Hello, friends, welcome
back to the second interview
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that I alluded to
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in the beginning of the program.
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We're going to be
talking to the principal
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of the Ouachita
Hills Academy right now,
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Mrs. Harriet Clark.
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Mrs. Clark, are you there?
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I'm here. Yes.
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Welcome to the
second half of the program
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as we are
highlighting the college
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and the academy together,
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and I heard the
name Harriet Clark.
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And Pastor Shin in
the first interview
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talked about the Clarks
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starting Ouachita
Hills, the campus.
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Are you that Mrs. Clark
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that was a part of the beginning
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of Ouachita Hills?
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Yes, I am. Yes.
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Praise the Lord for
such impacting school
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on the lives of students.
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And I recognize that Pastor Shin
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is a returning student.
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He's now giving
back at the very place
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that he found the
Lord as a student.
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Give our viewers and
listeners an overview
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of how Ouachita Hills
Academy and College got started,
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the vision that the Lord
gave to you and your husband?
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When we finished our education,
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we had really wanted
to do mission service
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and my husband was
too heavily in debt
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to do that.
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And we looked for a
mission, a home mission.
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We were impressed
that so many of the youth
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that we gone to school with
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were no longer
walking with the Lord.
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And we were really
saddened about that.
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And we thought if
there was a school
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that could help
them young people see
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how wonderful the
Lord is in His counsel
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and in a relationship with Him
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that maybe that
would make a difference.
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And we read Madison,
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God's beautiful
farm about that time.
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And we thought,
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if the Lord opened the way
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that was what we
were going to do,
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and that is just a
brief of how it started.
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And what year did you
begin the Ouachita Hills?
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Which one started first,
the academy or the college?
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The academy
started first in 1988
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and then the
college followed in 2003.
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Wow. Praise the Lord.
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So if I'm counting that well,
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Pastor Shin was a
part of that process there.
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And it, I want to
just say... Yes, he was.
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I want to just say
thank you for the impact
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because I've met
other students in the past
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that have gone to Ouachita Hills
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and they have
given wonderful comments
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about the impact
of the environment,
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and how the Lord
has transformed them
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and equipped them for education,
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but also getting to
know Him personally.
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Now what's the size,
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the general size of the campus?
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I mean, how many acres
would you say the college
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and the academy are located on?
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The main campus has 430 acres.
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And then we have a health center
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that has 52 acres,
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which is located
about half a mile from us,
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the main campus.
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That's amazing. I
mean, that's huge.
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That's...
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If you think
about some of the things
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that are offered there,
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do you have an
agriculture program?
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That's just came to
my mind when you think
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about all of that acreage.
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Yes. Wow.
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Is that
something for the academy
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as well as the college students?
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It is for both.
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In fact,
agriculture is so important.
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We believe that
all of our students
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in the academy have to
take a class in it to graduate.
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Hmm. That's wonderful.
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Speaking of students,
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you have two wonderful students
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there with you today,
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Emmily Ndege and Rafael Morales.
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Let's just go and
say hello to them today.
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Good to have you
both on the program today.
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Yeah.
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So let's start with Rafael
since he's right close to you.
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Hello, Rafael,
how are you today?
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I'm doing good.
How are you? Good.
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Tell us about what,
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at what point are
you at Ouachita Hills.
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This is your second year,
third year, beginning student?
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So this is my first year here,
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but I am a
sophomore in my second year.
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Okay. And yeah.
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What impressed you to
come to Ouachita Hills?
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So I've lived
around, around this area,
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you know, of Ouachita School
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and I've known it
for quite a while,
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but I was impressed with like
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the spiritual environment
that they always had.
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You know, I just see, like,
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when I came here to
visit all the students were,
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they just had like a
more spiritual like mentality
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about how they
look at things here.
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And it just really impressed me
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because I wanna, you know,
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seek a closer walk
with God, you know?
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And that's just this school
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I saw as one of
that would help me.
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Okay. Wow. Thank you for that.
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We'll come back to you in
a moment, but Emmily Ndege.
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Am I saying that
correctly, Emily?
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Yeah. Yes.
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Tell us where you're from.
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I think I asked you that,
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but I want our viewers
and listeners to know that.
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Give us some of your background
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and also I'll ask you
a question just a moment
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of what made you
choose Ouachita Hills.
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Let's start with
where you're from,
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where that name is from
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'cause that's a
very unique name?
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Oh, yeah. It's a Kenyan name.
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My parents were from
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and I are from Kenya and
I live in Minnesota though.
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Okay. All right.
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So you're Minnesota Kenyan.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Yes.
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And what are you
focusing on at Ouachita Hills
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and what
impressed you to come there?
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Yeah, that's a good question.
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At first, when my parents,
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my parents are the ones
who heard about the school
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and they were really
impressed with the program here
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and they told me about it.
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At first, I wasn't really sure,
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but after, you
know, coming here,
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I realized that this is
just such an amazing place.
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I really enjoy
the environment here.
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Hmm.
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Now, when I heard about
the acreage just a moment ago,
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Mrs. Harriet Clark mentioned
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400 acres, plus
another 52 acres.
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That's dedicated to another one
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of the facilities there.
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Talk about the interaction
you have with the students.
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Let's start with a day, a
day in the life of Emmily.
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Let's keep the microphone,
a day in the life of Emmily.
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So just walk, how
does your day start
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and what do you do
to get your day going
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on a regular basis?
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Okay. Yeah.
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So the day
starts, wake up is at 5:45
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and from 5:45 to 6:15
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is devotion time where you can,
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you know, study
your Bible, pray,
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something along those lines.
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And then we have time,
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so, you know, get
ready for the day.
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And at 6:45 is worship.
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It's joint worship
with the entire academy.
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And then breakfast is at
seven and school starts at 7:45
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and we go till...
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No, go ahead. You go to when?
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We go for school till
12:10, and then there's lunch.
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And at 1 o'clock we start
our vocational activities.
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And usually, you
know, it depends on the day,
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but around, it ends
around four or five,
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and then there's free time
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or whatever
music you joined into.
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And then there's super at six.
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And at 6:45 then
there's a worship,
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evening worship again.
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And then at 7
o'clock there study hall
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to work on your
homework till nine,
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and then, you know,
9:30 is when it's lights up.
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Wow. You
remember that very well.
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What year are
you in as a student
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at Ouachita Hills?
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Yeah, this is
my third year here.
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Okay.
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So that has been
ingrained in you.
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I could see that,
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you got that
calendar in your head.
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This is and you've
mentioned the times
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and how long they are.
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You have your
individual worship,
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then you have corporate worship,
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then you have breakfast.
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What time of day
or at what point?
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Let me ask Rafael about the,
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some of the curriculum.
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Rafael, talk about
the agriculture part
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because Mrs. Clark mentioned
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that they look at
that as so important.
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Have you gotten
involved in the agriculture part
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of the program there yet
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at Ouachita Hills Academy?
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Yes, I have.
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As like, for this year, my work,
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vocational area is actually ag.
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So I spend most
of my time there.
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And so, you know, 1 o'clock,
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I'll head down to
the agriculture shop
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and we'll sign in for work.
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And the agriculture leader,
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he'll tell us what
is on the schedule.
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It could vary
from greenhouse weeding
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to outside
planting, things in the field
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or, you know, sometimes
it would be splitting wood,
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'cause we have wood heated stuff
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and we go in the woods
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and we split our
wood, we pile it.
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And then other
days we'll loading it
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and bringing it in
for the rest of the school
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to be able to use.
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And you know,
it's just vigorating,
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vigorous work and
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it strengthens you physically
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and also clears out your brain
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for, you know, you be
able to do other things
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and like mental, you know?
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Okay. We've talked...
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It's very good like...
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Go ahead, fetch your
thought. It's very good like?
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I just said is, you
know, it's very good like it's,
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it's just very,
like, I don't know it...
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Invigorating? It helps you.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Which part of
that do you like most,
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because in agriculture,
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you talked about the greenhouse
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which is obviously
plants on the inside
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during the cold season
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and then the
cutting of the wood.
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I'm going to ask you a kind of
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a tongue-in-cheek question.
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Which one do you like more,
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the greenhouse or cutting wood?
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Well, it depends on the weather.
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If it is humid outside,
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it's kind of very
humid in the greenhouse.
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So I like prefer, I
prefer to work outside
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and I really
like splitting wood.
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It's really amazing,
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especially when
there's amazing weather.
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And in the cold,
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I think I kind of want
to be in the greenhouse
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where I could
spend the afternoon
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in a warm environment.
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Wow.
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Mrs. Clark, I'm going to ask you
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a question there,
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because you've seen
this school develop,
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you have seen the academy grow.
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Tell me what excites you,
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because this started
in 1988, here we are 2021.
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What keeps you driven
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to continue to
keep this whole campus
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going from year to year?
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I think there's
probably two primary things.
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I think seeing
how the Lord provides
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and opens doors
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and really works
miracles sometime,
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and also seeing
students like David
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who graduated and
while he was here.
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And then after that
grew so much in the Lord
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that has been able to
really be a servant leader.
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And our goal is to
help develop in students
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that kind of mentality,
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that kind of
relationship with the Lord
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that they'll go
wherever He wants them to go
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and do whatever
He wants them to do.
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And as we see
students doing that,
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it just gives me
new renewed energy
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and desire to keep on.
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I'm sure,
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and I'm thinking about
this in the real sixth sense.
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There is probably some heart
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connected to the development
of the student of the school.
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I guess at graduation,
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maybe sometimes you shed a tear
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when you see what God
has done through your life
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and your husband's life.
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Has that ever
been the experience?
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Yes, it has.
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And, to see how many students
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does the campus hold relatively?
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We have had as many as 54
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in the academy that was with,
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you know, several staff children
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who lived at home.
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Yes.
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The college we've
had as many as 75.
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So we could have
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around a hundred
students at this point.
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And as we build
more college dorms,
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we'll have more space.
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Wow. That's good.
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I mean, that's a
wonderful campus.
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Though it's
intended to be small.
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We really built
for 20 in each dorm
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because we want
to be able to impact
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students for Christ.
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And if we get too
many students at teenagers,
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it's harder to do that.
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So we never want the
academy to be very large.
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That's a good
point because the more,
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some people say
the more the merrier,
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but the more the
students, the harder it is
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to concentrate
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on personal
development of the students.
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It's very true.
It's very difficult.
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So talk about the
interpersonal relationships.
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Let me go ahead and
ask Rafael and Emmily
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because they are
not only in the academy,
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but you're
building relationships.
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I know when I look
back at my schooling,
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I can remember when I graduated.
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We have some friends
that are still friends
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to this very day.
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Talk about your
interpersonal relationships
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with other students?
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Go ahead, Rafael. Okay.
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So when I came here,
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I noticed how all the
students were very friendly.
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Like they just kinda, you know,
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brought you into their groups
and started the conversation.
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You know, they didn't let
you just sit there by yourself
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that they, you
know, they involve you
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and you tend to have a lot of,
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lot more like
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better relationships
with people like that.
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Because since the
staff and the environment,
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they encourage being
nice and kind to other people,
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you know, the students
tend to go out of their way
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to just try to involve someone
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and know the person
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and get to meet them
and actually become friends.
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And those
friends, I think those,
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you know, they'll last
for a lot longer than just,
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you know, just so
happen or whatever,
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you know, it, I don't know,
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it's just a
stronger relationship
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because it's based on
being kind to one another
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and very friendly
environment overall.
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Amen. Emmily, what about you?
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Cause I know that...
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I know that prayer
is very much a part
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of a Christian campus.
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Talk about the
friendships you're developing
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as you're looking
forward to continuing
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into your final year
coming up pretty soon here?
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Yeah, so the people here
are so kind and so friendly.
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I remember that, you
know, when I first came here,
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I was, it was a big shock
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and, you know,
I was kinda quiet.
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I didn't really know what to do,
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but the people
here were so welcoming
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and I just, I
felt very welcome here,
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and I'm so thankful for
the godly students here.
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I remember some groups of
girls would go on prayer walks,
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they would do early
morning Bible studies
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and that really made
an impact on my life.
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They had a big influence on
me and yeah, it's really nice.
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You meet friends here that
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will help you to
grow stronger in Christ.
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Wow.
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Now I know that, that's
a beautiful environment.
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What would you say?
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And I'll give you any
one of you an opportunity
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to speak to this question.
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What would you say
your greatest challenge is
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as a student at Ouachita Hills?
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'Cause we all have
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little
challenges here and there.
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Maybe it could be a
curriculum challenge
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or maybe it could be
environmental challenge.
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You'll say, well, I
want to become stronger
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in this area
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or I'd like to know
that a little better.
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What would you say
your challenge might be?
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Let's start with curriculum.
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What's your greatest
challenge curriculum wise?
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With academics,
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learning the concepts here
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is, you know,
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you have to
learn time management
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and something...
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Yeah, that's so, so
crucial with the busy schedule.
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So I would definitely say
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learning to use
your time wisely,
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the time you have
for homework learning,
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how, which time
to do which subject.
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That's really important.
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Okay. Rafael, what about you?
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I would say, yeah,
similar to that too is,
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you know, just
the self-government
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and anything you do,
like even your free time,
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she kind of
touched on that, you know,
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you have your free time
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and you could either use
that to go do an activity
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that you want for recreation,
or you can do homework
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and, you know, finish it.
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And even when you
decide to go do your homework,
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you could either divide
it into time to, you know,
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I'll do, in the
first 30 minutes,
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I'll do English
and then the next
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and you know, and so on.
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But it's like, they
encourage you in the time
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where you're
supposed to go somewhere to,
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or they already
have your time set out.
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And then they give you freedom
of like the free time for you
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to be able to divide that
and practice that in your life.
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And that's
something that is also like,
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you know, that's the challenge
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because, you know, usually homes
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are not too much like
that schedule anymore.
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And when you come here,
it's kinda prepares you for,
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you know, when you go
out into the real world,
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the schedule is not
tuning in all the time.
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That's true.
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I like the word you used
the phrase self government.
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It's a really good
phrase because right academy,
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when you enter that academy
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is another word for high school,
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you use the word high school
in the secular environment,
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but it surely says to you,
okay, we're getting you ready
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to go to the next step.
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So if you're going to
be a responsible student,
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this is the time
as Emmily pointed out
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to set up your day
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so that you don't just
slide from one thing to the next
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and say, what should I do next?
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But I like that.
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I can almost imagine Emmily
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that you probably
have something in your room
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where you say,
okay, seven to eight,
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eight to nine, nine to ten.
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You kind of norm,
or maybe right now,
00:18:06.21\00:18:08.12
it's just so
ingrained in your mind
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that you don't have to write
those things down any longer,
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but it's a process.
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But how long did
it take you to get
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into the hang of
getting these schedules together
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when you came to Ouachita Hills?
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It wasn't too bad.
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Probably within
the first few weeks.
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Okay.
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Let me ask another
question to Mrs. Harriet.
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When we talk about what makes
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Ouachita Hills
schooled different?
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Because a lot of
students might say,
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and any one of the
students could answer this too,
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because it might be
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from their
experiential perspective,
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what makes it different?
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And the answer
would kind of encourage
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somebody looking
for a school to say,
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you know, I need to go there.
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You talked about the
size. I love that already.
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It makes it easy to concentrate
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on more of a relational aspect
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than having any student,
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whether they're outgoing
00:19:02.94\00:19:04.44
or maybe they could be
introvert or extrovert.
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They don't feel
that they're overlooked,
00:19:07.34\00:19:09.01
but in recommending
this school to someone,
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what would you say to a student
00:19:13.18\00:19:14.52
that's listening to the program?
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I think that
it's a special place
00:19:20.99\00:19:24.53
of nurturing of students
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who want to grow in the Lord
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while they develop
their academic skills.
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And while they
develop vocational skills
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and social skills.
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We have great
staff, student relations
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and an environment
out there in the country
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and nature in
touch with nature's got,
00:19:46.75\00:19:49.65
that brings students away
from some of the distractions
00:19:49.68\00:19:54.02
that are in
areas where in larger,
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you know, communities in cities.
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And administratively
00:20:03.60\00:20:07.67
everything that is planned.
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We've tried to filter that
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through the Lord's
council on education.
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Amen.
00:20:16.75\00:20:18.08
So that students
have an advantage
00:20:18.11\00:20:22.58
in getting to know Jesus better
00:20:22.62\00:20:25.15
and I believe
prepare better for service
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when they graduate.
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Amen. I like that.
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And in addition, we
have really strong academics.
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We have a great music program.
We have a missions program.
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I mean, there are a
lot of little factors
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that feed in,
00:20:45.64\00:20:48.14
but I believe the filtering
through the Lord's counsel
00:20:48.18\00:20:54.02
is what impacts
the program the most,
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that makes it of
greater benefit to students.
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Wonderful.
00:21:02.69\00:21:04.03
Let me go to
Emmily real quickly here.
00:21:04.06\00:21:05.86
Emmily, if you
talk about a conversion
00:21:05.89\00:21:10.70
that you might've experienced
at the Ouachita Hills.
00:21:10.73\00:21:14.60
At what point did
you say, you know what?
00:21:14.64\00:21:17.94
Now I see, and I'm glad
that I came to this school.
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Did you have that
light coming on moment
00:21:22.28\00:21:24.98
in your time at Ouachita Hills?
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Yeah, definitely.
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The first semester at first,
00:21:30.25\00:21:31.79
it was kind of, you
know, kind of rough,
00:21:31.82\00:21:34.52
and I think it was mainly
00:21:34.56\00:21:37.19
because of the
mindset that I had.
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So once I, you know, being here
00:21:39.79\00:21:43.20
and just being
in this environment,
00:21:43.23\00:21:45.73
once I learned that, learned to,
00:21:45.77\00:21:48.37
you know, change the way I
think about things and have,
00:21:48.40\00:21:50.94
you know, a positive attitude,
00:21:50.97\00:21:53.31
that's when things
definitely started changing
00:21:53.34\00:21:55.84
and I learned to
appreciate this place.
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Okay. Praise the Lord for that.
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What about you, Rafael?
00:21:59.95\00:22:01.65
Well, I know, this is
your first year there.
00:22:01.68\00:22:05.45
Tell us about that,
where you said, okay.
00:22:05.49\00:22:07.59
I'm so glad I'm here.
00:22:07.62\00:22:08.96
I know you talked
about the nice people,
00:22:08.99\00:22:10.99
the great environment,
00:22:11.03\00:22:12.36
but personally in
your time with the Lord,
00:22:12.39\00:22:15.70
how with, how have you come
00:22:15.73\00:22:17.07
to appreciate
being at Ouachita Hills?
00:22:17.10\00:22:18.77
So I live fairly
close to this area
00:22:21.80\00:22:26.68
for quite some years,
00:22:26.71\00:22:28.08
you know, I've
been involved too.
00:22:28.11\00:22:29.58
You've seen it from
the outside and wanting,
00:22:29.61\00:22:32.55
I just seen already
the spiritual environment
00:22:32.58\00:22:34.82
from the outside.
00:22:34.85\00:22:36.18
I want it to be a
part of the environment,
00:22:36.22\00:22:38.35
you know, I want
to be inside of it.
00:22:38.39\00:22:40.19
So, where I could
actually grow my relationship.
00:22:40.22\00:22:42.06
And I knew that I,
00:22:42.09\00:22:43.73
they were already helping me out
00:22:43.76\00:22:45.09
with my relationship
00:22:45.13\00:22:46.46
from where I was
outside of the school.
00:22:46.49\00:22:48.66
And I wanted to come here
00:22:48.70\00:22:50.03
and, you know, be
a part of the school.
00:22:50.07\00:22:51.97
And I just felt
really impressed,
00:22:52.00\00:22:54.87
you know, that
would actually help my,
00:22:54.90\00:22:57.04
enhance my
spiritual relationship
00:22:57.07\00:22:58.57
with God.
00:22:58.61\00:22:59.94
I love that.
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What I hear you saying is,
00:23:01.34\00:23:02.68
you were looking at
Ouachita Hills over the wall
00:23:02.71\00:23:04.91
and you were
seeing it in the community
00:23:04.95\00:23:07.05
and you were just
probably counting, man,
00:23:07.08\00:23:09.12
when am I going to
get to go to that school?
00:23:09.15\00:23:11.05
Because if it's changing
my life from the outside,
00:23:11.09\00:23:14.36
what is it
going to do to my life
00:23:14.39\00:23:15.72
when I got on the inside?
00:23:15.76\00:23:17.09
Emmily, tell students
listening to the program,
00:23:17.13\00:23:20.33
what would you
say to that young man,
00:23:20.36\00:23:21.86
that young lady,
00:23:21.90\00:23:23.23
if they're thinking
about coming to Ouachita Hills,
00:23:23.26\00:23:25.80
or they're even
considering school in general?
00:23:25.83\00:23:28.60
What would you say
to that person to say,
00:23:28.64\00:23:30.57
this is the place
that you need to be?
00:23:30.61\00:23:34.18
Yeah.
00:23:34.21\00:23:36.18
Well, I would
definitely recommend
00:23:36.21\00:23:38.88
this school,
00:23:38.91\00:23:40.25
just continue to pray about,
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you know, where
the Lord is leading,
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but this school, as you know,
really impacted me personally.
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And I'm sure it can
impact everyone out there
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and just try it out.
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Amen, I like that. And
what about you, Rafael?
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I think for you,
if you want to grow
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closer to God in a school,
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and I think that this would
be the school that would really,
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you know, encourage and focus
on your relationship with God
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above, like all everything else.
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And it's also,
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if you want to
be prepared for life
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and with a relationship with God
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throughout the
whole, the whole time.
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I also think that this would
be an awesome place for you.
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It's helped me
a lot in the same.
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Thank you,
Rafael. Thank you, Emmily.
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Mrs. Clark, just give us an idea
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of what the cost is
to be in the academy.
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What the tuition
costs are, just briefly?
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Tuition, room and board comes
to a little over 10,000 a year.
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Okay. That's
wonderful. It's very affordable.
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And when you
compare on campus living
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to on campus living in
a lot of other schools,
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believe me, I know
that that figure is very low
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because I could go
back 20 years or so
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raising nieces and nephews
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and understand
that comparatively
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that's a tremendous blessing.
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Thank you so much, Emmily.
Thank you so much, Rafael.
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Thank you so much, Mrs. Clark,
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for joining us in
this wonderful segment.
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The information
that you're going to need
00:25:05.93\00:25:07.27
to find out more
about the academy
00:25:07.30\00:25:10.01
is going to be on the
screen in just a moment.
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But right after
that, we're going to have
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a few closing thoughts.
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I'll be right back.
00:25:14.64\00:25:18.35
If you would like to
contact or learn more about
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Ouachita Hills Academy,
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you can write to
them at 46 Madison Way,
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Amity, Arkansas 71921.
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That's 46 Madison
Way, Amity, Arkansas 79121.
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You can call them
at (870) 342-6210.
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That's (870) 342-6210.
00:25:39.73\00:25:43.51
Or you can find them online
and OuachitaHillsAcademy.org
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That's
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OuachitaHillsAcademy.org
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Well, friends, thank
you for joining us today
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on our program.
00:26:03.66\00:26:04.99
I want to give Pastor David Shin
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as well as Mrs. Harriet Clark,
00:26:07.20\00:26:08.70
a chance to appeal to you
00:26:08.73\00:26:10.90
if you're considering
an academy or a college.
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Are you both there?
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Yes. Yes, we're both here.
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Pastor Shin, let
me begin with you.
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Yes.
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Thank you, Pastor John and 3ABN
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for giving us the
opportunity to share
00:26:23.04\00:26:24.81
about the
academy and the college.
00:26:24.85\00:26:26.41
And I want to tell you
being here at Ouachita Hills
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as a student myself
really changed my life.
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And at the college and academy,
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we believe that
in the highest sense,
00:26:34.52\00:26:36.26
the work of education
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and the work of
redemption are one.
00:26:37.93\00:26:40.80
And so this is a
unique experience
00:26:40.83\00:26:43.03
I believe here in following
the model of true education.
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And if you feel
called by the Lord Jesus
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to be a minister for God
00:26:50.87\00:26:53.94
in whatever career
that He calls you to be,
00:26:53.98\00:26:55.91
I want to consider now,
00:26:55.94\00:26:57.28
I want to
encourage you to consider
00:26:57.31\00:26:59.45
Ouachita Hills Academy
and Ouachita Hills College.
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Yes.
00:27:01.78\00:27:03.12
And, Mrs. Clark,
about 30 seconds there.
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I believe that
the experience here
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can be a huge
blessing to young people.
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We want to be
educating young people
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to be really
workers for the Lord.
00:27:16.70\00:27:18.80
And I too would encourage
students who are interested
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in going to academy or college
00:27:21.97\00:27:24.27
to seriously
consider coming to Ouachita
00:27:24.31\00:27:27.98
and having a part in
being prepared to finish
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the work by God's grace.
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Wow.
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Well, thank you both,
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Pastor David
Shin, blessings to you
00:27:35.75\00:27:37.32
as you continue
and begin to be a part
00:27:37.35\00:27:40.26
of the developing of
the unfolding of hearts
00:27:40.29\00:27:42.66
and lives for eternity.
00:27:42.69\00:27:44.03
And thank you, Mrs. Clark,
00:27:44.06\00:27:45.39
for the vision God gave
to you and your husband,
00:27:45.43\00:27:47.26
and the many years
of successful service,
00:27:47.30\00:27:49.30
preparing young people
for the kingdom to come.
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And thank you for joining us.
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We pray that you understand
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that education is
not just something
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for this earth,
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but education
really is for eternity.
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God bless you
until we see you again.
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