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 3ABN family
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to another
edition of 3ABN Today.
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I'm your host Ryan Day,
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and we are so excited
that each and every one of you
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are joining us
and taking the time
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out of your day,
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to be with us
during the special program
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and we do indeed have a
special program for you.
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We are going to be
talking about missions,
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and evangelism, and miracles,
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and just the wonderful
work of God on this program.
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And I just,
before we go any further,
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I want to thank
each and every one of you
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for your love, your prayers
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and your
continual support of 3ABN
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because I wouldn't
be able to sit here,
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and we wouldn't be able
to do what we do here at 3ABN
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without you, and
we are so blessed
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that each and every one
of you support this ministry
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in the way that you do.
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Because right
now this is gonna go
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all over the world
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and someone is gonna be blessed
and so we give God the glory,
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and we praise Him
continually each and every day.
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I said we had a
special program for you
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and I mean with all of my heart,
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I think we should go
ahead and introduce our guests
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for today.
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We have Miss Reva Moore,
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she is the founder and president
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of Adopt a
Minister International,
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powerful ministry and
then sitting next to you,
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of course, is Mary Grace,
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she is a musician and fundraiser
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for Adopt a
Minister International.
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And, Mary Grace,
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I have to just say
something real quick
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as we're getting
started here because
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the last time you came
to 3ABN was around 2016,
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you had told me that.
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Well, I had never...
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I never heard of you,
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I've never seen you play before.
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And I was flipping
through the channels one day
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and I came across
3ABN and I saw her playing.
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I saw you playing the
piano and I was just amazed
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and overwhelmed like wow,
God has really blessed you
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with a special
ability to play the piano
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in such a marvelous amazing way.
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And, in fact, we're
actually gonna open this program
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with a special music number
by Mary Grace on the piano
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and she's gonna be playing
for us, "People Need the Lord."
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Wow, praise the Lord.
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Mary Grace, the Lord
has blessed you abundantly.
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That's one of my favorite songs,
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"People Need the Lord."
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And we know that
people do need the Lord
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and I just praise
the Lord for the talents
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that God has given you.
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We're gonna talk a little
bit more about those talents
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in just a few moments.
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But you know,
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you guys are not
necessarily new to 3ABN.
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I know you've been
here several times before
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I think was two or
three times before today.
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Three. Three times
before today, okay.
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But there may be
someone that may be watching
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that may not
know who you guys are.
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So, Reva, why don't
you introduce yourself?
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Tell us a little bit about you
and then also you, Mary Grace.
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Okay, my name is Reva Moore.
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I'm from the
Philippines originally,
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but I live in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Awesome!
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So how long
have you lived there?
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Forty something years.
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Forty years!
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Okay, so you were born
and raised in the Philippines?
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In the Philippines.
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Okay, and how long
were you in the Philippines
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before you came to the US?
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I think I came in 1971, so.
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Okay, okay.
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Wow, praise the
Lord. Long time ago.
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Awesome, and you are the founder
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and president I
guess you would say or...
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So you're basically...
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It's a nonprofit organization
so we have to have a president.
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So you are the
president and founder
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of Adopt a
Minister International
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which we're gonna talk
about in great detail today
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in just a few moments,
then, of course, Mary Grace,
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we've seen you play
but where are you from?
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Tell our viewers a
little bit about yourself.
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Originally from the Philippines
as well in the Visayas,
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and I live in
Baton Rouge now with her.
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Awesome.
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Okay, so where
you born and raised
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in the Philippines as well?
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Yes.
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And how long did you
were in the Philippines
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before you came to US?
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I moved here in 2003,
so it's been 15, 16 years.
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Wow, praise the Lord.
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I've always wanted to
go to the Philippines.
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I had never been
to the Philippines
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but maybe one day
the Lord will bless me
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with an opportunity to do so.
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But we are here to talk
about the incredible ministry
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and just hearing you tell a
little bit about this, Reva.
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I know without a doubt that
this was inspired by the Lord,
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and we're here to talk about
Adopt a Minister International.
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And as I said you were
the founder and president,
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so why don't you give us a
little bit of a back-story?
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How did this
ministry come about?
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Give us a little
bit of the origins
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of how the Lord inspired you
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to start this
incredible ministry?
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I would say it's
started because I just wanted...
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As a child, I was
always volunteering to God.
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I'll do anything for You.
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I don't know why but I will say,
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"God, I'll do anything for You."
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And as I got older
and when I came over here,
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God gave me the
privilege to come to America
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and it really
started when in 1998
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I had two sons and their dad
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came down with a malignant
brain tumor irreparable.
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Sure.
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And even after 14 months
of crying to God and pleading,
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His answer was no.
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But he was totally
surrendered to God.
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But in that eight
years before he passed on,
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I had recurring dreams of this.
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We're building houses.
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My husband is a carpenter
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and he was
building our third house
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and I would dream that
I had my beautiful house
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but in the yard
as they run down,
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you know, not
finished little building
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that look like a church.
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See.
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These were recurring
dreams for eight years,
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and that the last dream was,
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I saw this big
beautiful church on a beach.
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And, I saw two-storied building
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where people go
to after the church,
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and then I saw
this little rest areas
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and I didn't know
what it was all about.
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And, my husband passed away.
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A week after the funeral,
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it was a very, very
devastating time for us.
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It's amazing I'm not crying now,
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but very devastating.
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A week after the
funeral, I heard this voice.
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I was getting
ready for Sabbath school.
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Build me a church
and I said, "Wow."
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The idea came to me I said,
"I ought to build a church?
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But where am I
gonna get the money?"
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And the idea
keeps coming and it says
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my husband's
life insurance money.
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And I looked,
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yeah, the little bit
of life insurance money
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and we've built this
church through email.
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God gave me the
directions on how it should be,
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more like instructions
on how it should be built.
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And all I did was find a friend
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whose brothers were engineers
and they built this church.
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And when they saw it,
it's on my parent's property
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and is given to the Lord.
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Praise the Lord.
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So, when you
received this dream,
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you were here in
the US at the time?
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Yes. Okay.
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And you were
married to your husband,
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or did you receive
it before or after him?
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Before. Eight
years before he died.
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Wow.
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Every so often I
would dream this.
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Like you're
building beautiful houses,
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look at my house of worship.
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House's of Worship
in the Philippines.
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And is said, "Okay,"
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so the money was my
children's college money.
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Sure.
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I gave it up. Wow.
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And I ran out of money.
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Wow!
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That must've been a
big step of faith for you?
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Yes.
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Wow.
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I got excited
about it. Of course.
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At first, I was upset
because my husband died
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and was upset at God.
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But then, the idea
of building the church
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in memory of my
husband, I ran out of money.
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But the family who
brought me to America,
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Doctor and Mrs. McLardy
gave me part of the money.
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And my family and
friends part of the money.
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So that is how
this church is built.
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Wow.
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So how did you
come to the conclusion
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that church needed
to be in the Philippines
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versus where you were?
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It was in the
dream, it was in my town.
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Okay, so in the
dream God specifically...
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Yeah, on my parent's
property and I'm thinking like,
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"We don't have any
property in the Philippines!"
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But my brother said,
"Yes, we still have a property
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in the Philippines."
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And the only property on
the beach that was not sold
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or given away.
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And that's where it was built.
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That is where it is today.
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Wow. Praise the Lord.
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And we're gonna
look at a picture of this
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in just a few moments.
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Actually it's
right here. There it is.
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That is a beautiful church.
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So you saw this vividly
in your dream just like this?
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Vividly, yes.
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And God gave you all
the instructions of just
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how to build it specifically.
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That's amazing.
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Even the stained
glass inside of the picture,
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I have to send them up...
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Take all those things pictorial.
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Right.
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And then added flowers,
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and this is the most
beautiful stained glass picture
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about seven foot tall.
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Wow. And they got it.
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They did such a beautiful job.
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I was amazed how they did this
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and everything was
done through email.
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My brother, my
second oldest brother
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went there to supervise,
he was retired at that time.
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And he
supervised the construction
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for six months.
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Amazing. And he started there.
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Okay, so you...
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God gives you this dream,
build me a church, and you...
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Now what happens?
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So you built this
church and then how does this
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Adopt a Minister
International come from this?
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I think, I feel like I
was being tested, can you?
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I'll do it. Okay.
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I did it.
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And so, when I came back
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after the grand
opening of the church,
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I came back and I had a dream.
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Right.
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And in the dream, I'm seeing...
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At that time I was
a full time worker,
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sending two kids to
college, a widow, and in dream,
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I'm seeing this
woman in a white outfit.
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I don't know who
she was and she just,
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she said she told me,
"Come, I'll show you."
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Took me to this building,
and I went inside a building,
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room like this
with wooden floor.
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And I see little
babies sitting on the floor.
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Naked,
malnourished, dirty babies,
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like a foot apart.
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And on one side
would be a little older
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and I'm thinking like
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who are these babies
and then the woman said,
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this is your job.
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You need to take care of
their babies and she left.
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And I went there and I started
taking one baby at a time,
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bathing them,
scrubbing the floor,
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putting them clothes
and putting one of them,
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one at a time until get done.
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And I didn't know what it was
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and then, I said
I dream all the time
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so I wonder what that was.
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That's when I started
trying to put ministers
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to the church that I built.
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So I contacted the
mission, the local mission
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who actively helped me
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with the building of the church,
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I said, "I'd like to
put three ministers there."
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A month later, I'm
not receiving any answer.
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"Are you all gonna
put the minister there?"
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And they said, "We cannot decide
00:15:51.48\00:15:54.12
who to put there
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because there're so
many who wants to go there."
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Oh.
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I said, "What do you mean?"
00:15:58.39\00:15:59.72
They said, "We have about
30 in these missions alone
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who are unemployed."
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I said, "Place
three over there."
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And then I'm saying, "Thirty."
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What are you doing?
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Unemployed.
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These are young people
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who went to our
Adventist universities
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and colleges.
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Okay, and this is
in the Philippines?
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In the Philippines.
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And so about how
many universities
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and colleges do
they have in Philippines?
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We have five. Five, okay.
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Four colleges
and one university.
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All right.
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And so we are
producing theology graduates,
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working students.
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Some of them had to work
till 8 to 10 years in college.
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Wow.
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Working in the
farm whatever to become,
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God had called
this young people.
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Sure.
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Mostly, most of them,
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they're only
Seventh-day Adventist
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in the family.
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They attended an
evangelistic meeting.
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The Holy Spirit speaks
to them, they get baptized.
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And then they get excited,
they want to be a minister.
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But wow, they're so poor.
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They go to
college, working students,
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we have some
sponsored students too,
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but that's how it
started really the babies.
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Right.
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And when I found out
that there were so many,
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it's like God did not
want to leave me alone.
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And I'm thinking like wow,
if they are that unemployed
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and they have no funds,
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how do they feed their
families if they have a family
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or even themselves?
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He did not leave me alone.
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I would go to work,
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I would go to
sleep still in my mind.
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Amen.
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And every 2
o'clock in the morning,
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I see Jesus was
standing by my bed,
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waking me up and
saying, "Wake up,
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what are you
gonna do about them?"
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And I would just cry.
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I said, "Leave me
alone, I don't know."
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Every 2 o'clock, I
thought this lasted for weeks.
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He'd stand there and wake up
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and I just sit on my bed
and I said, "I don't know."
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Then, I have to
tell you this part.
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Sure.
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It was like a
couple months later,
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I was invited to
speak at a Gulfport Church.
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And I'm talking
about raising funds
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to build a church school
in the church that I built.
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Sure.
00:18:18.86\00:18:20.20
Guess what
comes out of my mouth?
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This hundreds of
unemployed theology graduates
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and I'm talking about it.
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And I said, "What in the world?"
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When I got done with
my talk at the potluck,
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there was a Filipino
man who happened to be
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just visiting the
all American Church.
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And he came and he said,
00:18:41.92\00:18:45.05
"What are we gonna do
about those ministers?"
00:18:45.09\00:18:46.96
I said, "I don't know."
00:18:46.99\00:18:48.59
He said, "I tell you what?
00:18:48.62\00:18:50.63
I will pay for the
salaries of five of them."
00:18:50.66\00:18:54.66
I said, "Okay."
00:18:54.70\00:18:56.56
And then
another and some doctor,
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we still are sponsored today.
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Right. So I'll
pay for one of them.
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When I went home, I said,
"I've got to do something."
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That's how it got started.
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Okay so that you just mentioned
that this gentleman volunteered
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to pay the salary of
five of them and another one,
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I'll pay for one's so
what is the salary of...
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It never changed
really even from 20 years ago,
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I said, I just came
up with a $130 a month.
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Okay, let's take
in that for a moment,
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$130 a month in the Philippines
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For their salary.
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For the salary for the pastor,
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and these are young men
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who have come out of university,
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they've been trained,
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they have given
their heart to the Lord,
00:19:37.77\00:19:39.11
they've committed to
the mission of the church,
00:19:39.14\00:19:40.98
into the mission of Christ.
00:19:41.01\00:19:42.61
But yet, there's
just not enough funds.
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No.
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So I have to ask this
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'cause as you're
telling this story,
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at least from where I grew,
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'cause I haven't always been
00:19:49.58\00:19:50.92
Seventh-day Adventist Christian.
00:19:50.99\00:19:52.32
I grew up in Pentecostal Church
00:19:52.35\00:19:54.26
and going to many different
denominational churches,
00:19:54.29\00:19:56.26
but as you're telling me
00:19:56.29\00:19:57.63
this that the Lord
give this to you in a dream,
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automatically
especially here in America,
00:20:00.00\00:20:02.03
you're gonna run
into some skeptics
00:20:02.06\00:20:03.67
who are gonna say,
okay, but how do you know?
00:20:03.70\00:20:05.60
So did you have anyone
that was skeptic about,
00:20:05.63\00:20:09.47
you know, or
questioning you about,
00:20:09.50\00:20:10.91
you know, was this
dream really from the Lord?
00:20:10.94\00:20:12.91
What were some of the
responses that you got?
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Oh, I still get
that today, even today
00:20:14.31\00:20:16.11
because I dream all the time.
00:20:16.14\00:20:17.48
Right.
00:20:17.55\00:20:18.88
I dream about and they say,
00:20:18.91\00:20:20.25
well, you know the devil
can also give you a dream
00:20:20.28\00:20:21.62
but I said, "But this one,
he did not leave me alone."
00:20:21.65\00:20:25.09
I had to do
something and so I started out,
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I was still a widow
and two kids in college
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and we started out
with the six and then...
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By the way I have nine siblings.
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There are 10 siblings,
9 brothers and sisters.
00:20:42.77\00:20:45.27
And so they said,
"Well, we'll help you."
00:20:45.31\00:20:47.61
And then, my son
said, "We'll help you."
00:20:47.64\00:20:49.88
And so next thing
you know I have about 60.
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We have 60 and then I
started getting letters,
00:20:52.91\00:20:56.48
application letters.
00:20:56.52\00:20:57.85
"Mom, can we be part
of this Adopt a Minister?"
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Wow.
00:20:59.79\00:21:01.12
So these are the
babies of my dream coming up,
00:21:01.16\00:21:02.56
you know, and so I said,
"Okay, God, I'm still working,
00:21:02.59\00:21:08.33
I don't know how to do
this, I cannot do it, I go home,
00:21:08.36\00:21:11.00
I go to work, I
do my computer work,
00:21:11.03\00:21:13.34
send me help."
00:21:13.37\00:21:15.40
That's when God sent me help.
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This was like four years later.
00:21:16.94\00:21:18.31
Okay, so this
is where Mary Grace
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comes into the picture.
00:21:20.71\00:21:22.04
So now really quick, Mary Grace,
00:21:22.08\00:21:23.58
so just to set kind
of the timeline here.
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This Adopt a
Minster International,
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its official
founding year was what year?
00:21:29.55\00:21:32.52
2000. 2000, okay.
00:21:32.55\00:21:34.39
So 2000.
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You had received these
dreams many years prior,
00:21:35.89\00:21:38.59
that you felt were
from the Lord obviously.
00:21:38.63\00:21:40.50
It was really like
within the six months timeframe.
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I went hearing...
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That's when He started
sending me people to do it
00:21:47.44\00:21:49.50
and then it got done.
00:21:49.54\00:21:50.91
Right.
00:21:50.94\00:21:52.27
And so... That's powerful.
00:21:52.31\00:21:53.91
That was 2000 until today.
00:21:53.98\00:21:56.28
This is our 20th,
going to our 20th year.
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Right.
00:21:58.68\00:22:00.02
And here we are
looking in hindsight
00:22:00.05\00:22:02.28
nearly 20 years later
00:22:02.32\00:22:03.99
and you know that
this is from the Lord
00:22:04.02\00:22:05.62
because of how many
lives have been impacted
00:22:05.65\00:22:08.32
and how many young men
have come through this program
00:22:08.36\00:22:10.99
which you're gonna
tell us in just few moments.
00:22:11.03\00:22:12.59
I don't wanna spoil the
story but 2000 and this thing,
00:22:12.63\00:22:17.17
obviously it's
now gaining awareness,
00:22:17.20\00:22:19.13
more and more people
are learning about it,
00:22:19.17\00:22:20.94
but you still need
to spread the awareness,
00:22:20.97\00:22:22.87
obviously you want
this thing to be influential
00:22:22.90\00:22:25.54
and worldwide and so,
00:22:25.57\00:22:27.31
this is where Mary
Grace comes into the picture.
00:22:27.38\00:22:29.24
So, Mary Grace, how
did you get connected
00:22:29.28\00:22:32.78
in this ministry of
Adopt a Minister International?
00:22:32.81\00:22:35.65
In 2001, I came here
00:22:35.68\00:22:37.85
to do a fundraising
concert in a school,
00:22:37.89\00:22:42.89
gymnasium from
where I came from.
00:22:42.92\00:22:44.59
Okay.
00:22:44.63\00:22:45.96
And I did a concert
in Alexandra, Louisiana.
00:22:45.99\00:22:49.03
Her sister goes to that
church that I did a concert at
00:22:49.06\00:22:53.84
and the sister
called her and asked her.
00:22:53.87\00:22:56.34
She lives by the way 2
hours and 30 minutes away.
00:22:56.37\00:22:59.24
So the sister called
her and tell her that
00:22:59.27\00:23:01.08
why don't you come see this
one-handed girl play the piano.
00:23:01.11\00:23:05.35
At first she didn't wanna go.
00:23:05.38\00:23:06.82
I think she went to the mall.
00:23:06.85\00:23:08.52
And she even asked the sister
that can she sing, you know?
00:23:08.55\00:23:11.22
Okay.
00:23:11.25\00:23:12.59
But the sister won't let up
00:23:12.62\00:23:13.96
until finally she
was able to convince her.
00:23:13.99\00:23:16.42
Oh, no, what
convinced me is that she said,
00:23:16.46\00:23:18.43
well, if you don't
want to come and see her,
00:23:18.46\00:23:20.40
you may want to see the people
00:23:20.43\00:23:21.76
who are talking about
your Adopt a Minister.
00:23:21.80\00:23:23.87
All right, that's a trick.
00:23:25.63\00:23:27.34
She didn't come
for me but for...
00:23:27.37\00:23:29.00
Yeah.
00:23:29.04\00:23:30.41
But when I saw her,
that's when I cried.
00:23:30.44\00:23:31.77
I said, "Wow, this is it."
00:23:31.81\00:23:35.18
I knew then, I
dream about her too
00:23:35.21\00:23:38.45
but in the dream it was a boy.
00:23:38.48\00:23:39.85
The Lord, He had a
plan, He had a different plan.
00:23:41.62\00:23:44.65
He threw you a curve ball...
Her hair was really short then.
00:23:44.69\00:23:47.46
Oh, I see.
00:23:47.49\00:23:48.82
Yeah, when she saw me.
00:23:48.86\00:23:50.23
I see, okay. It
was her backside.
00:23:50.26\00:23:51.73
So I didn't see the hand.
00:23:51.76\00:23:53.09
So you perceived
that it was the boy
00:23:53.13\00:23:54.46
but really
obviously we know who was.
00:23:54.50\00:23:55.83
Yes, but I really
didn't know what it was.
00:23:55.86\00:23:57.20
That's amazing.
00:23:57.27\00:23:58.60
Oh, yeah, I had a
dream about it anyway,
00:23:58.63\00:24:00.04
but I'd find you.
00:24:00.07\00:24:01.80
Absolutely, yeah.
00:24:01.84\00:24:03.17
And I just wanna
pause for a moment
00:24:03.20\00:24:04.54
just to remind our viewers,
you know, when we hear this,
00:24:04.57\00:24:06.91
it's not that it's
rare but then again it is
00:24:06.98\00:24:09.54
that you hear someone
say the Lord gave me a dream
00:24:09.58\00:24:11.35
or I had a dream about that,
00:24:11.38\00:24:12.71
oh, and the Lord
gave me this dream.
00:24:12.75\00:24:14.32
It's not unheard of
because in the Bible obviously
00:24:14.35\00:24:16.55
the Lord gave
many of His followers
00:24:16.58\00:24:18.52
and His young
men and women dreams,
00:24:18.55\00:24:20.06
that's how He
communicated to them.
00:24:20.09\00:24:21.56
And so, it's just powerful
00:24:21.59\00:24:24.16
because you know people
have dreams all the time,
00:24:24.23\00:24:26.06
but you very rarely
ever see this type of thing
00:24:26.09\00:24:28.73
come to fruition which
obviously in hindsight.
00:24:28.76\00:24:31.33
Now we're looking back we see,
00:24:31.37\00:24:32.73
it was a God thing
from the beginning.
00:24:32.77\00:24:34.57
And that is powerful.
00:24:34.60\00:24:35.94
So, Mary Grace, you
finally connect with Mary Grace,
00:24:35.97\00:24:38.44
then what happened next?
00:24:38.47\00:24:40.18
And then so we
met and we bonded.
00:24:40.21\00:24:43.55
And I went back
home to the Philippines,
00:24:43.58\00:24:45.61
came back in 2003
to attend her wedding.
00:24:45.65\00:24:50.39
She remarried. Right.
00:24:50.42\00:24:52.05
And she tells me, I
don't want to say it,
00:24:52.09\00:24:54.89
but she tells me
that I was probably
00:24:54.92\00:24:57.33
answer to her on prayer
00:24:57.36\00:24:59.66
and the Lord gave
her another husband.
00:24:59.69\00:25:01.86
So it's the three
of us to this ministry.
00:25:01.90\00:25:03.23
Oh wow. So your husband is...
00:25:03.26\00:25:07.64
Are you guys
00:25:07.67\00:25:09.27
obviously you called her mother.
00:25:09.30\00:25:10.94
Adopted mother.
Adopted mom, that's awesome.
00:25:10.97\00:25:13.38
Praise the Lord.
00:25:13.41\00:25:14.74
Adopt a Minister...
00:25:14.78\00:25:16.11
That's true.
00:25:16.14\00:25:17.48
That's nice, okay. Wonderful.
00:25:17.51\00:25:19.08
So, Mary Grace, I just
wanna take time for the moment,
00:25:19.11\00:25:21.08
just press the
pause button on the story.
00:25:21.12\00:25:23.92
I would like for you to tell
us a little bit about yourself
00:25:23.99\00:25:27.66
because obviously we
look at these videos of you
00:25:27.69\00:25:31.26
playing the piano so
gracefully and amazing.
00:25:31.29\00:25:34.30
But we notice a
little something about you.
00:25:34.33\00:25:36.10
Tell us a little bit
about how you got started
00:25:36.13\00:25:38.00
and how the Lord has
led you where you are now?
00:25:38.03\00:25:39.73
Yeah, as you can see,
00:25:39.77\00:25:41.10
I was born with
physical limitations,
00:25:41.14\00:25:43.10
you know, I'd have a right arm,
00:25:43.14\00:25:45.11
but it's stub and my
right leg is 8 inches shorter
00:25:45.14\00:25:48.51
and smaller than my left
00:25:48.54\00:25:50.58
and I have to
wear a platform shoe.
00:25:50.65\00:25:52.48
Otherwise I
would limp when I walk
00:25:52.51\00:25:54.68
but I remembered growing up,
00:25:54.72\00:25:56.05
I always wanted to be a
missionary through my music.
00:25:56.08\00:25:58.52
I don't know why but I felt it
that's what my purpose in life.
00:25:58.55\00:26:03.93
That's where the
Lord has called me to do.
00:26:03.96\00:26:06.03
And, when every time
I come home from school,
00:26:06.06\00:26:10.47
actually there were,
00:26:10.50\00:26:12.53
you know, the first
day, I went to school,
00:26:12.57\00:26:14.94
I was so anxious I
didn't wanna leave the house
00:26:14.97\00:26:17.64
and I was so right.
00:26:17.67\00:26:19.27
The moment I
stepped into the classroom,
00:26:19.31\00:26:20.71
the kids made fun of me
because of how I looked.
00:26:20.78\00:26:22.94
They called me
names and stuff like that.
00:26:22.98\00:26:25.05
So every time I would
come home from school,
00:26:25.08\00:26:26.82
I would run into my bedroom
and I cry myself to sleep.
00:26:26.85\00:26:30.22
And every time I look
at myself in the mirror,
00:26:30.29\00:26:32.25
I would cry
because I look different
00:26:32.29\00:26:34.06
from everybody else,
00:26:34.09\00:26:35.69
but I am so blessed I
guess that I have a grandmother
00:26:35.72\00:26:38.99
who taught me about Jesus
and how much Jesus loves me,
00:26:39.03\00:26:42.10
and she told me
every time I feel alone,
00:26:42.13\00:26:43.57
I can just talk to
Jesus and that's what I did.
00:26:43.60\00:26:46.20
And Jesus has
become my very best friend,
00:26:46.23\00:26:48.77
you know, and I would
00:26:48.80\00:26:51.64
from school I would usually
go to my grandparent's house
00:26:51.67\00:26:54.88
and I would watch
my aunt play the piano
00:26:54.91\00:26:57.25
and a few days later,
my grandma thought that
00:26:57.28\00:27:00.42
maybe I was interested as
well in playing the piano.
00:27:00.45\00:27:03.28
So I started
taking piano lessons
00:27:03.32\00:27:04.79
when I was six years old.
00:27:04.82\00:27:06.22
Wow, six years old?
00:27:06.25\00:27:07.59
Yes, but you
believe that my grandmother
00:27:07.66\00:27:10.33
had to go through
three piano teachers.
00:27:10.36\00:27:12.69
The first
teacher that we went to,
00:27:12.73\00:27:14.76
she told us that we
were just wasting our time,
00:27:14.80\00:27:17.83
and she told us that
00:27:17.87\00:27:19.20
I will never be able
to play the piano at all.
00:27:19.23\00:27:22.00
But, thank God,
grandma didn't give up,
00:27:22.04\00:27:24.11
you know, until she
was able to find one
00:27:24.14\00:27:26.81
and she made a bargain
with the fourth teacher
00:27:26.88\00:27:28.71
and she told her,
"Why don't we do this,
00:27:28.74\00:27:30.65
you can teach
Mary Grace you know,
00:27:30.68\00:27:32.15
even with her left hand only
00:27:32.18\00:27:33.62
and I'll pay for the
price of both hands!"
00:27:33.65\00:27:35.82
Wow.
00:27:35.85\00:27:37.19
So the first few
months, I played the piano
00:27:37.22\00:27:39.22
using my left
hand only but later on,
00:27:39.25\00:27:41.26
we realized that I
could also use my stub.
00:27:41.29\00:27:43.63
Right.
00:27:43.66\00:27:44.99
I modify the pieces that I play,
00:27:45.03\00:27:46.39
my stub plays mainly the melody
00:27:46.43\00:27:48.73
and my left hand picks
up the rest of the chords
00:27:48.76\00:27:50.57
for the right.
00:27:50.60\00:27:51.93
That is amazing.
00:27:51.97\00:27:53.30
And I was thinking
and I'm so thankful that,
00:27:53.34\00:27:55.77
you know, if my
stub was cut just right,
00:27:55.80\00:28:00.48
because if it were
any longer or shorter,
00:28:00.51\00:28:02.81
it would probably be hard for me
00:28:02.84\00:28:04.45
to play the piano
00:28:04.48\00:28:05.88
and to have an
elbow joint right here
00:28:05.91\00:28:07.68
which I could not bend
00:28:07.72\00:28:09.05
and I was thinking
if it were bendable,
00:28:09.08\00:28:10.59
perhaps it would
be difficult for me
00:28:10.62\00:28:12.22
to play the piano as well.
00:28:12.25\00:28:14.06
And there's like
a fleshy protrusion
00:28:14.09\00:28:15.99
right at tip of my stub
that's just the right size
00:28:16.02\00:28:18.66
to hit one key so you
know, I was created perfect.
00:28:18.69\00:28:22.40
You were created very perfect.
00:28:22.43\00:28:23.77
The Lord had a plan in mind
00:28:23.80\00:28:25.40
and He knew
exactly what He was doing.
00:28:25.43\00:28:26.77
Exactly. That is amazing.
00:28:26.84\00:28:28.47
So you've been playing
since you were six years old?
00:28:28.50\00:28:30.21
Six years old.
00:28:30.24\00:28:31.57
You started taking
piano lessons at six.
00:28:31.61\00:28:32.94
So you know how
to read sheet music?
00:28:32.97\00:28:34.31
Yes.
00:28:34.34\00:28:35.68
Okay 'cause I noticed
when I was watching you
00:28:35.71\00:28:37.05
in the videos we have,
you don't have sheet music
00:28:37.08\00:28:39.48
so you memorize your
pieces which is awesome.
00:28:39.51\00:28:42.65
And I was amazed as
I'm watching you play
00:28:42.68\00:28:45.32
because again
00:28:45.35\00:28:46.69
someone who doesn't
have this special ability,
00:28:46.76\00:28:50.03
it's like how
accurate are you on the thing.
00:28:50.06\00:28:52.79
You're so accurate
and swiftly changing
00:28:52.83\00:28:56.00
and making the transition
from each key and it's just...
00:28:56.03\00:28:59.83
It's incredible the
gift God has given you.
00:28:59.87\00:29:02.27
In fact, I wanna take a moment.
00:29:02.30\00:29:03.64
Let's go to another song
00:29:03.71\00:29:05.24
that Mary Grace is gonna
play for us at this moment.
00:29:05.27\00:29:07.88
We're gonna go to a cut
00:29:07.91\00:29:09.24
where she is playing
one of my favorite songs,
00:29:09.28\00:29:11.05
"The Lord's Prayer."
00:29:11.08\00:29:12.41
Praise the Lord.
00:32:06.69\00:32:08.02
If Danny Shelton
was here right now,
00:32:08.06\00:32:09.39
he'd say that's a two hander.
00:32:09.42\00:32:10.99
So that is just
incredible. Praise the Lord.
00:32:11.03\00:32:13.43
Lord has blessed you so much.
00:32:13.50\00:32:15.06
I know I cannot say that enough
00:32:15.10\00:32:16.87
because it's just
fascinating to see
00:32:16.90\00:32:18.97
how, you know, the
world would view someone
00:32:19.00\00:32:22.40
with your
disability and they would say,
00:32:22.44\00:32:24.44
"Oh, it's impossible."
00:32:24.47\00:32:26.27
But all things are
possible through the Lord
00:32:26.31\00:32:28.11
and we just praise the Lord
00:32:28.14\00:32:29.48
for what God is
doing through you.
00:32:29.51\00:32:30.95
And on that same note,
the Lord obviously brought you
00:32:30.98\00:32:34.52
you two together and
He's using you Mary Grace
00:32:34.55\00:32:37.59
to help bring awareness
00:32:37.62\00:32:39.42
to this incredible ministry
Adopt a Minister International.
00:32:39.45\00:32:42.39
So talk a little bit
about how you do that?
00:32:42.42\00:32:44.13
So I travel doing
concerts all over in churches
00:32:44.16\00:32:47.83
and camp meetings
00:32:47.86\00:32:49.63
and I show the video
about Adopt a Minister
00:32:49.66\00:32:53.10
and I talk about it.
00:32:53.13\00:32:54.54
So that has been a
answer to my prayer
00:32:54.57\00:32:58.81
and a dream come true for
me to be able to share Jesus
00:32:58.84\00:33:02.54
and to help
others at the same time.
00:33:02.58\00:33:04.51
Amen. Praise the Lord.
00:33:04.55\00:33:05.88
So you just travel
all over the place.
00:33:05.91\00:33:07.42
Yes.
00:33:07.45\00:33:08.78
And so what are
some of the places
00:33:08.82\00:33:10.15
you've been so far?
00:33:10.19\00:33:11.52
I don't know if you've
heard of Bethel, Alaska.
00:33:11.55\00:33:12.99
Okay, I've heard of Alaska.
00:33:13.02\00:33:14.46
Yeah, it's very remote,
00:33:14.49\00:33:15.82
it took me like 16 hours one way
00:33:15.86\00:33:17.99
that everybody were
still warm and welcoming
00:33:18.03\00:33:21.53
and yeah, I've been to almost...
00:33:21.56\00:33:24.57
I've been to 48
states out of 50.
00:33:24.60\00:33:26.84
That's amazing.
00:33:26.87\00:33:28.20
Oh, the Lord has blessed me
00:33:28.24\00:33:29.57
and I thought I
have one short story
00:33:29.60\00:33:32.74
to share with you.
00:33:32.77\00:33:34.11
Sure.
00:33:34.18\00:33:35.51
In 2014, I traveled by myself
most of the time by the way,
00:33:35.54\00:33:39.85
and I thought that
I was already doing
00:33:39.88\00:33:41.78
what the Lord
has called me to do.
00:33:41.82\00:33:44.22
For some reason, I was
supposed to be going to Boston
00:33:44.29\00:33:48.79
to perform in one
of the churches there
00:33:48.82\00:33:50.53
doing the disability awareness,
00:33:50.56\00:33:52.56
and I don't know
00:33:52.59\00:33:54.33
what, I was in
Atlantic getting ready
00:33:54.36\00:33:55.83
to board the jet bridge.
00:33:55.86\00:33:57.63
I don't know what happened,
00:33:57.67\00:33:59.00
all I know is that since
I'm wearing an elevated shoe,
00:33:59.03\00:34:01.50
if I step on something
even as tiny as a tic-tac,
00:34:01.54\00:34:04.37
it would throw me off.
00:34:04.41\00:34:06.04
I was standing on jet
bridge and next second later,
00:34:06.07\00:34:08.11
I found myself
lying under the floor
00:34:08.14\00:34:10.05
and I broke my right femur.
00:34:10.08\00:34:12.78
And can you imagine
how terrified I was?
00:34:12.81\00:34:14.88
I was in Atlanta all by myself.
00:34:14.92\00:34:16.89
Wow.
00:34:16.92\00:34:18.25
I've never been to a hospital,
00:34:18.29\00:34:19.62
I've never seen a doctor
all my life up to that day,
00:34:19.65\00:34:22.19
and the first 20
minutes I didn't have any pain,
00:34:22.22\00:34:24.79
you know, so I was
thinking maybe I could catch
00:34:24.83\00:34:27.00
the next flight back home.
00:34:27.03\00:34:28.83
'Cause I just
wanted to be with family,
00:34:28.86\00:34:30.87
but I prayed and I prayed,
00:34:30.90\00:34:32.30
and I'm glad that
the Lord helped me.
00:34:32.33\00:34:34.14
I stayed in Atlanta
00:34:34.17\00:34:35.60
because of 30 to
40 minutes into it,
00:34:35.64\00:34:37.97
the pain was so excruciating
00:34:38.01\00:34:40.01
that I couldn't
even lift my leg.
00:34:40.08\00:34:42.21
I stayed in Atlanta,
00:34:42.24\00:34:44.25
my adopted parents
drove from Baton Rouge
00:34:44.28\00:34:46.18
to be with me.
00:34:46.21\00:34:47.55
We stayed up for almost a week,
drove back home to Baton Rouge,
00:34:47.62\00:34:51.02
saw a local orthopedic surgeon,
00:34:51.05\00:34:53.66
did another
X-ray only to find out
00:34:53.69\00:34:55.69
that the bones
were not connecting.
00:34:55.72\00:34:58.09
There was only like
5% chance for it to heal.
00:34:58.13\00:35:02.13
So in less than a month,
00:35:02.16\00:35:03.50
I had to go through
two major surgeries.
00:35:03.57\00:35:05.83
I started to question God,
00:35:07.04\00:35:08.37
you know, because
it took me a long time
00:35:08.40\00:35:10.51
before I finally
made peace with my past,
00:35:10.54\00:35:12.84
accepted my disability
00:35:12.87\00:35:14.31
and something
like this happened,
00:35:14.34\00:35:16.24
but I'm so blessed that
00:35:16.28\00:35:17.65
I have a very
prayerful support system,
00:35:17.68\00:35:19.58
and they help me realize
00:35:19.61\00:35:20.95
that I should
be thankful instead
00:35:20.98\00:35:23.02
because had it been my good leg,
00:35:23.05\00:35:24.42
or good arm, or
had it been my stub,
00:35:24.45\00:35:26.29
it probably would've been worse.
00:35:26.32\00:35:28.49
The devil was trying to
stop me from serving God,
00:35:28.52\00:35:31.06
but I'm glad I
know to whom I belong.
00:35:31.09\00:35:32.86
Of course, praise the Lord.
00:35:32.89\00:35:34.23
The devil throws,
00:35:34.30\00:35:35.63
you know, he
comes at us attacking us
00:35:35.66\00:35:37.30
when the Lord has something
good going on in the lives
00:35:37.37\00:35:39.90
of his children.
00:35:39.93\00:35:41.27
Of course, that's expected
00:35:41.30\00:35:42.64
but you know, the
Lord comes through.
00:35:42.67\00:35:44.01
That is powerful story.
00:35:44.04\00:35:45.84
And so you were
traveling all over the place,
00:35:45.87\00:35:49.11
you're bringing awareness
00:35:49.14\00:35:50.55
to this Adopt a
Minister International,
00:35:50.58\00:35:53.72
powerful ministry.
00:35:53.75\00:35:55.08
If you're joining
us, just now joining us,
00:35:55.12\00:35:56.72
we just want to remind you,
Adopt a Minister International,
00:35:56.79\00:35:59.65
it was founded in
the Philippines, correct?
00:35:59.69\00:36:02.99
Founded in America.
00:36:03.02\00:36:04.36
Oh, founded in America
but the bulk of the work
00:36:04.39\00:36:06.49
is in the Philippines.
00:36:06.53\00:36:08.00
So how far of a reach or
influence does this have?
00:36:08.03\00:36:11.00
Tell us a little bit about that?
00:36:11.03\00:36:12.37
When we started out,
and we were into 3ABN 2005,
00:36:12.40\00:36:17.01
I told God, I'm
gonna do this, but you...
00:36:17.04\00:36:19.54
I'm not gonna fundraise.
00:36:19.57\00:36:21.11
You're gonna have
to find the sponsors.
00:36:21.14\00:36:22.48
And that's how we
found our sponsors.
00:36:22.51\00:36:23.98
When we told our
story at that time,
00:36:24.05\00:36:25.81
we didn't really
know what we were doing.
00:36:25.85\00:36:27.42
Sure. And God is so good.
00:36:27.45\00:36:29.68
We have ministers,
adopted ministers in Haiti,
00:36:29.72\00:36:34.69
mostly in the Philippines,
I'd say 95% in the Philippines
00:36:34.72\00:36:37.83
at that time when we started.
00:36:37.86\00:36:39.69
Laos, Thailand and Africa.
00:36:39.73\00:36:42.20
And then, later on
we don't have that many.
00:36:42.23\00:36:47.70
So mainly now we're still
just focusing on the Philippines
00:36:47.74\00:36:50.64
because we have hundreds.
00:36:50.71\00:36:53.61
We still have over
300 now unemployed.
00:36:53.68\00:36:57.28
And they are at the
Minister International
00:36:57.35\00:36:58.95
and I get
applications for new students.
00:36:58.98\00:37:00.92
Absolutely.
00:37:00.95\00:37:02.28
New applicants, and
there's hundreds of them
00:37:02.32\00:37:05.45
before who are now employed.
00:37:05.49\00:37:07.46
Right, right.
00:37:07.49\00:37:08.82
And you know, I just
want to speak for a moment
00:37:08.86\00:37:10.73
on this because, you
know, it's very biblical.
00:37:10.76\00:37:14.03
God used His
church, used His people
00:37:14.10\00:37:16.97
to support the priesthood
00:37:17.00\00:37:19.97
and God and throughout His Word,
00:37:20.04\00:37:22.00
He's very clear
on the importance
00:37:22.04\00:37:24.41
and significance of the men
00:37:24.44\00:37:26.17
that He calls
to minister for Him
00:37:26.21\00:37:28.68
and so, it doesn't surprise me
00:37:28.71\00:37:30.58
that the Lord would
inspire someone like yourself
00:37:30.65\00:37:33.18
to create such a ministry
because it is important that,
00:37:33.21\00:37:36.08
you know, God has raised
up these young men and women
00:37:36.12\00:37:38.35
to take the gospel to the world.
00:37:38.39\00:37:40.79
And in this case,
00:37:40.86\00:37:42.39
in the
Philippines which by the way,
00:37:42.42\00:37:44.83
I was shocked by the
numbers you were sharing with me
00:37:44.86\00:37:47.23
because you said the
country of the Philippines
00:37:47.30\00:37:49.60
is about the size of
what state in the US?
00:37:49.63\00:37:51.97
Arizona.
00:37:52.00\00:37:54.70
Yeah, I think Arizona
if you put all of them.
00:37:54.74\00:37:56.60
In about, what's the population?
00:37:56.64\00:37:58.41
Maybe 80 million or around that.
00:37:58.44\00:38:00.78
Eighty million
people in this one little...
00:38:00.81\00:38:03.48
More than that now.
00:38:03.55\00:38:04.88
More than 80 million
people in this one little,
00:38:04.91\00:38:07.68
I mean saturated hub
00:38:07.72\00:38:09.55
of the place the size
of the state of Arizona.
00:38:09.58\00:38:11.89
Yes.
00:38:11.92\00:38:13.25
And so there are so many
people to reach with the gospel
00:38:13.29\00:38:15.36
and so, but there are
young men who are willing
00:38:15.39\00:38:18.46
to take the call of the Lord,
they're inspired by the Lord.
00:38:18.49\00:38:21.03
I wanna take this gospel
00:38:21.06\00:38:22.63
to all of the people
in the Philippines, Laos,
00:38:22.66\00:38:25.53
you said Thailand, Africa
00:38:25.57\00:38:27.77
which is where this ministry
00:38:27.80\00:38:29.30
has influenced a
lot a lot of people.
00:38:29.34\00:38:31.87
And so, how many up to date
have gone through the program
00:38:31.91\00:38:37.65
since from the beginning?
00:38:37.68\00:38:39.91
We flooded in 2016. Okay.
00:38:39.95\00:38:42.48
You gotta tell us the
story because this is powerful.
00:38:42.52\00:38:44.95
Because all our
records were there,
00:38:44.99\00:38:49.06
all our records, our binders,
00:38:49.09\00:38:51.36
our computers,
we lost everything.
00:38:51.39\00:38:53.53
Right.
00:38:53.60\00:38:55.16
In 2016, seven feet
of water, flooded water,
00:38:55.20\00:38:58.27
we lost everything.
00:38:58.30\00:38:59.63
Look at these
pictures here. Wow!
00:38:59.67\00:39:01.27
So our...
00:39:01.30\00:39:02.77
This ministry,
we do not get paid.
00:39:02.80\00:39:06.41
I decided, I
could've decided though,
00:39:06.44\00:39:08.68
hey, whether we make a ministry
that we could get paid, no.
00:39:08.71\00:39:12.35
Every dollar
donation goes to the ministry.
00:39:12.38\00:39:16.02
And so we converted our
game room into our office.
00:39:16.05\00:39:20.46
Right. That's
where we work every day.
00:39:20.49\00:39:22.19
You can go till 12 o'clock
at night, we're still working.
00:39:22.22\00:39:24.49
So just to repeat, you
guys don't take a penny.
00:39:24.53\00:39:27.40
No.
00:39:27.43\00:39:28.76
All the money
that is brought in,
00:39:28.80\00:39:30.57
goes directly to this ministry.
00:39:30.60\00:39:32.43
Wow, praise the Lord.
00:39:32.47\00:39:33.94
So when you said you
have something good going.
00:39:33.97\00:39:37.84
Right. Well the flood came.
00:39:37.87\00:39:40.21
The flood came
00:39:40.28\00:39:42.74
and for three months
00:39:42.78\00:39:45.71
we couldn't even get
in touch with anybody.
00:39:45.75\00:39:47.62
We had to live with
my son, my older son
00:39:47.65\00:39:51.25
until, you know,
everything gets back
00:39:51.29\00:39:54.32
and he gave us a house
where we are staying now.
00:39:54.36\00:39:57.03
So we converted the game room
again into our office again.
00:39:57.06\00:39:59.86
So this is what's
happening with Adopt a Minister.
00:40:01.43\00:40:04.53
We still have 300, around 2005
00:40:05.83\00:40:09.70
we have about 400 or 500.
00:40:09.74\00:40:12.17
Most of them are
already employed.
00:40:12.21\00:40:14.54
So, so many are coming in.
00:40:14.58\00:40:16.75
And this is our 20th
year, most of this are new,
00:40:16.78\00:40:20.98
new graduates
00:40:21.02\00:40:22.35
within the last
four, five years.
00:40:22.38\00:40:23.99
It takes them
about from four year,
00:40:24.02\00:40:26.45
a four year
college course to ten years
00:40:26.49\00:40:28.76
because they're
working students...
00:40:28.79\00:40:30.26
Sure.
00:40:30.33\00:40:32.13
For them to become ordained.
00:40:32.16\00:40:34.73
Right.
00:40:34.76\00:40:36.10
First, you know, to
be able to be baptized.
00:40:36.13\00:40:39.03
It takes them a waiting period
of about maybe 10 to 15 years
00:40:39.07\00:40:44.01
before ordination.
00:40:44.04\00:40:45.64
I had a letter,
an email last night
00:40:45.67\00:40:48.24
for my last
sponsored student from Laos,
00:40:48.28\00:40:51.81
and he was so
happy he got ordained.
00:40:51.85\00:40:56.15
I think I have pictures
there later on I'll show you.
00:40:56.18\00:40:58.92
And he showed me his first
21 precious souls he baptized.
00:40:58.95\00:41:03.43
He said, Mom, they
all call me mom by the way
00:41:03.46\00:41:06.56
so those are the
babies in my dream.
00:41:06.59\00:41:08.60
I have hundreds of them.
00:41:08.63\00:41:09.96
Right.
00:41:10.00\00:41:11.93
Praise the Lord, that's awesome.
00:41:11.97\00:41:14.07
Before...
00:41:14.14\00:41:15.47
Because our time is dwindling,
00:41:15.50\00:41:16.84
I want to look at
some of these pictures
00:41:16.87\00:41:18.21
that you brought,
00:41:18.24\00:41:19.57
and you can kind of tell us
00:41:19.61\00:41:20.94
a little bit of
the story behind these.
00:41:20.98\00:41:22.31
So what is this picture here?
00:41:22.34\00:41:23.68
This picture right
here is we, in 2005,
00:41:23.71\00:41:28.05
my husband JR
Moore and I went home
00:41:28.08\00:41:30.39
to meet our first
adopted ministers.
00:41:30.42\00:41:33.56
We went to
Mountain View College.
00:41:33.59\00:41:36.06
And they're still in
the Lord's work, okay.
00:41:36.09\00:41:40.30
This is how they,
most would travel.
00:41:42.03\00:41:44.07
That's amazing.
00:41:44.10\00:41:45.43
Especially the one
00:41:45.47\00:41:46.80
where they're
driving through the mud.
00:41:46.84\00:41:48.17
And that's a normal day.
00:41:48.20\00:41:49.54
'Cause in the US
that wouldn't happen.
00:41:49.57\00:41:51.04
Most people would just stay home
00:41:51.07\00:41:52.41
if they had to
drive through that,
00:41:52.44\00:41:53.78
but that's amazing.
00:41:53.81\00:41:55.14
That's a normal day.
Wow. Praise the Lord.
00:41:55.18\00:41:56.51
So this is how
the ministers travel?
00:41:56.54\00:41:57.88
Yes. Okay, what
is this one here?
00:41:57.91\00:41:59.25
Okay, we have over
30,000 baptisms every year
00:41:59.28\00:42:02.48
in the Philippines.
00:42:02.52\00:42:04.42
They're amazing.
00:42:04.45\00:42:06.19
And, but we have
to also remember that
00:42:06.22\00:42:09.22
many of them are
really going out there
00:42:09.26\00:42:12.09
but we also have
many of them nurturing.
00:42:12.13\00:42:15.30
Sure. You gotta keep them.
00:42:15.33\00:42:16.87
Of course. They're nurturing.
00:42:16.90\00:42:18.67
Thirty thousand
baptisms, that's amazing.
00:42:18.70\00:42:21.54
Okay, 30,000.
00:42:21.57\00:42:23.24
Well, this one here is,
00:42:23.27\00:42:24.61
an adopted
minister send me these
00:42:24.64\00:42:26.31
and these are young men
00:42:26.34\00:42:28.41
who joined the
Philippine military
00:42:28.44\00:42:30.68
and they get baptized
00:42:30.75\00:42:32.08
because they're going
to this southern tip of,
00:42:32.11\00:42:34.85
southern part of Mindanao,
00:42:34.88\00:42:36.92
the Mindanao part
of the Philippines
00:42:36.99\00:42:39.59
where there's a war
going on all the time.
00:42:39.62\00:42:43.56
They get killed.
00:42:43.63\00:42:44.96
I see.
00:42:44.99\00:42:46.33
Some of them got killed,
00:42:46.36\00:42:47.80
but they have given
their lives to Jesus
00:42:47.83\00:42:49.90
before they got killed.
00:42:49.93\00:42:51.27
They had to find out
00:42:51.30\00:42:52.63
how many of the
group so they are there.
00:42:52.67\00:42:57.21
Right, so these young ministers,
00:42:57.24\00:42:59.71
who are again a part of this
Adopt a Minister International
00:42:59.74\00:43:03.98
that's being funded
through your program.
00:43:04.05\00:43:06.41
They're taking the gospel
even to military, to everyone
00:43:06.45\00:43:11.99
and that's why I love
these pictures because...
00:43:12.02\00:43:13.76
Even to
prisoners. And to prisoners.
00:43:13.79\00:43:15.99
Yeah, there it is right here.
00:43:16.02\00:43:17.89
You could see
they're in shackles there
00:43:17.93\00:43:19.49
in chains.
00:43:19.53\00:43:21.03
And they baptized them
in drums or ponds of course.
00:43:21.06\00:43:25.13
Or swimming pool, yes it is,
we're afraid of swimming pool.
00:43:25.17\00:43:26.94
Yes. Oh, praise the Lord.
00:43:26.97\00:43:29.10
There's so many of this.
00:43:29.14\00:43:30.51
We have thousands
of thousands of these
00:43:32.04\00:43:35.11
and this is just
amazing, Jesus' way to come in.
00:43:35.14\00:43:37.75
Right, amazing.
00:43:37.78\00:43:39.48
Okay, this is a...
00:43:39.51\00:43:40.85
This one is, like I
said the ordination of this
00:43:40.92\00:43:43.15
was they have to wait.
00:43:43.18\00:43:44.52
Right.
00:43:44.55\00:43:46.79
You know, not many
of them gets employed.
00:43:46.86\00:43:48.86
You have your
waiting time to be employed
00:43:48.89\00:43:50.83
and then waiting
time to be ordained.
00:43:50.86\00:43:52.93
These are the ones from Laos.
00:43:52.96\00:43:54.76
Four students that we
sent to Mountain View College.
00:43:54.80\00:43:57.20
They wrote in and
they said, we want too,
00:43:57.27\00:43:58.73
these are from Laos students.
00:43:58.77\00:44:00.54
and we wanna go to
Mountain View College
00:44:00.57\00:44:01.90
in the Philippines take theology
00:44:01.94\00:44:04.01
and they stay
there for four years,
00:44:04.04\00:44:06.17
then they go back home.
00:44:06.21\00:44:07.74
And they got
ordained and now they're...
00:44:07.78\00:44:11.21
But we need
more for them. Right.
00:44:11.25\00:44:13.52
Of course.
00:44:13.55\00:44:14.88
In the Philippines
it's just baptizing
00:44:14.92\00:44:16.28
but there are other
countries that are not.
00:44:16.32\00:44:18.89
Sure. That's incredible.
00:44:18.92\00:44:22.09
Here's another one right here.
00:44:23.73\00:44:25.06
Adopted Ministers in
the Philippines 2019.
00:44:25.09\00:44:27.90
This is the current group?
00:44:27.93\00:44:29.43
This is the current group.
00:44:29.46\00:44:30.80
Last February I was
privileged to go home
00:44:30.87\00:44:34.54
and I met about
200 plus of them,
00:44:34.57\00:44:39.31
about 300 of them altogether.
00:44:39.34\00:44:40.81
I went to from
one island to another
00:44:40.88\00:44:42.91
and we had a picture taken.
00:44:42.94\00:44:45.38
That's amazing,
that is powerful.
00:44:46.72\00:44:49.32
And this one is the one
that probably got me the most
00:44:49.35\00:44:52.22
is this statistic here,
00:44:52.25\00:44:54.06
more than 51,000 baptisms...
00:44:54.09\00:44:57.53
In last year.
00:44:57.56\00:44:58.89
Just within the year of 2019.
00:44:58.93\00:45:02.43
That is incredible.
00:45:02.46\00:45:04.00
This is actually 2018.
00:45:04.07\00:45:05.57
Oh, is it 2018? Yes.
00:45:05.60\00:45:07.34
Okay, that is just...
00:45:07.37\00:45:09.17
That's amazing
00:45:09.20\00:45:10.54
because I just
heard just the other day,
00:45:10.61\00:45:12.11
I was speaking to a pastor
and he was giving me an update
00:45:12.14\00:45:14.44
on just like in
the United States
00:45:14.48\00:45:16.31
one single conference,
00:45:16.34\00:45:17.71
the amount of baptisms
00:45:17.75\00:45:19.08
and it was just like
a little over like 120.
00:45:19.11\00:45:21.55
And I'm thinking a
conference of several states
00:45:21.58\00:45:23.99
but you have one
little saturated area
00:45:24.02\00:45:26.52
in the Philippines
were 51,000 people.
00:45:26.55\00:45:30.73
So there's a powerful
work that's being done
00:45:30.76\00:45:32.76
by these ministers
00:45:32.79\00:45:34.13
and by the ones
that God is calling to,
00:45:34.20\00:45:36.50
to take the gospel to the world.
00:45:36.53\00:45:37.97
My friends, I just wanna make it
00:45:38.00\00:45:39.33
a quick appeal.
00:45:39.37\00:45:40.74
If you're tuning in
and you're hearing this,
00:45:40.77\00:45:42.10
you know, we should be
praying for this ministry,
00:45:42.14\00:45:44.81
we should be
supporting this ministry
00:45:44.84\00:45:47.11
because Jesus is coming soon.
00:45:47.18\00:45:49.41
And this is evidence that
00:45:49.44\00:45:50.78
there are people
in the Philippines
00:45:50.85\00:45:52.31
and all around the world
that are hearing the good news,
00:45:52.35\00:45:54.65
hearing this powerful truth
00:45:54.68\00:45:56.32
and their lives
are being transformed.
00:45:56.35\00:45:58.62
And you could
have an opportunity
00:45:58.65\00:46:00.76
to support such a ministry
00:46:00.79\00:46:02.59
to help fund these individuals
00:46:02.62\00:46:05.76
who have given
their life to Jesus
00:46:05.79\00:46:07.63
and are gonna go on to
make an incredible impact
00:46:07.66\00:46:10.77
in the kingdom of God.
00:46:10.80\00:46:12.13
And I just praise God
for this amazing opportunity.
00:46:12.17\00:46:17.24
And so like the
culture of the Philippines,
00:46:17.31\00:46:19.41
I just wanna talk
about that for a little bit
00:46:19.44\00:46:20.91
because, there's
obviously a lot of people there,
00:46:20.98\00:46:25.15
but there's a need
for ministers obviously.
00:46:25.18\00:46:27.42
So do you know the
statistics as far as the ratio
00:46:27.45\00:46:30.59
of ministers to churches
00:46:30.62\00:46:32.22
or ministers to
the population about?
00:46:32.25\00:46:36.39
There's a lot,
almost about a million.
00:46:36.42\00:46:38.39
At one time, there
were like 900 something
00:46:39.59\00:46:42.26
Seventh-day Adventists.
00:46:42.30\00:46:43.67
Seventh-day Adventist. Wow.
00:46:43.70\00:46:45.40
That was many years
when I look at it so...
00:46:45.43\00:46:47.97
That's amazing.
00:46:48.00\00:46:49.34
We need that many
but when we're saying,
00:46:49.37\00:46:52.07
when they're doing
this, actually it's over.
00:46:52.11\00:46:55.78
Wow, praise the Lord.
00:46:55.81\00:46:57.65
We know what, Mary Grace,
00:46:57.68\00:46:59.61
I wanted to go to another
clip of one of your songs
00:46:59.65\00:47:01.68
because you
played this one earlier
00:47:01.72\00:47:04.19
and I love the title
of it "God and God alone."
00:47:04.22\00:47:06.39
And when you
think of this ministry,
00:47:06.42\00:47:07.76
you know that God
and God alone is the one
00:47:07.79\00:47:09.52
who is blessed you guys
and helping get this started
00:47:09.56\00:47:13.16
and helping continue
the work in the mission
00:47:13.19\00:47:15.36
of Adopt a
Minister International.
00:47:15.40\00:47:17.27
And so I would like to
go to the cut right now
00:47:17.30\00:47:19.60
of the song you played
00:47:19.63\00:47:20.97
"God and God
Alone," a beautiful song.
00:47:21.00\00:47:22.34
Here it is.
00:47:22.37\00:47:23.71
Amen. Praise the Lord.
00:50:58.12\00:50:59.82
I love that song,
God and God alone.
00:50:59.85\00:51:01.76
And I love as I was watching you
00:51:01.79\00:51:03.56
play that.
00:51:03.63\00:51:04.96
You go, you make some
really quick transitions
00:51:04.99\00:51:07.23
in that song and it's
just so amazing to see
00:51:07.30\00:51:09.80
how God is using you to play
some of these difficult pieces.
00:51:09.83\00:51:13.20
These are not
easy pieces to play,
00:51:13.23\00:51:14.80
so praise the
Lord for your talent.
00:51:14.84\00:51:16.81
We have been discussing
the amazing miracle story
00:51:16.84\00:51:20.78
of how God raised up
this incredible ministry
00:51:20.81\00:51:23.58
Adopt a Minister International
00:51:23.65\00:51:25.78
and what for $130 a month?
00:51:25.81\00:51:30.39
I can't even wrap
my mind around that.
00:51:30.42\00:51:31.89
That's the month's
salary of a minister.
00:51:31.92\00:51:34.06
For $130 a month, you
at home can help support
00:51:34.09\00:51:37.89
this incredible ministry
and helping someone else
00:51:37.93\00:51:40.90
take the gospel to the world
00:51:40.93\00:51:42.40
and take the
gospel to someone else
00:51:42.43\00:51:44.07
that's gonna change their lives.
00:51:44.10\00:51:45.43
And so at this moment,
00:51:45.47\00:51:46.84
we would like to
just take a quick break
00:51:46.87\00:51:48.97
and actually show you
how you can contact them
00:51:49.00\00:51:53.11
and support this ministry
00:51:53.14\00:51:54.48
if the Lord has laid
this on your heart to do so.
00:51:54.51\00:51:56.58
And so we're gonna
take that break right now.
00:51:56.61\00:51:58.58
We'll see you in just a moment.
00:51:58.61\00:51:59.95
Adopt a Minister International
helps hundreds of unemployed
00:52:02.92\00:52:06.42
theology graduates with stipends
00:52:06.45\00:52:08.76
that allow them
to preach the gospel
00:52:08.79\00:52:10.83
because of your gifts,
00:52:10.86\00:52:12.19
thousands are being baptized
00:52:12.23\00:52:13.70
as the result of their efforts.
00:52:13.73\00:52:15.56
To donate or to find out more,
00:52:15.60\00:52:17.83
please visit their
website at a-a-m.org.
00:52:17.87\00:52:22.87
That's a-a-m.org.
00:52:22.90\00:52:27.28
You may also call
them at (225) 664-8174.
00:52:27.31\00:52:31.81
Or write to Adopt a
Minister International, 18027,
00:52:31.85\00:52:37.09
Glen Park Drive, Baton
Rouge, Louisiana 70817.
00:52:37.12\00:52:42.32