I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome to 3ABN Today.
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My name is John Lomacang,
and I have my co-pilot with me.
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How're you
doing, Honey? I'm great.
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I'm so excited
about today's program.
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It's near and dear to our heart.
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That's right,
Maranatha. What does that mean?
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That means more than
just Jesus is coming.
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That is an
organization that has thrived.
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And you'll find out what I
mean by thrive in just a moment.
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But this program is
near and dear to us,
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as you said, because we had
an opportunity to participate
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and you'll find
out more of the details
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in just a moment.
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I'm just kinda percolating
here about the program.
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So much, so excited.
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So we'd like to
encourage you to just sit back,
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if you want to
hit the record button,
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we know that
you're gonna be inspired
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after this hour has been...
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has expired,
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we know that there's gonna be
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a fire lit in you for missions,
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not only where you may live,
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but around the
world in various parts,
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and they will be able to
see the world beautifully
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through Maranatha,
what a wonderful ministry.
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Before we go any further though,
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thank you for your prayers
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and your financial
support of this network
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as we continue
going and growing,
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getting ready for
the coming of the Lord.
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I appreciate it so
much whether it's financial
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or here volunteering with us,
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everything you do
for the cause of Christ
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is deeply appreciated.
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Honey, we have some
music before we go any further
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before we introduce our guests.
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Okay, we have some
music by Martha De Luna,
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"This is My Father's World."
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Thank you so much for
that very appropriate song,
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"This is My Father's World."
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Yes.
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And it is in this
our Father's world
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at Maranatha.org,
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Maranatha
Volunteers, Maranatha Missions
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is such an appropriate entity
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that has been changing lives
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and you'll find
out for how long.
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But let's go ahead right now
and introduce our guests today.
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I'll begin to my
right, Don Noble,
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President of Maranatha
Volunteers International.
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Good to see you, Don.
Great to be here, again.
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Yeah, I'll tell you, we
have rubbed shoulders together
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in the dust as
well as on the asphalt.
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And in a nutshell briefly
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before we go to
the wonderful person
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sitting to your
right and the next person
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to her right,
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give us a
nutshell of who you are,
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what you do, and
where you are right now?
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Oh, Maranatha is
basically a responsive ministry
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to the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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We don't make-up
any of our projects.
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We do what they ask us
to do as much as we can.
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And for 50 years,
that's what we've been doing.
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Primarily building
churches and schools,
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other, some other projects too,
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remodel projects
here in the United States,
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camps, campuses
that type of thing.
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And we've started
drilling a lot of water wells,
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because we find
out that there's,
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if people don't have water,
it's very hard for them to,
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you know, learn, grow,
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experience
Christ for that matter.
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So we've expanded
into that area also so.
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Yeah, a lot of volunteers
get involved, which is great.
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So the gospel is
not just building,
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it's flowing also.
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Okay.
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Yes, the gospel is flowing.
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In fact, when you go out there
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and you see how dry
certain places are in the world
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and the impact of water is huge.
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And we're excited to be
able to be part of that now.
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And we'll have an example
of that today in the program.
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We will, a great example. Yes.
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And, Honey, why don't you
introduce the next person.
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Laura, Don's wife.
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Welcome, Laura. Thank you.
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And what do you do at Maranatha?
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I'm with donor
relations, of course,
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person wears a
lot of hats, you know,
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in a smaller
organization, but yes,
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I work with donors and
it's totally satisfying.
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And it's a privilege
to work with Maranatha.
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And it's also fun to see
you in the field, I mean,
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you're such an elegant person,
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but then you know how to get out
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and get dusty too.
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And I know that for some people,
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that's not their idea of living.
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But you are also
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and I've seen each
one of you get involved
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when we go to
projects around the world,
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and it's really a
challenging field,
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but it's just something
that I see inspires both of you.
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I want to get back real quickly.
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How long have you
been with Maranatha?
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Thirty seven
years. Thirty seven years?
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Since high school?
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Pretty much, before that.
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Before. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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No, since 1982,
it's been a blessing,
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you know, to watch what
God is doing around the world
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and be able to get
out there and see it.
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And sometimes even
being able to make decisions
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that make a difference
and watching lives get changes
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what's really exciting,
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both on the volunteer side
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and on the recipient side
of the project, it's great.
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How many
countries have you been to?
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Well, I've been
to more countries
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than we've worked in.
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We've worked in
about 90 countries
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as Maranatha in
the last 50 years.
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But I've traveled a few more,
you know, getting around but...
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Okay. It's exciting.
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You know, some
people get involved
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because they're
excited about going someplace,
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seeing a different culture.
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But sometimes God has
something bigger for them.
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That's right.
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If that's their only goal,
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God will show
them something else.
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Mm-hmm.
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They see the way people are in
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some of these
small areas of the world
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where God is expanding His work.
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I mean, there's
countries for example,
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we talked little
earlier about Zambia.
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I mean, there're
thousands of congregations there
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and when people get out there
and they see the excitement
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that people have for
the gospel, they say,
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"How come I don't
have that back home."
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How come I don't
have that same passion
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and it can
resurrect that in the life,
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which is great.
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And I don't want to overlook
our third guest, Peter Thomas.
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Good to have you here, Peter.
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Thank you. Good to be here.
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And tell us your
capacity with Maranatha?
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I am a board
member now at Maranatha.
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Okay.
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And it allows me to travel
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to many different
places of the world...
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Okay.
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To check out not
only current job projects,
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also future projects.
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And one of my
passions is to travel,
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so I get to really
enjoying myself a lot of times.
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And where were you born?
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I was born in Kenya, Africa.
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Kenya. Wow! You're a Kenyan.
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I'm a Kenyan.
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Are you an African-American?
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I'm the original
African-American, that's right.
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That's right.
Yeah, that's a new twist.
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Yeah. New twist.
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It reminds me of
Manuel EscA rcio,
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whenever he came to America,
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he says, "I'm an
African-American."
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Right. Good to have you here.
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But you also do other
things with Maranatha.
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Contracts,
you're a builder? I do.
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I'm a building
contractor in Texas,
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but I also lead
Maranatha trips to Africa.
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Okay.
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So I'm able to use the skills
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that I've honed over a lifetime
to take groups of volunteers
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into some very out of
the way places in Africa
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and build the buildings
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and experience the
volunteers as they are...
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as they experience new cultures.
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And watch the lifestyle
change that they go through
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by watching how
other people live.
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And, Honey... Were
you parents' missionaries?
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Yes, they were. Wow!
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My parents were second
generation missionaries.
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My grandparents on my
father's side left England
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in 1926 to go to Kenya.
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See, Honey, he has roots
like you do from England.
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I was born in England.
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Wow! That's amazing.
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So you have quite
a bit of experience.
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I do.
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Born in the mission field?
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Yes. I know.
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And also there's something
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that you were like
the place that he's from,
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specifically where
were you born in Kenya?
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In Kisii.
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Oh, Kisii, Kenya? Yep.
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3ABN Radio,
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we have a
full-power 3ABN radio station
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in Kisii, Kenya.
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Yeah, when I was
born, it was a small town
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and now it's a
large city as you know
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if you've been there recently.
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And the former
president of the United States
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has roots in Kisii, Kenya.
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I don't think he's Kisii.
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I think he's Kisii.
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Anyway, that's
another part of the program.
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That's just
trivia for all the people
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who are watching
to figure it out.
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But, Don, let's
get back to Maranatha,
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Maranatha is an organization
that has transformed
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our way of thinking
about building projects.
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Take us a little bit
over the history of Maranatha.
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And just, we're
gonna sharpen that
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and hone that in just a moment,
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but kinda give us some
background on Maranatha?
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We started in 1969.
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Just a group of
people that got in airplanes
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and flew close
by the United States
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to the Bahamas
and built the church,
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a place called Eight
Mile Rock on Grand Bahama.
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And that's
something that, you know,
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has come back into the news.
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But it was the
beginning of something
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that they didn't know,
they didn't really realize.
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But they started
doing a few other projects
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and so Maranatha
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at that time flights
international was born
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and because each trip
was called The Flight,
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and contractors
with smaller planes
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would fly to different
places, Central America, Mexico,
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the Caribbean areas
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that were
accessible by small plane,
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and they would
take people with them,
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each project was
called The Flight,
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and so it grew.
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And eventually,
as the word got out,
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other parts of the world
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started asking for projects too.
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In fact, it seems like God
was kind of watching this thing
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as the church grew in
other parts of the world
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massively, actually,
as you get into the 80s,
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the need for simple structures
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became
phenomenal around the world.
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And so, that's
why we have requests
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for over 100,000
projects in our office.
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Wow, that's job security.
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Well, I know...
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When I first started in
1982, I thought, well, you know,
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we'll work for a few years
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and we'll get all
these projects done
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and then I'll go
do something else.
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No. No way.
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You know, there's a great demand
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in churches,
schools, physical places
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are important to gather
the people of God together.
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And worship for
education, very, very important,
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more so than we realized.
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And in fact, they find that
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if they don't have a
place for people to meet,
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the people tend to scatter.
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And sometimes they'll say,
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"Well, let them
meet under the tree."
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Well, maybe they
worship that tree.
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If that was the
religion that they had initially
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and that doesn't work so well.
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So that's how we're
working with Garwin McNeilus
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and ASI and others.
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We started working on
the One-Day Church program,
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which, because you don't
have to do a fancy building
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in some of these places.
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Now, some of the places we
work we have to increase...
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Yeah, it has to
work with the culture.
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But there's places where
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that's the
nicest building in town.
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And there, you can't believe
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the gratitude
for something simple.
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But we live
differently in our society here,
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but when
volunteers go out and see it,
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and it's transformational.
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As young or old,
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and we have probably
close to half of our volunteers
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that are 25 and under.
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It used to be
considered old folks operation,
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but it's started
spanning the age brackets
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all the way
across, even families.
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Some of our most popular
projects are family projects.
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Wow! Wow!
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Especially at Christmas time.
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Christmas? Families...
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Yeah, you wouldn't think that,
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but families are
trying to teach their children
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that there's more to
life than getting presents,
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giving critical to giving
as a life thought process.
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What am I thinking of, Honey?
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About the girl in... Go ahead.
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It was in Zimbabwe... Zimbabwe.
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When we were there, there's a...
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I think, she was
about 17 years old
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or so maybe 14,
I think above 14.
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Above 14.
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And I was surprised
to see such a young girl
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at this building site.
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And her mother indicated
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that she had been
doing mission projects
00:15:47.84\00:15:50.45
for since she
was seven years old.
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And one year,
they said, "You know,
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we're gonna do
something different this summer,
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we're going to
go to Disney World."
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Well, she went to Disney World
and she said as a teenager.
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She said, "I
absolutely hated it."
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Mom said, "What's wrong?
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I thought you want to do
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something
different this summer."
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She said, "No, Mom, I
need to be with Maranatha.
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I need to be on a
building product."
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Yes. "This is
not what I wanna do.
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This is waste of money." Yes.
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I said, "So do you like?"
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She said, "I love it
when I'm with Maranatha."
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Now that she's probably about
20 or 20 some years old now.
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But I was amazed
that you also have,
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and, Laura, I told this to you,
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you have a portion of Maranatha
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that young
people really dive into.
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Right, we have a
special project every year
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called, "Ultimate Workout."
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And some years we even
have two Ultimate Workouts,
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because the signup is so large.
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So Ultimate
Workout is for teenagers
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between 14 and 18 years old,
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and it's really not for parents.
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So parents, you know,
and I've tried to come
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with my nieces and they're like,
00:16:41.36\00:16:42.70
"No, that's where we
draw the line," you know,
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so it really is for teenagers.
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And what's cool
is the leadership
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is just a little bit older,
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and then we have some
older leadership there.
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So if you're a parent,
you can rest assure that
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these kids are
definitely taken care of.
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But this year,
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our Ultimate
Workout was in Kenya,
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and we've never
shipped kids over to Africa.
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So, you know, honestly,
it is a bit of a nail biter,
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but everybody came back
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and came back
with an experience.
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Okay.
00:17:09.82\00:17:11.16
So it was just a fantastic trip.
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I mean, probably one of the most
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spiritual wonderful trips ever.
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We were just telling
Pete last night about,
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we had a banker
show up at our office
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and, you know, you
talk and you tell them
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what you do in this
and the other thing,
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and the banker was
a woman and she said,
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"You know, I think
I'll send my daughter."
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Okay.
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And she did,
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and the daughter had
just a fantastic time.
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So, you know,
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it's really an
interesting thing.
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you never know
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how a life is
going to be changed.
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And that is really the
mission of every Christian
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on this planet, right,
00:17:53.57\00:17:54.90
is that we know
that as human beings,
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we need something
more than ourselves
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and even more
than those other people
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that care about us, we need God.
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That's right.
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And that is really the
only true satisfying thing.
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And the sooner
you find that out,
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and the sooner you
really believe that,
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the better and more satisfying
your life is gonna be.
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And I think teenagers,
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you'll add that
vector in their life,
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where everything can
go one way or the other,
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and we know that as adults.
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So the Ultimate Workout
is really trying to direct
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our goal is to direct
every young person there
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to begin, or reestablish,
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or cement in a
relationship with Jesus Christ,
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because that
really is the only thing
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that's satisfying.
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And isn't it true that Maranatha
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and I want to go to
Pete just right after this.
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Isn't it true that
some of the children
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that go to the Ultimate Workout
end up wanted to be baptized?
00:18:45.52\00:18:48.22
Absolutely. Yeah.
00:18:48.26\00:18:49.59
So it's not just an
experience for them, they get...
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they meet Christ there.
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They meet Christ there
and they have a huge turn
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and that is the turn that
we're all hoping for, right?
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And really one of those turns
that you do every day, right?
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We've been seeing 20
to 30 baptisms a year
00:19:02.07\00:19:04.54
on the Ultimate Workout.
00:19:04.57\00:19:06.01
And this year it included
some of the locals as well
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that we're
interacting with the kids,
00:19:09.11\00:19:10.55
so it's pretty neat.
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These experiences are
more than just construction
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because some people are,
"Well, I can't do construction.
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I don't want to
do construction,"
00:19:18.25\00:19:19.59
but there's
other kinds of outreach
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that always go
along with these projects.
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Whether it's something
as simple as a Vacation
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Bible School, lot
of health ministries.
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Oh, yeah. Yes, we have met them.
00:19:28.20\00:19:29.76
And sometimes, you know,
00:19:29.80\00:19:31.20
traditional evangelism too
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can work in depending on
the interests of the groups
00:19:32.77\00:19:36.37
that are going so.
00:19:36.40\00:19:37.81
Now, Pete, as a builder
and being with Maranatha,
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you're not just a board member,
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talk about some
of your experiences
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because, as a builder,
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I'm sure you've
been at Ground Zero.
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Correct. Okay,
talk about some of that?
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Well, one of the things that
first appealed to being about
00:19:48.82\00:19:51.15
Maranatha was the
organizational structure,
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because prior to going
on my first Maranatha trip,
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I'd been on other mission
trips with other denominations,
00:19:57.33\00:20:00.63
other groups and
it always seemed like,
00:20:00.70\00:20:03.57
you spent half of your
time once you got there,
00:20:03.60\00:20:05.93
assembling all of the materials
that you needed for a job.
00:20:05.97\00:20:09.87
With Maranatha,
you show up in day one,
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you're under construction.
00:20:13.61\00:20:15.58
And so, for a
builder or for people
00:20:15.61\00:20:18.55
that are in the
building business,
00:20:18.58\00:20:20.32
that's exciting because
you don't want to travel
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long distances to someplace
00:20:22.55\00:20:23.92
and then spend a lot of time
trying to organize yourselves.
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It's all organized,
the logistics are amazing.
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We just go to
work. That's right.
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And so, over the
course of seven or eight days,
00:20:31.33\00:20:34.23
we literally will
build a complete building.
00:20:34.30\00:20:37.77
And the volunteers can
see the finished product
00:20:37.80\00:20:40.34
and, so it's
very rewarding for me
00:20:40.37\00:20:44.37
as a contractor
to be able to go over
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and complete
structures once I get there.
00:20:46.14\00:20:48.14
So you supervise?
00:20:48.18\00:20:49.64
Yes. Wow!
00:20:49.68\00:20:51.05
Well, some people claim
that I whip them with a whip,
00:20:51.08\00:20:54.35
but it's more... To get it done.
00:20:54.38\00:20:55.72
Yeah, we have a good time,
00:20:55.75\00:20:57.09
but we also get some work done.
00:20:57.12\00:20:58.45
Yes.
00:20:58.49\00:20:59.82
You know,
Maranatha is exciting, Don,
00:20:59.85\00:21:01.19
you want to say something?
00:21:01.22\00:21:02.56
I was just gonna say, you
know, we need people like Pete,
00:21:02.59\00:21:03.93
because a lot of
volunteers can go to work
00:21:03.96\00:21:05.79
under the leadership of
one or two good skilled people.
00:21:05.83\00:21:09.56
Everybody doesn't
have to know everything.
00:21:09.60\00:21:11.13
But you have to have
some people that know.
00:21:11.17\00:21:13.74
And that's why you
have to have guys like Pete
00:21:13.77\00:21:16.17
that are willing
to go, and supervise,
00:21:16.20\00:21:18.74
and be patient
00:21:18.77\00:21:20.41
and not use the
whip, sorry, Pete.
00:21:20.48\00:21:23.55
But really help them realize
00:21:23.58\00:21:25.85
that they can make a difference.
00:21:25.88\00:21:28.15
Honey, I mean, you remember
the time we were in Zimbabwe,
00:21:28.18\00:21:31.02
and I remember
the One-Day Church
00:21:31.05\00:21:33.02
because in
Zambia, we did the brick.
00:21:33.05\00:21:35.59
But in Zimbabwe, we did
that One-Day Church structure,
00:21:35.62\00:21:38.06
and it was so inspiring,
00:21:38.09\00:21:39.66
that we went to a spot where,
00:21:39.69\00:21:41.53
in a matter of days,
00:21:41.56\00:21:42.90
and I like the fact that
some of those structures.
00:21:42.93\00:21:44.77
It's quite
different in Zimbabwe,
00:21:44.80\00:21:46.23
I mean, in Zambia,
it took a little longer
00:21:46.27\00:21:47.67
because of the kinds of
brick and different function.
00:21:47.70\00:21:51.24
And then I think the inspiration
00:21:51.27\00:21:52.61
came the next time out
00:21:52.64\00:21:54.28
that the One-Day
Church just spring into action
00:21:54.31\00:21:56.68
and we were able to
put up like 14 buildings.
00:21:56.75\00:21:59.75
Including a
school from kindergarten
00:21:59.78\00:22:02.22
all the way up to,
00:22:02.25\00:22:03.59
and then the
church was not a metal,
00:22:03.62\00:22:05.95
the church was brick.
00:22:05.99\00:22:07.36
And I think we had
a dedication there,
00:22:07.39\00:22:09.32
it was a very inspiring thing.
00:22:09.36\00:22:11.09
But the thing that reminded me
00:22:11.13\00:22:12.46
so much of the
passion of Maranatha
00:22:12.49\00:22:14.36
as we didn't
just see young people,
00:22:14.40\00:22:16.67
but we saw these two old ladies,
00:22:16.70\00:22:18.20
do you remember that.
00:22:18.23\00:22:19.57
And there was an older lady.
00:22:19.60\00:22:22.04
I didn't... I asked...
00:22:22.07\00:22:23.41
I don't usually ask
age, but she was so vibrant,
00:22:23.44\00:22:26.91
I had to ask her age.
00:22:26.98\00:22:28.61
I said, "How old are
you?" She says, "I'm 87."
00:22:28.64\00:22:32.08
I said, and she's
passing these steel girders
00:22:32.11\00:22:35.78
from person to
next off the trucks.
00:22:35.82\00:22:38.15
I'm thinking 87 shouldn't...
00:22:38.19\00:22:41.29
So there's no
age limit, is it? No.
00:22:41.32\00:22:43.56
No, you know,
people self-select on this,
00:22:43.63\00:22:47.20
and some people
can do and some can't.
00:22:47.23\00:22:49.06
We had a an old mason that
00:22:49.10\00:22:51.43
when he was 91or
92, he had a walker,
00:22:51.47\00:22:55.30
and he'd go to the
pile of concrete block
00:22:55.34\00:22:59.24
and he put on several them,
00:22:59.27\00:23:00.98
he put it over the wall
and he was a great mason.
00:23:01.01\00:23:04.78
He's been a mason all his life
00:23:04.81\00:23:06.15
and people always
wanted to take pictures of him.
00:23:06.18\00:23:08.08
And he said, 'Hurry
up, take the picture.
00:23:08.12\00:23:09.45
I got a wall to build."
00:23:09.48\00:23:10.82
You know, but He even with
his walker at his advanced age,
00:23:10.89\00:23:15.49
he was putting more block
in the wall than anybody else.
00:23:15.52\00:23:18.56
And what I said
to her, I said...
00:23:18.59\00:23:20.30
She said, "What do you think
00:23:20.33\00:23:21.80
I should be doing at
home rotting in a chair?"
00:23:21.83\00:23:24.17
And then we found
out her sister was there.
00:23:24.20\00:23:26.84
So they were both one 87
and one 89, and she said,
00:23:26.87\00:23:29.70
"Well, what do you
expect us to do sit at home
00:23:29.74\00:23:31.17
and just rot in a chair."
00:23:31.21\00:23:32.54
And I thought, wow, here we are,
00:23:32.57\00:23:34.74
at any age
00:23:34.78\00:23:36.21
if you have a
passion to do something,
00:23:36.24\00:23:38.28
because in
ministry and Maranatha,
00:23:38.31\00:23:40.42
as you
mentioned earlier, I mean,
00:23:40.45\00:23:41.88
you have so many
requests for churches,
00:23:41.92\00:23:44.39
that what you
envisioned back in '82,
00:23:44.42\00:23:47.36
there's no retirement,
not for this particular one.
00:23:47.39\00:23:51.66
Well, John Freeman,
00:23:51.69\00:23:53.03
the Founder of Maranatha in '69,
00:23:53.06\00:23:54.96
he used to say,
00:23:55.00\00:23:56.67
"You know, retirement
is out of this world."
00:23:56.70\00:23:59.33
Yes. I like that.
00:23:59.37\00:24:00.77
So and that's true.
00:24:00.84\00:24:03.14
I doubt that the
people that started Maranatha
00:24:03.17\00:24:06.68
in the early
days really expected
00:24:06.71\00:24:09.38
it to last 50 years.
00:24:09.41\00:24:12.18
I mean,
Maranatha, Jesus is coming,
00:24:12.21\00:24:14.95
you know, come
quickly, Lord Jesus.
00:24:14.98\00:24:17.09
And we still live
under that thought process,
00:24:17.12\00:24:19.65
and that hope, and that desire.
00:24:19.69\00:24:23.22
But we don't
want another 50. Oh!
00:24:23.26\00:24:26.13
One thing,
though, I will have to say
00:24:26.16\00:24:27.86
about the 50, is
this is our 50th year.
00:24:27.90\00:24:31.17
Oh, yeah!
00:24:31.20\00:24:32.57
And what's interesting,
as you look back at,
00:24:32.60\00:24:36.71
you know, we're
kind of compiling
00:24:36.74\00:24:38.77
and looking back
at, how did this happen,
00:24:38.81\00:24:40.91
and what happened,
and who did, wonder that.
00:24:40.98\00:24:44.15
And what's so
inspiring to me is,
00:24:44.18\00:24:48.18
this is not an organization
that somebody dreamed up
00:24:48.22\00:24:51.89
or that somebody
with tremendous skill
00:24:51.92\00:24:54.29
or passion,
00:24:54.32\00:24:55.66
this is an
organization that God wanted.
00:24:55.69\00:24:57.66
That's right.
00:24:57.69\00:24:59.03
And He was gonna
have it. That's right.
00:24:59.06\00:25:01.03
Like God was going to
have this organization,
00:25:01.06\00:25:03.50
whether people wanted
to be involved or not,
00:25:03.57\00:25:06.50
like, I'm asking
you, but if not you,
00:25:06.53\00:25:09.20
someone else,
this is gonna happen,
00:25:09.24\00:25:11.14
because it's important.
00:25:11.17\00:25:12.84
And yeah, it's not
about the buildings,
00:25:12.87\00:25:15.11
it's about the people.
00:25:15.14\00:25:16.48
That's right.
And make no mistake.
00:25:16.51\00:25:18.28
But those
buildings are important.
00:25:18.31\00:25:20.62
So they're like the
entrA(C)e to all these souls
00:25:20.65\00:25:23.69
that are coming
into the kingdom.
00:25:23.72\00:25:25.12
And those of us who
work on the buildings
00:25:25.15\00:25:27.96
and those of us who
receive the buildings,
00:25:27.99\00:25:30.66
this is a huge blessing.
00:25:30.73\00:25:32.06
And this is God in this.
00:25:32.09\00:25:33.43
So what's
really cool is, I know,
00:25:33.46\00:25:36.20
you guys work
with an organization
00:25:36.23\00:25:38.93
that holds hands with God,
00:25:38.97\00:25:40.37
you are partners with God.
00:25:40.44\00:25:42.37
We are too, and what a thrill.
00:25:42.40\00:25:45.51
I mean, could you, I
mean, there's hardly,
00:25:45.54\00:25:47.58
I mean, really, what a thrill.
00:25:47.61\00:25:49.31
I mean, you can't ask
to do something better.
00:25:49.34\00:25:51.21
Yeah, it's better
than that. We needed.
00:25:51.25\00:25:52.61
Yeah, what's better, you
know, so that's one thing
00:25:52.65\00:25:56.08
that has really
just so underscored
00:25:56.12\00:25:58.89
in big red pen,
00:25:58.92\00:26:01.79
like, hey, this
is God's hand in this
00:26:01.82\00:26:04.89
and He has kept
this organization
00:26:04.93\00:26:07.20
this whole time.
00:26:07.23\00:26:08.56
Yeah, I hope we're not
still in business in 50 years,
00:26:08.60\00:26:11.07
my goodness so, but you know.
00:26:11.10\00:26:12.43
I agree with you.
00:26:12.47\00:26:13.84
You know, when you statistically
00:26:13.87\00:26:16.04
or chronologically say,
00:26:16.07\00:26:17.41
"I think I have more time
behind me than ahead of me."
00:26:17.44\00:26:20.18
We start saying
Maranatha with more passion,
00:26:20.21\00:26:22.08
" Maranatha even
so come Lord Jesus."
00:26:22.11\00:26:23.65
Yes, you do. Yeah.
00:26:23.68\00:26:25.01
I want also to
talk about the fact
00:26:25.05\00:26:26.38
that Maranatha is
not just an organization
00:26:26.41\00:26:28.48
that builds
churches based on requests,
00:26:28.52\00:26:31.22
but Maranatha
has been a key staple
00:26:31.25\00:26:33.66
in times of disaster.
00:26:33.69\00:26:36.06
Yeah, we're not exactly
00:26:36.09\00:26:37.43
a disaster
response organization.
00:26:37.46\00:26:38.79
But there's times
00:26:38.83\00:26:40.40
when the church has
requested us to step in
00:26:40.43\00:26:43.57
and help and a
number of those can go back
00:26:43.60\00:26:47.24
to the earthquake in Haiti.
00:26:47.27\00:26:50.41
That's one of the times
00:26:50.44\00:26:51.77
that the One-Day
product was pretty helpful.
00:26:51.81\00:26:54.18
I've to go in
there and provide stuff
00:26:54.21\00:26:55.64
very quickly for them
00:26:55.68\00:26:57.05
when they lost so many that's...
00:26:57.08\00:26:59.78
The hurricane in what was it?
00:26:59.81\00:27:02.25
17 in Dominica? Yeah.
00:27:02.28\00:27:06.32
You probably heard more about
the hurricane in Puerto Rico,
00:27:06.35\00:27:09.46
but it was the same hurricane,
but it had hit Dominica harder.
00:27:09.49\00:27:12.19
Matter of fact, we
have a couple of pictures,
00:27:12.23\00:27:13.60
I want to show you...
00:27:13.63\00:27:14.96
We're gonna show our
viewers before and after,
00:27:15.00\00:27:16.36
if you are on the
radio, we try to describe this.
00:27:16.40\00:27:18.30
That's the
church on a rock right,
00:27:18.33\00:27:20.14
the ocean is
right clear behind it.
00:27:20.17\00:27:21.70
I never forgot that
picture when we saw.
00:27:21.74\00:27:23.81
You remember, Honey. Mm-hmm.
00:27:23.84\00:27:25.24
And that was before...
00:27:25.27\00:27:26.98
That was after the hurricane
had done some severe damage.
00:27:27.01\00:27:30.25
Yeah. Yeah, it...
00:27:30.28\00:27:32.18
Actually the
hurricane either totaled out
00:27:32.21\00:27:35.95
or severely damaged 28 out of 32
00:27:35.98\00:27:40.06
or 33 churches on the island.
00:27:40.09\00:27:42.52
So it took out almost everything
00:27:42.56\00:27:44.13
that the church had.
00:27:44.16\00:27:45.66
Now that was before. Yeah, well.
00:27:45.69\00:27:47.93
Let's see the after.
Oh, yeah. Just look into it.
00:27:47.96\00:27:50.17
This is the hand of Maranatha.
00:27:50.20\00:27:51.87
Praise the Lord! Amen.
00:27:51.90\00:27:53.23
This is the church,
it's kind of interesting
00:27:53.27\00:27:56.00
because this is built
to withstand pretty much
00:27:56.04\00:28:00.11
whatever hurricane
wants to come at it.
00:28:00.18\00:28:03.24
It's expensive, it's
strong, powerful building.
00:28:03.28\00:28:06.75
We asked the
locals what they thought
00:28:06.82\00:28:09.82
of this building in
terms of another hurricane.
00:28:09.85\00:28:13.49
They says, "Well,
if we get another one,
00:28:13.56\00:28:15.32
we know where we're going."
00:28:15.36\00:28:17.33
Going to church.
We're going to church.
00:28:17.36\00:28:18.96
That's a beautiful view.
00:28:18.99\00:28:20.33
Now, Pete, were you
involved in this project?
00:28:20.40\00:28:22.10
I was. Oh, you were?
00:28:22.13\00:28:23.47
I went there
with Maranatha shortly
00:28:23.50\00:28:25.00
after the hurricane hit.
00:28:25.03\00:28:27.44
I was able to help
with assessments there
00:28:27.47\00:28:29.84
and then I also was there
00:28:29.87\00:28:31.21
as a part of the
construction of that church.
00:28:31.24\00:28:32.64
Wow!
00:28:32.67\00:28:34.01
And Don is right,
00:28:34.08\00:28:35.74
you couldn't drive a
tank through that building.
00:28:35.78\00:28:37.81
It's there forever.
00:28:37.85\00:28:39.71
That's good to know,
00:28:39.75\00:28:41.08
because what better place
to be during a time of storm
00:28:41.12\00:28:44.42
than in a church.
00:28:44.45\00:28:45.79
Praise the Lord. Yeah.
00:28:45.82\00:28:47.39
And I'm glad you mentioned that
because sometimes we talk about
00:28:47.46\00:28:49.89
the One-Day Church,
00:28:49.92\00:28:51.49
which has primarily been...
00:28:51.53\00:28:54.00
I'll use the
term loosely reshape
00:28:54.03\00:28:56.70
or pre-shaped forms of metal
00:28:56.77\00:29:00.24
that have
already been pre-shaped
00:29:00.27\00:29:02.47
and shipped to
different parts of the world.
00:29:02.50\00:29:05.51
Yeah.
00:29:05.54\00:29:07.31
We've done quite a bit of that
00:29:07.38\00:29:09.01
working with Mr.
McNeilus out in Minnesota.
00:29:09.04\00:29:12.88
You know, as time goes on
00:29:12.91\00:29:15.32
you learn that
there's other issues,
00:29:15.35\00:29:18.39
importing these
products are not as easy
00:29:18.42\00:29:21.46
as we had hoped
that they would be.
00:29:21.49\00:29:23.43
And so a lot of the places
in the world we've gone to,
00:29:23.46\00:29:27.60
same concept,
00:29:27.63\00:29:30.17
the concept
being build something
00:29:30.20\00:29:33.13
that will start the
product or start the project
00:29:33.17\00:29:36.60
and let the locals finish it up,
00:29:36.64\00:29:37.97
so that you don't have
to put too much resource
00:29:38.01\00:29:39.91
into one location.
00:29:39.94\00:29:41.51
And so now in a
lot of the countries
00:29:41.54\00:29:44.28
we will work with
a local manufacturer
00:29:44.31\00:29:46.92
and sometimes we do at our self
00:29:46.95\00:29:50.29
manufacture the steel our
self-depending on the location,
00:29:50.32\00:29:53.25
and we'll put it up there
then we don't have to worry
00:29:53.29\00:29:55.16
about bringing
in through customs.
00:29:55.19\00:29:56.59
It's...
00:29:56.62\00:29:58.56
They may have the
right to bring stuff in free,
00:29:58.59\00:30:01.83
but believe me, they figured out
00:30:01.86\00:30:04.87
how to get the
money out of you anyway.
00:30:04.90\00:30:06.50
Oh, yeah. We did a project.
00:30:06.53\00:30:09.17
I remember going
there. We came...
00:30:09.20\00:30:10.54
We arrived afterwards
00:30:10.61\00:30:11.94
and we arrived at
a particular place.
00:30:11.97\00:30:14.28
And, you know, I had a
phone call from Garwin,
00:30:14.31\00:30:16.21
and he said, "Well, we
need this kind of tool,
00:30:16.24\00:30:17.71
that kind of tool,
these kind of bolts."
00:30:17.75\00:30:19.85
He said, "There're some
additional things we need.
00:30:19.88\00:30:21.95
So stop at home depot and
bring all these things in."
00:30:21.98\00:30:25.02
When we got there,
00:30:25.05\00:30:26.39
one of the locals
at the airport said,
00:30:26.42\00:30:27.76
"One of our luggage is missing."
00:30:27.79\00:30:29.36
And we went to the airport
and found that they wanted us
00:30:29.39\00:30:31.56
to pay for that piece of luggage
00:30:31.59\00:30:33.40
with all those
power tools in it.
00:30:33.43\00:30:35.83
And thank the Lord,
00:30:35.86\00:30:37.20
we got away with not
having to pay for that.
00:30:37.27\00:30:39.20
But that's...
that happens sometimes.
00:30:39.23\00:30:40.97
Yeah, so there's, you live
and you learn and you adjust.
00:30:41.00\00:30:45.01
Right. You have to
constantly do that.
00:30:45.04\00:30:47.51
The world is a
changing place. Yes, it is.
00:30:47.58\00:30:49.88
And so each country we
end up doing it different.
00:30:49.91\00:30:54.02
That's right.
00:30:54.05\00:30:55.38
We try to get as
consistent as we can.
00:30:55.42\00:30:58.52
But every place is different.
00:30:58.55\00:31:01.09
I mean, we just started working
00:31:01.12\00:31:02.46
in the country
of CA'te d'Ivoire,
00:31:02.49\00:31:04.53
the French speaking in Africa.
00:31:04.56\00:31:07.60
I didn't bring
any pictures on that,
00:31:07.63\00:31:08.96
but we're just starting there.
00:31:09.00\00:31:10.33
But that's a whole
different set of rules
00:31:10.37\00:31:11.70
and a whole
different type of culture...
00:31:11.73\00:31:13.07
That's right.
00:31:13.10\00:31:14.44
Than most of the places
that we worked in the past,
00:31:14.47\00:31:16.24
even though it's in Africa.
00:31:16.27\00:31:17.61
Wow! So it's...
00:31:17.64\00:31:19.54
They don't even have
a lot of the same steel
00:31:19.57\00:31:21.61
that they'll have in like Kenya,
00:31:21.64\00:31:23.48
so you have to do it different.
00:31:23.55\00:31:25.25
How many
projects do you do a year?
00:31:25.28\00:31:27.42
You know, it
depends on the project.
00:31:27.45\00:31:29.48
If you do a one-day
project, a simple project,
00:31:29.52\00:31:32.52
you can do a lot of them.
00:31:32.55\00:31:33.89
Whereas if you do some of
the big schools, you know,
00:31:33.96\00:31:36.49
that slows down your numbers.
00:31:36.52\00:31:39.03
So we don't think of it
so much in terms of numbers,
00:31:39.06\00:31:41.23
but in general, it'll
run between 400 and 1,000.
00:31:41.26\00:31:45.67
And the length of
time for each project?
00:31:45.70\00:31:48.34
Again, based on how
big your project is.
00:31:48.37\00:31:50.21
Okay, yeah, that's true.
00:31:50.24\00:31:52.74
Sometimes they're
one day. That's true.
00:31:52.77\00:31:56.64
One of the things...
00:31:56.68\00:31:58.01
One of the great things
about the one-day program is,
00:31:58.05\00:32:00.65
it gives us an
opportunity to hold maybe
00:32:00.72\00:32:03.32
tight our hands with the church,
00:32:03.39\00:32:04.92
because there're a lot of things
00:32:04.95\00:32:06.32
that the local
church people can do
00:32:06.35\00:32:08.26
and they want to do.
00:32:08.29\00:32:09.69
That's right. This
is theirs after all.
00:32:09.72\00:32:11.53
That's right. It is theirs.
00:32:11.56\00:32:12.89
So it really help,
00:32:12.93\00:32:14.83
it brings a tighter partnership.
00:32:14.86\00:32:17.27
Yeah. And so
that's kind of neat.
00:32:17.30\00:32:18.63
Well, that's what makes it,
00:32:18.67\00:32:20.57
you know, nice for
the volunteers too,
00:32:20.64\00:32:22.10
they want that
relationship with the locals.
00:32:22.14\00:32:23.81
That's what you take home
00:32:23.84\00:32:25.91
the reality of
this mission experience
00:32:25.94\00:32:28.94
by looking in the eyes
00:32:28.98\00:32:31.21
and getting the
feedback from the local people.
00:32:31.25\00:32:33.95
It's one thing to
watch it on the screen
00:32:34.02\00:32:36.69
and that's good,
00:32:36.72\00:32:38.12
but when you see it yourself,
00:32:38.15\00:32:40.19
there it's
transformational we end up with.
00:32:40.26\00:32:42.16
We have so many
stories one of those...
00:32:42.19\00:32:43.96
One of the... On the Maranatha.
00:32:44.03\00:32:45.36
The rock quarry in Zambia.
00:32:45.39\00:32:47.10
Rock quarry, oh, yeah.
We went to the rock quarry.
00:32:47.13\00:32:48.73
That trip transformed our lives.
00:32:48.76\00:32:50.77
It really shook us to
the core to let us know
00:32:50.80\00:32:53.00
that here in
America, we are so blessed.
00:32:53.03\00:32:55.07
We're considered and
I'm saying this loosely
00:32:55.10\00:32:57.21
by no means this is
true materialistically.
00:32:57.24\00:32:59.87
We're considered very
wealthy here in America
00:32:59.91\00:33:01.78
compared to some of
the places we've been.
00:33:01.81\00:33:03.88
And we met that
elder and his wife.
00:33:03.95\00:33:05.58
Yes.
00:33:05.61\00:33:06.95
And we looked, I said,
well, he's about my size
00:33:07.02\00:33:08.92
and his wife was
about my wife size.
00:33:08.95\00:33:11.05
And I gave him a pair of shoes.
00:33:11.09\00:33:15.69
And the man began to cry.
00:33:15.72\00:33:17.53
I said, "What happened?"
00:33:17.56\00:33:18.89
He said, "This is
the first pair of shoes
00:33:18.93\00:33:20.50
I have ever owned."
00:33:20.53\00:33:21.86
Is that Pata. He calls it Pata.
00:33:21.90\00:33:23.23
Yeah, a Bata. Is it Bata?
00:33:23.26\00:33:25.17
Yeah, and he says,
"Are you kidding me?"
00:33:25.20\00:33:27.37
I said the first pair of shoes
00:33:27.44\00:33:28.77
and as we went
back to our hotel room
00:33:28.80\00:33:30.31
and just started to cry.
00:33:30.34\00:33:31.67
We said, Lord,
what's wrong with us?
00:33:31.71\00:33:33.04
And my wife gave...
00:33:33.07\00:33:34.44
What did you gave, skirt?
00:33:34.48\00:33:35.81
Oh, I gave half my luggage,
half my clothes I gave away.
00:33:35.84\00:33:39.65
I bought some pants
00:33:39.68\00:33:41.02
because it's our
first trip you say,
00:33:41.05\00:33:42.38
we're going into the outback,
00:33:42.42\00:33:43.79
you know, it's gonna
be get some nice rugged,
00:33:43.82\00:33:45.69
get some nice rugged shoes,
00:33:45.72\00:33:47.66
we ended up
giving him the shoes,
00:33:47.69\00:33:49.56
giving him the
pants, giving him the shirt.
00:33:49.59\00:33:52.19
And then we went to
and that fired my wife up
00:33:52.23\00:33:55.66
for the next trip to Zimbabwe,
00:33:55.70\00:33:57.07
because we saw the school built
00:33:57.10\00:33:59.03
and even there that same couple,
00:33:59.07\00:34:00.94
there was one...
00:34:00.97\00:34:02.50
They had three
children and two of them.
00:34:02.54\00:34:04.51
We kept seeing, we
said, "Where's the other son?"
00:34:04.54\00:34:06.78
You remember that story...
00:34:06.81\00:34:08.14
He's in the rock
quarry, breaking rocks.
00:34:08.18\00:34:11.55
I said, "What's
he doing that for?"
00:34:11.58\00:34:12.91
Yeah. And.
00:34:12.95\00:34:14.38
And it was for
his school tuition.
00:34:14.42\00:34:17.02
But I was able
to, Lord blessed me
00:34:17.09\00:34:19.25
to raise money to
help at our church
00:34:19.29\00:34:23.19
and on Facebook,
00:34:23.22\00:34:24.56
whoever wanted to help in Zambia
00:34:24.59\00:34:27.63
to help children go to school
and be able to raise money
00:34:27.66\00:34:31.10
and that young boy.
00:34:31.13\00:34:32.87
Oh, yeah. I said,
"Where's your son?"
00:34:32.90\00:34:34.24
He said, "He's in rock quarry."
00:34:34.27\00:34:35.60
I said, "How
much is his tuition?"
00:34:35.64\00:34:37.01
They told us, we said,
we looked at each other
00:34:37.04\00:34:38.37
we know what we have to do.
00:34:38.41\00:34:39.74
Yeah, we can do
that. It's like $100.
00:34:39.77\00:34:41.11
Go get your son,
he's going to school.
00:34:41.14\00:34:42.48
We're gonna pay his
tuition for this year.
00:34:42.51\00:34:43.85
Yeah, multiply
what you experienced
00:34:43.88\00:34:45.38
by all the
thousands of volunteers
00:34:45.41\00:34:47.35
that go out there, they
experience the same thing.
00:34:47.42\00:34:50.02
So their hearts touched
and soften the Holy Spirit
00:34:50.09\00:34:53.76
as be generous.
00:34:53.79\00:34:55.12
Exactly. God's generous.
00:34:55.16\00:34:56.49
Amen. He wants
us to be generous.
00:34:56.52\00:34:57.93
And so that's
something that happens.
00:34:57.96\00:35:01.13
It's a nice
result in couple's lives.
00:35:01.16\00:35:04.40
And I always go with things.
00:35:04.43\00:35:06.84
I always go with some
old clothes that we have.
00:35:06.87\00:35:08.20
Ever since then.
00:35:08.24\00:35:09.57
Yeah, I bring
clothes from children,
00:35:09.60\00:35:11.54
from our churches to
give me your clothes.
00:35:11.57\00:35:13.48
There're kids there
that need the clothes.
00:35:13.51\00:35:15.28
I go to the Dollar Store,
00:35:15.31\00:35:16.64
I buy balloons and
little toys and things.
00:35:16.68\00:35:19.01
So my suitcase is stuffed
with things to give away.
00:35:19.05\00:35:22.42
I know, I'm gonna
go to the next story
00:35:22.45\00:35:23.79
that's really,
really close to Peter here.
00:35:23.82\00:35:25.99
I want to show
this picture in Kenya.
00:35:26.02\00:35:28.99
And I want you to describe
00:35:29.02\00:35:30.36
because I know this is
very near and dear to you.
00:35:30.43\00:35:32.43
Let's bring up
this picture of that
00:35:32.46\00:35:34.43
wonderful crowd of
people there in Kenya.
00:35:34.46\00:35:36.53
And tell us
what's in the background
00:35:36.56\00:35:37.90
and tell us what this
project is all about here?
00:35:37.93\00:35:39.70
Well, this is the One-Day
Church that we build in Kenya.
00:35:39.73\00:35:43.04
And typically we build
it in less than one day.
00:35:43.07\00:35:46.71
So we have crews that go around
00:35:46.78\00:35:48.68
and the beautiful part
about One-Day Churches,
00:35:48.71\00:35:50.75
we build them in some
very remote locations.
00:35:50.78\00:35:54.25
I mean, these can
be hours and hours
00:35:54.32\00:35:56.28
from even any significant road.
00:35:56.32\00:35:59.59
Our crew shows up out there
00:35:59.62\00:36:01.69
and of course the villagers
once they see they're there,
00:36:01.72\00:36:03.83
they congregate
around and they watch them
00:36:03.86\00:36:05.53
build a structure in a day.
00:36:05.56\00:36:07.83
And then the next Sabbath,
00:36:07.86\00:36:09.66
they get to
worship in that structure.
00:36:09.70\00:36:11.30
And if you've ever
actually watched that happen...
00:36:11.33\00:36:14.67
The transformation of
not only the local people,
00:36:14.70\00:36:18.91
but the people
that were there to build
00:36:18.94\00:36:20.38
that church is just amazing,
00:36:20.41\00:36:21.78
because here we are in one day
they have and as Don has said,
00:36:21.81\00:36:25.45
that's usually the
nicest structure in the village.
00:36:25.48\00:36:28.45
And that particular
part of northern Kenya,
00:36:28.48\00:36:30.89
while the pictures
are a little deceiving
00:36:30.92\00:36:32.32
that's in the
middle of the rainy season,
00:36:32.35\00:36:34.52
nine months out of the
year, that's a barren desert.
00:36:34.56\00:36:37.96
And so we're now able to also
put a well on those locations
00:36:37.99\00:36:41.70
with that church.
00:36:41.73\00:36:43.16
So you can imagine
the instant transformation
00:36:43.20\00:36:45.50
that takes place in
those people's lives.
00:36:45.53\00:36:48.67
People that walk
hours and hours every day
00:36:48.70\00:36:50.84
for water each day now
have a well at the church,
00:36:50.91\00:36:55.04
so it becomes the congregation
00:36:55.08\00:36:57.18
or the gathering
point for the congregation
00:36:57.25\00:36:59.05
and the entire village.
00:36:59.08\00:37:00.42
Not only the bread of
life, but the living water.
00:37:00.45\00:37:02.12
That's right. Wow! Wow!
00:37:02.15\00:37:04.19
I used to think
that... Oh, go ahead.
00:37:04.22\00:37:05.72
We're told many,
many times in the Bible
00:37:05.75\00:37:07.99
that we're to preach
the gospel to all the world,
00:37:08.02\00:37:10.13
what that means
these remote locations.
00:37:10.16\00:37:13.23
And being able to see
that up close in personal
00:37:13.26\00:37:15.56
you go to places that,
00:37:15.60\00:37:17.00
that nobody's ever heard of
00:37:17.07\00:37:18.73
and you transform
those people's lives
00:37:18.77\00:37:20.74
is truly amazing.
00:37:20.77\00:37:22.37
Wow! Wow! Life transformation.
00:37:22.40\00:37:24.34
And that is, I mean this...
It changes you, doesn't it?
00:37:24.37\00:37:26.91
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
00:37:26.98\00:37:28.44
There's so many experiences
just diving through my mind
00:37:28.48\00:37:31.41
about going out, as you
said, we go for one reason,
00:37:31.45\00:37:35.15
but the Lord transfers
that reason it to His mission.
00:37:35.18\00:37:39.22
He's got a bigger
view. He says, I know...
00:37:39.25\00:37:41.22
He said, "You think you're going
00:37:41.26\00:37:42.59
to just enjoy
your time at Maranatha?
00:37:42.62\00:37:44.33
I have some people that
you are gonna meet and help."
00:37:44.36\00:37:46.70
Amen. And on that...
00:37:46.73\00:37:48.70
On the Zimbabwe trip
00:37:48.73\00:37:51.07
was when Angie raised money
for kids to come to the school.
00:37:51.10\00:37:54.67
It was amazing as all
those school buildings
00:37:54.70\00:37:56.50
began to go up, we
saw the local police,
00:37:56.54\00:37:59.01
we thought is
there something wrong.
00:37:59.04\00:38:00.38
Oh, yes, yes.
00:38:00.41\00:38:01.74
Something going on, so I
walk over to the officers,
00:38:01.78\00:38:03.11
they were about seven
of them in their uniforms.
00:38:03.14\00:38:04.61
I said, "Is there
something wrong, officer."
00:38:04.65\00:38:06.31
He said, "No,
we have come to see
00:38:06.35\00:38:09.32
how much it costs to enroll
our children in your school."
00:38:09.35\00:38:11.62
Alrighty, there you go.
00:38:11.65\00:38:13.36
It was so beautiful. Yeah.
00:38:13.39\00:38:14.72
And then follow that up
00:38:14.76\00:38:16.09
with a beautiful evangelistic
series with Mark Finley.
00:38:16.12\00:38:18.86
So it's not just
building projects,
00:38:18.89\00:38:21.33
but it's reaching out
and planting the gospel.
00:38:21.36\00:38:23.26
Yeah, it really is. Yeah.
00:38:23.30\00:38:25.57
Let's go to this next photo.
00:38:25.60\00:38:27.27
This is a
picture of a large school
00:38:27.34\00:38:29.30
and you'll tell us where it is?
00:38:29.34\00:38:31.91
This is in India, a
place called Khunti, India.
00:38:31.94\00:38:35.24
This is a school of
about 1,400 students in total.
00:38:35.28\00:38:41.28
This is the elementary section.
00:38:41.32\00:38:42.95
They had really
deteriorating classrooms
00:38:42.98\00:38:47.82
and they asked us to help them
00:38:47.86\00:38:49.26
and this particular building
is what we call an Education
00:38:49.29\00:38:52.36
and Evangelism Center.
00:38:52.39\00:38:54.20
In India, we can't
use the word evangelism,
00:38:54.23\00:38:56.06
but it's...
00:38:56.10\00:38:58.40
That's what it is.
00:38:58.43\00:38:59.77
It does more
than just be a school.
00:38:59.80\00:39:02.30
But that particular
school was built in the memory
00:39:02.34\00:39:06.71
of one of our
board member's wife
00:39:06.78\00:39:08.34
who passed away, Sue Kruger.
00:39:08.38\00:39:11.05
And it opened with 650 students.
00:39:11.08\00:39:14.42
Opened?
00:39:14.45\00:39:16.05
So right off the bat, so
that's a big impact project
00:39:16.08\00:39:19.55
and had a lot of
volunteers go and experience it.
00:39:19.59\00:39:23.73
Those big schools,
we've done 115 of those now,
00:39:23.76\00:39:27.03
I think, in
different parts of the world.
00:39:27.10\00:39:29.63
And they are so
transformational.
00:39:29.66\00:39:32.47
They make a big
impact on a community.
00:39:32.50\00:39:35.24
So you know, you
were mentioning the police
00:39:35.27\00:39:38.21
that were going to send
their kids to the school.
00:39:38.24\00:39:40.68
So one of the great
things about Adventist education
00:39:40.71\00:39:43.21
that some people
might know, not know is that
00:39:43.24\00:39:46.21
it is the second largest
private educational system
00:39:46.25\00:39:50.19
in the world.
00:39:50.22\00:39:52.09
And people bring
their kids there every day.
00:39:52.12\00:39:58.76
So family that may
00:39:58.79\00:40:00.90
or may not be an
Adventist Christian family,
00:40:00.93\00:40:03.67
they're bringing
their kids there every day.
00:40:03.70\00:40:06.43
And they're
beginning relationships
00:40:06.47\00:40:08.34
with other Christian families
and they, they find a home.
00:40:08.37\00:40:12.54
And I can't tell you
how many stories I've heard,
00:40:12.57\00:40:14.64
maybe you have heard too.
00:40:14.68\00:40:16.95
By the time that
kid like some boy
00:40:16.98\00:40:20.15
starts at 11 years old,
00:40:20.22\00:40:21.75
they find the
school they put him in,
00:40:21.78\00:40:23.39
you know, by the time he's 17,
00:40:23.42\00:40:26.12
I remember the mom and
the grandmother saying,
00:40:26.15\00:40:28.92
"He just completely changed."
00:40:28.96\00:40:30.93
And he gave his life to Christ.
00:40:30.96\00:40:32.56
And now, the family
00:40:32.59\00:40:34.63
and the
grandparents have also become
00:40:34.66\00:40:37.60
Seventh-day
Adventist Christians.
00:40:37.63\00:40:39.33
Because of the school,
00:40:39.37\00:40:40.84
so the school is
really this long term,
00:40:40.87\00:40:44.04
day by day and
like evangelistic tool
00:40:44.11\00:40:48.31
that God is using,
00:40:48.34\00:40:49.91
using relationships,
using learning about the Bible,
00:40:49.94\00:40:52.75
using learning
about how to build
00:40:52.78\00:40:54.78
and maintain a Christian life.
00:40:54.82\00:40:56.48
You know, so the
schools are fantastic.
00:40:56.52\00:40:58.75
It's the gospel in action.
00:40:58.79\00:41:00.16
It is the gospel. Yes.
00:41:00.19\00:41:01.52
And it's not just a quick fix,
but it's a transformational,
00:41:01.56\00:41:04.13
not just for the children.
00:41:04.16\00:41:05.49
Because you had an
experience, remember,
00:41:05.53\00:41:06.86
there's a boy that
kept hanging around the site
00:41:06.90\00:41:08.70
there in Zimbabwe and you say,
00:41:08.73\00:41:10.07
"Are you in
school?" He said, "No."
00:41:10.10\00:41:12.23
And you said, "Well,
where's your parents?"
00:41:12.27\00:41:13.84
He said, "They passed away."
00:41:13.87\00:41:15.27
"So where do you live with?"
00:41:15.30\00:41:16.64
With my older brother."
00:41:16.71\00:41:18.04
"Well, are you in school?" "No."
00:41:18.07\00:41:19.74
"When was the last
time you went to school?"
00:41:19.77\00:41:21.54
"Three years ago." "Why?"
00:41:21.58\00:41:23.45
Say, "I can't afford
it." I can't afford it.
00:41:23.48\00:41:25.15
My wife said,
"You're going to school."
00:41:25.18\00:41:26.55
Yeah. And...
00:41:26.58\00:41:27.92
We had sponsorship and funds.
00:41:27.95\00:41:29.65
And we said,
"Come, you're in school."
00:41:29.68\00:41:32.15
And she sat there in
the register's office...
00:41:32.19\00:41:33.96
I have him some
clothes. Him clothes.
00:41:33.99\00:41:35.32
She said, "Sign him
up, he's going to school."
00:41:35.36\00:41:37.26
Yeah. And that is it.
00:41:37.33\00:41:38.66
We leave with this like,
"Don, we need to go again."
00:41:38.69\00:41:43.10
Because there's
so many more lives
00:41:43.13\00:41:44.47
that we want to touch.
00:41:44.50\00:41:45.83
There're plenty
of opportunities.
00:41:45.87\00:41:47.24
Plenty of opportunities.
00:41:47.27\00:41:48.60
Look on the
inside of this building.
00:41:48.64\00:41:49.97
Now, what you...
00:41:50.01\00:41:51.34
Did you, I know, as a builder,
00:41:51.37\00:41:52.71
that's a huge
building, Peter, that one.
00:41:52.74\00:41:54.08
Can we show that
picture one more time.
00:41:54.11\00:41:55.44
I want to see
the outside of that
00:41:55.48\00:41:56.81
and then we're
gonna look at the inside.
00:41:56.85\00:41:58.18
That's a structure
that was built by Maranatha.
00:41:58.21\00:42:00.65
See, so it's not
just a One-Day Church,
00:42:00.72\00:42:02.35
not just
sometimes a smaller church,
00:42:02.38\00:42:03.72
that's a huge structure.
00:42:03.79\00:42:05.22
It functions as a
church in the center section
00:42:05.25\00:42:07.56
and there're
classrooms on the outside edge,
00:42:07.59\00:42:09.16
it's the way it's designed.
00:42:09.19\00:42:10.86
So that there's a big auditorium
00:42:10.93\00:42:13.33
as well as your
classroom, so it's multi use.
00:42:13.40\00:42:16.26
We have a picture on the inside.
00:42:16.30\00:42:17.90
Let's look at a
picture from the inside.
00:42:17.93\00:42:19.27
You can see that there's a
big auditorium on the inside.
00:42:19.30\00:42:21.90
It also could be a gymnasium,
and then you have classrooms
00:42:21.94\00:42:24.47
all along the outside
of that hall basically.
00:42:24.51\00:42:29.51
But, you know,
they pack them in.
00:42:29.54\00:42:32.05
Look at the
windows, that's nice.
00:42:32.08\00:42:33.82
You got air and
natural light in.
00:42:33.85\00:42:36.55
And that's not
a one-day project.
00:42:36.58\00:42:38.05
No. No.
00:42:38.09\00:42:39.95
Not even close.
00:42:39.99\00:42:41.89
How long does
someone take to build, Pete?
00:42:41.92\00:42:43.83
Well, that's a
multiple trip project.
00:42:43.86\00:42:46.80
I don't remember in Khunti,
00:42:46.83\00:42:48.16
but I'm guessing there
were probably four different
00:42:48.20\00:42:51.20
Maranatha trips there
to construct that building
00:42:51.23\00:42:54.44
along with the
local Maranatha employees.
00:42:54.47\00:42:57.24
Okay.
00:42:57.31\00:42:58.64
So, those take quite a long time
00:42:58.67\00:43:00.01
as you can see by
how big the structure is.
00:43:00.04\00:43:02.18
But as Don has mentioned,
00:43:02.21\00:43:03.88
the impact is
dramatic in that town
00:43:03.95\00:43:06.01
or that city
where they build it.
00:43:06.05\00:43:07.42
Because we get so
many students there
00:43:07.45\00:43:10.02
and it's such a
good looking building
00:43:10.09\00:43:11.59
and the quality structure.
00:43:11.62\00:43:13.59
In fact, we had
one of those built
00:43:13.66\00:43:15.46
on the island of Dominica.
00:43:15.49\00:43:16.83
Don, if you remember and
it survived the hurricane.
00:43:16.86\00:43:19.13
It did. Yeah, it did.
00:43:19.16\00:43:20.60
So yeah, they're
very, very nice buildings.
00:43:20.63\00:43:23.77
Wow! That's...
00:43:23.80\00:43:25.23
Our church in
Fairfield, California,
00:43:25.27\00:43:28.10
was built by Maranatha builders.
00:43:28.14\00:43:29.47
Yes, it was.
00:43:29.50\00:43:30.84
I remember that
very well. It sure was.
00:43:30.91\00:43:32.24
When I was pastoring, I
said, "Who build this church?"
00:43:32.27\00:43:33.68
Maranatha builders.
00:43:33.71\00:43:35.08
Maranatha builders, so
you do local you wanna do.
00:43:35.11\00:43:36.95
Yeah, we do a lot of
projects in the United States,
00:43:36.98\00:43:38.88
believe it or not.
00:43:38.91\00:43:40.25
We have a video
that I want to...
00:43:40.32\00:43:42.12
It's a Kajiado. Kajiado.
00:43:42.15\00:43:46.19
I wrote it down phonetically
00:43:46.22\00:43:47.56
and I still
couldn't pronounce it.
00:43:47.59\00:43:49.22
Tell us about that before
we will look at this video?
00:43:49.26\00:43:51.69
Kajiado is a special project.
00:43:51.73\00:43:55.03
It's a girls'
rescue center. Okay.
00:43:55.06\00:43:58.23
It's about an hour or
so from Nairobi, Kenya.
00:43:58.27\00:44:01.44
Oh, wow!
00:44:01.47\00:44:02.80
And it was
established as a place
00:44:02.84\00:44:04.84
as a rescue for girls
00:44:04.87\00:44:06.61
who are going through the FGM
and early child marriage issues
00:44:06.68\00:44:11.88
that they sometimes
have in the Masai villages
00:44:11.91\00:44:15.75
there in Kenya.
00:44:15.78\00:44:17.59
And so it gets your heart.
00:44:17.62\00:44:19.52
These girls have gone through
stuff you can't even imagine.
00:44:19.55\00:44:22.49
And so this
rescue center was built,
00:44:22.52\00:44:24.86
but they desperately
needed more facilities,
00:44:24.89\00:44:28.43
they needed water.
00:44:28.46\00:44:30.17
And so we were lucky enough
00:44:30.20\00:44:31.97
to be able to get involved in it
00:44:32.00\00:44:33.54
and start helping.
00:44:33.57\00:44:34.90
It's just the
beginning of the project for us.
00:44:34.94\00:44:36.34
We've done some.
00:44:36.37\00:44:38.44
I think we
brought a short video...
00:44:38.47\00:44:39.81
A video, yeah. It
might be good to...
00:44:39.84\00:44:41.44
Let's look at
that video right now
00:44:41.48\00:44:42.81
about this project.
00:44:42.84\00:44:44.18
God, we want to
thank You for the visitors
00:44:50.89\00:44:52.55
and Father give
them genuine mercies
00:44:52.59\00:44:55.22
until they have reached here.
00:44:55.26\00:44:56.59
Well, Father, we honor
You and glorify Your name
00:44:56.62\00:44:58.29
because of that Father.
00:44:58.33\00:44:59.79
And even as we're
waiting for them in eager,
00:44:59.83\00:45:01.93
Father, You've helped us
and we have met with them
00:45:01.96\00:45:04.17
and find out that
they are okay, Father.
00:45:04.20\00:45:06.53
We lift up Your name
and glorify Your name.
00:45:06.57\00:45:08.20
Amen. Amen.
00:45:08.24\00:45:09.57
Father in Jesus'
name, we want to thank You
00:45:09.60\00:45:11.14
because of this power
that You have given us.
00:45:11.17\00:45:14.31
Thank You for
giving us an opportunity
00:45:14.34\00:45:16.58
to stand here
together and hold our hands
00:45:16.61\00:45:19.25
to witness the miracle
that You're about to do.
00:45:19.28\00:45:21.72
Yes.
00:45:21.75\00:45:23.08
That's an amazing
video. Wow! Powerful.
00:47:02.65\00:47:04.82
When you look at
what happened there.
00:47:04.85\00:47:06.19
But I want Don to explain
00:47:06.22\00:47:07.56
why this water was so important?
00:47:07.59\00:47:09.49
Well, this rescue
center is in area of Kenya
00:47:09.52\00:47:12.13
that's extremely dry.
00:47:12.16\00:47:14.30
And everybody knows that
they didn't have water there.
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They had drilled a well before
00:47:17.57\00:47:18.90
but they were getting
like nothing out of it.
00:47:18.93\00:47:20.94
Most of the people in that area
00:47:20.97\00:47:22.30
get their water off a
water truck, they buy it,
00:47:22.34\00:47:24.21
and the schools
having to do that too
00:47:24.24\00:47:26.11
in order to have
any water at all.
00:47:26.14\00:47:27.88
And the girls, of course,
00:47:27.91\00:47:29.34
the restroom
facilities are terrible,
00:47:29.38\00:47:30.75
they never took a shower.
00:47:30.78\00:47:33.35
And that needed to be improved
in order for us to expand that
00:47:33.42\00:47:37.39
that rescue center to
allow more girls to come in.
00:47:37.42\00:47:40.99
So this whole thing of drilling
a water well was critical,
00:47:41.02\00:47:45.46
but we actually
had hydrogeologist
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look at this and
they said, "Don't bother.
00:47:48.46\00:47:50.77
You're not gonna
hit any water here.
00:47:50.80\00:47:52.30
Wow!
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"There's nothing that indicates
00:47:53.74\00:47:55.07
that there'll be
any water down there.
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So you can drill if you want,
but don't expect to get water."
00:47:56.47\00:47:59.71
So these girls started praying.
00:47:59.74\00:48:02.54
These girls at
the rescue center,
00:48:02.58\00:48:04.15
they were getting together.
00:48:04.18\00:48:05.51
It was two or three times
a day for a couple of months.
00:48:05.55\00:48:08.25
Yeah. For several months. What?
00:48:08.28\00:48:09.85
And they were praying
that and when it came time
00:48:09.88\00:48:12.02
and we brought our well
drilling equipment in there,
00:48:12.05\00:48:16.29
they were expecting water.
00:48:16.32\00:48:18.89
I mean, so when
they started drilling,
00:48:18.93\00:48:21.83
we were there
00:48:21.86\00:48:23.70
and within less than two meters,
00:48:23.77\00:48:25.80
they hit solid granite.
00:48:25.83\00:48:27.80
So they go through
granted all the way down.
00:48:27.84\00:48:29.57
Well, there's
water come out of a rock.
00:48:29.60\00:48:33.78
Can water come out of a rock?
00:48:33.81\00:48:36.38
So they're
drilling the first day
00:48:36.41\00:48:37.88
they went down about 60 meters?
00:48:37.91\00:48:40.02
Nothing.
00:48:40.05\00:48:41.38
And the next day, the
driller at 87 meters was saying,
00:48:41.42\00:48:44.72
"Yes, I've seen a
little moisture here,
00:48:44.75\00:48:46.79
what's going on?"
00:48:46.86\00:48:48.19
So basically at about 100 meters
00:48:48.22\00:48:50.23
they had a gusher.
00:48:50.26\00:48:51.59
Wow! It was an absolute miracle.
00:48:51.63\00:48:54.13
And let me just tell
you, everybody in town
00:48:54.20\00:48:56.33
because that area is so dry.
00:48:56.36\00:49:00.27
Everybody would
like to have that water.
00:49:00.34\00:49:02.07
So everybody and
it's right on the road
00:49:02.10\00:49:04.74
like this well is
right on the road,
00:49:04.77\00:49:06.98
so everybody that
goes by they're like,
00:49:07.01\00:49:09.24
"What in the world?"
00:49:09.28\00:49:11.08
There is no water down there.
00:49:11.11\00:49:12.45
How in the world, I
mean, it is a miracle
00:49:12.48\00:49:14.75
and it's a clear miracle.
00:49:14.78\00:49:16.28
And I felt like, you know,
00:49:16.32\00:49:17.65
we wanted to expand that school,
00:49:17.69\00:49:19.02
but you can't do
it in good conscience
00:49:19.05\00:49:21.56
with no water.
00:49:21.59\00:49:22.92
That's right,
it's a life project.
00:49:22.96\00:49:24.33
You're just creating
something that will die
00:49:24.36\00:49:25.69
because you have
to have water to live.
00:49:25.73\00:49:27.33
So we're putting plans together
00:49:27.40\00:49:28.73
to do not only their
elementary school there,
00:49:28.76\00:49:30.57
but to expand it
to a secondary school.
00:49:30.60\00:49:32.67
Okay. These girls need that too.
00:49:32.70\00:49:35.00
So it's a big project,
00:49:35.04\00:49:36.37
come a lot of opportunities
for people to go to Kenya
00:49:36.40\00:49:38.67
and actually
talk to these girls.
00:49:38.71\00:49:40.68
It's life changing.
00:49:40.71\00:49:42.04
Yeah, the girls
have a very good story.
00:49:42.08\00:49:43.65
We don't have time
to tell it here now,
00:49:43.68\00:49:45.88
but I did feel like that
water was a sign from God
00:49:45.91\00:49:49.35
as the God was saying,
00:49:49.38\00:49:50.72
"These girls have
had enough." Amen.
00:49:50.79\00:49:52.95
They have had enough. Amen.
00:49:52.99\00:49:54.69
And we're gonna have a
place that's safe and good,
00:49:54.72\00:49:57.53
and we'll launch them
into a much better life ahead.
00:49:57.56\00:50:00.20
That's beautiful.
00:50:00.23\00:50:01.56
I don't know if you could do it,
00:50:01.60\00:50:02.93
but in about a minute and a half
00:50:02.96\00:50:04.30
tell us about the donorship
00:50:04.33\00:50:05.67
and how that makes a
difference with Maranatha?
00:50:05.70\00:50:07.04
Well, as you know, I mean,
00:50:07.07\00:50:08.94
we basically run on donations
00:50:08.97\00:50:12.37
and the generosity of people
00:50:12.41\00:50:14.61
and the Holy Spirit
talking to people's hearts.
00:50:14.64\00:50:18.18
So all these
buildings, all the wells,
00:50:18.21\00:50:21.48
they are all gifts
from people who care.
00:50:21.52\00:50:25.75
And I believe it
is the Holy Spirit
00:50:25.79\00:50:27.99
that taps on
that person and says,
00:50:28.02\00:50:30.66
"I have a project for you."
00:50:30.73\00:50:32.76
And, you know, we definitely
don't want to push anybody,
00:50:32.79\00:50:35.76
but I know that
there are people out there
00:50:35.80\00:50:37.57
that the Holy
Spirit is speaking too.
00:50:37.60\00:50:40.54
And there are people that
are the receivers of that,
00:50:40.57\00:50:43.84
that are praying
00:50:43.91\00:50:46.37
for an
advancement of some project.
00:50:46.41\00:50:49.24
And we are dependent on that.
00:50:49.28\00:50:50.85
We are the middleman.
00:50:50.88\00:50:53.28
We are what I call pass through,
00:50:53.31\00:50:54.85
we are a pass through.
00:50:54.88\00:50:56.22
You know, but we see this
00:50:56.25\00:50:57.95
and we hope for that
and we put them together,
00:50:57.99\00:51:00.06
and make that project happen.
00:51:00.09\00:51:02.19
And you know, we
do answer to a donor,
00:51:02.22\00:51:04.69
I mean, we, like,
00:51:04.73\00:51:07.33
if you give a
gift for a project,
00:51:07.40\00:51:09.16
we invite you to go work on it,
00:51:09.20\00:51:12.33
at least go see it,
00:51:12.37\00:51:13.84
if nothing else
we'll send you a picture.
00:51:13.87\00:51:15.94
You know, we
want you to know like,
00:51:15.97\00:51:17.71
this is a transparent ministry,
00:51:17.74\00:51:19.31
it's transparent as it would be.
00:51:19.34\00:51:21.51
And we're trying to be
as efficient as we can be.
00:51:21.54\00:51:24.78
This is God's work, so
if a person is feeling,
00:51:24.81\00:51:30.89
the tap, tap, tap of
the Holy Spirit respond,
00:51:30.92\00:51:32.99
there's nothing
higher or better,
00:51:33.02\00:51:35.29
and that dollar
you'll see the result of it
00:51:35.32\00:51:38.03
10,000 years from now,
00:51:38.06\00:51:39.86
it's still gonna be working.
00:51:39.89\00:51:42.36
In the lives of eternity,
00:51:42.40\00:51:43.87
we're gonna take a
short break right here,
00:51:43.90\00:51:45.23
but on the other
side after this news break
00:51:45.27\00:51:47.07
and the address role
00:51:47.14\00:51:48.47
to get in touch with
Maranatha Ministries.
00:51:48.50\00:51:50.54
We'll come back for
a few closing thoughts.
00:51:50.61\00:51:52.87
If you feel
impressed to help and support
00:51:56.28\00:51:58.38
the worldwide
ministry of Maranatha,
00:51:58.41\00:52:00.15
you can do so on
a variety of ways.
00:52:00.22\00:52:02.25
You can visit their
website at www. Maranatha.org
00:52:02.28\00:52:07.82
or call 916-774-7700.
00:52:07.86\00:52:12.93
You may also write them
00:52:12.96\00:52:14.43
at Maranatha
Volunteers International,
00:52:14.46\00:52:17.27
990 Reserve Drive, Suite 100,
00:52:17.30\00:52:21.64
Roseville, CA 94508.
00:52:21.67\00:52:25.47
That's 990, Reserve Drive,
00:52:25.51\00:52:28.34
Suite 100,
Roseville, California 94508.
00:52:28.38\00:52:33.42