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Series Code: OTG
Program Code: OTG000005
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00:51 Well this is our project vehicle it's an Arctic Cat Prowler.
00:55 It was donated to the project when the Wickwires 00:58 came down in 2007. Or I guess it was 2008, 01:01 But, it served okay. We've used it to go back and forth between 01:07 the airstrip and transporting our volunteers to various 01:10 places, but, as you can see it's fairly small. It's actually only 01:13 a two seat-er but we've had as many as thirteen people 01:15 on this thing before. 01:16 The AWA team uses the arctic cat buggy as a work horse 01:20 in their operations. It's invaluable to them since 01:23 it's the only vehicle they have. They use it daily as they load 01:27 it beyond full capacity with people, cargo and supplies. 01:33 Well on our team, this is the only vehicle we have. 01:35 So we have, three families and one vehicle. 01:41 So its... we do our best to share it around as much as we 01:45 can. Basically we just use it when we have, when we need to 01:48 carry something, that's really what we're focused with. 01:51 And the motorcycles we use, just for the, getting around. 01:54 Each family has a dirt bike that they use for general errands. 01:57 However they have gotten very skilled and creative 02:00 with carrying loads on the bikes. 02:02 We use the bikes because they are so much cheaper to get 02:04 around then the vehicle, and are quicker. 02:06 So we use them to run to the market, to go to the airstrip, 02:09 we use them a lot. Just before we felt we were, 02:12 we knew we needed a vehicle down here, 02:13 we didn't know what would be best. 02:15 We'd buy here or something and I just happened to be looking 02:18 the classified and this type of vehicle had just, 02:20 they just started making them. And I had never even seen one 02:22 but I saw it in the ad and thought 02:23 "that would be pretty cool" 02:25 and the guy was asking, it was like a year old. 02:28 He was asking about twelve thousand or something for it. 02:32 Well I'll go look at it. And then I went and looked at it 02:35 and they... He was trying... It's kind of a funny story, 02:39 he was telling me how ... She opens up the front 02:41 and says "look! And you can fill all this up 02:42 with beer and ice, and you can drive around all day and 02:44 have a great time and he's got a stereo in it and everything. 02:46 And then he says " What are you going to use it for?" 02:47 And I told him we wanted to bring it down 02:49 for missions in Guyana; we're Adventists. 02:52 "Oh yah! I grew up Adventist" he says. 02:54 "I'll make you a good deal for it." It was still more money 02:57 then we - - we didn't have the money for it. 02:59 And I told a friend of mine about it. He'd been supporting 03:03 us and he said, "you know, you should go get that". 03:06 they paid for it of course, they picked it up, loaded it in the 03:10 container. and that was like two days before we left. 03:14 Every square inch of this vehicle is utilized 03:16 to transport people, materials, fuel, and cargo. 03:20 This is in essence their make shift pickup truck till they are 03:25 able to raise enough money to purchase a truck of their own. 03:29 The airstrip for our operation is about, 03:31 oh it's probably a ten minute walk from our house. 03:35 But whenever we fly we have to carry jerry cans of fuel. 03:38 We have to bring passengers out, we have to carry out cargo, 03:42 if they have suit cases and things like that. 03:44 Absolutely cannot be done without a vehicle. 03:47 If we don't have a vehicle, we have to do, we have to pay 03:50 somewhere between five and ten dollars every time we take 03:52 a trip out there, which adds up pretty quickly. 03:54 Considering we are flying almost every day here and sometimes 03:56 two flights a day. So without a vehicle it's very difficult 04:00 for us to even operate. We have to have a vehicle. 04:03 We are at that point now where it just has to be done. 04:05 But it's taxed. It's.. all the work that we've given it is way 04:08 beyond what it's meant to do. We've taken it to its limits. 04:12 And we desperately need a vehicle. A larger vehicle, 04:15 such as a Jeep or a 4x4 to transport our team 04:20 to varies places. 04:21 Our team is growing. We now have three families here. 04:23 And we can't transport everybody in the buggy all the time. 04:26 So we are just praying that we can find the funding in order to 04:30 be able to get a vehicle and bring it down here 04:32 to serve in this part of the Lord's vineyard. 04:35 One of the challenges the team faces here in the remote regions 04:38 of Guyana is the upkeep and maintenance of their vehicles. 04:42 They don't have any mechanics or repair shops in the area 04:45 that they can take their vehicles to. They can't even get 04:49 parts for the most part. So regular maintenance and 04:52 prevention is not an option but instead a demand. 04:58 The Arctic Cat is our pickup truck and this is our sports car 05:04 Some of the wear and tear in this vehicle is quite obvious 05:07 as you can see the roof is kind of falling apart here and 05:11 actually we have a new sun roof. And, basically it's 05:14 you know it's on it's last leg. 05:16 We just put a new engine in it, which is great, but so much 05:20 other stuff is wrong with it. I'm afraid it's not going to... 05:22 the engine is going to outlast the vehicle. 05:23 So it, it just really doesn't.... Oh! The other thing 05:28 is that in the last two weeks, it's broken down three times. 05:30 We've seen the breaks over heat on the thing. 05:32 The fuel pump went out. So that was down for a few days 05:36 because of that. Tires are completely bald in the front. 05:40 We can't just buy these tires down in Guyana. 05:42 We have to bring everything down from the States. 05:44 Parts for this vehicle are not available here in the country. 05:48 You know, so when the thing breaks down, if you can imagine 05:50 what it's like to be driving on a jungle road and suddenly 05:52 have it just stop working; it's a challenge. 05:56 We don't have tow trucks around here to tow it back. 05:58 We have to fix it on site. And it just presents a whole 06:02 series of challenges. So we're praying for a bigger vehicle. 06:04 Something that would be more appropriate for our work here. 06:06 So in order to preserve it, and make it last the team uses 06:10 the bikes as much as possible. 06:13 This helps the vehicle to last longer. Because it costs a lot 06:17 more to drive the Arctic Cat the tires and the maintenance. 06:20 We just had to put a new engine in it. And it's so much more 06:22 important to us, as far as accessing the airplanes, 06:25 when we do maintenance, for taking fuel out, 06:26 bring our supplies back. 06:28 So we don't have to pay someone else to do that. 06:30 We have a trailer that we pull out with the Arctic Cat to do 06:33 the service on the airplanes. And if we can't 06:35 pull the trailer out, it really handicaps our ability 06:37 to do the work on the planes... 06:41 Like the motorcycles are locally supported 06:42 so they are pretty inexpensive. 06:46 The Arctic Cat, we can get parts locally as well, what really 06:50 kills us, is time and shipping. If there is something critical 06:55 that we need, unless we have someone flying down 06:59 that can bring it with them we're looking at taking a month 07:03 or more to get something. And then when you do get 07:06 something, the cost of shipping and brokerage is just... 07:09 you know a part that cost one hundred dollars becomes two 07:12 hundred dollars. Or more. Depending on 07:13 how badly you need it. 07:17 We try and think ahead of what we need, and have someone 07:20 bring it down so it doesn't cost us so much. 07:22 Although their vehicles aren't the most high end or luxurious, 07:25 the missionaries are glad to have them. 07:28 Without these forms of transportation, they would be 07:31 extremely limited in the amount of work they could do 07:34 here in Guyana. 07:36 Transpiration is a very necessary tool 07:39 here in the remote region in Guyana. 07:47 While Jud fulfills his mechanic duties, the ladies are busy in 07:51 the kitchen at the VanFossen home. Here, Chandell, the local 07:55 Guyanese Bible worker, is teaching Chrystal how to cook 07:59 a Guyanese staple food, cookup. 08:02 Have you ever hurt your hand? No 08:08 We are going to make cook-up and we're going to make porridge. 08:11 Cook-up is rice and beans cooked in coconut milk. 08:15 And the coconut milk is not the water that is inside the coconut 08:20 It's from grating the coconut and then putting the coconut 08:23 in water and squeezing it, squeezing the water through 08:26 the coconut a couple of times. And then that's the coconut milk 08:30 that we'll use for cooking the rice in. 08:33 The two ladies are preparing food that they will be serving 08:36 at a health fair they are hosting. 08:38 Chrystal has only been in Guyana for 8 months, but she wants to 08:43 immerse herself in the culture, so she is having Chandelle teach 08:46 her everything she needs to know 08:49 So how does this work? 08:51 This is a little grater. It's not real fine. 08:56 And it's rather dull. And then you just put the coconut, 09:01 the bowl of the coconut over it... 09:09 Then you grate it out like that. 09:15 And see, it'll go really deep inside, 09:24 They're really really fast at this. 09:28 They call these dry coconuts. Because they don't use the water 09:31 If they want to drink coconut water, which is from the young 09:35 coconut, they call those wet coconuts. 09:39 Almost everybody grows their own. They grow wild too. 09:44 People can just go out in the jungle and find coconut. 09:48 They've got coconut trees in their back yard. 09:52 It's not totally done, but you can see how well it gets 09:55 in there and just gets it right out. 09:58 Chrystal wants to better relate to the locals 10:00 that she lives amongst. 10:01 She feels that if she adopts some of their traditional 10:04 daily ways of life, they will feel more comfortable 10:07 being around her. 10:09 She also wants to convey that she isn't here to change them, 10:12 but instead, to show them Jesus' love. 10:15 The dogs and stuff will even eat coconut. 10:18 They will split a coconut open and dogs will eat, 10:22 they get the rest, the inside. So will the ducks and the 10:24 chickens. That's how they supplement their diets. 10:29 Coconuts are a huge resource for the Guyanese. 10:32 They are quite readily available and inexpensive, so they 10:36 use them for a number of things. 10:38 Not only do the people eat them, but they also feed the coconut 10:42 to their animals. The cats and dogs have even 10:45 have learned to enjoy the coconut scraps. 10:47 The Guyanese can't afford to let any food go to waste, 10:51 so they make the most out of every morsel of food. 10:54 The Guyanese kitchens do not have all the luxuries that 10:57 one can find in North America. In fact, the Guyanese cook 11:01 over open flame so they have the kitchen area 11:04 outside of their homes. 11:05 This keeps the smoke from filling up their small houses. 11:10 Also when cooking, everything has to be done by hand. 11:12 They don't have electric mixers, blenders or graters. 11:16 So they must carefully handle their rustic cooking tools. 11:20 Chandel, do you ever cut yourself? Yah... 11:26 They eat cook-up for everything. 11:30 It's their main dish, that they eat like when they go out 11:32 for picnics, they would take that. 11:34 If you're having a birthday party, you eat cook-up. 11:37 If you have a funeral. A wedding 11:40 Sometimes for like a wedding, mostly they use 11:43 fried rice and chicken. 11:47 Church potluck, cook-up. 11:52 Lunch, cook-up. 11:57 It's just their dish. It's their favorite, favorite food. 12:00 Guyanese favorite food. 12:04 Kind of like bread to an American. 12:07 We have bread at most meals. Or something like that. 12:12 Chrystal and Chandelles' main reason for making cook-up today 12:16 is to alter the recipe and to recreate a healthier version 12:20 of the Guyanese's favorite dish. 12:24 These Guyanese tend to not have a lot of money to spend on 12:27 fresh vegetables, so their meals are often 12:29 unbalanced and un-nourishing. 12:32 The ladies want to educate the villagers about just how 12:36 important it is to have proper nourishment and fiber intake. 12:40 Just like in the States, the inexpensive food is fiber low, 12:45 like cassava. Like cassava bread and stuff. 12:55 It's harder to grow things here, even though you're 12:57 in the tropics, you're always fighting something. 13:00 You're fighting the insects, you're fight poor soil, 13:02 you're fighting the sun. 13:04 You're fighting the lack of water, or too much water. 13:07 So vegetables aren't as plentiful here. 13:11 And you can't just go to the grocery store and buy them. 13:13 They have market day twice a week. Saturday and Tuesday, 13:17 and if market doesn't have it, you're kind of out of luck, 13:21 unless you know someone in Georgetown 13:23 who can send it to you on a boat. 13:25 And the Guyanese don't make a lot of money, typically. 13:29 At least here in region one. A working man's wage, 13:34 if they can find work all day, is twenty thousand 13:40 or two thousand dollars, which is ten US dollars. 13:44 But you can't find work every day. 13:48 And so Guyanese family often needs about thirty thousand, 13:57 I have heard... - They feel pretty comfortable if they 14:01 can make between thirty and forty thousand dollars a month. 14:05 So it's a hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars a month. 14:09 So spending fifty cents or a dollar fifty for one meal 14:17 on vegetables is kind of expensive to them. 14:20 Their goal is to educate the natives on healthier ways to 14:24 prepare their foods; however, the ingredients they can use 14:27 are extremely limited. The average Guyanese family 14:31 doesn't have access to many things other than 14:34 the standard staple goods. 14:36 And spending any extra money of additional foods isn't a luxury 14:41 many of the natives can afford to do. 14:44 It's like a coconut flesh. Just taking out the milk from it 14:50 put it in water and just squeeze it out. 14:52 And get the coconut milk. 14:55 After the coconut is grated the ladies wash it out to make 14:58 the coconut milk. They fill the bowl with water 15:01 and coconut and mix it. Then they squeeze out the coconut 15:05 flesh leaving just the coconut milk. 15:08 They will use this milk to cook their rice. 15:10 Traditionally cook-up consists of coconut rice, a small handful 15:15 of peppers and onions and a cup or two of beans. 15:19 Today, Chrystal and Chandelle are tripling the fresh produce 15:23 and the beans to add some substance to the rice dish. 15:27 They don't want to change it too drastically however, they are 15:31 fearful that if it tastes too different, the Guyanese won't 15:34 like it, and wont adapt their our cook-up recipes. 15:37 So once again, they are very limited as to what and how much 15:42 they can alter the recipe. 15:44 Now that they have everything prepared, they can begin cooking 15:47 They again sift out the coconut milk with a strainer. 15:51 Just like everything else, cooking takes much longer 15:54 in third world conditions. 15:56 They don't need the flesh for this recipe but they don't just 16:00 discard it. They save it for the animals to eat. 16:04 We feed it to the chickens. 16:13 Once the milk is heated on the stove, 16:15 Chrystal mixes in the vegetables Once that begins to boil, 16:19 they mix in the rice and allow that to cook together. 16:23 Chrystal enjoys having this time to learn 16:26 and connect with Chandell. 16:28 Often the missionaries have such busy schedules that they don't 16:32 always have time to spend with each other. 16:35 So this morning is a nice treat for Chrystal and Chandelle 16:38 to learn and commune together. 16:40 As the food cooks, the ladies talk about the health fair 16:45 and they try to gage how many people they should cook for. 16:48 They want to have enough food for everyone who attends. 16:51 It's never easy to gage how many people might show up 16:55 to one of these events. But the ladies are being optimistic 16:59 and cooking enough for over one hundred people to eat. 17:02 I told her there is already more vegetables in that then 17:04 what I usually see in cook-up. 17:14 We're going to bless this food and we're going to ask God 17:18 to make up all the deficiencies that we don't have. And help 17:23 the people's taste buds to like whatever it is we've made. 17:34 You know last night, God and I were talking and I said 17:36 "You remember of the feeding of the five thousand story, 17:38 You know, where You satisfied people 17:42 with what they were used to?" 17:44 Rice and bread. Or bread and fish or whatever, we are trying 17:51 to do the same thing here. We are trying to teach people 17:54 how to use the foods that they... are used to. 18:00 I said "we might not do it so perfectly, but You can 18:04 make up the deficiencies." 18:06 Before Chrystal takes the cook-up to the health fair, 18:10 she first tests it out on her neighbors to see what they think 18:14 of the new and improved cook-up recipe. 18:16 We got this white woman that is to sure what she's doing. 18:19 So I need a Guyanese to tell me if it's any good. 18:26 Good. It needs salt? Not plenty. Little more. Little more salt? 18:31 What else? But this would work for me. This would work for you. 18:36 Yah. You can eat it. No. So the salt. It needs more salt? 18:40 No. Its good salt. Oh its good salt? Yah. Just this way? Yah. 18:43 I can feed this to the people in Barabeana? Yah. 18:46 And they won't spit it out? Yah. This good. This is good? Yah. 18:51 Ok. Thank you. 18:56 When I was in the States I had driven on some pretty rough 18:58 roads before, but when I came to Guyana I had my eyes opened to 19:01 what roads are really, how bad roads can really be. 19:03 In Mabaruma we go out sometimes as far as forty five minutes 19:07 to an hour away from Mabaruma. Some of the roads that we've 19:09 been on are...by American standards impassable. 19:12 We have to go on them though because we have to get to some 19:15 of these locations we are going to whether its church or medical 19:17 need or whatever the case may be And when it rains these roads 19:20 get rutted out, very badly. Some of these ruts literally are 19:23 sometimes that deep. And you have to figure out a way to get 19:26 around that in your vehicle. 19:27 Now that the Arctic Cat is running nicely again and all the 19:31 food is prepared the team packs everything up and begins their 19:35 trip to Barabeana. The team loads up every available spot 19:40 on the buggy. The roof, the side rails, the floor boards all are 19:45 loaded with supplies and people as they bounce down the road. 19:49 But even still, not everyone can fit on the buggy, so they 19:53 have to take a few of the dirt bikes out to Barabeana as well. 19:57 Barabeana is about probably a ten minute drive from Mabaruma. 20:02 The road is in kind of a bad shape right now, so you know, 20:06 it's not easy to get out here always. Cause when the tide 20:08 comes in the water goes over the roads. Sometimes it can get as 20:11 deep as a couple of feet to drive through, and a lot of 20:13 rocks and all that. So its a little bit of a challenge 20:15 getting out here sometimes but, so it's a little bit isolated in 20:19 that regard you know that it's not always easy to get to. 20:22 It should only be about a fifteen minute trip away, 20:24 however, with the roads in the condition that they are, 20:28 it's going to take them much longer than anticipated. 20:31 The rivers are all tidal waters in this area. 20:34 So as the tides rise, so do all the low lying flood areas. 20:39 This road to Bababeana happens to cross one of these areas. 20:45 But rather than let that stop the team, they push right 20:48 through the murky waters. They aren't going to let getting 20:51 a little muddy, stop them from holding this health fair. 20:54 So they just drive right through the high waters, 20:57 dirt bikes and all. 21:09 Unfortunately there isn't enough transportation for everyone. 21:11 As they reach the top of the hill they pass one of the fellow 21:15 missionaries Anica. She began her day very early and started 21:20 walking to Barabeana for the health fair. 21:22 It isn't an ideal situation, but the mission team is praying that 21:27 it's just temporary and they look forward to the day when 21:30 they can buy a full sized pickup that will be able 21:33 to transport everyone. As soon as they come to a stop, 21:37 people start appearing. It's as if they were waiting for them 21:40 to arrive. So the team quickly unloads and begins 21:44 the afternoon's festivities. 21:47 As the day goes on, more and more people come to 21:51 learn about their health. 21:55 We have a huge need for a vehicle, 21:57 specifically a 4x4 truck. 21:59 We've been managing here for years without it, but it's been 22:04 a huge hassle, as we've been using this little arctic cat 22:08 which we call the buggy and it says, if you look on the panel 22:12 it says maximum 2 people. But we actually have fit on like 13. 22:17 And there is cargo, and we are hanging off there. 22:20 What happens is when we fly back from Georgetown we land 22:23 and usually we have people and or cargo, 22:26 we are flying in our groceries. There is always medicines for 22:29 for the hospital or whatever. And so how are we going to get 22:31 them from the airstrip to our house. And so, we just pile 22:35 everything on to the buggy. As much as we can. 22:37 And motorcycles, I've learned how to, I can ride a motorcycle 22:41 now with a jerry can in between my legs and another on back here 22:44 And it's pretty amazing. So, we need a 4x4 truck. 22:49 The ideal vehicle for us here really would be a Toyota 4x4 22:52 of some kind. Toyota parts are readily available here in Guyana 22:54 And we've identified this need, so we worked with AWA to set up 23:00 an account specifically for a vehicle for Guyana. 23:03 We're here at Barabeana doing the health fair and it's just to 23:06 help the community become more aware of their health status. 23:09 We're specifically focusing on glucose and pressures. 23:12 I think we had some discussions quite some time ago actually 23:15 about just different creative ways to make in roads into this 23:18 community and we just felt that you know, it'd be good to have 23:22 a you know a session or a health fair so to speak to teach people 23:26 about health principles. And to give them tools to 23:29 help them live a better life. You know it's a good way to 23:32 introduce people to who we are, and Adventism as it is you know 23:37 we have a church that we built here so hopefully you know 23:40 people will realize that we're, you know we're to help! 23:42 And we love them and want to do something for them 23:44 and you know it's just a tangible way to show that. 23:46 We decided to do the health fair at Barabeana because we wanted 23:50 a way to start developing relationships with the people 23:54 out here. It's kind of like friendship evangelism. 23:56 You know you get to know someone and then as they get to know you 23:59 they ask you questions and then that gives you 24:01 an opportunity to share. 24:03 And Adventist World Aviation for that matter isn't just about 24:05 aviation. You know it's about sharing the gospel you know 24:10 in tangible ways. Transportation is a way to bring people in to 24:13 you know, areas that are difficult to get to that they 24:17 can learn more about God's love. And health is just one of those 24:19 things that just really everybody understands. 24:22 It's a language that everybody understands. Everybody wants to 24:24 be healthy. So we try to do that You know, Jesus whenever He went 24:28 into a village, often He'd leave with-He wouldn't leave till 24:31 everybody was healed. You know, before He shared any message 24:34 with them. He just would heal their physical maladies. 24:36 So that is what we are trying to do, I guess. 24:39 So we've got a dental station. And at the dental station Karen 24:42 is going through and showing the kids how to brush their teeth. 24:45 Some things about how your teeth are put together and what 24:48 to look for, so that you have good healthy teeth. 24:51 And then inside the church over here, we have health teaching 24:54 going on. And Greg VanFossen is up there doing, teaching on, 24:58 just everything from preventing blood pressure and diabetes to, 25:02 you know what causes back pain and you know 25:04 how the skeletal muscles work. And a variety of things. 25:08 So he's doing a lot of that too. And so many people 25:12 need to have education here and understand more about health. 25:14 You find the funniest things. Some people believe their heart 25:17 was over here. You know and it's right here of course. 25:20 You know it's just, things that we just take for granted, 25:23 you know they just don't understand. And so the education 25:26 is a big thing and once they understand some of these things, 25:28 it brings a lot you know, peace to their heart. 25:29 Cause they don't know, if they have a pain in their side is it 25:31 my heart you know and their hearts up here. 25:33 They might just have a side ache from not drinking enough water, 25:36 who knows. 25:37 And then we have some food that has been made. 25:41 Chandelle helped me make some food. Actually she probably made 25:44 more of it and I was being educated on how 25:47 to cook Guyanese food. And their diet tends to be rather 25:50 low in fiber and so we helped to make their food a little 25:54 healthier for them. Since they do have problems with glucose 25:57 and the increased fiber will help modulate their sugars. 26:00 So we have some samples of that, for them to try. 26:02 One of the common problems we find in Guyana, and all kinds of 26:05 countries around the world, is that they tend to eat a lot more 26:07 simple carbohydrates then they need to. 26:09 Guyanese like to have a pile of rice, a little bit of vegetable, 26:13 and a little bit meat or protein Where is should be the other 26:15 way around. You know, small amount of carbohydrates, 26:17 big pile of vegetables and a small amount of protein. 26:20 And so we are trying to teach them that that's a better way 26:22 to eat. It helps the blood sugar and blood pressure and all those 26:24 things. They tend to eat a lot more simple carbohydrates 26:27 than they need. And that's what causes diabetes. A lot of it. 26:29 And not proper exercise too and all those things. 26:32 And not drinking enough water. That's another huge issue. 26:34 A lot of people don't like to drink water here. 26:36 In general the main health concern tends to be diabetes 26:43 and high blood pressure. And so if we can help them understand 26:49 the needs to one know what their glucose levels are, and how they 26:55 can eat healthier, so that they don't have to worry 26:57 as much about it. 26:59 And the medical work is just a way that we can you know kind of 27:02 open their eyes that you know to see God's love, 27:04 something tangible. 27:06 You know that's what a lot of times people don't see. 27:08 Everyone goes around knocking on door and trying to get them to 27:11 convert to their church but they don't really see God's love. 27:13 You know that's really what it's all about. 27:15 You're not going to be saved by being a member of our church, 27:18 but I do believe that the truth that our church holds is pure. 27:22 And it's based on the Bible. And I just want to share that 27:24 love with others. That ability to get in there and share that 27:27 with them. So that's really what it's all about. Ultimately. 27:29 The villagers listen attentively to the information 27:33 everyone is sharing. 27:34 As the day comes to a close, all can agree that today was 27:39 a huge success. They all give the credit to God for such a 27:44 great outreach opportunity. 27:47 Days like today remind all the team members why they so badly 27:51 need ground transportation. The two airplanes make a big 27:55 impact, but a 4x4 truck can be greatly utilized 27:59 in saving souls as well. 28:02 Jesus said in the great Gospel Commission in Matthew 28:19-20 28:06 that we are to go into all the world! 28:08 Well, Adventist World Aviation is dedicated to doing just that! 28:12 There are between six and a half and seven billion people 28:15 now living on planet earth. And two billion of them have 28:18 never heard of Jesus. 28:20 Of the two billion, eight hundred million 28:23 of them can only be reached like means like aircraft. 28:26 or through aviation support. 28:28 We go into the un-reached areas of the world. 28:31 What we find when we go in there 28:33 we find death and disease and despair. 28:37 What we bring them is hope, health and life. 28:41 And a great Gospel message that Jesus loves them. 28:44 That there is somebody out there, who does care. 28:47 They often ask, why do you do this? 28:50 We say, because Jesus loves you! 28:52 And so the message that we bring them is absolute hope. 28:56 Since it's inception, 1995, AWA, or Adventist World Aviation 29:01 has been able to relieve over thirty five epidemics. 29:03 We've literally flown millions of missionary miles. 29:07 We are relieving the pain and suffering of those who live 29:09 in these remote parts of the world. Helping them. 29:12 Will you pray for us! 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