I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, I'm Shelley Quinn
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and we welcome you
once again to 3ABN Today,
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and who are you?
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I'm JD Quinn.
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I'm glad to be in
this seat right here.
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I'm glad to have you here.
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You know, we want
to just take a moment
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to thank you so
much for your prayers
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and your financial
support of this ministry.
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This is the Mending
Broken People Network
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and you know you talk to them
all day long, broken people?
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Amen. Well.
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A lot of people call in
for prayers and we're just,
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we're pleased that we are able
to share words of encouragement
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coming directly from the Bible.
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Amen. Amen.
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Before I introduce our guests,
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let me read to you one
of my favorite scriptures.
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I remember when, when this
one became very important to me.
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I was having a little
bit of a difficult time
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thinking about some
things from the past.
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I grew up in a
dysfunctional home
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and there were some
things that were bothering me.
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And the Lord brought
this scripture to my mind.
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Isaiah 43, I'll
begin with verse 18.
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He says, "Do not
remember the former things,
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nor consider the things of old.
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Behold, I will do a new thing,
now it shall spring forth."
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God is the God
of new beginnings.
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And then he says,
"Shall you not know it?
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I will even make a
road in the wilderness
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and rivers in the desert.
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The beast of the
field will honor Me,
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the jackals and the ostriches,
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because I give
waters in the wilderness
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and rivers in the desert,
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to give drink to
My people, My chosen."
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Amen.
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You know, Jesus said
He's the water of life,
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the living
water, the Holy Spirit,
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how we need God's living water.
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And today we're going to
be talking about "Water."
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Not just spiritual
water, but physical water.
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And we've got some
wonderful guests with us.
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Let me introduce them.
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Tim, you are no
stranger to 3ABN,
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and I think I've interviewed you
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three times maybe.
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I think you have and
we're happy to be here.
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This is my wife Annette.
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Well, Tim and Annette Rasmussen
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and you are the
President of Water for Life.
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Annette, you're a volunteer,
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you work side by
side with your husband.
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And we're going to
hear this exciting ministry.
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You all are so inspiring
and making such a difference
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in so many people's lives.
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But first we know
how much you love music.
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We love it too.
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So, honey, who's
going to sing for us today?
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We've got Scott Michael Bennett.
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He's gonna be singing
"How Deep the Father's Love."
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Amen.
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How deep the
Father's love for us
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How vast beyond all measure
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That He should give His only Son
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To make a wretch His treasure
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How great the
pain of searing loss
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The Father turns His face away
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As wounds which
mar the Chosen One
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Bring many sons to glory
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Behold the Lamb upon the cross
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My sin upon His shoulders
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Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice
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Call out among the scoffers
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It was my sin
that held Him there
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Until it was accomplished
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His dying breath
has brought me life
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I know that it is finished
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I will not boast in anything
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No gifts, no power, no wisdom
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But I will boast in Jesus Christ
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His death and resurrection
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Why should I
gain from His reward?
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I cannot give an answer
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But this I know
with all my heart
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His wounds have paid my ransom
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Why should I
gain from His reward?
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I cannot give an answer
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But this I know
with all my heart
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His wounds have paid my ransom
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But this I know
with all my heart
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His wounds have paid my ransom
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Thank you,
Scott Michael Bennett.
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Yes. A beautiful song.
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Very good. Very good.
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He's a minister of music. Amen.
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Well, if you're
joining us just a moment late,
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our special guests are
Tim and Annette Rasmussen
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and they are
with Water for Life.
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But before we
talk about and explain
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what Water for Life is,
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let's kind of get to know
the two of you a little bit.
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I'm gonna begin with you, Tim,
you are a district attorney,
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where?
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I'm the elected
district attorney
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for St evens County, Washington.
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And you?
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It's a county from Spokane that
goes up to the Canadian border,
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about 45,000 people,
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one of the 39
counties in Washington.
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Oh, it's always nice
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to have a
personal friend who's a DA.
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Well, if you ever get a
ticket, I can fix you out,
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just a little, can't do
much but I can fix a ticket.
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I should look at it. Yes.
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You know, tell us a little bit
about your physical condition
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because I know,
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I think the last
time you were here,
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you were in a wheelchair.
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You suffered polio as a child?
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When I was three, I
was living in Michigan,
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and I had polio,
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and that was in 1951.
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And like many people,
it was a terrible disease
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and they didn't know
how to treat it very much.
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And I was left
with a residual weakness
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on the right side of my body,
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particularly it
affected my right leg.
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And through the years I
became more and more handicapped
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until probably 35 years
ago, I started using a cane,
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and then two
canes, and then crutches,
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and then about four
years in a wheelchair,
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but about three
years ago I went to,
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I found a doctor in Seattle
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and went over to a
foot and ankle institute.
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And this older
fellow, he knew what to do.
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He reshaped some of
the bones in my foot,
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put a bunch of metal in there
and move some tendons around
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and I'm walking better
than I have for 30 years.
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I know, I was just so
amazed to see you today.
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I can stand, I can walk,
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I can move
around, I don't have to...
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For years I was in a
wheelchair and people at work
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when I'm walking, they say,
I didn't know you were tall.
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Yeah.
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That's 'cause I've been
in that wheelchair for years.
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But, yes,
technology and the Lord
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has provided some
very skilled physicians
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and people to do work
and they sure helped me.
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That's interesting
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because we had a
house built on one level
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because we were sure
that he was gonna have to live
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in a scooter.
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Yeah.
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And so we got this,
everything spaced apart,
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the kitchen, everything
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so he can race around the
house in his scooter, right?
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He doesn't need a scooter.
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Now we got a long
walk around in the house.
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Oh, well, that's good. Yeah.
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That's good. Yeah.
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So we're praising
the Lord. Amen and amen.
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So, Annette, I know,
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it kind of give us a
little of your history.
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Did you grow up
as a Seventh-day Ad,
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in a Seventh-day
Adventist Christian home or...?
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Yes. Okay.
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The history goes pretty far back
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'cause my
grandfather came from Sicily
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when he was about 16 years old,
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and very strong Catholic family.
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And when he came
to the United States,
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he studied all the religions,
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and he decided that the
Seventh-day Adventist faith
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had the most truth.
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Amen.
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And so he went to
seminary. Praise God.
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And the Northern
California Conference hired him
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to start the Italian churches.
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How exciting!
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Because there
were so many immigrants
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from Sicily and Italy
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that didn't know English,
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and they wanted to
hear sermons in Italian,
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and so there was
about 50 churches total,
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but he was one of the first ones
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that helped to start that work.
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Praise the Lord.
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And then after that two
or three generations went by,
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they didn't need this,
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you know, Italian
speaking ministers anymore.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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So thanks to him,
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I got raised as a
Seventh-day Adventist.
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And when did it
become real for you?
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I mean, you know,
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God has no grandchildren,
He only has children.
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So just because your
parents are Adventists
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and you grew up
in an Adventist home
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doesn't necessarily
mean you're a child of God,
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you have to make
that personal choice.
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When did it become real for you?
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I can tell you
right off the bat,
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I was living in Alaska,
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and my children were small.
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And it was not a conference yet,
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it was a mission.
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And we were
living about 18 miles
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out of Anchorage, Alaska,
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and they wanted to
start a church out there.
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And so they did a
Revelation seminar
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and we invited our neighbors
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and we ended up
with about five families
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in this group that were gonna be
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part of the church.
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And so the
president of the mission
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at that time
came to us and said,
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"You have to teach these
people how to run a church."
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And I said, "Well, I'm sorry,
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but I've only
just warmed the pew
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for 30 some odd years.
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And I don't, I've never
done those jobs in the church."
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And they said, "But
you've seen them done.
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And you can tell
them what you've seen,
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and you can do it yourself."
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And I grew
spiritually in that time period
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when my little
children were growing up
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because we started
the church in Alaska.
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Amen.
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And, you know, I always say,
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you learn to
teach, you teach to learn,
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there's nothing like sharing.
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I think that's why God
wants us to share our faith.
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Really?
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Now I just have to say this,
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these two have the most
amazing story of how they met.
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He picked her out of a catalog.
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Give us the Reader's
Digest version of that.
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Reader's Digest version.
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I was living in
North Carolina, working.
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I had a law practice there.
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I was a solo
practitioner in a small town.
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I needed to find a good woman.
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And I know the difference
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between a good
woman and a bad one.
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And my mother and my sister,
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what I've received from
my mother was some pages
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from the California
conference directory.
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And there were some
pictures of some lady circled.
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And let me explain that for some
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who may not be
Adventist who are watching.
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The conferences, an organized,
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it's kind of church headquarters
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or administration
over a certain area.
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So you work for the
California Conference.
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Communications department. Okay.
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Okay, so you get
this conference directory
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with some pictures circled.
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Yeah, and I called my
mom, she lived in Michigan.
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I said, "What is this?"
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And she said,
"Well, your sister and I,
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my sister lived in
California at the time,
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and that my sister has beliefs
that these are nice gals.
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And I want you
to call these gals."
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And I said, "I'm not
gonna do that, Mom, that's not,
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so I'm not gonna do that."
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She said, "Okay."
She didn't say much.
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But a couple
days later, she said,
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"Well, you've been
looking at those pictures."
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And I said, "Well, sure."
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She says, "Call up these gals.
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These are all good gals.
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And I want you
to meet these gals."
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I said, "No."
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And this kind of
went on several times,
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I finally got irritated.
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I said, "Mom, if you
think that's such a good idea,
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you do it."
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Mom says, "Well, if I do
and I like one of these gals,
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will you call?"
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And I said, "All right."
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She said, "Do you promise?"
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And I said, "Yes."
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Few days later
she called and said.
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What did she say to
you when she called?
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Well, just the basics.
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I have a very
handsome son who's single.
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She was very honest with me.
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She told me
about his disability.
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And that he was an
attorney in North Carolina.
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Yeah.
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So I said, "Mom,
I'm not gonna do this."
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She said, "You promised."
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So I called California
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to apologize to
Annette for my mother
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and her audaciousness to
call to say what you think.
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And we began
talking on the phone.
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And I fell in love with
her talking on the phone.
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And pretty soon I was
courting her through the mail.
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We wrote
letters, we sent pictures.
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I was living in North Carolina.
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She was living in California.
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We didn't have a chance to date.
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And finally,
that was in January,
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and in about April, she said,
"I think it's time we meet."
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And so I flew to California.
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And she and I,
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I met her at the
Sacramento Airport.
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We ran... And
sparks were flying.
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We just, we knew each
other. We knew each other.
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We felt very comfortable
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because we got to know
each other from the inside out.
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Yes, yes.
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We've already spent
a lot of time praying
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with each other on the phone.
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In North Carolina, I
could call after 11 at night.
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And it was 8 o'clock
in California time, right?
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So I can get the cheap calls.
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And we end up
talking late at night.
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And then we have
prayer before we went away.
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You know, we just got,
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we got
acquainted without dating.
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Amen. And so we were there.
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We met her parents,
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and then she went to
my sister's house at Lodi.
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And I had to go
back in three days
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to continue my practice.
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And about three weeks later,
I proposed to her on the phone.
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And she had some conditions.
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I had a checklist.
She had a checklist.
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Good for you.
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And one of her condition
was, she says, "I want to come
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and see my
parents anytime I want."
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I said, "No problem."
00:16:50.54\00:16:52.21
She said, "And I want to, I
want you to help my parents."
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No problem on that and she said,
00:16:55.88\00:16:57.61
"And I want to be a beautician."
00:16:57.65\00:17:00.75
I said, "Well, there's
a little community college
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about seven miles away
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and they have
beautician's class.
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I had checked
everything out I knew.
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Amen.
00:17:06.79\00:17:08.12
And then I made
00:17:08.16\00:17:09.49
the convincing
argument was this.
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There's no way we can date,
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this is either work or
it'll be a terrible mistake
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and there's no way to find out.
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And thank the good
Lord, she said, yes.
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And that was 22
years ago next month.
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Praise God.
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We believe God put
us together. We do.
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Absolutely. We do.
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Absolutely.
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Okay, so now let's talk about
00:17:28.54\00:17:31.35
the ministry that you're doing.
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You know, for
our viewers at home,
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you may recall not
too long ago in the news,
00:17:35.85\00:17:39.75
they were talking about a couple
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who were hiking and got
lost and had no supplies with
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and they were out of water,
00:17:45.19\00:17:46.53
but they had some
kind of little straw
00:17:46.56\00:17:48.80
that they were able to
filter the water through.
00:17:48.83\00:17:51.57
And that's the only
reason they survived.
00:17:51.60\00:17:53.54
You know, when
you think about water,
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you and I take for granted
00:17:56.77\00:17:58.57
that we can turn a
tap and have clean water.
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Well, we take it for granted
around here most of the time.
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We do have water,
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boiled water
alerts every now and then.
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But can you imagine
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if you lived in an area
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where you had to go to a river,
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a dirty river to get your water?
00:18:19.83\00:18:22.40
I mean, I've seen
them and sometimes
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I wouldn't even want to
wash my clothes in them.
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But can you imagine having
to give your infant child water
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that has parasites in
it, water that can kill them?
00:18:31.44\00:18:35.51
Did you know that dirty water
is one of the greatest killers
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of children around the world?
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It is.
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Contaminated water
kills more children
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than any other
single disease or process.
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And in Guatemala,
I've been in villages
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where women are
getting water for their homes
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out of one side of a small pond
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and cattle are standing in
the water on the other side.
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Oh, my goodness.
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And you know, a baby.
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If a baby gets some bad
water in two or three days
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of diarrhea and vomiting,
00:19:02.00\00:19:04.91
pretty soon that
baby's dehydrated,
00:19:04.94\00:19:06.71
and that baby will die.
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And that happens a lot.
00:19:08.38\00:19:11.25
And we've been in villages
after we've drilled well over
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and village
elders will come and say,
00:19:14.02\00:19:15.48
"This is the first year
00:19:15.52\00:19:17.15
that no children
have died in our village."
00:19:17.19\00:19:18.99
That's amazing.
Praise the Lord for that.
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Let's back up
just a second. Hang on.
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Let's back up just a
second and talk about
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'cause we just
jumped right into it.
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Water for Life,
what is your mission?
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Tell us what Water
for Life is all about
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and how it started?
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Water for Life was
started by Gary Bartholomew
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and his son Rod in
Spokane, Washington.
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They were organized
to try to do something
00:19:41.58\00:19:44.25
about a
contaminated water problem
00:19:44.28\00:19:46.88
for an orphanage and
school in Northeast Guatemala,
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the Petén region in Guatemala.
00:19:50.52\00:19:52.72
Gary had adopted a child.
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Gary and Angie had
adopted a child there,
00:19:54.32\00:19:56.59
years before
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and had stayed in
touch with the orphanage,
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and as the area developed
00:20:00.40\00:20:03.26
and upstream there
was more development,
00:20:03.30\00:20:05.57
the water became more
and more contaminated.
00:20:05.60\00:20:08.47
They were getting water
out of a hole in the river.
00:20:08.50\00:20:11.17
And for many
years it was good water
00:20:11.21\00:20:13.68
but after it
became more contaminated,
00:20:13.71\00:20:15.74
especially in the dry season,
00:20:15.78\00:20:17.58
when the water level was low,
the contaminant part is high.
00:20:17.61\00:20:22.28
And some children
there got very sick.
00:20:22.32\00:20:24.72
One of the teachers almost
died from amoeba in the water
00:20:24.75\00:20:28.32
and Gary determined
to do something about it.
00:20:28.36\00:20:31.13
And what was Gary's profession?
00:20:31.16\00:20:32.93
Gary was in the
well drilling business.
00:20:32.96\00:20:34.30
Albeit.
00:20:34.33\00:20:35.66
And had worked around
well drillers all his life.
00:20:35.70\00:20:38.53
He had operated
Bartholomew pumping
00:20:38.57\00:20:41.27
well service there in Spokane.
00:20:41.30\00:20:43.71
And he was
really the start of it.
00:20:43.74\00:20:47.14
But I'll tell you,
the Lord started as well.
00:20:47.18\00:20:48.74
Amen.
00:20:48.78\00:20:50.11
But can you imagine,
he been a well driller,
00:20:50.15\00:20:54.15
and he was
familiar with that area
00:20:54.18\00:20:56.99
and knowing that the
children were getting very sick
00:20:57.02\00:20:59.69
and almost dying,
00:20:59.72\00:21:01.52
can you imagine the
burden on his heart,
00:21:01.56\00:21:04.49
who want to do
something about it.
00:21:04.53\00:21:05.99
Amen. Amen.
00:21:06.03\00:21:07.36
And what Gary
did was, he put an ad
00:21:07.40\00:21:09.60
in the Washington Well
Drillers Association magazine
00:21:09.63\00:21:13.27
for someone to
donate a drilling rig.
00:21:13.30\00:21:16.14
And a Mennonite
company in Silverton, Oregon,
00:21:16.17\00:21:19.04
Stadeli and Sons call him up
and said, "What are you after?"
00:21:19.07\00:21:22.94
And he said, "Well,
we need a drilling rig."
00:21:22.98\00:21:24.78
And they said, "Well,
we have an old cable rig
00:21:24.81\00:21:27.48
that we will donate to
you, if you're interested."
00:21:27.52\00:21:31.09
And Gary said,
"Are we interested?
00:21:31.12\00:21:32.52
Yes, we are."
00:21:32.55\00:21:34.02
Well, these folks
refurbished that rig
00:21:34.06\00:21:36.69
and that rig was donated.
00:21:36.73\00:21:39.26
Gary, at his own
expense shipped it to Guatemala.
00:21:39.29\00:21:42.70
And I became
aware of Water for Life
00:21:42.73\00:21:44.53
when I was preaching
00:21:44.57\00:21:46.20
at the
countryside Adventist Church,
00:21:46.23\00:21:48.34
giving a sermon
on religious liberty
00:21:48.37\00:21:50.01
because I'm a lawyer.
00:21:50.04\00:21:51.37
People want to hear that.
00:21:51.41\00:21:52.94
And at a break,
00:21:52.97\00:21:54.81
I heard Gary say,
00:21:54.84\00:21:56.18
"The well drill has been noticed
00:21:56.21\00:21:58.55
in the custom's yard in
Puerto Barrios, Guatemala."
00:21:58.58\00:22:01.28
And I heard this,
00:22:01.32\00:22:02.65
praise the
Lord, praise the Lord.
00:22:02.68\00:22:04.12
I'm wondering,
"What is this all about?"
00:22:04.15\00:22:06.29
And afterwards, I got a
moment to speak with Gary,
00:22:06.32\00:22:09.12
and ask him, and he told me that
00:22:09.16\00:22:10.53
they were trying
to solve this problem
00:22:10.56\00:22:12.63
with the contaminated
water at this orphanage.
00:22:12.66\00:22:15.53
And I became interested in it.
00:22:15.56\00:22:17.57
And that was visiting our
grandchild over in Seattle.
00:22:17.60\00:22:21.80
And I told Gary, I said,
00:22:21.84\00:22:23.17
"Count me and I'll
buy the first tank of fuel
00:22:23.20\00:22:24.91
for your rig."
00:22:24.94\00:22:26.88
And I called Annette and I said,
00:22:26.91\00:22:28.64
"You want to go to Guatemala?"
00:22:28.68\00:22:30.08
And I said, "Why, why?
00:22:30.11\00:22:33.62
I knew nothing about it." Yeah.
00:22:33.65\00:22:36.58
Yeah, that's a
strange request, isn't it?
00:22:36.62\00:22:39.49
And so that afternoon,
I kept looking at Expedia
00:22:39.52\00:22:42.62
and these sites for tickets,
00:22:42.66\00:22:44.56
and I kept calling
Annette and talking to about it.
00:22:44.59\00:22:47.46
And finally I said, listen,
00:22:47.50\00:22:48.83
I really want to
go and check this out.
00:22:48.86\00:22:50.43
She said, "Well, if
you're going, I'm going."
00:22:50.47\00:22:52.90
So I click, I put,
00:22:52.93\00:22:54.50
I clicked the button
00:22:54.54\00:22:55.87
and I bought a
couple of tickets,
00:22:55.90\00:22:57.87
and that was 15 years ago.
00:22:57.91\00:22:59.67
And we were there
00:22:59.71\00:23:01.04
when the first
wells were drilled
00:23:01.08\00:23:02.41
with that old
drilling rig that 1946...
00:23:02.44\00:23:06.85
1946, yeah.
00:23:06.88\00:23:08.22
It was a
00:23:08.25\00:23:10.69
and there's some
miracles that have occurred
00:23:10.72\00:23:13.52
that I'd be happy to tell
you about if we have the time.
00:23:13.56\00:23:16.59
Sure.
00:23:16.62\00:23:17.96
But the good news is,
00:23:17.99\00:23:19.33
is that with an
old unit like that,
00:23:19.36\00:23:22.00
it could be repaired.
00:23:22.03\00:23:23.37
Yes, technology that's
40 years old technology
00:23:23.40\00:23:27.00
here in the States
00:23:27.04\00:23:28.37
and everything
is rotary rigs here.
00:23:28.40\00:23:30.51
Drill your well in a day.
00:23:30.54\00:23:32.27
Down there, it's two weeks
or so using these old rigs.
00:23:32.31\00:23:35.98
But we could
repair it down there,
00:23:36.01\00:23:37.68
a welder and some cable,
and you're back in business.
00:23:37.71\00:23:40.68
And with someone
that had experienced
00:23:40.72\00:23:42.95
that the Lord
had put on his heart
00:23:42.98\00:23:45.15
and prearranged
things years and years,
00:23:45.19\00:23:47.56
centuries, eons ago,
00:23:47.59\00:23:49.59
that there would
be a little girl there
00:23:49.62\00:23:51.26
that they want to be
part of their family.
00:23:51.29\00:23:52.69
That's right.
00:23:52.73\00:23:54.06
I mean, if you can
look at the big picture
00:23:54.10\00:23:55.43
and then how do you get trust
00:23:55.46\00:23:58.43
in the strangers
that you've never met?
00:23:58.47\00:24:01.97
What's better than clean water?
00:24:02.00\00:24:04.14
Nothing better,
you meet their needs.
00:24:04.17\00:24:06.14
Here in the US,
we are so blessed.
00:24:06.17\00:24:07.91
We water our lawns
with treatable water.
00:24:07.94\00:24:11.05
Yes.
00:24:11.08\00:24:12.41
And down there
people die for clean water.
00:24:12.45\00:24:15.52
Isn't that amazing?
00:24:15.55\00:24:17.52
And that old drilling
rig worked down there,
00:24:17.55\00:24:20.26
we've had a lot of
wonderful miracles.
00:24:20.29\00:24:23.73
When that
drilling rig got there,
00:24:23.76\00:24:25.19
our friend Bernie Leonardo is,
00:24:25.23\00:24:28.33
he was trying to
get it through customs.
00:24:28.36\00:24:30.60
And he got a call
from Gary and says,
00:24:30.63\00:24:32.03
"Gary, we can't find
the VIN number on that rig."
00:24:32.07\00:24:36.24
And we had paperwork
00:24:36.27\00:24:38.01
and it had to
match what was coming in.
00:24:38.04\00:24:40.41
Gary called the
Stadeli down there and said,
00:24:40.44\00:24:43.48
"Where's the VIN
number on that old truck?"
00:24:43.51\00:24:45.21
And they said, "We don't know.
00:24:45.25\00:24:46.58
We've hauled it around
on a lowboy for 20 years
00:24:46.61\00:24:49.32
which not been licensed.
00:24:49.35\00:24:51.89
And the customs man said,
00:24:51.92\00:24:54.72
"No VIN number, no truck."
00:24:54.76\00:24:56.93
Very simple.
00:24:56.96\00:24:58.53
Bernie went to a
little hotel in Puerto Barrios
00:24:58.56\00:25:00.80
and spent the night in prayer.
00:25:00.83\00:25:02.66
In the morning, he went back
00:25:02.70\00:25:04.47
and as he was
waiting at a bus station.
00:25:04.50\00:25:06.77
He went in a
little tee under there
00:25:06.80\00:25:08.67
and found one of
those plastic label makers,
00:25:08.70\00:25:11.54
you know, you
squeeze the little thing
00:25:11.57\00:25:12.94
and it prints them
up, he had the paperwork.
00:25:12.97\00:25:15.54
He printed out a
little label in blue.
00:25:15.58\00:25:18.61
And he went back
to the customs yard
00:25:18.65\00:25:20.58
and said to the guy,
00:25:20.62\00:25:21.95
"Can I go out there
and look one more time?"
00:25:21.98\00:25:24.22
The guy said, sure.
00:25:24.25\00:25:25.65
Bernie went out there
00:25:25.69\00:25:27.02
and he fastened that
little label somewhere
00:25:27.06\00:25:29.02
in an obscure
place on that truck.
00:25:29.06\00:25:30.56
And goes I found the number.
00:25:30.59\00:25:32.86
And the guy came out
and he looked at paper,
00:25:32.89\00:25:35.03
he looked at number,
which is fine, no problem.
00:25:35.06\00:25:37.30
Come on. Praise God.
00:25:37.33\00:25:39.73
And the Lord brought
that drilling rig in.
00:25:39.77\00:25:42.00
And that was the first miracle.
00:25:42.04\00:25:44.24
Fifteen years ago
00:25:44.27\00:25:45.61
and now you've
got 130 wells drilled.
00:25:45.64\00:25:49.68
Yes.
00:25:49.71\00:25:51.05
That is so amazing.
00:25:51.08\00:25:52.81
And when you all go in,
00:25:52.85\00:25:54.18
we're gonna talk
about some miracles
00:25:54.22\00:25:55.88
with the equipment and things
but here's the wonderful thing,
00:25:55.92\00:25:58.95
as you said,
honey, when they go in,
00:25:58.99\00:26:01.26
they are meeting a serious,
00:26:01.29\00:26:05.43
crucial,
00:26:05.46\00:26:06.90
personal need for the people.
00:26:06.93\00:26:09.10
But that's just the introduction
00:26:09.13\00:26:11.43
because you then are
able to minister to them
00:26:11.47\00:26:15.67
spiritually.
00:26:15.70\00:26:17.04
You've seen a bunch of people
come to the Lord re-baptized.
00:26:17.07\00:26:20.78
Yes, we've had hundreds
and hundreds of baptisms
00:26:20.81\00:26:23.41
have occurred in
the Petén region.
00:26:23.45\00:26:25.65
When groups come
down, volunteer groups
00:26:25.68\00:26:28.32
from Upper Columbia
Conference build churches there.
00:26:28.35\00:26:30.85
We've been involved and
aided in the construction
00:26:30.89\00:26:32.95
of 14 churches in our area,
00:26:32.99\00:26:35.09
and these churches are bulging.
00:26:35.12\00:26:36.99
You know, here in the States,
00:26:37.03\00:26:38.36
you can hardly
tell people about Jesus.
00:26:38.39\00:26:42.16
They've heard about
Him, they know it's nothing.
00:26:42.20\00:26:44.17
But down there people are hungry
00:26:44.20\00:26:45.60
for the gospel.
00:26:45.63\00:26:46.97
Light Bearers has given us
00:26:47.00\00:26:48.44
millions of
pieces of literature.
00:26:48.47\00:26:50.91
And we have
distributed that literature
00:26:50.94\00:26:52.71
across Guatemala.
00:26:52.74\00:26:54.14
We buy thousands
of Bibles in Spanish
00:26:54.18\00:26:56.54
and we distribute those Bibles.
00:26:56.58\00:26:58.55
When we're drilling,
if we have the volunteers,
00:26:58.58\00:27:01.92
a dental worker, we
have dental equipment,
00:27:01.95\00:27:04.29
we'll send them into a
village and pull teeth,
00:27:04.32\00:27:06.49
give out literature.
00:27:06.52\00:27:07.89
But you also send in
medical supplies, don't you?
00:27:07.92\00:27:10.33
Yes, we do.
00:27:10.36\00:27:11.69
Thousands of pounds of
donated medical equipment
00:27:11.73\00:27:13.70
we put in our container
that we send every year.
00:27:13.73\00:27:16.87
We give that to
the Ministry of Health.
00:27:16.90\00:27:18.90
They locate villages
with particular needs,
00:27:18.93\00:27:21.60
and we go to those
villages and drill wells.
00:27:21.64\00:27:24.37
And at first the
people will wonder,
00:27:24.41\00:27:25.74
"Well, what do you want from us?
00:27:25.77\00:27:27.11
What do you want?"
00:27:27.14\00:27:28.48
And we said, "We
don't want anything."
00:27:28.51\00:27:29.84
"But why are you doing this?"
00:27:29.88\00:27:31.21
"Because God loves you." Amen.
00:27:31.25\00:27:33.55
Here's the Bible that
tells about God's love,
00:27:33.58\00:27:36.25
and people's hearts are opened
00:27:36.28\00:27:38.72
and we maintain
these wells year round.
00:27:38.75\00:27:41.96
More than 30,000 people
use our water every day,
00:27:41.99\00:27:45.86
our water, it's God's water.
00:27:45.89\00:27:47.26
We just help get it for them.
00:27:47.30\00:27:49.26
But 30,000 people
today are drinking water
00:27:49.30\00:27:51.67
provided by Water for Life.
00:27:51.70\00:27:53.77
And it's not only the
water that gives them health,
00:27:53.80\00:27:57.07
but we bring them the Bible
00:27:57.11\00:27:58.44
which is the Water of Life
and it opens people's hearts.
00:27:58.47\00:28:02.88
In a little
village called Kahin,
00:28:02.91\00:28:05.11
there was churches where...
00:28:05.15\00:28:07.55
Sunday keeping
churches were not...
00:28:07.58\00:28:10.69
They weren't very active.
00:28:10.72\00:28:12.39
But a lady who was
the elder in the church
00:28:12.42\00:28:14.72
became convinced of the Sabbath.
00:28:14.76\00:28:17.13
And she talked all
her congregation members
00:28:17.16\00:28:20.53
into keeping the Sabbath.
00:28:20.56\00:28:22.36
And they all started
coming back to church,
00:28:22.40\00:28:24.50
but now they're
worshiping on Sabbath.
00:28:24.53\00:28:27.10
I don't think
they're Adventist yet,
00:28:27.14\00:28:29.70
but they're worshiping
the Lord on the Sabbath day
00:28:29.74\00:28:33.01
and as a result of that.
00:28:33.04\00:28:34.38
And they're more
healthy than they were before.
00:28:34.41\00:28:36.51
Yes, they are.
00:28:36.54\00:28:37.88
We maintain these
wells year around.
00:28:37.91\00:28:40.38
Now, Annette, do you
travel with Tim every trip or...
00:28:40.42\00:28:45.32
There's a few
times I haven't gone,
00:28:45.35\00:28:47.06
but in the last 14 years,
I've gone almost every year.
00:28:47.09\00:28:50.79
And then what do you
do while you're there?
00:28:50.83\00:28:53.09
Well, I started out
with my job experience
00:28:53.13\00:28:56.36
as a school secretary
00:28:56.40\00:28:57.83
and I've been around
children for many years,
00:28:57.87\00:29:00.84
and I used to teach
crafts in the summertime
00:29:00.87\00:29:03.81
when they had day camp,
00:29:03.84\00:29:05.87
and also taught yearbook class,
00:29:05.91\00:29:08.64
and I have a
certificate in desktop
00:29:08.68\00:29:11.11
publishing and do graphics.
00:29:11.15\00:29:13.25
That's what I was doing
at the conference office.
00:29:13.28\00:29:16.05
And so my greatest interest,
00:29:16.08\00:29:20.26
strongest interest is in art.
00:29:20.29\00:29:22.19
Yes.
00:29:22.22\00:29:23.56
And then hair, I'm a beautician.
00:29:23.59\00:29:25.46
So I can do
haircuts with the kids
00:29:25.49\00:29:27.96
and they love that.
00:29:28.00\00:29:29.60
But my fun was in
00:29:29.63\00:29:34.40
bringing supplies
to do crafts with them.
00:29:34.44\00:29:37.31
Oh, here you got some pictures.
00:29:37.34\00:29:39.81
This was the most basic thing
00:29:39.84\00:29:42.68
that they loved the
most and the easiest thing
00:29:42.71\00:29:45.18
because when I
was in preparation
00:29:45.21\00:29:47.08
during the year I
had to think of things
00:29:47.12\00:29:49.95
that I could show them
without a lot of Spanish,
00:29:49.98\00:29:53.69
'cause I didn't know Spanish.
00:29:53.72\00:29:55.89
And I had to do
a lot of thinking
00:29:55.92\00:29:57.86
about how they saw it,
00:29:57.89\00:30:00.43
and how they could learn it
there in the most simple way.
00:30:00.46\00:30:04.57
So I took a little stretchy band
00:30:04.60\00:30:06.57
and some yarn, sparkly yarn.
00:30:06.60\00:30:10.01
And I showed them
00:30:10.04\00:30:11.37
how to make a little
scrunchie for their ponytails.
00:30:11.41\00:30:13.78
And they all have this
really thick, heavy long hair.
00:30:13.81\00:30:17.01
And they need
scrunchies they need,
00:30:17.05\00:30:18.95
you know, stretchy band.
00:30:18.98\00:30:20.85
So they learned it very easily.
00:30:20.88\00:30:23.99
It was a very easy pattern
and they were so beautiful.
00:30:24.02\00:30:26.69
And when you got
done with this thing
00:30:26.72\00:30:29.86
that I taught them, it
looked like a bird's nest
00:30:29.89\00:30:32.96
and they could
put it in their hair.
00:30:32.99\00:30:35.10
And then they wanted
to do all the colors.
00:30:35.13\00:30:37.83
And I had every
colors of the rainbow
00:30:37.87\00:30:39.80
and they were very
sparkly type of thing.
00:30:39.83\00:30:43.74
And so then the next
Sabbath after I taught them
00:30:43.77\00:30:46.24
how to do this,
00:30:46.27\00:30:47.61
I was sitting in
the back of the church,
00:30:47.64\00:30:49.81
and here I saw them
with their scrunchies.
00:30:49.84\00:30:51.85
Oh, how sweet. Yeah.
00:30:51.88\00:30:54.02
All over the church.
00:30:54.05\00:30:55.38
It was so fun. Amen.
00:30:55.42\00:30:56.75
In villages, we
go out to villages
00:30:56.79\00:30:59.02
and Annette will
take some crayons
00:30:59.05\00:31:00.86
and make friends
with the children.
00:31:00.89\00:31:02.59
Yes.
00:31:02.62\00:31:03.96
And Bernie and I may
be looking at the well
00:31:03.99\00:31:05.39
and seeing what the condition
of the pumps and things.
00:31:05.43\00:31:08.33
But Annette's making
friends with these children,
00:31:08.36\00:31:10.83
and children love colors.
00:31:10.87\00:31:12.90
You pass out crayons,
pretty soon it breaks the ice,
00:31:12.93\00:31:15.64
if you're there and
they're a little nervous
00:31:15.67\00:31:18.41
and they don't
see many white people,
00:31:18.44\00:31:20.54
and pretty soon
we're looking at stuff
00:31:20.58\00:31:22.61
and we don't talk too good.
00:31:22.64\00:31:24.58
And then that's over
there with the children
00:31:24.61\00:31:26.21
and they're passing out stuff
00:31:26.25\00:31:27.58
and pretty soon the
ice is just broken in.
00:31:27.62\00:31:29.28
Praise God.
00:31:29.32\00:31:30.65
It takes a little while because
00:31:30.69\00:31:32.02
we're very tall
compared to them.
00:31:32.05\00:31:33.39
Yes.
00:31:33.42\00:31:34.76
And they've never seen
people so tall and so white.
00:31:34.79\00:31:37.46
Yeah.
00:31:37.49\00:31:38.83
Let me ask something
for the guys out here.
00:31:38.86\00:31:40.93
Just a quick technical
just so I can get this.
00:31:40.96\00:31:44.13
So we got the rig
out there and the rig,
00:31:44.17\00:31:46.37
now we're waiting
for the volunteers
00:31:46.40\00:31:47.90
to come down to run
the rig, is that right?
00:31:47.94\00:31:49.84
Yes.
00:31:49.87\00:31:51.21
Okay, so let's
just say hypothetically,
00:31:51.24\00:31:53.48
October the 15th,
we're gonna all meet there.
00:31:53.51\00:31:56.44
The volunteers
are gonna come in,
00:31:56.48\00:31:58.71
is this limestone
that they're going through?
00:31:58.75\00:32:00.82
It's almost all
limestone. Limestone.
00:32:00.85\00:32:02.68
And our wells are
from about 150 to 250 feet.
00:32:02.72\00:32:06.99
Okay, and how long,
00:32:07.02\00:32:08.49
how long does it
take to drill that?
00:32:08.52\00:32:10.33
Using one of the
rotary rigs, about two weeks.
00:32:10.36\00:32:14.00
Two weeks.
00:32:14.03\00:32:15.36
And we have four
drilling rigs there.
00:32:15.40\00:32:19.23
Three of the old cable
rigs that we're talking about,
00:32:19.27\00:32:22.14
but this last year, we
imported a rotary ring.
00:32:22.17\00:32:27.14
And it's the first
step into the rotary system.
00:32:27.18\00:32:30.71
The rig was donated to us
by a fellow named Seth Weilage
00:32:30.75\00:32:34.68
in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
00:32:34.72\00:32:36.55
He was one of our
volunteers, used the cable rig.
00:32:36.58\00:32:39.89
Now is this picture
of that that we just saw?
00:32:39.92\00:32:41.89
Yes. Okay.
00:32:41.92\00:32:43.26
And he said, you
know, he's working there
00:32:43.29\00:32:45.99
with the cable rig and he said,
00:32:46.03\00:32:48.30
"Drilling with
a cable rig is fun
00:32:48.33\00:32:49.86
for about the first day out."
00:32:49.90\00:32:52.93
And he said, "Why don't we try
00:32:52.97\00:32:54.30
to get a rotary rig down there?"
00:32:54.34\00:32:55.97
Well, he donated rig,
we refurbished the thing,
00:32:56.00\00:32:59.74
shifted down there.
00:32:59.77\00:33:01.11
And in this year, in eight days,
00:33:01.14\00:33:04.28
he drilled six wells.
00:33:04.31\00:33:05.65
Wow!
00:33:05.68\00:33:07.02
And now this
truck was also donated,
00:33:07.05\00:33:08.38
is that right?
00:33:08.42\00:33:09.75
This truck was
donated by the Loomis Truck
00:33:09.78\00:33:11.12
& Tractor Company
in Lind, Washington.
00:33:11.15\00:33:12.62
And they gave us this truck.
00:33:12.65\00:33:14.62
We modified it for our purposes.
00:33:14.66\00:33:17.79
That crane that was put
on it was donated to us.
00:33:17.83\00:33:21.13
And then we sent it
out of Tacoma, Washington.
00:33:21.16\00:33:24.57
And the shipping
company that we contacted,
00:33:24.60\00:33:27.00
got interested in it.
00:33:27.04\00:33:28.37
A man there said
had been to Guatemala.
00:33:28.40\00:33:31.14
He looked us up on the
website to see what we work
00:33:31.17\00:33:34.24
and they shipped it to Guatemala
00:33:34.28\00:33:35.88
for free on that truck.
00:33:35.91\00:33:37.51
It's a roll on roll off rig.
00:33:37.55\00:33:39.78
Thousands of
dollars' worth of donated time
00:33:39.81\00:33:42.35
and then they put
us on their web page
00:33:42.38\00:33:46.79
as a ministry
that they're helping.
00:33:46.82\00:33:48.22
Oh, glory.
00:33:48.26\00:33:49.59
And so the Lord
works in all these ways.
00:33:49.62\00:33:51.49
A donated rig sent on a donated
on a donation down there.
00:33:51.53\00:33:56.26
And that rig now
is there in Guatemala
00:33:56.30\00:33:59.27
with that service truck with it.
00:33:59.30\00:34:01.14
And it's doing
the work of the Lord.
00:34:01.17\00:34:02.50
So now it's sheltered. Yes.
00:34:02.54\00:34:04.41
Okay, we've gone down there.
00:34:04.44\00:34:05.77
We spent the
month of October. Yeah.
00:34:05.81\00:34:07.81
Okay, now the
volunteers come back home
00:34:07.84\00:34:10.48
and they just sit there,
00:34:10.51\00:34:11.85
but yet during that time,
00:34:11.88\00:34:13.21
if there's some issue
with one of the systems,
00:34:13.25\00:34:16.28
the wells,
there's somebody there
00:34:16.32\00:34:18.15
that's lonely
that can repair that.
00:34:18.19\00:34:20.19
We have two
employees in Guatemala.
00:34:20.22\00:34:24.09
Right now, we have
four drilling rigs,
00:34:24.13\00:34:26.13
we've got a small
fleet of other trucks,
00:34:26.16\00:34:28.03
plus we have two
pump service trucks.
00:34:28.06\00:34:30.43
We have a large shop.
00:34:30.47\00:34:31.80
We have accommodations
for our volunteer drillers.
00:34:31.83\00:34:34.90
And we drill from
January through April
00:34:34.94\00:34:37.64
because this is
the time of the year
00:34:37.67\00:34:39.24
in the United
States where these guys,
00:34:39.27\00:34:41.04
they got their home businesses.
00:34:41.08\00:34:42.41
They're not
working. Okay. It's winter.
00:34:42.44\00:34:44.15
And in the
wintertime, it can't work
00:34:44.18\00:34:46.38
and they are willing
to come to Guatemala.
00:34:46.41\00:34:47.75
So tell us how
you find volunteers
00:34:47.78\00:34:49.92
because I know that
00:34:49.95\00:34:52.09
you go down there with people
00:34:52.12\00:34:53.66
who are not only ardent, I mean,
00:34:53.69\00:34:57.46
often they are not Seventh-day
Adventist Christians,
00:34:57.49\00:34:59.93
they may be Christians,
00:34:59.96\00:35:01.30
but you also
take people down that.
00:35:01.33\00:35:03.77
I mean, you
just take in somebody
00:35:03.80\00:35:05.13
that's got a heart
for humanity, right?
00:35:05.17\00:35:07.24
Amen. Yes.
00:35:07.27\00:35:09.14
And I...
00:35:09.17\00:35:11.54
We go to the National
Well Drillers Association
00:35:11.57\00:35:15.14
has a yearly convention,
00:35:15.18\00:35:17.61
we go to the conventions.
00:35:17.65\00:35:20.28
I'll also write a monthly story
00:35:20.32\00:35:22.18
in the National
Well Drillers journal,
00:35:22.22\00:35:24.65
and tell stories
about things in Guatemala,
00:35:24.69\00:35:27.99
and invite people
to come and join us
00:35:28.02\00:35:30.93
and they respond.
00:35:30.96\00:35:33.03
We have drillers from
all across the United States
00:35:33.06\00:35:35.60
who donate a week
or two of their time
00:35:35.63\00:35:38.13
and we don't pay them at all.
00:35:38.17\00:35:41.24
We don't pay their
airfare. That's amazing.
00:35:41.27\00:35:43.37
We've got a
place for them to stay,
00:35:43.41\00:35:44.87
we've got machine reform,
00:35:44.91\00:35:46.24
we've got a village with a need,
00:35:46.27\00:35:47.78
put that together.
00:35:47.81\00:35:49.24
And these guys come
and they drill for nothing.
00:35:49.28\00:35:52.25
And these guys come
home and they will say,
00:35:52.28\00:35:54.25
"You know, I've
been on vacation...
00:35:54.28\00:35:57.22
Annette and I used to go
on vacation to a nice place.
00:35:57.25\00:35:59.72
You eat too
much, you lay around,
00:35:59.75\00:36:01.36
you don't do anything,
come home feeling miserable.
00:36:01.39\00:36:04.03
These guys come home
after working hard in the heat
00:36:04.06\00:36:07.30
and they are blessed by it.
00:36:07.33\00:36:09.46
Amen.
00:36:09.50\00:36:10.83
And I encourage people to come,
00:36:10.87\00:36:13.80
and we need volunteers.
00:36:13.84\00:36:15.37
So what kind of experience?
00:36:15.40\00:36:17.37
Obviously, if you
know what you're doing
00:36:17.41\00:36:19.17
that's a "Thank you, Jesus,"
00:36:19.21\00:36:21.18
but then you got
people that want to see
00:36:21.21\00:36:23.61
what this is like.
00:36:23.65\00:36:25.18
I'll tell you this.
00:36:25.21\00:36:27.65
We can use
anybody who is willing.
00:36:27.68\00:36:29.52
Amen.
00:36:29.55\00:36:30.89
We really need
people who are nurses,
00:36:30.92\00:36:33.29
dental hygienist,
00:36:33.32\00:36:34.66
people that can come down there
00:36:34.69\00:36:36.06
to meet the needs of the people.
00:36:36.09\00:36:37.93
When we have those volunteers,
00:36:37.96\00:36:39.89
we have a complete
portable dental unit
00:36:39.93\00:36:42.50
that we can send
out to a village.
00:36:42.53\00:36:44.63
We'll send a
nurse out to a village
00:36:44.67\00:36:46.33
to do general healthcare
00:36:46.37\00:36:48.60
and look at things
00:36:48.64\00:36:50.31
that could really be dangerous.
00:36:50.34\00:36:53.11
Just a nurse cleaning
a wound in infected ear,
00:36:53.14\00:36:57.11
and the insect bite,
00:36:57.15\00:36:58.58
and a few
tablets of erythromycin
00:36:58.61\00:37:01.08
can change a person's life.
00:37:01.12\00:37:02.52
Yeah.
00:37:02.55\00:37:03.89
And the people
down there have nothing.
00:37:03.92\00:37:05.85
And if we go and help them,
00:37:05.89\00:37:08.16
and sometimes,
00:37:08.19\00:37:10.56
I can't do much in many ways,
00:37:10.59\00:37:13.50
but I know the
ways to these villages,
00:37:13.53\00:37:15.33
and so I'll
drive a team out there
00:37:15.36\00:37:17.60
and spend the days
sitting in the truck,
00:37:17.63\00:37:19.27
waiting while
they're pulling teeth
00:37:19.30\00:37:20.74
or looking after people's needs.
00:37:20.77\00:37:22.84
Those volunteers,
00:37:22.87\00:37:24.21
those are people
that can help people.
00:37:24.24\00:37:26.41
They really just
have to be willing.
00:37:26.44\00:37:28.04
The wives too, if
you've got volunteers going...
00:37:28.08\00:37:30.95
Annette, why should a
wife go with her husband?
00:37:30.98\00:37:34.25
You know, first of
all, have a lot of fun.
00:37:34.28\00:37:36.28
Yeah.
00:37:36.32\00:37:38.89
The men really need support.
00:37:38.92\00:37:42.16
There's all the domestic needs
00:37:42.19\00:37:44.39
that we all need
every day of our lives.
00:37:44.43\00:37:46.49
We need clean
clothes, we need good meals,
00:37:46.53\00:37:49.33
and those guys work so hard.
00:37:49.36\00:37:51.53
And they're
dirty, they're tired.
00:37:51.57\00:37:54.60
And to have a wife
there is very comforting.
00:37:54.64\00:37:57.47
Amen.
00:37:57.51\00:37:58.84
And beyond that,
00:37:58.87\00:38:00.21
I would say to the
wives to definitely come,
00:38:00.24\00:38:03.21
no matter who you are.
00:38:03.24\00:38:04.58
You don't have to be a doctor,
or a nurse, or a teacher.
00:38:04.61\00:38:07.18
Got old paint brush.
Come on, we can help.
00:38:07.22\00:38:09.18
There's lots of painting
that needs to be done, and...
00:38:09.22\00:38:13.05
And lots of kids
that need to be loved on.
00:38:13.09\00:38:15.46
Our friend,
Bernie, that lives there,
00:38:15.49\00:38:16.99
told us, he says,
00:38:17.03\00:38:18.99
"Anything that
you've learned in your life,
00:38:19.03\00:38:21.76
your profession,
even elementary things
00:38:21.80\00:38:25.47
that you know from day-to-day,
00:38:25.50\00:38:27.70
those people know a
lot less than you do.
00:38:27.74\00:38:30.51
Amen. Yeah.
00:38:30.54\00:38:31.87
And you can teach them
anything and everything,
00:38:31.91\00:38:33.84
and they will be blessed for it.
00:38:33.88\00:38:36.01
Amen.
00:38:36.04\00:38:37.38
And I've always tried...
00:38:37.41\00:38:38.75
I've always lived
00:38:38.78\00:38:40.12
in this caution
zone my whole life.
00:38:40.15\00:38:41.98
Well, not always.
00:38:42.02\00:38:43.35
You married someone
00:38:43.39\00:38:44.72
you only spent a few days, so...
00:38:44.75\00:38:46.72
That's correct.
00:38:46.76\00:38:48.49
If it wasn't for him,
00:38:48.52\00:38:49.86
I wouldn't have
gone to Guatemala.
00:38:49.89\00:38:51.23
Yeah.
00:38:51.26\00:38:52.59
And I would stay in
my own peaceful zone
00:38:52.63\00:38:55.16
if I were left to myself.
00:38:55.20\00:38:57.43
But when you give
your heart to the Lord,
00:38:57.47\00:38:59.93
and He's the Lord of your life,
00:38:59.97\00:39:02.00
he's going to pull you
outside your comfort zone.
00:39:02.04\00:39:05.01
Yeah.
00:39:05.04\00:39:06.37
And it says...
00:39:06.41\00:39:07.74
In 1 John 3:18, it says,
00:39:07.78\00:39:12.81
"Let not your love be spoken
only in words, but in action."
00:39:12.85\00:39:18.09
Fantastic.
00:39:18.12\00:39:19.45
And so I feel God pushing
me out of my comfort zone,
00:39:19.49\00:39:23.86
especially after marrying Tim.
00:39:23.89\00:39:26.29
Amen.
00:39:26.33\00:39:27.90
Admire you're doing it.
00:39:27.93\00:39:29.26
Can you bring up the picture
00:39:29.30\00:39:30.63
of kind of show
them the surrounding
00:39:30.67\00:39:32.00
what a typical town looks like?
00:39:32.03\00:39:33.37
Go ahead, Shelley.
Oh, yeah. Absolutely.
00:39:33.40\00:39:34.74
Well, we'll go through here.
00:39:34.77\00:39:36.10
Oh, that's beautiful.
That's a typical village.
00:39:36.14\00:39:38.57
You can see a pump
there in the foreground.
00:39:38.61\00:39:40.91
It's usually open areas
in the village in the middle,
00:39:40.94\00:39:43.48
and we only drill
wells on public land,
00:39:43.51\00:39:47.08
either churchyard, a schoolyard,
00:39:47.12\00:39:49.22
health department yard.
00:39:49.25\00:39:50.79
In one village, we
couldn't find a suitable place,
00:39:50.82\00:39:53.92
and the village
leader said, "Well,
00:39:53.96\00:39:56.09
what about right
here in the road?"
00:39:56.12\00:39:58.06
And Gary said,
00:39:58.09\00:39:59.43
"What you mean
right here in the road?"
00:39:59.46\00:40:00.80
He said, "Well, this is
public, just drill here."
00:40:00.83\00:40:03.16
So our driller stepped
off the center of the road
00:40:03.20\00:40:05.23
and drilled well right there,
00:40:05.27\00:40:07.04
and the next year we came back,
00:40:07.07\00:40:08.44
the road comes up,
makes a detour around,
00:40:08.47\00:40:10.74
a little palapa they
built to cover the pump.
00:40:10.77\00:40:13.31
And the village people come,
and they get water from there.
00:40:13.34\00:40:16.71
Oh, you've a great picture.
00:40:16.75\00:40:18.08
I think you've got a story in it
00:40:18.11\00:40:19.45
that goes with a
picture of this woman
00:40:19.48\00:40:22.25
at the well getting her water.
00:40:22.28\00:40:24.52
And tell us that story?
00:40:24.55\00:40:26.62
So our employee,
Bernie, who maintains the pumps
00:40:26.65\00:40:30.09
during the year
took us to this village
00:40:30.13\00:40:32.16
to check on this one pump
00:40:32.19\00:40:34.03
that was having a
little bit of a problem.
00:40:34.06\00:40:36.73
And I was just observing
00:40:36.77\00:40:39.73
because I hadn't been
to too many other villages,
00:40:39.77\00:40:42.00
I'd spend most of my time
at the orphanage with the kids,
00:40:42.04\00:40:45.94
but I wanted to do this.
00:40:45.97\00:40:47.31
And I was watching this
one lady pumping her water,
00:40:47.34\00:40:50.81
and it was quite
a large containers
00:40:50.85\00:40:54.38
made out of hard plastic.
00:40:54.42\00:40:57.02
And when she got
all done pumping,
00:40:57.05\00:40:58.79
she lifted it and she
put it on top of her head.
00:40:58.82\00:41:02.66
That's amazing.
00:41:02.69\00:41:04.03
And these are short
ladies with a short neck,
00:41:04.06\00:41:05.69
they're stocky individuals.
00:41:05.73\00:41:07.83
And she started walking.
00:41:07.86\00:41:10.07
And, you know, we don't
know how far she walked,
00:41:10.10\00:41:12.33
she could live
three or four miles away.
00:41:12.37\00:41:15.20
That's amazing.
00:41:15.24\00:41:16.57
And after a while,
she put her hands down.
00:41:16.60\00:41:19.14
And then, I was really shocked.
00:41:19.17\00:41:21.88
And I said, "Boy,
that does a lot of good
00:41:21.91\00:41:23.38
for your posture."
00:41:23.41\00:41:25.81
And, you know, in
villages, after we drill a well,
00:41:25.85\00:41:28.58
it's like the spokes of a wheel.
00:41:28.62\00:41:30.82
There will be
paths that lead out
00:41:30.85\00:41:32.62
and people walk
for literally miles
00:41:32.65\00:41:34.92
to get to water.
00:41:34.96\00:41:36.29
In some villages,
people stand in line
00:41:36.32\00:41:38.16
all day long to get water,
00:41:38.19\00:41:39.56
there are people
lined up for water.
00:41:39.59\00:41:40.93
But now they are
lining up to go to church.
00:41:40.96\00:41:42.63
You've got a picture
of one of the 14 churches
00:41:42.66\00:41:45.43
that they have constructed
00:41:45.47\00:41:49.50
and you said the
churches are just emerging.
00:41:49.54\00:41:52.51
Yes, they are. Yes, they are.
00:41:52.54\00:41:54.44
We put Bible workers there,
but the gospel is getting out.
00:41:54.48\00:41:58.48
Amen.
00:41:58.51\00:41:59.85
In the US, it's
hard to interest people.
00:41:59.88\00:42:01.48
But down there,
00:42:01.52\00:42:02.92
if you pass out Bibles,
00:42:02.95\00:42:04.99
they're just anxious to have it.
00:42:05.02\00:42:08.49
They treasure that.
00:42:08.52\00:42:10.13
And that's what
Water for Life tries to do.
00:42:10.16\00:42:12.73
You know, we're
about giving people life,
00:42:12.76\00:42:16.33
but the real life is
not what they're drinking,
00:42:16.36\00:42:18.30
it's in that book.
00:42:18.33\00:42:19.77
Well, I pick up Water for
Life, it's not stagnant itself.
00:42:19.80\00:42:23.54
It seems like, you
know, you started off
00:42:23.57\00:42:25.24
by drilling one well.
00:42:25.27\00:42:26.61
Yes.
00:42:26.64\00:42:27.98
And, but now, look
at how Water for Life
00:42:28.01\00:42:30.18
has expanded
00:42:30.21\00:42:31.55
in all these
different directions.
00:42:31.58\00:42:32.91
Yes.
00:42:32.95\00:42:34.28
You know, just didn't set
here and just corrode over.
00:42:34.32\00:42:37.52
I mean, from water,
then it becomes trust,
00:42:37.55\00:42:41.22
even scrunchies or
what are they called?
00:42:41.26\00:42:43.63
It's scrunchies.
Scrunchies for ponytails.
00:42:43.66\00:42:47.16
I never had a ponytail, so...
00:42:47.20\00:42:49.36
I have.
00:42:49.40\00:42:50.77
I bet you look good.
00:42:50.80\00:42:52.13
It's a little
thing that, you know,
00:42:52.17\00:42:53.50
it means a lot to them.
00:42:53.54\00:42:54.87
You bet, you bet.
00:42:54.90\00:42:56.24
Yeah, it means a lot.
00:42:56.27\00:42:57.61
And once those children,
00:42:57.64\00:42:58.97
once you work with the children,
00:42:59.01\00:43:00.34
and they began
00:43:00.38\00:43:02.14
asking you
questions to the point
00:43:02.18\00:43:04.35
that somebody wanted you
to do the class teaching,
00:43:04.38\00:43:06.65
right?
00:43:06.68\00:43:08.02
Yes, I did a class in hygiene,
00:43:08.05\00:43:10.09
which is very good
for the girls growing up
00:43:10.12\00:43:12.72
and the boys growing up.
00:43:12.75\00:43:14.52
And I taught a
couple of haircuts.
00:43:14.56\00:43:18.13
And it was so cute
00:43:18.16\00:43:19.49
because my
translator was listening to me,
00:43:19.53\00:43:21.90
describe how to do this haircut.
00:43:21.93\00:43:24.93
And I was doing one where
it would make your hair...
00:43:24.97\00:43:27.90
If you cut it in
just a right way,
00:43:27.94\00:43:29.30
it would make your
hair wispy naturally.
00:43:29.34\00:43:32.21
It would dry that
way if we cut it right.
00:43:32.24\00:43:35.14
And he stopped talking,
00:43:35.18\00:43:36.95
and I said, "Is
there a problem?"
00:43:36.98\00:43:39.18
And he says, "Well, there's
no word in Spanish for wispy."
00:43:39.21\00:43:43.99
So we figured out
something to tell him.
00:43:44.02\00:43:46.65
Sometimes the girls
would come with pictures
00:43:46.69\00:43:48.59
that they get from magazines
with these real hairdos
00:43:48.62\00:43:51.16
that are all wound up,
00:43:51.19\00:43:52.59
and they say, "I want
my hair to look like this."
00:43:52.63\00:43:55.26
It can't
happen, it can't happen.
00:43:55.30\00:43:57.37
Well, they have about four times
00:43:57.40\00:43:59.53
the amount of hair on
their head than we do.
00:43:59.57\00:44:01.44
It's heavy. Yeah.
00:44:01.47\00:44:02.80
It's like a horse's tail.
00:44:02.84\00:44:04.17
It's really heavy.
00:44:04.21\00:44:05.54
Yeah. Wow.
00:44:05.57\00:44:06.91
But the children and
the people in Guatemala
00:44:06.94\00:44:08.28
are just lovely people.
00:44:08.31\00:44:09.64
Oh, they're wonderful.
00:44:09.68\00:44:11.01
You know, we are
rich in the United States
00:44:11.05\00:44:12.38
in material goods
and poor in spirit.
00:44:12.41\00:44:14.88
Those people down there
had nothing in material goods,
00:44:14.92\00:44:17.99
but they are rich in spirit.
00:44:18.02\00:44:20.06
The people are
kind and loving people.
00:44:20.09\00:44:22.39
The thing that I've noticed
00:44:22.42\00:44:23.76
is this is mostly
agricultural land.
00:44:23.79\00:44:25.13
Yes, it is. Yes, it is.
00:44:25.16\00:44:26.56
I mean, we're not talking about
the cities and putting well,
00:44:26.59\00:44:28.66
these are all, so
everyone's having to walk in.
00:44:28.70\00:44:30.67
Yes.
00:44:30.70\00:44:32.03
So actually say
it'd be wonderful
00:44:32.07\00:44:33.40
to have a central church
where they can all come to,
00:44:33.44\00:44:35.57
just close to the
water or whatever.
00:44:35.60\00:44:37.21
And we'll drill a
well in a churchyard,
00:44:37.24\00:44:39.41
a Catholic churchyard,
00:44:39.44\00:44:40.81
a Protestant churchyard,
00:44:40.84\00:44:42.18
there's lot of church
of God places down there...
00:44:42.21\00:44:44.78
A school, and
the Lord be praised,
00:44:44.81\00:44:47.65
there's always a place.
00:44:47.68\00:44:49.05
And we make a requirement
00:44:49.08\00:44:51.19
that the people will make
the water freely available.
00:44:51.22\00:44:53.66
Amen.
00:44:53.69\00:44:55.02
And they won't fence the
public off from the well.
00:44:55.06\00:44:56.89
That's the requirement we have.
00:44:56.93\00:44:58.76
Now, you have
become very involved
00:44:58.79\00:45:01.83
with the orphans
there in the orphanage.
00:45:01.86\00:45:04.10
You've actually
adopted how many orphans?
00:45:04.13\00:45:07.27
We've sponsored ten children,
00:45:07.30\00:45:10.04
two boys and eight girls.
00:45:10.07\00:45:11.61
Wow. Yeah.
00:45:11.64\00:45:13.17
Let me ask you
this question because...
00:45:13.21\00:45:17.25
I mean, you are a
district attorney,
00:45:17.28\00:45:19.58
you are a graphic
artist turned beautician,
00:45:19.61\00:45:24.55
which I need to talk to,
if you can tell me, Annette.
00:45:24.59\00:45:27.26
How did it change you
00:45:27.29\00:45:31.16
becoming involved and
specifically, Annette,
00:45:31.19\00:45:35.33
when you started going down,
00:45:35.36\00:45:36.90
how did it change you?
00:45:36.93\00:45:38.60
It changed me
00:45:38.63\00:45:39.97
because I grew up with
watching Mission Spotlight
00:45:40.00\00:45:42.94
my whole life.
00:45:42.97\00:45:44.31
Yeah.
00:45:44.34\00:45:45.67
And I used to admire the people
in that film every Sabbath,
00:45:45.71\00:45:48.41
doctors, nurses, teachers.
00:45:48.44\00:45:50.41
And I always told
myself, "No, I can't do that
00:45:50.45\00:45:53.01
because I'm not
educated the way they are."
00:45:53.05\00:45:56.28
And when I was willing
to take that step and go,
00:45:56.32\00:46:01.42
I saw how much God could use me
00:46:01.46\00:46:05.99
in ways I never
dreamed possible.
00:46:06.03\00:46:07.93
Amen. Wow.
00:46:07.96\00:46:09.60
And so if you're willing,
00:46:09.63\00:46:12.63
God will show you and it
will grow your faith immensely.
00:46:12.67\00:46:16.30
Amen. See what He can do.
00:46:16.34\00:46:18.24
You know, I'd like to say that
00:46:18.27\00:46:20.18
God is so
desperate to save people,
00:46:20.21\00:46:21.81
He will take anybody,
00:46:21.84\00:46:24.38
anybody who will be taken.
00:46:24.41\00:46:25.75
Amen.
00:46:25.78\00:46:27.12
Water for Life
is like that. Amen.
00:46:27.15\00:46:28.98
We can use anybody,
God can use people...
00:46:29.02\00:46:31.45
Most certainly.
00:46:31.49\00:46:32.82
And He provides
the materials. Amen.
00:46:32.85\00:46:35.96
I also like to say that
00:46:35.99\00:46:38.19
God has given
00:46:38.23\00:46:39.56
a never-ending
supply of just enough.
00:46:39.59\00:46:42.16
I love that.
00:46:42.20\00:46:43.53
And really that's
the story of 3ABN too.
00:46:43.57\00:46:45.43
Yes, it is.
00:46:45.47\00:46:46.80
Never-ending
supply of just enough.
00:46:46.84\00:46:48.67
It's not
surplus, it's not excess,
00:46:48.70\00:46:51.91
but it is security
00:46:51.94\00:46:54.28
with the never-ending
supply of just enough.
00:46:54.31\00:46:56.68
And that's what He's
provided for Water for Life.
00:46:56.71\00:46:59.55
We've come across
many difficult things,
00:46:59.58\00:47:02.55
and the Lord comes
through each time, each time.
00:47:02.58\00:47:06.09
That first year, the
second year down there,
00:47:06.12\00:47:09.12
Lynn Bartholomew
was trying to get that
00:47:09.16\00:47:11.36
46 well driller running,
00:47:11.39\00:47:16.20
and it would not
run, it would not run.
00:47:16.23\00:47:18.47
Finally determined that there
was a magneto that was bad.
00:47:18.50\00:47:21.84
It was a 1956 cylinder
Hercules engine in that thing.
00:47:21.87\00:47:26.17
And they called to United States
00:47:26.21\00:47:28.11
and called back to
Bucyrus-Erie and said,
00:47:28.14\00:47:30.25
"Do you have a magneto for that?
00:47:30.28\00:47:31.91
I said, "What are
you talking about?
00:47:31.95\00:47:33.68
We haven't provided
parts of that for 30 years.
00:47:33.72\00:47:36.12
Yeah.
00:47:36.15\00:47:37.49
And Rob
Bartholomew was in Seattle.
00:47:37.52\00:47:40.09
He made a call to
someone in Rathdrum,
00:47:40.12\00:47:42.82
Idaho, a guy by the name Clint.
00:47:42.86\00:47:48.10
I'm blanking his name.
00:47:48.13\00:47:49.46
But he said,
00:47:49.50\00:47:50.83
"I know a fellow
who has the shop called
00:47:50.87\00:47:53.54
Magnetos Only, Lee Davis.
00:47:53.57\00:47:55.24
Let me see if he's...
00:47:55.27\00:47:56.60
Maybe the guy is still alive,
00:47:56.64\00:47:58.21
maybe he's
still in the business.
00:47:58.24\00:48:00.01
He got the model number,
he went in to see Lee Davis,
00:48:00.04\00:48:03.01
Magnetos Only,
and the guy was there.
00:48:03.04\00:48:05.61
And he said, "I need a
magneto for this old rig."
00:48:05.65\00:48:09.02
And the guy
said, "Just a second."
00:48:09.05\00:48:10.39
He walked back and he came back
00:48:10.42\00:48:11.79
with the very
part that we needed.
00:48:11.82\00:48:13.86
Wow. Praise God.
00:48:13.89\00:48:15.52
And Brad
McCarthy, that was the guy
00:48:15.56\00:48:17.16
he paid for it
right on the spot,
00:48:17.19\00:48:18.99
took it to
Spokane, and that night,
00:48:19.03\00:48:21.36
a driller was headed down South,
00:48:21.40\00:48:23.63
and that magneto
was put on that rig
00:48:23.67\00:48:27.17
and was operating.
00:48:27.20\00:48:28.54
I thought there's a story here
and so I went to see Lee Davis,
00:48:28.57\00:48:31.94
and I said, "I like to
know about that magneto."
00:48:31.97\00:48:33.98
And I told him
about what a blessing
00:48:34.01\00:48:35.64
it had been to us,
00:48:35.68\00:48:37.01
and he's a pretty
rough guy, he said,
00:48:37.05\00:48:38.65
"I don't know about
all that stuff," he said.
00:48:38.68\00:48:40.15
But the funny
story about that magneto,
00:48:40.18\00:48:42.85
he said, "I was
working in my shop
00:48:42.88\00:48:44.59
several years
ago, and a guy came in
00:48:44.62\00:48:46.32
and said he had found
this in his dad's shop,
00:48:46.35\00:48:49.22
his dad passed away and he said,
00:48:49.26\00:48:50.73
"I wondered if you wanted it."
00:48:50.76\00:48:52.89
He said, "I'm
interested in old things,
00:48:52.93\00:48:54.53
I kind of do
swapping out magnetos
00:48:54.56\00:48:56.87
for old bulldozers and things."
00:48:56.90\00:48:59.13
And he said, "I fixed it up
00:48:59.17\00:49:00.50
and I put it back
there on the shelf,"
00:49:00.54\00:49:02.27
and he said,
00:49:02.30\00:49:03.64
"Had no call for
it for three years."
00:49:03.67\00:49:06.01
And he said, "I knew
when your guy walked in
00:49:06.04\00:49:07.98
with the model number that
that was the part that I had."
00:49:08.01\00:49:11.15
And he said, "And by the way,
00:49:11.18\00:49:12.51
and all the years I've
been working with magnetos,"
00:49:12.55\00:49:14.25
he says, "I've never
seen one exactly like that.
00:49:14.28\00:49:16.62
If you bring that old
one back from Guatemala,
00:49:16.65\00:49:18.99
I'll rebuild that
once he gets the magneto."
00:49:19.02\00:49:20.36
Amen. Glory to God.
00:49:20.39\00:49:21.72
Well, you know, that is...
00:49:21.76\00:49:23.09
But there from the
jungles of Guatemala,
00:49:23.12\00:49:25.89
a telephone call,
and an hour later,
00:49:25.93\00:49:28.86
a rare part is put in
our hands and was down there.
00:49:28.90\00:49:33.27
We've since moved off there.
00:49:33.30\00:49:35.17
Gasoline part, engines,
all are rigs apart with diesel
00:49:35.20\00:49:38.14
'cause they don't
have the storage problems,
00:49:38.17\00:49:40.48
but the Lord has
been watching after us.
00:49:40.51\00:49:42.78
Yes, He does.
00:49:42.81\00:49:44.25
And He is the God who
knows the end to the beginning,
00:49:44.28\00:49:47.22
so He had that on the
shelf for you all along.
00:49:47.25\00:49:49.52
It's a blessing. He did.
00:49:49.55\00:49:50.89
Amazing. You know what?
00:49:50.92\00:49:52.25
It occurs to me that,
00:49:52.29\00:49:53.62
if you're watching,
00:49:53.66\00:49:54.99
you may be saying,
00:49:55.02\00:49:56.36
"Ooh, I need
something to revive me,
00:49:56.39\00:50:01.10
revive my spiritual walk."
00:50:01.13\00:50:03.13
You know, we know that
00:50:03.16\00:50:04.50
we are saved by
grace through faith.
00:50:04.53\00:50:06.57
Works don't save us,
00:50:06.60\00:50:07.94
but works are the fruit
of salvation if you will.
00:50:07.97\00:50:12.14
And Jesus said,
"Let your lamp so shine
00:50:12.17\00:50:15.58
that people will
see your good works
00:50:15.61\00:50:17.81
and glorify God."
00:50:17.85\00:50:19.18
So these kinds of
things are something that
00:50:19.21\00:50:21.55
bring glory to our Lord
00:50:21.58\00:50:22.92
and maybe you would
like to participate, say,
00:50:22.95\00:50:26.42
"I can go down
and be a volunteer,
00:50:26.45\00:50:28.26
I can hold the pain pressure,
00:50:28.29\00:50:29.89
cook the meal, or
I'm a well driller,
00:50:29.92\00:50:33.29
or a dental
assistant, or a dentist.
00:50:33.33\00:50:36.06
And you may think,
00:50:36.10\00:50:37.43
"Hey, I'd rather have an
active vacation this year,
00:50:37.47\00:50:41.00
instead of just coming
home having gained five pounds."
00:50:41.04\00:50:45.04
If you want to get in
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00:50:45.07\00:50:47.51
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00:50:47.54\00:50:51.31
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00:50:51.35\00:50:54.42
get these wells,
00:50:54.45\00:50:55.78
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00:50:55.82\00:50:58.39
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00:50:58.42\00:51:00.32
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00:51:00.36\00:51:04.53
here is how you can get in touch
00:51:04.56\00:51:07.36
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00:51:07.40\00:51:11.40
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00:51:11.43\00:51:12.77
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00:51:12.80\00:51:14.94
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00:51:14.97\00:51:16.94
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00:51:16.97\00:51:18.87
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00:51:18.91\00:51:21.64
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00:51:21.68\00:51:24.61
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00:51:24.65\00:51:26.25
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00:51:26.28\00:51:27.85
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00:51:27.88\00:51:29.22
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00:51:29.25\00:51:33.66
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00:51:36.96\00:51:38.29
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00:51:38.33\00:51:42.93
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00:51:42.96\00:51:44.87
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00:51:44.90\00:51:47.47
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