Videos
Trinity Broadcasting Network Interview
Tornado News
Footage of Disaster Relief in Alabama
Time: 1:45 | Description: Right now members of the Seminole County Church are in Alabama helping storm victims. A trained disaster relief team from Northland Church in Longwood traveled to a small town called Pleasant Grove, not far from Birmingham. Eyewitnesses’ News at Ten shows us what they’re doing.
It’s a giant truck with a full kitchen carrying the Biblical name of Joshua.
“When I rode in this morning it was like angels coming in.” A disaster response team from Northland Church in Longwood has arrived at the heart of Dixie. This is the community they’ve come to help, Pleasant Grove, Alabama. The damage here is as devastating as any we’ve seen after three days in the states. And some of the areas are so hard to get to, two people are still unaccounted for.
Lady Lake Response
Time: 3:29 | Description: I’m David Canther, the founder of ACTS, First Response, Army of Everyone, we have a passion to be able to go out when terrible disasters strike, to be able to give a loving hand to those who are hurting in our community, it’s about collaborating together, working with the local community, working together with the city and the county, the governor. Working with the state emergency response team. Volunteers uniting together to be able to make a difference so that when donated goods arrive on-site, within just four hours we can have those goods sorted and distributed into the hands of a hurting community.
We want to be there within 24 hours. To be able to use volunteers from young to old. high school students, college students, to be able to unite together to create a plan where we can do mass feeding, mass distribution rapidly.
Heritage – students ACTS of kindness
Time: 7:02 | Description: We have been called to preach good tidings to the poor, to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and to comfort all who mourn.
“We were cleaning up from the tornado and there was a guy who knew the family that had gone through the tornado and he invited us inside one of the houses where the lived, and inside he showed us how just the room where they had stayed, and part of the living room, had been preserved. The rest of the house was destroyed. When they came out of the back room when the tornado passed there was this big family Bible that was sitting on the coffee table, and it had been opened to the page of Jesus holding the lamb. It was so powerful to see how Jesus was showing that he was with them through this storm.”
Haiti Earthquake
PowerPoint Presentation
Time: 8:15 | Description: On Tuesday, January 12, 2010 a 7.1 earthquake destroyed Port au Prince. 300,000 died, 600,000 were injured and 1.5 million were left homeless. Haiti’s beauty became marred by the world’s most recent natural disaster. “God has called you to serve others in love.” Galatians 5:13. Who will respond? Who will help restore hope in Haiti? ACTS First Response team deployed 1400 Medical, Search and Rescue, Engineers, Emotional, and Spiritual Care teams to Haiti on 27 free jets the first month, Phase 1 (Acute Care).
71,032 patients have been seen by mobile medical team members and 2.3 million dollars of medicine was distributed. 1249 patients have been seen by dentists (10% of mobile patients). 285,000 meals have been served to displaced quake victims. 70,000 tons of clean waters has been distributed.
Changes Lives – Full Version
Time: 7:19 | Brief description: This short video gives an update of where God has been leading with ACTS in Haiti in the past six months.
Following is a brief overview of the phases ACTS has been going through from first response to evangelism.
Phase 1: Acute Care: as many of the medical providers came in they found thesmelves working at the adventist hospital in Haiti. The needs were very acute with thousands of people on the front lawn of the hospital. We performed a lot of amputations. The Haitians desperately needed help at the hospital. We were one of the first responders on the scene.
Phase 2 – Mobile Clinic:
We were able to primarily focus on pediatric and primary care patients. 700-1500 people a day. We administered $2.3 million in donated medicine. During these first two phases we worked to provide medical and emotional care. 68,000 patients were cared for.
Phase 3 – Training.
We believe in teaching people how to fish. Giving the Haitians ownership of the pond. Literally coming in to train them in professional technical training so they can be used effectively in the orphanages and schools. We’ve been able to see changed lives. Over 300,000 meals have been served served.
Phase 4 – Evangelism.
Training in spiritual and emotional care, how to lead somebody to Christ. The ACTS Prayer model is built on the acronym, adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplications. We’ve been helping the Haitians to realize they can be effective in their own country.
Your gifts can be used both domestically and internationally to help spread the gospel.
Changes Lives – Short Version
Time: 3:15 | Description: Same as above.
Haiti 2010 Christy Braman
Time: 4:24 | Description: Music video showing images of the devastation in Haiti along with the care and assistance that was provided by ACTS World Relief.
Haiti Report
Time: 5:53 | Description: 40,000+ patients treated at hospitals, clinics, and mobile clinics by 420 care providers. 105,000 hot meals served at hospital for patients, refugees, and volunteers. Water restored to hospital. 2,600 feet of pipe laid to university spring. ACTS engineers and architects inspected 60 government, hospital, union, university, and industrial buildings.
This is the first time ACTS World relief reaches out with a great team of medical experts to meet the needs that are happening with the people in Haiti. We have many surgeons, support staff, we’ve got about 100 medical individuals here in the team. We have a SARS team that’s here, Search and Rescue Team with a canine dog, that will be accompanying various groups.
At the hospital where we brought in over 100 medical personnel to stabilize, a lot of the trauma from the earthquake victims and survivors. But now we’re into operation two, we’re now strong partners with Operation Hope. Network of 50 orphanages through Operation Hope and ACTS World Relief.
ABC News Clip: Haiti Update
Time: 0:31 | Caption: More doctors from central Florida are due to arrive in Haiti as well today. Doctors, nurses, and other volunteers from Florida Hospital packed up medical supplies today. They belong to an organization called ACTS, Active Community Teams Serving. They will spend a week in Haiti trying to help the injured. Florida Hospital donated 3000 pounds of medical supplies to the cause.
Doctor Jason Shives, “I don’t know what we’re going to see, but we’re trying as much as possible to be prepared for whatever we see.”
In addition to all the medicine the volunteers packed up, they also had diapers, clothing, and even Bibles, for the needy.
MSNBC News Clip: Haiti Update
Time: 0:42 | Caption: Local doctors are helping in the Haitian relief efforts, including a woman who lost 12 of her family members in that catastrophe. Doctors and workers from Florida Hospital and the ACTS World Relief organization came together in the Forest Lake Academy parking lot to pack up medical supplies to send to the devastated country. They say any little bit helps.
“Sometimes in this country you get caught up with all of Medicare cutting this, you’re not getting paid for such and such, and really when it comes down to it the majority of doctors don’t care about those types of things. They just want to help somebody in need at that moment.”
The supplies were driven to Miami and put on an immediate flight out to Haiti.
Channel 13 News Clip: Haiti
Time: 0:55 | Caption: A group of doctors and nurses from Florida Hospital will spend the next week helping patients in Haiti. They gathered in Apopka Sunday afternoon to load medical supplies on Semi’s to take to Miami. They will be loaded on private jets to head to Haiti where the teams will concentrate on mostly triage care. Now for one of the medical professionals it will be an emotional journey. She had 12 of her family members in Haiti, and at this point it looks like only four have survived.
Chantal Grant, “I’m going not just for my family alone but I’m going home because I’m in the medical field and I have a brother out there and there’s nothing being done for him, not that no one will do anything for him but no on knew his location once he got found so I’m hoping that he gets the help and that others get the help that they need. Now this group plans to spend a week in Haiti, they’re giving up their vacation time to make the trip.
CBS News Clip: Haiti
Time: 1:43 | Caption: One central Florida medical professional is on her way to the region tonight. She’s a very personal connection to the devastation. As many as eight of her family members are missing and feared dead. “At this moment that I’m doing this interview, I’m thinking of my brother back home, like, ‘is he going to still be ok by the time I get there?”
Chantal Grant is a chronic relief coordinator at Florida Hospital. This morning she helped pack medical supplies for ACTS World Relief as she and about 100 others get ready to fly tomorrow morning from Miami to Haiti. Chantal says of her 12 family members in Haiti she only knows of four who survived. One is a brother who she says needs medical attention now. “From what I heard he was stuck at the hospital that collapsed in Port-Au-Prince and they finally found him so now he’s just in the yard because there is no medical attention to him right now.”
As you can imagine for her this mission is very personal. “I feel like it’s my duty to go help my native people”. “We just heard the call and we’re going to go.” Family Medicine resident Dr. Eli Kim is one of dozens of volunteers from central Florida who will be doing all they can to help Haitians for the next week. “I got a phone call from a friend who said that there’s a village there, a clinic and there’s people dying of just basic things because there’s no doctors to help them.” Tonight I spoke to one of the doctors from Florida Hospital as he drove to Miami. He says ACTS World Relief will be ferrying them to Haiti tomorrow morning 12 at a time on a leer jet ands tons of medical supplies will be sent on a cargo plane. He also said the Haitian ministry of health will be providing security for them.
Haiti Interview with David Canther
Time: 20:04 | Caption from first two minutes: David Canther, “we want to glorify God for his miraculous blessings because it’s all Him that made it possible for us to be in several days right after the earthquake. One of our great business partners that was actually an incident commander for Hurricane Katrina, where we were deployed for over a year with over 45,000 volunteers that led out in one of those particular units, called me up and said David, I’m ready to help. I said Chris, we have a logistical nightmare trying to get people into Haiti is not going to be easy, it’s a war zone. And he said, well I just happen to be related to somebody who is also quite well todo, he’s a billionaire that owns a fleet of aircraft, a 737, a number of leer jets. He said, let me make a phone call. That illustrates how networking together makes it all possible. Within a day he called me back and said, ‘We’re ready to start flying.’ Once again ACTS is known for immediate response, low bureaucracy, a huge volunteer force of over 60,000 people. We began assembling a team of over 100 medical personnel, we flew in. I had already have several letters of request, actually a request from the hospital Adventista here that it was operating more like a clinic even before the earthquake, and after the earthquake we had understood that most of the staff had left the facility. That was one of my first objectives. Sorry to say when we arrived at the airport we were informed by the driver of our transportation that we found that it was impossible to get to the hospital. The roads were blocked, there were cinderblocks in the way, and they said, ‘You can’t get through there.’”
Watch the video for the entire interview.
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3ABN Spanish Interview
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Hurricane Relief
Who is ACTS?
Time: 5:44 | Description: Active Community Team Services. What do they do? Train youth in worldwide service. What is their purpose? Experience fulfillment in service. Who do they help? Helping those that are hurting with healing. There are many faces to ACTS, all are action. We are a collaboration and a united effort with government, state, and local leaders. Training youth to respond to disasters and emergencies through ACTS Disaster Relief and ACTS Emergency support. ACTS Mission Statement: “Providing leadership to empower youth volunteers to active community services as a way of sharing the love of Christ, especially during times of disaster.”
I am ACTS
Time: 5:22 | Description: I am the hands, the eyes, the feet, and heart of Jesus Christ. I am Christ’s soldier. I am God’s soldier. ACTS, an army of everyone. Video describing Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans.
David Canther, “Today what you are witnessing is one of the greatest evangelistic opportunities, you can see young people form a lot of the academies all around North America coming here, wanting to be involved in action, being the hands and feet of Jesus, reaching out to their communities.
ACTS is looking to be moving, the whole idea of ACTS moving is it needs wheels.
Embrace: Extreme Missions, Nicaragua
Time: 3:28 | Description: Hurricane Felix slammed into the Nicaragua east coast in early September bringing damage and devastation. Crops and homes were damaged and destroyed. Thousands of lives were left hurting. 92,000 homes were destroyed. We are conducting a series of seminars that focus on basic business principles, agriculture techniques and disease prevention. The scope of the project is to rebuild 10 homes per month at a cost of $2,500 each. As part of the project a portable sawmill was purchased in order to furnish higher quality lumber. The local people have been trained and are currently producing lumber with the mill.
CBS News with Katie Couric
Time: 6:58 | Brief Description: Responding to disaster, the federal government can do it. FEMA has some $3.4 billion tax dollars per year to spend. And since it’s disastrous performance after Hurricane Katrina, FEMA has promised to move faster. But sometimes the people who show up first after a disaster are volunteers. As national correspondent Biron Pitts reports, volunteers with the American Spirit.
Like so many tornado survivors, 64 year old Marlyn Fisher, Lake Mack, Florida, is rebuilding her life one piece at a time. Marlyn is surrounded by volunteers from around the country, all part of a Christian non-profit organization called ACTS.
Love them like Jesus
Time: 3:56 | Description: ACTS’ unique niche is to be a first responder, but an implementer, so that we are the hands and feet, we’re the ones that run out and do it. There’s an impact that’s made when people see that you love them and care. Serving God is the best opportunity you have in this life, something that all of us can look forward to. There are so many people in this world who may not have the help they need. If you’re looking for happiness and joy in life helping people here is the biggest happiness you can ever get. It’s a good feeling to be able to give.
One lady cried and was so thankful that we could help her and that somebody was around to be there for them, I would recommend it for others to come and do, because you get to be the hands and of feet of Jesus.
Montemorelos – Mexico Volunteers in Texas
Time: 10:00
