agreed, I said,
"Okay, sure I'll come."
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And I really
wasn't sure what to expect
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but I showed up
with this kind of,
00:20:02.66\00:20:04.57
"I have a lot
to do but I'm here,
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you know, volunteering my time,
I'm so generous, of course,"
00:20:06.33\00:20:09.90
and when one of
the other counselors
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had this amazing perspective
00:20:11.31\00:20:12.64
it changed my life I think.
00:20:12.67\00:20:14.28
He said, it's a
privilege to be here.
00:20:14.31\00:20:18.31
He was moved by young people
giving their hearts to the Lord
00:20:18.35\00:20:21.88
by making new friends
and having that experience.
00:20:21.92\00:20:25.49
And I thought, well,
for him it's a privilege,
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for me it's a sacrifice,
00:20:27.29\00:20:28.62
maybe I should have a
better attitude about it.
00:20:28.66\00:20:31.13
And so ever since then
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almost every year I've been
involved in camp in some way,
00:20:32.96\00:20:35.30
either as a counselor
00:20:35.33\00:20:36.67
or teaching
classes or something.
00:20:36.70\00:20:38.13
Now with this mission trip
00:20:38.17\00:20:39.50
you all just
recently came back from
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is that your first one
involved with Mission Experience
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or have you done them before?
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I've been to the Philippines
before on Mission Experience,
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that would be
about my fourth time.
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Your fourth time,
okay, that's wonderful.
00:20:48.74\00:20:50.55
So, Gabby, how
did you first hear
00:20:50.58\00:20:52.15
about the Mission Experience?
00:20:52.18\00:20:53.52
Were you involved
with Young Disciple before?
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No, I actually I had never
gone to the camps or anything
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or been exposed to it very much
00:20:58.92\00:21:00.82
but I was at a school
00:21:00.86\00:21:02.36
and my boss and a classmate
went on the Mission Experience
00:21:02.39\00:21:06.43
and when they came back
they had all these stories
00:21:06.46\00:21:08.50
and fun things that had happened
00:21:08.53\00:21:10.27
and amazing experiences.
00:21:10.30\00:21:11.63
And that's the first time
00:21:11.67\00:21:13.00
that I really,
like, I thought about it
00:21:13.03\00:21:15.37
and I, you know, wanted to be
a part of something like that.
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Oh, that's wonderful.
00:21:18.31\00:21:19.64
So is it kind of normal, Ted,
00:21:19.67\00:21:23.65
and they've never been involved
with the Young Disciple before
00:21:23.68\00:21:25.85
and they want to come
on a Mission Experience,
00:21:25.88\00:21:27.25
does that happen?
00:21:27.28\00:21:28.65
Well, it happens sometimes.
00:21:28.68\00:21:30.25
Usually they've
been at the camps
00:21:30.29\00:21:33.15
and gotten some
prerequisite classes
00:21:33.19\00:21:35.22
but if they've
done that somewhere else
00:21:35.26\00:21:38.19
or if we just pray about it
00:21:38.23\00:21:40.23
and it feels like
it's the right match
00:21:40.26\00:21:41.80
then we welcome them aboard.
00:21:41.83\00:21:43.16
Amen.
00:21:43.20\00:21:44.53
So there's a prerequisite,
00:21:44.57\00:21:45.90
that's the first
I heard about that,
00:21:45.93\00:21:47.27
so you can't just
say, "Okay, I want to go."
00:21:47.30\00:21:49.27
There's a class
they have to take before?
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Yeah, because
even though a month
00:21:51.54\00:21:53.07
sounds like a long time maybe,
00:21:53.11\00:21:55.14
it seems so
short when you're in it
00:21:55.18\00:21:58.05
and so we really hope
00:21:58.08\00:21:59.41
that they have
gotten some of those,
00:21:59.45\00:22:01.58
some of that
training ahead of time,
00:22:01.62\00:22:02.95
which usually
happens at YD camp.
00:22:02.98\00:22:05.02
Okay, Okay.
00:22:05.05\00:22:06.39
That's wonderful.
00:22:06.42\00:22:07.76
So what about you, Joshua?
00:22:07.79\00:22:09.16
Tell us about your experience,
00:22:09.19\00:22:10.53
how you first became
involved with Young Disciple?
00:22:10.56\00:22:13.43
Well, the first
time that I ever saw
00:22:13.46\00:22:17.50
anything about Young Disciple
00:22:17.53\00:22:18.87
was that a church
that I was visiting,
00:22:18.90\00:22:20.87
I saw their magazines there
00:22:20.90\00:22:23.20
and I thought they
were quite interesting
00:22:23.24\00:22:25.11
and I kept them and read them.
00:22:25.14\00:22:27.71
And then I heard
from some of my friends
00:22:27.74\00:22:29.58
that the Young
Disciple was doing a camp
00:22:29.61\00:22:32.35
and I really wanted to go
00:22:32.38\00:22:34.02
but I was too young, I
was nine and so I was like,
00:22:34.05\00:22:38.02
"Hey, Mom, I really
want to go to Young Disciple
00:22:38.05\00:22:40.62
but I'm too young."
00:22:40.66\00:22:41.99
And then she
said, "Well, let's see."
00:22:42.02\00:22:43.49
And so she applied
to do some housecleaning
00:22:43.53\00:22:47.66
at Young Disciple
00:22:47.70\00:22:49.03
and I was able to go
as a staff kid at nine.
00:22:49.06\00:22:51.00
As a staff kid.
00:22:51.03\00:22:53.20
That's so you went every
year from the age of nine?
00:22:53.23\00:22:56.30
Yeah, I think I missed one
year as a 10 year old, but yeah.
00:22:56.34\00:22:59.77
Ted, tell me what was
your favorite part about camp?
00:22:59.81\00:23:02.91
I think my
favorite part about camp
00:23:02.94\00:23:04.85
was probably the
campfire talks in the evening.
00:23:04.88\00:23:07.78
They're very inspiring
00:23:07.82\00:23:10.09
and it leaves you
with a great thought
00:23:10.12\00:23:12.22
to take with
you as you go to bed
00:23:12.25\00:23:14.32
and it cements it in your mind.
00:23:14.36\00:23:16.09
Amen, that's wonderful.
00:23:16.12\00:23:17.46
I remember those
campfire talks too.
00:23:17.49\00:23:18.83
Yes, yes.
00:23:18.86\00:23:20.20
And they were just
almost like a worship
00:23:20.23\00:23:21.56
thought you could say,
00:23:21.60\00:23:22.93
but it appeals to your heart
00:23:22.96\00:23:24.30
and I remember young people
making decisions for Jesus
00:23:24.33\00:23:27.24
just standing up and saying,
00:23:27.27\00:23:29.04
"I'm going to commit,
00:23:29.07\00:23:30.41
I'm going to give
everything to Jesus,
00:23:30.44\00:23:32.17
I don't want
anything between me and God,"
00:23:32.21\00:23:34.14
and that's what it's
all about, that commitment.
00:23:34.18\00:23:36.44
Yes. Yeah, that's wonderful.
00:23:36.48\00:23:38.05
So tell us this
past Mission Experience.
00:23:38.08\00:23:42.48
When you went, you
both preached, right?
00:23:42.52\00:23:45.55
And what church, how
many churches were involved
00:23:45.59\00:23:47.92
or how many sites that you have,
00:23:47.96\00:23:49.29
Ted, before we get to
your experience preaching.
00:23:49.32\00:23:51.33
We had two sites
00:23:51.36\00:23:52.96
and so the team was
divided into four groups,
00:23:52.99\00:23:56.20
two groups for
preaching to the adults
00:23:56.23\00:23:58.87
and two groups for
teaching the children.
00:23:58.90\00:24:02.20
Now speaking of
teaching children...
00:24:02.24\00:24:04.31
You have Truth 4 Youth
which is an incredible program
00:24:04.34\00:24:07.31
with the Young Disciple,
00:24:07.34\00:24:08.68
so what is Truth 4 Youth?
00:24:08.71\00:24:10.45
Yeah, it's funny
how things just kind of,
00:24:10.48\00:24:12.71
you know, stair step
00:24:12.75\00:24:14.08
and we would never have thought
00:24:14.12\00:24:15.45
that we would be
involved in something
00:24:15.48\00:24:16.99
like Truth 4 Youth
00:24:17.02\00:24:18.35
but again it came out of a
need for us to have materials
00:24:18.39\00:24:22.26
that we could
present to the children
00:24:22.29\00:24:24.16
say the 5 to 13
year old age bracket.
00:24:24.19\00:24:27.76
We wanted them to hear
the same gospel messages
00:24:27.80\00:24:30.77
and the same challenges
that the adults were hearing,
00:24:30.80\00:24:33.80
to surrender
their lives to Christ
00:24:33.84\00:24:35.20
and to learn and
grow in His Word,
00:24:35.24\00:24:37.14
but on a level of
a 5 to 13 year old
00:24:37.17\00:24:39.51
could understand.
00:24:39.54\00:24:40.88
And we didn't find
exactly what we were looking for
00:24:40.91\00:24:44.18
and we eventually just,
00:24:44.21\00:24:46.01
well, I guess, we're going to
have to develop our own program
00:24:46.05\00:24:48.98
that we can use
00:24:49.02\00:24:50.65
and that one
thing led to another
00:24:50.69\00:24:52.22
and we got in touch
with professional people,
00:24:52.25\00:24:55.42
with world class artists
who do Christian illustrations.
00:24:55.46\00:25:00.80
And in the end,
00:25:00.83\00:25:02.43
the quality of
what was coming together
00:25:02.46\00:25:04.57
was so far beyond
what we ever dreamed,
00:25:04.60\00:25:07.34
the editorial
content that we just said,
00:25:07.37\00:25:10.21
let's just go
ahead and produce this
00:25:10.24\00:25:12.31
so that the world
can have these materials.
00:25:12.34\00:25:14.78
And so it just, it exploded
00:25:14.81\00:25:17.41
and that's what Truth 4 Youth is
00:25:17.45\00:25:19.31
and we use it every year
on our Mission Experience
00:25:19.35\00:25:22.08
for the children's programming
00:25:22.12\00:25:24.02
and it's used all over the world
00:25:24.05\00:25:26.39
by many other people too,
00:25:26.42\00:25:27.76
so we're
thankful to God for that.
00:25:27.79\00:25:29.12
It's great. Casey?
00:25:29.16\00:25:30.49
And the idea is revolutionary
really when you think about it.
00:25:30.53\00:25:33.50
Who evangelizes kids.
00:25:33.53\00:25:35.73
I mean, right when we
have an evangelist series,
00:25:35.76\00:25:38.23
I've been involved in
00:25:38.27\00:25:39.60
many evangelistic
series in my local church
00:25:39.63\00:25:41.04
and we target adult
audiences which is great,
00:25:41.07\00:25:43.64
I believe in evangelism, I
believe in public evangelism.
00:25:43.67\00:25:46.71
But who puts on
an evangelist series
00:25:46.74\00:25:48.84
for eight-year-old, right?
00:25:48.88\00:25:50.85
And so oftentimes we have
00:25:50.88\00:25:52.41
a kind of daycare-type situation
00:25:52.45\00:25:55.25
to facilitate
parents that want to come
00:25:55.28\00:25:56.65
but they have young children,
00:25:56.69\00:25:58.09
but while the kids are there,
why not reach out to the kids.
00:25:58.12\00:26:01.12
And so this material
just wasn't really around
00:26:01.16\00:26:03.02
and so Young
Disciple began to develop
00:26:03.06\00:26:05.56
what would become Truth 4 Youth.
00:26:05.59\00:26:07.76
They say that children 5 to 13
00:26:07.80\00:26:11.27
or something
like five more times,
00:26:11.30\00:26:12.63
five times more likely to
give their hearts to Lord,
00:26:12.67\00:26:14.74
to make a lifelong
commitment than adults,
00:26:14.77\00:26:17.07
so I believe in
adult evangelism.
00:26:17.11\00:26:18.87
But why wait till
they're 20, or 30, or 50?
00:26:18.91\00:26:22.54
Why not reach them
while they're young
00:26:22.58\00:26:24.45
and they have all that
energy to give to the Lord.
00:26:24.48\00:26:28.18
Amen.
00:26:28.22\00:26:29.55
So did you have the young people
00:26:29.58\00:26:30.92
leading out with
the Truth 4 Youth,
00:26:30.95\00:26:32.99
did they present it?
00:26:33.02\00:26:35.09
Yeah, we're just mentors,
we're not there to be upfront.
00:26:35.12\00:26:37.99
And it's exciting to
see that those who have had
00:26:38.03\00:26:42.73
maybe no experience or
very little experience,
00:26:42.76\00:26:45.63
public speaking,
and being in front
00:26:45.67\00:26:47.57
leading out in
those kind of roles,
00:26:47.60\00:26:49.90
can in a short time
blossom to be real evangelists
00:26:49.94\00:26:54.18
and that's exactly what happens.
00:26:54.21\00:26:55.54
Amen. That's incredible.
00:26:55.58\00:26:56.91
So it's like an evangelistic
series but for children?
00:26:56.95\00:26:59.58
Exactly.
00:26:59.61\00:27:00.95
And it goes
through meeting Jesus
00:27:00.98\00:27:02.88
and the doctrines of the church
and all that for children.
00:27:02.92\00:27:04.25
It does. That's
right, that's right.
00:27:04.29\00:27:06.32
It keeps their
attention, there's games, songs,
00:27:06.35\00:27:08.86
crafts that the main message is
always in the form of a story.
00:27:08.89\00:27:12.19
And I'll see all
these eight-year-olds,
00:27:12.23\00:27:14.43
ten-year-olds
having just an awesome time
00:27:14.46\00:27:16.30
and they don't know
they're being evangelized,
00:27:16.33\00:27:18.27
they go home and
talk to their parents
00:27:18.30\00:27:19.73
and share what they learned,
and we're planting seeds.
00:27:19.77\00:27:23.51
And Truth 4
Youth, it's not a DVD,
00:27:23.54\00:27:25.37
it's not
something that they watch,
00:27:25.41\00:27:27.84
it's interactive, it's
some, it's a connection.
00:27:27.88\00:27:32.11
And so you can't just
press play and it goes
00:27:32.15\00:27:35.68
but this is where
someone on the team
00:27:35.72\00:27:38.52
actually has to
speak and present a script.
00:27:38.55\00:27:41.59
But it's
illustrated, there's pictures,
00:27:41.62\00:27:43.22
there's video clips
that capture the attention
00:27:43.26\00:27:46.13
but it's still very
much a personal connection
00:27:46.16\00:27:48.70
and that's something
that we very intentionally
00:27:48.73\00:27:51.00
wanted to have be
part of the program.
00:27:51.03\00:27:52.37
Amen.
00:27:52.40\00:27:53.74
And you have in
more than English,
00:27:53.77\00:27:55.10
I understand, is that correct?
00:27:55.14\00:27:56.54
It's in several languages?
00:27:56.57\00:27:57.91
Yes, Spanish, Swahili,
Yoruba, French, Korean,
00:27:57.94\00:28:02.64
I think quite a few now.
00:28:02.68\00:28:04.78
Wow! It's incredible.
00:28:04.81\00:28:06.15
What a wonderful
evangelistic tool.
00:28:06.18\00:28:07.78
So now let's get to the adults,
00:28:07.82\00:28:09.42
and go into preaching
with the adult meeting.
00:28:09.45\00:28:11.79
So I think we have
a picture of you all
00:28:11.82\00:28:13.22
just coming in, is that correct?
00:28:13.25\00:28:14.59
Yes. With the
water just coming in?
00:28:14.62\00:28:17.79
Yeah.
00:28:17.83\00:28:19.16
When we arrived at Cuyo,
00:28:19.19\00:28:20.60
it was a story in
and of itself actually
00:28:20.63\00:28:23.57
but we came in on the ferry
00:28:23.60\00:28:26.37
and there was
this gorgeous scene,
00:28:26.40\00:28:28.64
it's one of the
most beautiful locations
00:28:28.67\00:28:30.47
I've been to with a
big white sand beach,
00:28:30.51\00:28:33.21
and Cuyo Island just
written up there in big letters.
00:28:33.24\00:28:37.91
And we felt so welcome,
00:28:37.95\00:28:39.28
the church, the
small church school there
00:28:39.31\00:28:41.85
had come with
their little instruments
00:28:41.88\00:28:44.65
and their uniforms
00:28:44.69\00:28:46.02
and they welcomed us and
put lace around our necks
00:28:46.05\00:28:50.79
and it was such a
welcoming experience.
00:28:50.83\00:28:54.00
Amen.
00:28:54.03\00:28:55.36
And we have a picture
00:28:55.40\00:28:56.73
of the whole mission
group, right, the entire.
00:28:56.77\00:28:58.10
So how many
people went in total?
00:28:58.13\00:28:59.97
There were over 25 of
us including all the staff
00:29:00.00\00:29:03.10
and the youth participants.
00:29:03.14\00:29:04.61
Wow! That's incredible.
00:29:04.64\00:29:06.74
So, Gabby, tell
me what it was like?
00:29:06.78\00:29:08.88
That's the group I can see that.
00:29:08.91\00:29:10.25
There you go. That's wonderful.
00:29:10.28\00:29:11.75
So, Gabby, what was
it like at your site?
00:29:11.78\00:29:16.18
I was at Makati site
00:29:16.22\00:29:17.75
and it was, it
was very interesting.
00:29:17.79\00:29:21.49
A lot of people came.
00:29:21.52\00:29:22.86
At first it was
slow, it was a slow start.
00:29:22.89\00:29:25.09
But, you know, the first
night is always very difficult
00:29:25.13\00:29:27.40
but then after that
00:29:27.43\00:29:28.76
it started getting
much more, more people came,
00:29:28.80\00:29:31.13
more blessings occurred,
00:29:31.17\00:29:32.90
more people were reached
00:29:32.93\00:29:35.04
and it was a
blessing, it was blessing.
00:29:35.07\00:29:37.34
Amen.
00:29:37.37\00:29:38.71
So is this your
first time preaching,
00:29:38.74\00:29:40.54
first time doing any
sort of evangelistic series
00:29:40.58\00:29:43.01
or have you done this
all the time in the States?
00:29:43.04\00:29:45.78
It was my first time officially
doing an evangelist series
00:29:45.81\00:29:48.98
but I had had some experience
on other mission trips
00:29:49.02\00:29:52.05
and, you know, going
to different cultures
00:29:52.09\00:29:54.32
and meeting other people,
00:29:54.36\00:29:55.69
going outside of
your comfort zone,
00:29:55.72\00:29:57.06
I had experience in that
00:29:57.09\00:29:58.43
but not in speaking
in evangelistic series.
00:29:58.46\00:30:00.43
So what do you follow?
00:30:00.46\00:30:02.30
I know you do Truth 4
Youth for the young people
00:30:02.33\00:30:04.17
but what do the adults follow
00:30:04.20\00:30:05.73
when you do the
adult evangelistic series?
00:30:05.77\00:30:08.30
It's a script
that's part of the...
00:30:08.34\00:30:11.14
New beginning.
00:30:11.17\00:30:12.51
The New Beginning
series and we have a script
00:30:12.54\00:30:14.74
that has slides
that are, you know,
00:30:14.78\00:30:17.78
go at the same time
in English and Tagalog,
00:30:17.81\00:30:20.98
which is what, you
know, the main language there
00:30:21.02\00:30:23.99
and then we
would say it in English
00:30:24.02\00:30:25.55
and we had a
translator that would speak it
00:30:25.59\00:30:27.29
in the language.
00:30:27.32\00:30:28.76
What sort of impact did
it make on your own life...
00:30:28.79\00:30:31.89
On my own life?
00:30:31.93\00:30:33.26
The experience being there?
00:30:33.29\00:30:35.56
There's so many things happened
but one moment that I can say
00:30:35.60\00:30:39.00
that I remember clearly
as if it was just happening
00:30:39.03\00:30:42.87
that really affected
me was one of the nights,
00:30:42.90\00:30:46.21
I was speaking
about the second coming
00:30:46.24\00:30:48.38
and I had read
through the script
00:30:48.41\00:30:51.55
like 20 times minimum,
00:30:51.58\00:30:53.52
you know, to
familiarize yourself,
00:30:53.55\00:30:55.45
you know, you need
to know what's happening
00:30:55.48\00:30:57.55
while you're out there.
00:30:57.59\00:30:58.92
And I was holding a microphone
and it was about heaven,
00:30:58.95\00:31:02.66
you know, when we go to heaven
00:31:02.69\00:31:04.26
and we're sitting at Jesus' feet
00:31:04.29\00:31:05.63
and He's teaching us
00:31:05.66\00:31:07.00
about the
secrets of the universe
00:31:07.03\00:31:08.36
and the wonders that we'll know.
00:31:08.40\00:31:10.53
And I had read it
already a bunch of times
00:31:10.57\00:31:13.77
and all of a sudden I'm there,
00:31:13.80\00:31:15.24
I'm looking at these
people sitting in front of me,
00:31:15.27\00:31:17.94
listening to me
00:31:17.97\00:31:19.31
and it was as if the first time,
00:31:19.34\00:31:20.68
first time I had read it.
00:31:20.71\00:31:22.04
It was just like
explosion, you know,
00:31:22.08\00:31:24.01
of the awesomeness
that it's going to be,
00:31:24.05\00:31:26.31
you know, to want to go to that,
00:31:26.35\00:31:29.58
to the
opportunity and it was just,
00:31:29.62\00:31:32.59
you know, that
moment I was teaching them
00:31:32.62\00:31:35.29
but I was teaching myself.
00:31:35.32\00:31:37.23
I was up there
telling them about it
00:31:37.26\00:31:39.73
but I was there
right there with them,
00:31:39.76\00:31:41.93
I was learning, I was
learning as I was teaching.
00:31:41.96\00:31:44.97
Amen.
00:31:45.00\00:31:46.33
What an incredible
experience I think,
00:31:46.37\00:31:48.47
that's to me the beautiful thing
00:31:48.50\00:31:49.94
about evangelism
is when you share,
00:31:49.97\00:31:53.17
and whether it's
preaching or in any fashion
00:31:53.21\00:31:55.78
but when you share,
00:31:55.81\00:31:57.15
it reacts ten
fold up on yourself,
00:31:57.18\00:32:00.18
you know, you grow spiritually
and learn that's beautiful.
00:32:00.22\00:32:03.52
And something
happened the final night
00:32:03.55\00:32:05.19
with the baptism, right?
00:32:05.22\00:32:06.76
Yeah, I was
speaking the last night
00:32:06.79\00:32:09.16
which was about heaven
00:32:09.19\00:32:11.13
and the appeal was
a very short appeal,
00:32:11.16\00:32:13.70
part of the script,
00:32:13.73\00:32:15.06
so I worked with my
translator to extend it,
00:32:15.10\00:32:17.70
making extra appeal,
00:32:17.73\00:32:19.40
you know, kind of
grab their hearts a little.
00:32:19.43\00:32:21.80
And I remember doing
that and I was so into it,
00:32:21.84\00:32:24.67
you know, very,
you know, emotional,
00:32:24.71\00:32:26.71
it's a very powerful moment
00:32:26.74\00:32:28.54
and we had already
had a call for baptism,
00:32:28.58\00:32:31.15
we'd had cards out,
00:32:31.18\00:32:32.51
people had
signed up for baptisms
00:32:32.55\00:32:34.18
but we wanted to do one
more call the last night,
00:32:34.22\00:32:36.62
we wouldn't be up there again,
00:32:36.65\00:32:38.02
we were leaving a
couple days later.
00:32:38.05\00:32:40.79
And so we asked again to come up
00:32:40.82\00:32:43.06
if there was anyone
else in the audience those
00:32:43.09\00:32:44.93
that already
wanted to be baptized.
00:32:44.96\00:32:46.90
Seven people had
already signed up to the cards
00:32:46.93\00:32:49.20
but we have 13 people
that night that had come.
00:32:49.23\00:32:51.70
Wow. I can see them here.
00:32:51.73\00:32:53.34
Yes, more people
then had signed up,
00:32:53.37\00:32:55.40
had come that last
night to be baptized
00:32:55.44\00:32:58.91
and they really
felt the spirit working.
00:32:58.94\00:33:01.08
I was so excited, I was
jumping all over the place
00:33:01.11\00:33:03.24
just to see those people,
00:33:03.28\00:33:04.61
I had never had
that experience before,
00:33:04.65\00:33:06.51
you know, that the Holy Spirit
was able to use those words
00:33:06.55\00:33:09.58
that we had prepared and
to change so many people.
00:33:09.62\00:33:12.85
Amen. That's incredible.
00:33:12.89\00:33:15.56
You know, Jill,
one of the things
00:33:15.59\00:33:16.93
that we've
learned as we've done this
00:33:16.96\00:33:18.69
for a number of years.
00:33:18.73\00:33:20.06
And we learned early on was
00:33:20.10\00:33:21.43
the importance of
that personal connection
00:33:21.46\00:33:23.16
because it's so
easy to go and to preach,
00:33:23.20\00:33:26.23
and preach your heart
out, and then kind of disappear
00:33:26.27\00:33:28.40
and sort of melt
back into the shadows,
00:33:28.44\00:33:29.77
and just get back
into your comfort zone.
00:33:29.80\00:33:31.77
And what we've been
really trying to do,
00:33:31.81\00:33:33.68
one thing we've been
trying to do over the years,
00:33:33.71\00:33:35.18
last few years especially is
00:33:35.21\00:33:36.95
focus on that
personal connection.
00:33:36.98\00:33:39.15
We've been doing
visitations all through town,
00:33:39.18\00:33:42.48
through the community
with people that have come,
00:33:42.52\00:33:45.02
that have attended the meetings
00:33:45.05\00:33:47.06
or just to go
right out into new areas
00:33:47.09\00:33:50.06
and invite people that
we've never met before,
00:33:50.09\00:33:51.89
that we've never seen
00:33:51.93\00:33:53.83
and make that
personal connection.
00:33:53.86\00:33:55.20
And there are some experiences
00:33:55.23\00:33:57.60
that I think the young
people would like to share
00:33:57.63\00:34:00.67
that have to do
with those visitations.
00:34:00.70\00:34:02.40
Those are just
really powerful. Absolutely.
00:34:02.44\00:34:05.44
Who wants to
start? Go ahead, Joshua.
00:34:05.47\00:34:08.38
Well, on actually the last
day that we went on visitations,
00:34:08.41\00:34:12.25
I was out visiting
00:34:12.28\00:34:13.62
and we have one
of the Bible workers
00:34:13.65\00:34:15.02
that comes with us
00:34:15.05\00:34:16.45
and he pointed out that
there was this Adventist couple
00:34:16.48\00:34:20.46
that were inactive.
00:34:20.49\00:34:22.89
And so we went
over to visit with them
00:34:22.92\00:34:26.23
and we talked with
them for a little while
00:34:26.26\00:34:28.16
and then they shared with us
00:34:28.20\00:34:29.76
that the reason why they
hadn't been coming to church was
00:34:29.80\00:34:33.10
because there was another family
00:34:33.13\00:34:35.07
that had not been
doing some things right
00:34:35.10\00:34:37.17
and had started an argument.
00:34:37.21\00:34:40.24
And the person that I
was visiting with, Lillian,
00:34:40.28\00:34:44.38
she spoke up
00:34:44.41\00:34:45.75
and she said, "Well, I
think the best thing to do
00:34:45.78\00:34:49.25
in that situation
is to still love them
00:34:49.28\00:34:51.69
regardless of what they do
and to just set an example,"
00:34:51.72\00:34:55.46
and the man said that
00:34:55.49\00:34:57.09
he was very
encouraged by our visit.
00:34:57.13\00:34:59.66
Amen. That's wonderful.
00:34:59.69\00:35:01.63
And those people became
active church members again,
00:35:01.66\00:35:03.97
after that, after that situation
00:35:04.00\00:35:06.37
there was another
group that I was with,
00:35:06.40\00:35:08.44
they just visited a family
00:35:08.47\00:35:10.91
and we were just
randomly going through
00:35:10.94\00:35:13.27
some small village
00:35:13.31\00:35:14.68
and they just
visited with their family.
00:35:14.71\00:35:16.78
And I came along behind
them and I recognized the lady,
00:35:16.81\00:35:20.12
and I was like, "I think
we've met before somewhere."
00:35:20.15\00:35:22.68
And she said, "Yes,
we actually traveled
00:35:22.72\00:35:24.72
in that area previously
00:35:24.75\00:35:26.09
and we'd have
the chance to meet."
00:35:26.12\00:35:27.46
She said, "I attended
meetings, your meetings before."
00:35:27.49\00:35:30.83
And I said,
"Are you coming now?"
00:35:30.86\00:35:33.76
And she kind of, you
know, as I understand,
00:35:33.80\00:35:35.76
"No, I haven't been coming."
00:35:35.80\00:35:37.63
And so we just talked
with her, we reconnected,
00:35:37.67\00:35:40.04
we prayed with her and then we,
00:35:40.07\00:35:42.34
of course,
appealed to her to see
00:35:42.37\00:35:44.61
if she could come to
attend the meetings again
00:35:44.64\00:35:47.08
and have that boost.
00:35:47.11\00:35:50.01
Yeah.
00:35:50.05\00:35:51.85
That night she was
there at the meeting,
00:35:51.88\00:35:54.72
the next night
she was at the meeting
00:35:54.75\00:35:56.45
and every night she
attended the meeting
00:35:56.48\00:35:59.02
and at the end she
made a public commitment
00:35:59.05\00:36:00.69
to give her life to God.
00:36:00.72\00:36:02.62
Amen. Oh, that's incredible.
00:36:02.66\00:36:05.33
Think, if you had not
done that personal evangelism
00:36:05.36\00:36:07.83
or you had not
reached out to her.
00:36:07.86\00:36:09.43
Yeah. That's amazing.
00:36:09.46\00:36:10.80
Now, Casey, that you
also distributed tracks
00:36:10.83\00:36:13.30
and literature, right?
00:36:13.34\00:36:14.67
Yeah, we obtained
some Tagalog glow tracks,
00:36:14.70\00:36:18.87
you've probably seen
glow tracks in English.
00:36:18.91\00:36:21.88
These are available
in almost any language
00:36:21.91\00:36:24.61
I know that exists.
00:36:24.65\00:36:26.38
And so these are,
these are Tagalog,
00:36:26.41\00:36:28.18
this is one of
the primary languages
00:36:28.22\00:36:29.55
in the Philippines.
00:36:29.58\00:36:30.92
We brought
hundreds and hundreds,
00:36:30.95\00:36:32.55
I don't remember
how many with us.
00:36:32.59\00:36:34.52
And so as we
would go on visitation,
00:36:34.56\00:36:35.89
we would visit people
00:36:35.92\00:36:37.26
who had been
coming to the meetings
00:36:37.29\00:36:38.63
and just to encourage
them and invite them again
00:36:38.66\00:36:40.73
to continue to come.
00:36:40.76\00:36:42.16
We would meet people
00:36:42.20\00:36:43.53
that maybe heard
about the meetings
00:36:43.57\00:36:44.93
and that hadn't been coming,
00:36:44.97\00:36:46.40
we encouraged them
to go ahead and come.
00:36:46.43\00:36:48.90
And we would meet people
00:36:48.94\00:36:51.01
that didn't really
know about the meetings.
00:36:51.04\00:36:52.67
Somehow they never heard that
there was meetings on in town
00:36:52.71\00:36:56.41
and we'd hand out
these glow tracks.
00:36:56.44\00:36:58.41
And so we just view
ourselves as seed planters.
00:36:58.45\00:37:02.65
There are thousands of
these in the Philippines
00:37:02.68\00:37:05.22
because of us and thousands more
00:37:05.25\00:37:06.65
because of other
people handing them out
00:37:06.69\00:37:08.79
and each one of those is a seed.
00:37:08.82\00:37:10.66
Amen.
00:37:10.69\00:37:12.03
Now there's a story, isn't there
00:37:12.06\00:37:13.40
on how you got
those glow tracks?
00:37:13.43\00:37:14.76
Yeah.
00:37:14.80\00:37:16.13
So, Young
Disciple, the closest ABC,
00:37:16.16\00:37:18.23
Adventist Book Center to
Young Disciple Ministry is
00:37:18.27\00:37:20.47
in Spokane, Washington.
00:37:20.50\00:37:21.84
Spokane is a little,
00:37:21.87\00:37:23.20
it's a little cowboy
town for a major US city.
00:37:23.24\00:37:27.38
I did not expect to find
anything other than English,
00:37:27.41\00:37:29.71
maybe something
in Spanish, right.
00:37:29.74\00:37:32.08
And Tagalog, who
would have thought?
00:37:32.11\00:37:34.28
They had glow tracks in Tagalog.
00:37:34.32\00:37:36.28
It was in the
local spoken, ABC...
00:37:36.32\00:37:37.69
At the Adventist Book Center.
00:37:37.72\00:37:39.09
We ordered them and
got them just in time.
00:37:39.12\00:37:40.56
Wow.
00:37:40.59\00:37:41.92
We didn't want to
leave without them
00:37:41.96\00:37:43.29
and the Lord worked that out.
00:37:43.32\00:37:44.66
Wow. That's amazing. Yeah.
00:37:44.69\00:37:46.03
So, Joshua, let's hear
some testimonies from you.
00:37:46.06\00:37:49.96
This is your
first time preaching?
00:37:50.00\00:37:51.33
Yes.
00:37:51.37\00:37:52.70
Yeah, when I...
00:37:52.73\00:37:54.07
Before this trip I had
not had any experience, like,
00:37:54.10\00:37:57.14
with public speaking
00:37:57.17\00:37:58.97
so I maybe had done
some scripture reading
00:37:59.01\00:38:02.88
or announce
something here or there
00:38:02.91\00:38:04.31
but I never spent
much time up there.
00:38:04.35\00:38:06.92
Did you feel scared? Yes, I did.
00:38:06.95\00:38:09.08
So first night as
I got up to preach,
00:38:09.12\00:38:12.05
I was just
feeling really inadequate
00:38:12.09\00:38:14.96
to fill this position,
00:38:14.99\00:38:16.96
and so I just prayed God,
00:38:16.99\00:38:18.96
I really need help
in order to do this.
00:38:18.99\00:38:22.23
Please send Your
Spirit to work through me
00:38:22.26\00:38:24.40
and help these people.
00:38:24.43\00:38:26.84
And just then these verses
00:38:26.87\00:38:28.80
that we had
gone over in training
00:38:28.84\00:38:30.41
from Jeremiah
popped into my head,
00:38:30.44\00:38:33.31
to be not afraid of their faces,
00:38:33.34\00:38:36.48
for I am with
you to deliver you.
00:38:36.51\00:38:38.91
Amen. So, yeah, I
thank God for that.
00:38:38.95\00:38:42.48
Amen.
00:38:42.52\00:38:43.85
And I think we got
a couple of pictures
00:38:43.89\00:38:45.22
of you speaking.
00:38:45.25\00:38:46.65
Where was your site,
00:38:46.69\00:38:48.02
how far was
your site from Gabby?
00:38:48.06\00:38:50.06
It was a few miles,
not a large distance.
00:38:50.09\00:38:54.63
Okay. Yeah.
00:38:54.66\00:38:56.00
This is you and your translator?
00:38:56.03\00:38:57.37
Yeah. Nice.
00:38:57.40\00:38:59.87
And God really
blessed, you know, I was...
00:38:59.90\00:39:02.37
Oh, see the people there. Yeah.
00:39:02.40\00:39:05.27
Yeah, I was so shocked to see
00:39:05.31\00:39:06.91
how God moved
through young people
00:39:06.94\00:39:09.24
who had no experience really,
00:39:09.28\00:39:11.65
and it seemed as if
he'd been preaching for years
00:39:11.68\00:39:14.82
and he hadn't.
00:39:14.85\00:39:16.79
And that wasn't
anything that Joshua did,
00:39:16.82\00:39:19.35
that was what God did.
00:39:19.39\00:39:20.72
Yeah. Ain't that amazing?
00:39:20.76\00:39:22.22
God wants to use each one of us
00:39:22.26\00:39:23.63
as open willing vessels,
just here am I, Lord send me.
00:39:23.66\00:39:25.96
Yeah.
00:39:25.99\00:39:27.33
And God poured
through you and used you,
00:39:27.36\00:39:28.70
that's incredible.
00:39:28.73\00:39:30.07
How did it impact you?
00:39:30.10\00:39:32.70
Well, towards the
end, during the appeal,
00:39:32.73\00:39:39.21
I prayed to God and I said,
00:39:39.24\00:39:41.24
I really want to
make this choice for you
00:39:41.28\00:39:44.78
or for Satan clear to them,
00:39:44.81\00:39:47.15
that You have this
plan to get rid of sin
00:39:47.18\00:39:50.29
and suffering for ever.
00:39:50.32\00:39:52.55
The topic was,
00:39:52.59\00:39:54.02
"Why is there so much
suffering in the world?"
00:39:54.06\00:39:57.59
So as I urged
them to choose Christ
00:39:57.63\00:40:03.20
and God's perfect plan,
00:40:03.23\00:40:06.10
I asked for God to
work in the people.
00:40:06.13\00:40:10.74
And when I asked them to stand,
00:40:10.77\00:40:12.11
nearly everybody
rose to their feet
00:40:12.14\00:40:14.11
and it was such a blessing
00:40:14.14\00:40:15.48
and such a
faith-building experience
00:40:15.51\00:40:17.35
to see that God could even
work through someone like me.
00:40:17.38\00:40:19.81
Amen.
00:40:19.85\00:40:21.18
It just goes to show that
if you submit yourself to God,
00:40:21.22\00:40:23.82
He can work through
you to do amazing things.
00:40:23.85\00:40:26.76
Yeah. Amen.
00:40:26.79\00:40:28.12
Yeah. That's incredible, Joshua.
00:40:28.16\00:40:29.89
Praise the Lord.
00:40:29.92\00:40:31.26
Can I put you on the
spot and ask how old you are?
00:40:31.29\00:40:33.33
I'm 16. Wow!
00:40:33.36\00:40:35.60
16? Yeah.
00:40:35.63\00:40:37.27
And you just think,
00:40:37.30\00:40:38.63
16 and being able to
stand up in front of people
00:40:38.67\00:40:40.94
overcome that
fear of public speaking
00:40:40.97\00:40:44.14
or that nervousness and stand up
00:40:44.17\00:40:46.54
and open up the Word of
God and how it's changing you
00:40:46.57\00:40:49.81
and impacting the
lives of so many people.
00:40:49.84\00:40:52.65
That's incredible.
00:40:52.68\00:40:54.05
So tell me you all
have some miracle stories,
00:40:54.08\00:40:56.28
I believe.
00:40:56.32\00:40:57.65
Is there any miracle stories
00:40:57.69\00:40:59.02
that you can share
from what took place
00:40:59.05\00:41:00.39
during this recent mission trip?
00:41:00.42\00:41:02.49
Well, just getting there.
00:41:02.52\00:41:03.86
I alluded to it before,
00:41:03.89\00:41:05.23
getting there was
a bit of a challenge.
00:41:05.26\00:41:06.59
It always is for us.
00:41:06.63\00:41:09.43
It seems like, there's
always some little thing
00:41:09.46\00:41:11.30
that goes at least
wrong to our way of thinking.
00:41:11.33\00:41:14.50
And so that happened this time.
00:41:14.54\00:41:16.27
We flew into
Manila, transferred planes
00:41:16.30\00:41:19.47
and took a small plane
to Puerto Princesa, Palawan,
00:41:19.51\00:41:22.94
and when we got
there we were supposed to,
00:41:22.98\00:41:25.05
the next day, take the ferry,
overnight ferry to Cuyo Island.
00:41:25.08\00:41:30.39
Well, we got
there and found out that
00:41:30.42\00:41:33.52
there had been
some rough weather
00:41:33.56\00:41:35.39
and the ferry was not running.
00:41:35.42\00:41:38.23
And we had a
very tight schedule,
00:41:38.26\00:41:41.80
we had a short amount of time,
00:41:41.83\00:41:43.73
at least we felt it
was short for training
00:41:43.77\00:41:45.10
and then we needed
to start preaching,
00:41:45.13\00:41:47.00
and looking at the schedule
00:41:47.04\00:41:48.70
we realized we
were in a tight spot
00:41:48.74\00:41:52.21
because it was Thursday,
00:41:52.24\00:41:53.68
we're supposed to be
taking it right Friday morning.
00:41:53.71\00:41:56.34
The next opportunity
00:41:56.38\00:41:57.71
they said was to take
a Friday afternoon ferry
00:41:57.75\00:42:02.42
and arrive Sabbath morning
00:42:02.45\00:42:03.82
and we decided we didn't
want to travel on Sabbath,
00:42:03.85\00:42:07.62
we're going to
respect the commandment,
00:42:07.66\00:42:10.43
that says you
rest on the Sabbath.
00:42:10.46\00:42:11.89
And even though
we're missionaries
00:42:11.93\00:42:13.36
and all of that, we decided
we weren't going to do that.
00:42:13.40\00:42:16.30
And so there was
no more schedule.
00:42:16.33\00:42:20.30
We didn't know
what we were going to do
00:42:20.34\00:42:22.10
but we stayed
there in Puerto Princesa,
00:42:22.14\00:42:24.01
we prayed, we started training.
00:42:24.04\00:42:26.21
And it sounded like
00:42:26.24\00:42:27.71
maybe the next ferry
was going to be getting
00:42:27.74\00:42:30.15
in the day the meeting
started, and we just thought,
00:42:30.18\00:42:33.01
oh, after an
overnight ferry, arriving there,
00:42:33.05\00:42:36.89
and it's not a posh ferry,
00:42:36.92\00:42:38.62
this is bunks
lined up for a huge room
00:42:38.65\00:42:41.62
one after another,
everybody just together.
00:42:41.66\00:42:44.53
And we thought...
00:42:44.56\00:42:45.89
There is some level of
motion sickness in both.
00:42:45.93\00:42:47.26
Yes, some people got seasick.
00:42:47.30\00:42:48.63
That's what I'm
thinking, I become seasick.
00:42:48.66\00:42:51.30
I'm one of them. Me too.
00:42:51.33\00:42:53.94
And so, you know, it's
just an intense travel period
00:42:53.97\00:42:56.74
to arrive the day
the meeting start,
00:42:56.77\00:43:00.31
would have just been
really, really tough.
00:43:00.34\00:43:02.68
And so we just, we put
it before God in prayer.
00:43:02.71\00:43:05.05
We said, "Lord,
you're in control here
00:43:05.08\00:43:07.58
and we're doing the best we can
but we don't know what to do."
00:43:07.62\00:43:10.32
And Monday morning,
I went down to check
00:43:10.35\00:43:15.79
and see if we could buy tickets
00:43:15.82\00:43:17.16
'cause they said you
can't even buy the tickets
00:43:17.19\00:43:18.93
until we have a schedule.
00:43:18.96\00:43:20.80
And they said, "Yes,
sure, you can buy the tickets
00:43:20.83\00:43:23.40
and it's leaving in
an hour and a half."
00:43:23.43\00:43:26.77
And we weren't packed up,
we weren't ready to go at all.
00:43:26.80\00:43:29.60
I made a phone
call back and I said,
00:43:29.64\00:43:31.94
we're leaving in an hour
and a half, can you be ready?
00:43:31.97\00:43:34.64
And that the team
just pulled together,
00:43:34.68\00:43:36.64
they packed everything up
and we got there just in time,
00:43:36.68\00:43:40.62
boarded the ferry,
00:43:40.65\00:43:41.98
and I just felt
like God worked in that
00:43:42.02\00:43:44.15
to give us a surprise.
00:43:44.19\00:43:46.32
And it was a little
stressful at the moment
00:43:46.35\00:43:47.82
but we can look back at that
00:43:47.86\00:43:49.19
and see very
clearly how God worked.
00:43:49.22\00:43:51.09
Amen. That's incredible.
00:43:51.13\00:43:52.59
And you see how you honored Him,
00:43:52.63\00:43:54.56
you stood for principle
00:43:54.60\00:43:56.60
and then God opened up
those doors and blessed.
00:43:56.63\00:43:58.43
Amen. Tell me
about the training.
00:43:58.47\00:44:00.27
You've referenced the
training several times
00:44:00.30\00:44:01.64
and then we want
to get to baptisms
00:44:01.67\00:44:03.10
and I know we
have some pictures.
00:44:03.14\00:44:04.47
But in the training,
what is the training like?
00:44:04.51\00:44:07.98
What do you
teach the young people?
00:44:08.01\00:44:09.71
Is it how to
preach? Is it homiletics?
00:44:09.74\00:44:11.48
Or what does
the training entail?
00:44:11.51\00:44:14.98
Yeah. Well, go ahead.
00:44:15.02\00:44:16.35
I was just gonna say
there's a lot of aspects
00:44:16.38\00:44:18.89
to the training.
00:44:18.92\00:44:20.26
We want the young people
00:44:20.29\00:44:21.62
to have a real
awareness of the culture
00:44:21.66\00:44:23.36
because sometimes
just being an American,
00:44:23.39\00:44:26.09
fumbling
through another country,
00:44:26.13\00:44:27.96
you can offend
people without meaning to,
00:44:28.00\00:44:29.73
and so we want to be
sensitive to the culture,
00:44:29.76\00:44:31.43
we wanted to know
about the language,
00:44:31.47\00:44:32.80
the history, and really
identify with these people
00:44:32.83\00:44:35.30
and learn what's their
world, what's their story.
00:44:35.34\00:44:39.17
Another aspect of the
training is homiletics,
00:44:39.21\00:44:42.14
how to speak in public,
good presentation techniques.
00:44:42.18\00:44:47.08
We also learn a
little bit of language,
00:44:47.12\00:44:49.88
we learn about the
voice, the use of the voice,
00:44:49.92\00:44:54.72
how God designed our voices
to be used, how to project.
00:44:54.76\00:44:57.86
And so there's a lot of aspects
00:44:57.89\00:44:59.23
but it's kind of intense for
an evangelistic training series
00:44:59.26\00:45:04.63
that you're going to
present in a few nights
00:45:04.67\00:45:07.20
to cram all this
training in right now
00:45:07.24\00:45:09.67
but it happens.
00:45:09.70\00:45:11.04
And for the kids, they
need to prepare their crafts,
00:45:11.07\00:45:13.27
they need to have all of
those physical things ready
00:45:13.31\00:45:16.75
and good to go for the
next week ahead of time
00:45:16.78\00:45:20.38
because it just,
it stacks up so fast.
00:45:20.42\00:45:22.28
Yes.
00:45:22.32\00:45:23.65
So, Joshua or Gabby,
00:45:23.69\00:45:25.02
I don't know
who wants to answer,
00:45:25.05\00:45:26.39
maybe both but, well,
how was the training for you?
00:45:26.42\00:45:28.66
Was it, what was something
maybe that was helpful for you
00:45:28.69\00:45:31.69
in the training
00:45:31.73\00:45:33.06
or something during
that you're thinking,
00:45:33.09\00:45:35.03
"Why am I learning this?"
00:45:35.06\00:45:36.40
And then all of a sudden
you get in the field then...
00:45:36.43\00:45:38.03
Yeah. Oh, I understand this.
00:45:38.07\00:45:39.83
So is there any
experience about the training
00:45:39.87\00:45:41.90
you want to share?
00:45:41.94\00:45:44.41
You can go. Okay.
00:45:44.44\00:45:45.81
Well, one of the things
00:45:45.84\00:45:47.94
that we went over in training
was opening our mouth wider
00:45:47.98\00:45:52.31
and using projection.
00:45:52.35\00:45:54.02
And so we got out
these our little mirrors
00:45:54.05\00:45:57.92
and we would look at ourselves,
00:45:57.95\00:45:59.69
while we are practicing a
script or a certain sentence.
00:45:59.72\00:46:03.43
And that was kind of interesting
00:46:03.46\00:46:05.43
and I didn't think I
would use it very much,
00:46:05.46\00:46:07.36
you know, 'cause...
00:46:07.40\00:46:09.36
But as we continued,
00:46:09.40\00:46:11.67
I realized that I really
needed to use more projection
00:46:11.70\00:46:14.30
and that I hadn't been
doing that as often as I should.
00:46:14.34\00:46:17.67
Oh, that's great.
00:46:17.71\00:46:19.04
I'm thinking, "I kind of
need to pull out a little mirror
00:46:19.07\00:46:21.38
and try that," right?
00:46:21.41\00:46:22.74
That's good. Right.
00:46:22.78\00:46:24.11
Anything for you, Gabby?
00:46:24.15\00:46:25.48
I think the one thing
that I found most useful
00:46:25.51\00:46:27.32
that I used was we
were going to the language,
00:46:27.35\00:46:31.15
they would teach us phrases
00:46:31.19\00:46:32.52
we had a sheet of
paper and a binder,
00:46:32.55\00:46:34.82
a phrases in Tagalog.
00:46:34.86\00:46:37.19
"Hello, good
afternoon. May we pray for you?"
00:46:37.23\00:46:40.50
All these phrases.
00:46:40.53\00:46:42.03
When we were doing visitations,
00:46:42.06\00:46:43.60
I ended up having
that paper ended up
00:46:43.63\00:46:45.70
becoming so creased and dirty
'cause I would take it with me.
00:46:45.73\00:46:49.50
And I would, you
know, go over my head,
00:46:49.54\00:46:51.17
you know, go over the words.
00:46:51.21\00:46:52.74
And when I go off to the people,
00:46:52.77\00:46:54.18
I'd say in Tagalog and
they'd open up even more,
00:46:54.21\00:46:56.91
they, you know, they
laugh at my mispronunciations
00:46:56.95\00:47:00.15
but it ended up
opening boundaries with them
00:47:00.18\00:47:03.82
connecting more
00:47:03.85\00:47:05.19
and I thought that
was a really useful thing
00:47:05.22\00:47:06.92
that we had learned
those hours in training
00:47:06.96\00:47:08.82
when the hot sun
was so blazing on us.
00:47:08.86\00:47:11.79
It was like, "Why
are we doing this?"
00:47:11.83\00:47:13.53
It ended up really
working. It's beneficial.
00:47:13.56\00:47:16.16
And let's talk about baptism,
I see our time is going so...
00:47:16.20\00:47:18.40
Yeah.
00:47:18.43\00:47:19.77
Tell me about the
baptism experience
00:47:19.80\00:47:21.57
and then we have a
couple of pictures too.
00:47:21.60\00:47:23.37
I think Gabby has a
story, she'd like to tell.
00:47:23.41\00:47:25.77
Yes. Oh, yeah.
00:47:25.81\00:47:27.14
So during the
nights, from the first night,
00:47:27.18\00:47:30.51
there was a young man about
19, that would come every night,
00:47:30.55\00:47:35.58
he came the first meetings
00:47:35.62\00:47:36.95
and he would come up
to us and talk to us.
00:47:36.99\00:47:40.39
I didn't talk to him very much.
00:47:40.42\00:47:41.82
I did some but one
of the older people,
00:47:41.86\00:47:46.03
adults would go and ask him,
you know, what was dedication,
00:47:46.06\00:47:50.57
like what he thought about it
00:47:50.60\00:47:52.00
and his
perception to the meetings,
00:47:52.03\00:47:54.74
and he had a very
positive feedback.
00:47:54.77\00:47:56.77
And, you know,
he was coming back
00:47:56.81\00:47:58.14
and then he
started opening up to us
00:47:58.17\00:48:00.28
and saying how he was
interested in baptism,
00:48:00.31\00:48:02.18
even before there
was a call to baptism,
00:48:02.21\00:48:04.55
he says I wanna be
baptized into this church.
00:48:04.58\00:48:06.38
Wow.
00:48:06.41\00:48:07.75
The problem was
that his grandmother
00:48:07.78\00:48:09.72
did not want him in any way
involved with those Christians.
00:48:09.75\00:48:13.99
And, you know,
he expressed to us,
00:48:14.02\00:48:15.56
you know, he didn't want to...
00:48:15.59\00:48:16.93
He was very close
with his grandmother
00:48:16.96\00:48:18.49
and he didn't want to
go against her in any way,
00:48:18.53\00:48:20.70
and so he was
struggling with that.
00:48:20.73\00:48:22.43
And then one day
I was on visitations
00:48:22.46\00:48:24.90
with two other people
and we were walking down,
00:48:24.93\00:48:27.14
you know, these
jungle unpaved roads.
00:48:27.17\00:48:30.11
And we came across
this section of houses,
00:48:30.14\00:48:33.01
and we went down
there and called out
00:48:33.04\00:48:35.11
if anyone was there to,
00:48:35.14\00:48:36.81
you know, pray
with them, invite them.
00:48:36.85\00:48:38.18
It was about the
second to last night,
00:48:38.21\00:48:39.95
and we ended up
00:48:39.98\00:48:41.85
and this older
woman came to the door
00:48:41.88\00:48:44.22
and we started talking to
her and, you know, she's like,
00:48:44.25\00:48:47.89
"Oh, are you
those people with those
00:48:47.92\00:48:50.33
in evangelistic
series over there
00:48:50.36\00:48:52.86
in the main site in Makati site?
00:48:52.89\00:48:54.43
I told her "Yeah."
00:48:54.46\00:48:55.80
"Oh, my grandson, he goes there.
00:48:55.83\00:48:57.17
Do you know Marvin?"
00:48:57.20\00:48:58.53
She's the grandma.
00:48:58.57\00:48:59.90
Marvin was the
one that had come.
00:48:59.93\00:49:01.27
And, you know,
she was, you know,
00:49:01.30\00:49:03.24
a very strong Catholic
and didn't want anything to do
00:49:03.27\00:49:07.31
but we ended up just,
you know, "How are you?
00:49:07.34\00:49:08.98
Can we pray for you?
00:49:09.01\00:49:10.35
Do you have anything that
we can help you with or...?"
00:49:10.38\00:49:13.21
We gave her some
of those glow tracks
00:49:13.25\00:49:15.12
that we had
brought and she ended up,
00:49:15.15\00:49:17.39
you know, being very happy
that we just to pray with her.
00:49:17.42\00:49:21.02
And Marvin ended up
being baptized the last night
00:49:21.06\00:49:24.13
because his
grandmother had stopped,
00:49:24.16\00:49:26.49
you know, being against that.
00:49:26.53\00:49:28.63
And that was
wonderful. He was so excited.
00:49:28.66\00:49:30.87
I saw him the Saturday afternoon
00:49:30.90\00:49:32.83
where there was baptisms,
and the joy that he had
00:49:32.87\00:49:36.07
when he got his
Bible and everything.
00:49:36.10\00:49:37.94
Amen. What a testimony.
00:49:37.97\00:49:40.11
Yeah. That's incredible.
00:49:40.14\00:49:42.21
And to think if you had
not done that visitation...
00:49:42.24\00:49:44.08
Yeah.
00:49:44.11\00:49:45.45
That the grandma would not have,
00:49:45.48\00:49:46.82
the wall would not have
been broken down for her
00:49:46.85\00:49:48.38
to let the grandson be baptized.
00:49:48.42\00:49:49.92
Wow. Yeah.
00:49:49.95\00:49:51.29
Let's look at some,
00:49:51.32\00:49:52.65
we have a couple
pictures of those baptism.
00:49:52.69\00:49:54.02
Let's take a look at that.
It's right there in the water.
00:49:54.06\00:49:57.49
Just wave after wave of
them going into, it was amazing,
00:49:57.53\00:50:00.73
it seemed like it
was never going to end,
00:50:00.76\00:50:03.03
136 people all in total.
00:50:03.06\00:50:05.57
Wow! Praise the Lord.
00:50:05.60\00:50:08.40
There's a perspective
changer that happened to me
00:50:08.44\00:50:10.71
after the baptisms
00:50:10.74\00:50:12.07
when we were
handing out Bibles to those
00:50:12.11\00:50:13.68
who had attended the meetings,
those who had been baptized.
00:50:13.71\00:50:17.21
I saw people coming away
from their Bible presentation,
00:50:17.25\00:50:21.25
clutching their
Bible to their chest,
00:50:21.28\00:50:22.92
actually cry in tears of joy,
00:50:22.95\00:50:25.75
for the joy of
really owning one.
00:50:25.79\00:50:28.02
And I have, I don't know
five or ten Bibles laying
00:50:28.06\00:50:30.36
around my house
00:50:30.39\00:50:31.73
and how much do I
treasure that Word of God.
00:50:31.76\00:50:34.13
It was, it was a real
compelling game changer for me.
00:50:34.16\00:50:38.90
Amen. Amen.
00:50:38.93\00:50:40.30
What about you,
Joshua, any perspective change
00:50:40.34\00:50:42.40
that happened for
you as a result of going?
00:50:42.44\00:50:45.64
Well, I had
decided before the trip
00:50:45.67\00:50:49.18
that I would like to be a nurse.
00:50:49.21\00:50:51.15
But after this trip,
00:50:51.18\00:50:53.11
it's really
impacted me and shown me
00:50:53.15\00:50:56.69
that maybe God does
want me to pursue this more.
00:50:56.72\00:51:00.26
And so I have decided
that I want to look more
00:51:00.29\00:51:03.46
into lay preaching
00:51:03.49\00:51:04.83
and maybe take
some classes in that.
00:51:04.86\00:51:06.70
Amen. Oh, that's incredible.
Thank you all so much.
00:51:06.73\00:51:10.23
We will come back in a moment
with some closing thoughts.
00:51:10.27\00:51:12.90
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00:51:20.51\00:51:23.35
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