Hola, bienvenidos.
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Wait a minute,
this isn't 3ABN Latino,
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this is 3ABN's
Dare to Dream Network.
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My name is Jason Bradley,
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and you are
watching Urban Report.
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Hello and
welcome to Urban Report.
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My guests today are
John and Idalia Dinzey.
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John is the general
manger of 3ABN Latino,
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and his lovely wife is
the administrative assistant
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for the network.
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Welcome to Urban Report.
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Well, thank you.
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Thank you, it's a
blessing to be here.
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It's great to have
you here. Thank you.
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Thank you for the
invitation, Jason.
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Well, this is the first time
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you've ever
been on Urban Report.
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That is right.
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That's right.
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We've been trying to
get you, but you know,
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things keep coming up.
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I want our viewers to find
out a little bit about you.
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You've been here for longer
than I have been here and so...
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What brought you to 3ABN?
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Well, the short
answer is the Lord.
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Ah, because umm,
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I had heard of 3ABN
but I didn't have any idea
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that the Lord
would bring me here
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and it all
started with a letter.
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Mm-hmm, it
started with a letter.
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What did the letter say?
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Well, I was in Germany. Okay.
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I was actually in the army.
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And I received a
letter from Gonzales Santos,
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3ABN's first employee.
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And he said,
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"I don't know
where you getting out,
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but I would like for you
to consider the possibility
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of you coming to work at 3ABN."
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Okay.
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Now you see
that's very interesting
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because I had told the Lord,
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please Lord let me
know what You want me to do
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when there's one year
left for me to be in the army.
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And so when that
letter came, he says,
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"What do you mean, no?"
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I'm supposed to
go to the university
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and study to be a pastor
and do these other things.
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And so, I looked at
the calendar and I said,
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wait a minute, it is one year
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and so I said
well, maybe it seems like
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the Lord wants me to go
to 3ABN and explore this.
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So that's how we started. Wow.
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And how did you end up here?
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How did I end up here,
that is a long, long story.
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But to make it short,
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I met John Dinzey
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in South Chicago Hispanic
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Okay.
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When he went to
visit his father,
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and I was
invited to participate.
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Back then I used to
sing and do concerts and all.
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So they invited me
to sing that Sabbath.
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So when I approached the church,
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and I was trying
to get into building,
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he distracted me.
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He interrupted my plans.
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Okay.
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Well, it seems like it
was a good interruption
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'cause here you're
since married to him
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we know for years.
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Well, the Lord has His plans
that we don't know about them
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until they start to unfold.
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And you see when I saw her
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she was carrying
this big heavy case.
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And so I offered to help.
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Nice.
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Several reasons to not do it.
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Good. Good.
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So, okay, so you got the letter
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and you ended up...
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Where you met?
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I met him at that
church but, you know...
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I have to say this if I may?
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Sorry to interrupt you, honey.
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But the night before
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I was praying to
the Lord and I said,
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"Lord, I don't know if
you have someone for me."
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I think I was like 29.
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I'm 29 years old,
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I'm just wondering if
you have somebody for me.
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If there is someone
that you have for me,
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please let me know.
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If it's somebody that I
know and I haven't noticed her,
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please let me know.
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But if somebody I'm gonna
meet in the future, let me know.
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But if you have no one
for me, let me know also,
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because I don't
want to be in expectation
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that You have someone for me
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and then there is nobody for me.
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I said, "I'm
willing to be single
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if that's what
You want me to do,
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but like You gave
Paul, give me grace to stand.
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The next day I met her.
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But that Friday night, I
was cancelling everything,
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I was like mom you know what...
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Because it was a
step uncle of mine
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that invited me
to go down and sing.
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Okay.
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And so, I said, when
you people get together,
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you talk about many
years ago and whatever ago,
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and this happens a
lot in the families,
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with the family gatherings,
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where friends getting together
and the kids are sitting aside
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not having anything to
do with the conversation,
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because we didn't know John Doe.
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But there, you know, carrying on
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with so many beautiful,
funny or crazy memories.
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Yes. And I said, I'm gonna...
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I'm gonna be not even
like a fly on the wall,
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because at least
the fly gets attention.
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Somebody wants to smash it right
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or get it out of the house.
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And I said, you know what?
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I'm not for attention,
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but I wanted to be
included, you know.
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So I said, "Mom, it's
best for me not to go."
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And she said this,
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"I promise you that as soon
as you are ready to come home,
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we will come back home."
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We are talking about an
hour and a half distance
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and when my mother said that,
I'm like, "Are you serious?
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I mean, are you okay?
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Are you feeling ill?"
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But she meant it.
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So that's what why I
went in the next day,
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so I was ready to just stay home
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or go to my local
church, but we met there.
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Okay.
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Do you mind, if I tell you
what I thought when I saw her?
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No, what did you think?
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I said.
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Don't ask me, what I
thought when I saw him?
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I said, "This is
a beautiful girl."
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And then, "I said, no, no, no.
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I lived about five
hours away, she is a visitor
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and I probably
never see her again."
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So it was like,
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I need to put
her out of my mind,
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because she is a visitor
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and I would
probably never see her again.
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She went to the
church where I grew up in.
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My father was
still attending there,
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and I will go and
see him once a month.
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So I knew the
people that were there.
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When I saw her,
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she seemed to be a visitor
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'cause I had
never seen her before
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and she is just passing through,
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I'll never see her again.
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Plus I live
over five hours away.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So it was a little long distance
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type of relationship there
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that was about to start.
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Yes, yes.
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Okay.
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So were you guys
always in the church
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or were you ever
out of the church?
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Ladies first.
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Well, mother...
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I was born and
raised in Puerto Rico,
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and my mother was
seeking for truth.
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She got involved in studying
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with different denominations,
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attending
different churches and all.
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But when I was little,
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she became a
Seventh-day Adventist.
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I loved the church life
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when I was a
young girl, adolescent.
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It was really fun
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because in our country,
you know, in Puerto Rico,
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we have pathfinders,
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like there is
then here in the States
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and also, we have a
lot of youth activities
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door-to-door and
we loved all that.
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So eventually I came
through the years, when I said,
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you know, I'm driving,
I'm old enough to do my...
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Whatever I wanna
do and I would say,
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"Mom, I'm gonna
go to this church
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instead of going..."
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And I wouldn't
go to that church,
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I would probably
go to another activity
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that was not Sabbath related.
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So I had my years of
rebellion to say the least.
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Okay.
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And what about you?
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From the earliest memory,
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I used to go to church
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and practically all my life
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I never really took a detour.
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I call it, never took a detour,
always stayed in the church.
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Praise the Lord.
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I would like to
transition a little bit
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into how 3ABN
Latino got started.
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How did that take place?
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Well, it was a long process.
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It started when I
was single, the idea,
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because I will try to
go through this quickly
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because of limited time.
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When I arrived at 3ABN in 1989.
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I came to 3ABN and not knowing
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that 3ABN was broadcasting
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one and half hours
of Spanish programming
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every single
day, seven days a week
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from 4:30 or from 4,
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yeah, from 4:30 to 6.
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Every day, about
three months later
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it went down from
seven days to five days.
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Now I took a
notice of this and I...
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Oh man, they went
down to five days,
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that's okay, we still have five.
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Now thanks to the Lord
working through Gonzales Santos
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that's where
the programming came
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'cause I had no idea
where it had come from.
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So that was '99 year already,
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about 1991...
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No, it was 1992, 1992,
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I was in Puerto Rico
because 3ABN had purchased
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a television station
in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Okay.
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Puerto Rico, they
speak some English,
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but mainly Spanish.
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So the idea was,
3ABN was partnering
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with the East
Puerto Rico Conference
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
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and we were helping
them to build this studio,
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so we can produce
Spanish programs there.
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While I was there
for several months,
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I received the program
guide and now I noticed
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that we went from
five days to three days.
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Wow. That's 1992.
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So it was going...
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It was going down.
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Back and back.
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So I called and I
spoke to Bobby Davis.
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You know Bobby Davis?
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And he was the
program director at that time.
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Okay.
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And I said,
"Bobby, what's going on?"
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Now, there are two less
days of Spanish programming
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and we need more.
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And he said, "Well,
that was not my decision.
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You have to talk
to administration."
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Yes.
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I said, "Well, I would
like to talk to them about that
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because we need more
Spanish programming not less."
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"I wish you would," he said.
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So when the phone call ended,
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there was a question
that came to my mind.
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The question was this,
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are we going to
need a Spanish channel?
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I thought about
that for a few minutes,
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then forgot it,
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but planned to
talk to administration
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as soon as I get back.
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About two months later,
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I spoke to administration
and I was told, well...
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And I made my
little preparation,
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you know, I'm
gonna pitch my idea
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that we need more
Spanish programming
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and I was told, well,
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this is an English
speaking language channel
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and when we put on
Spanish programming
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we lose 95% of our
viewers and you know what?
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That hurt me.
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I said wow!
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95% of the people
either turn off the TV
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or go to other channel.
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And that was...
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I didn't want
that to happen. Yes.
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And so then I was told
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perhaps we can do an
evangelistic campaign
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for the Spanish
people something to...
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We still want to
minister to them.
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And so when the
meeting was over,
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I stepped out of the
meeting with the idea go...
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You know what I was told go...
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See if we can do a
Spanish evangelistic campaign.
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But remember I
had a question before,
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are we going to
need a Spanish channel?
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Yeah.
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When I walked
out of the meeting,
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there wasn't a question anymore.
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That thought came to my mind,
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we are going to
need a Spanish channel,
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that was 1992.
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I told you it was a process.
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Yes, yes.
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So afterwards, I got
married and things...
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What year was that, Mr. Dinzey?
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1994.
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Oh, okay.
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Oh, boy, make sure
you get that right.
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May 15, 1994.
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That's right.
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We are praising the Lord,
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we have about 25
years of marriage.
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Wow!
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But anyway
cutting the story short,
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it was the year 2000
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when I presented the
idea to Danny Shelton.
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Okay.
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That I shared the
idea, this with a few people,
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now it would
trigger this coming out,
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there were several
years of, Lord, what do we do?
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How do we go about this?
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Is it enough that I see
that there's a need for this
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and I didn't know
how to go about it.
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I, you know, I'm wondering,
Lord, how do we do this thing?
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And I didn't really see
3ABN heading in that direction,
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so I'm wondering if
3ABN would be the vehicle
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through which the Lord
will have a Spanish channel.
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Even thought, I asked myself,
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Lord, do I need to leave
3ABN to start a Spanish channel?
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I was willing to do what
the Lord wanted me to do,
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but it was Danny at a new...
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You been the very first day,
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you came to
3ABN, what day it was?
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Prayer meeting.
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It was the day of
prayer. Oh, the day of prayer.
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The day of prayer,
So on a day of prayer,
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Danny said
something that just caught me
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and he said, "If
you have something
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that the Lord
has put in your heart
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to do for the Lord in ministry,
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come and talk to me.
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And I learned a few
things rather through years,
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I may be able to help you."
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Danny doesn't
remember saying that.
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Wow!
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But I said, if the
Lord spoke through him to me
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and I said I'll do it, I
will come and talk to you.
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So I decided to
prepare myself and figure out
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how many Spanish
people are there in the US.
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Census was coming out
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and the US was shocked
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that there were so many
Spanish people in the US.
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It was gonna pass the
African-American community
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as far as a minority.
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Wow!
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And so I start to say, well,
this is gonna be on satellite,
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so it's gonna
reach other countries.
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So I started looking
into other countries,
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and I'm talking to my
wife during all this process
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and you know,
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the population in
the US is gonna be,
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you know, close to 40
million by the year 2025
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and, you know, things like
that I was sharing with her.
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Did you know that the US
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is like the second
country in the world
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that has Spanish people?
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I thought, you
know, sharing information.
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And so, I start
looking into other countries
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and I learned that Spanish
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is the second
language in the world
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as far as first
speakers as people
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that speak it as
their first language.
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Native tongue. Native tongue.
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And I say, I had no idea
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and so there are different...
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There's different
data when you talk about
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a second language,
English is number two.
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Now you might be
wondering, who is number one?
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Who is number one?
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Yeah, who is number one?
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The Chinese.
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Really? Okay.
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Because the
Chinese have mandarin,
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they have like
over 800 million people.
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Yes.
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You see, the
Spanish people at that time
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I started researching
was about 335 million.
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So English was
the third language
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as far as number of speakers.
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Okay.
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But when you talk
about second language
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and first language
speakers, English is number two.
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So you recognized
the need for 3ABN Latino,
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you needed a channel
that was or a network
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that was going to be in Spanish.
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Yes.
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And so, and there
were a lot of Hispanics...
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Yes, yes.
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That needed to be
reached with the gospel.
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Now, one of the
point is this, Jason,
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because Spanish people
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for many years they
have the dubbing, you see,
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but what I learned from at 3ABN
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being a part of
NET '95, NET '96,
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NET '98, NET '99
is that Spanish people
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prefer to hear their own people
speak in their own language.
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You see at NET '95
we have Mark Finley
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preaching in
English and the translation,
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NET '96 Mark Finley English
and a Spanish translation.
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And the translation
sometimes you lose a little bit.
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Yeah.
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And so the people were saying,
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when the Spanish people
got together and made NET '99,
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there was no NET '99 in English,
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we had a Spanish NET '99.
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Right.
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3ABN helped or worked with
the North America division.
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Our truck went
to Orlando, Florida,
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Idalia remembers very well,
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and the amount
of people calling,
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the amount of
people that were baptized
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went through the roof.
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Wow!
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And it was a
tremendous blessing.
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Historical.
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Historical,
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tremendous testimonies came out,
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so it wasn't that
we needed 3ABN English
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and then a
dubbing, while we do that.
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Or close captioning.
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Or close captioning.
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Now we do some of that,
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but the majority had to be
Spanish language programming
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by Spanish speaking people.
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Yes, yes.
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So, you guys
travel a lot, right?
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So where are some of the
places that you have been?
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And what are some
testimonies of some people
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whose lives have been
touched by the ministry of 3ABN?
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Now, let me say real quick
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and try to say in
less than a minute.
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The Lord blessed for
3ABN Latino to be launched
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in the year 2003.
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Okay.
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And the Lord just
blessed tremendously.
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So we have been able to travel
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to many
different countries almost.
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Well, there are
few Spanish countries
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we have not been to...
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Okay.
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But there are
wonderful testimonies
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and maybe
Idalia can start us off
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with the testimonies.
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Yes.
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My mind is flooded.
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But for the honor
and glory to the Lord,
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the labor that
we do here at 3ABN,
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our staff is
mainly non-bilingual.
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Non-bilingual as far
as Spanish and English,
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we also have 3ABN French
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but our staff is
mainly just English speaking.
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So we work in the
team with all the cameramen
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and the directors that
don't speak the language,
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but we have someone translating
in the control rooms,
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you know, for the director.
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As we share and air the programs
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sometimes the camera is cold,
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you know the room
is lonely and all.
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But it's not until
you receive those letters,
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phone calls, you
know, or messages,
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there you feel like wow,
they are really listening.
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One of the most
memorable moments...
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that I have We went to a country
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and we had done a
topic on family issues,
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how to resolve conflict
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between husband
and wife in families?
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And it was interesting
to me that this family
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of three children
mother and father,
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the little boy says,
00:18:53.70\00:18:55.00
"I know what your
husband does to you
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and you don't like it."
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Wow!
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And I'm like, you do?
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I mean this was just adults,
you know, in the program...
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And he knew exactly what it was,
00:19:05.51\00:19:08.28
so I was surprised
00:19:08.31\00:19:09.84
that even children
watch the programming.
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Whether it's a
children program,...
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you know, with
for their age group
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or for adults.
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All that to say
that sometimes we think
00:19:20.79\00:19:23.29
that our kids are not
listening but they really are.
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And they are very honest.
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Yes, they are.
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Kids are pretty honest.
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So we've talked to parents
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who leave the
television on all night long,
00:19:31.93\00:19:34.67
because their kids are out there
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drinking, doing drugs, partying
00:19:36.50\00:19:39.37
and they are praying that
00:19:39.41\00:19:41.41
something would attract them,
00:19:41.44\00:19:44.48
something would
catch their attention.
00:19:44.51\00:19:47.05
And this was so in
a couple of young men,
00:19:47.12\00:19:51.02
but in particular I
would like to tell you
00:19:51.05\00:19:53.22
about this
young man in Colombia,
00:19:53.25\00:19:56.73
who was raped...
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He was...
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He would rape young
girls or he would...
00:20:01.00\00:20:04.57
He is a gang member, he
would fight, he would...
00:20:04.60\00:20:07.30
Everybody was
afraid of him, everybody,
00:20:07.34\00:20:09.74
so when his
mother called, she said,
00:20:09.77\00:20:13.64
He's a change man
00:20:13.68\00:20:15.14
because of the youth
program day you had on."
00:20:15.18\00:20:17.61
Wow!
00:20:17.65\00:20:18.98
He is studying
to be a pastor now.
00:20:19.01\00:20:20.38
Wow!
00:20:20.42\00:20:21.75
So you know, when you
think about these things to say,
00:20:21.78\00:20:25.49
that's a good idea,
00:20:25.52\00:20:26.86
he'd never thought of
leaving the television on.
00:20:26.92\00:20:29.26
Of course I
don't have that need,
00:20:29.29\00:20:30.63
praise the Lord,
00:20:30.69\00:20:32.03
to have to have my children
00:20:32.06\00:20:34.23
come in the middle
of the morning or night
00:20:34.30\00:20:37.00
drugged and or drunk.
00:20:37.03\00:20:39.20
I see he was
drugged lying on a couch,
00:20:39.23\00:20:42.44
you think they
are not listening,
00:20:42.47\00:20:44.24
he sure was.
00:20:44.27\00:20:45.61
So for the glory of
God, he is a pastor now.
00:20:45.64\00:20:50.18
Wow!
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What kind of
programs can someone expects
00:20:51.58\00:20:54.15
to see on 3ABN Latino?
00:20:54.18\00:20:56.85
If you are familiar
with Dare to Dream 3ABN,
00:20:56.92\00:21:01.42
we have the same
variety of programming,
00:21:01.46\00:21:04.16
we have health programs,
we have exercise programs,
00:21:04.23\00:21:07.50
we have children's
programs, we have music,
00:21:07.50\00:21:10.53
we have evangelistic campaigns,
00:21:10.57\00:21:12.47
we have marriage seminars
00:21:12.50\00:21:13.84
as Idalia was
talking about and...
00:21:13.90\00:21:16.57
Stop smoking.
00:21:16.60\00:21:17.94
Stop smoking programs. Nice.
00:21:17.97\00:21:20.44
And all of them work
together to help people
00:21:20.48\00:21:25.41
get better health,
learn about the Lord,
00:21:25.45\00:21:27.62
draw families
together and prepare
00:21:27.65\00:21:30.45
for the second
coming of Jesus Christ.
00:21:30.49\00:21:31.92
The programming that
is giving people hope
00:21:31.95\00:21:34.32
and helping
people get out of drugs,
00:21:34.36\00:21:37.49
I mean there are stories
in each, every one of these.
00:21:37.53\00:21:40.56
What about that taxi
driver that young people
00:21:40.60\00:21:44.97
were talking
about 3ABN in the car?
00:21:45.00\00:21:47.57
Oh, yes.
00:21:47.60\00:21:48.94
There was a taxi
driver and it's interesting
00:21:48.97\00:21:50.34
because these people
were talking in Portuguese
00:21:50.37\00:21:54.54
and since he didn't
understand Portuguese,
00:21:54.58\00:21:56.78
he thought they were Americans.
00:21:56.81\00:21:58.58
And so they are talking
00:21:58.61\00:22:01.42
and the only world he
caught was the word Adventist
00:22:01.45\00:22:06.35
because it sounds
very close to Adventista.
00:22:06.39\00:22:08.72
Yes.
00:22:08.76\00:22:10.13
And he turned around,
00:22:10.16\00:22:11.49
he actually put the
brakes on in the car
00:22:11.53\00:22:15.63
and they are like,
00:22:15.66\00:22:17.53
are you guys
Seventh-day Adventists?
00:22:17.57\00:22:19.07
And then they
said, "Yes, we are."
00:22:19.10\00:22:23.41
Like why did you stop the car?
00:22:23.47\00:22:24.81
Yeah, yeah.
00:22:24.84\00:22:26.17
He had been
watching 3ABN Latino,
00:22:26.21\00:22:28.64
he showed Idalia and me
notes that he had taken...
00:22:28.68\00:22:33.38
Yes, notebooks. I
mean two notebooks...
00:22:33.42\00:22:35.48
Thick notebooks.
00:22:35.52\00:22:36.85
With pictures, graphic of...
00:22:36.89\00:22:38.99
All the sermons.
00:22:39.02\00:22:40.36
Sermons.
00:22:40.42\00:22:41.76
He had been watching,
his life was transformed,
00:22:41.79\00:22:44.13
he used to mistreat his family.
00:22:44.19\00:22:46.66
And it was...
00:22:46.70\00:22:48.00
He was a
totally transformed man.
00:22:48.03\00:22:50.23
He would take his
daughter to the night life,
00:22:50.30\00:22:52.87
you know, just
partying and nothing.
00:22:52.90\00:22:55.90
Just to get his wife upset.
00:22:55.94\00:22:57.67
Yeah, so he has like...
00:22:57.71\00:23:01.21
If I remember
correctly there were five girls.
00:23:01.24\00:23:03.45
Five girls. Five daughters.
00:23:03.48\00:23:04.98
And two boys.
00:23:05.01\00:23:06.35
The husband and wife
00:23:06.38\00:23:07.72
and he shared with
us what he used to do.
00:23:07.75\00:23:13.59
But once he learned of
Christ through 3ABN Latino,
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his life turned around.
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And the Lord blessed
us with the opportunity
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of meeting this family.
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Wow!
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So it was humbling,
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it is humbling to see
how the Lord transforms
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the lives of those
people who have been in such a,
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the wrong path and
they said choose...
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I have chosen this
day who I will serve
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as for me and my
house, we will serve the Lord.
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So it's a...
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It's humbling really, it is.
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Yeah.
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Absolutely.
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Wow, to know that, you know,
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that God is using you
to reach so many people
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for His honor and His glory
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is definitely a
humbling experience,
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definitely a
humbling experience.
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Well, we
continue with the guys...
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Well, we went to a prison.
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We have gone to hospitals,
we have gone to orphanages,
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we have gone to prisons
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and whenever we are
abroad outside of the US
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and it's funny how the systems
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are very
indifferent in countries.
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But we went to visit a young man
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that was in prison.
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Do you remember it, the one in?
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Mexico? Yes.
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Yes, we remember the guy
in Mexico and we were doing...
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We were invited to do an
evangelistic campaign there.
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Okay.
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And he was out inviting people
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and he was also trying
to saving money to buy a car
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and the people that
sold a car to him cheated him
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and gave him a
car that was stolen.
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So that's how he
wound up in prison.
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Wow!
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So he was very sad
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because he was going to
miss the evangelistic campaign.
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And they told us about him
and we asked, "Where is he?
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We would like to go see him."
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You're willing to go
see him and we said, "Sure."
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Oh, they were very happy
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and when he saw
us there, he was...
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He didn't expect us,
he was so happy, he cried,
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I mean there were like
22 people coming to see him.
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Now this...
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We had never been
to a prison in Mexico,
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we have been to prisons
in the US visiting people,
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you know, where
you going to this room
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and there like a cafeteria area,
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you sit in chairs,
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but this is like you
walk into the building,
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they check you in
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and then you
walk out of a building
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and it's like you are in a yard.
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Okay, yeah.
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And then you can
go to wherever there
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and all around you are
people that are in prison.
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Yes.
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Okay, I wanted you to share that
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because one of the main
points in the story is that
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3ABN is the tool in
the hands of the Lord.
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But the personal ministry,
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every member of the church
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has the responsibility
to hug that person,
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to you know, visit
that person in prison.
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Yeah.
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Share the love of Christ,
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even in
uncomfortable situations.
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That's right.
That's right. Absolutely.
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So we praise the
Lord at 3ABN Latinos
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on over 1,300 cable companies.
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Wow, 1,300 cable companies.
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And it's amazing
what God has been doing
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and we are just humbled
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and privileged
to be a part of it.
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What are some of the
needs for 3ABN Latino?
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I'll let Idalia
talk about that one.
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Well, I'm gonna have
to say it to cover it all,
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I know money isn't
everything but the funding
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because the funding,
00:26:39.19\00:26:40.96
the donations that
is received to 3ABN
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is what equips us
to be able to do more.
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We definitely need more
Spanish children's program
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and more Spanish youth programs.
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We many times here,
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all of our youth
are not doing anything,
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they're lazy.
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No, they are not,
00:26:58.31\00:26:59.65
they are waiting
for an opportunity.
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Yes.
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And we have
evangelistic crusades pending
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that we'd like to do
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and evangelistic series
by children for children,
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children preachers
and also youth to youth.
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And what's your website?
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3ABNLatino.
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.tv .tv, yes.
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Since she was
speaking in Spanish.
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Yeah, she started
to speak in Spanish.
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Everything's in Spanish there.
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3ABNLatino.tv,
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and that's where people
can go and they can donate,
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they can also watch as well.
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Also you're on the app,
00:27:27.94\00:27:30.05
you're on the
3ABN app on Fire TV.
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YouTube net... YouTube channel.
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YouTube channel.
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All of that, Facebook? Yes.
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You got a Facebook
page, all of those things.
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It's amazing, it's
amazing, truly blessing.
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Glad that I was able
to sit down with you guys
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and finally talk to
you and introduce you
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to our Urban
Report viewing audience.
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It's been a pleasure. Thank you.
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Yes, great to have you.
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Well, we have reached
the end of another program.
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Thanks for tuning in.
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