Unfolding Short Stories: "The way to reach my heart was through animals, again." Tina Zimmerman
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
4.9 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In many ways, Tina Zimmerman's life revolves around animals. She trains dogs for service, has had her animals in movies, and even used to train horses. It is her career and passion. She and her husband even found themselves in Uganda using this passion to help train animals for local farmers. In their downtime on these mission trips, they loved to go on Safari trips, always in hopes of seeing lions. After the tragic passing of her husband, she went back to experience their shared passion at the one-year mark of his passing. God wowed her with a display of animals that felt like a miraculous display curated for her, showing her that God sees her, and cares for her.
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| 0:00.0 | God's story, your life. |
| 0:06.0 | Unfolding short stories. |
| 0:09.3 | My name is Tina Zimmerman. |
| 0:11.4 | I've always been an animal person. |
| 0:13.4 | I grew up on a farm. |
| 0:15.2 | I trained horses. |
| 0:16.8 | We did wildlife rehab. |
| 0:18.9 | I worked at a veterinary office for 25 years, and I currently trained service dogs for a living. |
| 0:25.6 | So I'm pretty used to seeing animals do amazing things on a day-to-day basis. |
| 0:32.0 | But in 2010, my husband and I started going to Africa on short-term mission trips, just fell in love with the country, |
| 0:40.4 | had a passion for working there. We founded an organization called Harvest Guards International, |
| 0:46.9 | and it originally started as I would go over and train protection dogs to guard farmers |
| 0:53.1 | from poachers, thieves, criminals, that type of thing. |
| 0:57.8 | The program really took off. |
| 0:59.8 | We were able to expand and do a lot of work there. |
| 1:03.2 | But as things often happen in Africa, the projects kind of tend to turn into other things. |
| 1:10.0 | And so we were digging wells and we were building homes for homeless people that were HIV |
| 1:16.7 | positive. |
| 1:17.7 | And we were spending several months a year in country, just working all day, every day, |
| 1:24.0 | doing hard work. |
| 1:25.3 | And so we just made it practice that at least one time every trip, |
| 1:29.8 | we would just take a day off. We would go to Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda and just |
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