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


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