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Series Code: MTK
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00:05 - [Marian] We've grown up in the church 00:06 and have always been somewhat involved in outreach 00:10 but how can we get involved in missions overseas? 00:13 My name is Marian, 00:15 - [Lillian] And I'm Lillian, 00:17 we wanted to find out. 00:18 Join us on our journey 00:20 (Bell ringing) 00:22 to discover the culture, 00:24 the lifestyle, 00:25 - [Marian] he need and the mission, 00:27 in two of southeast Asia's least reached countries. 00:32 Welcome to MissionTrek. 00:37 - Hey, welcome back. 00:39 - In the last episode, 00:40 we traveled from Thailand to Cambodia, 00:42 where we met Tim and Windy Maddocks, 00:44 they live in the city of Siem Reap 00:46 and have been missionaries there for over 25 years. 00:49 - When they surrounded everything to God 00:51 and stepped out by faith alone, 00:53 God began to work through them 00:54 to create what is now known as 'Wat Preah Yesu' 00:57 which means the Jesus school. 00:58 - Now in this episode, 01:00 we are going to see a new project 01:01 that God is building through them, 01:02 and we hope it will show you the blessings 01:04 that come from obeying God. 01:06 Siem Reap is where Angkor Wat, 01:08 some very famous old ruins are located, 01:11 they were built around a thousand years ago 01:14 and today attracts nearly 2 million tourists a year. 01:17 - So Tim and Windy were wondering 01:19 how they could witness all these tourists 01:21 and reach them about our creator God. 01:23 - So God gave them the idea of starting a butterfly garden, 01:27 they call it butterfly paradise. 01:29 (instrumental music) 01:41 - Okay welcome to the butterfly paradise. 01:44 (instrumental music) 01:47 once you come through here Bocha Tigot, 01:49 and then you step into here, 01:51 and what greets you is butterflies. 01:54 And there will be flowers everywhere as well 01:57 'cause butterflies love flowers, 01:59 and this wall here, it will have plants growing out of it 02:03 and hanging of it, 02:04 like a sort of a hanging garden, 02:06 be plenty of flowers here, 02:08 so you're gonna see the best of our butterflies 02:10 as you step through the entrance, 02:12 and right in front you, a waterfall with two sections, 02:15 so with water plummeting of there into this big tank, 02:19 small crocodiles about so big swimming around in the tank, 02:23 and not only do enjoy butterflies 02:24 then you've got crocodiles, you've got fish, 02:27 get a real feel for the place, 02:28 the flowing water create a nice sound atmosphere 02:34 and you'll have the sense that you're in a beautiful garden, 02:37 and then you come around here a bit further, 02:39 this will all be gardens, lovely flowers, plants, 02:43 you can come and take a seat 02:46 and enjoy the waterfall, 02:48 different style of waterfall, 02:50 based on a waterfall that I say in Laos, 02:53 and fish, big coy fish swimming around, 02:57 and of course, butterflies all around you. 03:00 Once you've had a relaxing time enjoying that, 03:03 you can take a walk up the steps. 03:08 Now up here they'll be plants growing in here, 03:11 so it'll be all vegetated, 03:13 they'll be a tree growing out of that hole there, 03:15 and from here you can get a picture of the whole area, 03:19 there's a big waterfall over there, 03:20 there's another one over there, 03:22 there's another one over there, 03:24 so you've gotta see all these water events happening, 03:28 and again, butterflies flying around you, 03:32 plants growing of these, apparently dead trees, 03:36 which are actually concrete power poles, 03:38 relax, enjoy, you seat here, 03:41 so we don't want to hurry anybody through this place, 03:44 we want them to really get a wonderful experience 03:47 with what God has created and just feel really at peace, 03:51 and the other that'll be in here is hyper speed wifi, 03:54 so anybody wanting to Facebook, what they're doing, 03:57 will be free to do that. 04:03 If you're getting to hot, 04:03 you can step into the cave, 04:05 it's not finished yet, 04:07 but it will have a garden in it 04:08 and it will have animal display here, 04:12 and pipes will all be hidden. 04:14 (instrumental music) 04:19 So this will another place were you can sit down, relax, 04:22 again they'll be fish in this little pond, 04:24 they'll be flowers right in front you 04:26 so the butterflies will be right there before you, 04:28 they'll be a full sized elephant just over there, 04:31 concrete of course, 04:33 and the waterfall off in the background, 04:36 and so you can get a real sense that your in Asia, 04:40 and enjoying the beauty of nature. 04:46 Now do you girls like the Flintstones? 04:49 Did you ever hear of the Flinstones? 04:50 - Uhun. 04:51 - Yeah well this their house. 04:53 (girls laughing) 04:55 this is gonna be a drinks shop, 04:58 so people can enter the cave and buy a drink, 05:01 fresh fruit shake or some other kind of drink, 05:04 because by the time they get here, 05:06 they're gonna be hot and thirsty, so. 05:09 And this is a fish tank, 05:10 so glass front again and it'll have some Cambodian, 05:13 large Cambodian fish in it, 05:15 water's pouring of the rock there, 05:17 through a hole here, down the outside. 05:20 Now for the sake of shortening the tour, 05:22 we'll go this way. 05:24 (instrumental music) 05:32 For this pond here, 05:33 this is to let the fish do the foot massage, 05:37 and at the moment, 05:38 you probably wouldn't want to put your feet in that, 05:39 but it'll be looking a lot better than this, 05:42 nice clear and lots of fish 05:45 to come chew the old dead skin of your legs, 05:47 which people seem to like to have done in Siem Reap, 05:50 and pay good money for 05:52 but this will be free, part of the ticket price, 05:54 and you can enjoy the waterfall over here 05:55 while you're sitting here, 05:56 letting the fish chew on your legs. 06:01 This is gonna be a tourist garden, 06:03 so this has got five levels here, 06:04 four levels on this side, 06:06 and a very pleasant waterfall falling down the middle, 06:10 and it has a beautiful sound to it 06:11 especially as the water runs through the rocks, 06:14 and by the time you get here, 06:15 you're really hot, 06:17 and you're really looking for an air conditioned room, 06:19 so you can walk through the cave, 06:21 and then step into the air conditioned cinema, 06:25 and here you can learn more about what God has created 06:28 through the video that'll be showing 06:29 on the screen down there. 06:31 If you get thirsty, you want to have a drink 06:33 while you're watching the movies, 06:34 there'll be a door there, 06:36 you can step into the restaurant next door, 06:37 buy a drink and then come back, 06:39 and sit down and enjoy. 06:41 And from here, you can enjoy something that's quite unique, 06:43 and that is a waterfall that drops as a tube of water, 06:47 through the roof there, 06:49 into that wishing well, 06:51 and then flowing into the pond again with lots of fish. 06:54 (instrumental music) 07:01 so you got to this part and now you're hungry, 07:04 so you have a choice, 07:05 you can either sit out here with the butterflies, 07:08 with an umbrella and flowers all around, 07:10 so the butterflies are all around you and eat, 07:13 you can sit over here in the cave, 07:15 under the shade, 07:17 or you can enter the glass doors here, 07:19 and enter into the air conditioned restaurant, 07:21 and so you have three choices, 07:23 and the glass windows will allow you 07:24 to keep enjoying the butterflies while you're eating 07:27 even if you are inside. 07:29 You can enjoy that waterfall again 07:31 dropping through the roof, 07:32 and enjoy the very unique rock work in the ceiling here. 07:35 - How long do you think it'll take to finish? 07:38 - Um, when I have enough money, 07:40 maybe two, three, four months. 07:43 Depends how much time I can commit to it 07:44 to make it really happen. 07:46 The part that's gonna take the longest is the landscaping, 07:50 so the buildings, I can put the building team onto that, 07:52 they can do that pretty fast, 07:54 but the landscaping has to be custom designed 07:57 so that'll take quite a while. 08:01 Just in here will be probably the important room 08:04 in the whole building, 08:06 and this where we will grow the caterpillars to butterflies, 08:10 - Mm 08:11 - So it'll be an air conditioned room, 08:12 and there we need to produce 08:15 between two and four thousand butterflies a month. 08:18 - Whoa. 08:20 - So we have to, 08:22 we're planning to have 08:23 at least twenty species of butterflies, 08:25 that we're growing here, releasing into the cage, 08:28 and then they'll be 08:30 at least ten or fifteen butterfly species, smaller ones, 08:33 that will be self breeding in the cage, 08:36 we'll just provide them with food 08:37 and they'll just multiply themselves inside the cage, 08:41 cause the small ones, 08:42 a bit fiddly to take care of a tiny little caterpillar. 08:45 We have on the other side over there behind the threes, 08:48 lot of plant's planted that are the food plants 08:51 for different kinds of butterflies. 08:53 So we can harvest the leaves, 08:55 feed the caterpillars, 08:57 and when they turn into chrysalis, 08:59 prepare them for display, 09:01 and then watch them hatch 09:03 and there are some crazy caterpillars, 09:05 really really beautiful, 09:08 and I plan to build one of them 09:10 as the worlds largest concrete caterpillar sculpture, 09:15 just outside the entrance there, 09:17 and it'll be about five meters tall, 09:19 and about twenty meters long. 09:21 - [Lillian] Whoa. 09:22 - Yeah it's yellow, orange and black. 09:24 It has these huge horns hanging of it, 09:26 so it'll be quite a sight. 09:27 Then we have an educational center, 09:29 so you can come and learn more about butterflies, 09:31 some really cool things 09:33 like butterflies, when they hatch out of the chrysalis, 09:37 they know how to pump their wings up, 09:40 and they know how to dry their wings 09:43 and then they also know how to fly in strong winds, 09:46 having never been taught, 09:48 and not only that, they know how to find a mate, 09:51 and how to mate on the wing 09:54 and they've never practiced that one either, 09:57 so you think about Air Force pilots, 10:00 where they have refueling planes, 10:02 in the jet fighters, they have to practice for months, 10:06 to be able to refuel in air, 10:09 but these butterflies, they hatch out, 10:11 and within an hour of hatching, 10:12 they are ready to mate in the air like refueling, 10:17 and they can smell their food plant 10:21 for 3 to 5 kilometers away, 10:25 and they track it, 10:26 when they find it, they scratch it with their foot, 10:28 and they taste through their foot, 10:30 if they've got the right plant, 10:31 they'll lay their eggs on it. 10:33 (instrumental music) 10:36 Through that door there, 10:38 it'll take you into another building, 10:41 and that building will be a small animal house, 10:43 so it'll have snakes and lizards and frogs, 10:46 and insects, bigger insects 10:48 for people to go and have a look at, 10:50 live ones of course, 10:52 and we also plan to have an aquaponics center over there, 10:56 we're we'll grow vegetables for the restaurant, 10:59 by filtering the water from the ponds, 11:01 and growing the vegetables in the water. 11:03 And this here is a turtle pond, 11:05 so the turtles that currently live in my house, 11:07 turtles and tortoises, they'll live here, 11:09 there's a little island in the middle 11:10 where they can sun bake 11:11 and you can enjoy, 11:13 and they'll be free to walk around within their pond area, 11:16 over here, they'll be a waterfall, 11:19 which will drop in front, 11:20 so you better stand behind the waterfall and look through 11:24 into the garden, 11:26 and then they'll be other gardens underneath here, 11:29 and then to finish it off, 11:30 you step through some glass doors here 11:33 into the souvenir shop, 11:36 and we plan to manufacture as many souvenirs 11:38 as we can here on campus, 11:41 professionally sort of done souvenirs, 11:43 people will exit through the door way over there, 11:47 when they exit, they'll see a giant butterfly, 11:51 just outside also, made of concrete and steel, 11:54 - Whoa, 11:57 that's gonna be a really cool place. 12:00 - I hope so, I hope people find it really cool, 12:02 and they want to come back. 12:04 - [Cameraman] Are you guys blown away? 12:05 - Hmm. 12:06 - Uhun. 12:07 - And the income generated will be obviously 12:09 used to help run the orphanage and the schools, 12:11 and do other projects, 12:14 probably develop more schools. 12:17 - We definitely have to come back when this is finished. 12:19 - Yeah, this place is really cool. 12:23 (instrumental music) 12:31 - So how can we help to get involved with this project? 12:33 - You can help pray, 12:34 pray that God will give me wisdom to finish it, 12:37 and that God will provide the finances 12:39 so that we can finish it, 12:41 and get it open, 12:42 and let the world enjoy the world of butterflies. 12:46 - So how long have you been working on it already? 12:49 - We began working actually on the cage back in March, 12:53 of 2016, so next month, it'll be twelve months. 12:58 - Where did you get this idea? 13:00 - A friend of mine gave me the idea, 13:02 his idea was something fairly small, 13:04 and I sort of dismissed it, 13:07 but God wouldn't let me dismiss it, 13:09 and it just kept growing and growing and growing, 13:12 so I really think it's God's idea, 13:13 I tried to convince him many times that we shouldn't do it, 13:17 but every time I tried to convince him, 13:19 he convinced me otherwise. 13:21 - How does God convince you of something. 13:23 - Well in this case, 13:24 it's like 'God I don't think we should do this project, 13:26 it's too big,' 13:27 and then God will show me a new butterfly 13:29 that very day that I'm arguing with him, 13:31 or he would show me a butterfly laying an egg on a plant, 13:34 that I didn't know was the host plant, 13:37 and it's like 13:38 'God, you know I'm arguing with you today, 13:41 and then you're showing me these things about butterflies,' 13:44 and so for me it's like God just trying to tell me, 13:47 through the butterflies, 'you gotta do this.' 13:50 - Is this like, gonna be like the biggest butterfly garden 13:52 in the world or something like that? 13:54 - It won't be the biggest, 13:55 but it would probably be in the top 10, 13:58 but hopefully the most beautiful. 14:00 - Where are you gonna get all the plants for the landscape. 14:03 - That's a very good question 14:04 and I started thinking about that two years ago 14:06 when we started working on the idea, 14:08 and I got this idea 14:10 that was gonna cost a lot of money for plants, 14:13 and so I better start collecting, 14:16 so about two years ago, 14:17 I started collecting one of each kind, 14:20 and multiplying them, so if you want to come with me, 14:22 I'll show you what we've done. 14:24 (instrumental music) 14:27 Now did you want to see the snakes? 14:29 - Will they still be there when you open this place? 14:31 - No, when we open the place, 14:33 they'll have their own special room 14:34 like an enclosure with nice glass fronts 14:36 so people can see them, 14:37 not locked away here in the dark, 14:40 but right now, they're safe here. 14:43 (jungle music) 14:50 - Hello, Hello where are you? 14:54 Turn around and look at me, 14:55 there you go. 14:56 - [Marian] Look at his face. 15:00 - They say that go for the eyes, 15:03 so if they can't see your eyes, 15:05 they're not gonna strike you. 15:07 This ones has two bumps in it, 15:08 they're ducks that it ate last week, 15:10 and the one down here has one bump in it, 15:13 last night it ate a duck for dinner. 15:15 There's one more down here, 15:17 - [Lillian] Poor duck. 15:18 - But these are wild snakes, 15:20 so we're just trying to leave them in their wild state, 15:24 not tame them, and so wild animal eat live animals, 15:28 so we leave the animals in here 15:31 and we give the duck food and water 15:33 and when the snakes are hungry, they'll eat them. 15:36 - [Marian] So you just like found snakes 15:38 and brought them here? 15:39 - No, no, I bought the snakes. 15:40 - [Marian] Okay. 15:41 - Now I should tell you the story, 15:43 it's a funny sort of story about danger, 15:46 see the first two ducks I put in here, 15:49 they didn't know anything about snakes, 15:52 and the snakes coil up over here in the corner, 15:55 and so at night, the ducks would go and sleep on them, 15:58 even during the day, 15:59 and so literally the ducks are sleeping 16:02 on the heads of the snakes, 16:04 and the snakes didn't mind. 16:05 One day I watched the duck put his beak 16:06 under the head of the snake 16:08 and lift the snake's head up, 16:10 so that's how close they are, 16:12 and the snakes just didn't bother about them, 16:15 but when they got hungry, they ate them. 16:16 The snake is about 12 feet long, 16:19 but they will grow to about 20 feet long. 16:23 - Those are big snakes. 16:24 - Kinda cool. 16:25 - She likes snakes. 16:27 - [Marian] She doesn't like snakes. 16:29 (instrumental music) 16:33 - [Lillian] Whoa. 16:35 - [Marian] But there's butterflies, 16:37 there's already butterflies. 16:39 - Nice butterflies over here. 16:41 So in the last two years, 16:42 I've collected over two hundred varieties of plants, 16:45 actually probably it's closer to about three hundred now, 16:48 and so this is part of the collection, 16:51 and over there, there's a lot more, 16:54 and so most of them we started with one plant, 16:57 or one plant bag and we just started dividing them up, 17:00 and some it's easier than others, 17:04 but it's been going pretty successfully, 17:08 and the students work here with me 17:09 to help produce the plants, 17:12 and it's really fun working with plants, 17:17 seeing how beautiful they are, 17:19 most of these plants aren't full size 17:21 because we keep chopping them up, 17:23 so we don't let them get to big, 17:25 but I have a couple of these in my garden, 17:27 they're like about how many feet, 17:31 4 feet across, like a huge big nest, 17:35 so these would grow much bigger, 17:37 maybe come down how where we've got some nice plants here, 17:40 just watch the slob. 17:42 (instrumental music) 17:53 These are some of my favorite plants, 17:54 these are called the bromeliads, 17:56 they're like a pineapple, 17:58 and they're really colorful, 18:01 so these will be hanging out off rocks off trees, 18:03 and that sort of thing in the butterfly paradise, 18:05 you've got the ferns, they don't grow much taller than that, 18:09 and then we've got plants like this, 18:12 leaves will grow about so high, 18:14 and these ones, these will grow 18:18 about 9 to 10 feet high, 18:20 these have a big red flower, they're called heliconias, 18:23 and you can see this one, 18:25 it's red, green, white, 18:27 these ones, they have purple on the back, 18:31 and then green, 18:34 and this one down here, 18:36 it's one of my favorite ones, 18:37 look at the color of that. 18:38 - [Girls] Whoa, that is so pretty. 18:42 - And you can see the butterflies like it, 18:44 most of these butterflies are just one kind, 18:47 and it's called the gray pansy, 18:49 but at the moment 18:51 that's the most common butterfly we have around here, 18:53 but here on this property, 18:54 we've seen over one hundred different kinds of butterflies. 18:57 - Whoa. 18:58 - Most of them breed here, 19:00 so that's one of the things that also help me 19:02 to convince me to do this project, 19:04 the very fact that there was so many butterflies 19:06 that lived here, 19:08 and not just little ones, big ones, 19:10 and it's like God had prearranged 19:13 that we have the food plants for them, 19:15 years and years before he ever got the idea to me. 19:21 - Wow that was so amazing, 19:23 when we were there twelve months ago, 19:25 it was hard to imagine what it would look like finished 19:27 with all the plants and butterflies, 19:29 - Yeah, it's gonna be so awesome. 19:30 - It is definitely. 19:31 We have a special guest with us, 19:33 Tim Maddocks, welcome to MissionTrek. 19:36 - Thank you very much, it's a great pleasure to be here. 19:37 - It's great to have you. 19:39 - So the footage that we saw in the segment 19:41 was shot last year in February, 19:43 - Yes. 19:44 - So has it changed at all since then? 19:46 - It's changed a lot, 19:48 it's not finished yet but it's almost. 19:51 - That's really exciting. 19:52 - So can give us an update. 19:53 - Yeah actually I took some video 19:55 just before I left two weeks ago, 19:57 so I'd love to share it with you. 19:58 - Awesome. 19:59 - So you might remember we came through the entrance, 20:02 well now you can see the plants, 20:03 there's glass where the crocodile pond is going to be, 20:06 waterfalls are still not working but they will be soon, 20:10 you can see butterflies, 20:11 there's no wire on the sides yet, 20:14 but that allows the butterflies to just fly in and fly out, 20:20 and lot's of butterflies come everyday, 20:22 it's butterfly paradise of course, 20:24 they want to come to paradise. 20:25 (girls laugh) 20:27 So you can see, there's a lot of color in the plants, 20:29 purples, oranges, yellows, 20:32 and the plants are growing really really well, 20:36 - [Lillian] So much different than when we were there 20:37 last time. 20:39 - [Marian] So much more color. 20:41 - [Lillian] Yeah. 20:43 - [Tim] Yeah we're just coming up 20:44 towards the Flintstones house, 20:47 (girls laugh) 20:48 which is gonna be a drinks shop, 20:50 and you can see how much the plants have, 20:53 well there wasn't any plants there before, 20:55 but how they've grown since we planted them, 20:57 we haven't actually set up the shop yet, 21:00 there's glass in the fish tank, 21:01 just here on the left, 21:03 here there's a little grass lawn, 21:04 and some bromeliads and coleus, 21:08 the colors are really popping nice. 21:11 - [Lillian] Was it really challenging to figure out 21:13 where to put the plants and like arrange everything? 21:16 - Yeah I spent hundreds of hours 21:17 looking at other peoples gardens on the internet, 21:20 studying what they've done 21:21 - [Girls] Wow, yeah. 21:22 - [Tim] And just praying about it ... 21:23 - I can't imagine like all the details are like 21:26 what girls wear, oh, that would overwhelm me. 21:29 - We'd lay out the plants, 21:30 have a look at it, no I don't like that, 21:31 rearrange then get it looking like... 21:33 - Oh my 21:35 - So how do you raise butterflies? 21:36 - Well you begin by collecting eggs, 21:39 so the butterfly breeders have to go out, 21:42 find the eggs on the special plants 21:44 that the butterfly will lay its eggs on, 21:46 we call that a host plant, 21:47 and then they'll take them back to the laboratory, 21:51 and wash them, sterilize them, 21:53 so there's no bacteria on the eggs 21:55 that could infect the caterpillars, 21:57 dry them and then just keep them safe, 22:01 for five, six or seven days, 22:03 until they hatch and then the hard work begins, 22:07 making sure that they've got enough food, 22:09 cleaning their poop out of their containers, 22:10 - [Lillian] Oh wow. 22:11 - [Tim] And they really poop, 22:12 and then everyday, they've got to be fed once or twice, 22:18 and the leaves that we're feeding them 22:20 have to be clean, sterilized, 22:21 to make sure theirs no bacteria and no virus, 22:24 and just keeping away parasites 22:26 that might come to try to infect them, 22:28 so we'll have an air conditioned room 22:30 which is where we keep them, 22:32 as everyday, twice a day, 22:34 somebody gonna have to check them 22:36 make sure they're doing okay, 22:37 they go through five stages of growth, as a caterpillar, 22:41 we call those instars, 22:43 and each instar, at the end of each instar, 22:45 they shed their skin, 22:47 it's like changing clothes, but they have to do that, 22:50 because everyday they double their weight. 22:52 - [Lillian] Oh my. 22:54 - [Tim] And as they double their weight of course, 22:55 they're getting bigger and bigger, 22:56 their skin just doesn't stretch enough, 22:58 so they have to change their skin 22:59 so they can have a bigger skin for the next stage of growth, 23:02 so depending on the caterpillar, 23:04 they might eat for twelve days, fifteen days, twenty days, 23:08 the bigger the caterpillar, the bigger the butterfly, 23:09 the longer they eat for, 23:11 and when they've finished their fifth instar 23:15 then they will sow some silk onto a branch 23:19 or whatever it is they are going to attach to, 23:21 and they make a hook in their tail end, 23:25 and they hook that into the silk, 23:26 and they hang and then they shed their last skin, 23:30 but instead of a new skin, they've got a chrysalis coating, 23:33 - Oh wow. 23:34 - And so that's when the miracle really happens, 23:37 because then all the cells, almost all the cells 23:41 break down into a liquid soup like thing 23:43 - Wow 23:44 - Oh my 23:45 - And a few cells begin building a butterfly. 23:47 - Wow 23:48 - So over the next five, six or seven days, 23:49 or longer, those cells have to build a butterfly. 23:52 - Wow 23:53 - Now it's a miracle that they can do that, 23:55 because they were a caterpillar and not a butterfly, 23:58 so all that information is recorded on the genetics 24:01 inside their cells. 24:02 - Wow 24:03 - Once the butterfly is built, 24:05 it knows just the right time, 24:08 to stretch, split open their cocoon, 24:10 and come out. 24:12 Now its got new legs, it didn't have legs like, 24:14 it had these little tiny legs before, 24:16 and now its got long legs but it knows how to use them 24:18 stand up, and then it's gonna unfold its wings, 24:22 its wings are all folded up, 24:25 and it has to pump blood into them, 24:27 stretch them out until they're flat, 24:30 and then hold them there until they dry, 24:33 once they dry, they can fly. 24:35 - [Lillian] Wow 24:36 - And so we have a butterfly, 24:38 so once the caterpillars become a chrysalis, 24:43 we're gonna have a special case, 24:45 where we hang them up, glass front, 24:47 so that our visitors can see them, 24:49 and as they come out of the chrysalis, 24:51 they can watch them come out, 24:52 watch them stretch their wings, 24:54 and if they're there at the right time 24:56 when the staff open the glass doors, 24:58 watch them fly out into the butterfly garden. 25:00 - Wow 25:01 - That's awesome 25:02 - That's cool 25:03 - So when the garden is finished, 25:04 how many people will you have working there? 25:07 - Well I'm thinking about thirty, 25:09 because we've got ticket sales, 25:12 we've got drinks and the restaurant, 25:16 we need people in the education area, 25:19 we need maybe tour guides, 25:21 for people who really want to know the butterflies better, 25:23 someone to tell them about it, 25:25 we need people to sell in the souvenir shop, 25:28 and we need a manger, accountant, cleaners, 25:33 gardeners, so they're lots of people 25:35 so that's thirty people all together. 25:37 - Wow. 25:39 - So since you've built the whole thing by faith, 25:41 where did all the money come from? 25:43 - God is able to touch the lives of people, 25:47 impress them to give 25:49 and so we've been praying all through this process, 25:52 that God would inspire people to give, 25:54 we don't ask them for money, 25:56 and it's just a miracle, 25:58 we don't always have the money to do this, 26:00 but we just keep working in faith 26:01 that God is going to provide 26:03 and it's just amazing to see what God has done so far. 26:06 - Yeah, it is incredible. 26:08 - So how'd you learn how to manage all the plants 26:11 and butterflies and stuff? 26:12 - That actually goes back a long way, 26:14 my grandfather was a gardener, 26:16 and I learnt to garden, to take care of flowers from him, 26:20 and then I studied biology at university 26:23 and so I learnt more about plants, about animals, 26:26 and so, for many years, 26:28 I haven't been very much in the biology area, 26:31 but God has brought me back to an area that I started in 26:35 and an area that I love 26:36 and giving me the opportunity to do the things 26:39 that I really love to do. 26:40 - That's really cool. 26:41 - Yeah, how God just like had those natural interests 26:44 in you, and then now you can use them, 26:47 and be witnessing for him at the same time. 26:50 - Yeah and also to share them with other people, 26:52 so we've grown the plants and flowers, 26:54 people have come to love doing the same, 26:57 and as we work with the butterflies, 26:59 yeah, they've come to love the butterflies, 27:01 so it's a part of passing it all on too. 27:03 - Yeah 27:04 - So should everyone who wants to reach people 27:06 for God build a butterfly garden? 27:08 - I don't think so. 27:09 When you look at the flowers, you look at the butterflies, 27:12 the animals, there's just so much variety out there, 27:15 and I believe in God gives each person 27:17 different skills, different talents, 27:19 and he gives them a different calling, 27:21 so it wouldn't work if everybody was doing the same thing, 27:25 so there are many ways to reach people 27:28 with the love of Jesus, 27:29 and people should use the skills 27:31 and the talents that they've been given to do that. 27:34 - Thank you so much for being on the show with us today. 27:36 - It's been a great pleasure to be here 27:38 and I look forward to seeing both of you 27:40 at butterfly paradise, 27:41 - [Lillian] Yeah 27:42 - And seeing our viewers as well. 27:43 - Please pray that butterfly paradise 27:45 will be used to reach the unreached. 27:48 - See you next time on MissionTrek. 27:50 (instrumental music) |
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