I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, I'm Shelley Quinn.
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And we welcome you
once again to 3ABN Today
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and to the Mending
Broken People network.
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We are so thankful for you,
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and we're glad
you're taking this time.
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I think you're
going to be inspired
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by our interview today.
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Thank you for taking
this time to be with us.
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And we especially want to
thank you for your prayers
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and financial
support of this ministry,
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because this ministry,
albeit, it belongs to God,
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it is your
ministry as well as ours.
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We're just stewards
for God and we couldn't do
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what we're doing
without what you did.
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So thank you so much.
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I want to share before I
introduce our special guest.
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Let me share a
scripture with you.
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This is from Isaiah 6:1.
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And in Isaiah 6, you know,
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Isaiah had to have been praying.
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He was pressing into
the presence of the Lord,
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and he saw the
Lord high and lifted up.
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And he was so impressed,
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but he was
impressed with his sinfulness,
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and God's holiness
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and he's going,
"Oh, what was me?
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I'm undone. I'm a
man of unclean lips."
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And the angel took
a coal from the altar
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and touched his lips.
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Well, you know, we could all say
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we're men of unclean lips,
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because it's none of
us are as holy as God.
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But then this is
chapter 6 and verse 8,
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which is my favorite verse.
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He says, Isaiah, he says,
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"Also I heard the
voice of the Lord saying
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'Whom shall I send?
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And who will go for us?'"
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And Isaiah, as soon
as he heard God's call,
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he said "Here I'm.
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Send me."
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And, you know, I can
relate to that scripture
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because I heard that
God was looking for someone.
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And I said, "Lord,
here I'm, send me."
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So did our guests today.
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They heard the call of the
Lord and they're allowing God
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to use them in miraculous ways.
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Let me introduce
our special guests.
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We has Frazier Mathis
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and his lovely
wife Virginia Mathis.
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And, Frazier,
you're the Director
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of Global Vessels Inc.
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Tell was in a nutshell,
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what is the mission
of Global Vessels Inc?
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Global Vessels
is an organization
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that God laid upon our hearts
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where we can
actually impact lives.
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So our total
mission is to bless,
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and to be a blessing.
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Okay.
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And that's how
it's been working out.
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We've been
having the opportunity
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to do just that.
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Amen. And we're gonna get all
the details in just a moment.
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But, before we get
involved in the ministry,
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we always love to
kick off with music.
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And today we've got
our, one of our own,
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a special sister in Christ.
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Her name is E.T. Everett.
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And what I love about E.T.
is she has a heart for worship.
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So she's going to be
playing "Holy Holy Holy".
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Well, we thank E.T.
Everett for that beautiful song
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"Holy Holy Holy".
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If you're tuning in
just a few minutes late,
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let me
reintroduce our special guest.
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We have Frazier
and Virginia Mathis
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with us today and
they're with Global Vessels Inc.
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But before we get to
the point of talking about
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how God called you,
and you answered saying,
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"Here I am, send me."
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Let's get a little
bit of your history.
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Frazier, did you grow
up in a Christian home,
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an Adventist Christian home
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or tell us
about your upbringing?
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Well, I grew up in a home
where parents sent you to church
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and we were going
to church on Sunday.
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Okay.
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And in the process of
time, I had an opportunity
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of being a
roommate of mine in college.
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He spoke to me about
going to church on Saturday,
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on the Sabbath.
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I said, "You mean to tell
me everybody else is wrong
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and this little group is right?"
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He said, "I'm telling you."
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And at that time I was
working in the Gulf of Mexico,
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working seven
days off, seven days.
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So I planned to
retire there early.
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You only needed
25 years to retire.
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So I would tell
everybody... You loved your job.
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I loved my job.
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I flew out in a helicopter
every day, every Thursday,
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and back home,
and so it was great.
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So when my friend said, "I
needed to visit the church."
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And it was on
Saturday, I was kind of puzzled.
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I said, "Okay, I'm going to go."
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So I came in for seven
days, and did everything
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but go to church.
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Went back out on the
rigs for seven more days,
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I called him and
he said, "Did you go?"
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I said, "No, I didn't go."
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He said, "Promise
me, you're gonna go."
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He says, "I'm telling you,
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this is what we're looking for."
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I said, "Okay, I'm gonna go."
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So I go back in,
and I go to this church
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2400 Delachaise Street, Ephesus
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
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D.J. William is the pastor.
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So I come to church
that particular Sabbath,
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I hear him preach
and I joined that day.
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Wow!
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First time, and I
knew it was right.
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I knew it was right.
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And then from
that, interviewers will,
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all would ask
me "Brother Mathis,
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how did you get your
mother, and your brother,
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and your sister them into?"
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"Because whenever
I would go to church,
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I would invite them,
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and whenever the
minister would make an appeal,
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I get behind him
make an appeal crying."
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Please, Mama.
Yeah, I said, this is it.
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This is what we've
been looking for, it comes.
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So, for sure, my
sister, and my brother,
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and my mother,
and my grandparents...
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Oh, glory to God.
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Who were staunch Baptist,
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deacon and
deaconess in the church,
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when they became
Adventist, it was unbelievable.
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So you told me
earlier in the greenroom
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that this job that you had,
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you were making excellent money,
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and you kept
telling the crew there,
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I'm putting in my 25 years,
retiring, I love this job.
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Never leave it. And
I'll never leave it.
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And then, but
you and your friend
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were searching for
answers to Bible questions.
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Yes. You found the answers.
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What happened
after you found the truth
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from God's work?
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What happened to your job?
I go back to the rigs, right?
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And I'm sitting
around the table,
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everybody's
talking, and it's amazing,
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you know, they used to...
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They would fix you a stake,
and the stake would be so large
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that you have to
put napkins on the table
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so the meat
wouldn't lay on the table.
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I mean, it was unbelievable.
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So I was loving this job.
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So I go back out,
after I've accepted Christ,
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accepted the
seventh-day message,
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I said, "Okay, guys, this is it.
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This is my last hitch.
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Your last hitch?
I said "I'm gone."
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He said "The seventh-day
of the Sabbath, I'm finished.
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I'm done."
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So that meant that my
salary went from there to there.
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When I told my dad,
I was going to leave,
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he said, he said,
"Boy, are you a fool?"
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He said, "You could make,
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you don't make
this kind of money.
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You don't make
this kind of money.
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You're gonna leave that job?"
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I said, "Dad, the seventh-day
of the Sabbath I'm out here."
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I admire so much
when I hear stories
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of people who just...
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They recognized truth,
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they recognized
this is God's will,
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and they just
say "This is for me,
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I can't do otherwise.
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God, help me if
I did otherwise."
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So praise the Lord,
but God then brought you
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into construction business.
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You've been obviously
successful in your life
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and God has blessed.
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Now Virginia... Yes.
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Did you grow up
in a Christian home?
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Yes, I feel very blessed that
I grew up in a Christian home,
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a Seventh-day
Adventist Christian home
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from as early as I can remember.
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And my parents moved us to
Pine Forge in Pennsylvania,
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so that we could get
a Christian education.
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They moved us out of the
city. We lived in New York.
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And they moved us to Pine Forge,
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and I've been in
Adventist schools
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all my life
except for graduate work,
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and taught in
Adventist school, so...
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So you became a
teacher? I became a teacher.
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Yes, we've many
teachers in my family as well.
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And did you teach in
the Adventist school system?
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I did.
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I taught at Takoma Academy
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which is in the
Washington D.C. area.
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Wonderful. You know, we
have an Adventist school here.
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And I've always believed
that Christian education
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was important and unfortunately,
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I didn't get that opportunity.
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But when we see
people who come in,
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who are really, maybe not having
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a real personal
experience with the Lord,
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and they go through
the first school year,
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and you see the change.
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Right. Oh, yes.
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It is so amazing.
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I believe that
Christian education
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is incredibly important.
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Okay, so you have this
501c3, a nonprofit organization.
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That you've begun
called "Global Vessels".
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Don't you like that
name Global Vessels Inc.?
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Tell us, how God,
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how you recognized
God's call on your life
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and why you began,
because you're the director
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and founder of
Global Vessels Inc?
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Yeah.
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How did this all begin?
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My wife teaches at...
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Was teaching at Takoma Academy,
and I was, I was privileged
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to go with them on
several mission trips.
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And I said, "Well,
I like, this is great.
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I like doing it."
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So we were going with
Maranatha at the time.
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So I called Maranatha because
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we wanted to go to
Africa and do a mission trip.
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And they said, "Well,
we're not in Africa right now.
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Communism has fallen
and we're, they're rushing,
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they are now working,
trying to get as much done
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as we possibly can, you know.
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I said "Well, could you possibly
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send me a
blueprint for a church?"
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And they said, "Sure,
we'll send you a blueprint."
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So I had the
blueprints in my hand.
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Is this the Seventh-day
Church? Seventh-day! Yeah.
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I've the blueprints in my hand.
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I stand in front of the church,
Emmanuel Brinklow Church,
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Seventh-day Adventist church.
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I stand in front of the
church, doing personal ministry.
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I said, "Listen, I've
got a set of plans here.
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Who would like to go with
me to build a church in Africa?
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And I had 37 people volunteered
to come and go with us.
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Praise the Lord.
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Now had you been on any
previous trips to Africa?
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No, first time.
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We had not been on
any trips to Africa.
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And that the other piece of that
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which is part of
a miracle is that,
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he knew he
wanted to go to Africa.
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We knew, he didn't
know anyone from Africa.
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And since I was
teaching, I had students
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that their parents worked
at the General Conference.
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And Elder Bediako,
he was at home praying
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that someone would
come and help his people,
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because he knew a lot of
work that needed to be done.
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So when Frazier told
me what his vision was,
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what he wanted to do.
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I said, "Well, I
know the Bediako's and so
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maybe I can
introduce you to him."
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So with that initial meeting,
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both of them had
their dreams fulfilled.
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And Elder Bediako
took him to Ghana,
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so he could see
what kind of work
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he could do there.
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What's so amazing...
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Okay, we go to Ghana,
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and he takes me
to different places.
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We go to Bekwai,
this little town.
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And they're
worshipping in a school,
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but they are getting
ready to kick them out,
00:18:01.48\00:18:03.04
and they have no
place to worship.
00:18:03.08\00:18:05.11
They will not have
the place to worship.
00:18:05.15\00:18:07.02
So we decided, "Okay,
we're gonna build you a church.
00:18:07.05\00:18:10.85
We're gonna build you a church."
00:18:10.89\00:18:12.22
So for sure, we go there,
we look at what we're gonna do,
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we start sending funds over,
00:18:15.49\00:18:17.29
so they get this
shell of the church over up,
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and then we
bring the group over.
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I'm a contractor by trade.
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So we bring the group
over and while we're there,
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first meeting we're there,
and we're in this large church,
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and we're introducing
everybody in the mission team.
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This person is a doctor,
this person is that, the other.
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Someone in the
back raised their hands,
00:18:35.58\00:18:37.11
"Said, listen, we
find it strange that
00:18:37.15\00:18:38.95
you Americans come
here to build this church,
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but no one in
your group can build.
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How can you do this?"
00:18:42.92\00:18:44.45
And I mean, there's a
hush over the entire church.
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I said, "By God's grace,
we're gonna get it built."
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Okay.
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So for sure, we get
there, we're working.
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We have literally pushed
people off the work cycles.
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Everybody in the
village, community
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was coming to watch
to see these crazy people
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saying they're
going to build a church
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and none of knew how to
build, except one person.
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Especially in seven days, right?
00:19:02.34\00:19:04.31
Yeah, especially, right.
00:19:04.34\00:19:05.84
So what would it take them to...
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How long would it
take them to, perhaps?
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It will take them
from 10, 20, 30 years
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because they did not, at
that time have mortgages,
00:19:14.35\00:19:17.82
so they would have to
build a little, work a little,
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build a little, work a little.
00:19:20.96\00:19:22.59
So the idea that we had,
00:19:22.62\00:19:25.76
they couldn't comprehend
that idea that we could do.
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So everybody is
wanting to come out
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and watch this crazy myriad.
00:19:30.17\00:19:31.50
Everybody is watching
us build this building,
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coming up, coming up.
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And you know, so finally,
when we get there, it's Friday,
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the shell is up, the
walls are up, the roof is on.
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Okay.
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And so we tell them, all
right, we're going to lunch,
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you go back to the
school, get your little linen,
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do this in remembrance of
me, and put, hang the curtains.
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So we get back from lunch.
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They got the table in
place, the curtains in,
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we walk in that
building, in the church,
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that's up from
nothing to where it is
00:19:59.86\00:20:02.00
and everybody's
praising God and crying
00:20:02.03\00:20:04.47
because we knew that God
had worked a miracle that day,
00:20:04.50\00:20:07.80
was to get that
building ready for worship.
00:20:07.84\00:20:09.90
Because every day, I would say,
00:20:09.94\00:20:11.27
"We're worshipping
Sabbath in this building."
00:20:11.31\00:20:14.08
We're gonna worship
Sabbath in this building,
00:20:14.11\00:20:15.98
it's going to happen.
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And we just kept pushing,
and pushing, and pushing,
00:20:17.38\00:20:19.05
and we got it done.
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And, you know,
having a place of worship,
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we so take that for granted.
00:20:23.22\00:20:24.89
Yes, we do.
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But, well, boy,
when you travel the world
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and find people who
are worshipping under trees
00:20:27.66\00:20:29.79
or worshipping
in an area that is,
00:20:29.82\00:20:33.40
you know, just so cramped
and they can't accommodate
00:20:33.43\00:20:35.83
even new members.
00:20:35.86\00:20:37.37
It is so
important just for you...
00:20:37.40\00:20:41.10
It's kind of
like your touchstone
00:20:41.14\00:20:42.57
if you will to have a
place to go to worship.
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And it also, I believe it
attracts other new people.
00:20:45.31\00:20:49.58
Oh, it does. It does, yes.
00:20:49.61\00:20:51.05
Because if you're worshipping
under a tree, people think,
00:20:51.08\00:20:53.31
"What God, are you
serving, you know?"
00:20:53.35\00:20:55.68
But even though they are
worshipping underneath trees
00:20:55.72\00:20:57.39
and they have, you know,
they don't have facilities
00:20:57.42\00:20:58.95
like we do, the
Spirit is so rich there.
00:20:58.99\00:21:01.46
Praise God. You
know, what I mean?
00:21:01.49\00:21:02.82
I mean, the love of God
just overflows, you know,
00:21:02.86\00:21:05.33
even though, I'm
sitting in a room
00:21:05.36\00:21:07.10
and I can look outside
and see outside, you know,
00:21:07.13\00:21:09.56
they are still praising God
and they love the Lord, so...
00:21:09.60\00:21:11.43
They have beautiful spirits.
00:21:11.47\00:21:12.80
They are
beautiful spirits though.
00:21:12.83\00:21:14.17
You know, that fabulous.
That's what I love about it.
00:21:14.20\00:21:15.80
Now, how long did
you work in Ghana?
00:21:15.84\00:21:19.24
We were in Ghana
for about four years.
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We were in Ghana for six years.
00:21:21.24\00:21:23.01
Six years, okay.
00:21:23.04\00:21:24.38
Three churches,
the girls' dormitory
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and a library.
00:21:26.35\00:21:27.68
All right. We got...
00:21:27.72\00:21:29.05
For the library
we're able to get computers
00:21:29.08\00:21:30.42
from the Library of Congress
and have that shipped over.
00:21:30.45\00:21:33.59
And so it was a blessing,
it was a blessing in Ghana.
00:21:33.62\00:21:38.46
We were able to raise
money for another church.
00:21:38.49\00:21:41.80
We didn't build it,
but we raised the funds
00:21:41.83\00:21:44.70
so that they could build it too.
00:21:44.73\00:21:46.87
We spent a good time
in Ghana and we loved it.
00:21:46.90\00:21:49.37
Amen.
00:21:49.40\00:21:50.74
Yeah, you weren't
over there full time.
00:21:50.77\00:21:52.11
You were both
still working at the time
00:21:52.14\00:21:53.58
and you would go over.
00:21:53.61\00:21:55.78
I understand you
went several times a year
00:21:55.81\00:21:57.85
just preparing things.
00:21:57.88\00:21:59.51
But then you had once a
year that you were taking over
00:21:59.55\00:22:03.59
your mission team.
00:22:03.62\00:22:04.95
We take a mission
team over once a year.
00:22:04.99\00:22:06.35
Okay.
00:22:06.39\00:22:07.72
Volunteers from all
over the United States.
00:22:07.76\00:22:09.22
I'll tell you a story.
00:22:09.26\00:22:10.86
Some guys saw us on
a program here at 3ABN,
00:22:10.89\00:22:13.90
The Jacksons.
00:22:13.93\00:22:15.43
They called me from California.
00:22:15.46\00:22:16.80
They said "Listen, we want to do
00:22:16.83\00:22:18.17
that mission thing with you."
00:22:18.20\00:22:19.53
I said, "No problem,
you're welcome to come."
00:22:19.57\00:22:20.90
He says, "Well, I'm
80, my brother is 79,
00:22:20.94\00:22:23.97
and my other brother is 83."
00:22:24.01\00:22:25.34
I said "Listen, if you
get a doctor's clearance,
00:22:25.37\00:22:27.01
you can come and go with us."
00:22:27.04\00:22:28.51
Three weeks later,
they called me and said,
00:22:28.54\00:22:30.05
"Listen, we got our clearance.
00:22:30.08\00:22:31.41
We're coming, The Jacksons.
00:22:31.45\00:22:32.98
Those guys were
all over the place.
00:22:33.01\00:22:34.95
They work, they
were right there with us.
00:22:34.98\00:22:36.58
We just had a great time so...
00:22:36.62\00:22:37.95
Wonderful! It was just...
00:22:37.99\00:22:39.32
It was a blessing to
have them there with us.
00:22:39.35\00:22:40.72
Amen. Amen.
00:22:40.76\00:22:42.29
So now how did you
move from Ghana to Tanzania?
00:22:42.32\00:22:46.49
Is that where
you're working now?
00:22:46.53\00:22:47.86
We're now working in Tanzania.
00:22:47.90\00:22:51.73
One day, someone that
was a member of our church,
00:22:51.77\00:22:55.87
Emmanuel
Brinklow, Elder Muganda,
00:22:55.90\00:22:58.77
he came and he said,
00:22:58.81\00:23:00.94
"What about
coming to my country?"
00:23:00.98\00:23:02.34
Yeah, he said...
00:23:02.38\00:23:03.71
And his country
was Tanzania. Okay.
00:23:03.75\00:23:05.95
"So you're going all
over the place, every place.
00:23:05.98\00:23:07.85
When are you
coming to my country?"
00:23:07.88\00:23:09.22
Yeah. And we said, "We'll come."
00:23:09.25\00:23:11.49
We'll come. We'll come.
00:23:11.52\00:23:12.85
To come to a country to
work, this is what we ask.
00:23:12.89\00:23:14.96
We ask for adequate
living space for the group,
00:23:14.99\00:23:17.73
and
transportation for the group,
00:23:17.76\00:23:19.36
and the main thing
is, they have a project
00:23:19.39\00:23:20.96
that we can complete.
00:23:21.00\00:23:22.66
Because we don't
want to do a project
00:23:22.70\00:23:24.17
that we cannot complete.
00:23:24.20\00:23:25.53
I understand.
00:23:25.57\00:23:26.90
So with those things in
mind, that's how we get to go
00:23:26.94\00:23:29.24
and do different
things, you know.
00:23:29.27\00:23:31.24
We were just in Abidjan
about a couple of months ago,
00:23:31.27\00:23:34.44
they want us to come
and build the school.
00:23:34.48\00:23:35.98
So those are the things
we went to check and see
00:23:36.01\00:23:37.65
if they have in
place, and they do,
00:23:37.68\00:23:39.01
so we're praying about a
time to go there as well.
00:23:39.05\00:23:41.55
Amen. Amen.
00:23:41.58\00:23:42.92
So tell us about
the work in Tanzania?
00:23:42.95\00:23:45.05
Oh, wow!
00:23:45.09\00:23:46.42
God has really
opened some doors there
00:23:46.45\00:23:48.16
that you weren't expecting
because, what I love about
00:23:48.19\00:23:51.33
Global Vessels is
that you're just that,
00:23:51.36\00:23:53.90
they're earthen vessels of the,
00:23:53.93\00:23:56.26
of just letting the glory
of the Lord shine through them
00:23:56.30\00:23:59.17
to meet people's
needs, but you're not always
00:23:59.20\00:24:03.14
that stringent about the
needs that you're going to meet.
00:24:03.17\00:24:07.01
So what I'm saying is,
00:24:07.04\00:24:08.44
you don't always
build the church,
00:24:08.48\00:24:11.31
there's other projects.
00:24:11.35\00:24:12.85
Tell us what's
going on in Tanzania?
00:24:12.88\00:24:15.15
Okay. All right.
Well, I'll begin.
00:24:15.18\00:24:19.12
What happened is,
we went to Tanzania,
00:24:19.15\00:24:21.72
there's a university,
the University of Arusha,
00:24:21.76\00:24:25.03
it's a Seventh-day
Adventist University
00:24:25.06\00:24:27.50
and they have a clinic
00:24:27.53\00:24:29.20
and they wanted an extension
built onto their clinic.
00:24:29.23\00:24:32.90
And so we went and we built.
00:24:32.93\00:24:35.00
Is this medical clinic
00:24:35.04\00:24:36.37
just for Adventists
or did they treat...
00:24:36.40\00:24:37.74
Oh, no. Okay.
00:24:37.77\00:24:39.11
It's for the community. Okay.
00:24:39.14\00:24:40.74
And so we said we
build the extension
00:24:40.78\00:24:43.75
on the community, I
mean, on the building
00:24:43.78\00:24:46.92
and we would do
that for AIDS patients
00:24:46.95\00:24:50.75
and maternity patients.
00:24:50.79\00:24:52.75
That was our goal.
00:24:52.79\00:24:55.39
We did that, we went
and we build the clinic.
00:24:55.42\00:24:58.93
But as we were
driving up the rugged road
00:24:58.96\00:25:02.46
every day to the
clinic, we passed an orphanage,
00:25:02.50\00:25:07.04
and we said, "Let's go in here."
00:25:07.07\00:25:09.20
And we went and we
played with the children
00:25:09.24\00:25:12.51
and their living conditions,
00:25:12.54\00:25:14.28
they were living
in one small room
00:25:14.31\00:25:16.78
about the size of my
kitchen, and they were 24,
00:25:16.81\00:25:19.81
the next year there
were 50 in the room.
00:25:19.85\00:25:22.68
And we said, "We
have to help them."
00:25:22.72\00:25:24.99
And so we built
them some cabinets
00:25:25.02\00:25:27.36
and bought them
beds, we bathed them
00:25:27.39\00:25:30.96
and when we got on the plane,
00:25:30.99\00:25:35.13
the mission team said,
that wasn't good enough.
00:25:35.16\00:25:38.37
Amen. We have to do better.
00:25:38.40\00:25:40.84
I tell you we...
00:25:40.87\00:25:42.20
While we were
there, I went to the group.
00:25:42.24\00:25:46.57
We were actually
working on the clinic.
00:25:46.61\00:25:48.11
I said, "Listen, I need
money. Give me your money."
00:25:48.14\00:25:50.91
"What do you want?"
I said, "Give me money.
00:25:50.95\00:25:52.28
We got to help these children."
00:25:52.31\00:25:53.65
So what we did, we got
this huge 55 gallon drum,
00:25:53.68\00:25:56.22
we filled it with water,
00:25:56.25\00:25:57.85
put it on the back of a tractor,
00:25:57.89\00:25:59.22
brought it back to the orphanage
00:25:59.25\00:26:00.59
where the kids were staying.
00:26:00.62\00:26:01.96
We heated the water, and
begin to bathe these children,
00:26:01.99\00:26:04.59
comb their hair, put clothes on,
00:26:04.63\00:26:06.80
because we sent
the ladies to the store
00:26:06.83\00:26:08.36
to buy flip-flops
and clothes for them
00:26:08.40\00:26:10.40
and the
children needed to touch.
00:26:10.43\00:26:12.70
When we touched them,
yeah, I mean, it just,
00:26:12.73\00:26:15.34
it made a
difference in their lives.
00:26:15.37\00:26:17.07
So that's how we got
started with this bug
00:26:17.11\00:26:19.64
that we want to
do, to do an orphanage.
00:26:19.67\00:26:21.94
All right, so
that's what happened to us.
00:26:21.98\00:26:24.45
So the Tanzanian Union gave us
00:26:24.48\00:26:30.09
or they didn't give us,
00:26:30.12\00:26:32.65
they gave us land to
use on the school property.
00:26:32.69\00:26:36.96
So we... With the
university property.
00:26:36.99\00:26:38.33
With the university property.
00:26:38.36\00:26:40.60
So we have five acres
that they allowed us to use
00:26:40.63\00:26:44.07
to begin building the orphanage.
00:26:44.10\00:26:46.87
And so that's where
we're located right now,
00:26:46.90\00:26:50.17
on the back of the
university property.
00:26:50.21\00:26:52.67
So the orphanage was built when?
00:26:52.71\00:26:54.81
We began the orphanage in 2005
00:26:54.84\00:26:59.21
and we completed it in 2006.
00:26:59.25\00:27:02.72
Okay.
00:27:02.75\00:27:04.09
And that is just by people
that just were willing to help.
00:27:04.12\00:27:08.89
They just wanted to see it done.
00:27:08.92\00:27:10.73
But now the thing
about an orphanage,
00:27:10.76\00:27:12.59
there's one thing if
you go and build a church
00:27:12.63\00:27:16.10
and leave it in the
hands of the church members,
00:27:16.13\00:27:18.53
but when you build
an orphanage suddenly,
00:27:18.57\00:27:22.20
and you have orphans coming
in, you have to have employees,
00:27:22.24\00:27:26.11
directors, people to
operate the orphanage.
00:27:26.14\00:27:30.68
Yeah, that's the
fine line at the bottom.
00:27:30.71\00:27:32.85
We didn't read that part.
00:27:32.88\00:27:34.22
We just know, we said
00:27:34.25\00:27:35.58
"We're going to
build an orphanage,"
00:27:35.62\00:27:36.95
and then we, "Oh,
00:27:36.99\00:27:38.55
we have to
maintain an orphanage now."
00:27:38.59\00:27:40.32
And you brought a picture
of the four beautiful buildings
00:27:40.36\00:27:42.72
that you built
on these five acres
00:27:42.76\00:27:44.29
for the orphanage.
00:27:44.33\00:27:45.89
So let's take a look
at this new orphanage.
00:27:45.93\00:27:48.90
Yes.
00:27:48.93\00:27:50.27
Yeah, these are the buildings
that we've been able to get up.
00:27:50.30\00:27:53.27
And each building has...
00:27:53.30\00:27:55.90
It has sentimental value to us
00:27:55.94\00:27:57.97
because house one Dr. Wallace,
Robert Wallace, built it
00:27:58.01\00:28:01.14
in honor of his
mother and house two,
00:28:01.18\00:28:04.15
Louise Washington Warnick
buildings named after her.
00:28:04.18\00:28:09.15
Her daughter
built it in her honor.
00:28:09.18\00:28:10.92
But building
three, the Silvers built
00:28:10.95\00:28:14.19
in honor of
their daughter Valerie,
00:28:14.22\00:28:15.56
who was killed in
the World Trade building.
00:28:15.59\00:28:17.73
So that's very
important to us as well.
00:28:17.76\00:28:20.06
And then house four,
the Woods, Dr. George Woods
00:28:20.10\00:28:23.30
and Willie Woods
built in honor of their son.
00:28:23.33\00:28:25.80
So each home has a
little significant for us.
00:28:25.83\00:28:28.47
And to think that
little kids who were living
00:28:28.50\00:28:30.44
in a cramped area,
the size of your kitchen.
00:28:30.47\00:28:33.88
Now you've got a
picture of how the children look
00:28:33.91\00:28:36.61
when they arrive,
00:28:36.64\00:28:38.05
and they're a
little bit tattered.
00:28:38.08\00:28:40.62
Let's look at these children.
You can see that clearly.
00:28:40.65\00:28:45.75
They're not as
clean as they could be
00:28:45.79\00:28:47.99
and they're little bit tattered.
00:28:48.02\00:28:49.56
Who is this woman
that's with the children
00:28:49.59\00:28:51.03
that are coming?
00:28:51.06\00:28:52.39
This is their Bibi,
which is a grandmother.
00:28:52.43\00:28:55.53
And in many communities
00:28:55.56\00:28:58.23
or in some of these communities,
00:28:58.27\00:29:00.70
the Bibis are helping
to raise the children,
00:29:00.74\00:29:04.84
their grandchildren.
00:29:04.87\00:29:06.41
But we'd like to show you
00:29:06.44\00:29:08.34
what we were able
to do with them is,
00:29:08.38\00:29:10.98
as they came in to
Havilah, and that's Abdul.
00:29:11.01\00:29:16.79
Abdul came to us
00:29:16.82\00:29:18.35
around four years
old, and right now...
00:29:18.39\00:29:20.16
He's all spiffed up.
00:29:20.19\00:29:22.12
They got him
polished pretty well now.
00:29:22.16\00:29:24.09
And he's 14 years old.
00:29:24.13\00:29:26.86
And we'll show you Abdul.
00:29:26.90\00:29:30.17
We'd like to
see a video of Abdul
00:29:30.20\00:29:32.20
and all of the children.
00:29:32.23\00:29:33.94
Right now we have 21
children at the orphanage
00:29:33.97\00:29:37.67
at different ages,
different stages of their life,
00:29:37.71\00:29:40.64
but Abdul who is now 14
is going to speak to us.
00:29:40.68\00:29:45.85
Let us pray.
00:29:45.88\00:29:47.22
Thank you, Jesus,
for this wonderful day.
00:29:47.25\00:29:49.28
Father, may You guide us,
we're gonna start our program,
00:29:49.32\00:29:52.22
please, Father.
00:29:52.25\00:29:53.59
Father, may You guide us
our sponsors back in America.
00:29:53.62\00:29:58.13
Father, may You
guide them and help us.
00:29:58.16\00:30:01.46
We love you
too, may You guide us
00:30:01.50\00:30:02.96
and the directors too.
00:30:03.00\00:30:04.93
May you guide them too.
00:30:04.97\00:30:06.70
Thank you, Father for this day,
in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
00:30:06.74\00:30:10.24
Amen.
00:30:10.27\00:30:12.64
My name is
Abdul. I'm 14 years old.
00:30:12.67\00:30:16.08
And I'm in standard seven.
00:30:16.11\00:30:19.08
I finished my
seventh grade studies
00:30:19.11\00:30:21.88
and I passed my exam.
00:30:21.92\00:30:23.79
I'm looking forward to
start from one next year.
00:30:23.82\00:30:27.29
And I like to
tell all American Board
00:30:27.32\00:30:31.63
that I tell you,
thank you for having me here
00:30:31.66\00:30:35.76
and for Baba
Frazier and Mama Virginia
00:30:35.80\00:30:38.40
and for my sponsors
and for the directors.
00:30:38.43\00:30:41.70
And my hobby,
when I finish my grade
00:30:41.74\00:30:45.34
or my studies, I
like to be a pastor.
00:30:45.37\00:30:48.21
Thank you. Good bye.
00:30:48.24\00:30:51.11
Isn't he precious?
00:30:51.15\00:30:52.61
And so when Abdul
came to you, he didn't come
00:30:52.65\00:30:56.58
from a Christian family, did he?
00:30:56.62\00:30:58.99
No, Abdul didn't.
00:30:59.02\00:31:00.36
Abdul came from a Muslim family.
00:31:00.39\00:31:04.59
We didn't know his family,
00:31:04.63\00:31:06.26
but eventually
his grandfather came.
00:31:06.29\00:31:08.70
And his grandfather
came one day and he said,
00:31:08.73\00:31:13.10
"Please, we want
Abdul to be Muslim.
00:31:13.13\00:31:17.67
And could you
raise him as a Muslim?"
00:31:17.71\00:31:19.67
And our director said,
"No, we only know Jesus,
00:31:19.71\00:31:22.44
and so this is how
we're going to raise Abdul."
00:31:22.48\00:31:25.85
Now, if you hear
Abdul, you hear that
00:31:25.88\00:31:28.18
Abdul wants to be a pastor.
00:31:28.22\00:31:31.05
He wants to be a
Christian pastor.
00:31:31.09\00:31:33.62
And he said no matter what,
00:31:33.66\00:31:35.36
he just won't visit
his family if need be.
00:31:35.39\00:31:39.29
He'll stay around the orphanage,
00:31:39.33\00:31:41.46
so that he can be an Adventist.
00:31:41.50\00:31:44.73
And he was baptized.
00:31:44.77\00:31:46.80
Several of our
children have been baptized.
00:31:46.84\00:31:50.01
We work with the
social welfare service
00:31:50.04\00:31:53.17
in Tanzania.
00:31:53.21\00:31:55.14
We're not allowed to say
we want Adventist children
00:31:55.18\00:31:58.78
and we certainly
wouldn't discriminate anyway.
00:31:58.81\00:32:03.08
Most certainly.
00:32:03.12\00:32:05.45
But that's why
we like them young,
00:32:05.49\00:32:07.86
because we're teaching
them about Jesus Christ.
00:32:07.89\00:32:10.43
Amen and amen.
00:32:10.46\00:32:12.09
What's interesting
about Abdul, Abdul said,
00:32:12.13\00:32:13.93
once he decided to
be baptized, he said,
00:32:13.96\00:32:16.33
"I know it's
going to be a problem."
00:32:16.36\00:32:18.33
He says, "But I'm
willing to go through it."
00:32:18.37\00:32:19.97
Glory to God.
00:32:20.00\00:32:21.34
And this is, you know,
he's a 14 year old child
00:32:21.37\00:32:23.61
saying, "I'm willing
to go through for Jesus."
00:32:23.64\00:32:25.07
It's really amazing.
00:32:25.11\00:32:26.74
A fourteen year old
child who's probably seen
00:32:26.78\00:32:28.64
a whole lot more
than that we can imagine.
00:32:28.68\00:32:32.31
You know, he's
probably got some maturity.
00:32:32.35\00:32:34.95
Right. So who's the next
child you want to turn in?
00:32:34.98\00:32:38.09
The next child
we're gonna show you
00:32:38.12\00:32:39.72
is the newest of the bunch,
he's one and a half years old.
00:32:39.75\00:32:43.43
And she wanted to
sing a little song for us.
00:32:43.46\00:32:47.10
And so I thought
you should be able
00:32:47.13\00:32:49.50
to hear her sing.
00:32:49.53\00:32:50.87
Her name is Susie,
and she runs the show.
00:32:50.90\00:32:54.60
So you can show Susie.
00:32:54.64\00:32:56.50
So, that, I bet that angel
of that little six year old,
00:33:42.18\00:33:45.79
she keeps that
angel busy I understand.
00:33:45.82\00:33:47.92
Very busy.
00:33:47.96\00:33:49.42
She does when...
I'll just say this.
00:33:49.46\00:33:51.99
When we were there
in February with Susie,
00:33:52.03\00:33:55.80
we took Susie to
her mother's grave site.
00:33:55.83\00:33:59.50
And she was just so happy.
00:33:59.53\00:34:02.84
First of all,
when her aunty said
00:34:02.87\00:34:05.64
when she had come
during the Christmas holidays,
00:34:05.67\00:34:08.34
she said, after
day one she said,
00:34:08.38\00:34:10.85
"I need to go back to Havilah.
00:34:10.88\00:34:12.61
I want to go back."
00:34:12.65\00:34:14.35
And the aunty had to
kind of get her in line
00:34:14.38\00:34:18.55
because she packed her
suitcase, and said she,
00:34:18.59\00:34:21.46
she was going, coming back,
00:34:21.49\00:34:23.79
but she loved
visiting her mother's grave,
00:34:23.83\00:34:25.89
and to have been
there, and watch her clean it
00:34:25.93\00:34:29.10
and say, "This is my mom."
00:34:29.13\00:34:32.23
It was heartbreaking.
00:34:32.27\00:34:33.67
It was amazing, but...
00:34:33.70\00:34:35.47
Was her mother an AIDS victim?
00:34:35.50\00:34:37.31
She was. Okay.
00:34:37.34\00:34:38.71
She was and her aunt
had her for a little while,
00:34:38.74\00:34:42.74
but she couldn't
take care of her.
00:34:42.78\00:34:44.35
She had her own children.
00:34:44.38\00:34:46.58
And the first night, Susie
came and stayed at Havilah.
00:34:46.61\00:34:50.09
She said, "I
don't want to go home,"
00:34:50.12\00:34:53.12
and it was very
unusual, but they just kept her
00:34:53.15\00:34:56.76
because she insisted that
she should stay where she was.
00:34:56.79\00:34:59.49
Oh, how precious!
00:34:59.53\00:35:00.86
Yeah, that's precious. Okay.
00:35:00.90\00:35:02.60
And I think you have one more.
00:35:02.63\00:35:04.03
Yes, we have one more
video and that will be of Vero,
00:35:04.07\00:35:08.97
who is another one
of our older children.
00:35:09.00\00:35:11.94
And you'll hear them say that
they pass standard, an exam.
00:35:11.97\00:35:16.21
It's very important to
them because that determines
00:35:16.24\00:35:18.61
whether they'll be able
to continue going to school,
00:35:18.65\00:35:21.75
and what they're able to
do once they finish school.
00:35:21.78\00:35:25.19
So this is Vero.
00:35:25.22\00:35:26.72
All right.
00:35:26.76\00:35:28.29
My name is Vernico Mathis.
00:35:28.32\00:35:30.43
I finished good seven.
00:35:30.46\00:35:32.16
I'm going to form one.
00:35:32.19\00:35:33.83
I thank the
Lord, I passed my exam.
00:35:33.86\00:35:36.73
I thank Baba
Frazier and Mama Virginia
00:35:36.77\00:35:38.83
for paying my school fees
00:35:38.87\00:35:40.67
and American Group for
helping me to stay here
00:35:40.70\00:35:44.17
and some of their clothes.
00:35:44.21\00:35:45.74
I thank my sponsor for
bringing me some clothes
00:35:45.77\00:35:50.35
and their building, when
the building will be over,
00:35:50.38\00:35:54.85
I'll thank the Lord too.
00:35:54.88\00:35:56.45
Bye.
00:35:56.48\00:35:58.15
Ain't she's beautiful?
00:35:58.19\00:35:59.52
You know, those
are pretty children.
00:35:59.55\00:36:00.89
Yes, they're.
00:36:00.92\00:36:02.26
They're really
beautiful children,
00:36:02.29\00:36:03.63
and they're getting
a Christian upbringing,
00:36:03.66\00:36:06.46
that they're
learning the love of God
00:36:06.49\00:36:08.53
as people help care for them.
00:36:08.56\00:36:11.23
Now, what I'm
impressed with is that,
00:36:11.27\00:36:15.44
not only do you
have the orphanage,
00:36:15.47\00:36:20.74
but, and
schooling these children,
00:36:20.78\00:36:22.94
but you're also
developing a learning center.
00:36:22.98\00:36:26.25
Tell us about
the learning center?
00:36:26.28\00:36:27.95
I assume it's on
the same five acres?
00:36:27.98\00:36:30.62
It's on the same five acres.
00:36:30.65\00:36:32.05
And our mindset
is this, is that,
00:36:32.09\00:36:34.86
for sure we're going
to try to send all of them
00:36:34.89\00:36:37.39
through college, you
know, and, but we also want to,
00:36:37.43\00:36:41.76
at least teach
each of them a trade.
00:36:41.80\00:36:44.37
Because we know that
they'll have to be able
00:36:44.40\00:36:46.10
to take care of
themselves at some point.
00:36:46.13\00:36:48.10
Amen.
00:36:48.14\00:36:49.47
So in this learning center,
if they could put the picture...
00:36:49.50\00:36:50.84
Now do we have a
picture of the learning center?
00:36:50.87\00:36:52.21
We have a picture
of the learning center.
00:36:52.24\00:36:53.58
They'll show it to us.
00:36:53.61\00:36:55.74
This learning
center, there it is there.
00:36:55.78\00:36:57.58
It has five classrooms.
00:36:57.61\00:36:59.31
Nice.
00:36:59.35\00:37:00.68
Five classrooms, cafeteria.
00:37:00.72\00:37:04.42
It also has director's
suite and things of that nature.
00:37:04.45\00:37:07.99
But this is where we're
going to teach them how to sew
00:37:08.02\00:37:12.09
because one of our
donors gave us money
00:37:12.13\00:37:15.53
to buy sewing machines.
00:37:15.56\00:37:16.90
Wonderful!
00:37:16.93\00:37:18.27
And we have a
picture of that as well.
00:37:18.30\00:37:19.63
And also we're
going to teach them
00:37:19.67\00:37:21.00
how to bake bread.
00:37:21.04\00:37:22.37
Oh, that's wonderful! Yeah.
00:37:22.40\00:37:23.74
That's
something that many people
00:37:23.77\00:37:25.11
in the community do.
00:37:25.14\00:37:26.47
You're looking now
at the sewing machine,
00:37:26.51\00:37:29.81
but many people in the community
00:37:29.84\00:37:32.71
sew to make a living.
00:37:32.75\00:37:35.18
Baking bread is also a skill.
00:37:35.22\00:37:38.62
And we have the proofers
there, and we have double ovens
00:37:38.65\00:37:42.12
and we have other
equipment that was donated
00:37:42.16\00:37:46.06
so that we can begin immediately
00:37:46.09\00:37:49.63
teaching the children how
to take care of themselves.
00:37:49.66\00:37:52.93
So when they're
baking, right now,
00:37:52.97\00:37:55.57
do they just
consume that at the school
00:37:55.60\00:37:57.84
or at the orphanage or you...
00:37:57.87\00:37:59.41
But right now
they're not baking.
00:37:59.44\00:38:00.84
Oh, okay. Yeah.
00:38:00.88\00:38:02.21
So they got to learn it.
00:38:02.24\00:38:03.81
Although we did have a director
from America who taught them,
00:38:03.85\00:38:07.42
taught the mamas
how to bake bread.
00:38:07.45\00:38:09.68
But the kids will,
will be starting learning
00:38:09.72\00:38:12.45
how to bake bread now.
00:38:12.49\00:38:13.82
Now what do you have...
00:38:13.86\00:38:15.19
How much more do you have to go
00:38:15.22\00:38:16.56
to complete the learning center?
00:38:16.59\00:38:18.69
Well, we have all the tiles,
windows and doors to complete.
00:38:18.73\00:38:22.63
The roof is on.
00:38:22.66\00:38:24.77
The actual
plastering of the walls,
00:38:24.80\00:38:26.80
and the painting and the pavers,
00:38:26.84\00:38:29.37
and things of that nature.
00:38:29.40\00:38:31.27
So the bathroom
fixtures, things like that.
00:38:31.31\00:38:34.44
All of that is yet to be done.
00:38:34.48\00:38:36.14
So is that going to be you...
00:38:36.18\00:38:37.61
I know you have an
upcoming mission trip,
00:38:37.65\00:38:41.05
is that what
you're going to be doing
00:38:41.08\00:38:42.48
in the next mission trip?
00:38:42.52\00:38:43.85
We're praying that it'll
all be done by that time.
00:38:43.89\00:38:46.29
Oh, okay.
00:38:46.32\00:38:47.66
So July, you know,
we hope that in July,
00:38:47.69\00:38:50.26
when we take a group over,
00:38:50.29\00:38:51.63
they will have
the grand opening.
00:38:51.66\00:38:52.99
How wonderful!
00:38:53.03\00:38:54.36
So individuals who
would like to come and see
00:38:54.40\00:38:55.73
the finished
product during July,
00:38:55.76\00:38:57.10
it would be
fantastic, you know, upcoming.
00:38:57.13\00:38:59.57
We have been
blessed as we get donations.
00:38:59.60\00:39:02.80
Then what we do
is, we send funds over
00:39:02.84\00:39:06.37
and the locals.
00:39:06.41\00:39:07.81
We have our contractors,
local contractors there,
00:39:07.84\00:39:11.38
and they will
work on the building
00:39:11.41\00:39:13.21
as we direct them,
00:39:13.25\00:39:15.02
plus he will go
in between himself
00:39:15.05\00:39:18.15
and give directions as to
how it should be completed.
00:39:18.19\00:39:21.99
Now surely that there is someone
00:39:22.02\00:39:24.56
that is watching right now,
00:39:24.59\00:39:25.99
whose hearts are being touched
by the children's stories
00:39:26.03\00:39:29.60
and maybe the Holy
Spirit is directing you
00:39:29.63\00:39:31.70
to help in some way.
00:39:31.73\00:39:33.87
How does
someone become a sponsor
00:39:33.90\00:39:36.34
for one of your children?
00:39:36.37\00:39:37.71
And what does it entail?
00:39:37.74\00:39:39.87
To become a sponsor,
00:39:39.91\00:39:41.94
you will have our
contact information,
00:39:41.98\00:39:44.95
and you can contact us.
00:39:44.98\00:39:46.61
We have a sponsor
coordinator who takes care.
00:39:46.65\00:39:51.65
We'll send you a
packet and give you
00:39:51.69\00:39:54.12
all the
information for sponsorship.
00:39:54.16\00:39:57.23
The blessing this year
was that many several sponsors
00:39:57.26\00:40:00.83
went on a mission trip with us.
00:40:00.86\00:40:03.00
And so it's always a
blessing when the kids,
00:40:03.03\00:40:06.43
they love having sponsors,
00:40:06.47\00:40:08.10
they love knowing
their sponsors names
00:40:08.14\00:40:10.37
and so to meet their sponsors
was such a pleasure for them
00:40:10.41\00:40:16.14
and the sponsors as well.
00:40:16.18\00:40:18.01
And they write
to sponsors letters
00:40:18.05\00:40:19.68
and they
communicate with them like that.
00:40:19.71\00:40:21.12
So it's real nice, you know.
00:40:21.15\00:40:23.22
This one lady saw
one of our young men,
00:40:23.25\00:40:26.32
his name is Simon.
00:40:26.35\00:40:27.69
She saw him actually on 3ABN.
00:40:27.72\00:40:29.52
And she's an elderly lady
00:40:29.56\00:40:30.89
and she's fallen
in love with this boy.
00:40:30.93\00:40:32.49
Oh, that's precious.
00:40:32.53\00:40:33.86
Yeah, she's fallen
in love with Simon.
00:40:33.90\00:40:35.23
She's always sending
things for him, always asking
00:40:35.26\00:40:37.60
"How Simon's
doing, how Simon doing?"
00:40:37.63\00:40:39.63
So we're praying this
year at the end of this year
00:40:39.67\00:40:43.91
that we can have a
couple of children come over,
00:40:43.94\00:40:46.84
you know, so that they
can meet their sponsors.
00:40:46.88\00:40:48.58
That's wonderful.
00:40:48.61\00:40:49.94
So that's going
to be a blessing.
00:40:49.98\00:40:51.31
Now we're gonna come back,
00:40:51.35\00:40:52.85
we'll give you some information,
00:40:52.88\00:40:54.22
how you can, 'cause
you may be interested
00:40:54.25\00:40:56.69
in going on a
mission trip with them.
00:40:56.72\00:40:58.49
You may be interested
in sponsoring a child,
00:40:58.52\00:41:00.66
and we will have an address roll
00:41:00.69\00:41:02.22
in just a moment.
00:41:02.26\00:41:03.59
But I just wanted to,
00:41:03.63\00:41:05.33
you mentioned a
couple of stories
00:41:05.36\00:41:07.10
when we were in the greenroom
00:41:07.13\00:41:09.03
that I just wanted to
kind of focus on one thing.
00:41:09.06\00:41:13.67
I know that you go
where God send you.
00:41:13.70\00:41:16.91
When Katrina hit,
you went to Houston,
00:41:16.94\00:41:20.54
and you worked, help,
00:41:20.58\00:41:21.91
relieving the church there,
you did a lot of work there.
00:41:21.94\00:41:25.05
But when you went
on one of your trips,
00:41:25.08\00:41:27.68
I believe you told me, Frazier,
00:41:27.72\00:41:29.62
that you didn't have
the funds to do the building
00:41:29.65\00:41:32.29
that you wanted to
begin and complete.
00:41:32.32\00:41:33.92
Yes.
00:41:33.96\00:41:35.29
So you did something
else with a limited funds.
00:41:35.32\00:41:37.93
Tell us about that story? Yes.
00:41:37.96\00:41:40.60
Well, we can get the
picture up there of Ali.
00:41:40.63\00:41:44.30
This particular year, we...
00:41:44.33\00:41:47.00
The building is a
10,000 square foot building
00:41:47.04\00:41:49.34
and we didn't
raise a lot of money.
00:41:49.37\00:41:51.11
So we decided to
take the mission team.
00:41:51.14\00:41:53.51
I said, "Let's
go in the community.
00:41:53.54\00:41:54.98
I asked my house
mothers and I said,
00:41:55.01\00:41:58.25
"Who would be the poorest
individuals in this community?"
00:41:58.28\00:42:00.75
But certainly doesn't
look like these people.
00:42:00.78\00:42:02.68
Yeah, well, they
gave me three names.
00:42:02.72\00:42:04.92
The first house I
went to, it had about,
00:42:04.95\00:42:07.62
maybe three
children running around,
00:42:07.66\00:42:09.79
nobody was there.
00:42:09.82\00:42:11.39
And I said, "Well, I
want to build a house.
00:42:11.43\00:42:13.03
This is what I
really want to do.
00:42:13.06\00:42:14.70
So we go to Ali's house,
and he has asthma so bad,
00:42:14.73\00:42:18.43
he can take maybe 10 or 15 steps
00:42:18.47\00:42:21.17
and he can't move anymore.
00:42:21.20\00:42:22.60
He has six children,
two of them deceased,
00:42:22.64\00:42:26.37
two of them
married, two living with him.
00:42:26.41\00:42:28.31
His wife is deceased,
living in the backyard,
00:42:28.34\00:42:31.45
grave is there in the backyard,
00:42:31.48\00:42:33.62
which is really
amazing to me, you know.
00:42:33.65\00:42:36.28
So I go there
with the mission team.
00:42:36.32\00:42:39.05
I said, "Listen, we're
going to build your house."
00:42:39.09\00:42:40.89
So I physically draw a
little diagram on the ground.
00:42:40.92\00:42:43.36
I said, "This is what
we're going to build you."
00:42:43.39\00:42:44.99
He says, "Okay, great!" So...
00:42:45.03\00:42:46.63
Now wait a minute, back up,
he was praying the day before.
00:42:46.66\00:42:50.17
Tell us what he'd been praying?
Well, here's what happened.
00:42:50.20\00:42:53.90
A couple of months
later, I go back by myself.
00:42:53.94\00:42:56.71
And he sends
word for me to come.
00:42:56.74\00:42:59.11
He says, "Tell him to come
here I need to talk to him."
00:42:59.14\00:43:00.81
I said "Okay. I go
there, the house is up."
00:43:00.84\00:43:03.45
He says, "Tell him,
you really don't know
00:43:03.48\00:43:05.28
what you've done for me."
00:43:05.31\00:43:06.65
I said, "What do you mean?"
00:43:06.68\00:43:08.02
He says, "The night
before you came" and said,
00:43:08.05\00:43:10.12
"You're going to
build me a house."
00:43:10.15\00:43:11.49
He says, "I'm on
my knees praying."
00:43:11.52\00:43:12.85
I said "Lord, where are you?
00:43:12.89\00:43:14.72
I have two
children that are dead.
00:43:14.76\00:43:16.59
My wife is dead.
00:43:16.62\00:43:18.33
And me and my children here
are struggling, where are you?"
00:43:18.36\00:43:20.80
And he says, "And that
moment, you knocked that morning
00:43:20.83\00:43:23.60
rather, you knocked
on my door and says,
00:43:23.63\00:43:25.37
'We're going to
build your house."'
00:43:25.40\00:43:27.10
I mean to me it was
amazing, letting me know that,
00:43:27.14\00:43:29.50
you know, God really
hears you when you pray.
00:43:29.54\00:43:32.31
Now you brought a
picture of the house
00:43:32.34\00:43:33.78
that the way it
looked when you first met him
00:43:33.81\00:43:36.81
and had the chicken
coops and everything.
00:43:36.85\00:43:38.28
Don't you have that?
No, we don't have that one.
00:43:38.31\00:43:39.98
Oh, you don't have that picture.
00:43:40.02\00:43:41.65
Oh! No, we got the finish house.
00:43:41.68\00:43:43.25
Oh, it's amazing because I
got to see that I guess online,
00:43:43.28\00:43:46.89
but he was living in this
little dump that you could see
00:43:46.92\00:43:51.33
the sky coming through the roof,
00:43:51.36\00:43:54.46
and it was this little shack,
00:43:54.50\00:43:56.26
and then there was these
shaky little chicken coops.
00:43:56.30\00:44:00.00
And so what you did
was you told them that
00:44:00.04\00:44:03.34
they'd live in the house.
00:44:03.37\00:44:04.87
He'd stay, and you did
knock down his shed house.
00:44:04.91\00:44:09.01
You just took
out the chicken coops
00:44:09.04\00:44:10.61
and that's where you built.
00:44:10.65\00:44:12.15
And here's this
man that has nothing.
00:44:12.18\00:44:14.68
And now let's look at the...
00:44:14.72\00:44:16.79
And asthma so bad that
your doctors had to make sure
00:44:16.82\00:44:19.95
to treat him for
that, didn't they?
00:44:19.99\00:44:21.52
Let's look at the
completed picture now.
00:44:21.56\00:44:23.93
What, he looks so happy
00:44:23.96\00:44:26.09
in front of his
new brick home here.
00:44:26.13\00:44:28.36
It's just precious.
00:44:28.40\00:44:30.07
They're going to
show it again. Yes.
00:44:30.10\00:44:31.83
Yeah, you can
bring that picture.
00:44:31.87\00:44:33.20
Yeah, there we go.
00:44:33.23\00:44:35.40
The other thing
about Ali is, now,
00:44:35.44\00:44:38.61
when we come to
town, we're like stars.
00:44:38.64\00:44:41.54
Oh, sure. He's
so happy to see us.
00:44:41.58\00:44:43.88
As a matter of fact,
on his door, he said,
00:44:43.91\00:44:46.11
"Everyone welcome,
especially Havilah."
00:44:46.15\00:44:48.88
Oh, how precious!
00:44:48.92\00:44:50.65
And now we take care,
which we do for several people.
00:44:50.69\00:44:54.39
If anyone comes
to us, we try to,
00:44:54.42\00:44:56.49
we take a physician with us.
00:44:56.52\00:44:58.76
We try to help take
care of their medical needs.
00:44:58.79\00:45:01.13
And so we buy
his medicine for him.
00:45:01.16\00:45:03.87
We buy his medical card
and... Which is like insurance.
00:45:03.90\00:45:07.30
Which is like insurance. Okay.
00:45:07.34\00:45:09.34
And we're trying to keep
him and his children going.
00:45:09.37\00:45:13.07
So he went from
being the poorest person
00:45:13.11\00:45:16.71
in the village to probably
having one of the better homes.
00:45:16.75\00:45:19.25
Yeah, I mean,
children going to school.
00:45:19.28\00:45:20.75
He has the best
house on the plot.
00:45:20.78\00:45:22.45
And his daughter became popular.
00:45:22.48\00:45:24.65
She was not popular before
00:45:24.69\00:45:26.72
because all the kids from school
00:45:26.76\00:45:28.09
would come and watch building.
00:45:28.12\00:45:30.13
The building going on
00:45:30.16\00:45:31.63
and his daughter became popular.
00:45:31.66\00:45:33.60
And that's what we try to do.
00:45:33.63\00:45:34.96
We try to be a blessing. Okay.
00:45:35.00\00:45:37.43
So when we go,
each trip that we go on,
00:45:37.47\00:45:40.84
we basically go to the
market, and we buy 25 pound bags
00:45:40.87\00:45:44.41
of rice, and sugar, and soap.
00:45:44.44\00:45:47.34
And then we get Ziploc
bags, and have our children,
00:45:47.38\00:45:50.08
orphaned children
put them in the bags
00:45:50.11\00:45:52.18
and then we take clothing.
00:45:52.21\00:45:53.78
Because I tell my
kids, I said, "Listen,
00:45:53.82\00:45:55.45
whatever clothes
you're not wearing
00:45:55.48\00:45:57.09
and you no longer
want, bring them to us."
00:45:57.12\00:45:59.92
So they gather the clothes,
00:45:59.95\00:46:01.92
and then we have the Ziploc bags
00:46:01.96\00:46:03.39
with all the food in
and we go in the community.
00:46:03.43\00:46:06.39
And this is the orphans
who were passing this out.
00:46:06.43\00:46:08.50
Orphans are passing it out,
because we want them to say,
00:46:08.53\00:46:11.53
we try to get them to understand
00:46:11.57\00:46:12.90
just because you are an
orphan, that does not mean that
00:46:12.93\00:46:14.70
you can't help.
00:46:14.74\00:46:16.07
Yes. So here we are.
00:46:16.10\00:46:17.44
One day we're
passing out everything,
00:46:17.47\00:46:19.14
the food, passing out clothing,
00:46:19.17\00:46:21.61
and we're coming
back to the orphanage,
00:46:21.64\00:46:23.08
everybody singing, we're
happy, the kids are happy.
00:46:23.11\00:46:26.25
And I look at my rearview mirror
00:46:26.28\00:46:27.62
and I see this little bitty
kid running, running, running
00:46:27.65\00:46:29.78
trying to catch up with us.
00:46:29.82\00:46:31.22
So I stopped, and
I stop and I said,
00:46:31.25\00:46:34.22
"Hey, how're you doing?"
00:46:34.26\00:46:35.59
He says, "Do you
have anything else?"
00:46:35.62\00:46:37.03
I said "Oh, man. No,
we don't have anything.
00:46:37.06\00:46:39.46
We've given out all
the food, all the clothes,
00:46:39.49\00:46:41.43
we have nothing left."
00:46:41.46\00:46:42.93
My little five year old
Simon pulls off his shirt,
00:46:42.96\00:46:46.63
and gives it to the little boy.
00:46:46.67\00:46:48.00
How precious!
00:46:48.04\00:46:49.37
I lost it. Yeah.
00:46:49.40\00:46:50.94
Because now I
understand that they understand.
00:46:50.97\00:46:53.07
Amen.
00:46:53.11\00:46:54.44
They understand that it's
not how much you accumulate,
00:46:54.48\00:46:56.68
but how much you give
away that really matters.
00:46:56.71\00:46:58.15
Amen.
00:46:58.18\00:46:59.51
So that is something
we do every trip we go.
00:46:59.55\00:47:01.78
We make sure
that they participate
00:47:01.82\00:47:03.15
in giving back.
00:47:03.18\00:47:04.52
Now at that
time, you had the van
00:47:04.55\00:47:06.96
that was costing you one
arm and a leg to operate.
00:47:06.99\00:47:10.69
Right now though, that
van has given up the ghost.
00:47:10.73\00:47:14.40
That's all you can say.
It's given up the ghost.
00:47:14.43\00:47:17.17
So you're actually looking
for funds to purchase a vehicle.
00:47:17.20\00:47:21.04
Yeah. Is that right?
00:47:21.07\00:47:22.40
We need a vehicle to take
them to church and, you know,
00:47:22.44\00:47:25.01
take them on
Halloweens, take them to school,
00:47:25.04\00:47:27.34
because the one we had,
it was just, it's fringed.
00:47:27.38\00:47:30.41
It did well. It was too costly.
00:47:30.45\00:47:32.11
It did well, but after a while,
00:47:32.15\00:47:33.48
you just have to
let it go, you know.
00:47:33.52\00:47:35.12
And so when they
have to go to school,
00:47:35.15\00:47:36.99
when they have to be taken
to school by the directors,
00:47:37.02\00:47:40.39
they all pile in the car,
00:47:40.42\00:47:42.82
14 of them, and
it's a small car.
00:47:42.86\00:47:45.66
And they're in
the trunk of the car,
00:47:45.69\00:47:47.93
and they're
probably on like roof.
00:47:47.96\00:47:49.63
Like the clown acting.
00:47:49.66\00:47:51.00
Right, exactly, exactly. They...
00:47:51.03\00:47:52.83
But they get there,
but... That's amazing.
00:47:52.87\00:47:55.27
And we have sent them,
00:47:55.30\00:47:56.71
we try to send them to
the best Christian school
00:47:56.74\00:48:01.28
and where they're learning
about Jesus and being taught.
00:48:01.31\00:48:08.02
The pastors there are Adventist.
00:48:08.05\00:48:11.72
But it's not close,
00:48:11.75\00:48:13.62
the school is not as
close as we'd like it to be,
00:48:13.66\00:48:16.69
but we want them to
have the best advantage
00:48:16.73\00:48:19.56
that they can have
when they leave Havilah.
00:48:19.59\00:48:21.26
I know they have...
00:48:21.30\00:48:22.63
I know you have
four children, but these,
00:48:22.66\00:48:24.27
now you've got a
whole bunch more children.
00:48:24.30\00:48:26.43
These are our children. Yeah.
00:48:26.47\00:48:27.80
They're your
babies. They're our babies.
00:48:27.84\00:48:29.40
Well, you know I just, I
believe with all my heart
00:48:29.44\00:48:32.27
that some of you who
are watching are saying,
00:48:32.31\00:48:35.74
"How can I help this ministry?"
00:48:35.78\00:48:38.61
Perhaps you would
like to sponsor a child
00:48:38.65\00:48:40.82
or maybe you'd like to donate
toward the purchase of a van
00:48:40.85\00:48:44.95
so that they can
be transported safely
00:48:44.99\00:48:48.72
to these school and
church and all these events,
00:48:48.76\00:48:51.79
or maybe you
want to go with them
00:48:51.83\00:48:55.66
on the next mission trip.
00:48:55.70\00:48:57.50
And I have to say, if
you have young children,
00:48:57.53\00:49:02.67
youth, who are just, they
just don't seem to get it,
00:49:02.70\00:49:07.08
that they feel like, you know,
00:49:07.11\00:49:08.51
you feel like they're
not interested in church,
00:49:08.54\00:49:11.01
take your kids on a mission trip
00:49:11.05\00:49:14.12
and watch what God will do.
00:49:14.15\00:49:16.28
I see it all the time
where young people's lives
00:49:16.32\00:49:20.02
are turned around
when they go off and see,
00:49:20.06\00:49:23.29
because first it
makes you appreciate
00:49:23.32\00:49:25.23
how much you've got
00:49:25.26\00:49:26.73
but secondly, when
you can actually be used
00:49:26.76\00:49:29.86
by God in the field.
00:49:29.90\00:49:31.70
It, you can't
help, as you all say
00:49:31.73\00:49:33.97
your motto is blessing
others, you get a blessing.
00:49:34.00\00:49:39.07
So it's bless
and be blessed. Yeah.
00:49:39.11\00:49:41.54
Here's how you can get
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00:49:50.35\00:49:54.66
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00:49:54.69\00:49:57.53
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00:49:57.56\00:50:00.66
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I am sure that you might be
interested in this information.
00:50:30.53\00:50:33.66
When is the next or
what is your next project?
00:50:33.70\00:50:37.63
Well, we're going
to the west coast.
00:50:37.67\00:50:39.37
We're on the east coast
now, going to the west coast
00:50:39.40\00:50:41.17
and we're gonna
do a high school.
00:50:41.20\00:50:42.54
East coast of what?
East coast of Africa.
00:50:42.57\00:50:45.74
So can you say
you're going... Abidjan.
00:50:45.77\00:50:47.34
We'll be in
Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
00:50:47.38\00:50:49.31
Ivory Coast.
00:50:49.34\00:50:50.68
On the west coast of Africa.
That's where we're gonna go.
00:50:50.71\00:50:52.81
And what are you gonna
do? We build high school.
00:50:52.85\00:50:55.08
A high school? A high school.
00:50:55.12\00:50:56.55
Yes, they asked us to
come and do a high school.
00:50:56.58\00:50:59.59
So is this an Adventist
school? Adventist school.
00:50:59.62\00:51:02.42
They've been praying for
this for many, many years.
00:51:02.46\00:51:05.59
As a matter of fact,
they've actually started
00:51:05.63\00:51:08.53
for the last 15 years,
and they have a section
00:51:08.56\00:51:11.03
maybe 20 feet by 20 feet.
00:51:11.07\00:51:13.77
But they're determined to do it.
00:51:13.80\00:51:15.14
I mean, when I went
there, I was just saying
00:51:15.17\00:51:16.94
"Lord, I got to
help these people."
00:51:16.97\00:51:18.74
We got to help because
they trust God to get it done.
00:51:18.77\00:51:22.18
So we're gonna go and try
to help them to get it done.
00:51:22.21\00:51:24.55
And the other
thing is very important,
00:51:24.58\00:51:26.72
that is life changing.
00:51:26.75\00:51:28.22
So if you want to go with
us, especially young people.
00:51:28.25\00:51:30.42
One story, mother
called me on the phone
00:51:30.45\00:51:32.69
after the mission trip,
"What did you do to my son?
00:51:32.72\00:51:35.02
What did you do to him?"
00:51:35.06\00:51:36.39
I said, "What's
the matter? Calm down.
00:51:36.42\00:51:37.76
Well, now he's
turning off the light.
00:51:37.79\00:51:39.23
He's telling us we're
wasting too much food.
00:51:39.26\00:51:40.83
He knows when he
wants to be in college.
00:51:40.86\00:51:42.66
He's a totally
different person."
00:51:42.70\00:51:44.53
I said, "Yes, because he
saw individuals of his age
00:51:44.57\00:51:48.10
who had absolutely nothing
and they were praising God."
00:51:48.14\00:51:51.57
So it
recalibrates their thinking.
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And so that's
why it's so exciting
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to take young people.
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In this particular trip
to the west coast, Abidjan,
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will be an
excellent one for someone
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to take their
young people with us.
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And, can remind us
again of your web address.
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GlobalVessels.org.
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So they can go
to GlobalVessels.org
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and you can get
information on this next trip
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if you want to
take you and your youth
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to the Ivory Coast and
help build a high school.
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Well, we are going to
take just a short break,
00:52:20.34\00:52:23.34
so that we can hear
what's the latest thing
00:52:23.37\00:52:26.04
happening at 3ABN
00:52:26.07\00:52:27.78
and then we'll be back
with a closing thought.
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