I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, and welcome to
another 3ABN today program.
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Thank you for joining us.
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This is gonna be
a great day, Yvonne.
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It is. You know, why?
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We've already been having fun
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and we've not even
been on camera yet, right?
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I know. I know.
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And this is gonna
be a great program.
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Again, thank you for joining us.
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Thank you for
your love and prayers
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and financial support of 3ABN,
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so that we can continue to take
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this great gospel of the kingdom
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into all over the world.
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And today, it's
just, it's a thrill
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for all of us here
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and we'll introduce
everybody here in a bit.
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But to celebrate, we recently
came back from Nizhny Novgorod,
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Russia, where we celebrated
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the 25th
anniversary of 3ABN, Russia.
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That's amazing.
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First of all I can't
imagine it's been 25 years
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and it seems impossible.
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Some of you know, older folk
know what I'm talking about,
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you look back 25 years.
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But it's amazing what
God has wrought in Russia,
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the thousands and thousands
of souls that have come to know
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the Lord Jesus
Christ through the ministry.
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Julia Outkina and the
rest of the 3ABN team there.
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And so let's introduce.
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Why don't we
introduce our family today?
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It's not guests, we're family.
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Absolutely. All right.
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But, you know, my brain
always freezes when I do.
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No, it won't with these folks.
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You ever had that
just brain freeze to...
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Greg and Jill and Tim and...
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Yeah, okay, okay, good.
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Okay, so to
your immediate right,
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we have Greg Morikone,
who is our Vice-President
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and he's the Director
of Programming Production.
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Yeah, production, and you know
we work with a wonderful team.
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Yes. It's fantastic.
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It really is and it's
fun, we enjoy production.
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And it's such a...
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It's so great like,
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Greg's office is
right across from mine.
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Well, and Jill and
she's right next door
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and so I get to kind of peek out
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or yell out or
whatever, it's great.
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It's nice to know and it is need
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because we're
part of the family.
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And, you know, people don't...
I mean, they see it on set,
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but we really do
get along together.
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Amen.
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Yeah, we do, we do, for sure.
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And then we have
his lovely wife Jill,
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who is the
Corporate Secretary for 3ABN
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and doing an
amazing job as well.
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Absolutely.
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And I mean, they're,
they are here like...
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I came in...
Round the clock almost.
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This weekend, on Monday morning
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and there were 50
beautiful letters written.
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So when you read those letters,
you know, they didn't...
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I don't speak that well.
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So, you know, that
Jill actually wrote them
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that 50 over the weekend
and then taken Sabbath off.
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I didn't give her
much time for herself.
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So you all gonna
need to take a vacation
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because you work too hard.
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So I told them that before.
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I said you work too hard.
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Instead of taking
30 minutes for lunch,
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I want you once in a
while take 45 minutes."
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Oh!
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We have the best boss.
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Isn't that wonderful?
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I want to give you
plenty of time to rest and...
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Can we have that today?
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Well, not today, but
maybe in a month or two.
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Not today, okay.
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Maybe the beginning of the year,
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hope you'll start that.
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But that's once a week or
once a month you get an extra.
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So we want to make
sure they're rested.
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But then we have
Brother Tim Parton.
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And Tim, thank you for
what you do for the cause of God
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and General Manager
of Praise Him, right?
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Praise Him Channel. Yes.
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Music, New Music Channel. Yes.
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That's coming
along, I think beautifully
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and recording
more and more programs.
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You're trying to get a,
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you know, get a
bank full of them
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so that we can
come out with a blast.
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Yes, yes. Right?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And so I appreciate you.
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And, of course, then
we have Bradley Walker
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and we have Rodney Laney.
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Now, you two guys
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are 99.9% always in
the control rooms, right?
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Directing, you know,
editing, you're on the traveling
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and behind the scenes.
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But these guys have been here.
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You joined us,
about how old were you?
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About what year,
whichever you want to say,
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did you all come to?
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I started in '92.
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'92? Wow!
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Okay, and you
can tell by his face,
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he was a baby in '92.
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So, and Bradley?
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I started in '90.
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'90?
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So if you think about that,
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all those years, that's amazing.
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You were teenagers
when you first came, right?
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Both of you in here, and
now they're main directors.
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And without these two,
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3ABN would not
look what you see today.
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That is correct.
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They have, and I'm just gonna,
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'cause, I don't know if
I've told you guys recently
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but I'm just gonna
brag about you right now.
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They have...
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Well, remember not
too much in my honoree.
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Oh, my God. So
keep it kind of...
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Keep it on the
professional level.
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Okay, good.
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So they are
wonderful to work with
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because they are both
creative and competent.
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So it's not just, you
know, loose creativity
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and they don't
know what to do with it.
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They know how to
harness it by the grace of God
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and then they have such an eye.
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They have such high standards.
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They don't just let things go.
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I mean, I'm just so thankful
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to have you guys
here as directors
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and to have worked with you.
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And I need to say that publicly
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because I don't know
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if I've had the
chance to do that
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to acknowledge
what you do publicly.
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They do an outstanding job.
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I mean, all kinds of,
you know, opens and video
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and then like when we did
"Unclean Spirits, Unplugged,"
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I mean, they were just,
they were just excellent.
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So I really
appreciate all of you guys.
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Absolutely, so
it's good to get you
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in front of the
camera once in a while.
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And then you can see how we feel
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when we're in
front of the camera,
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the camera is looking me.
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And Brad's
shaking his head like.
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If I can confess,
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we were planning for
the program, you know.
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And said, oh, we all
went to Russia together
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so we should do this program.
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And so I asked Brad and said,
"How would you do the program?"
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And he's like, "You know, Jill,
I just never do programming
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and I don't get in
front of the camera,
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people have tried for years."
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And then Greg, all of
a sudden, he talks to him
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and then all of a sudden
Brad's on the programming.
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And I thought, now,
how did that just happened?
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How did he do that?
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Brad said, "Well, Jill
asked me and Greg told me."
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Okay, that made a difference.
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We're not gonna
get into Rodney's deal,
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but we're glad that you're here.
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And it makes sense
that they come back
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because when we very
first went to Russia in '92,
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in May of 1992,
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and we taped with
the Carter Report.
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Elder John Carter had
asked us to go to Russia.
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And you guys were part
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of the
production team back then.
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So I know you were
around what, 20 years old,
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somewhere in that area,
give or take a year or two.
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But they were there.
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And I hadn't realized
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'cause I'd been back
like 20 times over the years.
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But you hadn't really been
back since we first started
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and you saw the beginnings.
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So we want to
talk a little bit about
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and we're going to
hear in a few moments
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about your
feelings of what you see now
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and about the
production that's going on.
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And you all had time
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and I don't
always have that time
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when you were there.
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But Greg and Jill and you guys,
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you were able to spend time
with their production people,
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you and some of their managers
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and you know, traveling to
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and talking to different people
to get the feel of 3ABN Russia.
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But we wanna... I
think we should start off.
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Maybe we'll have
some, a little video footage
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and some
pictures here and there.
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But, talking
about your impressions,
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first of all you go to...
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You've never
been to Moscow, Tim?
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Right. And Greg and Jill?
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Never been.
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And you guys have been,
but it had been a long time.
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What was your
impression when you land,
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of course, it's
beautiful airport now,
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when you went before it wasn't,
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but a beautiful airport
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and then you go to Red Square.
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What does that do to you?
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Well, personally,
I mean, there was,
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you know, so much history.
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But I really
wish that I had seen
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what you guys had
seen 25 years ago.
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Just to be...
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for the difference to see
the comparison of what the way,
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because it's very modern, very,
you know, the conveniences.
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There's McDonald's and Cinnabar
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and, you know, things
that we're used to here.
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But when you go to Red
Square there's nothing like it?
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No. Absolutely.
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Of course, the
architecture and the...
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It was cold.
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I know that, but...
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It was cold. But it was...
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Yeah, it was just remarkable.
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And you know, places...
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I've been to a lot of places
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and so places don't impress
me as much as the people do.
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And unfortunately
I don't always get
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a lot of time to
spend with people.
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But in this case being there
and that's like when we went
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to London and
Honduras and to Russia,
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getting to be with the
people, that is just...
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that is what, that's what
endears me to where we go.
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So thank you for
the opportunities,
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I'll have to say that.
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Right. You guys
do... to Red Square.
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It was amazing
actually to get...
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Yeah, I mean, you know,
Moscow is a very modern city.
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You know, and again I don't have
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the comparison of 25 years ago.
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But when you're
there in Red Square,
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it's very rich with history.
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And to think about the
people that has suffered too,
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you know, 'cause
with that history
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there's a lot of
suffering, a lot of that too.
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And so, you know,
yeah, it was just phenomenal.
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And then right past
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the Saint Basil's
Cathedral is the bridge.
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And that was amazing to me,
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where Julia's brother is
unfortunately assassinated.
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And yeah, yeah.
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Boris Nemtsov.
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Yeah, it was an
amazing experience to be there
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and then to travel of course
by bus to Nizhny Novgorod,
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it's amazing to see.
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For Yvonne and, and I
think I can speak for both of us
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from our age group.
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When I first
went to Russia in 92,
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I had seen all my life.
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I grew up during the Cold War
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and I remember
seeing on television,
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Red Square with
hundreds of tanks
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and with soldiers marching
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as this could be a
nuclear war any time
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and like it's not a
place you ever dream,
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you would ever set foot in.
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And then even in the
'80s, and then all of a sudden
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between '90, '91,
everything happened.
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And then three years later,
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you know, it wasn't only
two or three years before that
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when Reagan was
saying, Mr. Gorbachev,
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you know, tear down, you
know, basically for Germany
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and for the Iron
Curtain, we call it,
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basically saying tear that down.
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And then to
actually see it happen
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and to be over there,
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so always every time I'm there,
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I'm amazed and
studying with Lenin
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and we didn't get to
Honor Lenin's tomb this time,
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but I've been
down there to see it.
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So the history of
Russia is incredible.
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But to realize 73
years of communism,
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where you couldn't
speak the name of Jesus,
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no Bibles were allowed
and people would have to write
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Bibles by hand and hide
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and many people
were sent to Siberia
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and many were executed
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because they just
wanted to have a Bible
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or were caught
printing or reading a Bible
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or even those things.
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So for us to go today,
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now let's go
forward a little bit,
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we get on a bus and we
go about six hours or so,
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you get out in front
of the 3ABN center there.
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Let me hear your
impressions, Brad Rodney.
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Well, that was the first time
we've been to that facility.
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So we hadn't
actually seen it in person.
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So everything we
had seen was video.
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And you couldn't...
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I don't think there's
any video or any pictures
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that could give
you the true scale
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of what this place is.
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You know, I was totally blown
away by the size, first off
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and then just, how they utilize
every single bit of space
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that's in there
for the community,
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for conference offices for,
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you know, for the
production center.
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But, you know, there's
not one little bit of space
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that's not being used for
something important, you know.
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Yeah, few hundred
square feet that's it all lies.
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And it's just
unbelievable the amount.
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Like, we would get lost
walking through there talking...
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Oh, yeah.
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We turn this way,
they would turn that way.
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Yeah. And you all
didn't even go in.
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There's a full basement
under, near all that too.
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You really get lost
down there for sure.
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We did get lost one time.
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We, it was late one
night after the service
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and we had to go pack the
cameras and the computer up
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and our driver was
waiting on this downstairs.
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So me and Rodney ran up to
the office to grab our computer
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and we come back, we're
like left, right, which way.
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So we just kind of
calling Jill and Greg.
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You guys were in here somewhere.
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We can't get out, yeah.
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You can help us,
help us, find a way out.
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But, Tim, your first impression.
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You see the center
and it was all lit up,
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we were there at night.
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It was so, so, such a
commercial looking place.
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You know, there wasn't...
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And so to see it
is, it's amazing,
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but then to hear
how it all happened
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and to hear the
minimal equipment that they had
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and the minimal manpower,
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you know, it
was just the vision.
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You begin to see
all of it come together
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and then you're
looking at this and you think,
00:14:21.36\00:14:24.46
"Oh, this had to be God."
00:14:24.49\00:14:26.13
And truly, you know, without
even over spiritualizing it,
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it truly had to be
God, it's just amazing.
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And, so later I
will talk more about,
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you know, the vision that you,
that you had in that happening.
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But, you know, I want a...
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I'd like to build a tiny house
and I can't even picture that.
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And to see this
massive structure,
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three storey's and...
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Six storey's in the back.
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Yeah. It was, it was...
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I was speechless, I really was.
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And then, half the
time I couldn't see it
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'cause I had tears in my eyes.
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So it was amazing.
00:15:03.70\00:15:05.30
Yvonne, you were
there five years ago,
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but even what you saw now?
00:15:07.77\00:15:09.64
Yeah.
00:15:09.67\00:15:11.57
Each time, the two
times that I've been,
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have been just such a
spiritual experience for me.
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Because you see the building
and the building has just been,
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they've just
maximized everything.
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And then the people,
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even though we don't
speak the same language,
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we do, because we have the Lord.
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And so that bridge is everything
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and so their
kindness and their warmth
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and their generosity
and their hospitality,
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I mean, it just
makes you feel like, wow.
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These are our
sisters and brothers
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who, even though right here,
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we don't speak
the same language.
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We are all
under the same family.
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And so it was
just, it was beautiful.
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And we had a
meeting in one of the rooms
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and we got to share.
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And, I mean, even though
poor Julia was translating,
00:16:01.06\00:16:05.19
you know, I mean, just
every second, it was just...
00:16:05.23\00:16:09.76
to me it was just such a
beautiful time in the Lord
00:16:09.80\00:16:12.73
and you could just sense
00:16:12.77\00:16:14.10
the presence of
God in that room.
00:16:14.14\00:16:15.94
And so that, that facility
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which is the
largest Protestant facility
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in the X-Soviet Union.
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That's what I'm told.
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That is...
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It's just so amazing to me
that God used you to do that.
00:16:27.45\00:16:32.05
And I'm so proud
that you were obedient
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and you followed
what God told you to do.
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And that is the proof,
00:16:37.96\00:16:39.79
that is the fruit that has
been born as a result of that.
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Well, there was a need
after we went without a Carter
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that baptized 2,532 people.
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And so you had,
00:16:48.67\00:16:50.01
I think 27
ministers baptizing for hours
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and then in the next week,
they'd be more to get through
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that many people in
the cold Volga River.
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Oh!
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You know, it's amazing
'cause it was like May,
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but it was cold there in May.
00:17:01.48\00:17:03.05
And yet these people
went in that cold water
00:17:03.08\00:17:05.12
but come out smiling
and praising the Lord.
00:17:05.15\00:17:07.69
So then when we met
with the conference leaders,
00:17:07.72\00:17:10.39
they said, "We
only have one church
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in this huge city of
three and a half million.
00:17:12.39\00:17:14.86
It only holds 200 people.
00:17:14.90\00:17:16.46
What are we gonna
do? You have to help us."
00:17:16.50\00:17:18.63
So that's when we met
00:17:18.67\00:17:20.10
with the leadership and decided.
00:17:20.14\00:17:22.04
So I said, "Let's see, if
we can find some property,"
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because for the first
time in 70 some years,
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because Julia Outkina's brother,
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Boris Nemtsov was the Governor,
he is very democratic young
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33-year-old,
34-year-old governor,
00:17:34.15\00:17:36.35
said, "We're gonna open
this up to foreign businesses."
00:17:36.38\00:17:38.99
Never that happened before.
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So we actually
could buy property.
00:17:40.56\00:17:43.02
So I said to him basal story,
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I was the president and
vice president, Alexander.
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And I said, "Well, you
guys, let's find something."
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And we were there several days.
00:17:52.37\00:17:53.70
I said, "See if there's
anything that's already built
00:17:53.74\00:17:55.90
or property or
something we could purchase."
00:17:55.94\00:17:58.97
And so they came and got
me and sometimes without,
00:17:59.01\00:18:02.28
if Julia wasn't there, we have
a real hard time communicating,
00:18:02.31\00:18:05.38
but they wanted to
show me the facility,
00:18:05.41\00:18:07.15
so we were driving.
00:18:07.18\00:18:08.82
And I hadn't
realized that till this trip,
00:18:08.85\00:18:11.49
when Julie explained to me.
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I thought they
took me to the building,
00:18:13.19\00:18:14.79
but when we were driving along,
there had been a lot of rain
00:18:14.82\00:18:17.66
and the car flooded
because it literally,
00:18:17.69\00:18:19.86
the streets were
overflowing and so it stopped
00:18:19.89\00:18:22.43
and we got out of
the car and walked up.
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And behind a lot of trees,
there was some old building
00:18:24.67\00:18:28.84
that looked like, at that
time, it's 20 some years ago
00:18:28.87\00:18:31.84
it had been started
00:18:31.87\00:18:33.21
but it had not been
finished by a long shot,
00:18:33.24\00:18:35.61
but it was just covered by
all its growth and brushes.
00:18:35.64\00:18:38.81
So we started looking around
and looked in the basement
00:18:38.85\00:18:41.25
and I saw big holes,
00:18:41.28\00:18:42.88
they were pumping
water out of there.
00:18:42.92\00:18:44.99
It must have had five, six
feet of water in this basement
00:18:45.02\00:18:48.22
and yet, it was looked like
00:18:48.26\00:18:49.59
an abandoned bombed-out shelter.
00:18:49.62\00:18:52.56
And so that's
the place we bought.
00:18:52.59\00:18:54.16
I thought they took me
there to show me the place
00:18:54.20\00:18:56.80
and they told me,
"No, our car stalled."
00:18:56.83\00:18:58.93
And so when we got
out, we saw this place.
00:18:58.97\00:19:01.74
So we checked into that
and that's what we bought.
00:19:01.77\00:19:04.34
And so I think
$150,000... Phenomenal.
00:19:04.37\00:19:07.91
And we put a lot of
money in it after that,
00:19:07.94\00:19:10.28
but at the time, the ruble
was 7,000 rubles per dollar.
00:19:10.31\00:19:14.65
And what was it,
when we were there?
00:19:14.68\00:19:16.02
58? 58.
00:19:16.05\00:19:17.75
So a lot of difference,
our money went so much farther.
00:19:17.79\00:19:20.99
So thanks to our
viewers and supporters of 3ABN.
00:19:21.02\00:19:23.79
Thank you for what you
do for the cause of God
00:19:23.83\00:19:26.46
because without you,
this couldn't have happened.
00:19:26.49\00:19:29.40
So when we go over
there, it wasn't anything,
00:19:29.43\00:19:32.50
in other words we just
took it one step at a time
00:19:32.53\00:19:35.24
and the Lord showed me
00:19:35.27\00:19:36.60
Julia Outkina was the
person we could trust,
00:19:36.64\00:19:39.47
to put in
charge, then I came home
00:19:39.51\00:19:41.78
and called John Cantor,
my cousin's husband John,
00:19:41.81\00:19:44.91
I knew he was in the
building business, construction.
00:19:44.95\00:19:48.92
Took some
convincing, I told him.
00:19:48.95\00:19:50.75
He said, "Well, how
long would you need me?"
00:19:50.79\00:19:52.12
I said, if you'd
just go for three months,
00:19:52.15\00:19:54.29
that three
months was four years,
00:19:54.32\00:19:56.29
so of his life,
00:19:56.32\00:19:57.73
but John passed
away few years ago
00:19:57.76\00:20:00.96
and I was able to
talk to him, literally,
00:20:01.00\00:20:03.06
maybe minutes or an
hour before he died.
00:20:03.10\00:20:05.60
I was in Australia and
he wasn't able to say much,
00:20:05.63\00:20:08.90
but his brother said,
when I mentioned Russia,
00:20:08.94\00:20:11.17
he smiled, his eyes were shut.
00:20:11.21\00:20:13.94
And his wife Janice has
said before and we all knew it,
00:20:13.98\00:20:17.18
he said, "This
was why I was created.
00:20:17.21\00:20:18.85
This was...
00:20:18.88\00:20:20.22
In my life,
00:20:20.25\00:20:21.58
this is all the
things I've done."
00:20:21.62\00:20:22.95
He was a school teacher,
00:20:22.98\00:20:24.32
church school
teacher, a builder,
00:20:24.35\00:20:25.69
nothing Russia was
what I was born to do
00:20:25.72\00:20:29.42
and I believe it.
00:20:29.46\00:20:30.79
So his touch is
what you guys see,
00:20:30.83\00:20:33.40
all that build in second floor
00:20:33.43\00:20:35.03
'cause a lot of
that was just two storey.
00:20:35.06\00:20:37.03
He built the third floors on it.
00:20:37.07\00:20:38.83
He did so much of
the building in it.
00:20:38.87\00:20:40.84
He designed everything,
working with local architects.
00:20:40.87\00:20:44.07
And so to see that
facility, how it got done?
00:20:44.11\00:20:47.31
We just did it
one bite at a time.
00:20:47.34\00:20:49.64
Viewers would send money
00:20:49.68\00:20:51.01
and we would send it every month
00:20:51.05\00:20:52.38
and somehow it all got paid for.
00:20:52.41\00:20:54.62
And it was only
through you and the Lord.
00:20:54.65\00:20:56.52
So thank you so much for that.
00:20:56.55\00:20:59.45
I want to talk some
about the people there.
00:20:59.49\00:21:03.32
And Tim, you want to
talk some about that too.
00:21:03.36\00:21:06.09
You met the people.
00:21:06.13\00:21:07.50
I don't think any of us
00:21:07.53\00:21:09.06
were at some point were dry eyed
00:21:09.10\00:21:11.90
when we saw all the
people and when we met them.
00:21:11.93\00:21:13.77
First of all
when they greeted us,
00:21:13.80\00:21:15.67
tell us about, Tim,
the greeting with them.
00:21:15.70\00:21:17.67
You're a musician.
00:21:17.71\00:21:19.04
Yeah, they did a traditional
00:21:19.07\00:21:21.14
Russian greeting with
the salt and the bread.
00:21:21.18\00:21:23.21
And they had a little pit band
over in the corner with those.
00:21:23.24\00:21:27.48
I don't even know
00:21:27.52\00:21:28.85
what the
instruments they were playing
00:21:28.88\00:21:30.22
but they were, it was
just they were in the costumes
00:21:30.25\00:21:33.79
and it was just...
00:21:33.82\00:21:36.89
The fact that they
cared, you know, they...
00:21:36.93\00:21:39.46
It was a little
dance, culture dance.
00:21:39.49\00:21:40.83
Yeah, the dance, right.
00:21:40.86\00:21:42.36
Everything was just...
00:21:42.40\00:21:43.97
It was just from the heart.
00:21:44.00\00:21:45.90
And I'm thinking,
00:21:45.93\00:21:47.30
you know, I had seen Julia
00:21:47.34\00:21:50.74
and I guess a couple
of the other gentleman,
00:21:50.77\00:21:54.64
Alexi, at the camp
meeting, they had been here.
00:21:54.68\00:21:58.01
And I was thinking,
00:21:58.05\00:21:59.65
"What did I do
special to go out of my way
00:21:59.68\00:22:02.05
to make them feel welcome?"
00:22:02.08\00:22:03.79
Oh, wow.
00:22:03.82\00:22:05.15
And I don't
remember doing anything.
00:22:05.19\00:22:07.06
I didn't even say
howdy or anything like
00:22:07.09\00:22:10.16
you might say down in the South.
00:22:10.19\00:22:12.06
So my southern
hospitality really got a lesson
00:22:12.09\00:22:15.43
when I went over there
00:22:15.46\00:22:16.80
just because, and
everything that they did
00:22:16.83\00:22:18.33
from the night we...
00:22:18.37\00:22:19.70
You know, when we flew in,
00:22:19.73\00:22:21.07
we took the long
bus ride from Moscow
00:22:21.10\00:22:23.67
and they were waiting
there for us with crapes.
00:22:23.71\00:22:26.88
And, I mean, the
big long table set out
00:22:26.91\00:22:28.98
and it was, it was late
00:22:29.01\00:22:30.35
and we probably all
wanted to go to bed.
00:22:30.38\00:22:32.58
But the fact that
00:22:32.61\00:22:33.95
they had prepared a meal for us,
00:22:33.98\00:22:35.92
that was just over the
top and that was their heart.
00:22:35.95\00:22:38.19
They were, you know...
00:22:38.22\00:22:39.55
And so I was just
put to shame, really was.
00:22:39.59\00:22:42.79
You know, it's incredible.
00:22:42.82\00:22:44.16
To me, what really impressed me.
00:22:44.19\00:22:45.93
We've heard the
stories for years.
00:22:45.96\00:22:47.30
You know, you've
shared the stories
00:22:47.33\00:22:48.66
and it's incredible to see
00:22:48.70\00:22:50.30
what God is doing
00:22:50.33\00:22:51.67
and actually to
see the miracles.
00:22:51.70\00:22:53.34
But the people, the people just,
00:22:53.37\00:22:56.04
from the moment
00:22:56.07\00:22:57.41
we came through
customs at the airport there.
00:22:57.44\00:23:00.48
And Julia and the
whole team were right there,
00:23:00.51\00:23:03.35
you know, just on the
other side of customs.
00:23:03.38\00:23:05.11
And then she said,
"Okay, welcome to Russia
00:23:05.15\00:23:07.78
and you each get
someone assigned to you."
00:23:07.82\00:23:10.32
So we would never be
without a translator,
00:23:10.35\00:23:12.52
we would never
be without someone.
00:23:12.55\00:23:14.26
And then the
whole the way through,
00:23:14.29\00:23:16.32
just their heart of
service, their heart of...
00:23:16.36\00:23:20.90
Their spirit of sacrifice.
00:23:20.93\00:23:23.97
You mentioned Red
Square a moment ago.
00:23:24.00\00:23:26.63
And when we were
there in Red Square,
00:23:26.67\00:23:28.04
the architecture
just of Red Square,
00:23:28.07\00:23:30.81
Saint Basil's Cathedral,
00:23:30.84\00:23:32.17
the Kremlin, you
can kind of stand
00:23:32.21\00:23:33.98
and go 360, all the way around.
00:23:34.01\00:23:36.95
And one side is Saint Basil's
00:23:36.98\00:23:38.78
and the other side is a Kremlin,
00:23:38.81\00:23:40.15
the other side was some
sort of shopping mall I think.
00:23:40.18\00:23:42.65
Yeah, it used to be
a government building,
00:23:42.68\00:23:44.25
but now it's a big mall there.
00:23:44.29\00:23:45.62
And then on the other side,
00:23:45.65\00:23:46.99
I forget what
that building once,
00:23:47.02\00:23:48.36
but, just the whole way around
00:23:48.39\00:23:49.72
and there was
that little circular.
00:23:49.76\00:23:52.59
I'm not even
sure, it had a low wall.
00:23:52.63\00:23:54.03
I don't know if you saw,
00:23:54.06\00:23:55.40
it was down toward the
end by Saint Basil's Cathedral
00:23:55.43\00:23:56.97
and they said,
00:23:57.00\00:23:58.33
that's where
people used to be killed,
00:23:58.37\00:24:00.50
the history of Red Square
and the history that's there.
00:24:00.54\00:24:05.47
But you think
about the communism
00:24:05.51\00:24:07.84
that they lived under
00:24:07.88\00:24:09.21
and the
sacrifices for the Gospel.
00:24:09.24\00:24:11.48
And yet their heart
and their spirit of love
00:24:11.51\00:24:15.98
and to reach out
00:24:16.02\00:24:17.35
and just that welcomed
us and I was put to shame.
00:24:17.39\00:24:22.76
Absolutely.
00:24:22.79\00:24:24.13
You know, just,
00:24:24.16\00:24:25.49
and God calls us
to sacrifice more
00:24:25.53\00:24:28.06
and God's calling me
00:24:28.10\00:24:29.43
to reach out and
love people more.
00:24:29.46\00:24:31.03
You know, just reach
out and give of yourself.
00:24:31.07\00:24:34.44
Yeah. Yeah.
00:24:34.47\00:24:36.07
Yeah, what's amazing
to me was, 25 years later,
00:24:36.10\00:24:40.44
Elder Carter was back
doing evangelistic series
00:24:40.48\00:24:43.95
and we'll do a program on that.
00:24:43.98\00:24:45.88
And the people came
out, they'd love John Carter.
00:24:45.91\00:24:49.65
And when they, that we said,
00:24:49.68\00:24:51.99
"How many of you
were here 25 years ago?"
00:24:52.02\00:24:54.52
Unbelievable.
00:24:54.56\00:24:55.89
I don't know,
we'll say crowd shots,
00:24:55.92\00:24:57.26
but I'd say 80% of those people
were baptized 25 years ago.
00:24:57.29\00:25:02.70
Some of those were teenagers.
00:25:02.73\00:25:04.13
In fact, that
conference president
00:25:04.17\00:25:05.63
was 16, 17 years old,
00:25:05.67\00:25:07.70
who was baptized
during those meetings.
00:25:07.74\00:25:09.90
I think it's a
treasure, so other folks there.
00:25:09.94\00:25:12.94
But they were still there
00:25:12.97\00:25:14.41
because they
found something real,
00:25:14.44\00:25:16.98
something solid,
something that's kept them,
00:25:17.01\00:25:20.08
you know, connected to the Lord.
00:25:20.12\00:25:22.15
And so what
Elder Carter has done
00:25:22.18\00:25:24.79
and it wouldn't be
right to do this program
00:25:24.82\00:25:26.86
or I wouldn't want to
forget to do it or to say,
00:25:26.89\00:25:29.32
"Thank you to
the Carter Report,"
00:25:29.36\00:25:30.83
John Carter, for what,
your 40 some trips to Russia
00:25:30.86\00:25:34.76
holding
literally dozens and dozens
00:25:34.80\00:25:38.07
of evangelistic series'
00:25:38.10\00:25:41.17
and none of them were
small, he does nothing small.
00:25:41.20\00:25:43.64
Elder Carter goes in a big way,
00:25:43.67\00:25:46.11
everywhere and because of you
00:25:46.14\00:25:47.94
and your support
and thank you for that.
00:25:47.98\00:25:50.35
But untold thousands,
00:25:50.38\00:25:52.35
and yeah, I believe
hundreds of thousands of people
00:25:52.38\00:25:54.78
have come to know
Jesus through the ministries.
00:25:54.82\00:25:57.95
And so working
together with 3ABN
00:25:57.99\00:26:00.36
and Carter
Report and you at home
00:26:00.39\00:26:02.46
is a win-win for everybody.
00:26:02.49\00:26:04.89
We want to talk
a little bit about
00:26:04.93\00:26:06.76
the production, the work,
00:26:06.80\00:26:08.46
the crew there and
I want to get Brad,
00:26:08.50\00:26:10.90
Rodney involved in
that and you, Greg...
00:26:10.93\00:26:12.27
Sure.
00:26:12.30\00:26:13.64
Because we...
00:26:13.67\00:26:15.00
Were you surprised, Rodney,
00:26:15.04\00:26:16.37
when you saw the
work they do there?
00:26:16.40\00:26:18.17
Oh, absolutely.
00:26:18.21\00:26:19.54
The amount of work that they do,
00:26:19.57\00:26:22.38
it's like, with the
equipment that they have
00:26:22.41\00:26:26.15
and the amount of
work that they do,
00:26:26.18\00:26:27.98
it's almost embarrassing.
00:26:28.02\00:26:30.25
It is.
00:26:30.29\00:26:31.62
It's almost embarrassing
00:26:31.65\00:26:32.99
what we accomplished
compared to what they do
00:26:33.02\00:26:35.96
and what they have
00:26:35.99\00:26:37.33
and the way that they
put their entire heart
00:26:37.36\00:26:41.00
into everything that they do.
00:26:41.03\00:26:42.36
It's not just...
00:26:42.40\00:26:43.73
Let's get a whole
bunch of programs done,
00:26:43.77\00:26:45.10
so we can get them on the air
00:26:45.13\00:26:46.47
and just move
on to the next one.
00:26:46.50\00:26:47.84
You know, everyone that they do,
00:26:47.87\00:26:49.20
they put a lot of heart into it.
00:26:49.24\00:26:51.24
You know, and it might not be,
00:26:51.27\00:26:54.68
let's say the most amazing thing
00:26:54.71\00:26:56.24
that you've ever seen.
00:26:56.28\00:26:57.65
But you get more of a message
00:26:57.68\00:26:59.65
because of the
heart that's put into it
00:26:59.68\00:27:01.72
and all of the effort that
goes into making these programs.
00:27:01.75\00:27:05.12
You know, they're
not cookie cutter,
00:27:05.15\00:27:06.49
they're not just
something simple.
00:27:06.52\00:27:09.02
I mean, everything is difficult
and done well, done very well.
00:27:09.06\00:27:13.53
Brad, their
creativity? It's amazing.
00:27:13.56\00:27:16.06
Yeah, they...
00:27:16.10\00:27:17.43
What I just can't get over...
00:27:17.47\00:27:20.70
When I saw the kids first,
00:27:20.74\00:27:22.17
there was there our translators.
00:27:22.20\00:27:23.87
What I really was
impressed the most was,
00:27:23.91\00:27:27.94
one of the girls that was there
00:27:27.98\00:27:29.31
and she was going
00:27:29.34\00:27:30.68
to the Carter
Report 25 years ago,
00:27:30.71\00:27:32.81
she was one-year-old.
00:27:32.85\00:27:34.18
Oh, yeah. Mom and dad got saved.
00:27:34.22\00:27:36.12
She has been
raised her whole life now
00:27:36.15\00:27:38.19
in the church working full time.
00:27:38.22\00:27:40.06
Elena. Yeah.
00:27:40.09\00:27:41.42
And I think she's
dating one of the guys
00:27:41.46\00:27:43.12
that's there now.
00:27:43.16\00:27:44.49
He wasn't even born a
year, an year after that.
00:27:44.53\00:27:47.76
So it's amazing
that these people,
00:27:47.80\00:27:50.93
you know, have
been raised in church,
00:27:50.97\00:27:52.97
you know, where would
they have been that way,
00:27:53.00\00:27:55.97
you know, if there
was no Carter there.
00:27:56.00\00:27:58.91
But I couldn't get over
00:27:58.94\00:28:00.88
the amount of work
that they're doing.
00:28:00.91\00:28:03.14
Just amazing.
00:28:03.18\00:28:04.75
Just they've got the same 3ABN,
00:28:04.78\00:28:08.05
go get them, I
guess, as we have here.
00:28:08.08\00:28:11.85
Because the guys that
work in production now,
00:28:11.89\00:28:14.02
they were carrying the
bricks and they were helping
00:28:14.06\00:28:16.06
put the building together
before production started.
00:28:16.09\00:28:20.63
And I think that building
would have existed today,
00:28:20.66\00:28:25.07
even with the hammers
00:28:25.10\00:28:26.84
and, you know, all
the carpentry equipment
00:28:26.87\00:28:30.87
that they had back then.
00:28:30.91\00:28:32.44
They were gonna
build that building,
00:28:32.47\00:28:33.81
you know, but they
didn't have the tools needed,
00:28:33.84\00:28:37.05
you know, at that earlier stage.
00:28:37.08\00:28:38.51
And I think that's the same,
00:28:38.55\00:28:40.32
that's in the production
and the guys have now.
00:28:40.35\00:28:42.65
They're doing such
an amazing job with,
00:28:42.68\00:28:45.95
really what we'd call,
00:28:45.99\00:28:47.32
you know, not the best
equipment that's out there
00:28:47.36\00:28:50.86
but they can produce
programming and stuff.
00:28:50.89\00:28:54.43
And I think God's in,
00:28:54.46\00:28:55.80
you know, he
was in the building,
00:28:55.83\00:28:57.33
making the building happening.
00:28:57.37\00:28:58.70
He's definitely
in charge of getting
00:28:58.73\00:29:01.24
these productions
up and on the air.
00:29:01.27\00:29:03.57
Say for 10 or 15
years, that they...
00:29:03.61\00:29:07.51
Well, when we first got there
and you guys remember this.
00:29:07.54\00:29:10.38
You go into any...
00:29:10.41\00:29:11.75
There wasn't
really stores per se
00:29:11.78\00:29:13.35
or any shopping
centers or even grocery stores.
00:29:13.38\00:29:16.79
There was just places
you get potatoes here,
00:29:16.82\00:29:19.02
somebody sitting
out on the street,
00:29:19.05\00:29:20.52
maybe some, you
know, cabbage here
00:29:20.56\00:29:23.83
and it took a Russian woman
several hours a day to go out
00:29:23.86\00:29:27.33
and try to
gather up enough food.
00:29:27.36\00:29:29.90
But when you went to pay,
00:29:29.93\00:29:31.80
you remember what you
paid when they counted your...
00:29:31.83\00:29:34.27
wasn't a computer, was it?
00:29:34.30\00:29:35.64
No. No.
00:29:35.67\00:29:37.01
An abacus. It's the abacus.
00:29:37.04\00:29:38.37
Abacus.
00:29:38.41\00:29:39.74
Which was used in Bible times
and like I had no idea whether,
00:29:39.77\00:29:43.58
you know, this
was right or wrong.
00:29:43.61\00:29:44.95
I just paid
whatever they told me
00:29:44.98\00:29:46.31
'cause they were like flipping
these beads back and forth.
00:29:46.35\00:29:49.65
Oh, we had this
little $99 hand computers,
00:29:49.68\00:29:53.12
they were astounded
by that, that's amazing.
00:29:53.15\00:29:56.12
So when we go there and
see that they had nothing
00:29:56.16\00:30:00.86
and only recently the wifi,
there were no cable stations,
00:30:00.90\00:30:05.33
very little
equipment, production equipment.
00:30:05.37\00:30:08.67
No one had cameras or videos.
00:30:08.70\00:30:11.84
The Russian people,
they didn't have Bibles.
00:30:11.87\00:30:14.84
So this is not like
00:30:14.88\00:30:16.75
we've been
developing for the last 25 years
00:30:16.78\00:30:19.51
with all the tools.
00:30:19.55\00:30:21.02
For the last
first 10 or 15 years,
00:30:21.05\00:30:23.69
they still had hardly
no tools to work with,
00:30:23.72\00:30:26.29
except what we took them.
00:30:26.32\00:30:27.99
And so in just
the last few years
00:30:28.02\00:30:30.83
under President Putin,
00:30:30.86\00:30:32.39
Russia is thriving
actually right now.
00:30:32.43\00:30:35.00
So it's amazing, but
again the people, Greg,
00:30:35.03\00:30:38.87
you and Jill got
to spend some time
00:30:38.90\00:30:40.67
with some of the
administrators and all.
00:30:40.70\00:30:42.50
Yeah, it was fantastic
and it really goes back to,
00:30:42.54\00:30:44.41
they have...
00:30:44.44\00:30:45.77
they give even if
they don't have a lot
00:30:45.81\00:30:47.28
and that is what
touches my heart so much.
00:30:47.31\00:30:49.74
You know, even if
it's just something,
00:30:49.78\00:30:51.21
maybe just small,
00:30:51.25\00:30:52.58
they still want
to give it to you.
00:30:52.61\00:30:53.95
And with such...
00:30:53.98\00:30:55.88
I guess you could say love.
00:30:55.92\00:30:57.25
I'm seeing their faces are happy
00:30:57.29\00:30:59.59
and you know
they're happy there.
00:30:59.62\00:31:02.22
When we went, Jill
and I had the opportunity
00:31:02.26\00:31:03.69
to go through some of
the production offices.
00:31:03.73\00:31:06.09
And again, it's amazing
because they don't have a lot,
00:31:06.13\00:31:08.36
but yet we didn't
hear any complaining.
00:31:08.40\00:31:10.87
You know, it's just a lot of joy
00:31:10.90\00:31:12.57
in what they were doing,
00:31:12.60\00:31:13.94
with what they
had and it's a rebuke,
00:31:13.97\00:31:17.11
it is, you know.
00:31:17.14\00:31:18.47
Jill and I were talking.
00:31:18.51\00:31:19.84
You know, sometimes I
can complain about this
00:31:19.87\00:31:21.21
or complain about that
00:31:21.24\00:31:22.58
and really, I have no
need to complain whatsoever.
00:31:22.61\00:31:25.61
You know, and really,
00:31:25.65\00:31:26.98
just need to see what
God is doing through them,
00:31:27.02\00:31:29.82
it's just
phenomenal and they seem
00:31:29.85\00:31:31.19
so excited about it.
00:31:31.22\00:31:32.55
You know, it is need to
because they're so resourceful.
00:31:32.59\00:31:36.52
And, you know, Rodney and Brad
00:31:36.56\00:31:37.89
and I were looking
at some of the stuff
00:31:37.93\00:31:39.26
that they've built.
00:31:39.29\00:31:40.63
I didn't get a chance
to go in the carpenter shop
00:31:40.66\00:31:42.00
and I think they have
a little machine shop.
00:31:42.03\00:31:43.37
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:31:43.40\00:31:44.73
And I hear it's
amazing, but they do so much.
00:31:44.77\00:31:46.40
I mean, their
engineer, like the jib
00:31:46.43\00:31:47.77
which is the camera
with the really long arm
00:31:47.80\00:31:51.04
and it has a camera on the end.
00:31:51.07\00:31:52.41
They built their jib,
00:31:52.44\00:31:53.78
I think, basically
out of metal pieces
00:31:53.81\00:31:55.14
that they manufactured
00:31:55.18\00:31:56.51
and they bought
a couple of pieces.
00:31:56.54\00:31:58.05
They have built the
track too for the camera.
00:31:58.08\00:31:59.41
Didn't it going back and forth?
00:31:59.45\00:32:00.78
Well, the legs that
go for the track, yeah.
00:32:00.82\00:32:02.62
And they also like
00:32:02.65\00:32:03.99
some of the
lighting fixtures and things.
00:32:04.02\00:32:05.49
I mean, yeah, it's all
built in their machine shop.
00:32:05.52\00:32:08.56
I mean, it's phenomenal.
00:32:08.59\00:32:09.92
We're looking at this
like, "Whoa, this is nice."
00:32:09.96\00:32:11.86
You take some
pictures, we'll bring back home.
00:32:11.89\00:32:14.30
And, yeah, it's just, I
don't know, encouraging.
00:32:14.33\00:32:17.77
It was a dream come true
to go to 3ABN Russian facility
00:32:17.80\00:32:22.94
and to see what God has done it.
00:32:22.97\00:32:24.61
Like everyone is saying,
00:32:24.64\00:32:27.54
pictures don't do justice
00:32:27.58\00:32:29.08
to what God has done
there and it was need too.
00:32:29.11\00:32:31.68
We did some stuff
00:32:31.71\00:32:33.05
we probably
weren't supposed too,
00:32:33.08\00:32:34.42
but we climbed up on the roof.
00:32:34.45\00:32:35.78
You did too Mr. Shelton.
Any questions, say that.
00:32:35.82\00:32:37.15
I led the way.
00:32:37.19\00:32:38.55
You know, I'm still
glad I didn't see that.
00:32:38.59\00:32:41.46
All the way
through the sixth roof...
00:32:41.49\00:32:42.82
I was at the bad end,
00:32:42.86\00:32:44.19
once we climbed
on to the outside.
00:32:44.23\00:32:45.56
That old rusty ladder
00:32:45.59\00:32:46.93
that was there
when we first started.
00:32:46.96\00:32:48.30
Oh, rusty, it was rusty.
00:32:48.33\00:32:49.66
Oh yeah, that ladder
was there. You there too?
00:32:49.70\00:32:54.00
Great. Were you around, Jill?
00:32:54.04\00:32:55.87
Look over there,
in that corner there.
00:32:55.90\00:32:57.67
Tim did it too? Yeah.
00:32:57.71\00:32:59.87
Look up here.
It was raining too.
00:32:59.91\00:33:01.54
Yeah, it was raining too. Yeah.
00:33:01.58\00:33:02.98
So there was footage of that
00:33:03.01\00:33:04.35
which you're
probably seeing right now.
00:33:04.38\00:33:05.71
Well, their excuse
00:33:05.75\00:33:07.08
was they were
videoing us going up.
00:33:07.12\00:33:08.98
We all ended up on
top. That's a long way up.
00:33:09.02\00:33:12.65
I'd say less than two.
00:33:12.69\00:33:14.02
You said what 25 years
ago or somewhere back then,
00:33:14.06\00:33:15.72
you on the very peak of that?
00:33:15.76\00:33:17.36
Yes.
00:33:17.39\00:33:18.73
Maybe I should
just stop right there,
00:33:18.76\00:33:20.10
but I...
00:33:20.13\00:33:21.46
Well, we're laid
on that very peak
00:33:21.50\00:33:22.83
which is the highest
point of that building.
00:33:22.86\00:33:24.83
We would have tried it again,
00:33:24.87\00:33:26.23
except it was wet
00:33:26.27\00:33:27.60
and we had to get
across that aluminum
00:33:27.64\00:33:29.64
that was on top that
we could have slipped,
00:33:29.67\00:33:31.34
'cause it's
several storey's down,
00:33:31.37\00:33:33.07
you wouldn't want to do that.
00:33:33.11\00:33:34.61
But there was still one
point we didn't conquer.
00:33:34.64\00:33:36.91
So we liked to get
all the way to the peak
00:33:36.95\00:33:39.38
and it's a long...
00:33:39.41\00:33:40.75
It's six storey's
plus this, you know, top.
00:33:40.78\00:33:43.32
But it's just such
an incredible facility.
00:33:43.35\00:33:46.25
But, you know,
there's great facilities
00:33:46.29\00:33:48.09
all around the world.
00:33:48.12\00:33:49.46
If you go to Moscow,
00:33:49.49\00:33:50.83
there are facilities
that will put us to shame
00:33:50.86\00:33:52.73
as far as our construct,
00:33:52.76\00:33:54.26
architecture and
money and all of that.
00:33:54.30\00:33:58.67
But the difference
is, is what's come out,
00:33:58.70\00:34:00.90
what comes out of this.
00:34:00.94\00:34:02.27
That's right.
00:34:02.30\00:34:03.64
From this center,
00:34:03.67\00:34:05.27
programs are being
produced that go to satellite,
00:34:05.31\00:34:08.48
all across the X-Soviet Union.
00:34:08.51\00:34:10.98
And literally it can be
seen anywhere around the world,
00:34:11.01\00:34:14.12
about something like
00:34:14.15\00:34:15.48
150 to 200 million Russians
00:34:15.52\00:34:18.65
can now watch programming
in their own language.
00:34:18.69\00:34:22.76
And so because of
that, their center there,
00:34:22.79\00:34:25.83
we've seen
thousands of Baptisms...
00:34:25.86\00:34:27.80
Yes. Amen.
00:34:27.83\00:34:29.16
And literally,
they will be some...
00:34:29.20\00:34:32.33
There used to,
when I'd go over there,
00:34:32.37\00:34:33.70
they'd show me,
00:34:33.74\00:34:35.07
they would have over
a thousand Bible studies
00:34:35.10\00:34:36.44
going at a time
00:34:36.47\00:34:37.81
and just a lot of
volunteers giving those...
00:34:37.84\00:34:39.77
In that facility?
00:34:39.81\00:34:41.14
In the facility, they
have thousands Bible studies,
00:34:41.18\00:34:43.55
they were people writing
00:34:43.58\00:34:45.15
and then trying
to back and forth,
00:34:45.18\00:34:47.88
you know, through
the mail and snail mail,
00:34:47.92\00:34:49.98
didn't have the internet.
00:34:50.02\00:34:51.45
And so trying to send Bibles,
00:34:51.49\00:34:54.06
trying to keep all of this up
00:34:54.09\00:34:56.32
and then there was no
cable stations back then.
00:34:56.36\00:34:58.96
Now there are cable stations,
all over these cable stations
00:34:58.99\00:35:01.86
are taking us
re-broadcasting 3ABN.
00:35:01.90\00:35:05.50
The rewards, you
guys know more than I do,
00:35:05.53\00:35:07.40
but they've got
a number to tell us
00:35:07.44\00:35:08.90
about the awards they have.
00:35:08.94\00:35:11.57
Again, I don't
want to say competition
00:35:11.61\00:35:13.64
with secular television,
00:35:13.68\00:35:15.21
but they go to
these shows in Moscow
00:35:15.24\00:35:17.35
and they've done
well, haven't they?
00:35:17.38\00:35:18.71
Yeah, very well.
00:35:18.75\00:35:20.08
Yeah, they had a
whole wall of awards.
00:35:20.12\00:35:21.62
And I think...
00:35:21.65\00:35:22.98
I don't think it's
necessarily competing with,
00:35:23.02\00:35:25.65
you know, the world.
00:35:25.69\00:35:27.32
But you have to give credence
to what you're saying visually.
00:35:27.36\00:35:31.69
You know, and I think that...
00:35:31.73\00:35:33.96
I think for today's
society, they're looking for,
00:35:34.00\00:35:38.13
you know,
something that's exciting.
00:35:38.17\00:35:39.97
And that just kind of says,
00:35:40.00\00:35:42.57
"Oh, yeah, we're...
00:35:42.60\00:35:43.94
our quality is right there."
00:35:43.97\00:35:45.31
You know, with all the big named
00:35:45.34\00:35:46.98
companies out there,
our quality is right there.
00:35:47.01\00:35:49.34
You know, we just have
a different message so...
00:35:49.38\00:35:52.81
And there's a lot of
people that I don't know.
00:35:52.85\00:35:54.92
I mean, I'm sure that
00:35:54.95\00:35:56.28
there's a way
that they would have.
00:35:56.32\00:35:57.65
But, you know, a lot of people
00:35:57.69\00:35:59.02
that who just keep
flipping right on past it,
00:35:59.05\00:36:01.16
had it not had the visual appeal
00:36:01.19\00:36:03.66
that it does or, you
know, the sound quality.
00:36:03.69\00:36:06.39
If it was bad,
00:36:06.43\00:36:07.76
people aren't going to watch it,
00:36:07.80\00:36:09.36
you know, unless
there's other circumstances.
00:36:09.40\00:36:12.80
But, you know,
for the most part,
00:36:12.83\00:36:14.30
people are going to
stop and watch something
00:36:14.34\00:36:16.00
that's not
interesting, you know.
00:36:16.04\00:36:18.57
And that's how they get it on
00:36:18.61\00:36:19.94
so many cable
stations being Christian,
00:36:19.97\00:36:22.41
because they're
still not really popular
00:36:22.44\00:36:24.85
throughout the
X-Soviet Union Christianity.
00:36:24.88\00:36:27.48
But they put them on
00:36:27.52\00:36:28.85
because their quality is so good
00:36:28.88\00:36:30.92
and they get
such great responses.
00:36:30.95\00:36:33.22
The television stations,
let Julia and the crew know,
00:36:33.25\00:36:38.26
we get tremendous responses.
00:36:38.29\00:36:39.86
Some of those,
Julia has programmed
00:36:39.89\00:36:42.00
the "Face to Face"
00:36:42.03\00:36:43.57
was the most
popular for a long time,
00:36:43.60\00:36:45.60
maybe it still is,
00:36:45.63\00:36:46.97
throughout all
of Nizhny Novgorod,
00:36:47.00\00:36:48.67
most popular program,
00:36:48.70\00:36:50.11
where she just
interviewed people,
00:36:50.14\00:36:51.47
talked about the Lord.
00:36:51.51\00:36:52.87
And I mean, the
cable companies told.
00:36:52.91\00:36:55.14
Secular cable companies
told her that, you know.
00:36:55.18\00:36:57.98
And so people literally,
all across the X-Soviet Union.
00:36:58.01\00:37:01.55
And again, it's thanks
to you for what you do.
00:37:01.58\00:37:04.69
Without you, none of
this would have happened.
00:37:04.72\00:37:07.09
And as I said,
the building is great
00:37:07.12\00:37:09.02
and that's wonderful but
there are great buildings,
00:37:09.06\00:37:10.86
there's bigger buildings there,
00:37:10.89\00:37:12.76
but it's what's
happening within the building.
00:37:12.79\00:37:15.03
They have a...
00:37:15.06\00:37:16.40
That conference
has a second floor,
00:37:16.43\00:37:17.83
they're working with.
00:37:17.87\00:37:19.57
The seminary
students come there,
00:37:19.60\00:37:22.57
so you have area
and people live there.
00:37:22.60\00:37:25.57
That is like, I
don't know, we couldn't...
00:37:25.61\00:37:27.28
we didn't go into all of them,
00:37:27.31\00:37:28.64
but there's dozens and
dozens and dozens of apartments
00:37:28.68\00:37:31.65
where people stay
with their families.
00:37:31.68\00:37:33.15
You can go out
there and still see
00:37:33.18\00:37:34.78
and always clothes hanging
00:37:34.82\00:37:36.18
on the line and
all kinds of stuff.
00:37:36.22\00:37:38.92
They have a bookstore there.
They have a health food store.
00:37:38.95\00:37:42.89
They've got a school,
with 100 and some odd students.
00:37:42.92\00:37:45.86
That was fun to visit
the school, wasn't it?
00:37:45.89\00:37:47.96
Saying, Jesus loves me
with my kids, that was fun.
00:37:48.00\00:37:50.30
Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:50.33\00:37:51.67
All of that in
this one facility.
00:37:51.70\00:37:54.70
And so...
00:37:54.74\00:37:56.17
But the vision that they have,
00:37:56.20\00:37:58.54
once they accepted Jesus
Christ as Lord and Savior,
00:37:58.57\00:38:01.68
they want to share
that with those around them.
00:38:01.71\00:38:03.88
They didn't take
the gospel for granted.
00:38:03.91\00:38:07.05
When people...
00:38:07.08\00:38:08.65
The Carter meetings were
over, they never had a Bible.
00:38:08.68\00:38:11.92
When we handed them out,
we have video of these folks,
00:38:11.95\00:38:15.12
literally grabbing the Bibles.
00:38:15.16\00:38:16.89
Some of them would lay
prostate right on the ground,
00:38:16.93\00:38:21.03
some on the concrete,
00:38:21.06\00:38:22.40
some would just
hold them to their chest,
00:38:22.43\00:38:23.97
others would go in the grass.
00:38:24.00\00:38:25.33
They didn't leave
the Sports Center,
00:38:25.37\00:38:27.94
they were started
reading right then,
00:38:27.97\00:38:29.87
tears would be flowing
because all of their lives,
00:38:29.90\00:38:33.24
they nor their parents,
00:38:33.27\00:38:34.61
even their grandparents
00:38:34.64\00:38:35.98
had ever been
able to own a Bible
00:38:36.01\00:38:38.08
and now they had their own
in their own Russian language.
00:38:38.11\00:38:41.32
And so it's just Julia,
all of you, the whole crew.
00:38:41.35\00:38:46.45
Thank you so
much for what you do
00:38:46.49\00:38:49.02
for the cause of God.
00:38:49.06\00:38:50.39
We couldn't do it from here.
00:38:50.43\00:38:51.99
The other thing
00:38:52.03\00:38:53.36
that we need to acknowledge was,
00:38:53.40\00:38:54.73
when we got off the
plane, Julia told us now.
00:38:54.76\00:38:59.47
"Don't worry about Angela,
00:38:59.50\00:39:00.84
she's just here on the side
00:39:00.87\00:39:02.90
and she's just going
to be taking pictures
00:39:02.94\00:39:04.87
and don't worry about that."
00:39:04.91\00:39:06.41
And at the end of the trip,
00:39:06.44\00:39:09.84
to me this was one of
the most touching things.
00:39:09.88\00:39:13.38
Angela gave us, all
of us an individual,
00:39:13.42\00:39:17.92
a customized album.
00:39:17.95\00:39:19.85
Jill, you brought
yours, tell them that.
00:39:19.89\00:39:21.69
I did, I brought mine, but...
00:39:21.72\00:39:23.06
It is beautiful.
00:39:23.09\00:39:24.43
They stayed up, I
think five of them,
00:39:24.46\00:39:25.79
stayed up through the
night, the night before we left.
00:39:25.83\00:39:29.00
Night, all night.
Making this for each one of us.
00:39:29.03\00:39:32.97
It's an incredible photo album.
00:39:33.00\00:39:34.74
So what it is,
this is customized.
00:39:34.77\00:39:36.81
And so this one has
pictures of everyone,
00:39:36.84\00:39:39.17
but specifically has
pictures of Greg and I,
00:39:39.21\00:39:41.58
and then you have
pictures of you both.
00:39:41.61\00:39:44.28
And then Tim,
yours has pictures of you
00:39:44.31\00:39:46.11
and Brad and Rodney
and Reggie and Ladye
00:39:46.15\00:39:48.15
and Gene and Pat
McClintock were there.
00:39:48.18\00:39:51.09
But just to think
the labor of love,
00:39:51.12\00:39:53.59
to stay up all night in
order to give us something.
00:39:53.62\00:39:58.59
This is one of the best gifts.
00:39:58.63\00:40:00.70
Me too.
00:40:00.73\00:40:02.06
Hands down,
00:40:02.10\00:40:03.43
I have ever received
in my life, you know.
00:40:03.47\00:40:05.43
And I think the
care or the dedication,
00:40:05.47\00:40:08.74
the passion for service for God
00:40:08.77\00:40:11.21
comes through in
everything they do.
00:40:11.24\00:40:12.74
I was thinking
when we went around
00:40:12.77\00:40:14.61
to the different offices
and got to meet the workers
00:40:14.64\00:40:18.58
and share just a
little bit with them.
00:40:18.61\00:40:21.08
And Olga, she's
there in the call center
00:40:21.12\00:40:23.92
and she showed us.
00:40:23.95\00:40:25.29
Now these are the
letters I sent out
00:40:25.32\00:40:26.96
and these are the people
00:40:26.99\00:40:28.32
who write and we're sending out,
00:40:28.36\00:40:30.56
you know, all this material.
00:40:30.59\00:40:32.26
You know, to spread the gospel.
00:40:32.29\00:40:34.03
They started, and
this was exciting.
00:40:34.06\00:40:36.23
I know Julia
has been behind this
00:40:36.26\00:40:38.43
with several other people.
00:40:38.47\00:40:39.80
They're doing...
00:40:39.83\00:40:41.17
You know, here at 3ABN we
do Kids' Club Bible lessons
00:40:41.20\00:40:44.94
with Brenda Walsh in Kids Time.
00:40:44.97\00:40:46.81
And its Bible lessons
specifically for children.
00:40:46.84\00:40:49.64
Well, they have taken
them and translated them
00:40:49.68\00:40:52.45
and tweak them a bit to
fit the Russian culture.
00:40:52.48\00:40:55.62
And they have 500 kids enrolled
in that program right now
00:40:55.65\00:41:00.62
and that's just
the last two months,
00:41:00.66\00:41:03.12
two, three months they began it.
00:41:03.16\00:41:05.06
So it's a brand new
and they were showing us.
00:41:05.09\00:41:07.03
Oh, these are the
puzzle pieces that they get.
00:41:07.06\00:41:09.30
Oh, this is the
lessons that we send out.
00:41:09.33\00:41:11.73
And you think as we
went from office to office,
00:41:11.77\00:41:14.00
each person just...
00:41:14.04\00:41:15.37
Now this is what I'm
doing, I'm creating this opener.
00:41:15.40\00:41:18.11
I'm producing this program
00:41:18.14\00:41:19.57
and I'm
bringing in these guests.
00:41:19.61\00:41:21.81
And just the passion
for spreading the gospel,
00:41:21.84\00:41:25.35
you know, and the
organization of the team.
00:41:25.38\00:41:27.75
But this gift, back to
this, this gift was incredible.
00:41:27.78\00:41:31.35
It really was.
00:41:31.39\00:41:32.72
To me it was...
00:41:32.75\00:41:34.09
For me also it was
one of the nicest presents
00:41:34.12\00:41:36.46
I'd ever received
00:41:36.49\00:41:37.83
because of the
love that went into it.
00:41:37.86\00:41:39.96
You know, I mean, it just...
00:41:40.00\00:41:41.73
It was so personalized. Yeah.
00:41:41.76\00:41:43.93
And so it was just
such an amazing blessing.
00:41:43.97\00:41:47.80
I've talked to a
lot and they feel like
00:41:47.84\00:41:49.47
they're just
returning while you say,
00:41:49.50\00:41:51.64
well, we didn't do
too much for hospitality.
00:41:51.67\00:41:54.48
They tell us, we're returning
00:41:54.51\00:41:56.34
for what you
Americans came over here
00:41:56.38\00:41:58.55
and the rest of
the world as they gave,
00:41:58.58\00:42:00.45
what you did for us and
to introducing us to Jesus.
00:42:00.48\00:42:04.29
Gene and Pat McClintock,
they were never paid.
00:42:04.32\00:42:08.46
Yet, they have made,
they've 20 some trips.
00:42:08.49\00:42:10.83
Gene has held, probably a dozen,
00:42:10.86\00:42:12.99
maybe more
evangelistic series of his own,
00:42:13.03\00:42:16.60
would go over
there because he works,
00:42:16.63\00:42:18.30
he was working
there in the summer time,
00:42:18.33\00:42:20.04
he does insulation and all.
00:42:20.07\00:42:21.64
In the winter,
00:42:21.67\00:42:23.00
when it's
brutally cold in Russia,
00:42:23.04\00:42:24.94
they would go in the winter
and spend two or three months
00:42:24.97\00:42:27.84
holding evangelistic series,
00:42:27.88\00:42:29.51
getting to know
people individually
00:42:29.54\00:42:32.05
and leading them to Jesus.
00:42:32.08\00:42:34.25
And this time Gene was
there, they're still people,
00:42:34.28\00:42:36.99
he had to go visit some church,
00:42:37.02\00:42:38.45
he got to go
visit some churches.
00:42:38.49\00:42:40.29
They actually raised
the money through 3ABN new,
00:42:40.32\00:42:43.59
there's churches there,
00:42:43.63\00:42:45.13
now new churches
or other churches,
00:42:45.16\00:42:47.60
even home
churches that we, house,
00:42:47.63\00:42:49.90
that we built church in,
00:42:49.93\00:42:51.40
that, because of their work
00:42:51.43\00:42:53.03
and they cared
enough about people.
00:42:53.07\00:42:55.54
But when I go
there and I see people
00:42:55.57\00:42:57.21
like Alexander, Alexander.
00:42:57.24\00:42:59.64
She was, she was in the back.
00:42:59.67\00:43:01.14
When I went
there, literally in 1992,
00:43:01.18\00:43:04.78
and then we
purchased a facility,
00:43:04.81\00:43:06.75
a month or two later, I
went back and there were,
00:43:06.78\00:43:09.98
they didn't have
extension ladder,
00:43:10.02\00:43:11.92
so you're looking at tool...
00:43:11.95\00:43:13.72
Well, at the top of the studio
00:43:13.76\00:43:15.32
was a good two
storey's high and more
00:43:15.36\00:43:18.63
and they were eight
volunteers on top of the roof
00:43:18.66\00:43:22.53
and they made ladders
00:43:22.56\00:43:23.90
out of saplings and
roped them together.
00:43:23.93\00:43:26.53
Oh, my goodness.
00:43:26.57\00:43:27.90
And I went up
there and these ladders
00:43:27.94\00:43:29.27
would do this,
00:43:29.30\00:43:30.64
probably 25, 30 feet in the air
and Alexander was one of those.
00:43:30.67\00:43:34.24
And Vera who is
now passed along,
00:43:34.28\00:43:36.14
they were volunteering,
00:43:36.18\00:43:37.51
they were already Adventist
00:43:37.55\00:43:38.95
who were so happy that
all these baptisms that...
00:43:38.98\00:43:42.15
Now there was
going to be a facility
00:43:42.18\00:43:44.22
that would be
their own for the church,
00:43:44.25\00:43:46.39
from the church
that they could come to.
00:43:46.42\00:43:49.02
They were volunteering.
00:43:49.06\00:43:50.39
These women, they weren't young,
00:43:50.43\00:43:52.79
even then, were climbing up
00:43:52.83\00:43:55.30
and up their
hand chiseling holes
00:43:55.33\00:43:57.73
'cause they needed
some holes in a roof,
00:43:57.77\00:43:59.53
hand working day after day.
00:43:59.57\00:44:01.34
And when you
see that dedication,
00:44:01.37\00:44:03.34
they literally,
church members would line up.
00:44:03.37\00:44:05.47
I think we have video of that,
00:44:05.51\00:44:06.98
50, 60, 100 at a time
and hand one brick at a time.
00:44:07.01\00:44:11.61
And yet, there's
millions of bricks in there.
00:44:11.65\00:44:13.82
When I say
millions, I'm not exaggerating
00:44:13.85\00:44:16.22
because each of the walls
00:44:16.25\00:44:17.85
that you see is
not just a row here
00:44:17.89\00:44:19.22
and a row there,
00:44:19.25\00:44:20.59
sometimes
there's two or three rows
00:44:20.62\00:44:21.96
in between all the way up.
00:44:21.99\00:44:23.53
So these walls are this thick.
00:44:23.56\00:44:25.63
And so there's
literally millions of brick
00:44:25.66\00:44:28.23
and we didn't have
the equipment to do it.
00:44:28.26\00:44:30.57
They start out, and
would hand these bricks.
00:44:30.60\00:44:32.53
So they're working together,
all of us, one brick at a time.
00:44:32.57\00:44:36.27
You hand it and we hand to them,
00:44:36.30\00:44:38.54
they hand us, we're doing it,
00:44:38.57\00:44:40.34
we, us together
working together.
00:44:40.38\00:44:43.08
Not only the facility
00:44:43.11\00:44:44.45
but what the
facility represents is that,
00:44:44.48\00:44:47.78
and I wish the Russia
Christian Cultural Center there.
00:44:47.82\00:44:53.76
3ABN center could be an example
to the rest of the world.
00:44:53.79\00:44:57.79
I wish we work together.
00:44:57.83\00:44:59.16
You got church, you got
laity, you got the schools,
00:44:59.19\00:45:01.36
you got the, you
know, the centers,
00:45:01.40\00:45:03.06
you got the conference,
you got literally the studios.
00:45:03.10\00:45:05.93
Everybody working together
00:45:05.97\00:45:07.44
and believe it or
not they get along.
00:45:07.47\00:45:09.37
Isn't that amazing?
00:45:09.40\00:45:10.74
Believe it or
not they get along.
00:45:10.77\00:45:12.31
And, but that's God
00:45:12.34\00:45:14.24
because they see
00:45:14.28\00:45:16.61
and to the folk who
didn't get to worship God,
00:45:16.64\00:45:20.78
now appreciate so much
00:45:20.82\00:45:22.85
that they have
the freedom to do it.
00:45:22.88\00:45:24.55
They're going to
make sure everybody
00:45:24.59\00:45:26.79
that they can
contact in the world
00:45:26.82\00:45:29.26
has the opportunity
to meet Jesus Christ
00:45:29.29\00:45:31.66
and accept Him as Lord
and Savior of their life.
00:45:31.69\00:45:35.43
Now, the transition of time,
00:45:35.46\00:45:38.47
sometimes eight or
nine hour's difference,
00:45:38.50\00:45:41.00
gets you so, we didn't
get to sleep all night.
00:45:41.04\00:45:43.47
But my little room, they put...
00:45:43.51\00:45:45.87
When we started I
said keep one room
00:45:45.91\00:45:47.71
so the Americans, when we come,
Pat and Gene, John, and Janice,
00:45:47.74\00:45:51.65
whoever's there,
they could stay in,
00:45:51.68\00:45:53.75
Elder Carter if we needed too,
00:45:53.78\00:45:55.35
but that's right
next door the gymnasium.
00:45:55.38\00:45:57.79
So when it was late at
night, I couldn't sleep,
00:45:57.82\00:46:00.76
I got to go over but...
00:46:00.79\00:46:02.46
She came over with a little bit,
00:46:02.49\00:46:04.46
with iPhone and took some video.
00:46:04.49\00:46:06.33
We got Gene up there,
he was playing basketball,
00:46:06.36\00:46:09.10
even got her playing
basket ball up there.
00:46:09.13\00:46:12.07
I didn't know she's that good.
00:46:12.10\00:46:14.00
I didn't know she's that good,
00:46:14.04\00:46:15.37
but I, she
stayed in the women's...
00:46:15.40\00:46:16.74
No, that's being very kind.
00:46:16.77\00:46:18.37
You can try for
the women's NBA team.
00:46:18.41\00:46:20.51
Oh!
00:46:20.54\00:46:22.04
No, I just said
you could try out.
00:46:22.08\00:46:23.41
Oh, you know,
what? That was a good...
00:46:23.45\00:46:25.98
That was a good choice of words.
00:46:26.01\00:46:27.35
But I'm trying to
make a point that,
00:46:27.38\00:46:28.72
that we all were out
there playing late at night.
00:46:28.75\00:46:32.09
And sometimes our timings off...
00:46:32.12\00:46:35.36
You know, Danny,
00:46:35.39\00:46:36.73
I don't want to
miss this opportunity.
00:46:36.76\00:46:39.26
The...
00:46:39.29\00:46:40.63
As the viewers, as
they're watching this,
00:46:40.66\00:46:42.40
you're hearing our excitement
00:46:42.43\00:46:43.77
and all of what we've
captured while we were there.
00:46:43.80\00:46:46.63
But I think this is a
huge opportunity for us
00:46:46.67\00:46:49.77
to understand
that God gives these...
00:46:49.80\00:46:53.88
He gave you the vision.
00:46:53.91\00:46:56.85
And there was no way
that you could have imagined
00:46:56.88\00:46:59.81
how huge it could have,
this was going to turn out.
00:46:59.85\00:47:03.32
But the Bible says that,
00:47:03.35\00:47:05.42
"with men, these
things are impossible
00:47:05.45\00:47:08.19
but with God,
nothing is impossible."
00:47:08.22\00:47:09.62
That's right.
00:47:09.66\00:47:10.99
And so I think that as
much as we've heard that there,
00:47:11.03\00:47:14.53
we are born with
a God shaped hole
00:47:14.56\00:47:16.97
in our hearts where,
00:47:17.00\00:47:18.33
you know, only
God will fill that.
00:47:18.37\00:47:19.70
I believe that God
gives us a God shaped vision.
00:47:19.73\00:47:23.54
Each one of us have something,
00:47:23.57\00:47:26.71
you know, it doesn't have to be
00:47:26.74\00:47:28.68
as grand as
Russian vision like this,
00:47:28.71\00:47:31.55
but it could be
something that you can
00:47:31.58\00:47:33.08
even actually speak
the language, you know.
00:47:33.11\00:47:35.62
But I believe
that we need to pray
00:47:35.65\00:47:38.75
for that
opportunity that God is,
00:47:38.79\00:47:42.22
just... I know my take away.
00:47:42.26\00:47:43.83
What I came home
with was the fact that
00:47:43.86\00:47:46.33
I was guilty,
00:47:46.36\00:47:47.70
have been guilty
the past few years
00:47:47.73\00:47:49.60
of letting my God be too small
00:47:49.63\00:47:53.23
and there's a
great chorus that says,
00:47:53.27\00:47:57.04
"I have made you
too small in my eyes,
00:47:57.07\00:47:58.91
so Lord forgive me.
00:47:58.94\00:48:00.28
Where I have believed in a lie
00:48:00.31\00:48:01.64
that you were unable to help me,
00:48:01.68\00:48:04.38
but now I see the
error of my ways."
00:48:04.41\00:48:07.72
And then the chorus says,
00:48:07.75\00:48:09.45
"Be magnified, oh Lord,
you are highly exalted."
00:48:09.48\00:48:12.55
So I want that to be my
prayer, be magnified God.
00:48:12.59\00:48:15.42
And don't let me be
afraid to step out in faith
00:48:15.46\00:48:19.03
because without
faith it is impossible.
00:48:19.06\00:48:21.10
So, and so I just...
00:48:21.13\00:48:23.97
I want us to
capture that element.
00:48:24.00\00:48:26.40
You know, it's not an...
00:48:26.43\00:48:28.00
It doesn't have a
big picture of you
00:48:28.04\00:48:29.67
on the front of
it, on the building,
00:48:29.70\00:48:31.91
you know, does it
over there in Russia,
00:48:31.94\00:48:33.51
but it is truly
because you followed God.
00:48:33.54\00:48:36.68
I mean, again I want
to build a tiny house
00:48:36.71\00:48:40.28
with somebody that, you
know, can speak English.
00:48:40.32\00:48:42.52
I can't imagine going
over to some place that,
00:48:42.55\00:48:44.95
where I couldn't
even speak the language.
00:48:44.99\00:48:46.72
And then as we're
talking about the equipment
00:48:46.76\00:48:49.52
that they use to
do the programming,
00:48:49.56\00:48:51.49
the tools that they
used to build a building,
00:48:51.53\00:48:53.56
every odd was against you.
00:48:53.60\00:48:55.90
I mean, the odds
were insurmountable,
00:48:55.93\00:48:58.87
but not with God.
00:48:58.90\00:49:00.24
And that's the God we serve.
00:49:00.27\00:49:01.80
He's the one who gives
you that vision and it's...
00:49:01.84\00:49:05.27
He's able to do it.
00:49:05.31\00:49:06.64
He's just looking for somebody
00:49:06.68\00:49:08.01
who's willing to
follow through with it.
00:49:08.04\00:49:09.54
So be encouraged and dream big
00:49:09.58\00:49:12.85
and don't let
any anybody tell you
00:49:12.88\00:49:15.38
that it's impossible,
00:49:15.42\00:49:16.75
because with God
nothing is impossible.
00:49:16.79\00:49:18.75
And if I could
encourage folk, is,
00:49:18.79\00:49:21.96
because you don't have to
see the end of the vision.
00:49:21.99\00:49:25.23
When you look at
the end of the vision,
00:49:25.26\00:49:26.80
it will tell you don't do it.
00:49:26.83\00:49:28.76
If I could
have, would have known
00:49:28.80\00:49:30.67
how much money it
really was going to take
00:49:30.70\00:49:33.13
and how much time and
how many years to do that,
00:49:33.17\00:49:36.40
I would have been discouraged.
00:49:36.44\00:49:38.14
But all I knew at the
time, there was the building,
00:49:38.17\00:49:40.98
it opened up
150,000 and then as we said,
00:49:41.01\00:49:44.51
millions of
brick, one at a time.
00:49:44.55\00:49:46.82
And so
volunteers began to show up.
00:49:46.85\00:49:49.22
The Lord
brought the right people
00:49:49.25\00:49:50.99
at the right time.
00:49:51.02\00:49:52.35
So I didn't really
know where it was going,
00:49:52.39\00:49:54.86
but I knew that's what
God said to do at that time
00:49:54.89\00:49:58.36
and same way
with 3ABN in general.
00:49:58.39\00:50:00.70
If I hadn't known
the responsibility
00:50:00.73\00:50:02.90
and all that would be involved,
00:50:02.93\00:50:04.27
I'm sure I would
have been discouraged
00:50:04.30\00:50:05.63
and said that's impossible.
00:50:05.67\00:50:07.00
So when you have a vision...
00:50:07.04\00:50:08.70
Tim's talking about a vision,
00:50:08.74\00:50:10.31
you just take
one step at a time,
00:50:10.34\00:50:11.84
the blessing of
the Lord is on the go.
00:50:11.87\00:50:14.31
And so when he says,
"Go, ye into all the world,"
00:50:14.34\00:50:16.75
You don't have to
jump around the whole world
00:50:16.78\00:50:18.75
or fly the whole world at once,
00:50:18.78\00:50:20.18
just take a
step, just take a step
00:50:20.22\00:50:22.72
and He'll lead
you, He'll guide you,
00:50:22.75\00:50:24.12
He'll let you know if that's
what you're supposed to do.
00:50:24.15\00:50:26.92
He will send people in your life
00:50:26.96\00:50:29.46
that will do
what you couldn't do.
00:50:29.49\00:50:31.56
God surrounded us with people
00:50:31.59\00:50:33.40
there in Russia
00:50:33.43\00:50:34.96
that could do
what I couldn't do.
00:50:35.00\00:50:36.67
As soon as I met Julia,
I knew I could trust her.
00:50:36.70\00:50:39.73
And 25 years later, I
trust her with my life.
00:50:39.77\00:50:43.47
And speaking
that, before we close
00:50:43.51\00:50:45.27
we got to say
hello to Julia's mother.
00:50:45.31\00:50:47.34
Yes! Yes!
00:50:47.38\00:50:48.71
And so, I mean,
this is Yvonne Itchka.
00:50:48.74\00:50:51.11
Is that how you say?
00:50:51.15\00:50:52.48
That's my new
nickname, Yvonne Itchka.
00:50:52.51\00:50:54.52
Yvonne Itchka.
00:50:54.55\00:50:55.88
She was... She was so precious.
00:50:55.92\00:50:57.49
She was just, I
just loved meeting her.
00:50:57.52\00:51:00.09
Oh, she was just precious.
00:51:00.12\00:51:02.09
When you meet Julia's mother,
she's an M.D. wonderful woman.
00:51:02.12\00:51:05.59
You see where
Julia and her son Boris,
00:51:05.63\00:51:08.66
you know, really got that
drive to want to be successful,
00:51:08.70\00:51:13.44
to want to do the
best they could do,
00:51:13.47\00:51:15.27
whatever they were doing
put all their might into it.
00:51:15.30\00:51:19.87
And so, it's so neat,
00:51:19.91\00:51:21.24
we got to go meet her
00:51:21.28\00:51:22.61
and she came
downstairs and talked to us
00:51:22.64\00:51:23.98
and we got to hug
00:51:24.01\00:51:25.35
and so she called
her Yvonne Itchka,
00:51:25.38\00:51:27.22
which Julia says
that's a great compliment.
00:51:27.25\00:51:29.68
That was so
precious. And for her.
00:51:29.72\00:51:31.35
But...
00:51:31.39\00:51:32.72
Go ahead.
00:51:32.75\00:51:34.09
I just also think
that the team there
00:51:34.12\00:51:37.63
with Julia and Alexi,
00:51:37.66\00:51:39.96
you know, they just really
make such a huge difference,
00:51:40.00\00:51:44.73
because they work
as a family like we do.
00:51:44.77\00:51:46.94
That's right.
00:51:46.97\00:51:48.30
And then with the viewers
responding to the need...
00:51:48.34\00:51:52.17
I mean, we couldn't do it
00:51:52.21\00:51:53.54
if the viewers hadn't
responded to the need.
00:51:53.58\00:51:55.24
So it's such a
cooperative effort.
00:51:55.28\00:51:58.15
You know, and I was
just thrilled to be there
00:51:58.18\00:52:00.72
and thankful for
our Russian family.
00:52:00.75\00:52:03.55
Absolutely.
00:52:03.59\00:52:05.02
We're gonna have to
take a short news break
00:52:05.05\00:52:06.92
and then we'll come back.
00:52:06.96\00:52:08.29
We'll have about a minute
00:52:08.32\00:52:09.66
or so, we'll let you
be thinking about it,
00:52:09.69\00:52:11.03
anybody has a closing thought.
00:52:11.06\00:52:12.73
So we're gonna go
on the news break,
00:52:12.76\00:52:14.16
we'll be back in just a moment.
00:52:14.20\00:52:15.60