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 hurts.
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I want to spend my
life mending broken people.
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I want to spend my
life mending broken people.
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Hello and welcome to 3ABN Today.
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I'm John Lomacang,
but you may know that
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if you're part
of our 3ABN family.
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To my right is my
lovely wife Angela.
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Always good to
have you here, honey.
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- Your co-pilot today. -
That's right, and I am pilot.
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And you'll find out why
we say that in just a moment.
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But before we
introduce you to our guests,
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thank you for your prayers
and your support of this network
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as we continue
going and growing,
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getting ready for
the coming of the Lord.
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This is going to be
an exciting program.
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Shall we say this
program is about to take off?
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It's about to take off.
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I love it. I'm excited.
Especially young people.
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That's true. We're talking
about the Oklahoma Academy today
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and what they offer.
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You might be a young
person looking at this program,
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or if you have a
young person, you might say,
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"Hey, Joy, Susan, come
let's watch this program,"
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because you're
about to go to academy
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and you might be
thinking of what academy
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to send your son or daughter to.
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And so we're going
to look forward to that.
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But we're not going
to have music today.
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We're going to just
dive into the program
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because there's just so
much we're going to cover.
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And let me just go ahead
and introduce our guests.
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Yeah, let's do that.
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Right across from
me is Mr. Cliff Brooks.
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Good to have you here today.
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Thank you, thank you very much.
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It's a pleasure
to be here at 3ABN.
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We really
appreciate this opportunity.
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We've been looking forward
to it for a little while here.
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And it's just a
pleasure to be here.
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Thank you so much
for hosting us today.
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Give us a nutshell of what
you do and where you're from.
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So we're from Oklahoma Academy.
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We're just about 20
miles outside of Oklahoma City.
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Just to the east.
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But our students come
from all over the U.S.,
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and all over
the world, actually.
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And they come
to Oklahoma Academy
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as a four year boarding school.
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You know, just a Christian
Seventh-day Adventist school.
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And we teach regular academics
and all those kind of things.
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We'll let the students
introduce themselves here.
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A couple of them
we brought along.
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But I teach a
mission aviation program.
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And I also for the last
five years have been directing
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that program, as well
as the missions program
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that has developed out of
the mission aviation program.
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So that's what we're
here to talk about today.
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~ Okay. ~ Alright, great.
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Now the academy is in Oklahoma.
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How many students do you have?
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We have about 30 students there.
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35, it hovers
around 30 to 35 students.
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And about as many staff as well,
which is kind of interesting.
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And you have some of
your students with you today.
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Tell us what your name is, and
kind of what grade you're in,
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and where you're from.
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So my name is
Andre. I'm a junior.
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And I am
originally from Missouri,
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but my parents
work at the school.
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~ Okay, well good to
have you here, Andre.
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Are you in the aviation program?
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Yes, I am.
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~ Have you flown before. - Yeah.
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~ Okay, we'll talk
about that in a moment.
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And to your right, tell
us your name and what you do.
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My name is Ethan Currier.
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I'm also in the
mission aviation program.
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But I'm 16, I'm a
junior at Oklahoma Academy.
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And I'm originally from Indiana.
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~ You're 16.
Have you flown? - Yes.
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~ Wow.
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~ You'll probably
get a pilot's license
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before you get a
driver's license in some states.
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That's good. The future is safe.
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Your eyes look bright.
And praise the Lord for that.
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And the young man to
your right, or to my right.
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My name is Lincoln,
and I'm also a junior.
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Like my comrades here.
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And I also fly airplanes
in the aviation program.
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~ Where are you
from? - I'm from Oklahoma.
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- Oklahoma. - Wow, that's okay.
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And you.
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My name is Micah,
and I'm from Oregon.
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And I'm also a junior
like the rest of my friends.
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And I'm also in
the aviation program.
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~ Wow, this is
going to be a fun program.
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With all the jargon, you
know, Alpha, Charlie, Foxtrot.
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- You love flying. -
This is a great program.
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- And we do fly a lot. - We do.
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But you're a flight enthusiast.
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You like all kind of
flight things, you do.
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Maybe I'll have
you guys go from here.
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You might want to
join us on the flight.
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But before that happens,
we want to come back to you
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and find out a little
bit more about your school.
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Kind of give
some insights on it.
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Sure, Oklahoma Academy
was developed back in 1981
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as a self-supporting,
or what I prefer to say,
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supporting ministry of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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It's trained young
people for the last 40 years,
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or more than 40 years now.
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And a lot of the graduates have
gone out to various ministries.
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It's a school that
has a strong track record
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in training young
people for the harvest.
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And really that's our mission,
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is to train young
people for the harvest.
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But generally, you can
find most of the traditional
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academic programs at the school.
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You know, math,
writing, languages, history.
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Those types of things.
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We have a very strong
academic program, always have.
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And I think nobody
has been disappointed
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in that aspect of it at all.
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But we also have a very
strong vocational element
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to our program.
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We believe that young
people really can develop best
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when they're also
working with their hands
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and building their
muscles and building their
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minds at the same time.
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So the vocational aspect
of the program has always been
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there since the
beginning as well.
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So young people have
worked at Oklahoma Academy
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in various
industries and different lines.
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And all of that has, we
feel, and our graduates tell us
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as well, that it
really prepared them well
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for going into life later.
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Not just academics,
but the vocational as well.
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So in our mission track program,
it's really just an outgrowth
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of our vocational training.
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It just kind of
focuses it a little bit more
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beyond just getting a
vocational training to saying,
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"What can I do with
this in the Lord's work?
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Where can I actually take some
of the experience that I get
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in high school
learning how to weld maybe?
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Or learning how to work
on the computer a little bit.
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Where can I take those
skills in God's service?"
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Wow, that's good.
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Wow, what about, it's
called, Workers for the Harvest.
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Yeah, Workers for the Harvest
is really, we want to train
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young people for the harvest.
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You know, we're told by Jesus,
you know, a mandate, a directive
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from Jesus, "Pray the
Lord of the harvest," He says,
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"to send forth workers."
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We don't want to
just stop with the prayer.
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We want to actually move
beyond prayer into activity.
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How can we actually prepare
a young person for the harvest?
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How do you actually do that?
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How do you get those results?
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So now you're asking me, right?
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Okay, okay.
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~ So I'm on the
spot. How do we actually...
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Well, it's
interesting because when I first
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came to Oklahoma Academy,
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there was a previous
flight instructor there.
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And he pointed, he was
an old cowboy from Oklahoma.
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Just a really neat guy.
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Elder gentleman, he's now passed
on and is resting in Jesus.
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But fantastic man of
God with a strong vision.
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And he was a local
church member in the community
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who had trained students at
Oklahoma Academy in aviation.
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Got their pilot's
license and things.
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When I joined the
program, he and I met and talked
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a little bit about
the history and things.
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And he pointed his weathered
finger in my, thumped my chest,
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you know, because he
said, "You know the problem
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with this program?"
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And he said, I was
like, "No. What, what?"
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He said, "Nobody goes
to the mission field."
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And I said, "Why not?"
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He said, "They
go to the airlines.
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They get their
license and they go."
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I said, "Well, how
can we change that?
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How can we change that?"
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And he said, he put his
finger in my chest and he said,
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"You've got to make them go."
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~ Wow.
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I said, "Okay, so
how do you do that?"
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- Yeah, yeah. ~
"You've got to make them go."
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And I...
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"You've got to make them go."
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And so, so that's really
the concept that birthed this
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whole idea, that
foundational concept.
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We will train
you, only if you go.
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So the concept is,
you must go into service
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with the training that you
receive at Oklahoma Academy.
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It's an optional program.
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We're not
making anybody do this.
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These guys have chosen
this mission track training.
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But the caveat to it is, we're
not going to let you finish this
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training until
you actually go use it
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in God's service somewhere.
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~ Wonderful.
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And because of that, it
actually a little bit of
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holds your feet to the
fire mentality there with that.
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And we want to see these kids...
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I believe that God
wants their service.
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God needs their service.
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The work at the end
time needs young people
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plugged in heart and soul.
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And because of that,
we can't just let you
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escape into the world with
the training we've given you.
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We want to kind of hold your
feet to the fire a little bit.
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So now that we've
given you that training,
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we're going to hold you to
it and you've got to serve.
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And their commitment is
to serve for up to a year
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after they graduate.
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That doesn't mean
they can't go on beyond
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somewhere else
and do anything else.
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But for a little bit
we want to see you use
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that in God's service.
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How does that
inspire any of you?
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Any of you want
to respond to that?
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Well, I didn't even
know about this program
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when I first came to school.
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I had applied like three weeks
before school year started.
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But when I came and I
learned about the program,
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I got real excited
about it because aviation has
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always been a passion of mine.
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Like, growing up my
dad has been into aviation.
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And of course, I was with that.
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And I always wanted to fly.
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And then I learned
about the mission program.
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That to me was like
exactly what I wanted to do
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because I could fly
planes, but I could also use it
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in service for God.
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And so, that's what I'm looking
forward to most, actually,
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about this program, is being
able to go out into the field
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and serve using those skills.
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~ Anybody want to
add anything to that?
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~ Okay, while
you're thinking about it.
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I think Lincoln
should tell his story.
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Let's hear it, Lincoln.
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Like, okay.
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Okay, I got to school.
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I applied pretty much right
before school year started.
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I got to school, I had no idea,
you know, what was going on.
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I had five
classes. You can take six.
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One of them was ground school.
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I had no idea what
I was getting into.
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And not joking, I thought I was
going to learn how to mow lawns.
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That's what
ground school is, right?
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And I had no idea
what was going on.
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And then I was
enrolled into this program.
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And of course, you
know, the upperclassmen,
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I was a freshman, so we
had juniors who were enrolled
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in this program, and seniors.
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I was like, I want
to be like them. Right?
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And you know, this
was something really cool.
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I had no idea what I was
going to go do with my life.
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And I get to go...
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Like, I was canvassing at
that time; literature evangelism
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later on in the school year.
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And then I went and worked
with some other ministries.
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And just my passion
for doing that just grew.
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The thought of doing something
else just seems boring.
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Working a 9 to 5,
no. Couldn't be me.
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So just that thought, you know,
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I get to go into
the mission field.
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I get training, I go
to the mission field.
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I come back and
get more training,
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whether that be with
the school or elsewhere.
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You know, I can go into the
mission field full-time as a
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missionary knowing
that I'm serving God,
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and my life is, you know,
it's different, it's fulfilling,
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and it's satisfying.
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~ Yeah, I have to
ask you a question.
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So you thought it was about
learning how to do lawn work.
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Well, the ground school.
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~ Yeah, ground
school like agriculture.
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Cutting grass and all.
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What happened when you realized,
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"Oh, this is not
about cutting grass."
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I mean, ground school, you're
talking about airplanes, right?
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So it's like, I
mean, you get in there.
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I don't know how many
minutes it was into class one,
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and be like, we're talking
about airplanes, you know.
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Figuring out what
lift was, or whatever.
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I mean, I don't
know how long it was
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before I kind of
figured out was it was about.
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~ But you had that
epiphany moment, like, "Oh."
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This isn't about cutting lawns.
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I think I need to
improve my course description
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on ground school.
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Have you flown?
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Yeah, I've got a few hours.
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~ That's good.
- Yeah, I love it.
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- Wow. - I like that.
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Now I noticed this,
how many of you, four boys.
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Do you have any females?
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We do. In fact, our first
two graduates from our aviation
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program were two
girls that went to Peru
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and served in our
Adventist airbase in Peru.
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So their year of
service they spent down there.
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They didn't get
to do much flying.
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The planes were
down at the time.
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But they were good
missionaries anyway.
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~ Oh, I like that.
~ Wow, that's good.
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We've been
talking around aviation,
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let's go directly to aviation.
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You have a couple of videos.
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You want to kind of lay
the ground work a little bit?
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Tell us a little bit about it.
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You'll show one on the
ground, literally ground school,
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some kind of training there.
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We'll lead into that, but
talk about the introduction
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to the aviation program.
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Yeah, so the aviation program is
really, you know, it's different
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than any other mission aviation,
or any other aviation program
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that I've ever seen
offered anywhere else.
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Because it really has
a mission twist to it.
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And so, I teach the students
a lot of things I think that are
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going to be practical
for them in mission service.
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And so, I teach them how
to measure the runway length.
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For instance, one of the
first exercises we have to do
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is actually go out and
take steps, pace down the runway
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to measure their pace
so that they can figure out
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if they can land at a short
strip or not, kind of thing.
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Our airstrip is
very, very short.
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She's checking the
fuel there in that picture.
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And we have two
little airplanes.
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We've got a 1946
Taylor craft that we fly,
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which is a tailwheel.
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And then we also
have a Cessna 172,
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which is a much more capable
four seat trainer airplane.
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We have a number of other
airplanes that are in project
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status as we work on them,
and different things as well.
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But we have one unique toy
that we play with at the school.
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It was made by a
former maintenance man.
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And it's just a, it's a
hoot. It is so much fun.
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Every time we
take it out, I say,
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"We're going to
break this thing."
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Because it's
going to be so much fun.
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But it's called a
tailwheel trainer.
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And I think we have a little
video of that we can pull up.
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I've never seen
one of those before.
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Yeah, so this is one of
our first students trying it.
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And it teaches the
student to use their feet
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to steer with actually.
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Because that's
quite a difference.
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You know, you don't use a
steering wheel in an airplane
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to steer on the ground; you use
your feet, the rudder pedals.
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And so, that little tailwheel
trainer, it's a lot of fun.
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But of course, you know,
you get guys on there too.
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The girls are a little
more docile on it, you know.
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You get guys on there
and pretty soon we're running
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slalom courses, you know.
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Yeah, it gets a
little out of hand.
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But it's a lot of fun.
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~ He should have
patented that, he'd be probably
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running his own
company right now.
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- Right, it's a neat
tool. - Tail dragging tool.
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But we just have a lot of
fun with the program in general.
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And we have to learn a
lot of different things
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to be a mission pilot overseas.
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Most of your time is not
spent in the air, actually.
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It's on the ground.
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And if you're a missionary, you
have the whole missional aspect.
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The gospel
worker aspect of it too.
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So I tell the students, it's
not just about flying the plane.
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You come here thinking
you're just going to get
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your private pilot's
license, well that's part of it.
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But we're missionaries first.
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You've got to learn how
to share the gospel first.
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And that's why
you'll see on some of our
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t- shirts we're wearing...
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Yeah, you see
this. This is our mantra.
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It's, "Flexibility,
flexibility, flexibility."
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And often times the students
will joke and they'll say,
00:16:04.03\00:16:06.59
"Well, it's really the
mission anything program
00:16:06.63\00:16:08.73
instead of the
mission aviation program."
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But it's a
mission anything program.
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But really, they have
to be ready for anything.
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They have to be instant
in season and out of season.
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On the spot, right?
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So, yeah.
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~ How many of you
are looking forward
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to going to the mission field?
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~ Very much so. - Yeah. - Yes.
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~ You are? - Yes.
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Any particular country in
mind that you'd like to go to?
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We've got some options.
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Like, so Bolivia
we're looking at.
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Bolivia, Peru,
Alaska, and the Philippines.
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But I don't know exactly.
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I'd like to go to Alaska.
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But we'll just
see wherever I go.
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There are a lot of other
perks to different places,
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like Spanish,
Tagalog in the Philippines,
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or whatever that would be.
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Yeah.
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~ What about you, Andre?
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I personally want to
go to the Philippines.
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My mom is from there.
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So it would be really nice to go
to the country where I'm from.
00:17:03.02\00:17:07.29
~ Okay, good. That'd be nice.
00:17:07.32\00:17:09.46
Remember, they had, is
it Palau where they had
00:17:09.72\00:17:13.29
the airplane issue going on?
00:17:13.33\00:17:16.50
But they are looking
also for a lot of missionaries
00:17:16.53\00:17:19.70
to go there too.
00:17:19.73\00:17:21.07
And Bolivia is interesting
because if you've seen the
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mountains of Bolivia that
you have to drive through,
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I'd rather fly.
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You know, on
those treacherous roads.
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One lane in each
direction with two cars.
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I'd rather fly.
00:17:30.75\00:17:32.08
But that's good that
you at least have an idea
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of where you'd like to go
and what you'd like to do.
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Now we have a little video
that's kind of interesting;
00:17:38.05\00:17:41.22
the letter, the call letters
that we're going to talk about.
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And if you know where
they are, you may mention it,
00:17:43.76\00:17:46.36
but I'd like to talk
on this video and tell the
00:17:46.39\00:17:48.46
viewing audience
what they're about to see.
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Yeah, this is a video that
was just recently sent back
00:17:50.57\00:17:52.73
from two of our
graduates from last year:
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Miguel Alonso and Keyan Jaggish.
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They are two young people up
there serving Alaska right now.
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And we've opened a
project out in Dillingham,
00:18:01.64\00:18:04.41
which is a hub village
on the west side of Alaska.
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And they actually
have the privilege
00:18:07.88\00:18:09.68
of flying a little Cessna 172.
00:18:09.72\00:18:11.29
They are the
pilots for that plane.
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They're just private pilots.
00:18:13.19\00:18:14.52
They don't have
extensive training,
00:18:14.56\00:18:15.89
so we've kind of
limited their operation sphere
00:18:15.92\00:18:18.16
so we can keep it safe.
00:18:18.19\00:18:19.53
But they are actually flying out
from Dillingham to remote areas.
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And they are just
Bible workers with wings.
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That's all they're doing.
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They're going out,
in fact, this weekend
00:18:28.80\00:18:31.11
they're doing an
evangelistic series up there.
00:18:31.14\00:18:33.68
They're starting
Pathfinder clubs.
00:18:33.71\00:18:36.28
They've started doing
just little prayer meeting.
00:18:36.31\00:18:38.15
Whatever they can do
to start making an impact
00:18:38.18\00:18:41.35
in the village there.
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And you can see the area
that they're flying into.
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We want to make
sure that they stay safe,
00:18:45.12\00:18:46.92
because they're
not high time pilots.
00:18:46.96\00:18:48.69
But they can use
that skill in a way
00:18:48.89\00:18:51.39
that benefits God and His work.
00:18:51.43\00:18:52.86
And finding those opportunities
for them keeps them engaged.
00:18:52.89\00:18:55.96
So I always tell them, you know,
if you can't use the airplane,
00:18:56.26\00:18:58.43
you're going to get
out there some other way.
00:18:58.47\00:18:59.80
So they use the snow
sleds and the snow shoes
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and everything to get
out wherever they have to go.
00:19:03.44\00:19:05.87
Do they see any
caribou or anything like that?
00:19:06.07\00:19:07.94
Oh yeah, they've seen
a moose and all sorts.
00:19:07.98\00:19:10.15
That is so nice.
00:19:10.18\00:19:11.58
And is there any extra
cost to the aviation program?
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So that's one of the most
unique aspects to our program.
00:19:15.22\00:19:18.15
Because
aviation is so expensive.
00:19:18.19\00:19:19.52
Generally students are
paying maybe $12,000 to $14,000
00:19:19.55\00:19:22.26
to get their
private license nowadays.
00:19:22.29\00:19:23.83
It's just not cheap.
00:19:23.86\00:19:25.19
Our program is really unique
in that way, in that there's
00:19:25.23\00:19:28.16
no additional out-of-pocket
expense for students
00:19:28.20\00:19:31.57
or their parents.
00:19:31.60\00:19:33.23
Which you say, well how...
00:19:33.27\00:19:34.60
And many people have
told me, "You can't do that.
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You can't run a program
without somebody paying for it.
00:19:36.00\00:19:39.44
You know, without the
students paying for it."
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That's how
everybody does it, right?
00:19:41.04\00:19:42.44
Well, we praise God because we
started this program on faith.
00:19:42.81\00:19:46.72
And that's how it continues.
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Prayer and faith.
00:19:49.28\00:19:51.35
Interestingly
enough, generous supporters
00:19:51.55\00:19:53.82
came forward and said, "If these
guys are going to go to the
00:19:53.86\00:19:55.72
mission field, we want to help."
00:19:55.76\00:19:57.09
I like that.
00:19:57.13\00:19:58.46
And so, they helped
us purchase the airplane.
00:19:58.49\00:20:00.93
Or the airplanes that we have.
00:20:00.96\00:20:02.30
They help us put the
fuel in those airplanes.
00:20:02.33\00:20:04.63
The help us keep them insured.
00:20:04.67\00:20:06.00
They help us keep
maintenance on them.
00:20:06.03\00:20:07.47
So as long as those
things are provided for,
00:20:07.50\00:20:09.54
I tell the students,
fly the wings off them.
00:20:09.57\00:20:11.31
Why do I have to charge you?
00:20:11.34\00:20:12.67
~ They'll fly the wings off?
- They don't fly the wings off.
00:20:12.71\00:20:14.38
Okay, it's a figure of speech.
00:20:15.11\00:20:17.08
Don't fly the wings off.
00:20:17.11\00:20:18.71
But use as much
time as you want, really.
00:20:19.65\00:20:22.12
And where can you
find that kind of training?
00:20:22.42\00:20:24.89
Now I tell them,
it's in God's service
00:20:24.92\00:20:27.59
where He provides
those perks, those benefits.
00:20:27.62\00:20:30.46
Because you can get as
much training as you want
00:20:30.66\00:20:33.53
within the opportunities
that we have available.
00:20:34.00\00:20:37.03
And sometimes, you know,
we're held back a little bit
00:20:37.23\00:20:40.60
because like, you know, the
plane is down for maintenance
00:20:40.64\00:20:42.84
and we can't...
00:20:42.87\00:20:44.21
We want to go faster, we
want to push forward faster.
00:20:44.24\00:20:46.27
But as God
provides, we have tremendous
00:20:46.64\00:20:49.61
opportunities for training.
00:20:49.64\00:20:51.15
And it doesn't come
in a way and at a price
00:20:51.45\00:20:57.52
that would be typically
thought of in the world
00:20:57.55\00:20:59.32
where I have to shell
out $14,000 out of my pocket,
00:20:59.35\00:21:02.26
otherwise I can't go.
00:21:02.29\00:21:03.63
Oftentimes I find that people
who could not afford to go
00:21:03.66\00:21:06.86
might make the
best missionaries.
00:21:07.86\00:21:10.20
~ Wow. So what's the age limit?
00:21:10.23\00:21:11.87
So the age limit for
our aviation program...
00:21:12.07\00:21:14.77
Is?
00:21:14.80\00:21:16.14
I'm trying to find
a secret way in here?
00:21:18.17\00:21:19.57
~ We actually do
have an age limit.
00:21:20.98\00:21:22.54
~ I'm just kidding. Okay.
00:21:22.58\00:21:24.31
No, it's just a minimum limit.
00:21:24.51\00:21:26.31
So you pass that one.
00:21:26.35\00:21:27.68
- So... ~ Okay.
00:21:27.72\00:21:29.32
~ Sixteen years old to solo.
00:21:29.35\00:21:30.92
Seventeen to fly
to get your license.
00:21:30.95\00:21:33.62
That's an FAA limit.
00:21:33.66\00:21:34.99
~ So all of them are
16 and above right here.
00:21:35.02\00:21:37.56
~ Yeah, once they
solo, and then to get their
00:21:37.59\00:21:40.20
private license at 17, yeah.
00:21:40.23\00:21:41.60
~ So who does the
maintenance for the planes?
00:21:41.63\00:21:43.77
Whoa, that's a hard one.
00:21:43.80\00:21:45.23
Right now I'm the only
instructor that we have
00:21:45.27\00:21:49.54
on staff, and I'm the
only certified mechanic
00:21:49.57\00:21:51.91
we have on staff right now.
00:21:51.94\00:21:53.27
And the inspector as well.
00:21:53.54\00:21:55.11
So I have to kind of
fill all of those roles.
00:21:55.14\00:21:57.55
We are looking desperately
to see if anybody would be
00:21:57.58\00:22:00.75
willing to help us, with
the same vision, of course,
00:22:00.78\00:22:03.92
of training young
people to go into service.
00:22:03.95\00:22:05.89
If they'd be willing to
help us, we'd be very happy.
00:22:06.22\00:22:09.12
~ That's a
wonderful time for an appeal.
00:22:09.16\00:22:10.63
If you're in the audience
and you are an aviation pilot
00:22:10.66\00:22:14.33
and you're looking to
be more mission minded,
00:22:14.36\00:22:16.80
and I'm sure there's
probably some remuneration
00:22:16.83\00:22:19.37
included there, you
might want to get in touch
00:22:19.40\00:22:21.57
with the Oklahoma Academy.
00:22:21.60\00:22:22.94
We'll let you
know how to do that.
00:22:22.97\00:22:24.31
- That's really
nice. - Or mechanic.
00:22:24.34\00:22:25.67
- Mechanic. ~ Absolutely.
00:22:25.71\00:22:27.68
Because, you know,
just say for example,
00:22:28.08\00:22:29.98
the two young people
that landed in Iceland
00:22:30.01\00:22:32.75
just a moment ago...
00:22:32.78\00:22:34.12
We know it wasn't
Iceland, but it was Alaska.
00:22:34.15\00:22:35.72
But just to say, "Mr. Brooks,
this plane is not flying.
00:22:36.42\00:22:41.49
What do we do?"
00:22:41.52\00:22:42.86
Those are the basic things
you teach them what to look at.
00:22:42.89\00:22:45.09
Yeah, and as part of
that program, we specifically
00:22:45.13\00:22:48.06
do, all of these guys,
by the time they're done,
00:22:48.10\00:22:50.67
they will have changed tires,
they will have changed oil,
00:22:50.70\00:22:52.80
they'll change their plugs, they
will have serviced the airplane
00:22:52.83\00:22:55.97
and they'll do general simple
inspections, things like that.
00:22:56.00\00:22:58.41
There's a lot that
a private pilot can
00:22:58.51\00:23:00.11
do on their own
airplane to keep it in shape.
00:23:00.14\00:23:01.81
Just, you know, as a
general car owner would do
00:23:01.84\00:23:04.08
on their car,
that kind of thing.
00:23:04.11\00:23:05.45
~ Now when you're
learning to drive,
00:23:05.91\00:23:07.75
you usually have a
driver's instructor that has the
00:23:07.78\00:23:10.62
gas pedal and brakes,
and all that, to help.
00:23:10.65\00:23:13.12
How do you do that when
you're up in the airplane
00:23:13.42\00:23:16.32
and someone's doing
something that's not right?
00:23:16.36\00:23:20.03
- What do you do? ~
Well, usually I throw up my
00:23:20.06\00:23:21.43
arms screaming
and jump out the door.
00:23:21.46\00:23:23.13
No, that's doesn't work.
00:23:23.73\00:23:25.07
No, we have dual sets of
controls on the airplane.
00:23:25.47\00:23:28.37
So everything is duplicated
on both sides the same.
00:23:28.40\00:23:31.57
So yeah, and I
can easily take over.
00:23:31.84\00:23:33.94
And I know a few extra
moves that if they don't
00:23:33.98\00:23:36.24
let go I can, you know...
00:23:36.28\00:23:37.71
No, I'm just kidding.
00:23:37.75\00:23:39.08
~ Hold their nose until they
pass out and you just take over.
00:23:39.91\00:23:41.98
But that's nice, that's very
nice to see that a safe program
00:23:42.88\00:23:46.42
is being offered
at Oklahoma Academy.
00:23:46.69\00:23:49.49
And you have a
runway there, obviously.
00:23:49.89\00:23:51.36
~ Yes we do, and
our runway right now
00:23:51.69\00:23:54.20
is extremely short.
00:23:54.23\00:23:55.63
If anybody knows about aviation,
the ones in our audience here
00:23:55.96\00:23:59.83
probably would be
surprised to hear,
00:23:59.87\00:24:02.54
we fly off of 1300 feet.
00:24:02.57\00:24:04.91
1300 feet of grass, right.
00:24:05.24\00:24:07.94
~ That is tight.
- It's very tight.
00:24:08.41\00:24:10.98
~ I tell people...
00:24:11.01\00:24:12.35
You're already in
the mission field.
00:24:12.38\00:24:13.72
~ We're in the
mission field, yeah.
00:24:13.75\00:24:15.08
This is the mission field.
00:24:15.12\00:24:16.45
I mean, this is, yeah
we're in the mission field here.
00:24:16.48\00:24:17.82
And if you can
fly off of 1300 feet,
00:24:17.85\00:24:19.75
I can pretty much send
you anywhere around the world.
00:24:20.06\00:24:21.79
~ You know, that is mission
field training right there.
00:24:21.82\00:24:24.23
You're not going to
encounter grass one day.
00:24:24.26\00:24:26.70
When you see asphalt,
you're going to get happy.
00:24:26.73\00:24:29.43
~ Exactly.
00:24:29.46\00:24:30.80
~ Yeah, I mean,
we're training for Sully on
00:24:30.83\00:24:32.40
the Hudson here,
you know, really.
00:24:32.43\00:24:33.77
~ Sully on the Hudson.
00:24:33.80\00:24:35.40
~ Oh Sully,
yeah. I remember him.
00:24:35.87\00:24:37.97
Wow. What about digital media?
00:24:39.01\00:24:40.71
What is that?
00:24:40.74\00:24:42.08
So we offer, I always feel like,
you know, aviation is such a
00:24:42.11\00:24:45.85
cool program, but I teach it.
00:24:45.88\00:24:47.45
But I found out after
coming to Oklahoma Academy
00:24:47.48\00:24:49.98
and working
there for a few years,
00:24:50.02\00:24:51.35
the kids are actually interested
in other things beyond aviation.
00:24:51.39\00:24:54.26
It just sometimes blows my mind.
00:24:54.29\00:24:56.39
But it's out there.
00:24:56.42\00:24:58.06
And we're here at 3ABN.
00:24:58.76\00:25:00.13
We want to train students
to come work for you guys.
00:25:00.16\00:25:02.10
~ Become an intern. -
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
00:25:02.86\00:25:06.74
We've got a
program, a fantastic program
00:25:06.77\00:25:10.57
put together to teach
digital media and communications
00:25:10.61\00:25:13.51
which offers students
training in web design,
00:25:13.81\00:25:17.01
newsletters, communications,
tracking our donors,
00:25:17.05\00:25:22.38
how to do
podcasts, do photography,
00:25:22.92\00:25:29.09
digital layout design,
all of those kinds of things.
00:25:29.12\00:25:32.53
A number of different areas.
00:25:32.56\00:25:33.93
But the idea is to send
a young person, a graduate,
00:25:33.96\00:25:37.23
and we've done this already
with a number of our graduates,
00:25:37.27\00:25:39.30
send them out to the
mission field with those skills.
00:25:39.50\00:25:41.94
How many small
struggling ministries out there
00:25:42.04\00:25:44.94
could benefit from somebody
helping them with their webpage,
00:25:45.24\00:25:48.51
or sending videos
back to their sponsors,
00:25:48.54\00:25:51.21
or things like that?
00:25:51.25\00:25:52.58
You could put a little
orphanage on the map, you know.
00:25:52.61\00:25:54.68
So helping them, that's
the goal of that program.
00:25:55.08\00:25:57.82
~ You do webpages. - Oh man.
00:25:57.85\00:25:59.19
You just opened my
box, my Pandora box here.
00:25:59.22\00:26:01.79
I'll talk about that after.
00:26:02.82\00:26:04.16
I don't want the
program to be about me.
00:26:04.23\00:26:05.69
But how many of you
do anything other than
00:26:05.89\00:26:09.06
or have an interest in
another area like digital media?
00:26:09.10\00:26:12.70
Anybody here?
00:26:12.73\00:26:14.07
So I'm not officially in
any other mission tracts,
00:26:14.80\00:26:18.41
but I do work in the
commons office occasionally.
00:26:18.44\00:26:20.94
I do enjoy it.
00:26:20.98\00:26:22.31
I enjoy photography as
one of my hobbies actually,
00:26:22.34\00:26:25.91
and stuff like that.
00:26:25.95\00:26:27.28
~ And Micah was
about to say something.
00:26:27.78\00:26:29.48
Yeah, I'm not in the media
mission tract, but it's been fun
00:26:29.98\00:26:32.82
with the mission aviation
program that we learn to
00:26:32.85\00:26:36.09
do lots of things
like write newsletters.
00:26:36.12\00:26:37.73
And we've gotten
to do some fun stuff
00:26:37.76\00:26:40.40
a little more on our own,
like build a website for it.
00:26:40.90\00:26:43.70
Having stuff to support it.
00:26:43.73\00:26:45.40
~ I have some recommendations
to make afterwards.
00:26:45.43\00:26:47.04
I don't want to
sound proprietary,
00:26:47.07\00:26:48.77
but I'll talk to you some.
00:26:48.80\00:26:50.14
And what about you, Lincoln?
00:26:50.17\00:26:51.71
Anything hands-on
other than planes?
00:26:51.74\00:26:54.34
So, oh man, I didn't know I
was going to talk about this.
00:26:54.38\00:26:56.81
Here we go.
00:26:56.85\00:26:58.18
So I was actually
kind of caught off guard
00:26:58.28\00:27:01.48
because I came in... I'm in
the commons office part-time.
00:27:01.52\00:27:04.59
~ What's the comm's
office? - Communications office.
00:27:04.62\00:27:06.55
And I work there,
like, three days a week.
00:27:06.76\00:27:08.99
Something like that. Anyway.
00:27:09.02\00:27:10.36
And no previous
skillset, no photography,
00:27:10.39\00:27:13.80
videography, video editing.
00:27:13.83\00:27:15.26
Not having been a
journalist. None of it.
00:27:16.40\00:27:19.27
And I was petitioned to be put
in the communications office,
00:27:19.47\00:27:23.87
for some weird reason.
00:27:23.91\00:27:25.27
And they put me in
there, and I was to be put in...
00:27:25.31\00:27:28.24
I'm supposed to
direct a podcast.
00:27:28.28\00:27:30.21
So that's what I do.
00:27:30.51\00:27:32.05
And we have, you actually
saw a photo of it earlier.
00:27:32.08\00:27:34.28
That was one of the
members of our podcast.
00:27:35.32\00:27:36.89
~ Was that you with
your mouth wide open?
00:27:36.92\00:27:38.29
~ No, that was
our friend, Ezekiel.
00:27:39.29\00:27:40.62
He's our video editor and
he's also part of the podcast.
00:27:40.66\00:27:45.13
~ So you learned podcasting
just kind of off the cuff,
00:27:45.43\00:27:48.53
because you were thrown into it.
00:27:48.56\00:27:49.90
~ Right. Yeah, yeah.
Pretty much. It's fun.
00:27:49.93\00:27:52.90
My wife does radio, so
all that kind of stuff too.
00:27:53.87\00:27:56.97
What about you, Andre?
00:27:58.27\00:27:59.61
Well, so I'm not
officially in the comm's office,
00:27:59.64\00:28:02.74
but I do help out
with the pictures a lot
00:28:02.78\00:28:05.88
in the yearbook.
00:28:07.25\00:28:08.58
~ Now any of you
involved in video,
00:28:09.55\00:28:10.99
like videoing when
the plane takes off,
00:28:11.02\00:28:13.29
when it lands?
00:28:13.32\00:28:14.66
I do a little
bit. Not very much.
00:28:15.52\00:28:17.86
When I work in
the comm's office,
00:28:17.89\00:28:19.23
I'll occasionally
work on video projects.
00:28:19.26\00:28:20.96
We went to AFM, so I'm
working with the recordings
00:28:21.60\00:28:24.93
and making some edited
videos that people can watch
00:28:24.97\00:28:28.54
and have those
seminars, and stuff like that.
00:28:28.57\00:28:30.27
So who's GoPro was
it on the plane there?
00:28:30.61\00:28:32.57
~ I think that was some of
the students from up in Alaska,
00:28:33.01\00:28:35.54
the graduates.
00:28:35.58\00:28:36.91
It wasn't, wasn't...
00:28:36.95\00:28:38.28
That's something that really...
00:28:38.38\00:28:39.71
So the digital media
program, the website, pictures,
00:28:39.75\00:28:42.58
design, newsletters, all
that, it gives a skillset.
00:28:42.62\00:28:48.06
I mean, when we went to school,
00:28:48.09\00:28:50.33
we didn't get
this kind of stuff.
00:28:50.36\00:28:51.89
No, never.
00:28:51.93\00:28:53.50
Well, we did have photography.
00:28:53.53\00:28:55.16
You know, the dark
room. And that was it.
00:28:55.20\00:28:57.97
~ Quick question, John.
00:28:58.00\00:28:59.33
Isn't this the focus
of Adventist education?
00:28:59.37\00:29:02.10
Yes, equipping.
00:29:02.14\00:29:03.57
To produce young people to
go out and finish this work.
00:29:03.61\00:29:06.84
- Amen. - I like that.
00:29:06.88\00:29:08.21
You're equipping. Hands-on.
00:29:08.24\00:29:10.25
Not just intellectual.
00:29:10.28\00:29:11.61
I mean, you talk about
math, and science, and history.
00:29:11.65\00:29:13.52
All relevant.
00:29:13.55\00:29:15.25
Basic things which are,
in some sense, depending on
00:29:15.28\00:29:17.82
what their trajectory
is, it's going to work out.
00:29:17.85\00:29:19.59
Somebody might leave to be a
historian instead of a pilot.
00:29:19.62\00:29:21.72
Or maybe, you know, a developer
of some new digital software.
00:29:22.19\00:29:26.23
But it's all about flexibility,
flexibility, flexibility.
00:29:26.63\00:29:31.10
~ And you also offer
construction and music.
00:29:31.13\00:29:33.27
Construction and music, and
we're adding additional tracts
00:29:33.30\00:29:36.54
in agriculture,
elementary education.
00:29:36.57\00:29:39.77
Our dream is to offer a
healthcare tract as well.
00:29:39.81\00:29:42.91
We don't quite have the
staffing to offer that yet.
00:29:42.94\00:29:45.35
But all these other programs,
we have a farm program,
00:29:45.38\00:29:48.65
which many of our schools
have had in the past, you know.
00:29:48.68\00:29:51.15
We have a little
elementary school on campus that
00:29:51.39\00:29:53.62
teaches our
students, and things.
00:29:53.66\00:29:55.42
But at the same time,
you know, the concept is,
00:29:55.79\00:30:00.96
why not just use
these as development grounds
00:30:01.00\00:30:04.90
to get kids out into
service lines in those areas?
00:30:05.10\00:30:09.30
So yeah, we teach construction.
00:30:09.34\00:30:11.14
And we've got our
first construction graduate
00:30:11.34\00:30:14.18
graduating this year.
00:30:14.21\00:30:15.54
Actually, he's heading
down to Belize to work with the
00:30:15.58\00:30:18.21
MOVE program down
there for the next year.
00:30:18.25\00:30:20.48
And then from there on, and he's
very excited about construction.
00:30:20.78\00:30:24.39
I'm just amazed.
00:30:24.42\00:30:25.75
These young people,
when they catch a vision
00:30:25.79\00:30:28.42
and they get excited,
they're eager to move on.
00:30:28.46\00:30:31.33
So they learn these
skills at Oklahoma Academy,
00:30:31.59\00:30:33.36
and they're
actually viable skills
00:30:33.40\00:30:35.16
they can use in the field.
00:30:35.20\00:30:36.53
~ That was real welding.
00:30:36.67\00:30:38.00
~ Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
00:30:38.13\00:30:40.54
~ Any of you done that?
00:30:40.90\00:30:42.24
- We've all done
that. ~ All of you?
00:30:42.27\00:30:43.87
~ You re-weld the
wheels on the plane.
00:30:44.17\00:30:45.74
Just recently we were
working on building an engine
00:30:47.54\00:30:49.71
lift for one of our planes.
00:30:49.74\00:30:51.11
To take out the
engine and work on it.
00:30:51.15\00:30:52.95
~ Isn't this exciting?
00:30:52.98\00:30:54.32
I mean, when I went to
school, it was pretty much
00:30:54.35\00:30:57.42
book learning, in New York City.
00:30:57.45\00:30:59.92
Not hands-on.
00:30:59.95\00:31:01.29
The only hands-on thing
was football, basketball.
00:31:01.36\00:31:03.86
Which, you know, nobody,
very few students go on to be
00:31:04.16\00:31:07.66
professional basketball
players and football players.
00:31:07.70\00:31:09.46
But you leave with a
skill that you can use
00:31:09.86\00:31:12.00
at your own decision.
00:31:12.03\00:31:13.67
You don't have to work
for a web design company.
00:31:14.17\00:31:16.50
You could do your
own private web...
00:31:16.54\00:31:18.01
You could one day
own your own plane.
00:31:18.04\00:31:19.54
Anybody has that aspiration?
00:31:19.57\00:31:21.34
~ Yep. - Definitely.
00:31:21.54\00:31:23.58
~ Because I know you said
you're just not doing 9 to 5.
00:31:23.78\00:31:26.15
No.
00:31:26.18\00:31:27.52
~ It's not for you. - Nope.
00:31:27.55\00:31:28.88
Full-time ministry.
00:31:28.92\00:31:30.25
So what about music?
00:31:30.65\00:31:32.35
Tell me about the
music program you have.
00:31:32.39\00:31:34.72
Yeah, so actually
some of our students here,
00:31:34.76\00:31:37.99
actually all of our
students are very musical
00:31:38.03\00:31:40.90
and enjoy the
music program as well.
00:31:40.93\00:31:44.33
And Andre, I was going to
say, when you were asking about
00:31:44.67\00:31:47.97
communications and
digital media, he has actually
00:31:48.00\00:31:51.11
been working in our
music department as well.
00:31:51.14\00:31:53.34
And so, the music
mission tract is a new program
00:31:53.64\00:31:59.35
that we have because we
teach music at our school.
00:31:59.65\00:32:01.95
And many of our
students are interested in that.
00:32:01.98\00:32:03.59
Where can they
take that skillset?
00:32:03.62\00:32:05.72
How could they plug
that into the end time work?
00:32:06.15\00:32:09.99
Where could they go with that?
00:32:10.03\00:32:11.36
So we've developed a
line, a tract we say,
00:32:11.39\00:32:16.20
to put a young
person with music talents
00:32:16.40\00:32:19.13
in directing choral,
or teaching instruments,
00:32:19.17\00:32:22.64
or performance, or voice.
00:32:22.67\00:32:25.44
Different things that
we kind of combine together
00:32:25.47\00:32:28.48
into a specialized training
to say, okay, and then not just
00:32:28.51\00:32:32.81
training with these skills,
but let's actually work with a
00:32:32.85\00:32:36.05
mission program, say, Adventist
Frontier Missions in Thailand
00:32:36.08\00:32:39.05
where they actually
have a school teaching music.
00:32:39.09\00:32:42.59
How can we build
missionaries for you guys to use
00:32:42.62\00:32:46.19
in service
straight from our school
00:32:46.49\00:32:49.00
and use those skills
that we teach at our school?
00:32:49.40\00:32:51.77
How can we put
those into service?
00:32:51.80\00:32:53.13
So that's our music
mission tract; and it's unique.
00:32:53.17\00:32:55.64
What other schools are
out there doing that, really?
00:32:55.67\00:32:58.04
I don't know
where you can get that.
00:32:58.07\00:32:59.87
~ Any of you play an instrument?
00:33:00.21\00:33:01.84
~ Yeah. ~ Yeah.
00:33:01.88\00:33:03.21
What do you all
play? Let's hear it.
00:33:03.24\00:33:04.58
~ Which one?
00:33:06.82\00:33:08.15
So I play the piano,
the violin, the guitar,
00:33:08.18\00:33:11.75
the banjo, the mandolin.
00:33:11.79\00:33:13.12
And I am learning the
base guitar, and the trumpet.
00:33:13.69\00:33:16.73
~ Wow. ~ What about the radio?
00:33:16.76\00:33:19.09
That one too.
00:33:20.40\00:33:21.73
I should say,
what about the podcast?
00:33:22.53\00:33:24.97
You know, this
generation is so advanced.
00:33:25.00\00:33:27.44
The things you have nowadays
on your phone you can just
00:33:27.70\00:33:29.60
sing along with the song on the
phone or just look up any song.
00:33:30.01\00:33:32.87
We didn't have
that growing up. - No.
00:33:32.91\00:33:34.38
We pretty much had basic stuff.
00:33:34.41\00:33:36.04
But that's really
good. What about you?
00:33:36.24\00:33:38.01
Yeah, what about you?
00:33:38.05\00:33:39.38
I play trumpet, piano, guitar.
00:33:39.41\00:33:42.58
I'm hoping to learn
some more brass instruments
00:33:42.78\00:33:44.35
as some point, like French horn.
00:33:44.39\00:33:45.72
I've messed around on a few
other instruments occasionally,
00:33:46.99\00:33:48.86
like recorder, stuff like that.
00:33:48.89\00:33:50.46
You have to think of
portability too, like the tuba.
00:33:50.96\00:33:53.83
You don't buy a
Volkswagen if you play a tuba.
00:33:55.46\00:33:57.47
And what about you, Lincoln?
00:33:59.07\00:34:00.40
I play alto
saxophone and guitar.
00:34:00.44\00:34:02.80
~ Nice, okay. ~ That's good.
00:34:02.84\00:34:05.77
Micah?
00:34:05.81\00:34:07.14
I play the piano and a
little bit of the organ.
00:34:07.18\00:34:09.58
And I've messed around
with the guitar a bit too.
00:34:09.78\00:34:12.11
~ So is that
with the foot pedals?
00:34:12.15\00:34:13.58
~ Yeah.
00:34:13.62\00:34:14.95
Wow, you have
like an extra brain.
00:34:14.98\00:34:16.38
You've got to think...
00:34:17.39\00:34:19.32
It is different because when
you're playing and you hear a
00:34:19.92\00:34:21.36
wrong note, you have to
think, was it this keyboard,
00:34:21.39\00:34:23.63
this keyboard, or my foot?
00:34:23.66\00:34:24.99
That's right.
That's really good.
00:34:25.33\00:34:26.90
So music is a big
part of the program.
00:34:27.26\00:34:29.46
~ Absolutely, absolutely.
00:34:29.50\00:34:30.87
And you know, as a school,
we have our touring vocal choir,
00:34:30.90\00:34:35.97
and our special
groups, and our strings,
00:34:36.00\00:34:37.87
and a hand bell choir.
00:34:37.91\00:34:39.84
Beautiful, we
produce beautiful music.
00:34:39.87\00:34:42.04
But again, the goal comes back
to, where can we go with this?
00:34:42.34\00:34:45.21
Where can we take it?
How can we plug it in?
00:34:45.25\00:34:47.22
~ Really, when you think
about it, there's no limitation.
00:34:47.25\00:34:49.88
Because in this world
today music is significantly
00:34:49.98\00:34:52.89
a part of everything we do.
00:34:52.92\00:34:54.26
I mean, Christian
music has taken off.
00:34:54.59\00:34:57.73
In our day and age, it was
like, you know, record player.
00:34:58.43\00:35:00.86
But they're coming back.
00:35:02.16\00:35:03.53
They're trying
to resurrect records
00:35:04.20\00:35:05.77
and making them
digital nowadays.
00:35:05.97\00:35:07.64
But music...
00:35:08.07\00:35:09.50
~ How many staff
members do you have?
00:35:09.54\00:35:11.37
That's a good question, honey.
00:35:11.41\00:35:12.74
So we have about 30 staff
that work with the school.
00:35:12.77\00:35:15.48
And that's kind of a
unique question because
00:35:16.08\00:35:18.48
we have about as many students.
00:35:18.51\00:35:19.91
We're growing, our
student body is growing.
00:35:19.95\00:35:21.82
We're looking to have
more students this next year.
00:35:21.85\00:35:23.59
But with about a one to
one ration between staff
00:35:23.85\00:35:28.02
and students, most schools
don't run that tight of a ratio.
00:35:28.06\00:35:31.49
It offers a lot of
mentoring opportunities.
00:35:31.96\00:35:34.40
~ What's your capacity?
00:35:35.33\00:35:36.70
We have a
capacity of about 50 or so.
00:35:37.07\00:35:39.87
We're looking to be about 45.
00:35:39.90\00:35:41.24
Once we start to get above
that, we really feel that we
00:35:41.27\00:35:44.44
lose that personal mentoring
that we really want to keep.
00:35:44.47\00:35:48.01
So we really don't
have that perspective where
00:35:48.04\00:35:50.45
want to be, you
know, 150 or 300 students.
00:35:50.48\00:35:53.25
We want to keep it small.
00:35:53.45\00:35:54.85
If anyone else wants to
start another school with
00:35:54.88\00:35:58.65
30 students in it, I
think it's a great idea.
00:35:58.69\00:36:00.62
~ Right, break
it off and expand.
00:36:00.96\00:36:02.36
Break it off and expand.
00:36:02.39\00:36:03.73
And so Lincoln, you are
involved in ground school.
00:36:03.76\00:36:06.19
Are you the one that
cut the runway grass?
00:36:06.23\00:36:08.43
I've done it before.
00:36:09.60\00:36:11.30
We've all taken part in that.
00:36:11.33\00:36:13.44
~ Because I've
thought about that.
00:36:13.47\00:36:14.80
I mean, during the
cold months you get snow.
00:36:14.84\00:36:17.67
Two times a year.
00:36:18.27\00:36:19.97
Have you flown, have
you taught the students
00:36:21.18\00:36:23.31
to fly in bad weather?
00:36:23.35\00:36:25.81
So yes and no.
00:36:26.11\00:36:28.38
We do, but we also
very highly guard it.
00:36:28.42\00:36:31.52
Because we want to be safe.
This is an introductory course.
00:36:31.55\00:36:33.79
It is primary
training for the students.
00:36:33.92\00:36:37.36
They're young,
very inexperienced.
00:36:37.39\00:36:39.29
And I don't want to
push the limits too far yet.
00:36:39.63\00:36:42.26
But definitely as we get
into the instrument rating,
00:36:42.40\00:36:44.60
the commercial ratings, we
build up time and experience,
00:36:44.63\00:36:47.00
it gets more challenging.
00:36:47.04\00:36:48.37
And then we can get into
things like canyon turns,
00:36:48.40\00:36:50.31
and bucket drops,
and flour bombing,
00:36:50.34\00:36:52.57
and those kinds of
things that actually are
00:36:52.61\00:36:54.64
useful in the mission field.
00:36:54.68\00:36:56.18
~ Define what that is, because
somebody might be asking.
00:36:56.41\00:36:59.25
So canyon turns,
definitely a maneuver,
00:36:59.28\00:37:02.78
a very, very tight turn where
you slow down to your minimum
00:37:02.82\00:37:06.35
speed and then
make a very tight turn.
00:37:06.39\00:37:07.79
In case you like in a box canyon
or if you're into a situation
00:37:07.82\00:37:10.69
where you need to get
out very, very quickly.
00:37:10.73\00:37:12.73
A bucket drop, you know, is
a maneuver that was actually
00:37:13.76\00:37:17.33
perfected by
missionaries in the past
00:37:17.37\00:37:19.47
where they could actually lower
supplies straight to the ground
00:37:19.50\00:37:22.60
from a funnel shape.
00:37:22.87\00:37:24.31
As you fly the airplane in
a circle and lower a line down
00:37:24.34\00:37:26.98
with an object on it, or a
bucket on it with things in it,
00:37:27.01\00:37:30.81
and you can keep the bucket
stationary as you fly around.
00:37:30.85\00:37:34.18
And of course,
airdrops are a neat way to
00:37:35.22\00:37:37.99
deliver supplies too where you
fly over and drop something out.
00:37:38.02\00:37:40.79
But you have to know how to
be a little accurate with that.
00:37:40.82\00:37:43.66
I've had some
experience in the Philippines.
00:37:43.96\00:37:45.59
I remember when I
was a missionary pilot
00:37:45.63\00:37:47.06
flying in the Philippines.
00:37:47.10\00:37:48.43
~ Were you a
missionary pilot? - Oh yes.
00:37:48.46\00:37:49.90
Yeah, and flying in
the Philippines there
00:37:50.90\00:37:53.80
and trying to
deliver supplies by airdrop.
00:37:54.00\00:37:56.71
And we had a door that
swung open on the plane
00:37:56.74\00:37:59.11
and it would hold
itself up, and so we could
00:37:59.14\00:38:00.68
just throw things out the door.
00:38:00.71\00:38:02.14
Fascinating. It
was a lot of fun.
00:38:02.18\00:38:04.01
And it always takes two people.
00:38:04.28\00:38:06.41
It's almost better done if
you have a radio to coordinate
00:38:06.92\00:38:09.58
with the ground and they can
tell you when to drop things.
00:38:09.62\00:38:11.79
It actually works
better because as a pilot,
00:38:11.82\00:38:13.59
or as a person throwing
things out, you kind of gauge.
00:38:13.62\00:38:16.22
We splattered spaghetti sauce
all over the mountain side.
00:38:17.29\00:38:20.16
- Spaghetti sauce? ~ Yeah.
00:38:20.20\00:38:21.80
~ Oh just
toothpaste, everything.
00:38:21.83\00:38:23.90
~ Just, it went everywhere.
00:38:23.93\00:38:25.87
~ Like, literally.
Literally everywhere.
00:38:25.97\00:38:28.10
Those kids, but they
know the mountain so well,
00:38:28.14\00:38:30.51
they ran out through
the jungle and the forest
00:38:30.54\00:38:32.47
and they found everything.
00:38:32.51\00:38:33.84
But I'll tell you what.
00:38:33.88\00:38:35.21
It was a mess. It
was an absolute mess.
00:38:35.24\00:38:36.78
~ I'm sitting here,
I'm just in my mind,
00:38:36.81\00:38:39.25
I have a really active mind,
I can hear all the stories.
00:38:39.55\00:38:43.05
You know, somebody is cutting
their lawn, and all of a sudden
00:38:43.39\00:38:45.52
they're covered
in spaghetti sauce.
00:38:45.55\00:38:46.89
~ It's like, did
a flower explode?
00:38:49.36\00:38:51.19
That's interesting; but
that's the fun part of aviation.
00:38:51.99\00:38:54.50
You know, learning these
things in a constructive way.
00:38:54.53\00:38:57.57
Have you guys
practiced that on the campus?
00:38:57.60\00:39:00.34
~ No. ~ No.
00:39:00.37\00:39:01.70
- We haven't
yet. - Look out below.
00:39:01.97\00:39:03.37
Probably not any time soon.
00:39:03.41\00:39:04.74
We probably won't be doing
that for a few more years now.
00:39:06.88\00:39:08.78
Probably not.
00:39:08.91\00:39:10.25
Where have you been
in the mission field?
00:39:10.28\00:39:12.11
~ So my wife and I
started out, I graduated from
00:39:12.41\00:39:15.48
Andrews University in 1999.
00:39:15.52\00:39:17.42
And through my time there,
00:39:18.15\00:39:19.85
I graduated from the
aviation program there.
00:39:19.89\00:39:23.73
I was part of Adventist World
Aviation's first graduating
00:39:23.93\00:39:26.96
class from a
mission training program
00:39:27.00\00:39:29.86
that was very similar to
this program, ironically.
00:39:29.90\00:39:32.60
And we took on a project
to develop an aviation program
00:39:32.83\00:39:38.17
for the Philippines.
00:39:38.21\00:39:39.54
So the flight work
that's going on there now
00:39:39.57\00:39:42.44
actually started
many, many, many years ago
00:39:42.74\00:39:45.01
with a little airplane
that we took over there.
00:39:45.18\00:39:47.32
And we flew in the
Philippines for about six years.
00:39:47.35\00:39:50.65
Then we turned that
project over to others.
00:39:50.69\00:39:52.39
And then others
came along and helped.
00:39:52.42\00:39:53.79
Now there's a number
of helicopters and other
00:39:53.82\00:39:55.46
organizations there, and
many things going on there.
00:39:55.49\00:39:58.06
It's just beautiful to
see where God has taken that.
00:39:58.16\00:40:00.60
We also flew in
Guyana in South America.
00:40:00.63\00:40:04.97
And that was a
tremendous experience as well.
00:40:05.47\00:40:09.00
I tell you what,
whenever my mind reverts now
00:40:09.04\00:40:12.11
to the need for mission
aviation around the world,
00:40:12.14\00:40:14.68
I kind of revert back to
Guyana and the needs there.
00:40:15.04\00:40:17.61
Very remote areas
accessible only by aviation.
00:40:17.65\00:40:21.28
Similar to Alaska, I
would think, you know.
00:40:21.32\00:40:23.35
Yeah, but fascinating.
The needs are tremendous.
00:40:23.39\00:40:26.35
Lots of opportunities.
00:40:26.39\00:40:27.72
Young people
want to get involved?
00:40:27.76\00:40:29.32
Lots of opportunity.
00:40:29.36\00:40:30.69
~ I know, because
there's people in the jungle
00:40:30.73\00:40:32.56
and far out regions.
00:40:32.59\00:40:35.20
How do you get to them?
00:40:35.80\00:40:37.20
Usually through a
plane or helicopter,
00:40:37.23\00:40:39.80
or something like that.
00:40:39.83\00:40:41.17
When you think about
the impact, you've said this
00:40:41.70\00:40:46.64
a number of
times in the program,
00:40:46.68\00:40:48.24
how do you use these skills.
00:40:48.54\00:40:51.01
Think about some of
the needs the school has
00:40:51.91\00:40:54.52
as you're expanding.
00:40:55.02\00:40:56.35
What are some of
the needs you have?
00:40:56.65\00:40:58.09
Let's start with
the aviation program.
00:40:58.12\00:40:59.72
Well, with the aviation
program, we of course...
00:40:59.75\00:41:04.03
Equipment and
supplies, you know, money,
00:41:05.19\00:41:07.23
you kind of think of
those things maybe at the very
00:41:07.26\00:41:09.50
beginning of kind of the
outset as being, you know,
00:41:09.53\00:41:12.03
"We really need money,
we really need equipment."
00:41:12.07\00:41:14.20
Those are material things.
00:41:15.07\00:41:16.64
And in the end, they
don't matter as much as people.
00:41:16.67\00:41:19.94
Right? People are
the important thing.
00:41:19.97\00:41:22.08
And so I really
have to start there.
00:41:22.48\00:41:24.68
People who can help
mentor the next generation.
00:41:25.88\00:41:28.78
These guys have potential.
00:41:28.98\00:41:30.45
These guys have
excitement, enthusiasm.
00:41:30.49\00:41:33.19
They have vision for
where God is taking them.
00:41:33.22\00:41:35.42
God is speaking to their
hearts, He's drawing them.
00:41:35.46\00:41:37.29
And you can already
see, I'm just one person,
00:41:37.33\00:41:40.30
these are four guys
representative of the program.
00:41:40.80\00:41:42.76
There are actually ten
students that are in our program
00:41:42.80\00:41:45.13
this year training for
missions, not all in aviation.
00:41:45.17\00:41:47.17
In all the various areas.
00:41:47.20\00:41:48.54
But those guys exponentially
magnify my little efforts.
00:41:48.80\00:41:54.84
Right? And that's just me.
00:41:54.88\00:41:56.24
You talk about
God's work in general,
00:41:56.28\00:41:58.48
if we get a
generation of young people,
00:41:58.51\00:42:01.32
an army of youth
rightly trained, what powerful
00:42:01.35\00:42:06.09
difference that
can make in the world.
00:42:06.12\00:42:07.82
If you catch that
vision, it's mind blowing.
00:42:07.86\00:42:11.96
It's mind blowing.
How far could that go?
00:42:11.99\00:42:14.50
And so I really think, if there
are more people out there who
00:42:14.53\00:42:17.77
would be willing to join
us in helping to inspire this
00:42:17.80\00:42:21.00
next generation,
in music ministry,
00:42:21.04\00:42:23.17
in healthcare ministry,
in food service ministry,
00:42:23.47\00:42:27.28
in elementary education
ministry, agriculture ministry,
00:42:27.61\00:42:30.68
so many opportunities
for young people to plug in
00:42:30.71\00:42:33.45
to God's service
here at the end of time.
00:42:33.48\00:42:35.12
And that's really, probably
what our biggest need is,
00:42:35.42\00:42:38.25
is just for people who
are like-minded in this vision
00:42:38.29\00:42:40.76
to join us and help say,
"Yeah, we want to mentor these
00:42:41.06\00:42:43.32
young people and help
them go because it's going to
00:42:43.36\00:42:45.46
magnify our
efforts exponentially."
00:42:45.49\00:42:48.13
We have just, you know,
we said we're flying off of
00:42:49.20\00:42:52.10
1300 feet of grass right
now, which is really phenomenal.
00:42:52.13\00:42:56.40
But God has blessed us
with the opportunity to purchase
00:42:56.44\00:42:58.87
a little extra land
now, which is really just,
00:42:58.91\00:43:01.01
really been a big blessing.
00:43:01.04\00:43:03.08
~ Yeah, so we can
extend the runway.
00:43:03.11\00:43:04.65
And that's going to
offer a lot more opportunities
00:43:04.68\00:43:06.51
for these guys to be able
to solo fly from our airstrip.
00:43:06.55\00:43:08.88
Right now I won't let
them fly solo off of our strip.
00:43:08.92\00:43:11.75
~ "Mr. Brooks,
the runway is ending."
00:43:11.79\00:43:13.96
There's no second
chances on our runway
00:43:14.96\00:43:17.16
as it is right now.
00:43:17.19\00:43:18.53
But this additional
property will allow us
00:43:18.56\00:43:20.80
to expand that
runway twice as long.
00:43:20.83\00:43:22.53
Which is going to be
very, very nice and allow
00:43:22.73\00:43:24.33
us to do a lot more
things on our airstrip.
00:43:24.37\00:43:27.47
~ Also increase your fleet.
00:43:28.50\00:43:30.51
You could get more
planes to train in.
00:43:30.54\00:43:31.97
~ Exactly, yep.
00:43:32.01\00:43:33.34
And more opportunity
to build staff housing,
00:43:33.38\00:43:36.91
do construction
development, offer new programs
00:43:36.95\00:43:39.85
in various areas,
and different things,
00:43:39.88\00:43:41.35
because we have this
additional space to work in now.
00:43:41.38\00:43:44.05
So developing that is part
of our big thrust right now.
00:43:44.25\00:43:48.32
Let me go to some of these
students here that have been
00:43:48.79\00:43:50.43
sitting here so
nicely and communicating.
00:43:50.46\00:43:53.90
Talk to me, Andre, about
the thing that impacts you most
00:43:54.66\00:43:57.20
at Oklahoma Academy.
00:43:57.23\00:43:58.67
Well, I feel like my walk
with God especially has grown
00:43:59.20\00:44:03.51
since I've been with the school.
00:44:03.54\00:44:04.87
Because the spiritual
atmosphere there is really good.
00:44:05.17\00:44:08.78
And the music, I've
never been more into music.
00:44:10.91\00:44:14.98
It's a wonderful thing.
00:44:16.08\00:44:17.42
~ That's good;
your walk with God and
00:44:17.45\00:44:18.79
expanding your music interest.
00:44:18.82\00:44:20.16
Is there a pastor there?
00:44:20.19\00:44:21.52
There is. We have a
lay pastor on campus, yeah,
00:44:22.09\00:44:25.23
who helps shepherd.
00:44:25.26\00:44:26.73
We have two
pastors actually now.
00:44:26.76\00:44:28.16
- Oh, two. Alright. - Yeah.
00:44:28.20\00:44:29.76
- Yeah, five or six
nurses. - What about you, Ethan.
00:44:29.80\00:44:31.93
- There are a lot of nurses?
- Yeah, I don't know why.
00:44:32.67\00:44:34.77
In case you get sick.
00:44:35.84\00:44:37.17
- For those who
get airsick. - Exactly.
00:44:37.21\00:44:38.54
Ethan.
00:44:39.57\00:44:40.91
What has impacted me the most?
00:44:40.94\00:44:42.28
Probably somewhat like Andre.
00:44:42.31\00:44:44.05
My spiritual walk has grown.
00:44:44.08\00:44:45.71
In the mission tract
program, every Sunday we'll meet
00:44:46.78\00:44:49.28
and we'll talk, like what
we were talking about earlier
00:44:49.58\00:44:52.29
a little bit, about
how the program is funded.
00:44:52.32\00:44:54.06
Mr. Brooks, in the meeting
we go through and he teaches us
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how to raise our support base.
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How we do it is, we each
go out and we get people to
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join our mission,
basically, and help us
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in supporting God's work.
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That's how we do it.
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But also, what we do
there is we study this Bible
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study called, Experiencing God.
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We also do it
for Sabbath school.
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And we study
basically how to do God's work,
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and how to
experience God, you could say.
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~ That's wonderful, wonderful.
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- It is. - That's good.
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And the reason I ask
that question is because
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I know that people watching
and listening to the program
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probably are saying,
"Well, they really love to fly,
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but do they have a
connection with God?"
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And that's a wonderful thing.
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I don't know, did we ask
about your mission statement?
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Did you share
your mission statement?
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"We're training
workers for the harvest."
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Okay, there it is.
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And so, Lincoln, what about you?
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So, I met the Lord
here at Oklahoma Academy.
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And that was just, I
mean, that's incredible.
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But just besides that fact,
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besides the spiritual
atmosphere, and the music,
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and the opportunities, I
really enjoy in the academics
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aspect of it,
languages, foreign languages.
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~ Did you say four
languages? - Foreign.
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I wish four.
I'm working on that.
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So essentially it's just
like, I mean, I get to fly.
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And that's great.
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And I'm going to go to
the mission field for a year,
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and I'm super
excited about that.
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But while I'm here, I get
to actually like, you know,
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learn something that in
my mind I see as useful.
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Like people, they look at
their high school classes,
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they're like,
"Why am I doing this?"
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But I sit there and
I'm in my language classes,
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and sometimes it's frustrating
because this is difficult,
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I don't want to sit
here and memorize this,
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but it's like, this is useful.
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Like, I'm in my
first year of Spanish,
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and my third year of French.
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And I'm going to take
Spanish II over the summer.
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And I'm going to
graduate high school with
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seven years of language.
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And I want to take that abroad.
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And I think that's
useful, because the best way to
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connect with people is to
speak their language. Right?
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And I've really
been blessed by that.
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And that's one of the biggest
reasons I'm here at this school.
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~ So you could fly with
Spanish all over South America.
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~ Yeah. ~ And
other parts of the world.
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~ And even into
French countries.
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~ Northern Africa. Yeah.
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I didn't know they
offer languages, Spanish...
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~ Yeah, it's great.
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And just as an aside, you
know it's interesting, because
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many students will say,
"Why do I have to learn this?
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I'm never going
to use this anyway."
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You know, "Why do I
have to take algebra?
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I'm never going to use algebra?"
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"Why do I have to learn French?
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I'm never going
to speak French."
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No, you're learning algebra
because you've got to do a
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weight and balance
problem on an airplane
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while you're on the fly.
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I mean, like literally.
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You're learning
French because you're
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going to north Africa, right?
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And you need
this in God's service.
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Every one of our classes
start to take very pinpointed,
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you know, directional
meaning, very strong focus
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when we apply
them to God's service.
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You said that as a
pilot, weight and balance.
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That's something so
significant for survival.
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Your take-off weight is
not your landing weight.
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And in an emergency, you
just can't just turn around
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if you have all
that take-off weight.
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You've got to
dump some of that fuel.
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- That's, you know, connect.
~ Yeah, You've got to...
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~ That's really
good. That's really good.
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We've done over a
million miles flying.
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That's the miles
credited, but it's probably
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easily more than
two million miles.
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Flying all over the world.
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With American Airlines they gave
us a million mile little thing.
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So easily about
150,000 miles a year.
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And doing that.
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But now Micah, what about you?
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~ I really enjoy the
mission aspect of the training.
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Because you can go
learning to fly anywhere.
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It's even not that hard to
find an Adventist high school
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where you can learn
to fly, but I love how
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we learn to be missionaries,
not just fly the plane.
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And just especially in
our mission tract on Sunday
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we learn stuff
like donor ministry,
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we learn how to do newsletters,
and all the behind-the-scenes
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work that we're going
to need as missionaries.
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And I like that they'll actually
send us out to the field.
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And just how the whole
program is operated like
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it's a missions program.
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And we have to trust God,
and we get to see God at work.
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Just our
everyday life at school.
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Just whether we go fly,
we just got to trust God
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and see Him
provide all our needs.
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That's so exciting.
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~ And it is exciting, amen.
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I'm excited about
the future, honey.
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These young people, we
want to meet more of them.
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Next time bring ten.
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But I know my wife would say,
bring one of the female pilots.
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Yeah, absolutely. I
wish we could do that.
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We'll definitely plan
to do that in the future.
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But what would you say
some of your greater needs
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are right now, as we address our
viewing and listening audience?
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So we're
developing the infrastructure
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right now to take this to
the next level, basically.
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To provide even more
service for young people.
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And even service
for young people who
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may not be in
high school anymore,
00:49:37.81\00:49:39.27
who may still say, "How
can I opt into that program?"
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And building that infrastructure
is the next step for the school.
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Really, where do we take
the vision beyond just training
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academically and
vocationally at our high school?
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How can we take it
out into the world,
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but build it into a
larger, more stable program?
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Building that new
property into an infrastructure
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is really where
we're looking to develop.
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We're looking to
build a hanger, literally,
00:50:02.93\00:50:05.93
where we can actually
service our airplanes.
00:50:06.13\00:50:07.54
Right now our airplanes
are stored under a little
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woodshed actually,
which is kind of challenging
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for us to work on them
in the weather, and things.
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You say, "Well that's
the mission field," you know.
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And it is the mission field,
but we'd like to develop it into
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a more robust program
that's actually able to
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work on airplanes, service
planes from the mission field,
00:50:23.45\00:50:25.95
host missionaries
coming back and forth.
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Those types of things.
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And how do you deal
with the weather in Oklahoma?
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I know you're
not in Tornado Alley,
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but you're not far from it.
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~ Well, we don't
fly into tornadoes.
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But we wait for those to go by.
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God protects His own.
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He's really
blessed us on campus there.
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And we do have days
that are very windy.
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And we just reset our thresholds
and we fly when we can.
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~ That's really, really great.
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They can handle the
wind? Do you teach them that?
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- Depending on the...
~ Yes, certain levels.
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Oh, I see.
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Past a certain nautical
mile you don't want to...
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Well about 70 miles nautical
you're not going up in that.
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Not in a Cessna 172.
00:51:01.82\00:51:03.19
You'll have some fun landing it.
00:51:04.26\00:51:05.79
It'd be great to take off, but
00:51:06.09\00:51:07.73
you've got to
bring it back down.
00:51:07.76\00:51:09.10
~ Take off from a
standstill. - What was that?
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You could take off from
a standstill in that wind.
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Exactly.
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Well you know, we have an
address roll that we're going to
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share with you, because this
has been an exciting program.
00:51:16.60\00:51:19.14
You might want to
support it financially,
00:51:19.54\00:51:21.58
or maybe you're
thinking about sending a student
00:51:21.61\00:51:24.01
to the Oklahoma Academy.
00:51:24.05\00:51:25.75
I would say,
Oklahoma Academy is ok.
00:51:25.78\00:51:28.65
Here is the information
that you need to find out
00:51:29.08\00:51:30.89
more about the school
and how to participate.
00:51:30.92\00:51:33.39
If you would like to
contact or know more about
00:51:34.79\00:51:36.89
Oklahoma Academy, you can
do so in the following ways.
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