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Maranatha Volunteers International

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00:01 I want to spend my life
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00:34 I want to spend my life
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01:09 Hello and welcome to 3ABN Today.
01:11 My name is John Lomacang, and I have my co-pilot with me.
01:16 How're you doing, Honey? I'm great.
01:18 I'm so excited about today's program.
01:20 It's near and dear to our heart.
01:22 That's right, Maranatha. What does that mean?
01:25 That means more than just Jesus is coming.
01:28 That is an organization that has thrived.
01:31 And you'll find out what I mean by thrive in just a moment.
01:34 But this program is near and dear to us,
01:36 as you said, because we had an opportunity to participate
01:40 and you'll find out more of the details
01:41 in just a moment.
01:43 I'm just kinda percolating here about the program.
01:45 So much, so excited.
01:46 So we'd like to encourage you to just sit back,
01:49 if you want to hit the record button,
01:50 we know that you're gonna be inspired
01:52 after this hour has been...
01:54 has expired,
01:55 we know that there's gonna be
01:57 a fire lit in you for missions,
01:58 not only where you may live,
02:00 but around the world in various parts,
02:02 and they will be able to see the world beautifully
02:04 through Maranatha, what a wonderful ministry.
02:07 Before we go any further though,
02:08 thank you for your prayers
02:10 and your financial support of this network
02:11 as we continue going and growing,
02:12 getting ready for the coming of the Lord.
02:14 I appreciate it so much whether it's financial
02:17 or here volunteering with us,
02:19 everything you do for the cause of Christ
02:21 is deeply appreciated.
02:23 Honey, we have some music before we go any further
02:25 before we introduce our guests.
02:26 Okay, we have some music by Martha De Luna,
02:30 "This is My Father's World."
05:06 Thank you so much for that very appropriate song,
05:09 "This is My Father's World."
05:10 Yes.
05:12 And it is in this our Father's world
05:14 at Maranatha.org,
05:16 Maranatha Volunteers, Maranatha Missions
05:18 is such an appropriate entity
05:21 that has been changing lives
05:22 and you'll find out for how long.
05:23 But let's go ahead right now and introduce our guests today.
05:26 I'll begin to my right, Don Noble,
05:28 President of Maranatha Volunteers International.
05:31 Good to see you, Don. Great to be here, again.
05:33 Yeah, I'll tell you, we have rubbed shoulders together
05:35 in the dust as well as on the asphalt.
05:39 And in a nutshell briefly
05:41 before we go to the wonderful person
05:43 sitting to your right and the next person
05:44 to her right,
05:45 give us a nutshell of who you are,
05:47 what you do, and where you are right now?
05:49 Oh, Maranatha is basically a responsive ministry
05:52 to the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
05:53 We don't make-up any of our projects.
05:55 We do what they ask us to do as much as we can.
05:58 And for 50 years, that's what we've been doing.
06:00 Primarily building churches and schools,
06:04 other, some other projects too,
06:05 remodel projects here in the United States,
06:07 camps, campuses that type of thing.
06:10 And we've started drilling a lot of water wells,
06:12 because we find out that there's,
06:14 if people don't have water, it's very hard for them to,
06:17 you know, learn, grow,
06:20 experience Christ for that matter.
06:22 So we've expanded into that area also so.
06:25 Yeah, a lot of volunteers get involved, which is great.
06:29 So the gospel is not just building,
06:31 it's flowing also.
06:32 Okay.
06:34 Yes, the gospel is flowing.
06:36 In fact, when you go out there
06:37 and you see how dry certain places are in the world
06:40 and the impact of water is huge.
06:44 And we're excited to be able to be part of that now.
06:45 And we'll have an example of that today in the program.
06:47 We will, a great example. Yes.
06:50 And, Honey, why don't you introduce the next person.
06:52 Laura, Don's wife.
06:55 Welcome, Laura. Thank you.
06:57 And what do you do at Maranatha?
06:59 I'm with donor relations, of course,
07:01 person wears a lot of hats, you know,
07:03 in a smaller organization, but yes,
07:05 I work with donors and it's totally satisfying.
07:09 And it's a privilege to work with Maranatha.
07:12 And it's also fun to see you in the field, I mean,
07:13 you're such an elegant person,
07:15 but then you know how to get out
07:16 and get dusty too.
07:18 And I know that for some people,
07:19 that's not their idea of living.
07:21 But you are also
07:22 and I've seen each one of you get involved
07:24 when we go to projects around the world,
07:26 and it's really a challenging field,
07:27 but it's just something that I see inspires both of you.
07:31 I want to get back real quickly.
07:32 How long have you been with Maranatha?
07:35 Thirty seven years. Thirty seven years?
07:38 Since high school?
07:39 Pretty much, before that.
07:41 Before. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:42 No, since 1982, it's been a blessing,
07:45 you know, to watch what God is doing around the world
07:48 and be able to get out there and see it.
07:50 And sometimes even being able to make decisions
07:53 that make a difference and watching lives get changes
07:57 what's really exciting,
07:58 both on the volunteer side
08:00 and on the recipient side of the project, it's great.
08:03 How many countries have you been to?
08:05 Well, I've been to more countries
08:07 than we've worked in.
08:09 We've worked in about 90 countries
08:10 as Maranatha in the last 50 years.
08:13 But I've traveled a few more, you know, getting around but...
08:17 Okay. It's exciting.
08:20 You know, some people get involved
08:22 because they're excited about going someplace,
08:26 seeing a different culture.
08:29 But sometimes God has something bigger for them.
08:31 That's right.
08:33 If that's their only goal,
08:35 God will show them something else.
08:36 Mm-hmm.
08:37 They see the way people are in
08:40 some of these small areas of the world
08:42 where God is expanding His work.
08:45 I mean, there's countries for example,
08:47 we talked little earlier about Zambia.
08:52 I mean, there're thousands of congregations there
08:54 and when people get out there and they see the excitement
08:57 that people have for the gospel, they say,
08:59 "How come I don't have that back home."
09:02 How come I don't have that same passion
09:03 and it can resurrect that in the life,
09:06 which is great.
09:08 And I don't want to overlook our third guest, Peter Thomas.
09:12 Good to have you here, Peter.
09:13 Thank you. Good to be here.
09:14 And tell us your capacity with Maranatha?
09:18 I am a board member now at Maranatha.
09:20 Okay.
09:21 And it allows me to travel
09:24 to many different places of the world...
09:25 Okay.
09:27 To check out not only current job projects,
09:31 also future projects.
09:33 And one of my passions is to travel,
09:35 so I get to really enjoying myself a lot of times.
09:38 And where were you born?
09:40 I was born in Kenya, Africa.
09:41 Kenya. Wow! You're a Kenyan.
09:42 I'm a Kenyan.
09:44 Are you an African-American?
09:45 I'm the original African-American, that's right.
09:48 That's right. Yeah, that's a new twist.
09:51 Yeah. New twist.
09:52 It reminds me of Manuel EscA rcio,
09:54 whenever he came to America,
09:55 he says, "I'm an African-American."
09:57 Right. Good to have you here.
09:58 But you also do other things with Maranatha.
10:02 Contracts, you're a builder? I do.
10:04 I'm a building contractor in Texas,
10:06 but I also lead Maranatha trips to Africa.
10:09 Okay.
10:10 So I'm able to use the skills
10:12 that I've honed over a lifetime to take groups of volunteers
10:16 into some very out of the way places in Africa
10:19 and build the buildings
10:21 and experience the volunteers as they are...
10:28 as they experience new cultures.
10:30 And watch the lifestyle change that they go through
10:34 by watching how other people live.
10:36 And, Honey... Were you parents' missionaries?
10:38 Yes, they were. Wow!
10:39 My parents were second generation missionaries.
10:42 My grandparents on my father's side left England
10:44 in 1926 to go to Kenya.
10:48 See, Honey, he has roots like you do from England.
10:50 I was born in England.
10:52 Wow! That's amazing.
10:54 So you have quite a bit of experience.
10:57 I do.
10:58 Born in the mission field?
11:00 Yes. I know.
11:02 And also there's something
11:03 that you were like the place that he's from,
11:06 specifically where were you born in Kenya?
11:08 In Kisii.
11:09 Oh, Kisii, Kenya? Yep.
11:11 3ABN Radio,
11:12 we have a full-power 3ABN radio station
11:15 in Kisii, Kenya.
11:17 Yeah, when I was born, it was a small town
11:18 and now it's a large city as you know
11:21 if you've been there recently.
11:23 And the former president of the United States
11:26 has roots in Kisii, Kenya.
11:29 I don't think he's Kisii.
11:30 I think he's Kisii.
11:31 Anyway, that's another part of the program.
11:33 That's just trivia for all the people
11:35 who are watching to figure it out.
11:37 But, Don, let's get back to Maranatha,
11:39 Maranatha is an organization that has transformed
11:42 our way of thinking about building projects.
11:44 Take us a little bit over the history of Maranatha.
11:47 And just, we're gonna sharpen that
11:48 and hone that in just a moment,
11:50 but kinda give us some background on Maranatha?
11:52 We started in 1969.
11:55 Just a group of people that got in airplanes
11:58 and flew close by the United States
12:00 to the Bahamas and built the church,
12:04 a place called Eight Mile Rock on Grand Bahama.
12:07 And that's something that, you know,
12:12 has come back into the news.
12:13 But it was the beginning of something
12:16 that they didn't know, they didn't really realize.
12:19 But they started doing a few other projects
12:21 and so Maranatha
12:23 at that time flights international was born
12:25 and because each trip was called The Flight,
12:28 and contractors with smaller planes
12:30 would fly to different places, Central America, Mexico,
12:35 the Caribbean areas
12:37 that were accessible by small plane,
12:38 and they would take people with them,
12:40 each project was called The Flight,
12:42 and so it grew.
12:45 And eventually, as the word got out,
12:50 other parts of the world
12:51 started asking for projects too.
12:53 In fact, it seems like God was kind of watching this thing
12:55 as the church grew in other parts of the world
13:01 massively, actually, as you get into the 80s,
13:05 the need for simple structures
13:07 became phenomenal around the world.
13:09 And so, that's why we have requests
13:11 for over 100,000 projects in our office.
13:14 Wow, that's job security.
13:16 Well, I know...
13:18 When I first started in 1982, I thought, well, you know,
13:22 we'll work for a few years
13:23 and we'll get all these projects done
13:24 and then I'll go do something else.
13:26 No. No way.
13:27 You know, there's a great demand
13:30 in churches, schools, physical places
13:35 are important to gather the people of God together.
13:39 And worship for education, very, very important,
13:42 more so than we realized.
13:44 And in fact, they find that
13:47 if they don't have a place for people to meet,
13:50 the people tend to scatter.
13:53 And sometimes they'll say,
13:54 "Well, let them meet under the tree."
13:57 Well, maybe they worship that tree.
13:59 If that was the religion that they had initially
14:02 and that doesn't work so well.
14:05 So that's how we're working with Garwin McNeilus
14:09 and ASI and others.
14:10 We started working on the One-Day Church program,
14:15 which, because you don't have to do a fancy building
14:18 in some of these places.
14:19 Now, some of the places we work we have to increase...
14:23 Yeah, it has to work with the culture.
14:24 But there's places where
14:26 that's the nicest building in town.
14:28 And there, you can't believe
14:31 the gratitude for something simple.
14:33 But we live differently in our society here,
14:37 but when volunteers go out and see it,
14:40 and it's transformational.
14:42 As young or old,
14:44 and we have probably close to half of our volunteers
14:49 that are 25 and under.
14:53 It used to be considered old folks operation,
14:56 but it's started spanning the age brackets
15:01 all the way across, even families.
15:04 Some of our most popular projects are family projects.
15:06 Wow! Wow!
15:08 Especially at Christmas time.
15:09 Christmas? Families...
15:10 Yeah, you wouldn't think that,
15:12 but families are trying to teach their children
15:16 that there's more to life than getting presents,
15:20 giving critical to giving as a life thought process.
15:26 What am I thinking of, Honey?
15:28 About the girl in... Go ahead.
15:30 It was in Zimbabwe... Zimbabwe.
15:32 When we were there, there's a...
15:35 I think, she was about 17 years old
15:36 or so maybe 14, I think above 14.
15:38 Above 14.
15:39 And I was surprised to see such a young girl
15:43 at this building site.
15:46 And her mother indicated
15:47 that she had been doing mission projects
15:50 for since she was seven years old.
15:52 And one year, they said, "You know,
15:54 we're gonna do something different this summer,
15:55 we're going to go to Disney World."
15:57 Well, she went to Disney World and she said as a teenager.
16:00 She said, "I absolutely hated it."
16:02 Mom said, "What's wrong?
16:04 I thought you want to do
16:05 something different this summer."
16:06 She said, "No, Mom, I need to be with Maranatha.
16:08 I need to be on a building product."
16:09 Yes. "This is not what I wanna do.
16:10 This is waste of money." Yes.
16:12 I said, "So do you like?"
16:13 She said, "I love it when I'm with Maranatha."
16:15 Now that she's probably about 20 or 20 some years old now.
16:18 But I was amazed that you also have,
16:20 and, Laura, I told this to you,
16:22 you have a portion of Maranatha
16:23 that young people really dive into.
16:25 Right, we have a special project every year
16:27 called, "Ultimate Workout."
16:29 And some years we even have two Ultimate Workouts,
16:31 because the signup is so large.
16:32 So Ultimate Workout is for teenagers
16:35 between 14 and 18 years old,
16:37 and it's really not for parents.
16:39 So parents, you know, and I've tried to come
16:41 with my nieces and they're like,
16:42 "No, that's where we draw the line," you know,
16:44 so it really is for teenagers.
16:46 And what's cool is the leadership
16:49 is just a little bit older,
16:50 and then we have some older leadership there.
16:52 So if you're a parent, you can rest assure that
16:54 these kids are definitely taken care of.
16:56 But this year,
16:58 our Ultimate Workout was in Kenya,
17:00 and we've never shipped kids over to Africa.
17:03 So, you know, honestly, it is a bit of a nail biter,
17:06 but everybody came back
17:07 and came back with an experience.
17:09 Okay.
17:11 So it was just a fantastic trip.
17:12 I mean, probably one of the most
17:15 spiritual wonderful trips ever.
17:19 We were just telling Pete last night about,
17:24 we had a banker show up at our office
17:27 and, you know, you talk and you tell them
17:29 what you do in this and the other thing,
17:31 and the banker was a woman and she said,
17:32 "You know, I think I'll send my daughter."
17:36 Okay.
17:37 And she did,
17:38 and the daughter had just a fantastic time.
17:41 So, you know,
17:43 it's really an interesting thing.
17:45 you never know
17:47 how a life is going to be changed.
17:49 And that is really the mission of every Christian
17:53 on this planet, right,
17:54 is that we know that as human beings,
17:57 we need something more than ourselves
17:59 and even more than those other people
18:01 that care about us, we need God.
18:03 That's right.
18:04 And that is really the only true satisfying thing.
18:06 And the sooner you find that out,
18:08 and the sooner you really believe that,
18:11 the better and more satisfying your life is gonna be.
18:13 And I think teenagers,
18:15 you'll add that vector in their life,
18:18 where everything can go one way or the other,
18:20 and we know that as adults.
18:23 So the Ultimate Workout is really trying to direct
18:26 our goal is to direct every young person there
18:30 to begin, or reestablish,
18:33 or cement in a relationship with Jesus Christ,
18:36 because that really is the only thing
18:38 that's satisfying.
18:40 And isn't it true that Maranatha
18:41 and I want to go to Pete just right after this.
18:43 Isn't it true that some of the children
18:45 that go to the Ultimate Workout end up wanted to be baptized?
18:48 Absolutely. Yeah.
18:49 So it's not just an experience for them, they get...
18:51 they meet Christ there.
18:52 They meet Christ there and they have a huge turn
18:56 and that is the turn that we're all hoping for, right?
18:58 And really one of those turns that you do every day, right?
19:02 We've been seeing 20 to 30 baptisms a year
19:04 on the Ultimate Workout.
19:06 And this year it included some of the locals as well
19:09 that we're interacting with the kids,
19:10 so it's pretty neat.
19:13 These experiences are more than just construction
19:16 because some people are, "Well, I can't do construction.
19:18 I don't want to do construction,"
19:19 but there's other kinds of outreach
19:21 that always go along with these projects.
19:24 Whether it's something as simple as a Vacation
19:25 Bible School, lot of health ministries.
19:28 Oh, yeah. Yes, we have met them.
19:29 And sometimes, you know,
19:31 traditional evangelism too
19:32 can work in depending on the interests of the groups
19:36 that are going so.
19:37 Now, Pete, as a builder and being with Maranatha,
19:41 you're not just a board member,
19:42 talk about some of your experiences
19:43 because, as a builder,
19:45 I'm sure you've been at Ground Zero.
19:46 Correct. Okay, talk about some of that?
19:48 Well, one of the things that first appealed to being about
19:51 Maranatha was the organizational structure,
19:54 because prior to going on my first Maranatha trip,
19:57 I'd been on other mission trips with other denominations,
20:00 other groups and it always seemed like,
20:03 you spent half of your time once you got there,
20:05 assembling all of the materials that you needed for a job.
20:09 With Maranatha, you show up in day one,
20:13 you're under construction.
20:15 And so, for a builder or for people
20:18 that are in the building business,
20:20 that's exciting because you don't want to travel
20:22 long distances to someplace
20:23 and then spend a lot of time trying to organize yourselves.
20:26 It's all organized, the logistics are amazing.
20:29 We just go to work. That's right.
20:31 And so, over the course of seven or eight days,
20:34 we literally will build a complete building.
20:37 And the volunteers can see the finished product
20:40 and, so it's very rewarding for me
20:44 as a contractor to be able to go over
20:46 and complete structures once I get there.
20:48 So you supervise?
20:49 Yes. Wow!
20:51 Well, some people claim that I whip them with a whip,
20:54 but it's more... To get it done.
20:55 Yeah, we have a good time,
20:57 but we also get some work done.
20:58 Yes.
20:59 You know, Maranatha is exciting, Don,
21:01 you want to say something?
21:02 I was just gonna say, you know, we need people like Pete,
21:03 because a lot of volunteers can go to work
21:05 under the leadership of one or two good skilled people.
21:09 Everybody doesn't have to know everything.
21:11 But you have to have some people that know.
21:13 And that's why you have to have guys like Pete
21:16 that are willing to go, and supervise,
21:18 and be patient
21:20 and not use the whip, sorry, Pete.
21:23 But really help them realize
21:25 that they can make a difference.
21:28 Honey, I mean, you remember the time we were in Zimbabwe,
21:31 and I remember the One-Day Church
21:33 because in Zambia, we did the brick.
21:35 But in Zimbabwe, we did that One-Day Church structure,
21:38 and it was so inspiring,
21:39 that we went to a spot where,
21:41 in a matter of days,
21:42 and I like the fact that some of those structures.
21:44 It's quite different in Zimbabwe,
21:46 I mean, in Zambia, it took a little longer
21:47 because of the kinds of brick and different function.
21:51 And then I think the inspiration
21:52 came the next time out
21:54 that the One-Day Church just spring into action
21:56 and we were able to put up like 14 buildings.
21:59 Including a school from kindergarten
22:02 all the way up to,
22:03 and then the church was not a metal,
22:05 the church was brick.
22:07 And I think we had a dedication there,
22:09 it was a very inspiring thing.
22:11 But the thing that reminded me
22:12 so much of the passion of Maranatha
22:14 as we didn't just see young people,
22:16 but we saw these two old ladies,
22:18 do you remember that.
22:19 And there was an older lady.
22:22 I didn't... I asked...
22:23 I don't usually ask age, but she was so vibrant,
22:26 I had to ask her age.
22:28 I said, "How old are you?" She says, "I'm 87."
22:32 I said, and she's passing these steel girders
22:35 from person to next off the trucks.
22:38 I'm thinking 87 shouldn't...
22:41 So there's no age limit, is it? No.
22:43 No, you know, people self-select on this,
22:47 and some people can do and some can't.
22:49 We had a an old mason that
22:51 when he was 91or 92, he had a walker,
22:55 and he'd go to the pile of concrete block
22:59 and he put on several them,
23:01 he put it over the wall and he was a great mason.
23:04 He's been a mason all his life
23:06 and people always wanted to take pictures of him.
23:08 And he said, 'Hurry up, take the picture.
23:09 I got a wall to build."
23:10 You know, but He even with his walker at his advanced age,
23:15 he was putting more block in the wall than anybody else.
23:18 And what I said to her, I said...
23:20 She said, "What do you think
23:21 I should be doing at home rotting in a chair?"
23:24 And then we found out her sister was there.
23:26 So they were both one 87 and one 89, and she said,
23:29 "Well, what do you expect us to do sit at home
23:31 and just rot in a chair."
23:32 And I thought, wow, here we are,
23:34 at any age
23:36 if you have a passion to do something,
23:38 because in ministry and Maranatha,
23:40 as you mentioned earlier, I mean,
23:41 you have so many requests for churches,
23:44 that what you envisioned back in '82,
23:47 there's no retirement, not for this particular one.
23:51 Well, John Freeman,
23:53 the Founder of Maranatha in '69,
23:55 he used to say,
23:56 "You know, retirement is out of this world."
23:59 Yes. I like that.
24:00 So and that's true.
24:03 I doubt that the people that started Maranatha
24:06 in the early days really expected
24:09 it to last 50 years.
24:12 I mean, Maranatha, Jesus is coming,
24:14 you know, come quickly, Lord Jesus.
24:17 And we still live under that thought process,
24:19 and that hope, and that desire.
24:23 But we don't want another 50. Oh!
24:26 One thing, though, I will have to say
24:27 about the 50, is this is our 50th year.
24:31 Oh, yeah!
24:32 And what's interesting, as you look back at,
24:36 you know, we're kind of compiling
24:38 and looking back at, how did this happen,
24:40 and what happened, and who did, wonder that.
24:44 And what's so inspiring to me is,
24:48 this is not an organization that somebody dreamed up
24:51 or that somebody with tremendous skill
24:54 or passion,
24:55 this is an organization that God wanted.
24:57 That's right.
24:59 And He was gonna have it. That's right.
25:01 Like God was going to have this organization,
25:03 whether people wanted to be involved or not,
25:06 like, I'm asking you, but if not you,
25:09 someone else, this is gonna happen,
25:11 because it's important.
25:12 And yeah, it's not about the buildings,
25:15 it's about the people.
25:16 That's right. And make no mistake.
25:18 But those buildings are important.
25:20 So they're like the entrA(C)e to all these souls
25:23 that are coming into the kingdom.
25:25 And those of us who work on the buildings
25:27 and those of us who receive the buildings,
25:30 this is a huge blessing.
25:32 And this is God in this.
25:33 So what's really cool is, I know,
25:36 you guys work with an organization
25:38 that holds hands with God,
25:40 you are partners with God.
25:42 We are too, and what a thrill.
25:45 I mean, could you, I mean, there's hardly,
25:47 I mean, really, what a thrill.
25:49 I mean, you can't ask to do something better.
25:51 Yeah, it's better than that. We needed.
25:52 Yeah, what's better, you know, so that's one thing
25:56 that has really just so underscored
25:58 in big red pen,
26:01 like, hey, this is God's hand in this
26:04 and He has kept this organization
26:07 this whole time.
26:08 Yeah, I hope we're not still in business in 50 years,
26:11 my goodness so, but you know.
26:12 I agree with you.
26:13 You know, when you statistically
26:16 or chronologically say,
26:17 "I think I have more time behind me than ahead of me."
26:20 We start saying Maranatha with more passion,
26:22 " Maranatha even so come Lord Jesus."
26:23 Yes, you do. Yeah.
26:25 I want also to talk about the fact
26:26 that Maranatha is not just an organization
26:28 that builds churches based on requests,
26:31 but Maranatha has been a key staple
26:33 in times of disaster.
26:36 Yeah, we're not exactly
26:37 a disaster response organization.
26:38 But there's times
26:40 when the church has requested us to step in
26:43 and help and a number of those can go back
26:47 to the earthquake in Haiti.
26:50 That's one of the times
26:51 that the One-Day product was pretty helpful.
26:54 I've to go in there and provide stuff
26:55 very quickly for them
26:57 when they lost so many that's...
26:59 The hurricane in what was it?
27:02 17 in Dominica? Yeah.
27:06 You probably heard more about the hurricane in Puerto Rico,
27:09 but it was the same hurricane, but it had hit Dominica harder.
27:12 Matter of fact, we have a couple of pictures,
27:13 I want to show you...
27:15 We're gonna show our viewers before and after,
27:16 if you are on the radio, we try to describe this.
27:18 That's the church on a rock right,
27:20 the ocean is right clear behind it.
27:21 I never forgot that picture when we saw.
27:23 You remember, Honey. Mm-hmm.
27:25 And that was before...
27:27 That was after the hurricane had done some severe damage.
27:30 Yeah. Yeah, it...
27:32 Actually the hurricane either totaled out
27:35 or severely damaged 28 out of 32
27:40 or 33 churches on the island.
27:42 So it took out almost everything
27:44 that the church had.
27:45 Now that was before. Yeah, well.
27:47 Let's see the after. Oh, yeah. Just look into it.
27:50 This is the hand of Maranatha.
27:51 Praise the Lord! Amen.
27:53 This is the church, it's kind of interesting
27:56 because this is built to withstand pretty much
28:00 whatever hurricane wants to come at it.
28:03 It's expensive, it's strong, powerful building.
28:06 We asked the locals what they thought
28:09 of this building in terms of another hurricane.
28:13 They says, "Well, if we get another one,
28:15 we know where we're going."
28:17 Going to church. We're going to church.
28:18 That's a beautiful view.
28:20 Now, Pete, were you involved in this project?
28:22 I was. Oh, you were?
28:23 I went there with Maranatha shortly
28:25 after the hurricane hit.
28:27 I was able to help with assessments there
28:29 and then I also was there
28:31 as a part of the construction of that church.
28:32 Wow!
28:34 And Don is right,
28:35 you couldn't drive a tank through that building.
28:37 It's there forever.
28:39 That's good to know,
28:41 because what better place to be during a time of storm
28:44 than in a church.
28:45 Praise the Lord. Yeah.
28:47 And I'm glad you mentioned that because sometimes we talk about
28:49 the One-Day Church,
28:51 which has primarily been...
28:54 I'll use the term loosely reshape
28:56 or pre-shaped forms of metal
29:00 that have already been pre-shaped
29:02 and shipped to different parts of the world.
29:05 Yeah.
29:07 We've done quite a bit of that
29:09 working with Mr. McNeilus out in Minnesota.
29:12 You know, as time goes on
29:15 you learn that there's other issues,
29:18 importing these products are not as easy
29:21 as we had hoped that they would be.
29:23 And so a lot of the places in the world we've gone to,
29:27 same concept,
29:30 the concept being build something
29:33 that will start the product or start the project
29:36 and let the locals finish it up,
29:38 so that you don't have to put too much resource
29:39 into one location.
29:41 And so now in a lot of the countries
29:44 we will work with a local manufacturer
29:46 and sometimes we do at our self
29:50 manufacture the steel our self-depending on the location,
29:53 and we'll put it up there then we don't have to worry
29:55 about bringing in through customs.
29:56 It's...
29:58 They may have the right to bring stuff in free,
30:01 but believe me, they figured out
30:04 how to get the money out of you anyway.
30:06 Oh, yeah. We did a project.
30:09 I remember going there. We came...
30:10 We arrived afterwards
30:11 and we arrived at a particular place.
30:14 And, you know, I had a phone call from Garwin,
30:16 and he said, "Well, we need this kind of tool,
30:17 that kind of tool, these kind of bolts."
30:19 He said, "There're some additional things we need.
30:21 So stop at home depot and bring all these things in."
30:25 When we got there,
30:26 one of the locals at the airport said,
30:27 "One of our luggage is missing."
30:29 And we went to the airport and found that they wanted us
30:31 to pay for that piece of luggage
30:33 with all those power tools in it.
30:35 And thank the Lord,
30:37 we got away with not having to pay for that.
30:39 But that's... that happens sometimes.
30:41 Yeah, so there's, you live and you learn and you adjust.
30:45 Right. You have to constantly do that.
30:47 The world is a changing place. Yes, it is.
30:49 And so each country we end up doing it different.
30:54 That's right.
30:55 We try to get as consistent as we can.
30:58 But every place is different.
31:01 I mean, we just started working
31:02 in the country of CA'te d'Ivoire,
31:04 the French speaking in Africa.
31:07 I didn't bring any pictures on that,
31:09 but we're just starting there.
31:10 But that's a whole different set of rules
31:11 and a whole different type of culture...
31:13 That's right.
31:14 Than most of the places that we worked in the past,
31:16 even though it's in Africa.
31:17 Wow! So it's...
31:19 They don't even have a lot of the same steel
31:21 that they'll have in like Kenya,
31:23 so you have to do it different.
31:25 How many projects do you do a year?
31:27 You know, it depends on the project.
31:29 If you do a one-day project, a simple project,
31:32 you can do a lot of them.
31:33 Whereas if you do some of the big schools, you know,
31:36 that slows down your numbers.
31:39 So we don't think of it so much in terms of numbers,
31:41 but in general, it'll run between 400 and 1,000.
31:45 And the length of time for each project?
31:48 Again, based on how big your project is.
31:50 Okay, yeah, that's true.
31:52 Sometimes they're one day. That's true.
31:56 One of the things...
31:58 One of the great things about the one-day program is,
32:00 it gives us an opportunity to hold maybe
32:03 tight our hands with the church,
32:04 because there're a lot of things
32:06 that the local church people can do
32:08 and they want to do.
32:09 That's right. This is theirs after all.
32:11 That's right. It is theirs.
32:12 So it really help,
32:14 it brings a tighter partnership.
32:17 Yeah. And so that's kind of neat.
32:18 Well, that's what makes it,
32:20 you know, nice for the volunteers too,
32:22 they want that relationship with the locals.
32:23 That's what you take home
32:25 the reality of this mission experience
32:28 by looking in the eyes
32:31 and getting the feedback from the local people.
32:34 It's one thing to watch it on the screen
32:36 and that's good,
32:38 but when you see it yourself,
32:40 there it's transformational we end up with.
32:42 We have so many stories one of those...
32:44 One of the... On the Maranatha.
32:45 The rock quarry in Zambia.
32:47 Rock quarry, oh, yeah. We went to the rock quarry.
32:48 That trip transformed our lives.
32:50 It really shook us to the core to let us know
32:53 that here in America, we are so blessed.
32:55 We're considered and I'm saying this loosely
32:57 by no means this is true materialistically.
32:59 We're considered very wealthy here in America
33:01 compared to some of the places we've been.
33:03 And we met that elder and his wife.
33:05 Yes.
33:07 And we looked, I said, well, he's about my size
33:08 and his wife was about my wife size.
33:11 And I gave him a pair of shoes.
33:15 And the man began to cry.
33:17 I said, "What happened?"
33:18 He said, "This is the first pair of shoes
33:20 I have ever owned."
33:21 Is that Pata. He calls it Pata.
33:23 Yeah, a Bata. Is it Bata?
33:25 Yeah, and he says, "Are you kidding me?"
33:27 I said the first pair of shoes
33:28 and as we went back to our hotel room
33:30 and just started to cry.
33:31 We said, Lord, what's wrong with us?
33:33 And my wife gave...
33:34 What did you gave, skirt?
33:35 Oh, I gave half my luggage, half my clothes I gave away.
33:39 I bought some pants
33:41 because it's our first trip you say,
33:42 we're going into the outback,
33:43 you know, it's gonna be get some nice rugged,
33:45 get some nice rugged shoes,
33:47 we ended up giving him the shoes,
33:49 giving him the pants, giving him the shirt.
33:52 And then we went to and that fired my wife up
33:55 for the next trip to Zimbabwe,
33:57 because we saw the school built
33:59 and even there that same couple,
34:00 there was one...
34:02 They had three children and two of them.
34:04 We kept seeing, we said, "Where's the other son?"
34:06 You remember that story...
34:08 He's in the rock quarry, breaking rocks.
34:11 I said, "What's he doing that for?"
34:12 Yeah. And.
34:14 And it was for his school tuition.
34:17 But I was able to, Lord blessed me
34:19 to raise money to help at our church
34:23 and on Facebook,
34:24 whoever wanted to help in Zambia
34:27 to help children go to school and be able to raise money
34:31 and that young boy.
34:32 Oh, yeah. I said, "Where's your son?"
34:34 He said, "He's in rock quarry."
34:35 I said, "How much is his tuition?"
34:37 They told us, we said, we looked at each other
34:38 we know what we have to do.
34:39 Yeah, we can do that. It's like $100.
34:41 Go get your son, he's going to school.
34:42 We're gonna pay his tuition for this year.
34:43 Yeah, multiply what you experienced
34:45 by all the thousands of volunteers
34:47 that go out there, they experience the same thing.
34:50 So their hearts touched and soften the Holy Spirit
34:53 as be generous.
34:55 Exactly. God's generous.
34:56 Amen. He wants us to be generous.
34:57 And so that's something that happens.
35:01 It's a nice result in couple's lives.
35:04 And I always go with things.
35:06 I always go with some old clothes that we have.
35:08 Ever since then.
35:09 Yeah, I bring clothes from children,
35:11 from our churches to give me your clothes.
35:13 There're kids there that need the clothes.
35:15 I go to the Dollar Store,
35:16 I buy balloons and little toys and things.
35:19 So my suitcase is stuffed with things to give away.
35:22 I know, I'm gonna go to the next story
35:23 that's really, really close to Peter here.
35:26 I want to show this picture in Kenya.
35:29 And I want you to describe
35:30 because I know this is very near and dear to you.
35:32 Let's bring up this picture of that
35:34 wonderful crowd of people there in Kenya.
35:36 And tell us what's in the background
35:37 and tell us what this project is all about here?
35:39 Well, this is the One-Day Church that we build in Kenya.
35:43 And typically we build it in less than one day.
35:46 So we have crews that go around
35:48 and the beautiful part about One-Day Churches,
35:50 we build them in some very remote locations.
35:54 I mean, these can be hours and hours
35:56 from even any significant road.
35:59 Our crew shows up out there
36:01 and of course the villagers once they see they're there,
36:03 they congregate around and they watch them
36:05 build a structure in a day.
36:07 And then the next Sabbath,
36:09 they get to worship in that structure.
36:11 And if you've ever actually watched that happen...
36:14 The transformation of not only the local people,
36:18 but the people that were there to build
36:20 that church is just amazing,
36:21 because here we are in one day they have and as Don has said,
36:25 that's usually the nicest structure in the village.
36:28 And that particular part of northern Kenya,
36:30 while the pictures are a little deceiving
36:32 that's in the middle of the rainy season,
36:34 nine months out of the year, that's a barren desert.
36:37 And so we're now able to also put a well on those locations
36:41 with that church.
36:43 So you can imagine the instant transformation
36:45 that takes place in those people's lives.
36:48 People that walk hours and hours every day
36:50 for water each day now have a well at the church,
36:55 so it becomes the congregation
36:57 or the gathering point for the congregation
36:59 and the entire village.
37:00 Not only the bread of life, but the living water.
37:02 That's right. Wow! Wow!
37:04 I used to think that... Oh, go ahead.
37:05 We're told many, many times in the Bible
37:08 that we're to preach the gospel to all the world,
37:10 what that means these remote locations.
37:13 And being able to see that up close in personal
37:15 you go to places that,
37:17 that nobody's ever heard of
37:18 and you transform those people's lives
37:20 is truly amazing.
37:22 Wow! Wow! Life transformation.
37:24 And that is, I mean this... It changes you, doesn't it?
37:26 Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
37:28 There's so many experiences just diving through my mind
37:31 about going out, as you said, we go for one reason,
37:35 but the Lord transfers that reason it to His mission.
37:39 He's got a bigger view. He says, I know...
37:41 He said, "You think you're going
37:42 to just enjoy your time at Maranatha?
37:44 I have some people that you are gonna meet and help."
37:46 Amen. And on that...
37:48 On the Zimbabwe trip
37:51 was when Angie raised money for kids to come to the school.
37:54 It was amazing as all those school buildings
37:56 began to go up, we saw the local police,
37:59 we thought is there something wrong.
38:00 Oh, yes, yes.
38:01 Something going on, so I walk over to the officers,
38:03 they were about seven of them in their uniforms.
38:04 I said, "Is there something wrong, officer."
38:06 He said, "No, we have come to see
38:09 how much it costs to enroll our children in your school."
38:11 Alrighty, there you go.
38:13 It was so beautiful. Yeah.
38:14 And then follow that up
38:16 with a beautiful evangelistic series with Mark Finley.
38:18 So it's not just building projects,
38:21 but it's reaching out and planting the gospel.
38:23 Yeah, it really is. Yeah.
38:25 Let's go to this next photo.
38:27 This is a picture of a large school
38:29 and you'll tell us where it is?
38:31 This is in India, a place called Khunti, India.
38:35 This is a school of about 1,400 students in total.
38:41 This is the elementary section.
38:42 They had really deteriorating classrooms
38:47 and they asked us to help them
38:49 and this particular building is what we call an Education
38:52 and Evangelism Center.
38:54 In India, we can't use the word evangelism,
38:56 but it's...
38:58 That's what it is.
38:59 It does more than just be a school.
39:02 But that particular school was built in the memory
39:06 of one of our board member's wife
39:08 who passed away, Sue Kruger.
39:11 And it opened with 650 students.
39:14 Opened?
39:16 So right off the bat, so that's a big impact project
39:19 and had a lot of volunteers go and experience it.
39:23 Those big schools, we've done 115 of those now,
39:27 I think, in different parts of the world.
39:29 And they are so transformational.
39:32 They make a big impact on a community.
39:35 So you know, you were mentioning the police
39:38 that were going to send their kids to the school.
39:40 So one of the great things about Adventist education
39:43 that some people might know, not know is that
39:46 it is the second largest private educational system
39:50 in the world.
39:52 And people bring their kids there every day.
39:58 So family that may
40:00 or may not be an Adventist Christian family,
40:03 they're bringing their kids there every day.
40:06 And they're beginning relationships
40:08 with other Christian families and they, they find a home.
40:12 And I can't tell you how many stories I've heard,
40:14 maybe you have heard too.
40:16 By the time that kid like some boy
40:20 starts at 11 years old,
40:21 they find the school they put him in,
40:23 you know, by the time he's 17,
40:26 I remember the mom and the grandmother saying,
40:28 "He just completely changed."
40:30 And he gave his life to Christ.
40:32 And now, the family
40:34 and the grandparents have also become
40:37 Seventh-day Adventist Christians.
40:39 Because of the school,
40:40 so the school is really this long term,
40:44 day by day and like evangelistic tool
40:48 that God is using,
40:49 using relationships, using learning about the Bible,
40:52 using learning about how to build
40:54 and maintain a Christian life.
40:56 You know, so the schools are fantastic.
40:58 It's the gospel in action.
41:00 It is the gospel. Yes.
41:01 And it's not just a quick fix, but it's a transformational,
41:04 not just for the children.
41:05 Because you had an experience, remember,
41:06 there's a boy that kept hanging around the site
41:08 there in Zimbabwe and you say,
41:10 "Are you in school?" He said, "No."
41:12 And you said, "Well, where's your parents?"
41:13 He said, "They passed away."
41:15 "So where do you live with?"
41:16 With my older brother."
41:18 "Well, are you in school?" "No."
41:19 "When was the last time you went to school?"
41:21 "Three years ago." "Why?"
41:23 Say, "I can't afford it." I can't afford it.
41:25 My wife said, "You're going to school."
41:26 Yeah. And...
41:27 We had sponsorship and funds.
41:29 And we said, "Come, you're in school."
41:32 And she sat there in the register's office...
41:33 I have him some clothes. Him clothes.
41:35 She said, "Sign him up, he's going to school."
41:37 Yeah. And that is it.
41:38 We leave with this like, "Don, we need to go again."
41:43 Because there's so many more lives
41:44 that we want to touch.
41:45 There're plenty of opportunities.
41:47 Plenty of opportunities.
41:48 Look on the inside of this building.
41:50 Now, what you...
41:51 Did you, I know, as a builder,
41:52 that's a huge building, Peter, that one.
41:54 Can we show that picture one more time.
41:55 I want to see the outside of that
41:56 and then we're gonna look at the inside.
41:58 That's a structure that was built by Maranatha.
42:00 See, so it's not just a One-Day Church,
42:02 not just sometimes a smaller church,
42:03 that's a huge structure.
42:05 It functions as a church in the center section
42:07 and there're classrooms on the outside edge,
42:09 it's the way it's designed.
42:10 So that there's a big auditorium
42:13 as well as your classroom, so it's multi use.
42:16 We have a picture on the inside.
42:17 Let's look at a picture from the inside.
42:19 You can see that there's a big auditorium on the inside.
42:21 It also could be a gymnasium, and then you have classrooms
42:24 all along the outside of that hall basically.
42:29 But, you know, they pack them in.
42:32 Look at the windows, that's nice.
42:33 You got air and natural light in.
42:36 And that's not a one-day project.
42:38 No. No.
42:39 Not even close.
42:41 How long does someone take to build, Pete?
42:43 Well, that's a multiple trip project.
42:46 I don't remember in Khunti,
42:48 but I'm guessing there were probably four different
42:51 Maranatha trips there to construct that building
42:54 along with the local Maranatha employees.
42:57 Okay.
42:58 So, those take quite a long time
43:00 as you can see by how big the structure is.
43:02 But as Don has mentioned,
43:03 the impact is dramatic in that town
43:06 or that city where they build it.
43:07 Because we get so many students there
43:10 and it's such a good looking building
43:11 and the quality structure.
43:13 In fact, we had one of those built
43:15 on the island of Dominica.
43:16 Don, if you remember and it survived the hurricane.
43:19 It did. Yeah, it did.
43:20 So yeah, they're very, very nice buildings.
43:23 Wow! That's...
43:25 Our church in Fairfield, California,
43:28 was built by Maranatha builders.
43:29 Yes, it was.
43:30 I remember that very well. It sure was.
43:32 When I was pastoring, I said, "Who build this church?"
43:33 Maranatha builders.
43:35 Maranatha builders, so you do local you wanna do.
43:36 Yeah, we do a lot of projects in the United States,
43:38 believe it or not.
43:40 We have a video that I want to...
43:42 It's a Kajiado. Kajiado.
43:46 I wrote it down phonetically
43:47 and I still couldn't pronounce it.
43:49 Tell us about that before we will look at this video?
43:51 Kajiado is a special project.
43:55 It's a girls' rescue center. Okay.
43:58 It's about an hour or so from Nairobi, Kenya.
44:01 Oh, wow!
44:02 And it was established as a place
44:04 as a rescue for girls
44:06 who are going through the FGM and early child marriage issues
44:11 that they sometimes have in the Masai villages
44:15 there in Kenya.
44:17 And so it gets your heart.
44:19 These girls have gone through stuff you can't even imagine.
44:22 And so this rescue center was built,
44:24 but they desperately needed more facilities,
44:28 they needed water.
44:30 And so we were lucky enough
44:32 to be able to get involved in it
44:33 and start helping.
44:34 It's just the beginning of the project for us.
44:36 We've done some.
44:38 I think we brought a short video...
44:39 A video, yeah. It might be good to...
44:41 Let's look at that video right now
44:42 about this project.
44:50 God, we want to thank You for the visitors
44:52 and Father give them genuine mercies
44:55 until they have reached here.
44:56 Well, Father, we honor You and glorify Your name
44:58 because of that Father.
44:59 And even as we're waiting for them in eager,
45:01 Father, You've helped us and we have met with them
45:04 and find out that they are okay, Father.
45:06 We lift up Your name and glorify Your name.
45:08 Amen. Amen.
45:09 Father in Jesus' name, we want to thank You
45:11 because of this power that You have given us.
45:14 Thank You for giving us an opportunity
45:16 to stand here together and hold our hands
45:19 to witness the miracle that You're about to do.
45:21 Yes.
47:02 That's an amazing video. Wow! Powerful.
47:04 When you look at what happened there.
47:06 But I want Don to explain
47:07 why this water was so important?
47:09 Well, this rescue center is in area of Kenya
47:12 that's extremely dry.
47:14 And everybody knows that they didn't have water there.
47:17 They had drilled a well before
47:18 but they were getting like nothing out of it.
47:20 Most of the people in that area
47:22 get their water off a water truck, they buy it,
47:24 and the schools having to do that too
47:26 in order to have any water at all.
47:27 And the girls, of course,
47:29 the restroom facilities are terrible,
47:30 they never took a shower.
47:33 And that needed to be improved in order for us to expand that
47:37 that rescue center to allow more girls to come in.
47:41 So this whole thing of drilling a water well was critical,
47:45 but we actually had hydrogeologist
47:48 look at this and they said, "Don't bother.
47:50 You're not gonna hit any water here.
47:52 Wow!
47:53 "There's nothing that indicates
47:55 that there'll be any water down there.
47:56 So you can drill if you want, but don't expect to get water."
47:59 So these girls started praying.
48:02 These girls at the rescue center,
48:04 they were getting together.
48:05 It was two or three times a day for a couple of months.
48:08 Yeah. For several months. What?
48:09 And they were praying that and when it came time
48:12 and we brought our well drilling equipment in there,
48:16 they were expecting water.
48:18 I mean, so when they started drilling,
48:21 we were there
48:23 and within less than two meters,
48:25 they hit solid granite.
48:27 So they go through granted all the way down.
48:29 Well, there's water come out of a rock.
48:33 Can water come out of a rock?
48:36 So they're drilling the first day
48:37 they went down about 60 meters?
48:40 Nothing.
48:41 And the next day, the driller at 87 meters was saying,
48:44 "Yes, I've seen a little moisture here,
48:46 what's going on?"
48:48 So basically at about 100 meters
48:50 they had a gusher.
48:51 Wow! It was an absolute miracle.
48:54 And let me just tell you, everybody in town
48:56 because that area is so dry.
49:00 Everybody would like to have that water.
49:02 So everybody and it's right on the road
49:04 like this well is right on the road,
49:07 so everybody that goes by they're like,
49:09 "What in the world?"
49:11 There is no water down there.
49:12 How in the world, I mean, it is a miracle
49:14 and it's a clear miracle.
49:16 And I felt like, you know,
49:17 we wanted to expand that school,
49:19 but you can't do it in good conscience
49:21 with no water.
49:22 That's right, it's a life project.
49:24 You're just creating something that will die
49:25 because you have to have water to live.
49:27 So we're putting plans together
49:28 to do not only their elementary school there,
49:30 but to expand it to a secondary school.
49:32 Okay. These girls need that too.
49:35 So it's a big project,
49:36 come a lot of opportunities for people to go to Kenya
49:38 and actually talk to these girls.
49:40 It's life changing.
49:42 Yeah, the girls have a very good story.
49:43 We don't have time to tell it here now,
49:45 but I did feel like that water was a sign from God
49:49 as the God was saying,
49:50 "These girls have had enough." Amen.
49:52 They have had enough. Amen.
49:54 And we're gonna have a place that's safe and good,
49:57 and we'll launch them into a much better life ahead.
50:00 That's beautiful.
50:01 I don't know if you could do it,
50:02 but in about a minute and a half
50:04 tell us about the donorship
50:05 and how that makes a difference with Maranatha?
50:07 Well, as you know, I mean,
50:08 we basically run on donations
50:12 and the generosity of people
50:14 and the Holy Spirit talking to people's hearts.
50:18 So all these buildings, all the wells,
50:21 they are all gifts from people who care.
50:25 And I believe it is the Holy Spirit
50:28 that taps on that person and says,
50:30 "I have a project for you."
50:32 And, you know, we definitely don't want to push anybody,
50:35 but I know that there are people out there
50:37 that the Holy Spirit is speaking too.
50:40 And there are people that are the receivers of that,
50:43 that are praying
50:46 for an advancement of some project.
50:49 And we are dependent on that.
50:50 We are the middleman.
50:53 We are what I call pass through,
50:54 we are a pass through.
50:56 You know, but we see this
50:57 and we hope for that and we put them together,
51:00 and make that project happen.
51:02 And you know, we do answer to a donor,
51:04 I mean, we, like,
51:07 if you give a gift for a project,
51:09 we invite you to go work on it,
51:12 at least go see it,
51:13 if nothing else we'll send you a picture.
51:15 You know, we want you to know like,
51:17 this is a transparent ministry,
51:19 it's transparent as it would be.
51:21 And we're trying to be as efficient as we can be.
51:24 This is God's work, so if a person is feeling,
51:30 the tap, tap, tap of the Holy Spirit respond,
51:33 there's nothing higher or better,
51:35 and that dollar you'll see the result of it
51:38 10,000 years from now,
51:39 it's still gonna be working.
51:42 In the lives of eternity,
51:43 we're gonna take a short break right here,
51:45 but on the other side after this news break
51:47 and the address role
51:48 to get in touch with Maranatha Ministries.
51:50 We'll come back for a few closing thoughts.
51:56 If you feel impressed to help and support
51:58 the worldwide ministry of Maranatha,
52:00 you can do so on a variety of ways.
52:02 You can visit their website at www. Maranatha.org
52:07 or call 916-774-7700.
52:12 You may also write them
52:14 at Maranatha Volunteers International,
52:17 990 Reserve Drive, Suite 100,
52:21 Roseville, CA 94508.
52:25 That's 990, Reserve Drive,
52:28 Suite 100, Roseville, California 94508.


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