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Mission SONlight Chatt Season 4 Ep. 24 Kent Grieve - International Children's Care · Mission SONlight CHATT

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Welcome to Network 7's Mission Sunlight Chat.
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We are at the ASINAD Convention Exhibit Hall
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here in Orlando, Florida, 2025. And around us
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is folks visiting and chatting and talking about
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what's happening in ministry around the world.
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And we are glad to have one of those ministries
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right here in our Exhibit Hall mobile studio.
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International Children's Care, Kent Grieve is
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the director. Vice President of Development.
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Kent, thank you for joining us. Thank you for
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having me. Now, am I okay to say ICC or do you
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prefer International Children's Care? We typically
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go by ICC. Okay. Now, you are based, if I remember,
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kind of on the western side of the United States.
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Is that correct? That's right. To Vancouver,
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Washington. Okay. Can you see Vancouver, B .C.
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from where you are? No. No, a little bit too
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far. Sometimes Portland, Oregon, though. It's
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just right across the Columbia River. Okay. Yeah.
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Very good. So that gives people an idea of where
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you're based. That's right. Hey, Kent, before
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we talk about anything else, let's just begin
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with a word of prayer. All right. Would you do
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that for us? I'd be happy to. Gracious Father
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in heaven, we're so thankful for your goodness
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to us, that you see something of value in us.
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that you want to put us in your service. And
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I pray as we spend this time together that you
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would just speak through me, speak through us,
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that you can be glorified in how you are working
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through this Ministry of International Children's
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Care for so many years. This is all about you,
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and I pray that that will be evident in the things
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that we talk about. We pray this in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen. Kent, just a reminder, we've got
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to keep you pretty close to that microphone.
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If you stray too much, there's too much noise
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in this room. We lose it. We don't want to miss
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a word. All right. So tell us, Kent, you haven't
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always been the vice president for development.
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Tell us a little bit about your early years,
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your career before ICC. Yeah, well, I have an
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education background, and so I spent a number
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of years teaching. Then my wife and I wanted
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to work together in mission, and so the opportunity
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came for us to do that through International
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Children's Care. We were sent by the organization
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to Romania to be the directors, and that was
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back in 1997. Quite a dramatic, not a traumatic
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change, but a dramatic change for us as we moved.
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over to Romania to help establish a children's
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village, a children's program for the organization.
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We had been working there for a number of years
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and really hadn't been able to get a program
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started because of governmental regulations,
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restrictions, and those kinds of things. But
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we saw God miraculously open doors for us to
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get authorization from the government to actually
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open. a receiving center for children and it
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was kind of an interesting thing for us because
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we had anticipated bringing in small children
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maybe ages four to ten or whatever and the first
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child came in as a four -year -old so he said
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yeah that seems like what we're going to have.
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But it became very evident quickly that the government
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really wanted to send us infants. And so that
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was a challenge because we had beds all ready
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for children. And all of a sudden, small babies
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were coming to us. And it was like, oh, no, what
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do we do? We didn't have a Walmart to go and
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just buy the seven cribs that they had. So we
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had to go throughout the town of Bucharest trying
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to find. cribs to take the place of beds. So
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it was a very interesting dynamic that we had
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as we had to adjust our program kind of on the
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fly to take care of the children that were coming
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to us. Basically, at that time, from hospitals,
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the children who had been abandoned by their
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mothers, their parents, and the government were
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saying, okay, we'll let you start taking care
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of these kids. And it was really... Really a
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wonderful experience for us because we had gone
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hoping that this would happen and we saw God
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open the doors just at the right time for us
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to be able to do that and then supply the need,
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you know, when we had the need to find the cribs.
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Amen. That was kind of your early setting with
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ICC. Yeah. Take us back before. Where did you
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grow up? What's your family like? Yeah, I grew
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up in an Adventist family. My dad was a teacher
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of music and then elementary school. Is that
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where you feel like you developed your love for
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education or did it take some time? Yeah, no,
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I think so. My dad was my fifth grade teacher.
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Okay. So, you know, it just kind of was one of
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those things. I did pass. My classmates thought
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that I was the teacher's pet. It's like, no way.
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My dad is much harder on you because, you know,
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I get it at home, too. Yeah. So, you know, growing
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up in an educator's household, I think, had an
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influence in my desire to be a teacher and then
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eventually, you know, work with ICC around kids.
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So it's been a blessing. Where did you say you
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grew up? Grew up in... In Orlando, actually.
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Okay. Here we are in Orlando. I went from second
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grade to eighth grade here. Okay. Siblings? Siblings,
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yeah. I have an older brother who's retired as
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a physician. And then my middle brother, Rick,
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who you know, just retired recently as a ministerial
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director of the North Region of Georgia Cumberland
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Conference, which is the... The Adventist entity
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in Georgia and East Tennessee. That's right.
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So, yeah, so the three of us grew up together
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in that same kind of environment. Okay. Yeah.
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Now, eighth grade, what happened after that?
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Eighth grade went to a self -supporting school
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called Little Creek Academy in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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in that same area, basic area. Then spent four
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years there, met my wife, or who would be my
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wife. We started dating, if you could call it
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that, because the school was very... Had little
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kids, didn't allow that. Didn't allow that. At
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least not very much. But after two years of college,
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we went to Southern Adventist University, which
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was Southern Missionary College at the time.
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After two years of her, she got her nursing degree,
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and we got married, and then I finished my degree
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in education back in 85. Okay. So you taught
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for a number of years. Yeah. Do you remember
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how long that was? Eight years. Okay. Yeah. And
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then we had the opportunity to work together.
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My wife's a nurse, and that was fine. but we
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found really a joy of being able to work together,
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especially with her nursing background and I
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think my education background. It was kind of
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a blend of things and International Children's
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Care offered us that opportunity because when
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we went to Romania, I probably wouldn't have
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known what to do with infants, but she was a
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mother -baby nurse. And so that just kind of
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fit really, really well. So I took care of the
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administration side of things and she actually
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helped to create the care standards. for us taking
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care of the kids. And that was pretty significant.
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And I remember in Romania, especially when we
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were there early on, we had one computer. And
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so we would sometimes fight for the computer
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time. Right, right. And late at night, it's like,
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hey, you know, let's turn off the lights. It's
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over. And it's like, well, I need my time on
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the computer. So anyway, that was something.
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And I was recounting sometime recently. how in
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those days we got communication by facsimile.
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And I was telling someone like that, you know,
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facsimile, they said, what's that? And it's like,
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yeah, here is 10 time zones from our office,
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and they're communicating with me in the middle
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of the night, and here comes the fax tone and
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the fax machine. It's like, oh, do I get up to
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see what is being said and read it? Is it important?
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Is it important or not? That's up your sleep.
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Yeah, so that's the early days of our working
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together. In Romania. In Romania. My wife has
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Romanian heritage, so we've been to those places
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you're talking about. I really enjoyed that.
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you might think. Welcome back to Mission Sunlight
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Chat, chatting with Kent Grieve, who is the Vice
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President for Development at International Children's
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Care, or ICC. ICC. And you were telling us about
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how you and your wife connected with ICC, a little
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bit about your personal history. Where did you
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go after Romania? After Romania it was interesting
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just before we left we sensed that our time there
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was drawing to a close in a sense because one
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of the things that is not unusual but is typical
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about our programs is that We depend on locals
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to manage our projects internationally. And since
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I was not a local, it was inevitable that at
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time we would find someone to take over for me,
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for us. And that happened after being there about
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three years. And it's kind of an interesting
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thing. Cell phones were relatively new at that
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time. But when my assistant director started
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taking more phone calls than me, I sensed that
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I could be expendable, that I could leave. And
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it was really true because she had taken on much
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of the responsibilities and people were depending
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on her. Of course, she spoke the language fluently
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and she knew what to do. And so there was a need
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for a regional development director in our European
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division, so to speak, of ICC. It's not really
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a division. We're a small organization. And so
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I was asked to move to the Netherlands. And so
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I became the European Regional Director because
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we had some chapters, some fundraising offices,
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raising funds to support our children's programs.
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And so we moved to the Netherlands and spent
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about eight months. And we had a couple of children.
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And after eight months, we sensed that it was
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time for our children. for their best interest
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to come back to the United States. And so I was
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offered a position as assistant to the president
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at that time. And I could continue remotely working
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for our European partners. And so that was back
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in 2001. I've been at International Children's
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Care working at the main office since then. After
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a while, became the International Development
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Director, and then recently we've kind of changed
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position titles, and I became Vice President
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of Development. So we've kind of touched all
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around it, and we've mentioned the name several
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times, but what does ICC do? What is its purpose?
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What is its vision? Well, God tells us that true
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religion is to take care of orphans and widows
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and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
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That's James 127. And so part of that equation
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is to take care of orphan children. And so there
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are millions of orphan children around the world.
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And so international children's care, if we could
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sum it up maybe in one sentence, if this is a
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sentence. We provide Adventist family -based
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care to orphaned and vulnerable children in a
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setting where there's a mom and a dad, and with
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an emphasis on saving them for this world and
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for the world to come. Amen. So that's really,
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we have a salvific emphasis in what we do. We
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have 10 to 12 children in a children's home that
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we create. We hire the house parents. We train
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them. We monitor them through children's services
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to make sure that the children are taken care
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of well. And then we'll place 10 to 12 homes
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on what we call a children's village campus.
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And so that creates the community atmosphere.
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We have a school. We have a church. And that's
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where these kids grow up. for generations now
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since we've started in 1978. The generations
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of kids who've come through our program and continue,
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we consider them still part of what we call the
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ICC family because it's family -based and the
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kids when they turn 18 they don't age out. We
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try to make sure that they have some kind of
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a skill or training to be able to take care of
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themselves. Amen. So I just recently received
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a text from someone in Romania, a girl who had
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just finished her last presentation. And she
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sent me a message and said, with this last presentation.
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I'm done with university, and she just graduated
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a couple of weeks ago with a degree in dentistry,
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and she's going to be an oral surgeon. Good for
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her. Yeah, exactly. And she's in her late 20s
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and still one of our kids, and so that's what
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our ministry is. She still wants to report to
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you and have that accountability but also that
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connection. That's right. She says, thanks for
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everything. Amen. You know, and so just something
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like that. And I wrote in our newsletter, because
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we have a newsletter, and I said, she wrote to
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me, she texted me, but really this. This is a
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message to you, our ICC family, for making this
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possible in her life. Tell me this. Do you know
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how many children currently are in the care of
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ICC or even how many have been through the years?
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Yeah, we have over 400 that we would consider
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part of our ICC family. Five, six different projects.
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Some of them are Children's Village. And over
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the years, probably close to between 4 ,000 and
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5 ,000. It's really specialized care, so it's
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not just providing educational funding for them
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to go to a dormitory situation, which is fine.
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But we have felt like, well, let's focus on the
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family, not to borrow the name, but let's make
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sure that the kids who come to us have that family
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connection, that tie with families, so they know
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what it's like, what it's about, and then they
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can transfer that to the next generation of children
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and hopefully break that cycle. So God is blessed.
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We consider that the Lord has, this is the Lord's
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ministry, and it is. It's ordained by God. Psalms
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68 .6 says, God places the lonely in families.
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And it's like, yeah, that's what he does because
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he knows the family is the best place to nurture
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a child until they're able to then nurture the
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next generation. They know how to do that. Amen.
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So let's say I'm a donor or a volunteer who's
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interested in connecting with the ministry. What
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would be my next step? Well, we could have a
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conversation, of course. They could call. Our
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office, we have an 800 number, 800 -ICC -PREY.
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It's easy. Or we have our website, forhiskids
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.org, O -R -G. Is that the number four or F -O
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-R? F -O -R -H -I -S -K -I -D -S dot O -R -G.
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Okay, we can add that in our program notes and
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let others know how they can do that. Yeah, reach
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out. I'd be happy to talk to anybody and share
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some stories. I mean, like the one that I just
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shared about the, hey, I'm done. You know, that's
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a milestone for that child, but there's others
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who are just beginning, you know, and that's
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the thing. There always seems to be a supply
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of orphaned children who need the help that we
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can give. So is 400 kind of a top -out number
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that you've had through the years? Have you had
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like maybe 100 here or 200 there, or is there...
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Is this a low point or a lower consensus? I think
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it's a lower point, yeah, because of changes
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in society and changes in government. For instance,
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our flagship project is in Guatemala. Well, because
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government assistance is tied oftentimes with
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policy. governments will come in and say, listen,
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you don't have an orphan care problem here, do
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you? You need to take care of this. You need
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to create a different system so that there's
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not orphanages. And even though we don't consider
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ourselves an orphanage, we consider ourselves
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managed foster care. Many governments don't see
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that. And so even though the courts, the judges
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and the social workers love our programs and
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want them to continue, the higher ups in the
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government to be able to get aid from the European
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Union, the United States and those kinds of things,
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they'll say, no, shut those organizations, shut
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those orphanages down or whatever. So we've had
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that challenge a little bit in Guatemala. We
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still have children there, but it's like. they
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have to find solutions for the kids. And it's
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really a tragedy to these kids because the government
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is forced to try to find a relative to like the
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fourth degree of connectedness. And even at the
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penalty of going to jail if they don't take a
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child that they probably don't even know. And
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so we had that case sometimes very sadly where
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a child would be taken away and then, you know,
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one of our workers would be out in town and see
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that child on the street begging. breaks your
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heart. And so, you know, as far as our organization,
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we have to work in close relationship, not only
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with the church entities, because we operate
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these facilities as closely to the church as
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we can, because we want the children to learn
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about Jesus. And so we have Christian house parents
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and that kind of thing. But the governments have
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to cooperate with us. So we've had to have some
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restructuring as the world climate changes as
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well about child care. Wow. It's not just a matter
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of, here, let me help you have some food and
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have a little education. You've just got so many
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loopholes to jump through. That's right. And
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that is the case, where you might have homes
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empty because the government refuses to send
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the kids to us. So anyway, but still, there's
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a work to do, and especially in a place like
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the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is our
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largest project. We have 180 kids, and life is
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lived on the fragile edge in a country like that,
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be it the geopolitical issues, be it natural
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disasters, the civil wars, the things that are
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going on over there. It's just a tragedy just
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waiting to happen, and you see it in the news,
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and it's the innocent children that suffer. And
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oftentimes we're called and said and told, OK,
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we're going to bring you 40 kids. And it's like,
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wait a minute. Our model is that we have 10 to
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12 kids in a home. That's four homes. We don't
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have space for that. And so their expectation
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in the government is, and again, it's completely
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different. Solve it. Solve it. You take care
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of it. What are we going to do? We have 400 kids
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in this tragedy. And it's like, oh, wow. OK,
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Lord, what do you want us to do? Fortunately,
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we have a donor base of ICC family members who
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love this ministry, see it as God -ordained,
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and have helped us build. I think we're starting
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our 15th house, or we're finishing our 15th house
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on that project, which is quite large for us,
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because ideally we're probably in the 120 as
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far as capacity for a children's village. I want
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to come back and have you share a little bit
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more. I've got a question or two for you as well
22:58
to wrap up the program, but we're going to do
22:59
that in just a moment. A reminder to our listeners
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and viewers, we are here at ASI, the North American
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Division Exhibit Hall, as they make announcements
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overhead. We are glad that you are along with
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us, and we will be back in a moment with more
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Mission Sunlight Chat. Our salvation is a day
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-to -day matter, isn't it? The real principle
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of the Sabbath is reconnecting ourselves with
23:32
the Creator. We must learn to abide in Jesus'
23:38
name. We move ahead with our mission objectives,
23:41
recognizing that we are serving together the
23:44
Most High God. Welcome back to Mission Sunlight
23:59
Chat, chatting with Kent Grieve from IACC, International
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Children's Care. What a broad arm. How many countries
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are you in now? We're in five primary countries,
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but we have some small projects like Romania
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where we're having to exit the country basically
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because the country and the officials. don't
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really allow our project to work. But we still
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have a couple of kids that are finishing up.
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So we have five primary children's villages that
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we're working in. DR Congo, Dominican Republic,
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Guatemala, Mexico, and India as well. And we
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have some children in Ghana that we're helping
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as well. And so those are the five that we're
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working in. What are your biggest challenges?
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Biggest challenges, sometimes it varies to the
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project. In a place like Mexico sometimes it's
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hard for us to find house parents. So close to
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the United States that there's this migration
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towards the U .S. to try to get to the U .S.
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and cross and so you get some house parents trained
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and skilled and able and then all of a sudden
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opportunity somewhere else to earn two or three
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times more money. you know, is offered to them.
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And just to better their lives, they do that.
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So also Dominican Republic is the same way. Hard
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to find good quality house parents who are skilled
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and still dedicated to spend that extra time
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and effort and love these kids need. Because
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you can imagine what it takes to take care of
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one child who's needy. What about 12 kids who
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are starved for attention and love and who may
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have all kinds of trauma that they're dealing
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with. And so as a house parent that's very difficult
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to, how to say, give of yourself. for long term.
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But we have had some very dedicated houseparents
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through time. Some of them have taken two generations
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of kids through their home, if you can imagine.
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And God has really worked through them and blessed
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them. So anyway, houseparents, they're the heart
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and soul of our project, as you can imagine,
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in a family -based care. Sometimes funding can
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be a challenge. This is a chaotic time for us
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to be working. where people are looking at their
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401ks and how it goes up and down, and people
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are a little concerned about what the future
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will hold. And so sometimes it's hard, especially
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in the summer months, for the funds to stretch.
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And what do you say to a program like this? Well,
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okay, we're just not going to feed these kids
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for a while. You can't do that. It's like, no.
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If we were drilling wells, you'd say, okay, we
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can only do 12 this year instead of 25 that we
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had planned on. But these are high fixed costs
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because we commit to these kids. They've already
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experienced loss. And so for us to say, no, we
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can't take care of you anymore is a non -starter
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for us. We have to continue to take care of.
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So we have to make the fun stretches as hard
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as we can. Once you're there, you're there. For
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the long run. That's right. We have to be there.
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But, you know, when you talk about the long run,
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I'd like to share one story of a guy named Timothy
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from India. God has worked through him in a special
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way. He was orphaned in a train station in India.
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And a pastor was passing through. You know, this
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is Timothy lived on people's leftovers from the
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train. He would go through and that's how he
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would survive. And Timothy had the opportunity
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to join our children's village there in India.
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A pastor was passing through that train station,
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saw the boy, saw he had potential, and said,
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would you like to have a home? Would you like
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to go to school? And he said, yeah, I would like
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to do that. So he became part of our sweet home
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children's village in India. And through time,
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he grew up. He was the president of his senior
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class. And then he went to Spicer Adventist University.
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He has his master's degree, is a pastor, and
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came back to the school where he attended. He's
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close by on our campus and just recently was
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ordained to the gospel ministry. This is just
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within the last few years, a few months. And
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then we just recently received pictures of him
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baptizing. some of the current children on that
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village campus. And it's like, oh, what a wonderful
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testimony to God's goodness in his life that
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he's able to be that role model for other kids
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and he's able to work towards their salvation.
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And to me, that's a special story of how God
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has worked through this ministry for so many
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years. Amen. Amen. I am a product of foster care.
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Spent a year or so in it after my birth mother
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passed away before I was adopted into the family
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that I know and love. And so I am grateful for
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what you are doing. I identify with some of those
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challenges. I don't really remember that era
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of my life, but it touches my heart. I'm empathetic
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for those kids. And when I travel, as you know,
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all over the world, finding kids who are facing
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those uncertainties really. Pulls up my heart.
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Yeah. I want to do more. Exactly. Besides just
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telling their stories. Yeah. You know, there's
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a balance to that, as you know. Yes. How much
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you involve yourself and you have a responsibility
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to a lot. Yes. So thank you for what you're doing.
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Is there just a word from Scripture, something
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you'd like to share just as we close? Yeah. I
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think, again, it's a mandate. that God has given
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to us to take care of orphaned and vulnerable
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children. So, okay, what is it that anybody can
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do? Certainly they can join us to sponsor a child
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or they could pray for us, pray for our kids,
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because that's so important. But also... Throughout
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our time and our history of over 40 years, we
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have always seen God take an interest in our
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project for children. And there have been times
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when finances have been very, you know, stretched
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to the limit almost. And in those times, in our
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extremity, we have always seen God come through.
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So the text, my God shall supply all your needs.
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We're living testimony of that at International
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Children's Care, and that's an encouragement
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to all of us. It's God who provides the supply.
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He may supply the need for our children through
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you or through others, or he may supply your
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need in a special way. Count on him because we
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found that he is a faithful provider. That's
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a good closing word, count on him. I want to
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say that to our listeners and viewers. Wherever
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you are, whatever you're doing, however your
31:03
struggle may be, great or small, count on him.
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Count on him. From Pastor Grieve. I know you're
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going to say, that's my brother. That's my brother.
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Kent, thanks so much for your time today. Thank
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you. Blessing to hear from ICC. We have had interactions
31:19
from time to time, and I'm just grateful to have
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you on our program. Thank you. Thank you for
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having me. Thank you to our listeners and viewers.
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You've been a blessing as well. I want to say
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something to you that's really important. We
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are praying for you. Please continue to pray
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for us, and I'll say thank you, thank you, thank
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you for doing that. That is our program for today.
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