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Series Code: CI
Program Code: CI000007S
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00:01 Man, to think of it, a short time ago,
00:02 I was in a warm, warm, warm, even hot, Pacific. 00:06 And now here in San Francisco Bay 00:09 in the cold, cold. 00:10 And actually I got a cold. 00:12 But so I sound a little bit different today 00:14 but I'm here especially to meet Jacque and Jamie Spence. 00:18 This is where they're located. 00:19 Benicia, California 00:20 is where their office is located 00:22 for Canvasback Missions. 00:24 We're going to find out a lot more today 00:25 because we get to talk with them in person. 00:27 Stay tuned. 00:53 Jamie and Jacque, good to be with you today. 00:55 Although it's a cold day in San Francisco. 00:57 Cold! Yes. Yeah. 00:59 Not like the islands for sure. No. 01:02 But I came here today because I want to find out 01:04 and I know the viewers want to hear, 01:06 how did this mission start 38 years ago 01:09 or even it reaches back before that, doesn't it? 01:12 It does. 01:13 We started out just sailing our little 31-foot trimaran 01:17 from San Francisco's Golden Gate 01:20 to Australia's Barrier Reef. 01:22 And on the way we found God. 01:25 Now how long have you been sailing? 01:28 Over 20 years. 01:29 20 years? 01:31 So you had a little bit of experience 01:32 under your belt? 01:33 Yes. 01:35 And Jacque and I are both 01:36 merchant marine masters licensed captain. 01:37 And the boat that we sailed on was the second boat 01:40 that Jamie had built. 01:41 He built the little sea spider 31-foot sea runner trimaran 01:45 and that we sailed for seven years 01:48 to get to the Great Barrier Reef 01:50 in Australia. 01:51 Jacque, you'd mentioned to me 01:53 when we were in the islands that, 01:54 you and Jamie actually contracted 01:56 with boat owners to bring their boats 01:58 out here during hurricane season. 02:00 Right. 02:02 It's difficult sailing up the California coast 02:04 from Mexico. 02:06 And people like to sail down 02:07 and then pay someone to make the hard voyage 02:11 against the winds back up here. 02:13 Were there any jobs 02:15 that specifically stick out on your mind? 02:16 Oh, yeah, definitely. 02:18 Yeah, definitely. 02:19 There was the sea wolf. 02:23 Sea wolf that was a... 02:24 A 65-foot wooden vessel built for Adolf Hitler. 02:28 And we slept in the same state room 02:32 that Hitler slept in. 02:33 And that boat seemed diabolical 02:35 like it was always trying to harm us 02:38 in some way. 02:39 Now, this... 02:40 We brought it from Mexico up to San Diego. 02:42 This is before you're Christians? 02:43 This was before we were Christians. 02:44 Yes. 02:46 You're not feeling the evil of that mode? 02:47 Yeah. We were. Yeah. 02:49 Well, tell us now you talked about sailing out 02:52 through the Golden Gate, I guess. 02:53 And that was a journey where God touched your hearts. 02:57 That's right. Yes. 02:58 Before we left, a couple that we knew, 03:02 as far as I know, they weren't Christians, 03:04 but they gave us a little Christian book 03:06 and said God has a plan for your life. 03:09 And here we were headed across the ocean 03:10 with kind of didn't know 03:13 where our lives were going to go. 03:15 And we believe that and we were seeking God, 03:18 our entire voyage across the Pacific. 03:22 We, you could feel the presence of God out there 03:24 under the stars of the universe. 03:27 So you had a little time to read and think? 03:29 Yeah. 03:30 We knew there was a God. 03:32 We were so, 03:33 but what's that got to do with me, you know? 03:35 Jacque, I'm going to kind of look to you on this, 03:37 was God working on both your hearts 03:39 a little bit at that time? 03:40 Well, he probably was working on our hearts 03:43 but we weren't listening. 03:44 Jamie and I 03:45 weren't really interested in Bible 03:49 or what anyone had to say about God. 03:51 We just were going to do our own thing. 03:53 And what was your own thing? 03:56 Well, we were sailing. We were seeking. 04:00 We were, we knew that there were some answers 04:02 to the life's questions, 04:04 but we just didn't know exactly where we were heading. 04:08 Okay. Okay. 04:09 So take me on this sailing journey then, 04:12 what's the next thing 04:14 in this evolution of Jamie and Jacque Spence? 04:17 Well, when we started out, 04:19 well, we're the last generation of star navigators 04:22 actually before GPS. 04:24 And but we weren't that good when we started out 04:27 and we got lost at sea. 04:29 We were lost for three days. 04:32 And that was pretty scary, especially at night. 04:34 You don't know which way to go 04:35 when you're lost. 04:37 And I finally gave up on figuring it out 04:41 because we were drawing lines on the chart 04:44 and taking shots with a sextant, 04:46 and it showed that we were 04:48 somewhere north of Mexico City in the mountains. 04:50 North of Mexico City? 04:51 Yeah, and I couldn't accept that. 04:53 I wonder why. 04:55 So I gave up on my own ability 04:57 and I sat down in the cockpit and said, 05:00 "God, if you can hear me, 05:02 send me a sign to show me which way to go." 05:05 But you weren't a Christian or anything at this time. 05:07 No, but I knew there was a God 05:09 because stars that are so orderly 05:13 that they can show you your position on earth. 05:15 You know, that doesn't come out of chaos. 05:19 We knew that there was a controlling person somewhere, 05:23 controlling God. 05:25 So he was speaking to you through the creation? 05:26 Yes, He was. That's right. 05:28 Very much so. We knew there was a God. 05:29 But... 05:31 Birds in the air and the fish in the sea, 05:33 I mean, definitely there was a creator. 05:35 And hundreds of light years out there 05:37 somewhere, there's a God. 05:39 But what's that got to do with me? 05:42 But I told God, how to fix it. 05:44 I said, "God, show me a sign, show me which way to go." 05:47 So you'd asked him about, "Lord, where are we? 05:51 We need a little bit of help here." 05:53 Yeah, I asked God for a sign to show me which way to go. 05:56 And within minutes, 05:59 a little bird was hovering over my head, 06:01 I could feel these wingbeats in my hair, 06:03 and then he flew to the north. 06:05 I thought, I've never seen that behavior before. 06:07 It came back 06:08 and it hovered over my head again, 06:10 it flew to the north. 06:12 And I thought, well, I did pray for a sign 06:14 to show me which way to go. 06:17 The little bird came back, 06:18 and he hovered over my head once more time, 06:20 one more times, and as he flew to the north, 06:23 I took a bearing on the direction of its flight. 06:26 And I turned the boat to that compass course 06:28 and it took us to our destination. 06:30 Now that took a lot of faith, I get, 06:32 just turn the boat and follow a bird? 06:35 We knew we had asked for a sign. 06:38 And what else could it be? 06:40 You know. 06:42 But that showed me that God heard my prayer. 06:46 This God that's as big as the universe 06:48 hears my prayer, 06:50 why would he have anything to do with me? 06:52 And he can control a bird? 06:54 Who can do that? Who can control a bird? 06:56 Now I've got to ask you out there, on the sea, 06:57 what kind of bird was this? 06:58 Did you recognize it? 07:00 Well, I think God has a sense of humor too. 07:02 Because the bird was a sooty tern. 07:05 A turn. 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09:50 No, because I knew what was coming. 09:54 It was a calm, the barometer dropped. 09:56 I knew that a storm was coming and I couldn't. 09:59 It would be dangerous to go into the pass 10:02 in the storm 10:03 and I couldn't get in before the storm hit. 10:05 So we batten down the hatches, turned away from the reef, 10:09 there's Fakarava reef, 10:11 and this storm would be blowing us 10:13 right at that reef. 10:15 So I started clawing offshore getting as far, as away 10:18 as I could before the storm hit. 10:21 To make a long story short, we got caught in the hurricane. 10:25 And I was being blown down on that reef. 10:28 I was holding up against the wind 10:29 as much as I could. 10:32 But soon, well, we tried to get star shots, 10:36 I strapped myself in on the cabin top. 10:38 And when we were on the top of the wave, 10:40 I tried to get the horizon to get the sun. 10:43 And we did get a line of position 10:45 that showed that we were clear of the reef 10:48 but I knew that line wasn't very accurate, 10:50 but I couldn't hold up anymore. 10:52 The seas were starting to crash over the boat. 10:54 One nearly washed me right off the cabin top. 10:57 How high the seas? 10:59 They reached as high as 55 feet in the big sets 11:02 in the hurricane. 11:03 It was like hearing a freight train 11:06 coming down. 11:08 And it would just snap 11:10 the pillar out of my hand and it took... 11:11 Top of the wave, the swinging with a shriek 11:15 and at the bottom of the trough it would go quiet. 11:19 But the seas were breaking all around us. 11:22 And if the sea was a 40-foot sea, 11:25 10 feet at the top of it might be breaking 11:28 and that was slammed down on us. 11:30 It would sound like sledgehammers on the deck. 11:31 You guys figured you probably could die 11:34 at any moment. 11:35 Yeah, we did. 11:36 The water was squirting in, in every crevice and crack 11:38 and everything was wet. 11:40 We started out our usual 11:42 four hours on and four hours off. 11:44 Before it was over. 11:45 It was one hour off, 11:48 slopping around in a wet bed and one hour fighting until. 11:52 Jamie wrote on the hatch board, 11:55 "I can make it" no, 11:57 "The sea spider can make it"? 11:59 "Jacque and I can make it with God's help." 12:05 So God is leading you 12:06 through this storm closer to Him. 12:07 Oh, you know, there are no atheists at sea. 12:11 In a hurricane 12:12 there's no atheists in a hurricane. 12:14 We rigged a automobile tire with a, 12:18 dragging a chain behind the tire 12:21 to the stern of the boat to hold her up into the waves 12:23 because she was screaming down these waves 12:26 and just a little postage stamp of a storm swell 12:30 on the head stay to keep her head down 12:32 and the tire to keep her stern up 12:35 and she would still reach 15-20 knots 12:38 screaming down these waves. 12:40 We were in survival conditions for five days, 12:44 because we just couldn't get out 12:46 of that hurricane. 12:47 But in the end, we were out for 23 days. 12:51 Now do you remember 12:52 how many days had we provisioned for, Jim? 12:55 Six. Six days. 12:56 Twenty-three days. 12:58 And the food that we survived on 13:01 was the food that those people gave us 13:03 a year before. 13:05 And when we finally got to a port, I wrote to them. 13:08 I wrote a letter to them. 13:10 And it came back. 13:11 It was return addressee unknown. 13:14 And that was quite puzzling. 13:17 In Baja 13:19 when they were giving us the food, 13:20 I asked the man on board his name and he said, 13:24 "I'm Dr. Angel." 13:26 I said, "What kind of work do you do?" 13:29 He said, "I work on hearts." 13:32 Now, I've never heard a cardiologist say 13:36 I work on hearts. 13:38 And his wife said, 13:39 "I help my husband in his heart work." 13:41 That's right. 13:43 Doctor and Mrs. Angel, 13:44 and when we tried to find them 13:47 and in the town that they said they were from and... 13:52 Never found them. 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He kept nudging us. 16:17 In a quiet lagoon, 16:20 Jacque had to leave the boat 16:22 because of family illness in the family, 16:26 leaving me alone in a quiet lagoon. 16:29 And I was sitting and meditating about God 16:33 because by this time, we were earnestly seeking. 16:37 The Bible says, "Seek and you shall find." 16:39 And we were seekers. 16:40 We're seeking in all the wrong places 16:42 in Eastern religions and Shamanism 16:45 and the witch doctors on the islands, you know. 16:48 But we were seeking for the true God 16:51 because after the bird incident, 16:53 and God showing me it was personal. 16:57 I had to find it. I had to find out who He was. 16:59 I thought it might be enlightened in a flash, 17:01 blinding flash, I had no idea. 17:04 But as I was meditating about God, 17:09 about finding God, I heard a voice. 17:12 I'm all alone on the boat on a quiet lagoon, 17:15 and the voice said, "It all began in Zion." 17:21 What does that mean? 17:23 And then I heard... 17:25 Look around the boat to see if anybody else was around. 17:26 I looked around to see if someone was on the boat. 17:28 This was a voice. Someone's on the boat. 17:31 But then I heard an inaudible voice, 17:33 if that makes sense, but it said clearly, 17:36 "But first, a little background." 17:39 And then a Bible appeared before my eyes. 17:42 Just there. 17:44 Yes, this is, did it look real 17:46 like you can reach out and grab it? 17:47 It looked like I could take it and open it. 17:49 So I knew something was unusual was going on. 17:54 I felt like it was God and I had a Bible on board. 17:58 I had carried it around. 17:59 My mother gave it to me when I was 14 years old. 18:02 It had my name in gold on a leather cover so, 18:05 and I always carried it all my life 18:07 and the cover was all beat up. 18:09 But the inside pages were nice and clean and white. 18:12 I started like any other book, I started reading in Genesis. 18:17 And as I read that Bible, 18:19 everything that pointed forward to Jesus just lit up, 18:24 it was very clear. 18:25 Even the small, insignificant things 18:28 that pointed forward to Jesus, just lit up. 18:31 Now I've talked with you before. 18:32 So lit up really means lit up and just in your heart 18:36 but literally on the pages? 18:39 We were planning, when we got to Australia, 18:42 to continue across the Indian Ocean 18:45 and go to India, 18:46 and see this Maharaja Sawan what's-his-face, 18:50 you know, that we've been reading. 18:53 And we thought he could help us find God. 18:55 As I was reading Genesis, 18:57 the scripture came off the page, 18:59 and it just came up 19:01 and stood in front of my eyes like this. 19:03 And it said, "You don't have to sail 19:06 across the ocean to find God. 19:09 Everything you need to know is in this book." 19:12 And went back on the page. 19:14 Now I quoted that scripture to people for a year 19:18 until I quoted it to a pastor and he said, 19:21 "Where was that? 19:22 I don't think that's in the bible." 19:25 I said, "Well, it's in mine. I'll show you." 19:27 But I never could find it. 19:29 You know, God can speak to you through the Scriptures 19:32 even when it is written in the Scriptures. 19:34 I'm going to ask you one question. 19:36 How old were you now, 19:38 your mother gave the Bible 14, how old were you? 19:40 I'm in my 30s at this time. You're in your 30s. 19:42 So mothers never give up? 19:44 Amen. That's right. That's right. 19:45 My mother prayed for me every day, throughout my life, 19:48 mothers never give up. 19:50 Exactly right. 19:52 So another chapter now. 19:54 How do we get to the point God had touched your heart 19:56 on the islands about the need of the island people, 19:58 what happened next? 20:00 Well, we started thinking about what we could do with our lives 20:03 and decided that we could build a boat, 20:07 a larger boat to go back to the islands 20:11 and provide medical care to them. 20:14 So we ended up in Australia 20:16 and the newspaper came out to do a story on us. 20:20 And we asked the community to donate picks, 20:24 shovels and mattocks to us 20:26 and to send it back to an island that had... 20:28 Stone age island. It was a stone age Island. 20:31 So an atheist came on board 20:34 and became our very good friend. 20:36 And after hearing about 20:38 what we were reading in the Bible, said, 20:41 "I know I have a friend, you ought to meet him." 20:43 And out came... 20:45 He is religious too. 20:46 He came out with a big bushy beard 20:49 and black set eyes and a Bible under his arm. 20:52 And he got right into Daniel and Revelation. 20:54 And Jamie and I went, 20:55 "Whoa, that's a little too much." 20:57 But this man brought his pastor out, 21:00 and his pastor became our very best friend. 21:03 You know what was interesting? 21:05 Max Mulligan is the name of pastor, 21:08 he and his family were our friends for a year. 21:11 He never opened up that Bible to us 21:12 for a whole year. 21:13 But anytime you saw us on the street, 21:16 or any of the church members saw us on the street, they say, 21:18 "Where are you going? 21:20 "Oh, we're going back to the boat to eat." 21:21 "No! You have to come to our house to eat, 21:23 have to come for tea." 21:25 They won us through our stomachs. 21:27 And anytime Max was doing 21:30 like a five-day stop smoking plan 21:33 or health assessment plan or anything like that, 21:35 or needed music to be played at a Vacation Bible School, 21:41 he would ask us, 21:42 he always asked us to come and help. 21:44 I was always involved in everything that Max did. 21:46 And he was and I guess he still is the greatest friend 21:50 I've ever had in my life. 21:52 All of this is happening at the time 21:54 you're building a bigger boat now? 21:55 No, we're thinking about it. 21:57 We're thinking and... 21:59 This is in Australia 22:00 and before we're still living 22:01 on our little 31-foot sea spider. 22:03 And we had decided that we were going to sell 22:05 that 31-foot boat in Australia, but no one came out. 22:10 No one came out to see that boat. 22:12 And finally Max sat down after a year 22:16 of listening to us talk about reincarnation 22:19 and stuff like that and he said, 22:21 "We're having a Bible study." 22:23 He just slammed the Bible down on the desk, 22:25 he said, "Sit down. 22:26 We're going to have a Bible study." 22:28 When you've known a guy for a year, 22:30 you're going to do what he tells you to do. 22:32 That's just like Jesus, you become friends first. 22:34 Yes. Yeah. 22:35 Absolutely. 22:36 And so he told us about the sanctuary. 22:40 That was our Bible study, we thought, wow! 22:43 About the tabernacle, 22:45 and all the details of all the symbolism 22:48 in the building of the tower. 22:50 And that stuff I just read through real fast, you know. 22:53 And what won me about that was, 22:55 "Wow, this guy knows so much about the Bible. 22:58 I want to study with him." 23:01 So finally, Max said to us, 23:04 "We're going to have, 23:05 there's going to be a camp meeting. 23:07 And we want you to come down." 23:08 And we went, "Oh, I don't know 23:10 if we can be with all those Christians 23:11 for over two weeks," you know. 23:12 So we said we'll go for an overnight. 23:16 And we got down there and our hearts really opened. 23:20 Just we're really touched they, someone asked, 23:24 there was a pastor, who said, you know, 23:26 "You want to give your heart to Jesus" 23:27 and I stood up, I said, "Yes." 23:29 So we, instead of continuing south 23:31 to see a boat builder that we were looking at, 23:34 we decided to turn back and get baptized. 23:37 We were baptized in the Boyne River, 23:40 where the platypus swim. 23:42 Everybody came out to this little camp spot. 23:45 And then after that weekend, 23:47 we went back into town and you know what? 23:49 There was a note in our, in our mailbox. 23:51 Someone had seen our boat and they wanted to, 23:53 they wanted to look at it. 23:56 And in fact, they bought the boat. 23:58 And we... 24:00 When we told the people in the church about that, 24:03 this, six months, 24:05 we had tried to sell this boat without a nibble, 24:09 and the people in the church, when we told about this, 24:11 so excited, "Wow! 24:13 Somebody's going to buy the boat!" 24:14 They went, "Oh, yeah." They said, "Oh, yeah. 24:15 Yeah, we know." I said, "What do you mean?" 24:17 They said, "We've been praying 24:19 that someone would buy your boat 24:20 just as soon as you got baptized." 24:22 Amen. Amen. 24:24 It was in our box 24:25 when we came back from the baptism. 24:28 Wow, God's amazing, isn't He? 24:30 God is amazing. Yeah. 24:31 He's in control. 24:33 So we sold the boat, 24:37 we had chosen the design of the boat 24:41 that we wanted to build 24:42 and we came back to the United States 24:44 to look for a place to build Canvasback. 24:49 And we went... 24:51 Someone told us the best place for you to build the boat 24:55 is in Astoria, Oregon. 24:56 And we went, "Where is that?" 24:58 This was a missionary in Thailand who told us that. 25:01 And where is that? 25:03 We told him what we needed. 25:04 We needed a maritime community, 25:08 with people with knowledge 25:09 and availability of boat supplies. 25:13 So then we went to Alaska. 25:16 And then that person we met said, 25:18 "Astoria is the place to build that boat." 25:20 And we're going, "What?" 25:22 Then we flew back to my hometown in New York. 25:25 And the very day that we arrived in, 25:28 on the front page of the 'New York Times' 25:30 was an article on Astoria, Oregon. 25:32 Really? 25:34 We looked in Texas, and we looked in California. 25:36 We looked in Washington. 25:38 We looked in Washington, we thought, 25:40 let's go look in Astoria. 25:41 This is God's word turn again, telling you where to go. 25:43 Yeah. 25:44 And you know, the day that we landed in Astoria, 25:47 it was sunny. 25:50 Only day. 25:53 And it was the perfect place for us to build the boat, 25:56 just great. 25:57 Everything we needed, all the resources we needed. 26:00 Two aluminum boat builders in the town, boat supplies, 26:05 everything we needed. 26:07 I could get on the telephone and have anything 26:08 I wanted the next day. 26:10 And, you know, you think about starting a mission, 26:13 you think, well, everything, 26:14 if God called you to, it's going to be easy. 26:18 The very, in the very beginning, it was, 26:20 it was challenging our faith. 26:22 We had to build a building to build the boat in. 26:26 And we had gotten 26:27 all the food together to do that and had every, 26:30 we thought we had a whole group to come. 26:32 And we found out at the very last minute 26:35 that they weren't going to be able to come 26:37 and Jamie and I were just racking our brains 26:40 and thinking, "Lord, why did You call us to do this 26:42 when it was going to fail?" 26:44 And the very first morning 26:46 that we were going to build that building, 26:48 I fed 21 people and thought, "Well, that's, 26:51 we're not going to get that." 26:52 This won't do it. 26:54 "We're not going to be able to build that building." 26:55 And by that afternoon, 26:57 we had 62 volunteers show up from all over, 27:01 we didn't even know them, 27:02 but they had heard about this project 27:04 and they came out and we had that building 27:07 built in three days. 27:08 My husband and I 27:10 founded the Ministry of Canvasback Missions 27:12 38 years ago 27:13 to serve the island nations of the Pacific. 27:16 From those humble beginnings, 27:18 our medical and dental super teams 27:20 have been changing lives and bringing hope 27:23 to so many people. 27:25 Our teams volunteer their time and resources, 27:29 and all of our services are free, 27:31 but it does take funding to make it all happen. 27:34 That's where you come in. 27:36 Your financial support is needed. 27:39 Please join us in changing lives 27:41 one miracle at a time. 27:44 If you'd like to partner with us, 27:46 you can write us at 940 Adams Street Suite R, 27:49 Benicia, California 94510 27:53 or you can log on to canvasback.org. 27:56 Call us at 707-746-7828. 28:01 And thank you for watching. 28:02 Please join us again for another exciting adventure. 28:04 Remember, Canvasback is making an impact, 28:08 one miracle at a time. |
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