WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.439 Thank you for listening to the Kelowna Christian Center Podcast. 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:08.080 Our desire is that today's message will be fresh and encouraging to you. 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:13.599 For more information on KCC and how to connect, visit us at KCC.net. 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:17.440 How many of you are grateful for what God has given you? 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:19.280 Yeah. 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:20.399 Come on. 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:23.600 We've been singing about his goodness, his blessings. 00:00:24.559 --> 00:00:26.399 Boy, oh boy, oh boy. 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:42.159 You know, there's a a prayer uh this morning we're we're gonna be looking at a little bit of uh missions, and we've got some incredible guests with us all the way from Africa, Larry and Francine, and we'll get into that in a minute. 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:42.960 Yeah. 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:48.799 And uh so we're gonna do some mission stuff this morning. 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:59.119 But before we do, I just want to I just want to take us into scripture, and there's this prayer that John pens in the Gospel of John chapter 17. 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:20.159 And he's he's I don't know if he had a pen with him or an iPad or something when Jesus was praying, but he certainly was able to articulate some of the intimate thoughts that Jesus is conveying in his prayer to the Father. 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:35.280 And I'm not gonna go through the whole chapter, I would encourage you to take a look at it, but it starts out by Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the hour has come, glorify your son, that your son also may glorify you. 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:50.719 As you have given him authority over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as you have given him, and this is eternal life that they may know you, the true God and Jesus Christ, whom you've sent. 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:58.959 I have glorified you on the earth, and I have finished the work which you have given me to do. 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:06.319 And now, O Father, glorify me together with yourself with the glory which I had with you before the world was. 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:07.519 I love this. 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:12.560 I have manifest your name to the men whom you have given me out of the world. 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:13.599 They were yours. 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:16.159 You have given them to me, and they have kept your word. 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:17.919 I'm gonna go down to verse 8. 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:22.240 For I've given to them the words which you have given to me. 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:26.159 I have given to them the words that you have given to me. 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:30.159 And it's like Jesus is preparing the way for his exit. 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:35.199 He's clearing the deck and he says, Look at Father, I've actually, you've given me this. 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:39.919 Do you know that in heaven there's a there's a missions organization? 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:43.599 And it started before the foundation of the world. 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:45.280 This mission. 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:47.759 It's absolutely phenomenal. 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:50.639 And Jesus is the missionary and he went. 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:56.639 And when he went, he went to give people his life, his eternal life, and the words. 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:00.240 And it's it's absolutely great. 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:03.280 And then he starts down in verse 18, he starts to pray for these people. 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:07.199 He says, As you sent me into the world, I also have sent them. 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:19.520 So this mission organization that's in heaven is actually very intentional, very strategic, and it's about sending eternal life to earth. 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:23.280 And how many of us are recipients of this eternal life? 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:24.719 Right? 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:27.759 How many of you are recipients of the word? 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:36.240 Because it's one thing to get eternal life, it's another thing to activate ourselves and speak out what He's given us. 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:38.159 Come on. 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:46.319 And this is this is what is in the heart of KCC missions right from the very day that this church was born. 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:51.439 There's this passion and this desire to see lives touched. 00:03:51.599 --> 00:04:06.319 If I have been filled with the goodness of God, I just want to live passionately to see others experience and taste and feel and touch and have the storerooms of heaven. 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:10.800 Brody's been preaching about the goodness of God, right? 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:18.079 The storerooms of heaven are just filled with extravagant, brilliant, great, awesome things. 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:34.160 And it's God, it's on God's heart that He fills us up with that stuff so that we can actually be passionate about seeing people that do not have what we have and allow them to touch and taste it and experience it and get it. 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:35.040 Right? 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:35.920 Missions. 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:38.160 Missions, that's what we're about. 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:41.600 We're about touching people's lives with the goodness of God. 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:42.399 Amen. 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:49.360 So uh I'm gonna show you a little video, an introduction video, and then we're gonna have Larry and Francine come on up. 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:52.800 Hi, uh uh I'm Larry. 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:54.160 I'm Francine Carruthers. 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:55.680 I'm referred to as Mr. 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:56.079 Label. 00:04:59.920 --> 00:05:01.120 That's her Kenyan name. 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:03.040 So yeah, Larry and Francine. 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:04.399 Yes, that's us. 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:14.240 Francine and I uh initially got our feet wet in Africa in 2006. 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:21.279 We'd heard about the plight of the child soldiers being abducted by uh Joseph Coney and the Lord's Assistant Army. 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:23.360 And so we went over there to see how we could help. 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:29.120 And for two years we were uh fundraising, doing PR, taking teams over there. 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:37.920 We built a village where the rescued female child soldiers could be safe and have a school and a training center, etc. 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:40.800 I was doing a little bit of art therapy as possible. 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:46.720 With the woman that has um that has escaped during crest fire. 00:05:47.439 --> 00:06:01.040 And so when the civil war is over, um we're a month later when we decided that our work was done in Uganda, we were invited to uh look at an orphanage in Kenya. 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:06.160 And so we decided we're gonna help support that children's home. 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:20.560 And as opposed to a big orphanage that continues to grow bigger and bigger and more finances, we decided we help the Lord say, take these 32 kids, see them through, see them through post-education. 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:23.040 20 years you have an exit strategy. 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:31.600 So we started supporting that ministry there, but it didn't take long before we were finding out that accounting wasn't going good. 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:37.519 So we decided uh we asked our employees for 10 months off and we would go there and check things out. 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:45.120 And 10 months, and that initial idea that maybe things weren't going right, we were correct. 00:06:45.279 --> 00:07:05.680 And so that 10 months is now going on 10 years, and uh the Lord continues to expand our territory and our ministry there, and uh so we've sold everything here in Kelowna, and uh that's our that's our home now, and that's how we come about this. 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:06.480 Amen. 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:08.399 Awesome. 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:11.600 Would you welcome up Larry and Francine? 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:26.879 Wonderful. 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:34.160 There's a mic right there, Larry. 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:35.439 Grab that. 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:39.519 So we have two extra seats up here that are empty. 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:40.800 Tell us about that. 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:53.279 These two seats should have been filled by our pastors David and Gideon. 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:56.240 And uh, they send their greetings and their love. 00:07:56.399 --> 00:07:57.920 They love KCC. 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:03.920 And when our first we planted our first church there, it had to be KCC, Kitali Christian Center. 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:12.480 And so unfortunately, uh Immigration Canada uh refused both of their applications for visas. 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:15.040 And so uh they send their love. 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:26.000 And I want to say that if it wasn't for those two, their sense of humor and their deep love for God, uh, we wouldn't have had the success we've had over in uh Catale. 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:28.079 Awesome. 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:31.920 Got a picture of them there in their Canadian attire. 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:33.200 There they are. 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:37.039 I do love Canada. 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:37.840 Okay. 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:44.559 Um so they've been working with us in some capacity since 2008, even before we moved there. 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:51.840 We are working alongside each other, and David, I mean, Gideon already had orphans in his home for years before that as well. 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:57.279 And uh so let's see, I can break it down what they do. 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:08.799 David is more or less responsible for the clinic work uh under Francine, and Pastor Gideon and I handle most of the children and uh finances and and such like that. 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:15.840 Now, as if they're not busy enough, um they also run their own churches. 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:22.240 So they got their own church, and uh Pastor Gideon has five of his own children. 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:24.879 He's like a miniature orphanage already himself. 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:35.840 He's got five of his own children, he's got five of our orphans, and then recently um he brought in two girls temporarily, uh Tracy and Francin. 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:43.279 And that temporary has been a year now, as we're trying to help uh their mom get her act together. 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:49.360 She really wants us to take the kids, and we really want her to be responsible for responsible for her kids. 00:09:49.919 --> 00:10:07.200 And um Pastor David, well, besides his church, he also preaches in them in the prisons, men's prison, and he also works in another smaller slum area with the people there and and uh does Bible studies and such during the evenings. 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:11.840 Yeah, that's uh that's David and Guinea. 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:12.720 Awesome. 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:21.679 So um we'll probably get into it a little bit more after, but when we when you first went to uh Kenya, we started up an orphanage, right? 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:24.559 And uh that was shut down how many years ago? 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:27.679 Oh, it's been five, six years. 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:36.639 Right, but we didn't shut down on the kids, we transferred our orphanage, we transferred all of our kids into family homes. 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:50.879 So uh all the kids now instead of having staff look after them that were changing, and there was a lot of political and regional uh complications with that and pressures on us uh to conform. 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:56.960 We have now put all of our children into approximately 10, 11 family homes, right? 00:10:57.039 --> 00:11:05.679 And they're living with moms and dads and brothers and sisters, and we still support them, we pay for their keep there and their schooling, right? 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:16.159 And David and Gideon, who are our pastors and our staff, actually walked the walk and they have filled up their homes with these become part of our family homes, also. 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:17.200 Yes, yeah. 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:18.879 Um David had two. 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:22.080 One of the girls, uh, we got her back with a relative. 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:25.600 So he has one girl that he's adopted, as I said. 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:35.120 Um the kids that were staying with uh Gideon have moved on and taken courses after they graduated and on their own now. 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:39.279 Now, last year when you were here, you're talking to us about the cheap chair family. 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:40.000 Right? 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:43.600 Tell us a little bit about the chair. 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:45.600 Okay, well, it's been a year now. 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:50.639 Well, it was a year last June that we were involved with this beautiful little family. 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:54.960 Uh for the ones that weren't around when we spoke about it. 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:58.320 I'm just gonna go briefly about their story. 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:08.480 Uh, when Mama Chiptier came to uh the clinic with her two-year-old little girl, well, we thought she was two years old, but she was actually four. 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:19.600 Um, she was suffering uh badly from malnutrition, and then uh she was very weak, she has malaria, and um she was literally dying. 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:22.559 Um there was not much left in this little body. 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:32.639 Um so um after um Chip Church and uh Charity, her name is Charity, I've seen the doctor, I took them to their homes. 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:40.080 Um, well, which is uh it was a pitiful mud hut uh with termites in it and very dirty. 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:47.279 Uh the kids were sleeping on sacks of flour and no blankets, no bed, no nothing, no furniture. 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:50.240 Flour sacks, yeah. 00:12:50.879 --> 00:13:00.799 Um to find out that there was not only one little girl that was suffering from self-starvation, but she was a triplet, she was a third of the triplets. 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:04.240 So the three of them uh were very sick. 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:07.519 And then there was also two other kids that were older. 00:13:08.159 --> 00:13:21.120 So anyway, um with uh the grace of God and with you guys, uh, because I have to mention thank you, thank you, thank you for each and every one of you that are sponsoring those children. 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:28.000 Because today this is a charity after uh well this year. 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:31.759 You can tell the difference from the the previous photo. 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:33.519 So this is her today. 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:35.039 They're all going to school. 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:49.840 We provide school for them, uh, education, uh clothing, uh food, and uh not only that, but uh the mother now is selling vegetables, so she's got her own little business. 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:55.840 And then uh you're so cute, Larry. 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:03.200 And then uh the father is um is an apprentice as a bricklayer, right? 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:03.919 Yeah. 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:18.799 So we raised up this family, and what you see today, oh, and then they live in a beautiful home now, so they have moved from uh a dirt dirt house to uh uh a beautiful house uh that is suitable for the whole family of seven. 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:19.600 Wonderful. 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:20.960 Did I forget anything? 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:21.279 No. 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:21.679 No. 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:24.080 Tell us a little bit about the children's homes. 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:26.159 Yeah. 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:38.639 Yeah, like Ed was saying, we realize that orphanages, as good as they are, they're not the best solution because the kids grew up, they don't have a place to call back, to come to call home, nowhere for Christmas. 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:44.960 They're on their own, and they they have uh poor relationship they they haven't seen a model of a mom and dad. 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:48.480 So when it comes to marriages, uh statistics aren't very good. 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:53.679 They raise their children like they were raised with an orphan mentality and such. 00:14:53.840 --> 00:15:04.480 So, yeah, we did find homes that would uh adopt them, and so we pay for all their education and about 80% of the cost of raising a child, and the mom and dad is just provide security and love. 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:10.799 So to date, to this date, we've rescued 40 children. 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:24.000 Uh we presently are supporting 33, and um we have 23 that are living in homes, and we have four that are in university, college, or apprenticeship programs. 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:24.960 Amen. 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:38.000 Um they're getting older, they're they're not these little babies that everybody wants to sponsor anymore. 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:41.440 So um, but they're sure good-looking young adults. 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:50.720 And they're all well, except except for one, two, turned out okay, uh, like any family, I guess. 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:52.879 But we haven't given up on those ones. 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:55.519 Uh we've got nine family homes now. 00:15:55.759 --> 00:16:07.840 And uh, since our uh visit here last year, besides the five children in the Cheap Cheer family, we've rescued three more children, and uh two just recently in the last month. 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:09.360 And uh there she is. 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:11.679 There's there's one of them, Mvoya. 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:15.039 She's mine. 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:27.039 So back in June this year, um Larry and I took a four four days four days break with our friend Agi that you just saw on the picture there. 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:31.039 And then uh we went to uh Samburu area. 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:36.159 Um this is this is northern Kenya on the east side of the Turkana Lake. 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:39.840 It's a very remote area, it takes two days actually to drive there. 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:51.919 Um then when we got there, we met one of our friends that is a teacher, a Samburu teacher, and uh he welcomed us into his his home with his family. 00:16:52.399 --> 00:17:03.759 Uh and uh this little girl was just around us, grabbing me by my leg and looking at me with her huge brown eyes and smiling. 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:08.559 And then I asked, excuse me, who's this little girl? 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:11.599 And David said, Well, she's my little niece. 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:17.119 Oh, and I said, Okay, and and then excusez-moi. 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:30.400 And then um her mother uh came to us and then she started to scream and yell at me, and she said, This girl is deaf, and she's mute, and she's a curse in my life. 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:32.240 I don't want her anymore. 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:35.680 You can take her away from me so I can have a life. 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:39.119 I don't have no life anymore, and she goes on and on and on. 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:43.759 And the little girl was looking at her, she had big tears all down her cheek. 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:55.759 And then uh we didn't really know what to think about it, so uh we went on uh to do our things, and then uh first thing we knew she was back with us. 00:17:56.000 --> 00:18:14.240 Um so I I asked David uh where was she leaving, what she was doing with the mother, and why the mother was so um was so uh so mean with her, and obviously she had uh she was mentally challenged to a point she was also an alcoholic and she was also a prostitute. 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:19.359 So I said to David, um I'm going to give you a little bit of money. 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:38.160 Uh I'd like you to take her to your school because it's a boarding school, and then if you just can hold on to her, have her to sit in the classroom so she can um have um um some love around her, children around her that she can feel a part of your community. 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:48.640 And I'm gonna go back in Catali and uh I'll go in the media and try to find sponsors, sponsors for this beautiful little jewel. 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:49.440 Well, guess what? 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:59.519 It took two days, and some of you here, right here that are looking at me are the sponsor of Mvoya, and I just want to say thank you. 00:18:59.920 --> 00:19:05.680 Because this little girl, which is Mvoya in Sambrun, means a little rain. 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:07.519 She's going to go very far. 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:15.440 Larry and I have been shopping for a school all over Kenya, and we found two good schools to send her, and she's going to be there very soon. 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:19.200 So thank you so much for again for what you're doing for us. 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:20.559 Awesome. 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:28.880 Do you want to talk to us about what some of the other kids are doing? 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:33.359 Yeah, I'll talk a bit about our older kids because most of them are older. 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:37.680 Um, first, I want to show you a picture of our first granddaughter. 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:39.279 This is Joy. 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:52.559 And so one of our older girls, when she was see, 19 and she still hadn't got through grade nine, a couple years repeat, she said, I'm gonna go live with my aunt against our discretion. 00:19:52.880 --> 00:20:00.480 And she got pregnant, and um we didn't see her for about a year, and then she phoned and said, I'd like to come back in Kitali. 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:15.599 And so she came back and we put her in a hairdressing course and um brought her back in, sort of like the prodigal daughter, and so um her daughter's a real joy, and so we do have a granddaughter now. 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:18.160 We have lots of kids, but now we've got a granddaughter. 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:31.359 Um, Esther is one of our girls that graduated, and um, after graduation, we have levels of depending on their marks, what they'll do afterwards or what we'll offer. 00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:37.680 And uh she failed, as unfortunately, so many children there, the schooling is so bad. 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:50.559 Um so we put her in a hairdressing course again for a year, and um after that, well, while she was in the course, we had already started working with her mother and we set her up in a little business. 00:20:50.720 --> 00:21:02.480 And uh let's see, so she worked for about six months in hairdressing, and the mom saved some money without telling her and put her into um college, and she's gonna become a social worker. 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:12.880 So we're enabled that we enabled the family to do something for their own kids, and so uh sometime in the future we'll have a social worker working with us. 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:15.200 And there she is there, she's beautiful, eh? 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:18.720 And um I want to talk about another boy. 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:23.680 We call him the little bishop, Bishop Samuel, because he had memorized like 200 verses by the time he was. 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:28.799 When we first met Bishop, he would be preaching, like he was what, like six? 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:30.960 Six years old. 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:36.160 And he could quote scripture and preach a sermon like nobody I've seen. 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:37.039 My goodness. 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:51.119 So uh we sent him for a DTS, and then after that, uh we he worked for a year uh at a YWAM base, and um nothing came out of that yet, per se, other than his closest to God. 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:59.759 But uh he lives with his his grandmother who's taking care of her in the slums, and Samara is his sponsor, and those two are are like. 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:10.640 This and so Sumera sent so he says uh mom Sumera says uh our both of our wells are broken in our in our slums in our ghetto. 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:17.599 So she sent me some money to fix the wells, and um I will get back to the wells. 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:27.759 But after that, she also bishop said, Well, you know, we we have in this when the water runs in the rainy season, we only have a bridge, a plank about 10 inches wide, and it's dangerous. 00:22:28.079 --> 00:22:38.319 So Sumira asked me to put together a price, and I where they wanted it was like 30 feet across and high, and it came to like 1200 US. 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:40.720 And I said, I don't I don't have that kind of money. 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:43.839 I said, Well, I don't want to build anything less. 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:48.319 So Bishop, he's like, No, Mom, I think I can do it for less. 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:51.920 And so she called me and I said, Hey, give him a shot. 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:53.920 Where's a picture of that bridge? 00:22:54.160 --> 00:22:58.240 He built that bridge, maybe half the length, but he did it for 300 bucks. 00:22:58.400 --> 00:23:01.519 And I'm like, I'm so proud of him. 00:23:01.759 --> 00:23:04.880 I mean, a little contractor now. 00:23:05.119 --> 00:23:10.000 And so, um, yeah, that's uh where Bishop's at right now. 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:11.680 Uh that's the end of the story. 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:13.440 Uh tell you about Fred. 00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:21.039 And so Fred was an A student, and when he finished school, we wanted to go to university, and he's like, you know what? 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:24.559 I'd like to become a aesthetician. 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:27.680 Fancy hairdresser and nail stuff. 00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:31.200 And uh so we're like, he says, because I want to go into business. 00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:35.440 I want to go in business really soon and make some money. 00:23:35.759 --> 00:23:42.000 So he did, and uh, so after two years of school, he graduated top of 120 students. 00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:47.119 He did he was aesthetician, yes. 00:23:47.519 --> 00:24:00.319 Did that, and uh about nine months later, he's like, There's no real money in this, and he says, What I really like is to work with the clinic, and so I like to become a lab technician. 00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:12.240 So just since we left, he started a three and a half uh year course at a university to become a lab technician, and so he'll be working at our clinic in three and a half years. 00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:15.279 So we're we're happy about that, very happy. 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:15.920 Amen. 00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:21.920 And uh I can hear what's Helen, right? 00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:23.759 I'm sorry, you also have Helen. 00:24:25.599 --> 00:24:25.839 Helen? 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:29.599 Yes, so uh Helen, uh she's got a single mom. 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:37.359 We we put her back with her mom who already had three kids, just could not afford to raise all five kids. 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:41.920 And so those children were in the orphanage, and so we we we arranged different ways. 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:45.039 We could go back with her and we set her up in business as well. 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:52.319 So, Helen, um she's halfway through a two-year course, uh receptionist secretarial course. 00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:57.440 And so uh when she gets out, she'll be coming and working at the clinic as well. 00:24:57.839 --> 00:25:03.359 And as Fred and Helen, and no, they're not a couple, I just happen to be together in that picture. 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:09.839 We're supposed to say that at the very end, but I think I'm gonna jump on the occasion, Pastor Dave, to say this. 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:12.640 And if you allow me to. 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:39.519 We had 31 of them when we started, and then uh we are it's an intention to have a doctor and nurses and then uh pharmacists, and then the list goes on. 00:25:39.599 --> 00:25:41.279 We have all planned for them. 00:25:41.839 --> 00:25:48.559 So um for the one that have uh choose to follow us, uh that's wonderful. 00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:52.960 Uh we're very grateful that God put that in their heart. 00:25:53.119 --> 00:26:06.880 But there's more to come because uh not only our youngest one, excuse me, she's eight years old, but we also have the one that we rescued, that eventually, hopefully, they're gonna be a part of our family at the clinic. 00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:07.440 Right. 00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:10.319 We're gonna get to the we're gonna get to the clinics here right away. 00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:23.359 Because that's you know, we started with children, but I just wanted just for your information, we started a sponsorship program for children, and I believe we started at about 30 or 50 or you know, some odd dollars a month. 00:26:23.599 --> 00:26:25.119 This is about 10 years ago. 00:26:25.440 --> 00:26:34.480 Today it costs our costs for sponsoring a complete child is around$120, and that cost goes up. 00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:36.400 And I just want to explain that briefly for a moment. 00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:37.279 Can I is that okay? 00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:57.119 Because uh to house or to put a child into primary school is about$15 a month, to put a child into secondary school is about$40 a month, but to house that child in the family, it costs us about$50 a month for their food, their clothing, for their keep and medical and all those kinds of things. 00:26:57.200 --> 00:27:08.240 So you can see, but not only that, if you're hearing the story and what Francine and Larry are saying is we we don't want we want these kids to know how to fish when they leave our home. 00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:21.920 So university and college, so when we say$120 a month, we're putting money ahead so that we can either help them get married, help them get into a small business, or help them get into college or university. 00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:26.640 So you know, some people say, well, that's really high, right? 00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:30.160 When there's other organizations that you can sponsor for less. 00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:36.559 No, we're committed to the wholeness of the whole child until they are able to run a family and sustain themselves. 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:44.559 So just to let you know that when we talk about$120 a month or whatever for sponsorships, that that's a complete package. 00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:47.359 And that cost continually goes up with the cost of living. 00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:48.720 Just wanted to say. 00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:58.319 But we went there to look after children, but in the meantime, there's just been such an impact with the medical clinics, and that's just been a miracle in itself. 00:27:58.400 --> 00:28:01.519 And Franny, you've been the the uh been busy. 00:28:01.759 --> 00:28:08.480 Yeah, and you're also the but you've spearheaded that vision and just really uh tell us a little bit about the the clinics. 00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:20.960 Well, the beautiful building you've got in front of your eyes right now is moving from under a tree to having a shack where we could be uh away from the rain when people was coming to see us. 00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:30.400 And then like Larry previously said in in our talks, we start with a bottle of peroxide and band-aids, and that was it. 00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:39.279 Um but God put tons of people on our path that were that have the same vision, that love the poor and wanted to help. 00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:42.160 And the first doctor was from Russia, Dr. 00:28:42.400 --> 00:28:50.559 Kirill, and then uh many doctors afterwards uh came with us uh in our in our vision. 00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:53.279 I've got one right now just closed from me. 00:28:53.519 --> 00:28:54.480 Uh Dr. 00:28:54.640 --> 00:28:57.440 Roberts was one of them that came and visit and helped. 00:28:57.599 --> 00:28:58.559 And then there's Dr. 00:28:58.799 --> 00:28:59.680 Alana Berg. 00:28:59.920 --> 00:29:01.920 I don't know if she's here, I don't see her. 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:07.599 And then, yes, and there's there's Jackie, of course, nurse. 00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:12.160 And so we have tons of people that have the same vision that came to help. 00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:19.440 So we went from a shack like this, and then today uh we live on the first floor of a building, not we live, but we are. 00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:21.920 I wouldn't live there for nothing in the world. 00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:31.599 Um, and then in this building, uh we have now three rooms, so we almost triple the size within two years. 00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:40.559 And then we've got uh full staff, so we have Pastor David that is managing uh the clinic uh in all. 00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:46.160 That means the accounting and the staff and then uh the outreach. 00:29:46.319 --> 00:29:49.119 Uh we have uh Morgan on the very right there. 00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:50.319 That's a video. 00:29:50.400 --> 00:29:51.680 Don't we have a video of Morgan? 00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:52.400 Do we? 00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:54.240 Yeah, we we actually have a video of it. 00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:56.160 Let's go to the video right now, it's very short. 00:29:56.480 --> 00:29:57.920 Hi, my name is Morgan. 00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:02.240 I'm a Gestapo Community at NAS Practitioner. 00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:04.960 Thank you so much, KTC, for my invitation. 00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:09.839 He is so proud and he's so happy. 00:30:09.920 --> 00:30:12.079 He just wish he could have been here today. 00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:13.680 But we're gonna bring him here. 00:30:13.759 --> 00:30:14.880 You'll see him one day. 00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:17.359 I'd like him to come and speak to you about it. 00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:26.319 So, as I was saying, there's Morgan that is now our um he is a community health uh registered nurse practitioner. 00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:31.920 So he can also diagnose and then uh yeah, and then he can prescribe. 00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:35.599 So you see him there with a lovely little little child. 00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:44.960 And then we've got a nurse, uh Rosemary, that has been with us for 30 years, uh not with us, but she's been at she has 30 years of experience. 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:59.119 And then once she retired, she came at the clinic just to uh just to see what it would be like to work uh with us, and she just totally fell in love with us and never left, and with the patients, of course. 00:30:59.519 --> 00:31:09.359 And then I've got uh Evelyn that is our pharmacist, and then recently we have Pastor Gideon that was drained that was trained to do uh vitals. 00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:16.160 So uh Pastor Gideon is doing the vitals before Rosemary and uh Morgan see the patients. 00:31:17.039 --> 00:31:19.200 Yes, so that's our staff right there. 00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:22.880 Thank you. 00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:23.759 Thank you. 00:31:24.079 --> 00:31:32.559 Now I have to tell you what how many people have been in the in this room? 00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:34.000 Yeah, raise your hand. 00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:35.200 Stand up, please. 00:31:35.359 --> 00:31:36.160 Look at that. 00:31:36.640 --> 00:31:37.440 So many. 00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:39.279 Wow. 00:31:43.119 --> 00:31:43.759 Yay. 00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:52.480 Um so we were talking with Pastor David the other day, and he came up with a pretty interesting uh stat. 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:57.200 And he was saying that uh since I guess we are in the new building. 00:31:57.519 --> 00:31:58.640 Since we started keeping track. 00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:02.960 Yeah, so that would be mainly when since we are in the new building, the six years. 00:32:03.519 --> 00:32:05.759 We have seen 9,000 patients. 00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:10.240 9,000 for a little organization like us. 00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:11.359 Isn't that great? 00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:14.799 Some days during the very number. 00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:20.880 Some days during the like we had a doctor's strike for like two months and then a nurse strike for a month. 00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:23.039 We were seeing 150 patients a day. 00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:24.400 It was crazy. 00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:26.880 Which was way too much. 00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:46.480 Uh so we decided to go with a little kind of tickets, you know, like 50 patients a day, based on this, as much as possible, because there's mammas that come sometimes and they don't they don't only have their child, but they've got the neighbor and the second neighbor and the third neighbor, so they come with seven kids with them, you know, at the clinic. 00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:48.000 And oh yeah, I got my number. 00:32:48.079 --> 00:32:52.480 We're eight altogether, so it's difficult to keep the number down. 00:32:52.960 --> 00:33:00.319 So, Larry, you were telling me too that uh you have a little street church and there's a bunch of things going on. 00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:13.039 Yeah, um I've always been preaching in in on the streets there and in uh in the garbage piles, and that's actually where the clinic started with the cut feet on Sundays and such. 00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:19.680 And um so we've planted a number of churches, but I've always been in touch with the street boys. 00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:28.319 And then uh two years ago we uh I worked with another pastor, we deliberately decided to make a successful church in the dustbin. 00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:32.640 And uh there's a picture there uh of the boys. 00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:42.480 It's called so they got a slang name for black gangsters because they're street boys and they got this reputation, and they said, Well, we're no longer black gangsters, we're we're saved. 00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:46.400 So they called the church the church of the white angels. 00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:53.119 And so um, I've got 30 boys that at least come out regular every Sunday. 00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:57.200 We've now got we just they just clean the garbage aside and sweep it. 00:33:57.279 --> 00:34:04.480 We've got 35 chairs that they've mostly bought, and a chair is like two or three days of labor of work. 00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:08.400 Uh they make two or three bucks a day, and a chair is like seven or eight bucks. 00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:17.679 And also they're serious, they um they're there on time, and worship the Holy Spirit moves during worship. 00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:26.000 Um, they're even washing their clothes before they come to church, some of them and um yeah, worship is awesome. 00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:27.119 Yeah, I mentioned that. 00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:32.400 Yeah, and so um it's it's a real blessing. 00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:36.960 I I really enjoy the church with there before it was sporadic. 00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:42.639 And um recently we've started um uh a Bible school for them. 00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:45.360 And so it just started it two weeks before I left. 00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:53.840 The first uh week we had 13 show up, and the second week we had 30 show up, and they're hungry. 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:59.440 And the ones that are now uh that can read have got Bibles and they're coming to church with Bibles. 00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:07.920 And uh yeah, it's a it's it's sort of my uh it's my de stressing ministry. 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:23.599 It's it's very easy, and I actually standing there worshiping, I'm I'm a little self-conscious, I'm like back in church, and and I'm thinking, I'm more at ease in the dustbin with these boys, not understanding half the words we sing than I was here today. 00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:24.320 But thank you. 00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:25.440 I love the worship. 00:35:25.679 --> 00:35:32.719 I mean worship sounds great over there, but I'll tell you the novelty wears off after four or five services. 00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:37.360 And so I really do miss the worship here, but uh kind of rabbit trailing now. 00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:39.119 So that's our our church or the white church. 00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:41.280 You're doing a little bit of Bible school with them too, aren't you? 00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:44.239 Yeah, I mentioned it, yeah. 00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:59.199 So I I think by the time I get back, um there'll be 35 on a regular basis, and um we told them after you it's more of a discipleship program, but uh it sounds more impressive, and more kids will come if we call it a Bible school. 00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:00.239 Yeah. 00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:02.000 So that's that. 00:36:02.559 --> 00:36:06.079 Tell us a little bit about uh the importance of a safari. 00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:10.639 Before we get there, can I just add a little something about the clinic? 00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:13.199 Because I think it's very important that you guys know this. 00:36:14.159 --> 00:36:22.239 Um okay, I think it's very important, and I share one more thing uh to you about um about the clinic. 00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:27.440 Uh recently, well, back in January, uh, as I was mentioning earlier, uh Dr. 00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:29.440 Elena Berg came with a team. 00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:50.320 Uh, she is a naturopathic doctor, and then uh she introduced uh homeopathic medicine to our staff and then has started to train uh Morgan and the staff on um educated them on plants and oil and and so on. 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:59.280 So uh as another alternative uh in our clinic now we offer uh homopathic uh as well. 00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:15.280 And and I have to tell you little, well, one of the stories uh we have this this elderly person uh he has Alzheimer's when he came to the clinic and Parkinson's disease, sorry, and he he was quite advanced. 00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:22.639 He couldn't really walk, he couldn't really talk, and then he had the shake, the tremor, like crazily. 00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:33.119 And then he was treated, of course, with uh the today's medicine, but also uh with uh natural medicine, both. 00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:38.800 Um and then I can tell you today this man is no tremors no more. 00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:46.480 He goes up and down the stairs by himself, and of course he talks so much we cannot stop him when he comes to the clinic. 00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:55.679 And it's so bad that now he comes every week because he has to come and chat with us, and sometimes he comes during our break so he can have a chai with us and talk. 00:37:55.840 --> 00:38:00.079 So, yeah, so that was a pretty well uh well-received event. 00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:07.599 And then um another thing that we do too, that some of you know and many of you are participating, is the outreach. 00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:16.320 So when we say medical outreach, is that we are going um uh in the northern Kenya, in Pokot area and Turkana, most of it. 00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:24.320 Sometimes people never seen white people before, and then uh we are doctors or nurses, as a matter of fact. 00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:29.360 Uh, but we offer uh medical care there as well, and it's pretty wonderful. 00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:35.440 Got the really good shots there of uh the Turkana people, maybe we can see that a little later. 00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:38.719 All right. 00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:42.159 So we're gonna have Carl and Kathy come up here in a moment. 00:38:42.400 --> 00:38:45.679 But before they do, just talk to us about the importance of the safari. 00:38:46.159 --> 00:38:49.360