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Our God is to be made
known to the ends of the
earth.
That is the call that we
all share.
Being translated into the
mother tongue of the
people here in Cuba.
The main purpose is to
leave a strong divine
legacy to the ministry.
The way of God is
something amazing because
it is not just a movie,
it's not a TV show.
It's a bible.
He knew he had a plan for
his life just like he had
a plan for your life.
Shalom and welcome
once again to CrossTalk.
My name is Randy Weiss and
I have a dear friend
joining us today.
Carlos Alamino from Cuba.
It's great to have
you here today.
Carlitos: Thank you.
It's a pleasure.
Randy: We are working
together on the Today With
God project in the
language of Cuban Spanish
and you and your father
and 1,500
seminary students at
the seminary that your
father founded.
We have hopes for what
this will all achieve and
how the Today With God
project in the land of
Cuba will be used by God.
Today with God.
Today on Crosstalk I would
love for you to let our
audience know about how
you came to know God.
Carlitos: It's like my
dad,
I grew up in a Christian
family but I was always in
the church business.
It's like we ... But one
day when I was nine years
old,
I decided to accept Jesus
in my heart and I told my
dad I want to be baptized.
Everybody said,
"But you're too young."
I know that I'm a sinner
and I accept Jesus as my
savior so I want to be
baptized.
Why not?
When I was nine years old
I was baptized in water
and after that I have been
working in the ministry
for until now and I hope
I keep ...
Randy: God has been
faithful from your
mother's womb.
God has been faithful.
Your parents prayed and
dedicated you to God and
God has kept you.
Carlos,
you've had some
experiences that would
sort of set you apart.
You've had pain in your
life,
you've had tragedy in your
life but you've also had
the glorious reality of a
God of power and love in
your life.
It's obvious to look at
you that something
happened.
Something happened that
caused you to have marks
on your face,
on your neck.
Your eye is ... Doesn't
work.
What happened?
Carlitos: Once I was close
to 12 years old we went in
a very old American car.
It was night.
The tractor was with no
lights in the back and we
crashed.
All the windshield of
the car came over my face.
Randy: Now,
in Cuba where you're from,
we're you live,
the only American cars
that are there are very
old American cars from
before the days of the
embargo.
The safety features that
we have in American cars
today,
they don't exist in the
older cars in Cuba.
When you say that the
windshield you ... What
occurred?
What was the result?
What happened?
Carlitos: It's that in the
tractor,
when we head the tractor
we were about 70,
80 kilometers per hours so
we head the tractor and
the windshield was broken.
It just came on to me.
It cut all my face,
my nose, my eyes,
my throat, everything.
I got jugular and carotid
was cut, completely cut.
Randy: The jugular vein,
the carotid artery
severed.
Carlitos: Yes.
Randy: I've talked to your
father.
He told me that he was
literally putting your
things back in your neck
and pushing your eye back
into the socket.
It was out of the socket.
Carlitos: That's what the
doctors did.
I spent about 30 minutes
on the road to get the
hospital.
I can't remember all
things but what I know is
what the people talked
about my accident in the
hospital because I was
getting asleep.
I lost all my blood.
They add blood to my body
about six liters of blood
to try to fix everything.
Randy: But it failed.
Carlitos: Yes.
Randy: What your father
told me is that you bled
out and you died.
That's the bad thing.
You died.
It doesn't get any worse
than being dead.
Stick around.
We'll come back.
I want you to learn why
he's not dead.
Speaker 3: The reason that
I love Virginia University
is summed up in one word.
Its excellence.
Speaker 4: Good.
I really hope his rebuttal
close is going to steal
the deal.
Speaker 5: We're going to
help in that right now so
we're excited to see
what's going to happen.
Speaker 6: If we are a
dedicated and committed
people,
making the world a better
place to live is what it's
all about.
Randy: Welcome back to
CrossTalk.
I'm here with my friend
Carlos Alamino.
He is not a zombie,
he is not the walking
dead, but Carlos you died.
What's the scoop you're
not dead?
Carlitos: My dad,
he told me that when I
went to the hospital the
doctors just put me on the
bed with a sheet over me.
They said that there's no
possibility of life.
He remember when he make a
pact with God and he
prayed for me and he gave
me to God to serve Him.
In that moment when he
went to my bed to say
goodbye he remembered,
he remembered the pact
with God and God told him,
"Okay.
I'm not going to take him
from you."
He started to pray and
when he was praying I was
starting to recover life
again.
The people say,
"The kid is moving!
The kid is moving!"
Everybody was like crazy
coming to the bed,
put a thing on me,
give me more air.
I can't remember this,
I really don't remember.
It's just that the doctors
said, my dad.
I just remember about the
next day I was in the
hospital tired with a lot
of things,
a lot of equipments saying
beep, beep, beep.
Randy: Your father made a
pact with God and God
apparently entered into
that pact from His side
because He did restore
you.
It's a God of restoration
that we serve.
You've made a pact with
God.
You are living for God.
Let's hear about your
ministry.
What you do in your
service to God.
Carlitos: We're working in
my dad's ministry.
It's a ministry called
Youth With a Purpose in
Cuba.
I'm the lead in a band,
a musical band.
There we made crusade in
the whole island.
We also have a recording
studio.
We are producing a lot of
Christian Cuban music.
Randy: I want to share
with our audience just a
little of the music that
you produce.
It's tremendous.
I think you'll enjoy this.
We'll be back in a moment
because I want to talk
more with Carlos.
Carlitos: Okay.
Cuban music
Randy: That's phenomenal.
You did this work in Cuba?
Carlitos: Yes, we did.
Randy: It's obvious that
God has called you and
enabled and equipped you.
I have a better gratitude.
I'm personally grateful
for the help that you've
provided to my son Joshua,
for the help that you are
currently providing to our
ministry in Cuba through
the work of Today With
God.
Our audience is not
familiar with what is
going on in Cuba with the
work of Today With God,
but big part of the reason
it's happening is because
of you.
Carlitos: I want to say
that we have a great team
in Cuba.
We have a great people
that have big love for
God,
for His job here in land,
in the earth.
Yes,
we are working on Today
With God.
It was a project that just
came to me.
Randy: How do you envision
your purpose for working
with this service Today
With God and how do you
view how it will impact
Cuba?
Carlitos: Today With God,
when he came to us
Cespedes.
Randy: When Joshua would
came to visit you at
Cespedes in Cuba.
Right.
Carlitos: The goal is to
try to reach people for
God with the gospel
and Today With God is an
amazing tool.
The people can have the
movie.
The Bible on the TV is
amazing.
Many people in Cuba
doesn't have a Bible so
the TV,
the program at the studios
is going to be like
.
.
.
They will be listening and
watching the Bible.
It's amazing.
Randy: We're so thankful
to be able to have access
to be partnering with you
in this project to be able
to bring the Gospel of
Matthew,
the Gospel of John,
the Acts of the Apostles
and soon the Gospel of
Luke.
We're so thankful that we
can deliver these things
to the people of Cuba in
Cuban Spanish and that it
would be able to be hand
carried by seminary
students and pastors and
Christian workers.
This is a big undertaking
though.
It's not easy for ... You
had to build a studio to
be able to do these things
and bring in voice over
talent and work on the
translation and develop
this project.
It's a major thing.
Carlitos: We have a great
team in Cuba.
I love the people who's
working with me for the
Lord.
We are doing the
translation and the
recording of the Today
With God,
the voices and video.
We are enjoying the job
because it's amazing.
We know that with our own
Spanish, Cuban Spanish,
the people in Cuba is
going to be hearing now,
watching the Bible with
the Cuban voice over.
It's amazing.
Randy: Part of the reason
that we've developed these
series we've wanted to
be able to bring it to
language groups around the
world in their mother
tongue because otherwise,
it's a foreign God that is
being expressed and our
God is not a foreign God.
Our God is able to speak
the language of every
person in every culture.
Unfortunately,
the Bible hasn't been
translated into every
language or made for every
culture and not everyone
is able to read.
They have the full
capability of being
literate and able to read
complex literature like
the Bible.
Anyone can read the Bible
if they have but you don't
have to be a seminary
graduate to read the
Bible.
There are some
complexities to the
literature and so we're so
thankful that we can bring
this content to people and
let them ... Even if they
can't read and understand
it entirely,
they won't have to because
they can see it,
they can hear it,
they'll be able to
understand it and as a
result known for the love
of God.
People who speak Cuban
Spanish should be able to
hear it and see it in
their Cuban Spanish
because God speaks Cuban
Spanish to the Cuban
Spanish speaking people.
I want to just cut to let
our audience see a little
bit of the work that takes
place and let them see
your studio.
We're going to bring them
to Cuba.
Come with us to Cuba for
just a moment with my son
Joshua and Carlos.
Carlitos,
he's like Carlos Junior.
Joshua: Here I am
in the middle
of the studio here down
in Cespedes, Cuba.
I can't express to you
enough how excited I am
about this very moment.
I began working with my
brother Yohan several
years ago and we began
working through Yohan with
my friends here in
Cespedes to get the Gospel
message in a visual format
of Today With God,
to get that visual message
of Christ translated into
Cuban Spanish.
These was several years
ago.
Over the years,
that group has began
building their studio up
and fixing it up and
improving it constantly
until you get to where
I am right now.
This homemade studio where
the Word of God is being
translated into the mother
tongue of the people here
in Cuba.
With me now is my newest
best friend,
Carlitos Alamino.
Carlitos: This is a
pleasure.
It's my pleasure.
Joshua: Carlitos,
you and your family are
such a blessing not just
to me,
not just to my family but
to Spanish-speaking people
all over the world.
You probably have no idea
just how much the work
you're doing here means
and the impact that it has
on the Spanish speaking
church as they can utilize
Today With God.
From my family,
from my father,
from myself and those who
don't even know how
grateful they are,
thank you.
Carlitos: It's a big
privilege to do this.
Joshua: We're here at your
studio and I'm sure that
one of the first things
people are curious about
is the studio.
When you first started
working on the Today With
God project you were
working on a studio,
building a studio and
having things put
together,
but this is more recent.
I'm curious and I'm sure
the viewers are curious,
what exactly are we
looking at here?
What is this white stuff
that's filling the walls?
Carlitos: I don't know how
to explain.
This is just
the construction material
for making roofs.
This is something new.
I don't know.
It's like refrigerator
inspired.
Joshua: It's something
somewhat new.
It's a construction
material.
You may not be able to see
it on the camera but it's
foam.
It looks like you found a
whole a bunch of coolers
that we take to our
baseball games and you cut
them up and you put them
upon the ceiling and on
the walls.
You've got the ridges and
the edges on the shape of
it and that's so that the
sound is deaden some.
Instead of the sound
bouncing and coming back
to the microphone,
it goes around the room
and it deadens it.
You explained this to me
off camera but tell our
viewers how did you go
about making this foam in
this shape.
What was the process?
Carlitos: First is that I
built in a machine with a
power electric and we cut
in angle.
We spent a lot of time
trying to create that
because we had the idea,
the picture of what we
want to get but there is
no way to do it.
We started cutting with
the knife and after that
it's not enough.
We tried with the power,
electricity and it worked.
Joshua: The way your final
process,
it sounded like what you
took is a table and almost
like a bare wire and
plugged it in and it kind
of got the wire heated up
through the electric and
then you shaved it like
that?
Carlitos: Yes.
They put like red colors,
very hot and I cut it.
Joshua: Did you burn
yourself while you're
doing it?
Carlitos: No.
Joshua: You did a
wonderful job.
Another thing that it's
really,
it's almost humorous
because of the meaning
behind it but you've got
these bottle tops and if
you would have put a nail
through the foam,
the foam would just fall
off so you put a bottle
cap for each nail to hold
it up.
Carlitos: Yes.
Joshua: I'm sure that
they're pleased that you
bought all those bottle
cap.
Carlitos: No.
We're asking the whole day
for the bars and many
places to get it.
It was fun.
Joshua: Carlitos,
when I asked him about it
originally he said, "Well,
Christians probably
wouldn't be too crazy
about it because they're
all beer bottle caps,
" but that's the only
place they can get the
bottle caps.
Carlitos: Yes.
Joshua: What the enemy
means for bad we can means
for good.
Amen?
Carlitos: Amen.
Joshua: It's great.
They each say Cuba on them
so that's great.
This whole experience of
getting to know you in
person and getting to
dialogue about the Today
With God process and the
translation and the living
experience down here it's
been a great joy and I'm
sure our viewers would
love to stick around and
.
.
.
Randy: That is just really
something.
I have yet to visit Cuba
but I'm looking forward to
going down to see your
studio up close and
personal.
Carlitos: Okay, come on.
We're ready.
We're waiting for you.
Randy: Carlos,
you've been working so
*** this project and
it's been such a consuming
effort.
I'd love to show our
audience just a little bit
about what it looks like
and it sounds like with
your voice and the
language of Cuban Spanish.
Take a look.
Cuban Spanish of the Today
With God program
Randy: Well,
what you just show was
Jesus speaking to the
Samaritan woman,
the woman at the well and
in case you don't speak
Spanish you might not have
fully grasped that,
but there's so much more
that we want to share
regarding what's going on
in the land of Cuba.
There's a move of God
taking place and we get to
be a part of it with
Carlos and his father and
many other incredibly
gifted and committed
Christian service with
God.
Please join us next time
and pray for Carlos and
the work in Cuba.
Until next time.
Shalom.
May God bless you.
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