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
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just a little of your
no doubt busy day with us.
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So thank you for your
love, your prayers, your support
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of Three Angels
Broadcasting Network
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these 30 plus
years as together we seek
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to lift up the name of
Jesus, to encourage one another
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in the faith and warn the world
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that Christ is
coming very, very soon.
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Very excited today
because of my guests,
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and the ministry that
we're going to talk about,
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so we want you to
kind of draw close
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because this is a
heartwarming ministry.
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This is a ministry
that goes around the world,
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and it's expanding and growing.
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And when you
see my two guests...
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I was told that
the ministry is about
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13, 14 years old so
I had to recalculate
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because they both look so young,
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they don't look much older
than 13 or 14, but they are.
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And so we had a
little fun with that.
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But the ministry is
called Christalis, Christalis,
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and my guests are Shalini David,
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who is the president
and CEO and Renee Titus.
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Renee was volunteer,
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now marketing
director so praise the Lord.
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So, and kind of just
recently in that position.
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Good to have you guys
here. Thank you for having us.
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Before we go to our music,
I'm going to hit you, you know,
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with the punch line first.
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What does Christalis mean,
where did that name come from?
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Sure.
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We are on the word
the name Christalis
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from the word chrysalis
which is a transformation
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of a caterpillar to butterfly.
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So we just redid the letters
to put the word Christ in there
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to signify a
transformation through Christ.
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We hope that every life we touch
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we show them the love of Christ.
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Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
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That come out
of your little head
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or a group of people?
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It was a group of
our broad members,
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our first set of board
members, we took so much time
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agonizing on what we
wanted the name to be.
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And one of our board
members Violet Pulidindi
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actually came up with it.
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Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
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As I hinted in the
tease, the ministry is about
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13, 14 years old.
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We're starting our
13th year this year.
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All right, praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
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All because of God.
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You must have
started very young.
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Yes. Yes.
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Where are you from?
Where were you born?
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I was born in India,
came here when I was seven.
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Okay, very early. Yeah.
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Christian family?
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Yes, my father is a pastor,
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third generation pastor I think.
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Third generation pastor I think.
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Wow! Is he in the States? Yes.
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He pastors a church in Maryland.
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Oh, he's still pastoring? Yes.
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Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
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I think the
biggest Indian churches.
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Where did your family
found out about Adventism?
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There are
missionaries who came to India
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and so my great grandparents
were converted to Adventism.
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So you are third generation...
Let's say one, two...
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Fourth generation. Yes.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Praise the Lord. Yeah.
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Renee, where are you from?
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I originally
from Washington State.
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Washington State.
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Adventist home?
Yes. Adventist home.
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You have brother and sisters?
I've one younger brother.
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He just started
college this year.
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Okay, okay. Very, very good.
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Brother and sisters?
Yeah, a younger sister.
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A younger sister? Yeah.
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So two in a family. Yes.
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Praise the Lord.
How does you guys meet?
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She was our first
student, that's how we met.
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I don't remember.
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Oh, she was actually
in Uganda when we first
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when my friend
and I first got there
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as student missionaries,
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so I guess we
first met in Uganda.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It was through the Walla
Walla Student Association
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who had volunteered
to chose and to help us
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build our orphanage
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'cause we were
renting for 10 years.
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And then I think
through them, through the trip
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you guys found out about or...
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Yeah, so my friend
and I had been looking,
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we knew that we wanted to
go to the student missionary
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the following year.
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And we had been looking
at a lot of different places,
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some orphanages in Tanzania
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and they had just all
kind of fallen through
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and we didn't really know
where we were going to go,
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and then during our
community like our chapel time,
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they showed the
promotional video
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for our global
service project that year
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which was to build an
orphanage for Christalis.
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And my friend
that I was going with
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and we were sitting in
completely different places
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in the chapel,
and then afterwards
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we kind of came together
and looked at each other,
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and we were like, you
know, I feel impressed that
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this is where we should go
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so we both just
had that impression
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during that video and
it, we just all worked out
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that we got to go
there so very, very happy...
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Now the focus of your ministry
at current time is Uganda.
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Yes. Yeah.
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Why Uganda? How Uganda?
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I don't know. God,
it's definitely God.
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I mean, you know, I
never knew much about Uganda,
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it's just kind of happened.
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I mean, I always thought India,
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I grew up there, you know, seen.
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I think that's, you
know, my desire for doing
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this kind of work
started when I was a kid.
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And, but then God
took me to Uganda.
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I think for me and, obviously,
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I don't know
God's infinite mind.
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And so but for me I
think I was delaying in
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what I had promised
Him when I was young,
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and so He used Uganda
to kind of get me on track.
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I used to go on
family trips to India,
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like, we came when I was seven
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but we didn't go
back there till late
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because we
didn't have the money.
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And so I was
maybe around 10 or 11
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when we went on our first trip,
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and as we were traveling
in the night from airports
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I had seen all
these kids in slums.
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And that's the
first time in my life
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I had seen children in slums,
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and they were
living in these homes
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like just dirty
cloth with holes in it,
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and kids without shoes on,
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and I just thought as
a child at that moment,
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I just thought to myself, like,
I didn't understand, you know,
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why are they living
like that, I was like
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where is their shoes,
where is their bathroom,
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where is their toys.
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Like I just couldn't understand
why they were living like that
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and I got to live in
a nice warm apartment
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with loving parents.
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You know, everything
that a child could need
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and at that
moment I realized it was
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because of the grace of
God, you know, our families
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and my parents always talk about
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how Adventism came to us
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and how that's why
God has blessed us.
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And I just
thought it was so unfair
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and then seeing the
kids that were begging
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on the streets,
and kids in shops
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that would get, three-year olds,
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that would get
hit and kicked for,
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you know, as they worked and...
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I didn't felt powerless
at that time at 9 and 10,
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like, I didn't know that I
could help them at that time
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which I think I could have
but I just thought I couldn't
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and I just prayed
to God at that moment
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because it was very like,
it was so instantaneous like
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it sounds like
a lot of thinking,
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but it happened so
quickly and it was like
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a knife to your
heart, you know, and I just,
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I couldn't stop crying
just seeing their suffering...
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So at age 10, you're impressed
with all of this, I mean,
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this is really weighing
on you at that young age?
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Yeah, I think it's
because I was at that young age.
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I think like the desire to serve
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really for a lot of
people starts young,
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and we just don't know
like God pricks our hearts
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at certain things, and I
think because I was that young,
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I could see a direct comparison
between their life and my life.
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And that's why it
hurt so much I think.
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'Cause a lot of
these kids were about
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that same age as you.
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Yeah, or younger.
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And so most of them were younger
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and just seeing that is
what hurts so much and so,
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at that moment is when I just,
I didn't know what else to do,
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but I just
promised God when I grow up,
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I'll come back
and help these kids.
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And then I grew up, but
I never forgot about of it
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but then you get
wrapped up in school,
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and then you have
friends, and family,
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I was going
out, during childhood
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I was very active in church.
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I was Children's Ministries
director for five years,
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I did the VBSS,
Social Committee,
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Homeless Feeding,
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anybody needed
help I was there...
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So you're involved
with the church, I mean,
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your time is being occupied.
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Yes, exactly, but not
where God wanted me to be.
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And once our church does
like a young adult youth Sabbath
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and so they were...
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They asked me to
preach and it was evangelism.
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And I really
didn't want to do it
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but the associate
pastor forced me to do it,
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and I was the closing person.
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And right after
that my aunt asked me
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to go with global
evangelism now ShareHim
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on a mission trip to Uganda.
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And so I just spoke about it
so I didn't know how to say no.
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Yeah, so I was like,
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"All right, if I'm
really meant to go,
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God will work out
these three miracles."
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I was like for sure
this is not going to happen
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so I just got a new job,
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they had to give
me two weeks leave,
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and my manager
approved it by mistake.
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I didn't have the
money at all, it's expensive,
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and my tax return
was exactly the amount
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I needed for my expenses.
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Wow, that is two down.
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And then my school days, I
was trying to do my masters,
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they said it's fine, you
know, you can take a break.
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So I was like, there is
like no reason for me not to go.
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So I went there, I told her
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I didn't want to
do any preaching,
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I just wanted to
do stuff for the kids,
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I would do like a
program for the kids.
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And so I went there
and that was my focus
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and while I was
there, it just kind of felt,
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really I felt like I
wasn't making a difference
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because they
couldn't understand me,
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I had translators,
there was like 100 of them,
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so I just kept praying about it,
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and then the group with us
wanted to find an orphanage.
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And while we were walking
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to this orphanage
that they found...
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I saw all these kids
standing around in the woods
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no clothes on, no
shoes on, and in their eyes
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I saw the same kids
I had seen in India.
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So here we go again.
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Yeah, and it's just
brought it back to me,
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and then in that
moment my thoughts were,
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I'm not a little girl
anymore, I have an adult job,
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and I have adult money,
like, what is stopping me now.
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There is nothing
that should stop me
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from helping these kids.
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So I just would
talk to my mom every day
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who is in the
US, we pray about it.
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It was such a short amount
of time those trips are short
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so it was like
only like a week left,
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so I interviewed as many,
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I had people take me
to the poorest areas,
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I would take them bananas, eggs,
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whatever food feed the
kids, interviewed them,
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interviewed their parents.
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I had a pastor bring me
children that he needed help,
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and he brought me 200.
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And I was like,
"Ah," and they're all like
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there in the dark in
this church in the front.
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And I was like,
"What am I supposed to do?"
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And they're like say something.
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And I'm like, you know, what.
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So I just said, "You
know, we're trying to help,
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thank you for
coming, we see the need."
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And so I just prayed
about it and by that time
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I was close to
the end of my trip,
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I had a $100
left from my expenses
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so I left that
with the pastor there
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for one month's rent,
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I spoke to the two
ladies helping me, ask them
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what they'd be willing to
help if we started a home,
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they said, okay, and
then I just came home.
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So the idea of home
just occurred to you
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very quickly on that trip.
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So when we went
to that orphanage,
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initially I thought let's
put all the kids in there.
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There is already
an orphanage there,
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it was run by these two men
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and they had
some Canadian funders.
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But then every day I had
this gnawing feeling inside,
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and I just kept
telling my mom like,
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"How do we know
they're treated well?
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How do we know
they're not getting abused?
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How do we know, I
mean, if they'll even learn
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about Jesus if
we put them here?"
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So I think just out of
prayer we just felt led to...
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To do your own home.
To start our own home.
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Yeah.
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And then I came home
and my mom raised $2,000
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and we had a
family friend Yvonne David
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who worked with
us in the hospital,
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and my mom would share
about this desire with her,
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and she's actually
the one she wanted to...
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She said she had nothing to lose
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and she quit her job
and gave away her home
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and her car, and
she moved there...
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Moved to Uganda?
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To Uganda. Wow!
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And started
projects in the home.
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What did you study
in school? Nursing.
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I thought it was the only
way I could be a missionary,
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that was my dream
to be a missionary.
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And there's no
missionary class, you know,
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in college so I
thought that was it
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and that's what I did.
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Wow! That is...
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So Yvonne bought into your dream
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right away obviously.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Wow!
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And it's just a miracle
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if I asked my board now to
start something with $2,000
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they'd shut me down, you
know but, I mean, I saw God.
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See, a lot of
times you don't know,
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you can't do
something so you just do it.
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And people tell
you, you can't do that.
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Well, I really did it, you know,
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so I know it can done
because God has given me.
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And then, of course,
when God guides, He provides.
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If God puts that burden on
you, He's going to make a way
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to discharge
that responsibility.
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So He's put
something in your heart,
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and it
percolated all those years,
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so now it get a
chance to go to fruition.
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So your, Yvonne is a
relative or just a close friend?
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Shares a same last name,
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but we're not really
related, just family friends.
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So my mom and
her grew up together
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they were friends, you know.
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And your mom bought into
this 'cause she has ready money,
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and Yvonne really
bought into it and moved over.
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Now when do you come aboard?
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Renee, you
actually do get to talk.
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I went in 2014, as a
student missionary there,
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and I was there
for eight months total.
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The first time? The first time.
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You were in
school at Walla Walla?
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Yeah.
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So it was in a
chapel you're saying that
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you heard about
this or at some...
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Yeah, so it was in our
chapel that we saw the video
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promoting our
global service team.
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Every year at
Walla Walla University
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we raise funds for
like a global project.
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And so that year they had chosen
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to help
Christalis build their home.
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So that's where we
first heard about it,
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and then felt
impressed to go there.
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Okay, let me try
to connect the dots.
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Now you were out of
school, how does Christalis
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get on the radar at Walla Walla?
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Miracle of God. Miracle of God.
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Let me tell you
because we've been wanting...
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Yvonne wanted to build a
home, and I just, the thought
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because my father built
the church that we're in,
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and I just know
what goes into building.
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And I was like, "Oh,
my gosh, I can't do this,
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I'm not capable of doing this."
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So I would just
pray to God, "God,
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send me a big home
that's already built,
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I'm sure it's
there, just send us that
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we can just purchase it."
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That was my constant prayer
and Yvonne wanted to built,
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you know, she had
that vision that was good.
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I was like impossible.
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And then one day I was actually,
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I was doing the
spring fair at our church,
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I was in charge
of the spring fair.
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I got a call on my phone.
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It was my best friend's
family who once years ago,
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they put together
their Christmas money
00:15:26.89\00:15:28.82
to donate to the kids years ago.
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He called me and he said
his niece is on the committee
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at Walla Walla
Student Association.
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And they are evaluating
orphanages to help built a home
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that they had
another one in Peru
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that didn't workout
or something like that.
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And they wanted to
know more about ours.
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So I was like, yes,
I told them everything,
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he was like, okay,
my niece might call you,
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and she called me the same day.
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They're like tearing down
all the stuff and I'm inside
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like the Sabbath
school room talking to them.
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And I told her everything,
and literally within two weeks
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they choose to help us
build the home out of nowhere.
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God is so
amazing. God is so amazing.
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Either you are a better
salesperson than you think
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or you're a better
sales person than you think.
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Because first of all
you're full of your subject,
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but I'm also seeing
that the Lord is guiding you
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to the right
places, to the right people
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at the right time.
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And then your own
sort of infectious nature
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just kind of takes over,
you're a really good salesman.
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Oh, my goodness, I
cannot take that complement.
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I'm not good at it, it was
the worst thing I had to do.
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You cannot say that about me.
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I hate asking people
for money, I just can't.
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Yeah, I'm not good at
asking people for money either,
00:16:37.69\00:16:40.06
but I'll do it for
Jesus and you do it, well,
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you're better at
it than you think.
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And when God gives you a burden,
00:16:45.77\00:16:48.47
He also gives you a way
to exercise that burden.
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So you got a natural
sort of infectious way
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about going through
life, and the smile,
00:16:55.04\00:16:56.95
and the whole deal
that God has given you.
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So you don't have
to beg just be you
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and then money comes.
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I think God bring the money.
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Because He gave you
that burden so young,
00:17:04.39\00:17:05.99
you had it all your life.
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So it's part of who you are,
it's part of your kind of DNA,
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so we praise the Lord for that.
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Having said that, I
want to go to Renee again
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because when we left
you, you were at worship
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and you're getting
impressed with this thing.
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You've gone from
student missionary,
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now you're a full time employee,
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so walk me through what happened
00:17:22.47\00:17:24.47
during that eight-month
time that you're in Uganda
00:17:24.51\00:17:27.68
that made you want to do
this kind of as an vocation,
00:17:27.71\00:17:29.84
you went from
volunteer to employee.
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So something
happened during that time
00:17:31.61\00:17:33.38
that you where there
that touched your heart?
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Yes, of course,
the kids there, I mean,
00:17:35.42\00:17:37.45
they're just incredible
kids and you just fall in love
00:17:37.49\00:17:39.55
with them so easily,
and you just, you see
00:17:39.59\00:17:43.19
how far they've
come and how, you know,
00:17:43.22\00:17:45.53
how much further they
have to go in their education,
00:17:45.56\00:17:47.86
you know, and you just
want to continue helping them
00:17:47.90\00:17:50.27
to achieve that.
00:17:50.30\00:17:51.63
And one of things that I
love about Christalis so much
00:17:51.67\00:17:53.27
is that the kids continue
all the way through university
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so you see them, you know,
00:17:56.91\00:17:58.24
come in there in primary school,
00:17:58.27\00:17:59.61
and you get to watch
them graduate with a diploma
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and get a job.
00:18:02.14\00:18:03.48
And we actually were
able to go to the graduation
00:18:03.51\00:18:05.81
of the first child in the home
that graduated from university,
00:18:05.85\00:18:08.55
we were able to
take all the kids,
00:18:08.58\00:18:10.19
and got his graduation
00:18:10.22\00:18:11.95
and that was
just an amazing thing,
00:18:11.99\00:18:13.32
just to see that accomplishment.
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You know, it's always so
great to watch someone succeed
00:18:14.92\00:18:17.66
and just knowing
where he came from,
00:18:17.69\00:18:19.66
and just being able
to be a part of that.
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It's just amazing so I
don't think I ever imagined
00:18:21.30\00:18:24.40
I would work for them
full time when I was, you know,
00:18:24.43\00:18:26.94
just three years ago.
00:18:26.97\00:18:28.37
But I just kept volunteering
with them after I left Uganda
00:18:28.40\00:18:31.17
and it just worked out,
and I'm so thankful I did
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because, I mean, I love them.
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And I keep forgetting
the ministry has been around
00:18:36.58\00:18:38.41
long enough for
you to see a generation
00:18:38.45\00:18:40.45
go through to graduation.
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I keep, say I
keep looking at you
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and I have to push your ages up,
00:18:44.79\00:18:46.62
but I won't ask
you how old you are,
00:18:46.65\00:18:48.39
but I keep having to push it
up because you look so young,
00:18:48.42\00:18:52.86
but you've been in
existence long enough to see
00:18:52.89\00:18:55.00
a group of children
come into the system,
00:18:55.03\00:18:56.97
and then move
through the system,
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and then go out of the system
which is a wonderful thing.
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We're going to
look at some of the kids
00:19:01.00\00:19:02.34
in just a little bit.
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So Yvonne is over there?
00:19:03.77\00:19:06.14
She retired from helping
us last year or mid-year,
00:19:06.17\00:19:09.74
before she was
with us for 10 years.
00:19:09.78\00:19:11.68
She lived in
Uganda for 10 years.
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So she grew with
us from the orphanage
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to the assistance program,
00:19:16.25\00:19:17.85
we had a small meal
program in the old home.
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And she was the
one who helped build
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she really, you know,
managed building the home
00:19:23.06\00:19:25.99
and then she retired after that.
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So the home is built up
and running and established.
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Yes, yes.
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We rented 10 years and then
00:19:30.80\00:19:32.13
we moved into
the home last year.
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Oh, praise the Lord.
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Who now is
running it over there?
00:19:35.77\00:19:38.44
So I run it from
here for the most part
00:19:38.47\00:19:41.54
but we have local
staff and, so we have about
00:19:41.58\00:19:44.61
15 to 20 staff and
volunteers there who are local.
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And one of the biggest blessings
00:19:48.15\00:19:49.65
for us this year
as Renee said so,
00:19:49.68\00:19:51.59
our daughter graduated
with business administration
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and accounting in November,
00:19:54.16\00:19:56.22
and she is now the
manager of our home,
00:19:56.26\00:19:58.63
which is one of our dreams
that eventually our children
00:19:58.66\00:20:00.90
will grow up to take
over our organization
00:20:00.93\00:20:02.93
over there, and so...
00:20:02.96\00:20:04.30
Now you said our daughter.
00:20:04.33\00:20:05.67
So she was in our home,
she was one of the children
00:20:05.70\00:20:07.70
that grew up in our home.
00:20:07.74\00:20:09.07
Okay, okay. 'Cause
now I was getting afraid.
00:20:09.10\00:20:11.57
I was like you got a
daughter coming out of college,
00:20:11.61\00:20:14.64
I really got to
change what I'm thinking.
00:20:14.68\00:20:16.01
No, I'll never have a
daughter coming out of college,
00:20:16.04\00:20:20.15
not be that old ever.
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Well, praise the Lord.
Yeah, that's a big dream.
00:20:23.42\00:20:24.85
You're bringing
people out of the system
00:20:24.89\00:20:26.22
who are giving
back to the system.
00:20:26.25\00:20:27.59
Yes, yes.
00:20:27.62\00:20:28.96
And that's really our desire,
you know, even not only for,
00:20:28.99\00:20:31.36
not only for our organization,
but in general, you know,
00:20:31.39\00:20:34.46
one of our visions is that
our children will give back
00:20:34.50\00:20:36.56
to the community
or the world at large,
00:20:36.60\00:20:38.53
like one of the
things we do in our home
00:20:38.57\00:20:40.74
is every morning after worship,
we have the kids, you know,
00:20:40.77\00:20:44.17
we try to also install
positive thinking in them.
00:20:44.21\00:20:47.11
So every morning after
worship, we all have to jump up
00:20:47.14\00:20:49.44
and say it's going
to be a great day today.
00:20:49.48\00:20:51.11
And if I see
someone not jumping,
00:20:51.15\00:20:53.38
I make them jump.
00:20:53.42\00:20:54.75
We don't stop jumping
until every single person jumps,
00:20:54.78\00:20:57.19
staff, kids,
babies, it doesn't matter.
00:20:57.22\00:20:59.65
And then after
that we sing the song
00:20:59.69\00:21:01.46
I made up from Elly the Elephant
00:21:01.49\00:21:03.02
the show here, I don't know
00:21:03.06\00:21:04.39
if you've ever seen
it, Elly the Elephant.
00:21:04.43\00:21:05.76
So we dance around and we
sing, let's make some magic
00:21:05.79\00:21:08.26
with our day today.
00:21:08.30\00:21:10.57
And then so the kids sing
that and magic is something
00:21:10.60\00:21:13.94
good you do for somebody.
00:21:13.97\00:21:15.50
So throughout the
day they have to find
00:21:15.54\00:21:17.11
some opportunity to do
good and then in the evening
00:21:17.14\00:21:19.17
when we have
worship, after worship
00:21:19.21\00:21:20.71
they share the different ways
that they did magic that day.
00:21:20.74\00:21:23.61
And we're trying
harder now to incorporate,
00:21:23.65\00:21:26.51
get them to do stuff
for other kids and they too,
00:21:26.55\00:21:30.39
when they see
kids that don't eat
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or not in school,
they'll let us know,
00:21:31.79\00:21:33.79
so we hope to
really install that desire
00:21:33.82\00:21:36.49
to serve as they grow up.
00:21:36.52\00:21:38.79
So it seems as though
the home is unabashedly,
00:21:38.83\00:21:40.96
unashamedly Adventist
and those values are sort of
00:21:41.00\00:21:45.00
woven into everything
you do with the kids, yeah.
00:21:45.03\00:21:47.17
Yes, I mean, we
don't convert anybody,
00:21:47.20\00:21:49.87
government, you know,
won't allow anything like that.
00:21:49.90\00:21:52.67
We have children from
all different religions
00:21:52.71\00:21:54.58
that come into our home,
but if they're in our home,
00:21:54.61\00:21:58.38
it's an Adventist
home, we have morning,
00:21:58.41\00:21:59.75
evening worship,
they go to church...
00:21:59.78\00:22:01.12
So the exposure is
there. You know, on Friday.
00:22:01.15\00:22:02.48
Yes, and we've had little
over 15 baptisms of our children
00:22:02.52\00:22:05.99
just their own free will
and nothing forced upon them.
00:22:06.02\00:22:09.82
The guardians are allowed,
like if there's guardians
00:22:09.86\00:22:11.76
or extended members
to come take their kids
00:22:11.79\00:22:13.40
to their own churches,
but no one does than our kids,
00:22:13.43\00:22:17.30
you know, like
even like our children,
00:22:17.33\00:22:18.90
we had brought children from.
00:22:18.93\00:22:20.57
In the past year or
so, we've been able to take
00:22:20.60\00:22:22.80
12 children off the street.
00:22:22.84\00:22:24.67
And one of the most
happiest things for me
00:22:24.71\00:22:27.18
is when I saw one of
them like just sitting there
00:22:27.21\00:22:29.54
looking through the Bible,
we have like a comic Bible,
00:22:29.58\00:22:32.08
just when the
other kids are playing
00:22:32.11\00:22:34.25
and he's reading the Bible.
00:22:34.28\00:22:36.25
And, you know, and they
love to hear the Bible stories
00:22:36.28\00:22:39.12
and they want to hear
more and it's just nice to see.
00:22:39.15\00:22:42.32
So, Shalini, do you split
your time between the States
00:22:42.36\00:22:45.39
and Uganda, are you
back and forth a lot?
00:22:45.43\00:22:46.96
Yes. Yeah, I'm
back and forth a lot.
00:22:47.00\00:22:48.90
I go about three to four
times a year is what I try to do
00:22:48.93\00:22:51.93
about a month at
a time and sometimes
00:22:51.97\00:22:54.04
two to three
weeks, so it's all based
00:22:54.07\00:22:55.44
on the schedule
from here and there.
00:22:55.47\00:22:57.54
And we're actually
looking for a country director
00:22:57.57\00:23:00.41
to volunteer a
missionary over there.
00:23:00.44\00:23:03.31
And even other people too
like we're looking for a nurse,
00:23:03.35\00:23:06.31
counselor, teacher,
HR specialist, accounts,
00:23:06.35\00:23:10.39
and project
manager, really anything
00:23:10.42\00:23:13.86
that you are able to do we need.
00:23:13.89\00:23:16.12
So anyone just as
if they have the heart
00:23:16.16\00:23:18.23
or the desire to serve
00:23:18.26\00:23:20.40
or care for
children or caretaker to...
00:23:20.43\00:23:22.76
We need you.
00:23:22.80\00:23:24.47
How big is the home
and how many children
00:23:24.50\00:23:27.04
are you serving right now?
00:23:27.07\00:23:28.64
So we have...
00:23:28.67\00:23:30.31
We support 30
kids out of our home,
00:23:30.34\00:23:32.44
we can go up to
40, but right now
00:23:32.47\00:23:34.18
because we don't
have office space,
00:23:34.21\00:23:35.58
we have caseworkers for
the kids in the community,
00:23:35.61\00:23:37.48
an accountant, social
worker, a home manager.
00:23:37.51\00:23:40.82
And we don't have a
building for an office
00:23:40.85\00:23:43.72
so they use one of the rooms,
00:23:43.75\00:23:45.65
the bedrooms we
have for the boys,
00:23:45.69\00:23:47.26
they're all kind of
squashed in the little bedroom.
00:23:47.29\00:23:49.99
So we have the
capacity to take in 40 kids,
00:23:50.03\00:23:52.09
but right now we
support about 30 of them.
00:23:52.13\00:23:54.76
Actually this morning
we got a baby of one month
00:23:54.80\00:23:57.17
that they brought to us.
00:23:57.20\00:23:58.67
We have four babies in the home.
00:23:58.70\00:24:00.67
And if God
blesses and, you know,
00:24:00.70\00:24:04.71
we can serve
more in other homes.
00:24:04.74\00:24:07.74
What ages do you work with?
00:24:07.78\00:24:10.81
There's no minimum, we got
one baby at eight hours old.
00:24:10.85\00:24:15.08
We brought her
at eight hours old
00:24:15.12\00:24:16.58
her mom had passed
away in childbirth.
00:24:16.62\00:24:18.72
And our mission
is that we keep them
00:24:18.75\00:24:22.29
till they're self-sufficient,
whether that's 20 or 25
00:24:22.32\00:24:25.39
whatever it is.
00:24:25.43\00:24:26.93
You know, one of
the things that when
00:24:26.96\00:24:28.30
I talked about
the children I saw
00:24:28.33\00:24:30.03
and, you know, when I saw them
00:24:30.07\00:24:31.40
I wanted to
take them to my home.
00:24:31.43\00:24:33.00
And when I was a kid,
I thought what I wanted
00:24:33.03\00:24:34.67
to give them was
the toys and the food
00:24:34.70\00:24:36.74
but really that
feeling I had was the support
00:24:36.77\00:24:39.71
my parents gave me,
the love, the affection,
00:24:39.74\00:24:41.84
the support.
00:24:41.88\00:24:43.85
And so that's what we
want to give our kids.
00:24:43.88\00:24:46.11
If we just take them to
elementary or secondary school
00:24:46.15\00:24:49.78
and then leave them, that
doesn't leave them anything,
00:24:49.82\00:24:52.72
how do they support themselves,
and think of us as parents,
00:24:52.75\00:24:55.92
you know, what
our parents give us.
00:24:55.96\00:24:57.99
Why do we see like
a 50-year old crying
00:24:58.03\00:24:59.96
when their parent dies
00:25:00.00\00:25:01.33
because it's beyond
just what you can do.
00:25:01.36\00:25:04.23
So even after they
become self-sufficient
00:25:04.27\00:25:06.90
we want to
emotionally be there for them,
00:25:06.94\00:25:08.90
and be their
advisers and they're family,
00:25:08.94\00:25:10.74
we're the family,
they are children.
00:25:10.77\00:25:12.61
Now your time must
be very much occupied,
00:25:12.64\00:25:15.88
you are a wife and
mother, and you have a daughter.
00:25:15.91\00:25:20.92
Yes. How old?
00:25:20.95\00:25:22.28
Eva is seven years old.
00:25:22.32\00:25:23.65
Seven years old, so
that's kind of the active age.
00:25:23.69\00:25:25.35
Oh, she is very active.
00:25:25.39\00:25:26.72
How you manage your
day, and what kind of support
00:25:26.76\00:25:29.52
do you get family wise for...
00:25:29.56\00:25:31.43
Because this is the kind of
thing that can sallow you up
00:25:31.46\00:25:33.90
emotionally and
time wise, you know,
00:25:33.93\00:25:35.93
it can become your all and all.
00:25:35.96\00:25:37.30
It is.
00:25:37.33\00:25:38.67
And it's hard not to
because it's different
00:25:38.70\00:25:40.04
from a regular job,
a regular job you go in
00:25:40.07\00:25:42.04
and you do what's needed
but when you're serving God,
00:25:42.07\00:25:44.57
it's your life and
there's no time clock,
00:25:44.61\00:25:47.68
and there's no anything.
00:25:47.71\00:25:49.04
But, yeah, like you
said you're totally right,
00:25:49.08\00:25:51.01
I cannot do it by myself
everything that I'm able to do
00:25:51.05\00:25:54.25
is with the
support of my parents
00:25:54.28\00:25:55.75
who do a lot of babysitting,
and helping, and praying,
00:25:55.78\00:25:58.95
and yelling, and advising me.
00:25:58.99\00:26:01.09
My husband who is very
patient with everything
00:26:01.12\00:26:03.43
that I have to
do it's not the life
00:26:03.46\00:26:04.99
that he would want
for himself, you know,
00:26:05.03\00:26:07.10
but he's very
patient and sees, you know,
00:26:07.13\00:26:09.03
what God is doing
and his support is
00:26:09.06\00:26:12.47
I couldn't do it without him.
00:26:12.50\00:26:13.84
And then our board members
I'm, like you said, a nurse,
00:26:13.87\00:26:18.31
I know I'm a bad salesman,
I'm not good, but my board,
00:26:18.34\00:26:23.24
the board that I
have is wonderful,
00:26:23.28\00:26:25.71
the advise they give
me, the support they give,
00:26:25.75\00:26:27.72
the guidance they
give, our volunteers
00:26:27.75\00:26:29.72
we wouldn't be here today.
00:26:29.75\00:26:31.09
Like, even though
the home started, right,
00:26:31.12\00:26:34.56
the first four years, I
wasn't giving it my all.
00:26:34.59\00:26:38.09
And we had an
advisor Mr. John Stanley,
00:26:38.13\00:26:41.63
Dr. John Stanley, he
advised us to get volunteers.
00:26:41.66\00:26:44.30
So in 2011 that's when we
started getting volunteers.
00:26:44.33\00:26:47.60
And because of the
support of the volunteers
00:26:47.64\00:26:50.27
that's when we really
started growing and being able
00:26:50.31\00:26:53.11
to do more because
we had more manpower.
00:26:53.14\00:26:55.51
And then the miracle
grant we got a year ago
00:26:55.54\00:26:59.18
that helped us to pay for
Renee and then 2.5 salary here
00:26:59.21\00:27:03.79
is just miracles of God.
00:27:03.82\00:27:05.35
Praise the Lord.
Really everything is God.
00:27:05.39\00:27:07.92
The volunteers are very,
very important to this ministry
00:27:07.96\00:27:10.86
so we know how volunteers
going to put wings to your work
00:27:10.89\00:27:14.23
because, you know,
they can do the time.
00:27:14.26\00:27:17.90
Are you able to practice nursing
00:27:17.93\00:27:19.57
and still work and still do this
00:27:19.60\00:27:21.40
and carry along and
juggle all those things?
00:27:21.44\00:27:23.00
I was doing it up
until February of last year.
00:27:23.04\00:27:27.28
I was dying so it was literally
a miracle of God, you know,
00:27:27.31\00:27:32.71
the grant we applied
for was to help 200 children
00:27:32.75\00:27:35.22
go to school, and the grantors
they want to stay anonymous,
00:27:35.25\00:27:38.65
they came back with, can
we give you 2.5 salaries,
00:27:38.69\00:27:42.19
and they were doing it
in a span of five years
00:27:42.22\00:27:44.93
in which we have to, you know,
00:27:44.96\00:27:46.59
be able to support it ourselves.
00:27:46.63\00:27:48.93
But I was literally dying,
I can't even explain to you,
00:27:48.96\00:27:52.70
I was dying, I was drowning.
00:27:52.73\00:27:55.04
And God just brought
that grant at the right time.
00:27:55.07\00:27:57.07
So last year is when
we started with that,
00:27:57.11\00:28:03.04
I'm getting all my
years mixed up right now
00:28:03.08\00:28:04.55
because we're just.
00:28:04.58\00:28:06.11
Yeah, last
year. Praise the Lord.
00:28:06.15\00:28:08.62
I was wondering
because this is work
00:28:08.65\00:28:11.12
and then your husband has to
be without his wife for a month
00:28:11.15\00:28:13.92
at a time, several
times during the year,
00:28:13.96\00:28:16.39
but it also means
there's no time to work.
00:28:16.42\00:28:18.49
And when I say work,
I mean, to be a nurse.
00:28:18.53\00:28:20.40
Yeah, so there's
got to be some other way
00:28:20.43\00:28:21.93
to support yourself
because you've got a child
00:28:21.96\00:28:23.87
and you've got family,
the whole kind of thing
00:28:23.90\00:28:25.80
so God really
did some miracle work
00:28:25.83\00:28:27.80
and it's tough for
which we praise the Lord.
00:28:27.84\00:28:29.70
Even when we don't ask
Him, He provides what we need.
00:28:29.74\00:28:31.81
Yeah, for He
knows your heart. Yeah.
00:28:31.84\00:28:34.14
So, Renee, as marketer
what is your job at this point
00:28:34.18\00:28:37.95
in time now as far as
Christalis is considered?
00:28:37.98\00:28:41.38
So marketing in general,
I guess it would be my job
00:28:41.42\00:28:45.45
so just promoting, you know,
00:28:45.49\00:28:47.69
Shalini has so many great ideas,
00:28:47.72\00:28:49.52
she's such a
wonderful person and Christalis
00:28:49.56\00:28:50.96
is such a
wonderful organization.
00:28:50.99\00:28:52.56
So just getting that out there,
00:28:52.59\00:28:55.66
the amazing things
that Christalis does,
00:28:55.70\00:28:58.10
just making that
available to more people,
00:28:58.13\00:29:01.00
expanding outside of
Maryland, because I don't think
00:29:01.04\00:29:03.77
they're able to do
that a lot so we now have,
00:29:03.81\00:29:06.64
thanks to Walla
Walla University, you know,
00:29:06.68\00:29:08.51
supporting their
project, we have donors
00:29:08.54\00:29:10.28
on the west coast also.
00:29:10.31\00:29:11.65
So just expanding our
base finding other people.
00:29:11.68\00:29:16.05
Yeah, 'cause she's east
coast, you're west coast
00:29:16.08\00:29:17.89
so you're going
to get to uncover.
00:29:17.92\00:29:20.26
So if someone is
watching this program,
00:29:20.29\00:29:22.22
they're even kind of excited,
they wanted to come over
00:29:22.26\00:29:24.19
and volunteer some
time two weeks, three weeks
00:29:24.23\00:29:26.43
with some particular
skills, can you use them?
00:29:26.46\00:29:29.03
Yeah, I think you need
at least a few months...
00:29:29.06\00:29:33.07
And you could do two
weeks and three weeks
00:29:33.10\00:29:34.44
a lot is lost in travel,
but yeah, we can use them
00:29:34.47\00:29:37.74
no matter
whatever they want to do,
00:29:37.77\00:29:40.01
we're pleased to talk to them.
00:29:40.04\00:29:41.38
So really the longer
stay would be actually
00:29:41.41\00:29:42.94
more beneficial to
you and your ministry.
00:29:42.98\00:29:45.11
Let's look at...
00:29:45.15\00:29:46.48
Well, first
let's go to this video
00:29:46.51\00:29:47.85
because this kind of
gives us a little flavor,
00:29:47.88\00:29:49.45
then we look at some pictures
and then we'll kind talk about
00:29:49.48\00:29:51.15
some other stuff.
00:29:51.19\00:29:52.52
So let's go to
the video just now
00:29:52.55\00:29:53.89
and this is Christalis,
what we're going to see here?
00:29:53.92\00:29:56.93
So it's a video
about two of our students
00:29:56.96\00:29:59.33
who were over
there talking about,
00:29:59.36\00:30:00.70
one of them talks about
our home, the orphanage,
00:30:00.73\00:30:03.03
and a child that came in there.
00:30:03.06\00:30:04.40
And, you know, the one talks
about our assistance program
00:30:04.43\00:30:06.07
that we touched on a little
bit and kids and the community.
00:30:06.10\00:30:08.70
All right, let's take a look.
00:30:08.74\00:30:10.31
My name is John
Browning. My name is Supriya.
00:30:10.34\00:30:13.11
I was born and
raised in the beautiful city
00:30:13.14\00:30:15.34
of Bozeman, Montana
00:30:15.38\00:30:16.98
I hope to teach secondary school
00:30:17.01\00:30:19.01
or university someday.
00:30:19.05\00:30:21.18
I thought of it as any other job
00:30:21.22\00:30:22.58
when I first joined
Christalis, but to my surprise
00:30:22.62\00:30:25.19
it changed my
view about the world.
00:30:25.22\00:30:27.06
I go to the villages, and visit
00:30:27.09\00:30:28.86
the assistance program children.
00:30:28.89\00:30:31.09
The assistance
program is for children
00:30:31.13\00:30:33.16
who have a home
that can provide them
00:30:33.19\00:30:35.70
with food and
shelter but does not have
00:30:35.73\00:30:38.60
the financial ability
to send them to school.
00:30:38.63\00:30:41.44
Every child I
visit is so very thankful
00:30:41.47\00:30:43.77
that they are
able to attend school.
00:30:43.81\00:30:45.81
Each child in the
assistance program
00:30:45.84\00:30:47.78
will not be
able to attend school
00:30:47.81\00:30:49.44
without the
support from Christalis.
00:30:49.48\00:30:51.65
Instead, they would
be most likely working
00:30:51.68\00:30:54.22
in the fields
with their parents,
00:30:54.25\00:30:56.08
or in the streets trying
to make a sustainable living.
00:30:56.12\00:30:59.49
I remember the day
he came to the home
00:31:03.22\00:31:05.89
for the first time.
00:31:05.93\00:31:07.43
He was filthy clothes,
full of thorns and webs on it,
00:31:07.46\00:31:11.83
had no shoes on and
his feet were filled
00:31:11.87\00:31:14.74
with mud from his
feet to his knees.
00:31:14.77\00:31:17.97
We bought him a
new set of clothes,
00:31:18.01\00:31:19.91
we helped him bath.
00:31:19.94\00:31:21.28
As we were doing
that we noticed that
00:31:21.31\00:31:22.64
he had a lot of
scars on his back.
00:31:22.68\00:31:25.61
Apparently, Joel
was caught stealing
00:31:25.65\00:31:28.02
a little bit of
money from his mother,
00:31:28.05\00:31:30.09
she ended up taking
him to the police station
00:31:30.12\00:31:32.15
to be beaten.
00:31:32.19\00:31:33.52
And there Joel
was beaten terribly,
00:31:33.56\00:31:35.86
and he was left with
some heavy scars on his body.
00:31:35.89\00:31:39.36
Then Joel was
kicked out of his home
00:31:39.39\00:31:41.63
and he was left to fend
on the streets for himself.
00:31:41.66\00:31:44.60
We decided to give
him his new bed sheets,
00:31:44.63\00:31:47.10
he hugged them
tight and he ended up
00:31:47.14\00:31:48.97
dancing around the
room because he was so happy
00:31:49.00\00:31:51.31
that he had a new bed
to sleep on for himself.
00:31:51.34\00:31:54.84
We were learning
about the story of Joseph
00:31:54.88\00:31:57.15
and Joel's
response was heartbreaking.
00:31:57.18\00:31:59.91
Each child told
us what they had gone
00:31:59.95\00:32:01.92
from the story,
and Joel said that
00:32:01.95\00:32:05.35
no matter what we
should always go to our family
00:32:05.39\00:32:10.53
even if they don't love
us that we should always go
00:32:10.56\00:32:12.53
back to them.
00:32:12.56\00:32:14.03
And you can tell
from that sentence that
00:32:14.06\00:32:16.03
there was a lot
more meaning behind it.
00:32:16.06\00:32:18.53
If you were to see Joel today,
00:32:18.57\00:32:20.90
he is a
completely different child,
00:32:20.94\00:32:23.00
he is so happy, he
has so much love to offer,
00:32:23.04\00:32:26.27
he is always
jumping up and down,
00:32:26.31\00:32:28.84
and clinging on to our
arms, he is excited to learn,
00:32:28.88\00:32:32.61
keeps begging us to go to school
00:32:32.65\00:32:34.35
so we are just
waiting for a sponsor for him.
00:32:34.38\00:32:36.99
It's hard to know
that there are so many
00:32:37.02\00:32:38.72
other children out
here in the same condition,
00:32:38.75\00:32:41.76
and we hope that they can
all be helped through Christalis
00:32:41.79\00:32:45.29
and through our
dedicated donors.
00:32:45.33\00:32:47.40
There are over 300
children waiting for sponsors
00:32:47.43\00:32:50.33
so that they can attend school.
00:32:50.37\00:32:52.17
Christalis does
as much as they can,
00:32:52.20\00:32:54.14
but we need sponsors
in order to help them.
00:32:54.17\00:32:56.34
Oh, that is so exciting.
00:33:01.88\00:33:03.21
Walk me through, Shalini,
00:33:03.24\00:33:05.18
if you will the
sponsorship program?
00:33:05.21\00:33:08.52
What that entails and
what you're seeking to do?
00:33:08.55\00:33:10.59
Sure.
00:33:10.62\00:33:11.95
So like in our home we
still have about 10 children
00:33:11.99\00:33:14.29
who need sponsorship.
00:33:14.32\00:33:15.86
So a sponsor chooses a child
that they wanted to support.
00:33:15.89\00:33:19.19
It really takes
about $120 per month,
00:33:19.23\00:33:21.73
but that's not
always easy for everybody
00:33:21.76\00:33:24.03
so sometimes we
split it like $80, $60, $40
00:33:24.07\00:33:26.77
and we'll give you
children to choose from,
00:33:26.80\00:33:28.77
and then you can write
letters to them, send pictures,
00:33:28.80\00:33:30.81
the kids love to get
it, then they write back,
00:33:30.84\00:33:32.94
and they send their pictures.
00:33:32.97\00:33:34.51
And that's in the
home in the orphanage
00:33:34.54\00:33:37.81
that we spoke about, then
we have the assistance program
00:33:37.85\00:33:39.88
the one that Dillon
spoke about in the video,
00:33:39.91\00:33:41.78
and in that program we
have about 700 children
00:33:41.82\00:33:44.39
waiting for help.
00:33:44.42\00:33:45.75
And this year we have 67 kids
00:33:45.79\00:33:47.99
who cannot
continue their education
00:33:48.02\00:33:50.06
if we don't get
sponsors and school
00:33:50.09\00:33:51.83
just started last week.
00:33:51.86\00:33:53.36
And so there it's
$20 per month for a child
00:33:53.40\00:33:58.13
in elementary
school we call primary,
00:33:58.17\00:34:00.27
and $40 per month
in secondary school,
00:34:00.30\00:34:02.87
and then as the
education gets higher
00:34:02.90\00:34:04.64
like if they go
for certificate level
00:34:04.67\00:34:06.17
or post-secondary it
goes to like $50, $60, $70
00:34:06.21\00:34:09.31
and if you're
supporting someone in university
00:34:09.34\00:34:11.58
about a $100 to $120 per month.
00:34:11.61\00:34:13.88
It's still not, in our
money, a fabulous sum of money,
00:34:13.92\00:34:18.29
it's manageable, you
can do with some level of...
00:34:18.32\00:34:23.02
So these are,
they're in public school.
00:34:23.06\00:34:25.33
Not all of them we have,
like, our home kids most of them
00:34:25.36\00:34:27.96
are in Adventist schools.
00:34:28.00\00:34:29.33
Okay. Yeah.
00:34:29.36\00:34:30.70
And in the assistance program
also we try our level best
00:34:30.73\00:34:34.04
to put them in
Adventist schools,
00:34:34.07\00:34:35.40
but sometimes
depending on where they live
00:34:35.44\00:34:37.41
there isn't a school nearby,
00:34:37.44\00:34:39.17
and their means of
transport is walking,
00:34:39.21\00:34:42.04
so sometimes we don't want like
00:34:42.08\00:34:43.75
six year olds or seven year olds
00:34:43.78\00:34:45.11
walking long distances
in the night by themselves,
00:34:45.15\00:34:47.12
so then we try to put them
in a school closest to them.
00:34:47.15\00:34:50.09
So we're dealing
with two populations,
00:34:50.12\00:34:52.05
we've got in home
residents and others
00:34:52.09\00:34:56.36
who are assisting who
don't live in the home
00:34:56.39\00:34:57.96
but live in other places,
but you're trying to help them
00:34:57.99\00:35:00.13
through the system as well.
00:35:00.16\00:35:01.50
Yeah, because we found
that, you know, around us
00:35:01.53\00:35:04.17
there were a lot of
kids who needed help,
00:35:04.20\00:35:05.90
sometimes families would
lie to get them into the home,
00:35:05.93\00:35:08.70
and sometimes
they live, you know,
00:35:08.74\00:35:10.11
they're eating one meal a day
00:35:10.14\00:35:11.67
or they're not
going to school at all
00:35:11.71\00:35:13.17
and they need help.
00:35:13.21\00:35:15.41
And that's very sponsor driven
because we don't have the money
00:35:15.44\00:35:18.28
if we don't have the
sponsor we can't help them.
00:35:18.31\00:35:20.48
You can't do, yeah. Yeah.
00:35:20.52\00:35:21.85
And we support over 200 children
00:35:21.88\00:35:24.75
in that program.
00:35:24.79\00:35:26.12
Wow!
00:35:26.15\00:35:27.49
See your numbers are growing,
00:35:27.52\00:35:28.86
I mean, you're making an impact.
00:35:28.89\00:35:33.66
How is the government impacted
00:35:33.70\00:35:36.93
about what you do,
are they assisting you,
00:35:36.97\00:35:38.53
are they, is it a sort
of benign kind of thing,
00:35:38.57\00:35:40.50
do you get any
hostility from them,
00:35:40.54\00:35:42.27
are they settling
into what you're doing?
00:35:42.30\00:35:44.47
We don't get
any hostility. Good.
00:35:44.51\00:35:46.17
They're very
supportive and they're happy
00:35:46.21\00:35:47.68
for what we're doing,
00:35:47.71\00:35:49.04
but we don't have any
kind of help from them,
00:35:49.08\00:35:51.75
they don't help in
funding or anything like that.
00:35:51.78\00:35:54.92
But, yeah, there
we have no problem.
00:35:54.95\00:35:56.89
Good to you.
00:35:56.92\00:35:58.25
Let's take a
look at some pictures
00:35:58.29\00:35:59.62
and then you can
tell us what we're seeing.
00:35:59.65\00:36:00.99
Okay. Okay.
00:36:01.02\00:36:02.36
So that's our
kids doing activity,
00:36:05.89\00:36:08.00
we have Global
Rise there right now
00:36:08.03\00:36:09.93
and they're
teaching them about nutrition
00:36:09.96\00:36:11.30
and healthy eating.
00:36:11.33\00:36:12.67
And so we like to
do things to help them.
00:36:12.70\00:36:15.90
You know, part of our mission
is to give them opportunities
00:36:15.94\00:36:18.57
to succeed, and that's not
always necessarily education,
00:36:18.61\00:36:21.58
they also need life
skills and, you know,
00:36:21.61\00:36:23.48
how to deal with life so,
like, when every time I go
00:36:23.51\00:36:25.98
so for about four times,
we do vision boards with them.
00:36:26.01\00:36:29.18
So the kids, you
know, do their vision board
00:36:29.22\00:36:30.82
what they want to
do and have them put it
00:36:30.85\00:36:32.19
by their bed or their cupboard
00:36:32.22\00:36:33.56
so they pray over it every year.
00:36:33.59\00:36:34.92
So we try to do different things
00:36:34.96\00:36:36.29
to help the kids.
00:36:36.32\00:36:37.66
Okay, next one.
00:36:37.69\00:36:39.16
This is Balaku, he
is one of our children
00:36:39.19\00:36:41.86
in our assistance program.
00:36:41.90\00:36:43.23
He was the first
child, not first, second child
00:36:43.26\00:36:44.73
with
disabilities that we helped.
00:36:44.77\00:36:46.20
He had speech
and hearing problems,
00:36:46.23\00:36:47.57
and we put him in a
special education school
00:36:47.60\00:36:49.67
thanks to a sponsor.
00:36:49.70\00:36:51.07
Praise the Lord.
00:36:51.11\00:36:53.64
This is Schlori and Viola,
they are eight and seven now
00:36:53.68\00:36:57.71
and so there's a
picture with them with toys,
00:36:57.75\00:36:59.38
so it's one of the things
like in our mission, you know,
00:36:59.41\00:37:01.15
when I saw those
kids, it's not just about
00:37:01.18\00:37:02.85
the food and the education.
00:37:02.88\00:37:04.65
We want to give them
everything we give our kids here
00:37:04.69\00:37:06.69
so what I give Eva,
I want them to have.
00:37:06.72\00:37:08.62
That's one of my happiest things
00:37:08.66\00:37:10.13
is to take them toys because
so they're excited for it.
00:37:10.16\00:37:13.09
And these two little girls
actually they were abandoned
00:37:13.13\00:37:15.83
by their parents
two, three years ago.
00:37:15.86\00:37:18.00
And they were just left there
00:37:18.03\00:37:19.60
and so an old
lady in the community
00:37:19.63\00:37:21.00
took them into care for them,
00:37:21.04\00:37:22.60
and she was just getting
old, she couldn't care for them.
00:37:22.64\00:37:24.64
We found them in
a really bad state,
00:37:24.67\00:37:26.41
they're just so precious.
00:37:26.44\00:37:28.11
I love them. Praise the Lord.
00:37:28.14\00:37:31.31
And that's our kids eating
so that's one of the things
00:37:31.35\00:37:33.68
when we first
started when Yvonne started
00:37:33.72\00:37:35.12
when she asked them, what
is the thing you like most
00:37:35.15\00:37:37.39
about the home?
00:37:37.42\00:37:38.75
And they said three meals a day,
00:37:38.79\00:37:40.46
was what they like the
most so that's just a picture
00:37:40.49\00:37:42.56
of the food we give them.
00:37:42.59\00:37:44.09
Praise the Lord.
00:37:44.13\00:37:45.53
And that's our home
that Walla Walla University
00:37:45.56\00:37:47.50
helped us build.
00:37:47.53\00:37:48.86
That's our home.
00:37:48.90\00:37:50.23
And if you see there's
a shed to the left of it
00:37:50.27\00:37:52.00
that's just made out of a
board we're hoping one day
00:37:52.03\00:37:54.94
God will give us another miracle
00:37:54.97\00:37:56.71
that we could
build an office space
00:37:56.74\00:37:58.07
and volunteer quarters there.
00:37:58.11\00:38:00.68
And that's Renee and Heidi
in the picture walking our kids
00:38:00.71\00:38:04.11
to school when we
lived in the old home.
00:38:04.15\00:38:08.95
And that's a group
picture so in the middle
00:38:08.98\00:38:10.45
there's our daughter Nusra
that I was talking to you about,
00:38:10.49\00:38:12.99
so this was last November.
00:38:13.02\00:38:14.49
And that's all our kids.
00:38:14.52\00:38:15.86
So that's one of
the things, you know,
00:38:15.89\00:38:17.23
just like if Eva graduated
our whole family would go.
00:38:17.26\00:38:20.43
So we took all her
brothers and sisters there
00:38:20.46\00:38:23.87
to see her
graduation, and same with Menes,
00:38:23.90\00:38:26.77
and Menes and his
stories actually released...
00:38:26.80\00:38:29.64
Amazing.
00:38:29.67\00:38:31.01
When he was a toddler,
00:38:31.04\00:38:32.37
he walked from
the Congo to Rwanda
00:38:32.41\00:38:34.28
and that's where his
parents passed away in Rwanda,
00:38:34.31\00:38:36.58
and his grandmother came
and took all his siblings
00:38:36.61\00:38:39.25
with her to 'cause
they say where we are,
00:38:39.28\00:38:41.05
but she can't
afford to take care of them
00:38:41.08\00:38:42.42
so she put them
in different homes
00:38:42.45\00:38:43.79
and they worked to stay there.
00:38:43.82\00:38:45.29
And he would go to school
but no one to pay his fees,
00:38:45.32\00:38:48.16
and he was smart
so they would give him
00:38:48.19\00:38:49.79
old school books, they
took him off the roster,
00:38:49.82\00:38:51.73
and then when we came
they brought him to us.
00:38:51.76\00:38:53.66
And so we were so blessed
to have him and right now
00:38:53.70\00:38:57.07
he is our first graduate
00:38:57.10\00:38:58.73
in secondary
education is what he did.
00:38:58.77\00:39:00.27
And now he's
doing on a scholarship
00:39:00.30\00:39:02.00
a master's in South Korea.
00:39:02.04\00:39:03.67
Wow! Yeah.
00:39:03.71\00:39:05.21
Praise the Lord. Yeah.
00:39:05.24\00:39:06.71
It was amazing. Excellent.
00:39:06.74\00:39:08.08
That's the picture
of Renee and her kids.
00:39:08.11\00:39:12.81
Renee, you look
very happy there.
00:39:12.85\00:39:14.38
I was very happy there.
00:39:14.42\00:39:18.72
This is a picture of us
giving mosquito nets and Bibles,
00:39:18.75\00:39:21.36
so once when one
of our little girl,
00:39:21.39\00:39:23.89
that's one of our
donor, she donated solar lights
00:39:23.93\00:39:26.59
because one of the kids
in our assistance program
00:39:26.63\00:39:28.33
said that they
don't have, you know,
00:39:28.36\00:39:30.00
almost all of
them have electricity
00:39:30.03\00:39:31.57
in the assistance
program so they said,
00:39:31.60\00:39:33.13
they would have
trouble studying at night.
00:39:33.17\00:39:35.40
So we got these
little solar nights
00:39:35.44\00:39:37.01
that, actually, I
saw when Heidi and Renee
00:39:37.04\00:39:38.67
brought up for themselves.
00:39:38.71\00:39:40.04
And so we were
provided that for all the kids
00:39:40.08\00:39:42.04
in the assistance program.
00:39:42.08\00:39:43.41
And when we were doing
that, I was talking to them
00:39:43.45\00:39:45.95
and they were saying...
00:39:45.98\00:39:48.08
I was talking to them
about having morning devotion
00:39:48.12\00:39:49.62
before they go to school.
00:39:49.65\00:39:50.99
And they all were
saying they don't have Bibles,
00:39:51.02\00:39:52.92
so Washington
Adventist University
00:39:52.95\00:39:54.52
raised money to
purchase Bibles for them.
00:39:54.56\00:39:57.26
And then once when
I was in the airport,
00:39:57.29\00:39:58.99
I wanted to
provide mosquito nets
00:39:59.03\00:40:00.43
because malaria is huge there.
00:40:00.46\00:40:02.13
And once when I
was in the airport
00:40:02.16\00:40:03.73
just waiting for
my connecting flight
00:40:03.77\00:40:05.43
there was these
people with this t-shirt
00:40:05.47\00:40:07.40
it says 2400dollar.org.
00:40:07.44\00:40:09.27
And so I asked
them what they did
00:40:09.30\00:40:10.94
or it said nets 24
something like that,
00:40:10.97\00:40:13.11
and they provide
mosquito nets in Uganda.
00:40:13.14\00:40:15.28
And so they donated
mosquito nets for all the kids
00:40:15.31\00:40:17.28
in our assistance program.
00:40:17.31\00:40:18.65
Praise the Lord.
Yeah, it's a miracle.
00:40:18.68\00:40:20.42
The Lord seems to provide
what you need when you need it.
00:40:20.45\00:40:22.92
Yeah. Sometimes
even before you ask.
00:40:22.95\00:40:24.55
Yes. Yeah, do we have any more?
00:40:24.59\00:40:26.79
There we go.
00:40:26.82\00:40:28.16
That's a picture of a
family we were trying to help
00:40:28.19\00:40:29.86
through our family
development program.
00:40:29.89\00:40:31.89
So, you know, we're not
always going to be there
00:40:31.93\00:40:33.90
say there's some sort
of war something happens
00:40:33.93\00:40:35.56
and we are gone.
00:40:35.60\00:40:36.93
We want to be able to know
that these kids will continue
00:40:36.97\00:40:39.30
to go to school,
continue to get help
00:40:39.33\00:40:40.84
so we're thinking if
we can equip the parents,
00:40:40.87\00:40:43.14
educate them, help them come up,
00:40:43.17\00:40:44.87
then they can
become self-sufficient
00:40:44.91\00:40:46.44
to care of the kids themselves.
00:40:46.47\00:40:47.94
So it's a holistic
program where we look
00:40:47.98\00:40:50.65
at all their needs,
physical, emotional, financial,
00:40:50.68\00:40:54.58
and help them in each
area to take care of themselves
00:40:54.62\00:40:57.09
so the plan is it
goes over a span of years,
00:40:57.12\00:40:59.99
maybe three to five years
00:41:00.02\00:41:01.36
till they can
become self-sufficient,
00:41:01.39\00:41:02.99
and give them
income generating project,
00:41:03.02\00:41:04.69
and they give us
certain percentage back
00:41:04.73\00:41:06.49
that goes into
helping them for a while,
00:41:06.53\00:41:08.23
and then after
that other families,
00:41:08.26\00:41:10.03
but we haven't had the funding
to really follow through.
00:41:10.07\00:41:13.03
We started with
five or six families,
00:41:13.07\00:41:14.64
but haven't been
able to continue.
00:41:14.67\00:41:16.10
Powerful.
00:41:16.14\00:41:17.47
You know, I've got a
statement I'm going to make,
00:41:17.51\00:41:18.84
I'll wait till the
end of these pictures,
00:41:18.87\00:41:20.21
but I see something that I think
00:41:20.24\00:41:22.04
is really a God blessing.
00:41:22.08\00:41:23.41
But are we out of
pictures or we have some more?
00:41:23.45\00:41:25.45
Okay.
00:41:25.48\00:41:28.58
One of the things I see that
you're doing is trying to...
00:41:28.62\00:41:31.69
Because you are
basically an orphanage,
00:41:31.72\00:41:35.12
but you are casting a
very wide net, in fact,
00:41:35.16\00:41:38.69
the widest possible
net as far as community
00:41:38.73\00:41:42.13
and social
impact above and beyond
00:41:42.16\00:41:44.97
just a place where
children come off the streets
00:41:45.00\00:41:47.57
and get three meals and
get the knowledge of God.
00:41:47.60\00:41:50.14
You're back in the streets
and you are affecting families
00:41:50.17\00:41:54.71
in a very broad, broad way.
00:41:54.74\00:41:57.75
Is that the mandate
that you had in your mind
00:41:57.78\00:42:00.72
when you began or did you just
kind of mission creep into that
00:42:00.75\00:42:04.39
with the help of your board?
00:42:04.42\00:42:05.82
Because you're
more than just a place
00:42:05.85\00:42:07.76
where kids can stay,
you're actually moving back
00:42:07.79\00:42:10.39
to the community and
casting a really wide net there,
00:42:10.43\00:42:14.00
is that what
you had in your mind
00:42:14.03\00:42:15.46
or just kind of grow into that?
00:42:15.50\00:42:17.47
I think that's
what I had in mind,
00:42:17.50\00:42:19.53
I think what I have in
mind or what God put in my heart
00:42:19.57\00:42:22.70
is even wider than that.
00:42:22.74\00:42:25.31
It's huge.
00:42:25.34\00:42:28.41
I think the desire is
to help any kid in need,
00:42:28.44\00:42:32.25
any kid who is crying for help.
00:42:32.28\00:42:34.88
It's not just the ones
that don't have a home,
00:42:34.92\00:42:37.59
they're one suffering
for no food and suffering
00:42:37.62\00:42:40.26
because they're
being abused or exploited
00:42:40.29\00:42:42.66
so it's a desire to
help to show our love
00:42:42.69\00:42:46.63
for all those
kids in however way
00:42:46.66\00:42:49.20
God enables us to.
00:42:49.23\00:42:52.17
I'm so very, very impressed.
00:42:52.20\00:42:53.64
I've been to Uganda
and you don't have to have
00:42:53.67\00:42:58.17
binoculars to see,
I mean, with your eyes
00:42:58.21\00:43:01.21
you can see the
need on the street
00:43:01.24\00:43:03.85
typically of young children
who are either parent less
00:43:03.88\00:43:08.15
or their parents just
can't take care of them,
00:43:08.18\00:43:10.89
you can see it so
you're addressing that.
00:43:10.92\00:43:14.69
That's a very
big need, isn't it?
00:43:14.72\00:43:16.59
Yeah. Yeah, all over the world.
00:43:16.62\00:43:19.66
All over the world.
00:43:19.69\00:43:21.26
Well, one at a time, you know,
00:43:21.30\00:43:25.23
that's what you
can do, one at a time.
00:43:25.27\00:43:26.84
And to that one
child it's their world,
00:43:26.87\00:43:28.90
they don't know
about the other kids.
00:43:28.94\00:43:30.27
Yes, yes, yes,
indeed. Praise the Lord.
00:43:30.31\00:43:34.91
I noticed and I was
happy to see that the place
00:43:34.94\00:43:38.01
where your house
is, your home is,
00:43:38.05\00:43:40.35
it's not in the
heart of the city,
00:43:40.38\00:43:41.85
it's out a little ways.
00:43:41.88\00:43:43.22
Yeah, we're about 15 minutes out
00:43:43.25\00:43:44.62
and we're up in the
mountains, it's beautiful
00:43:44.65\00:43:46.59
when you come there
the next time you go there,
00:43:46.62\00:43:48.89
you will see
how beautiful it is.
00:43:48.92\00:43:50.36
I mean, I think
it's technically hills,
00:43:50.39\00:43:51.93
but it looks
like mountains to me.
00:43:51.96\00:43:53.60
So like all around
are green mountains
00:43:53.63\00:43:55.80
when you wake up
in the morning...
00:43:55.83\00:43:57.17
And when I go there I love
to have Sabbath sundown worship
00:43:57.20\00:43:59.70
in the front 'cause
you're just in nature
00:43:59.73\00:44:02.47
as you sing and
it's just beautiful.
00:44:02.50\00:44:05.11
Yeah, praise the Lord.
That is so very, very fabulous.
00:44:05.14\00:44:09.41
When you go out
and make presentations
00:44:09.44\00:44:12.25
is your target
audience, do you go to colleges,
00:44:12.28\00:44:15.12
high schools, all
of the above, churches,
00:44:15.15\00:44:18.72
who do you try to target
00:44:18.75\00:44:20.26
as far as the kind of
assistance that you need?
00:44:20.29\00:44:22.12
Anybody, everywhere
wherever God takes us.
00:44:22.16\00:44:26.76
I mean, I have
donors who are six
00:44:26.80\00:44:30.10
and seven years old.
00:44:30.13\00:44:32.10
We have one little girl
00:44:32.13\00:44:33.47
who does chores around the house
00:44:33.50\00:44:34.84
and donates like
$300, $500 every year
00:44:34.87\00:44:37.67
to support a child.
00:44:37.71\00:44:39.17
She must be eight or nine.
00:44:39.21\00:44:40.78
My daughter gives money
and volunteers like, you know,
00:44:40.81\00:44:45.51
from students and, you
know, in the university
00:44:45.55\00:44:47.45
I will sign them up
for $0.25 per month.
00:44:47.48\00:44:50.32
It makes a difference.
00:44:50.35\00:44:52.45
It doesn't matter how old,
how young even volunteering,
00:44:52.49\00:44:55.29
if you cannot go to Uganda
and you want to volunteer here,
00:44:55.32\00:44:58.79
you know,
retired or high school,
00:44:58.83\00:45:02.06
elementary school we
have a place for everyone.
00:45:02.10\00:45:05.37
We're going to put up
some contact information
00:45:05.40\00:45:07.27
in just a few moments for
those who may want to help.
00:45:07.30\00:45:10.94
But I'm thinking given
the broad base kinds of needs
00:45:10.97\00:45:15.81
that an
orphanage home would have,
00:45:15.84\00:45:19.65
anybody with stuff to
get over there, I mean,
00:45:19.68\00:45:23.59
good stuff could
be of assistance.
00:45:23.62\00:45:26.15
Clothing for young
children, soap, toothpaste,
00:45:26.19\00:45:32.23
those kinds of
things, can you use
00:45:32.26\00:45:33.60
that kind of stuff also?
00:45:33.63\00:45:34.96
It's the only problem
is taking it over there
00:45:35.00\00:45:36.73
is expensive like
shipping is expensive,
00:45:36.77\00:45:38.70
sometimes it doesn't get there,
like, we lost two barrels once,
00:45:38.73\00:45:41.77
it never got there.
00:45:41.80\00:45:43.17
And then I take it with me
when I take an extra suitcase
00:45:43.20\00:45:47.18
and you have to pay
like, you know, $250 or $270
00:45:47.21\00:45:50.28
for each extra suitcase.
00:45:50.31\00:45:51.88
So that's the only challenge
with taking stuff over there.
00:45:51.91\00:45:55.52
It's easier if we go
there and purchase it,
00:45:55.55\00:45:58.05
some things I try to
take over because it's better
00:45:58.09\00:45:59.92
to take from here
than there, like, shoes
00:45:59.95\00:46:03.16
and maybe bags and stuff.
00:46:03.19\00:46:04.99
Some things are
more expensive there,
00:46:05.03\00:46:07.06
but other things
it's just easier to get.
00:46:07.10\00:46:09.40
So it's better
really just to send cash
00:46:09.43\00:46:11.53
and then get it locally
rather than trying to ship?
00:46:11.57\00:46:13.77
And then we take
pictures and send it to donors
00:46:13.80\00:46:17.24
so you'll see it.
00:46:17.27\00:46:20.41
Praise the Lord. This
is so very, very exciting.
00:46:20.44\00:46:22.41
As you look back
over the 14, 13 years
00:46:22.44\00:46:27.12
that you've been in
existence, walk me through
00:46:27.15\00:46:31.32
what to you was
the greatest miracle,
00:46:31.35\00:46:33.66
the greatest sign
that this was a God thing
00:46:33.69\00:46:36.46
and that God was in it?
00:46:36.49\00:46:38.69
Wow! There is a million signs.
00:46:38.73\00:46:41.76
Well, give your
top two. Only top two.
00:46:41.80\00:46:46.57
I think one is a
general, I think like Renee said
00:46:46.60\00:46:49.17
every time I go there,
and I see the children,
00:46:49.20\00:46:52.17
I know their stories.
00:46:52.21\00:46:53.74
I know what's happened to them.
00:46:53.78\00:46:55.21
I know inside what
they've been through,
00:46:55.24\00:46:58.48
and yet you will
never see it in their faces
00:46:58.51\00:47:01.62
or in how they
behave or anything, the joy,
00:47:01.65\00:47:05.15
the happiness, the
security, the love, you know,
00:47:05.19\00:47:10.33
that shows me that all the...
00:47:10.36\00:47:12.49
This is not easy, you
know, when you talk about things
00:47:12.53\00:47:15.66
it's easy to think that
everything is smooth sailing,
00:47:15.70\00:47:17.73
but it's not, life is so
hard but when you see those kids
00:47:17.77\00:47:22.80
and see how it's affecting them,
00:47:22.84\00:47:25.11
that is the biggest
sign for me that, you know,
00:47:25.14\00:47:28.38
this is what God,
you know, wants us to do.
00:47:28.41\00:47:31.95
And then it's just
repeated, I think it's a cycle,
00:47:31.98\00:47:35.85
the first one I
think when I kind of
00:47:35.88\00:47:37.42
'cause I was really desperate,
I was just it's hard, right,
00:47:37.45\00:47:41.12
when you're doing ministry.
00:47:41.16\00:47:42.76
And I was at a point
and I was like, "God,
00:47:42.79\00:47:44.16
am I doing what I want
because everyone tells me
00:47:44.19\00:47:45.99
I'm doing what I want.
00:47:46.03\00:47:47.36
And I'm really not
doing what you want."
00:47:47.40\00:47:49.36
So I was just on my knees
praying, I was like, "God,
00:47:49.40\00:47:52.33
if really I'm being selfish
and I'm doing the wrong thing,
00:47:52.37\00:47:56.64
I need you to show me a
miracle if it's the right thing,
00:47:56.67\00:47:59.37
and I just want a big donation,
just a flat big donation
00:47:59.41\00:48:03.04
'cause I've never received
like Yvonne would talk to people
00:48:03.08\00:48:05.01
and she would
get a huge donations
00:48:05.05\00:48:06.85
but, you know, like I said,
I'm not a good sales person.
00:48:06.88\00:48:09.45
So I was like, "God,
I need something huge
00:48:09.48\00:48:12.19
that I know this is
what you want me to do."
00:48:12.22\00:48:14.46
And that weekend Pastor Wyclee
on behalf of the conference
00:48:14.49\00:48:21.00
donated $5,000 to
start our building fund.
00:48:21.03\00:48:25.13
And so for me that
was the pivotal like
00:48:25.17\00:48:27.40
'cause I had asked
God I need a big sign.
00:48:27.44\00:48:30.31
And then but then,
you know, the devil,
00:48:30.34\00:48:31.84
he knows where to
get you so I go down
00:48:31.87\00:48:35.78
and God just
completely shows miracles
00:48:35.81\00:48:37.91
like the Walla Walla
University, like the grant,
00:48:37.95\00:48:40.55
and it's just
multiple miracle after miracle.
00:48:40.58\00:48:43.82
I know that pastor and
praise the Lord for that.
00:48:43.85\00:48:46.72
It occurred to me
sometimes when you bite off
00:48:46.76\00:48:49.39
such a big chunk
of social service
00:48:49.42\00:48:53.23
that it can get you down.
00:48:53.26\00:48:55.60
The plane rides, the dealing
with day to day activities,
00:48:55.63\00:48:59.27
you know, in
time can get you down,
00:48:59.30\00:49:00.90
but I guess the Lord finds a way
00:49:00.94\00:49:02.27
to kind of boost
you back up, yeah.
00:49:02.30\00:49:04.44
Yeah, yeah, just when
you're about to be done,
00:49:04.47\00:49:08.28
God just brings
you something huge
00:49:08.31\00:49:10.15
and you're like,
"Oh, yes, back into it.
00:49:10.18\00:49:12.95
Praise the Lord.
00:49:12.98\00:49:14.52
Renee, you've been
quiet for a little bit,
00:49:14.55\00:49:16.92
when is the last
time you were over?
00:49:16.95\00:49:19.62
So 2016, I got to go
back, and I left in 2015,
00:49:19.65\00:49:24.26
and then in 2016 I got
to go back just for a week.
00:49:24.29\00:49:27.20
Shalini was over
there and she invited
00:49:27.23\00:49:29.20
Heidi and I had to go back.
00:49:29.23\00:49:30.57
And so it was really
great to see the kids again.
00:49:30.60\00:49:33.64
We had never actually
seen the new orphanage,
00:49:33.67\00:49:35.34
it was still being
built while we lived there,
00:49:35.37\00:49:37.34
and so just to see the new home,
00:49:37.37\00:49:39.34
and see all the kids
again, just be back in Uganda
00:49:39.37\00:49:42.14
because, I mean, it's
one of my favorite places
00:49:42.18\00:49:44.41
in the world.
00:49:44.45\00:49:45.85
Of course, I miss the
kids when I'm over here
00:49:45.88\00:49:48.05
so just being able
to see them again and...
00:49:48.08\00:49:51.55
And they love them.
00:49:51.59\00:49:53.25
Kids love Renee,
Aunty Renee, Aunty Heidi,
00:49:53.29\00:49:57.73
Uncle Dillon,
they love the children.
00:49:57.76\00:50:00.33
Yeah, you've got a
little fan club there.
00:50:00.36\00:50:02.36
Praise the Lord.
And they seem so happy.
00:50:02.40\00:50:05.40
They seem really, really happy.
00:50:05.43\00:50:08.07
Do you ever get any
parents or relatives who come
00:50:08.10\00:50:12.54
and say thank you
for what you're doing.
00:50:12.57\00:50:14.38
Do you get that kind of
affirmation there in Uganda?
00:50:14.41\00:50:17.11
Oh, yeah, they're very grateful.
00:50:17.15\00:50:20.68
Once we even got a
goat because we were able to
00:50:20.72\00:50:23.25
because of a donor do a
heart surgery for a child,
00:50:23.28\00:50:26.09
congenital defect
and they had to wait
00:50:26.12\00:50:28.49
till she was three years
old, and it was expensive
00:50:28.52\00:50:30.73
$3,000, $4, 000 and
so she brought a goat
00:50:30.76\00:50:34.46
and like plate stuff she made,
and they were waiting for me
00:50:34.50\00:50:37.10
to come to kill it and eat it.
00:50:37.13\00:50:38.83
And I was like, "No,
I'm not killing the goat."
00:50:38.87\00:50:41.10
So the goat became our
pet, we got another one
00:50:41.14\00:50:45.51
and so now we're producing goats
00:50:45.54\00:50:47.01
to sell for the kids.
00:50:47.04\00:50:48.98
Praise the Lord.
00:50:49.01\00:50:50.35
Yeah, they're
grateful, they are.
00:50:50.38\00:50:51.71
Anyway you make money
to support the program.
00:50:51.75\00:50:55.58
Before our time
gets away from us,
00:50:55.62\00:50:56.95
I want to do
just couple of things.
00:50:56.99\00:50:58.79
You've gotten
sort of now the texture
00:50:58.82\00:51:01.59
of what this ministry
does, and the broad net
00:51:01.62\00:51:04.46
that it tosses as
we're over the part of Uganda
00:51:04.49\00:51:10.17
that God has given
them as their mission field,
00:51:10.20\00:51:12.33
the work that
they're doing is wonderful,
00:51:12.37\00:51:14.57
and it is being
blessed by the Lord.
00:51:14.60\00:51:17.04
I always like to be
involved in things that I know
00:51:17.07\00:51:19.14
are part of what God's plan
is, and I assure this is part
00:51:19.17\00:51:22.98
of God's plan not
only for Shalini and Renee,
00:51:23.01\00:51:26.98
but for Uganda and for those
00:51:27.02\00:51:28.82
that are part of
their volunteer core
00:51:28.85\00:51:31.59
and the work that they're doing.
00:51:31.62\00:51:32.95
Should you want to
assist them financially,
00:51:32.99\00:51:37.43
certainly we ask
you to pray for them,
00:51:37.46\00:51:38.99
but if you want to
assist them financially,
00:51:39.03\00:51:40.86
and we encourage you to do so
00:51:40.90\00:51:42.23
in the strongest terms,
this is a great, great work,
00:51:42.26\00:51:45.13
or if you have time
and want to make contact
00:51:45.17\00:51:47.77
with this ministry,
here's the information
00:51:47.80\00:51:50.11
that you're going to need.
00:51:50.14\00:51:53.71
If you would like to help change
00:51:53.74\00:51:55.08
the life of an
orphan child in Uganda,
00:51:55.11\00:51:57.75
the Christalis home
provides a family atmosphere
00:51:57.78\00:52:01.05
with family
worships, study, and playtime
00:52:01.08\00:52:04.29
as well as
worship time each day.
00:52:04.32\00:52:06.86
You may also help
provide other children
00:52:06.89\00:52:09.06
with healthcare and education
00:52:09.09\00:52:10.89
through the
Christalis assistance program.
00:52:10.93\00:52:13.50
Visit their
website, Christalis. org
00:52:13.53\00:52:16.23
to find out more.
00:52:16.26\00:52:17.80
That's Christalis. org.
00:52:17.83\00:52:20.60
You may also call them
at area code (240) 772-1131
00:52:20.64\00:52:27.18
or write to them
at Christalis 14611,
00:52:27.21\00:52:31.31
Blackburn Road,
Burtonsville, Maryland 20866.
00:52:31.35\00:52:36.25