Participants: C.A. Murray (Host), Anthony Paul PhD, Marlo Paul MD, John Paul and Karly Carpenter, Laura Jarquin, Darla Price, Torry Price, Kristen Nedd, Jade Burrell, Madelene Gustave
Series Code: TL
Program Code: TL017543B
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00:01 ♪ >> AND WE ARE BACK.
00:11 WE WELCOME YOU ONCE AGAIN TO 3ABN "TODAY LIVE." 00:16 AND OUR GUESTS ARE THE WONDERFUL YOUNG PEOPLE -- AND I STILL CALL 00:20 THEM YOUNG -- FROM NAPS. WE CHANGED OUT JUST A LITTLE 00:24 BIT. A FAMILIAR FACE, CERTAINLY FOR 00:26 US, FOR -- I DON'T WANT TO SAY TOO MANY YEARS, BUT FOR A LITTLE 00:30 WHILE NOW, IS DARLA. SHE IS NOW DARLA PRICE. 00:34 AND THAT IS HER HUSBAND UP THERE TO HER -- TO HER FAR RIGHT. 00:39 AND GOOD TO YOU HAVE HERE, MAN. >> THANK YOU. 00:41 >> YOU PICKED A GOOD-LOOKING GUY. 00:45 PRAISE THE LORD. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:46 >> HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WITH NAPS. 00:49 >> SINCE THE YEAR 2000. >> A LITTLE WHILE. 00:51 >> YEAH, I KIND OF GOT -- I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS GOING TO 00:54 COLLEGE, I TOLD THE LORD, I WANTED TO DO SOMETHING LIKE 00:58 FULFILL PURPOSE, YOU KNOW, HAVE MEANING. 01:00 >> UH-HUH. >> AND I HAD BEEN PRAYING, YOU 01:03 KNOW, WHEN I READ THE BIBLE, I WAS LIKE ARE THESE STORIES REAL? 01:07 >> UH-HUH. >> AND THEN I JOINED NAPS. 01:10 AND NOT ONLY DID I FIND OUT THAT THE STORIES WERE REAL IN THE 01:15 BIBLE, BUT I DISCOVERED THAT THIS WAS JUST LIKE THE PREVIEW. 01:18 ONCE YOU START WORKING FOR THE LORD, YOU REALIZE THE BIBLE IS 01:22 REALLY JUST THE PREVIEW. GOD WANTS TO SHOW YOU SO MUCH 01:26 MORE. >> PRAISE THE LORD. 01:28 INCLUDING GIVING YOU YOUR BUSINESS. 01:30 >> YES, SIR. >> HOW DID THAT COME ABOUT? 01:34 >> WELL, IT PAYS TO SERVE JESUS. >> AMEN. 01:37 [ LAUGHTER ] >> WE BOTH JOINED THE MINISTRY, 01:40 AND THE LORD TOOK OVER FROM THERE. 01:42 >> YOU HAVE A GREAT VOICE TOO. KEEP HIM. 01:45 >> YES. >> AND THEN WE HAVE -- LET'S SEE 01:49 KRISTEN. >> YES. 01:50 >> THIS IS THE ONE OF WHOM WE HEARD STARTED YOUR SCHOOL WHILE 02:01 YOU WERE STILL IN SCHOOL. >> YES. 02:05 >> AND THIS IS JADE. >> HI. 02:09 >> KRISTEN IS THE PASTOR O THE ACADEMY, AND YOU CAN TALK A 02:13 LITTLE BIT ABOUT JADE AND -- >> BEFORE YOU GO INTO THAT -- I 02:19 DON'T WANT HER TO BECOME A HOOD ORNAMENT. 02:22 MADELINE. >> YES. 02:23 >> WHERE ARE YOU FROM? >> I'M FROM FLORIDA, BUT I GO TO 02:27 SCHOOL IN ALABAMA. >> HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN 02:30 WORKING WITH NAPS. >> ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF, TWO 02:34 YEARS. >> PRAISE THE LORD. 02:35 NOW LET US HEAR THIS STORY. >> JADE BUILT [ INAUDIBLE ] AND 02:47 HOW WE MED JADE WAS THROUGH HER MOTHER. 02:52 THAT WAS DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT WE HAD -- THERE WAS A -- A 02:56 GREAT BOND WITH HER MOTHER, AND -- HER MOM WAS REALLY 03:01 LOOKING FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT. SHE WANTED HER TO, YOU KNOW, 03:05 EXPERIENCE EDUCATION FOR WHAT IT COULD REALY BE. 03:07 >> UH-HUH. >> AND I KNOW JADE SHE ALSO 03:10 SHARES THE STORY -- MAYBE YOU CAN SHARE IT ABOUT WHY YOUR MOM 03:16 DECIDED TO SEND YOU TO NALA. >> BECAUSE AT MY OLD SCHOOL IT 03:23 WAS VERY BAD. BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE CUSSING AND 03:27 EVERYTHING. SO MY MOM THOUGHT ABOUT THIS 03:29 SCHOOL NAMED NALA, SO SHE WANTED ME TO GO THERE TO LEARN MORE 03:35 ABOUT JESUS. >> AMEN. 03:38 AMEN. >> MANY OF THE PARENTS THAT SEND 03:40 THEIR CHILDREN THERE, THEY ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT 03:43 THAT OUR CONVENTIONAL SCHOOLS ARE NOT OFFERING. 03:46 >> UH-HUH. >> AND GOD HAS BEEN SO GOOD TO 03:49 BE ABLE TO BLESS US. GOD HAS BEEN SO GOOD WHERE WE 03:53 SEE A DRAMATIC CHANGE IN THESE CHILDREN, AND THE PARENTS SEE IT 03:56 AS WELL, SO I MEAN WHAT A TRUE BLESSING. 03:59 WITHOUT JADE AND SO MANY OF OUR ORE STUDENTS. 04:02 >> MY UNDERSTANDING IS WHILE YOU WERE IN SCHOOL, YOU WERE 04:06 IMPRESSED TO START A SCHOOL. >> YES. 04:08 >> HAVE YOU FINISHED SCHOOL? >> YES, I HAVE. 04:12 >> AND YOUR DEGREE IS IN? >> EDUCATION. 04:21 >> WHAT DROVE YOU? >> THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS. 04:24 FIRST I STARTED OFF IN COLLEGE AS A BIOLOGY MAJOR, AND I 04:29 ACTUALLY TOOK A YEAR OFF TO DO MISSION WORK WITH NAPS, WHICH 04:32 YOU'LL BE HEARING ABOUT YOD. >> UH-HUH. 04:36 >> AND WHEN I TOOK OFF THAT YEAR, I -- I KNEW THERE WAS 04:39 SOMETHING THAT WAS DIFFERENT THAT I -- I DIDN'T WANT TO 04:43 PRACTICE MEDICINE. I WANTED TO DO SOMETHING 04:46 DIFFERENT, AND ONE OF THOSE PASSIONS WAS TEACHING, SO I 04:50 ENDED UP SWITCHING MY MAJOR MY SOPHOMORE YEAR. 04:54 >> TEACHING ISSAL KAING. >> YES, IT IS. 04:57 I BELIEVE THAT. SO MY SOPHOMORE YEAR I STARTED 05:01 MY EDUCATION CLASSES, AND TO MY SURPRISE, YOU KNOW, I LEARNED A 05:04 TON OF THINGS -- I WAS SUPER INSPIRED BY MANY OF MY TEACHERS, 05:09 AND THEN AT THE SAME TIME, I WS ALMOST DISCOURAGED BECAUSE I 05:13 FELT LIKE SOME OF THE SKILLS WE WERE LEARNING, YOU KNOW, I 05:17 LOOKED AT IT, AND I SAID WHAT REAL IMPACT CAN I MAKE IN A 05:22 CHILD'S LIFE, BASED OFF OF, YOU KNOW, DOING THIS AND THAT AND 05:25 THAT, AND SOME OF THOSE THINGS WERE -- ONE THING I REALLY FELT 05:30 IS -- OKAY, WHEN I WAS DOING MY STUDENT TEACHING, FOR EXAMPLE, 05:34 WE WERE IN THE HUNTSVILLE CITY PUBLIC SYSTEM, AND I REMEMBER 05:39 THINKING, MAN, THERE'S SO MANY KIDS AT THIS SCHOOL WHO HAVE 05:43 DEEPER ISSUES, BUT BECAUSE YOU ARE RESTRAINED FROM SAYING THIS 05:47 AND DOING THAT AND DOING THAT, YOU CAN NEVER OFFER THEM THE 05:52 REAL HELP THAT THEY NEED. AND THAT WAS THE POINT OF 05:56 DISCOURAGEMENT THAT I REALLY FELT AS I SAT IN MY COLLEGE 05:59 CLASSES, THINKING WHAT REAL AND TRUE IMPACT CAN I MAKE? 06:02 AND ONE THING THAT REALLY STOOD OUT TO ME -- IN ONE CLASS WE 06:05 WERE STUDYING A TON OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE DONE EDUCATIONAL REFORM 06:10 IN AMERICA, PEOPLE LIKE JEFFERY CANADA, AND RON CLARK, BUT THE 06:16 ONE THING THAT STOOD OUT TO ME WAS THE RELATIONSHIP THAT THESE 06:20 INDIVIDUALS WERE FORMING WITH THE CHILDREN, THE PARENTS AND 06:23 OVERALL THE COMMUNITY. AND TO ME SOMETHING REALLY STOOD 06:28 OUT; THAT THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAT WE'RE 06:31 DOING IN OUR EDUCATION. THERE'S NO RELATIONSHIP. 06:34 I MEAN YOU GO TO THE PUBLIC SYSTEM, YOU ARE VERY RIGID 06:38 ON -- YOU SEE A STUDENT CRYING, YOU DONE WANT TO ASK THEM 06:42 EVERYTHING, BECAUSE IF YOU ASK THEM, NOW YOU ARE LIABLE, 06:44 OR -- IF -- IF SOMETHING HAPPENED, YOU KNOW, DON'T EVEN 06:48 TALK TO THEM, OR DON'T EVEN TRY TO COMFORT THEM, YOU DON'T WANT 06:52 TO BE CAUGHT FOR SAYING THIS, OR DOING THIS, AND THERE'S SO MANY 06:57 RESTRANTHS ON THE REAL IMPACT YOU CAN MAKE ON A CHILD'S LIFE. 07:00 >> UH-HUH. >> SO THOSE WERE SOME OF THE 07:04 THINGS THAT REALLY INSPIRED ME TO SAY NO, SOMETHING HAS TO BE 07:08 DIFFERENT. SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE. 07:10 WE HAVE TO FORM SCHOOLS THAT ARE CREATING FUNCTIONAL ADULTS, 07:15 FUNCTIONAL CITIZENS. >> LET ME PUSH YOU ALONG JUST A 07:18 LITTLE BIT, BECAUSE IT'S ONE THING TO HAVE THE BURDEN AND SEE 07:22 THE PROBLEM, IT'S ANOTHER THING TOED A DRESS AND READDRESS THE 07:26 PROBLEM. SO OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING MOVED YOU 07:28 FROM SOMETHING IS WRONG TO I WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING RIGHT. 07:31 >> YES. >> WALK ME THROUGH THAT. 07:34 >> YES. WE WERE WORKING IN THE SOUTH, 07:37 OKAY. YOU HAVE BEEN HEARING ABOUT THE 07:39 SOUTHERN WORK, SPECIFICALLY A CITY CALLED AKRON. 07:43 AND AKRON ACTUALLY RECENTLY -- ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO, 07:47 THEIR PUBLIC SCHOOL CLOSED BECAUSE IT WAS FAILING AND 07:51 OBVIOUSLY BECAUSE OF FUNDING, WHICH IS COMMON IN THAT AREA. 07:55 WHEN I WAS DOING TUTORING AT THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB, I MEAN, IT 08:01 WAS SHOCKING. I WAS LIKE, IN AMERICA. 08:06 AND THERE WERE 12TH GRADERS GRADUATING FROM HIGH SCHOOL THAT 08:10 COULDN'T READ. I WAS TUTORING A 12 YEAR OLD IN 08:14 THE 6TH GRADE, AND SHE COULDN'T READ EITHER. 08:17 AND IT WAS NORMAL. YOU ASK THEM SIMPLE MATH 08:21 PROBLEMS LIKE MULTIPLICATION, AND THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE IN 08:25 HIGH SCHOOL AND THEY CAN'T EVEN REGURGITATE TWO PLUS TWO. 08:31 AND ON TOP OF THAT THERE WERE SO MANY OTHER ISSUES GOING ON. 08:35 IN THAT YOUNG LADY THAT I WAS WORKING WITH TUTORING HER IN 08:40 READING, ABOUT TWO MONTHS LATER, THE MOTHER CALLS ME AND SHE SAID 08:45 YOU NEED TO TALK TO MY BABY, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER DAY HER 08:49 BOYFRIEND WHO IS 18 YEARS OLD, THIS YOUNG LADY IS 12, HAD RAPED 08:54 HER. AND SHE SAID I'M GOING TO BUST 08:57 THE WINDOWS OFF OF HIS CAR, BUT EVEN FOR THE MOTHER -- SHE 09:02 DIDN'T REPORT IT. HE IS STILL HANGING AROUND 09:04 THERE. YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN? 09:06 I MEAN THERE'S JUST A TON -- >> SOME DEEP SOCIAL STUFF GOING 09:11 ON. >> THERE REALLY IS. 09:12 AND I THINK THAT WAS A HUGE TURNING POINT WHERE I WAS LIKE, 09:15 WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING. IF WE NEED TO OPEN UP A SCHOOL 09:18 FOR THE COMMUNITY HERE, WE NEED TO DO IT. 09:21 >> SO WHAT DID YOU DO? >> SO THEN AFTERWARDS, 09:25 DR. MARLO, SHE ACTUALLY CAME UP TO ME AND ANOTHER YOUNG LADY, 09:29 AND SHE SAID I HAVE BEEN HAVING A DREAM. 09:31 WE NEED TO START A SCHOOL. I SAID YES, LET'S DO IT! 09:36 AND IMMEDIATELY RIGHT AFTER THAT, I STARTED CALLING AROUND, 09:42 DOING RESEARCH ON THE STATE OF ALABAMA HOW TO OPEN UP A PRIVATE 09:47 SCHOOL, AND I REMEMBER TELLING ONE OF MY PROFESSORS, SHE WAS 09:51 LIKE, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THIS? 09:53 YOU ARE STILL IN COLLEGE. AND I WAS LIKE, YEAH, OF COURSE. 09:57 THESE KIDS NEED US. WE DID THE RESEARCH I PRESENTED 10:02 IT TO THE BOARD. AND ONE OF THE BOARD MEMBERS 10:04 SAID THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE, BUT WE JUST PUSHED FORWARD EVERYONE 10:08 WITH ANY CONTROVERSIES THAT MAY HAVE AROSE FROM THAT PROJECT AND 10:12 WE JUST MOVED FORWARD, AND THE LORD AND -- HE SUPER OPENED UP 10:18 THE DOORS, AND WE STARTED OUR FIRST YEAR ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO. 10:22 WE'RE GOING ON OUR THIRD YEAR RIGHT NOW. 10:24 >> HOW BIG IS THE SCHOOL? >> WHEN WE FIRST STARTED OFF IT 10:29 WAS FIVE STUDENTS, AND NOW WE'RE UP TO TEN. 10:31 >> PRAISE THE LORD. >> YEAH. 10:34 >> AND THE SCHOOL IS LOCATED WHERE? 10:36 >> IN SAWYER, ALABAMA. >> AND YOU ARE TEACHING? 10:40 >> YES. >> ARE YOU THE ONLY TEACHING? 10:43 >> NO, WE HAVE TWO TEACHERS. I PRAISE THE LORD NOW HAVE TIME 10:47 TO DO ADMINISTRATIVE WORK, SO THAT'S MY MAIN FOCUS RIGHT NOW, 10:52 ALSO WE -- OUR CURRICULUM IS PRETTY EXTENSIVE. 10:56 THESE KIDS ARE LEARNING A TON. LIKE MAYBE JADE CAN SHARE. 11:00 WHAT ARE SOME OF THE SUBJECTS YOU ARE LEARNING AT SCHOOL RIGHT 11:04 NOW. >> ART, MUSIC, MATH, READING, 11:07 AND SCIENCE. >> UH-HUH. 11:10 AND THEN IN ADDITION TO THE REGULAR CORE SUBJECTS, THEY ARE 11:14 ALSO LEARNING PRACTICAL SKILLS, SO WHAT ARE SOME OF THOSE 11:19 THINGS? >> CROCHET AND [ INAUDIBLE ] 11:23 GARDENING. >> UH-HUH. 11:24 ABSOLUTELY. THEY ARE LEARNING CROCHETING 11:27 BREAD MAKING, SQUARE FOOT GARDENING. 11:30 THEY RECENTLY GOT CHICKENS. LET'S SEE WHAT ELSE. 11:38 ALSO THEY ARE GOING TO BE LEARNING THE INTRODUCTORY 11:42 COURSES TO SEWING. WE WANT TO DO ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, 11:47 WHERE THEY ARE WORKING WITH GOATS AND COWS. 11:50 IT'S MAKING EDUCATION PRACTICAL. >> PRAISE THE LORD. 11:55 >> IMAGINE CONVERTING UNITS LIKE POUNDS TO OUNCES OR DIFFERENT -THINGS LIKE THAT, THEY ARE 12:01 ACTUALLY APPLYING IT IN THEIR CLASSES NFRM WHEN THEY ARE DOING 12:04 BREAD MAKING THEY ARE MULTIPLYING, SO IT'S ADDING MORE 12:12 PRACTICALITY TO THEIR EDUCATION. >> EACH OF THESE STORIES ARE SO 12:17 COMPELLING. BUT I KNOW YOU HAVE GOT SOME 12:20 THINGS YOU WANT TO COVER. >> YES, I'M -- I'M LOOKING AT 12:24 KRISTEN BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH MORE TOO. 12:26 BECAUSE THE SCHOOL IS A SCHOOL OF SERVICE. 12:28 ONE THING WE ARE READING ABOUT IS IF -- THE WHOLE PURPOSE ON 12:33 WHICH WE WERE CREATED WAS TO SERVE. 12:35 SO THESE STUDENTS ARE ABLE TO SERVE THE VERY COMMUNITY THAT 12:39 THEY WORK IN. >> YEAH. 12:41 YEAH. >> AND EVEN WHEN IT COMES TO, 12:43 LIKE OUR -- WHEN IT COMES TO THIS SCHOOL, THIS IS'T JUST 12:47 SOMETHING THAT WE DO HERE IN THE STATES, BUT WE ACTUALLY NALA WAS 12:55 NOT OUR FIRST SCHOOL.-SO YOU CAN TALK ABOUT THAT JUST A LITTLE BIT. 12:59 >> YES, ABSOLUTELY. ONE OF THE FIRST SCHOOLS THAT WE 13:04 STARTED WAS ON AN INTERNATIONAL MISSION IN INDIA. 13:07 AND I MEAN, GOD HAS TRULY BLESSED THIS SCHOOL. 13:11 >> WOW. >> RECENTLY A GROUP -- WE WENT 13:14 THERE TO ACTUALLY GO CHECK ON THE SCHOOL, AND -- AND MAKE SURE 13:18 EVERYTHING WAS TOGETHER, AND I MEAN, THE ENROLLMENT HAS -- HAS 13:23 DOUBLED. >> YEAH, AND NOT ONLY THAT, BUT 13:25 THE VERY KIDS THAT ORIGINALLY WE WENT -- WE WENT TO INDIA IN 13:30 2005. IT WAS ON THAT MISSION. 13:32 THE KIDS THAT WE BAPTIZED IN 2005, ARE NOW THE VERY ONES 13:37 RUNNING THE SCHOOL, AND IT'S AN AMAZING -- AMAZING OPPORTUNITY, 13:40 BECAUSE WHAT YOU MAY NOT REALIZE IS IN INDIA, WITH THE AFRICAN 13:46 INDIANS, THEY WERE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE CAST SYSTEM -- 13:49 >> YES. >> SO THEY WEREN'T ALLOWED TO GO 13:51 TO SCHOOL. THEY WSH ALLOWED TO READ. 13:53 AND ONE OF THE BIG THINGS WITH ELLEN WHITE IS HOW CAN YOU READ 13:58 THE BIBLE IF YOU ARE NOT TAUGHT TO READ? 14:02 AND SO NOW THESE KIDS HAVE A SCHOOL WHERE THEY CAN LEARN. 14:06 BUT I REALLY WANT -- I WANT EVERYBODY TO REALIZE WHAT TYPE 14:10 OF MISSIONS NAPS GOES ON, BECAUSE I HAD SEEN A LOT OF 14:14 DIFFERENT MISSION TRIPS, YOU KNOW, BUT NAPS IS A BIT 14:17 DIFFERENT, SO I'M WONDERING IF MY HUSBAND, IF YOU CAN TELL US A 14:22 BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE SETTINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS 14:25 THAT WE TRAVEL ON. >> OKAY. 14:28 FOR ME, I ALWAYS LOVE TO TELL THINGS IN A STORY. 14:32 AND THIS ONE STORY IS TALKING ABOUT AN OX CART. 14:35 AND WHENEVER WE GO TO THESE AREAS, WE GO TO RURAL AREAS 14:40 WHERE WE TRY TO DO FRONTIER MISSION. 14:42 SO SOMETIMES YOU TAKE THE PLANE TO GET THERE, BUT THEN THAT 14:46 PLANE -- YOU THEN HAVE A TRUCK THEN THAT TRUCK MAY TURN INTO A 14:50 TWO-FOOT OR END UP IN A CANOE. SO GETTING SUPPLIES TO THESE 15:01 AREAS CAN SOMETIMES TO BE A HINDRANCE. 15:04 BUT GOD ALWAYS BLESSES. IN GUYANA WE WERE BUILDING A 15:09 CHURCH. AND WE ONLY HAD A SHORT AMOUNT 15:11 OF TIME, BUT WE NEEDED TO GET ALL OF THE SUPPLIES BROUGHT IN. 15:15 SO THEY HAD AN OX CART THAT WOULD BRING THE SUPPLIES IN. 15:20 BUT THE OX STARTED TO GET TIRED, AND OF COURSE, YOU HAVE TO LET 15:24 THE ANIMALS WEST. SO WE SAID IF WE HAVE TO 15:28 CONTINUOUSLY WAIT FOR THESE OX TO REST, IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK. 15:32 SO WE HITCHED OURSELVES TO THE TRAILERS, AND YOU ARE SEEING THE-GUYS CARRYING THE SUPPLIES BACK 15:39 AND FORTH. AND THE LORD JUST BLESSED ON 15:41 THAT MISSION, BECAUSE WE WERE ABLE TO PUT OUR TRUST IN HIM. 15:44 BUT THEN IT DOESN'T STOP THERE. WE ALSO BELIEVE THAT GOD LEADS, 15:49 LIKE AS YOU GET INVOLVED IN MINISTRY, HIS PROVIDENCE 15:52 STANDS -- STANDS OUT. WHAT YOU ARE SEEING RIGHT 15:55 NOW -- THIS IS A BABY WHO WE INTERACTED WITH, AND THIS BABY 16:01 WAS MALL NOURISHED, DEHYDRATED. WHEN WE WERE BACK IN THE 16:07 UNITED STATES, DR. PAUL LOOKED AT THE THIS BOTTLE AND SAID MAKE 16:12 SURE WE PACK THIS. BUT THEN WE WERE SITTING THERE 16:15 WORKING WITH THE BABY, AND WE REMEMBERED, HEY, DID WE PACK 16:18 THAT BOTTLE? AND SO THE YOUNG MAN YOU SAW, 16:22 TYLER THERE, WENT AND GRABBED THE BOTTLE, AND WAS ABLE TO 16:26 PROVIDE IT TO THE BABY, AND NOW THE BABY IS WELL NOURISHED. 16:30 AND THESE ARE JUST STORIES FROM THE MISSION FIELD THAT I LOVE. 16:33 >> YEAH. YEAH. 16:35 PRAISE THE LORD. >> AND ONE OF THE MAIN FOCUSES, 16:38 WHEN WE GO TO THESE INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS, WE WANT 16:41 TO GO TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER HEARD ABOUT JESUS, AND WE 16:48 ACTUALLY -- AFTER GOING -- THERE'S -- A LOT OF THE 16:50 PLACES WE GO. THERE IS NO SEVENTH-DAY 16:54 ADVENTIST CHURCH, NOT JUST IN THAT AREA, BUT IN THE 16:58 SURROUNDING AREAS. THEY HAVE NO RUNNING WATER. 17:01 NO ELECTRICITY, THE MISSION -- THE MISSION THAT 17:04 REALLY GOT ME EXCITED ABOUT NAPS WAS A MISSION THAT WE TOOK TO 17:08 SUDAN. >> UH-HUH. 17:10 >> AND THIS WAS A MISSION THAT WE HAVE A VIDEO. 17:14 THIS WAS A MISSION WHERE -- THIS IS ACTUALLY IN THE PLANE 17:18 LANDING. OKAY. 17:19 I WANT YOU TO REALIZE THAT WHILE THE PLANE WAS LANDING, 17:23 THE -- THE WHOLE FRONT PART OF THE PLANE LIKE FELL DOWN SO THE 17:27 GUY HAD TO PULL OUT A MAP TO FIND THE LANDING SCRIP, SO AS 17:31 YOU LOOK, THIS IS THE PILOT, YOU KNOW, TRYING HI BEST TO LAND. 17:36 AND AS THE PLANE HITS, ONE OF THE TIRES ACTUALLY BLOWS. 17:40 >> OH, MY SOUL.-p>> AND YOU LOOK LIKE -- YOU HAVE TO THINK TO YOURSELF -- HOW MUCH 17:46 DOES GOD VALUE A SOUL? WHAT IS THE VALUE OF A SOUL. 17:50 SEE IN SUDAN, THE ISSUE WAS -- THEY WERE IN THE MIDST OF 17:53 A CIVIL WAR. >> OH, YEAH. 17:56 >> AND THERE ARE SO MANY CHILDREN WHO WERE STARVING, THEY 18:00 WOULD RUN AFTER EVEN THE PLANES WHEN THEY CAME, THEY WOULD RUN 18:04 HOPING IT WOULD BE A PLANE THAT WOULD DROP FOOD, BUT INSTEAD OF 18:07 FOOD, THE PLANES WOULD MANY TIMES DROP BOMBS SO YOU HAVE 18:11 THESE CHILDREN WHO ARE MALNOURISHED. 18:14 MANY TIMES THEY ARE MISSING LIMBS OR STRUGGLING, AND GOD 18:18 SENT US TO THEM, YOU KNOW? >> UH-HUH. 18:21 >> AND EVEN GETTING IN, THAT'S A WHOLE OTHER TESTIMONY. 18:24 WE ARE HAVING TO CUT OUT SO MANY TESTIMONIES, BUT -- BUT WHEN WE 18:28 GOT IN, THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO -- THEY WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT 18:32 JESUS, EVEN THERE WAS A -- THERE WAS A VILLAGE WHERE WE ENDED UP 18:36 WORKING -- WE ENDED UP WORKING IN THE VILLAGE. 18:39 THE ENTIRE VILLAGE ENDS UP GETTING BAPTIZED. 18:42 >> OH, PRAISE GOD. >> AND IT WAS JUST REALLY 18:46 POWERFUL, AND YOU ARE GOING TO GET TO SEE MORE. 18:48 ♪ ♪ ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING 18:59 IN THE COLD ♪ ♪ NO DIRECTION, NO PLACE TO CALL 19:02 THEIR OWN ♪ ♪ LACKING PROPER SHELTER ♪ 19:11 ♪ PAIN IS ALL THEY SEE ♪ ♪ YES, IT HUMBLES ME 19:17 COMPLETELY ♪ ♪ JUST TO KNOW THAT COULD HAVE 19:20 BEEN ME ♪ ♪ THAT COULD HAVE BEEN ME ♪ 19:23 >> WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT SOUTH SUDAN IN PARTICULAR, THEY GOT 19:27 KIND OF LEFT HOLDING THE BAG WHEN THE COUNTRY SPLIT, THEY 19:32 GOT, I THINK, THE WORST END OF THAT DEAL, SO FIRST OF ALL FOR 19:36 YOU TO SELECT TO GO THERE, THAT'S MAJOR. 19:38 THAT'S A FAITH TRIP. AND OBVIOUSLY, YOU DID VERY, 19:42 VERY, VERY GOOD WORK. MADELINE, MY LADY, YOU ARE VERY 19:46 QUIET BACK THERE. I KNOW YOU HAVE GOT SOMETHING TO 19:50 SAY. YOU HAVE BEEN WITH NAPS HOW 19:53 LONG? >> ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF. 19:54 >> HOW MANY OF THESE ADVENTURES DARE I KAY HAVE YOU BEEN ON? 19:58 >> WELL, I HAVE BEEN ON QUITE A FEW MISSIONS IN THE U.S. 20:02 I CAN'T EVEN GIVE YOU A NUMBER. JUST -- THERE ARE TOO MANY. 20:07 BUT OVERSEAS, SOME THAT YOU HAVE SEEN JUST NOW. 20:12 I HAVE BEEN TO ONE OVERSEAS MISSION SO FAR, AND THAT WAS 20:17 ETHIOPIA, ACTUALLY, THIS PAST SUMMER, AND THAT WAS SUCH A HUGE 20:24 BLESSING AS YOU MAY ALREADY KNOW, WHEN WE GO TO DIFFERENT 20:28 COUNTRIES, WE DO CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS, WHERE WE'RE ABLE TO 20:30 TEACH THE CHILDREN THE LOVE OF GOD SIMILAR TO THE SCHOOL, AND 20:33 THEN WE'RE ALSO ABLE TO DO FEEDING PROGRAMS, AND FEED THE 20:37 CHILDREN, AND JUST EVEN ADULTS THAT ARE STARVING AS WELL -- 20:42 >> UH-HUH. >> -- AND ALSO DO SOME MEDICAL 20:48 RELIEF. WE'RE ABLE TO BRING A MEDICAL 20:50 TEAM THERE TO HELP OUT WITH THAT. 20:52 AND THERE'S ACTUALLY A TESTIMONY OF ONE OF THE MEDICAL -- ONE OF 20:59 THE MEDICAL INTERACTIONS THAT WE HAD IN ETHIOPIA, AND IT'S 21:06 ACTUALLY OF A MAN WHO ACTUALLY CAME AND PASSED OVER THREE 21:10 RIVERS JUST TO GET TO WHERE WE WERE. 21:13 AND HE WAS COMPLAINING OF LEG PAIN. 21:16 AND WE CAME, AND AFTER FURTHER INVESTIGATION, WE REALIZED THAT 21:21 HE HAD SOME OF THE FLESH IN HIS LEG WAS ROTTING, AND THAT WAS 21:26 QUICKLY TAKEN CARE OF WHERE CHARCOAL TREATMENTS. 21:30 AND AFTER BEING TREATED, WE WERE ALSO ABLE TO GIVE HIM BIBLE 21:34 STUDIES, AND HE WAS ABLE TO ACCEPT THE TRUTH, AND HE WAS ONE 21:38 OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE BAPTIZED, AND NOW HE IS THE HEAD OF THE 21:42 CHURCH THERE THAT WAS STARTED AS A RESULT. 21:44 >> OH, PRAISE THE LORD. >> AND ANOTHER THING THAT NAPS 21:48 DOES WHEN WE GO TO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES IS WE LIKE TO TRAIN 21:52 THE YOUTH. SIMILAR TO WHAT I RECEIVED HERE 21:54 IN AMERICA, WHERE I WAS TRAINED TO GO OUT AND SHARE THE GOSPEL. 21:59 WE DO THE SAME THING IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, SO WE'RE 22:03 ABLE TO GRAB QUITE A FEW YOUTH THAT WERE ALREADY IN THE CHURCH, 22:08 BUT WERE REALLY WANTING TO FIND PURPOSE. 22:11 AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO KIND OF STEER THEM IN THE RIGHT 22:15 DIRECTION, AND AS A RESULT, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE ABLE TO GO ON 22:18 MISSIONS WITH US. WE SHOWED THEM HOW TO SHARE THE 22:21 GOSPEL. HOW TO BE ABLE TO REACH PEOPLE 22:23 WHERE THEY ARE. AND NOW THEY ARE SO ON FIRE FOR 22:27 CHRIST. IF YOU -- THERE'S ACTUALLY 22:29 PICTURES OF THEM HAVING THEIR OWN CAR WASH TO RAISE MONEY FOR 22:34 MISSIONS TO GO OUT IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY AND BE ABLE TO SHARE 22:39 THAT, AND THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BAPTIZE -- I BELIEVE THEY HAVE 22:43 HAD SEVERAL BAPTISM SINCE WE LAST LEFT ETHIOPIA. 22:47 IT'S INSPIRING TO ME, BECAUSE I KNOW I HAVE BEEN A PART OF NAPS 22:51 FOR QUITE A WHILE, AND THEY HAVE ONLY BEEN A PART FOR A SHORT 22:56 TIME. BUT TO SEE THEM INFIRE REIGNITES 23:01 MY FIRE FOR WORKING FOR CHRIST. >> I'M CONSTANTLY IMPRESSED OF 23:09 HOW THE LORD TURNS YOUR WORK IN BAPTISMS. 23:13 GOD HONORS YOUR WORK, AND SOULS COME TO THE KINGDOM, AND JOIN 23:20 THE ADVENTIST CHURCH. >> YEAH, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY 23:22 RIGHT. BUT I THINK WHAT IT IS -- WE 23:25 WERE READING THIS MORNING, ACTUALLY, HOW ANGELS ARE WAITING 23:29 FOR US TO JUST RISE UP AND GO. >> UH-HUH. 23:33 >> SO THERE ARE PEOPLE, JUST LIKE YOU SAW IN THE EARLIER 23:37 PART, THE CARPENTER FAMILY WAS PRAYING, LORD, WE CAN'T DO THIS 23:41 ON OUR OWN, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE RUN INTO IN A LOT OF 23:46 PLACES. WHEN WE WERE IN ZAMBIA, I'M 23:49 GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE AIDS SITUATION JUST A BIT. 23:52 AND WE ACTUALLY HAVE A PICTURE FROM ONE OF THE AIDS MARCHES 23:57 THAT WE DID. WHEN WE WERE IN ZAMBIA, THIS WAS 24:01 MY SECOND MISSION THAT I HAD GONE ON. 24:03 AND I REMEMBER WE CAME TO THIS PLACE, AS FAR AS YOU COULD LOOK, 24:08 FROM EVERY SINGLE DIRECTION, THERE WERE PEOPLE EITHER -- THEY 24:12 HAD SEPARATED THE CEMETERY INTO SECTIONS. 24:15 ONE FOR JUST LIKE THE INFANTS. ONE OF THE CHILDREN. 24:20 ONE FOR THE ADULTS, BECAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY PEOPLE DYING 24:26 NEEDLESSLY FROM THE AIDE SITUATION. 24:27 >> UH-HUH? >> AND YOU JUST SAW ONE OF THE 24:32 HIGHEST-PAYING JOBS WAS THE GRAVE-DIGGING BUSINESS. 24:34 AND I REMEMBER LOOKING, AND YOU WOULD SEE MOTHERS CRYING OVER 24:37 THEIR CHILDREN WHO ARE DYING. AND INSTEAD OF JUST GOING AND 24:42 SAYING LET'S HAVE A BIBLE STUDY, WHAT IF -- LIKE CHRIST, WE SEE 24:48 THE SITUATION, AND LET'S DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, AND I 24:53 WAS -- NAPS DID MARCHES GIVING MORE AWARENESS TO THE SITUATION. 24:57 HE ACTUALLY -- WE VISITED MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAD AIDS, AND 25:02 AS A RESULT, ONE OF THE COMMERCIALS THEY STARTED PLAYING 25:06 IN ZAMBIA FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR, SHOWED US -- BECAUSE THERE WAS A 25:11 SITUATION KIND OF LIKE WITH LEPROSY. 25:15 NOBODY WANTED TO TOUCH PEOPLE WITH AIDS, BUT THEN YOU HAVE A 25:19 VIDEO WITH NAPS STUDENTS HUGGING THESE PEOPLE -- THESE CHILDREN 25:22 WITH AIDS WHO ARE DYING, AND IT CHANGED THE WHOLE LOOK IN AN 25:28 ENTIRE COUNTRY OF THE AIDS SITUATION, AND WE WERE EVEN ABLE 25:32 TO GO TO OTHER COUNTRIES AND HELP WITH THAT AS WELL. 25:36 >> AMEN. >> SO I THINK IT'S REALLY 25:38 MEETING THE NEEDS EVEN WITH THE FEEDING PROGRAM. 25:43 I HAVE TESTIMONY FOR DAYS. MR. ZIMBABWE THERE WAS A 25:51 SITUATION WHERE THERE WAS A CHOLERA OUTBREAK. 25:55 AND CHOLERA, YOU DON'T HAVE TO DIE IF YOU JUST GET THE 25:58 MEDICATION, BUT PEOPLE DID NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THE MEDICATION. 26:02 AND I REMEMBER DR. MARLO COMING TO THE TEAM, AND HE WAS LIKE WE 26:07 CAN GET THIS MEDICATION, AND WE CAN SAVE THE LIVES OF THOUSANDS 26:11 IF NOT MORE. >> YEAH. 26:13 >> AND WE WENT TO ZIMBABWE, AND AS WE -- AS WE GOT TO ZIMBABWE, 26:19 IT'S A POWERFUL TESTIMONY ABOUT HOW THE DEVIL TRIED TO STOP US 26:25 AND DISCOURAGE, BUT WHEN GOD IS FOR YOU, NO ONE CAN BE AGAINST 26:30 YOU. >> AMEN. 26:30 >> YEAH, SO IF YOU COULD SHARE ABOUT THIS TRUCK SITUATION. 26:34 >> OF COURSE. OF COURSE. 26:35 AS I SAID, I LOVE TELLING STORIES. 26:38 WE'RE IN A COVERED TRUCK, AND WE WERE DRIVING, AND IT'S ON A 26:43 RURAL ROAD, AND WE GET PULLED OVER BY THE POLICE, AND SO, YOU 26:46 KNOW, THE POLICE OFFICER IS TALKING TO THE DRIVER. 26:48 WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IS BEING SAID. 26:51 WE'RE JUST SITTING IN THE BACK, AND THEN WE REALIZE THE DRIVE IS 26:54 NOW GETTING IN THE BACK WITH US, AND NOW THE TRUCK IS MOVING. 26:57 SOMETHING IS GOING WRONG. SO WE FIND OUT THAT .APPARENTLY 27:03 HE HAD A SUSPENDED LICENSE. THE PEOPLE WAS BEING IMPOUNDED. 27:07 WE WERE GOING TO JAIL. [ LAUGHTER ] 27:10 >> BUT PRAISE THE LORD, WE HAVE -- WE HAVE SOMEONE ON HIGH 27:12 WHO IS LISTENING TO US. SO WE BEGAN TO PRAY, AND WE'RE 27:17 PRAYING, CRYING OUT TO THE LORD. THE TRUCK STOPS. 27:21 THE POLICE OFFICER GETS OUT COMES AROUND TO THE BACK AND 27:24 STARTS LOOKING AT US, INTENTLY SEARCHING FOR SOMEONE. 27:28 AND HE SAYS WHO HAS BEEN PRAYING? 27:30 GOD HAS TOUCHED MY HEART, AND HE TOLD ME TO LET YOU ALL GO. 27:34 SO WE GOES BACK ABOUT HIS WAY, AND WE'RE ABLE TO CONTINUE. 27:38 AND SO MANY LIVES WERE ABLE TO BE SAVED BECAUSE THE LORD WORKED 27:41 IT OUT. >> AMEN. 27:42 WHAT A FABULOUS STORY. [ LAUGHTER ] 27:45 >> SO YOIND UP -- YOU HAVE THESE SITUATIONS, PEOPLE DYING OF 27:48 EYEDS, HELP THEM WITH THAT SITUATION. 27:51 YOU HAVE PEOPLE DYING OF ILLNESS -- YOU KNOW, CHOLERA. 27:57 HELP THEM. AND WE HAVE A PICTURE. 27:59 AND I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT THIS PICTURE, AND LOOK AT THE 28:04 CHIEL -- THE CHILD -- CHILDREN ARE STARVING, SO BEING ABLE TO 28:09 FEED -- THIS WAS ZAMBIA. THERE WAS A HORRIBLE FAMINE, 28:15 THAT KIDS HADN'T EATEN A GOOD MEAL IN WEEKS, AND JUST WAITING 28:20 TO DIE. THEY WOULD PICK THE LITTLE 28:23 BERRIES OFF OF THE PLANTS TRYING TO GET NUTRITION. 28:28 WE COME, AND WE WERE ABLE TO START A FEEDING PROGRAM, AND 28:32 EVERY SINGLE DAY GIVE THEM A MEAL. 28:34 AND JUST STEPPING IN, THE PEOPLE -- THEY ARE NOT LIKE, WE 28:38 DON'T BELIEVE IN YOU. THEY SAY, WHY DID YOU COME IN 28:41 TELL ME ABOUT THE JESUS YOU SERVE. 28:44 >> YES. >> AND EVEN WHEN YOU LISTEN TO 28:47 LAURA'S TESTIMONY, SHE WAS LIKE, THAT LOVE -- IT'S THE LOVE. 28:51 IT'S NOTHING WE REALLY DO. >> YEAH. 28:53 >> BUT IT'S JUST LIKE THE SAME LOVE THAT SOMEONE SHOWED FOR ME, 28:59 LET ME SHOW FOR SOMEONE ELSE. AND JUST LIKE MARLO SAYS, AND 29:04 THE BIBLE SAYS, AND ELLEN WHITE SAYS, WHEN YOU SAVE OTHERS, YOU 29:09 ARE REALY SAVING YOURSELVES. THIS IS GIVING US LIFE. 29:13 AND THE CRAZY THING IS, I THINK ABOUT HOW IT ALL STARTED. 29:20 WE EACH HAVE OUR DIFFERENT STORIES OF HOW WE JOIND NAPS. 29:23 SO I WANT TO GIVE PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY JUST TO SHARE LIKE 29:27 HOW YOU GOT STARTED, AND WHAT YOU FIND OUT IS SOMETIMES IT IS 29:31 A BIT CONNECTED. SO MAYBE WE CAN START WITH 29:38 MADELINE. YOU CAN SHARE JUST HOW -- HOW 29:39 DID YOU GET STARTED? BECAUSE YOU STARTED YOUR 29:43 FRESHMAN YEAR, BUT AT FIRST YOU WEREN'T REALLY IN NAPS. 29:47 >> YES, I WAS IN COLLEGE. FIRST OFF I'M A [ INAUDIBLE ] 29:58 MAJOR. BUT I STARTED COLLEGE -- 30:00 >> WHERE ARE YOU FROM, MADELINE? >> FROM FLORIDA. 30:03 >> YOU SAID FLORIDA. ADVENTIST FAMILY? 30:06 >> NOT EXACTLY. MY MOTHER IS ADVENTIST, MY 30:10 FATHER ISN'T. BUT I GREW UP IN ADVENTIST 30:14 EDUCATION, SO I KIND OF HAD A GOOD FOUNDATION, SO TO SPEAK. 30:19 >> OKAY. >> I ALSO GO TO AN ADVENTIST 30:23 COLLEGE, AND, YOU KNOW, FIRST SEMESTER IT WAS NICE. 30:25 IT WAS ACTUALLY A SCHOOL THEY KNEW THAT GOD WAS CALLING ME TO. 30:30 BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING OFF. I JUST DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY GOD 30:35 HAD BROUGHT ME THERE. IT WAS LIKE I KNOW YOU CALLED ME 30:38 HERE, BUT WHY? AND I ACTUALLY KNEW KRISTEN 30:43 PRIOR TO GOING TO SCHOOL, BECAUSE SHE GOES TO MY CHURCH. 30:47 AND AFTER THAT FIRST SEMESTER, I WENT BACK HOME FOR CHRISTMAS 30:52 BREAK. AND SHE SAID, MADELINE, I'M PART 30:54 OF THIS GROUP, WE'RE GOING OUT TO DO A MISSION. 30:58 AND THEY WERE DOING A MISSION? MIAMI, FLORIDA WHERE I LIVE. 31:04 AND SHE WAS LIKE YOU SHOULD SEE WHAT WE DO. 31:07 AND I WAS LIKE, YEAH, OKAY. AND THAT WAS IT.-AND TOWARDS THE END OF HER 31:12 MISSION, SHE CALLED ME AND LET ME KNOW THEY WERE GOING TO A 31:16 JUVENILE DEPENSION CENTER. AND SHE REALLY WANTED ME TO 31:20 COME. AND I THOUGHT, OKAY. 31:22 SO I WENT, BUT I WAS REALLY NERVOUS, BECAUSE I HAD NEVER 31:25 BEEN TO A JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER IN MY LIFE. 31:30 SO-SO MANY FEARS AND THOUGHTS RAN THROUGH MY MIND, BUT I 31:33 DECIDED TO GO ANYWAYS, AND SO I WENT, AND WE WALKED IN THE 31:38 CENTER, AND TO SEE THE FACES OF THE -- THE GUYS THERE, IT DIDN'T 31:43 SEEM LIKE THEY TOOK US SERIOUSLY, SO I WAS LIKE, OH, 31:47 NO, THIS IS GOING TO BE A TRAIN WRECK. 31:49 THIS IS GOING TOEN HORRIBLY, BUT WE CONTINUED WITH THE PROGRAM AS 31:54 USUAL. SIMILAR TO THE CHILDREN'S 31:56 PROGRAMS THAT WE DO IN THE COMMUNITIES AND OVERSEAS, WE DID 32:00 ONE FOR THEM. AND AS WE WERE CONTINUING 32:02 THROUGH THE PROGRAM, I COULD SEE THE TRANSFORMATION IN THEIR 32:06 FACES. AND IT WAS LIKE SOMETHING I HAD 32:09 SEEN BEFORE. AND BY THE END OF IT, WE MADE AN 32:12 APPEAL FOR ANYONE WHO WANTED TO ACCEPT CHRIST AS THEIR SAVIOR 32:16 AND FOR THEM TO WANT TO START A NEW LIFE IN CHRIST. 32:19 AND SO EVERYONE STOOD UP, AND I REMEMBER THEY WERE ASKING ME 32:23 QUESTIONS LIKE WHAT SCHOOL DO YOU GO TO? 32:26 LIKE WHERE ARE YOU GUYS FROM? PLEASE COME BACK, AND IT WAS 32:30 CRAZY TO ME, BECAUSE IT WAS LIKE, ARE THESE THE SAME PEOPLE 32:33 THAT WE SAW WHEN WE FIRST WALKED IN. 32:36 AND THT WAS AN EYE OPENER FOR ME, AND THAT'S WHEN I KNEW THIS 32:40 IS WHAT I WANT TO DO FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. 32:44 AND IT HAS BEEN A BLESSING. >> PRAISE THE LORD. 32:47 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT TESTIMONY. 32:49 BEAUTIFUL. BEAUTIFUL. 32:51 SO YOU ARE A BIT OF AN EVANGELIST. 32:54 KRISTEN. >> I GUESS SO, RIGHT? 32:56 [ LAUGHTER ] >> A RECRUIT. 32:58 PRAISE THE LORD. >> OH, GOD -- YOU KNOW, IT'S AN 33:01 INTERESTING STORY FOR HOT IT HAPPENED FOR ME AS WELL. 33:04 WE GREW UP TOGETHER AT THE SAME CHURCH, AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT 33:07 THERE WAS SOMEBODY AT OUR CHURCH WHO WAS IN NAPS EVEN PRIOR TO ME 33:13 JOINING, AND THE SAME THING SORT OF HAPPENED. 33:16 DARLA SAID SOMETHING THAT REALLY STOOD OUT TO ME BEFORE, WHEN SHE 33:21 JOINED NAPS, YOU KNOW, SHE FELT LIKE SHE GAINED A PURPOSE. 33:23 AND I REMEMBER I WAS IN 11TH GRADE WHEN NAPS CAME TO MY 33:28 CHURCH, YOU KNOW? AND I MEAN WHAT A BLESSING IT 33:30 WAS. I REMEMBER -- THEY WERE PLAYING 33:32 THEIR VIDEO. I WAS USHERING AT CHURCH THAT 33:35 DAY, I REMEMBER. [ LAUGHTER ] 33:36 >> AND I WAS CRYING. I WAS LIKE, OH MY GOODNESS THESE 33:40 ARE THESE YOUNG PEOPLE DOING THIS. 33:43 AND AT THAT TIME, THERE WERE ACTUALLY SOME PEOPLE AT MY 33:46 CHURCH WHO WERE DOING BIBLE STUDIES AND MY SISTER WOULD TAKE 33:49 ME TO THE BIBLE STUDIES AND STUFF LIKE THAT, AND I WAS LIKE, 33:53 MAN, THIS IS SOMETHING I REALLY WANT TO DO. 33:55 I HAD RECENTLY GOTTEN REBAPTIZED, AND, YOU KNOW, I WAS 34:00 MAKING THE DECISION, YOU KNOW, TO GO OFF TO COLLEGE, GO WHERE, 34:04 YOU KNOW, THE LORD WANTED ME TO BE. 34:06 I ENDED UP GOING TO OAKWOOD AND I WAS REALLY PRAYING, AND I DID 34:11 HAVE A LOT OF BACKLASH ON THE DECISION FROM MY PARENTS, BUT IN 34:14 THE END THEY DID END UP SUPPORTING ME, AND SOMETHING 34:19 THAT I REALLY SAW IN NAPS COMPARED -- YOU KNOW, I GUESS TO 34:23 THE CAMPUSES, THERE WERE SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN THE YOUNG 34:28 PEOPLE, AND THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT I PRAYED ABOUT BEFORE I 34:31 WENT OFF TO COLLEGE. I SAID GOD BLESS ME WITH GODLY 34:36 FRIENDS, AND WHO WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT WE WOULD BLESS ME 34:40 WITH THIS GODLY GROUP. [ LAUGHTER ] 34:43 >> SO I HAD MORE FRIENDS THAN I COULD HANDLE. 34:47 AND EVEN MY FIRST ENCOUNTER, A FRIEND SAID, KRISTEN LET'S GO 34:53 PICK VEGETABLES AT AN OLD GUY'S HOUSE. 34:57 AND THAT'S WHAT THEY TOLD ME. SO I SAID, WE GET EXERCISE, AND 35:01 IT TURNED OUT TO BE DR. PAUL'S HOUSE. 35:04 >> OH, THAT'S THE OLD GUY? [ LAUGHTER ] 35:07 >> YES. >> I'M SURE HE IS HAPPY TO HEAR 35:11 THAT. >> OH, YEAH. 35:13 SO WE'RE PUSHING SQUASH, I'M THERE. 35:16 I'M LOVING IT. BUT THE ONE THING THAT STOOD OUT 35:19 TO ME, JUST AS THE CARPENTERS SAID TO ME, WAS THE LOVE. 35:24 >> YES. >> THAT WAS SOMETHING SO STRANGE 35:26 TO ME, ESPECIALLY COMING FROM MORE OF A SUBURBAN AREA, YOU 35:32 DON'T KNOW MANY PEOPLE WHO WILL STOP YOU AND GIVE YOU A HUG. 35:37 IT'S MORE LIKE HEY, AND YOU GO YOUR OWN WAY. 35:40 AND PEOPLE REALLY CARED, AND THAT'S WHAT STOOD OUT. 35:43 AND AS I BEGAN TO GO ON MISSIONS, AND WORK IN ANY 35:46 LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES, AND DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THAT, VERY 35:50 QUICKLY, I BEGAN TO FIND THAT PURPOSE THAT I FELT LIKE I WAS 35:54 LACKING. >> UH-HUH. 35:55 >> AND THERE'S BEEN A WHOLE EPIDEMIC OF YOUNG PEOPLE LEAVING 35:59 THE CHURCH. >> UH-HUH. 36:00 >> AND ONE OF THOSE REASONS IS BECAUSE I -- I FEEL LIKE MANY OF 36:04 THESE YOUNG PEOPLE DON'T SEE THEIR PURPOSE. 36:07 AND SOMETIMES WE'LL SIT DOWN, LISTEN TO SERMONS ALL DAY, AND 36:11 GUESS WHAT, WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THE SERMON AFTER? 36:15 ARE YOU GOING TO LIVE IT OUT? OR IS IT GO JUST GOING TO BE 36:19 SOMETHING THAT YOU HEARD. AND TRULY THIS MINISTRY HAS BEEN 36:22 SOMETHING WHERE YOU ARE LIVING OUT SERMONS EVERY SINGLE DAY. 36:25 >> AMEN. >> AND YOU SEE THE EFFECTS OF 36:29 IT. I HAVE THIS YOUNG GIRL SITTING 36:31 NEXT TO ME, AND SHE IS A TESTIMONY OF WHAT GOD DOES IN 36:35 PEOPLE'S LIVES. >> AMEN. 36:37 >> AND HOW HE CAN USE YOU TO MAKE SUCH AN A PROFOUND IMPACT 36:41 IN THE WORLD. TRULY IT HAS BEEN A BLESSING. 36:47 >> PRAISE THE LORD. WHAT EXCITING STUFF. 36:50 >> AND THE INTERESTING THING IS -- LIKE NOW, WE'RE 36:56 CELEB CELEBRATING, YOU KNOW, 40 YEARS. 36:57 AND I THINK MANY TIMES I FIND MYSELF LIKE -- THE POWER OF ONE, 37:03 YOU KNOW? ONE PERSON BEING WILLING. 37:05 BECAUSE DR. PAUL BACK IN 1978, YOU KNOW, HE WAS SEEING ETHIOPIA 37:14 FAMINE. WE HAVE AN EARLY PICTURE OF HIM. 37:17 [ LAUGHTER ] >> HE -- YEAH, THIS IS OUR EARLY 37:21 PICTURE OF DOC, AND HE WAS SEEING THE ETHIOPIA FAMINE 37:27 SITUATION, CHILDREN STARVING AVENUE HE WANTED TO DO 37:30 SOMETHING, BUT IT'S AMAZING HOW -- LIKE IF HE HAD DECIDED, 37:34 NO, I'M NOT EQUIPPED, I'M NOT THE ONE, HOW MUCH HE WOULD NEVER 37:40 KNOW THA GOD WAS GOING TO DO THROUGH HIM. 37:42 >> YES. YES. 37:43 >> AND AS I SAID -- THE ANGELS. THERE'S A CHAPTER IN CHRISTIAN 37:48 SERVICE CALLED THE ASSURANCE OF SUCCESS. 37:52 IT'S CHAPTER 26, AND I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO READ IT. 37:56 BECAUSE SOMETIMES WHEN WE GO OUT, WE'RE NERVOUS, AND WORRIED 37:59 ABOUT THE RESULTS. BUT GOD IS LIKE, WHEN YOU HOOK 38:03 ARMS WITH ME, YOU GAIN THE OMNIPOTENCE OF ME, BECAUSE I 38:11 HAVE LEADING EVERYTHING. BECAUSE HONESTLY HOW MUCH CAN 38:15 ONE MAN DO TO HELP AN ETHIOPIAN FAMINE? 38:20 BUT GOD INTENDED FOR SO MUCH MORE, FOR SO MANY LIVES, 38:26 INCLUDING MY OWN THAT HAD BEEN CHANGED FOR ETERNITY. 38:34 WHEN I START TO THINK ABOUT WHERE I COULD BE. 38:36 THERE ARE SO MANY PLACES THAT I COULD BE. 38:39 BUT THIS HAS NOT JUST CHANGED OTHERS LIVES, BUT IT HAS CHANGED-MINE. 38:44 AND EVERYWHERE WE GO -- IT'S INTERESTING, BECAUSE NAPS 38:48 STARTED WITH -- AS I SAID THERE'S AN EARLY PICTURE OF DOC 38:52 FEEDING -- >> DO WE HAVE THAT PICTURE? 38:54 >> YES, WE ACTUALLY DO. >> LET'S FIND THAT PICTURE. 38:58 THAT'S A PICTURE I WANT TO SEE. [ LAUGHTER ] 39:01 >> YEAH, AND YOU CAN SEE THE STARVATION IN THIS CHILD, YOU 39:04 KNOW? AND DOC -- IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE 39:07 TELLS THE STORY ABOUT BEING ON THE PLANE IN ONE OF HIS FIRST 39:11 MISSIONS, AND HE WAS SITTING NEXT TO A GUY, AND I MIGHT BE 39:16 SAYING IT WRONG, BUT HE IS NOT SITTING HERE, SO I CAN SAY WHAT 39:20 I WANT TO SAY. AND HE IS LIKE, I'M GOING ON A 39:24 TRIP TO HELP PEOPLE, BUT THIS IS JUST A ONE TIME THING. 39:27 AND THE GUY IS LIKE, THAT'S WHAT I SAID 29 YEARS AGO. 39:31 AND NOW LOOKING 40 YEARS LATER, GOD HAS TAKEN A LITTLE WILLING 39:37 HEART. AND JUST WITH THAT LITTLE 39:39 WILLINGNESS, AND THAT LITTLE BIT OF FAITH, AND HE HAS JUST MOVED 39:43 MOUNTAINS. >> YES. 39:45 YES. >> AND EVEN LIKE LOOKING -- WE 39:47 HAVE A PICTURE FROM -- WE HAVE A PICTURE FROM EARLY -- WHEN WE 39:51 FIRST STARTED FEEDING UNDER THE BRIDGE -- FEEDING UNDER THE 39:55 BRIDGE, AND DOING DIFFERENT HOMELESS FEEDINGS, WE THOUGHT 39:58 THAT WAS -- THAT WAS IT, YOU KNOW? 40:01 AS YOU ARE GOING TO DIFFERENT PLACES, BUT AS YOU NOTICE, IT 40:05 WASN'T JUST PASS THE FOOD AND GO, THERE WAS A LOVE. 40:09 A JOY. DO YOU SEE THE GUY. 40:12 HE'S LIVING IN A CARDBOARD BOX, BUT THE GIVERS ARE NOT JUST 40:17 GIVING HIM A MEAL, BUT THEY ARE GIVING HIM JESUS. 40:19 >> AMEN. >> AMEN. 40:21 >> IN THE REAL FORM, NOT JUST WITH A NAME. 40:24 >> UH-HUH. >> AND -- AND I THINK IT JUST 40:27 CHANGED MY WHOLE PERSPECTIVE OF CHRISTIANITY. 40:31 AND WHAT GETS ME IS THERE IS SO MANY OTHER PEOPLE. 40:35 I HAVE SHED SOME TEARS EVEN IN ETHIOPIA, IT WAS 3:00 40:40 AM -- BECAUSE YOU GET JET LAG, BUT IT WAS 3:00 AM, AND I WAS 40:46 LEAPING, BECAUSE I WAS THINKING THERE ARE SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE 40:48 RIGHT NOW, AND THEY ARE ASKING THE LORD, WHY AM I HERE? 40:54 I'M WORTHLESS. EVERY DAY I HERE ABOUT SUICIDES 40:58 AND PEOPLE TAKING THEIR LIVES. AND THE DEVIL IS DECEIVING GOD'S 41:06 CHILDREN. >> VERY TRUE. 41:07 >> EVEN THE LITTLEST TALENT CAN DO SO MUCH. 41:14 AND THEN YOU HAVE GROUPS LIKE NAPS, WHERE IF ONLY WE HAD MORE. 41:19 HERE IN THE U.S., WE NEED MORE LABORERS. 41:23 THERE'S SO MANY PEOPLE PRAYING AND CRYING, BUT WE NEED MORE 41:27 YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE WILLING TO, YOU KNOW, HOLD UP THE PLOW, 41:33 BECOME RIGHTLY TRAINED AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE, AND THERE ARE SO 41:38 MANY LIVES THAT CAN CHANGED AS A RESULT. 41:41 >> WHEN YOU ARE WORKING SO HARD FOR THE LORD, YOU DON'T HAVE 41:45 TIME TO GET DEPRESSED AND START THINKING ABOUT SUICIDE. 41:48 BECAUSE AS YOU GIVE OUT, THE LORD IS REPLACING, REPLACING, 41:52 REPLACING. >> DEFINITELY. 41:54 >> PLUS THE LOVE THAT YOU GUYS SHARE -- AND I HAVE HEARD THIS 41:58 OUT OF EVERY PERSON HERE, THAT THERE IS THIS LOVE THING THAT IS 42:02 GOING ON, THAT IS ENVELOPING AND MOTIVATING AND GIVING YOU 42:07 ENERGY. IT'S LIKE GASOLINE. 42:09 YOU KNOW, WE RUN ON THIS STUFF. THE FACT THAT WE REALLY LOVE 42:14 EACH OTHER. WE REALLY LOVE THE LORD. 42:17 AND THAT'S ENOUGH TO GET YOU MOVING. 42:20 AND THEN THE LORD GIVES YOU VERY TANGIBLE EVIDENCE THAT HE IS 42:27 WITH YOUR WORK. AND THEN HE SHOWS YOU HE IS 42:31 RIGHT BY YOUR SIDE. SO NOW YOU ARE ABLE TO FACE 42:34 ANOTHER DAY. AND WE HAVE HEARD THAT FOR YEARS 42:38 OF NAPS. IT'S IN THE VERY FIBER, THE DNA 42:42 OF THIS ORGANIZATION. >> YES, AND TORRE, YOU ARE NOT 42:46 GOING TO GET LEFT OUT. GO AHEAD. 42:48 >> LIKE YOU SAID, LOVE AND HOPE, ARE TWO POWERFUL THINGS. 42:53 WHEN YOU REALIZE THAT WE HAVE IN OUR HANDS AND IN OUR HEARTS 42:57 ETERNITY TO GIVE TO PEOPLE. LIKE THIS GOSPEL ISN'T SOMETHING 43:01 THAT IS FAKE. IT IS REAL. 43:03 AND IT PROVIDES A HEAVEN, AND TIME WITH JESUS, AND THAT IS SO 43:07 CRUCIAL THAT WE SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE AS WE GO OUT INTO THE 43:11 DIFFERENT CITIES, WE HAVE THESE THINGS THAT WE CALL IMPACT 43:15 MISSIONS. AND OUR GOAL IS JUST TO MAKE AN 43:18 IMPACT IN THE CITY. AND WHEN YOU ARE KNOCKING ON 43:21 DOORS, THERE IS THAT NERVOUSNESS AND FEAR IN THE HEART, BUT WHEN 43:25 THE DOORS OPEN -- I CAN TELL YOU THIS ONE MAN OPENED THE DOOR, 43:31 GUFF LIKE, WHAT DO YOU WANT? AND IT SHAKES YOU, AND UNNERVES 43:36 YOU, BUT WHEN YOU REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE WORKING FOR GOD, IT 43:40 GIVES YOU THAT POWER. AND I GIVE HIM PEACE IN THE 43:47 STORM. AND HE SAID HOW DID YOU KNOW? 43:49 THIS IS WHAT I NEEDED IN MY LIFE. 43:52 AND HE BEGINS TO POUR HIS HEART OUT TO ME. 43:55 AND IMAGINE IF I HAD SAID, I DON'T FEEL LIKE GOING OUT TODAY. 43:59 >> RIGHT. >> THAT'S THE OPPORTUNITY. 44:02 IF I CAN GIVE ONE WORD TO YOUNG PEOPLE OUT THERE, GO OUT. 44:05 YOU ARE MISSING ON TESTIMONIES THAT GOD HAS FOR EACH AND EVERY 44:09 ONE OF US. BECAUSE WE HAVE SEEN EVERY 44:12 MISSION WE GO ON. AND IT'S NOT I'M PREACHING A 44:17 SERMON, I'M LITERALLY TAKING A BOOK AND SAYING HERE. 44:21 GOD IS JUST LOOKING FOR WILLING VESSELS. 44:25 >> PRAISE THE LORD. DO YOU FIND THAT WHEN YOU IMPACT 44:27 A CITY LIKE THAT, WHEN YOU SORT OF TACKLE A CITY, THAT MOST OF 44:31 THE PEOPLE ARE RECEPTIVE TO WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO DO? 44:34 >> OH, DEFINITELY. EVERYWHERE YOU GO, YOU ARE GOING 44:39 TO HAVE SOME CONTENTIONS. BUT WHEN YOU HAVE GOD ON YOUR 44:42 SIDE, THERE ARE PEOPLE STARVING FOR HOPE. 44:45 WHEN THEY SEE THE LOVE THAT THE NAPS GROUP BRINGS, THEY ARE JUST 44:50 SURPRISED, SO WHEN THEY RECEIVE THAT, IT OPENS PEOPLE HEARTS NOT 44:54 JUST TO RECEIVE US, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY TO RECEIVE THE 44:58 GOSPEL. >> NAPS IS ON THIS CAMPUS QUITE 45:00 A LOT. YOU ARE HERE FOR OUR CAMP 45:03 MEETINGS, AND DEAL WITH OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. 45:05 AND I HAVE HEARD MANY MEME SAY, THESE KIDS ARE SMILING ALL THE 45:10 TIME. DO THEY EVER HAVE A BAD DAY. 45:13 [ LAUGHTER ] >> AND I SAID SAY IT'S JUST PART 45:16 OF WHO YOU ARE. WHEN YOU SEE THE NAPS GANG, YOU 45:20 ARE GOING TO SEE A SMILING FACE. >> PRAISE THE LORD. 45:24 >> AND TORREY WAS TALKING ABOUT THESE CITY IMPACT MISSIONS. 45:30 WHENEVER WE HAVE A BREAK, WE GO TO DIFFERENT CITIES. 45:33 SO IF IT'S THANKSGIVING BREAK, CHRISTMAS BREAK, SPRING BREAK, 45:39 YOU KNOW, EVEN SUMMER BREAK, WE'RE GOING TO GO TO AS MANY 45:43 CITIES AS WE CAN. AND SOMETIMES WE SPLIT UP. 45:46 SO NOW INSTEAD OF ONE CITY, WE CAN HIT THREE. 45:49 AND I KEEP LOOKING -- MADELINE, WE WERE RECENTLY IN A 45:53 CITY -- I'M NOT GOING TO SAY WHICH ONE, BUT WE WERE RECENTLY 45:58 IN A PLACE, AND WE WERE ABLE TO GO TO A CHURCH TOGETHER. 46:02 IT WAS ONE OF OUR ADVENTIST CHURCHES, AND SHARE TESTIMONIES. 46:08 AND IF YOU CAN SHARE A BIT OF WHY IT WASN'T JUST AN 46:13 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR US, BUT -- YEAH, YOU CAN SHARE MORE. 46:16 >> YEAH, WE WENT TO THIS NICE LOVING SMALL CHURCH, AND THE 46:20 PASTOR WAS SO KIND TO LET US ACTUALLY HAVE THE SERMON TIME TO 46:23 SHARE WITH THE DHUR. >> OH, WOW. 46:26 PRAISE THE LORD. >> SO I'M LOOKING AT DARLA, 46:31 LIKE, WHAT AM I GOIG TO DO WITH ALL OF THIS TIME? 46:34 AND SHE IS LIKE, WE HAVE TESTIMONIES FOR DAS. 46:38 THERE ARE SO MANY TESTIMONIES THAT GOD HAS GIVEN US. 46:42 AND SO I WAS LIKE, WE'RE GOING TO SHARE TESTIMONIES THAT WE 46:45 HAVE EXPERIENCED AS A GROUP. SO ACTUALLY THE THEME WE HAD 46:51 COME UP WITH WAS GOD'S FAITHFULNESS, HIS AND OURS. 46:55 >> OH. >> SO JUST EXPRESSING 46:57 HOW -- WHEN WE'RE FAITHFUL, LIKE GOD IS FAITHFUL AS WELL, LIKE HE 47:02 DOESN'T LEAVE US BY OURSELVES JUST TO TRY. 47:05 YOU KNOW? HE ACTUALLY TAKES CARE OF US, 47:07 AND SO AS WE WERE SHARING DIFFERENT TESTIMONIES, I'M 47:10 SEEING THE DIFFERENT FACES ON THE PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE, AND 47:14 JUST LIKE THEIR RECEPTIVENESS TO WHAT WE WERE SAYING, AND TOWARDS 47:19 THE END, YOU KNOW, WE'R TRYING TO FIGURE OUT SHOULD WE SING A 47:24 SONG, SHOULD WE NOT? AND WE DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO 47:27 SING A SONG. AND IMMEDIATELY YOU SEE TEARS 47:31 POURING FROM EVERYONE'S EYES, AND IT WAS JUST THE TWO OF US. 47:35 WE LIKE TO SING AS A GROUP BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT OF 47:40 HARMONIES. BUT THERE WERE JUST TWO OF US, 47:42 SO WE WERE LIKE WHAT ARE WE DO GOING TO DO? 47:47 BUT THE ANGELS WERE WITH US, SO AS WE WERE SINGING, HEARTS ARE 47:51 CLEARLY TOUCHED, AND THE PASTOR CAME UP AFTER US, AND JUST 47:55 SHARED HOW HE WAS GOING THROUGH A REALLY HARD TIME, AND JUST THE 47:59 DAY BEFORE, THAT FRIDA, HE -- HE WAS JUST GOING THROUGH 48:03 SUCH A HARD TIME HE DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH IT, SO JUST TO 48:07 HAVE US COME THERE AND SHARE TESTIMONIES OF HOW GOD IS 48:11 FAITHFUL, AND HE WILL CARRY YOU THROUGH WAS AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO 48:15 HIM TO KNOW LIKE GOD IS WIT HIM. 48:17 EVEN THOUGH A LOT OF THE TIMES WE THINK THAT PASTORS, YOU KNOW, 48:20 THEY HAVE IT ALL TOGETHER, THEY -- THEY CAN'T POSSIBLY GET 48:24 DISCOURAGED, BUT A LOT OF THEM GET DISCOURAGED, AND SOMETIMES 48:28 WE'RE ABLE TO ENCOURAGE THEM, AND KEEP THEM GOING SO THEY CAN 48:31 TOUCH MORE LIVES. SO THT WAS ONE THING THAT I 48:34 WASN'T EXPECTING, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO REALLY 48:37 MINISTER TO THEM, BUT THAT TESTIMONY THAT HE HAD ACTUALLY 48:42 MINISTERED TO ME, LETTING US KNOW THAT GOD HAD US THERE FOR A 48:48 REASON. >> AND YOU WERE GOING TO SAY 48:51 SOMETHING? >> THESE IMPACT MISSIONS ARE 48:53 ALSO PREPARATION. A LOT OF TIMES WHEN WE GO TO A 48:56 CITY, WE DON'T STAY IN HOTELS. WE'RE WILLING TO STAY WHEREVER 49:04 GOD OPENS THE DOOR. MANY TIMES THEY MAY BE A CHURCH 49:09 IN THE SABBATH SCHOOL CLASSROOMS WITH OUR SLEEPING BAGS. 49:14 SOMETIMES THAT ALLOWS ONE OF THE ADVENTIST SCHOOLS TO OPEN UP, 49:17 AND WE'RE ABLE TO ROOM THERE, WHICH IS NICE BECAUSE THEY HAVE 49:22 SHOWERS A LOT OF TIMES. BUT NO MATTER WHAT TYPE OF PLACE 49:26 THAT WE STAY IN, LIKE GOD ALWAYS OPENS EXTRA DOORS. 49:31 WE DO LITERATURE EVANGELISM AS TORREY WAS SAYING. 49:37 THIS HAS BEEN A POWERFUL PART OF OUR MINISTRY. 49:40 ONE OF THE BIGGEST STORIES FOR ME -- MY FATHER PASSED AWAY. 49:45 AND WHEN I GO TO HOMES, WHAT I FIND ESPECIALLY AROUND 49:49 THANKSGIVING AND CHRISTMAS, PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST LOVED ONES, 49:52 THEY MIGHT BE VERY, VERY DISCOURAGED, BUT BEING ABLE TO 49:56 GO TO THEM, AND THERE IS A BOOK CALLED LOVE STRONGER THAN DEATH, 50:00 AND BEING ABLE TO HOLD THIS UP, AND BE LOOK, LOOK, MY FATHER 50:04 PASSED AWAY, BUT THERE IS A FATHER THAT WILL NEVER LEAVE, 50:08 YOU KNOW? AND I REMEMBER AT THIS ONE 50:10 COMMUNITY, WE WERE PASSING OUT, YOU KNOW, JUST DIFFERENT 50:14 MAGAZINES, AND CHRISTIAN LITERATURE, AND ONE OF THE 50:16 PEOPLE I GAVE THE BOOK TO, I LEFT -- I PRAYED WITH THEM, AND 50:20 LEFT. I THINK THEY GAVE A DONATION, 50:22 BECAUSE WE USE THIS SO WE CAN GO OVERSEAS ON OUR INTERNATIONAL 50:26 MISSIONS, SO AS I LEAVE, YOU KNOW, LATER ON THIS WOMAN COMES 50:30 UP TO ME AND SHE IS LIKE, I NEED MORE. 50:33 MY WHOLE FAMILY -- MY MOTHER HAD PASSED AWAY, AND I WANT MORE. 50:37 I WANT TO SHARE IT WITH ME FAMILY. 50:40 THIS HAS BEEN A REALLY HARD TIME. 50:42 SO THERE ARE DIFFERENT SITUATIONS WHERE PEOPLE HAVE 50:44 BEEN ON THE BRINK OF GIVING UP THEMSELVES, AND GOD JUST REALLY 50:50 OPENS DOOR AFTER DOOR, AND THE AMAZING THING IS, THERE HAS 50:54 NEVER BEEN PINT WHERE THERE WAS A MISSION WE SR. SUPPOSED TO GO 50:58 ON AND GOD DID NOT PROVIDE A WAY FOR IT. 51:00 GOD USES PEOPLE. AND SO SOMETIMES THERE'S -- LIKE 51:04 YOU HAVE SITUATIONS WHERE MAYBE -- MAYBE FOR SOME REASON A 51:09 PERSON CANNOT PHYSICALLY GO ON A MISSION, BUT YOUR PRAYERS AND 51:13 YOUR SUPPORT GOES SO MUCH FURTHER, AND 3ABN, I -- I HAVE 51:18 TO SAY -- LIKE SO MUCH THANKS. 3ABN MAY NOT REALIZE WHAT A 51:24 DIFFERENCE THEY HAVE MADE FOR -- NOT JUST NAPS BUT SO MANY 51:30 MINISTRIES, YOUNG MINISTRIES THAT GOD IS TRYING -- YOU KNOW, 51:33 TRYING TO USE, AND HE PUT 3ABN HERE TO BE A BEACON OF LIGHT, 51:38 AND THERE'S BEEN SO MANY THINGS -- I LOOK AT JADE. 51:42 AND JADE IS SO BEAUTIFUL TO ME. SHE IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW, LIKE, 51:46 GOD IS USING YOUNG PEOPLE -- THIS GIRL CAN GIVE A 51:50 FULL BIBLE STUDY. SHE CAN TELL YOU, LIKE -- LIKE 51:54 DON'T WORRY -- YOU KNOW, EVEN IF SOMEONE TO DIE, SHE KNOWS WHAT 51:59 HAPPENS, AND KNOWS THE SCRIPTURES OF HOW TO SHARE TRUTH 52:03 ABOUT GOD'S LOVE AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE. 52:06 AND HEAVEN'S SECOND COMING, AND SHE IS A YOUNG WITNESS, AND GOD 52:11 WANTS TO USE EACH AND EVER ONE HERE. 52:13 >> AMEN. AMEN. 52:15 I'M JUST SO IMPRESSED HOW YOU HAVE MOVED FROM A SMALL GROUP 52:19 WITH A TIGHTLY FOCUSED MISSION, AND YOU HAVE HAD THIS EXPANSION 52:22 OF YOUR MISSION, AND IT HAS BEEN AN EVOLUTION. 52:27 YOU HAVE DOING MORE THINGS AROUND THE WORLD, AND I'M JUST 52:30 SO IMPRESSED WITH THE SCHOOL. THAT'S A WHOLE NEW DEAL, YOU 52:36 KNOW? THAT'S, VERY, VERY EXCITING. 52:38 BUT IT'S AN EVOLUTION OF YOUR MISSION. 52:40 AND GOD BLESSES THIS GROUP SO VERY, VERY MUCH. 52:44 WE'RE DOWN TO FOUR MINUTES AND CHANGE, AND DARLA, AND -- I 52:48 GUESS YOU A ALL COULD REALLY TALK ALL DAY ABOUT THIS. 52:52 BUT I WANT TO GO BACK TO THE ADDRESS -- THE CONTACT 52:55 INFORMATION. 53:14 YOU -- YOU HAVE BEEN HEARING FOR THE LAST LITTLE BIT, THE -- THE 53:18 THINGS THAT THEY ARE DOING, AND THEY ARE EXPANDING, AND THEY DO 53:21 NEED YOUR HELP AND YOUR PRAYERS, AND THEY DO NEED YOUR FINANCIAL 53:25 SUPPORT. THIS IS A GROUP THAT IS 53:27 OBVIOUSLY CALLED OF GOD, THAT HAS DEDICATED THEIR SELVES TO 53:31 THE LORD, AND IS RECEIVING THE BLESSINGS OF THE LORD IN A 53:36 MARKED AND MIGHT Y WAY. WE COULD TAKE ANOTHER TWO HOURS 53:44 AND CHANGE TO HEAR THESE TESTIMONIES. 53:46 SO THANK YOU SO VERY, VERY MUCH. WE HAVE THREE MINUTES, AND 15 53:51 SECONDS, DARLA. WHAT ELSE DO WE WANT TO TALK 53:54 ABOUT? >> WELL, I GUESS MAYBE WE 53:57 CAN -- EACH JUST GIVE LIKE A CLOSING THOUGHT. 54:00 I'M TRYING TO THINK. MY CLOSING THOUGHT, IF I DON'T 54:03 TAKE ALL OF THE TIME -- >> SHE IS WARNING YOU. 54:08 >> ARRIVE AND GO. YOU DO NOT MARCH ALONE. 54:11 GOD IS WITH YOU. AND HE WILL NOT LEAVE YOU OR 54:15 FORSAKE YOU. HE IS A GOD THAT DOES NOT FAIL. 54:18 SO RIGHT NOW -- ESPECIALLY LIKE YOUNG PEOPLE THE DEVIL IS TRYING 54:22 TO CLAIM YOUR LIFE. GET UP AND GO. 54:24 >> LOOK INTO THAT CAMERA AND TELL THEM THAT. 54:27 >> I JUST WANT TO SAY RIGHT NOW, GOD IS REALLY -- HE HAS A PLAN 54:31 FOR EACH OF OUR LIVES, IF WE JUST SIT DOWN AND KEEP CONTROL 54:37 SCROLLING OR KEEP WASTING AWAY ON TV SHOWS, YOU ARE GOING TO 54:42 MISS OUT ON A BLESSING THAT IS GOING TO SAVE YOUR LIFE, YOUR 54:46 FAMILIES LIFE, YOUR NEIGHBORS LIFE, YOU WILL NEVER SEE THE 54:50 BLESSINGS UNLESS YOU GET UP AND GO. 54:51 IN AND THAT'S THE MAIN THING I WANT TO SHARE. 54:54 GET UP AND GO. AND IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR PLACE 54:57 TO DO IT, NAPS -- YOU CAN GO ON THE WEBSITE. 55:02 WE HAVE MISSIONS ALWAYS HAPPENING. 55:04 WHETHER IT'S THE HURRICANE HARVEY, WHERE DISASTERS HAPPEN, 55:07 AND GOD PUTS US IN THE RIGHT PLACE TO ASSIST, OR IT MAY BE 55:11 JUST WHERE WE'RE GOING TO A CITY TO SAVE LIVES. 55:14 GET UP AND GO DO SOMETHING GREAT. 55:17 THIS -- THIS WILL BE A LIFE CHANGER. 55:20 I CAN GUARANTEE IT. BECAUSE IT'S NOT SPEAKING, BUT 55:23 THE LORD. >> AMEN. 55:25 KRISTEN REAL QUICK. >> YES, THE ONE THING I WANT TO 55:28 SAY IS IF YOU -- IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR PURPOSE, IF -- MAYBE 55:32 RIGHT NOW YOU MIGHT BE SITTING DOWN, THINKING THAT YOU FEEL 55:36 EMPTY AND THAT THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS THAT YOU HAVE TRIED TO 55:41 FILL IN YOUR LIFE TO FULFILL THAT ONE THING THAT YOU ARE 55:44 LOOKING FOR. WHETHER IT COULD BE DRUGS OR 55:47 FOOD OR PEOPLE OR THINGS, TECHNOLOGY, WHATEVER IT MIGHT 55:51 BE, THE ONE THING I CAN SAY IS WHEN YOU TAKE YOUR FOCUS OFF OF 55:57 LOOKING FOR THAT NEED, AND YOU GO FORWARD IN THE LORD, HE WILL 56:00 FILL IT. HE WILL. 56:02 AND THAT IS SOMETHING HE HAS DONE IN MY LIFE AND IN ENGINEER 56:06 EVERYBODY'S LIFE HERE. GOD HAS A PURPOSE FOR YOU, AND 56:11 THAT PURPOSE IS IN HIS WILL AND HIS WORK, AND YES, JUST AS DARLA 56:17 SAID, GET UP, GO, ARRIVE, GO AND SERVE OTHER PEOPLE. 56:20 AND I'M TELLING YOU, YOUR LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. 56:25 >> MADELINE REAL QUICK. >> GOD LOVES YOU SO MUCH, AND 56:29 ONE THING I HAVE LEARNED IS THAT HE WILL GO TO EXTREME LENGTHS TO 56:33 SHOW YOU THAT, SO ONE THING THAT YOU COULD DO IS TO GO ON 56:37 MISSIONS AND EXPERIENCE THAT LOVE, BUT THEN SHARE THAT LOVE 56:40 WITH OTHERS, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS LIFE CHANGING, 56:43 SOMETHING THAT WILL GIVE YOU, LIKE KRISTEN CSAID, PURPOSE. 56:50 >> AMEN. TORREY TEN SECONDS OR LESS. 56:54 >> GOD CAN USES YOU. FROM SOMEONE WHO DIDN'T 56:57 UNDERSTAND MY PURPOSE IN LIFE, GOD CAN USE YOU NO MATTER WHAT. 57:01 >> AMEN. THANK YOU SO VERY, VERY MUCH. 57:05 OUR TIME HAS FAST SLIPPED INTO ETERNITY. 57:08 ALLOW ME TO WISH YOU GOTH GRACE AND PEACE THROUGH OUR LORD AND 57:13 SAFE YOUR JESUS CHRIST. WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN SOON. 57:18 GOOD-BYE AND GOD BLESS. ♪ |
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