I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, I'm Shelley Quinn
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and we welcome you
once again to 3ABN Today.
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We're so glad
that you've tuned in
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as you do each and every day.
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And we just want to
take this opportunity
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to thank you from
the bottom of our hearts
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for your
prayerful support of 3ABN.
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We thank you for your prayers,
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your love and your
financial donations
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because this
ministry, we partnered together,
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this ministry
belongs to the Lord
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but we are His
hands and His feet,
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I guess you could say.
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And we're so grateful
that you've partnered with us.
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Before I introduce our guest
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and we've got a
wonderful story today.
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But before I
introduce our guests,
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I wanted to read you a scripture
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and you'll see why
I chose this scripture
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in just a moment.
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But this is Acts 2:17 and 18.
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And this is what the Bible says,
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"And it shall come to
pass in the last days,
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says God," this
is the Lord speaking,
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they're quoting that,
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"I will pour out of
my Spirit on all flesh.
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Your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy, your young men
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shall see visions, your
old men shall dream dreams.
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And on My men servants
and on My maid servants,
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I will pour out my
Spirit in those days
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and they shall prophesy."
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They shall tell the good news
of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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We have two
beautiful people with us today.
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No old men but someone
who is a true prayer warrior
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and has had dreams from God
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and these dreams
are being fulfilled.
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So let me introduce
you to our special guests.
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First we have Beatriz Rodrigues.
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Beatriz, you are the director
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for the African
Mission for Jesus, is that...?
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Yes.
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Well, we're so glad you're here.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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You're from New Jersey? Yes.
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All right.
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And we're going
to learn your story
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and a little more
about the mission.
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But sitting next to her,
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we have Anthony,
who I will call Tony.
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Anthony Ponterio
Jr. you're a Junior?
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Yes, that's correct. Okay.
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And you are the co-director
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for the African
Mission for Jesus?
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Yes, I am.
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Well, we're very
grateful that you're both here
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to tell a great story.
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This is their
first time on television
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and I've told them
that you guys don't bite,
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so they can relax
and be themselves.
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But before we
get into the story,
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we've got Danny Shelton's niece,
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Gerri Lynn is with us today.
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And what Gerri Lynn is
going to be singing for us...
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This is Gerri Lynn Mendenhall
and she will be singing
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"If There Ever was A Time".
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If there ever was a time
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I needed You before
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Lord, I need You now
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And if there ever was a trial
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I couldn't handle on my own
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That's how this feels somehow
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And if there ever was a child
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Crying out for help
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That's what this song's about
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If there ever was a
time I needed You before
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Lord, I need You now
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If there ever was a Friend
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Who always kept His word
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Lord, I know it's You
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For there's never been a time
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That You've left me all alone
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Or been untrue
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And if I know anything
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It's that You will meet my need
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Just like You always do
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So I'm leaning on Your Love
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And counting on Your Grace
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Just to see me through
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I need You to remind me
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How Faithful You have been
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And when I'm at my weakest
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That's where
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Your Grace begins
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If there ever was a time
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I needed You before
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Lord, I need You now
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And if there was a trial
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I couldn't handle on my own
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That's how this feels somehow
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And if there ever was a child
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Crying out for help
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That's what this
song's about, all about
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If there ever was a time
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I needed You before
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Lord, I need You now
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If there ever was a Friend
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Lord, I know it's You
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And I need You now
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I need
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You now
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Amen.
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If there ever was a time
that we need Jesus, it is now.
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And, you know, it is, I
believe with all my heart,
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we're in the last days.
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And I don't
know if that means...
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I used to say,
"Well, I'm not sure
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Christ will come
during my lifetime
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'cause I'm not a
young chicken anymore."
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But now I'm
beginning to wonder, Tony,
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if He might not, you
know, so He's coming soon.
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But people around the world need
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to hear about Jesus.
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And I've got two people
here with me on the set,
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beautiful people,
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and once again we
have Beatriz Rodrigues
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and Tony Ponterio.
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You're with the
African Mission for Jesus.
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But before we
start about what that is,
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I think that our audience
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would love to hear a
little of your testimony.
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So I'm gonna
start with you, Beatriz.
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Yes.
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You grew up in a Nazarene home.
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Now I just have to say,
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I've had about 15 minutes
to talk with these people
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and it took me about
four minutes to recognize
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when Beatriz started talking.
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This woman is a prayer warrior.
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And she's had the
call of God on her life
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from the time
she was quite young.
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You grew up in a
Nazarene Christian home.
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But when you...
Where was that by the way?
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Where are you from?
I'm from Cape Verde.
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Cape Verde is a
colony Portuguese
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in the West Coast of Africa.
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So I was...
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And I was not...
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My whole family is Nazarene
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and I was the
first one to break it.
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All right.
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But it happened in
such an unusual way.
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You were eight
years old, what happened?
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I went to church and we
were in a Sunday school.
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Me and my
brothers is eight of us.
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And I was there
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and a male voice
come to my head and says,
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"Get up and go to this house.
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And this man is gonna take you."
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And I get up and I walk, I walk,
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and I don't let my
brothers and sisters know this.
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I get up and walk.
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And then I went
direct to a house,
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like six blocks away and
I knock on the door and...
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Did you know who
lived in this house?
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No, no. Okay.
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And the lady opened the door,
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it looked like her daughter come
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to the door and says,
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"Young girl, what
can I do to help you?"
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I say, "I came
to look for the man
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who's gonna go
to my mother's house
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to take me to His church."
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I said, "I knew my mother
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would not let me
go anywhere else."
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And opened the door,
and she tell me to come in,
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I come in, and this white,
pale white pastor man down,
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so shows up at the door.
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He says, "How can I do for you?"
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And I say,
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"You have to take me
to church, to your church.
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My mother will
not let me go there."
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And he says,
"Where do you live?"
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I say, I tell him where I live.
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And he was later
dispensed for the city.
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And he went to my mother's house
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and picked me up,
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and my mother was shocked
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but she didn't refused
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because she had respect
because he was a pastor.
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And he was a
Seventh-day Adventist pastor?
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Seventh-day Adventist pastor
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which I did not
know at the time anything
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about Seventh-day Adventist.
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And he took me to his church
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and I was very
happy to be in his church.
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But my mother do
not let nobody know
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because here in US
we have all the family
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from my mother's side
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who put us to school
and all those things.
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And then she...
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And they were all Nazarenes?
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Yes, and she
didn't want to break that.
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Okay.
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And my aunt who
support us a lot,
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she died not a long ago at 115.
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Hundred and fifteen? Yes.
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Wow!
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Preached in the
streets of New Bedford,
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almost don't know, everywhere.
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And then...
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So from there she let
me go but she had a plan.
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She sent me to next island
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which has the name,
the next island is Fogo.
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And to see if she
can take me out of that.
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My God make such
a blessings for me
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because there not
only I get to the church,
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five minutes
from my sister house
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who is married and lived there.
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And it was school
and church so I get both.
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So you got the Seventh-day
Adventist Christian education
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in the church.
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So essentially,
you're eight years old,
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the still small voice of
the Lord tells you to get up
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and go to a stranger's house,
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you walked there, he's a pastor,
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he starts taking you to church,
but your mother doesn't want
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to break the Nazarene tradition,
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sent you off to
live with your sister,
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and now you've got
the Adventist school
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and the Adventist church.
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And there I
learned to be missionary
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to visit the
sick, to help the poor,
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to make sure
they have food to eat,
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that is when I started.
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Praise the Lord.
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Now I'm gonna fast forward this.
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You end up moving
to the United States.
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You've got this background
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that's been basically
inscribed on your heart now
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to be a missionary
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but you're now
living in United States,
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you've got two daughters,
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you've got six
grandchildren, tell...
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And I have a son,
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first I have a son
and two daughters, yes.
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And then God is going to call
on you for a number of things
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that we're gonna
hear here in just a moment
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before I jump there.
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Let me start with Tony
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because, Tony, you
have a connection here too.
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Tell us, did you grow
up in a Christian home?
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No, my family
were Catholics. Okay.
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But they weren't
very strict with it.
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So I had a general idea
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of what the
Catholic Church was about,
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but I never really studied
the Bible or went to church.
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It wasn't until I was in my 20s,
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I started to work
with her friend, Paul,
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and I was
actually his apprentice
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to be an electrician.
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And as he was
teaching me the trade,
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he was also talking to me
about God and about the Bible.
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And I never heard
these things before
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and it just amazed
me because he told me,
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you know, "Buy a Bible
and look it up for yourself."
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So I did.
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And turns out everything
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that he was saying was
right there the whole time.
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So in the midst
of my wild life...
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What do you mean by wild life?
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Going out to bars,
drinking, doing drugs.
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Okay, so you
were very carnal? Yes.
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Okay. Very much so.
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I wasn't happy though,
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even though I was
doing these things.
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And I didn't know why.
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And I guess, the more I
started to hear the truth,
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the more I started
to gravitate towards it.
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So after working with
Paul for about three years,
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he introduced me to Beatriz
and another church member
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where they gave
me Bible studies,
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and it was a year
after that in 2009
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when I was baptized
into the Adventist church.
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All right.
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So you're a busy
little warrior for God
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and you're giving Bible
studies and praise the Lord
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because what are you doing now,
I don't want to leave that out.
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You've gone from living
a very secular lifestyle,
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what people think of as normal,
to have a hearing of the truth,
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studying the truth with Beatriz,
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but what are you
doing about that truth?
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So now the Lord called me
to be in ministry fulltime
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and I'm studying
at Andrews University
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to be a pastor.
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I love these stories.
And what I told Tony...
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And if you just
look at it and see,
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there are many
powerful ministers
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in the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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that this was their
story, drugs, alcohol,
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and God rescued them,
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He'd shown His light,
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turn them from darkness to light
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from the power of Satan to Him,
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and now He's using
them in such a mighty way.
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And whereas if I go out
and tried to talk to someone
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who is drinking and drugs,
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they're not
going to listen to me
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'cause I didn't...
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Well, I'm not
gonna say I never drank,
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but I never did drugs,
but they'll listen to you.
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And that's why God
can use you so powerfully.
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All right, back to Beatriz.
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Okay, Beatriz,
this missionary heart,
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you're still doing
what you can locally.
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But one day at
church a letter arrives...
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Yes. Tell us about this letter?
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This letter came
to Brother Green,
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the elder and his wife,
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knowing I come
for those directions
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and she bring that letter.
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Okay, so you could say
coming from that direction,
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the letter came from Africa.
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Africa, yes. Okay, from Ghana.
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And she walked and come to me,
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opened my hand and
put the letter in my hand.
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I get little worried
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because I
recognized the envelope,
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but I could not read it
because it's his handwriting.
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And I lost
memory, and I could not.
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There's a lot of
thing, I could not do.
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Why did you lose
memory? Car accident.
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You had a car accident? Yes.
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And that...
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Let's linger on
that for just a moment
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'cause I think that's important.
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You had a car accident
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that actually laid you
up for two years in bed?
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Two years in bed,
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after that it was
hard to get around
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but I had to...
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What happened
during those two years so,
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you got introduced to something?
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Oh, I have nine different aides
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taking care of me all the time.
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I could not speak
much, but I could...
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It's interesting.
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I forgot everything
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but the love of God was
still there in my heart.
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Praise God.
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And I was still
able to ask the Lord
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to send me somebody else
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because when they
opened their mouth,
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I smell cigarette
and I smell perfume
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and all that was harming me
00:18:30.54\00:18:31.91
because I have a
high allergy problem.
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Okay.
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And from there,
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the ninth aide
was God sent woman
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and she loves the Lord.
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Not an Adventist,
but she loves the Lord.
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And she took care of
me, she taught me to eat
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and she prepared
food for me to eat
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because I was not eating.
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It was...
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Her name was Sandine Bear,
woman, but very godly woman.
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And it was during the
time of your recuperation
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from this accident
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that you got introduced to 3ABN?
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They were
bringing CD Brooks' tapes
00:19:10.75\00:19:13.25
and put it there,
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and take me like
out of sort of a coma
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which I was
there like a vegetable.
00:19:17.85\00:19:20.32
The voice seemed to bring me up.
00:19:20.36\00:19:23.86
And then I started walking,
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take steps with the walker,
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and for what,
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and then about six months later,
00:19:32.43\00:19:35.84
and my friend took me to church.
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And in the church,
00:19:40.78\00:19:42.94
a friend of his invited
us to go and eat with them.
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And it was a blessing
00:19:48.98\00:19:50.32
because I don't
watch public television.
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And I found
Christian television.
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I say, "What is that?"
00:19:56.26\00:19:58.26
And she say, "That is
3ABN by Danny Shelton."
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I say, "Wow! I wish I had that."
00:20:04.57\00:20:07.00
And then, I keep thinking,
I keep thinking about it,
00:20:07.04\00:20:10.11
and then I
finally get the satellite
00:20:10.14\00:20:12.91
and that bring me back so fast.
00:20:12.94\00:20:15.64
Praise God.
00:20:15.68\00:20:17.01
Because I started to see things
00:20:17.05\00:20:18.91
which are healing my heart
and my mind was always worried
00:20:18.95\00:20:22.82
about the other
peoples, what would happen.
00:20:22.85\00:20:26.42
And it seems like to wake
me up of that sinking hole,
00:20:26.45\00:20:30.96
waiting for the death
because I was there to die,
00:20:30.99\00:20:33.29
I was not there to live.
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Yeah, and I know
that they thought
00:20:34.73\00:20:37.17
you were going to
die several times.
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Yeah, three times. Yeah.
00:20:39.13\00:20:40.47
But God was making
certain that His living Word,
00:20:40.50\00:20:46.44
the Word that is alive
and active and powerful,
00:20:46.47\00:20:49.38
is going in you
00:20:49.41\00:20:50.75
and so you are
coming back around.
00:20:50.78\00:20:52.95
Now you get this
letter at church.
00:20:52.98\00:20:55.88
Now you've recuperated,
00:20:55.92\00:20:57.49
you've still got a
little memory loss.
00:20:57.52\00:20:58.99
This woman
spoke seven languages.
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She said English is
not your strong suit but...
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Yes, but I know now.
00:21:05.43\00:21:08.13
So all of those other
languages have left you?
00:21:08.16\00:21:11.07
Yes, yes. All right.
00:21:11.10\00:21:12.63
Now tell me the
letter, you take it home,
00:21:12.67\00:21:17.01
you have your
daughter read this to you?
00:21:17.04\00:21:18.51
Yes.
00:21:18.54\00:21:19.87
I tell my daughter,
00:21:19.91\00:21:21.61
"Can you please
read this letter for me?"
00:21:21.64\00:21:23.71
The envelope is Africa
and I'm worried about it.
00:21:23.75\00:21:27.82
Then she said, "Okay." And
she takes it and she reads.
00:21:27.85\00:21:30.32
She said, "Ma, this
letter is like asking you
00:21:30.35\00:21:33.79
for used books and
to spread the gospel."
00:21:33.82\00:21:38.49
And I said, "What else?
She says, used for things,
00:21:38.53\00:21:42.30
anything you
can get to send them
00:21:42.33\00:21:43.97
to spread the gospel."
00:21:44.00\00:21:45.83
So when they say
that and he pointed
00:21:45.87\00:21:50.67
some names of the
books, so one of the...
00:21:50.71\00:21:55.88
The younger elder
00:21:55.91\00:21:57.25
which is Hubert
Green, I asked him.
00:21:57.28\00:21:58.61
I say, "Can you please
look for some books for me
00:21:58.65\00:22:02.28
to send to this man,
because it's something serious.
00:22:02.32\00:22:05.65
This man don't ask for money,
or for food, or for clothing."
00:22:05.69\00:22:09.59
I say, "This is God's work.
00:22:09.62\00:22:11.53
Now let me pause just there
00:22:11.56\00:22:12.93
'cause that is
such an important thing.
00:22:12.96\00:22:15.43
She's getting a
letter from Ghana.
00:22:15.46\00:22:16.80
There are so many
scams where people from,
00:22:16.83\00:22:20.27
supposedly from these countries
will write and ask for money
00:22:20.30\00:22:25.54
and funds and half the
time, they're not even there.
00:22:25.57\00:22:29.34
But you knew that
this was truly a heart cry
00:22:29.38\00:22:34.32
from an evangelist
by the name of Moses
00:22:34.35\00:22:37.02
because he's not
asking for money,
00:22:37.05\00:22:39.79
what he's asking
for is send me books
00:22:39.82\00:22:43.16
to spread the gospel.
00:22:43.19\00:22:44.53
Okay. Yes.
00:22:44.56\00:22:46.13
And I...
00:22:46.16\00:22:49.83
He did it.
00:22:49.86\00:22:51.20
He ordered the books for
me and he found some books
00:22:51.23\00:22:53.80
and I fill it up.
00:22:53.84\00:22:55.27
And one sister of the church
00:22:55.30\00:22:56.84
bring me books
from her house also,
00:22:56.87\00:22:59.07
Sister White
books, very important
00:22:59.11\00:23:01.48
because he
mentioned that in the list.
00:23:01.51\00:23:03.71
And I say,
00:23:03.75\00:23:06.35
"Well, I cannot afford
to buy a plastic barrel.
00:23:06.38\00:23:11.62
I had to send it
in a paper barrels."
00:23:11.65\00:23:14.76
And it happens to be...
00:23:14.79\00:23:16.93
He get the letter messed up,
00:23:16.96\00:23:19.39
but I put plastic
inside over to make sure
00:23:19.43\00:23:22.83
the books are protected.
00:23:22.86\00:23:24.73
And he received it
and he was so happy
00:23:24.77\00:23:27.50
and he sent me
the pictures of him
00:23:27.54\00:23:30.84
and I say,
"This man is always...
00:23:30.87\00:23:36.18
One side, he's hiding one side."
00:23:36.21\00:23:38.28
I'm wondering why.
00:23:38.31\00:23:39.65
But I never
paid attention to it.
00:23:39.68\00:23:42.95
And from that I show
it, I tell in the church
00:23:42.98\00:23:47.59
what's happening
about the clothing.
00:23:47.62\00:23:50.46
They say they
give to the widows.
00:23:50.49\00:23:52.93
I say, "Oh, my goodness.
00:23:52.96\00:23:54.43
They have a need
of those things."
00:23:54.46\00:23:58.97
Then the church
started giving me,
00:23:59.00\00:24:00.87
they started going outside
00:24:00.90\00:24:03.10
and asking people to
give in different churches,
00:24:03.14\00:24:06.44
not only Thomas Hoover Church,
different Adventist church.
00:24:06.47\00:24:09.54
And people I used to work
with, which is just co-workers,
00:24:09.58\00:24:13.85
they come with
the stuff to my house
00:24:13.88\00:24:16.12
and start packing the
barrels and send the barrels.
00:24:16.15\00:24:21.02
And the barrels was expensive,
00:24:21.06\00:24:23.76
about $35 a piece, empty to buy.
00:24:23.79\00:24:28.40
But the Lord
provided me barrels for $15,
00:24:28.43\00:24:32.90
just as they showed me
00:24:32.93\00:24:34.44
the blue barrels
come down in my bedroom,
00:24:34.47\00:24:38.11
come down for low price,
00:24:38.14\00:24:41.24
I get it down
for that low price,
00:24:41.28\00:24:43.68
for $10 a piece.
00:24:43.71\00:24:45.25
The only thing I
could not clean it
00:24:45.28\00:24:47.05
because chocolate in it
and I'm allergic to chocolate.
00:24:47.08\00:24:50.69
Oh, but you got somebody to...
00:24:50.72\00:24:52.45
But I got the barrels
and they clean it for me.
00:24:52.49\00:24:55.16
So this is how Africa
Mission for Jesus began?
00:24:55.19\00:24:59.19
Yes.
00:24:59.23\00:25:00.56
The Evangelist Moses
00:25:00.60\00:25:01.93
and we'll see his
picture in just a moment.
00:25:01.96\00:25:04.00
But the reason she said
in the pictures that he sent,
00:25:04.03\00:25:06.94
he's always kind
of hiding one side,
00:25:06.97\00:25:09.14
as you learned that,
00:25:09.17\00:25:10.64
he also was disabled, he
lost an arm in an accident.
00:25:10.67\00:25:13.14
I was so shocked.
00:25:13.17\00:25:15.24
When I said, "Oh, Lord,
what kind of thing is that?"
00:25:15.28\00:25:18.28
One disabled person to
another disabled person.
00:25:18.31\00:25:21.88
Isn't that
amazing how God works?
00:25:21.92\00:25:23.89
I say, "What is this?"
00:25:23.92\00:25:26.19
And it happens,
he sew his own shirt
00:25:26.22\00:25:28.92
because he have packets in them,
00:25:28.96\00:25:30.69
he put the books and go around.
00:25:30.73\00:25:32.19
He walks miles and miles
00:25:32.23\00:25:33.86
to go far away
to distribute books.
00:25:33.90\00:25:36.97
And I know he's
going to be very happy
00:25:37.00\00:25:38.87
when he receives the 2,000 books
00:25:38.90\00:25:40.64
from Danny Shelton
00:25:40.67\00:25:42.00
because at the end of
the month they will have it.
00:25:42.04\00:25:44.94
Oh, that is such a blessing...
00:25:44.97\00:25:46.34
He talked to me
about Danny Shelton like,
00:25:46.37\00:25:49.34
I know Danny Shelton,
we live, he's my neighbor.
00:25:49.38\00:25:54.45
He take picture of
everything and send it me
00:25:54.48\00:25:56.92
to see what he
needs, what books he needs.
00:25:56.95\00:25:59.65
What's so fascinating is
here is somebody in Ghana
00:25:59.69\00:26:04.19
who obviously has seen 3ABN
00:26:04.23\00:26:07.73
'cause he knows Danny
Shelton as a brother in Christ.
00:26:07.76\00:26:09.90
Yeah, because I
send all my magazines.
00:26:09.93\00:26:11.93
Yeah, and you're
sending all of this
00:26:11.97\00:26:13.30
so you're getting that.
00:26:13.34\00:26:14.77
Now when you're sending...
00:26:14.80\00:26:18.04
This is 2007,
it's when this began.
00:26:18.07\00:26:20.48
Yes. Yes.
00:26:20.51\00:26:21.84
But something happened,
it started growing from being
00:26:21.88\00:26:26.72
just a book mission project
00:26:26.75\00:26:31.52
to what?
00:26:31.55\00:26:35.16
We went to distribute
the clothes on the street
00:26:35.19\00:26:38.03
to all the poor,
00:26:38.06\00:26:39.93
don't have to be only Adventist,
00:26:39.96\00:26:41.40
to everyone and
the church grow so big.
00:26:41.43\00:26:44.87
And the baptism,
00:26:44.90\00:26:47.07
we got over 2,000 baptisms
00:26:47.10\00:26:52.87
with this program
of street mission.
00:26:52.91\00:26:56.34
So you've got the
street mission going...
00:26:56.38\00:26:57.98
Yes, yes.
00:26:58.01\00:26:59.35
And this is just a few
years and these books...
00:26:59.38\00:27:03.39
Was it more than
just one mission?
00:27:03.42\00:27:05.09
I mean, was it
more than just Moses?
00:27:05.12\00:27:07.22
Moses have a group of 25 laymen.
00:27:07.26\00:27:10.59
They work
together. Okay, 25 laymen.
00:27:10.63\00:27:11.96
They're out
doing a street ministry
00:27:11.99\00:27:13.33
and they have 2,000 baptisms.
00:27:13.36\00:27:16.60
That's amazing.
Up-to-date, yeah, yeah.
00:27:16.63\00:27:19.00
And here people donate
00:27:19.03\00:27:20.90
clothing, shoes,
dishes, everything.
00:27:20.94\00:27:24.67
Last year, I sent 37
barrels, this year I sent 31
00:27:24.71\00:27:29.81
because I have some at home
00:27:29.84\00:27:31.18
because I don't have
the finance to send it all.
00:27:31.21\00:27:33.65
I still have
some in my backyard.
00:27:33.68\00:27:35.52
I fill them up,
00:27:35.55\00:27:36.89
I leave in the
backyard till the God provide,
00:27:36.92\00:27:39.02
then they will go.
00:27:39.05\00:27:40.39
Praise the Lord. Yeah.
00:27:40.42\00:27:41.89
So 2000... That
means the churches...
00:27:41.92\00:27:44.89
He's planning churches
left and right, aren't they?
00:27:44.93\00:27:47.33
Yes. Yes. How many churches now?
00:27:47.36\00:27:49.80
We have 24
churches, and before them,
00:27:49.83\00:27:55.10
doesn't have a building yet.
00:27:55.14\00:27:56.81
They worship
under the large tree.
00:27:56.84\00:27:59.44
They sit there, but
it's very uncomfortable
00:27:59.47\00:28:01.41
because the dust and the
heat is so hot like oven.
00:28:01.44\00:28:06.61
I never felt such
heat like that before.
00:28:06.65\00:28:09.32
All right, so you're
getting ahead of yourself.
00:28:09.35\00:28:11.25
So what happens
is you receive...
00:28:11.29\00:28:16.46
Where did this idea
of the school come up?
00:28:16.49\00:28:19.13
I mean, the church is
seeing explosive growth.
00:28:19.16\00:28:24.03
Now, how did
00:28:24.07\00:28:25.87
this school come about?
00:28:25.90\00:28:30.31
The school come out...
00:28:30.34\00:28:32.97
I had a dream.
00:28:33.01\00:28:34.68
I was walking in this place,
00:28:34.71\00:28:37.85
and all the sun
is in large place
00:28:37.88\00:28:41.38
and I'll end up
with a lot of children
00:28:41.42\00:28:43.45
around me.
00:28:43.49\00:28:44.82
You've got on a large white hat?
00:28:44.85\00:28:46.19
Yes.
00:28:46.22\00:28:47.56
And with a large white hat on,
00:28:47.59\00:28:51.29
and I say, "What is this?"
00:28:51.33\00:28:55.46
And in my mind, "Yes,
you have to educate them,
00:28:55.50\00:29:00.37
you have to give them
the school and a dream."
00:29:00.40\00:29:04.61
And it happens to
be, I keep quiet about it
00:29:04.64\00:29:10.01
because I know my situation,
00:29:10.05\00:29:11.51
I can't go to A to
B, you know how I talk,
00:29:11.55\00:29:15.18
not in line.
00:29:15.22\00:29:17.02
And it happens to be the school.
00:29:17.05\00:29:23.19
Moses called me, he
tell me, "I have this dream."
00:29:23.22\00:29:27.10
And, when he tell
me he had this dream,
00:29:27.13\00:29:30.67
I said, "What is the dream?
00:29:30.70\00:29:32.33
And he tell me, I say,
00:29:32.37\00:29:34.14
"But I don't talk to
you to tell you that."
00:29:34.17\00:29:36.10
He says, "Mama, what..."
00:29:36.14\00:29:37.47
He calls me Mama, he
says, "Mama, I had this dream,
00:29:37.51\00:29:41.14
you don't tell me
I had this dream,"
00:29:41.18\00:29:42.51
I said, "But I
had the same dream."
00:29:42.54\00:29:44.95
I said, "You're over
there, I'm over here."
00:29:44.98\00:29:47.18
And then another
brother called me and tell me,
00:29:47.22\00:29:50.29
he's a university professor.
00:29:50.32\00:29:54.66
He tell me, "I had this
dream with you open the school
00:29:54.69\00:29:57.46
with this big white hat on."
00:29:57.49\00:30:00.00
I say, "Oh, my goodness,
I don't even have this hat."
00:30:00.03\00:30:03.13
And I wear a hat to church.
00:30:03.16\00:30:06.43
I say, "I don't have
it" and it happens to be.
00:30:06.47\00:30:11.57
I tell Moses, and Moses go ahead
00:30:11.61\00:30:14.08
and prepare everything
for me to go there and to see
00:30:14.11\00:30:19.75
if the school
will take step forward.
00:30:19.78\00:30:24.09
And when I went
everything was prepared.
00:30:24.12\00:30:27.36
So you have a dream,
you don't tell anyone.
00:30:27.39\00:30:30.99
Moses has the same dream,
then a university professor,
00:30:31.03\00:30:34.46
who's a friend has
the identical dream.
00:30:34.50\00:30:36.67
I think the Lord was
trying to get her to teach you.
00:30:36.70\00:30:39.67
It shakes me up
00:30:39.70\00:30:41.04
when the people
have same dream as me.
00:30:41.07\00:30:43.67
I was scared.
00:30:43.71\00:30:45.04
Well, you know
00:30:45.07\00:30:46.41
it's God
speaking through you all.
00:30:46.44\00:30:47.78
Because I know I'm un-capable.
00:30:47.81\00:30:49.38
I don't see myself capable
to do none of those things.
00:30:49.41\00:30:52.45
But he went, he happens to be.
00:30:52.48\00:30:56.45
The doctor tell me,
"You cannot go to Africa.
00:30:56.48\00:30:58.69
You will not get there."
00:30:58.72\00:31:00.76
So they invite you to come,
00:31:00.79\00:31:02.36
the letter comes
or they invite you
00:31:02.39\00:31:04.29
to come to Africa, this is...
00:31:04.33\00:31:05.93
It started in 2007,
now this is 2011, correct?
00:31:05.96\00:31:09.63
Yes, yes, 2011.
00:31:09.66\00:31:11.23
So now you've
been invited to come
00:31:11.27\00:31:13.23
for a
groundbreaking for the school,
00:31:13.27\00:31:15.94
but you're still...
00:31:15.97\00:31:17.31
You say...
00:31:17.34\00:31:18.67
And the doctor
says, I will not make it.
00:31:18.71\00:31:20.04
The heart will not get me there.
00:31:20.08\00:31:21.41
And so it's not just...
00:31:21.44\00:31:22.78
Was it your heart, or
did you have a head injury,
00:31:22.81\00:31:24.15
what caused...
00:31:24.18\00:31:25.51
Yes, the last one I
just have a head injury.
00:31:25.55\00:31:27.85
You had the head
injury, so you feel like
00:31:27.88\00:31:29.92
you don't always go A, B, C, D,
00:31:29.95\00:31:32.79
you kind of zig-zag.
00:31:32.82\00:31:34.16
Yes, I zig-zag, yeah.
00:31:34.19\00:31:35.52
You've got the heart
condition, what happened?
00:31:35.56\00:31:39.89
Let me have
Tony tell this story.
00:31:39.93\00:31:43.20
So one Sabbath,
Beatriz was telling me
00:31:43.23\00:31:46.13
that she was
invited to go to Ghana
00:31:46.17\00:31:49.20
because they wanted to
dedicate the school on her name.
00:31:49.24\00:31:52.87
So as she's
talking to me in church,
00:31:52.91\00:31:55.48
at the same time,
I'm praying in my head,
00:31:55.51\00:31:58.71
and I said, "Okay,
Lord, if this is...
00:31:58.75\00:32:00.75
If you want me
to go with Beatriz,
00:32:00.78\00:32:02.62
have her ask me to go
00:32:02.65\00:32:03.99
with her before
the Sabbath ends."
00:32:04.02\00:32:05.69
So that afternoon, I was
eating lunch at her house
00:32:05.72\00:32:09.49
and she was by the
oven preparing something
00:32:09.52\00:32:14.16
and she just stopped,
00:32:14.20\00:32:15.53
she turned around,
she looked at me, said,
00:32:15.56\00:32:17.20
"Tony, do you
want to go to Africa?"
00:32:17.23\00:32:19.63
So I said, "Yeah,
I'll go." Praise the Lord.
00:32:19.67\00:32:22.87
So you go to Africa,
00:32:22.90\00:32:24.31
tell us about the
groundbreaking, Tony?
00:32:24.34\00:32:27.88
So we both went in faith
00:32:27.91\00:32:30.15
because, you know, we've only
00:32:30.18\00:32:32.75
talked to them through
letters or on the phone,
00:32:32.78\00:32:36.85
but they brought us there,
00:32:36.89\00:32:38.75
and it was an incredible
experience all around.
00:32:38.79\00:32:44.36
I've never seen
poverty like that before.
00:32:44.39\00:32:47.03
And I don't think
Beatriz has either
00:32:47.06\00:32:49.23
but it shocked us both.
00:32:49.26\00:32:50.60
No, I've never seen. Yeah.
00:32:50.63\00:32:52.43
And what amazed me
and impressed me so much
00:32:52.47\00:32:55.37
'cause at that time,
00:32:55.40\00:32:56.74
I was only in the
church for like two years,
00:32:56.77\00:32:58.17
but to see how active
the church members were.
00:32:58.21\00:33:02.18
Every day of the week,
00:33:02.21\00:33:03.55
they would wake up 5
o'clock in the morning
00:33:03.58\00:33:05.35
and do Sabbath school together
before they went to work.
00:33:05.38\00:33:07.52
Praise God. Yeah.
00:33:07.55\00:33:08.88
And, you know...
00:33:08.92\00:33:10.25
No wonder the
church is growing so...
00:33:10.29\00:33:11.62
Yeah, everybody in the
church, 5:00 in the morning.
00:33:11.65\00:33:13.62
Well, yeah, I mean, for
them their life revolves
00:33:13.66\00:33:17.03
around the church,
not the other way around.
00:33:17.06\00:33:18.56
Praise God.
00:33:18.59\00:33:19.93
So that really
impressed me a lot.
00:33:19.96\00:33:21.60
And, you know, on
Sabbath afternoon,
00:33:21.63\00:33:25.30
the kids would go out 2x2,
00:33:25.33\00:33:28.04
you know, knocking on doors,
00:33:28.07\00:33:29.40
handing out literature and then,
00:33:29.44\00:33:33.11
you know, eventually we
got to their groundbreaking
00:33:33.14\00:33:35.44
where we met their
conference president
00:33:35.48\00:33:37.55
and they came and
Beatriz broke the ground
00:33:37.58\00:33:40.38
with conference president there.
00:33:40.42\00:33:41.78
Amen and amen.
00:33:41.82\00:33:43.75
So let's take a look
at some of these pictures,
00:33:43.79\00:33:47.29
so that you will know...
00:33:47.32\00:33:50.56
And see that, put some
faces to what's going on.
00:33:50.59\00:33:53.19
I think our first
picture of, is of Moses,
00:33:53.23\00:33:56.06
the one-armed evangelist.
00:33:56.10\00:33:57.73
This is his family, right?
Yes, yes, this is Moses family.
00:33:57.77\00:34:00.20
And there is
Beatriz and Tony and...
00:34:00.24\00:34:04.61
Juliette. A
beautiful family, all right.
00:34:04.64\00:34:08.44
Now here, tell us
about these pictures, Tony?
00:34:08.48\00:34:13.55
So this was one of the
villages that we visited.
00:34:13.58\00:34:16.58
And it was in the
middle of cocoa farm.
00:34:16.62\00:34:20.82
So like you
wouldn't even it was there
00:34:20.86\00:34:22.42
unless someone led you to it.
00:34:22.46\00:34:24.49
But the living
conditions were very poor.
00:34:24.53\00:34:28.03
The houses were made of mud.
00:34:28.06\00:34:29.96
And they...
00:34:30.00\00:34:31.33
Now I see there's a receptacle
there for them to gather water.
00:34:31.37\00:34:34.04
Did they have clean water?
00:34:34.07\00:34:35.67
No, they didn't
have clean water.
00:34:35.70\00:34:37.37
They would go gather the water
00:34:37.41\00:34:39.31
from the river
and bring it back.
00:34:39.34\00:34:41.21
And it's brown. I
don't know how they...
00:34:41.24\00:34:43.31
I don't know how
they get white clothes
00:34:43.35\00:34:44.71
out of brown water.
00:34:44.75\00:34:46.08
And they get baptized in
that water and that's worse.
00:34:46.11\00:34:49.38
Okay, now we'll
continue with the pictures.
00:34:49.42\00:34:53.56
Yes, so this is
one of the classrooms
00:34:53.59\00:34:56.76
that we saw and
this is pretty much...
00:34:56.79\00:34:59.69
This was their existing school.
This is how they were educated.
00:34:59.73\00:35:02.80
But when you got
2,000 new members
00:35:02.83\00:35:05.93
in new churches,
this is not quite
00:35:05.97\00:35:08.67
what we need, is it?
00:35:08.70\00:35:10.04
All right. No.
00:35:10.07\00:35:11.41
No.
00:35:11.44\00:35:12.87
And this is the
groundbreaking ceremony
00:35:12.91\00:35:14.84
with the conference president.
00:35:14.88\00:35:16.28
In 2011, that must have been
so exciting for you, Beatriz.
00:35:16.31\00:35:20.88
Yes, yes.
00:35:20.92\00:35:22.35
I was very
excited, especially to know
00:35:22.38\00:35:24.82
they take me everywhere.
00:35:24.85\00:35:26.69
And the Lord caused me to walk.
I do not walk much, I faint.
00:35:26.72\00:35:32.16
But the Lord caused
me to walk everywhere
00:35:32.19\00:35:35.26
they take me,
00:35:35.30\00:35:36.70
and there was nobody to hold me.
00:35:36.73\00:35:38.83
I walked free by
myself. I was so surprised.
00:35:38.87\00:35:42.30
Praise God.
00:35:42.34\00:35:43.67
Yeah, they kept
us busy every day
00:35:43.71\00:35:45.04
that we were there.
00:35:45.07\00:35:46.41
I'm sure they did.
00:35:46.44\00:35:47.78
So they would come and get us
00:35:47.81\00:35:49.14
and they would bring us to
all these different villages
00:35:49.18\00:35:50.55
that were receiving the goods
00:35:50.58\00:35:52.11
that we were
sending them over the years.
00:35:52.15\00:35:54.02
Praise God.
00:35:54.05\00:35:55.38
Okay, let's
continue with the pictures.
00:35:55.42\00:35:58.09
Who are these people, Beatriz?
00:35:58.12\00:36:00.96
Those are...
00:36:00.99\00:36:03.36
It's hard for me
to talk about them.
00:36:03.39\00:36:05.59
Those are the
children with no parents.
00:36:05.63\00:36:08.10
So these are orphans?
00:36:08.13\00:36:09.46
They're wandering from house
to house to get food to eat.
00:36:09.50\00:36:12.73
And the church
members, they feed them.
00:36:12.77\00:36:16.24
They don't have home.
00:36:16.27\00:36:18.07
Oh, bless their
little pretty hearts.
00:36:18.11\00:36:19.44
And over there,
00:36:19.47\00:36:20.81
they don't have
home to put them either
00:36:20.84\00:36:22.18
because everybody
have this little room,
00:36:22.21\00:36:26.31
they go in the night, but
to receive you is outside.
00:36:26.35\00:36:30.09
So these little
orphans just live outdoors?
00:36:30.12\00:36:33.76
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Bless their hearts.
00:36:33.79\00:36:36.56
Bless their hearts.
00:36:36.59\00:36:37.93
But now they're
coming to the school now.
00:36:37.96\00:36:40.60
We're going to see
that in just a moment.
00:36:40.63\00:36:42.40
We'll continue
with the pictures.
00:36:42.43\00:36:46.43
This is what, Tony?
00:36:46.47\00:36:49.17
So this is the elementary school
00:36:49.20\00:36:51.24
that we started in 2011.
00:36:51.27\00:36:53.41
Okay. This is
just the first floor.
00:36:53.44\00:36:56.28
Right now, they
have a second floor.
00:36:56.31\00:36:58.58
We don't have
any current pictures
00:36:58.61\00:37:00.25
because the
camera they had broke.
00:37:00.28\00:37:02.88
But there's plans to
finish with the third floor.
00:37:02.92\00:37:06.25
All right, now how many students
00:37:06.29\00:37:08.09
do you actually have
going to the school now?
00:37:08.12\00:37:10.53
Four hundred and eighty five.
00:37:10.56\00:37:12.06
Four hundred and
eighty five students.
00:37:12.09\00:37:14.66
Schooling them in the
church and schooling them
00:37:14.70\00:37:16.80
in the side of the church,
00:37:16.83\00:37:18.93
in those hackers
they make with the wood,
00:37:18.97\00:37:23.00
they make classes.
00:37:23.04\00:37:24.37
Now are they all
church members' children,
00:37:24.41\00:37:26.54
or do you have other...?
00:37:26.57\00:37:27.91
No, no, no.
00:37:27.94\00:37:29.28
Everybody want
their children to go
00:37:29.31\00:37:30.65
to that Adventist school also.
00:37:30.68\00:37:33.48
What is the benefit
of other village people
00:37:33.52\00:37:36.89
coming to get an
Adventist education?
00:37:36.92\00:37:40.62
It's, especially
not all of them read.
00:37:40.66\00:37:44.09
The adults, not all read.
00:37:44.13\00:37:45.96
They don't have education,
00:37:45.99\00:37:47.33
and they wanted their
children to learn, to read.
00:37:47.36\00:37:49.80
And when we have the baptism,
he always sent the money.
00:37:49.83\00:37:55.54
Tony sent the money for
Bibles to give them as a gift.
00:37:55.57\00:38:00.28
And they give to the children
who already learned to read,
00:38:00.31\00:38:05.38
who knows how to read,
00:38:05.41\00:38:06.75
to read to their
parents and stuff like that.
00:38:06.78\00:38:09.42
But the blessings of having them
00:38:09.45\00:38:11.05
in the school is
because they learn about Christ
00:38:11.09\00:38:14.66
and they grow up
in different mindsets
00:38:14.69\00:38:17.73
and God knows what
they can be to go out
00:38:17.76\00:38:22.03
and to do work of the Lord.
00:38:22.06\00:38:24.07
Amen, and so many of them
00:38:24.10\00:38:25.97
when they're educated
in an Adventist school,
00:38:26.00\00:38:31.37
they become strong
Adventist Christians,
00:38:31.41\00:38:34.34
don't they?
00:38:34.38\00:38:35.71
All right, and the next picture?
00:38:35.74\00:38:38.35
Who is this, Tony?
00:38:38.38\00:38:40.62
So this was the first
king that we met, King Nana.
00:38:40.65\00:38:44.65
He's the one who's in-charge
of all the kings in the area.
00:38:44.69\00:38:48.26
And he's the one who donated
10 acres of land for a school.
00:38:48.29\00:38:53.33
So he's donated 10 acres of land
00:38:53.36\00:38:55.20
that he wants to
be a high school?
00:38:55.23\00:38:56.80
Yes. Yes.
00:38:56.83\00:38:58.17
Your school is a primary school,
00:38:58.20\00:38:59.83
one to eight?
00:38:59.87\00:39:01.20
Yes. One to eight was started.
00:39:01.24\00:39:03.81
We're supposed to
start high school,
00:39:03.84\00:39:06.14
but one morning I
wake up with not know
00:39:06.17\00:39:11.78
is that is not the
one you're gonna do.
00:39:11.81\00:39:13.75
You're gonna start
00:39:13.78\00:39:15.12
with the one you
break the ground.
00:39:15.15\00:39:17.15
So I didn't know how
to break that to them,
00:39:17.19\00:39:20.19
to tell them what's happening.
00:39:20.22\00:39:22.82
But Moses is so
much into the Lord,
00:39:22.86\00:39:26.29
and you talk to him,
00:39:26.33\00:39:27.66
and he will understand
the meaning of everything.
00:39:27.70\00:39:31.23
I tell him, I say,
00:39:31.27\00:39:32.63
"I cannot start the high school.
00:39:32.67\00:39:36.94
It has to be where the
ground is breaking first."
00:39:36.97\00:39:39.67
He says, "No problem,
Mama, I will take it around
00:39:39.71\00:39:43.48
and it will be at that.
00:39:43.51\00:39:44.85
So we started for
the little childrens
00:39:44.88\00:39:47.68
because that is
what it was in my dream.
00:39:47.72\00:39:50.32
So the king wanted you
to start a high school,
00:39:50.35\00:39:52.19
but you're saying,
00:39:52.22\00:39:53.56
"No, where we
broke ground first,
00:39:53.59\00:39:54.96
we've got to do it
for the little children
00:39:54.99\00:39:56.83
as God has shown you."
00:39:56.86\00:39:58.19
He gave me his phone number,
00:39:58.23\00:39:59.56
he says, "When
you're ready to build,
00:39:59.59\00:40:01.66
give me a call, and
I'll clear the land for you."
00:40:01.70\00:40:04.80
Praise God.
Praise God. Praise God.
00:40:04.83\00:40:06.57
But I don't have
funds to do that.
00:40:06.60\00:40:10.47
Not yet, you don't
have the funds but...
00:40:10.51\00:40:13.01
Now, actually, we'll keep going.
00:40:13.04\00:40:16.01
Let's look at the next picture
00:40:16.04\00:40:17.38
because then there
is the mayor of the town
00:40:17.41\00:40:20.72
and here is the picture of him.
00:40:20.75\00:40:22.58
He's actually
already got the plans.
00:40:22.62\00:40:25.59
He's presenting
you with the plans
00:40:25.62\00:40:27.16
for the high school here.
00:40:27.19\00:40:29.36
And then we have,
in the next picture,
00:40:29.39\00:40:34.40
we have other kings?
00:40:34.43\00:40:36.80
Yes. Yes.
00:40:36.83\00:40:38.17
All right, so how
many kings did you meet?
00:40:38.20\00:40:40.57
We met five kings
and one queen, total.
00:40:40.60\00:40:46.21
And each one of
them were very excited
00:40:46.24\00:40:48.48
about what we
were doing there, so...
00:40:48.51\00:40:50.48
There's another...
00:40:50.51\00:40:51.85
Moses would introduce us to them
00:40:51.88\00:40:53.21
and we would present to them,
00:40:53.25\00:40:54.58
you know, what
the mission was about,
00:40:54.62\00:40:56.82
what our plans were for
the school and everything
00:40:56.85\00:40:59.09
and all of them are very excited
00:40:59.12\00:41:00.86
and they were all willing
00:41:00.89\00:41:02.22
to donate land to build schools.
00:41:02.26\00:41:05.19
Praise God. Yeah.
00:41:05.23\00:41:06.59
So how much money do you need
00:41:06.63\00:41:10.47
to finish the first school?
00:41:10.50\00:41:12.43
Are you just
building as the money,
00:41:16.67\00:41:18.01
as the funds come in?
00:41:18.04\00:41:19.37
We build as I get
donations, I send it to them.
00:41:19.41\00:41:23.61
And that's why they're slow.
00:41:23.65\00:41:25.01
But I say,
00:41:25.05\00:41:26.38
"Well, isn't that
finishing fast enough?"
00:41:26.41\00:41:27.88
But I forgot,
00:41:27.92\00:41:29.25
till the Lord
shows me I'm responsible
00:41:29.28\00:41:31.02
for those teachers'
salary because they are poor,
00:41:31.05\00:41:35.32
they don't have nothing,
no money to pay the teachers.
00:41:35.36\00:41:38.06
So that's why it was
so slow, could not finish.
00:41:38.09\00:41:41.20
About $10,000 will finish it.
00:41:41.23\00:41:45.23
Okay, wonderful, wonderful.
00:41:45.27\00:41:47.60
So that will give it
00:41:47.64\00:41:48.97
the third floor
and many more students.
00:41:49.00\00:41:53.54
But it's impressive to think
you already have 500 students.
00:41:53.58\00:41:57.28
And I trust those little orphans
00:41:57.31\00:41:59.41
do come to school, right?
00:41:59.45\00:42:00.78
Yes, yes.
00:42:00.82\00:42:02.15
All the children,
00:42:02.18\00:42:03.52
they put all the
children in the school.
00:42:03.55\00:42:04.89
They help all the children,
00:42:04.92\00:42:06.25
especially Moses is
always after the children
00:42:06.29\00:42:11.23
and he trains his own
children to be like him.
00:42:11.26\00:42:14.63
It's amazing.
Amazing, it's right.
00:42:14.66\00:42:19.53
Moses, when I was there, Enoch,
his son was about to graduate.
00:42:19.57\00:42:26.54
He is so much like me.
00:42:26.57\00:42:28.21
He took his money of graduation
and get the books to spread,
00:42:28.24\00:42:33.78
to give to the people.
00:42:33.82\00:42:35.15
Praise God. In the
meetings they have.
00:42:35.18\00:42:39.05
And when the young man
called me, says "Mama Beatriz,
00:42:39.09\00:42:41.86
it's my last chance
and the age to graduate."
00:42:41.89\00:42:45.93
He don't have no more chance.
00:42:45.96\00:42:47.30
He says,
00:42:47.33\00:42:48.66
"My father used my
money to give the books away."
00:42:48.70\00:42:53.54
I say, "Enoch, how much
money is your graduation?"
00:42:53.57\00:42:56.44
He said $400.
00:42:56.47\00:42:58.67
I say, "You're not going
to stay out of the education."
00:42:58.71\00:43:01.01
So I made sure I get
that money and send it to him,
00:43:01.04\00:43:04.31
and he graduate
00:43:04.35\00:43:05.68
and he went straight
to teach in the school.
00:43:05.71\00:43:07.68
Praise God.
00:43:07.72\00:43:09.05
Yeah, he
finished his high school
00:43:09.08\00:43:10.42
and went straight
to teach in the school.
00:43:10.45\00:43:11.82
He's still
working for the school
00:43:11.85\00:43:13.92
and taking more classes
00:43:13.96\00:43:15.36
for the high
teaching and a computer.
00:43:15.39\00:43:18.79
So you've only
been there in Africa,
00:43:18.83\00:43:22.10
the one time in
2011, both of you went,
00:43:22.13\00:43:25.57
but you must feel
the heart connection.
00:43:25.60\00:43:29.10
You feel to your
Brother Moses is so strong,
00:43:29.14\00:43:32.47
and you know that
this is something...
00:43:32.51\00:43:35.58
Tony, I'm impressed
that you're in school
00:43:35.61\00:43:37.68
and yet you're the co-director
00:43:37.71\00:43:39.05
with this ministry
and God is using you both
00:43:39.08\00:43:42.42
in such a mighty way.
00:43:42.45\00:43:44.29
Here, as she, Beatriz is
always referring to herself
00:43:44.32\00:43:48.36
as a disabled woman
because after her car accident,
00:43:48.39\00:43:51.79
she no longer
remembers the seven languages
00:43:51.83\00:43:55.36
that she knew, but she
had the heart problems,
00:43:55.40\00:43:58.47
she had the brain injury,
00:43:58.50\00:44:01.40
but yet, God through a
letter, look what God began,
00:44:01.44\00:44:07.28
just Moses in
faith wrote a letter
00:44:07.31\00:44:10.05
that came to your
church, and look what he began.
00:44:10.08\00:44:12.75
Now I know your plans,
00:44:12.78\00:44:15.68
your dreams are to
finish the primary school,
00:44:15.72\00:44:20.16
get that third floor
00:44:20.19\00:44:22.09
and then to begin the...
00:44:22.12\00:44:26.66
To step out in faith
and begin the high school.
00:44:26.70\00:44:29.63
Now the high school...
00:44:29.66\00:44:31.00
How many children in that area
00:44:31.03\00:44:32.37
do you think would
in the high school...
00:44:32.40\00:44:34.64
The plans are pretty grand
00:44:34.67\00:44:36.34
for this high
school, aren't they?
00:44:36.37\00:44:37.71
How many children?
00:44:37.74\00:44:39.07
But the thing
is they have a plan
00:44:39.11\00:44:40.44
to bring the other children
00:44:40.48\00:44:41.81
from the other places
also to that high school
00:44:41.84\00:44:44.61
if he's build it.
00:44:44.65\00:44:46.15
It's something that
king knows about Adventist
00:44:46.18\00:44:50.95
and he's very close.
00:44:50.99\00:44:52.32
Even Moses deal with
him in his own place.
00:44:52.35\00:44:56.29
It's something he knows
about our education here.
00:44:56.32\00:44:59.09
Praise God. Praise God.
00:44:59.13\00:45:01.40
I just can't help but
think how amazing the Lord
00:45:01.43\00:45:06.97
is that He's obviously
had his hand on your life
00:45:07.00\00:45:11.84
from the time you
were little bitty girl
00:45:11.87\00:45:14.11
to send you to a
pastor's house to just say,
00:45:14.14\00:45:16.95
"Hey, you're supposed
to take me to your church."
00:45:16.98\00:45:19.25
And obviously, for you, Tony,
00:45:19.28\00:45:23.18
I mean, he reached down
00:45:23.22\00:45:25.62
and touched you and
you made this transition.
00:45:25.65\00:45:29.06
It must not have been easy
00:45:29.09\00:45:30.43
when you're
coming from a background
00:45:30.46\00:45:32.99
of no Christian upbringing,
00:45:33.03\00:45:36.36
in a carnal
lifestyle to suddenly think,
00:45:36.40\00:45:41.24
"Okay, I've learned this,
what am I gonna do with it."
00:45:41.27\00:45:43.71
Tell us about
your transition time?
00:45:43.74\00:45:47.38
So it was probably one
of the hardest decisions
00:45:47.41\00:45:49.51
I ever had to make.
00:45:49.54\00:45:52.31
And it got to the point where
I knew enough of the truth.
00:45:52.35\00:45:55.62
I accepted the beliefs,
00:45:55.65\00:45:57.09
but it still didn't
touch the heart yet.
00:45:57.12\00:46:00.96
And it got to the point
where God showed me like,
00:46:00.99\00:46:03.59
"You have to
make a decision now."
00:46:03.63\00:46:05.83
So that's when I decided
I was gonna get baptized.
00:46:05.86\00:46:08.86
And, you know, I started praying
00:46:08.90\00:46:12.47
right away for God to help me,
00:46:12.50\00:46:15.04
deliver me from these addictions
00:46:15.07\00:46:16.40
that I had and one by one,
00:46:16.44\00:46:17.91
He just removed them
00:46:17.94\00:46:19.27
and I've never
been back to it since.
00:46:19.31\00:46:20.91
Praise God. Yeah.
00:46:20.94\00:46:22.41
You know, what scripture
00:46:22.44\00:46:23.78
that reminds me
of Psalm 129:4, says,
00:46:23.81\00:46:26.61
"The Lord is righteous,
00:46:26.65\00:46:28.02
He has cut me free from
the cords that bind me."
00:46:28.05\00:46:31.49
And so now you guys
are working together
00:46:31.52\00:46:34.26
and you're
working toward your degree
00:46:34.29\00:46:37.53
to become a pastor.
00:46:37.56\00:46:40.76
What do you...
00:46:40.80\00:46:44.57
Did you ever think that God
00:46:44.60\00:46:45.93
would use you to
touch so many lives?
00:46:45.97\00:46:48.00
I mean, I know
00:46:48.04\00:46:49.37
you've always
been missionary-minded.
00:46:49.40\00:46:50.97
Never in my lifetime.
And you're not even...
00:46:51.01\00:46:53.14
You've only
traveled one time to Africa
00:46:53.17\00:46:56.11
and yet the ministry continues.
00:46:56.14\00:46:58.35
Yes.
00:46:58.38\00:46:59.71
And I never thought of it,
00:46:59.75\00:47:03.22
but I always have this wish
00:47:03.25\00:47:05.72
when I see Danny Shelton
talk about how he started,
00:47:05.75\00:47:10.16
him and his
brother, how everything...
00:47:10.19\00:47:12.53
And I kept saying,
00:47:12.56\00:47:13.90
"Oh, boy,
something seems familiar."
00:47:13.93\00:47:17.07
And then when I see
00:47:17.10\00:47:19.70
the other
programs of mission works,
00:47:19.73\00:47:23.27
I say, "Oh, Lord, I
wish I would see this program
00:47:23.30\00:47:26.04
when I was young,
not when I'm sick now.
00:47:26.07\00:47:29.51
I would go and do it."
00:47:29.54\00:47:31.55
And I keep wishing for things.
00:47:31.58\00:47:34.45
And then, when this
came, I was surprised.
00:47:34.48\00:47:40.79
I went because my doctor says,
00:47:40.82\00:47:42.16
"You cannot go,
you will not reach."
00:47:42.19\00:47:44.16
So he gave me letter
to give to my church.
00:47:44.19\00:47:46.93
I say, "I'm not
giving you the letter,
00:47:46.96\00:47:48.63
but I know I cannot go,"
00:47:48.66\00:47:50.37
I stand there and I tell
them, "You don't need to worry,
00:47:50.40\00:47:53.03
if I don't come back, I
will be buried in 24 hours,
00:47:53.07\00:47:55.74
nobody needs to go."
00:47:55.77\00:47:59.24
And I went and
come back. You did.
00:47:59.27\00:48:02.58
But I knew Tony would
be an converted Adventist
00:48:02.61\00:48:08.25
because when he
see those people,
00:48:08.28\00:48:10.42
he says,
"Beatriz, we have everything
00:48:10.45\00:48:14.52
but we're so unhappy,
and look at those people,
00:48:14.56\00:48:16.96
they don't have nothing,
00:48:16.99\00:48:18.43
look at the smile on
their face and they're happy."
00:48:18.46\00:48:21.73
And I knew, it
comes from their change.
00:48:21.76\00:48:24.17
Amen. Amen.
00:48:24.20\00:48:25.53
God changed us
when the time is right.
00:48:25.57\00:48:27.50
You know, I know you
don't mind me sharing this
00:48:27.54\00:48:29.97
that you're not a rich woman.
00:48:30.01\00:48:31.41
As a matter of fact,
00:48:31.44\00:48:32.77
she is a member of the
"Blessing is on the Go"
00:48:32.81\00:48:37.38
evangelistic team and you prayed
00:48:37.41\00:48:41.68
and asked God to
give you an amount
00:48:41.72\00:48:44.55
to send each month
and He did, didn't He?
00:48:44.59\00:48:48.19
Yes.
00:48:48.22\00:48:49.56
And she has said, "I
wished I prayed for more."
00:48:49.59\00:48:52.26
But she didn't have it to give,
00:48:52.29\00:48:53.86
but you're
supporting the world mission.
00:48:53.90\00:48:55.86
I see it. I was still in bed.
00:48:55.90\00:48:59.23
I see it. I don't move much.
00:48:59.27\00:49:02.07
People take me to
church, but not on my own.
00:49:02.10\00:49:04.91
I have to be with
them with a walker,
00:49:04.94\00:49:07.18
but I see the program,
00:49:07.21\00:49:10.25
I say, "Oh, Lord,
I wish I have a $20,
00:49:10.28\00:49:14.72
so I would send
for long as I live
00:49:14.75\00:49:18.75
to the Danny Shelton mission."
00:49:18.79\00:49:21.99
And two months later,
in my social security,
00:49:22.02\00:49:25.66
it was $20 extra.
00:49:25.69\00:49:28.50
I say, "Oh, my
goodness, this has to go there.
00:49:28.53\00:49:31.53
I cannot do anything
with it. It has to go there."
00:49:31.57\00:49:34.94
Even if I'm sick,
00:49:34.97\00:49:36.34
I'm late because sometimes
I get sick and I'm late,
00:49:36.37\00:49:40.11
but in my checks I know
00:49:40.14\00:49:42.51
when I send it and
when I get the better,
00:49:42.54\00:49:45.11
I go through it and I correct it
00:49:45.15\00:49:48.18
because I know that is not mine.
00:49:48.22\00:49:50.92
God's provide even to come here.
00:49:50.95\00:49:54.22
The Lord provided
for me to come here.
00:49:54.26\00:49:56.26
I don't have it in
my hand. He provides.
00:49:56.29\00:49:59.36
He always provides.
00:49:59.39\00:50:00.73
And you are proof, Beatriz,
00:50:00.76\00:50:04.37
that the blessing is on the go.
00:50:04.40\00:50:06.23
This is someone who,
00:50:06.27\00:50:08.80
God put it in her
heart from a young child,
00:50:08.84\00:50:12.14
she's been missionary-minded
00:50:12.17\00:50:14.61
but as she has
stepped out to help others,
00:50:14.64\00:50:16.95
God has really
helped her and it's amazing.
00:50:16.98\00:50:20.32
Now that's being passed
on to you as well, Tony.
00:50:20.35\00:50:23.39
You know, I just believe
that the Lord is probably,
00:50:23.42\00:50:30.19
not probably, I believe
00:50:30.23\00:50:31.59
that God is
touching hearts right now.
00:50:31.63\00:50:34.50
You may have Bibles or books
or items that you can donate.
00:50:34.53\00:50:39.57
Your ministry is in New Jersey
00:50:39.60\00:50:42.80
but people can
send you Bibles or books
00:50:42.84\00:50:45.21
that can be sent to a very
00:50:45.24\00:50:48.74
on-fire Christian group in Ghana
00:50:48.78\00:50:51.91
who are reaching out...
00:50:51.95\00:50:53.28
And in just a
matter of few years,
00:50:53.31\00:50:55.42
they had 2,000 members.
00:50:55.45\00:50:57.29
This is just amazing
to see what God can do.
00:50:57.32\00:51:01.96
Many times, we've got...
00:51:01.99\00:51:03.39
JD and I buy two
copies of the same books
00:51:03.43\00:51:07.93
because he likes to
mark in a certain way
00:51:07.96\00:51:10.10
and I like to
mark in a certain way.
00:51:10.13\00:51:12.27
So I need to get you some books
as well that are duplicates.
00:51:12.30\00:51:15.40
But if the Lord
is impressing you,
00:51:15.44\00:51:18.21
that you would like to
help with the building of the,
00:51:18.24\00:51:21.21
the completion of
the primary school,
00:51:21.24\00:51:23.91
or if may be you
can donate books.
00:51:23.95\00:51:27.32
If you'd like Tony to
come speak at your church
00:51:27.35\00:51:30.15
and tell you about
the African Mission
00:51:30.19\00:51:33.79
or Africa Mission for Jesus,
00:51:33.82\00:51:36.36
here's how you can
get in touch with them.
00:51:36.39\00:51:41.46
If you would
like to contact Toni
00:51:41.50\00:51:43.20
or Beatriz about
Africa Mission for Jesus,
00:51:43.23\00:51:46.67
or if you'd like to
support them with books
00:51:46.70\00:51:48.90
or donations to
their building project,
00:51:48.94\00:51:51.24
you may reach them
in a variety of ways.
00:51:51.27\00:51:53.91
You can write to them at
Africa Mission for Jesus,
00:51:53.94\00:51:57.25
P.O. Box 4674, Toms River,
00:51:57.28\00:52:00.82
New Jersey 08754.
00:52:00.85\00:52:04.25
That's Africa Mission for Jesus,
00:52:04.29\00:52:06.35
P.O. Box 4674, Toms River,
00:52:06.39\00:52:09.96
New Jersey 08754,
00:52:09.99\00:52:13.36
or call them at 732-240-0534.
00:52:13.40\00:52:19.03
That's 732-240-0534.
00:52:19.07\00:52:23.57