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 3ABN Today.
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My name is CA Murray,
and allow me once again
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to thank you for sharing just
a little of your day with us,
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so thank you as always
for your love, your prayers,
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your support of Three
Angels Broadcasting Network
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as together we
seek to warn the world,
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and encourage men and
women to the fact that
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Christ is coming soon,
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and we must be
prepared for that day.
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But while we are
preparing for that day,
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Christ has called us
to live and to occupy
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and to the very best we
can to be the hands and feet
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of Jesus here and
now on planet earth.
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That's what this
program is all about.
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We're gonna be
talking about ADRA,
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The Adventist Development
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and Relief Agency International,
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and we're gonna kind
of walk over through that.
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My guest is Jonathan Duffy.
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Jonathan, good to have you here.
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Pleasure to be here, CA.
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Now, let me start right off
by saying that lilting ascent
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that we just heard tells
me you're not from Brooklyn.
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I'm a little
further south. Yeah.
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Down in Australia.
Indeed, in Australia.
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Where in Australia? In the.
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Well, I grew up in
Adelaide in South Australia,
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but I spread my
professional career between
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Melbourne and
Sydney in the last 15 years
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before I moved to the
US were spend in Sydney.
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Adventists home
growing up? It was.
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I was born to Adventist parents.
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My father was a teacher in
the Adventist school system.
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My mother was a nurse. Ah, okay.
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Adventists home,
brothers and sisters?
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I've got one
sister, two brothers.
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And you're where in
that line? I'm the baby.
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No matter how old you
are, you're always the baby.
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Yes, always the
baby. Always the baby.
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They say many
things about the baby
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that baby can go into many, many
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different kinds of directions.
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It is one thing,
Jonathan, as you well know
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to grow up in Adventist
home, it is another thing
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to know Christ for yourself.
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I mean, you can
have your accouterments
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of Adventism.
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But it's one thing to
be surrounded by Adventism,
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another thing to be
Adventist or to be in Christ.
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When did that
realization come to you?
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And ask that and light us
with things we talked about
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because you were a...
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I don't want to say nayer doer,
but you were working your way
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to be a pretty good footballer,
Australian who is footballer.
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But some of that
was kind of truncated
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because you
couldn't play on Sabbath.
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But walk me through that
and then when Christ became
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real to you as a person?
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Well, you know, it's
difficult to actually say
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when Christ became
real to me as a person.
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And while I did grow
up in an Adventist home,
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I grew up in a
fantastic local church.
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And right from the young
age that local church gave me
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responsibility.
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I remember, you know,
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I was a deacon at the
age of 15 or something
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and my dad thought,
"Wow, that was bit young,
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you know, should they
be asking you to do that."
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But, you know, when
your church notice you,
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wouldn't that create a
community around about you.
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When the adults in
your church community
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model Christ to you,
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then that shapes the way you are
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for the rest of your life.
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The opportunities
they gave, you know,
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I've had the opportunities
to speak to large audiences,
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to give speeches
all over the word,
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to meet presidents of countries.
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And really, when they got me
to stand up in Sabbath school,
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you know, on Mother's
Day, and Father's Day,
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and recite poems and gave
me responsibility to things.
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I understand, yes.
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So I grew up
within that community.
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And I think that,
you know, as I matured,
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I was fortunate
enough that I got the chance
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to take on more responsibility.
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So at the age of
18 when I graduated
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from high school
and went to university,
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then I was given the opportunity
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to provide youth leadership
within other conference
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in South Australia and
to start to put on youth
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for other activities and
lead out in summer camps,
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and one of those
things that would shape you
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for your future.
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And I think, you know,
that's what make Christ
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always just an
integral part of my life.
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You know, I chose baptism
at the age of 13 years of age.
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I think a pivotal
time for my career
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was when I was working
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at a residential
healthcare center.
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I was running the church home
in Yarra Valley in Victoria.
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They earned a residential
lifestyle health center
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and health resort.
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They had a hospital
attached which also ran
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drug and alcohol rehabilitation.
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And people who
come to a health resort
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don't just come to get healthy.
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They start to talk to
you about diet or exercise
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or something else.
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We tried falling
down on little bit lately.
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But you know the reality is that
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once you start talking to
them, they talk about life,
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and they talk
about all their issues.
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And so, they are
consumed all the time.
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And I needed a break, you know,
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the church was
selling the facilities,
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what was my next step in life.
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And I took time
out and I thought,
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I've got to get some time.
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I hadn't had annual leave,
and so I chose to rode my bike.
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I was living in
Melbourne, back to Adelaide
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where my parents live.
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So it was only a short ride.
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It was only about 500-600 miles.
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And so I decided that,
I did some family things
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and family vacations
but I said, you know,
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sometimes your
ministry drains you
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and it's a great
gift, but sometimes
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you get so busy in the
gift, you forget to give up.
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Yeah, it pulls from you, it does
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when you can't play football.
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And so, you know, I
took that time and I said,
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I'm riding my bike
'cause I want to learn this.
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And, you know, if we have
time I could just fill the hour
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with what happen
to me on that journey.
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Or the people whose
lives I was in contact with,
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with the
changes, and I'm thinking,
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I'm trying to get
away from all these need,
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but I constantly
reminded and, you know,
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I didn't know
what my future was.
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I didn't know where my career
was gonna go when they sold.
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I was beginning to
get lucrative offers from,
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you know, Hilton to set up
a new spa resort for them...
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Now, you were in
college or done with college?
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This is when I'm about 10,
about 15 years into my career,
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20 years into my career.
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And that ride, you
know, people begin to,
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like I used to work
with the wealthiest people
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in Australia,
they were my clients.
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You look, what
they've got, you think,
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be nice driving a Ferrari
or to live in a big house.
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But that journey just got
me reconnected and got me,
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you know, founded,
what did I want in life.
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And as I met people on the way
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and was able to
impact their lives,
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it reminded me
that I'm here to serve.
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And I put to bed any aspirations
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that I wanted to go
and chase the big dollars.
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And I think ever since
and I felt really settled
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into serving a God and
whatever He wants for me.
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I've never worried
about what it's gonna pay
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or whatever else, it's just like
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as long as the way
God wants me to be...
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And so in my
adulthood I actually see that
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as my pivotal moment.
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You know, it
was a middle window,
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I didn't want to get
rained on and you know,
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you can see rain
coming towards you,
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and I never got wet.
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Rain came almost to the fences
on the side of the highway
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and I didn't get wet.
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I parked my bike on the shelter,
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poured with rain when I ate,
I came out, it stopped raining.
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God was present in a special way
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that just touched my life and...
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So that alone kind of
focused you and settled you.
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Let me ask you this because,
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and you've almost
pre answered my question
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because you got
involved into church so early
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and so strong, and it parallels
my experience in the church,
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Emmanuel Temple
Church in Buffalo.
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They took the young
people, they made them
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deacons fairly early on,
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they gave them responsibilities.
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They gave them
reasons to be in the building
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on Sabbath functioning
not just sit there, and I,
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but I suspect that you
didn't really have time
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to have what we might
call wilderness years, or years
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when you were kind of
running away from the Lord
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doing your thing
because you were involved
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so early so often.
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Yeah, and I think that,
you know, that's interesting
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because when you
look for, you know,
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what was that
real pivotal moment.
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It wasn't during
my growing up years.
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It was actually when I
was working for the church
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and I was very
involved and, you know,
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you can be over consumed.
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And sometimes we get so busy
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that we lose our
spiritual connection,
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and so it was really in
that busyness of my ministry
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that I became more
aware of the fact that
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don't let the
busyness take you away
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from your relationship.
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Well said.
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And that's really
was the pivotal thing
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that I've had
to learn from that.
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You know, I had
a big job in ADRA,
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but the reality is
what that reminds me
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is my dependence upon Christ.
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Upon Christ, well said.
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Your actual
college area study is in?
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My area, original
degree was in the area
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of physical
education, and human biology,
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and exercise physiology.
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Yeah.
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Where and when did
you meet your wife?
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I met my wife
when I first graduated.
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The church offered me a
job at this health resort
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which I left and went to work
for Sydney Adventist Hospital,
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came back to for couple of years
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and she was a pharmacist
at the hospital there.
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So, you know, I met
her while she was off
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trying to peddle drugs.
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Indeed.
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Did you know kind of early
on or did it had to sort of
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grow on her and grow on you?
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Well, it actually grew on me.
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So she doesn't like
me telling this story,
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but she was going
through a hard time in life
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and I was the youth
leader in the local church
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and I thought, you know,
you should always be inclusive
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of people so, you
know, I made sure that
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she was included
in all of the things
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and, you know, that
she had a community there
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to support her at the
time that she needed it
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and, you know, I thought
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I was just being
a good Christian guy
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and she thought
I was interested.
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And the rest is history.
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And the rest is history, indeed.
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How long ago did
you come to the States?
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Five years ago.
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So not that long. No.
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Now, was it a
big change for you?
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You know, the biggest
change for me, I mean,
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Australia in the
'60s was little Britain
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and TV came and we
became little America.
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So when moving to the States
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was not such a
big cultural change
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but the interesting things,
things you don't think about
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is trying to get
your car insurance.
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Because suddenly
they are asking me
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for $500 a month car insurance
and I'm saying, I'm not,
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I've already bought the
car, I don't need to lease it.
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I just want insurance, you know.
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Oh, but you don't
have a driving record.
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I said, "I have a
perfectly good driving record."
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You know, what they
say to me, "Well, you know,
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what about your credit card?
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Well, you've got
no credit history."
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I said, "Well, look
here's the letters from my bank
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in Australia.
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You know, I've got a
perfect credit record."
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No, no, you've got to
start from the scratch.
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Well, how do I
get a credit rating?
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They said, "You
got to borrow money."
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I said, "I don't want
to borrow money" you know.
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Well, then give us your money
and we'll loan it back to you.
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I said, "You're lying, I
said, that's not business."
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You know, when you think
about those little day to day
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sort of rubber meets
the road kinds of activity
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that you've got to do when
you're establishing yourself
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in a brand new country.
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Exactly. Yeah, yeah.
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Did you have
children when you came over?
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I did.
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Both my children
were still in Australia,
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or actually my
daughter was in Namibia.
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So my son is still living
in Australia, my daughter,
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you know, followed
after me a little bit.
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She did journalism.
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She did sports
journalism actually.
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And then she...
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And she also did lower degree.
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And so she wanted to
sort of work in sports,
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and by the time she
finished university,
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she was convicted
in wanting to make
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a difference in the
world in human right.
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So she worked for
Transparency International
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which is a big
international human rights group
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and did an internship in Berlin
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and she lived for
two years in Namibia
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working with the local NGO group
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on human rights advocacy,
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and then she ended up
coming to work for ADRA
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and works at ADRA International.
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Is that so?
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She's come across
but my son's still back
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in Australia.
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Was it rough on your
wife making that change,
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where she all for it or was she?
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Well, you know,
what's interesting,
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we didn't talk a
great deal about it.
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But, by the time the
actual, you know, I was asked,
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we were both really
led to feel that's way
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God wants us to be.
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So from that point of
view, it was an easy decision
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from the point of
view with the fact that
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we had elderly
parents and, you know,
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in the last four years
we've lost all of them.
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And you know, both
my parents, her parents,
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leaving the kids
behind was tough for her.
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So there's always a
transition when you move,
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but there's
always a sense of peace
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when you know that you're
doing what you should be doing.
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Praise the Lord.
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I've got to ask
you then, Jonathan,
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because what in your history,
in the trajectory of your life
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led the brethren to call
you to ADRA International.
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That's a very
specific set of skills
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for specific ministry.
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What commended
you to the brethren,
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to that position?
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Well, I was...
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I was the health director
for the Adventist church
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for the South Pacific region.
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And as such I was on the
board for ADRA Australia.
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And then the
position became vacant,
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that we're looking
for a new country director
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for ADRA Australia,
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and division president
contacted me and he said,
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"We'd like you to take the job."
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Well, I was on a
health projectory,
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I've been talking to,
you know, the health guys
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at the General Conference
and so forth and, you know,
00:14:07.48\00:14:11.58
they said to
me, "ADRA is unique.
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You know, ADRA is a
business, we need someone,
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you've been
involved in health care,
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you've run businesses,
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it's community
development and your background.
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I did my
masters in public health
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and health promotion.
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And you know, I
worked in the Pacific,
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in developing countries
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in primary public
health initiatives,
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you understand
development theory.
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But I said, "You
know, ADRA has a tendency
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towards maybe being a...
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It's an NGO, a
non-Government organization.
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Is it really a
faith based organization?"
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And we'd like to see ADRA
and the church close together.
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I see.
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And so they said,
"We think that you've got
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a unique set of
skills, we'd like you to come
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and work for ADRA, so
you're my boss, you know?"
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And then over the time
that I was with ADRA Australia,
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you know, we were
able to strengthen
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the national program,
we were able to, you know,
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when I left around 25
to 30% of the churches
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were actively
involved in their communities.
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We are able to resource
someone help him in that.
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We had, ADRA is a
strong business model,
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but ADRA is a strong
faith based organization.
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And I said, "That's
what we would like ADRA
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to look like globally."
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So that was the step really.
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So this idea that ADRA is
a, it's a business per se.
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But with strong, faith
based, underpinning foundations
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that you want
to sort of lift up,
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you want to highlight that idea,
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we're not just out
here, we're out here
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'cause Christ sent us out here,
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and we are part
of a church group.
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So, you know,
if we look at ADRA,
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The Adventist Development
and Relief Agency then,
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you know we have 141 country
offices around the world.
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We bring 8 to 20
million people a year.
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And we are
professional organization,
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we are trusted
with significant funding
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by national
governments, by multinationals,
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and it is a business in a way.
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But what is its
real business, you know,
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what's the
mission of the business,
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what's the
purpose of the business.
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And so, when I look at
what we can accomplish,
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there is much to be proud
of what we can accomplish,
00:16:11.43\00:16:14.10
and development is long
time sustainable change,
00:16:14.14\00:16:17.14
giving people the
resources to be able to create
00:16:17.17\00:16:19.74
a more positive
future and being there
00:16:19.77\00:16:21.41
when their lives are in distress
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is a wonderful thing.
00:16:23.18\00:16:24.81
But what does it mean to
be the Adventist Development
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and Relief Agency and
that's the challenge of it.
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And, you know, if I
look at historically,
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if I can take a
minute to go through history.
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If we look at
social reform in society,
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the abolition of slavery.
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The hospitals
were set up by churches
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to serve the community.
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Education was set up
by schools, by churches
00:16:44.87\00:16:49.00
to help people
educate to lift them into
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more of an opportunity.
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Prisons were set up
originally by churches
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in order to create reform.
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So church was a
agency of change in society
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and an advocate for
positive social change.
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When World War I
occurred, what happened was
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with the whole
world went to war,
00:17:07.79\00:17:09.12
they sorrowed in such atrocities
00:17:09.16\00:17:11.33
that people say, "We can
no longer change society."
00:17:11.36\00:17:14.03
And churches became lifeguards.
00:17:14.06\00:17:16.80
And the lifeguarding
is rowing around his boat,
00:17:16.83\00:17:18.83
with this
drowning mess of humanity,
00:17:18.87\00:17:21.00
and they're
pulling one life at a time
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into the boat to save.
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And then we saw the
rise, post war to secularism
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and people wanted to say,
we've got the physical world
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and we've got
the spiritual world.
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The physical
world is a real world,
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the spiritual world is your
own personal world, you know...
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Understood.
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What your spirituality
of who you understand
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or what doctrines you
believe or whatever else,
00:17:39.92\00:17:42.16
but that's your private life.
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The rest of the time
you live in a physical world
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which is a world of, you know,
00:17:46.13\00:17:47.60
material things
of politics of power.
00:17:47.63\00:17:52.33
And so churches were seen
to be that when you're praying,
00:17:52.37\00:17:56.24
when you're doing the sets
in your spiritual dimension,
00:17:56.27\00:17:58.91
but the rest of the
time you live in a real world
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and they separated it.
00:18:01.84\00:18:03.21
But now, society is
actually made a change.
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A few years ago,
the German government
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published a paper on the
role of religion in development,
00:18:08.78\00:18:12.75
and what they came,
have come back to realizing
00:18:12.79\00:18:14.89
is that 85% of
the world's population
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is affiliated with some
form of religious order.
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Yes. Yes.
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That when we look
at the positive change
00:18:22.23\00:18:24.10
within society
that the biggest agents
00:18:24.13\00:18:27.00
of change are faith
leaders in communities.
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If you look at the Ebola crisis
in Sierra Leone and Liberia,
00:18:29.84\00:18:34.28
the government had
public health messages
00:18:34.31\00:18:36.18
out there about
hygiene, about other things,
00:18:36.21\00:18:38.98
people didn't change.
00:18:39.01\00:18:40.52
But when the
pastors, and the priests,
00:18:40.55\00:18:43.85
and the imams from the
mosques, and the churches,
00:18:43.89\00:18:46.32
and the temples
began to convey the message
00:18:46.35\00:18:49.16
and people
changed their behavior.
00:18:49.19\00:18:50.53
Well said, yeah.
00:18:50.56\00:18:51.89
So now, they're looking to
say, "We can't change the world,
00:18:51.93\00:18:55.86
we can't end poverty,
we can't end starvation,
00:18:55.90\00:18:58.70
if we don't learn to
partner with faith leaders
00:18:58.73\00:19:03.00
and faith communities."
00:19:03.04\00:19:04.37
And I want to stop you
there before we go to our music
00:19:04.41\00:19:06.14
because that
gives us a strong pivot
00:19:06.17\00:19:08.31
into what ADRA does.
00:19:08.34\00:19:09.71
And I think
that's a good foundation
00:19:09.74\00:19:11.28
because for many,
many years the question was
00:19:11.31\00:19:13.85
'70s, '80s, early '90s
immediacy and relevancy.
00:19:13.88\00:19:17.95
Is the church
relevant, is God even relevant?
00:19:17.99\00:19:19.69
Yes.
00:19:19.72\00:19:21.06
The question has been
answered I think to an assurety
00:19:21.09\00:19:24.66
that if we're
gonna make some changes,
00:19:24.69\00:19:27.36
church has to be the part of it,
00:19:27.40\00:19:28.73
religion has to be a part of it.
00:19:28.76\00:19:30.10
In fact is the part of it
00:19:30.13\00:19:31.47
weather you recognize it or not.
00:19:31.50\00:19:32.83
And I think that's
where you're going with that.
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We want to take this point
to go to our special music,
00:19:34.24\00:19:36.10
and then I'm
gonna back and sort of
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spend a lot of time.
00:19:37.51\00:19:38.84
Mining this and how
ADRA addresses and redresses
00:19:38.87\00:19:42.74
these issues and how Jonathan
sort of sits at top of that
00:19:42.78\00:19:46.21
and sort of directs the
movements of this really
00:19:46.25\00:19:48.88
God blessed and God used agency.
00:19:48.92\00:19:50.79
Our music today is coming
from Valerie Shelton Walker,
00:19:50.82\00:19:55.12
and she's gonna be
stringing, singing rather,
00:19:55.16\00:19:57.53
"His Strength is Perfect."
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I can do all things
00:20:14.48\00:20:19.71
Through Christ
who gives me strength
00:20:19.75\00:20:25.22
But sometimes I wonder
00:20:25.25\00:20:28.09
what He can do
00:20:28.12\00:20:30.36
Through me
00:20:30.39\00:20:36.36
No great success to show
00:20:36.40\00:20:41.67
There is no glory of my own
00:20:41.70\00:20:46.91
Yet in my weakness He is there
00:20:46.94\00:20:51.71
To let me know
00:20:51.75\00:20:56.89
That his strength is perfect
00:20:56.92\00:21:01.46
When our strength is gone
00:21:01.49\00:21:08.16
He'll carry us
00:21:08.20\00:21:11.57
When we can't carry on
00:21:11.60\00:21:19.41
Raised in His power
00:21:19.44\00:21:23.85
The weak become strong
00:21:23.88\00:21:30.49
His strength is perfect
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His strength is perfect
00:21:36.69\00:21:43.63
We can only know
00:21:43.67\00:21:49.00
The power that He holds
00:21:49.04\00:21:54.28
When we truly see how deep
00:21:54.31\00:21:58.91
Our weakness goes
00:21:58.95\00:22:05.02
That when his
strength in us begins
00:22:05.05\00:22:11.23
When ours comes to an end
00:22:11.26\00:22:16.73
He hears our humble cry
00:22:16.77\00:22:21.04
And proves again
00:22:21.07\00:22:26.21
That his strength is perfect
00:22:26.24\00:22:30.91
When our strength is gone
00:22:30.95\00:22:37.42
He'll carry us when we can't
00:22:37.45\00:22:43.63
Carry on
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Raised in His power, the weak
00:22:48.70\00:22:54.87
We become strong
00:22:54.90\00:22:59.81
His strength is perfect
00:22:59.84\00:23:04.25
When our strength is gone
00:23:04.28\00:23:10.75
He'll carry us when we can't
00:23:10.79\00:23:17.03
Carry on
00:23:17.06\00:23:22.16
Raised in His power, the weak
00:23:22.20\00:23:28.17
We become strong
00:23:28.20\00:23:33.38
His strength is perfect
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His strength is perfect
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His strength is perfect
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His strength is perfect
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Thank you Valerie,
00:24:06.71\00:24:08.04
she's a good
friend of this ministry,
00:24:08.08\00:24:10.21
her husband Brad Walker,
00:24:10.25\00:24:11.58
director here
for many, many years
00:24:11.61\00:24:13.01
and we all love
Valerie very, very much.
00:24:13.05\00:24:15.58
My guest is Jonathan Duffy,
00:24:15.62\00:24:16.95
he's president of
ADRA International
00:24:16.99\00:24:19.39
and that's what
we're gonna talk about.
00:24:19.42\00:24:20.79
And, Jonathan, I want to
go to something very quickly
00:24:20.82\00:24:23.49
because there are so many things
00:24:23.53\00:24:24.86
happening around the
world that ADRA is a part of,
00:24:24.89\00:24:27.76
but what is very,
very close to our heart,
00:24:27.80\00:24:30.53
and in heart of many
Americans is Puerto Rico.
00:24:30.57\00:24:32.37
Right.
00:24:32.40\00:24:33.74
So much has happened there,
00:24:33.77\00:24:35.10
and I know ADRA
is on the ground.
00:24:35.14\00:24:37.14
So give me just a little
flavor of what's going on,
00:24:37.17\00:24:39.64
what ADRA is
doing in Puerto Rico.
00:24:39.67\00:24:41.04
So I mean, that's where we weep,
00:24:41.08\00:24:42.78
Puerto Rico was just
devastated with Hurricane Irma,
00:24:42.81\00:24:47.32
and so one of the
first things is, you know,
00:24:47.35\00:24:50.52
what we do in the
immediate response
00:24:50.55\00:24:52.49
and we are able to partner
with the local Adventist church.
00:24:52.52\00:24:56.19
The local Adventist church
has number of young people
00:24:56.22\00:24:58.36
who are medical cadets,
and so they were able to go
00:24:58.39\00:25:02.06
around the communities,
treat people with sores
00:25:02.10\00:25:04.23
and things like that
on a fairly instant basis.
00:25:04.27\00:25:07.04
The challenge of a disaster is
what happens post the disaster.
00:25:07.07\00:25:12.27
And so little things
like cuts and so forth
00:25:12.31\00:25:15.04
that would not
have been a problem,
00:25:15.08\00:25:16.48
suddenly when you haven't
got clean water, sanitation,
00:25:16.51\00:25:20.48
then infection comes out.
00:25:20.52\00:25:22.12
So it's really
important to work with them
00:25:22.15\00:25:23.89
and also partner
with the church there
00:25:23.92\00:25:25.55
and we're moving
some of the waste
00:25:25.59\00:25:27.16
because where there is
waste, there's mosquitoes
00:25:27.19\00:25:29.26
so the likelihood
of other diseases.
00:25:29.29\00:25:32.29
One of the big
challenges has been
00:25:32.33\00:25:34.16
the recovery of safe portable,
00:25:34.20\00:25:37.07
what we call
portable safe drinking water,
00:25:37.10\00:25:39.80
and so we've been
working around restoring that
00:25:39.83\00:25:43.14
to some of the
communities there as well.
00:25:43.17\00:25:45.37
We've been feeding
around 40,000 people.
00:25:45.41\00:25:49.01
We've produced, to be
able to create their own foods
00:25:49.04\00:25:51.88
and feeding 10,000
people with hot meals as well.
00:25:51.91\00:25:56.89
And the government's
given us five schools
00:25:56.92\00:25:58.92
to look after there.
00:25:58.95\00:26:00.62
And, so one of the
things in the cases of disaster
00:26:00.66\00:26:04.89
is normal life, it's disrupted.
00:26:04.93\00:26:07.26
So what we don't want is
children to miss that stage
00:26:07.30\00:26:10.17
of education in their lives
and suddenly they're panelized
00:26:10.20\00:26:13.40
for the rest of
their lives because
00:26:13.44\00:26:14.77
they didn't get education.
00:26:14.80\00:26:16.50
So restoring
education system is importing.
00:26:16.54\00:26:19.34
I mean, restoring the
building is one thing,
00:26:19.37\00:26:21.48
but restoring the
schools to be a safe place,
00:26:21.51\00:26:24.55
well not the safe place,
00:26:24.58\00:26:26.01
and how do we provide
for the sanitation needs,
00:26:26.05\00:26:28.38
and we have a technical term,
00:26:28.42\00:26:30.59
that's sort of
technical cold wash
00:26:30.62\00:26:33.02
which is water
sanitation health.
00:26:33.05\00:26:35.22
So in restoring the
schools in Puerto Rico,
00:26:35.26\00:26:37.63
we've been working
with the government there
00:26:37.66\00:26:39.63
in order to be able to
restore safe portable water
00:26:39.66\00:26:42.86
for the kids at school
00:26:42.90\00:26:44.27
and sanitation for
the kids at schools.
00:26:44.30\00:26:46.47
So when they go to
schools, they're not only given
00:26:46.50\00:26:48.20
the opportunity to
experience education
00:26:48.24\00:26:50.87
but they're also kept safe,
00:26:50.91\00:26:52.24
and they're not
gonna get sick at school.
00:26:52.27\00:26:53.68
Is your focus
Adventist education,
00:26:53.71\00:26:55.41
Adventist schools per se
or just any school anywhere?
00:26:55.44\00:26:57.71
No, we work in
communities, often what happens
00:26:57.75\00:27:00.58
in the case of a
disaster is you're assigned
00:27:00.62\00:27:02.38
a particular region.
00:27:02.42\00:27:03.92
So we are assigned a
certain numbers of schools
00:27:03.95\00:27:05.65
that we're responsible for.
00:27:05.69\00:27:07.26
We will treat
the Adventist people
00:27:07.29\00:27:08.72
within that
community and we will treat
00:27:08.76\00:27:10.53
the non Adventist
people within that community.
00:27:10.56\00:27:12.59
So we respond more
in a regional level.
00:27:12.63\00:27:15.66
The church itself
tends to respond more
00:27:15.70\00:27:17.80
to their members and we
tend to be the churches agency
00:27:17.83\00:27:20.90
which helps to the
general population,
00:27:20.94\00:27:23.30
and so we have been given
a region within Puerto Rico
00:27:23.34\00:27:27.41
which is our region.
00:27:27.44\00:27:28.78
I see, I'm so glad
to hear you say that.
00:27:28.81\00:27:32.18
You know, I watch CNN,
Fox, MSNBC, ABC, you know,
00:27:32.21\00:27:36.65
you hear all these
things and you hear the rub up
00:27:36.69\00:27:38.35
between the
government in Puerto Rico
00:27:38.39\00:27:39.72
and the, you
know, so many things
00:27:39.75\00:27:41.09
that are going
on but you rarely,
00:27:41.12\00:27:43.19
if ever here,
that there are NGOs,
00:27:43.22\00:27:46.03
there are church based
groups working and doing
00:27:46.06\00:27:48.63
a fantastic work that
goes unsung and unheralded.
00:27:48.66\00:27:52.43
Yeah, and you know,
what makes me really proud
00:27:52.47\00:27:55.47
about ADRA as well is that
00:27:55.50\00:27:57.81
when we respond to
situations like Puerto Rico,
00:27:57.84\00:28:00.74
in three years time
you'll find us in Puerto Rico.
00:28:00.78\00:28:04.88
You know, in five years
time, hopefully not forever.
00:28:04.91\00:28:07.95
I mean, we've always got a
presence here, we have a...
00:28:07.98\00:28:09.62
Yes.
00:28:09.65\00:28:10.99
But the
challenge is that sometimes
00:28:11.02\00:28:12.49
when a disaster
occurs people come in
00:28:12.52\00:28:14.42
while the cameras are rolling.
00:28:14.46\00:28:15.89
When the cameras aren't rolling,
00:28:15.92\00:28:17.53
and the next piece
of news, they're gone,
00:28:17.56\00:28:20.16
but we tend to
stay in communities.
00:28:20.20\00:28:22.63
It took us 10 years to
pay for all the communities
00:28:22.66\00:28:25.80
to clear it up.
00:28:25.83\00:28:28.07
After the Tsunami that hit Asia,
00:28:28.10\00:28:31.17
it took us five years to
finish with the communities
00:28:31.21\00:28:34.41
after Typhoon
Haiyan in the Philippines.
00:28:34.44\00:28:37.25
So we are not just a
disaster response organization,
00:28:37.28\00:28:40.95
we are developing
organization, that works
00:28:40.98\00:28:43.18
with helping the
community to restore completely
00:28:43.22\00:28:47.22
before we actually leave.
00:28:47.26\00:28:48.99
So it's a long term as well
as a short term intervention
00:28:49.02\00:28:52.09
which is important.
00:28:52.13\00:28:53.46
That's when you
build relationships,
00:28:53.50\00:28:54.83
that's when you have
an impact in community.
00:28:54.86\00:28:56.40
Yeah, I remember going in
after the earthquake in Haiti
00:28:56.43\00:29:01.70
and I'm trying, Fritz, I'm
trying to think of the name
00:29:01.74\00:29:04.21
of the fellow who was in charge.
00:29:04.24\00:29:05.57
Fritz, I'm trying to think
of his surname now as well.
00:29:05.61\00:29:08.38
I just call him Fritz.
00:29:08.41\00:29:10.08
Yeah, well
that's it, just pick up,
00:29:10.11\00:29:11.45
but how hard ADRA
worked there in Haiti
00:29:11.48\00:29:15.72
and for a
protracted period of time
00:29:15.75\00:29:18.32
to do what
needed to be done, yeah.
00:29:18.35\00:29:20.16
And, you know, I was fortunate
too that church had a hospital
00:29:20.19\00:29:24.06
there as well, and it became
a great base in helping people
00:29:24.09\00:29:28.03
because you know the
disaster was of such a nature,
00:29:28.06\00:29:30.83
there was so much death,
there was so much brokenness
00:29:30.87\00:29:33.80
and broken limbs
and cuts and things,
00:29:33.84\00:29:35.90
that was the really
important part of that
00:29:35.94\00:29:38.01
and then different parts
of the church helped with ADRA
00:29:38.04\00:29:40.81
which is this
way of church agency.
00:29:40.84\00:29:43.45
And that's where the benefit
of being a church agency is
00:29:43.48\00:29:46.15
and you know,
doctors in Loma Linda came in
00:29:46.18\00:29:48.68
with orthopedic
surgeons and other factors
00:29:48.72\00:29:50.89
and other health
systems combined as well.
00:29:50.92\00:29:54.66
And so it became an
all of community response.
00:29:54.69\00:29:57.06
Yeah, yeah.
00:29:57.09\00:29:58.43
Let's then,
Jonathan, let's do this.
00:29:58.46\00:29:59.79
Let sort of scan the world
00:29:59.83\00:30:01.43
and talk about
some other places,
00:30:01.46\00:30:03.70
sadly there are many
that ADRA has to step in
00:30:03.73\00:30:08.14
and do its thing, you
know, to come in and try to,
00:30:08.17\00:30:11.91
you know, lift up.
00:30:11.94\00:30:13.27
So while we're on sort
of the emergency response...
00:30:13.31\00:30:17.38
Yeah.
00:30:17.41\00:30:18.75
The one that's probably
the hardest at the moment
00:30:18.78\00:30:20.85
is there are ring of crisis.
00:30:20.88\00:30:23.39
So what we've got
us an ethnic group
00:30:23.42\00:30:25.79
living in Myanmar,
00:30:25.82\00:30:27.32
it's been denied
citizenship for number of years.
00:30:27.36\00:30:30.83
And, so now
they've been forced out.
00:30:30.86\00:30:34.83
And, you know, to
sort of paint the picture,
00:30:34.86\00:30:37.03
I don't want to paint too
bad a picture in furious...
00:30:37.07\00:30:38.60
Well, if you had the news
on, then you've heard Rohingya,
00:30:38.63\00:30:41.54
you've heard...
00:30:41.57\00:30:42.90
When people come in... Yeah.
00:30:42.94\00:30:44.27
You know, they come in
with gunships, helicopters,
00:30:44.31\00:30:46.74
blasting rockets, shooting,
and all the other atrocities
00:30:46.78\00:30:50.21
that happen with destroying
and setting kids on fire,
00:30:50.25\00:30:53.11
when people see this, they run.
00:30:53.15\00:30:54.48
They don't have
time to grab anything.
00:30:54.52\00:30:56.62
So now, we've got
800,000 people in Bangladesh.
00:30:56.65\00:30:59.39
And I was just there
a couple of weeks ago
00:30:59.42\00:31:01.36
doing a food
distribution, so we've been able
00:31:01.39\00:31:03.43
to provide shelter
for 12,000 households,
00:31:03.46\00:31:06.26
about 60,000 people.
00:31:06.29\00:31:08.40
We're helping them
to build, you know,
00:31:08.43\00:31:09.80
bamboos and sheeting to
keep them dry and so forth
00:31:09.83\00:31:13.77
and, you know,
last week we've fed
00:31:13.80\00:31:16.50
100,000 people
and gave them food
00:31:16.54\00:31:19.24
for two weeks to sustain
and the World Food Program,
00:31:19.27\00:31:22.54
WFP, the United
Nations gave rice
00:31:22.58\00:31:25.21
and we gave all
the other staples
00:31:25.25\00:31:26.95
and that was fortunate in that
we, that was private donation.
00:31:26.98\00:31:31.25
So that was where
people would help ADRA
00:31:31.29\00:31:32.75
and that's a real way
that donations do get there
00:31:32.79\00:31:35.39
and we're able to
feed 100,000 people,
00:31:35.42\00:31:38.03
but it comes down to
the real life stories.
00:31:38.06\00:31:40.80
And I was talking to the person,
00:31:40.83\00:31:42.66
him and his wife
and his four children,
00:31:42.70\00:31:44.87
were in a small little place,
it's not particularly big,
00:31:44.90\00:31:47.34
it's one room and that's
what their living space is.
00:31:47.37\00:31:50.81
It's got plastic
which keeps them dry
00:31:50.84\00:31:53.31
and a mat down,
but they're sleeping
00:31:53.34\00:31:54.94
on hard ground.
00:31:54.98\00:31:57.35
And I said, "What
was life before this?"
00:31:57.38\00:32:00.12
So, you know, we
often don't think of
00:32:00.15\00:32:02.25
what they've lost 'cause,
you know, we look at we've got,
00:32:02.28\00:32:05.15
but he owned a
business, he had a store,
00:32:05.19\00:32:08.52
they lived in a nice
home, they had two bathrooms
00:32:08.56\00:32:10.99
between him, his
wife and four children,
00:32:11.03\00:32:14.13
six of them had two bathrooms.
00:32:14.16\00:32:16.13
Now, he shares two
bathrooms with 450 people.
00:32:16.16\00:32:20.50
There's no shower
facilities or washing facilities
00:32:20.54\00:32:23.81
and, you know, the big challenge
00:32:23.84\00:32:26.74
that we also have is water,
00:32:26.78\00:32:28.74
because there's
different refugee camps,
00:32:28.78\00:32:30.75
this particular
one is near the coast,
00:32:30.78\00:32:32.75
so when you drill for a
well, you get salty water.
00:32:32.78\00:32:34.95
Yes.
00:32:34.98\00:32:36.32
That's a problem
for growing crops
00:32:36.35\00:32:37.69
and also you can't drink.
00:32:37.72\00:32:39.05
So with, along
with, the United Nations
00:32:39.09\00:32:42.12
were having to
ship all the water in
00:32:42.16\00:32:44.73
and we don't actually see
00:32:44.76\00:32:46.93
a short to medium term solution.
00:32:46.96\00:32:49.10
So you imagine
this particular camp
00:32:49.13\00:32:52.20
has got around 200,000 people.
00:32:52.23\00:32:55.14
Can you imagine the logistics
of having to truck water in
00:32:55.17\00:32:58.74
for 200,000 people.
00:32:58.77\00:33:00.88
So we can probably provide
the water that's necessary
00:33:00.91\00:33:04.15
to keep them alive and drink
but what about all the bathing
00:33:04.18\00:33:08.88
and the washing of the
clothes and everything else
00:33:08.92\00:33:11.69
that goes with that and
the hygiene factors of it,
00:33:11.72\00:33:14.32
and that's,
that's really this crisis
00:33:14.36\00:33:16.32
and the crisis is created.
00:33:16.36\00:33:18.23
You know, we respond
to natural disasters,
00:33:18.26\00:33:20.13
we're responding to
floods, we've responded
00:33:20.16\00:33:21.96
to the hurricanes in Puerto Rico
00:33:22.00\00:33:24.20
and other parts of the
Caribbean and so forth,
00:33:24.23\00:33:27.30
and provide water and
shelter and so forth like that.
00:33:27.34\00:33:30.71
You know, I think
there are some pictures,
00:33:30.74\00:33:32.11
I'll put up on
the screen of that.
00:33:32.14\00:33:34.18
But what really strikes home is
00:33:34.21\00:33:36.11
we have the
largest number of refuges
00:33:36.14\00:33:39.21
in turning this faith is
people in the world's history
00:33:39.25\00:33:42.05
and what's caused it?
00:33:42.08\00:33:43.62
Man seeing humanity to man. Yes.
00:33:43.65\00:33:46.12
You know, this is
not a natural disaster,
00:33:46.15\00:33:47.96
this is man caused disasters
that are causing people
00:33:47.99\00:33:51.23
to flee, to run, to
seeing family members lost
00:33:51.26\00:33:54.83
and shot in front of them,
the trauma that goes with that.
00:33:54.86\00:33:58.00
And I believe that as a
faith based organization
00:33:58.03\00:34:02.34
we have a role to give
people hope and healing
00:34:02.37\00:34:07.08
in those circumstances.
00:34:07.11\00:34:08.61
You know, you do good because
good is what good people do,
00:34:08.64\00:34:13.38
as I recall the
Rohingya population
00:34:13.42\00:34:15.75
is Muslim, are they not?
00:34:15.78\00:34:17.12
That's right.
00:34:17.15\00:34:18.49
All right, and
that's one of the reasons
00:34:18.52\00:34:20.36
why they're being
driven out of Burma, Myanmar.
00:34:20.39\00:34:23.53
You know, if you've been
following this whole thing,
00:34:23.56\00:34:25.03
this is a humanitarian
disaster and crisis.
00:34:25.06\00:34:28.93
Yes.
00:34:28.96\00:34:30.30
It makes me very proud
of my church and of ADRA
00:34:30.33\00:34:34.84
that even though
they're not getting the "kudos"
00:34:34.87\00:34:37.84
you don't see
them on, say like news,
00:34:37.87\00:34:40.11
they're on the ground
and they're doing it man,
00:34:40.14\00:34:42.64
they're in there,
pitching in for the people
00:34:42.68\00:34:46.11
who cannot help
themselves and I...
00:34:46.15\00:34:48.58
And this is not
a political show,
00:34:48.62\00:34:50.59
but these people
are being driven out,
00:34:50.62\00:34:53.19
their villages are being burned,
00:34:53.22\00:34:54.92
their children are
being, you know, it's just,
00:34:54.96\00:34:56.42
it's a horrible situation.
00:34:56.46\00:34:58.29
It is so comforting to me
to know that ADRA is there.
00:34:58.33\00:35:02.66
And if one of them
becomes Adventists or Christian,
00:35:02.70\00:35:05.97
praise the Lord.
00:35:06.00\00:35:07.34
If none of them do,
00:35:07.37\00:35:08.70
we still praise the
Lord, because you're doing
00:35:08.74\00:35:10.11
what Christians
are supposed to do.
00:35:10.14\00:35:11.47
You're the hands
and feet of Christ.
00:35:11.51\00:35:12.91
So I give you kudos
for that for what you do.
00:35:12.94\00:35:14.98
Thank you. Yeah.
00:35:15.01\00:35:16.34
That's what drives us,
that's what makes us get up
00:35:16.38\00:35:17.98
in the morning,
and that's the passion
00:35:18.01\00:35:20.05
that God places in your hearts,
00:35:20.08\00:35:21.98
you know, for me
being a, you know,
00:35:22.02\00:35:24.35
the head of a
faith based organization,
00:35:24.39\00:35:26.39
the Adventist
Development and Relief Agency,
00:35:26.42\00:35:29.36
I don't want 20
million Adventists
00:35:29.39\00:35:31.29
to be proud of an agency,
I want 20 million Adventists
00:35:31.33\00:35:34.63
to see themselves as an
agent of hope and healing
00:35:34.66\00:35:37.40
in the brokenness that exist.
00:35:37.43\00:35:38.77
Well said.
00:35:38.80\00:35:40.14
I mean, you don't have to
go far outside your front door
00:35:40.17\00:35:41.94
to find brokenness.
00:35:41.97\00:35:43.51
And we all need to be
agents of hope and healing
00:35:43.54\00:35:46.57
and how do we help the
church to understand that role,
00:35:46.61\00:35:50.25
how do we help society at
large to understand that role,
00:35:50.28\00:35:53.65
that we have the responsibility
00:35:53.68\00:35:55.82
to love your
neighbors as you love yourself.
00:35:55.85\00:35:58.55
Two things, I don't suspect
00:35:58.59\00:35:59.95
we can get into
Myanmar and help.
00:35:59.99\00:36:02.26
Is the government of
Bangladesh receptive,
00:36:02.29\00:36:06.26
receiving any "static"
for the work you're doing,
00:36:06.29\00:36:10.73
are they working
with you to help?
00:36:10.77\00:36:12.30
They are
working with us to help.
00:36:12.33\00:36:13.67
Praise the Lord.
00:36:13.70\00:36:15.04
So it's a corporation that
whenever you do these things,
00:36:15.07\00:36:19.41
if you want to
make it sustainable,
00:36:19.44\00:36:21.54
then you actually have
to get into a little bit
00:36:21.58\00:36:23.98
of that relationship
and work with governments
00:36:24.01\00:36:26.68
and work with United Nations
and work with multinationals
00:36:26.72\00:36:29.98
and corporations and so forth.
00:36:30.02\00:36:31.69
You know, it takes a
community to surround people,
00:36:31.72\00:36:35.89
to help them in
their brokenness.
00:36:35.92\00:36:37.69
And I'm glad that we
have a role to do that.
00:36:37.73\00:36:40.20
Not bad that we are acknowledge
as the part of that community.
00:36:40.23\00:36:43.50
You know, you
think of the privilege
00:36:43.53\00:36:45.87
that it is for us to be
able to have that impact
00:36:45.90\00:36:49.04
in a person's life at a
point of crisis in their lives.
00:36:49.07\00:36:52.77
If they let you in
to be able to help,
00:36:52.81\00:36:57.71
to get over their own
fears and to recognize
00:36:57.75\00:37:01.18
that there's love out there.
00:37:01.22\00:37:02.92
And I think, you know,
00:37:02.95\00:37:04.29
we face these times of the world
00:37:04.32\00:37:05.65
when there is too
much hate speech out there.
00:37:05.69\00:37:08.19
Oh, yes, very much so.
00:37:08.22\00:37:09.56
And there's too much
genderphobia, you know,
00:37:09.59\00:37:12.43
America for Americans,
Britain for Britains, you know,
00:37:12.46\00:37:15.36
and all of
these other messaging,
00:37:15.40\00:37:16.73
and where is the
people who is speaking love?
00:37:16.77\00:37:20.07
Where is the people who say,
"Hey, listen, you know what?
00:37:20.10\00:37:24.01
There is hope
amongst all of this."
00:37:24.04\00:37:26.81
And that's what it
means to be working
00:37:26.84\00:37:29.18
for a faith based organization.
00:37:29.21\00:37:30.75
Yes, yes, praise the Lord.
00:37:30.78\00:37:32.88
I agree so much,
and so many things
00:37:32.91\00:37:34.68
are running on in
my head that the world
00:37:34.72\00:37:36.35
is really a very small place
00:37:36.38\00:37:38.09
and when somebody
bleeds and hurts over there,
00:37:38.12\00:37:40.09
there is a direct
line even it's through
00:37:40.12\00:37:41.96
the heart of Jesus to
you and they're called
00:37:41.99\00:37:44.99
to try to redress that.
00:37:45.03\00:37:47.40
Let's do this,
let's break at this
00:37:47.43\00:37:48.83
and let's run some pictures,
00:37:48.86\00:37:50.63
and let's look at
some of the things
00:37:50.67\00:37:52.00
that you're doing,
then I want to come back
00:37:52.03\00:37:53.37
and talk about
some other hot spots
00:37:53.40\00:37:54.74
that you're addressing.
00:37:54.77\00:37:56.10
So let's go and let's
look at some of these graphics
00:37:56.14\00:37:57.47
and give an idea of...
00:37:57.51\00:37:59.81
These is one of
the young children
00:37:59.84\00:38:01.18
what we're helping
in Rohingya crisis.
00:38:01.21\00:38:04.95
It's nice to see
a smile on the face
00:38:04.98\00:38:07.05
despite all the trauma.
00:38:07.08\00:38:09.05
This again is an elderly
mother with her grandchild
00:38:09.08\00:38:13.86
in Rohingya crisis.
00:38:13.89\00:38:15.22
The challenge is, you
know, where are the parents,
00:38:15.26\00:38:18.09
what happened to
them and all those trauma,
00:38:18.13\00:38:21.43
and I think that
might be still be that...
00:38:21.46\00:38:25.10
I mean this is...
00:38:25.13\00:38:26.47
I mean, we can
take on the picture,
00:38:26.50\00:38:27.84
well, it's such
a major, major...
00:38:27.87\00:38:30.24
So let me, you know,
00:38:30.27\00:38:31.61
while we're
rolling through those,
00:38:31.64\00:38:33.17
I mean, let me just tell
you a couple of stories as well.
00:38:33.21\00:38:36.81
This is the Mexico crisis
that we were able to be there
00:38:36.85\00:38:39.41
when the earthquake struck.
00:38:39.45\00:38:40.78
Yes. Yes. Yes.
00:38:40.82\00:38:42.15
And, you know, there are
some pictures coming up of
00:38:42.18\00:38:45.15
where we were able
to respond in Nepal,
00:38:45.19\00:38:48.96
and we went to a community
that have a scarcity of food.
00:38:48.99\00:38:53.53
What we are able to do
there was we helped them,
00:38:53.56\00:38:55.73
we taught them
agricultural techniques,
00:38:55.76\00:38:57.70
identify ground water sources.
00:38:57.73\00:39:00.94
This is actually Madagascar
00:39:00.97\00:39:03.71
and I traveled with the
head of the world food program,
00:39:03.74\00:39:06.88
the United
Nations into this area.
00:39:06.91\00:39:09.08
And it has not
rained there since 1995.
00:39:09.11\00:39:12.38
Oh my soul.
00:39:12.41\00:39:13.75
And the four
wells are drying up.
00:39:13.78\00:39:16.15
Well, three have dried up,
and there is only one left.
00:39:16.18\00:39:18.45
And all they got is enough water
00:39:18.49\00:39:20.02
to sustain their life.
00:39:20.06\00:39:21.59
So planting
crops and getting food
00:39:21.62\00:39:24.56
is a real struggle
for them and you know,
00:39:24.59\00:39:27.20
we've got to bring
in new drilling wells.
00:39:27.23\00:39:29.30
We've got to actually
drill deeper to get down
00:39:29.33\00:39:31.53
to the ground water.
00:39:31.57\00:39:33.17
You know, what you do
when you're out of water there.
00:39:33.20\00:39:36.74
And she said that it
was one of the worst cases
00:39:36.77\00:39:38.84
that she's seen, you
know, of malnutrition.
00:39:38.87\00:39:41.48
And you look at
malnutrition, and you look at,
00:39:41.51\00:39:43.41
you put a band
around a child's arm
00:39:43.45\00:39:45.35
and you realize
that the development
00:39:45.38\00:39:47.32
is not taking place.
00:39:47.35\00:39:48.68
Is not taking place, yeah.
00:39:48.72\00:39:50.05
And often what we'll see is
not shown in these pictures.
00:39:50.09\00:39:53.59
As you see some of these
kids so naturally should have
00:39:53.62\00:39:55.99
dark hair and it's orange hair.
00:39:56.02\00:39:58.36
And that's the sign of
00:39:58.39\00:40:00.00
significant
nutritional deficiency.
00:40:00.03\00:40:02.26
So you take
that arm measurements
00:40:02.30\00:40:03.63
and you can see it,
00:40:03.67\00:40:05.00
and Ertharin
Cousin who is the head
00:40:05.03\00:40:07.10
of the world food program said
this is actually the biggest,
00:40:07.14\00:40:10.81
this really
confronted her of all that
00:40:10.84\00:40:13.94
she's seen of these
people in Madagascar.
00:40:13.98\00:40:17.08
And, you know, I
started to talk about
00:40:17.11\00:40:20.55
the situation in
Nepal and so we worked
00:40:20.58\00:40:23.65
with this community
that has sacristy of food.
00:40:23.69\00:40:25.72
We help them to
develop crops and to grow crops
00:40:25.75\00:40:28.69
and then we're able
to give them literacy
00:40:28.72\00:40:31.89
and numeracy and skills
and with the excess food
00:40:31.93\00:40:35.43
that they now have
from their home gardens,
00:40:35.46\00:40:37.50
we create the
opportunity for markets,
00:40:37.53\00:40:39.23
so we realize that people
would come and buy produce
00:40:39.27\00:40:41.67
and then when some
of them went to Nepal,
00:40:41.70\00:40:43.97
they realized that
produce was sold, you know,
00:40:44.01\00:40:46.31
they were only
getting a fraction of
00:40:46.34\00:40:47.68
what the food was worth.
00:40:47.71\00:40:49.34
So we gave them
literacy and numeracy,
00:40:49.38\00:40:50.98
we help them to set
up a little growth co-op
00:40:51.01\00:40:53.48
and in the pick of
the growing season,
00:40:53.52\00:40:55.52
were there was 10 trucks a week
00:40:55.55\00:40:57.62
that were
taking produce to Nepal
00:40:57.65\00:40:59.65
and that created income.
00:40:59.69\00:41:01.02
Then they said to
us, well, you know,
00:41:01.06\00:41:02.59
we would like to
improve the roads
00:41:02.62\00:41:04.16
for the trucks to come in.
00:41:04.19\00:41:05.53
We would like a
clinic in our community.
00:41:05.56\00:41:08.60
So they wanted to
raise money so we told them
00:41:08.63\00:41:10.63
how to raise
money and how to save.
00:41:10.67\00:41:12.83
And I think it
was around $ 150,000
00:41:12.87\00:41:15.30
that they needed,
00:41:15.34\00:41:16.67
and so they were
able to raise that money.
00:41:16.71\00:41:18.27
We get them some seedy money,
00:41:18.31\00:41:19.64
but they were able
to raise it themselves.
00:41:19.67\00:41:21.41
And then they had bigger dreams,
00:41:21.44\00:41:22.78
they wanted a school,
00:41:22.81\00:41:24.15
they wanted other
community buildings,
00:41:24.18\00:41:25.51
they came up with the
list which was now around
00:41:25.55\00:41:27.32
about a million US
dollars and, you know,
00:41:27.35\00:41:30.05
they didn't come
back to us for that.
00:41:30.09\00:41:32.05
They actually did it themselves.
00:41:32.09\00:41:33.82
We were able to move
on to another community.
00:41:33.86\00:41:35.82
So it's 13 years summarized
but now that community,
00:41:35.86\00:41:38.96
strong community
with community services,
00:41:38.99\00:41:41.13
with schools, with healthcare,
and they did it themselves.
00:41:41.16\00:41:44.57
You kind of
showed them the way...
00:41:44.60\00:41:45.93
And that's what really
what development's about.
00:41:45.97\00:41:47.30
So praise the Lord.
00:41:47.34\00:41:48.67
Having said that, I
suspect ADRA is recognized
00:41:48.70\00:41:52.24
by some of these
International agencies,
00:41:52.27\00:41:54.48
UN, FEMA, they
know what you're doing,
00:41:54.51\00:41:56.98
they have respect
for what you're doing.
00:41:57.01\00:41:58.65
They do, you know,
and it's humbling for me
00:41:58.68\00:42:01.28
as a president of ADRA to
go to some of these meetings
00:42:01.32\00:42:04.09
and so forth and to
hear the wonderful things
00:42:04.12\00:42:06.05
that they've got to
say about the agency.
00:42:06.09\00:42:08.72
And ADRA has a very,
very strong reputation
00:42:08.76\00:42:12.39
in service
delivery, in doing projects,
00:42:12.43\00:42:15.33
but we're having to refrain
ourselves a little bit as well
00:42:15.36\00:42:18.07
because there is a
change in trend from being
00:42:18.10\00:42:21.70
a service delivery
agency to be an influencer
00:42:21.74\00:42:25.74
so, you know, you can
say, all right, you know,
00:42:25.77\00:42:27.94
we had a five year
project in all the homes
00:42:27.98\00:42:30.78
and these 10,000
families now have food.
00:42:30.81\00:42:33.25
So, but what about
the rest of the country?
00:42:33.28\00:42:34.92
What have you done to
influence public policy?
00:42:34.95\00:42:37.59
You know, could we do it
differently in the future?
00:42:37.62\00:42:40.09
And so what we're learning is,
00:42:40.12\00:42:41.69
we're learning
to professionalize
00:42:41.72\00:42:43.73
the development work.
00:42:43.76\00:42:45.33
We're partnering with
Adventist institutions
00:42:45.36\00:42:48.86
of higher education
00:42:48.90\00:42:50.23
where some
Adventist universities
00:42:50.27\00:42:51.60
and others where you're
getting into more research.
00:42:51.63\00:42:54.47
You need to be able
to produce white papers.
00:42:54.50\00:42:56.30
You need to be at the
table when we're thinking,
00:42:56.34\00:42:59.37
what could we do,
what is different.
00:42:59.41\00:43:00.91
And if you add that
table, then you can influence.
00:43:00.94\00:43:02.81
Precisely.
00:43:02.84\00:43:04.18
And if you believe
that you have values
00:43:04.21\00:43:05.61
and you have
things to influence,
00:43:05.65\00:43:07.28
then you be at that table.
00:43:07.32\00:43:09.12
And so there is that little
bit of professionalization
00:43:09.15\00:43:12.49
and operating on a bigger scale
00:43:12.52\00:43:14.92
that ADRA has always
been great at the delivery.
00:43:14.96\00:43:17.06
Yes.
00:43:17.09\00:43:18.43
And, but now we've also got
to recognize that we need to,
00:43:18.46\00:43:20.73
what does it mean
to be an influence
00:43:20.76\00:43:25.10
and what does it mean
00:43:25.13\00:43:26.47
to give you a voice to something
00:43:26.50\00:43:27.84
because you know,
00:43:27.87\00:43:29.20
we haven't had a
strong advocacy department.
00:43:29.24\00:43:31.31
And yet when we
look at it, you know,
00:43:31.34\00:43:33.51
we're told scripturally to
give a voice to the voiceless.
00:43:33.54\00:43:37.48
And Christ Himself was
an advocate for change.
00:43:37.51\00:43:40.05
It really was His
advocacy He is speaking out
00:43:40.08\00:43:42.65
that let to His crucifixion,
and if I am His follower,
00:43:42.68\00:43:46.35
then how can I remain silent
in the world of injustice.
00:43:46.39\00:43:49.26
Yes. Yes. Yes.
00:43:49.29\00:43:50.63
And you now, we
can personalize it.
00:43:50.66\00:43:51.99
But you know, look at the scale,
00:43:52.03\00:43:53.60
it takes $8 billion
to provide education
00:43:53.63\00:43:57.87
for everybody in the
world, but we don't do it.
00:43:57.90\00:44:01.14
Yes.
00:44:01.17\00:44:02.50
Yeah, American's spend $8
billion a year on cosmetics.
00:44:02.54\00:44:06.51
You know, it takes $11 billion
a year to provide safe water
00:44:06.54\00:44:10.51
and sanitation for
everyone in the world,
00:44:10.55\00:44:12.65
and yet we don't do it.
00:44:12.68\00:44:14.02
Yeah.
00:44:14.05\00:44:15.38
But Americans and
Europeans combined spend
00:44:15.42\00:44:16.75
$11 billion a year on ice cream.
00:44:16.79\00:44:18.65
You know, we spend
$480 billions a year
00:44:18.69\00:44:22.59
on military, but we don't
spend the money that's necessary
00:44:22.62\00:44:26.63
to bring about
the social reform.
00:44:26.66\00:44:28.20
And so we live in a society
which doesn't like resources.
00:44:28.23\00:44:32.23
But how do we actually become
00:44:32.27\00:44:33.77
an influence
within the society...
00:44:33.80\00:44:35.14
Yes. Yes, well said.
00:44:35.17\00:44:37.64
To create, you
know this for our men.
00:44:37.67\00:44:39.01
And I believe that,
you know we have that role
00:44:39.04\00:44:42.11
as Christians and as agency.
00:44:42.14\00:44:44.85
You know, we don't
just serve Christians,
00:44:44.88\00:44:46.48
we serve everybody.
00:44:46.51\00:44:47.85
So everybody, it's true.
00:44:47.88\00:44:49.22
You know, the
philosophy that drives me
00:44:49.25\00:44:50.59
is my Christian
philosophy, but the reality
00:44:50.62\00:44:53.05
is that we serve everybody
'cause they need it regardless.
00:44:53.09\00:44:57.39
Yes. Yes. The need is there.
00:44:57.43\00:44:59.19
I think I see this, I don't know
00:44:59.23\00:45:01.10
if it's a subtle shift.
00:45:01.13\00:45:02.66
When we think of ADRA,
we've always thought of ADRA
00:45:02.70\00:45:04.80
as relief agency coming
after a mess and mop up.
00:45:04.83\00:45:08.77
Right.
00:45:08.80\00:45:10.14
You are moving more
to the development part,
00:45:10.17\00:45:11.67
that we want to do things
that are sustainable long term,
00:45:11.71\00:45:14.88
but also influence the
culture so that these countries,
00:45:14.91\00:45:18.61
these governments
can help themselves
00:45:18.65\00:45:20.88
and make life
better for their own people
00:45:20.92\00:45:23.45
systematically as appose
to just putting out fires
00:45:23.49\00:45:28.26
and dealing with crisis.
00:45:28.29\00:45:29.62
So it's...
00:45:29.66\00:45:31.09
Well, the tent
is getting bigger,
00:45:31.13\00:45:32.59
the umbrella is getting bigger,
00:45:32.63\00:45:33.96
you are covering
more than you were before.
00:45:34.00\00:45:35.70
That is. Yeah.
00:45:35.73\00:45:37.07
And, you know, we unfortunately
are part of the global church
00:45:37.10\00:45:41.40
which has, you
know, the second biggest
00:45:41.44\00:45:44.01
healthcare system in the world,
00:45:44.04\00:45:45.67
second biggest
education system in the world.
00:45:45.71\00:45:48.44
You know, we need to
learn how to use those assets
00:45:48.48\00:45:52.08
and how do we as a
church at large and Adventists,
00:45:52.11\00:45:55.48
you know development
00:45:55.52\00:45:56.85
and relief agency as its agency.
00:45:56.89\00:45:58.32
How do we actually play
that role because it's a role,
00:45:58.35\00:46:00.82
the commission
that we've been given.
00:46:00.86\00:46:02.19
Yeah.
00:46:02.22\00:46:03.56
Two questions I want to get
to you and I look that clock
00:46:03.59\00:46:04.93
on the wall is saying, we
got to kind of push forward.
00:46:04.96\00:46:07.10
You are reaching
out in a special way
00:46:07.13\00:46:09.26
to involve young
people in your...
00:46:09.30\00:46:10.77
Yes.
00:46:10.80\00:46:12.13
You know, you
and I have grey hair.
00:46:12.17\00:46:13.50
Well, you have grey hair.
00:46:13.54\00:46:16.07
I guess, if I let one hair grow,
00:46:16.10\00:46:17.61
it would be great.
00:46:17.64\00:46:18.97
I am fast using
you as my role model.
00:46:19.01\00:46:22.18
But the idea of
including young people,
00:46:22.21\00:46:24.01
so that what we are doing
is sustainable into the future.
00:46:24.05\00:46:26.51
Talk a little
bit about that? Sure.
00:46:26.55\00:46:27.95
So we have launched a
program called ADRA connections.
00:46:27.98\00:46:31.62
And it gives young
people the opportunity to do
00:46:31.65\00:46:33.79
mission trips with ADRA.
00:46:33.82\00:46:35.29
So they are hosted by
their local ADRA office.
00:46:35.32\00:46:38.29
They are given the opportunity
to understand the culture.
00:46:38.33\00:46:40.83
They are given the
exposure to poverty
00:46:40.86\00:46:43.67
and they're also given
the chance to intervene
00:46:43.70\00:46:45.47
and to learn what
does it actually mean
00:46:45.50\00:46:48.30
to actually serve and how
do we actually impact on it.
00:46:48.34\00:46:52.37
And then, of course,
they are given a chance
00:46:52.41\00:46:53.74
to do a little bit
of cultural exploration
00:46:53.78\00:46:55.58
and discover it.
00:46:55.61\00:46:56.95
And in fact, you know,
next year we are trying
00:46:56.98\00:47:00.48
for a mega program,
00:47:00.52\00:47:02.92
so we are going into the Amazon.
00:47:02.95\00:47:05.75
We are going up the
Amazon to a very remote area
00:47:05.79\00:47:08.19
that has no education.
00:47:08.22\00:47:09.56
Wow!
00:47:09.59\00:47:10.93
We are partnering with nine
of the Adventist institutions
00:47:10.96\00:47:13.36
of higher education.
00:47:13.40\00:47:14.80
We're gonna be in
there for three weeks.
00:47:14.83\00:47:16.20
And in three weeks,
we are going to build
00:47:16.23\00:47:19.50
an entire school
complex over 12 buildings.
00:47:19.53\00:47:22.80
We are going from
K to 12 as we say,
00:47:22.84\00:47:25.74
with classrooms,
labs, everything else,
00:47:25.77\00:47:27.84
playfields, and
accommodation for the teachers.
00:47:27.88\00:47:31.98
And we are bringing education
to this part of the Amazon
00:47:32.01\00:47:35.08
that didn't
have ambition at all.
00:47:35.12\00:47:36.48
We are gonna be working
00:47:36.52\00:47:37.85
with around 500
Adventist students,
00:47:37.89\00:47:39.92
who are gonna just revolutionize
00:47:39.95\00:47:42.86
this particular
part of the Amazon
00:47:42.89\00:47:44.49
and that's exciting thing
00:47:44.53\00:47:45.86
when you work with young people,
00:47:45.89\00:47:47.23
like who would take
on a challenge like that
00:47:47.26\00:47:48.90
except for young
people, who have so much energy,
00:47:48.93\00:47:51.67
who aren't concerned
about whatever doesn't work.
00:47:51.70\00:47:55.40
Well, they're just
gonna make it happen.
00:47:55.44\00:47:57.34
It's gonna work, yeah. Yeah.
00:47:57.37\00:47:58.71
Praise the Lord.
00:47:58.74\00:48:00.08
That's a great
thing of young people,
00:48:00.11\00:48:01.44
they got such
energy, and such innovation,
00:48:01.48\00:48:02.81
and it's a privilege
to be able to provide them
00:48:02.84\00:48:04.98
with some resources
and tools to be able
00:48:05.01\00:48:06.95
to actually understand
their role that they can make
00:48:06.98\00:48:09.45
a difference in the world.
00:48:09.48\00:48:10.82
One of the things I
am discovering again
00:48:10.85\00:48:12.29
and in news that
ADRA does so many work,
00:48:12.32\00:48:14.26
has so many things,
and has its tentacles
00:48:14.29\00:48:17.89
if I can use that
terminology in so many things.
00:48:17.93\00:48:19.83
We think of
building, we think of Maranatha
00:48:19.86\00:48:21.46
and those kind of things,
but ADRA is doing building
00:48:21.50\00:48:23.20
and that kind of stuff also
as part of your overall mandate
00:48:23.23\00:48:26.84
when you come into an area.
00:48:26.87\00:48:28.20
I mean, we tend not to
focus a great deal on building,
00:48:28.24\00:48:31.41
but where there's a
need, we work with that.
00:48:31.44\00:48:33.88
We are trying to
refocus ourselves a little bit
00:48:33.91\00:48:36.61
and that it's very
difficult to be a generalist
00:48:36.64\00:48:38.75
to cost everything,
00:48:38.78\00:48:40.12
so what is it that
your agency is known for.
00:48:40.15\00:48:42.28
So what we are
focusing on is, we are saying,
00:48:42.32\00:48:44.49
"Okay, we are going
to develop expertise
00:48:44.52\00:48:47.06
in the areas of health,
education, and livelihoods."
00:48:47.09\00:48:50.03
Praise the Lord.
00:48:50.06\00:48:51.39
Now you think that the
Adventist church is strong
00:48:51.43\00:48:52.86
in those areas, but, if
we can provide good health
00:48:52.89\00:48:56.53
to children when they are born,
00:48:56.56\00:48:57.90
given the
opportunity for proper growth,
00:48:57.93\00:49:00.04
for development,
for intellectual,
00:49:00.07\00:49:02.40
and for physical opportunities.
00:49:02.44\00:49:05.04
Parents won't really
send children to education
00:49:05.07\00:49:07.01
while they are in poverty
00:49:07.04\00:49:08.38
because they need
the children to survive.
00:49:08.41\00:49:09.74
That's a yes.
00:49:09.78\00:49:11.11
So we don't do something about
00:49:11.15\00:49:12.48
creating
livelihood opportunities
00:49:12.51\00:49:13.85
that the kids don't
get the opportunity,
00:49:13.88\00:49:15.22
so give them a good
healthy start in life
00:49:15.25\00:49:17.39
where they can have
all the opportunities
00:49:17.42\00:49:20.06
that God wants
for them to achieve.
00:49:20.09\00:49:22.32
And then create
the opportunities
00:49:22.36\00:49:23.89
for the families to be
able to free them for education
00:49:23.93\00:49:26.29
and then provide
education opportunities,
00:49:26.33\00:49:28.50
'cause education is
the key to unlock poverty.
00:49:28.53\00:49:31.53
And overarchingly, you know,
00:49:31.57\00:49:34.07
because we are a
faith based agency,
00:49:34.10\00:49:36.24
we are overarching
things in sense of well being.
00:49:36.27\00:49:38.94
So how do we restore the
wholeness of a community?
00:49:38.97\00:49:42.24
And, you know, the wholeness
is not just about food,
00:49:42.28\00:49:45.28
it's about the
spiritual development
00:49:45.31\00:49:49.02
of the people as well.
00:49:49.05\00:49:50.75
Now I have a
definition of spirituality,
00:49:50.79\00:49:53.12
which is my
definition of spirituality.
00:49:53.15\00:49:55.52
But everybody is
creating God's image,
00:49:55.56\00:49:58.79
everybody is a spiritual being.
00:49:58.83\00:50:00.93
How do I give them
that opportunity to develop
00:50:00.96\00:50:03.37
socially, mentally,
spiritually, holistically,
00:50:03.40\00:50:06.47
and that's what I want
ADRA to be known as an agency,
00:50:06.50\00:50:08.90
an agency which brings wholeness
00:50:08.94\00:50:11.47
and complete
healing to communities.
00:50:11.51\00:50:15.48
And so that's really
what we are trying to focus
00:50:15.51\00:50:18.18
here going into the future.
00:50:18.21\00:50:19.55
I have got two things
and I am engaging myself
00:50:19.58\00:50:22.18
as my time that I think
00:50:22.22\00:50:24.22
I want you to do on the backend.
00:50:24.25\00:50:25.65
One, what is ADRA
doing in the 10/40 Window,
00:50:25.69\00:50:28.86
in those countries
where it's tough to work.
00:50:28.89\00:50:31.13
And then we
wanted to take a look at
00:50:31.16\00:50:32.69
what is on the
docket for the future.
00:50:32.73\00:50:35.16
So before you
answer those questions,
00:50:35.20\00:50:37.33
I think we will go
to our address roll out.
00:50:37.37\00:50:40.30
Should you want to
make contact with ADRA,
00:50:40.34\00:50:43.00
should you want to know
more about what they are doing,
00:50:43.04\00:50:45.47
and if you want to
give financial support
00:50:45.51\00:50:47.98
to this most worthy
of Adventist agencies.
00:50:48.01\00:50:52.08
We're going to
give you information,
00:50:52.11\00:50:53.45
here is how you
can do precisely that.
00:50:53.48\00:50:55.08
Then we will go
to our news break,
00:50:55.12\00:50:56.75
then we will come back
00:50:56.79\00:50:58.12
and we will
have Jonathan wrestle
00:50:58.15\00:50:59.49
with those two
questions I gave him.
00:50:59.52\00:51:00.86
Just now, the address roll
00:51:00.89\00:51:02.22
and the
information that you will need.
00:51:02.26\00:51:05.66
The Adventist
Development and Relief Agency
00:51:05.69\00:51:08.16
is the global
humanitarian organization
00:51:08.20\00:51:10.53
of the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
00:51:10.57\00:51:12.83
Through an
international network,
00:51:12.87\00:51:14.44
they deliver relief
and development assistance
00:51:14.47\00:51:17.11
to people in more
than 130 countries.
00:51:17.14\00:51:20.61
Help ADRA
International relief poverty
00:51:20.64\00:51:23.04
and distress and
create just a positive change
00:51:23.08\00:51:26.31
by visiting ADRA.org,
00:51:26.35\00:51:29.35
or calling them
at 1-800-424-2372.
00:51:29.38\00:51:33.96
You may also write to them
at 12501 Old Columbia Pike,
00:51:33.99\00:51:38.46
Silver Spring, Maryland 20904.
00:51:38.49\00:51:42.16