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Series Code: TDY
Program Code: TDY200053B
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00:01 Amen. Thank you, Jason, so much.
00:03 And we wanna say a special thank you 00:04 to Global Missions for the 30 years of ministry 00:08 that they have been involved 00:10 in making a difference in people's lives. 00:12 So thank you, guys, so much for all that you do, 00:14 and we're going to continue on the theme 00:17 of global missions 00:18 because we have two very special guests 00:20 that are joining us via Skype, 00:23 and we have Jerry and Valerie Backus with us. 00:26 How you are guys doing? 00:28 Very well, thank you. Thank you. 00:29 Very good. 00:31 Thank you for having us. Wonderful Amen. 00:32 Praise the Lord and where are you Skyping us 00:34 from today? 00:36 We're Skyping from Hagerstown Seventh-day Adventist Church 00:39 where I was baptized in February of last year. 00:44 Wow. So that's... 00:46 What state is that located in? 00:48 In Maryland. In Maryland. 00:49 Sorry, Hagerstown No, no, no. 00:51 That's fine. That's fine. So Hagerstown, Maryland. 00:54 And we're going to get into just a few moments 00:58 where you really live most of the time 01:00 because while you're in Maryland today, 01:02 we understand that you're not always 01:04 in Maryland, right? 01:06 Right. That's right. 01:07 We understand that Jerry and Valerie have a powerful, 01:12 powerful ministry that they're leading out 01:14 in the country of Tanzania, Africa. 01:17 And we're going to talk a little bit more 01:19 about that in just a few moments, 01:20 but, guys, I just want to thank you 01:21 for joining us today and coming on to share with us. 01:24 And, you know, there may be 01:26 someone watching right now 01:27 that doesn't know who Jerry and Valerie is. 01:30 And so give us a little bit of background on, 01:33 you know, who you are, where are you from? 01:35 And what's your background 01:37 is as far as your church activity 01:40 and your ministry and all that. 01:42 Thank you very much. 01:43 Well, I'm Jerry Backus, 01:45 I was originally born and raised in Amarillo, Texas. 01:47 I'm sure all of you know the Panhandle of Texas. 01:49 And I first came out of the water 01:51 in 1983 in Amarillo, Texas. 01:54 When I came out of the water in 1983, I was an alcoholic. 01:58 If I wasn't an alcoholic 01:59 before I went to Southeast Asia, 02:01 Vietnam, Thailand, et cetera, I was when I came back 02:04 and after this particular church 02:06 that I was baptized in by submersion 02:08 found out about my history. 02:10 They told me I was living in the gray area 02:12 and they didn't think that 02:14 I probably would still be going to heaven even though 02:16 I confess Jesus died for my sins. 02:19 And I was baptized by submersion. 02:22 And right after I came out of the water, 02:24 I had a couple of visions. 02:25 First vision was that 02:27 I was baptizing people in a faraway land. 02:30 I didn't realize at the time 02:31 I was called as a missionary 02:33 when I came out of the water in 1983, 02:35 and I had a picture of that. 02:37 And I saw that picture in Tanzania 02:39 what nearly 20 years later after that time period, 02:43 and then I had a burning desire to teach the Bible. 02:46 And this particular church had a Bible school 02:49 and I applied for the Bible school. 02:51 And the response was that 02:52 they didn't allow anybody attending their Bible school 02:55 that was possibly going to hell. 02:57 And so it was a process of me 02:59 becoming a Christian in the first place. 03:02 It was a challenge for me 03:03 to keep on studying and keep on growing. 03:06 And then finally, one of the elders 03:07 after I had applied to the Bible school 03:09 several different times 03:11 told me that they would not allow me 03:12 to go to their school, 03:13 told me that anybody could go 03:16 to the local junior college and study the Bible. 03:18 And I did, I studied the Bible for two years 03:21 there at the junior college, 03:22 received my undergraduate in gerontology 03:25 because I was preaching to nursing homes. 03:27 This church wouldn't allow me to preach in the church 03:29 or teach in the church or share in the church. 03:31 And I was still in that church for eight years. 03:34 I was the one responsible for the PA system 03:36 or doing all the recordings for the weddings, funerals, 03:38 giving out the communion every Sunday morning, 03:41 et cetera. 03:42 So it was a process just for me 03:44 to become a Christian in the first place. 03:46 And then of course I met Valerie two years ago 03:49 and what a blessing to understand the full gospel. 03:52 True. 03:54 And right here let me give an opportunity 03:56 to Valerie to share who she is. 03:58 Yeah. 03:59 Valerie, give us a little bit of your background 04:00 and where you come from 04:02 and set us up for how you met Jerry 04:06 and how you became a witness to him. 04:09 Well, by profession, 04:12 I'm a nurse practitioner but I love singing. 04:17 I love the ministry. 04:18 I love speaking about the Lord, but at the church, 04:21 my duties really encompass the health ministry 04:25 and also music ministry. 04:27 Those are my two passions when I met Jerry, 04:32 I was at work at the time and I just wanted to... 04:36 My heart has always wanted to do missionary work. 04:40 I wasn't sure whether it was gonna be 04:42 children or adults or what the mission was. 04:45 I just wanted to be involved in mission. 04:46 And I asked the Lord to show me 04:49 how or where 04:51 and to prepare me for the mission. 04:53 So when I met Jerry, 04:54 I thought it was an answer to my prayer. 04:56 However, when he said he was a Pentecostal minister, 05:00 it's like, "Oh, I don't think that's the answer." 05:04 I wanted to have... 05:05 However I said to Jerry, 05:06 "You know although we're very good friends, 05:09 we cannot continue unless we share the differences. 05:14 We have significant differences. 05:16 I'm a Seventh-day Adventist and you are not." 05:19 And when he asked me to share, 05:21 I did, but I was a little hesitant. 05:24 And the only thing that he said was, 05:27 "Show me if you're saying that 05:30 Sabbath is Saturday and you worship on Saturday, 05:33 wherein the Bible is that." 05:35 And all I did was just showed him. 05:38 And that was the beginning of his study, 05:40 and he never hesitated. 05:43 He never resisted. 05:44 He just dove in even more, even more so that 05:48 when he heard about It is Written, 05:50 I think he went ahead 05:52 and bought the whole video library 05:55 just to learn a little bit more about Sabbath 05:57 and more about the Word of God. 06:00 Yeah. 06:01 I actually ordered every video 06:03 that It is Written has ever had in their inventory. 06:08 Wow. 06:10 See, that's powerful because you and I 06:12 actually have a little bit of a similar background 06:14 in the sense that 06:16 I was also born and raised Pentecostal. 06:18 And of course, 06:20 now I'm a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, 06:21 but I recognize very clearly that 06:23 not for everyone coming 06:25 from that particular background to, 06:28 you know, this new lifestyle of truth 06:31 and living according to God's word, 06:33 it's not always the easiest transition. 06:35 So I have to ask you, brother, 06:36 were there any personal challenges 06:38 that you dealt 06:39 with as she was sharing with you 06:41 these new truths, 06:43 what was going through your mind at first and, 06:46 or was there a struggle? 06:47 Was there not a struggle? 06:48 How did that play out? 06:50 Well, there wasn't a struggle accepting the truth. 06:53 It was just a habit of thinking you 06:54 go to church on Sundays. 06:56 Okay. 06:57 And still, sometimes I still refer 06:59 to going to church on a Sunday 07:01 just because it has been 07:02 such a habit over the last 37 years 07:05 and then of course not buying anything on Sabbath. 07:08 So it's been a process for me. Sure. 07:11 So it wasn't as easy as what it sounds, but I'm there. 07:15 Well, no, I can't say I'm there. 07:17 I'm almost there. 07:18 Okay. Yeah. 07:20 Well, praise the Lord, brother, and that's a powerful story. 07:23 And, you know, I can tell, you know, 07:25 based on your story and getting to speak with you 07:28 that you're a man who loves truth. 07:30 And the Bible says those who love truth, 07:32 you know, the truth shall set you free, right? 07:34 Right. 07:36 It will make you free according to the Scripture. 07:37 So praise the Lord. 07:39 So you're in Maryland right now and as I mentioned earlier, 07:43 you're normally not always in Maryland. 07:46 You guys actually normally 07:47 reside in the country of Tanzania, Africa, 07:51 and you lead out in a ministry called 07:54 Falco's Children Africa. 07:57 Tell us a little bit about the background 07:59 of how you became involved in the ministerial work 08:03 that you're in now there in Tanzania. 08:06 Well, I moved to Tanzania in 2009 08:09 to open another Bible school 08:11 because that was my heart's desire 08:12 to teach the Word. 08:14 I'm a BA, master's in theology, 08:16 I'm a doctorate in Christian education. 08:18 So I enjoy teaching. 08:20 But then when we started seeing 08:21 the children roaming around the streets, 08:24 I mean, and Valerie 08:25 will share here in a few minutes, 08:26 we see two and three-year-old children, 08:28 sometimes younger than two years old, 08:30 walking along the highway by themselves. 08:33 I mean, just amazing how children 08:34 are just let like to do anything. 08:38 No company. 08:39 Go anywhere they wanna go and there's no adults around. 08:42 We even see sometimes a small child, 08:45 maybe six years old that's herding 200 sheep 08:48 by himself out in the middle of a pasture. 08:50 And so it's just amazing. 08:53 And you'll understand that once you come to visit us. 08:56 Yeah. That would be awesome. 08:58 So your ministry is to children 09:01 who, you know, 09:03 experienced these unfortunate events in their lives. 09:06 Maybe they've been abandoned. 09:08 Give us a little bit more information about, 09:10 I mean, how do you get these kids to come to be 09:15 on the property or to be there 09:17 as a part of this Falco's Children Group, 09:20 where you are there in Tanzania? 09:21 So are there any laws you have to go through? 09:24 Are there any multiple steps that you have to go through? 09:27 How does that process work? 09:29 There's a lot of red tape, but we work as social welfare. 09:32 Social welfare gives us permission 09:34 to be able to accept the children, 09:36 take care of the children. 09:37 We take care of children who've been abandoned, abused, 09:40 neglected, children that have been 09:42 thrown away in toilets. 09:43 They still sacrifice children, 09:45 the witch doctors sacrifice children 09:47 on altars like they did 09:49 in the Old Testament time period 09:50 Wow. 09:52 Girls are sometimes circumcised and a large percentage of them 09:55 bleed to death. 09:57 We just picked up a child here last month. 09:59 And of course, I wasn't there, 10:01 I was here in Maryland that was thrown in the toilet 10:03 and Valerie was gonna share a little bit about Moses, 10:07 I adopted four children before my wife died 10:11 a couple of years ago, Rachel 16. 10:14 Sharon is 11, Isaac is 9 and Moses is 8. 10:18 And Val is gonna share about Moses. 10:20 Yeah. 10:21 Well, the interesting thing, 10:23 each child has a very interesting background 10:27 as to how they became 10:29 a part of Falco's Children Africa, 10:32 but particularly for Moses, the last of Jerry's four, 10:36 our four children, he's a vibrant, 10:39 happy nine-year-old 10:41 as every other healthy nine-year-old is, 10:43 but Moses's history is particularly endearing to me 10:48 because his name is Moses 10:50 because he was rescued from a shallow grave. 10:55 One particular day, a shepherd was mining his sheep 10:59 in a graveyard. 11:02 And as he was passing through the graveyard, 11:04 he heard the cries of a baby, 11:07 and he couldn't tell initially 11:10 where the sound was coming from. 11:12 And so he followed 11:13 the little whimperings of the baby, 11:16 and then he came to an area where the baby was. 11:20 And after calling for help, 11:23 the baby was dug up from the earth 11:26 and he was still in a sackcloth, right? 11:29 Was he... 11:30 Yeah, he was the, what happened was as he was abandoned, 11:34 put in a gunnysack, wet from childbirth. 11:36 Wow And then the trash, and then the dirt, 11:39 rocks and to fill the gunnysack. 11:42 So he was completely covered with dirt inside the gunnysack, 11:46 a trash bag was wrapped around the gunnysack 11:48 and buried in the shallow grave. 11:51 And after he was rescued, 11:54 he needed to be hospitalized to get the dirt 11:56 from his mouth and nose and eyes. 11:59 And, it was quite a process to get him home 12:03 to the orphanage because he was rescued, 12:08 I guess the villagers wanted this baby 12:11 because it was more like a good luck charm 12:14 to them that they can exploit him for money 12:17 being that he was rescued from the grave. 12:20 And I know Jerry, as he told me, 12:23 he had to go through quite a process 12:24 of protecting the baby, even the nurse 12:27 who was trying to protect the baby, 12:29 she was almost killed 12:31 in an attempt to kidnap Moses. 12:33 And so finally, when Moses was able 12:35 to come to the village, 12:37 he has enjoyed a remarkable normal life 12:41 since then, very happy, very intuitive. 12:44 He wants to be a minister when he grows older 12:48 and he is just a joy to be around, 12:50 but each child has a very unfortunate background 12:55 but very, very happy to be at the Falco's. 12:58 We have children that have been tossed aside, 13:01 children found in a cesspool, 13:02 children found in the grave, 13:04 children found in toilets, et cetera, 13:07 or who have just been abused, but they are so loving. 13:11 The most important thing, 13:12 my experience in going to the village was that 13:15 just as much as I planned to show them love, 13:18 they were able to show me their love. 13:21 And they are just as willing to witness 13:23 what love can do from across the continent. 13:26 There are no barriers to love, 13:29 and they are just as happy 13:31 to share it as well as to receive it. 13:35 And then sometimes, of course, the number one reason 13:37 why there are so many orphans in Tanzania is abandonment. 13:40 And we picked up a young girl from social welfare 13:45 that had been abandoned to a stranger 13:47 and the stranger didn't want her. 13:49 So she threw boiling water on her... 13:51 Wow. 13:54 So you guys see these type of things all the time. 13:58 And I can't even imagine 14:01 experiencing something like that 14:03 or seeing that, but you guys have quite, 14:06 I mean, you got quite a population 14:08 there now at the school. 14:09 How many children did you say you have there? 14:12 We have 92 children plus the 4 that's our children now. 14:17 That's 96 14:18 And then Valerie has a son, so that's 97. 14:23 He's 25, but now 97. 14:25 And then I have 34 full-time Tanzanian staff 14:29 to help me with the children, 14:30 with the farming because we raised, 14:33 we raise beans and maize and we have cattle 14:35 and sheep and goats, et cetera. 14:37 So there's quite a number of us 14:40 and 90% plus are all Adventists now 14:44 since because whenever I became 14:46 a member of the church at the Adventist church, 14:50 I stopped the Pentecostal Sunday services at the village 14:54 'cause we had a church there. 14:56 So now we're Seventh-day Adventist at the village. 14:59 Oh my. So hold on. Just a moment. 15:00 Let's press the pause button on that for a moment. 15:03 That's a big transition. 15:05 So you come to America, you meet Valerie, 15:10 you come back as Seventh-day Adventist. 15:13 Am I accurate to say that? Yeah. 15:15 Well, it was... 15:16 I had one trip going back, then when I came back, 15:19 I was baptized in February of 2019. 15:21 So we started communicating in the last of 2018. 15:25 And I was baptized in 2019, 15:28 and then I also was invited to become a member of ASI. 15:32 But I had a complete 15:34 Pentecostal board as a nonprofit. 15:38 We've been good, semi-virus since 1996. 15:41 And I shared with the board about me 15:43 becoming an Adventist and the four... 15:44 "And if you love me, keep my commandments," 15:47 and the board members did not want to hear 15:49 or study more about the church. 15:52 So I asked them to resign, 15:54 and I found seven Adventists members 15:57 that are in good standing with the Adventist church 15:59 now that's part of our board. 16:01 Wow. Right. 16:02 Praise the Lord But after Jerry's conversion, 16:06 when he went back to the village, 16:08 he started to witness to the employees. 16:11 He has about 40 employees there, 16:13 and he's witnessed to them 16:15 and continues to study with them. 16:17 And as a result, I'd say 98% of those 40 members 16:23 and employees have been baptized 16:25 and the children as well, 16:27 those who could understand have been baptized. 16:30 So now the village 16:31 is a Seventh-day Adventist village. 16:34 And then on top of that, about a year ago, 16:37 the Lord told me to go find the prostitutes 16:39 and in the Karatu area, 16:41 because prostitutes throw away their children. 16:43 Some of our children are from, we don't know which ones, 16:46 et cetera, don't have any idea. 16:49 But anyway, I found all the prostitutes 16:51 in the current area, there was 33 of them. 16:54 So we sort of bringing them to the village 16:56 for Sabbath, every Sabbath, 16:58 and 11 of them were baptized just last year. 17:01 Wow. Amen. 17:03 That's powerful. 17:04 So I just have to ask here, because again, 17:06 I go back to the point I made earlier, 17:07 you kind of started this conversation 17:11 with Valerie 2018 into 2018. 17:14 You're baptized as a Seventh Adventist 17:16 in February of 2019. 17:18 You come back and then you... 17:20 I guess you kind of left or at once was 17:22 this Pentecostal little community. 17:26 And then now you come back and it's you transition 17:29 and many changes were there, 17:31 now it's a Seventh-day Adventist community. 17:32 Did you face any adversity 17:34 when you came back to make that transition? 17:37 I've had some resistance 17:38 from the villages outside our village of saying, 17:42 complaining that I've been so religious 17:45 and changing from Sundays to Saturdays, et cetera. 17:49 But on top of that, 17:50 we lost quite a bit of a monthly support 17:53 because I became an Adventist too. 17:55 So it's been a transition, that's for sure. 17:58 Gotcha. So walk us through here. 18:02 Let's say I come and I visit Falco's Children Africa 18:06 there in Tanzania on your property. 18:08 Now tell us a little bit of how big is your property 18:10 and what does it encompass 18:12 and what goes on on a daily basis 18:15 on the property there at this orphanage? 18:19 Well, we have 70 acres of land 18:20 and we have a 6 foot electric fence 18:22 with 20,000 volts on it, around the entire property. 18:26 And we currently have nine homes. 18:28 We have eight homes for the children 18:29 and one home just for my family 18:32 and the children wake up 18:33 around 5:00 to 5:30 to have breakfast 18:35 and get ready to walk to school. 18:37 And they walk to school every morning. 18:40 And so it's a pretty tight schedule. 18:43 And of course, the mom has to do the laundry. 18:45 We have the older children do the laundry. 18:47 We also have children 18:48 that are going to boarding school 18:51 that live in a boarding school, 18:52 et cetera, to go to school, so... 18:55 Mm-hm. 18:56 And then the afternoon, 18:57 they come home and they do their chores. 19:00 And after their chores, they do their homework. 19:02 And after homework, they have Bible study. 19:04 Wow. Praise the Lord. So they have a full... 19:07 They're hearing the gospel of Jesus 19:08 on a daily basis on this nice, 19:12 beautiful property you guys have out 19:14 in the middle of nowhere. 19:15 I was looking at the pictures and beautiful place, 19:18 but, man, it looks like out in the middle of no man's land. 19:21 Well, it is in the middle of nowhere 19:23 and we're in the middle of nowhere. 19:25 We're five hours from the local, 19:27 from the airport, 19:28 Kilimanjaro International Airport, 19:30 but go ahead and show some pictures. 19:31 Yeah, you got some pictures. 19:33 Let's see the pictures and walk us through 19:34 these pictures here. 19:36 This is where Valerie and I got married 19:37 November the 22nd is the first one. 19:39 It hasn't been, what, 10 days or so. 19:42 And then the next. 19:44 This was when Valerie was there in July 2019. 19:49 And this is my four children, 19:51 Rachel, Sharon, Isaac and Moses. 19:53 And then we also, of course, we have a church there 19:57 and this is the Local Pathfinders 19:59 from the local community that come sometimes 20:02 if we invite the people from the community, 20:05 we have up to 250 come to join us for church. 20:09 Praise the Lord. 20:10 And of course, part of that was 20:12 the large number of the women 20:13 that we talked about from the area. 20:16 And this was one of the babies we rescued. 20:18 This was a baby Elizabeth. 20:20 As you can see, in November of 2017 20:22 and the difference in December of 2018. 20:25 Wow. 20:26 Any time there are abandoned children. 20:28 Social welfare gives them my last name. 20:30 So I have about 25 Backus Children there. 20:34 It's because of social welfare, not because of me. 20:37 Okay. That's awesome. 20:40 Praise the Lord. 20:41 We just recently received another one 20:43 that was thrown in the toilet last month 20:46 and his name is James Simon Backus. 20:49 And so I named him after Valerie's father, 20:51 which is James. 20:53 And then of course Simon's her maiden name 20:55 and now it's James Simon Backus. 20:57 Amen. Gotcha. 20:58 I saw a picture that was up there, 21:00 like a playground of some kind. 21:02 Yes. Yes, yes. 21:03 We have playground equipment 21:05 in the center of the eight homes. 21:06 And then in the center of the eight homes 21:09 is where the septic system is. 21:11 Everything drains into the septic system, 21:12 but the children have slides and swings, 21:16 merry-go-rounds as you can see. 21:18 And if you go to the next picture, 21:21 this is our... 21:22 We have, I'm guessing, 100 sheep and goats. 21:26 We always have bulls. 21:27 We double our money on bulls. 21:29 We try to become self-sustainable 21:31 if we possibly can, but it's been a process. 21:34 And then I'm not sure what the next picture is. 21:37 And then we'd have volleyball courts 21:39 and they play volleyball. 21:40 When the older children are there, 21:42 they play volleyballs, 21:43 and all the boarding schools students, 21:45 the older children 21:46 are coming back on December the 18th, 21:48 and Valerie and I are leaving on 21:50 December the 7th to go back to Tanzania. 21:52 Wow. So that's just a few days. 21:54 And this is a picture of the eight homes there. 21:56 That is beautiful. 21:58 If anybody wants to come visit us, 21:59 we have a three-bedroom home 22:01 and we have solar electricity, solar hot water, 22:03 Wi-Fi. 22:05 That's the only way we could have electricity 22:06 is through solar system. 22:08 So we have three-bed home for anybody 22:10 who wants to come visit us and volunteer. 22:12 And of course, right now we're in the COVID season. 22:14 So we are not necessarily allowing anybody 22:17 from the States coming right now, 22:19 but we don't have any COVID in Tanzania. 22:21 We don't have to wear a mask in Tanzania. 22:23 We go about our daily activities 22:24 with no mask. 22:25 We can go shopping. 22:27 We go to town, we can do whatever 22:28 we wanna do there 22:29 with no issues of wearing a mask. 22:31 So there's no COVID in Tanzania? 22:34 No. No. 22:36 No. Not at all. Wow. 22:37 It's a blessing That's fascinating. 22:41 So I remember... Go ahead. 22:43 I'm sorry. 22:45 We live normally, just like the normal life 22:47 like you used to here in the States. 22:49 Right. I know. 22:52 I miss it It's in the middle of nowhere. 22:56 You can still stay connected. 22:57 There is Wi-Fi. 22:59 You can still communicate 23:01 and still have a wonderful time out there. 23:03 That's amazing. 23:04 You guys are truly making 23:06 a difference in the lives of these children. 23:08 And it's powerful to hear what you've shared with us. 23:12 And I've been able to read a little bit more 23:14 about what you guys are doing there 23:16 at Falco's Children Africa. 23:18 And it's such a blessing to see that 23:20 these children are seeing Jesus through you guys. 23:24 And they're being introduced 23:25 to Jesus to the truth of His Word. 23:27 And I don't know 23:28 why this keeps coming back to my mind, 23:30 but you mentioned earlier 23:31 and we have about a minute and a half here 23:33 before we go to your address roll. 23:35 But I'm guessing that electric fence 23:37 you have is to keep the lions out from the property. 23:42 Nope. It's not lions, okay. 23:44 It's just general protection. 23:46 We have hyenas try to get through 23:47 every once in a while, 23:49 but our village is only about 45 minutes 23:51 from the Eighth Wonder of the World 23:52 is an inverted volcano. 23:54 And the base of the volcano is 3,000 square miles. 23:57 So, anybody that comes to visit us, 23:59 they can go to Ngorongoro crater. 24:02 You can see every African animal 24:04 living their natural habitat for one day. 24:07 You can see lions hunt. 24:08 You can see the cheetah. 24:10 You can see elephants, giraffes, 24:11 everything in one day, 24:13 living in their natural habitat. 24:15 It's amazing. Amen. 24:16 Wow. 24:18 So you guys are truly following the council of country living 24:21 and you are leading these young people. 24:25 The Lord has used you to change their lives. 24:27 And to think that 24:28 what these young people of Jesus 24:30 don't come back before then 24:31 what they're going to grow up to become, 24:33 the positive, powerful influence 24:35 that that Falco's Children Africa 24:37 is making in their life. 24:39 I just praise the Lord for your efforts. 24:41 In fact, we have about 25 seconds here, 24:44 and I just want to make an appeal to our viewers. 24:47 You know, this is something that you can participate in. 24:50 If you've been blessed by this 24:52 and you're blessed by the story and knowing that 24:53 these individuals are making a difference 24:56 in the lives of others 24:57 and bringing them to Jesus 24:59 and helping them to live healthy, 25:01 good Christian lives, 25:03 we want to go to a roll right now, 25:04 the address roll, right at this moment 25:06 where you can learn how to donate 25:08 and give to Falco's Children Africa. 25:12 For more information about Falco's Children Africa, 25:14 please go to their website @FalcosChildrenAfrica.org, 25:19 that's FalcosChildrenAfrica.org. 25:23 Their email address is info@FalcosChildrenAfrica.org, 25:27 that's info@FalcosChildrenAfrica.org, 25:32 and their mailing address is PO box 14. 25:35 Sapulpa Oklahoma, 74067, 25:39 that's PO box 14. 25:40 Sapulpa Oklahoma, 74067. 25:56 Amen. Praise the Lord. 25:58 Jerry, Valerie, 25:59 we're so blessed to have you on today. 26:01 And we thank the Lord 26:03 for what He is doing through you guys 26:06 and making a difference 26:07 in the lives of these beautiful children. 26:09 And I just want to take, you know, 26:11 about a minute, minute, and 20 seconds 26:12 to share with our viewers 26:15 what the Lord's laid on your heart. 26:17 Give us a final appeal as we prepare to close. 26:19 Well, thank you again very much 26:21 for giving us the opportunity to share. 26:24 The number one request 26:25 is just to increase in monthly support 26:27 because I did lose a lot of the support. 26:30 And when I became a member 26:31 of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, 26:33 and that's really my number one request besides prayers 26:37 'cause we always need prayers 26:39 to be able to help as many children as we can. 26:42 We do have PayPal on the website 26:43 for any of you that are willing to donate 26:46 through PayPal, but more so than anything, 26:48 no matter how much it is, it fits on a monthly basis, 26:52 we really appreciate helping. 26:54 Thank you. Absolutely. 26:55 Also for anyone who wants to just become 26:59 an active member of our family, 27:01 we wanna appeal to you 27:03 to become an extended family member 27:06 of Falco's Children Orphanage. 27:08 You know, the Lord says, 27:10 you know, true religion is to support the children, 27:14 support the needy, the widows, 27:16 and the orphans, 27:17 and to spread the gospel throughout the world. 27:20 These children are so excited to know that 27:22 they have partnerships in America. 27:25 They are so loving, 27:26 they just want to be a part of a family 27:28 that loves them as well. 27:30 They are already disadvantaged 27:32 and not having their immediate blood relations to them, 27:36 but they're so happy to know that 27:38 those around the world still care 27:40 and want to share 27:41 and participate in their gospel. 27:44 Amen. Thank you, guys, so much. 27:46 Thank you. 27:47 My friends, support this ministry. 27:49 The Lord is using them mightly 27:51 and we just wanna thank all of you. 27:53 Thank you so much for joining us today. 27:55 God bless you all. 27:56 Until next time. Thank you. |
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