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, friends.
Welcome to 3ABN Today.
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My name Is John Lomacang.
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If you are part of our
family, you already know that,
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but thank you
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if you are tuning
in for the first time,
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remember this network,
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Three Angels
Broadcasting Network,
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one we believe ordained
of God, preparing the world
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for the coming of
our Lord and Savior.
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We have a very
blessed program today.
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We like to
encourage you to stay tuned.
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Our world is a world
that's replete with disasters
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of every kind
and every magnitude.
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And we have three guests
today, they're gonna talk about
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how the Lord has moved in
their lives over the years
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to relieve the suffering,
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and bring aid, and
relief, and resilience
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to those impacted by disaster,
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so please do stay tuned.
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We know that your
heart will be challenged
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not just to receive information
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but to find out how
you can become involved
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and also being an extended hand
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of the ministry of Jesus Christ.
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Also, thank you for your prayers
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and your financial
support of this network
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as we continue
going and growing,
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we're getting ready
for the coming of our Lord.
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As you also know, we always
have music on our program.
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And one of our very
own, Pastor CA Murray
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will bless you heart
and prepare you with a song,
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Is It Any Wonder?
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My faith has
found a resting place
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Not in a man-made greed
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I trust the ever-living One
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That He for me will plead
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I need no other evidence
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I need no other plea
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It is enough that Jesus died
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And rose again for me
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Enough for me that Jesus saves
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This ends my fear and doubt
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A sinful soul, I come to Him
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He will not cast me out
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I need no other evidence
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I need no other plea
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It is enough that Jesus died
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And rose again for me
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The great
physician heals the sick
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The lost He came to save
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For me His
precious blood He shed
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For me His life He gave
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I need no other evidence
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I need no other plea
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It is enough that Jesus died
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And rose again for me
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My soul is resting on His Word
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The living Word of God
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Salvation in my Savior's name
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Salvation through His blood
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I need no other evidence
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I need no other plea
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It is enough that Jesus died
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And rose again
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For me
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Thank you, Pastor CA.
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Our faith has
found a resting place,
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and that is really
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what our program is about today.
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Where do people
find a place to rest
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in time of
disaster and difficulty?
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And I want to first
begin by introducing
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the CEO and Founder
of GR3, David Canther.
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Good to have you,
David. John, good to see you...
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I should say
good to see you again.
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Thank you.
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And we had an
opportunity to work on,
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do a program together,
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and even to go down and
see when there was a hurricane.
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Yes.
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Now where was it again?
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So I think the first time 3ABN
came out with us, with Danny
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and what not was
hurricane Katrina.
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Katrina, that's right. Yes.
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And we had an opportunity
to go down to see the disaster
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down in the gulf,
part of the United States.
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But good to have
you here, you have...
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We were there two
years helping in the Katrina.
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Yes, that's right.
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You guys, it was a real
honor to have you there as well.
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Yes, and just for those
who may not know who you are,
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tell our audience,
who you are, what you do
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and where you're from.
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So I was a Pastor in
Florida for about 32 years.
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Okay.
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And God called me
to a unique calling
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that I wasn't asking for.
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But when a lot of the hurricanes
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began happening in Florida,
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I was challenged to
say, "Well, you know,
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we have over 100
ministries going on
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in our five different
services of our church
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and we just felt that
there was more that we could do
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to impact helping
and saving lives."
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And, so we started
feeding thousands of people.
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And then the conference asked
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if I would expand
to work throughout,
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you know, the state of Florida.
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And from there,
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God has just
blessed abundantly by faith.
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And leaving that
comfortable salary check
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and moving by
faith as you do here.
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That's right.
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And so it is a faith journey,
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but the beautiful thing is
to see quitting the logistics,
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when you allow people to respond
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to our trained
volunteers around the world,
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professionals, and
many different people
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that can go and serve,
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it's interesting that the
lives were blessed the most
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isn't particularly those
that you're going to help,
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but how God blesses
you as a result of serving.
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Thank you, David.
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To your right
is Erick Baltodano.
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Good to have you here, Eric.
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Thank you, it's good to be here.
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Yes, and for our
audience, do the same,
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who you are, where you're from,
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and in short,
what you do right now.
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My name is Erick
Baltodano, and I'm a lieutenant
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for the City of
Naples Fire Department.
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I've been there
for, now 19 years.
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Okay.
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And I started off with GR3
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when we had our
deployment to Haiti in 2010.
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So I've been working
with them since then.
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Okay, well, good to
have you here today.
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Thank you.
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And to my far
is Malcolm Seheult.
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Am I saying it
correct? That's correct.
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Okay, wonderful.
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And for our audience,
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who are you, and
where are you from,
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and what you do right now.
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Thank you, glad to be here.
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I'm an attorney, and a educator,
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and I'm the President of GR3.
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On a side note,
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my wife and I are
blessed with eight children,
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seven of them are girls.
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Amen.
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Eight girls? Seven girls.
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Seven girls, and one boy.
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The boy is in there somewhere.
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He is in the
mix. He is in the mix.
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Okay, well. Good to
have you here today.
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Glad to be here.
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Okay, my wife
is eighth of eight.
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So, hey, having
eight children is good.
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Somebody's gonna be
blessed by the eighth,
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and all of them together.
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Good to have you all here today.
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For those who are watching into,
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we're talking about
disaster relief today.
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But just kind of give us
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a little historical walk through
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how the Lord impressed
you to start a ministry
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that makes a
difference in times of disaster?
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I know we did the
ACTS, I remember ACTS,
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it had a number of ACTS.
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The beginning of the...
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I should say the prefix was ACTS
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but you had ACTS 911,
Acts Ministries, but now GR3.
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What is GR3?
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So GR3 is actually
a continued enlarging
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of that original
name ACTS World Relief.
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We found that we
needed to separate
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because we're doing a lot
of church growth strategy.
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A lot of times
going into countries
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when you're doing spiritual,
emotional healing and training,
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a lot of churches and
presidents were saying,
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"You know, could you
come back and develop more of,
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how to reach out
and help our communities
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in a lot of different ways."
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And so we developed
the ACTS 911 one side,
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church growth strategy,
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and then the GR3
international, global rapid,
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actually, Global
Rescue Relief and Resilience.
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Okay. And we are rapid.
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But, so as first
responders going into help,
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doing an
assessment, doing the response,
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and then leading to recovery.
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That stretches out many
times over several years...
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Okay. In helping people.
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And so we find it very effective
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to go in by request
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to different
countries around the world.
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Malcolm and I have worked with
the BIDMC program of Harvard
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in their Disaster Medicine
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which he is
gonna talk about later.
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And how, now he's developing
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and we're developing
a lot of in that area
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to help bring
training instructions
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at a very high level physicians.
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I'm getting that
type of opportunity
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that they can be
able to not only to serve
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but get fellowship
degrees and specialties.
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So the main simple
way of looking at it is,
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God had called us to
serve others in love.
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And how can we do
that more effectively
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where you need to
create the logistics
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so that when they
volunteer a week or two weeks
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of their time,
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they leave
saying, "I was blessed,
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I was a blessing,
and I'll do it again."
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Okay, so on your end,
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the blessing is not
only to those you help
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but to you and your team.
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To those that are part
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of the Rescue,
Relief and Resilience,
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which is the three R's.
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Yes. Okay.
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And it's a good
point you're making.
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The last two
doctors in Puerto Rico
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that went with us,
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they both said
independently of each other,
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"We really needed
this," individually,
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"get things back and
perspective in our lives."
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That's why God had
called us to serve.
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So many times people think it's,
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"Oh, we did a great thing
out there helping somebody."
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But in reality, God knew
us because He created us.
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And He said to keep
things in perspective
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and your life balanced,
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keep your focus
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so that I'm in
the center, hopefully,
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is when you see those
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that are hurting
more than yourself.
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If you're depressed today,
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if you maybe
experiencing PTSD or whatever,
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my encouragement to you is
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reach out and
help somebody in need.
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As you do that,
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God will bless
you more abundantly.
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You'll look back and say, "Wow,"
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because you gave
your life to somebody else
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like Jesus gave to us.
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We are the most blessed.
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That's right,
said like a pastor.
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And, but now you've been
evolved in a number of reliefs,
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more recently
the disaster relief
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in Puerto Rico.
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And I want to take a little time
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and go to Erick here
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because we
talked about logistics.
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And Erick having
been in the field,
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he's in for 19 years,
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you have seen
quite a bit of disaster
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form the individual
level, to the community level,
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to the country level.
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And we brought
with you some photos
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that you're
gonna walk us through,
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but just tell us
about some of the logistics.
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And may be both of
you could chime in on that
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or any one you, but
I'll begin with Eric.
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That's correct.
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A lot of the logistics is
the, actually the first part.
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It's how we get together,
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we get to have a meeting
with some of the officials
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from hospitals,
the health department,
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and everybody
conjoint effort on one mission
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to be able to, to bring
Puerto Rico back to its feet.
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And with the first couple,
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the first two
pictures that you're gonna see,
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this is the team
that was there together
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at the Bella Vista Hospital.
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In this picture, you have,
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we have people from
walks of life of different.
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We have here the
pastor, the youth pastor.
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We also have director, director
of pharmacy and laboratory.
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We have in there
also administration
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that are from that hospital
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that was able to point
out some of their needs.
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The next slide shows
the health department,
00:14:15.72\00:14:18.59
which was able
to sit down with us
00:14:18.62\00:14:20.46
and give us specifics
of which towns were needed
00:14:20.49\00:14:25.09
for us to be
able to go and visit.
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They had a lot of the
mountain towns and cities
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people weren't able to go
00:14:33.84\00:14:35.84
and even see if
there was a need.
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The day we were there,
00:14:38.74\00:14:40.54
the health
department let us know
00:14:40.58\00:14:42.54
that the roads were now open.
00:14:42.58\00:14:45.41
So they gave us
two towns specifically,
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Las Marías
which was one of them,
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and then also Maricao.
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And those two cities,
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they have not
gotten reports back yet
00:14:54.36\00:14:56.39
of whether if
there was any need,
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so this was our first mission.
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So our first
mission as we went out
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was to go ahead and touch base
with some of these towns and,
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I'll get a little more into that
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as we get into
the later pictures.
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Erick, if you can
share the... If I can...
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Hold on just a second,
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the individual on
the right hand side
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was from where on
that last picture?
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From Florida Hospital?
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Yes, Florida Hospital.
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Well, also played a great part.
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We were able to team up
not only with Florida hospital
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but also ADRA within
the Bella Vista Church,
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so you're talking about
agencies coming together
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to get this done.
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And then, you know,
GR3 coming in there,
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seeing what needs to get done,
and having boots on the ground.
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So I kind of cut off
Malcolm here a little bit
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but, Malcolm, if you
might share a little bit,
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what were some objectives
that we went in to accomplish
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and how did you
see it's accomplishing,
00:15:56.62\00:15:58.39
and whatever else you like to?
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Well, I just wanted to add that
00:15:59.79\00:16:01.76
part of the strategy of GR3
is that we're usually invited...
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Okay.
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To a deployment.
We don't just go in.
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It was important to note
that the Bella Vista Hospital
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requested that we
come in to assist them,
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they service a remote area,
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that's part of
their service area.
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And they had
difficulty and challenges
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meeting some of those needs,
00:16:21.44\00:16:22.88
so we went in there
on a voluntary basis,
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they very
graciously hosted us there.
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And during the course of
the time that we were there,
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we probably looked at and
serviced over 500 patients
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in various remote areas.
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We also provided, and Erick
will talk about this further,
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over $175,000 worth of gifts
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in kind,
medicines, and materials,
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and things like that.
00:16:48.50\00:16:49.84
So it wasn't just
simply a case of us going
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without knowing
what we're doing.
00:16:52.74\00:16:54.08
It was preplanned, there
was a careful assessment.
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And in fact that
assessment is continuing
00:16:56.51\00:16:58.78
and we'll talk
a little bit later
00:16:58.81\00:17:00.25
what we're
going to do with that.
00:17:00.28\00:17:02.05
So Malcolm, there is
another thing you accomplished
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that was pretty
significant as well
00:17:04.02\00:17:07.06
on this trip to Puerto Rico,
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working with the
university and jobs maybe,
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if you could share...
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Yeah, one of our team members
is from another part of the US,
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and he came
with a representation
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offering over 1,500 jobs
00:17:21.27\00:17:24.01
and we have
also about 3,000 jobs
00:17:24.04\00:17:27.88
that were available.
00:17:27.91\00:17:29.24
And we went down to Puerto
Rico to let individuals know
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that we're
there, we're supportive.
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You know, Puerto Rico's about
1,100 miles south of Miami,
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and it is been part of
the United States since 1898
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through the Spanish acquisition,
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so they're really part of us.
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And with this population
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of about three and
a half million people
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and a 100,000
people had left the island.
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We have noticed,
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when we were
leaving the airport,
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that there were people that
would pull up to the airport,
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leave their car
there, go in, get on a plane
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and just leave and come.
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We have reports
and you can verify this
00:18:04.58\00:18:06.61
that in Orlando there
are needs for more buses,
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more bus drivers, more teachers.
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There is an
expansion that's going on
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in certain parts of the country
00:18:14.96\00:18:16.86
with our Puerto
Rican friends and visitors.
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So there is a tremendous need.
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That need continues
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and we are here
to appeal to you,
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let you know first of
all, what is going on,
00:18:25.80\00:18:28.37
what we're doing about
it, and how you can help,
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and we'll talk
about that in a while.
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And what I want
to also add that,
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when you talked
about the airport,
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people actually just
leaving and not coming back,
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a 100,000 people,
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and there were
some outlying errors
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and we have people
that work here at 3ABN
00:18:43.69\00:18:47.76
whose family
particularly, the Denzies.
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And one of the towns I
think that you mentioned,
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there are outpost cities,
outpost small communities
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that were so cut off from access
00:18:55.40\00:18:58.23
that people had needs.
00:18:58.27\00:18:59.83
It was amazing that
people had, you know,
00:18:59.87\00:19:03.07
there particularly like
oxygen or a CPAP machine,
00:19:03.10\00:19:07.28
there was no
electricity to run those things.
00:19:07.31\00:19:09.58
And so when it
comes to some of the items
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you get there,
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what are some of the
things that you take?
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It's a very good question.
00:19:15.72\00:19:17.45
And that's where you try to do
00:19:17.49\00:19:18.82
the initial
assessment team doing
00:19:18.85\00:19:20.19
and so you're not
bringing the wrong things.
00:19:20.22\00:19:22.19
But a little bit, to piggyback
00:19:22.22\00:19:23.73
at what Malcolm
was sharing, some of,
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we tried to have
clear objectives going in.
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You modify that every day.
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But how much
medicine do you bring in?
00:19:30.30\00:19:33.13
Well, we had been in
touch with Bella Vista,
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and other doctors, and
with government doctors,
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teams of doctors,
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so we got all that intel in.
00:19:39.04\00:19:40.74
And we asked them to tell us,
00:19:40.78\00:19:42.54
"What medicine do
you need in particular?"
00:19:42.58\00:19:44.71
Which Erick is
gonna talk about it
00:19:44.75\00:19:46.08
a little bit more in a moment.
00:19:46.11\00:19:48.22
But specifically we took
in about $175,000 of meds,
00:19:48.25\00:19:52.99
and so this was the
stuff they requested though.
00:19:53.02\00:19:55.89
You want to try to match
what their needs and requests.
00:19:55.92\00:19:59.49
The hospital said,
"We need certain things."
00:19:59.53\00:20:01.13
So we tried to
bring that in initially,
00:20:01.16\00:20:03.10
and the kind of
medicine you need to go
00:20:03.13\00:20:05.23
and do the
mobile medical clinics
00:20:05.27\00:20:07.24
which they request
us to do... The triage.
00:20:07.27\00:20:08.70
The triage type of treatments
of people with acute care
00:20:08.74\00:20:12.34
and what not.
00:20:12.37\00:20:13.71
But say you have
to match the meds,
00:20:13.74\00:20:16.91
we have sent in
before we got there
00:20:16.95\00:20:18.58
a couple of 80,000 KW generators
00:20:18.61\00:20:23.35
with a very large fuel tanks,
00:20:23.39\00:20:25.22
500 gallon, 1000
gallon fuel tanks.
00:20:25.25\00:20:27.82
We knew that was a big need
00:20:27.86\00:20:29.19
because this is a
long term recovery.
00:20:29.22\00:20:30.56
Right.
00:20:30.59\00:20:31.93
The small generators
are giving out after,
00:20:31.96\00:20:33.70
you know, a month, two,
or whatever, so you need...
00:20:33.73\00:20:36.87
Diesel generators
are built to last.
00:20:36.90\00:20:39.27
They're estimating the
magnitude of the storm,
00:20:39.30\00:20:41.40
just to put it in perspective.
00:20:41.44\00:20:43.51
It's gonna be next march
before they get power back up
00:20:43.54\00:20:45.91
in the mountains.
00:20:45.94\00:20:47.28
The storm came,
hurricane came right up
00:20:47.31\00:20:49.14
through the center
part of the island.
00:20:49.18\00:20:51.08
And so you're
talking months down the road,
00:20:51.11\00:20:54.62
and so there's about 70% of
the inhabitants of Puerto Rico
00:20:54.65\00:20:59.35
that have water
00:20:59.39\00:21:00.72
but it's all condemned, okay?
00:21:00.76\00:21:02.82
You have about 20% of people
that have power right now,
00:21:02.86\00:21:07.30
and it's growing
maybe 10% a month.
00:21:07.33\00:21:10.67
And so this is long term,
00:21:10.70\00:21:12.03
there are no utility
directs lined up waiting.
00:21:12.07\00:21:15.04
And so as we
look at the magnitude,
00:21:15.07\00:21:17.61
Erick's gonna talk about
some of the rampant challenges
00:21:17.64\00:21:21.38
with diseases and outbreaks
and things of that nature too.
00:21:21.41\00:21:24.25
So you're trying to
match the going in there
00:21:24.28\00:21:26.68
with the correct needs.
00:21:26.72\00:21:28.28
Malcolm and some others went
in as business people saying
00:21:28.32\00:21:31.35
here's some jobs.
00:21:31.39\00:21:32.72
My son works
00:21:32.75\00:21:34.09
at the Orlando International
Airport and construction,
00:21:34.12\00:21:36.52
1800 people arriving
everyday from Puerto Rico,
00:21:36.56\00:21:40.60
and they go through a
quick theme assessment,
00:21:40.63\00:21:42.96
boom, here's
your check, that's it.
00:21:43.00\00:21:45.40
It's like, well,
where do we go from here?
00:21:45.43\00:21:47.40
And so people are
arriving, arriving, you know,
00:21:47.44\00:21:49.70
100,000 people is a lot
of people to assimilate.
00:21:49.74\00:21:51.91
Yeah, migration,
primarily... Yes.
00:21:51.94\00:21:53.78
And, so basically that's what
we're trying to do long term
00:21:53.81\00:21:57.65
is preempt some of
that, go and help them,
00:21:57.68\00:21:59.91
say here's jobs,
00:21:59.95\00:22:01.28
here's specific jobs of
people that will hire you.
00:22:01.32\00:22:03.99
Okay.
00:22:04.02\00:22:05.35
So that gives you a
little bit of insight
00:22:05.39\00:22:06.72
into the bigger picture.
00:22:06.76\00:22:08.76
Erick, I want to go back
to you 'cause you have some...
00:22:08.79\00:22:10.13
Sure, yeah.
00:22:10.16\00:22:11.49
So one of the
first things that we did
00:22:11.53\00:22:13.13
after we had our meetings was
00:22:13.16\00:22:15.73
we need to get
the community running.
00:22:15.76\00:22:17.97
They know, we
need to let them know
00:22:18.00\00:22:19.90
why we're there,
what are we gonna do.
00:22:19.93\00:22:22.20
And we also tried to,
we tried to empower them.
00:22:22.24\00:22:26.01
Sometimes they
have certain talents
00:22:26.04\00:22:29.54
but they're not sure whether
if they'll be needed or not.
00:22:29.58\00:22:32.15
So we had an appeal
00:22:32.18\00:22:33.75
that very next
Sabbath at the church,
00:22:33.78\00:22:35.28
and we went, we
met with the church,
00:22:35.32\00:22:37.19
we met with the church members.
00:22:37.22\00:22:38.55
We were able to talk to them,
00:22:38.59\00:22:40.49
let them know what our needs are
00:22:40.52\00:22:42.19
as a group coming in,
00:22:42.22\00:22:45.19
and we needed to have
food and water prepared.
00:22:45.23\00:22:49.93
I think there is a
picture of that, isn't there?
00:22:49.96\00:22:51.40
Yeah, the next couple
of pictures coming up here
00:22:51.43\00:22:53.27
are gonna be showing that.
00:22:53.30\00:22:54.64
This is the
appeal, Sabbath morning,
00:22:54.67\00:22:56.00
and from this appeal, we
had and 84 year old lady,
00:22:56.04\00:23:00.58
who is the director
of ADRA for Bella Vista,
00:23:00.61\00:23:05.15
and she's on the next slide,
00:23:05.18\00:23:07.05
and you will see
that she with her,
00:23:07.08\00:23:09.48
this is her niece,
00:23:09.52\00:23:11.15
she had 25
volunteers after that appeal
00:23:11.19\00:23:14.22
come Sunday morning,
5 o'clock in the morning
00:23:14.26\00:23:17.33
to start to getting meals ready.
00:23:17.36\00:23:18.93
They had 150 breakfasts for us.
00:23:18.96\00:23:21.93
And now I was just
asking for a little box of food.
00:23:21.96\00:23:26.23
And she goes, "Oh, no.
00:23:26.27\00:23:27.60
We need some hot meals."
00:23:27.64\00:23:28.97
She goes, "These families that
we have not touched base with,
00:23:29.00\00:23:33.21
they need a hot meal."
00:23:33.24\00:23:34.68
So she went out and
she made 150 breakfasts
00:23:34.71\00:23:38.85
and then she made 200 lunches
00:23:38.88\00:23:41.18
which she actually
came out in to the field
00:23:41.22\00:23:43.79
and brought to us,
00:23:43.82\00:23:45.15
which is about three hours away.
00:23:45.19\00:23:46.76
So we're talking
about 84 years old
00:23:46.79\00:23:48.79
and has the
energy of a young person.
00:23:48.82\00:23:52.43
And the picture
that was shown up there,
00:23:52.46\00:23:54.66
I'm sure if you have
anybody who is Puerto Rican,
00:23:54.70\00:23:58.03
anybody who has
family, there's a famous pot,
00:23:58.07\00:24:02.70
and that pot is
a Puerto Rican pot.
00:24:02.74\00:24:05.84
And she has the
biggest pot that I have seen,
00:24:05.87\00:24:08.68
and this is what
she uses to cook with.
00:24:08.71\00:24:10.05
Wow.
00:24:10.08\00:24:11.41
And then with her
help, we were out to,
00:24:11.45\00:24:14.72
we were able to
do food and water
00:24:14.75\00:24:16.92
as we had also
medical teams going out there.
00:24:16.95\00:24:19.99
We had set up a base camp,
00:24:20.02\00:24:22.56
but we're also
going door to door.
00:24:22.59\00:24:24.53
Now another thing
that I want to touch on is
00:24:24.56\00:24:26.49
how we were saying that we were
00:24:26.53\00:24:28.06
again, the community
ready and to help us.
00:24:28.10\00:24:31.33
The next slide
shows us a little town
00:24:31.37\00:24:34.17
that's called Mani,
00:24:34.20\00:24:35.67
this little town is on
the west side of the island.
00:24:35.70\00:24:38.87
This is right on the shore,
00:24:38.91\00:24:42.18
the Medical Cadet Corps,
very famous in Puerto Rico.
00:24:42.21\00:24:45.88
This is, over there,
after the Pathfinders
00:24:45.91\00:24:50.19
which is a youth ministry,
00:24:50.22\00:24:52.42
after they
reached the age of 16,
00:24:52.45\00:24:54.66
they actually go into
this Medical Cadet corp.
00:24:54.69\00:24:57.49
This is for young adults,
16 years of age and older,
00:24:57.53\00:25:01.00
and they have all kinds of
trainings that they go through,
00:25:01.03\00:25:03.87
CPR, medical responses,
00:25:03.90\00:25:07.40
so they know, and
they have been out,
00:25:07.44\00:25:09.30
and they actually were the
first ones out on the field
00:25:09.34\00:25:12.77
and were able
to even relay to us
00:25:12.81\00:25:14.84
as far as we need to focus
on this side of the island,
00:25:14.88\00:25:17.51
this side of the island
are where the needs are.
00:25:17.55\00:25:20.65
So we had young people
out there serving, you know,
00:25:20.68\00:25:24.62
that always brings me back
00:25:24.65\00:25:27.62
where it says that, you know,
00:25:27.66\00:25:29.56
"Jesus came not to
be served but to serve."
00:25:29.59\00:25:33.50
And this is what you
see with these young people.
00:25:33.53\00:25:38.37
So as we keep going
forward in these pictures,
00:25:38.40\00:25:43.67
you are also gonna
see some of the damages
00:25:43.71\00:25:47.14
which is where we
are gonna move in to.
00:25:47.18\00:25:49.84
We can't, we obviously
can't show you all the pictures,
00:25:49.88\00:25:52.78
we are very limited
to what we can show you,
00:25:52.81\00:25:55.58
but on these next
slides, you will see here
00:25:55.62\00:25:59.05
this is in the
same town, town of Mani,
00:25:59.09\00:26:02.42
which is on the western side,
00:26:02.46\00:26:04.16
the eastern side is
where they had a bigger surge.
00:26:04.19\00:26:07.26
This surge here, if
you look at the wall,
00:26:07.30\00:26:09.36
look at the
background... I got that.
00:26:09.40\00:26:10.73
You could see the
water line over the stove
00:26:10.77\00:26:13.17
and up into the first quarter
00:26:13.20\00:26:14.60
or the first
third of the building.
00:26:14.64\00:26:16.27
You are talking about
four to five feet of water
00:26:16.30\00:26:19.27
inside this home.
00:26:19.31\00:26:20.64
The next slide shows the
dirt, and the mud, and the sand
00:26:20.68\00:26:24.28
that was, that's on the floor.
00:26:24.31\00:26:26.38
The residue. Yeah.
00:26:26.41\00:26:29.05
We are talking to
some of the home owners
00:26:29.08\00:26:30.42
and they were saying that
00:26:30.45\00:26:31.79
it took about 48 hours
for this water to recede.
00:26:31.82\00:26:35.12
But you are talking
about furniture lost, beds,
00:26:35.16\00:26:38.23
whatever it is that they had
00:26:38.26\00:26:39.59
was all on the side of the road,
00:26:39.63\00:26:41.53
along with debris
and all kind of stuff.
00:26:41.56\00:26:43.80
And the next slide
here, this was a wooden home,
00:26:43.83\00:26:47.90
if you had a
wooden home in Puerto Rico
00:26:47.94\00:26:50.94
during this storm,
00:26:50.97\00:26:53.54
you suffered great damage,
00:26:53.58\00:26:56.68
some homes were completely gone.
00:26:56.71\00:27:00.32
One picture that I wasn't
able to give you was a home
00:27:00.35\00:27:03.92
that had concrete
block for the first floor,
00:27:03.95\00:27:07.26
wooden floor for
the second floor,
00:27:07.29\00:27:08.86
second floor
was completely gone.
00:27:08.89\00:27:10.49
And this was a family, a mother
who had eight foster children
00:27:10.53\00:27:15.73
and she had to
return those kids back
00:27:15.76\00:27:19.97
because she knew that
she wasn't gonna be able
00:27:20.00\00:27:21.50
to take care for
them during this time.
00:27:21.54\00:27:25.27
And then the rest of the story,
you can fill us in on that.
00:27:25.31\00:27:29.48
Well, she asked to
have the children back
00:27:29.51\00:27:32.15
after the storm came and went
00:27:32.18\00:27:34.25
and they refused to
give her back the children
00:27:34.28\00:27:37.62
because she has nowhere to go.
00:27:37.65\00:27:38.99
She and her husband are living
in a tent in their open garage,
00:27:39.02\00:27:43.69
and it's a very
tragic situation.
00:27:43.73\00:27:45.49
Erick and I were
there and we stood upstairs
00:27:45.53\00:27:47.56
and there is
nothing but open air.
00:27:47.60\00:27:49.40
And the tragedy is that
00:27:49.43\00:27:51.10
the children are
being used to one home,
00:27:51.13\00:27:54.10
have to go back and readjust,
00:27:54.14\00:27:55.67
and this is part of the
process of what we are doing
00:27:55.70\00:27:58.21
with the psychological,
social, emotional, training
00:27:58.24\00:28:01.81
that we provide also,
that's one of our objectives.
00:28:01.84\00:28:04.15
It's not just simply
the medical assessment,
00:28:04.18\00:28:06.61
but the
tremendous amount of needs
00:28:06.65\00:28:08.58
that are going to continue
for months and even years
00:28:08.62\00:28:11.55
with the psychological training.
00:28:11.59\00:28:13.19
Erick has some
slides about the help
00:28:13.22\00:28:16.26
that he gave the
children, the play therapy,
00:28:16.29\00:28:18.19
and it was just wonderful
00:28:18.23\00:28:19.93
as they really
feel they need that.
00:28:19.96\00:28:22.30
So, with the next
slide coming up, you will,
00:28:22.33\00:28:24.57
you are gonna see
some of the pictures
00:28:24.60\00:28:26.47
of the road ways.
00:28:26.50\00:28:28.34
This picture is
actually showing sewer.
00:28:28.37\00:28:32.74
It's showing here how
it all starting to back up.
00:28:32.77\00:28:35.51
Yes.
00:28:35.54\00:28:36.88
And which brings us in to
a number of health issues.
00:28:36.91\00:28:39.91
Okay.
00:28:39.95\00:28:41.28
Which we were
gonna, beginning in to...
00:28:41.32\00:28:42.65
Contamination.
00:28:42.68\00:28:44.02
Yeah, contamination, a disease
00:28:44.05\00:28:45.39
which we are gonna be talking
about in our story later.
00:28:45.42\00:28:47.66
This here shows the
road just being washed out.
00:28:47.69\00:28:52.53
And this town is, this is
on the east side of the island.
00:28:52.56\00:28:56.33
This is the
actual site of the island
00:28:56.36\00:28:57.87
that had seven to
eight feet of surge.
00:28:57.90\00:29:00.84
When you walked into homes,
00:29:00.87\00:29:02.64
there was water all
the way up to the ceiling.
00:29:02.67\00:29:04.81
And then this is what happens
00:29:04.84\00:29:06.17
when you have all this
wash out of the roads...
00:29:06.21\00:29:08.44
Erosion. Sinkholes.
00:29:08.48\00:29:10.41
You start to run,
and now you have here,
00:29:10.45\00:29:12.58
some of these towns
has one road going in.
00:29:12.61\00:29:15.05
So now you run into issues of
00:29:15.08\00:29:16.95
how can we bring
help to these residents
00:29:16.99\00:29:20.12
when we can't get there.
00:29:20.16\00:29:22.89
One of the towns
that also came up
00:29:22.92\00:29:24.73
as we were there was Utuado,
00:29:24.76\00:29:27.30
I think I am saying it right.
00:29:27.33\00:29:28.86
They actually
lost a major bridge
00:29:28.90\00:29:31.47
that connects the
people to the main part,
00:29:31.50\00:29:36.74
and they are having
to make chains of people
00:29:36.77\00:29:40.41
across the river
00:29:40.44\00:29:41.84
to be able to hand
over food and water,
00:29:41.88\00:29:43.65
to be able to get
it to that little town.
00:29:43.68\00:29:45.78
I think I have seen that picture
00:29:45.81\00:29:47.22
where they were
talking about how they took it
00:29:47.25\00:29:50.72
into their own responsibility
to create a human chain.
00:29:50.75\00:29:54.39
Yes.
00:29:54.42\00:29:55.76
So that they could
get supplies across.
00:29:55.79\00:29:57.29
And so many of these
stories are told and retold,
00:29:57.33\00:30:01.03
and the disaster, just to
add to the broadening picture,
00:30:01.06\00:30:04.07
you know, we had hurricane
Irma and then hurricane Maria,
00:30:04.10\00:30:07.77
and Maria was
kind of the clean up
00:30:07.80\00:30:10.21
of whatever Irma
didn't hit, Maria did.
00:30:10.24\00:30:12.64
And Maria really
devastated Puerto Rico,
00:30:12.67\00:30:14.58
but Irma
devastated the Virgin Islands,
00:30:14.61\00:30:16.61
and Maria also cleaned up
some of the Virgin Islands
00:30:16.64\00:30:18.98
like Saint Croix and then
strayed over to Puerto Rico.
00:30:19.01\00:30:21.62
So, we are
talking about a wide area.
00:30:21.65\00:30:23.42
And what I want to
emphasize on this is
00:30:23.45\00:30:24.79
when GR3 looks
at the assessment,
00:30:24.82\00:30:27.19
and you get a call,
00:30:27.22\00:30:28.79
and have to also determine
00:30:28.82\00:30:31.19
what your
resources are able to cover.
00:30:31.23\00:30:33.60
Because, if you got a call
from Saint Thomas, Saint John,
00:30:33.63\00:30:35.80
Saint Croix, Puerto
Rico at the same time,
00:30:35.83\00:30:38.33
you have to determine,
00:30:38.37\00:30:39.70
"Wow, how are we gonna be
able to cover that large area,
00:30:39.73\00:30:45.51
and begin to assess,
00:30:45.54\00:30:47.88
and then to bring
relief and recovery.
00:30:47.91\00:30:51.95
How do we do that?"
00:30:51.98\00:30:53.31
How do you determine, Dave?
00:30:53.35\00:30:54.68
And I want to ask
you this question.
00:30:54.72\00:30:56.05
How do you determine
what you are able to do?
00:30:56.08\00:30:57.95
Is it by the finances or
is it by the team size or...
00:30:57.99\00:31:00.79
And actually,
it's a good question,
00:31:00.82\00:31:02.46
an excellent question.
00:31:02.49\00:31:04.09
A lot of it is determined
by a number of factors.
00:31:04.13\00:31:07.80
One is when it's large enough,
00:31:07.83\00:31:11.83
you are always trying to
figure out how much beds,
00:31:11.87\00:31:14.20
how much supplies do you
take and resources needed.
00:31:14.24\00:31:17.27
And we need to keep in mind
00:31:17.31\00:31:19.11
that there were
storms happening domestically
00:31:19.14\00:31:21.58
in the US first... That's right.
00:31:21.61\00:31:23.11
And so we were responding,
00:31:23.14\00:31:24.61
we had one of our
paramedics in Houston
00:31:24.65\00:31:27.95
leading out a team there.
00:31:27.98\00:31:29.92
We had in Florida situations,
00:31:29.95\00:31:31.99
we were doing more
debris relief in Florida
00:31:32.02\00:31:34.69
where some of fork
lifts and things you know,
00:31:34.72\00:31:37.69
heavy duty stuff.
00:31:37.73\00:31:39.16
But then we saw, you
know, the path of things coming,
00:31:39.19\00:31:41.96
because we are focused more
00:31:42.00\00:31:43.53
on doing
international response now.
00:31:43.57\00:31:45.83
So you are looking
at the global picture,
00:31:45.87\00:31:47.74
usually where there's one storm,
00:31:47.77\00:31:49.20
the next one's on its heels.
00:31:49.24\00:31:51.01
And it just
usually happens cyclically.
00:31:51.04\00:31:53.58
And so too often we think,
"Oh, whatever organization,
00:31:53.61\00:31:58.71
we are big enough to do it all."
00:31:58.75\00:32:00.25
No, you are not.
00:32:00.28\00:32:01.62
You are a little
pebble in the pond.
00:32:01.65\00:32:03.12
And so you are
trying to asses now
00:32:03.15\00:32:05.25
where do you put
your priorities and focus,
00:32:05.29\00:32:08.22
and there is donor
fatigue going on globally.
00:32:08.26\00:32:11.33
There's so many
storms happening,
00:32:11.36\00:32:12.86
people are saying,
"Well, I already gave
00:32:12.89\00:32:14.53
or what do I give to,"
00:32:14.56\00:32:16.20
that's another
challenge that is facing,
00:32:16.23\00:32:18.30
there are many
emergency response organizations
00:32:18.33\00:32:21.20
that seized to
exist today financially.
00:32:21.24\00:32:23.64
Even in light of GoFundMe. Yes.
00:32:23.67\00:32:26.21
Because people, I've seen
on, I did a go GoFundMe page
00:32:26.24\00:32:28.74
for a family help in St. Thomas.
00:32:28.78\00:32:31.61
After doing that
00:32:31.65\00:32:32.98
I have realized
so many GoFundMe,
00:32:33.01\00:32:34.92
Help Puerto Rico, Help
Harvey, Help Miami, help
00:32:34.95\00:32:37.89
and so that's the donor fatigue
00:32:37.92\00:32:40.62
because people will say,
"How can we give to so many?
00:32:40.66\00:32:44.43
Our resources are limited."
00:32:44.46\00:32:46.80
But then also to help,
00:32:46.83\00:32:48.16
and when you talk
about the assessment of it,
00:32:48.20\00:32:51.17
the team that you talked about.
00:32:51.20\00:32:52.77
You partnered with
other organizations too,
00:32:52.80\00:32:54.94
like ADRE,
00:32:54.97\00:32:56.30
you mentioned one of
those which is helping us
00:32:56.34\00:32:58.04
in development of relief agency,
00:32:58.07\00:32:59.91
so that helps you to
collaborate your efforts.
00:32:59.94\00:33:03.41
And I just, may you
want to speak to that,
00:33:03.45\00:33:05.75
but I want to ask
Malcolm a legal question
00:33:05.78\00:33:07.52
because on that perspective,
I didn't forget you,
00:33:07.55\00:33:10.89
How do you get by the
logistics of it legally
00:33:10.92\00:33:14.12
because, you know,
there are so many risks
00:33:14.16\00:33:16.66
to not only to team members,
00:33:16.69\00:33:18.83
but you are going into areas
00:33:18.86\00:33:20.20
where if a team
member's hurt on a foreign soil.
00:33:20.23\00:33:22.90
These are the
logistics that, how do you...
00:33:22.93\00:33:26.37
To answer that question simply,
there is always that risk,
00:33:26.40\00:33:29.57
and there is the
aspect of due diligence.
00:33:29.60\00:33:32.57
And our volunteers are
well aware of the dangers,
00:33:32.61\00:33:37.15
potential dangers,
00:33:37.18\00:33:38.51
but we use every
effort to keep them safe
00:33:38.55\00:33:40.72
and to make them safe.
00:33:40.75\00:33:42.08
We usually have security with us
00:33:42.12\00:33:43.85
and to help answer
your question to David,
00:33:43.89\00:33:46.65
again, we go in by invitation.
00:33:46.69\00:33:49.36
We always do a pre-assessment,
00:33:49.39\00:33:51.23
and we always make sure
that we have a place to go,
00:33:51.26\00:33:54.60
we have adequate security.
00:33:54.63\00:33:56.26
We will not put
our volunteers at risk
00:33:56.30\00:33:59.73
in any way
shape, manner, or form.
00:33:59.77\00:34:01.84
As much as we do that,
00:34:01.87\00:34:03.20
there is still always
that potential for danger,
00:34:03.24\00:34:05.47
but we try to minimize that.
00:34:05.51\00:34:07.08
If you go to our
website, you will find that
00:34:07.11\00:34:08.74
you can find place to
sign up as a volunteer,
00:34:08.78\00:34:11.71
and also we provide excellent
insurance while you are away,
00:34:11.75\00:34:16.08
it's very, very inexpensive.
00:34:16.12\00:34:17.72
So those are two other things
00:34:17.75\00:34:19.59
that we wanted
to address with you.
00:34:19.62\00:34:21.52
And I brought that up
00:34:21.56\00:34:22.89
because of being aware
looking at the website.
00:34:22.92\00:34:24.56
I want you people to know,
00:34:24.59\00:34:25.96
those of you listening
and watching the program,
00:34:25.99\00:34:27.53
I want you to know
00:34:27.56\00:34:28.90
that they are not
flying by circumstance,
00:34:28.93\00:34:32.53
but they are
covering these issues.
00:34:32.57\00:34:34.74
So that when you
partner with the GR3,
00:34:34.77\00:34:37.27
you are not
putting yourself at risk
00:34:37.31\00:34:39.01
without any kind
of possible coverage
00:34:39.04\00:34:42.24
if something happens to
me while I am in the field,
00:34:42.28\00:34:44.98
there is coverage, like
you mentioned insurance.
00:34:45.01\00:34:47.42
But, then also from a
paramedic, EMT perspective,
00:34:47.45\00:34:52.12
having been in many
of these situations,
00:34:52.15\00:34:54.49
you say well here
are some of the things
00:34:54.52\00:34:55.96
that we have to be very careful
00:34:55.99\00:34:57.53
before we even go
into situations like that.
00:34:57.56\00:35:00.43
And we want to make sure
that we have the skill set,
00:35:00.46\00:35:04.53
the expertise for
the particular location.
00:35:04.57\00:35:07.57
We don't want to
overestimate our ability.
00:35:07.60\00:35:10.87
We want to be humbly enough
to recognize our limitations.
00:35:10.91\00:35:13.94
I think it's very
important of that pre-assessment
00:35:13.98\00:35:16.31
that we have talked
about numerous times
00:35:16.34\00:35:18.18
is taken care of
and looked after.
00:35:18.21\00:35:19.91
Erick?
00:35:19.95\00:35:21.28
And, John, I want
to mention like this,
00:35:21.32\00:35:22.92
the assessment
is an ongoing thing.
00:35:22.95\00:35:24.72
That's right, 'cause you...
00:35:24.75\00:35:26.09
That's something they
can change day-to-day,
00:35:26.12\00:35:27.46
it can change hour-to-hour.
00:35:27.49\00:35:29.12
And the next couple of
pictures you are going to see
00:35:29.16\00:35:30.89
where we actually have the group
00:35:30.93\00:35:33.83
that is actually
out in the field.
00:35:33.86\00:35:35.40
Now this is what we
call boots on the ground.
00:35:35.43\00:35:38.70
And I just want to
sidetrack just for one second.
00:35:38.73\00:35:41.60
Something we,
you will see pictures
00:35:41.64\00:35:43.61
where we went into the
little town of Maricao,
00:35:43.64\00:35:47.34
up in the mountains
which was called Indiera Fría.
00:35:47.38\00:35:50.45
When we went there,
something as simple as,
00:35:50.48\00:35:52.38
we were there for hours,
00:35:52.41\00:35:53.95
something as simple as
not having a bathroom location
00:35:53.98\00:35:58.19
for our staff to be
able to go to the bathroom,
00:35:58.22\00:36:01.22
to be able to, I mean,
something as simple as that.
00:36:01.26\00:36:05.56
I was actually
joking with Pastor Canther,
00:36:05.59\00:36:07.86
I had a knife with me,
00:36:07.90\00:36:09.56
and that knife on this
trip opened up so many,
00:36:09.60\00:36:11.90
it's a knife, a little trick
00:36:11.93\00:36:13.67
that we use at
the fire department
00:36:13.70\00:36:15.27
to be able to open doors.
00:36:15.30\00:36:17.01
Now I say that, I
say that cautiously
00:36:17.04\00:36:20.64
because there's doors
that God always closes for us
00:36:20.68\00:36:25.05
because He doesn't
want us to go there.
00:36:25.08\00:36:26.51
So, when I physically open
a door with that little knife,
00:36:26.55\00:36:30.39
that thought
always comes to my head.
00:36:30.42\00:36:32.55
You know, is this a door
that the Lord wants me to open.
00:36:32.59\00:36:36.09
And that day,
00:36:36.12\00:36:38.13
we were in a little
basketball court, covered,
00:36:38.16\00:36:43.90
and we were able to
open up the bathrooms
00:36:43.93\00:36:45.67
that were there,
00:36:45.70\00:36:47.04
so we were able to use it.
00:36:47.07\00:36:48.44
We were using that
area as a base camp.
00:36:48.47\00:36:51.64
So to go back to
some of the pictures here,
00:36:51.67\00:36:53.54
we have here
doctors from California,
00:36:53.58\00:36:56.04
doctors from Maples,
Florida, from Fort Myers,
00:36:56.08\00:37:00.52
and we were on...
00:37:00.55\00:37:01.88
Seen here, this is Dr. Fox,
00:37:01.92\00:37:04.92
a wound
specialist from California,
00:37:04.95\00:37:07.19
and he was treating
here a diabetic patient
00:37:07.22\00:37:09.52
that had a sore on her foot
00:37:09.56\00:37:12.66
that had not
been seen or treated
00:37:12.69\00:37:16.03
for the last 30 days.
00:37:16.06\00:37:17.80
He was able to go in
there, debris, clean it,
00:37:17.83\00:37:21.17
and give her a fresh
bandage and fresh wrap,
00:37:21.20\00:37:24.71
which it might seem
like a little thing,
00:37:24.74\00:37:27.74
but kept her from having,
from developing an infection
00:37:27.78\00:37:32.85
and serious problems later on.
00:37:32.88\00:37:34.75
And this is a lady who
just needed a simple treatment
00:37:34.78\00:37:37.65
to be able to keep her healthy.
00:37:37.69\00:37:39.09
This is now a German who came in
00:37:39.12\00:37:40.69
who had a cyst on his back,
00:37:40.72\00:37:43.19
a cyst that was about a
good three to four inches,
00:37:43.22\00:37:46.80
and we were able
to take care of it,
00:37:46.83\00:37:50.23
and clean it out from.
00:37:50.27\00:37:51.70
And then some of the next slides
00:37:51.73\00:37:53.60
that you are gonna see here
also show you the whole team.
00:37:53.64\00:37:56.50
Wow.
00:37:56.54\00:37:57.87
As this is the team
that went into the mountains,
00:37:57.91\00:38:01.11
I mean, I can't even
give you a number there,
00:38:01.14\00:38:02.88
but you can see
the amount of people.
00:38:02.91\00:38:04.51
And when they,
they were very thankful,
00:38:04.55\00:38:08.48
the hospital, to have us there
00:38:08.52\00:38:10.29
where you had
doctors and nurses,
00:38:10.32\00:38:12.59
they were coming off
duty and were saying,
00:38:12.62\00:38:15.52
"Where are you guys out
today, I want to come with you."
00:38:15.56\00:38:17.76
And these are local
doctors that were able
00:38:17.79\00:38:20.20
not only to help us to be able
to get to some of these towns.
00:38:20.23\00:38:22.53
Some of them
were from these towns,
00:38:22.56\00:38:23.97
lived in these towns,
and were happy to go back
00:38:24.00\00:38:27.07
'cause they had
families, relatives,
00:38:27.10\00:38:29.67
to be able to go and
take part of this effort.
00:38:29.70\00:38:35.14
And I want to mention
some of the partners also,
00:38:35.18\00:38:40.02
MAP International
which actually helped us
00:38:40.05\00:38:41.95
to get some of
the pharmaceuticals.
00:38:41.98\00:38:44.49
What does MAP mean?
00:38:44.52\00:38:46.69
I will turn over to Dave.
00:38:46.72\00:38:48.06
He's been working
with them for years.
00:38:48.09\00:38:49.99
So MAP has been a great partner.
00:38:50.03\00:38:51.93
They have many donors
that sponsor pharmaceuticals.
00:38:51.96\00:38:55.03
A lot of pharmaceuticals
are from the Netherlands,
00:38:55.06\00:38:56.93
different countries that
are pennies on the dollar
00:38:56.97\00:38:59.63
compared to the cost
of getting them in the US,
00:38:59.67\00:39:02.27
they are the
largest in the world.
00:39:02.30\00:39:03.91
We have found
that by partnering,
00:39:03.94\00:39:05.74
it is a huge blessing.
00:39:05.77\00:39:07.64
And so when we
order like in Haiti,
00:39:07.68\00:39:09.94
24 million
dollars of pharmaceuticals
00:39:09.98\00:39:12.15
which we brought in, you know,
00:39:12.18\00:39:13.55
with 7500
medical care providers.
00:39:13.58\00:39:16.99
It's a lot of value in medicine,
00:39:17.02\00:39:19.55
but we are getting it
for pennies on the dollar.
00:39:19.59\00:39:21.96
And so donors say,
00:39:21.99\00:39:23.32
"Well, how can you
afford $24 million?"
00:39:23.36\00:39:24.79
I know, I was just
thinking about that.
00:39:24.83\00:39:26.16
But the beautiful
thing is you have donors
00:39:26.19\00:39:27.53
that are
sponsoring MAP medicine,
00:39:27.56\00:39:29.40
so they can buy it,
00:39:29.43\00:39:30.77
they are buying it
from the Netherlands
00:39:30.80\00:39:32.13
and other sources,
00:39:32.17\00:39:33.50
so they're getting it
pennies on the dollars
00:39:33.54\00:39:34.87
compared to US prices,
00:39:34.90\00:39:36.71
so partnerships are invaluable.
00:39:36.74\00:39:39.01
People say, "How
can you do so much?"
00:39:39.04\00:39:41.18
And the reason is
because of partnerships.
00:39:44.45\00:39:46.88
And, David, we
can add that air link
00:39:46.92\00:39:49.38
is another tremendous partner
that just helps us with travel
00:39:49.42\00:39:52.35
and transportation arrangements.
00:39:52.39\00:39:54.12
Okay.
00:39:54.16\00:39:55.49
And other
organizations like that.
00:39:55.52\00:39:57.33
Air link?
00:39:57.36\00:39:58.69
Air link. Okay.
00:39:58.73\00:40:00.06
So these are ways that
GR3, while being the core,
00:40:00.10\00:40:05.23
while being the base of it,
00:40:05.27\00:40:06.87
if I could use the
analogy of the octopus,
00:40:06.90\00:40:09.37
there are many arms.
00:40:09.40\00:40:10.81
There must be many
arms in emergency response,
00:40:10.84\00:40:13.48
if not, you would need to have
00:40:13.51\00:40:15.44
so many millions
and millions of dollars,
00:40:15.48\00:40:17.88
because we do
know many organizations
00:40:17.91\00:40:20.18
that we work alongside.
00:40:20.22\00:40:23.05
They fly expensive air fares,
00:40:23.08\00:40:25.72
they stay in first class hotels,
00:40:25.75\00:40:29.02
they do a lot of things
that cost a lot of money.
00:40:29.06\00:40:31.29
GR3 has always
operated on the premise
00:40:31.33\00:40:33.70
that we all are volunteers.
00:40:33.73\00:40:37.13
You have less than
one percent overhead
00:40:37.17\00:40:39.43
compared to many organizations
00:40:39.47\00:40:41.10
that it's 70 percent overhead...
00:40:41.14\00:40:43.24
I have learned that recently.
00:40:43.27\00:40:44.61
And a lot of
people don't realize that.
00:40:44.64\00:40:45.97
They don't know that.
00:40:46.01\00:40:47.34
But when you
are giving a dollar,
00:40:47.38\00:40:48.71
70% of it is
going to administration.
00:40:48.74\00:40:50.08
It's not boots on the ground.
00:40:50.11\00:40:51.75
We are opposite of that.
00:40:51.78\00:40:53.31
So when you give
a donation to GR3...
00:40:53.35\00:40:56.95
You know, Danny
has asked the question,
00:40:56.99\00:40:58.59
you have over the
years, "How do you do so much?
00:40:58.62\00:41:01.19
Well, it's because that donation
00:41:01.22\00:41:02.92
is going directly
into action helping people.
00:41:02.96\00:41:06.53
And so by having
partnerships when the,
00:41:06.56\00:41:08.66
Malcolm works a
lot with air link,
00:41:08.70\00:41:11.43
making sure that
our first responders
00:41:11.47\00:41:13.13
have free airfare.
00:41:13.17\00:41:15.00
Now some of the doc could
pay for their own air fare,
00:41:15.04\00:41:17.31
but when you do things
like that to bless others,
00:41:17.34\00:41:20.14
it allows them to
return to keep helping,
00:41:20.18\00:41:22.98
and it helps be good
stewards of God's money.
00:41:23.01\00:41:28.45
So when people give, they say,
00:41:28.48\00:41:29.82
"Wow, that is really
making a difference."
00:41:29.85\00:41:33.05
And I heard about
one organization is,
00:41:33.09\00:41:35.72
I am glad you made that point,
00:41:35.76\00:41:37.39
because a lot of times
when people hear donation,
00:41:37.43\00:41:40.13
they ask, "How much
is going to the field?
00:41:40.16\00:41:42.46
How much is going
to the participants?"
00:41:42.50\00:41:44.77
I heard a story
where one company,
00:41:44.80\00:41:46.70
I'm not going to
mention the name of the company,
00:41:46.74\00:41:48.07
it's fairly well
known around the world,
00:41:48.10\00:41:49.67
that the CEO had a
650,000 dollar bonus,
00:41:49.70\00:41:54.18
and I thought,
"Do the people know
00:41:54.21\00:41:57.61
that the 650,000 of
their donated dollars
00:41:57.65\00:42:00.08
just was a bonus, not salary."
00:42:00.12\00:42:02.65
How much relief can the
people actually experience
00:42:02.68\00:42:04.65
on the ground?
00:42:04.69\00:42:06.02
And a lot of that happens,
00:42:06.05\00:42:07.39
but the GR3's
philosophy is we volunteer,
00:42:07.42\00:42:09.72
and the money goes to
fund the relief effort,
00:42:09.76\00:42:12.43
the assessment effort,
and the revitalization effort.
00:42:12.46\00:42:15.40
And if I can just add to that,
00:42:15.43\00:42:16.77
one of the most rewarding
things was our opportunity
00:42:16.80\00:42:18.93
to visit the Anatolian
Adventist University...
00:42:18.97\00:42:21.50
Yes.
00:42:21.54\00:42:22.87
Dr. Herman is a
wonderful, wonderful man,
00:42:22.90\00:42:25.71
and they have a
problem with water,
00:42:25.74\00:42:28.74
and they have a
problem with electricity,
00:42:28.78\00:42:30.75
and they are spending
about 7,000 dollars a day
00:42:30.78\00:42:33.18
in a budget
00:42:33.21\00:42:34.55
that they don't
have that money for,
00:42:34.58\00:42:36.18
just to keep things going.
00:42:36.22\00:42:37.55
Now the point that I am
raising is that we have partners
00:42:37.59\00:42:40.29
that helped us
in the Philippines
00:42:40.32\00:42:42.06
to provide huge
water-filtration systems.
00:42:42.09\00:42:45.79
And they have asked us
to help them with this.
00:42:45.83\00:42:48.36
And we are working
towards getting that process
00:42:48.40\00:42:51.47
where we can take the system
00:42:51.50\00:42:53.23
to help keep the
university going.
00:42:53.27\00:42:55.07
So let's pray for them,
let's continue to work hard,
00:42:55.10\00:42:58.01
and we will work
with our partners,
00:42:58.04\00:42:59.37
see what we can do to
get the Anatolian University
00:42:59.41\00:43:02.81
back on track and working again.
00:43:02.84\00:43:04.75
And similar to
Maranatha which does building,
00:43:04.78\00:43:08.48
you were the
reserve, a rescue, relief,
00:43:08.52\00:43:12.39
and resilience
aspect of an operation
00:43:12.42\00:43:15.22
that operates on pretty much
the same premise by invitation.
00:43:15.26\00:43:19.26
Now do you have
any more pictures
00:43:19.29\00:43:20.63
that you want to walk through?
00:43:20.66\00:43:22.00
I have the last set of pictures
here I want to show you.
00:43:22.03\00:43:23.63
It's something that
we, that we tend to forget.
00:43:23.67\00:43:26.33
Yes, and these are the kids.
00:43:26.37\00:43:28.67
While we had the base
clinic, those in the mountains,
00:43:28.70\00:43:32.81
I saw these kids
that were hanging around,
00:43:32.84\00:43:34.24
they came with the families.
00:43:34.28\00:43:35.74
Now you know they,
00:43:35.78\00:43:38.88
it's hard sometimes to
have a child open up to you
00:43:38.91\00:43:44.29
and share their
feelings with you.
00:43:44.32\00:43:46.62
So you start
with, what is called,
00:43:46.65\00:43:48.72
was called play therapy.
00:43:48.76\00:43:50.59
So you get them involved,
they get your confidence,
00:43:50.63\00:43:54.73
and you start to, you know,
00:43:54.76\00:43:56.87
they start to
learn and talk with you,
00:43:56.90\00:43:58.97
and then they start to open up.
00:43:59.00\00:44:00.34
And kids, believe it or not,
00:44:00.37\00:44:04.37
they like to have a
little bit of discipline,
00:44:04.41\00:44:07.31
And what I mean by that is,
00:44:07.44\00:44:09.81
I am one of the directors for
the Bonita Springs Pathfinders.
00:44:09.84\00:44:13.68
So to me, when I see kids,
I try to put them into action.
00:44:13.72\00:44:17.35
So even these
kids that are there,
00:44:17.39\00:44:20.62
I had them marching.
00:44:20.66\00:44:22.79
I had them like if they were,
like if they were a little...
00:44:22.82\00:44:25.39
Little military. A
little pathfinder group.
00:44:25.43\00:44:27.43
Okay.
00:44:27.46\00:44:28.80
And let me tell you
that we were playing games,
00:44:28.83\00:44:30.67
we are doing all the stuff,
00:44:30.70\00:44:32.03
and they always ask me,
"Let's go back to marching.
00:44:32.07\00:44:33.77
Let's go back,
we want to march."
00:44:33.80\00:44:35.14
Why?
00:44:35.17\00:44:36.50
'Cause possibly
for the first time
00:44:36.54\00:44:37.87
they were able to do
something as a group together,
00:44:37.91\00:44:40.24
and they were seeing the results
00:44:40.28\00:44:42.31
of how they were
able to work together.
00:44:42.34\00:44:45.31
And so, you know, we
were talking with them,
00:44:45.35\00:44:47.88
and this is one of those stories
00:44:47.92\00:44:50.42
where the parents were like,
00:44:50.45\00:44:51.79
they have been so into
trying to get their homes fixed,
00:44:51.82\00:44:54.49
trying to get water, food.
00:44:54.52\00:44:56.32
You know some of these
things that they have to get
00:44:56.36\00:44:58.49
where they are not able
to have that time with their,
00:44:58.53\00:45:01.93
with their children.
00:45:01.96\00:45:03.30
Just to be able
to be, to be kids,
00:45:03.33\00:45:05.27
and you know, the
parents were like,
00:45:05.30\00:45:08.30
"This is the first time
I have seen my child smile
00:45:08.34\00:45:11.01
and even laugh."
00:45:11.04\00:45:12.37
In the midst of disaster. Yeah.
00:45:12.41\00:45:13.74
Tell me about the
by faith credit card
00:45:13.78\00:45:15.24
because these things that
you are doing take funding.
00:45:15.28\00:45:18.45
Are there ways that
people can participate?
00:45:18.48\00:45:19.91
They do.
00:45:19.95\00:45:21.28
And what Erick was tapping into,
00:45:21.32\00:45:22.65
and I will get to
that in just a second,
00:45:22.68\00:45:24.49
it has to do with intervention,
00:45:24.52\00:45:26.29
the sooner you intervene
in the traumatic stress,
00:45:26.32\00:45:29.72
the sooner they
respond, and they're resilient,
00:45:29.76\00:45:31.83
God has made us that way.
00:45:31.86\00:45:33.26
So what Malcolm
and Erick are sharing
00:45:33.29\00:45:35.86
that mental and
emotional, spiritual care
00:45:35.90\00:45:37.87
is very intentional
with GR3 and what we do.
00:45:37.90\00:45:41.60
Well, 80% of people's
illnesses are of the mind
00:45:41.64\00:45:44.87
and it develops into others.
00:45:44.91\00:45:46.51
And the good point of that
is you are not just restoring
00:45:46.54\00:45:48.24
buildings, and
roads, and waters,
00:45:48.28\00:45:52.68
but you are restoring people.
00:45:52.71\00:45:54.12
That's a very,
00:45:54.15\00:45:55.48
and the Pastoral aspect of
that gives you that insight
00:45:55.52\00:45:58.92
that we are not just
administering to broken things,
00:45:58.95\00:46:01.19
but to broken people.
00:46:01.22\00:46:02.56
Pastor John, I
want to mention to you,
00:46:02.59\00:46:04.09
we talked about this earlier.
00:46:04.13\00:46:05.83
This is the card
actually that we use by faith.
00:46:05.86\00:46:09.13
This is the credit card
that all of our expenses
00:46:09.16\00:46:11.57
for buying meds for, deploying
goes on through the years.
00:46:11.60\00:46:17.34
It is by faith.
00:46:17.37\00:46:18.71
There are times
that my wife and I
00:46:18.74\00:46:20.08
have had to pick
up the tab on this,
00:46:20.11\00:46:24.01
but we continued to
know that God is faithful.
00:46:24.05\00:46:27.48
Right now, there is a balance
on this credit card of $28,000.
00:46:27.52\00:46:31.39
Deployments, medicine,
00:46:31.42\00:46:33.46
and sometimes we need
to assure the particulars
00:46:33.49\00:46:36.26
that our listeners
listen, there are viewers,
00:46:36.29\00:46:40.16
and they say, "How can I help?"
00:46:40.20\00:46:41.83
I want to make an appeal
00:46:41.86\00:46:43.20
that God may be
speaking to someone right now.
00:46:43.23\00:46:46.50
There is a $28,000
balance on this credit card.
00:46:46.53\00:46:49.20
There are other storms coming,
and God maybe speaking to you
00:46:49.24\00:46:53.48
and saying, "You know,
this is a specific need."
00:46:53.51\00:46:55.54
We know how our money can
be blessed and multiplied.
00:46:55.58\00:46:59.31
And if you would like
to make that donation,
00:46:59.35\00:47:01.15
there is an address right now
that you can see on the screen.
00:47:01.18\00:47:03.49
We will give it to
them before the program.
00:47:03.52\00:47:04.85
And that will be on the screen,
00:47:04.89\00:47:06.22
and it's a new address
00:47:06.25\00:47:07.59
that we have a benefactor
that is actually starting up
00:47:07.62\00:47:11.69
over calling our
new training center
00:47:11.73\00:47:13.50
in Clermont, Florida.
00:47:13.53\00:47:14.86
That address will be
on the screen at the end.
00:47:14.90\00:47:17.33
And there is a phone number.
00:47:17.37\00:47:18.70
It's Malcolm's phone number
00:47:18.73\00:47:20.90
so that when
they make a donation,
00:47:20.94\00:47:23.07
you can call
Malcolm, speak to him.
00:47:23.10\00:47:24.87
If you are calling
on the Latino station,
00:47:24.91\00:47:26.64
you will speak with Erick.
00:47:26.68\00:47:28.24
Malcolm will send a
personal thank you as a donor
00:47:28.28\00:47:32.31
to help out with things
00:47:32.35\00:47:33.72
specifically
like this credit card.
00:47:33.75\00:47:35.08
Okay.
00:47:35.12\00:47:36.45
So that's what we
are believing for is,
00:47:36.48\00:47:38.05
we don't believe this
balance should be here.
00:47:38.09\00:47:40.52
And so a number of you
could give small donations,
00:47:40.56\00:47:43.63
some of you could
give larger donations,
00:47:43.66\00:47:45.53
but whatever exceeds this
00:47:45.56\00:47:47.26
goes in to our next
deployment in helping.
00:47:47.30\00:47:49.86
So we are just
thankful that many of you donors
00:47:49.90\00:47:52.50
through the years
have made this possible.
00:47:52.53\00:47:54.37
And I also want to
mention something that,
00:47:54.40\00:47:55.74
we did not
establish in the beginning.
00:47:55.77\00:47:57.11
Not only are you an
EMT, and a paramedic,
00:47:57.14\00:47:59.91
and have been in
the field for 19 years,
00:47:59.94\00:48:01.34
but you are the
Spanish Director for GR3.
00:48:01.38\00:48:04.91
I just want to make sure
that we put that in place.
00:48:04.95\00:48:06.68
And as Pastor David pointed out,
00:48:06.72\00:48:10.22
there are
differences that you can make
00:48:10.25\00:48:13.49
in your donations,
00:48:13.52\00:48:14.86
if you want to
participate in, you may say,
00:48:14.89\00:48:16.79
"I want to be a volunteer,"
00:48:16.83\00:48:18.16
at the website information,
we give you in just a moment,
00:48:18.19\00:48:20.10
you will find out
how to be a volunteer,
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how to be involved in
not only volunteering,
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but receiving training
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because there are
upcoming disasters
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that are not
yet on our calendar.
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We don't have
it in the news yet,
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but we live in a world of
constant pain and disaster.
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And there is
this ever present need
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to help
individuals in the sense of 3Gs
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or the 3Rs rescue,
relief, and resilience.
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And so to participate
in that, to volunteer,
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to be part of the
training, to find out more
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about inviting this organization
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to come and
present at your facility,
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as well as donating,
they are 501 C3 organizations,
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so this is a tax
deductible donation.
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Here is the information
that you need to participate
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in this ministry.
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Thousands of youth and adults
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are joining the
GR3 volunteer community
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since volunteer work
is an exceptional way
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to help others.
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To join their
global response network,
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please visit their
website, GR3International.org.
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There you will find the
various ways they provide
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disaster preparedness
training, education,
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and related services
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to both domestic
and global communities.
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Donate online at
GR3International.org
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or call them at (941) 504-2324.
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Their mailing address
is GR3 International 11450,
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Nellie Oaks Bend,
Clermont, Florida 34711.
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