Welcome to Teen Pathways.
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We thank you for
coming and joining us today
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on Teen pathways.
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We have an
interesting show today.
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We have a friend of ours,
LaChanda and I first began
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coming to 3ABN about 4 years
ago, and we met Moses Primo
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and we're going to discuss his
behind the scenes camera work
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as well as a multitude of other
things that Moses does here
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at 3ABN, but first of all, I'll
let him introduce himself along
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with the rest of our guests,
so Moses, would you begin.
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Actually, my name is
Moses Primo Jr. my dad also
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works here as an engineer, and
I live here in Thompsonville,
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like Reggie said, and
one of my goals in life is to
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fall in love with the
Lord more and more each day.
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I'm LaChanda Dupard, and
I'm the help [meet] of Reggie's,
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I'm here because I enjoy
working with young people.
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Hi, my name is Claudette
Prieto and I go to South Western
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Adventist University,
and I'm a theology major.
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Hello, my name is Raquel
Black, I live in Dallas, Texas,
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and my goals in life are to
go to college and be successful.
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My name is Ashley Wedgy and
I attend Dallas Junior Academy,
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and I'm from Dallas, Texas.
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My name is Esther
Alonso, and I'm from California.
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I live in La Sierra
and I'm planning to attend
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La Sierra University for a
masters in Pastoral Studies.
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Hi again, as I said, I'm Reggie
Dupard, and as I said earlier,
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we have Moses Primo, who works,
when I first met him, I guess
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about 4 years ago, he was
just a young man, really tiny,
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and he's still behind a camera,
and we really couldn't see him
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behind the camera, but he's
a young man, he grew up here at
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3ABN and we wanted to
hear about his experience.
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As I spoke with him, it's been
a ministry here, working at 3ABN
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and we'd like to touch
bases on some of the things.
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I know you work the camera
Moses, but what else do you do
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while you're here at 3ABN.
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I have had the privilege
of working in many different
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departments.
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I have worked with my dad in
engineering, I've worked with
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Production, of
course, with camera and audio.
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I've worked in Master Control
as an operator, I've worked
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with 3ABN radio that's
now trying to get started,
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helping them with little things.
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So while here, you have to wear
many many hats if you work here?
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Amen?
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Yeah.
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How did you get involved
with 3ABN, how did you end up
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in Thompsonville, Illinois?
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My family moved here about 7
years ago, so my dad could start
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working here.
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The thing that was interesting
to me, because I see all these
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wonderful programs you
all do, and I know being here,
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and seeing all these programs,
and filming some of these
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programs, has it had an affect
on your Christian experience?
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Can you think of anything that
it's done to help you in your
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Christian experience?
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Yeah, it's a great blessing.
When I first moved here,
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we didn't know anything about
the health message and so while
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working here with camera, I was
able to listen to the programs
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and learn about vegetarianism,
and how to do it in an effective
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way since I am still
growing, and things like that.
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As I got older and went into
Master Control, sitting there
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and playing the tapes on air,
I was able to watch the sermons
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and learn more and go along
with my Bible sometimes when I
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had the time, even meet
some of these great preachers
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and pastors that we have on
here and asking them questions
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afterwards, talking
to them, meeting them.
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So, some of the things you've
heard, you saw it was true for
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yourself, was Biblical,
and you've been convicted,
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say, about the health message,
and even the whole, overall
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message, I don't know what
you've heard, I've heard so much
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and I know you've heard more
than me because you work here,
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so you have been
convicted of certain things.
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Yeah.
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It makes it easier to
stop and listen to the programs
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when you work here, it's hard
to find time during the week
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to watch the programs at 3ABN,
so that has been a real blessing
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I bet you that would have made
you actually have to grow up
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faster because all of what
you've heard from working here,
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and compared to other
young people who've never heard
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the messages, all this meat, I'm
sure you were just thrown into
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meat instead of milk at
the time, how did you actually
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deal with getting all that
heavy word at such a young age?
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The Lord guided there, I
don't feel like I was thrown in
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the middle, the Lord brought
me through slowly because I'm
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pretty sure had I been thrown
in the middle, I wouldn't have
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accepted it as easily as I do.
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I do see the Lord's hand.
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You have mentioned earlier you
have done some health message,
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and seen some health
speakers, have you ever seen
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the Aikens on TV?
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Now, they are personal
friends of myself and LaChanda
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and when I watch them on
TV I learn a lot from them,
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but I laugh with them,
and you holding that camera,
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do you find them pretty funny?
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Yeah, definitely. They're
great friends of mine as well.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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So what do you, even with
us just trying to film this,
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it's a wonderful experience,
but sometimes you get giggly,
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do you ever have problems
losing control over the camera?
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Yeah. It's
something you have to learn.
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Sometimes, when allergy
season came, before I got off
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the animal products, my
allergies would start getting on
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really bad, and sometimes I'd
have to say into my microphone
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"I've got to go in the
corner for a minute and start"
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"sneezing like crazy", so I'd
leave the camera, I'd lock it
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in place, I'd leave it
and go to a corner, control it
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and come back, it's tough.
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So you're a veteran now, you've
learned, so when someone new
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comes in, you can teach them
the tricks of the trade, amen?
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Yeah.
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Was it something that
you were interested in from
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the very beginning, or did you
just enjoy it because you saw
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your father doing it, or
how did the interest grow in you
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to come and want
to work for 3ABN?
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That's a good question. I
actually started working with
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my dad, in engineering, at
first, when he was putting the
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very first digital
system up for Europe,
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and from there I
went into production.
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At that age, to tell you
the truth, I didn't really make
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that much of an
obvious decision,
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it was more the
Lord led, and it worked.
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You working here at
3ABN, I know most of the people
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that I've met, all love Jesus,
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and it's almost like a
ministry, though you're working
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and you're helping other
ministries, it's actually
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a ministry of
your own, isn't it?
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Yeah. Actually it hasn't
always been like that for me
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to tell you the truth, a couple
years ago, 3ABN always has a day
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of prayer at the beginning
of the year on January the 4th,
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and a couple of years ago, Danny
Shelton challenged all of us
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to not see it just as work,
but as a ministry, and when he
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said that, it clicked, I
realized this is not just a job.
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I started working
under that mentality.
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Well, praise the Lord.
God puts us all in places for
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certain reasons, and I see, I
notice the people that do work
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here at 3ABN, many of
them from major, major cities,
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and God has
called them here at 3ABN.
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As I notice here, not
many people would come
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to Thompsonville, Illinois
just to work at a TV station,
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and many don't work for
money, you work for Jesus.
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I have to say, I'm very
impressed because from the
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very beginning that we've been
here, I've seen older people,
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and mature, but I've seen
mainly youth that are the ones
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working to make everything
happen and I even asked him
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was it different for you
to come from Massachusetts
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into this environment, it
seems in the middle of nowhere,
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and it seems like it would be
very difficult for me, but it is
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so impressive how the
Lord leads in the way.
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You're satisfied, and I
see you're not only satisfied,
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you're on fire to
continue on where you are,
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and that's just awesome
how God can work in our hearts
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to where we're happy
wherever He takes us.
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I really commend
you guys for that.
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I don't want to pump you up
too much, but if you'll just let
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me do a praise on you, just
for a second, because I know
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God works through you
to do all of which you do,
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and meeting your mother
and father before, in the past,
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seeing how mature you are, we
also have to give some of that
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credit to them for
raising you because I'm sure
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had it not been for them making
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this decision to move here, for
all of your lives, you wouldn't
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be such a mature and Christian
person as you are right now,
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so I'd just like to compliment
you on that, because you're able
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to handle, basically, what comes
your way because of the training
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they've provided you.
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I would imagine your parents
have done a great job with you,
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do you give them credit?
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Yeah, of course.
[everyone laughs]
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As I draw closer to the Lord,
I see more and more how He has
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worked, how He has brought
my parents to the position where
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they could train me, and as
I grew older, and as my parents
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had brought me as far as
they could, the Lord took over
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and took me the rest of the way.
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So, although I'm blessed, and I
admit, I don't realize just how
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blessed I am to have such
great parents, I still am more
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inclined to give the honor
and the praise to the Lord.
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So you're in school
now, what are you're plans?
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Has the Lord led you to what
you want to do down the road?
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Right now, I'm going to
college and getting my journals
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out of the way.
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I've decided on a
Radio/Television major,
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specializing in Television.
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I don't feel like the Lord
has shown me completely where He
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wants me yet, in the future.
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He has been
teaching me to depend on Him,
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and He has never shown me
any more than a year in front,
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sometimes even less, so
I could stay close to Him.
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I was just wondering as
you've been growing up this past
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few years, here at 3ABN,
did you ever wish you were
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in another place, like
maybe in a bigger city, this is
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a small town, you know...
600 people, did you ever wish
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you could be somewhere
else? Would you ever trade your
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experience for something else?
Did you ever wonder how your
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life would be in another place?
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Well, I guess I've wondered,
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but I have just
left it up to the Lord,
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I know that He has led me here,
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and I don't question Him,
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He knows what's best for me, and
this is where He's brought me.
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Have you ever felt discouraged
to know that you couldn't
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take any more, everyone has
problems, so have you ever had
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any problems that you figured
you couldn't take anymore,
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that you figured you just
wanted to leave it behind you?
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Of course. Yeah.
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The Lord just worked with me
and taught me and brought me.
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I did go through a time
where it was pretty tough...
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...but the Lord
always helps you through it.
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I've met a lot, and my
wife and I travel a lot, youth,
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what would be your advise
to a young person who may want
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to get into this industry,
and I've met people who actually
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want to work for 3ABN, that is
so popular now, everyone wants
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to work for 3ABN, so those of
you who want to work for 3ABN,
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maybe Moses can
tell you how to come on.
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What would you suggest?
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3ABN is always
open to volunteers.
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[everyone laughs]
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That's one way to get in.
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So that means it may
now be a paid position.
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Not at first, but you
could come, learn and watch.
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It's also a good experience,
because everybody doesn't get
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this advantage, to have to work
with cameras, and everything
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you do, right?
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And then you volunteer, and you
have that edge on other people,
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who've never
ever done it before,
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it's like intern work.
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And it prepares you for what
you want to do in the future.
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3ABN has always been
open to young people.
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The person who is running
audio right now, she's 18.
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That's right, she sure is.
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It's been my experience that
whenever you feel you've been
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called to anything that has
to do with, could be seen as
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entertainment such as TV, music,
or anything in that field,
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there's some type of guilt
where you feel like "Am I doing"
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"this for myself or for God",
so I think it's awesome to see
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the way that you have dedicated
your life to serving Him,
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even in this advanced
technology, and that you don't
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get wrapped up in your
own little world and how far
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it can take you, say,
to Hollywood or something.
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And become selfish...
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Right, because it's very easy,
but at the same time, there's
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a lot of young people that
I know that would love to be
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in this field, but
there's just a lot of issues,
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or guilt, I guess, that is
let onto them by other people
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who feel like "well that's
just for the secular world."
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If it wasn't for 3ABN, how many
people would there be around
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the world who would not
know of the health message,
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of whatever the teens are
going through in this time.
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We can't help but see
the work that 3ABN is doing,
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the wonderful message, this
is our message, it makes me feel
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proud when I turn on the
satellite to see that these
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are SDA Christians that believe
in the second coming of Christ,
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who are doing work for the Lord,
who are trying to live right,
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who are eating right, who are
doing all the things in order
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to make it to heaven, not
just on works, but through faith
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and knowing that we are going
to one day have eternal life.
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Again, I can't compliment
you enough, from seeing you
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as a little kid, rolling,
I mean when we first met you,
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I was like "He's
doing the camera?"
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Yeah, but he did have a
permit, so he wasn't too young.
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Well, not a little kid,
but he was small in stature.
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But now we got here this year...
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I didn't recognize him,
I thought he was his dad...
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That's right, He's got facial
hair, so it was like "Moses!"
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So you can grow up at 3ABN.
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Claudette, did you
have a question for Moses?
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Yes, I wanted to ask
you, you mentioned that you do
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multiple jobs here, and you
also go to school, how do you
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manage to fit all of that,
I mean, I know all things are
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possible with God,
but do you find it hard?
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Extremely hard. That's probably
one of the biggest things I'm
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working with now, is time
management, that the Lord's
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trying to teach me
and guide me, it is hard.
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The Bible says: "Love not
the world, neither the things"
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"that are of the world", and I
see that a person starting a job
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and picking up the technical
knowledge that you have,
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I foresee that as
being something that can
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sidetrack you, and have you
saying: "Hey man, I could be"
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"covering the Mike
Tyson fight on NBC."
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I believe that's Ok, we all
have dreams and aspirations,
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but do those kind of
things ever creep into your mind
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because of the things
you believe you can do?
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Of course, the
temptation is always there.
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Sometimes I'll find
myself rationalizing:
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"Well, maybe I can..."
"Maybe this is not as bad..."
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and then I say:
"Whoa, wait a minute..."
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That's the Holy Spirit,
and that is so awesome that we
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have the Holy Spirit to
bring us back like that.
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I believe in all our lives,
when we have an experience
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with God, no matter what you
do, the enemy is going to try
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to attack you,
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but the thing that
we do is pray that God
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will continue to convict us.
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When I speak to
young people, I always say:
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"Lord, convict them of their
sins" and that's what He does
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to us, and I believe
Ashley had a question for you.
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Do you have any
brothers or sisters?
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I do. I have 1
younger brother. He's 12.
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No sisters.
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Does he want to
follow his brother?
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Are you that role model?
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He loves me very much, he
likes to hang out with me.
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What's his name?
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Daniel.
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Oh, Daniel and Moses.
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Does he have a
future here at 3ABN?
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He might, I always joke around
with him, my mom works here,
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my dad works here, I
work here, as soon as you get
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old enough, you're
going to work here too.
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What does he say about that?
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Right now, he'll go in
unofficially a couple of hours
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a day and help my dad
out, volunteer, in his office.
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The Bible says: "By
beholding, you become changed "
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and I believe he beholds that,
and even a Christian experience,
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and working for the Lord, he
could be working some cameras
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around here.
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Yeah, and you all make it fun.
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It's not like you have
to go in, and have to do...
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this is actually fun and
exciting, I could see myself
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doing something like this
actually, but I don't know if
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I wanted to live at
Thompsonville at the time,
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but it's really interesting
to see how you can come
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from one place to another,
Massachusetts all the way
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to Thompsonville, and still
join in here and do this type
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of work.
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I have one other
question for you, do you have
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any advice for young people
in what they may need to do,
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because I know you
have the talent of technical
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and camera work, but young
people that we have out here
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in our audience that maybe
thinking of doing something
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of the world, what
is your advice to them?
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Whether it's singing, whether
it's different talents that God
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has given them, what
advice, that you have
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to keep them focused?
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I would remind them of the
Samaritan woman at the well.
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Here, Jesus was revealing to
her about the life-giving water.
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He had asked her "bring
your husband", and she said
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"I don't have a husband",
and he said "That's right,"
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"you have 6", so here she
thought a man could give her
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that eternal
happiness, could make her happy.
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We think a lot sometimes,
and the devil convinces us that
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the ways of the world can
make us happy, but the only
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true happiness is
that everlasting water,
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where you don't have to
keep going back for more
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that fills you up and
covers that one, empty spot
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that nothing else can
fill, but Him, that's where
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true happiness comes from.
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I want to know what it took for
you to be able to believe that.
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I mean, I know that Christianity
is an experience that we live
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day by day, and it takes a
lot of learning and growing,
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and trials and tribulations to
get to the faith that we have,
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so what did it take
for you to be this humble?
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Was it failures that
you went through, maybe?
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Because many times I've heard
people saying "I really believe"
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" that many times it takes us
to be on our back to look up. "
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Have you experienced that?
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It's not as much
failures as it is trials.
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The Lord has always blessed me.
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I don't fail because that
would be a bad example to Him,
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but I do go through
a lot of hard times.
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Have you ever
considered preaching?
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[everyone laughs]
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So it's been through trials.
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Yeah, and as you get
to know the Lord more,
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you realize just
how sinful you are.
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You're a young man,
and you're telling me
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that at 18 years old,
living with your parents,
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working at this
beautiful radio and TV station,
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that you go through trials?
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Of course.
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You go through
trials and tribulations?
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Yeah, but like the story
of Peter walking on the water,
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although we have, as Christians,
trials, so do the people
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of the world, just
because you become a Christian,
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doesn't mean the storm stops.
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But I have many times walked
on water because of the Lord.
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Amen.
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Because He brings
us through the storms.
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That's right. I like it because
when I do go through a trial,
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I understand what you're saying,
its the way that we handle it
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because we have God.
The people out in the world,
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when they go through a
trial, they don't have the Lord
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and just imagine what they're
going through, and just imagine
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how they're fretting and
worrying and almost passing out
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and fainting through worry,
and sadness, and hurt, and pain,
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when we have Jesus Christ,
who we can just give it to
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and say: "Lord, just take
this. Just take it from me,"
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"You handle it because I
can't." And that is the relief
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that we have in Jesus
Christ, so I understand exactly
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what you're saying.
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Yeah, because, you know how
the Bible mentions we should be
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thankful for our
trials and tribulations
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because they
develop perseverance
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and perseverance develops hope.
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I think many people who
don't know of those promises
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that God has for us, they are
out there in fear, not knowing
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anything better to expect.
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I know I wasn't
always a Christian, I've been
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in this church for 10 years,
so I wasn't a Christian always,
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so I've borne a lot of burdens,
I worry sometimes, I'm human,
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but what God always teaches me,
no matter what I'm going through
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He allows me to see His love,
and that's the encouraging thing
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Once we see His love,
and that's what He tells us:
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"Hey, you can make it.
" because you may be going
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through something, and just
when you're about to give up,
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God will bless you,
then He comes through,
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and you're like: "Man!
God, You taught me so much. "
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"You will not give us
more than we can bear. "
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That's right.
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It's interesting, I hear
a pastor once tell a story
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about the blind man,
Jesus put clay in his eyes,
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and Jesus had healed
many blind people already,
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without the mud. He put
the mud there for that person
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to build that character.
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That's His love, and He allows
us to go through these things.
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Anyone here, would you
like to comment about something
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that you've gone through
and God has shown you His love.
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A lot of times as Christians,
as young people, many of us,
00:24:16.94\00:24:20.79
or many young people
that are watching may think,
00:24:20.82\00:24:24.07
"These people, they're
not going through anything. "
00:24:24.52\00:24:26.38
"They're Christians,
they seem to know Jesus,"
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"they know their Bibles",
but have any of you ever
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gone through some trials,
and you say: "God you love me. "
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and God showed you.
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Life itself is
constantly a trial.
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I remember from being your age,
I was going through the trial
00:24:38.92\00:24:41.82
of not being able to
have my freedom, and my mother
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always telling me what to
do, and my father telling me
00:24:44.43\00:24:46.89
what to do, and I'm like:
"I can't wait to be grown up. "
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And then when I became grown
up, it's like: "Yes, I can do"
00:24:49.39\00:24:51.79
"what I want to do", and
then I had to be responsible
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and live on my own, and be
able to pay my bills on time,
00:24:54.83\00:24:57.78
and pay my rent on
time, and then I was like:
00:24:57.81\00:24:59.88
"OK, Lord, I just
can't wait to be married. "
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And then when I
got married, it's like:
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"Ok Lord, we have a totally
different personality here,"
00:25:03.89\00:25:06.23
"that I have to deal with,
so Lord help me to get along"
00:25:06.26\00:25:08.81
"with this man," - which is
so wonderful, Praise the Lord.
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Amen... thank you... thank you.
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Then the next level is
when you have children,
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and you will never understand
this until you have children,
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we worry; I have 2 children
and we worry constantly.
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If they're in the
park, if we're out anywhere,
00:25:23.77\00:25:25.79
it's one thing after the other.
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Although those concerns
are there, you still have
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Jesus there to help you through
each and every one of them,
00:25:32.32\00:25:34.52
to just trust in Him.
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The Bible says: "Trust in
the Lord with all thine heart. "
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"With all thy ways acknowledge
Him, and He shall direct"
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"thy path. "
That's in Proverbs 3:4-6,
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and if we trust God, He
will guide us to all truth
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if we just learn
to give it to Him.
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It seems to be easy, but
it can be hard sometimes.
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Moses, have you found it diffi-
cult to give it totally to Him,
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because that's
what He wants us to do?
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I found it hard to
learn how to give it to Him,
00:26:08.42\00:26:10.70
but once you learn to give
it to Him, it becomes easy,
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you don't have to
worry about it anymore.
00:26:13.51\00:26:15.10
For years people asked
me, "What are you going to do"
00:26:16.13\00:26:17.99
"when you grow up? What
is your major going to be?"
00:26:18.02\00:26:19.81
"What college?" I would
worry about all of these things,
00:26:19.85\00:26:22.17
and now people ask
me, and it doesn't matter,
00:26:22.27\00:26:25.91
whatever the
Lord says, I'm ready.
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It's interesting because what
you just said, when I talked
00:26:28.70\00:26:31.22
to one of the founders of
the station, Danny Shelton,
00:26:31.25\00:26:34.03
I see his faith, and he says,
00:26:34.24\00:26:36.08
say they want to
build something, he says:
00:26:38.91\00:26:40.78
"If God wants us to
have it, it'll happen. "
00:26:41.10\00:26:43.65
and I start thinking about
it, "Well, why am I worrying?"
00:26:45.06\00:26:48.29
because that is so
true, if God wants us to have,
00:26:48.39\00:26:50.97
no matter what it is you
want, if you're a young person,
00:26:51.01\00:26:53.03
you want a car and your parents
said "we don't have the money",
00:26:53.07\00:26:56.87
if it's God's will,
God will bless your parents
00:26:56.97\00:26:59.64
with the money,
and it will happen.
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So as we trust in
God, we just believe,
00:27:02.26\00:27:04.79
and that's the
thing, we have to believe
00:27:04.92\00:27:06.55
that He's capable and able
to do all that He says He'll do.
00:27:07.07\00:27:10.32
It's not just a certain
time frame, sometimes you have
00:27:10.66\00:27:13.82
to wait for what
you asked God for,
00:27:13.85\00:27:16.65
like my grandmother, she's
building her dream house now.
00:27:16.80\00:27:21.26
She had to wait 40 years for it,
but she's finally getting it.
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So she's getting what she
prayed for, 40 years later.
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Well, thank you
Raquel, and Claudette,
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I'm sorry for cutting you off,
00:27:31.79\00:27:33.02
but we have come to the
point where we have to close.
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It's been wonderful and I
believe the thing that we all
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have learned today, and
what I have learned, is that
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we need to trust
in God, and believe.
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Again, I thank you for joining
us here at Teen Pathways.
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