Participants:
Series Code: TDY
Program Code: TDY220038A
|
00:01 ♪ ♪
00:05 ♪ I want to spend my life mending broken people ♪ 00:15 ♪ I want to spend my life removing pain ♪ 00:26 ♪ Lord let my words heal a heart that's hurt ♪ 00:36 ♪ I want to spend my life mending broken people ♪ 00:57 ♪ ♪ 01:06 Hello friends, Welcome to 3ABN Today. My name is Ryan Day and 01:11 today is a good day. Every day's a good day in the Lord. And it's 01:14 a blessing to have you joining us, our friends, and family of 01:16 the Three Angels Broadcasting Network. As always we want to 01:19 thank you for your love, your prayers and support of this 01:22 incredible ministry. Because without you giving, supporting, 01:26 praying and sending your love our way we wouldn't be able to 01:30 send the three angels messages around the world. But God is 01:32 blessing this ministry. God has blessed you and again we just 01:34 thank you for taking the time to join us again today. We have 01:38 FARM STEW International in the house with us today. How are you 01:41 ladies doing? 01:42 Wonderful, thank you. Yes. 01:44 Awesome, awesome. We're going to do a little bit more of a 01:46 general introduction when we come back in just a moment but 01:49 just want to take this moment to hear a special musical number 01:52 to just kind of set the mood and set the tone for what it is 01:55 we're about to discuss here in regards to FARM STEW 01:58 International ministry. But right now we're going to have a 02:01 special musical number brought to us by Miss Ginger Pitchers. 02:05 entitled Family Tree. 02:07 ♪ ♪ 02:17 ♪ There's a King James Bible by my grandmother's bed ♪ 02:24 ♪ with the words that spoke life to her underlined in red ♪ 02:30 ♪ and hid between the pages are treasured souvenirs ♪ 02:42 ♪ old faded photographs and memories so dear ♪ 02:48 ♪ And each night she prayed to Jesus said our names one by one 02:56 ♪ and asked the Lord to keep us as her mother had done ♪ 03:02 ♪ And nothing is more precious than the hope, she's given me ♪ 03:11 ♪ a legacy of loving God and living faithfully ♪ 03:21 ♪ I know where I come from my roots run deep ♪ 03:28 ♪ I can trace them all the way back to Calvary ♪ 03:35 ♪ Where one blessed day life began for me ♪ 03:42 ♪ so I guess you could say the cross is my family tree ♪ 03:56 ♪ ♪ 04:02 ♪ And I followed in the footsteps ♪ 04:05 ♪ of dedicated saints ♪ 04:08 ♪ and I've learned from their examples ♪ 04:12 ♪ of God's unchanging grace ♪ 04:16 ♪ and I know generations of believers who will live on ♪ 04:25 ♪ to proclaim the love of Jesus long after I am gone ♪ 04:32 ♪ And I know where I come from my roots run deep ♪ 04:41 ♪ I can trace them all the way back to Calvary ♪ 04:47 ♪ where one blessed day life began for me ♪ 04:55 ♪ So I guess you could say the cross is my family tree ♪ 05:07 Let me sing this. 05:09 ♪ Draw me nearer nearer blessed Lord ♪ 05:17 ♪ to the cross where Thou hast died ♪ 05:26 ♪ I know where I come from my roots run deep ♪ 05:35 ♪ I can trace them all the way back to Calvary ♪ 05:42 ♪ Where one blessed day life began for me ♪ 05:52 ♪ So I guess you could say the cross... ♪ 06:01 ♪ I'm so glad I can say the cross ♪ 06:08 and I pray the more than anything 06:10 ♪ that you can say that the cross is your family tree ♪ 06:26 ♪ ♪ 06:39 May, wow! Amen. Thank you so much. Saw my good friend, 06:43 Tim Parton there on the piano plays wonderful as always. 06:46 Thank you my brother and thank you Ginger for that beautiful 06:49 song. Family Tree. I think all of us can relate to that. The 06:53 family tree should be...you know the cross is our family tree, 06:55 right? I love the message of that song. Thank you, guys, so 06:59 much. FARM STEW International. It sounds like a meal you don't 07:04 want to miss. (Absolutely) Let me just go ahead and start by 07:09 introducing our guests today. We have Miss Joy Kauffman, the 07:13 founder of FARM STEW International. How are you, ma'am 07:17 As I get to each one of you tell us a little bit about you know 07:22 your background because I know there may be someone at home 07:24 that says who in the world is Joy Kauffman. And we're going to 07:26 get into what FARM STEW is in just a moment. Tell us a bit 07:29 about your background, where you're from, all of that. 07:31 Sounds good. Thank you again for the opportunity to be here with 07:34 you Ryan and on 3ABN. We were here not too terribly long ago 07:40 and I got to share about how God was stretching us. But just 07:44 first on our background. That song made me recognize my family 07:47 tree of course praise God goes back to Calvary as well but it 07:51 also goes back to my grandparents, my maternal 07:53 grandparents who lived in a town called Farmland, Indiana, and we 07:58 used to drive out there as kids and all pile in a car, no air 08:01 conditioning. And we'd crawl out of the car hot and sweaty and go 08:05 straight to my grandmother's garden. And my grandpa was a 08:09 farmer. Her garden was where we grew a lot of the food that they 08:13 ate all winter. We canned beans and made applesauce and 08:16 everything. I think honestly it was seeing their testimony of 08:19 hard work and food production and preservation that really as 08:25 I got older and I started seeing problems of hunger and childhood 08:28 malnutrition that has really impacted me as a nutritionist 08:32 I harken back to those days of you know how do you cure 08:36 malnutrition? You do it with food. How do you get food? You 08:38 grow it. 08:40 Amen, amen. I knew there was something about farming that was 08:42 in there. It wasn't just a special recipe of food but we're 08:46 going to actually talk about that recipe in just a few 08:47 moments. Karissa Ziegler how are you ma'am and tell us a little 08:51 bit about yourself. 08:53 Yeah, so I'm Karissa from Colorado and I guess just 08:58 growing up we were always gardening. My mom always had a 09:00 big garden and she really got me interested in gardening. And 09:06 then as well as mission work. As I was growing up we went on 09:11 a couple of short-term mission trips. Then I also spent a year 09:15 in Cambodia with Adventist Frontier Missions volunteering 09:20 and teaching at an elementary school there. So I really got 09:23 interested in missions. I liked that but I knew the teaching was 09:27 now my thing, it just wasn't my favorite thing to do in the 09:31 world and so missions was something but I really liked 09:35 farming better and gardening more. So as I came back I was 09:39 looking for something to combine those two things and FARM STEW 09:42 seemed to be it. 09:44 Farm Stew. Now God's got you here working for FARM STEW. It's 09:46 a blessing, yeah. Thank you so much. Susan Cherne. We were 09:52 able to discuss a little bit about your background and what 09:55 you do but tell us a little bit about yourself and what is it 09:57 specifically that you do for FARM STEW International? 09:59 Thank you also for having us here. This is such a privilege 10:03 and honor to be here representing FARM STEW. I'm from 10:07 Texas and my background is we've been very involved with mission 10:11 and mission trips and so forth. My father-in-law is Dr. Harold 10:15 Cherne. He used to be on 3ABN quite a bit talking about health 10:18 and nutrition. We're avid gardeners and love that. 10:22 I became a part of FARM STEW. I met Joy at a conference and I 10:26 walked up to the FARM STEW booth and I said I love everything 10:27 about this. It was everything I love to do. And so we just hit 10:31 it off and she asked if I would join the FARM STEW board. I am 10:36 an attorney and so there was that piece of the puzzle that 10:39 was perfect for the board. And so I joined and then became 10:43 chair of the board so I've been chair of the FARM STEW 10:45 International board since 2018. 10:48 Awesome, praise the Lord. So a southern girl from Texas. 10:50 That's right, that's it. 10:52 I'm from Arkansas. I can relate to that. Praise the Lord. Praise 10:53 the Lord. Well we're excited to have you guys here? We're going 10:57 to be talking about all that the Lord is doing with blessing you 11:00 and the purpose, the goal of this ministry. In fact, I'm 11:02 going to start there. Joy, let's talk about there may be someone 11:05 watching right now that says what in the world is FARM STEW 11:07 International? Give us a little bit about the history, how it 11:12 began and you know what is the essence, the purpose, the goal 11:15 the agenda of this ministry? 11:18 Well I love sharing about the purpose because it is global in 11:23 scope. We have what we call a recipe for abundant life and 11:27 really it's things that Adventist Christians have been 11:30 doing for hundreds of years and have produced this tremendous 11:34 outcome of having health and longevity that's you know 11:37 better than anybody in the country. Look at the blue zones 11:41 who are identified as having seven to 10 additional years of 11:44 life. And so we felt like that's not just for North Americans. 11:49 That's for all Adventists around the world and all Christians 11:51 around the world. We can learn from the Bible how to live a 11:54 healthy abundant life. And so FARM STEW is an acronym. We 11:58 have eight ingredients, we call them, in the recipe for abundant 12:02 life and at its very essence FARM STEW's a training program 12:05 where we try to bring these ingredients that are the root... 12:09 they address the root causes of hunger, disease, and poverty. 12:13 And so Farming is the first of the eight letters. We try to 12:17 change people's attitude. Like really we'll talk about that a 12:22 little bit later how we can transform people from maybe an 12:26 attitude of not caring about farming, not caring about work 12:28 using substances to dull their pain. And then we teach people 12:34 about rest for their gardens, for their bodies and even the 12:39 Sabbath rest. We teach about meals, whole food plant-based 12:43 meals and that's FARM. And then STEW is Sanitation. There's more 12:49 than a million, sorry a billion people in the world that don't 12:52 have adequate sanitation in their homes like latrines or 12:55 ways to wash their hands. T stands for Temperance and so not 13:00 using the substances and just having a clean lifestyle so the 13:04 Holy Spirit can speak to you. Then the E stands for Enterprise 13:07 So helping people create jobs and then our W rounding out is 13:12 Water. One of the exciting things God has stretching us to 13:16 bring clean water to some of the billion people on the planet 13:21 that don't have access to clean water. 13:23 Yeah, water, wow. I think water would be very important for if 13:26 you're going to do a little bit of farming and growing. So you 13:30 train people. This is the idea is to train people to be you 13:33 know active workers in this particular work. I think we 13:36 actually have an image that you wanted to show for the training 13:42 aspect. (Yeah) We can pull that up right now and you can kind of 13:43 talk through...maybe talk a little bit more about this 13:45 training that you guys do. 13:46 Yeah, FARM STEW recently launched actually in the 13:49 Philippines at the invitation of Duane McKey and the Adventist 13:52 World Radio. And so we conducted an intensive two-week training 13:57 there. Now we have 40 trainers. So we have local people that we 14:03 train in this recipe and then they go out and they reach the 14:06 local people in the villages and mountains. In this case, they're 14:09 reaching former rebels that used to be killers and now they are 14:14 fully reconciled so we have the up R, fully reconciled to Jesus 14:19 and so we're working to teach them this recipe for abundant 14:23 life. 14:24 Wow. So you said that these were people that used to be killers? 14:27 (Yes.) Murders. Okay I just wanted to make sure I understood 14:32 that correctly. 14:33 Yeah. Adventist Radio had been doing some work in these 14:36 mountainous areas and they had actually been starting to 14:41 broadcast into these areas where there was this war going 14:43 on and many of the people that have now converted were former 14:48 assassins in this war. And we praise God I met with Pastor 14:54 McKey last year and I said you know you're having all these 14:56 people get baptized but when they come out of the water do 14:59 they really truly know how to live differently. And he kind of 15:03 contemplated that question and I offered FARM STEW as a solution. 15:08 We feel that when people are fully discipled, it's a training 15:14 program that ends up being a discipleship program because 15:18 we combine the Bible and science and all these practical hands-on 15:22 skills. We believe they are discipled into a new life in 15:27 Christ and a new life of freedom And so we have these freedoms 15:30 that we focus on as part of our solution. 15:33 Yeah, absolutely. So maybe you and Karissa both can kind of 15:37 talk about this. Go maybe a little bit more in-depth on 15:40 the training aspects. So if I'm involved in this and I want to 15:44 be trained, what am I doing to learn, what type of training do 15:46 I go through in order to be able to fit the problem or to fit the 15:53 solution that FARM STEW International wants to solve? 15:57 Well a lot of what FARM STEW does is train local people out 16:02 in the villages in Africa or the Philippines, which is our newest 16:06 place that we're in. And we do very hands-on training, lots of 16:12 cooking classes, classes about how to grow a garden, how to 16:18 grow nutrition sensitive agriculture, so we're growing 16:20 not just one kind of crop. A lot of them are just growing rice. 16:24 And we're teaching them how to grow not just rice but you know 16:28 fruits and vegetables and leafy greens, things that have more 16:31 nutrition to them. So we do a lot of hands-on training in 16:36 those places. One of our new things that we started doing 16:39 is training in the U.S. which is a picture that we have up there 16:45 and that is our heart village training that we had last year 16:52 in August. So that's an annual training and we'll be doing it 16:55 again this year. It's just before ASI National that was just 17:00 south of Orlando. If you go on our website FarmStew.org under 17:05 the news tab there's a link for all of our events that are offered 17:13 Okay, awesome, praise the Lord. Did you want to add anything to 17:16 that? 17:17 I'll just add you know COVID created creativity for FARM STEW 17:21 and so one of the things we were trying to get into Cuba and 17:25 after several canceled flights we decided let's do digital 17:28 health evangelism through FARM STEW. And so actually every 17:33 Monday morning we meet with a whole group of Cubans and do our 17:37 training over an app and it's pretty powerful. So now actually 17:42 this past week I was on that call and we had guests from 17:47 Brazil and Nicaragua and a missionary from Nicaragua 17:50 that's going to take those same materials and start this type of 17:55 digital FARM STEW evangelism in their country. So we're getting 17:59 creative in terms of how we stretch out the solution of the 18:02 training. We also have three universities in Africa that are 18:05 also teaching FARM STEW and those are Adventist Universities 18:09 in Malawi, Uganda, and Rwanda including the new medical school 18:15 in Rwanda. These new students are going to be coming... 18:18 going to have the practical hands-on skills of FARM STEW in 18:22 addition to the medical training 18:24 Sure, sure, praise the Lord, Wow you guys got your hands in 18:27 everything it seems like. And so I'm thinking here you 18:29 know there's a 18:31 a lot of issues, a lot of challenges, problems in our 18:33 world and you guys obviously have solutions. We've kind of 18:38 talked a little about this and we're going to go in more depth 18:40 in just a while. But I just want to specifically hone in on the 18:44 problem that FARM STEW seems to address wants to address. Let's 18:49 talk a little bit about what specifically, are you guys doing 18:52 to address whatever problem it is that the Lord has called you 18:55 to fix or address during these times. 18:59 Thanks for the opportunity. 19:00 You know I was actually nine years old when I became a 19:05 vegetarian and I was the only one in my home that made that 19:09 decision and my mom and my Grandma that I was talking about 19:11 before, they were so worried I was going to become malnourished 19:14 and a sickly and stunted child. Well a decade later I was you 19:20 know in college and on a scholarship to play volleyball 19:23 and I clearly wasn't sickly and stunted. My plant-based diet 19:27 served me quite well. But I developed through that concern a 19:32 heart for childhood malnutrition and you know there are three 19:36 million children that die every year of childhood malnutrition 19:40 and overall people there are 25,000 people who die every day 19:46 of malnutrition and these are people that are not in the news 19:52 they don't raise to the radar of international acclaim but slowly 19:57 but surely they are dying, And these are the same people Jesus 20:01 talked about that He's going to ask us when He comes back what 20:04 did you do for the least of these. So we have a picture of 20:09 Fiona, one of our trainers, measuring the mid-upper arm 20:12 circumference with a little plastic band that just goes 20:14 right around the arm and it's a very simple test that we can 20:18 give to the trainers that indicates the level of 20:22 malnutrition in a child very accurately from six months to 20:25 five years old. So it's simple, simple tools like this that can 20:29 help identify the problem and then like you said, we have the 20:33 solution. So that's something we've been sharing about... 20:37 Sure, wow that's amazing. But you're doing it through these 20:39 ingredients. I love that because FARM STEW, you know, it's got 20:44 the food theme but you call them ingredients which I guess are 20:48 kind of similar to what we know as these eight laws of health 20:51 that we've here them before. But you guys have your own little 20:53 twist on it. So maybe you and Karissa can talk a little bit 20:56 about...let's go back into these ingredients, these individual 20:59 ingredients, and talk about what they are and the importance of 21:02 each and every one of them, you know, that we should fit into 21:05 our life. 21:07 Absolutely. Karissa is a horticulturist by the way 21:09 and so I want her to start with farming. 21:13 Yeah so I guess I mentioned earlier that I loved 21:16 farming and gardening and have done that like my whole life but 21:19 I didn't always love it. When I was little it was just a chore. 21:23 But my mom was really into gardening so I had to pull weeds 21:28 It was really hot outside. I'd rather be swimming or whatever. 21:29 I hated it. I had a bad attitude about it. But at some point, as I 21:35 got older I realized that this was actually fun. It's cool to 21:39 see the plants growing and just to be out in nature with all of 21:44 the animals and the plants and kind of learn all about nature 21:49 and learn about God and so I started really nerding out about 21:52 it and loving it. I realized that this was not just fun but 21:56 it could actually be a profession and that how when I 21:59 really started to get interested in FARM STEW and where this 22:03 could take me. 22:04 Right. And when you think of farming, like I grew up in 22:07 Northeast Arkansas on the delta, Mississippi Delta and when I 22:12 think of farming you think of millions of acres of road fills 22:16 with whatever crop in it but you know farming doesn't 22:20 necessarily have to be...when you ask someone to participate 22:23 in farming, it doesn't necessarily have to be millions 22:25 of acres of land. So talk a little bit about you know what 22:27 is the basis of farming. If a person's going to get involved 22:31 in what FARM STEW is doing in relation to farming what 22:34 specifically would they be doing? 22:36 Yeah, so FARM STEW is doing a lot smaller farms usually 22:42 because most people don't have you now thousands of dollars to 22:45 get a big tractor and farm hundreds of acres so we're 22:52 usually doing much smaller farming. Personally right now 22:56 I'm helping farm on just a small farm. It's just a few _, 23:01 but that's still a farm because you're still selling the produce 23:04 It's not just your own garden you know. 23:06 And as we're teaching people how 23:11 to farm on this even smaller farm-scale they can learn how to 23:16 grow nutritious food and still support their family and be able 23:20 to sell some of the produce that will help them... 23:23 Wow, that's so awesome, that is awesome. So A, F, A what does 23:30 the A stand for? 23:32 Yeah so the change of attitude is so powerful and Susan 23:34 actually has a story of one of our participants who had a 23:37 radical transformation thanks to the change of attitude. 23:40 (Okay.) It was amazing. She was a young woman who was met 23:46 outside of a medical clinic and she was in pretty bad shape. 23:49 You know, skin and bones, poor health. Her children had poor 23:53 health. And you would think okay will what about gardening? Well 23:57 she wasn't interested in gardening because she thought 23:59 that was for the poor. But she is the poorest of the poor or 24:02 she was. So it's a perspective you know an attitude about 24:07 something that actually could help you. And so through the 24:10 training she was actually taught how gardening could change her 24:14 life and the life of her children and so she started 24:17 doing that. And so her health improved and her children's 24:21 health improved. But she was also taught how you can sell 24:24 what you grow and that's the E in FARM STEW for Enterprise. 24:26 Right. So in selling what she could grow now she had income 24:31 And so it just lifted her family, changed their lives and 24:37 that's what FARM STEW is all about, the training of how you 24:39 can have an abundant life. 24:41 Wow, that's amazing. 24:42 In FARM STEW we're all about families and you know that song 24:45 was perfect about the family tree goes back to Calvary. The 24:49 call to be a blessing to all the families of the earth, that 24:53 actually goes back to the call that Abram or Abraham later had 24:56 on his life. And we are the sons and daughters of Abraham as well 25:01 and so at FARM STEW, we feel like we want to be a blessing to the 25:06 entire family unit. So in the case of Fatima the woman Susan 25:11 will tell you about there was actually tension in the marriage 25:14 because her husband wasn't bringing in enough food. He was 25:18 a shoe cobbler. You know, he wasn't making a great living. 25:21 And she didn't see herself as part of an economic engine to 25:26 the family and I think that transformation, that attitude, 25:29 makes a big difference. And then of course, we talk about rest. 25:33 But in the context of rest we say, you know, Sabbath rest. But 25:38 in the commandment for Sabbath it says six days you labor and 25:40 work. So we also emphasize those six days of work. 25:45 Right, absolutely, yeah, amen praise the Lord. So F=Farming, 25:50 A=Attitude, R=Rest, what does the M stand for? 25:56 Well that comes to meals which is where I get really excited. 25:59 I actually have a picture that we can show of two of the key 26:04 components of the solution for meals and that is as Karissa was 26:10 saying where a lot of the people in Cambodia where she worked 26:13 were eating rice. I mean we just talked to a man that was trained 26:17 in Nicaragua, he's now in Nicaragua. He was trained with us 26:20 in Colorado and he was saying that he cooked casaba, rice and 26:29 corn. So the average diet of the generally poor people in the 26:32 world is just starches. And so our solution is that we teach 26:35 them to grow and eat the rainbow so across the color spectrum of 26:40 naturally occurring colors people are going to get the micro 26:43 nutrients that... 26:45 You said you had a picture for that if we could pull that up 26:46 there the rainbow. And then look at that. Yeah that's the rainbow 26:51 We had our training in South Sudan and I'm with Mary one of 26:54 our trainers. And we had people from seven countries, seven 26:57 African countries at that training. And then the other 27:01 side of the picture is these women pounding and there are 27:05 these old-fashioned wood mortars that are found in most every 27:09 African rural home and I think many places around the world. 27:12 They're actually pounding soy beans and making milk and then 27:16 after they squeeze the milk out of the soybeans, they can have a 27:20 powder there called okara and with that okara, they can make 27:23 all sorts of other food products including a substitute for tea 27:27 and coffee. And so this soy protein is really what a lot of 27:32 the children are lacking. They are often deficient in protein 27:37 and deficient in various micro nutrients, so between our 27:39 rainbow and our soy work we can get a diet that can help the 27:43 children to thrive. So that's our focus on meals. 27:46 That's amazing. So not just teach them how to put seeds in 27:49 the ground and grow it but to harvest it and to use those 27:55 beautiful vegetables that they're harvesting to actually 27:57 learn how to cook meals. So you actually, teach them how to cook 28:00 these meals. 28:01 Yes, and our local trainers they generally start with the cooking 28:05 classes because people aren't experienced with any of those 28:08 things. Even though 75 percent of the world's poor and hungry 28:12 people are subsistence farmers, but they often don't even have 28:17 access to fruit and vegetable seeds. So you think, Oh they're 28:20 farmers, they must be growing fruits and vegetables. They're 28:22 not. They're just growing corn, casaba, bananas, just rice those 28:27 basic starchy staples that fill the belly but they don't nourish 28:32 the blood and so then their immune system is so compromised 28:34 and that's why most children die They might be lacking vitamin A 28:39 which is very related to their immune system. Or lacking iron 28:43 and then when they get hit with like malaria, another lead 28:47 killer, you know all of a sudden some of their red blood cells 28:50 are attacked and they don't have the oxygen supply in their blood 28:55 to keep them alive. We're going at all these solutions to the 29:00 root causes of hunger, disease and poverty. 29:03 Wow, that's amazing. Wow. 29:05 God is so good. All the solutions are actually in the 29:09 Bible like for example this thing about enriching the blood. 29:12 The Bible says in Leviticus, the life of the flesh is in the 29:17 blood. So we use the Bible to teach everything that we 29:19 teach so that 29:20 it's not just new science, but it's Biblical wisdom. And even 29:25 in places where there are Islamic people, they still have 29:29 a reverence for the scriptures that they can learn and then 29:33 once they learn and they see that what they learned from the 29:36 Bible actually works then their heart is also open to Jesus who 29:39 is the author of abundant life. 29:42 That's amazing. Praise the Lord. That's so great. So now we get 29:45 into STEW. S, what does the S stand for? 29:48 S is Sanitation. And as I mentioned before there's a 29:53 billion, 2.4 billion people on the planet without proper 29:57 sanitation. So one of the things we teach is latrines, building 30:01 latrines and we've actually provided latrine covers to many 30:04 families that don't have the money for a bag of cement, so if 30:07 they do the hard work of digging which is hard, then we will help 30:12 them with the covers. And then Susan was going to mention a 30:17 special kits we have for girls really for sanitation. 30:20 Yes, one thing that really captured my attention when I 30:22 first heard about FARM STEW and that is you don't think about 30:26 the not being able to go to school when they reach a certain 30:29 age because they don't have products that they can use. So 30:32 part of our sanitation is that we provide kits for the girls, 30:36 which include reusable pads, panties, little bags they can 30:41 put them in so that they can have privacy. Because education 30:46 changes everything and if we can keep these young girls in school 30:48 then it changes their life, it changes the community's life and 30:52 so we've been able to provide over 15,000 kits to young girls 30:57 in various places. So we're very excited about that. 31:00 It's amazing. Praise God, praise God. This is awesome. I think 31:03 you guys, like this, is probably something I've never heard of 31:06 any other ministry that does specifically what you guys are 31:08 doing here in regards to that and some of these other 31:11 ingredients but it's powerful to see what the Lord is doing. 31:13 Well I want to thank 3ABN so much because when we say we've 31:17 been able to provide this through generous donors and I 31:20 can't tell you how many of our donors say, hey I saw you on 31:24 3ABN and I'm just so grateful for you allowing us to share 31:29 this recipe for abundant life and share it with your listening 31:32 audience whose hearts are open to hearing what God is calling 31:36 them to share the gospel in practical, hands-on ways that 31:41 change lives. 31:43 Amen, praise the Lord, praise the Lord for that. So S = 31:46 Sanitation. T, what does the T stand for? 31:49 Okay, so I have a story for T, Temperance. I have a picture 31:53 of these guys standing there with a group of bricks. And I'll 31:57 just share...Many of the people in these countries they have 32:02 very few jobs in these countries and very few opportunities and 32:07 so often you'll see the very best land is growing sugar cane, 32:10 coffee or tea. So frustrating. None of that provides any 32:14 nutrition. So this was a group of guys that had started selling 32:19 sugar cane and they were making less than and dollar a day. So 32:24 when they got discouraged they started drinking alcohol which 32:27 sadly you can brew almost anything into alcohol, even 32:31 casaba or bananas or all these crops that they grow, even rice 32:33 can turn into alcohol. So when our FARM STEW trainer came in 32:38 this is Daniel and Perez in the picture who are two of our 32:42 Uganda leaders. They showed that instead of relying on sugar cane 32:47 for money, they could actually start a brick business and I 32:51 want to share the name of the group they started. It's called 32:54 Katu Pacasi and it stands for, what it means in the local 33:01 language is, Let Us Work. And that's the Enterprise, our E for 33:05 Enterprise. So they stopped drinking, see, and they said Let 33:09 Us Work, have an enterprise. And they started making bricks. 33:12 They were selling them for five cents each, these are handmade 33:16 mud bricks they learned to make from our appropriate technology 33:20 part of the work. They are now making 20,000 bricks a week 33:25 and this associated group is now making $628 a week to share 33:32 amongst this whole group of young men who instead of 33:35 drinking and feeling worthless about themselves are now 33:38 starting a big enterprise and what's so exciting about that 33:41 is not only are they having this business but now they're desire 33:45 is to train others and that's what I love about FARM STEW. 33:49 It's not just an organization that we're building for the sake 33:51 of being a big organization. It's growing organically and 33:56 it's becoming a movement such that, you know, we can count 34:00 that we've had 10,000 classes, we can count that there's been 34:04 250,000, almost a quarter million participants in these 34:10 classes, one of these classes. Many of them go to 10 or more 34:13 classes in the program. But there's so many things going 34:18 on with FARM STEW that we will never know until we get to the 34:20 FARM STEW party in heaven. 34:22 FARM STEW party, I like that. 34:25 So we thank God for what He's doing. Yeah and our last letter 34:29 is Water and Susan has a funny story about that with a passion 34:33 she has for helping people with that. 34:36 Well you know part of teaching about water, we are teaching, 34:40 the trainers are teaching people to drink water. You know but 34:45 it's good for your health. You need to drink plenty of water. 34:47 But the people were having to walk miles to get it. And the 34:50 water that was local was dirty and so Joy and I both, we felt 34:53 like the Holy Spirit just really inspired us, the Lord just put 34:57 on our heart that if you're going to ask them to drink water 34:59 then provide clean water. And so we got to talking and through 35:04 generous donations and our donors we were able to start 35:11 partnering with other organizations to drill water 35:12 wells, repair water wells, and so far we've been able to 35:15 put in 55 water wells. Part of what we wanted to make sure of 35:22 is that you know when you give people hope and they're excited 35:26 about that, to pull that hope away is devastating. So we made 35:30 the commitment with our organization, with FARM STEW, 35:33 that if we were going to provide water wells then we're going to 35:36 make sure they work and if they don't work we're going to make 35:39 sure they're repaired. Because we were seeing pictures of 35:41 people women walking past broken water wells. And so we just 35:49 determined that if we're going to do it we're going to do it 35:51 right. We're going to make sure that there were savings clubs 35:54 where people could use the funds in their community to help 35:57 repair the wells or teach the people how to repair the wells. 35:59 So it's so exciting to see the people's faces and just the 36:06 rejoicing when actual clean water comes. Because you see the 36:09 pictures of their children and they're going to get water and 36:11 it is mud, it's muddy and they're drinking that and it's 36:16 pretty heartbreaking. So praise the Lord, we're able to do 36:18 something and help with that problem. 36:20 Yeah, praise the Lord. And I just want to kind of just go 36:23 back just for a moment Susan because you had touched a little 36:25 bit on the enterprise aspect which is what the E stands for 36:28 in STEW. (Right) Enterprise. But you know you guys are in 36:32 countries with extreme poverty and maybe touch a little bit 36:37 more on specifically FARM STEW is helping address the issue of 36:42 poverty in these areas that you guys are working in. 36:47 So for organization, we step back and we look at the big picture; 36:50 what are the causes of hunger, disease and poverty. So we just 36:54 spoke about the education for the young girls to be able to 36:58 stay in school. Because you teach a young woman, she becomes 37:00 a mom. She teaches her children. It changes the whole community. 37:04 So that's one area. The other is by teaching them the gardening 37:10 skills so they can grow their produce, then they can go and 37:13 they can sell it. So we teach them from the gardening how to 37:16 do market gardening. We are very excited, in South Sudan for 37:21 instance, there was a training going on and so stepping back 37:24 and looking at what is a solution to a problem. Okay so 37:27 now they have the knowledge but they don't have the tools. So 37:29 through generous donations we were able to purchase plows and 37:34 I believe there's a picture of the plows. 37:36 Yeah, let's pull up the picture of the plows. I was looking at 37:38 it earlier. So you purchased plows... 37:40 We purchased the plows so they can actually use those because 37:43 in south Sudan of course it's very hot and the soil is very 37:47 hard and so they were able to use these plows to be able to go 37:50 to garden. (That's so cool) So lifting people out of poverty 37:53 is giving the training through the FARM STEW acronym of ways 38:00 that they can implement in their community and all of that helps 38:03 lift them out of poverty. When you start selling your produce 38:06 and you start having money to come back into your home now you 38:10 can have money for your children to go to school. You can buy 38:12 clothes and if the whole community is doing that, it 38:17 lifts up the whole community... 38:18 I know, wow. You know as you're speaking on that this just came 38:21 to my mind, you know, often, especially here in our western 38:26 cultural American mindset often times we can look at the concept 38:31 of poverty and think sometimes in a flawed, judgmental type way 38:34 we can look at that and say you know what, there's no excuse for 38:38 that. You know people are in poverty. You know they could 38:40 better themselves. But often times it's not that the people 38:43 don't have a lack of effort or a lack of wanting to work. It's 38:46 more or less they're just not educated. They don't know how to 38:49 do it and that's exactly what you guys are doing. You're 38:52 educating these people, giving them the tools and the knowledge 38:54 they need in order to be able to function and to farm and make 38:59 money and be able to support their families and address this 39:03 poverty situation. It's powerful to see what you guys are doing. 39:06 And I wanted to say too that people forget that people in 39:09 these various countries or in these different situations they 39:12 love their children too. They love their children like we love 39:16 our children and they want their children to grow and to be 39:19 healthy. You can see pictures of these young African children 39:22 in particular and they may have red hair which is a sign of 39:27 malnourishment. But if you look at them, you think they're fine. 39:31 But they're not. And so our hearts go out to the parents 39:34 too. They want their children to be healthy, they want them to 39:37 grow up. But if you have a lack of knowledge, it's hard to know 39:39 how to do that, so... 39:41 Wow, praise the Lord of what God is doing through FARM STEW. 39:43 So you guys are a little bit everywhere. You're expanding, 39:47 you're growing, we know that. Let's talk a little bit about 39:49 where God has sent you. How far is FARM STEW reaching on the map 39:54 I would love to share because we declared this year to be our 39:58 year of stretch and, wow, we didn't know what God had for us. 40:02 But in Isaiah 54 verse 2 and the first part of 3. I just want to 40:08 read that. (Sure) Enlarge the place of your tent and let them 40:11 stretch out the curtain of your dwelling. Do not spare. And so 40:15 we're asking our donors, do not spare. Let's stretch out 40:19 together. Lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. And then 40:22 it says for you shall expand to the right and to the left. And 40:26 God gave us that verse for this year and when I was looking at 40:28 it then we got invited to go to the Philippines by AWR _ 40:33 and I looked at the globe and I thought we've always been going 40:35 to the right over to Africa but now God is calling us to the 40:39 left and actually now to the south as well. So we are now 40:43 working in nine countries. You can see on the map that will 40:47 show. And it's really exciting because God is spreading us in 40:50 different ways in different places. So in the Philippines 40:53 like we just say we've done some recent training. We were there 40:55 with an evangelistic series with Pastor McKey recently. We 41:00 launched a staff there of 40 Philippinos. But we also now 41:05 have partnered with a group that came to the training that 41:08 Karissa was at in the Heart Village that was right before 41:11 ASI. There's a couple, the Kim's, they're working in Bolivia and 41:17 recently we printed a thousand of our FARM STEW manuals in 41:20 Spanish in Bolivia and we're using those manuals to train and 41:25 equip Bolivian Bible workers. There's colporteurs now that are 41:28 selling those, so like I said they're going places we don't 41:31 even know where they're all going to go. And then they're 41:34 actually taking those manuals which we got at a good bulk rate 41:37 and bringing them to Cuba to our Bible workers there. And then 41:41 another young man that was in our training, he's in Nicaragua 41:44 and we were just talking to him on the way driving down here and 41:47 he said I cannot wait to start doing FARM STEW training with 41:50 the Nicaraguans. It's so applicable here. So we're just 41:54 wanting to say yes to those types of requests and really be 42:00 able to stretch and who knows where God is taking us next 42:04 because we do have church members all over the world that 42:07 are educated but they don't necessarily know the specific 42:13 tangible solutions that they can offer to the people. And they 42:18 also may not have transportation or may need to spend all their 42:22 time doing other jobs just to keep food on their table. So 42:25 what FARM STEW really I think excels in is equipping and finding 42:31 and mobilizing those trainers and that's what we ask people to 42:35 help us with is to help us to equip, you know, train and 42:39 mobilize these trainers so that they can go out and bring this 42:41 message into the villages where people really don't know. 42:46 Gotcha. Okay so I've got to come back the Karissa for this next 42:48 question. In your horticultural professional opinion if someone 42:55 like myself wanted to get involved in this type of FARM 42:59 STEW farming you know for the purpose of spreading the message 43:03 also producing a crop that's going to bring some type of 43:07 income, how much land does a person have to have because 43:10 I'm thinking, and this may be a follow-up question that we can 43:13 address in just a moment but you know you're walking into an 43:16 area of people that are essentially in poverty. I can 43:19 imaging many of these people don't have land, so how much 43:22 land do you need to be able to say okay this is what you need 43:24 at least to start with? So? 43:27 Yeah, you really don't need much land at all. If you just have 43:30 the little space around your house you can obviously be 43:33 planting something there. You might not have a whole lot to 43:37 sell but you're at least going to get more nutrition for your 43:39 family in that little space and even here in the U.S. as you 43:44 know FARM STEW's expanding and stretching and we're starting to 43:47 do some more training herein the U.S. one thing that we have 43:49 started to look into is micro greens. (what's that) and we've 43:53 been growing microgreens. They're just little, you know, 43:56 you just let the plant grow until it's a few inches tall. 43:57 Then you chop it off and eat it which is actually a lot more 44:01 nutritious than eating a whole head of cabbage. You can just 44:03 take a few handfuls of these little sprouts and they have the 44:08 same amount of nutrition. But just to have that you could just 44:13 have a tray inside your house and have that which of course 44:16 works better in the U.S. because you know you have to have lights 44:19 on it and all kinds of fancy trays to do it with. You don't 44:22 have to be that fancy but you don't have to have hardly any 44:26 space. That's the point. You can start growing something 44:29 somewhere. 44:31 All right, all right. So like when you guys go into these 44:33 other countries, these areas where you're trying to teach 44:36 the individuals how to do this and they don't have much land 44:40 or maybe they do have land. I don't know. So how does that 44:43 work? If you're going into an area where people say hey I'm 44:46 interested and you're training, I'm interested in learning all 44:49 that FARM STEW has to offer, but I don't have any land, or I 44:52 don't or I have very little land but I want to be able to learn 44:55 how to support my family you know using these means so let me 45:00 touch a little bit on that. 45:01 Well the beautiful thing that our donors have allowed us to do 45:04 is to actually give this information away for free for 45:07 people that can access the internet and so they can just go 45:11 on FarmStew.org, click on the recipe and there's a little box 45:16 that says Our e-learning program And so when they sign up for the 45:21 e-learning program they can sign up for the recipe course and one 45:24 of the lessons is on nutrition sensitive agriculture which is 45:28 what Karissa was speaking of before and it actually lays out 45:31 a whole garden plan for you of the different types of crops, 45:35 even the size of the beds to grow, the width of the paths 45:40 to grow because we remember from the sower and the seed you know 45:45 that parable. We use that parable to actually teach about 45:48 how you have to have a path. You know you don't plan there 45:51 because the birds would get it. We talk about cultivating you 45:54 know getting out the rocks, chasing away the weeds or 45:57 cultivating away the weeds. We call them the thieves that come 46:00 to kill, steal and destroy your crop, using John 10:10 as a 46:04 teaching tool. You can see how we incorporate the Bible and 46:09 really teach. You know Jesus was often teaching in agricultural 46:13 parables which in general ensures our spiritual lives but 46:16 we go back and say okay what can we learn about actual 46:20 agriculture, sanitation and temperance from all those 46:23 messages. So like Karissa said you don't need a lot of ground 46:26 but we show you what you need. 46:28 That's right, awesome, praise the Lord. So this is all on your 46:32 website. And what's the website one more time? 46:33 It's FarmStew.org and then you click on the recipe and there's 46:40 free e-learning program. 46:42 Right. Nice, Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Well I can 46:45 imagine there's someone that's been watching this interview who 46:48 is tremendously blessed by it and they're saying, you know 46:51 what, I want to be able to support this ministry. I want to 46:54 get involved. Let's first talk about the needs of the ministry 46:59 For those who are watching at home that say I would like to 47:03 support this ministry but what is it specifically that FARM 47:06 STEW needs at this time, that the Lord's laying on your heart 47:09 to do? 47:10 Well you know FARM STEW, the Lord has truly blessed our 47:14 organization and it is growing and as we see the things that 47:18 are coming currently upon the world, food scarcity, inflation 47:23 you know that really has people thinking a lot. And we know that 47:28 that's going to impact the poorest countries the most. 47:33 They're coming up with reports saying Africa and different 47:34 places are really going to be impacted by that. And so for 47:39 FARM STEW to continue to go into new areas, we're expanding so 47:43 quickly because the need is so great. Obviously we need prayers 47:47 Prayers for wisdom and guidance as to how to determine where 47:51 where do we go, where do we go first? What do these countries 47:54 need? And prayers for the right people to come that can do 47:59 training and the volunteers that we need in the various countries 48:02 And then obviously we need funds and as Joy has said before the 48:07 listeners of 3ABN have been so generous and we've been able to 48:12 do this because of the generous donations of the different 48:15 people. So clearly we need funds to be able to make it work and 48:19 we offer this program for free. And we want this message to go 48:23 out. We want the people to have knowledge and for their lives to 48:26 be changed. There's a quote from the Spirit of Prophecy that we 48:29 use often which is really fantastic and it says: When 48:33 right methods of cultivation are adopted there will be far less 48:36 poverty than now exists. We intend to give the people 48:41 practical skills upon the improvement of the land 48:43 and thus induce them to cultivate their land now lying 48:47 idle. If we accomplish this we shall have done good missionary 48:51 work. And so you know praise the Lord He has given FARM STEW the 48:56 ability to continue to move forward but the need is great 49:01 and to be able to provide 15,000 girls with kits so they can go 49:04 to school, or plows so that they can be able to grow their 49:09 gardens. But also to translate our curriculum. We're 49:13 translating it into many different languages because 49:16 we're now in South America. We've been launched in Southeast 49:19 Asia. We're in nine different countries in Africa, we're in 49:22 a country now that we really can't say because of the 49:26 religious climate there. But it's moving. God is on the move 49:31 He's taking it to all the world. 49:33 He's taking it to the world and we're just blessed and honored 49:36 to be able to be a part of it. 49:37 That's right. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord. So you're 49:40 fulfilling the divine commission That's what the Bible said. 49:42 Jesus said take this gospel into all the world. In fact, as you 49:44 guys were speaking about all that we've talked about today 49:47 this passage of scripture came to my mind. Matthew 25 where 49:51 Jesus says here this was actually His last words about a 49:53 week or so before He was crucified. This is probably the 49:56 last parable-like language that he taught before He went to the 50:00 cross. But He goes on to say in verse 34: Then the king will say 50:03 this is Matthew 25 beginning with verse 34: Then the king 50:06 will say to those on his right hand come you blessed of my 50:09 Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the 50:12 foundation of the world, for I was hungry and you gave me food, 50:15 I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you 50:18 took me in, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you 50:21 visited me, I was in prison and you came to me. Then the 50:25 righteous will answer Him saying Lord when did we see you hungry 50:29 and feed you or thirsty and give you drink. When did we see you 50:32 as a stranger and take you in or naked and clothe you, or when 50:35 did we see you sick and in prison and come to you and the 50:39 King will answer and say to them Assuredly I say to you, Inasmuch 50:42 as you did this to the least of these (I love that) my brethren 50:48 you did this to me. My friends this is what the gospel's about, 50:51 what FARM STEW is doing. And you guys are awesome. I appreciate 50:53 all that you are doing and there's no doubt that the Lord 50:57 is blessing this ministry mightily and I know that our 51:01 viewers at home you're probably as blessed as I am knowing what 51:05 they're doing, knowing that God is taking them into all the 51:07 world and blessing thousands upon thousands of people with 51:10 this education, learning how to farm, learning how to eat 51:13 healthy meals, learning how to bring an income to their family 51:16 and to get the gospel message out, the health message out, all 51:19 of this together. And so my friends we want to encourage you 51:23 to support this ministry. The Lord may be putting upon your 51:26 heart right now to contact them and to maybe donate, maybe give 51:30 your support financially. Well in this next little clip that 51:34 you're going to see it'll tell you exactly how you can do that. 51:37 Here it is. 51:39 If you would like to contact or know more about 51:41 FARM STEW International you can do so in the following ways: 51:44 You can write to them at PO Box 291, Princeton, IL 61356 51:52 You can call them at (815) 200-4925 52:03 You can visit their website at FarmStew.org 52:10 Or send them an email at Hi@FarmStew.org 52:19 ♪ ♪ |
Revised 2023-04-06