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Hello friends. Welcome
to 3ABN Today. My name is
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John Lomacang and I have my
better half with me, my wife
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Angela. Good to
have you here, Honey.
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So happy to be here. Glad that
you have tuned in today. You're
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going to be
blessed. Aren't they, Honey?
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That's right. I know...We know
the guests that are here today
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We'll tell you a little bit more
about that in a moment, but it's
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about missions, it's about
impacting the world and the
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singular word that kind of
sums it all up is Maranatha!
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Maranatha (singsong)
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Jesus is coming. And you'll find
it. If you don't know what that
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means just stay tuned and I
would really recommend you hit
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your record button because this
is a program that will inspire
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you will challenge you, and will
say to you there's something
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that every one of you watching
and listening can do to advance
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the cause of God. But thank
you for your prayers and your
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financial support of 3ABN as we
are going and growing, getting
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ready for the coming of Jesus.
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You know, Honey, Maranatha's
one of my favorite ministries.
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That's right. It
is. I know hands down.
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We have done Maranatha trips
and Friday nights what's our
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favorite program?
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Maranatha, that's right. We
look forward to it. And some of
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our favorite people from
Maranatha are here today so
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let's just go
ahead and introduce them.
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Kenneth Weiss or Weiss.
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It's Weiss but Weiss,
I'll answer to that too.
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Welcome. What do
you do at Maranatha?
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You know I'm on the leadership
team. Well you know the title is
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Chief Operating Officer but you
know you get to do whatever God
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puts in the path and get the
privilege to be involved and to
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be here with...
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Oh my goodness.
Twenty-six years over 26 years.
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And you're getting younger.
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Yeah, I started
when I was five. (Laughs)
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Do you have a family?
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I have a family. I have
twin boys. They're at Southern
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Adventist University. I have
a daughter at Loma Linda Medical
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School. And you know their lives
have been changed, the path of
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their lives, because they've
been involved again in Maranatha
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trips all their life.
Mission is a big part of it.
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And we're going to talk about
that, how young people can get
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involved. We're going to talk
about the ultimate challenge
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and all that. We'll get back
into that program but, hey, the
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favorite couple of Maranatha...
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(Laughter) Absolutely.
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Laurna and Don Noble. Welcome.
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Thank you. Great to be
here. Always nice to come here.
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Yes, how long
have you been there?
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Ah, this is year number 40.
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What! You Grew up in
Maranatha. (Laughter)
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Something like that. Yeah, it's
gone by in just a couple weeks.
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Yeah, a long time. But
it's been a great blessing,
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a challenge
so...And my good wife.
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Yeah, and I've been
with Maranatha for about 20
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years I can't believe. So it's
been, it has been a blessing.
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Actually, I feel really
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emotional about it if
I think about it too long
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so I won't go there. Yeah, God
has definitely changed my life
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through something I never
would have imagined. So...
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And Maranatha has...Oh we're
going to talk about some of the
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ways. I think that Maranatha's
like that hub in the center of a
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wheel and it's spokes go in so
many directions. We're going to
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try to cover as many as we can
today. But it's really good to
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have you guys here. It's fun to
travel with you and to see you
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break ground and take over
entire hotels, I know what that
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means.
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Oh, I know. Yeah,
we loved it didn't we?
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Oh we enjoyed it and we've seen
the youngest of people and the
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oldest of people. I never forgot
when we were in Maranatha, I
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think it was in Zimbabwe or
Zambia. There were two sisters
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that were in their 80s and I
said, How old are you guys, and
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they unhesitatingly said I'm 80
something and she's 80... And I
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said what are you guys doing
here? And they said what? Do you
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want us to sit home and die in
a rocking chair? And they were
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carrying a steel beam.
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On some of the projects
those would be the young people.
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Oh, I tell you. And it was just
such an energy to be a part of
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Maranatha which I think you have
more projects than you have time
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to even accomplish. (Oh yeah)
But good to have you here today.
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For the benefit of our audience
just the challenge of Maranatha
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was something that all the
ministries faced. Let's start
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with how Maranatha continued to
thrive and survive during COVID.
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You know COVID has, of course,
impacted all ministries one way
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or another. I know it's impacted
3ABN, it has to. Maranatha, of
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course, you take a look at it.
A lot of what we do is travel.
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Work with volunteers. Go to
other countries. Now how do you
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do that during COVID? How do you
make that happen? The surprising
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thing is the way God worked
it out is we did about the same
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number of actual buildings and
projects during COVID as we did
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before. Well you say how it
that possible? You had the right
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question, how's that possible?
Well we have local teams in many
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of the countries that we're
working in and they were able to
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just keep working in most places
And people were supportive so we
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were able to keep building even
though for some time not too
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many volunteers were able to go.
But since COVID started we have
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had about 2500 volunteers
involved which is kind of
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surprising that it's that many.
(How many?) 2500 (Wow) just
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during COVID. But we've drilled
since COVID started 1100 water
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wells, we've done 1700 projects,
built churches for 75,000 people
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That's all during COVID. (During
COVID). During COVID. Yeah, so
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God's blessed. You know the work
has to keep going. You know you
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don't stop because of COVID. You
keep going and doing as much as
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you can. Our goal was if we can
do it, if the door's open, walk
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through the door and make it
happen. Because I think God's
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leading it and as you look
back I believe that that's true.
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Now we're starting to see
volunteers more involved in the
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international projects. We had
a lot here in the U.S. during
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COVID.
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And John, you said it earlier,
God's work has not slowed down
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at all, in fact, through COVID
it grew and our requests are up.
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You know. It's just been amazing
to watch. People became more
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faithful, they started
worshiping in smaller groups
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and each one of those groups
then grew and became...then they
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had another request.
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So the perspective is people...
when tragedies or, or you
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know an epidemic or something
like that, we do turn to God.
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That's how we're built. And so
there are some good things that
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come out of that. When people
ask us, what have you been doing
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during this COVID thing, we've
been doing the same thing we've
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always been doing. We've
been drilling wells, we've been
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building schools, we've been
building churches and in a sense
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even more so even at a,
like trying to kick up the pace,
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you know.
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And praying more, of course,
because of the awareness of our
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need has come out more.
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And because I really believe
this is God's, this is not our
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organization. Just like 3ABN.
It's not your organization.
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It's God's organization and He
said go and He hasn't said stop
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yet. In fact, it's almost like,
right you got to finish strong
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because we look around
and we see like hey things are
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happening. What's going on here?
Just keep going until there's
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nowhere to go.
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Well we're a responsive ministry
and we don't do any proj...we
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don't make up the projects. We
respond to what the church asks
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us to do. We can't do everything
they ask us but what we can do
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we want to do. So that's what
it's been through COVID also.
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We put together a map or a globe
with a point of light and most
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of the projects that Maranatha
has built through its history
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and we brought that here to
show you guys. We can maybe talk
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a little bit about that.
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As a matter of fact, if you
are part of the viewing audience
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while we are looking at
this globe that's going to be
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rotating. Tell us what
those yellow dots represent.
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You want to go
ahead? Don, go for it.
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Well those dots, each one is
a project. They look like blobs
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because in some places it's
hundreds and hundreds of them
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that are in one location.
But you know there's actually
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probably 12,000 to 15,000
dots that are on the globe of
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projects that we have
GPS coordinates for and...
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So a project is a school
that may service a thousand,
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1500 kids. That's one project.
A project may be a church that
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has 50 members. A project may
be a water well that serves a
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thousand people. So there's a
lot of different things that are
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going on there but each
one of these points represents
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something that Maranatha that is
everyone, all those people that
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are involved in Maranatha have
done together as a group for God
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You mentioned the water wells.
You know Don mentioned the
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number of water wells. It's
probably one of the more recent
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aspects of what Maranatha is
doing to impact the community.
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And water in Kenya at the
ends of the earth. A really good
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example.
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Well this right now, I just
mentioned I've been here for 40
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years. I'm saying how could I
be so dense to not realize this
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issue about water? Because now
it is huge and we now have taken
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an action as the board of
directors to drill a well at
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every church and every school
that we build anywhere in the
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world if they need it. So
this year right now we should be
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drilling over 600 wells.
And these are deep water wells
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running probably averaging 200
to 800 feet deep to get to the
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pure water. So it's not a small
thing. One of the things that
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we're facing right now of course
in increased fuel costs, because
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these rigs take a lot of fuel.
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People ask like why water, why?
Why would you put water by a
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school or church or whatever.
I mean what difference does it
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make, right? And the
thing is this is such a unique
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opportunity because people need
water more than they need money.
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I mean, how long can you go?
Not many days, not many hours
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without water. You need air
first, you know, right? But then
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water's really the second
thing. You can't go very long.
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And there's so many people, boy
I'll tell you what, that if that
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doesn't get their attention
and why did you do that for me?
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The government didn't come out
here; some other company didn't
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come out here. It was Christians
and it was Adventist Christians.
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What are you doing? What do you
believe in anyway? Because that
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affected me, that affected my
family, my children, my forever
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yeah.
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Yeah we're seeing major growth
in the areas where we're doing a
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lot of wells. The
church is just mushroom growth.
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When you think about it, it's
the Biblical model, right? Take
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care of the people's needs and
then they become very, very open
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exactly, to...
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You feel their need, you heal
their sickness and then you've
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got their attention.
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That's right, loaves and fishes.
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What did you always say
about fishes when they...
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Well you know you can give them
fish or teach them how to fish.
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And we've gone to places around
the world... Now we're going to
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look at some video here in a
little bit that is going to show
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you how the impact is tremendous
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Well yeah the video that we're
showing is, it's actually a,
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it's a 25-minute but this is
an abbreviated version of that
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so you kind of get an idea. But
this is a place that's extremely
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dry up in northern Kenya.
It's one of the tough places.
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It seems like we get asked
to go to the real tough places.
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Yeah but talk about
getting their attention.
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But that's the places that
make the big difference, big,
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big difference.
Maybe we can watch that.
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It's called, is that Illeret.
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Illeret, northern Kenya. (Okay)
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In 2016, the Seventh-day
Adventist Church in east central
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Africa asked Maranatha to build
churches in the extreme north
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Illeret region of Kenya.
Maranatha's One Day Church crew
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made a five-day journey from the
capitol city of Nairobi to this
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land inhabited by the indigenous
Daasanach tribe. The team
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constructed four one-day
churches in the area and while
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there became aware of the
people's desperate need for
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water. Because of years
of drought the only place the
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Daasanach can find water is by
digging down 15 to 20 feet into
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a dry river bed and scooping the
muddy water that seeps up from
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the earth.
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We had to come back and we began
making plans right away to do
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that. It's very difficult,
challenging. It's logistically
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difficult. Everything has to be
brought up here, your machinery,
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your trucks, your pipes,
your fuel, your food, all the
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leadership people. If you forget
something you can't run down to
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the store and pick it
up. Everything has to come.
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The return trek would take five
days across long stretches of
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barren landscape without
any roads or repair shops to fix
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mechanical breakdowns. For
two days the convoy traveled on
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paved roads from Maranatha's
headquarters near the capitol
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city of Nairobi to the town of
Marsabit. From there the paved
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road ended.
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We could just go at a speed
of maximum let's say 10 to 20
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kilometers per hour, a convoy
of 10 cars, full of dust. This
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was very challenging. So the
temperatures were 104 to 107.
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It's unfortunate that most
of our trucks don't have air
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condition or maybe a blower.
We were just running on open
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windows.
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Despite multiple mechanical
breakdowns in triple-digit heat
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the convoy made it through
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the Chalbi desert and finally
arrived in the Illeret area.
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One of the villages they set
to work in was called Ilbagosh.
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Here technologically advanced
reports like fracture trace
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analysis indicated that
there was little to no chance of
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finding water. Despite the
discouraging geological report
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after two hard days of
drilling the team hit water.
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Man says there's no water here.
God says there's water and there
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was. And when you realize
that you are living right in the
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middle of something that's
just as powerful as any Biblical
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story. It's the same thing. It
is a Biblical story. It's just a
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modern Biblical story.
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Although water was found, like
much of the groundwater nearby
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it was salty. It would still
be welcome for bathing, hygiene,
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cooking and even for watering
animals. But there was a certain
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degree of disappointment
that it wasn't completely sweet.
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So this is not without impact
even if it stays salty. I mean
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you can read the Bible and
can see that God can change the
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salty water to pure if that's
His will but it's got to have
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to be done for His glory and
then it's obvious that He did it
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That's what I think. And I don't
know if that'll happen or how
00:16:54.98\00:16:58.78
it'll happen.
It's an ongoing story.
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Just hour later Noble received
word that the water turned sweet
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Earlier this morning, I said
that the water here at Ilbagosh
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in northern Kenya was going
to be salty or probably salty.
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But we come out here today and
we find out that the water is
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pure, drinkable
and we are excited.
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In total, five new wells in the
Illeret area are providing clean
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water to thousands of Daasanach
people who no longer must walk
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miles each day for muddy
water. At the same time they are
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increasing interest
in the Adventist church.
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It's miraculous. Since we didn't
know what to expect and here's
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the water that we've been
thinking about ever since we
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first came up here. It's hard
to explain. It's impactful, big
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time. If you're not
impacted you're not alive.
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To learn more about Maranatha's
work around the world visit
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Maranatha's
website at maranatha.org
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Praise God!
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Now that is a Praise the Lord!
He turned the salty to the sweet
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That is amazing. Here you are...
Just give us an overview of
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how long it took
to get out there.
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Well it was a five-day drive
for all those trucks and it was
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severely challenging for
all the guys that went up there.
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Here's the interesting thing.
A lot of our well crew were not
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Christians that have been
working with us for quite a few
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years. These guys have seen a
lot of what's happened with the
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wells and the impact on the
people. This particular trip
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took them over the edge and
six of them were baptized (Wow!)
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on the project, the well
drillers themselves as they saw
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what happened. Because what
happened here is so phenomenal
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so in your face that it had to
be God, it wasn't anything else.
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It wasn't the fact that they
were great drillers or that we
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knew so much. It was absolutely
God because the guys that were
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checking out, telling us where
to drill said do not drill here
00:19:03.34\00:19:06.54
drill over here but the locals
said don't drill here because
00:19:06.57\00:19:10.95
that's way off by this old river
bed and we don't want it over
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there, drill here. So we
said, what should we do God?
00:19:14.25\00:19:17.69
You know and the locals they
don't have fracture tracing,
00:19:17.72\00:19:20.26
they don't have all the science
and this, that, and the other
00:19:20.29\00:19:22.82
thing and they're like, it'd
be a whole lot more convenient
00:19:22.86\00:19:25.59
here. Yeah, this would be nice,
this would be better for us.
00:19:25.63\00:19:30.50
but they were praying. I
mean, they believe in God, they
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believed that God
could do this thing.
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We decided to drill there
even though we knew there was no
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water. We said, either they're
going to find out that there
00:19:37.51\00:19:40.38
isn't or God's going to do a
miracle. Fortunately the later
00:19:40.41\00:19:43.81
became true. And they hit water
at 38 meters. It wasn't that
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deep and as you saw, it started
salty and it became sweet.
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Yeah, then there's this huge
disappointment like oh, it's
00:19:52.09\00:19:56.79
salty water. And you know you
kind of like well, you know we
00:19:56.83\00:20:00.60
can still use that, I mean like
that really changes your life
00:20:00.63\00:20:05.00
and so you kind of like
try to pull yourself up.
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The women of the village grabbed
her and they were dancing with
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her. I mean, you want to
see excited people. They haven't
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seen water. They had to dig
their whole life. Here's water
00:20:13.68\00:20:15.48
coming out of a well. Life
changer, complete life change.
00:20:15.51\00:20:20.02
I mean, when that turned
sweet that was another thing...
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Oh my goodness. I mean you just
get down on your knees. And the
00:20:23.22\00:20:26.09
well drillers who...now these
are people who drill wells,
00:20:26.12\00:20:29.09
that's what they do for a living
It's not like they've never seen
00:20:29.12\00:20:32.13
a well before. It's not like
they've never seen water come up
00:20:32.16\00:20:35.03
out of the ground. And they saw
that water turn from salty to
00:20:35.06\00:20:40.24
sweet.
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Let me do one follow-up.
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They knew what was happening.
They saw what was happening.
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Let me do a follow-up on this.
We drilled five...there's five
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wells functioning today right
now for those people that don't
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have to go dig down into the,
15 feet down and then try to dig
00:20:51.81\00:20:56.22
water up. Those people have
water. The church has come in
00:20:56.25\00:20:59.19
there behind us and they're
doing health talks, they're
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doing all kinds of Bible
teaching, et cetera, et cetera,
00:21:03.12\00:21:07.16
and guess what?
They're baptizing people by the
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hundreds.
(What!?) By the hundreds.
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Praise God! Praise God!
00:21:14.57\00:21:16.17
Why not? And we've got to
go back because we just found
00:21:16.20\00:21:19.47
another tribe that doesn't have
any water up there, a bigger
00:21:19.51\00:21:24.21
tribe!
00:21:24.25\00:21:25.58
A bigger tribe!
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But these are people. Got knows
those people live there. They're
00:21:26.98\00:21:29.88
at the end of the earth. You
know the Bible talks about that
00:21:29.92\00:21:32.69
and go to the end of the earth.
Well we're pretty much sure that
00:21:32.72\00:21:35.39
we're close to that,
when you're out there, right?
00:21:35.42\00:21:38.69
And if you think about the
positive that comes from the
00:21:38.73\00:21:42.56
water there's the immediate
water impact, right? Then you
00:21:42.60\00:21:46.17
have greater health because you
have fresh water, you have a lot
00:21:46.20\00:21:51.71
more time, right? There's kids
that aren't having to travel
00:21:51.74\00:21:55.58
five, six miles to go get water.
The women have more time. Then
00:21:55.61\00:22:01.32
all of a sudden...There's some
interesting things we learned
00:22:01.35\00:22:04.32
when Don and I were there
this last summer. We went and we
00:22:04.35\00:22:07.26
looked at one of the locations.
I think we even have a picture
00:22:07.29\00:22:10.19
of it. It's a place called
Lukenpawnie. We learned that
00:22:10.23\00:22:14.26
with the freshwater that
these wells are bringing the
00:22:14.30\00:22:17.70
productivity of milk from the
cattle goes up. Well, of course.
00:22:17.73\00:22:22.37
We just hadn't thought of that.
So economically it starts making
00:22:22.40\00:22:26.64
a difference. So not only do
they move from nomadic, they get
00:22:26.68\00:22:29.48
established in one place,
but the whole standard of living
00:22:29.51\00:22:33.48
goes up. So then you have a need
for a church and then this place
00:22:33.52\00:22:38.25
where you just saw the video
right, one of the first requests
00:22:38.29\00:22:41.66
they said is,
We're ready for a school.
00:22:41.69\00:22:44.26
All of the churches that we
built up there every single one
00:22:44.29\00:22:46.93
of them that we went to somebody
in the group stood up and said
00:22:46.96\00:22:50.67
Got to have
schools for our children.
00:22:50.70\00:22:53.34
Yeah, and it was an
impassioned plea, actually.
00:22:53.37\00:22:56.10
From just the well.
00:22:56.14\00:22:57.51
Very interesting. You talk
to these people about the water
00:22:57.54\00:23:01.14
that they're getting, and
they're excited about it, but
00:23:01.18\00:23:03.21
you know what their greatest
interest is? (What's that?) It's
00:23:03.24\00:23:07.12
the water for their animals.
00:23:07.15\00:23:09.88
Because the animals
provide their food. (multiple
00:23:09.92\00:23:13.09
conversation)
00:23:13.12\00:23:14.46
That's their livelihood and now
they don't have to be itinerant
00:23:14.49\00:23:16.96
out looking for water.
00:23:16.99\00:23:18.33
To keep their animals alive
which is their food supply.
00:23:18.36\00:23:20.33
We've seen that when we
were there their wealth is often
00:23:20.36\00:23:24.63
measured by how much cattle they
have, how much sheep and how
00:23:24.67\00:23:26.80
much goats they have and that's
their life-sustaining...They're
00:23:26.84\00:23:30.31
not driving to Walmart. They're
not going to Raley's for those
00:23:30.34\00:23:35.64
of you who live in California.
They're not driving to the super
00:23:35.68\00:23:37.91
market to find what cuts are
available. It's in their back
00:23:37.95\00:23:41.25
yard literally. When we visited
some families remember you know
00:23:41.28\00:23:45.19
we saw their pen outside which
we probably would have dogs in
00:23:45.22\00:23:48.29
it, just household pets. But in
that pen is not a household pet,
00:23:48.32\00:23:52.43
it's their sustaining
food supply. Tell us about the
00:23:52.46\00:23:55.86
Econga well.
00:23:55.90\00:23:58.60
Ah, Econga, that's in Nucomboni.
We have a picture of it. In this
00:23:58.63\00:24:03.81
last summer we had a
volunteer project there.
00:24:03.84\00:24:05.77
A number of people went
00:24:05.81\00:24:07.21
and Don and I took a day. We
went to go visit with the well
00:24:07.24\00:24:11.45
team and you can see a
picture of the well rig.
00:24:11.48\00:24:13.18
It's on the screen.
00:24:13.21\00:24:14.88
Yeah, you have it on the screen.
00:24:14.92\00:24:16.25
What is the yellow?
00:24:16.28\00:24:17.62
So okay let me go to that.
The yellow are buckets of water.
00:24:17.65\00:24:21.26
So that's what the women come
and refill. And here was have a
00:24:21.29\00:24:24.79
picture of just...there are
hundreds of ladies that come
00:24:24.83\00:24:28.76
and bring their...She's got a
young child there. They'll pump
00:24:28.80\00:24:32.43
their buckets and
then they'll go back.
00:24:32.47\00:24:34.14
They weigh about 40 pounds.
00:24:34.17\00:24:35.50
Yeah, I would like to challenge
any woman, or man, to pick one
00:24:35.54\00:24:38.77
of those up and put them
on their head for one mile and
00:24:38.81\00:24:42.14
these women walk for many, many
miles a day with 40 pounds on
00:24:42.18\00:24:45.98
their head like that. I
mean, it is tough. It's tough.
00:24:46.01\00:24:49.85
Well the picture's gone now
but there's a church there right
00:24:49.88\00:24:54.16
next to the well and
that's where the people come.
00:24:54.19\00:25:00.20
It's just the edge of the church
00:25:00.23\00:25:01.93
So this Econga well, going back,
the active involvement of God
00:25:01.96\00:25:09.40
in doing miracles and taking
salt water into fresh water,
00:25:09.44\00:25:14.24
here's another example. I mean,
this is clear in the other part
00:25:14.28\00:25:17.25
of the country. And there are
other wells in the area, so this
00:25:17.28\00:25:23.15
well was drilled...We become
calloused right. We're seeing
00:25:23.18\00:25:27.89
this all the time. Well it's
likely to be salty but at least
00:25:27.92\00:25:31.76
you'll get some water. Maybe you
won't drink it but at least you
00:25:31.79\00:25:35.03
get it. Well, guess
what. Members start praying and
00:25:35.06\00:25:39.57
praying the whole drilling
process. So the well finishes
00:25:39.60\00:25:47.64
and it's fresh water and a well
driller, a Marlin, says hey how
00:25:47.68\00:25:50.68
come you were so sure. It's
like, well we've been praying
00:25:50.71\00:25:53.62
for it, but of course, it's
going to be fresh water. We
don't have any doubt.
00:25:53.65\00:25:57.85
So all their friends and
neighbors are like why do you
00:25:57.89\00:25:59.55
have fresh water. Well we serve
a more powerful God and that's
00:25:59.59\00:26:02.89
why and we've been praying
for it. So the difference is the
00:26:02.92\00:26:06.16
praying. It's really amazing.
Here's one for you. What if you
00:26:06.19\00:26:10.97
are in charge of a well drilling
team and the well is dry? What
00:26:11.00\00:26:15.30
do you do?
00:26:15.34\00:26:17.64
The people doubt your God.
00:26:17.67\00:26:20.48
Yeah, and do you drive away
if the decision is up to you? I
00:26:20.51\00:26:23.95
mean this is their livelihood.
Right? I mean they're not going
00:26:23.98\00:26:27.35
to live as long.
00:26:27.38\00:26:28.72
Yeah, we do have some dry wells.
We're not a hundred percent.
00:26:28.75\00:26:31.02
Not a hundred percent.
00:26:31.05\00:26:33.59
So those are tough decisions
that our people have to do.
00:26:33.62\00:26:36.22
Yeah we did one in a
place called Lorata there was a
00:26:36.26\00:26:40.13
picture but I'll just do it
quickly. We drilled in I think
00:26:40.16\00:26:42.56
it was 2017. It was dry. It went
down seven hundred and some feet
00:26:42.60\00:26:47.64
and didn't hit water. They
finally pulled out. And they
00:26:47.67\00:26:51.67
were in the area again a couple
years later and the people
00:26:51.71\00:26:56.88
begged them, literally begged
them on their knees try again.
00:26:56.91\00:27:00.22
So they tried again. Try again.
Try again. The third time just
00:27:00.25\00:27:07.26
what a couple months ago. Went
back a third time. It's on a
00:27:07.29\00:27:10.93
main road so it wasn't hard
to get to. Hit water at 140 some
00:27:10.96\00:27:16.73
feet, plenty of water, pure,
freshwater. So the third time
00:27:16.77\00:27:21.00
they got water. That's crazy.
00:27:21.04\00:27:23.20
Prevailing faith.
00:27:23.24\00:27:24.91
Yeah let me say one more thing
about wells before we get off of
00:27:24.94\00:27:28.31
wells. And that is, we have
started a maintenance program
00:27:28.34\00:27:32.25
for the wells. Many of the
wells that have been drilled
00:27:32.28\00:27:34.68
throughout Africa and
even around the world are non
00:27:34.72\00:27:38.52
functioning after they've been
put in. Over time the things
00:27:38.55\00:27:41.16
wear out, parts
wear out. We have...
00:27:41.19\00:27:43.06
We're just talking about wells
in general. All sorts of big
00:27:43.09\00:27:47.46
companies go out there and drill
a well. But then what happens?
00:27:47.50\00:27:50.23
You go back 21 years later. Is
it still working? Maybe, maybe.
00:27:50.27\00:27:54.34
But has it had any maintenance
whatsoever. Probably not.
00:27:54.37\00:27:58.04
That's the maintenance
side to revisit some of...
00:27:58.07\00:28:00.61
So we actually have a
maintenance program now where we
00:28:00.64\00:28:03.45
visit each of the wells at least
once a year or if they contact
00:28:03.48\00:28:06.41
us we'll come in a fix it. So I
mean it's a shame. You put a lot
00:28:06.45\00:28:10.25
of money into a well and maybe
for a $20 part, it doesn't work.
00:28:10.29\00:28:16.39
So we're going back and making
sure that they not just work to
00:28:16.42\00:28:20.00
start with but they keep working
00:28:20.03\00:28:21.36
We're setting the bar as high as
we can because guess what this
00:28:21.40\00:28:26.00
does for the Seventh-day
Adventist church and the
00:28:26.03\00:28:28.14
membership everybody looks
at. Over there it's not about
00:28:28.17\00:28:30.01
Maranatha. It's about the church
It's how powerful is this God
00:28:30.04\00:28:35.31
that brought you water here.
00:28:35.34\00:28:37.21
And then they ask what do you
believe? What do you believe?
00:28:37.25\00:28:42.92
Who is this God? And that really
is the centerpiece. Who is that
00:28:42.95\00:28:49.02
God?
00:28:49.06\00:28:51.13
And that makes a difference. Now
the next one we're going to talk
00:28:51.16\00:28:52.79
about is the...
00:28:52.83\00:28:54.73
Wait a minute.
I have a question.
00:28:54.76\00:28:56.10
How do you find people you
can trust to work out there?
00:28:56.13\00:29:01.64
Well, that's a good question.
00:29:01.67\00:29:04.34
We work through a lot of people
before we get the good ones.
00:29:04.37\00:29:09.54
You know over the years we've
worked in a lot of countries.
00:29:09.58\00:29:13.65
As we work there and you get to
know the employees and the staff
00:29:13.68\00:29:18.39
there's some that are stellar
and we keep taking them to other
00:29:18.42\00:29:22.92
We move them around
where they become leadership.
00:29:22.96\00:29:28.56
Like the management team.
00:29:28.60\00:29:29.96
We got leaders that work in our
countries around the world that
00:29:30.00\00:29:33.84
have been with us for
25 years. (Whew!) Yeah.
00:29:33.87\00:29:37.54
And that's amazing but I want to
kind of move on and look at some
00:29:37.57\00:29:40.54
of the other things. Tell us
about the Kuotine Campus. Now
00:29:40.58\00:29:43.95
this is a video we want to
show. Is there audio with it?
00:29:43.98\00:29:46.05
I think we're just
talking over the top of it.
00:29:46.08\00:29:49.75
When we first came to...We
can show that Kuotine video.
00:29:49.78\00:29:55.06
There's a before
and an after Kuotine.
00:29:55.09\00:29:57.03
When we first came to
the Kuotine Campus we were
00:29:57.06\00:29:59.83
up hauled. This actually is
a good video of the original
00:29:59.86\00:30:08.44
Kuotine Campus (on a good
day) Look they've even done some
00:30:08.47\00:30:11.34
pretty plantings and whatnot. So
this is not when we first came.
00:30:11.37\00:30:15.71
Um but the condition of
that campus and they had a few
00:30:15.74\00:30:23.99
hundred students
there at that time.
00:30:24.02\00:30:25.85
Those pictures make
this look pretty good.
00:30:25.89\00:30:27.82
This is what it's changed to.
00:30:27.86\00:30:30.63
But now we're not done yet
but you can see the change. And
00:30:30.66\00:30:35.66
we've rebuild virtually every
single building and added a
00:30:35.70\00:30:38.77
boatload of buildings there.
They had just like an outdoor
00:30:38.80\00:30:43.04
kitchen that they had a rice
and bean mixture every day. The
00:30:43.07\00:30:48.04
condition of the dormitories
was abysmal. The showers you
00:30:48.08\00:30:55.05
just take...This is young men
and women and teenage boys and
00:30:55.08\00:30:58.25
girls taking showers outside,
try to visualize this, with the
00:30:58.29\00:31:02.69
small wall around them with just
mud and they're pouring a little
00:31:02.72\00:31:07.66
bucket of water over their head.
There's two toilets for hundreds
00:31:07.70\00:31:12.23
of kids. Try to
imagine the morning routine.
00:31:12.27\00:31:15.07
Oh, not a
chance. That is terrible.
00:31:15.10\00:31:17.31
So now these kids are texting
their friends. I mean, they
00:31:17.34\00:31:23.58
actually have phones. Who
knew? But they're texting their
00:31:23.61\00:31:24.95
friends pictures and stuff
like you've got to come here...
00:31:24.98\00:31:28.45
They're the
marketers for the school.
00:31:28.48\00:31:29.82
There's a waiting list for that
school. So the school has how
00:31:29.85\00:31:34.79
many kids at that school now?
(A few hundred) Yeah, I mean
00:31:34.82\00:31:37.89
they've added like 200 kids
to the campus and they have a
00:31:37.93\00:31:41.40
waiting list because they really
can't take any more. So it's
00:31:41.43\00:31:44.03
just a huge thing. And
again circling back, well what
00:31:44.07\00:31:47.87
difference. This is just sticks
and bricks and mortar. What
00:31:47.90\00:31:51.14
difference does it make. It
makes a difference in the lives
00:31:51.17\00:31:53.07
of those kids and a lot of them
are going to meet Jesus Christ
00:31:53.11\00:31:57.65
and develop a relationship with
Him. That's what it's really all
00:31:57.68\00:32:02.08
about and 10,000 years from
now they're going to be in the
00:32:02.12\00:32:04.99
kingdom and that school is going
to be a part of it. You know, I
00:32:05.02\00:32:09.59
mean that's the thing.
00:32:09.62\00:32:10.96
They used to use a third
of their budget on water that
00:32:10.99\00:32:12.86
comes in with trucks
00:32:12.89\00:32:14.23
Now of course we drilled a well
and they've got all the water
00:32:14.26\00:32:16.33
they can handle and
enough to water the grass.
00:32:16.36\00:32:19.10
And the community comes and they
get water there from all around.
00:32:19.13\00:32:24.24
So, everybody, I had a young
lady come up to me as the grass
00:32:24.27\00:32:27.78
was growing and the...You know
it's so beautiful the stuff. You
00:32:27.81\00:32:31.08
know we build the buildings
but then what God does on the
00:32:31.11\00:32:33.95
campus. Like you put the grass
in, you put the landscaping in.
00:32:33.98\00:32:38.35
You know God's ideas. He's such
a great designer right? So one
00:32:38.39\00:32:41.12
of the young ladies came up
to me and she said, Did you have
00:32:41.16\00:32:43.43
any idea that this would look
so great? And I'm like uh yeah.
00:32:43.46\00:32:50.33
(Laughter) Some of our
supporters they ask us so how do
00:32:50.37\00:32:53.37
the kids do? What goes on with
that? Well look every time that
00:32:53.40\00:32:58.54
you improve the facilities and
you have a place you're proud of
00:32:58.57\00:33:02.44
to be, you feel it's an honor
to be there. They focus, they
00:33:02.48\00:33:07.62
study, you attract better
teachers and now the kids coming
out of that school are
00:33:07.65\00:33:09.65
scoring top in their region
and their state and so all of a
00:33:09.68\00:33:13.59
sudden you move them from just
being nowhere to being stars in
00:33:13.62\00:33:19.76
that country and then they
become lights for God's work.
00:33:19.79\00:33:23.30
Beautiful. What
about the Kai Jagdeo dorm.
00:33:23.33\00:33:27.87
Kai Giotto. What an
amazing story this is.
00:33:27.90\00:33:32.11
That's a campus of rescue,
a rescue campus for girls.
00:33:32.14\00:33:36.31
What do you mean rescue?
00:33:36.34\00:33:37.68
Well, Laurna will explain.
00:33:37.71\00:33:39.05
Well there's certain tribes in
Kenya and really surprisingly in
00:33:39.08\00:33:45.29
many countries that have this
female genital mutilation or FGM
00:33:45.32\00:33:52.43
and also early childhood
marriage so they will be
00:33:52.46\00:33:56.00
married usually by the age
of nine. (Nine! Unbelievable)
00:33:56.03\00:34:00.74
And their partner may be in his
20s, maybe in his 70s. (What!)
00:34:00.77\00:34:06.71
So it just depends on who
contracted for that child when
00:34:06.74\00:34:09.94
they were born. (Who has
the cattle) And it's a contract.
00:34:09.98\00:34:12.85
(That's terrible!) And they are
basically a purchased item for
00:34:12.88\00:34:17.59
that man. And there are some
young women, and many reasons,
00:34:17.62\00:34:25.96
many, many, many different
stories decide they want to
00:34:25.99\00:34:28.90
escape that (Okay) How
many do we have there? Over 200?
00:34:28.93\00:34:34.90
(Fully 300) Multiple voices...
There was a bunch of Adventist
00:34:34.94\00:34:42.41
women who said...probably
started with one or two and now
00:34:42.44\00:34:45.75
there's this huge school
and while they've rescued these
00:34:45.78\00:34:49.88
girls they said why not
give them an education. Well...
00:34:49.92\00:34:53.66
This probably is the most
popular project that we have
00:34:53.69\00:34:56.09
anywhere in the world right now.
It's been a huge project. It's
00:34:56.12\00:34:59.16
still going on, people can
still go there, we're building a
00:34:59.19\00:35:02.46
complete new campus, Kai Giotto,
about an hour from Nairobi so
00:35:02.50\00:35:07.80
it's easy to get to.
00:35:07.84\00:35:10.51
Multiple voices at once.
You can see the girls there.
00:35:10.54\00:35:12.11
Yeah, we'll just talk over
the top of this, but this is in
00:35:12.14\00:35:17.38
their dormitory and they're
here with some of the volunteers
00:35:17.41\00:35:23.92
They just got a
new dorm and beds.
00:35:23.95\00:35:25.85
Yeah. You won't believe some
of the places they have been
00:35:25.89\00:35:30.63
housed.
00:35:30.66\00:35:33.80
These girls end up here.
They learn, because you know
00:35:33.83\00:35:40.24
they start out with their tribal
languages, whatever they are and
00:35:40.27\00:35:43.64
here they will learn to read
and to write and then often they
00:35:43.67\00:35:50.38
express interest in different
trades They're getting a rounded
00:35:50.41\00:35:53.21
education. By the time they
come out and graduate from high
00:35:53.25\00:35:55.85
school then they can integrate
back in society. It is really,
00:35:55.88\00:35:59.99
really a life changer.
00:36:00.02\00:36:01.76
We just added a
secondary school to it.
00:36:01.79\00:36:04.69
A secondary?
00:36:04.73\00:36:06.06
And you know this is like
a rolling...we're talking in
00:36:06.09\00:36:08.80
Africa, there's no snow in that
particular area, but this is
00:36:08.83\00:36:10.87
like a snowball effect. Talk
about the Sue Krueger School
00:36:10.90\00:36:15.14
because the effect is just
continuous all over Africa.
00:36:15.17\00:36:18.41
Yeah, that's in India.
00:36:18.44\00:36:20.04
That's in India? Okay
we're crossing the continent.
00:36:20.08\00:36:21.64
We're jumping around but that's
okay because we're working in
00:36:21.68\00:36:25.31
India. Have been for many, many
years. That school is what we
00:36:25.35\00:36:29.15
call an EEC or Educational
Evangelism Center. It's got
00:36:29.18\00:36:35.02
classrooms. It's got a center
area for...they do church, they
00:36:35.06\00:36:40.53
do meetings of all sorts
in these buildings. We've done
00:36:40.56\00:36:44.30
about 125 of them.
00:36:44.33\00:36:45.67
It's like a giant auditorium
with classrooms on the side and
00:36:45.70\00:36:48.27
it becomes the center
for Christian activity...
00:36:48.30\00:36:53.74
Multiple voices...in that area.
00:36:53.78\00:36:55.91
Look at that.
00:36:55.94\00:36:57.28
And you guys are
in there aren't you.
00:36:57.31\00:36:58.65
We were there that day, yes, at
as they dedicated that school.
00:36:58.68\00:37:02.08
So they have a handful of
students there as you can see.
00:37:02.12\00:37:06.45
(Laughter) And you know you
think about each one of those
00:37:06.49\00:37:10.26
kids has a story and each one
of them has a future and they're
00:37:10.29\00:37:13.80
going to have kids and they
have something send to and teach
00:37:13.83\00:37:17.10
their children as well. So that,
like you were saying, really
00:37:17.13\00:37:20.34
goes on and on and on, yeah.
00:37:20.37\00:37:23.51
It's a big outreach. I mean the
families that send their kids
00:37:23.54\00:37:25.81
there, they're not all Seventh-
day Adventists. They're all
00:37:25.84\00:37:28.04
walks of life. Multiple voices.
00:37:28.08\00:37:29.41
Are there Muslims?
00:37:29.44\00:37:30.78
There are Muslims, they're
good Hindus. (Multiple voices)
00:37:30.81\00:37:34.88
But what they're hoping is those
families, many of them, the
00:37:34.92\00:37:37.52
parents come there either
every day or on a regular basis.
00:37:37.55\00:37:41.42
They're listening to their child
say, Mom, why aren't we having
00:37:41.46\00:37:44.49
prayer? Why aren't we praying
about this. What about this
00:37:44.53\00:37:49.16
verse in the Bible. You know,
this sort of thing and so it
00:37:49.20\00:37:52.70
really is an evangelistic school
Real Christian education is
00:37:52.73\00:37:57.64
evangelism.
00:37:57.67\00:37:59.01
You touched on something right
there, the schools, the Muslims.
00:37:59.04\00:38:02.51
There's places in Cote d'Ivoire,
lot of Muslims in Cote d'Ivoire
00:38:02.54\00:38:05.31
we're building a couple of
schools there and the families
00:38:05.35\00:38:09.32
will not send their kids or
themselves to any kind of an
00:38:09.35\00:38:13.15
evangelistic meeting. They won't
do it. But they'll give you
00:38:13.19\00:38:16.69
their kids at the school.
00:38:16.73\00:38:18.29
Wow. A child shall lead them.
00:38:18.33\00:38:19.66
I'm assuming this next
word is maybe Indian, Falakata.
00:38:19.69\00:38:24.63
(It is.) Did I
say that correctly?
00:38:24.67\00:38:26.74
(Yeah.) About that
structure that you're building.
00:38:26.77\00:38:30.54
It's the same thing as the Sue
Krueger School. It's just under
00:38:30.57\00:38:33.31
construction right now.
00:38:33.34\00:38:36.75
Do we have a picture?
(Yeah. I think we do.)
00:38:36.78\00:38:38.11
Oh, there it is.
00:38:38.15\00:38:39.48
This is kind of what it looks
like. Construction, yeah, it's
00:38:39.51\00:38:40.85
going up, it's going up.
00:38:40.88\00:38:42.22
It's a little bit bigger. That
one's 14 classrooms plus an area
00:38:42.25\00:38:46.15
in the middle
that will seat 1250.
00:38:46.19\00:38:48.16
What grades?
00:38:48.19\00:38:49.52
Oh, it'll seat about 1250?
00:38:49.56\00:38:52.09
Yes, yes. That school goes from
kindergarten to 12 I believe.
00:38:52.13\00:38:56.30
That particular building
I believe they're going to
00:38:56.33\00:38:59.63
allocate to the elementary.
00:38:59.67\00:39:01.04
Wow! We were there when we saw
that major campus that you guys
00:39:01.07\00:39:04.24
did in Zambia.
00:39:04.27\00:39:05.61
Remember the
church, the outdoor church.
00:39:05.64\00:39:07.51
The outdoor church where they
were meeting under a blue tarp
00:39:07.54\00:39:09.78
for many years and we met that
church mother who said, I've
00:39:09.81\00:39:13.31
been prrraying for years,
prrraying, prraying. That was so
00:39:13.35\00:39:15.92
exciting. And we say the police
roll up one day. We said, Oh, is
00:39:15.95\00:39:19.15
there some problem here? And
they were coming to enroll their
00:39:19.19\00:39:22.22
children. That inspired my wife
because what did you do the next
00:39:22.26\00:39:25.73
year when we went out there?
00:39:25.76\00:39:27.46
I got clothes from the kids from
our church. I had children bring
00:39:27.50\00:39:31.57
their old clothes and donations.
People gave us money to help
00:39:31.60\00:39:36.44
More than $4000 to
put kids in school.
00:39:36.47\00:39:40.98
From our church.
00:39:41.01\00:39:42.34
Indistinct words.
00:39:42.38\00:39:43.71
I think that's awesome.
00:39:43.75\00:39:45.08
You know in India we actually
have three campuses going right
00:39:45.11\00:39:47.62
now and another one just like
the Falakata, the one that's
00:39:47.65\00:39:50.15
under construction and a modular
school also. Well we started to
00:39:50.19\00:39:55.49
do...You have to be careful
because you want to make sure
00:39:55.52\00:39:58.49
the campuses are going to
be successful. Sometimes in the
00:39:58.53\00:40:03.53
past if you don't really study
into it deep enough you're going
00:40:03.57\00:40:07.60
make a mistake. So we won't
build on any of these campuses
00:40:07.64\00:40:11.71
unless they already have
an effective, ongoing program
00:40:11.74\00:40:15.28
that's doing well.
They just need buildings.
00:40:15.31\00:40:18.18
Do you have a pastor too?
00:40:18.21\00:40:19.95
Pardon me.
00:40:19.98\00:40:21.45
A pastor, a minister?
00:40:21.48\00:40:22.82
It depends on the school.
00:40:22.85\00:40:24.22
I mean the churches, of
course would need a pastor.
00:40:24.25\00:40:26.89
Sure the churches do. The
schools like that one is a big
00:40:26.92\00:40:29.66
campus with 2000 students or
something, Yeah, they'll have
00:40:29.69\00:40:33.73
not just one pastor.
00:40:33.76\00:40:35.26
But we also do schools for
smaller...like we have a modular
00:40:35.30\00:40:39.53
school that so if they don't
need a giant building like that
00:40:39.57\00:40:44.21
but you still...we have some
photographs of what that looks
00:40:44.24\00:40:47.41
like.
00:40:47.44\00:40:48.78
Is it Immanuel? Immanuel? (Yes)
Okay let's look at these two
00:40:48.81\00:40:51.21
photos from Immanuel. One...
00:40:51.25\00:40:52.58
Oh, look at that!
00:40:52.61\00:40:53.95
That's a beautiful campus.
Now are those more modular?
00:40:53.98\00:40:55.42
Yes, they are. There's a
cafeteria in there. There's a
00:40:55.45\00:40:59.45
couple of dorm buildings and
classrooms. The place got our
00:40:59.49\00:41:03.79
attention because the girls'
dorm burned down. (Oh!) And so
00:41:03.83\00:41:07.56
they says hey you know we really
need help. So we've gone in
00:41:07.60\00:41:11.43
there and of course, replaced
the dorm. (Look at that) That's
00:41:11.47\00:41:14.87
a class room right there. And
now surprisingly there were some
00:41:14.90\00:41:20.34
donors that got excited about it
and the fact that the staff had
00:41:20.38\00:41:23.45
to walk three or four miles each
way to find a place to live.
00:41:23.48\00:41:28.95
We're building a number of
really nice duplexes on the
00:41:28.98\00:41:32.59
campus for staff.
00:41:32.62\00:41:34.52
Well one of the things to just
highlight that is if you don't
00:41:34.56\00:41:36.89
have great leadership at a
school what happens? Right?
00:41:36.93\00:41:40.10
And if you can attract great
leadership one of the things is
00:41:40.13\00:41:43.87
where are you going to live?
You know if you have a better
00:41:43.90\00:41:46.27
place to live for those that are
leaders you're going to have a
00:41:46.30\00:41:49.97
better school.
00:41:50.01\00:41:51.34
Absolutely. That's right.
00:41:51.37\00:41:52.71
So one of the things we're
trying to do is on some campuses
00:41:52.74\00:41:55.74
where it's really called
for we do housing. (Good)
00:41:55.78\00:41:58.51
Now there's a connection with
3ABN connection in this video I
00:41:58.55\00:42:02.25
want to show you right now
that our viewers see. It's a
00:42:02.28\00:42:05.15
little more than two minutes
and I want to have you highlight
00:42:05.19\00:42:07.82
what that is after we
watch it. (Okay, okay)
00:42:07.86\00:42:09.99
Over the past three
decades Maranatha Volunteers
00:42:10.03\00:42:19.60
International's Ultimate Workout
has taken teams on mission trips
00:42:19.63\00:42:22.57
around the world. But in 2021
Maranatha organized an Ultimate
00:42:22.60\00:42:28.88
Workout in a very familiar
location, the United States.
00:42:28.91\00:42:32.65
Each year Maranatha organizes
nearly two dozen projects in
00:42:32.68\00:42:39.85
North America and they're a
big part of Maranatha's annual
00:42:39.89\00:42:42.89
mission work. And in 2021
Ultimate Workout was part of
00:42:42.92\00:42:47.50
that work by organizing a
project in Kayenta, Arizona.
00:42:47.53\00:42:50.97
Kayenta is a small town in the
Navajo Nation and the community
00:42:51.00\00:42:54.80
is 95 percent Navajo? A portion
of the population are members of
00:42:54.84\00:43:00.88
the Kayenta Seventh-day
Adventist church. It was here at
00:43:00.91\00:43:05.38
the church where 77 volunteers
camped and built the walls of
00:43:05.41\00:43:08.98
what will be the only Adventist
school in the area. Volunteers
00:43:09.02\00:43:18.79
also participated in a number
of outreach projects for local
00:43:18.83\00:43:22.36
members in need. While their
days were filled with work their
00:43:22.40\00:43:32.57
mornings and evenings were spent
in worship which is an equally
00:43:32.61\00:43:35.98
important part of Maranatha's
mission, to grow the faith of
00:43:36.01\00:43:39.91
its volunteers.
00:43:39.95\00:43:41.28
The worships have been like
nothing I've ever experienced.
00:43:41.32\00:43:45.59
They have been...like every
night it's like you feel the
00:43:45.62\00:43:48.42
Holy Spirit that you know that
God is in that place. You can
00:43:48.46\00:43:51.19
feel His presence and the music
the speaking, just the whole
00:43:51.23\00:43:55.03
atmosphere when everyone
has come together is just, it's
00:43:55.06\00:43:59.33
amazing.
00:43:59.37\00:44:01.14
By the end of the project 17
teens decided to commit their
00:44:01.17\00:44:09.08
lives to Jesus.
00:44:09.11\00:44:17.39
Lives always come back different
and people are impacted forever
00:44:17.42\00:44:21.19
by going on a Maranatha project.
But Ultimate Workout seems to
00:44:21.22\00:44:23.96
have a different impact because
you're impacting the life of a
00:44:23.99\00:44:26.86
teenager who have their
entire life ahead of them.
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For more information on
Maranatha's mission and how
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you can help go to maranatha.org
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Wow! It's a
phenomenal video there.
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You know that video you just saw
that is a classic example of why
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Maranatha exists. We spent
a bunch of time talking about
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buildings but there's a whole
other piece and that is the
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volunteer aspect. So here this
is a project that's specifically
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focused for young people, 14-18
year olds. And these kids go
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their lives are changed.
Sometimes we get a call back
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after the project, says Hey what
did you do to my little Johnny
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or Susie because it's not
the same one that I sent you.
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And it's that big a change.
They get a chance to kind of
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remake themselves a little bit
for two weeks or a week-and-a-
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half. They get to experience
work. Many of them maybe haven't
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done that. And they move into
this non-neutral environment
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zone where their minds are open
to the Holy Spirit touching the
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heart and you saw on the video,
17 kids gave their lives to
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Jesus. Some of these kids
come from troubled backgrounds.
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I mean they're not all you
know the saints. There's a broad
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spectrum there. So volunteering,
touching, that is half of what
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Maranatha does.
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Ultimate workout 30 years, over
30 years now, we've been doing
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that project. Now we have
children of the parents who went
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on Ultimate Workout when they
were kids (growing up). So it's
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pretty cool. Normally they've
been international. This last
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year because of COVID we did
it in the United States for the
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first time.
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But we did it in
the Navajo Nation.
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They didn't know they weren't
outside of the country. It felt
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like they were
outside the country.
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When we were in Africa
for example, I think it was in
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Zimbabwe or Zambia, one of the
two. There was a teenager there
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and she talked about how
year after year she went to a
00:46:19.37\00:46:21.98
Maranatha project and one year
her mom took her to Disney World
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and she said, I hated it.
Here I am in Disney World, Mom's
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wasting money and I said, I want
to be in Africa. So for those of
00:46:27.98\00:46:30.99
you that have young people that
want to give them...See mission
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drives the message. Getaway
from the video games. There's no
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self-service, there's no Play
Station three or four or five or
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six. And they're out there
making differences in people's
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lives and when they leave they
go back home and say I've got to
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do this again next year.
That's what Ultimate Workout
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is all about
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It gives meaning to your life.
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Oh, it has meaning.
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It did something for me
personally. My mother, when I
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was a kid, she was like, Oh you
know...I was in my 20s...She's
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like you got to go on one of
these trips, you know. And I'm
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like phew, I'm not going.
Can I get my nails done there?
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Mya, mya, mya. Then you go and
this is something that God does
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to all of us. When you look out
and beyond yourself (Amen) that
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is what's satisfying and God has
all the keys to making us happy.
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Right? And that's what people
find. If they can find that at a
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young age,
better (snaps fingers).
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And we have projects...Like this
one's focused on young adults, I
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mean on young people. There's
some for young adults and then
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another thing that we do,
every year we have multiple
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opportunities for families so
they can go during the summer.
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We have opportunities in Peru,
in Africa, I mean there's lots
00:47:37.22\00:47:42.56
of them. And then Christmas time
talk about...Oh my goodness, we
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have many...(Very popular)
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Multiple voices. You look out.
00:47:48.70\00:47:54.24
You do not look at you.
00:47:54.27\00:47:55.60
You become a...(Multiple voices)
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And you get more than...I mean
almost every volunteer we have
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says, Oh I went to give but I
got so much back. I mean I got
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way more than, you know, I
thought I was going to be giving
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and they give me. So.
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You know, it was on one of these
trips that brought us to tears.
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as we stayed in our hotel room
realizing how blessed we are
00:48:11.75\00:48:14.59
in America. We gave away our
clothes, our shoes, our pants.
00:48:14.62\00:48:17.43
I bought new shoes for the out
back, I gave them away. My wife
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gave away a lot of her clothes
to the wife, we met there.
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Your perspective changes.
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Your perspective, yeah.
00:48:24.20\00:48:25.70
I mean what's the difference
between us sitting here talking
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about this versus having to be
digging there for a little bit
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of water, right?
It's where we were born.
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There's no age limit is
there to be a volunteer.
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No. We've had from babies
to middle to late 90s that go.
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It depends, yeah.
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I want to kind of challenge you.
There are people watching and
00:48:46.39\00:48:48.92
listening, they're saying how
can I get involved. We have a
00:48:48.96\00:48:51.09
few more pictures we'll show
maybe before we end the program
00:48:51.13\00:48:54.13
but, be specific. How can people
watching and listening get
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involved in Maranatha. It's
phenomenal, it's life changing.
00:48:57.00\00:48:59.87
It's not going to
end until Jesus returns.
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We'll get the
address in a moment.
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You know there's a number of
ways that...of course over the
00:49:05.37\00:49:10.01
years it's been volunteer and
go And that's one very, very key
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way. And if people can do
it, they should. A lot of people
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can't. They can pray. I believe
that prayer is just as important
00:49:18.59\00:49:23.29
as if you give. God works
through prayers. We've seen it
00:49:23.32\00:49:27.10
over and over and over again.
00:49:27.13\00:49:29.73
You have these $10 churches.
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We have $10 churches, yep. That
started actually from the dime
00:49:31.13\00:49:35.30
tabernacle I got the idea.
Kind of bumped up the ten cents.
00:49:35.34\00:49:39.44
But not that's been over 30
years so maybe we ought to bump
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it again, I don't know. But
we build a couple three churches
00:49:42.71\00:49:47.68
every month with people that
give $10. So people say well I'm
00:49:47.72\00:49:52.32
not giving much. Well combine it
with a lot of people and it's a
00:49:52.35\00:49:55.79
big deal. I did want to mention
we do build churches. We haven't
00:49:55.82\00:50:00.93
talked about it tonight.
00:50:00.96\00:50:02.30
Matter of fact, let's just
show that picture of the Zambia
00:50:02.33\00:50:04.40
church. That was interesting.
00:50:04.43\00:50:05.77
So we build churches like this
where it's very, very basic.
00:50:05.80\00:50:10.44
It's a basic church and we build
them because if we see the next
00:50:10.47\00:50:14.51
picture when they build them
wrong and they don't have the
00:50:14.54\00:50:18.21
right structural support you
see what happens. So this is a
00:50:18.25\00:50:21.78
church that asked us to
help them rebuild. This actually
00:50:21.82\00:50:24.52
killed a handful of
people in the church.
00:50:24.55\00:50:26.45
Yeah, five people were killed
there just a couple months ago.
00:50:26.49\00:50:29.29
We've already committed to
rebuilding, well we didn't build
00:50:29.32\00:50:31.89
it in the first place. No.
00:50:31.93\00:50:34.10
So those buildings that
look so basic are structurally
00:50:34.13\00:50:39.57
engineered and that is a big
difference. But then the church
00:50:39.60\00:50:43.57
people will take them and you
won't believe in some countries
00:50:43.61\00:50:45.77
what they'll do with
those. We have pictures of that.
00:50:45.81\00:50:48.48
Well let's look at the one
in India, the India church. This
00:50:48.51\00:50:50.65
is another example of how
churches look when you're done.
00:50:50.68\00:50:53.08
And in India the power of your
God gets judged by the solidness
00:50:53.11\00:51:03.09
of your church. So
that's why it's important.
00:51:03.12\00:51:05.73
We have a few more pictures.
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I want to see this one in Peru.
This is phenomenal, a completely
00:51:07.33\00:51:09.33
different design. Look
at that. Multiple voices.
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It actually is a thin
structure behind that wall.
00:51:14.37\00:51:17.84
But it's got
different lipstick on.
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And also Brazil. Let's
look at the Brazil one.
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It's a very similar. Yeah so
they do something completely...
00:51:23.45\00:51:26.51
yeah. So it just
depends on the church...
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They're free to give a common
look to the churches in the area
00:51:31.02\00:51:33.32
so people recognize
the Adventist church.
00:51:33.36\00:51:35.16
And you have a planning team and
architect. We'll talk about some
00:51:35.19\00:51:37.76
of that on the other side before
we end our program. If you're
00:51:37.79\00:51:41.80
watching this program you
know that this is something that
00:51:41.83\00:51:43.70
just ignited a flame in you
and we'll let you know on this
00:51:43.73\00:51:48.30
address roll how
you can get involved.
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If you would like to contact
or know more about Maranatha
00:51:51.61\00:51:56.04
Volunteers International you
can do so in the following ways:
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You can write to them
at 900 Reserve Dr. Ste 100
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Roseville, CA 95678 You can call
them at (916)774-7700. That's
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(916)774-7700. You can
also visit their website at
00:52:14.16\00:52:21.00
maranatha.org.
That's maranatha.org
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