3ABN is on the move.
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Stay tuned for highlights
from our latest adventure.
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My name is Jason Bradley,
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and you're
watching Urban Report.
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Hello and
welcome to Urban Report.
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My guest today
are Greg Morikone,
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3ABN President,
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his wife Jill
Morikone, 3ABN Vice President,
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and COO Pastor John Lomacang,
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pastor of the Thompsonville
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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and Angela Lomacang,
3ABN Radio editor and host.
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Later, we will be
joined by Tim Parton.
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A little bit
later in the program.
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Welcome to Urban Report, guys.
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Good to be here, Jay. Yeah.
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Good to have you guys here.
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This is kind of a
different setting for us.
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This is the 3ABN Today Island.
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Calling you my neighbor
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because our offices
are close to each other.
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That's right. Good to
be with you, neighbor.
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That's right.
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Good to be here
with you too, neighbor.
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And we're trying to
keep a little spacing,
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you know, we are
doing a little spacing.
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So, we have the
couples together.
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That's right.
Couples, couples, single.
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Yeah, if we're sick
we just have to pay.
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You gotta give it to each other.
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That's right. That's right.
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You guys, keep that over there.
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Give you a fist
bump, you know what I mean.
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No, no. There you go.
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That's right.
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You know, one of
the things that I miss
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is being able to travel.
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You know, God's
timing is impeccable.
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You know, we made it to Trinidad
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right after carnival.
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And we got out of
Trinidad right before COVID-19.
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So, it was kind of an
in between type of thing.
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What are some highlights
from the trip to Trinidad?
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Greg, you want to...
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Well, I have to say
going to Trinidad and Tobago
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is the first time for
Jill and myself to be there.
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I know Pastor John and Angie,
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you've been there several
times to Trinidad and Tibago
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but the first time for us,
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it was a wonderful time.
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It was nice.
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As Jill mentioned,
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it's like going
to see our family.
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Those family
we've never met before.
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But the welcome was
absolutely incredible.
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The leadership there
from the local conference
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from Dr. Moses
through went to Tobago
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and we have Elder Mapp.
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Yes. Mission president there.
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And, of course, Rodney Reynolds,
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who is our official
3ABN volunteer representative
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there in Trinidad and Tobago.
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And, of course, Diamond Andrews,
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as well and just
pulling all of that off for us
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to have an incredible
time, visiting all the churches,
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meeting all the people, it
was a busy schedule, Jason.
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It was very busy.
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But it was a blessing and
the food is fantastic, too.
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Yes. Amen.
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Yes, in.
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Yeah, we went to
several churches.
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In fact, I had to
bring a list. Yeah.
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So, we're gonna go to, I
know you love the list, Jill.
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We're gonna go
down the list here.
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We went to San Fernando
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Then we went to Stanmore Avenue
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
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we went to Mount St. George
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
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Pioneer
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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and University of
the Southern Caribbean.
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Yes, a lot.
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And we went to schools
in between all of that,
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and then to a cable network.
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Pastor Lomacang and Angela,
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what stood out to
you about this trip?
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Oh, it was like
going home for me
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because of my Caribbean
roots from Jamaica, my family.
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And what stood
out was the people,
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love, love, love
people and the children.
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The children were amazing.
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They were so bubbly
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and so full of
love and the enthusiasm.
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I mean, and it was good,
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rekindling old
friendship with the Louis's,
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Pastor Louis
and his wife, Alice,
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who we met many years ago,
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and it's so nice
to see them again.
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But the spiritual,
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the spiritual part of it
to me was such a highlight.
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You know,
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just meeting the
people and watching them.
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They had their Bibles,
they were into the Word of God
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and it was just wonderful.
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And my husband
did a wonderful job,
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I must say, as
well as my sister Jill,
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the Lord blessed both
of them in an amazing way.
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And the Lord was
appraised and uplifted.
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And that was,
there was so much more,
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but it was just being there,
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seeing the people again for me.
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And you know,
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being there in
Trinidad as my wife mentioned,
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rekindling friendships
that we've had before.
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But then knowing
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that we were getting an
opportunity to meet people
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that we don't see,
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you know, we look at this camera
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and we say, whatever we say.
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And when we get
to the other side,
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you begin to see the endearment.
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I think that's the
word that fits really with,
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there's an
endearment that people have.
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They hold you at a
high level of expectation.
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They hold you
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at a high level
of responsibility.
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Everything we say
and do on this program
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is listened to and watched.
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And when you go to
these particular fields
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like Trinidad and Tobago,
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people, there's
moving stories when I met,
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I met a number of
people but when people say
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I'm in the
church because of 3ABN.
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I love that.
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Or you preached a sermon
that turned my life around,
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and here I am because of that.
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And then years ago
when we were there,
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there was a
gentleman we baptized
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after really
spending time with him
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just begging and
pleading with him
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to give his life to the Lord.
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And what a joy, the
church that Jill preached,
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what was the name of the church,
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Stanmore Adventist.
Stanmore Adventist Church.
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We were there,
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this gentleman walked
in with a smile on his face
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look like, I
thought, why do I know him
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and he said X
amount of years ago,
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remember me, you
came to my house,
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because my wife and his
wife was standing there,
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like a silent
person of confirmation,
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and thanking the Lord, and
so to see many years later,
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because you don't get
a chance to see people
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like 15 years
later down the road
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and you think 15 years ago,
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you didn't even
want to think about God
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and the Lord
through our efforts,
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just struggle with you.
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And he said and here I am
and I'm still in the church.
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So that was a highlight.
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And then the
sermons, meeting people
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and getting a
chance to know that.
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See, for me a sermon is
more than just communicating
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what I've learned.
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To me, I feel like I'm a conduit
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at that moment.
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God has chosen me like a faucet.
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He's the water on the faucet.
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And I asked, Lord,
just open the pipes.
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Yes.
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And I'll allow you
to pour through me.
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And I sense that,
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and I was so excited about that.
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So, I take a
very serious approach.
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And then we made altar calls
to people that we had known
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and there's a gentleman we
met on the plane in Tobago,
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and then he ended up
coming to the meetings
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and when we made
the call on Sabbath,
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he came forward
and gave his life.
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So those spiritual highlights
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and the other part
that really stands out
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and I know we'll all
say something about this.
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We knew that when
the sermon was done,
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we had three hours still before,
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before we went...
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People, lots of
people. That's true.
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Yeah, they love
3ABN. And we took pictures.
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And it was so good
to be there before Co...
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Because if the COVID
virus had gotten there.
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Yes.
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We had to come
home with it. Oh, yes.
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We were touching
and hugging people.
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Oh, yeah.
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We actually have
people take pictures with us,
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it was just so personal,
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the children
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and the funny
skits that they did.
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Oh, yes.
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You know, Trinidad
left us and when we left,
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it felt sad to disconnect
and there are many people say
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remember me and
one gentleman said,
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when you do the
next live program
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could you call on my name
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and I kind of
give you a shout out.
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Sure, I thought I
wrote his name down
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but I didn't,
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but my shout out
comes to you anyway.
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Yes, yes But praise the Lord.
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Trinidad was everything
that and then a whole lot more.
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Amen. Only one regret.
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What's that?
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I wish I was
there for one more day
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to go to the
Nylon Pool in Tobago.
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Outside of that,
everything was just...
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Praise the Lord. Well,
we've been there before.
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We've been there before.
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Well, I wanted my
partners seeing it.
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Yes, that would
have been wonderful.
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Jill, what stood
out to you? Oh, wow.
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The people, that
would be number one,
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for me was the
people was incredible
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just to realize that
it was our first time
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as Greg mentioned to
go to Trinidad and Tobago,
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but just to meet you there and
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to know that
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you are part of the 3ABN family.
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I remember meeting Philip,
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this was Monday night
at this Sanford Church.
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And I remember meeting
him and Pastor Lewis said,
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Greg and Jill,
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why don't you
come in and meet him
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and we sat in the
study and then very next day,
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he was baptized in the ocean
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because he had
been watching 3ABN.
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Amen.
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I think of people who
walked into the church
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and made decisions for Jesus
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and came forward
at the altar calls.
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I think of the people
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who have been
long standing members,
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you could say at the 3ABN family
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who watched for years,
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who helped launch 3ABN on cable.
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Right.
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Who just dedicated
to spread the gospel.
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I think in Matthew 24, it says,
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"This gospel of the
kingdom will be preached
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in all the world as a
witness to all nations,
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and then the end shall come."
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And the people in
Trinidad and Tobago
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are doing their part
to spread this gospel
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and joining hands together
with the ministry of 3ABN.
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We are on cable in
10 cable systems there.
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And it's evident
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because people
just off the street know
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and love the ministry of 3ABN.
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Amen.
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So, part of it
was just the people
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and just getting to meet
our brothers and sisters.
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Another part for
me was our 3ABN team.
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You all are amazing,
Pastor John, the Lord used you,
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those messages every night,
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you know when on Sabbath
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to be able to
minister the Word of God.
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It's brought to the people.
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The music you
brought, the music, I know
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Tim's coming on later
but the music he brought.
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Angie shared
about radio every night.
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And you would say,
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well, I'm not
sure I'm gonna get up
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but you did an incredible job
at ministering to the people.
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Aunt Francine was
there with the kids
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ministering to
the kids and Jason.
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I know, Jay, you talked
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about Dare to
Dream and ministered.
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Amanda was
there, Jason was there.
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Amanda, that's right.
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And you talked every
night so we heard about 3ABN.
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So just we had a great time
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and the bus together
is getting a bit carsick.
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Yeah, traveling together,
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but it was an
incredible experience.
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Yeah, riding the maxi taxi
to the red and white buses.
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Yeah, it was a great time.
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And Brother Steve, our driver.
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Oh, Brother Steve. Yes.
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We were in some tight places.
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Yes. And Brother
Steve got us out.
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We were so, he
was holding our breath
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in the bus,
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sucking our
tummies and to make sure
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we can make a lot of count.
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It was amazing.
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Some of us might have
been closing our eyes,
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I'm just saying.
People close their eyes.
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There're some turns
I caught Jill off guard
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and Greg had to
hold her from sliding.
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Yeah.
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But Jill the list
lady, they knew you.
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Wherever Jill stood up to
speak and stand more they said,
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the list lady is here tonight.
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I think it was
somewhere along those lines
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but praise the Lord.
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You know, I like you rightly,
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rightly divide
the Word of truth.
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We have a
confidence in a solemn approach
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to God's Word.
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So, Praise the Lord.
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So, we ministered,
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you know, the Lord said
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your part is
spread on all flesh,
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is maidservants,
the man servants.
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And you did so in Trinidad. Yes.
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And speaking of which,
Jill, what did you preach about?
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I spoke twice, once
was in Stanmore Avenue
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and then of course
for Sabbath school.
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We did, we were studying
Daniel when we were there.
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But at Stanmore I
talked about who am I,
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not only who am I in
Christ but who will I be,
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and how I share
that with others.
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So, in Christ, I am accepted,
I am forgiven, but in Christ,
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I will forgive, in
Christ. I will accept others.
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Amen, amen.
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And, Pastor Lomacang,
what did you preach about?
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Well, one of the sermons I
did was entitled Go Forward.
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And the points that
were very important were,
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you know, we're living at a time
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where we can't stand still.
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You know, the
points we cannot look back.
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That's right. But
we cannot complain.
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But if you are finding yourself
at any point ever turning back,
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and the things of your
past begin to show up again,
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God allows U turns.
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But it was, He
doesn't only allow you to,
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funny stories, my wife,
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we had this Texas trip
where she kept telling me,
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I was going in
the wrong direction.
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I kept saying, "Honey,
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Texas is big enough
for the same gas station,
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the same rest area
until I saw a green dinosaur."
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And I said this, "Texas
is not big enough for that."
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But anyhow, just reaching
out and saying to the people,
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wherever your life is,
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God is giving you an opportunity
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to turn it around.
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And every night,
you know, I love that
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there was not a
meeting that passed
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that we did not
make an altar call.
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Yes.
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And that was a commitment
and people took it seriously.
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And that's crucial.
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And I think in
our highlight video
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that we're about to go to,
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we have a little glimpse
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of what one of those
altar calls look like.
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So, we're going to
check out the two roles.
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We've got two roles
we're going to look at.
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And then right
after those two roles,
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Tim Parton will be joining us.
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Let's go to those roles now.
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Amazing things.
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They need to rock in up quickly,
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aren't they in this world.
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We don't have much time.
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3ABN is an incredible
avenue to reach those.
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You can be in your living room,
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you can just be in the
comfort of your own chair there
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and tuning the channels and wow.
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To the right Lean forward,
Lean backward To the left
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To the right Stand
up, Sit down To the left
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To the right.
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"The Lord is my
shepherd, I shall not want."
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It is foolish to those
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Who don't choose to believe
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But to me It's the power of God
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I'll cherish.
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You are the One that we praise
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You are the One we adore.
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About 3ABN, it impacted me
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because I changed from
being my original denomination.
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I became a Seventh-day Adventist
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because I believe
in the commandments
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and the fourth one,
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I just wasn't
keeping the Sabbath.
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Well, since then I have
been, I watch 3ABN like 27,
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not 24x7 but 27.
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And I...
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I hope I'm
becoming a better person.
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So as I studied
the Bible for myself
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and I have questions,
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3ABN will help
bring clarification
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because I didn't know I wasn't,
I didn't grew up in any church,
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born in any
church as some would see.
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I heard the
gospel and I accepted it
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and it started to work.
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Be again
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Jesus is coming again
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You know, Rodney, this
has been an exciting week,
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we've been in
Trinidad and Tobago.
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I've never been
to Trinidad before,
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this is my first time.
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And Tobago, I've
never been there either.
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And to see the love of Christ
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that we've seen out here
is absolutely incredible.
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Yeah.
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People are really
passionate about the Lord
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and they really want to
do much more mission work
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to our community
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and to reach
others for sharing Christ.
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Yes.
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Now we've been to
schools, we've been to churches,
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we've been, I mean, we've...
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We've had quite
the busy schedule.
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And it takes a lot to
put all of this together.
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So why don't you talk
briefly about like, what,
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what the
preparation looked like?
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On a preparation
was ground level,
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all booths on the ground,
mobilize volunteers and teams
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in different
parts of the island,
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north, central and south.
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And we just go
through our community,
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the churches, this is
apart from the churches,
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they go out in their community.
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So, we have other team
going out in the community
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in a different way,
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on a different level
and a more impacting.
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So, each of the
churches that we have gone to,
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that is would be
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the San Fernando
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
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Stanmore
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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as well as the Coover
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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All of these locations as well,
00:20:08.34\00:20:10.31
they went into
their communities.
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But our teams went out
further into their community
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and much further in distributing
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100,000 flyers
and a whole lot more.
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We've got 50,000
flyers distributed
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throughout the
press at no charge.
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We didn't use paper ads.
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And that's just some
of what we did as well.
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That's exciting.
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And how long have you
been a volunteer with 3ABN?
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Over 14 years. Over 14 years?
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Yes, yes.
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Well, it was really
exciting to see all the people
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that gave their
heart to the Lord
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during the altar calls
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and wanted to be
baptized and all of that stuff.
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Yes.
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I just want to thank
you for all that you've done
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to put this together.
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And thank you
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for what you do for
the cause of Christ.
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Amen. Thank you.
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That was truly an amazing trip.
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You know, if we
captured every moment,
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we'd be here a lot
longer than 30 minutes.
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We've got Tim
Parton with us now.
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Welcome Tim.
Thanks so much, Jason.
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What were some highlights
that stood out to you?
00:21:06.03\00:21:07.86
You know,
watching that role there,
00:21:07.90\00:21:10.07
just brought
back so many memories
00:21:10.10\00:21:11.50
and right there at the
very end with Rodney Reynolds.
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What a...
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You know, he has been
over here to the States
00:21:17.14\00:21:20.41
and I've worked with him
00:21:20.44\00:21:22.14
at maybe a couple of conventions
00:21:22.18\00:21:24.51
and never really
understood what it was he did
00:21:24.55\00:21:27.32
until you actually go on
00:21:27.35\00:21:29.08
site with
someone and see the work
00:21:29.12\00:21:31.22
that they are doing,
00:21:31.25\00:21:32.59
Rodney, wow, thank you
for the work that you do.
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It's amazing, his heart,
00:21:36.02\00:21:38.63
that the time
that he puts into it,
00:21:38.66\00:21:41.00
so getting to see
what all he does there.
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Everything that has
been said by Pastor John
00:21:45.17\00:21:47.97
and the Morikones
here that everything I did,
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or everything
that they said, the...
00:21:51.51\00:21:53.98
It's a different
dynamic when you go overseas
00:21:54.01\00:21:57.48
and, but this was
specially different,
00:21:57.51\00:22:00.85
you know, you go to
Russia, and it's, there may be,
00:22:00.88\00:22:05.12
maybe the language difference
is a little bit of a barrier.
00:22:05.15\00:22:10.39
So, we don't
quite get the response,
00:22:10.43\00:22:13.63
you know, they're
more of a quiet response.
00:22:13.66\00:22:18.23
These people were very
verbal and very physical.
00:22:18.27\00:22:21.87
Again it was, I mean,
00:22:21.90\00:22:23.74
it was really just
amazing to see the impact
00:22:23.77\00:22:27.04
that 3ABN has and no
glory to any one of us
00:22:27.08\00:22:29.94
but just the, be the opportunity
00:22:29.98\00:22:32.85
to connect with them physically.
00:22:32.88\00:22:35.02
So maybe I can close my eyes
and just go back to the schools
00:22:35.05\00:22:40.22
and then see,
00:22:40.26\00:22:41.76
they just really took
great pride in everything
00:22:41.79\00:22:44.76
in all of their presentations
that they took for us
00:22:44.79\00:22:48.30
and I can only know
that that's just the way
00:22:48.33\00:22:51.00
that they handle
all of their affairs
00:22:51.03\00:22:53.00
is very, very orderly
00:22:53.03\00:22:55.10
and very
respectfully and very well.
00:22:55.14\00:22:57.21
Well, they would do
everything very well.
00:22:57.24\00:22:59.61
So, what an
opportunity we have to travel
00:22:59.64\00:23:04.81
and as you mentioned,
only when it's taken away,
00:23:04.85\00:23:08.08
do you realize what you
miss, we, while we were there,
00:23:08.12\00:23:11.45
we canceled our
trip to Washington State.
00:23:11.49\00:23:14.02
And then the other trips
that we have had planned,
00:23:14.06\00:23:16.52
the little weekend rallies
00:23:16.56\00:23:18.46
which they're not
always as well attended,
00:23:18.49\00:23:22.06
definitely not as well
attended to something like that.
00:23:22.10\00:23:24.30
But we're here in
the States quite often.
00:23:24.33\00:23:26.07
So, you know, we get to do
00:23:26.10\00:23:27.64
these kind of
the statewide rallies
00:23:27.67\00:23:30.81
every month, we try to,
00:23:30.84\00:23:32.37
but for those to be taken away,
00:23:32.41\00:23:35.04
it makes me anxious for
that to be turned around.
00:23:35.08\00:23:38.48
Because traveling, in fact,
this trip here made me realize
00:23:38.51\00:23:42.75
the importance of
connecting with the people
00:23:42.78\00:23:45.22
here in the States
and around the world.
00:23:45.25\00:23:47.46
If we're given the opportunity,
I want to be faithful to go
00:23:47.49\00:23:50.79
because it's
important to connect with people
00:23:50.83\00:23:52.89
and Jesus was all about people,
00:23:52.93\00:23:54.83
everywhere He went,
they were clamoring at Him.
00:23:54.86\00:23:57.10
Of course, He was doing miracles
00:23:57.13\00:23:58.50
and, you know, feeding 5000.
00:23:58.53\00:24:00.87
And so, He had
00:24:00.90\00:24:03.30
a bit of a
different marketing strategy.
00:24:03.34\00:24:06.57
But for us, you know,
00:24:06.61\00:24:08.51
we still can make a
connection and show people
00:24:08.54\00:24:10.75
that Jesus is real.
00:24:10.78\00:24:12.11
Yes.
00:24:12.15\00:24:13.48
And it's incredible
to see how God is moving
00:24:13.52\00:24:15.52
in different
places around the world,
00:24:15.55\00:24:17.75
you know, and their
dedication to Christ.
00:24:17.79\00:24:20.76
Is Trinidad and Tobago,
like everyone has stated like,
00:24:20.79\00:24:23.76
they are on the move
for God spreading the gospel
00:24:23.79\00:24:27.60
and getting out
there, passing out literature
00:24:27.63\00:24:29.53
and all kinds of stuff.
00:24:29.56\00:24:31.23
You played a lot of music
while you were out there Tim.
00:24:31.27\00:24:34.07
You were the piano man.
00:24:34.10\00:24:35.44
It's piano what
they called me to do.
00:24:35.47\00:24:37.24
Yeah, well, and
they are people of music.
00:24:37.27\00:24:41.11
They are. They love music.
00:24:41.14\00:24:42.48
In fact, the
Caribbean is wonderful.
00:24:42.51\00:24:43.85
Their rhythm. Oh, yeah.
00:24:43.88\00:24:45.58
My goodness as the
video showed there,
00:24:45.61\00:24:47.25
the role showed the greeting
that we had from the pan.
00:24:47.28\00:24:51.05
Yeah. Pangelics.
00:24:51.09\00:24:52.42
Pangelics. What a treat.
00:24:52.45\00:24:54.56
And in fact, while
I was standing inside,
00:24:54.59\00:24:56.32
it sounded literally
00:24:56.36\00:24:57.69
like there was a
marching band outside
00:24:57.73\00:25:00.30
and when we went out there,
it was just like it does...
00:25:00.33\00:25:01.86
That's when we're
outside the terminal.
00:25:01.90\00:25:03.30
Right, just outside the terminal
00:25:03.33\00:25:04.83
when they were,
they were right there
00:25:04.87\00:25:06.30
they had set up and what a gift,
00:25:06.33\00:25:08.44
you know, to listen.
00:25:08.47\00:25:09.80
So, music is big in them
00:25:09.84\00:25:11.17
and they let me
be a part of that
00:25:11.21\00:25:12.54
and then on Sabbath
00:25:12.57\00:25:14.84
that when we did last
day that we were there.
00:25:14.88\00:25:16.88
While they, they let me join in
on their Sabbath service songs,
00:25:16.91\00:25:22.32
for the song service.
00:25:22.35\00:25:23.69
You want to, what a
treat it really was.
00:25:23.72\00:25:25.35
And I wish that
we can get them over.
00:25:25.39\00:25:28.72
Yeah, I know that
00:25:28.76\00:25:30.09
take a little
bit of the logistics.
00:25:30.13\00:25:31.46
Or we could go back there.
00:25:31.49\00:25:32.83
Well, there's that.
But we could go back.
00:25:32.86\00:25:34.30
But I think our
people need to see them
00:25:34.33\00:25:35.86
in our setting, in our studio.
00:25:35.90\00:25:37.57
Yeah, we'll
rotate it. We'll rotate.
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Right. Yes.
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I know we only have
a quick second left,
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like not a lot of time left.
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What went into the
planning on our end?
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Oh, that's a great question.
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I'm just so
grateful for Lodonna,
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our assistant Lodonna
did an incredible job,
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she handled a great
many of those details,
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just booking hotels
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and helping
coordinate flights and us
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trying to put it all together,
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but most of the
on the groundwork
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there was done
by Rodney Reynolds.
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And so just a huge
thank you to Rodney,
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I think in Philippians
1, the Word of God says,
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"I thank my God upon
every remembrance of you."
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And we just do, Rodney,
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we are grateful for who you are
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and for what you
bring to the 3ABN ministry.
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Amen.
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Can I just add
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that it's because of our viewers
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that we are able to do
opportunities like that,
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you know, to be able to go
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and we don't
stay in fancy hotels,
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we don't take
first class flights,
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we do everything to our
best, to our best stewardship.
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But it's because of you.
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And so, thank
you very, very much
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for making it possible.
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Because that's a,
it's a powerful point
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to make that
connection with people.
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So, I'm grateful
for the financial gifts
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that we receive.
00:26:56.58\00:26:57.91
Yeah,
absolutely. Very important.
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Greg?
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You know, I was
gonna say, Jason, you know,
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one thing that were,
everyone can participate,
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and that is to pray
for those that stood up
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and accepted Jesus
Christ as their Savior,
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some for the very first time,
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some recommitted
their lives to Jesus Christ.
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You know, those,
those are great decisions
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that were made.
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And I think
everyone can pray for them.
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Yeah. Made a stand for Jesus.
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Yes, definitely.
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You know, people
that we didn't thank,
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I do want to
thank all of the people
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who came out and
supported and fed us.
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I mean, we had so much food.
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Like, I didn't even,
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I was finally at
a point in my life
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where I didn't know
what to do with all the food.
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I've never been there before.
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I was at a point
where I had no idea
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what to do with the food.
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Absolutely.
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And the spiritual
food was incredible.
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Hospitality was amazing.
00:27:46.39\00:27:47.73
Absolutely. Absolutely.
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Well, this brings
us to a close, guys.
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Well, we've reached
the end of another program.
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Join us next time.
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Remember,
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it just wouldn't be
the same without you.
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