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Series Code: OTG
Program Code: OTG210103S
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01:31 Greetings from Adventist World Aviation headquarters
01:35 here in North Carolina. 01:36 I'm Pastor Ric Swaningson, 01:38 president and CEO for Adventist World Aviation. 01:41 Well, the end of winter time is finally in sight. 01:45 And while the weather in many regions of the world 01:48 is cold and dreary, 01:49 we here at AWA are dedicated to warming the hearts 01:53 with the love of Christ. 01:56 In one of the coldest regions of the world, 01:58 the frozen Tundra of Alaska, 02:00 AWA missionary, 02:01 Jim Kincaid is reaching out to remote villages. 02:05 Currently, 02:07 most of the 225 native villagers 02:09 are without public water and sewer. 02:12 Can you imagine the challenges of trying 02:15 to follow basic hygiene practices 02:17 in this type of environment? 02:19 Several agencies are there working together 02:21 to help with this difficult situation. 02:24 AWA Alaska will be distributing supplies 02:27 to 11 villages in the interior. 02:30 ACS or Adventist Community Services 02:33 is providing warehouse space in Fairbanks, Alaska 02:36 for securing storage 02:38 until the shipments can be distributed 02:39 to the villages. 02:41 And lastly, 02:42 AWA Alaska will be completing final distribution 02:45 to the 11 villages in the interior. 02:48 This will require between 25 and 30 flight hours 02:51 over a span of more than two weeks. 02:54 Recently, Jim reported that villages located on the Yukon 02:58 that depends on subsistence resourcing 03:01 for their daily fare were hurting 03:03 due to lack of those resources. 03:06 Salmon usually provides a major portion 03:08 of both human and animal diets. 03:10 This year alone the annual salmon run 03:13 did not materialized. 03:14 The lack of adequate salmon run is a disaster 03:18 for both man and dog. 03:20 The Purina food company is generously donating 03:23 more than 30,000 pounds of dog food. 03:26 Jim made contact 03:28 with the principal leaders of these efforts 03:29 and offered flights to any villages 03:31 within about 300 nautical miles 03:33 of our AWA air base in Fairbanks, Alaska. 03:38 We are on standby to help 03:40 wherever the need comes or arises. 03:43 In other parts of the world 03:45 we're re-establishing our mission basis. 03:47 In Nicaragua, Josh and Yosi Fix 03:49 are finally deployed into that country. 03:52 They're there now with Ray and Julie Young 03:54 and the boys doing their initial assessment 03:57 of the needs for that country 04:00 and getting the plane ready. 04:01 They're working on the plane this very day. 04:03 We're excited to see that 04:05 they were able to talk 04:06 to the aviation officials in Nicaragua 04:08 to be able to re-establish our flight ops there again. 04:10 And hopefully before Josh and Yosi come home 04:13 to pack up their things 04:15 for permanent deployment to Nicaragua, 04:18 that they'll be able to even take a few medevac flights 04:20 and save some of the lives of the Nicaraguans 04:23 and the Miskito people. 04:25 In the year 2020, we had so many false starts. 04:28 It was very easy for our missionaries 04:31 to become discouraged 04:32 and Josh and Yosi, 04:34 the Lord seen them through 04:35 and they're there now, and their boys are happy. 04:36 They feel like 04:38 they have found a home in Nicaragua. 04:40 Ray and Julia Young are working diligently 04:42 to make sure that all the logistics are there 04:44 and the aircraft is annualed properly. 04:47 And all the details of project management 04:50 are well-maintained. 04:52 So this morning in La Tronquera, 04:54 we have hired five of the local community members 04:59 to cut 13 sections of the runway. 05:03 I'm taking video of it. 05:05 This is one step further 05:07 in getting the runway clear for flying. 05:11 We've had some good help there, 05:13 but it's time now for our missionaries 05:14 to go into play. 05:16 So pray that we can get that permanent deployment 05:18 underway very soon. 05:19 So in the meantime, 05:21 they will be there for at least 90 days, 05:22 working with the local leaders 05:23 with our conference there in Nicaragua 05:25 and with the local pastors, 05:27 as well as the local community leaders, 05:29 to make sure that things are going well. 05:32 Much need is there. 05:33 We, of course, this last year, we're able to supply water. 05:38 Well, by installing a water tower 05:39 in our community, 05:40 the water has been something 05:42 that's been so crucial to that community. 05:44 And they know it came, of course, from AWA, 05:47 which we give all the glory to God. 05:48 We let them know that 05:50 this is living water from Jesus. 05:51 Water is a very necessity of life that keeps us going, 05:55 but Jesus is our life giver. 05:57 So they recognize 05:58 the Christian aspect of the water 06:00 in the water tower 06:01 that we were able to build and provide for them. 06:04 Over years, we've worked very hard 06:05 to get to this point. 06:07 And so, Josh and Yosi are there now making sure 06:10 as that process continues. 06:12 We also had a Christmas Fund Project 06:14 that went forward to buy food 06:17 for those that are less fortunate, 06:19 that can't provide for their families. 06:21 And so we've delivered food to them 06:23 and they're in the process of working on that as well. 06:25 So much is needed there, much is going on. 06:27 And we're so grateful that God has delivered 06:31 finally our missionaries to that project. 06:33 So pray for them. 06:35 In Guyana, 06:36 we were able to send 06:38 our executive vice-president Bruce 06:39 and Monique Wilkerson to Guyana. 06:41 They spent a couple of months there 06:43 and re-established our relationships there 06:46 and fed some of the hungry there as well. 06:49 We have new missionaries 06:51 that are in preparation to go to Guyana. 06:54 The Runne family are preparing their work right now 06:58 and we're praying for them. 06:59 Hello, we're the Runne family. 07:01 My name is Caleb. 07:02 My name is Glenda. 07:03 I'm Judanna. 07:05 I'm Enock. 07:06 We wanted to tell you a little bit about 07:07 how we decided to go into foreign missions. 07:11 When Glen and I were getting to know each other, 07:13 we had talked about going to the missionary field. 07:16 That's one of the things 07:17 that attracted us to one another. 07:19 And we found that now 07:22 the way that we've seen the world changing, 07:25 the way that everything seems so united, 07:27 that these, the birth pains that Jesus talked about 07:29 before His second coming are right now. 07:31 We know we're in the toenails 07:33 of that image of Nebuchadnezzar. 07:36 And so we felt like 07:38 now was the right time to join in foreign missions. 07:42 And that move us to look online 07:44 for different ministries to join. 07:46 And God brought us to AWA. 07:51 And since I talked to Reba, 07:53 it was very clear that that was a place. 07:56 She mentioned that they were praying for a family, 07:59 for families to join them. 08:01 So here we are happy to be part of the AWA family 08:06 and ready to go to Guyana 08:09 or any place that you require for us to go. 08:12 And God, of course, want us to go. 08:14 Glenda is in the midst of flight training 08:16 and she's coming along nicely 08:17 because we can do all things through Christ 08:20 who gives us strength. 08:21 So pray the Lord of harvest. 08:22 We have new workers in our office 08:25 headquarters here in North Carolina. 08:26 Jose Aponte Morales is now with us. 08:29 He and his wife Betsy are working with us 08:32 and their girls. 08:33 We're so happy that they're part of our family. 08:35 He's in final stages of his FA Equivalence, 08:39 he's been a mechanic for the US forces 08:42 and it has his military equivalency, 08:44 but he now needs the civilian equivalency. 08:47 So he's working on his AMP, 08:49 finishing the details up 08:50 that he's got all the papers signed by the, 08:52 what we call a FSDO, 08:53 which is a Federal Aviation Officer. 08:55 He is a private pilot. 08:57 We're gonna finish his training. 08:58 We're excited about Jose and his family 09:01 and his wife Betsy being with us. 09:03 And we hope that we will have a country for them 09:05 to deploy to very soon. 09:07 I felt the call from God. 09:10 And I decided just to come here 09:12 and work for God here. 09:16 I'm just completely new with these, 09:18 thanks to Kyle, 09:19 he's the one is pitching me 09:22 how to go with general aviation. 09:23 When I used to work completely with a fighter aircraft, 09:28 it's completely different work. 09:29 And I'm just here taking all the knowledge 09:32 that I could from Kyle 09:34 and getting ready for me to get my AMP 09:37 and all the stuff that required for me 09:39 just to perform the work that it needed here in AWA. 09:43 Philippines is doing evangelism and church planting process 09:46 there has been so amazing. 09:47 Plane is there. It's ready to fly. 09:49 It's been annualed. 09:50 We are praying the Lord of harvest there 09:52 to supply good missionaries 09:53 to be able to fly our plane there as well. 09:55 Here at home, we've been working tirelessly, 09:58 making planes ready to go into country. 10:01 The Nicaragua plane is all but ready to go. 10:04 Kyle has been working diligently on that. 10:07 We've been working on donated aircraft 10:09 to either put them up for sale or put them into service 10:12 so we can continue the ministry there. 10:15 And we've been doing angel flights. 10:17 We've accomplished several over this year. 10:20 For a while it was difficult 10:21 because people weren't getting their treatment 10:23 for fear of COVID, 10:25 but now our angel flight program has picked up. 10:27 And we're glad to see that it's starting to move again. 10:30 We recently took Melanie to up by Washington DC, 10:35 just outside to John Hopkins Medical Center up there 10:37 to have specialty treatment. 10:40 We're sitting here with Melanie Blue, 10:42 and Melanie has been suffering with cancer 10:46 for quite a few years. 10:48 Unknowingly. Unknowingly, yeah. 10:50 And then the sad part of it is she was misdiagnosed. 10:55 They were treating the wrong cancer. 10:56 Is that right? No. 10:58 They were treating me for neurofibroma 11:01 and it turned out its malignant. 11:02 Okay. 11:03 So they were treating her for different, 11:05 you know, different obviously different procedures 11:08 and she was getting treatment in Greenville, South Carolina. 11:12 So tell us your journey on all of this 11:15 and what's happened to you? 11:18 Well basically I was having some kind of autoimmune issues 11:22 or what I thought were autoimmune issues 11:24 and having some pains and things, 11:26 and the doctors would say, you have fibromyalgia. 11:29 They're telling me I had this, that, and the other thing, 11:30 I'm like, no, it's something else. 11:32 And my neuron, my neurologist sent me 11:34 for an MRI of my lower back 11:36 and found a mass on my spine. 11:41 Sent me directly to an oncologist in Greenville 11:44 who had some more scans done and they want to do surgery. 11:48 And then God put a lot of roadblocks in my way 11:52 where I couldn't have surgery, 11:53 because the surgery, they said my young children, 11:55 it would leave me paralyzed, 11:56 but they wanted to watch the growth of it. 11:58 They did a biopsy, said it was a neurofibroma or schwannoma, 12:01 they weren't sure they had sent it off, 12:03 you know, Harvard or someplace to be tested. 12:05 And even then it came back odd. 12:07 But they went with the neurofibroma scenario 12:10 and just kind of wanted to watch 12:13 the growth pattern of it. 12:14 They didn't know how long it been there. 12:17 So he watched the growth of it annually. 12:18 They do an MRI 12:20 and if it grew more than like a centimeter or more a year, 12:22 they'd see about removing it and things like that. 12:25 But I had young children and they didn't want me to, 12:27 if I could deal with pain, 12:28 they said that would be the better way to go. 12:29 And that's what I did. 12:31 How many years ago was that? 12:33 2014, 2013, 14 in that area. 12:36 Yeah. 12:41 Around 2017 or so I asked about the growth of it being, 12:47 you know, sometimes more than a centimeter a year 12:49 and it was getting bigger 12:52 and the neuro, the neurosurgeon was basically like, 12:55 you know, I'd rather the tumor paralyze you than me. 12:58 And I was like okay. 13:01 And what if it becomes malignant? 13:03 Would you remove it then? 13:04 And then he was like, 13:06 well, by the time we find that it's malignant, 13:07 you might as well go home and spend what time you have 13:08 with your family. 13:10 So at that point I was like, I need a second opinion. 13:12 And I got a second opinion 13:14 from doctor in Spartanburg who said, 13:15 "Oh yeah, I can, de-bulk it for you 'cause it grown. 13:17 It was growing in 2018, 13:19 it started growing into my abdomen 13:21 in 2019 area. 13:23 I couldn't feel it before, 13:24 but then in 2019 I could feel it a lot. 13:27 And, um, I was sick with the flu in 2018 13:30 and had a lot of lung problems. 13:31 They couldn't do surgery to the bulkhead. 13:33 So then when I finally got well 13:35 enough to go back to the doctor, 13:38 he decided that de-bulking was probably not the way to go 13:41 and I should go to a bigger hospital. 13:43 So at that point I was referred to Presbyterian 13:46 that didn't really work out. 13:48 So then I ended up with Johns Hopkins. 13:50 So Johns Hopkins up here in Washington DC area. 13:53 Oh, wow. 13:54 So right up here, you didn't go anywhere else. 13:56 Right, now I went straight to Johns Hopkins. 13:58 Yeah. 13:59 The doctors were interested in me 14:01 and they talked to me 14:02 and I felt in my heart, that was where I needed to be. 14:06 At that point I didn't know I had cancer, 14:10 so they did a biopsy 14:11 and determined that I had cancer 14:13 and told me I was misdiagnosed. 14:14 That actually was not a neurofibroma 14:16 or schwannoma, but a sarcoma. 14:20 I wasn't discouraged 14:22 because I knew God had a plan at some point. 14:24 Of course when you find out you have cancer, 14:26 it's very challenging, 14:29 I guess your courage gets challenged. 14:31 And I'm not going to say I didn't have my moments 14:34 where I was less, like, I can't believe it. 14:38 It's not gonna work, 14:39 but then I have to get my grips back about me 14:41 and realize that 14:43 God's taken me this time, this far. 14:44 And it will be all right. 14:47 Melanie, you have three children. 14:50 So she has three children. Her husband's name is Todd. 14:53 Todd is a loving man 14:54 and has been right by your side during this whole time. 14:56 Melanie raises miniature donkeys as well. 14:59 And tell us a little bit about your children 15:01 and your husband, 15:02 how they've been handling all of this? 15:05 Surprisingly, well, the kids, I think, um, 15:07 there's been a little showing out of my youngest son, 15:10 but I'm thinking that's, 15:12 you know, just trying to process everything. 15:13 And I know he's a very sensitive person 15:16 and he's concerned, 15:17 but my husband, I think had a... 15:20 The first time I was here for my chemo, 15:23 I think it was a huge adjustment for him. 15:25 You know, he's got the household by himself, 15:27 the farm by himself, the kids by himself. 15:29 And he can't be here with me because of COVID. 15:34 He couldn't even go in the hospital 15:35 when they took me in. 15:36 He had just dropped me off and leave. 15:38 And I know that's heartbreaking, so. 15:40 Yeah, that's hard for him. Yeah, it's hard for us all. 15:42 Well, in a few minutes, we're gonna be taking off here 15:44 and we're gonna have prayer with Melanie 15:46 and I'm, I just, our office staff 15:49 has been so encouraged by your story 15:51 and your courage of faith in God and all of this. 15:54 And I know that as we press forward for 15:57 waiting for Jesus to come 15:59 it's stories like this 16:00 that keep us going 16:01 and keep the faith alive and keep our hope high. 16:04 And so, let's... 16:06 Can we pray with you right now? 16:08 Yeah. Let's pray together. 16:09 Okay. We gonna pray. 16:10 Father in heaven, 16:12 we wanna thank You for all that You do for us. 16:14 We gonna pray that You bless our journey now, 16:16 as we loaded up the plane. 16:22 Yeah, pre flights done, check seatbelts, 16:24 seatbelts are on you. 16:25 Melanie, you know how to get in and out of your seatbelt. 16:28 Yes. Okay. 16:29 Clear. 16:33 All right. 16:35 And we have air pressure check. 16:37 Awesome. 16:39 We are ready for getting our clearance here. 16:43 And so, we're praying for Melanie and her family 16:46 that all goes well 16:48 and that she can continue with her treatments 16:50 and hopefully find 16:52 some sort of cure to the cancer that she has. 16:54 So that's where Adventist World Aviation 16:56 and other angel flight organizations come in. 16:58 You can take a flight at no burden to the patient. 17:01 We can get them up there in a matter of hours, 17:03 as opposed to 8 or 10 or 12, 17:05 or even sometimes 15 hours of driving time, 17:08 over a bouncy road, swaying back and forth. 17:11 It's better to have a quick flight 17:13 than it is to have a long bumpy ride on roads 17:18 when you're sick. 17:19 We have our school in Tennessee and Chris Adams Flight Academy. 17:23 We have one student enrolled there now. 17:25 So Steven Leger and his fiancee Sasha 17:28 are very excited to be missionaries 17:29 with Adventist World Aviation. 17:31 Currently, Steven is in training 17:34 at Chris Adams Flight Academy. 17:35 And he's asking for your prayers, 17:37 he's coming right along. 17:38 He's doing a great job, 17:39 and they're very excited to go into the mission field. 17:41 They're looking to get married here soon. 17:43 So Steven is asking for your prayers. 17:45 We've got a lot of exciting things 17:47 happening inside of Adventist World Aviation. 17:50 It literally takes $365 to take on average flight 17:55 even in third world countries 17:56 and even here in the United States, 17:58 but with $365, 18:01 we can accomplish a life-saving flight 18:04 and it can affect the life, 18:06 not just here on this earth, but for all eternity. 18:09 Our missionaries need your support. 18:11 Our projects need your support. 18:13 The aircraft certainly needs support. 18:15 Aircraft are kind of expensive, 18:16 but more importantly they're priceless 18:18 when it comes to saving a life. 18:20 Pray that the Lord of harvest will produce 18:22 those necessary flights and the harvest funding 18:26 to be able to get that done. 18:29 Because when you compare 18:31 maybe even a thousand dollar trip 18:32 to a life. 18:34 Is it worth it? 18:35 You said, "Well, yeah, we can get, 18:37 we can take a boat ride 30 bucks." 18:38 It's gonna cost you a thousand dollars 18:39 to do a life flight, 18:41 but yeah, a boat ride you'll die, 18:43 but a flight can save your life. 18:44 Our flights are very necessary and very crucial. 18:47 Same thing up in Alaska, 18:48 one hour flight, or even sometimes 15 minute flight. 18:51 I remember when I was up there, 18:53 I would travel back and forth 18:55 from one small village to another. 18:57 It was only 15 miles apart, 15 nautical miles. 19:00 And we were flying supplies and fuel 19:02 and different things back and forth. 19:04 It sometimes takes hours to get 15 miles. 19:07 In fact, if you remember on foot 19:10 the average journey for somebody 19:11 that was able to make a journey over a countryside 19:14 with relatively flat terrain, 19:16 20 miles was the daily average of what you could, 19:20 what you could accomplish. 19:21 So 15 mile journey can mean a lot. 19:25 Three, four, five, ten minutes later, 19:27 you can be there in an aircraft 19:28 with the much needed supplies for communities. 19:31 Even in our homeland, places like Alaska, 19:34 in Canada, 19:35 we have our Canadian floatplane now in place. 19:37 And we have a pilot up there. 19:39 Brian is volunteering his time and resources. 19:43 He's helping us. 19:45 He's getting some remuneration to make that happen 19:47 because nothing happens for free 19:49 in colder regions of this world. 19:52 So we're grateful for Brian 19:54 and God providing us a way to make that happen. 19:57 So our Ontario Conference plane is up there now, 20:00 and we're having some logistic issues 20:03 that we have to work through 20:04 to make sure that 20:05 we're registered properly up there, 20:07 but we've already started doing 20:08 some minor flight operations up. 20:10 And we hope that this year 20:12 will become a very busy year in Ontario, Canada. 20:16 Serving the same type of needs that we serve in Alaska, 20:19 helping the indigenous peoples in Canada, 20:22 and as well as helping our church 20:25 get the work done up. 20:26 Friends, Jesus is coming again soon. 20:29 There's no doubt, 20:30 we live in the last days with famines and pestilences, 20:33 oh, my goodness, 20:35 wars and rumors of wars and political upheaval. 20:38 It has been a very discouraging year 20:41 in many ways. 20:42 We have a work to do, 20:44 and that work is to prepare the people of this earth 20:47 to be ready for Jesus coming, 20:48 because, you know, it's nice to save a life here, 20:52 and we certainly wanna live as long as we can, 20:54 but the most important thing is to save a life for eternity. 20:59 If you can save a life for eternity 21:00 now you've made an impact. 21:02 If you can change somebody's perspective on life 21:05 and if you can change their lives 21:06 and so that's what we try to do at Adventist World Aviation. 21:10 I'm an evangelist. 21:12 I've traveled this world over and I've preached in, 21:14 I don't know how many different countries over 20, 21:16 where I've worked in 21:18 and probably 35 different countries 21:19 where I've actually done some Bible work or lay work, 21:21 but have held many series of meetings 21:23 over the years. 21:24 I'm used to seeing, 21:26 when I was in India, 21:27 we'd see baptisms by the thousands. 21:29 And we'd see souls converted and coming over to Christ 21:31 and coming to a better way of life 21:33 by the thousands. 21:34 And with Adventist World Aviation, 21:36 it doesn't happen quite that way. 21:37 We save the world one person at a time, 21:39 one life at a time. 21:41 And while evangelism is important, 21:44 saving the individual is where it's at. 21:47 Because when Jesus said, 21:49 "He that is holy, let him be holy still. 21:51 He that is filthy, let him be filthy still." 21:54 He was talking about individual decisions. 21:56 That one person will have made a decisions either for 22:00 or against God. 22:01 And once that last decision is made, 22:05 that's when Jesus will come in, 22:06 and it's not done by the masses. 22:09 It's done by the individual. 22:11 Decisions are made individually with one soul at a time. 22:16 If you think of yourself as being one of the souls 22:20 that have been won for Christ kingdom 22:22 and I hope and pray that you are, 22:24 but would Jesus spend His time for you? 22:26 And the answer to that question is, 22:28 of course, yes, He would. 22:29 I'm so grateful when I think about it, 22:31 because we all have a tendency to 22:33 our world kind of centers around our own self. 22:37 Jesus said, "Love your neighbor as yourself." 22:39 And I think He gave us that example. 22:41 So we would have an understanding 22:43 of how important we are to Him. 22:47 We are certainly important to ourselves, 22:49 but Jesus holds us, holds you 22:53 in the same love and even more. 22:57 If you can imagine that 22:58 He loves you more than you love yourself. 23:00 And He says to love our neighbors as ourselves. 23:02 So the individual, 23:04 wow, the individual is so important. 23:06 So pray for us as we reach these people, 23:09 one soul at a time. 23:12 As a result of that, 23:14 we've been able to build churches 23:15 and do church plants. 23:17 And then the evangelism happens. 23:18 And even at Adventist World Aviation, 23:20 we've been able to participate 23:22 in worldwide evangelism 23:23 where yes, hundreds of souls 23:25 have surrendered their life to Christ 23:26 and live a better life as a result of that. 23:30 And so, yes, one at a time then evangelism, 23:33 then we build, we do harvest, 23:35 but it's all, you know, at the end of the day, 23:37 what it's about is about improving life. 23:39 We're not able to save everyone, we come in contact, 23:41 but I do know this. 23:43 We always leave the people that we work with 23:46 in a better condition than when we found them. 23:48 And they remember that. 23:50 And when they see what we do for them, 23:52 it's such an odd thing for them. 23:55 They consider that. 23:56 And many say, I want to know more 23:58 about this Jesus that made you change your life. 24:01 Because we all have a testimony 24:04 where we were also selfish in our life, 24:06 but when Jesus finds His way into our heart, 24:08 we become less interested 24:10 in what's going on internally in us 24:12 and more interested in helping others. 24:15 So one by one, 24:17 that's what we here at Adventist World Aviation do. 24:21 It's been a journey. 24:23 I've been president now for going on 10 years, 24:25 but I gotta tell you, it's been worth the battle. 24:28 There's been a lot of uphill struggles 24:30 that we at Adventist World Aviation have overcome. 24:33 And we've done that 24:35 through prayers and support of our constituency and you 24:39 and our new members of Adventist World Aviation. 24:42 I just wanna say, thank you. We don't do this alone. 24:44 We don't take you for granted 24:46 by any stretch of the imagination, 24:47 you means so much to us. 24:49 if it wasn't for you, 24:51 seriously, we couldn't do what we do. 24:54 And I can think of, there was a young man. 24:55 When I went to a country that we started working with, 24:59 we worked with him and it impacted his life 25:03 so that he left his former way of life. 25:08 And now he's helping others 25:10 and he's doing it in an encouraging way. 25:12 So these stories happen all the time. 25:14 Sometimes it takes 10 or 15 years 25:17 to find out the impact of your life. 25:18 Jim Kincaid up in Alaska told me that 25:21 work is generational up there. 25:23 You have to change a whole generation 25:26 of thinking in Alaska. 25:27 A lot of it is, there's a lot of alcoholism, 25:30 there's a lot of drugs, there's a lot of drinking. 25:32 Life is not the healthiest form of life 25:35 that they live 25:37 and you have to change an entire culture. 25:38 So you begin with the children 25:40 and you work with them for 10 years. 25:42 At some level, 25:44 you've changed a culture 25:46 because if you get a 10 year old, 25:47 well, of course, 10 years from now 25:49 that young child is 20 years old. 25:51 It changes them. 25:53 In order to continue 25:55 to relieve the critical situations 25:56 we need your help and your prayers. 25:59 Prayers make things possible that seems impossible. 26:02 Prayer makes things possible for us to save lives 26:05 and share the love of Jesus. 26:07 Thank you for your prayers. 26:10 We also need your financial support. 26:12 Your donations make the mission flight possible. 26:16 Please go to our website, flyawa.org. 26:20 That's flyawa.org. 26:23 Or give us a call at 1 888-477-8945 26:30 or locally at 919-938-awa0. 26:35 That's 919-938-2920. 26:40 Call and make that donation today. 26:42 Thank you. 26:44 And God bless you. 26:45 Together we can reach the hurting 26:47 and the hopeless people of this world 26:50 with the love of Jesus. 26:53 God bless. |
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