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Series Code: OTR
Program Code: OTR000995
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01:40 There is a river and it flows from deep within,
01:59 There is a fountain that frees the soul from sin. 02:16 Come to this water, there is a vast supply. 02:34 There is a river that never shall run dry. 02:51 And there was a thirsty woman 03:00 she was drawing from a well, 03:10 See her life, it was ruined and wasted, 03:19 and her soul was bound for hell. 03:29 Oh but then she met the Master 03:39 and he told of her her sins, 03:48 And he said if you drink this water, 03:57 you'll never thirst again. 04:09 There is a river and it flows from deep within, 04:28 There is a fountain that frees the soul from sin. 04:45 Come to this water, there is a vast supply. 05:05 There is a river that never shall run dry. 05:32 In the 1998 Charles Le-Morzellec 05:35 was living happily in the suburban Washington DC, 05:39 but he felt impress to go overseas 05:41 and take a look what was out there, 05:45 what country did you go to? 05:46 I went to Haiti. And what happened? 05:49 Well that's my first mistake I went to 05:51 visit Haiti and stop to, obviously to get a small 05:55 offer in some power plants seeing that 05:58 it wasn't really working well. 06:00 On a first week I was there, 06:01 I hey didn't have any money for food. 06:03 I didn't have any money of myself with me because 06:05 I was just suppose to visit and I find myself 06:09 on the second day looking for a new location 06:11 for the kid, because I find out at that night 06:14 that Haiti was so big, you've to look twice, 06:17 are you looking at the kid or looking 06:18 at the Haiti you know. 06:19 So, you have an orphanage, 06:21 you have a school and what else, a clinic? 06:24 An orphanage is about 40 kids, school is between 06:27 150 to 200, probably 200 students this year coming. 06:31 We have a clinic open every day of the week 06:34 for the local people, we provide medication 06:37 basically free, the church is going to compound. 06:40 We have no water station and we also give 06:43 you know pure water I mean you know 06:44 purify water to the people. 06:46 Okay, your orphanage is not in the city of 06:49 Port-au-Prince, you are some distance away right? 06:52 Correct, yeah we move to the country sides. 06:54 Okay and what was impact of the 06:56 earthquake on your facilities? 06:58 For us not too much really I mean we didn't loose 07:01 any building nothing like that, the all place 07:05 shook but nothing fell, but the real impact 07:08 is on the refuge after that, you know all the 07:10 people are leaving power plants and in our 07:13 compound from short time about 2 months 07:16 2- and-half months we had 772 people there. 07:20 772, yeah normally you have about 120 people 07:23 there right? Well no I mean I'm not counting 07:25 all the people; I'm talking the extra people 07:27 the refugee, oh okay. So, if you figure everything 07:30 we are closer to 1000 you know. 07:32 Wow! Now I understand you have some pictures 07:34 you like to share with us a video, 07:35 yes correct. Okay, let's watch the video now. 07:39 Traveling to the post earthquake Haiti, 07:41 seems like you are in the middle of war zone, 07:43 homes are demolished, churches destroyed, 07:48 families are cramped in tiny six by eight rooms, 07:52 the wall made from a bead sheet or cardboard box. 07:55 Their only barrier from the wind and rain 07:58 that threatens them every night. 08:01 Life in the streets is filled with urgency. 08:05 A small group from New Hope Adventist church 08:08 cautiously travel 60 miles from Port-au-Prince 08:11 to the town of Maureen, home of the 08:14 Eden Garden Orphanage. We are greeted there by 08:17 the children of Eden Garden, a wonderful 08:20 reunion after 9 months since our last visit. 08:25 In our short time here we will drill a well 08:28 to provide clean water to the orphanage 08:30 and neighboring community. 08:33 We will also begin medical assessments on every 08:35 child at Eden Garden Orphanage, 08:37 and develop a process for future 08:40 medical mission trips. As finally we will focus on 08:44 developing relationships with key organizations 08:47 and hospitals to ensure that long term food 08:51 and health care needs are provided for the 08:53 children of Eden Garden. Even when water is 08:57 collected 90% of all the water that is available 09:01 is not clean. If you are lucky and have money 09:06 to stand in line for a jug of water, 09:08 it still many not be clean. 09:11 Virtually every water source is shared with 09:14 wild animals and garbage. 09:17 After finishing the inventory, 09:18 the medical team decides to open the clinic 09:21 the following day. Words spreads quickly 09:24 throughout the town, the medical professionals 09:27 will be open for business. 09:31 The mission and the New Hope Church is committed 09:33 to the Eden Garden is huge. 09:36 The children of Eden Garden Orphanage 09:39 are fed three times a day by caring kitchen staff. 09:43 They play, study, and live in safe environment 09:47 that gives them a life unparallel to what is 09:50 happening outside the walls of the orphanage. 09:54 There is a constant commotion occurring 09:56 every day here, but it is a commotion that improves 10:00 the quality of the lives at Eden Garden. 10:06 After days of drilling and struggling through 10:08 major language barriers, and unforeseen problems, 10:12 we finally strait water. 10:23 Well Charles if I should ask you what is your 10:26 most pressing need, I'm sure there are 10:28 lots of needs, lots of challenges, 10:31 but what's would you consider the most 10:32 pressing need that you have right now? 10:35 I'm glad you ask the good question, 10:37 what we really need is power or lack of power, 10:41 we don't have any power. We have generator and 10:43 that doesn't work, we need solar system 10:46 and we know that to do solar system for the 10:48 compound it's about $40,000 to do it, 10:51 it's a big chunk of money but since you saw 10:53 that church give us well last Sabbath to give me 10:58 a challenge. If I could raise 20000 they would 11:02 put 20000 for it. So, I'm giving you to 11:05 challenge I need $20000 can anyone attempt. 11:09 Very good, we will continue to pray for 11:12 Eden Garden Orphanage and hope the Lord continue 11:15 to bless your efforts at there in Haiti. 11:17 Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you ASI. 11:20 Now this morning you all listen to Don Noble 11:22 Mr. Maranatha and he told he was going to talk 11:26 about Haiti also, so we will turn to time over 11:28 to him and let him use up all what is a 10 minutes 11:32 that you have to tell us about 11:34 what Maranatha is doing in Haiti? 11:38 Thank you very much you know 11:39 it was January 12 it 04:57 p. m 11:43 it was 35 seconds, that change life in 11:47 Port-au-Prince and the lives of millions 11:49 of people. I was there just couple of weeks 11:51 ago again and what I see there is, 11:55 it looks a bomb hit the city. The media has left; 12:00 there is not a lot of press that drives your 12:03 attention to it. You can go about your life 12:05 and forget about it, but I can tell you 12:07 it's still really, really tough in 12:11 Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 230,000 people killed, 12:15 300,000 injured, still over one-and-half million 12:20 people living in tents, and we are coming 12:22 into the rainy season. I've walked through some 12:24 of those tents with all water is running 12:26 through the area, you wouldn't wanna live 12:31 there, you wouldn't wanna be there. 12:33 But, I'm here to encourage you that 12:36 God's church is still positive, 12:39 in fact they have saying, at the church in Haiti 12:43 they say God is good all the time, 12:45 and all the time God is good. I don't even hear 12:48 that so much in North America, 12:51 but God is good all the time. 12:53 And you know Haiti has been kind of forgotten 12:57 here for the last few months, 12:59 life is tough for the people there. 13:02 The university campus, the Seventh-day Adventist 13:04 University there right after the earthquake 13:05 had about 25,000 displaced people on the campus. 13:09 They are down to about 17,000 now, 13:12 but it's still a major issue. I wanna show 13:16 you a couple of pictures, I know you saw videos, 13:20 you got a little idea this is the Presidential 13:22 Palace you probably seen in on the news, 13:24 I can tell you that they haven't fix it yet. 13:26 As you drive around town these are the types 13:29 of pictures you see pancake buildings 13:32 everywhere you turn. They are starting 13:35 to clean some of it up, but they have a 13:37 tremendously long ways to go. 13:40 This is a very interesting location 13:42 in Port-au-Prince where in the median between 13:44 the two lanes people are living in these shacks. 13:49 This is the Central Seventh-day Adventist 13:53 Church in Port-au-Prince auditorium it was 13:56 completely destroyed and the school behind 13:57 it was destroyed. Its, it was school for about 14:02 7 or 800 children. We put up one day church 14:07 frames there they are using up for school 14:09 and for church here as church on 14:10 Sabbath morning. We have actually three of these 14:13 side by side, by side there you look out at 14:15 platform out in front, and they have close 14:18 to a 1000 people there on some Sabbaths. 14:21 It's a place that you can hardly imagine. 14:26 We are moving right along to location called 14:29 Tabarre, this is the Seventh-day Adventist 14:32 Church as it looked after the earthquake. 14:35 Today we put a one day church, 14:37 it's actually two of them back to back because 14:39 its large congregation, I went in there on a 14:42 rainy evening couple of weeks ago and 14:45 they were filling a place with the members 14:48 for prayer meeting, worship and their lighting 14:52 system was two light bulbs, and they were all 14:55 smiling and happy, because God was blessing them. 14:59 It's, this is a church called Christwa, 15:05 I'm sure I didn't say that right, 15:08 it's the French pronunciation. 15:11 Just before the earthquake this 15:12 particular location had finished paying 15:14 for their church and it was destroyed. 15:16 Today we've put up a one day church there 15:18 and they are reaching out to their community, 15:20 they've already had over 20 baptisms 15:22 at this location, as a result of having a place 15:26 to bring people to have faith, confidence in God. 15:30 In fact if you walk through some of those 15:32 tents where people live, you will find people 15:36 with their arms lifted up to heaven, 15:38 repeating the Lord's prayer and when they 15:40 say give us this day our daily bread, 15:44 they mean it like non of us ever have, 15:47 I've seen that it's heartbreaking. 15:52 These churches this is another one Eden, 15:55 I think is the name of this particular location. 15:59 These simple churches, simple you've seen them, 16:01 you see the sample over here if you been 16:03 to the exhibit hall you've seen the church 16:05 you might say, I think these are pretty simple. 16:08 But, here is an interesting thing that's 16:10 we've learn there in Port-au-Prince, 16:12 the government, the community, 16:15 the other churches and the other schools 16:20 are saying something kind of funny about 16:22 the Adventist Church because of all 16:24 these building, they are saying those Adventists, 16:27 you know those Adventists they must 16:30 be rich, because they got those churches, 16:34 they got those schools, they've got to be rich. 16:38 As I mentioned this morning there is about 16:40 4000 people in Port-au-Prince meeting 16:42 in this churches and about 5000 children, 16:45 the interesting thing is that already 16:48 it's the end of school year right now, 16:49 they will started again in October. 16:51 They've already got lot more people signed up 16:54 because the parents want their children 16:57 in those schools, because it's better than 16:59 anything that they have. And they won't send 17:02 their children into a school that has a 17:03 concrete rough, it's phenomenal. 17:08 This is actually on the university campus right 17:11 here picture of part of the tent city that 17:17 they have 17,000 people. Things that happened 17:21 there is the wall around the hospital 17:24 on the university was pretty much collapsed. 17:28 This is the new wall that we are building 17:30 its 10 feet high, it will be two-and-half 17:34 kilometers around, now that's big building. 17:37 A few it's well over a mile almost a mile 17:39 and half around the campuses there. 17:43 And people are coming from all around 17:44 saying this is the best wall in the country 17:49 of the Haiti. Hey put rebar in it it's a trick, 17:55 just rebar. But, here on the campus is the 17:59 the President of the university there; 18:01 he is talking to a class room of children. 18:03 You can see that's a one day building, 18:06 these building we have three of these 18:07 side by side on the campus, 18:09 that's the president J.J. Pear Those buildings 18:14 are 156 feet long, those three side by side 18:19 they have about 1400 students in those 18:22 three buildings in two shifts morning and 18:24 afternoon secondary school and university. 18:30 This is surprisingly what you wouldn't expect; 18:33 this is the theological seminary on the 18:35 Adventist University in Port-au-Prince. 18:39 We are about to replace it as soon as we get 18:41 a few more containers across the border, 18:43 this will be replaced by a one day buildings 18:46 but this is the currently the theological seminary, 18:48 this is a school called Lesuse, it was a three 18:51 story building before the earthquake, 18:54 it completely collapse killed 22 students. 18:59 Today they are back to the same number 19:02 of students 850 students there, 19:05 and you might see the teacher out 19:07 there in front, excited young people, 19:11 they are positive as we walk through the 19:13 campus there. They already have 1100 19:15 signed up for next year. 19:18 So, you can see that God is working there 19:21 in Haiti; the church is holding together, 19:25 this is one of the primary class rooms 19:28 on the university campus, there in Port-au-Prince. 19:35 One of the things that surprised me 19:38 is I was talking to the secretary pastor Ligerra 19:41 of the Central Haiti Conference. 19:44 And he said since the earthquake the people 19:48 have really started working into their 19:51 communities binging people to church 19:53 especially the one day churches. 19:55 Last year 2009 they baptized 2000 people 19:58 in that conference 2009, since the earthquake 20:03 they've baptized 4000, praise the Lord, 4000. 20:10 Now again those people are living in a very 20:12 tough times, and when you are really tough 20:15 times you tend to turn to God, right. 20:18 It's that's certainly part of it; 20:20 the other part is they have a place to meet, 20:21 a place to form community and work 20:24 together and create hope. 20:27 It's exciting to me is that despite the 20:30 difficulties they have had, despite the earthquake, 20:33 despite the loss of family, and friends, 20:37 despite the fact that they mostly don't have 20:39 any food, and despite all the conditions 20:43 they live into the tents, despite all those things 20:47 those people are still praising God. 20:49 So, when you think of Haiti, think of the fact 20:53 that these people are still seeking God, 20:56 they are still strong Seventh-day Adventists, 20:59 they are still reaching out to their neighbors, 21:02 they are living in horrible conditions, 21:04 almost unbearable conditions that you can 21:06 hardly relate to. But, God is still their strength 21:10 and they are turning to him on a regular basis 21:12 for furthers uplifting support. 21:15 Don't forget Haiti, we are gonna still need 21:19 some support for schools and churches down there 21:23 and we hope that we can continue to work 21:25 in that country, you know education director 21:27 for the country use to be a Seventh-day Adventist, 21:31 and he has come to the university and ask 21:33 to use all of the class rooms on the campus 21:38 of the Adventist University for testing 21:41 that they do every summer for the children 21:43 because there are best classrooms 21:46 in Port-au-Prince isn't that interesting? 21:49 At the university or next to the university 21:52 is the Adventist hospital and in the hospital 21:55 we've also been able to do a couple of buildings 21:57 we've got what's still being used as emergency room, 22:01 and they also have a triage unit right there 22:04 as a one day building, so the hospital is using 22:08 these two. The thing that touched me was that 22:11 God knew when we were asked to send buildings 22:16 for shelter, he knew that they really need 22:18 a churches and schools, and I saw that with 22:21 my own eyes how God had led through this process. 22:24 I said praise God he really cares for his 22:27 people and he cares for his people in Haiti, 22:30 and I would certainly list your prayers and support 22:33 for your brothers and sisters 22:34 in the country of Haiti, thank you. 22:53 I boast not of works or tell of good deeds 22:58 For naught have I done to merit His grace 23:07 All glory and praise shall rest upon Him 23:15 So willing to die in my place 23:22 I will glory in the cross, In the cross 23:28 Lest His suffering all be in vain 23:36 I will weep no more for the cross that He bore 23:43 I will glory in the cross 23:56 My trophies and crowns, my robe stained with sin 24:02 Twas all that I had to lay at His feet 24:11 Unworthy to eat from the table of Life 24:19 Till Love made provision for me 24:26 I will glory in the cross, In the cross 24:33 Lest His suffering all be in vain 24:41 I will weep no more for the cross that He bore 24:48 I will glory I will glory 24:56 Glory, Glory in the cross. 25:20 Thank you so much for that beautiful number. 25:22 We love our young people don't we? 25:23 They are awesome. This afternoon I have 25:26 with me Brother David Canther 25:28 and Dr. Jason Shives. Are you folks are from an 25:32 organization called Acts, can you tell us 25:35 what that is, what you do, what does it mean? 25:36 Sure Ellen, the Acts means Active Community 25:40 Team serving around the world. 25:43 Okay and you serve around the world then. 25:47 We enjoy helping especially in first 25:49 response, emergency response domestically 25:53 and of course in Haiti we've been there the 25:54 past seven months, serving 71,000 patients, 25:58 Dr. Jason is gonna share about that in a little bit, 26:01 I went into the hospital there in Haiti, 26:04 began helping in the kitchen within the 26:05 first five days after the earthquake and actually 26:09 prepared over 300,000 heart vegan meals 26:12 right out of that cafeteria there in Haiti. 26:14 Heart vegan meals for refugees, yes, 26:16 hey they like that food? Oh man I tell you 26:18 it was a greatest blessing and a lot of patients 26:20 you see when you cook healthy meals, 26:22 right like the rig we have out here in the frame, 26:24 we have vegetarian meals, we cook all over 26:26 and vegan meals but at the hospital it became 26:30 known as the lighthouse on the hilltop because 26:33 the patients could actually get well quicker 26:35 by feeding them good nutritious meals, 26:38 we shift in 6500 pounds of TVP within 26:41 the first week after the earthquake. 26:43 Wow! That's amazing, now this afternoon, 26:46 you brought a little video clip with you, 26:48 so we can enjoy, actually going to Haiti 26:51 and we are gonna enjoy that at this time. 27:02 My name is David Canther, 27:03 just a little update of where God has been 27:06 leading Haiti in that past six months in one 27:09 of the largest historic catastrophic events 27:12 in the world. We would give a brief over cap, 27:14 phase 1 was Acute Care as many of the 27:18 medical providers came in and found themselves 27:20 working as we came to the Adventist hospital 27:23 at Haiti and the needs were very acute as 27:28 thousands of people were on the frontline 27:30 of the hospital, so as we looked at phase 1, 27:32 it need involved lot of amputations, 27:35 a lot of acute medical care and coming 27:38 to the hospital where they disparately 27:41 needed help, this was before many other 27:43 institution arrived at the same access, 27:46 well known to be a first responder acting 27:49 quickly to save thousands of life. 27:51 The mobile clinic next door which we set up 27:53 across from the hospital was phase 2 27:55 and there we were able to primarily focus 27:59 on pediatric and primary care patients. 28:02 We saw anywhere between basically 700 28:05 and 1500 people a day at that clinic. 28:07 Those patients would walk up to four hours 28:10 a day to be there at that clinic where we 28:12 administered over $2.3 millions of 28:14 donated medicine. Our focus on phase 1 and 2 28:17 was lot of medical, and emotional, 28:19 and spiritual care. We were blessed to help 28:21 over 68,000 patients, and we look at that 28:25 as a real honor. Phase 3 is an exciting phase 28:29 to be into because it's teaching how to fish 28:32 and not only how to fish, but giving the 28:34 Haitians the ownership of the pond. 28:36 But literally coming into train them in 28:39 professional technical training that would be 28:42 able to use them in the orphanages 28:44 and in the schools and in their country 28:47 very effectively. It's a important thing 28:50 to be able to teach them things 28:52 like triage, and medical care. 28:55 It helped me so much; first of all 28:59 it helped me to help others. 29:01 It's about being able to see changed lives, 29:04 changed lives through everything we did from 29:07 the acute medical to feeding food. 29:10 Mass care feeding is another strength of Acts 29:13 into doing things of mentoring and training 29:16 into the future changing lives. 29:18 Probably one of the most exciting things 29:20 though was actually training them in 29:22 spiritual care, emotional care, how to lead 29:25 somebody to Christ, and that's the thrill 29:28 of when they realize that they can pray 29:30 in a comfortable way with people. 29:32 The Acts prayer model someone created 29:35 there in Haiti is built on the acronym ACTS 29:38 they begin realizing how they can be 29:41 effective in their own country. 29:50 I want to call you to Acts, God is calling you 29:52 to serve right now. There is a way that 29:55 your gifts can be used both domestically 29:58 and internationally. We wanna invite 30:00 you to become a part of the vision that 30:02 God has placed within our heart. 30:05 Wow! That is thrilling isn't not wonderful? 30:08 Praise God, where God is doing, 30:09 so you are going is, you are the some of the first 30:11 people into Haiti then as first responders. 30:13 Actually God blessed with 27 fridgets of individuals 30:17 that we shipped in primarily medical care 30:19 within the first three days of the earthquake. 30:21 Dr. Jason Shives came in on day four or five with 30:24 a group as a first response group, 30:27 and they did a phenomenal job as well. 30:29 Lot of orthopedic surgeons, anesthesiologists, 30:32 nurses the first jet load actually was with Haitians 30:35 Adventist physicians out of Florida Conference. 30:38 Oh that's wonderful, that's wonderful. 30:41 And then you go kind of into a secondary phase 30:43 in these disasters because obviously 30:45 first responding has hopefully an endpoint 30:47 when the earthquake stops. 30:48 Well Haiti is very unique and catastrophically 30:51 different, but firs phase was acute care, 30:52 second case, phase was as I mentioned 30:56 basically during the pediatric and 30:57 primary care and but typically phase 2 31:01 you are getting more into the emotional, 31:02 spiritual healing. The third phase is the 31:05 most exciting you've down what Jesus did, 31:07 you've met the needs of the people, 31:09 you planted the seed, watered the seed, 31:11 met the needs of the people and then you go 31:13 into evangelism and Dr. Jason just returned 31:16 with me last couple of weeks we are holding 31:18 three simultaneously evangelism meetings. 31:21 And I tell you that people are just wanting 31:24 to give their hearts to Lord, when you've met 31:26 their needs first and that's an exciting 31:29 phase right now. That's wonderful Dr. Shives, 31:31 I wanna you to share with us a bit about 31:32 what's going on right now in Haiti right now. 31:34 Actually when I got the opportunity to go 31:36 to Haiti, actually it wasn't in on my 31:38 radar screen; I was in the middle of my 31:39 residency year, towards the end of 31:41 my residency. And my wife is like 31:44 there is an earthquake you got to go, 31:45 I said how to get down there? 31:47 And it seem like a lot of other people were 31:49 trying to get down there as well but, 31:50 you know David comes to me you know sends 31:52 out a message on facebook and says 31:53 you know we need doctors, we need nurses, 31:55 we need people to get down there, 31:57 and whether a thousands of people. 31:59 So, you found out about this need on facebook, 32:01 on facebook, that's awesome, 32:02 I'm kind of facebook fan okay go ahead. 32:04 I found out later that you know there were 32:06 thousands of medical professionals are tying 32:08 to get into Haiti but they couldn't because 32:10 there were blocks, but because of the 32:12 connections the Acts was able to make 32:13 we were able to get in there and save lives 32:15 when people were still trying to get in 32:17 and praise God that Adventist hospital 32:19 which was nearest to the epicenter 32:21 was still standing. And so is it's if God 32:24 specifically has his hand over that hospital 32:26 because you knew there will be teams, 32:28 for sure yeah. When we got to the hospital 32:30 we didn't know what to expect, 32:31 there is close to a 1000 patients just waiting 32:34 for surgeons to do operations on them. 32:37 And I spent that first week, 32:39 probably the busiest week of my life. 32:41 And I felt as if you know I was really there was 32:44 some spiritual emphasis but it was all 32:47 just a physical. I say God if there is an 32:49 opportunity for me to come back to be able 32:51 to share you to these patients, let it happen. 32:55 We had the opportunity in the last couple 32:56 of weeks, I brought a group from my church 32:58 the force like Seventh-day Adventist 32:59 church and this time we did medical 33:01 but we also did constriction and we had 33:03 evangelism in the evenings. 33:05 That's wonderful. There wasn't a lot of time 33:07 to do a lot you know with like when we go to 33:08 Share Him they were able to prepare the way, 33:10 we didn't have a lot of that because 33:12 they are still lot of security issues, 33:14 but we were able to have 10 people accept Christ 33:16 while we were there, amen. And we have 33:18 a couple of stories if you would like us to share; 33:21 there is two specific stories that really 33:23 were touching. Yeah well start with one, 33:25 our clock is ticking over here. 33:26 Sure, well one story I guess we talk about 33:28 our driver. We were bouncing around 33:30 for two weeks, you know we go to this church 33:32 and try to build and this, I started the 33:36 conversation, I was trying to learn Creole 33:38 and French and I ask the guy is like 33:39 do you have a religious affiliations. 33:41 Oh God I don't have any religious beliefs. 33:43 By the end of the two week, we had a call 33:45 and he stood up for baptism, amen. 33:47 And his name is Tony and I talk to him later 33:50 like why did you stand up? He is like I never 33:52 seen a group like this before and just watch 33:53 the way you lived your lives and what you are 33:54 doing for my people and I was coming to the 33:57 meetings and I wanted to accept Jesus too. 33:59 Now David you only work in Haiti? 34:01 No actually we work around the world, 34:03 and we have lot of fun training students, 34:06 I kind of find the education department, 34:08 the General Conference in North American 34:09 division we train youth, we love mentoring 34:11 youth in emergency response domestically 34:14 work with lot of academies, our Heritage 34:16 Academy is our great first responder, 34:18 and train and search training as well as 34:20 training many other place, we just get back 34:22 from Argentina last month. It's great to 34:25 empower our youth training them to help 34:28 now and it keeps them involve in their church 34:30 and their communities and helping the church 34:32 grow wherever they are at. So, we worked 34:34 domestically, we've cooked over million meals 34:37 with our kitchens around the Untied States, 34:39 but in times of international disaster 34:41 we are the first response team as well. 34:43 Now do you need volunteers, 34:45 and how can people get touch with you? 34:46 We have 76,000 volunteers so far, wow. 34:49 We need so many more, praise the Lord, 34:51 because these storms are way bigger than 34:53 any of us. Collaboration is a key, whether you 34:55 are helping with ADRA, ACS, ACTS 34:59 if there were 1000 more organizations 35:00 that would not be enough. 35:02 So, collaboration is very important, 35:03 but we utilize volunteers many organizations 35:06 have paid people, we use volunteers. 35:09 Acts is a blessing to the denomination especially 35:13 when it comes to liability because some 35:15 conferences, some different organizations 35:17 say well you are doing so much you know 35:19 and we wanna get sued with the Adventist name 35:21 and so Acts is a real blessing because 35:23 we carry our own liability but when individuals 35:25 come in it helps create opportunity for the 35:27 Adventist church because it's serve 35:29 the liability issue where we can go in and 35:32 they can partner with us, gives you freedom, 35:34 being an Adventist too, 35:35 we have freedom too share and to serve. 35:37 Well thank you so much for sharing with us 35:38 this afternoon and their website was at the end 35:41 of the video, and you have a booth here too, 35:43 what's the number, do you know 35:44 the number of your booth? 35:46 It's on isle number one, and of course 35:48 you can go out to the kitchen right out here 35:49 and volunteer but actswr. org you can go on 35:53 and volunteer at any time throughout the year. 35:55 We need all of you as construction, cooks, 35:57 trainers, EMT paramedics, fireman whatever might be. 36:01 Okay well thank you so much, 36:02 God bless thanks for sharing. 36:11 This is Chip Doss, I almost feel like 36:14 I don't need to introduce you Chip 36:15 because you know surely ASI knows you. 36:17 We know more commonly from Edgemoor video 36:20 and I think, how many of you are familiar with 36:22 Edgemoor video? You watch 3ABN? 36:24 Okay, you are among friends here those 36:27 beautiful nature scenes and you see the 36:29 animals up close and I try to imagine 36:31 you climbing over all those mountains getting 36:33 that awesome footage, so how does Edgemoor video, 36:38 how have you found a way to share 36:41 Christ in your marketplace. 36:43 Well, originally we were just a home business, 36:45 but we now have a store front in Mountain View, 36:47 Arkansas. And we've opened an apple store, 36:51 and this is given us the opportunity to have 36:53 walk in traffic which we never had before. 36:56 We also do general video production work 36:58 there in town and we have just a lot of people 37:05 from many walks of life that need something 37:09 better and one thing my mom does is teach 37:12 a cooking class and so she invites 37:17 and I invite our customers to go to that class 37:19 and we've had quite a few people 37:21 attend that from our business. 37:23 Now you shared with me that you have the 37:25 capability to take like an old some kind of 37:28 multimedia and you can transfer over to more 37:31 modern digital technology, you told me the neatest 37:33 story about how you helped a family with 37:35 one of their memories what was that? 37:37 Well I just want to mention one thing about 37:39 the cooking class, our health work is one 37:43 of the most important entering wedges 37:44 and we had four people that were baptize 37:47 from that cooking class, praise the Lord 37:49 and we just really are thankful for those new 37:52 members of our church. But, yeah we had 37:55 a disaster in Mountain View, Arkansas, 37:57 it was a flood, and I will talk more about 37:59 that in a minute, but this lady lost everything 38:03 she owned in a flood. And one other things 38:05 was that survived half way was a video tape, 38:10 and that was the only thing that was left 38:12 that had her son that had passed away 38:16 and so the tape had been in water, 38:18 we were able to take it apart rebuilt it 38:20 and recover it not that's only 38:22 images she has of her son. 38:24 So, this is the kind of ministry the Edgemoor 38:26 videos doing locally in the community, 38:28 I just think that so inspiring. 38:30 Now, Chip certainly you don't climb the mountains 38:34 and do your video work turn outs, what in the 38:36 world you are doing in turn outs this afternoon. 38:38 Well I joined, in 2008 I joined my local fire 38:42 department, I volunteer fire department 38:44 and we had a bad year in 2008 in Stone County, 38:49 Arkansas. We had two 100 year floods 38:52 in a period of two weeks. 38:53 These floods just never happen, 38:55 wow in two weeks, in two weeks it's amazing. 38:59 And the creek that I have going through 39:00 my property is usually about 6 inches deep 39:02 and it was over 22 feet. Wow! 39:06 so a lot of water, we also had an F4 tornado 39:10 that travel through Arkansas at 123 miles 39:13 and stayed on the ground as in F4, 39:16 sometimes its F5 for a 123 miles destroyed 39:20 my old farm that I had just sold and we also 39:24 had a record ice storm and record snow storm 39:28 Arkansas just doesn't get a lot of snow, 39:30 and when you have three feet of snow 39:32 that's a lot of snow. For sure even 39:34 I where I lived in. And that was all 39:35 within a one month period. 39:37 Wow! So, you are volunteer fireman right? 39:42 Right, so that means you can get call 39:44 anytime like you get to sleep at night. 39:47 Most of the time we do, it's you know 39:49 we are in the real environment, 39:50 so we don't get a lot of calls but when 39:52 we do they are generally at 2'o clock 39:53 in the morning. And so what yeah that seems 39:55 to be how they go isn't it? They don't go at, 39:57 at 6 after you finished supper you know 39:59 and everything is relaxed they wake you up. 40:02 So, you do a lot of first responder work, 40:04 what kind of blessing or stories can you share 40:07 for your work as fireman, it so exciting 40:08 to you really as you are involved in the 40:11 community that's really wonderful. 40:13 Well I do most of the calls we get are 40:16 medical calls, okay. And you know they are 40:19 usually a coronary or something like that, 40:21 an elderly person that's having trouble. 40:24 We also get a lot of auto accidents 40:26 and ATV accidents. Motorcycle and ATV 40:32 when you hear that call command you get 40:34 burred in the air you know it's everything 40:37 goes into highest phase mode you can get 40:40 because that's usually pretty heavy trauma, 40:42 sure. And we've seen amputations 40:44 and from motorcycle wrecks you know 40:48 just right there in the field, 40:49 and those are quite intense. 40:52 So, do you have any you know couple of stories 40:54 you can share of people whose lives 40:56 have been impacted by you were firework. 40:58 Well the one thing that I enjoy about being 41:01 on the volunteer fire department 41:03 and as far as witnessing opportunity, 41:06 my fellow firefighters are my best friends, 41:08 its, awesome, and it's really important 41:09 as Seventh-day Adventist that we get involved 41:12 in our communities, sure. You know if you don't 41:15 know these people when you go to do an 41:16 evangelistic crusade, especially where I live, 41:20 they already have a church, they already have 41:24 something that they are doing, and you know 41:27 how are you gonna witness to those people 41:28 if you don't know them, 41:30 if you are not their friend. 41:31 But, I have a couple of stories I would like 41:33 to share with you, one was a man had 41:37 just passed away and we got there just 41:41 as he was dying and we were not able to save him, 41:44 and those are some of the saddest calls we go 41:47 on but they give us the best opportunity to 41:50 comfort the family and to be with them 41:51 in the time of grief. And then also we had 41:55 an individual that and this is kind of a 41:59 traumatic story, but he was out hanging 42:01 his field and the track he fell off his tractor, 42:05 and the tractor cut to the right and then stay 42:08 to the right, and continue to run over him 42:10 and over, and over, and over, and over again 42:12 and that was one of the first call I ever 42:14 went on and it was it was quite something to see. 42:18 And then we have of course fire calls and 42:24 you know that's a disaster right there, 42:26 it maybe small, it may not ever make the news, 42:28 but it's a disaster for them, they are loosing 42:31 everything they've ever had, for sure yeah. 42:33 And that's really hard on them and we are there 42:36 to comfort them and one thing we have 42:37 with our local Seventh-day Adventist 42:39 church as we have the relief supplies 42:41 and room is available if they need to stay 42:44 in a motel room for a while we can do that, 42:46 and our fire department is aware of that, 42:48 and uses those services. 42:50 Oh so that's a blessing, so your local fire 42:52 department ties in then with your Adventist 42:54 church and provide that's wonderful, 42:55 that's something that lot of us could do with 42:57 our community services, that's really wonderful. 43:00 So, the challenge comes to us that they are 43:03 so many different ways that we can integrate 43:05 and be involved in our community 43:07 and there in Arkansas you are trying a 43:08 Bible bell, right, so people are somewhat 43:11 satisfied with their religious believes often. 43:13 Right and you know I would really encourage 43:16 you to join your local fire department 43:20 and if you were able to do that it's a lot of fun, 43:22 it's a adrenaline rush occasionally and, 43:24 push your mic up, and I think you would just 43:27 enjoy it, it's a beautiful experience and you can 43:30 make lifelong friends from doing that. 43:33 Well thank Chip so much for coming 43:35 and sharing with us today, and God bless you 43:36 and our ministry. Thank you. 43:42 In my darkness Jesus found me, 43:49 Touched my eyes and made me see 43:55 Broke sin's chains which long had bound me 44:01 Gave me life and liberty 44:08 O glorious love of Christ my Lord divine 44:14 That made Him stoop to save a soul like mine 44:20 Through all my days and then in heaven above 44:27 My song will silence never, I'll worship Him forever 44:34 And praise Him for His glorious love 44:40 O amazing truth to ponder He Whom angel hosts attend 44:53 Lord of heaven God's Son what wonder 44:59 He became the sinner's Friend 45:06 O glorious love of Christ my Lord divine 45:12 That made Him stoop to save a soul like mine 45:18 Through all my days and then in heaven above 45:25 My song will silence never, I'll worship Him forever 45:31 And praise Him for His glorious love 45:37 My song will silence never, I'll worship Him forever 45:43 And praise Him for His glorious love 45:50 And praise Him for His glorious love 45:57 And praise Him for His glorious love 50:54 Their chains were fastened tight 50:59 Down at the jail that night 51:02 Still Paul and Silas would not be dismayed 51:10 They said, "It's time to lift our voice, 51:14 and sing praises to the Lord 51:19 Let's prove that we can trust Him come what may" 51:27 God wants to hear you sing 51:30 When the waves are crashing 'round you 51:34 When the fiery darts surround you 51:37 When despair is all you see 51:40 God wants to hear your voice 51:44 When the wisest man has spoken 51:47 And says, "Your circumstance is 51:49 as hopeless as can be" 51:54 That's when God wants to hear you sing 52:09 He loves to hear our praise on our cheerful days 52:16 When the pleasant times outweigh the bad, by far 52:22 But when suffering comes along 52:27 But we still sing Him songs 52:32 That is when we bless the Father's heart. 52:39 God wants to hear you sing 52:42 When the waves are crashing 'round you 52:46 When the fiery darts surround you 52:49 When despair is all you see 52:53 God wants to hear your voice 52:56 When the wisest man has spoken 52:59 And says, "Your circumstance is 53:01 as hopeless as can be" 53:06 That's when God wants to hear you sing 53:13 God wants to hear you sing 53:17 When the waves are crashing 'round you 53:20 When the fiery darts surround you 53:24 When despair is all you see 53:27 God wants to hear your voice 53:30 When the wisest man has spoken 53:34 And says, "Your circumstance is 53:36 as hopeless as can be" 53:40 That's when God wants to hear you sing 53:47 That's when God wants to hear you sing, you sing 54:18 I invite you to stand for prayer. 54:23 Our Father you are truly an awesome God. |
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