WEBVTT 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:03.359 Well, it's a privilege for me to be able to stand 00:00:03.359 --> 00:00:06.379 up here to introduce Miriam Miriam correct me 00:00:06.379 --> 00:00:09.480 if I'm wrong, but your dad your father was a 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:12.640 former pastor of literary of actual Bible for 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:15.320 many years as radio program he was a real scholar 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:19.219 and I've heard a lot of Through the church a 00:00:19.219 --> 00:00:21.199 lot of the good things about him and I appreciate 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:24.960 his influence in your life and excited about 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:54.369 what God is doing so Well that are there any 00:00:54.369 --> 00:01:00.979 like teenagers well then Then all of my questions 00:01:00.979 --> 00:01:04.939 are going to be for the adults. Okay. But that's, 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:11.620 yeah. Okay. Then I'll start, I'll start with, 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:20.840 oh dear, they have that on. Oh dear. Well good 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:24.299 morning everyone. And I've so appreciated your 00:01:24.299 --> 00:01:30.269 all's prayers over the years. Yeah, after my 00:01:30.269 --> 00:01:36.549 dad died in a car accident It was then you came 00:01:36.549 --> 00:01:42.189 and were there at the church and Yeah, it's interesting 00:01:42.189 --> 00:01:46.209 what's happened over the years Then I'll start 00:01:46.209 --> 00:01:50.090 since the kids aren't here I'll start And just 00:01:50.090 --> 00:01:52.609 to kind of tell you all what's been happening. 00:01:53.250 --> 00:01:57.180 I'm officially retired But I'm going back four 00:01:57.180 --> 00:02:00.040 to six months out of the year. Two years now, 00:02:00.060 --> 00:02:03.340 I've gone back for six months. And it looks like 00:02:03.340 --> 00:02:06.599 maybe it'll be four months this time as a volunteer 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:10.219 in the Shell Hospital, which is the Mission Hospital. 00:02:12.379 --> 00:02:20.460 And they now have a chaplaincy team, which there 00:02:20.460 --> 00:02:24.479 was one person, there was not a team. that person 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:30.300 said well I'm only a chaplain for inpatient patients 00:02:30.300 --> 00:02:36.520 not for the clinic area and so the Lord has been 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:42.080 working and now there's a chaplain team and so 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:46.919 I may be phasing out of that what I have been 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:51.050 doing over the years is When jungle people come 00:02:51.050 --> 00:02:53.770 in, because that's where my main focus was with 00:02:53.770 --> 00:02:57.289 the jungle people, when they come into the hospital, 00:02:57.710 --> 00:03:01.090 I kind of walk them through the system, because 00:03:01.090 --> 00:03:03.750 it's kind of scary, and a lot of times they don't 00:03:03.750 --> 00:03:06.629 have money. There's no way to earn a living in 00:03:06.629 --> 00:03:09.050 the jungle, but they have everything they need. 00:03:09.590 --> 00:03:12.610 They have family, they have roof over their head, 00:03:13.009 --> 00:03:17.550 they have food, and you show up at a family's 00:03:17.550 --> 00:03:21.560 house. they're automatically open to feeding 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:24.599 you and taking care of you, which is a little 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:28.080 different than here. Maybe a hundred years ago, 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:33.419 that's what happened, but so I helped them walk 00:03:33.419 --> 00:03:37.400 through and we have a small pharmacy at the hospital, 00:03:37.900 --> 00:03:41.800 but many times we need to go into a pharmacy 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:45.580 and buy the medicines for them and the Lord has 00:03:45.580 --> 00:03:51.960 provided money for that. ministry and I'm on 00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:57.879 WhatsApp and so they're calling me all the time 00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:02.240 and yes I'm sorry to interrupt so we're new what 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:05.000 country are you oh sorry about that I'm sorry 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:09.599 I'm in Ecuador South America and Ecuador gets 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:12.919 its name from the equator because the equator 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:18.430 runs right through Ecuador and It was HCJB, which 00:04:18.430 --> 00:04:21.129 are the call letters of a radio station. Now 00:04:21.129 --> 00:04:27.970 the radio station has their own Ecuadorian foundation. 00:04:30.750 --> 00:04:34.889 And HCJB, or Reach Beyond, as it's known now, 00:04:35.430 --> 00:04:40.430 is more focusing. They want to decrease their 00:04:40.430 --> 00:04:42.829 footprint. Missionaries have been in Ecuador 00:04:42.829 --> 00:04:45.870 for about 100 years. And so they figure it's 00:04:45.870 --> 00:04:48.550 time for the Ecuadorians to take over. Thank 00:04:48.550 --> 00:04:51.810 you for that question. And anybody else? Just 00:04:51.810 --> 00:04:58.329 ask. And so the hospital is no longer part of 00:04:58.329 --> 00:05:03.170 HCJB or Reach Beyond. It is now an Ecuadorian 00:05:03.170 --> 00:05:05.930 foundation that is recognized by the government. 00:05:06.110 --> 00:05:09.410 And that is very important because a couple of 00:05:09.410 --> 00:05:13.040 years ago there was a president who wanted to 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:17.560 get rid of all foreign entities. And so this 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:21.279 way, the hospital is recognized by the government 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:29.120 and has legal rights to function. And a German 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:31.839 surgeon who used to work in the hospital, he's 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:37.019 now retired, he helped set up this foundation. 00:05:38.579 --> 00:05:42.600 And the leaders there are... faithful to the 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:48.939 Lord and so this is it they're having a bit of 00:05:48.939 --> 00:05:53.620 a problem at the hospital because before there 00:05:53.620 --> 00:05:56.980 were a lot of missionary doctors and a lot of 00:05:56.980 --> 00:06:00.839 missionary nurses and the nurses and the missionaries 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:05.459 have their own support but now they have they 00:06:05.459 --> 00:06:08.839 only have one missionary from Holland And he's 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:11.759 a doctor, and he's going to be going back for 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:16.540 a couple of months to Holland. And he is the 00:06:16.540 --> 00:06:20.139 only missionary who receives support from outside. 00:06:20.660 --> 00:06:28.740 So now the hospital is having to hire professionals, 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:33.180 nurses, doctors, and so forth. And so they're 00:06:33.180 --> 00:06:37.139 having a bit of a difficult time. They do have 00:06:37.139 --> 00:06:40.519 day surgeries and sometimes those surgeries stay 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:43.839 two or three nights, but they don't have regular 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:47.519 inpatient like we did before just because of 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:52.079 the financial covering for 24 hours of nurses 00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:56.579 and docs. So please be praying for the hospital 00:06:56.579 --> 00:07:02.519 that the leaders there would have wisdom. and 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:05.100 knowing what to do and then then the government 00:07:05.100 --> 00:07:12.399 comes in and says um you need and they just updated 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:15.000 the operating room but that wasn't good enough 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:18.660 and so they had to redo the floors and redo all 00:07:18.660 --> 00:07:21.259 of the walls and that was quite expensive too 00:07:21.259 --> 00:07:28.459 um so these are things um money speaks a lot 00:07:28.459 --> 00:07:32.000 but god owns the cattle on a thousand hills and 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:40.540 he is able to intervene. Okay. Okay, that's for 00:07:40.540 --> 00:07:45.660 later. Any other questions about what I've just 00:07:45.660 --> 00:07:50.399 said? The hospital you say is one of the entrances, 00:07:50.620 --> 00:07:58.079 it does need help? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:02.240 I can give you that information. There's a foundation, 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:06.519 a tax deductible foundation here in the US that 00:08:06.519 --> 00:08:08.959 receives money that will go to the hospital. 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:18.879 How big is the hospital? Had about 40 beds and 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:23.180 I don't know the exact number of doctors. They're 00:08:23.180 --> 00:08:26.759 looking for specialists, and sometimes specialists 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:29.720 will come just for like a couple hours in the 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:34.539 morning, two days a week. And we have a pediatrician, 00:08:34.679 --> 00:08:40.340 we have some surgeons, and other specialties. 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:47.580 So, I'll share something else that's difficult. 00:08:48.740 --> 00:08:51.580 My boss down there, the director of the department 00:08:51.580 --> 00:08:56.940 where I... in Shell. He's Ecuadorian and he wanted 00:08:56.940 --> 00:09:02.620 me to funnel all of the patients that came to 00:09:02.620 --> 00:09:07.100 me to the Ecuadorian health care system and it 00:09:07.100 --> 00:09:13.159 is a socialist system and the indigenous people 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:17.379 are not really respected. They're not quite human 00:09:17.379 --> 00:09:22.039 in some people's eyes and so that has made it 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:25.159 difficult. So I started asking people when they 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:29.340 came to me, what have you been to the clinic? 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:33.500 Oh yes, I went four times. Now, I don't know 00:09:33.500 --> 00:09:35.620 if this is true. This is just what I was told. 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:39.659 Went four times and all they do is give me Tylenol. 00:09:41.019 --> 00:09:44.059 And then another lady came and I said, have you 00:09:44.059 --> 00:09:47.200 been to the health department? She said, oh yes. 00:09:47.559 --> 00:09:50.830 They gave me an appointment for two weeks. And 00:09:50.830 --> 00:09:54.450 she said, I'll either be better or dead by then. 00:09:54.850 --> 00:09:58.509 So they are not treated well. Now, there's a 00:09:58.509 --> 00:10:01.690 social worker in community development, community, 00:10:01.909 --> 00:10:04.950 ministries in Shell. And if she goes with them, 00:10:05.509 --> 00:10:09.070 they're treated very well. But she can't be everywhere 00:10:09.070 --> 00:10:15.029 at once. And so that makes it a little bit difficult. 00:10:17.470 --> 00:10:20.110 That's kind of why I feel like I should be there 00:10:20.110 --> 00:10:24.629 in Ecuador to help people when I can. We need 00:10:24.629 --> 00:10:29.429 to pray about that, don't we? Yeah. So what happens 00:10:29.429 --> 00:10:32.169 at the Mission Hospital, you can come in, you 00:10:32.169 --> 00:10:36.590 get your appointment. You can walk in and get 00:10:36.590 --> 00:10:39.830 appointments. And a doctor will see you. If it's 00:10:39.830 --> 00:10:44.899 a specialist, it might take longer. You can get 00:10:44.899 --> 00:10:49.600 lab work done. You can get x -rays done We need 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:54.100 an echo tech echo sonogram or how do you say 00:10:54.100 --> 00:11:00.980 that? Well Yeah, we can do EKG's but then they 00:11:00.980 --> 00:11:07.200 send them to Cardiologist, huh? Echo cart, that's 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:09.940 for the heart. What's it when you just check 00:11:09.940 --> 00:11:14.480 your Ultrasounds that's the name of it. Yeah, 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:17.600 we call them echoes, but they're ultrasounds 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:23.120 and You can get we need an ultrasound tech So 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:25.379 that it can be taken care of there and not have 00:11:25.379 --> 00:11:28.919 to send them to Puyo Which is kind of scary for 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:34.700 people when you come out of the jungle and so 00:11:34.700 --> 00:11:40.460 They can get everything done Leave with a tentative 00:11:40.460 --> 00:11:42.899 diagnosis. Not always can you do a diagnosis 00:11:42.899 --> 00:11:47.039 that same day if you need other tests and leave 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:53.259 with medicines and so in one day and that just 00:11:53.259 --> 00:11:57.700 I Just feel a lot more comfortable with that 00:11:57.700 --> 00:12:00.100 instead of sending people away who are hurting 00:12:00.100 --> 00:12:05.019 So yeah, please be in prayer for the hospital 00:12:09.110 --> 00:12:12.889 So Lord willing when I go back last year, I didn't 00:12:12.889 --> 00:12:16.950 make any jungle trips Because my knee was really 00:12:16.950 --> 00:12:20.309 bad and I thank the Lord for physical therapy 00:12:20.309 --> 00:12:23.850 that I've been able to get I have two more weeks 00:12:23.850 --> 00:12:27.889 of physical therapy. And so my knee is a lot 00:12:27.889 --> 00:12:33.129 more stable and and hurts less So I'm hoping 00:12:33.129 --> 00:12:36.250 to get back to some of the jungle communities 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:42.960 But then also be available for those people from 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:50.960 the jungle that come out that need help. When 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:55.399 I went down there, it was really interesting. 00:12:56.740 --> 00:12:59.820 I was still applying to the mission. I guess 00:12:59.820 --> 00:13:03.419 I had been accepted and I wrote the mission director. 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:07.740 I said, there's an opportunity to be a nurse 00:13:07.740 --> 00:13:10.559 practitioner, to go into a course with a nurse 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:14.220 practitioner. And he says, go for it. Well, I 00:13:14.220 --> 00:13:17.419 don't know. I did not know. And I don't think 00:13:17.419 --> 00:13:22.139 he knew, but the Lord was guiding him. And with 00:13:22.139 --> 00:13:25.679 my nurse practitioner training, I was able to 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:28.759 do the jungle work. And for many years until 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:31.840 about 10 years ago, I was able to look at the 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:34.700 patients, diagnose them, give them antibiotics. 00:13:35.049 --> 00:13:39.590 or whatever it was that they needed. Now, the 00:13:39.590 --> 00:13:44.730 last 10 years, the socialistic government said, 00:13:44.950 --> 00:13:47.370 no, you're a nurse. They don't know what nurse 00:13:47.370 --> 00:13:50.409 practitioners or physicians assistant. That is 00:13:50.409 --> 00:13:55.009 out of their realm. And you can't diagnose. You 00:13:55.009 --> 00:14:01.389 can't prescribe medicines. So I'm very thankful 00:14:01.389 --> 00:14:04.700 for that training. And God knew that I would 00:14:04.700 --> 00:14:09.320 need that. So what I was doing until about 10 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:12.220 years ago was training village health workers. 00:14:13.700 --> 00:14:19.779 And a lot of it was prevention. Some of it was 00:14:19.779 --> 00:14:23.899 teaching them how to give the relevant information 00:14:23.899 --> 00:14:27.840 over the radio, over a two -way radio that MAF 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:31.610 has, Mission Aviation Fellowship. and be able 00:14:31.610 --> 00:14:34.610 to send in medicines when it's necessary, or 00:14:34.610 --> 00:14:41.370 bring out the patient to the hospital. So I was 00:14:41.370 --> 00:14:45.870 training village health workers with the shwar, 00:14:46.370 --> 00:14:51.169 the atshwar, the kichwa, and the wawrani, formerly 00:14:51.169 --> 00:14:54.509 known as alkas. So that's what I was doing for 00:14:54.509 --> 00:14:57.720 a lot of time. This is not anything that I had 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:07.899 planned to say, but I'll say this. Okay, I interrupted 00:15:07.899 --> 00:15:15.039 myself, sorry. So it's been wonderful. One of 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:18.100 the communities that I went to, one of my health 00:15:18.100 --> 00:15:21.320 promoters was now the church leader in that community. 00:15:23.620 --> 00:15:26.580 So I asked him, I said, are you still working 00:15:26.580 --> 00:15:30.840 as a village health worker? And he said, no, 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:34.820 and just waited. And I did not respond because 00:15:34.820 --> 00:15:37.820 I didn't want to be negative. I don't know all 00:15:37.820 --> 00:15:41.419 of the situation that he's facing. And then after 00:15:41.419 --> 00:15:44.379 a silence, he said, but I've taught everything 00:15:44.379 --> 00:15:47.500 you taught me to my son. And he's the village 00:15:47.500 --> 00:15:52.629 health worker. I just got chills again thinking 00:15:52.629 --> 00:15:55.690 about that because some have been able to pass 00:15:55.690 --> 00:16:03.190 that on and that is important. I'm glad he's 00:16:03.190 --> 00:16:05.590 a church leader. He just didn't have time to 00:16:05.590 --> 00:16:10.490 do the other health issues as well. So be praying 00:16:10.490 --> 00:16:15.289 for the jungle people. They need good strong 00:16:15.289 --> 00:16:18.690 leaders in their churches and they also need 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:27.100 to continue to be concerned about their communities. 00:16:28.700 --> 00:16:35.259 One of the issues is a lot of the parents want 00:16:35.259 --> 00:16:38.059 their kids to be educated. In the jungle they 00:16:38.059 --> 00:16:42.620 have up to sixth grade and so a lot of times 00:16:42.620 --> 00:16:47.120 those kids come out to the big city which isn't 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:55.240 that big. It's by the hospital. It's maybe 3 00:16:55.240 --> 00:17:00.679 ,000 people. But they come out and they don't 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:04.000 want to be known as indigenous or Indians because 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:07.400 they're looked down on. So they're changing the 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:10.920 way they appear so that they'll fit in with the 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:14.619 dominant culture. The problem is that a lot of 00:17:14.619 --> 00:17:18.609 the girls get pregnant. then they give their 00:17:18.609 --> 00:17:22.490 baby to the mom in the jungle for the mom to 00:17:22.490 --> 00:17:30.690 raise and they want to fit in with the and get 00:17:30.690 --> 00:17:35.009 their high school education. If the last two 00:17:35.009 --> 00:17:38.529 years of high school what you can do is go into 00:17:38.529 --> 00:17:41.910 teaching and then you have another two years 00:17:41.910 --> 00:17:45.200 and then you get a teaching certificate. So a 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:48.539 lot of the people are wanting to do that. A lot 00:17:48.539 --> 00:17:51.880 of the teens from the jungle. But it's really 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:55.359 sad because they come out and they get teaching 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:59.240 of evolution and they get a lot of godless teaching 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:03.359 and it's just really sad to see the young people. 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:09.599 Whereas the Alka or the Waorani Indians and most 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:12.220 of some of you might know about that back in 00:18:12.220 --> 00:18:15.950 1956. there were five missionaries who were speared 00:18:15.950 --> 00:18:20.230 by the Alka Indians and this little spear here 00:18:20.230 --> 00:18:25.750 is made by them but it's a miniature and it's 00:18:25.750 --> 00:18:31.509 got beveled edges here and this is what they 00:18:31.509 --> 00:18:35.970 what they do only their spears are 10 to 12 feet 00:18:35.970 --> 00:18:44.009 long and they even have identity that you can 00:18:44.009 --> 00:18:49.890 tell what family they're from by the, what do 00:18:49.890 --> 00:18:56.009 you call these? The, yeah. And then on the other 00:18:56.009 --> 00:19:01.970 end is individual persons. So that if you find 00:19:01.970 --> 00:19:05.390 a dead body in the jungle with a spear in them, 00:19:05.890 --> 00:19:09.190 you know who did it. You know what family they're 00:19:09.190 --> 00:19:11.740 from, you know. the individual that did it. Now 00:19:11.740 --> 00:19:14.539 this doesn't have that on this end, but it's 00:19:14.539 --> 00:19:20.619 how this little, how these little wrappings are 00:19:20.619 --> 00:19:25.299 wrapped so that you know the individual. This 00:19:25.299 --> 00:19:32.220 I'm going to leave here for the church. So that's 00:19:32.220 --> 00:19:35.480 just as a prayer reminder. And I don't know who 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:40.329 did it, but somebody put out birds. and all kinds 00:19:40.329 --> 00:19:45.390 of things. Now this, this is Quechua and if you're 00:19:45.390 --> 00:19:48.450 from Peru it's Quechua because the dialect is 00:19:48.450 --> 00:19:50.750 a little different. So if you hear Quechua and 00:19:50.750 --> 00:19:53.769 you think, she's not pronouncing it right, and 00:19:53.769 --> 00:19:58.029 Quechua is in Peru and Bolivia and Quechua is 00:19:58.029 --> 00:20:03.109 in Ecuador. And this is the kind of woven things 00:20:03.109 --> 00:20:05.890 that they... They do that by hand, that weave 00:20:05.890 --> 00:20:09.680 and stuff. Oh yes, yeah. Not so much now, but 00:20:09.680 --> 00:20:15.319 when I first went there, yeah. Yes. And then 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:17.940 you have a little quichua doll here. And there's 00:20:17.940 --> 00:20:22.059 lots of llamas in that whole area. Not so many 00:20:22.059 --> 00:20:26.019 in Ecuador, but in the highlands you find it. 00:20:26.779 --> 00:20:35.000 And it's 13, 15 ,000 feet going over. Let's see 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:38.329 what else. And they use a lot of the pottery 00:20:38.329 --> 00:20:44.029 and so forth too. Till now, are there any questions? 00:20:44.549 --> 00:20:47.190 I have a question. Yes? You're talking about 00:20:47.190 --> 00:20:50.890 the teens going into schools and stuff. If you 00:20:50.890 --> 00:20:53.549 get enough of the teens that get their teaching 00:20:53.549 --> 00:20:55.910 certificate, is it possible for them to learn 00:20:55.910 --> 00:20:58.529 to be able to teach grades higher than six? Oh 00:20:58.529 --> 00:21:02.289 yes. Yeah, that's the whole point. Yeah. And 00:21:02.289 --> 00:21:05.289 some of them are wanting to go back into the 00:21:05.289 --> 00:21:08.519 jungle. so that the people don't have to leave 00:21:08.519 --> 00:21:14.240 their families. And so, yes, those especially 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:18.599 the believers. But pray for the teens that come 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:21.299 out to get their teaching degrees or some of 00:21:21.299 --> 00:21:24.920 them are doing other things like computer science, 00:21:26.380 --> 00:21:30.599 tourism, and getting their degrees so that they 00:21:30.599 --> 00:21:37.750 can have an income. So yes, there's a lot of 00:21:37.750 --> 00:21:41.549 different things. There's a number of different 00:21:41.549 --> 00:21:45.470 languages that they use? Yes. Now I can't speak 00:21:45.470 --> 00:21:51.289 for Peru and Bolivia, but in Ecuador there are 00:21:51.289 --> 00:21:56.710 eight main languages other than Spanish. And 00:21:56.710 --> 00:22:04.809 some of them are similar. and they can understand 00:22:04.809 --> 00:22:07.329 each other and others are completely different. 00:22:07.509 --> 00:22:09.329 Like the K 'ichwa is completely different from 00:22:09.329 --> 00:22:12.869 the At -shuar and the Shuar. And Shibiar, that's 00:22:12.869 --> 00:22:18.269 another one that's... And then the Auqa is from 00:22:18.269 --> 00:22:25.210 Wycliffe Bible translators. The Auqa or the Waorani 00:22:25.210 --> 00:22:29.650 language is completely unrelated to any other 00:22:29.650 --> 00:22:38.940 language in the world. Yeah. So they have been 00:22:38.940 --> 00:22:45.420 isolated for so many years. And the alka means 00:22:45.420 --> 00:22:49.720 savage. So I try not to use that word down there. 00:22:50.140 --> 00:22:56.920 It seems like it's very derogatory. And now they're 00:22:56.920 --> 00:22:59.539 wawrani, which means the people in their own 00:22:59.539 --> 00:23:05.660 language. So we are the people. And that's there. 00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:08.779 One thing that's sad about the Waworani Indians, 00:23:09.380 --> 00:23:15.559 when the missionaries were killed, then Rachel 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:18.079 Saint, who was the sister of one of the fellows 00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:21.119 that was speared, and Elizabeth Elliott, who 00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:23.700 is the wife of one of the men that was speared, 00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:30.680 they went back into the jungle. And they... Had 00:23:30.680 --> 00:23:35.539 to learn the language had to work from nothing 00:23:35.539 --> 00:23:43.420 to work with them and The reason I'm smiling 00:23:43.420 --> 00:23:47.240 is because there's a problem with missionaries 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:51.539 because a lot of the missionaries are leaders 00:23:51.539 --> 00:23:56.759 and They need to be but then you have these strong 00:23:56.759 --> 00:24:00.940 personalities that butt heads And this is what 00:24:00.940 --> 00:24:03.400 happened with Elizabeth Elliott and Rachel Saint. 00:24:03.859 --> 00:24:10.460 They didn't agree on things, and it's sad. That 00:24:10.460 --> 00:24:13.980 happens here in the U .S. too. And churches split 00:24:13.980 --> 00:24:20.559 over sometimes what we would think trivial things. 00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:25.250 So pray for your missionaries. that they would 00:24:25.250 --> 00:24:27.130 be sensitive to the other missionaries, that 00:24:27.130 --> 00:24:29.910 they would be sensitive to the people, and let 00:24:29.910 --> 00:24:32.150 the people take the leadership when it's their 00:24:32.150 --> 00:24:36.329 turn. It's easy for us missionaries to think 00:24:36.329 --> 00:24:42.549 that we know it all and we don't. So, okay, any 00:24:42.549 --> 00:24:44.750 other? Yeah, I got a question. In the jungle, 00:24:45.569 --> 00:24:50.069 do you ever see them coming in with, like, speedbikes? 00:24:50.630 --> 00:24:55.220 Oh, yes. I think they got a poisonous frog. Okay, 00:24:55.400 --> 00:24:59.299 that's more in Columbia. Okay. I've never seen 00:24:59.299 --> 00:25:05.859 anybody bitten by a or They they it the poison 00:25:05.859 --> 00:25:10.440 is in the skin and In Columbia and in other parts 00:25:10.440 --> 00:25:14.339 they use that for poison darts when they go hunting 00:25:14.339 --> 00:25:18.779 But that's not been a real issue snake bites 00:25:18.779 --> 00:25:24.710 are a definite issue Yes, yeah and I'll have 00:25:24.710 --> 00:25:27.529 to tell you something really funny about the 00:25:27.529 --> 00:25:32.970 snake, well, come. I was walking down the hall, 00:25:33.769 --> 00:25:37.309 just kind of talking to myself, and there's a 00:25:37.309 --> 00:25:41.710 snake bite season. And so I think, oh, why are 00:25:41.710 --> 00:25:45.069 there so many snake bites right now? And the 00:25:45.069 --> 00:25:49.130 lady that was in the hall, she said, Don't you 00:25:49.130 --> 00:25:53.710 know I'm supposed to know everything Don't you 00:25:53.710 --> 00:25:59.990 know and I said no why and she said it's because 00:25:59.990 --> 00:26:02.769 the resurrection celebration of the resurrection 00:26:02.769 --> 00:26:08.609 is coming and Satan is angry and It's there's 00:26:08.609 --> 00:26:11.470 a season where there's more snake bites and it's 00:26:11.470 --> 00:26:17.519 right before Easter and so Yeah, don't you know? 00:26:20.440 --> 00:26:27.920 I mean it's very obvious. So, I'm not sure. I 00:26:27.920 --> 00:26:30.039 might have learned more from them than they learned 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:35.460 from me. So, we both were learning together. 00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:43.460 So, oh dear. Let me start with what I was gonna 00:26:43.460 --> 00:26:49.420 do for the kids. Okay, um now this this is miniature 00:26:49.420 --> 00:26:55.839 This is a miniature net there this is for fishing 00:26:55.839 --> 00:27:00.000 and They it's a big net about this big and then 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:03.700 the women depending on how long they're their 00:27:03.700 --> 00:27:08.140 arm is that's how deep it would be and So they 00:27:08.140 --> 00:27:19.190 go fishing and they use a poison that It's it's 00:27:19.190 --> 00:27:22.529 a route and they take the route and they beat 00:27:22.529 --> 00:27:26.930 it in the river upstream and it's a white milky 00:27:26.930 --> 00:27:31.089 liquid and The men are at the top and they're 00:27:31.089 --> 00:27:35.170 using their spears because there's It's a sport 00:27:35.170 --> 00:27:39.349 and so then further down are the women with their 00:27:39.349 --> 00:27:42.440 fish nets and they, a lot of times they'll have 00:27:42.440 --> 00:27:44.619 a basket on their back and then they'll put the 00:27:44.619 --> 00:27:48.200 fish in there or they'll put a piece of vine 00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:51.859 through the gills and keep the fish that way. 00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:55.400 And then down further, where this little stream 00:27:55.400 --> 00:27:59.900 meets a big river, they have put bamboo stakes 00:27:59.900 --> 00:28:04.059 so the fish can't escape, the water can escape, 00:28:04.099 --> 00:28:07.640 but not the fish. And so then down at the bottom 00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:14.430 part, The women who are pregnant, or the old 00:28:14.430 --> 00:28:19.269 ladies, or ladies that have little kids, they'll 00:28:19.269 --> 00:28:22.509 be at the very bottom. And then they can catch 00:28:22.509 --> 00:28:26.190 the fish. And then afterwards, it's a day -long 00:28:26.190 --> 00:28:30.029 thing. Afterwards, everybody gets together and 00:28:30.029 --> 00:28:33.490 starts cleaning the fish. And then the fish gets 00:28:33.490 --> 00:28:38.809 smoked. This is kind of the story of the fishnet. 00:28:38.910 --> 00:28:40.690 And what I was going to do with the kids, I wasn't 00:28:40.690 --> 00:28:46.190 going to tell them all that. Do they do that 00:28:46.190 --> 00:28:49.549 as a community? Yes. Or as individuals? You can't 00:28:49.549 --> 00:28:54.730 chew fish, that's your fish. Well, they do it 00:28:54.730 --> 00:29:00.309 as a community group. And I'm not sure how they 00:29:00.309 --> 00:29:07.369 separate it up. Since almost everybody in the 00:29:07.369 --> 00:29:12.069 community are relatives. So then you know, that's 00:29:12.069 --> 00:29:16.569 and I don't understand the other language Spanish 00:29:16.569 --> 00:29:19.990 I can handle but so they're probably Deciding 00:29:19.990 --> 00:29:25.789 all of that and I was unaware of it. Okay My 00:29:25.789 --> 00:29:30.210 question for the little kids was okay Do they 00:29:30.210 --> 00:29:35.519 have fishnets in the Bible? Okay, so I want you 00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:37.980 all to tell me, okay, where does it talk about 00:29:37.980 --> 00:29:41.539 fishnets in the Bible? Peter, he was a fisherman, 00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:44.619 he had nets. Exactly. Peter, James, and John. 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:53.960 Okay. Okay. So, and then what were the disciples 00:29:53.960 --> 00:29:59.019 taught? You will be fishers of men. Okay. So 00:29:59.019 --> 00:30:04.420 that was a little thing for the kids. And then 00:30:04.420 --> 00:30:07.700 the next thing was the spear. Do we have spears 00:30:07.700 --> 00:30:13.160 in the Bible? Yeah. Okay. Jesus' side was punched 00:30:13.160 --> 00:30:17.519 with the spear. Okay. Jesus' side. After he was 00:30:17.519 --> 00:30:22.380 already dead and out came blood and water. So 00:30:22.380 --> 00:30:27.779 it had separated and that shows the death. So 00:30:27.779 --> 00:30:41.210 where else would there be spears? Okay, the thorn 00:30:41.210 --> 00:30:44.910 in the flesh, and in Sunday school class you 00:30:44.910 --> 00:30:48.369 were talking about difficult times. And sometimes 00:30:48.369 --> 00:30:52.990 these thorns make us more like Him, create His 00:30:52.990 --> 00:31:00.410 image in us. Yeah. But when you're in the middle 00:31:00.410 --> 00:31:09.660 of it, you don't like it. Okay, this is a headdress. 00:31:12.140 --> 00:31:17.759 The Indians like to put in feathers and feathers 00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:21.000 are a little hard to explain to some people because 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:25.619 they say, well, you kill those birds. So this 00:31:25.619 --> 00:31:30.660 is just a headdress. Do we have any mention of 00:31:30.660 --> 00:31:36.019 headdresses or crowns in the Bible? Okay, what 00:31:36.019 --> 00:31:44.279 give me examples of the crowns Yeah, okay, there's 00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:49.940 the crown of thorns yes We can work for crown 00:31:49.940 --> 00:31:53.400 we give crowns and then we Throw our crowns at 00:31:53.400 --> 00:31:56.440 his feet. Yeah, we throw our crowns at his feet 00:31:56.440 --> 00:32:02.000 Okay And then someone was playing the flute I 00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:19.720 think And this is, where did it go? Here. Okay, 00:32:19.980 --> 00:32:23.059 now this is small. The ones that the Highland 00:32:23.059 --> 00:32:29.579 Keech was used are about this long. So you can 00:32:29.579 --> 00:32:32.740 play songs on this. And it's kind of like a flute. 00:32:33.630 --> 00:32:38.589 What, not necessarily flutes, but what do musical 00:32:38.589 --> 00:32:44.289 instruments mean in the Bible? Was it praise? 00:32:44.789 --> 00:32:47.789 Praise? Praising the Lord, yeah. How often in 00:32:47.789 --> 00:32:51.269 the Psalms it talks about praising the Lord. 00:32:53.049 --> 00:32:58.329 So this is something that's important with the 00:32:58.329 --> 00:33:04.400 fellowship. the community praise to the Lord. 00:33:05.099 --> 00:33:07.380 We as individuals should praise the Lord, but 00:33:07.380 --> 00:33:13.059 also as a group. Okay, let's see what else comes 00:33:13.059 --> 00:33:19.099 up. Okay, baskets. Are baskets mentioned in the 00:33:19.099 --> 00:33:23.180 Bible? Yes. Okay, give me some examples. I was 00:33:23.180 --> 00:33:25.839 going to try to get these kids to do those things. 00:33:32.009 --> 00:33:38.569 Yes, yes, and so there's there's many examples 00:33:38.569 --> 00:33:43.029 of baskets in the Bible and yet these are things 00:33:43.029 --> 00:33:46.910 that are common to them and when Jesus preached 00:33:46.910 --> 00:33:52.710 are taught He used things that were known to 00:33:52.710 --> 00:33:56.829 get them to the unknown Like the harvest the 00:33:56.829 --> 00:33:59.720 harvest is plenteous But the labors are few. 00:33:59.920 --> 00:34:06.299 They knew about harvest. And so that's what I 00:34:06.299 --> 00:34:08.559 was going to try to do with the kids. I don't 00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:11.280 know. This might have been beyond them. I don't 00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:16.460 know. So then the basket. And then how many baskets 00:34:16.460 --> 00:34:20.340 were taken up after Jesus multiplied? Twelve 00:34:20.340 --> 00:34:26.400 and seven. And there was a time when I thought... 00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:30.599 Hey, these Gospels don't agree. But there's one 00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:36.519 Gospel that has both accounts. And so that confirms 00:34:36.519 --> 00:34:43.780 the validity of the Bible. Okay. And there's 00:34:43.780 --> 00:34:48.019 another. The Waorani did not wear a lot of clothes. 00:34:49.559 --> 00:34:53.199 They had cotton that they planted and they used 00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:59.829 it for armbands. The Shuar men had little short 00:34:59.829 --> 00:35:05.030 skirts. The women had longer skirts that they 00:35:05.030 --> 00:35:07.530 used to make out of the cotton that grows in 00:35:07.530 --> 00:35:13.869 the jungle. And I don't know if I have, if I 00:35:13.869 --> 00:35:20.929 brought that here. But anyway, there's, and I 00:35:20.929 --> 00:35:27.789 didn't look it up. I have this for later. that 00:35:27.789 --> 00:35:32.329 Though a Bible says with food and clothing be 00:35:32.329 --> 00:35:36.429 content But some people say that that and I'm 00:35:36.429 --> 00:35:39.849 not a Greek scholar or anything, but that that 00:35:39.849 --> 00:35:45.730 means food and covering so that could be a Roof 00:35:45.730 --> 00:35:49.289 over your head or the clothing it could it could 00:35:49.289 --> 00:35:56.269 apply to both? and then Christ said, or Jesus 00:35:56.269 --> 00:36:01.650 said, He had no place to lay His head. And He 00:36:01.650 --> 00:36:05.610 didn't own anything. But God always provided 00:36:05.610 --> 00:36:10.449 a place. And God can provide for us as well. 00:36:11.989 --> 00:36:15.449 Okay. Oh dear. I'm never going to get through 00:36:15.449 --> 00:36:20.909 all of this. Okay. Then I was going to ask them 00:36:20.909 --> 00:36:27.969 about robots. You know, who made robots? Man, 00:36:28.090 --> 00:36:35.329 man made robots. What do robots do? What man 00:36:35.329 --> 00:36:39.570 tells them to do, okay. We are not robots. We 00:36:39.570 --> 00:36:44.889 have a choice. And in the jungle I use this. 00:36:45.150 --> 00:36:49.329 Who built this canoe? And they tell me the name 00:36:49.329 --> 00:36:52.500 of the guy or the family. that built the dugout 00:36:52.500 --> 00:36:57.820 canoe and well who has the right to say who can 00:36:57.820 --> 00:37:02.420 go in that canoe or same thing for a house if 00:37:02.420 --> 00:37:06.000 you have built your house then you have the right 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:10.579 to say no don't want you coming or yes you are 00:37:10.579 --> 00:37:15.099 very welcome here and so I was going to use that 00:37:15.099 --> 00:37:23.820 with the kids just to say We are not robots we 00:37:23.820 --> 00:37:27.139 have a right to decide who comes in and is in 00:37:27.139 --> 00:37:31.179 control of our life and Those are decisions. 00:37:31.179 --> 00:37:34.980 God doesn't force us to accept him, but he's 00:37:34.980 --> 00:37:43.940 offered his love Them Okay Then I wanted to share 00:37:43.940 --> 00:37:49.380 a little bit about Dawa Dawa was the wife of 00:37:49.380 --> 00:37:51.579 one of the fellows who killed the missionaries, 00:37:51.679 --> 00:37:54.659 who speared the missionaries. And she and the 00:37:54.659 --> 00:38:00.139 other women were up on a little hill watching, 00:38:01.900 --> 00:38:05.659 watching when this was happening. And she said, 00:38:05.679 --> 00:38:09.519 before the missionaries came, I didn't sleep 00:38:09.519 --> 00:38:13.460 very well, because the Waorani, or the Alcas, 00:38:14.139 --> 00:38:18.489 came and speared at night. And so she said, I 00:38:18.489 --> 00:38:24.329 never did sleep well until the missionaries told 00:38:24.329 --> 00:38:29.829 me that Christ forgave me and that I can forgive 00:38:29.829 --> 00:38:34.230 those people. And right there was the man who 00:38:34.230 --> 00:38:38.190 had killed her father. And yet they were in the 00:38:38.190 --> 00:38:44.530 same location. And they were now believers. And 00:38:44.530 --> 00:38:48.239 also, There was no word for forgiveness with 00:38:48.239 --> 00:38:51.800 the Waorani. It's just revenge, like the Hatfields 00:38:51.800 --> 00:38:55.780 and the Mukoys. And there was no word for forgiveness. 00:38:56.579 --> 00:39:01.079 And so a missionary who was trying to work with 00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:07.039 them tried to explain what forgiveness is. And 00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:14.219 I don't know if it was Dayuma? or if it was somebody 00:39:14.219 --> 00:39:19.179 else, but they said, oh, that's love. So they 00:39:19.179 --> 00:39:22.239 were equating forgiveness with love, and love 00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:24.960 your enemies? Ooh, that's hard sometimes. Yeah, 00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:34.039 it is hard. Okay. Okay, he loved the, what the 00:39:34.039 --> 00:39:38.840 father's love has for us, so that we can be called 00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:41.849 his children. and he sacrificed his only son 00:39:41.849 --> 00:39:48.889 on the cross. And that is love, even though... 00:39:48.889 --> 00:39:51.769 And he forgave the people who were killing him, 00:39:51.849 --> 00:39:54.750 who had beaten him, who had put that crown of 00:39:54.750 --> 00:39:58.670 thorns on his head. Okay, I got ahead of myself. 00:40:03.510 --> 00:40:11.500 I wanted to talk about shoes. Now these are the 00:40:11.500 --> 00:40:14.679 these are the Highland Kichwa shoes and at that 00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:16.880 time you just couldn't go and buy a pair of shoes 00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:21.400 and so they took rope and Made shoes and you 00:40:21.400 --> 00:40:24.559 can come up and look at these things later and 00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:34.900 then later on They would take tires and make 00:40:34.900 --> 00:40:38.659 the soles from the tires And then, of course, 00:40:38.659 --> 00:40:42.679 this is hand -woven. And so you can come and 00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:47.039 look at these shoes a little bit later. Now, 00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:52.019 where in the Bible does it talk about shoes? 00:40:59.699 --> 00:41:12.800 Okay. Any others? Yes, the gospel of peace. So 00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:17.159 this is, it's so interesting because that's what 00:41:17.159 --> 00:41:21.219 Jesus did. He took things from the ordinary and 00:41:21.219 --> 00:41:28.440 made application to the people. And that's what 00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:30.619 I've tried to do. I haven't always been so good 00:41:30.619 --> 00:41:35.219 at it. In Ecuador, they know I'm a foreigner. 00:41:35.739 --> 00:41:39.400 They most of them know I'm a missionary so it's 00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:43.219 okay I'll talk about the Lord and they'll listen 00:41:43.219 --> 00:41:46.519 politely not everybody agrees with me, but they'll 00:41:46.519 --> 00:41:50.800 listen politely but coming back here to the states 00:41:50.800 --> 00:41:56.360 and seeing my neighbors and and talking to people 00:41:56.360 --> 00:42:00.340 that's hard I Don't know if you all have experienced 00:42:00.340 --> 00:42:04.519 that or not and when I first came back The lady 00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:07.860 across the street who's from China, her mother 00:42:07.860 --> 00:42:11.079 used to live in the house with her and she's 00:42:11.079 --> 00:42:16.280 passed on. And I felt a burden for her, so I 00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:20.320 got a Chinese Bible for her and gave her the 00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:24.019 Bible. Well, when I came back this year, the 00:42:24.019 --> 00:42:26.079 first time I ran into her on the street, she 00:42:26.079 --> 00:42:34.550 walks her dogs. She said, now your mother, essentially 00:42:34.550 --> 00:42:37.429 tried to evangelize and so she was just letting 00:42:37.429 --> 00:42:39.869 me know she didn't want to hear any of this she 00:42:39.869 --> 00:42:42.309 didn't want to know any of this and just keep 00:42:42.309 --> 00:42:46.070 quiet and I hadn't even said anything but because 00:42:46.070 --> 00:42:49.389 of the Bible now I don't know what effect that 00:42:49.389 --> 00:42:54.030 Bible had but it was in Chinese and I'm hoping 00:42:54.030 --> 00:42:58.329 and praying that the Lord used that but the daughter 00:42:58.329 --> 00:43:02.210 wanted nothing to do with that And I'm sure that 00:43:02.210 --> 00:43:06.210 you have found that too. And if you talk to them, 00:43:06.210 --> 00:43:11.849 well, about building a canoe or building a house, 00:43:12.469 --> 00:43:18.550 so the builder is able to have the say. Well, 00:43:18.550 --> 00:43:22.250 God created the world, but now nobody believes 00:43:22.250 --> 00:43:26.070 that anymore. or they believe it was 15 million 00:43:26.070 --> 00:43:29.889 years ago, and all of this stuff happened on 00:43:29.889 --> 00:43:37.610 its own. And so it's really hard to witness to 00:43:37.610 --> 00:43:41.289 people and say, well, do you go to a church? 00:43:41.510 --> 00:43:44.869 And I'd ask this of another neighbor, and she 00:43:44.869 --> 00:43:48.909 goes to a, yeah, my spiritual experience is, 00:43:49.210 --> 00:43:53.500 but it was one of these. I'm not sure exactly 00:43:53.500 --> 00:43:56.539 what the name of the church was but it was the 00:43:56.539 --> 00:43:59.900 spiritual and the meditation and and all of this 00:43:59.900 --> 00:44:03.079 stuff and it's just it's hard to relate to that. 00:44:03.079 --> 00:44:07.539 So I would ask for prayers as for all of us that 00:44:07.539 --> 00:44:10.559 we would have wisdom to know what questions to 00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:14.380 ask and how to interact with our neighbors because 00:44:14.380 --> 00:44:20.719 they need the Lord as well. And then I was going 00:44:20.719 --> 00:44:23.739 to close with, weave a story to tell to the nations. 00:44:26.559 --> 00:44:31.699 Any other questions before I... You talk a lot 00:44:31.699 --> 00:44:37.519 about the jungle. When I picture a jungle, I 00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:40.500 picture a machete going through and having to 00:44:40.500 --> 00:44:45.800 cut vines. You had mentioned cotton. Do they 00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:47.980 grow that cotton or do they just harvest the 00:44:47.980 --> 00:44:53.070 cotton? If they find it, then they will actually 00:44:53.070 --> 00:45:00.590 put it near their houses and plant it. Because 00:45:00.590 --> 00:45:03.409 before there was no communication with the outside 00:45:03.409 --> 00:45:08.050 world. And so they had to do everything. Clothes, 00:45:08.530 --> 00:45:17.380 food, they had to do everything. True. Now there 00:45:17.380 --> 00:45:21.480 are roads in some of the places. But that's got 00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:23.980 its disadvantages. People were saying, oh good, 00:45:24.019 --> 00:45:27.139 now we can take our bananas and sell them in 00:45:27.139 --> 00:45:29.860 the city. We can take the plantainos and the 00:45:29.860 --> 00:45:33.440 papayas and the pineapples and all of this stuff. 00:45:33.980 --> 00:45:37.960 But then the trucks that come in bring in beer 00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:43.500 and other things that are detrimental. And now... 00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:51.019 Now they have, some of the communities have internet 00:45:51.019 --> 00:45:56.079 and so there's all kinds of garbage that it's 00:45:56.079 --> 00:45:59.039 good because the people can talk to me and say 00:45:59.039 --> 00:46:02.280 I'm sick and I'll call the hospital and say so 00:46:02.280 --> 00:46:04.780 and so is coming and please take care of their 00:46:04.780 --> 00:46:09.820 bill. I'll arrange later. But all this other 00:46:09.820 --> 00:46:13.519 garbage that's coming in is distracting the people. 00:46:15.140 --> 00:46:17.880 from even wanting to know the Lord, they think, 00:46:18.360 --> 00:46:21.159 you know, even the kids that come out and are 00:46:21.159 --> 00:46:24.179 educated, they think, well, I know more than 00:46:24.179 --> 00:46:28.860 my parents. And so there are valuable things 00:46:28.860 --> 00:46:35.039 in the culture, like the family unit and respect 00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:39.659 for elders. And now a lot of that is disappearing 00:46:39.659 --> 00:46:48.949 because of the changes. Yes, yeah Now somebody 00:46:48.949 --> 00:46:52.889 I think it was you asked about snake bites, okay 00:46:52.889 --> 00:47:00.010 They have what they a bushmaster and the ekis 00:47:00.010 --> 00:47:06.449 which that's their name for it and It's it's 00:47:06.449 --> 00:47:09.929 a very very poisonous snake and even the babies 00:47:09.929 --> 00:47:14.809 when they first hatch They are very venomous 00:47:14.809 --> 00:47:18.349 as they have as much venom as their parents that 00:47:18.349 --> 00:47:25.630 are much longer. I used to really be afraid to 00:47:25.630 --> 00:47:28.610 go to the jungle because of the snakes. And when 00:47:28.610 --> 00:47:32.469 I would get off the plane at Missionary Aviation 00:47:32.469 --> 00:47:35.130 Fellowship plane, I'd go to the schoolhouse. 00:47:35.389 --> 00:47:37.750 That's where we would see patients. That's where 00:47:37.750 --> 00:47:41.889 I slept. And for the longest time, I did not 00:47:41.889 --> 00:47:48.480 go. out except when I needed to, but not very 00:47:48.480 --> 00:47:53.940 far. And it was very interesting. God has a sense 00:47:53.940 --> 00:47:57.300 of humor. And while I was in the jungle, I never, 00:47:57.619 --> 00:48:00.360 at that period of time, I didn't see a snake. 00:48:02.900 --> 00:48:06.360 But two snakes on separate occasions came into 00:48:06.360 --> 00:48:09.519 my apartment in Shell, which was near the hospital. 00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:17.469 And so it's like, Miriam, if you're where I want 00:48:17.469 --> 00:48:22.650 you to be, you'll be safe until the time comes. 00:48:24.170 --> 00:48:27.349 And so that's another thing that was very interesting 00:48:27.349 --> 00:48:36.409 to me. Anyway, that's another thing. Any other 00:48:36.409 --> 00:48:39.929 comments or questions? Well I've heard that snakes 00:48:39.929 --> 00:48:41.889 are more afraid of you than you are of them. 00:48:44.059 --> 00:48:48.119 Some snakes, it's true. If they're corals, they'll 00:48:48.119 --> 00:48:53.420 run. But there are other snakes, and some of 00:48:53.420 --> 00:48:55.739 them are in Ecuador, because there was a missionary 00:48:55.739 --> 00:48:59.000 who ran into a snake, and then she started running 00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:02.980 away from the snake. At that time, we all wore 00:49:02.980 --> 00:49:10.260 skirts. And the snake chased her and actually 00:49:10.260 --> 00:49:17.980 got the hem of her... Garment. So, yes, most 00:49:17.980 --> 00:49:24.300 of them don't want confrontation, but some of 00:49:24.300 --> 00:49:32.559 them are very aggressive. Most people don't like 00:49:32.559 --> 00:49:39.860 them, I guess. Yes. In Ecuador, there's a saying 00:49:40.119 --> 00:49:47.980 The only good snake is a dead snake. But the 00:49:47.980 --> 00:49:51.300 black snakes are very good. I mean they take 00:49:51.300 --> 00:49:55.579 care of mice and rats and they'll even eat poisonous 00:49:55.579 --> 00:50:07.219 snakes and they're not affected. The thought 00:50:07.219 --> 00:50:10.219 just occurred to me this was not... thought of 00:50:10.219 --> 00:50:13.840 before is that if we can be more like the black 00:50:13.840 --> 00:50:19.480 snake when people come at us and We don't react 00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:25.659 we don't They might have venomous words and yet 00:50:25.659 --> 00:50:28.519 their venom doesn't hurt the fat black snake 00:50:28.519 --> 00:50:36.420 and the black snake just Goes on so Yeah, anyway, 00:50:37.320 --> 00:50:46.610 okay So I think if you all want to come up, there's 00:50:46.610 --> 00:50:52.349 some pictures of the various animals there. There's 00:50:52.349 --> 00:50:57.210 this that I'm leaving. His call, it's a poem. 00:50:58.829 --> 00:51:02.710 See the fields. But seeing it only, there is 00:51:02.710 --> 00:51:05.929 work for you to do. And so these are some things 00:51:05.929 --> 00:51:10.070 that I can leave here for you all to take as 00:51:10.070 --> 00:51:16.860 you. would want. Anything else? When did the 00:51:16.860 --> 00:51:19.559 Lord start calling you into the mission field 00:51:19.559 --> 00:51:25.320 to do the work that you're doing? My dad was 00:51:25.320 --> 00:51:29.840 a pastor. You knew that. And so a lot of times 00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:34.179 we had missionaries stay at our house. So ever 00:51:34.179 --> 00:51:37.119 since I can remember, there were missionaries 00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:40.159 who came and told stories about the mission field. 00:51:41.300 --> 00:51:45.159 And so I think that was, that started it. But 00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:48.320 then there were two old -made missionaries that 00:51:48.320 --> 00:51:51.719 came and spoke at the church in Lakeland where 00:51:51.719 --> 00:51:57.000 I was born. And I don't remember anything. I 00:51:57.000 --> 00:52:01.639 remember two things that they said. One was they 00:52:01.639 --> 00:52:04.889 woke up one morning and all of the the people, 00:52:05.090 --> 00:52:08.010 they were missionaries in Africa. And everybody 00:52:08.010 --> 00:52:10.210 was out there talking and talking and talking 00:52:10.210 --> 00:52:12.949 and they went out to see what it was. And there 00:52:12.949 --> 00:52:16.989 was a huge lion footprints all around their house. 00:52:18.170 --> 00:52:21.230 And they had no windows, they had openings, but 00:52:21.230 --> 00:52:24.809 there was no way to close your windows. And you 00:52:24.809 --> 00:52:28.630 didn't want to because it was so hot there. And 00:52:28.630 --> 00:52:33.650 so here was these huge lion footprints. circling 00:52:33.650 --> 00:52:38.530 the house and nothing happened to them. And so 00:52:38.530 --> 00:52:43.530 God used that story to tell me that God's protection 00:52:43.530 --> 00:52:47.969 is with you if you know where you should be. 00:52:48.570 --> 00:52:52.050 And then the other story they said, if twins 00:52:52.050 --> 00:52:55.309 were born, they thought one was a human child 00:52:55.309 --> 00:52:58.630 and one was a demon child. And a lot of times 00:52:58.630 --> 00:53:01.389 they would kill them both. because they didn't 00:53:01.389 --> 00:53:04.710 know which was which, or they'd let them starve. 00:53:06.489 --> 00:53:10.690 And so, I remember while they were still speaking, 00:53:11.809 --> 00:53:14.690 inside of myself I said, I gotta go and tell 00:53:14.690 --> 00:53:19.489 them it's okay. That those are made in God's 00:53:19.489 --> 00:53:27.559 image. And that's, I guess this is the end. So 00:53:27.559 --> 00:53:29.900 anyway, I was just, I don't know if the kids 00:53:29.900 --> 00:53:35.000 know that song. We have a storage to tell to 00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:39.639 the nations. Where is it? So did they receive 00:53:39.639 --> 00:53:42.940 that information when you told them about the 00:53:42.940 --> 00:53:48.800 twins? There were twins that were born in Ecuador 00:53:48.800 --> 00:53:53.119 out in the jungle. And there were two, there 00:53:53.119 --> 00:53:55.949 were several sets of twins. Sometimes I didn't 00:53:55.949 --> 00:53:59.090 hear about it until after the fact. But they'll 00:53:59.090 --> 00:54:03.530 feed one. They'll choose one and feed one. And 00:54:03.530 --> 00:54:07.130 the interesting about this story is that the 00:54:07.130 --> 00:54:13.369 grandmother said, I'll take this one. Well, that 00:54:13.369 --> 00:54:17.570 one was not doing well. And they figured that 00:54:17.570 --> 00:54:20.369 they didn't have enough milk for both. And I 00:54:20.369 --> 00:54:23.369 said, oh, yes, your body will produce what's 00:54:23.369 --> 00:54:28.639 needed. And so anyway, the grandmother took the 00:54:28.639 --> 00:54:33.019 one kid and the kid was really, really bad. And 00:54:33.019 --> 00:54:38.519 I was scheduled to go in for a course, a health 00:54:38.519 --> 00:54:41.860 course with the health promoters. And it rained 00:54:41.860 --> 00:54:45.260 that day and I couldn't get in. But the lady 00:54:45.260 --> 00:54:48.900 also heard on the two -way radio that I was coming. 00:54:49.260 --> 00:54:52.489 So she brought both of the sick babies. to the 00:54:52.489 --> 00:54:54.869 community but I wasn't there because the plane 00:54:54.869 --> 00:54:59.989 didn't arrive. So my health promoter and they 00:54:59.989 --> 00:55:03.449 were both at the point of death I think and she 00:55:03.449 --> 00:55:07.610 was able to get them hydrated. She had a baby 00:55:07.610 --> 00:55:12.789 as well so she gave them her milk and it was 00:55:12.789 --> 00:55:15.230 it was just so neat because the health promoter 00:55:15.230 --> 00:55:17.289 came to me the next day and told me what the 00:55:17.289 --> 00:55:20.730 situation was. They still were not well completely 00:55:20.730 --> 00:55:24.969 but They made it through the night with the health 00:55:24.969 --> 00:55:30.889 promoter's attention. And then we mixed up some 00:55:30.889 --> 00:55:36.550 formula, which is you couldn't, at that point, 00:55:36.690 --> 00:55:43.809 you couldn't buy formula. But it's something 00:55:43.809 --> 00:55:50.110 that they had used in Africa for the babies. 00:55:50.940 --> 00:55:55.400 powdered milk and oil and what else was it there 00:55:55.400 --> 00:55:59.099 were three things and you make a concentrate 00:55:59.099 --> 00:56:03.800 and then You able to feed and they made it to 00:56:03.800 --> 00:56:06.880 their teen years. I haven't I don't know about 00:56:06.880 --> 00:56:14.780 them now but they they made it and so that's 00:56:14.780 --> 00:56:18.159 There's been a lot of blessings that I've had 00:56:18.159 --> 00:56:21.630 in my own experiences And I'm just very thankful 00:56:21.630 --> 00:56:23.710 for that. And I better shut up.