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Well, greetings, brothers and sisters, and Christ
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Kris Anderson with another edition of our Time
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Missions podcast. And we are excited today because
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we have a special guest we'll be talking with,
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and that is Dorie Amspacher. Please correct me
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if I'm not pronouncing that correct, because
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I always wonder if I'm getting it just right.
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It's close enough. Amspacker. Amspacker. Okay.
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And some of you out there might be wondering,
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well, who is Dorie? I don't remember seeing her
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at time as one of the missionaries or volunteers.
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Well, one of the things that we've talked about
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doing during this podcast is not only learning
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more about our missionaries and our time team,
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but also talking to you out there. the participants
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that come and serve with us, because we know
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that you have a story too, and we want to hear
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what has drawn you to participate with Time Missions,
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how you got involved with the ministry, so that
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hopefully in the future, they may decide, wow,
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I can serve too, and I can participate in missions.
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So, Dorie, you are from York, Pennsylvania, or
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you're attending... Hanover's where
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I grew up, but I go to church in York, Pennsylvania.
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Yes. And which church are you part of? It used
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to be called Grace Fellowship many years ago.
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It's been changed now to Genesis. And Grace Fellowship
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has a long history with time missions, even back
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to ministry in Monterrey, I think. One of our
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site directors, Bill Malehorn, was part of that
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church as well. He was a site director here for
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many years. And so we're always thankful for
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the legacy of missions. through Grace Fellowship
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and now Genesis Church. But back to you, Dorie,
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tell us a little bit about yourself and growing
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up. You said you're from Hanover, and I know
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that you have a big family. Very large. I come
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from a family of 15. I had seven brothers and
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seven sisters. I was the baby. I was the youngest
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of all of them. Had a very loving family growing
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up, very close. My mom. was a wonderful woman
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of the God. I learned how to love God through
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her. Really, I saw her in action. And as a little
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girl, I always loved God. There was just something
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about her example. And even my father, my father
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was very tender and caring. And he gave me a
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perfect example of who our Heavenly Father was.
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Somebody who was unconditionally loved you, but
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also corrected you when you needed it. in love
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and growing up in that family with all of my
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siblings was just a very warm and inviting um
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experience for me growing up as a child and that's
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part so that's part of your testimony and and
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accepting the lord and so how did that continue
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then into your adult life what what did you do
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did you go to college how did how did life go
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after school i didn't um actually go to college
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but i graduated from high school um When I after
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high school, I think 18, 19, I sort of I wasn't
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really I was I grew up Catholic. So for me, attending
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church and doing those things was a practice.
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I love God. I love the ceremonial part of it.
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But it wasn't really until my life fell apart.
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Well, I was married. Marriage fell apart. At
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the age of 27, I got saved. I found the Lord
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in a very smaller church where it was more where
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the relationship with the Lord began, where He
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became Lord of my life. Instead of just knowing
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who Jesus was, which I always did, but I didn't
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understand the relationship of having that personal
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with Him until I was 27 and started down that
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road of serving God with all my heart. okay okay
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and then how did you get connected to to time
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right connected to time actually we attended
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um grace fellowship back at the time with my
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family and my son justin was the first one he
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was in a youth group and at the time dave karrison
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was our youth pastor and they took a team students
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down here. That's when my first introduction
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to time was, but I never really, he came home.
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He had a great experience here. It really changed
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him even as a teen. He still is today, he's 35.
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But when I talk about time, he has not forgot
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about it. And I think it gave him a perspective
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of America versus what we have and how he was
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so appreciative of a lot little less, you know,
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than he was when he first came. So it was a great
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experience for his mom to watch that. Then I
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guess it wasn't until I started working for another
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youth pastor, Dan Katz. I was his administrative
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assistant back in 2008. And we led a team down
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in 2012 and 16 of youth. And I fell in love with
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the country. I fell in love with the people.
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God always just gave me a love for this place.
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And I think a lot of it, to be honest with you,
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it felt like home. Growing up with a large family
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of 15, my first experience in the Time Center
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with all the kids made me feel like I was at
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home. The love that surrounded the community.
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You know, when you grow up with 17 people in
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one house, it's loud. Coming here with a bunch
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of kids, it's loud. But it made me feel at home,
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and something just kept drawing me back. To this
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place. And that was a question I was going to
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ask, is what does keep you coming back? You've
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been on multiple trips, and we'll talk a little
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bit about the reason for this particular trip.
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But what has drawn you to the ministry, besides
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the family aspect of it? When my daughter, one
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of them, came here, felt like she was being called
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to missions, I think a part of me was, but it
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didn't happen for her. But I think that when
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I look back now, I think maybe it was not about
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her. It was about me and what God had in store
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for me in the future. Because I felt so inadequate
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to even lead a team here. Without the education
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further than high school, it takes a lot of preparation
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to lead a team. And for me, I always felt, God,
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why me? But I, through just working at Genesis
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and Pastor Bob coming to me at one time and said,
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would you be considered being a part of the missions
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board team and leading a team to start up again
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to going down to time missions? And I said, yes,
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right away. I don't even did hesitation because
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I've really felt what draws me is the Lord. It's
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nothing that I'm capable of doing on my own.
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I know that part of me is being called. Don't
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know how and what that looks like. But I do know
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that my obedience to him, that's what I'm following
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right now. Yeah. Can you think of a specific
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instance or experience that you would think of
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as a favorite memory of yours being here? Oh,
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there's so many. I think there's just so many
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different ones with different trips that I came.
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And with each trip, there's something new I learn.
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There's something new I experience. I think my
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biggest favorite is I think when I bring students
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or when I did bring students and now adults here
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is watching what God does. It's watching how
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he changes them from the time they leave to the
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time we go back home. how their hearts are different,
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how they understand that they need more community,
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that they need more time with God. The one time
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I was here and there was a speaker and a woman
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speaker, and she said to me, which I'll never
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forget, but she said, you're so busy doing for
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God that we forget to be with God. And I think
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that was just such a favorite experience of mine
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that has kept me on that track because a lot
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of times in ministry, And working at the church
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and leading teams, I become very over busy and
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I don't have that time to be. And coming here
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for the week is a time that I can just lay things
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all down and hear from the Lord and just
focus
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on what he wants from me and what he wants next
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from me. So there's just so many favorites. I
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just really don't have any, but I just know that
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every time I come, it's been a wonderful experience
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and I go home growing more in the Lord and I'll
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watch others. experience the same thing. And
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we go back home and take that to church and put
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that into action. It's not just about when we
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come here, we also take it home. I see other
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girls getting involved with ministries at church
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that they necessarily weren't before. We develop
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relationships, friendships that we, I bring girls
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I don't even know, and we build more relationships
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with one another. It's lasting friendships forever.
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And it helps us to go back home and take that
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back. home what we need, what we do here, and
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we serve more at home. We love hearing that because
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that's such an important aspect of the ministry
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that many times people, as you said, we come
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down to serve a pastor, to serve some children,
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to do a project, but really our founders, Zeryl
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and Doretta Brown, wanted this to be an exposure
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to world missions with the hopes that People
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would go back to their home churches and have
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a greater desire to serve. If you can serve in
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a place where you don't know the language or
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the culture and you're willing to share Jesus,
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why won't you do that in your own backyard? And
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I know personally for me, a lot of times it's...
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Is it embarrassing or is it just you're face
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to face with those people every single day? And
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so when you start talking about Jesus and you
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start acting in a different way, you're not leaving
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in a week, right? You're there with them day
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after day after day. And especially if it's in
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your family. On the opposite side of the coin
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then with that question. Do you recall any very
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challenging times that you had here on a mission
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trip or an
experience that was difficult? I think
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for me, the language barrier is always, I don't
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speak Spanish. I wish I could learn it, but it's
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very difficult for me to pick it up. Learn a
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little bit more words as time goes on, but maybe
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I just have to get into a class and continually
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do it. But I think because when I... like this
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week, experiencing praying over, you know, the
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girl that we went with Anjali yesterday. And
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it was, I just wanted to connect with her so
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much. And that was the hindrance for it. And
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it wasn't, but you know, it's even, it amazes
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me that even though you have the language barrier,
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the Holy Spirit is there as well. And it's something
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how you can connect in thought and spirit, even
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though you can't speak each other's languages,
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but you feel it and you experience that even.
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That's probably my difficult barrier with that.
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Also, I think another thing is planning the trip.
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A lot of times people will get opposition from
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the enemy because coming here, he knows that
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God has a plan and a purpose for you wherever
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you're going, if it's serving for the week or
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months. And he will cause a little bit of disruption,
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even if it's in your own family or trials that
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you face, health, everything before you come.
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I think that's been with each trip. that I come
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and that I'd lead, I feel more of that opposition
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of where I can't go. I get fearful. But each
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time the Lord just presses through it and he
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gives me the victory. A lot of it is through
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just confessing that with my sisters that are
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coming, praying for one another, for God's spirit
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to take over. And here I am again. Amen. And
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he always wins. Amen. And that brings us to that
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question then. So why are you here on this particular
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trip? This isn't a youth trip, family trip, chapel
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building trip. Right. Why did you come at this
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particular time? Well, with this women that started,
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our women's director at Genesis is Rosemary James.
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She's with us today on this trip. But she came
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into my office. We did our second women's trip
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the first time. And she said, hey, I have some
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supplies. Would you like to take them down to
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the DR? And they made me use it. And I said,
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but what if you led a team of your women down
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here and I'll do all the administrative work
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and I'll get you here. I know the people, I have
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that experience. And then we became a partner
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really as a team. And we work, it works so great
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because she is in women's ministry. She knows
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the teachers. She knows who she can bring to
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help that. But then also I, I had to. The relationships
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that I've built over the years with coming here
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at time and the friendships that I've built.
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And so it works as a team. I came along because
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I am the missions director right now. Or not
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director. Sorry, correct that. The missions coordinator
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at Genesis. So about every year or so, I will
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help to lead teams to come down. And I'm here
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because I wouldn't miss it. Amen. Amen. Good
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to hear that. That's great. So we'll be here
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for the conference. And we talked to Anjali last
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week on our podcast, this 16th. Yes. Mohair Praktika
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Tuffei Women's Conference. And we're looking
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forward. Will you be here for 17? Good possibility.
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We won't make a comment on air. Good possibility.
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But it is nice to be able to partner with Anjali
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to come down and take the women that I bring.
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I mean, they just fall in love with. Very quickly.
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A girl made a comment in her prayer group last
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night and we prayed and she said, if I would
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leave tomorrow, which is only was Tuesday and
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we just got here Sunday. She said, I feel like
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I have felt God's presence already in the things
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that I've experienced. I could go home already.
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closer to God than I was when I got here and
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the experience that
we had. And it was just so
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neat to hear her say that because it was a very
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short time, but it's just going to visit the
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women coming alongside of Anjali and the leaders
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and the pastor's wives. Some are going through
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difficult times. Some are very discouraged and
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being able to just gather in somebody's home
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to pray over them and just see how the spirit
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works and to encourage them is such an enlightening
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part of me because It's challenging in ministry.
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And we all need one another. And prayer is one
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of the best things. It changes everything. And
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having that community of women to gather around
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you, to lift you further, to keep you going in
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the path that God has called you to go. So how
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would you then encourage someone? to participate
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with time, whether it was for a women's conference
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or a youth trip or family trip. Do you have any
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encouraging words that you would be willing to
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share? Well, I think for me, coming each time,
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I would encourage others that I've learned the
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difference between... Well, I'm going to say
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this again, but doing for God or being with God
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is that time that you just take away from your
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own life, your busyness of work, or even your
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family to come and be with the Lord. I've learned
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so many life -changing experiences here. A lot
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from being from America, we have so much, but
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yet a lot of us are very ungrateful, and we take
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that for granted. Coming here, it gives you another
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perspective, but it also is a great reminder.
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And coming yearly or even twice a year, it's
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always great to be reminded because we're forgetful
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people. And so I would encourage anybody to come
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here. If you walk on the soil to see pictures,
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it'll never do you justice of poverty or anything,
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the needs that are here. But you walk on this
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land and you see it the way God sees it and how
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grateful. time is itself, the people that work
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for time, but also the people in the Dominican
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and how grateful and loving they are and how
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much they give. They may not have a whole lot,
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but they give the best. And they're so grateful
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for the time that you have, even if it's just
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praying with them or if it's crying with them.
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It's amazing. And I have never, ever once felt,
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I wish I wouldn't have went. Never once. It's
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always, when am I going back? And I would encourage
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anybody who wants to experience once, they'll
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never regret it. And it'll be life -changing
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because you will not look at the world the same.
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At least that was my experience. And I think
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it is for many of the women and families that
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I brought here. Because when we go back home,
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we share the testimonies and they're all the
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same and they want to come again. It's been great
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here. It's been wonderful, wonderful talking
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to you and being willing to share with us your
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experiences. And we look forward to many more
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years, many more trips and serving whatever capacity
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God has called you to. And as we shared last
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week. The mission conference does need some support
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and partnership. And so people can go to our
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website, timemissions .com and click on the give
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and then select DR Women's Ministry. So you can
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partner that way financially. Of course, prayer
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over these next few days. Tomorrow afternoon,
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the conference begins in full swing tomorrow,
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Friday and Saturday. And so we covet everyone's
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prayers for that. And as you are here right now,
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participation. We'd love to have more people
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actually come and serve, help Anjali and her
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ministry with the pastor's wives, and continue
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to do more for the kingdom that is so desperately
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needed, not only here, but as you mentioned,
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even in your home church. I'm sure there are
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families and women that need... Fellowship. Yeah.
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Well, it's been such a pleasure talking with
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you and hearing your story today, Dori. And we
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appreciate you joining us and being willing to
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share and to serve in this way. And we look forward
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to what's going to happen this week in the conference
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and the next three days. And hopefully this will
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encourage others to participate, not only in
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women's ministry here at Time, but in missions
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overall. There's missions that need to be done
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all over the world. So thank you. Very welcome.
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And thank you again for listening to the Time
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Missions podcast. And we look forward to our
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next edition. God bless. Thank you so much.