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00:02 I want to spend my life
00:08 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:19 Removing pain 00:24 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:35 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:46 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:10 Hello and welcome, once again, to 3ABN 01:13 Today. We're so glad you're taking a little 01:15 time out of your busy schedule to just spend 01:19 a little time with us. We just want to thank 01:22 you so much for your prayers and your love 01:25 and your financial support of 3ABN. This 01:28 is the Mending Broken People Network, and you 01:30 know what? I have a few people on the set 01:33 with me today who are broken people who were 01:38 mended, and now, they're reaching out with God's 01:42 love to touch others. Let me introduce you 01:45 to our special guests just right off the bat. 01:48 Joy Kauffman, we are so glad that you are 01:51 with us today. You have a master's in public 01:54 health, and you are the founder and president 01:58 of FARM STEW Uganda. - FARM STEW International, 02:02 actually. - FARM STEW International. I'm 02:04 reading off your shirt. - Exactly. We're going, 02:06 though. - Okay. Praise God. I know that we ran 02:11 into you at the ASI when we saw your booth. And 02:15 such a wonderful ministry, but we're going to get 02:17 a little of her story and hear what you're 02:19 doing what the Lord has called you to do. Now, 02:23 next, we have Dr. Frederick Nyanzi. Did I say that 02:29 right? - That's right. - Nyanzi. And you have 02:32 your PhD in food, science, and nutrition. 02:38 - Right. That is from 02:40 - Praise God. Now, I know that your first 02:43 degree was in biochemistry. We're going to hear how 02:46 you worked for Loma Linda Foods. He 02:49 is actually from Uganda. - Yes. - This ministry 02:54 has a very- you are personally and passionately 02:58 involved; you're motivated for this ministry. - That's 03:02 true. - Then, we have Tamara Schoch with us, 03:04 and Tamara is a volunteer. You're living in Africa, 03:08 right? And you are a volunteer with the FARM 03:13 STEW International. - Yes. - We're so glad 03:16 that you're here, as well. - Glad to be here; 03:18 thank you. - Oh, wonderful. Now, before 03:20 we get started, I know you all like music, and 03:23 we know YOU love music... And today, we have 03:27 our very own pastor of the Thompsonville 03:30 Seventh-Day Adventist Church-someone who 03:33 you're quite familiar with. He is a teacher 03:36 of the Word, but he has such a strong 03:40 anointing for music ministry. And today, 03:45 he's going to sing for us-this is John 03:47 Lomacang I'm speaking of-"I Will Go." 04:18 Give me heirs to hear Your Spirit 04:24 Give me feet to follow through 04:29 Give me hands to touch the hurting 04:35 And the faith to follow You 04:45 Give me grace to be Your servant 04:51 Give me mercy for the lost 04:56 Give me passion for Your glory 05:02 Give me passion for the cross 05:09 And I will go where there are no easy roads 05:15 Leave the comfort that I know 05:20 I will go and let this journey be my home 05:26 I will go 05:32 I will go 05:49 I'll let go of my ambition 05:54 Cut the roots that run so deep 06:00 I will learn to give away 06:06 What I cannot really keep 06:12 What I cannot really keep 06:20 Help me see with eyes of faith 06:27 Give me strength to run this race 06:34 And I will go where there are no easy roads 06:41 Leave the comfort that I know 06:47 I will go and let this journey be my home 06:53 I will go... I will go! 06:59 I will go where, Lord, Your glory is unknown 07:06 I will live for You alone 07:12 I will go because my life is not my own 07:18 And I will go... 07:23 I will go 07:32 I will go 07:47 - We thank Pastor John Lomacang for that song. 07:50 Well, if you're just joining us, I think we 07:52 have a treat in store for us today, because 07:54 we have three lovely people here on this set 07:56 with us. And before we get into the ministry, I 08:00 always am fascinated by people's personal 08:03 stories and how God reached you. Joy, did 08:05 you grow up in a Christian home? - I did. 08:10 I was blessed to grow up in a very strong 08:12 Christian home, and I always had kind of a 08:15 mind of my own. In a way, I felt convicted 08:18 always to love animals, and yeah. I always 08:23 loved God and I've always waited for His 08:25 soon coming, so I'm thankful for that 08:28 heritage. - But now, you weren't a 08:29 Seventh-Day Adventist Christian, though. - No, 08:31 I was not. - How did God bring you to the point 08:36 where you are today? - Well, praise God He 08:38 has pursued me since I was a baby, born in an 08:41 Adventist hospital, and it was an emergency 08:43 C- section, so I think the nurses started 08:45 praying. When I was about 8 years old, 9, 08:50 I became a vegetarian. - What did your family 08:53 think of that? - They thought I was going 08:55 to become sickly and stunted and malnourished, 08:57 and especially my grandmothers were 08:59 very concerned. So, I think that's how my 09:01 interest in nutrition and health grew, 09:04 because I started, at a very young age, 09:06 trying to defend my honor of that choice. 09:09 And sure enough, that's how I started learning 09:11 about Adventists was in college, studying 09:14 nutrition and reading the clinical literature, 09:17 even from the 80s, hearing that Adventists 09:19 were healthier-but I didn't know who these 09:21 people were or what they believed. I just kind of 09:24 got intrigued. - And you told me in the 09:27 green room that someone was planting seeds 09:30 with you, but it was actually going to Uganda 09:35 and the people of Uganda who converted 09:38 you. Explain that. - Amen. So, I came to 09:40 a cooking class, and that was about 8 years 09:43 ago and met my male best friend (and only 09:47 other staff for the United States, Cherri 09:49 Olin) who friendship- evangelized me over 09:52 like, an 8-year period. But when I first went 09:55 to Uganda in the fall of 2015 and went to 09:58 church and met the Ugandan Adventists, 10:00 I knew they were family, and I knew I needed 10:03 to go ahead, cross the line, and get baptized 10:05 into the church. I've never regretted it for 10:08 a moment. I now have 20 million family members 10:11 all around the world. - Amen. That's what I 10:13 love about being Adventist. No matter 10:17 where I go, I have family. - Amen. - Well, 10:20 that's a precious story. Now, how about you? 10:22 I'm just going to call you Dr. Fred; that makes 10:26 it a little bit easier. - That'll be fine. 10:28 - All right. Dr. Fred, did you grow up in 10:31 a Christian home? - Yes. My parents told me that 10:36 when I was born, that's when they were 10:39 converted to Seventh-Day Adventism, and that 10:43 was when- you know, I grew up in Uganda. 10:46 I just happened to come here in the US 10:49 for school. Went to Loma Linda for my 10:53 university training. So, I have been an 10:59 Adventist all along. This has been a journey, 11:08 because when you're an Adventist, you go 11:14 to church because your parents are going to 11:16 church-like when I was baptized as an 11:23 Adventist. If you asked me whether I was 11:27 baptized, that I really was 11:30 convicted that Jesus Christ is my Savior, 11:34 I would say, "Probably not." The reason why is 11:36 because my parents... - Thought it was time. 11:39 - Yeah. It was time. And also, I thought 11:43 that they do have the wine, the grape juice, 11:48 and the bread. And during that time, we don't 11:51 touch it, so I really wanted to participate 11:53 in that so that I can be eating some bread 11:58 and take juice. So, probably, that was my 12:02 motivation at church. - So, at what point 12:04 in your life did Jesus become real to you? 12:07 How old were you? - That was when I went to 12:11 college. - Okay, good. - I was studying in 12:15 our Bible classes, and I really started knowing 12:19 that Jesus Christ is real. - Amen. - And 12:22 I started asking questions, like I 12:24 said, asking about Christmas. "Why do 12:26 we have this and that?" So, really, because of 12:29 that, and we had..." Of course, it was an 12:31 Adventist school, which was Middle East college 12:34 in Beirut, Lebanon, that's where I really 12:38 started learning about this. So, I really was 12:40 convicted of my belief. - Amen. Amen. Now, 12:46 you had... You got a master's in biochemistry, 12:50 worked with Loma Linda Foods... Now we're going 12:53 to come back to that. Now, you have your 12:56 PhD in Food Science and Nutrition, and you are 13:00 the president of the Ugandan American 13:04 Adventist Association. I don't know how you 13:07 have time to be a board member! [laughs] But 13:10 tell us about why this ministry-when you learned 13:14 of FARM STEW International. We're going to explain 13:17 what they're doing in just a second. Why was 13:20 it important to you to be a part of this 13:24 ministry? - You know, this is a very good 13:28 question, because really, every time I ask 13:31 myself, "How do I have time and how can I be 13:35 part of the ministry which I say that is 13:37 helping a lot of the people in our country 13:41 in East Africa as a whole whole?"-not only in Uganda. 13:48 When I was growing up, I saw these malnourished 13:51 children all over the place. God blessed us 13:56 that we had enough food or that a kid with 14:00 my kids, I mean my children, that the 14:02 reason I'm shorter than them is because of my 14:07 nutrition...but probably not, because 14:09 we had enough food, and I think we were 14:12 nourished well. So, when I saw that, that 14:15 this FARM STEW, which is helping our children 14:20 in East Africa, in Uganda in particular, I really 14:24 wanted to know about it. That's why when I 14:31 had a chance to meet Joy Kauffman from when 14:35 we were in Chicago this year in July, I 14:40 asked, "How about it?" Then she explained to me 14:43 what they're doing in Uganda, and I really 14:47 felt that I need to be part of it. Now, it 14:50 didn't come from me, but when she asked me 14:52 whether I'd do it, whether I wanted to join them, 14:55 I said, "Of course." - Praise God. - So, that's 14:58 how I happened to... - Now, I want to show 15:01 what the acronym... FARM 15:04 STEW is actually an acronym. It sounds 15:07 so interesting. When they said "FARM STEW 15:09 International," I thought, "FARM STEW?!" 15:11 But it is an acronym, and we're going to put 15:15 the graphic... Run us through that, Joy- 15:18 what FARM STEW stands for. - So, FARM STEW 15:21 is a recipe for abundant life, and these are 15:23 eight "ingredients" we call them that are 15:26 required for a family to have what they 15:28 need. We start with farming, attitude, 15:31 rest, and meals, sanitation, temperance, 15:35 enterprise, and water. - And how is it that- 15:42 you were over there and you saw, so you 15:44 saw the need. And obviously, once you've 15:47 seen a malnourished child... I mean, this was 15:50 in your home. Once you've seen that, the 15:53 suffering of a malnourished child, it's inhumane 15:58 not to respond to their needs. - Yeah. 16:01 The child that we just showed there, we 16:03 actually- Tamara and I were in a malnutrition 16:06 ward in a hospital in Uganda just a few 16:08 weeks ago, and that child is probably not 16:11 living at this point. Sadly, there's millions 16:15 of children that are hungry, and hundreds 16:17 of thousands that are starving. And, you know, 16:20 Jesus is going to ask us what we did for 16:23 these children. There is so much through these 16:25 12 million members of our church. If we can 16:28 equip them, mobilize them, train them, we 16:30 can address the needs of these families; but 16:32 not us, but them- the families themselves 16:35 being able to take care of themselves. 16:37 That's our goal. - Amen. Now, Tamara, how did 16:40 you become involved? Tell us about your 16:44 growing-up years. Did you grow up as a 16:47 Christian, or...what was going on in your 16:50 family? - My family dynamics are a little 16:52 complicated. My parents got divorced when I was 16:55 very young, but I always believed in God and I 16:57 always knew that the Bible was the Word 16:59 of God. So, I had a rather dysfunctional 17:02 childhood. I tried to hide a lot of my 17:07 pain through eating. I actually got to the 17:09 point where I was over 250 pounds. - Oh, my. 17:11 I can't even imagine. - Yeah. Actually, the 17:16 Adventist health message, I received a flyer in 17:19 the mail and about how to have biblical principles 17:24 in every area of your life to bring healing. 17:26 I learned about the health message, and 17:28 I, by God's grace, went through the health 17:31 message, I restored my health, my blood 17:33 pressure is fantastic, I have no diabetes... 17:36 Just all these wonderful things. Then right after 17:38 that, there was some Bible meetings and 17:42 prophecy meetings. And since I already always 17:45 believed in the Bible... Actually, before I 17:49 married my husband, I told him. I said, "I'm 17:51 going to marry a man who's going to study 17:52 the Bible with me." We didn't belong to a church 17:54 at the time, but we started reading our Bible 17:56 together, we started having personal devotions 17:58 and journaling, and just truly making Christ the 18:02 center of our lives. - Praise God. - So, once 18:05 we got to these meetings, and they were explaining 18:08 all these important subjects - just verses 18:11 from the beginning to the end of the Bible. 18:13 They made perfect sense. It took away all my 18:15 questions and it was so beautiful! So, it 18:17 was just the natural next step to become a 18:19 Seventh-Day Adventist. - Amen. - And that was 18:22 in the year 2000- December of 2000. 18:24 - And how did you become connected with 18:26 FARM STEW International? - Well, my family and I, 18:31 we have been in East Africa full-time since 18:34 January of 2012. We've been doing health 18:37 evangelism training, trying to equip the 18:39 people. In this last year, as I was preparing 18:42 a report, we were thinking and praying, 18:46 "What's the next step?" We wanted something 18:49 that was more practical that would really reach 18:52 the people where they are. We were praying 18:54 about it. And then, early this year, I was 18:58 at an OCI retreat in Zambia at Riverside, 19:01 and there was the FARM STEW team there (and 19:04 they did a presentation). It was like God tapping 19:07 me on the shoulder, saying, "This is the 19:08 next step." So, I got in touch with Joy. We 19:11 started talking, then the Lord provided a 19:14 miraculous way for me to come to Uganda. I've 19:17 made two trips to Uganda, met Joy there, and we 19:22 are just seeing that this program is reaching 19:25 the people in such an amazing way. People 19:28 are receiving hope. When we help people to 19:32 take care of their children so those 19:35 children are not malnourished, so those 19:37 children can go to school, so they're 19:38 not getting sick, we're reaching the hearts of 19:40 the people. We see this program opening the 19:43 doors into Muslim communities. It's 19:46 amazing what we're seeing. These Muslim 19:48 people... We went to this one community where 19:52 the trainers have been coming a few times, and 19:55 we sat down with them and asked them, "What 19:57 has improved here because of things 20:00 you've learned through FARM STEW?" They talked 20:02 about a few things, then this one prominent 20:04 man said, "The principles and teachings of FARM 20:08 STEW have caused us to have a 95% improvement 20:12 in our lives in this village. Our children 20:16 are not sick as much, they have food, we have 20:19 food so we can sell some of that food, 20:21 and we can have a little money to send our 20:23 kids to school or buy them medicine." It is 20:27 just an amazing program. - I would like you, Joy, 20:30 to go through the acronym again, because 20:32 it occurs to me that this ministry, you know, 20:38 we can donate food to someone and teach them 20:42 to be dependent upon us. Or, you've heard 20:46 the old saying, if you want to really help 20:50 somebody, don't just give them a fish, but 20:52 teach them how to fish. So, FARM STEW, you're 20:57 starting with farming class- I mean... And 20:59 I believe you had told me that when you were 21:02 working for Loma Linda Foods and seeing how 21:05 they were doing and processing these foods, 21:08 Dr. Fred, it hit you. "Why can't we be doing 21:12 this in MY country?" - Exactly, because 21:14 Uganda- I talk about Uganda because it's a 21:19 very fertile land-green all year around. - Wow. 21:24 - And you see people, children, who are 21:26 malnourished, and you wonder, "How come they're 21:30 malnourished when they can grow this food?" 21:33 This is where FARM STEW comes in. They teach 21:36 the villages, the mothers, the fathers, the children, 21:44 to grow their food which is nutritionally 21:47 adequate. That's where I feel that really, 21:51 FARM STEW is doing a great job way over there 21:55 in East Africa. Right now, they are in 22:01 South Sudan, Zimbabwe, Uganda, of course, and 22:08 they're going to Tanzania, which is great. - So, 22:12 you have a picture that- this is kind of a typical 22:15 village. This is just an aerial shot of a typical 22:19 village that you're going into, and the 22:23 people's lives are very simple lives-lifestyle- 22:27 but they are malnourished. They're having these 22:30 problems. So, essentially, you're going in and 22:35 training people, and then you train trainers 22:38 to train. How many people have you trained? 22:41 - That's the amazing thing. We have a staff 22:43 of 15 full-time Africans, and they have trained 22:47 46,000 people. - Amazing. - Yeah, it's so amazing, 22:51 because we'll go into a village like that, 22:53 and- for example, this is Joseph up in a refugee 22:56 camp. This is at a camp meeting with South Sudanese 22:58 people, training on a healthy, healing food 23:01 guide pyramid, so it's a plant-based food 23:03 pyramid. The people just come in the hundreds. 23:07 This is, sometimes, out in the middle of nowhere. 23:10 You saw in that aerial picture. What breaks 23:13 my heart is so much of the land for these 23:15 countries is dedicated to sugar, coffee, and tea. 23:19 So, that's all sugar cane there. None of it 23:22 is going to nourish the children, and it hardly 23:24 even puts any money in their pocket, either. 23:27 - And they haven't even been trained to think 23:28 that way, have they? - Right, right. So, 23:31 that's what we really want to do is change 23:33 the mentality to think about the nutrients 23:36 that their children need and focus on them first. 23:41 - You know, as you said, Dr. Fred, to think that 23:43 you've got this beautiful, fertile ground with 23:46 plenty of moisture and water and everything, 23:49 and then to think that kids are starving to 23:52 death, are malnourished, that's unreal. Now, I think 23:55 we had a picture. I would like you, Dr. 23:59 Fred, to explain to us. We showed the little 24:02 malnourished child, but we had a group picture 24:05 of some children that are being measured. 24:09 What are the effects of malnourishment? 24:13 - Oh, malnourishment. This picture which 24:17 you're talking about- really, it shows the 24:21 World Health Organization height of the children 24:25 at that age-age 9, if I'm not mistaken-that 24:29 they're all below it. - So, they're below the- 24:33 so, these children... One of the things of 24:35 malnourishment is that it stunts their growth. 24:38 - Exactly. If it stunts their growth- so it 24:42 stops the development- they cannot really, 24:46 education-wise, they cannot comprehend what 24:50 the teachers are teaching them. So, because of 24:54 that, the ability to earn a living is reduced 24:58 completely. And some of them, of course, they go 25:01 on not being employed because they're malnourished. 25:05 Also, one out of three children in Saharan 25:14 Africa, which includes Uganda, Kenya, and all 25:18 those... They're malnourished. - You know, 25:22 this is... I feel really stupid right now. You 25:27 know of the physical effects in the development 25:31 of children who are malnourished, but I 25:33 never really stopped to consider the intellectual 25:39 stunting of children who are malnourished. 25:42 So, if they DO survive, then they end up not 25:47 being able to learn and make a living for 25:51 themselves when they've been malnourished all 25:54 their life. - Yeah, and the thing about stunting 25:56 and why we focus on that is that it's irreversible. 26:00 So, those consequences are lifelong, and yet 26:04 it's preventable. So, the first 1,000 days 26:08 of life is the period we focus on the most; 26:10 and it's beautiful because it starts at 26:12 the moment of conception. So, that's when the 26:15 counter starts and it goes through the first 26:17 two years of a child's life; it totals up to 26:19 a thousand days. If we can reach the children, 26:22 reach their mothers, reach the young girls 26:25 and have them healthy before they even start 26:27 to think about pregnancy, we can change the future 26:30 of the nation and of the continent-of the 26:33 world as a result. - It is an exciting program 26:37 that you're doing, and we have just a short 26:39 video clip, because they're going in, they're 26:42 teaching farming, they're teaching cooking classes, 26:46 they're teaching all kinds of things: good 26:50 hygiene, and... This is a quick video of Train 26:55 the Trainers, because you've got these 15,000 26:58 (was it?) people who, so far, have trained 46,000. 27:04 Just think what a difference that's 27:05 making. - Exactly. So, the speaker here is 27:07 someone that our trainer has trained. She's 27:09 sharing about the rainbow of fruits and 27:11 vegetables for the children to get the 27:13 micronutrients that they need. - Wonderful. 27:15 - ...show the example of the rainbow. First 27:18 of all, we cut the cabbage-this white 27:22 color. And then next, we have to cut into 27:26 pieces the onion- this one, the tomatoes. 27:30 After cutting the tomatoes, we have the green 27:34 vegetable. That is the dodo. We cut them into 27:39 pieces... - So, the guy in the green shirt like 27:43 ours, his name is Paul. He's actually a refugee 27:45 from South Sudan. We've hired 5 South Sudanese 27:48 refugees that are living in refugee camps themselves. 27:51 These are church members. He's an elder. Actually, 27:53 like Elder Fred; I am a deaconess. They 27:57 are training the trainers, and that picture was 28:00 taken with a group of people right outside of 28:02 church. And do you know what the church 28:04 was made out of? - Thatched? - It's just 28:07 sticks and then the UNHCR - it's the United 28:11 Nation High Commission of Refugees - the tarps. 28:13 Those are the roofs for the church. - That's 28:16 amazing. - Yeah. - So, you're teaching them to 28:19 farm-and we have a picture of that-and I 28:23 think you had a quote that you wanted to read 28:25 that went along with this picture. - Yes! So, 28:28 the quote- that inspires us is this: it says, 28:31 "You may give to the poor and injure them 28:34 because you teach them to be dependent. Instead, 28:37 teach them how to support themselves. 28:40 This will be true help." - Amen. - "The needy 28:43 must be placed in a position where they 28:45 can help themselves." - Amen! - And that's 28:48 from Ellen White: Welfare Ministry page 199. What 28:52 I love about that is, there is a role for 28:54 us as outsiders, but it's to place the needy 28:57 in a position where they can help themselves. 28:59 So, you saw that little hut and the little soybean 29:01 field in the front. They don't have a lot of land, 29:04 but what they have, they can use. They can 29:06 cultivate, they can grow - and lives are 29:08 changed as a result. - Well, and obviously, 29:10 if some of them are already familiar with 29:14 farming and crops (if you've got the sugar 29:17 and the tea and the coffee), but you're 29:19 teaching them how to grow nutrient-dense 29:22 foods for their own children, right? 29:25 - Exactly. - So, now, you had a miracle story, 29:28 and we've got one more farm picture here that 29:30 we wanted to look at. This gentleman, tell us 29:33 his story. - Okay. So, this is Robert. He's 29:39 an agronomist, and he's in a green shirt 29:41 like me. He's one of the FARM STEW staff, 29:43 and he is with Fatima and David (they're a 29:45 married couple). Now, Fatima was basically 29:48 depressed and sad; she couldn't send her kids 29:51 to school, she just was poor. David, her 29:54 husband, is a shoe cobbler. He wasn't 29:56 making enough to make ends meet. Fatima thought 30:00 that farming was a curse. A lot of people think 30:03 that-that farming is just for the low, poor 30:05 people; "It's not something for me." When we showed 30:09 her in the Bible, which we do everything based 30:11 on the Bible-the Word of God is our textbook 30:13 for FARM STEW-we show them that farming was 30:16 the first occupation given by God in the 30:18 garden when there was no curse, so it can't 30:21 be a curse! And when we taught her the methods 30:25 of what's called 'succession planting'; 30:27 so, you're planting over a period of time 30:29 so you always have crops that are coming to maturity. 30:33 Now, they have this thriving vegetable 30:35 business. Fatima and David say this was 30:38 their turning point. She is able to send her 30:40 kids to school, she now has a role in the 30:43 community, a thriving business, and she's 30:45 training others to do the same. - And her 30:47 children are being well nourished. 30:49 - Absolutely. - That IS amazing. So, you 30:53 are- is one of the crops... You've told 30:58 me about soy milk, and I know we've got 31:00 a little mortar and... - This is a mortar 31:08 just carved out of the wood, and a pestle- 31:11 I think I said it right-and they actually 31:13 use this mortar and pestle. We soak the 31:16 beans, which is very important to increase 31:18 the nutrition... - Soybeans. - Soybeans, 31:20 and then they pound them in this. They 31:24 pound for a long time; they have a lot more 31:25 patience and strength than most of us do. 31:28 But they pound, and pound, and pound. 31:29 - I can't even say it. Mortar and pestle? 31:32 - You can see, one of our pictures show some 31:34 ladies grinding it, actually, also. Here's, 31:37 actually- sorry, they are making the soy 31:39 milk in this picture and pouring it out. 31:41 People are enthralled. Like, we think milk, 31:43 soy milk... No big deal. For them to be able 31:46 to produce milk that they can afford is 31:48 fantastic. I think we've figured out, it's- like for 31:52 the same cost, they can make 6 times as much 31:55 soy milk as they can get for regular cow's 31:58 milk. And the cow's milk is often contaminated, 32:00 and it's just... It's not very good for them. These 32:05 women are grinding on the stone. These 32:07 are women from the refugee camp that we've 32:09 trained, grinding the soy milk, and then you 32:12 see on the back of the plate there, that's the 32:14 okara-the residual out of the soy milk. 32:17 They use that to make all sorts of other foods, 32:19 and even teas, healthy soy teas. Nothing is 32:23 wasted. - Praise God. So, you're teaching 32:26 them not only to grow the soybeans, but then 32:30 how to process the soybeans so that they 32:33 will have good nutrition for their family. Now, 32:36 you had a story about Francis you wanted to 32:38 tell us. - So, Francis is another one of our 32:40 farmers, and I was able to go out and meet him. 32:44 He lives on a road that should not be called a 32:47 road. It was absolutely horrifying, thinking we 32:49 were going to go through this path, basically, it 32:53 was. And then even after the car couldn't 32:55 go any further, we walked another mile to 32:57 this field he had rented from someone 32:59 else. He had grown a big field of tomatoes. 33:02 This here, he's standing with his soy crop, and 33:06 it's almost ready to harvest; but his tomatoes, 33:08 he was so proud. We had provided seeds, and 33:11 he had sold his harvest; and with that money, 33:14 he was able to send his kids to a Christian, 33:16 and in fact, an Adventist school with the money. 33:19 He was so thrilled about it. This man had 33:22 to work so hard, and he was so happy about 33:25 it. He had to haul water up from a river 33:26 to water those tomatoes. I mean, things we don't 33:29 imagine, you know? But he was thrilled with 33:32 what he had learned. He just wants more people 33:35 to be able to be trained and more access 33:37 to the seeds and high quality Ugandan things 33:40 that we bring in. So, we try not to import 33:43 things; we try to find things on the local 33:44 market, but make them available to the rural 33:47 people who are often left behind. - Amen, amen. 33:50 So, now, with the- you've trained them how 33:55 to grow. You're also training how to cook, 33:59 and I really appreciated the video-what you called 34:03 the rainbow. Explain that to us. - So, do 34:05 you want to explain the rainbow and why 34:07 we focus on that? - You know, it's interesting 34:11 that when God created us, He gave us varieties. 34:17 And He knew that if He gave us one thing to 34:20 get all our nutrients together, there's no- 34:24 I mean, we'll be just eating that one thing; 34:26 but He spread all these nutrients. - How boring 34:29 would that be? - Exactly. So, He gave us all these 34:33 different colors. That's why they say, "Eat your 34:36 rainbow"- I mean, "Eat your colors." - And I 34:39 think we've got a picture of this, that it is very- 34:41 Look at that! Explain what they've got on 34:45 this plate. - So, we start with the tomatoes, 34:48 the onions... We go for the purple, because 34:52 you have the anthocyanins, and the reds, then we 34:55 have the peppers and carrots. The orange 34:57 color is very, very important. About 34:59 one-third of the children in Africa are deficient 35:02 in vitamin A. That's what's building their 35:05 immune system, their eyesight... All those 35:07 types of things that we really push the 35:08 orange color, as well. Then, we do have the 35:11 white cabbage there. Of course, these 35:15 women are preparing for what we call the "Rainbow 35:17 Pot." So, we teach them to make the beans, 35:20 then we add in all these colors. The lady before, 35:25 she mentioned dodo. That is actually amaranth. 35:29 They eat the green leaves; very high in 35:31 protein. So, a lot of the children are lacking 35:33 protein, so we find creative local sources 35:36 of protein, soy being one, but we also focus on 35:39 other plant-based sources of protein. - So, Dr. 35:44 Fred, if you have a malnourished child and 35:47 you're teaching them to farm, teaching them how 35:49 to eat, how to cook, how long does it take 35:54 to correct- I mean, how long does it take 35:57 to bring them back? And can they ever get 36:00 fully regained- I mean, at what point is the 36:05 intervention super effective? - Sometimes, 36:08 it's irreversible that there's nothing you 36:10 can do. But when you get it right, it doesn't 36:15 take long. I mean, give them good protein, 36:18 good carbohydrates, and those vitamins and 36:22 minerals. They should bounce back in no 36:27 time, because we have a lot of organizations 36:29 which are doing that. Again, they're doing 36:32 what you say; they give them the fish, but 36:36 they don't teach them how to fish. So, that's- 36:43 but really, we can. That's where FARM STEW 36:46 comes in, because it's bringing this to the 36:49 family, the villages, the mothers who didn't 36:54 know how to provide that... As a matter of 36:57 fact, that's one of the things. The reason 36:59 we have malnutrition is because most of 37:03 the families don't have access 37:06 to food-nutritious foods. But with these new ways 37:11 of how to grow... - Do they even really understand 37:12 what is nutritious? - They don't. They just 37:17 eat, because whenever they feel their stomach, 37:20 they think they have eaten. As a matter of 37:22 fact, it's true; when I was growing up, I had 37:25 families who were saying that. They eat 37:27 cassava, just bananas, 'matokia' they call them 37:31 there, and when they fill their stomach, they're 37:34 good. Yeah...which is not complete nutrition. 37:40 - And sadly, most of Sub-Saharan Africa, 37:43 they're eating between 30-50% of their calories 37:46 from a very highly refined cornmeal, which 37:50 is lacking a lot of essential nutrients. 37:53 So, that's one of the things we really 37:55 want to do is push the variety of legumes. 37:57 For example, the blue zones, where Adventists have 38:00 come out being very strong in terms of our 38:04 life expectancy, we want to create blue zones in 38:07 all these different places of Africa. And 38:09 one of the things they say is with beans, 38:12 legumes, you can add 4 years of life just 38:16 with eating beans. - Wow. - Yeah. So, we really 38:19 push a lot of beans, especially 'cause these 38:20 kids are so protein-deficient. One other way, though, 38:24 that kids get malnourished is through poor sanitation. 38:27 And so, if you are getting sick or if 38:31 you're losing your nutrients through 38:33 diarrhea, which, sadly, is very common and a 38:35 cause of death amongst a lot of young children. 38:39 Even what you take in, you're not using 38:40 well. So, we really want to focus on 38:43 sanitation. The Bible has a lot to say about 38:45 sanitation and cleanliness, hygiene...so it's very 38:48 easy to find our source techs here. In fact, 38:51 the Bible even talks about washing with 38:52 running water. I want to share a picture of 38:55 how we bring running water-it's called a 38:57 tippy tap-into a village where there's no running 39:00 water. So, you see two of our trainers. They're 39:02 Paul and Robert. The stick structure that we 39:06 have there is just homemade, right from 39:08 the bush. And then we used this string with 39:11 any type of container that they've had in the 39:13 past, poke a couple holes in it, and then there's 39:15 a string going down where this little girl 39:17 is washing her hands. - Probably for the first 39:20 time. - Yeah, exactly! It's amazing. And you 39:23 see right beside her, there's a little holder 39:25 there. That can be for soap-or many of the 39:28 families can't afford soap, and we learn 39:30 that ash, which is used-the primary 39:33 ingredient to make lye soap was ash. So, we've 39:36 learned that washing and scrubbing with ash 39:38 can be equally effective to clean as soap. And 39:41 so, that's one of the elements in what we 39:44 call a FARM STEW certified home, so we're trying 39:47 to work with our trainers to train local people in 39:50 the villages to establish FARM STEW homes. So, 39:54 a FARM STEW home would have all the 39:56 elements, one for each letter that would create 39:59 a healthy environment for children. - Now, 40:02 that is amazing. Now, I don't remember if it 40:05 was you, Dr. Fred or Tamara. Who mentioned 40:09 that when you finish, that someone said they 40:12 were 95% better? - I said that. It's amazing 40:17 to me- I mean, sanitation here, we have running 40:19 water; we have so many things, but in certain 40:22 areas in Uganda and other places in East 40:25 Africa, they don't even have toilets, or latrines 40:28 is what they call them there, so that's one 40:30 of the things we also teach them is no open 40:32 defecation, teach them to know the latrine, then 40:35 we have these water stations for them to 40:36 wash their hands. There was a big meeting that 40:39 took place in Uganda, and Joy was actually 40:43 there, and she couldn't find a single place to 40:45 wash her hands! There was thousands of people, 40:47 and hand-washing wasn't important! I've seen it 40:49 at schools, all through East Africa. So, we 40:53 are teaching them to use local materials-things 40:57 that are just totally available to them. We're 40:59 trying to make sure there's no barriers. 41:01 They can use what they currently have or 41:03 currently have available and just make this so 41:06 easy for them to do. We're teaching them, 41:09 wash their hands 4 times. 2 times before, 41:11 2 times after. Wash your hands before 41:13 preparing food, wash your hands before 41:15 eating, wash your hands after taking care of 41:19 your business, wash your hands after being out 41:21 in the garden, so forth. These are simple things 41:23 that we may know here, but they don't know! 41:26 This will save lives immediately, especially 41:28 in a place where they may not even have 41:30 toilets, and a lot of them don't even have 41:32 toilet paper. Hand-washing is going 41:35 to save a lot of lives, so we take sanitation 41:37 in now as one of our primary themes we 41:40 teach them first. But that village, that 41:43 fully Muslim village which just lights up 41:46 when they see FARM STEW come because 41:48 they know that they're friends and that we 41:49 are helping them. They said, truly, they've had 41:54 a 95% improvement in their village, because 41:57 their children aren't getting as sick as much, 41:59 they have food to give their children, they have 42:01 a little money to take care of their needs, 42:03 and it is just such a way to become their 42:06 friends and an open door for us to lead 42:08 them-steps further and further to know our 42:10 loving Lord, Jesus Christ. - You know, 42:13 in John 10:10 when Jesus said that the 42:17 thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy, 42:20 but He says, "I have come that they may 42:22 have life and life more abundantly." It is... 42:25 Oh, how much we take for granted. Most of 42:30 you who are watching and joining us by 42:33 television or listening on the radio are in 42:36 developed countries, and we so take for 42:40 granted that everyone would understand it's 42:43 important to wash your hands. But you know, 42:46 there are areas even in the United States- 42:48 there are some areas up 42:50 in the hills where people haven't learned 42:53 proper sanitation, and it IS a matter of 42:55 training; we're just taking it for granted. 42:58 But you had a video that you wanted to 43:02 show of Pastor...Mike, was it? - Pastor Michael, 43:07 yes, Découvrir? He's the Iganga 43:08 district pastor, so it's where we've had 43:10 the longest relationship with this pastor. I'm 43:14 so excited about the way we are partnering 43:16 with the church, and he shares it beautifully 43:18 in this video. - Amen. We want to show that. 43:22 - So, FARM STEW and the head of the messages 43:25 which are being promoted, especially to fight 43:28 malnutrition is having an impact. I remember 43:33 within the year of 2017 and 2016, we hold 43:39 camp- TMI meetings within the town here, 43:43 but the program which would be ahead before 43:46 the gospel was FARM STEW. So, the members, the 43:51 educators from FARM STEW, had to inform 43:54 the community and the ? as well that we are 43:58 beginning with the healthy messages. You 44:00 know people love healthy messages! Once they 44:06 hear about healthy messages, even those 44:08 who do not want the gospel, but for the 44:10 health messages, will come. So, FARM STEW 44:14 is attracting the members to come, and 44:17 they are listening. They are also learning 44:21 practically because of the members that will 44:23 teach them practical things-even those things 44:26 they have. They will bring these tomatoes, 44:29 they will bring the water, and then they 44:31 make things from many things these people have. 44:34 So, it is having an impact. And for me as 44:37 a leader, whenever we have plans to hold a 44:41 meeting, I would like to use these educators 44:46 from FARM STEW to go first and to teach 44:49 the community. - Now, this pastor was actually in your 44:55 FARM STEW restaurant. Tell us about that. - Yes! 44:57 So, Pastor Découvrir? pastors over 30 45:00 churches. - Oh, my. - And a bunch of companies. 45:03 Some of the companies have actually started 45:05 because of FARM STEW's training. - What is a 45:07 company? - A company is just a small gathering 45:09 of people that are studying the Bible 45:11 together, and they're not yet a fully established 45:13 church, but they're a group that is learning 45:16 about the Lord, learning about doctrines, and 45:18 interested. So, there's several that we have 45:21 helped to start planting, and he's been a great 45:24 friend to FARM STEW. He loves working with 45:26 our workers. He is sitting in the garden 45:29 of Eden Restaurant in Iganga, which was 45:32 just launched in October of 2018, and it's a 45:37 center of influence, so there's been a lot 45:39 of demand for these FARM STEW foods in 45:42 the city. People are very curious what we're 45:45 doing. If we've trained over 46,000 people, you can 45:48 imagine there's a bit of a buzz going on. 45:50 - Amen! - So, we're really excited that we 45:52 have a lot of doctors, actually, that come in 45:54 as customers. It's a fully vegan restaurant 45:57 in an area where that's kind of unheard of, 46:00 and we're really excited about being able to share- 46:02 you know?-the power on health and healing of 46:06 what God has given us for food. - Well, you 46:08 know, your whole program's very... I 46:11 mean, I know the Lord has directed you every 46:14 step of the way. But to think that you're 46:16 starting with as simple as teaching biblical 46:20 principles, teaching how to farm, what's 46:22 good nutrition, sanitation, but you're actually 46:26 helping them get involved in enterprise to support 46:31 their families! - Yeah! And what I want to 46:34 say is, the restaurant actually came to us, 46:36 in a way. It's a long story, but it was a 46:38 miracle how it was basically given to us. 46:41 We were praying, "Is this really part of our 46:43 mission?" Because our focus is the rural 46:46 families, but what we realized is that this 46:48 was part of enterprise, because we can make 46:51 it a farm-to-table restaurant where we're 46:53 actually buying from some of those Muslim 46:55 people. Actually, when we were there, a huge 46:58 bag of eggplants that turned around and were 47:00 served at the restaurant the next day. So, we're 47:02 creating a supply chain with our farmers and 47:04 being able to buy from them and serve at the 47:06 restaurant. So, that's just one of many 47:08 enterprise activities. You see these beautiful 47:11 bowls here on our table? These are made from 47:14 banana leaves by women. They're amazing. And 47:18 the amount of work that goes into them is 47:20 so amazing. We actually- we've been buying some 47:24 from prison women. We actually were invited 47:27 into the prisons (which is a whole other long 47:29 story), but there's a revival going on in 47:31 the women's prison in Jinja, Uganda. We were 47:35 actually invited to go in and start a church 47:36 there, and we bought a lot of things, including 47:39 something I want to give to you as a gift. 47:42 - Oh! - So, this is... - The women made this? 47:45 - The women in the prison made this. It's made 47:47 out of- can you imagine what it's made out of? 47:50 - Banana leaves? - Banana leaves. - Oh, how is that 47:53 a good guess? I would never have known 47:56 otherwise. - Yeah. So, we want to just share 47:58 that gift with you and just thank you for 48:01 making it possible for these women to earn 48:03 a living. - How beautiful. - Praise God. You know, 48:06 they're talented, they're skilled, but 48:08 there's just not a lot of opportunities. And 48:10 a lot of the women in prison, actually, didn't 48:12 even commit a crime. They've not been convicted 48:13 of anything; they don't have the funds to hire 48:17 a lawyer even to defend themselves, so...it's 48:20 a hard situation, but on so many levels, 48:23 God is bringing hope into dark places. 48:26 - And thank you for my beautiful purse. 48:29 I appreciate that so much, and it will be 48:32 very meaningful knowing the source. But let 48:36 me ask you a quick question, 'cause we 48:37 almost have to- it's almost time to go to 48:40 your address roll. You're helping in many 48:45 ways, actually; you supply some hygiene 48:48 products, but you're having people who make 48:50 the hygiene products to supply for young 48:53 girls. If somebody... You're not looking for 48:59 volunteers to go to Africa. - Actually not, 49:03 because we really have found working with the 49:05 local people in the local language, they 49:07 understand the local culture, they're the 49:09 experts. We just equip them. - Amen, sister! 49:12 Now. But, you are looking for prayer warriors. 49:16 - Absolutely. So, we've just come up with this 49:19 idea, because there's so many things to pray 49:21 about, it's almost like... I have seen the power 49:24 of prayer work in dramatic ways. For 49:27 example, just last week, we were registered in 49:28 South Sudan as a non-governmental 49:31 organization, meaning we can legally start 49:33 work there, and it's so exciting. It took 49:36 two weeks. This process should've taken, I 49:39 don't know how long, but not two weeks. 49:41 It was a miracle how it happened. And we 49:43 pray that we can start a team there. I'm just 49:46 seeing the power of prayer, so we have 49:47 this text-to-prayer service that we're 49:50 just launching. What we can do is, if you 49:53 text 855-552-7839, you can get... Just 50:03 text the word 'pray' to that number. You 50:06 can also text the keyword 'gift' if you want to just 50:08 go ahead and give a gift, but 'pray' is 50:10 what we want. We really want to develop a whole 50:12 army of prayer warriors that can just hold these 50:15 teams up to the Lord, protect them... You 50:18 heard we're working in Islamic areas, we're 50:20 working in prisons, we're working in places 50:22 where there's Ebola, and refugee camps... 50:24 I mean, it's intense work. So, to have the 50:28 prayer covering that would be precious. 50:29 - And I believe that this is something you 50:33 also wanted to get people who would share the 50:36 FARM STEW ministry, so we want to put up 50:41 how- you know, the Holy Spirit may be 50:44 impressing you-hopefully, He's impressing all of 50:47 us-for prayer support. Or if you would like 50:50 to know how you can just share the recipe: 50:53 that means just tell others about what's 50:55 going on. You can help enlist prayer warriors. 50:58 Or if you want to donate, this is how 51:01 you can get in touch with FARM STEW International. 51:07 Through African Christian leaders, FARM STEW 51:10 International educates rural African families 51:12 on how to live an abundant life using 51:15 the eight "ingredients" of farming, attitude, 51:18 rest, meals, sanitation, temperance, enterprise, 51:22 and water. In this way, they help them develop 51:25 fresh, homegrown food, clean water, and strong 51:28 community ties. If you would like to support 51:31 them, please visit their website, FarmStew.org- 51:35 that's FarmStew.org- or call them at (434) 409-0866. 51:42 You may also write to them at FARM STEW 51:44 International Post Office Box 291 Princeton, 51:48 Illinois 61356. |
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