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¤ I want to spend my
life mending broken people ¤
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¤ I want to spend
my life removing pain ¤
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¤ Lord let my words
heal a heart that's hurt ¤
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¤ I want to spend my
life mending broken people ¤
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Hello friends, Welcome to 3ABN
Today. My name is Ryan Day and
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today is a good day. Every day's
a good day in the Lord. And it's
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a blessing to have you joining
us, our friends, and family of
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the Three Angels Broadcasting
Network. As always we want to
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thank you for your love,
your prayers and support of this
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incredible ministry. Because
without you giving, supporting,
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praying and sending your love
our way we wouldn't be able to
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send the three angels messages
around the world. But God is
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blessing this ministry. God has
blessed you and again we just
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thank you for taking the time
to join us again today. We have
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FARM STEW International in the
house with us today. How are you
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ladies doing?
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Wonderful, thank you. Yes.
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Awesome, awesome. We're going
to do a little bit more of a
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general introduction when we
come back in just a moment but
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just want to take this moment
to hear a special musical number
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to just kind of set the mood
and set the tone for what it is
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we're about to discuss
here in regards to FARM STEW
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International ministry. But
right now we're going to have a
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special musical number brought
to us by Miss Ginger Pitchers.
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entitled Family Tree.
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¤ ¤
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¤ There's a King James
Bible by my grandmother's bed ¤
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¤ with the words that spoke
life to her underlined in red ¤
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¤ and hid between the
pages are treasured souvenirs ¤
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¤ old faded photographs
and memories so dear ¤
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¤ And each night she prayed to
Jesus said our names one by one
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¤ and asked the Lord to
keep us as her mother had done ¤
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¤ And nothing is more precious
than the hope, she's given me ¤
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¤ a legacy of loving
God and living faithfully ¤
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¤ I know where I come
from my roots run deep ¤
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¤ I can trace them all
the way back to Calvary ¤
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¤ Where one blessed
day life began for me ¤
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¤ so I guess you could say
the cross is my family tree ¤
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¤ ¤
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¤ And I followed
in the footsteps ¤
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¤ of dedicated saints ¤
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¤ and I've learned
from their examples ¤
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¤ of God's unchanging grace ¤
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¤ and I know generations of
believers who will live on ¤
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¤ to proclaim the love of
Jesus long after I am gone ¤
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¤ And I know where I
come from my roots run deep ¤
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¤ I can trace them all
the way back to Calvary ¤
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¤ where one blessed
day life began for me ¤
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¤ So I guess you could say
the cross is my family tree ¤
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Let me sing this.
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¤ Draw me nearer
nearer blessed Lord ¤
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¤ to the cross
where Thou hast died ¤
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¤ I know where I come
from my roots run deep ¤
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¤ I can trace them all
the way back to Calvary ¤
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¤ Where one blessed
day life began for me ¤
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¤ So I guess you
could say the cross... ¤
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¤ I'm so glad I
can say the cross ¤
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and I pray the
more than anything
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¤ that you can say that
the cross is your family tree ¤
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May, wow! Amen. Thank you
so much. Saw my good friend,
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Tim Parton there on the
piano plays wonderful as always.
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Thank you my brother and thank
you Ginger for that beautiful
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song. Family Tree. I think all
of us can relate to that. The
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family tree should be...you know
the cross is our family tree,
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right? I love the message of
that song. Thank you, guys, so
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much. FARM STEW International.
It sounds like a meal you don't
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want to miss. (Absolutely) Let
me just go ahead and start by
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introducing our guests today.
We have Miss Joy Kauffman, the
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founder of FARM STEW
International. How are you,
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ma'am As I get to each one of
you tell us a little bit about
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you know your background because
I know there may be someone at
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home that says who in the world
is Joy Kauffman. And we're going
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to get into what FARM STEW is
in just a moment. Tell us a bit
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about your background,
where you're from, all of that.
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Sounds good. Thank you again for
the opportunity to be here with
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you Ryan and on 3ABN. We were
here not too terribly long ago
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and I got to share about how
God was stretching us. But just
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first on our background. That
song made me recognize my family
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tree of course praise God goes
back to Calvary as well but it
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also goes back to my
grandparents, my maternal
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grandparents who lived in a town
called Farmland, Indiana, and we
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used to drive out there as kids
and all pile in a car, no air
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conditioning. And we'd crawl out
of the car hot and sweaty and go
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straight to my grandmother's
garden. And my grandpa was a
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farmer. Her garden was where we
grew a lot of the food that they
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ate all winter. We canned
beans and made applesauce and
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everything. I think honestly
it was seeing their testimony of
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hard work and food production
and preservation that really as
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I got older and I started seeing
problems of hunger and childhood
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malnutrition that has really
impacted me as a nutritionist
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I harken back to those
days of you know how do you cure
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malnutrition? You do it with
food. How do you get food? You
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grow it.
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Amen, amen. I knew there was
something about farming that was
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in there. It wasn't just a
special recipe of food but we're
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going to actually talk
about that recipe in just a few
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moments. Karissa Ziegler how are
you ma'am and tell us a little
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bit about yourself.
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Yeah, so I'm Karissa
from Colorado and I guess just
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growing up we were always
gardening. My mom always had a
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big garden and she really got
me interested in gardening. And
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then as well as mission work.
As I was growing up we went on
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a couple of short-term mission
trips. Then I also spent a year
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in Cambodia with Adventist
Frontier Missions volunteering
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and teaching at an elementary
school there. So I really got
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interested in missions. I liked
that but I knew the teaching was
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now my thing, it just wasn't
my favorite thing to do in the
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world and so missions was
something but I really liked
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farming better and gardening
more. So as I came back I was
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looking for something to combine
those two things and FARM STEW
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seemed to be it.
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Farm Stew. Now God's got you
here working for FARM STEW. It's
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a blessing, yeah. Thank you
so much. Susan Cherne. We were
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able to discuss a little bit
about your background and what
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you do but tell us a little bit
about yourself and what is it
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specifically that you do
for FARM STEW International?
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Thank you also for having us
here. This is such a privilege
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and honor to be here
representing FARM STEW. I'm from
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Texas and my background is we've
been very involved with mission
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and mission trips and so forth.
My father-in-law is Dr. Harold
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Cherne. He used to be on 3ABN
quite a bit talking about health
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and nutrition. We're
avid gardeners and love that.
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I became a part of FARM STEW.
I met Joy at a conference and I
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walked up to the FARM STEW booth
and I said I love everything
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about this. It was everything
I love to do. And so we just hit
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it off and she asked if I would
join the FARM STEW board. I am
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an attorney and so there was
that piece of the puzzle that
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was perfect for the board.
And so I joined and then became
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chair of the board so I've
been chair of the FARM STEW
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International board since 2018.
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Awesome, praise the Lord.
So a southern girl from Texas.
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That's right, that's it.
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I'm from Arkansas. I can relate
to that. Praise the Lord. Praise
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the Lord. Well we're excited to
have you guys here? We're going
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to be talking about all that the
Lord is doing with blessing you
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and the purpose, the goal
of this ministry. In fact, I'm
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going to start there. Joy, let's
talk about there may be someone
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watching right now that says
what in the world is FARM STEW
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International? Give us a little
bit about the history, how it
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began and you know what is the
essence, the purpose, the goal
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the agenda of this ministry?
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Well I love sharing about the
purpose because it is global in
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scope. We have what we call
a recipe for abundant life and
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really it's things that
Adventist Christians have been
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doing for hundreds of years and
have produced this tremendous
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outcome of having health
and longevity that's you know
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better than anybody in the
country. Look at the blue zones
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who are identified as having
seven to 10 additional years of
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life. And so we felt like that's
not just for North Americans.
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That's for all Adventists around
the world and all Christians
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around the world. We can learn
from the Bible how to live a
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healthy abundant life. And
so FARM STEW is an acronym. We
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have eight ingredients, we call
them, in the recipe for abundant
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life and at its very essence
FARM STEW's a training program
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where we try to bring these
ingredients that are the root...
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they address the root causes
of hunger, disease, and poverty.
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And so Farming is the first
of the eight letters. We try to
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change people's attitude. Like
really we'll talk about that a
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little bit later how we can
transform people from maybe an
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attitude of not caring about
farming, not caring about work
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using substances to dull their
pain. And then we teach people
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about rest for their gardens,
for their bodies and even the
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Sabbath rest. We teach about
meals, whole food plant-based
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meals and that's FARM. And then
STEW is Sanitation. There's more
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than a million, sorry a billion
people in the world that don't
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have adequate sanitation in
their homes like latrines or
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ways to wash their hands. T
stands for Temperance and so not
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using the substances and just
having a clean lifestyle so the
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Holy Spirit can speak to you.
Then the E stands for Enterprise
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So helping people create jobs
and then our W rounding out is
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Water. One of the exciting
things God has stretching us to
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bring clean water to some of
the billion people on the planet
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that don't have
access to clean water.
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Yeah, water, wow. I think water
would be very important for if
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you're going to do a little bit
of farming and growing. So you
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train people. This is the idea
is to train people to be you
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know active workers in
this particular work. I think we
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actually have an image that you
wanted to show for the training
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aspect. (Yeah) We can pull that
up right now and you can kind of
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talk through...maybe talk
a little bit more about this
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training that you guys do.
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Yeah, FARM STEW recently
launched actually in the
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Philippines at the invitation
of Duane McKey and the Adventist
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World Radio. And so we conducted
an intensive two-week training
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there. Now we have 40 trainers.
So we have local people that we
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train in this recipe and then
they go out and they reach the
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local people in the villages and
mountains. In this case, they're
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reaching former rebels that used
to be killers and now they are
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fully reconciled so we have the
up R, fully reconciled to Jesus
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and so we're working to teach
them this recipe for abundant
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life.
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Wow. So you said that these were
people that used to be killers?
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(Yes.) Murders. Okay I just
wanted to make sure I understood
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that correctly.
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Yeah. Adventist Radio had
been doing some work in these
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mountainous areas and they
had actually been starting to
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broadcast into these areas
where there was this war going
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on and many of the people that
have now converted were former
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assassins in this war. And
we praise God I met with Pastor
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McKey last year and I said
you know you're having all these
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people get baptized but when
they come out of the water do
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they really truly know how to
live differently. And he kind of
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contemplated that question and I
offered FARM STEW as a solution.
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We feel that when people are
fully discipled, it's a training
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program that ends up being
a discipleship program because
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we combine the Bible and science
and all these practical hands-on
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skills. We believe they are
discipled into a new life in
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Christ and a new life of freedom
And so we have these freedoms
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that we focus on as
part of our solution.
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Yeah, absolutely. So maybe
you and Karissa both can kind of
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talk about this. Go maybe
a little bit more in-depth on
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the training aspects. So if I'm
involved in this and I want to
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be trained, what am I doing to
learn, what type of training do
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I go through in order to be able
to fit the problem or to fit the
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solution that FARM STEW
International wants to solve?
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Well a lot of what FARM STEW
does is train local people out
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in the villages in Africa or the
Philippines, which is our newest
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place that we're in. And we do
very hands-on training, lots of
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cooking classes, classes about
how to grow a garden, how to
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grow nutrition sensitive
agriculture, so we're growing
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not just one kind of crop. A lot
of them are just growing rice.
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And we're teaching them how to
grow not just rice but you know
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fruits and vegetables and leafy
greens, things that have more
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nutrition to them. So we do
a lot of hands-on training in
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those places. One of our
new things that we started doing
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is training in the U.S. which is
a picture that we have up there
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and that is our heart village
training that we had last year
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in August. So that's an annual
training and we'll be doing it
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again this year. It's just
before ASI National that was
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just south of Orlando. If you
go on our website FarmStew.org
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under the news tab there's a
link for all of our events that
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are offered Okay, awesome,
praise the Lord. Did you want to
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add anything to that?
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I'll just add you know COVID
created creativity for FARM STEW
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and so one of the things we
were trying to get into Cuba and
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after several canceled flights
we decided let's do digital
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health evangelism through
FARM STEW. And so actually every
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Monday morning we meet with a
whole group of Cubans and do our
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training over an app and it's
pretty powerful. So now actually
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this past week I was on
that call and we had guests from
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Brazil and Nicaragua and
a missionary from Nicaragua
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that's going to take those same
materials and start this type of
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digital FARM STEW evangelism in
their country. So we're getting
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creative in terms of how we
stretch out the solution of the
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training. We also have three
universities in Africa that are
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also teaching FARM STEW and
those are Adventist Universities
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in Malawi, Uganda, and Rwanda
including the new medical school
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in Rwanda. These new students
are going to be coming...
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going to have the practical
hands-on skills of FARM STEW in
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addition to the medical training
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Sure, sure, praise the Lord,
Wow you guys got your hands in
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everything it seems like.
And so I'm thinking here you
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know there's a
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a lot of issues, a lot of
challenges, problems in our
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world and you guys obviously
have solutions. We've kind of
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talked a little about this and
we're going to go in more depth
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in just a while. But I just want
to specifically hone in on the
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problem that FARM STEW seems to
address wants to address. Let's
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talk a little bit about what
specifically, are you guys doing
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to address whatever problem it
is that the Lord has called you
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to fix or address
during these times.
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Thanks for the opportunity.
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You know I was actually
nine years old when I became a
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vegetarian and I was the only
one in my home that made that
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decision and my mom and my
Grandma that I was talking about
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before, they were so worried I
was going to become malnourished
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and a sickly and stunted child.
Well a decade later I was you
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know in college and on a
scholarship to play volleyball
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and I clearly wasn't sickly
and stunted. My plant-based diet
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served me quite well. But I
developed through that concern a
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heart for childhood malnutrition
and you know there are three
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million children that die every
year of childhood malnutrition
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and overall people there are
25,000 people who die every day
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of malnutrition and these are
people that are not in the news
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they don't raise to the radar of
international acclaim but slowly
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but surely they are dying, And
these are the same people Jesus
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talked about that He's going to
ask us when He comes back what
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did you do for the least of
these. So we have a picture of
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Fiona, one of our trainers,
measuring the mid-upper arm
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circumference with a little
plastic band that just goes
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right around the arm and it's
a very simple test that we can
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give to the trainers
that indicates the level of
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malnutrition in a child very
accurately from six months to
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five years old. So it's simple,
simple tools like this that can
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help identify the problem and
then like you said, we have the
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solution. So that's something
we've been sharing about...
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Sure, wow that's amazing. But
you're doing it through these
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ingredients. I love that because
FARM STEW, you know, it's got
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the food theme but you call them
ingredients which I guess are
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kind of similar to what we know
as these eight laws of health
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that we've here them before. But
you guys have your own little
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twist on it. So maybe you and
Karissa can talk a little bit
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about...let's go back into these
ingredients, these individual
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ingredients, and talk about what
they are and the importance of
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each and every one of them, you
know, that we should fit into
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our life.
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Absolutely. Karissa is a
horticulturist by the way
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and so I want her
to start with farming.
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Yeah so I guess I
mentioned earlier that I loved
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farming and gardening and have
done that like my whole life but
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I didn't always love it. When I
was little it was just a chore.
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But my mom was really into
gardening so I had to pull weeds
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It was really hot outside. I'd
rather be swimming or whatever.
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I hated it. I had a bad attitude
about it. But at some point, as
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I got older I realized that this
was actually fun. It's cool to
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see the plants growing and just
to be out in nature with all of
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the animals and the plants and
kind of learn all about nature
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and learn about God and so I
started really nerding out about
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it and loving it. I realized
that this was not just fun but
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it could actually be a
profession and that how when I
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really started to get interested
in FARM STEW and where this
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could take me.
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Right. And when you think
of farming, like I grew up in
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Northeast Arkansas on the delta,
Mississippi Delta and when I
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think of farming you think of
millions of acres of road fills
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with whatever crop in it
but you know farming doesn't
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necessarily have to be...when
you ask someone to participate
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in farming, it doesn't
necessarily have to be millions
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of acres of land. So talk a
little bit about you know what
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is the basis of farming. If a
person's going to get involved
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in what FARM STEW is doing
in relation to farming what
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specifically
would they be doing?
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Yeah, so FARM STEW is doing
a lot smaller farms usually
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because most people don't have
you now thousands of dollars to
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get a big tractor and
farm hundreds of acres so we're
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usually doing much smaller
farming. Personally right now
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I'm helping farm on just a
small farm. It's just a few _,
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but that's still a farm because
you're still selling the produce
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It's not just your
own garden you know.
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And as we're teaching people how
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to farm on this even smaller
farm-scale they can learn how to
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grow nutritious food and still
support their family and be able
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to sell some of the
produce that will help them...
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Wow, that's so awesome, that
is awesome. So A, F, A what does
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the A stand for?
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Yeah so the change of attitude
is so powerful and Susan
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actually has a story of one
of our participants who had a
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radical transformation thanks
to the change of attitude.
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(Okay.) It was amazing. She
was a young woman who was met
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outside of a medical clinic
and she was in pretty bad shape.
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You know, skin and bones, poor
health. Her children had poor
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health. And you would think okay
will what about gardening? Well
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she wasn't interested in
gardening because she thought
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that was for the poor. But she
is the poorest of the poor or
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she was. So it's a perspective
you know an attitude about
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something that actually could
help you. And so through the
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training she was actually taught
how gardening could change her
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life and the life of her
children and so she started
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doing that. And so her health
improved and her children's
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health improved. But she
was also taught how you can sell
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what you grow and that's the
E in FARM STEW for Enterprise.
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Right. So in selling what she
could grow now she had income
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And so it just lifted her
family, changed their lives and
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that's what FARM STEW is all
about, the training of how you
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can have an abundant life.
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Wow, that's amazing.
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In FARM STEW we're all about
families and you know that song
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was perfect about the family
tree goes back to Calvary. The
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call to be a blessing to all
the families of the earth, that
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actually goes back to the call
that Abram or Abraham later had
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on his life. And we are the sons
and daughters of Abraham as well
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and so at FARM STEW, we feel
like we want to be a blessing to
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the entire family unit. So
in the case of Fatima the woman
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Susan will tell you about there
was actually tension in the
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marriage because her husband
wasn't bringing in enough food.
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He was a shoe cobbler. You know,
he wasn't making a great living.
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And she didn't see herself
as part of an economic engine to
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the family and I think that
transformation, that attitude,
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makes a big difference. And then
of course, we talk about rest.
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But in the context of rest we
say, you know, Sabbath rest. But
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in the commandment for Sabbath
it says six days you labor and
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work. So we also emphasize
those six days of work.
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Right, absolutely, yeah, amen
praise the Lord. So F=Farming,
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A=Attitude, R=Rest,
what does the M stand for?
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Well that comes to meals which
is where I get really excited.
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I actually have a picture that
we can show of two of the key
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components of the solution for
meals and that is as Karissa was
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saying where a lot of the people
in Cambodia where she worked
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were eating rice. I mean we just
talked to a man that was trained
00:26:13.64\00:26:17.04
in Nicaragua, he's now in
Nicaragua. He was trained with
00:26:17.07\00:26:20.78
us in Colorado and he was saying
that he cooked casaba, rice and
00:26:20.81\00:26:29.32
corn. So the average diet of
the generally poor people in the
00:26:29.35\00:26:32.42
world is just starches. And
so our solution is that we teach
00:26:32.45\00:26:35.76
them to grow and eat the rainbow
so across the color spectrum of
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naturally occurring colors
people are going to get the
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micro nutrients that...
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You said you had a picture for
that if we could pull that up
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there the rainbow. And then look
at that. Yeah that's the rainbow
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We had our training in South
Sudan and I'm with Mary one of
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our trainers. And we had people
from seven countries, seven
00:26:54.64\00:26:57.58
African countries at that
training. And then the other
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side of the picture is these
women pounding and there are
00:27:01.38\00:27:05.12
these old-fashioned wood mortars
that are found in most every
00:27:05.15\00:27:09.46
African rural home and I think
many places around the world.
00:27:09.49\00:27:12.16
They're actually pounding soy
beans and making milk and then
00:27:12.19\00:27:16.36
after they squeeze the milk out
of the soybeans, they can have a
00:27:16.40\00:27:20.40
powder there called okara and
with that okara, they can make
00:27:20.44\00:27:23.81
all sorts of other food products
including a substitute for tea
00:27:23.84\00:27:27.04
and coffee. And so this soy
protein is really what a lot of
00:27:27.08\00:27:32.31
the children are lacking. They
are often deficient in protein
00:27:32.35\00:27:36.99
and deficient in various
micro nutrients, so between our
00:27:37.02\00:27:39.62
rainbow and our soy work we
can get a diet that can help the
00:27:39.65\00:27:43.32
children to thrive. So
that's our focus on meals.
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That's amazing. So not just
teach them how to put seeds in
00:27:46.83\00:27:49.76
the ground and grow it but
to harvest it and to use those
00:27:49.80\00:27:55.10
beautiful vegetables that
they're harvesting to actually
00:27:55.14\00:27:57.24
learn how to cook meals. So you
actually, teach them how to cook
00:27:57.27\00:28:00.08
these meals.
00:28:00.11\00:28:01.44
Yes, and our local trainers they
generally start with the cooking
00:28:01.48\00:28:05.21
classes because people aren't
experienced with any of those
00:28:05.25\00:28:08.72
things. Even though 75 percent
of the world's poor and hungry
00:28:08.75\00:28:12.62
people are subsistence farmers,
but they often don't even have
00:28:12.65\00:28:17.59
access to fruit and vegetable
seeds. So you think, Oh they're
00:28:17.63\00:28:20.23
farmers, they must be growing
fruits and vegetables. They're
00:28:20.26\00:28:22.36
not. They're just growing corn,
casaba, bananas, just rice those
00:28:22.40\00:28:27.74
basic starchy staples that fill
the belly but they don't nourish
00:28:27.77\00:28:32.27
the blood and so then their
immune system is so compromised
00:28:32.31\00:28:34.74
and that's why most children die
They might be lacking vitamin A
00:28:34.78\00:28:39.65
which is very related to their
immune system. Or lacking iron
00:28:39.68\00:28:43.89
and then when they get hit
with like malaria, another lead
00:28:43.92\00:28:47.76
killer, you know all of a sudden
some of their red blood cells
00:28:47.79\00:28:50.79
are attacked and they don't have
the oxygen supply in their blood
00:28:50.83\00:28:55.06
to keep them alive. We're going
at all these solutions to the
00:28:55.10\00:29:00.64
root causes of
hunger, disease and poverty.
00:29:00.67\00:29:03.10
Wow, that's amazing. Wow.
00:29:03.14\00:29:05.57
God is so good. All the
solutions are actually in the
00:29:05.61\00:29:08.98
Bible like for example this
thing about enriching the blood.
00:29:09.01\00:29:11.98
The Bible says in Leviticus,
the life of the flesh is in the
00:29:12.01\00:29:17.22
blood. So we use the Bible
to teach everything that we
00:29:17.25\00:29:19.42
teach so that
00:29:19.45\00:29:20.79
it's not just new science, but
it's Biblical wisdom. And even
00:29:20.82\00:29:25.19
in places where there are
Islamic people, they still have
00:29:25.23\00:29:29.10
a reverence for the scriptures
that they can learn and then
00:29:29.13\00:29:33.74
once they learn and they see
that what they learned from the
00:29:33.77\00:29:36.54
Bible actually works then their
heart is also open to Jesus who
00:29:36.57\00:29:39.94
is the author of abundant life.
00:29:39.97\00:29:42.04
That's amazing. Praise the Lord.
That's so great. So now we get
00:29:42.08\00:29:45.55
into STEW. S, what
does the S stand for?
00:29:45.58\00:29:48.88
S is Sanitation. And as I
mentioned before there's a
00:29:48.92\00:29:53.49
billion, 2.4 billion people
on the planet without proper
00:29:53.52\00:29:57.09
sanitation. So one of the things
we teach is latrines, building
00:29:57.13\00:30:01.13
latrines and we've actually
provided latrine covers to many
00:30:01.16\00:30:04.53
families that don't have the
money for a bag of cement, so if
00:30:04.57\00:30:07.77
they do the hard work of digging
which is hard, then we will help
00:30:07.80\00:30:12.41
them with the covers. And then
Susan was going to mention a
00:30:12.44\00:30:17.28
special kits we have for
girls really for sanitation.
00:30:17.31\00:30:20.45
Yes, one thing that really
captured my attention when I
00:30:20.48\00:30:22.42
first heard about FARM STEW and
that is you don't think about
00:30:22.45\00:30:26.59
the not being able to go to
school when they reach a certain
00:30:26.62\00:30:29.69
age because they don't have
products that they can use. So
00:30:29.72\00:30:32.53
part of our sanitation is that
we provide kits for the girls,
00:30:32.56\00:30:36.93
which include reusable pads,
panties, little bags they can
00:30:36.97\00:30:41.54
put them in so that they can
have privacy. Because education
00:30:41.57\00:30:46.17
changes everything and if we can
keep these young girls in school
00:30:46.21\00:30:48.14
then it changes their life, it
changes the community's life and
00:30:48.18\00:30:52.78
so we've been able to provide
over 15,000 kits to young girls
00:30:52.81\00:30:57.45
in various places. So
we're very excited about that.
00:30:57.49\00:31:00.16
It's amazing. Praise God, praise
God. This is awesome. I think
00:31:00.19\00:31:03.46
you guys, like this, is probably
something I've never heard of
00:31:03.49\00:31:06.19
any other ministry that does
specifically what you guys are
00:31:06.23\00:31:08.50
doing here in regards to
that and some of these other
00:31:08.53\00:31:11.47
ingredients but it's powerful
to see what the Lord is doing.
00:31:11.50\00:31:13.40
Well I want to thank 3ABN so
much because when we say we've
00:31:13.44\00:31:17.27
been able to provide this
through generous donors and I
00:31:17.31\00:31:20.44
can't tell you how many of
our donors say, hey I saw you on
00:31:20.48\00:31:24.15
3ABN and I'm just so grateful
for you allowing us to share
00:31:24.18\00:31:29.78
this recipe for abundant life
and share it with your listening
00:31:29.82\00:31:32.59
audience whose hearts are open
to hearing what God is calling
00:31:32.62\00:31:36.46
them to share the gospel in
practical, hands-on ways that
00:31:36.49\00:31:41.60
change lives.
00:31:41.63\00:31:42.96
Amen, praise the Lord,
praise the Lord for that. So S =
00:31:43.00\00:31:46.10
Sanitation. T, what
does the T stand for?
00:31:46.13\00:31:49.00
Okay, so I have a story for
T, Temperance. I have a picture
00:31:49.04\00:31:53.84
of these guys standing there
with a group of bricks. And I'll
00:31:53.88\00:31:57.08
just share...Many of the people
in these countries they have
00:31:57.11\00:32:02.15
very few jobs in these countries
and very few opportunities and
00:32:02.18\00:32:07.12
so often you'll see the very
best land is growing sugar cane,
00:32:07.16\00:32:10.19
coffee or tea. So frustrating.
None of that provides any
00:32:10.23\00:32:14.13
nutrition. So this was a group
of guys that had started selling
00:32:14.16\00:32:19.23
sugar cane and they were making
less than and dollar a day. So
00:32:19.27\00:32:24.04
when they got discouraged they
started drinking alcohol which
00:32:24.07\00:32:27.14
sadly you can brew almost
anything into alcohol, even
00:32:27.18\00:32:31.41
casaba or bananas or all these
crops that they grow, even rice
00:32:31.45\00:32:33.92
can turn into alcohol. So when
our FARM STEW trainer came in
00:32:33.95\00:32:38.02
this is Daniel and Perez in
the picture who are two of our
00:32:38.05\00:32:42.76
Uganda leaders. They showed that
instead of relying on sugar cane
00:32:42.79\00:32:47.86
for money, they could actually
start a brick business and I
00:32:47.90\00:32:51.37
want to share the name of the
group they started. It's called
00:32:51.40\00:32:54.64
Katu Pacasi and it stands
for, what it means in the local
00:32:54.67\00:33:01.08
language is, Let Us Work. And
that's the Enterprise, our E for
00:33:01.11\00:33:05.38
Enterprise. So they stopped
drinking, see, and they said Let
00:33:05.41\00:33:09.05
Us Work, have an enterprise.
And they started making bricks.
00:33:09.08\00:33:12.52
They were selling them for five
cents each, these are handmade
00:33:12.55\00:33:16.19
mud bricks they learned to make
from our appropriate technology
00:33:16.22\00:33:20.00
part of the work. They are
now making 20,000 bricks a week
00:33:20.03\00:33:25.20
and this associated group is
now making $628 a week to share
00:33:25.23\00:33:32.27
amongst this whole group
of young men who instead of
00:33:32.31\00:33:35.64
drinking and feeling worthless
about themselves are now
00:33:35.68\00:33:38.78
starting a big enterprise and
what's so exciting about that
00:33:38.81\00:33:41.38
is not only are they having this
business but now they're desire
00:33:41.42\00:33:45.32
is to train others and that's
what I love about FARM STEW.
00:33:45.35\00:33:49.12
It's not just an organization
that we're building for the sake
00:33:49.16\00:33:51.66
of being a big organization.
It's growing organically and
00:33:51.69\00:33:56.26
it's becoming a movement such
that, you know, we can count
00:33:56.30\00:34:00.00
that we've had 10,000 classes,
we can count that there's been
00:34:00.04\00:34:04.04
250,000, almost a quarter
million participants in these
00:34:04.07\00:34:10.31
classes, one of these classes.
Many of them go to 10 or more
00:34:10.35\00:34:13.48
classes in the program. But
there's so many things going
00:34:13.52\00:34:18.02
on with FARM STEW that we will
never know until we get to the
00:34:18.05\00:34:20.19
FARM STEW party in heaven.
00:34:20.22\00:34:21.99
FARM STEW party, I like that.
00:34:22.02\00:34:25.86
So we thank God for what He's
doing. Yeah and our last letter
00:34:25.89\00:34:29.50
is Water and Susan has a funny
story about that with a passion
00:34:29.53\00:34:33.77
she has for
helping people with that.
00:34:33.80\00:34:36.47
Well you know part of teaching
about water, we are teaching,
00:34:36.50\00:34:40.71
the trainers are teaching people
to drink water. You know but
00:34:40.74\00:34:45.05
it's good for your health. You
need to drink plenty of water.
00:34:45.08\00:34:47.08
But the people were having
to walk miles to get it. And the
00:34:47.12\00:34:50.25
water that was local was dirty
and so Joy and I both, we felt
00:34:50.29\00:34:53.86
like the Holy Spirit just really
inspired us, the Lord just put
00:34:53.89\00:34:57.23
on our heart that if you're
going to ask them to drink water
00:34:57.26\00:34:59.56
then provide clean water. And
so we got to talking and through
00:34:59.59\00:35:04.27
generous donations and our
donors we were able to start
00:35:04.30\00:35:11.11
partnering with other
organizations to drill water
00:35:11.14\00:35:12.54
wells, repair water wells,
and so far we've been able to
00:35:12.57\00:35:15.84
put in 55 water wells. Part of
what we wanted to make sure of
00:35:15.88\00:35:22.68
is that you know when you give
people hope and they're excited
00:35:22.72\00:35:26.09
about that, to pull that hope
away is devastating. So we made
00:35:26.12\00:35:30.39
the commitment with our
organization, with FARM STEW,
00:35:30.43\00:35:33.09
that if we were going to provide
water wells then we're going to
00:35:33.13\00:35:36.46
make sure they work and if they
don't work we're going to make
00:35:36.50\00:35:39.13
sure they're repaired. Because
we were seeing pictures of
00:35:39.17\00:35:41.87
people women walking past broken
water wells. And so we just
00:35:41.90\00:35:49.24
determined that if we're going
to do it we're going to do it
00:35:49.28\00:35:51.15
right. We're going to make sure
that there were savings clubs
00:35:51.18\00:35:54.25
where people could use the
funds in their community to help
00:35:54.28\00:35:57.49
repair the wells or teach the
people how to repair the wells.
00:35:57.52\00:35:59.72
So it's so exciting to see
the people's faces and just the
00:35:59.75\00:36:06.90
rejoicing when actual clean
water comes. Because you see the
00:36:06.93\00:36:08.96
pictures of their children and
they're going to get water and
00:36:09.00\00:36:11.73
it is mud, it's muddy and
they're drinking that and it's
00:36:11.77\00:36:16.44
pretty heartbreaking. So praise
the Lord, we're able to do
00:36:16.47\00:36:18.21
something and
help with that problem.
00:36:18.24\00:36:20.74
Yeah, praise the Lord. And
I just want to kind of just go
00:36:20.78\00:36:23.04
back just for a moment Susan
because you had touched a little
00:36:23.08\00:36:25.38
bit on the enterprise aspect
which is what the E stands for
00:36:25.41\00:36:28.28
in STEW. (Right) Enterprise.
But you know you guys are in
00:36:28.32\00:36:32.65
countries with extreme poverty
and maybe touch a little bit
00:36:32.69\00:36:37.66
more on specifically FARM STEW
is helping address the issue of
00:36:37.69\00:36:42.13
poverty in these areas
that you guys are working in.
00:36:42.16\00:36:47.07
So for organization, we
step back and we look at the big
00:36:47.10\00:36:50.67
picture; what are the causes of
hunger, disease and poverty. So
00:36:50.71\00:36:54.81
we just spoke about the
education for the young girls to
00:36:54.84\00:36:58.45
be able to stay in school.
Because you teach a young woman,
00:36:58.48\00:37:00.82
she becomes a mom. She teaches
her children. It changes the
00:37:00.85\00:37:04.85
whole community. So that's one
area. The other is by teaching
00:37:04.89\00:37:10.66
them the gardening skills so
they can grow their produce,
then they can go and
00:37:10.69\00:37:13.03
they can sell it. So we teach
them from the gardening how to
00:37:13.06\00:37:16.50
do market gardening. We are
very excited, in South Sudan for
00:37:16.53\00:37:21.24
instance, there was a training
going on and so stepping back
00:37:21.27\00:37:24.37
and looking at what is a
solution to a problem. Okay so
00:37:24.41\00:37:27.44
now they have the knowledge but
they don't have the tools. So
00:37:27.48\00:37:29.94
through generous donations we
were able to purchase plows and
00:37:29.98\00:37:34.85
I believe there's a
picture of the plows.
00:37:34.88\00:37:36.22
Yeah, let's pull up the picture
of the plows. I was looking at
00:37:36.25\00:37:38.52
it earlier. So
you purchased plows...
00:37:38.55\00:37:40.89
We purchased the plows so they
can actually use those because
00:37:40.92\00:37:43.26
in south Sudan of course it's
very hot and the soil is very
00:37:43.29\00:37:47.20
hard and so they were able to
use these plows to be able to go
00:37:47.23\00:37:50.10
to garden. (That's so cool)
So lifting people out of poverty
00:37:50.13\00:37:53.77
is giving the training through
the FARM STEW acronym of ways
00:37:53.80\00:38:00.24
that they can implement in their
community and all of that helps
00:38:00.28\00:38:03.55
lift them out of poverty. When
you start selling your produce
00:38:03.58\00:38:06.41
and you start having money to
come back into your home now you
00:38:06.45\00:38:09.98
can have money for your children
to go to school. You can buy
00:38:10.02\00:38:12.72
clothes and if the whole
community is doing that, it
00:38:12.75\00:38:16.99
lifts up the whole community...
00:38:17.03\00:38:18.53
I know, wow. You know as you're
speaking on that this just came
00:38:18.56\00:38:21.53
to my mind, you know, often,
especially here in our western
00:38:21.56\00:38:26.30
cultural American mindset often
times we can look at the concept
00:38:26.33\00:38:30.97
of poverty and think sometimes
in a flawed, judgmental type way
00:38:31.01\00:38:34.34
we can look at that and say you
know what, there's no excuse for
00:38:34.38\00:38:37.98
that. You know people are
in poverty. You know they could
00:38:38.01\00:38:40.55
better themselves. But often
times it's not that the people
00:38:40.58\00:38:43.45
don't have a lack of effort or
a lack of wanting to work. It's
00:38:43.49\00:38:46.32
more or less they're just not
educated. They don't know how to
00:38:46.35\00:38:48.99
do it and that's exactly
what you guys are doing. You're
00:38:49.02\00:38:52.03
educating these people, giving
them the tools and the knowledge
00:38:52.06\00:38:54.36
they need in order to be able
to function and to farm and make
00:38:54.40\00:38:59.93
money and be able to support
their families and address this
00:38:59.97\00:39:03.20
poverty situation. It's powerful
to see what you guys are doing.
00:39:03.24\00:39:06.07
And I wanted to say too that
people forget that people in
00:39:06.11\00:39:09.71
these various countries or in
these different situations they
00:39:09.74\00:39:12.55
love their children too. They
love their children like we love
00:39:12.58\00:39:16.05
our children and they want
their children to grow and to be
00:39:16.08\00:39:19.39
healthy. You can see pictures
of these young African children
00:39:19.42\00:39:22.56
in particular and they may
have red hair which is a sign of
00:39:22.59\00:39:27.60
malnourishment. But if you look
at them, you think they're fine.
00:39:27.63\00:39:31.37
But they're not. And so our
hearts go out to the parents
00:39:31.40\00:39:34.24
too. They want their children
to be healthy, they want them to
00:39:34.27\00:39:37.21
grow up. But if you have a lack
of knowledge, it's hard to know
00:39:37.24\00:39:39.41
how to do that, so...
00:39:39.44\00:39:41.68
Wow, praise the Lord of what
God is doing through FARM STEW.
00:39:41.71\00:39:43.81
So you guys are a little bit
everywhere. You're expanding,
00:39:43.85\00:39:47.22
you're growing, we know that.
Let's talk a little bit about
00:39:47.25\00:39:49.68
where God has sent you. How far
is FARM STEW reaching on the map
00:39:49.72\00:39:54.12
I would love to share because
we declared this year to be our
00:39:54.16\00:39:58.06
year of stretch and, wow, we
didn't know what God had for us.
00:39:58.09\00:40:02.70
But in Isaiah 54 verse 2 and the
first part of 3. I just want to
00:40:02.73\00:40:08.30
read that. (Sure) Enlarge the
place of your tent and let them
00:40:08.34\00:40:11.94
stretch out the curtain of your
dwelling. Do not spare. And so
00:40:11.97\00:40:15.48
we're asking our donors, do
not spare. Let's stretch out
00:40:15.51\00:40:18.98
together. Lengthen your cords,
strengthen your stakes. And then
00:40:19.01\00:40:22.08
it says for you shall expand to
the right and to the left. And
00:40:22.12\00:40:26.15
God gave us that verse for this
year and when I was looking at
00:40:26.19\00:40:28.42
it then we got invited to
go to the Philippines by AWR _
00:40:28.46\00:40:33.23
and I looked at the globe and I
thought we've always been going
00:40:33.26\00:40:35.16
to the right over to Africa
but now God is calling us to the
00:40:35.20\00:40:39.07
left and actually now to
the south as well. So we are now
00:40:39.10\00:40:43.00
working in nine countries.
You can see on the map that will
00:40:43.04\00:40:47.81
show. And it's really exciting
because God is spreading us in
00:40:47.84\00:40:50.08
different ways in different
places. So in the Philippines
00:40:50.11\00:40:53.18
like we just say we've done some
recent training. We were there
00:40:53.21\00:40:55.65
with an evangelistic series
with Pastor McKey recently. We
00:40:55.68\00:41:00.02
launched a staff there of
40 Philippinos. But we also now
00:41:00.06\00:41:05.13
have partnered with a group
that came to the training that
00:41:05.16\00:41:08.00
Karissa was at in the Heart
Village that was right before
00:41:08.03\00:41:10.97
ASI. There's a couple,
the Kim's, they're working in
00:41:11.00\00:41:17.01
Bolivia and recently we printed
a thousand of our FARM STEW
00:41:17.04\00:41:20.41
manuals in Spanish in Bolivia
and we're using those manuals to
00:41:20.44\00:41:25.45
train and equip Bolivian Bible
workers. There's colporteurs now
00:41:25.48\00:41:28.68
that are selling those, so like
I said they're going places we
00:41:28.72\00:41:31.42
don't even know where they're
all going to go. And then
00:41:31.45\00:41:34.49
they're actually taking those
manuals which we got at a good
00:41:34.52\00:41:37.43
bulk rate and bringing them to
Cuba to our Bible workers there.
00:41:37.46\00:41:41.53
And then another young man that
was in our training, he's in
00:41:41.56\00:41:44.73
Nicaragua and we were just
talking to him on the way
driving down here and
00:41:44.77\00:41:47.60
he said I cannot wait to start
doing FARM STEW training with
00:41:47.64\00:41:50.71
the Nicaraguans. It's so
applicable here. So we're just
00:41:50.74\00:41:54.68
wanting to say yes to those
types of requests and really be
00:41:54.71\00:42:00.55
able to stretch and who knows
where God is taking us next
00:42:00.58\00:42:04.79
because we do have church
members all over the world that
00:42:04.82\00:42:07.19
are educated but they don't
necessarily know the specific
00:42:07.22\00:42:13.40
tangible solutions that they can
offer to the people. And they
00:42:13.43\00:42:18.37
also may not have transportation
or may need to spend all their
00:42:18.40\00:42:22.10
time doing other jobs just
to keep food on their table. So
00:42:22.14\00:42:25.74
what FARM STEW really I
think excels in is equipping and
00:42:25.77\00:42:30.98
finding and mobilizing those
trainers and that's what we ask
00:42:31.01\00:42:35.42
people to help us with is
to help us to equip, you know,
00:42:35.45\00:42:39.35
train and mobilize these
trainers so that they can go out
00:42:39.39\00:42:41.89
and bring this message into
the villages where people really
00:42:41.92\00:42:46.13
don't know. Gotcha. Okay so I've
got to come back the Karissa for
00:42:46.16\00:42:48.13
this next question. In
your horticultural professional
00:42:48.16\00:42:55.27
opinion if someone like myself
wanted to get involved in this
00:42:55.30\00:42:59.04
type of FARM STEW farming you
know for the purpose of
spreading the message
00:42:59.07\00:43:03.11
also producing a crop that's
going to bring some type of
00:43:03.14\00:43:07.62
income, how much land does
a person have to have because
00:43:07.65\00:43:10.12
I'm thinking, and this may be
a follow-up question that we can
00:43:10.15\00:43:13.29
address in just a moment but
you know you're walking into an
00:43:13.32\00:43:16.29
area of people that are
essentially in poverty. I can
00:43:16.32\00:43:19.29
imaging many of these people
don't have land, so how much
00:43:19.33\00:43:22.20
land do you need to be able to
say okay this is what you need
00:43:22.23\00:43:24.63
at least to start with? So?
00:43:24.67\00:43:27.07
Yeah, you really don't need much
land at all. If you just have
00:43:27.10\00:43:30.44
the little space around
your house you can obviously be
00:43:30.47\00:43:33.88
planting something there. You
might not have a whole lot to
00:43:33.91\00:43:37.15
sell but you're at least going
to get more nutrition for your
00:43:37.18\00:43:39.51
family in that little space
and even here in the U.S. as you
00:43:39.55\00:43:44.85
know FARM STEW's expanding and
stretching and we're starting to
00:43:44.89\00:43:47.06
do some more training herein
the U.S. one thing that we have
00:43:47.09\00:43:49.86
started to look into is micro
greens. (what's that) and we've
00:43:49.89\00:43:53.29
been growing microgreens.
They're just little, you know,
00:43:53.33\00:43:56.26
you just let the plant grow
until it's a few inches tall.
00:43:56.30\00:43:57.93
Then you chop it off and eat
it which is actually a lot more
00:43:57.97\00:44:01.30
nutritious than eating a whole
head of cabbage. You can just
00:44:01.34\00:44:03.81
take a few handfuls of these
little sprouts and they have the
00:44:03.84\00:44:08.01
same amount of nutrition. But
just to have that you could just
00:44:08.04\00:44:13.55
have a tray inside your house
and have that which of course
00:44:13.58\00:44:16.32
works better in the U.S. because
you know you have to have lights
00:44:16.35\00:44:19.62
on it and all kinds of fancy
trays to do it with. You don't
00:44:19.65\00:44:22.82
have to be that fancy but you
don't have to have hardly any
00:44:22.86\00:44:26.19
space. That's the point.
You can start growing something
00:44:26.23\00:44:29.63
somewhere.
00:44:29.66\00:44:31.87
All right, all right. So
like when you guys go into these
00:44:31.90\00:44:33.87
other countries, these areas
where you're trying to teach
00:44:33.90\00:44:36.44
the individuals how to do this
and they don't have much land
00:44:36.47\00:44:40.11
or maybe they do have land.
I don't know. So how does that
00:44:40.14\00:44:43.65
work? If you're going into
an area where people say hey I'm
00:44:43.68\00:44:46.68
interested and you're training,
I'm interested in learning all
00:44:46.72\00:44:49.35
that FARM STEW has to offer,
but I don't have any land, or I
00:44:49.38\00:44:52.49
don't or I have very little land
but I want to be able to learn
00:44:52.52\00:44:55.56
how to support my family you
know using these means so let me
00:44:55.59\00:45:00.20
touch a little bit on that.
00:45:00.23\00:45:01.56
Well the beautiful thing that
our donors have allowed us to do
00:45:01.60\00:45:04.13
is to actually give this
information away for free for
00:45:04.17\00:45:07.57
people that can access the
internet and so they can just go
00:45:07.60\00:45:11.17
on FarmStew.org, click on the
recipe and there's a little box
00:45:11.21\00:45:16.64
that says Our e-learning program
And so when they sign up for the
00:45:16.68\00:45:21.25
e-learning program they can sign
up for the recipe course and one
00:45:21.28\00:45:24.85
of the lessons is on nutrition
sensitive agriculture which is
00:45:24.89\00:45:28.09
what Karissa was speaking of
before and it actually lays out
00:45:28.12\00:45:31.33
a whole garden plan for you
of the different types of crops,
00:45:31.36\00:45:35.86
even the size of the beds
to grow, the width of the paths
00:45:35.90\00:45:40.50
to grow because we remember from
the sower and the seed you know
00:45:40.54\00:45:45.41
that parable. We use that
parable to actually teach about
00:45:45.44\00:45:48.14
how you have to have a path.
You know you don't plan there
00:45:48.18\00:45:50.98
because the birds would get it.
We talk about cultivating you
00:45:51.01\00:45:54.52
know getting out the
rocks, chasing away the weeds or
00:45:54.55\00:45:57.32
cultivating away the weeds. We
call them the thieves that come
00:45:57.35\00:46:00.49
to kill, steal and destroy
your crop, using John 10:10 as a
00:46:00.52\00:46:04.56
teaching tool. You can see
how we incorporate the Bible and
00:46:04.59\00:46:09.26
really teach. You know Jesus was
often teaching in agricultural
00:46:09.30\00:46:13.80
parables which in general
ensures our spiritual lives but
00:46:13.84\00:46:16.20
we go back and say okay
what can we learn about actual
00:46:16.24\00:46:20.31
agriculture, sanitation
and temperance from all those
00:46:20.34\00:46:23.68
messages. So like Karissa said
you don't need a lot of ground
00:46:23.71\00:46:26.72
but we show you what you need.
00:46:26.75\00:46:28.65
That's right, awesome, praise
the Lord. So this is all on your
00:46:28.68\00:46:32.45
website. And what's
the website one more time?
00:46:32.49\00:46:33.82
It's FarmStew.org and then you
click on the recipe and there's
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free e-learning program.
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Right. Nice, Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord. Well I can
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imagine there's someone that's
been watching this interview who
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is tremendously blessed by
it and they're saying, you know
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what, I want to be able to
support this ministry. I want to
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get involved. Let's first talk
about the needs of the ministry
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For those who are watching
at home that say I would like to
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support this ministry but what
is it specifically that FARM
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STEW needs at this time, that
the Lord's laying on your heart
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to do?
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Well you know FARM STEW,
the Lord has truly blessed our
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organization and it is growing
and as we see the things that
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are coming currently upon the
world, food scarcity, inflation
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you know that really has people
thinking a lot. And we know that
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that's going to impact the
poorest countries the most.
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They're coming up with reports
saying Africa and different
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places are really going to
be impacted by that. And so for
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FARM STEW to continue to go into
new areas, we're expanding so
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quickly because the need is so
great. Obviously we need prayers
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Prayers for wisdom and guidance
as to how to determine where
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where do we go, where do we go
first? What do these countries
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need? And prayers for the
right people to come that can do
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training and the volunteers that
we need in the various countries
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And then obviously we need funds
and as Joy has said before the
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listeners of 3ABN have been so
generous and we've been able to
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do this because of the generous
donations of the different
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people. So clearly we need funds
to be able to make it work and
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we offer this program for free.
And we want this message to go
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out. We want the people to have
knowledge and for their lives to
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be changed. There's a quote from
the Spirit of Prophecy that we
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use often which is really
fantastic and it says: When
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right methods of cultivation are
adopted there will be far less
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poverty than now exists.
We intend to give the people
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practical skills upon
the improvement of the land
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and thus induce them to
cultivate their land now lying
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idle. If we accomplish this we
shall have done good missionary
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work. And so you know praise the
Lord He has given FARM STEW the
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ability to continue to move
forward but the need is great
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and to be able to provide 15,000
girls with kits so they can go
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to school, or plows so that
they can be able to grow their
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gardens. But also to
translate our curriculum. We're
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translating it into many
different languages because
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we're now in South America.
We've been launched in Southeast
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Asia. We're in nine different
countries in Africa, we're in
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a country now that we
really can't say because of the
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religious climate there. But
it's moving. God is on the move
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He's taking it to all the world.
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He's taking it to the world and
we're just blessed and honored
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to be able to be a part of it.
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That's right. Praise the
Lord, praise the Lord. So you're
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fulfilling the divine commission
That's what the Bible said.
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Jesus said take this gospel into
all the world. In fact, as you
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guys were speaking about all
that we've talked about today
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this passage of scripture came
to my mind. Matthew 25 where
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Jesus says here this was
actually His last words about a
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week or so before He was
crucified. This is probably the
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last parable-like language that
he taught before He went to the
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cross. But He goes on to say in
verse 34: Then the king will say
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this is Matthew 25 beginning
with verse 34: Then the king
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will say to those on his right
hand come you blessed of my
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Father. Inherit the kingdom
prepared for you from the
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foundation of the world, for I
was hungry and you gave me food,
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I was thirsty and you gave me
drink, I was a stranger and you
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took me in, I was naked and you
clothed me, I was sick and you
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visited me, I was in prison
and you came to me. Then the
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righteous will answer Him saying
Lord when did we see you hungry
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and feed you or thirsty and give
you drink. When did we see you
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as a stranger and take you in
or naked and clothe you, or when
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did we see you sick and in
prison and come to you and the
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King will answer and say to them
Assuredly I say to you, Inasmuch
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as you did this to the least of
these (I love that) my brethren
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you did this to me. My friends
this is what the gospel's about,
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what FARM STEW is doing. And you
guys are awesome. I appreciate
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all that you are doing and
there's no doubt that the Lord
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is blessing this ministry
mightily and I know that our
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viewers at home you're probably
as blessed as I am knowing what
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they're doing, knowing that
God is taking them into all the
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world and blessing thousands
upon thousands of people with
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this education, learning
how to farm, learning how to eat
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healthy meals, learning how to
bring an income to their family
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and to get the gospel message
out, the health message out, all
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of this together. And so my
friends we want to encourage you
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to support this ministry. The
Lord may be putting upon your
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heart right now to contact them
and to maybe donate, maybe give
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your support financially. Well
in this next little clip that
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you're going to see it'll tell
you exactly how you can do that.
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Here it is.
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If you would like to
contact or know more about
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FARM STEW International you
can do so in the following ways:
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You can write to them at PO
Box 291, Princeton, IL 61356
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You can call
them at (815) 200-4925
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You can visit their
website at FarmStew.org
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Or send them an
email at Hi@FarmStew.org
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