Participants: Dwight Rose
Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000407
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00:02 OPENING MUSSIC
00:23 HELLO EVERYBODY AND I WANT TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN TO AN "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" 00:28 PROGRAM WHICH IS THE STORY PART OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:33 WE'RE SO DELIGHTED THAT YOU ARE JOINING US TODAY AND AS I HAVE TOLD YOU BEFORE, 00:38 THIS IS JUST A WONDERFUL FAMILY AROUND HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:43 I GET TO REUNITE WITH PEOPLE WHOM I'VE KNOWN FOR QUITE A WHILE NOW WHEN WE COME HERE FOR 00:50 THESE PARTICULAR TAPING SESSIONS SO THAT WE GIVE YOU THE LATEST INFORMATION ABOUT 00:55 WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH AND BEYOND THAT I GET TO MAKE NEW CONNECTIONS WITH 01:02 PEOPLE WHOM, YES I MAY HAVE HEARD ABOUT 01:05 BUT I'VE NEVER HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF MEETING THEM BEFORE. 01:08 AND THIS TIME WITH THIS PROGRAM AT GOSPEL OUTREACH IS ONE OF THOSE SPECIAL EXPERIENCES AND 01:15 I'M VERY, VERY HAPPY TO WELCOME AS MY GUEST TODAY DWIGHT ROSE. 01:21 DWIGHT, GOD BLESS YOU BROTHER. 01:23 THANK YOU. 01:24 NICE TO SEE YOU HERE, TO FEEL YOUR HAND IN MINE AND TO REALIZE I'M GETTING CONNECTED 01:30 WITH A BIGGER PART OF SOMEBODY WHO IS VERY SPECIAL TO ME, HER FAMILY. 01:36 SOME OF YOU WHO ARE ABLE TO TUNE IN ON LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY CHURCH SERVICE 01:42 PROGRAMS HAVE OFTEN HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF MEETING OUR FAMILY PASTOR AT LOMA LINDA WHO IS 01:51 SHAWNA CAMPBELL AND SHAWNA CAMPBELL HAPPENS TO BE THE DAUGHTER OF THIS PROUD FATHER, 01:58 DWIGHT ROSE AND I UNDERSTAND DWIGHT THAT YOU'RE PARTIAL TO WOMEN, 02:06 IT'S NOT JUST ONE DAUGHTER YOU HAVE. 02:08 I LIVE IN A HOUSEHOLD OF WOMEN, THREE DAUGHTERS AND ONE WIFE. 02:13 WONDERFUL! 02:15 WELL, I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I'M JUST VERY, VERY PLEASED TO GET TO BE WITH YOU HERE FOR 02:21 GOSPEL OUTREACH TODAY AND TO LEARN ABOUT YOUR INVOLVEMENT WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH. 02:28 ACTUALLY, YOU ARE ONE OF A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO COME TO GOSPEL OUTREACH ON PROBABLY A 02:37 BIENNIAL BASIS TO INQUIRE WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE ORGANIZATION, 02:43 HOW CAN WE CONTRIBUTE OR PARTICIPATE MORE EFFECTIVELY AND YOU TELL ME WHAT YOUR 02:50 ASSIGNMENT WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH IS, DWIGHT. 02:54 WELL SINCE JANUARY OF THIS YEAR, I'VE TAKEN THE PLACE OF GORDON GRAY WHO WAS THE 03:00 PRESIDENT OF GOSPEL OUTREACH CANADA. 03:03 WE DIDN'T HAVE ANYBODY TO TAKE OVER AND AS YOU KNOW GORDON HAS GONE TO BE WITH GLOBAL MISSION 03:14 AND SO I'M GOING TO TRY TO FILL HIS VERY LARGE SHOES. 03:20 WELL I KNOW, I KNOW YOUR LEADERSHIP IS APPRECIATED AND WE ARE JUST DELIGHTED TO 03:24 WELCOME YOU TO GOSPEL OUTREACH. 03:27 AS THE PRESIDENT OF GOSPEL OUTREACH CANADA, HELP OUR FOLKS UNDERSTAND HOW GOSPEL OUTREACH 03:37 IS ORGANIZED THAT WE HAVE GOSPEL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL 03:42 AND WE'VE GOT GOSPEL OUTREACH CANADA. 03:46 WELL GOSPEL OUTREACH IS A HUGE CONCEPT REACHING THE WORLD FOR JESUS AND OF COURSE PUTTING 03:56 INDIGENOUS WORKERS IN THE FIELD, DOING IT THROUGH LOCAL WORKERS. 04:01 OF COURSE NOW WE IN NORTH AMERICA AND THE WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE RAISING MONEY AND 04:09 FUNDS TO PROVIDE STIPENDS FOR THESE WORKERS. 04:15 HOW CAN GOSPEL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL REACH INTO EVERY LITTLE TOWN 04:22 AND CHURCH IN CANADA? 04:24 I MEAN THERE'S HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF THEM. 04:27 AMERICA HAS ENOUGH TO DO FOR AMERICA. 04:31 WE NEED A SPECIAL GROUP DOING CANADA FOR CANADIANS. 04:37 WE'VE GOT A NEW GROUP IN BRAZIL DOING BRAZIL FOR BRAZILIANS AND BECAUSE WE WANT TO REACH EVERY 04:44 CHURCH IN CANADA AND HAVE AN AMBASSADOR IN THAT CHURCH OR SERVING THAT CHURCH TO ACQUAINT 04:53 THE PEOPLE WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH. 04:54 IF THEY DON'T KNOW ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH, THEY ARE NOT GOING TO CONTRIBUTE 04:57 AND BE PART OF THE PLAN. 04:59 AND WHAT, I THINK WE DISCOVER IN EVERY SITUATION, EVERY INSTANCE IS THAT WHEN A 05:08 CONGREGATION OR A FAMILY OR ADDITIONAL PEOPLE LEARN ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH AND THE 05:17 WONDERFUL EFFECTIVE MISSION THAT IS ACCOMPLISHED 05:22 WITHOUT EXCEPTION PEOPLE WANT TO BE INVOLVED. 05:24 YES. 05:26 AND SO EVERY CONGREGATION IN CANADA AS WELL AS ACROSS THE U.S. 05:30 DESERVES TO KNOW ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH 05:33 AND TO MORE EFFECTIVELY HAVE A PRESENCE IN CANADA. 05:37 OF COURSE WE'VE GOT GOSPEL OUTREACH CANADA. 05:40 HOW DO YOU AS PRESIDENT OF GOSPEL OUTREACH CANADA PARTICIPATE AS THE PRESIDENT TO 05:50 YOUR CANADIAN CONSTITUENCY? 05:53 WELL OF COURSE, I AM RUNNING THE BOARD AND YOU KNOW BEING THE EXECUTIVE REPRESENTATIVE OF 06:01 THE BOARD, I'M ALSO THE PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR FOR WESTERN CANADA AND WORKING WITH OUR 06:10 STAFF THERE, LARRY VOGSTAD AND MANY, MANY OTHERS. 06:15 MY BIG CONCERN IS TO BE ABLE TO DEVELOP THIS NETWORK OF AMBASSADORS, 06:27 GOSPEL OUTREACH AMBASSADORS IN EVERY CHURCH OR GROUP OF CHURCHES 06:32 IF THERE'S A NUMBER IN A LOCAL AREA. 06:35 WE WANT SOME REPRESENTATIVE FROM GOSPEL OUTREACH THERE TO REACH, 06:39 TO TALK TO THEM YOU KNOW TWICE A YEAR RIGHT IN THEIR OWN CHURCH ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 06:45 AND GRATEFULLY, GOSPEL OUTREACH AS IT EXPANDS AND EXTENDS ACROSS THE 10/40 WINDOW IN 06:54 PARTICULAR, WE'VE GOT MORE AND MORE STORIES AND INFORMATION THAT ARE A VERY INSPIRING 07:03 SUPPLEMENT TO THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN LOCAL CONGREGATIONS. 07:07 PEOPLE LIKE TO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING BEYOND OUR OWN 07:11 LITTLE GEOGRAPHIC CORNER OF LIFE AND MINISTRY. 07:16 DWIGHT, I KNOW THIS IS INTERESTING TO ME AND IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO OUR VIEWERS 07:23 AS WELL, WE WANT TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT YOU AND WHO YOU ARE, 07:29 WHERE YOU CAME FROM AND WHY YOU CAN SO NATURALLY KIND OF MOVE INTO A LEADERSHIP ROLE LIKE YOU 07:37 ARE, SO WHERE DO YOU ORIGINATE, WHERE DO YOU WORK? 07:42 WELL, BOTH MY WIFE AND I COME FROM WINNIPEG, MANITOBA. 07:45 THEY SAY IT IS THE COLDEST SPOT IN NORTH AMERICA BUT WE WERE RAISED THERE, 07:52 EDUCATED THERE AND GOT MARRIED THERE. 07:54 THEN WE WENT OVER TO LEBANON FOR SEVEN YEARS AND SERVED AS OVERSEAS MISSIONARIES AND THEN 08:02 CAME BACK TO KELOWNA WHERE WE NOW LIVE AND THE LAST TEN YEARS THEN WE'VE BEEN IN EGYPT AS 08:10 PRINCIPAL OF NILE UNION ACADEMY. 08:12 I'M A TEACHER AND MY WIFE IS A TEACHER AND MY CHILDREN ARE ALL TEACHERS. 08:18 WE ARE A FAMILY OF TEACHERS. 08:20 OH, PRAISE THE LORD THAT'S WONDERFUL! 08:22 SO WE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME IN EGYPT AND WE'VE BEEN BACK NOW RETIRED FOR TWO YEARS AND WE'RE 08:29 JUST HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO SERVE IN A WONDERFUL MINISTRY LIKE GOSPEL OUTREACH. 08:35 WITHOUT PUTTING IN ANY UNCOMFORTABLE POSITION AT ALL, I THINK THOSE OF US WHO ARE 08:46 VIEWERS OF TELEVISION AT ALL INCLUDING "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" ARE ALERT TO WORLD 08:56 AFFAIRS AND WHEN YOU MENTION A COUPLE OF PLACES THAT NO LONGER ARE STRANGE PLACES TO ANYBODY 09:04 WHO'S IN TOUCH WITH INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES AT ALL, 09:08 WE WANT TO KNOW HOW THINGS GO THERE? 09:12 I'M GOING TO GIVE RIGHT NOW, THE ADDRESS ETC. AND WHEN I COME BACK I'D LIKE YOU TO TELL 09:17 US SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT IT IS LIKE IN EGYPT TODAY AS FAR AS, BECAUSE EGYPT, EGYPT, 09:25 EGYPT HAS BEEN IN THE NEWS A LOT. 09:27 HERE WE ARE TAPING THIS IN THE SPRING OF 2012 AND IN RECENT MONTHS EGYPT HAS BEEN HEADLINES 09:36 AND SO WE'RE INTERESTED TO KNOW BECAUSE I KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN IN TOUCH. 09:40 AND JUST BEFORE I COME BACK TO DWIGHT ROSE TO GET THAT KIND OF EXPLANATION I WANT TO REMIND 09:49 YOU THAT THIS IS "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" GOSPEL OUTREACH AND RIGHT ON THE SCREEN THERE RIGHT 09:56 NOW YOU SEE THE ADDRESS AND THE TELEPHONE NUMBER AND THE EMAIL ADDRESS AND THE WEBSITE AND 10:06 EVEN PARTICULARLY FOR THIS PROGRAM ALL THE INFORMATION ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH CANADA. 10:11 WE WANT EACH OF YOU TO KNOW HOW TO BE IN TOUCH AND THE REASON I LIKE TO URGE YOU TO BE IN TOUCH 10:18 IS BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE NOT HAD IN YOUR HANDS COPIES OF THE ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS GOSPEL 10:21 OUTREACH NEWSLETTER YOU DESERVE TO HAVE IT. 10:25 IT'S LIKE GETTING THE SABBATH SCHOOL MISSION STORY EVERY TIME YOU GET THIS IN YOUR MAILBOX 10:36 AND YOU WILL HAVE TO PAUSE AND SAY "THANK YOU LORD, FOR WHAT YOU ARE DOING" IN CERTAIN 10:42 PLACES WHERE THESE GOSPEL OUTREACH STORIES ORIGINATE. 10:46 SO, YOU SEE ALL OF THAT INFORMATION HOW TO BE IN TOUCH AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS 10:52 AND YOUR SUPPORT FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH. 10:55 ACTUALLY, WE WOULDN'T BE HERE DOING WHAT WE ARE DOING, WE WOULDN'T HAVE THE STORIES TO 10:58 BRING TO YOU IF IT WASN'T FOR YOUR FAITHFUL SUPPORT OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 11:03 SO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND NOW I WANT TO GO BACK TO MY NEW FRIEND AND GOSPEL OUTREACH 11:11 LEADER, DWIGHT ROSE. 11:12 DWIGHT, YOU MOST RECENTLY WERE IN EGYPT. 11:16 YES. 11:17 TELL US ABOUT THE OUTREACH OF THE GOSPEL, THE EXPERIENCE OF BELIEVERS, 11:23 TO THE DEGREE YOU CAN. 11:24 I KNOW THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT BUT TELL ME WHAT YOU CAN. 11:29 WELL EGYPT IS A WONDERFUL COUNTRY ABOUT, THEY SAY, 85 MILLION PEOPLE. 11:35 NINETY PERCENT OF WHICH ARE MUSLIM AND TEN PER CENT ARE SUPPOSEDLY CHRISTIAN. 11:43 THE CHRISTIANS LIKE TO SAY IT'S FIFTEEN PER CENT, BUT THE STATISTICS ARE 90 AND 10. 11:49 AND THEY ARE SO, SO FRIENDLY YOU KNOW. 11:56 IT'S VERY EASY TO APPROACH THEM; THEY WOULD GIVE YOU THE SHIRT OFF THEIR BACK. 12:00 THAT'S ALL EGYPTIANS. 12:02 YES. 12:03 ALL EGYPTIANS, IT'S JUST VERY WONDERFUL AND USUALLY AS MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS THEY GET 12:08 ALONG QUITE WELL BUT THERE ARE SOME TENSIONS USUALLY STIRRED UP BY SOME RADICALS, 12:15 RADICALS ON EITHER SIDE, YOU KNOW. 12:19 BUT WHEN LEFT ALONE THE PEOPLE GET ALONG VERY, VERY NICELY. 12:22 WE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME IN EGYPT SERVING AT NILE UNION ACADEMY. 12:28 THAT IS A BOARDING HIGH SCHOOL AND JUST OUTSIDE OF CAIRO. 12:36 NOW EGYPT IS IN THE NEWS AGAIN, YOU KNOW SINCE THE REVOLUTION CAME. 12:43 THEY ARE HAVING THEIR ELECTIONS AS WE SPEAK. 12:48 THEY'RE GOING AHEAD WITH THEIR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND EVERYBODY, OF COURSE, 12:54 IS VERY APPREHENSIVE BECAUSE THERE ARE NO CHRISTIAN PEOPLE RUNNING 13:00 BECAUSE NOBODY WOULD VOTE FOR THEM. 13:02 UH HUH. 13:03 EXCEPT THE CHRISTIANS AND THEY ARE ONLY TEN PER CENT SO THE CHRISTIANS THERE, 13:09 THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS, THEY'VE JUST LOST THEIR POPE AND THIS IS A VERY STRATEGIC 13:15 TIME FOR HIM TO BE ALIVE SO WE HOPE THEY WILL HAVE A NEW POPE PRETTY SOON. 13:22 THEY ARE IDENTIFIED FOR OUR PURPOSES AS COPTIC CHRISTIANS, YES, YES. 13:31 COPTIC MEANS EGYPTIAN, OK, BUT IT'S PRETTY MUCH USED JUST FOR CHRISTIANS, YES, 13:39 THE COPTIC CHURCH. 13:42 BUT WE ARE ALL ANXIOUS TO SEE NOW WHO WILL BE CHOSEN AND JUST HOW TOLERANT THIS NEW PERSON 13:51 WILL BE ABOUT CHRISTIANS. 13:52 IF HE IS A FUNDAMENTALIST, IT'S GOING TO MEAN A LOT OF TROUBLE FOR THE CHRISTIANS AND OF 13:59 COURSE FOR ADVENTISTS. 14:02 THAT COULD EVEN MEAN I SUPPOSE THAT NILE UNION ACADEMY WOULD BE IN JEOPARDY. 14:08 OH YES, ABSOLUTELY. 14:10 SO I THINK THAT IS APPROPRIATE FOR US TO INTERJECT FOR OUR VIEWERS THAT AS YOU PRAY, 14:18 WE NEED TO PRAY FOR OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND THE MINISTRY, 14:24 THE EDUCATIONAL WORK THERE IN EGYPT. 14:30 THANK YOU, DWIGHT FOR BRINGING THIS FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT BECAUSE I HAVE WATCHED THE NEWS AND WE 14:37 DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO INFORMATION THAT IS AS LEGITIMATE AS WHAT YOU SHARED. 14:44 NOW, YOU MADE REFERENCE TO LEBANON. 14:47 LEBANON IS KIND OF A DIFFERENT STORY, ISN'T IT? 14:50 OH COMPLETELY, A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SITUATION. 14:53 BUT IS THE WORK IF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS FOR WHAT WE CALL THE MIDDLE EAST, 15:02 IS THAT STILL IN LEBANON. 15:04 YES, THE EAST MEDITERRANEAN FIELD IS THERE WHICH IS PART OF THE NOW THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST 15:11 UNION WHICH IS RIGHT UNDER THE GENERAL CONFERENCE. 15:14 BUT OUR WORK IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS VERY, VERY SMALL. 15:20 IN EGYPT GOING BACK THERE FOR A MOMENT, WE HAVE TEN CHURCHES ABOUT ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP WOULD 15:30 BE SOMETHING AROUND 300 IN THOSE TEN CHURCHES. 15:35 SO WE COULD PUT ALL THE NUMBERS OF EGYPT INTO ONE OF OUR CHURCHES. 15:41 YES. 15:42 YOU KNOW IT IS, YOU MIGHT ASK WELL WHY DOESN'T THE WORK GROW? 15:47 WELL, ISLAM IS FIRMLY SEATED IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND SO IT IS VERY DIFFICULT. 15:54 EVERYBODY IS TRADITION BOUND, YOU CAN'T SPEAK FREELY SO WE JUST DEPEND ON PERSONAL 16:06 CONTACTS WITH PEOPLE AND SLOWLY, SLOWLY YOU KNOW A FEW ARE BAPTIZED. 16:11 IS IT EVER TRUE THAT NON CHRISTIANS ARE STUDENTS AT NILE UNION ACADEMY? 16:18 OH YES, MOST OF THEM, ABOUT TWO-THIRDS OF THE STUDENT BODY 16:24 AT NILE UNION ACADEMY ARE NON ADVENTISTS. 16:28 OF COURSE, YOU TEACH A CHRISTIAN CURRICULUM. 16:31 OH, ABSOLUTELY AND AN ADVENTIST CURRICULUM. 16:35 IN FACT, THAT'S A REALLY A WIN, WIN STORY YOU KNOW. 16:40 NILE UNION ACADEMY IS THE WAY TO REACH THEM. 16:43 EVERYBODY WANTS ENGLISH. 16:45 UH HUH. 16:47 BECAUSE ENGLISH IS THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE, IT'S THE TICKET TO SUCCESS. 16:51 SO WHERE CAN YOU GET ENGLISH? 16:54 THEY DON'T WANT A FORMAL KNOWLEDGE OF ENGLISH THEY GET THAT IN THEIR OWN SYSTEM AND 16:58 THEY CAN'T SPEAK A WORD. 17:00 BUT AT NILE UNION ACADEMY THE NEWS HAS GOTTEN AROUND THAT IF YOU ATTEND NILE UNION ACADEMY 17:07 YOU'LL BE REALLY SPEAKING ENGLISH IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS 17:11 AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS. 17:13 WOW. 17:14 SO THEY COME FOR THE ENGLISH AND THEY GET ENGLISH BUT THEY ALSO GET JESUS AND THE BIBLE. 17:18 WOW, THAT'S BEAUTIFUL. 17:20 AND SO OTHERWISE, WITHOUT THE ACADEMY AND WITH THIS DESIRE FOR ENGLISH THERE IS NO WAY WE 17:26 COULD REACH INTO THOSE FAMILIES THAT ARE COMPLETELY ISOLATED 17:32 AND INSULATED IN THEIR TRADITION. 17:35 THERE IS NO WAY WE COULD GET THOSE KIDS OUT BUT HERE NOW THE KIDS ALL COME OUT AND WANT TO 17:42 JOIN NILE UNION ACADEMY. 17:44 THEY DIDN'T EXPECT WHAT THEY FOUND THERE. 17:52 DWIGHT, YOU KNOW I HAVE A THING ABOUT SOMETHING AND YOU REMIND ME OF IT AND I CAN'T HELP BUT 18:01 UNDERSCORE IT HERE IN A BOLD LINE AND THAT IS, AND YOUR ILLUSTRATION IS DRAMATIC, 18:10 THAT EDUCATION IS EVANGELISTIC. 18:15 ABSOLUTELY. 18:19 AND WE HAVE ACCESS TO YOUNG MINDS AND HEARTS THROUGH CHRISTIAN EDUCATION THAT YOU 18:27 CAN NEVER ACCESS IN ANY OTHER WAY. 18:30 YES. 18:32 AND SO I JUST CAN'T HELP BUT SAY IF YOU SAY THERE IS EVANGELISM AND EDUCATION, 18:37 SHAME ON YOU. 18:38 IT IS CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IS EVANGELISTIC. 18:42 IN FACT IN EGYPT IN THE MIDDLE EAST THERE IS NO OTHER WAY. 18:45 IT IS EITHER THE MEDICAL WORK OR EDUCATION. 18:47 GOING DOWN THE STREET GIVING OUT LITERATURE, HOLDING PUBLIC MEETINGS, THAT GOES NOWHERE. 18:55 YOU JUST CAN'T, IN FACT YOU'RE REALLY NOT SUPPOSED TO DO IT BUT THEY WILL. 19:00 EVEN MUSLIMS WILL COME TO PUT THEIR CHILDREN IN AN ADVENTIST SCHOOL 19:06 SO THEY CAN LEARN ENGLISH. 19:07 WOW. 19:08 SO, NILE UNION ACADEMY IS A WONDERFUL OUTREACH. 19:13 WELL PRAISE THE LORD FOR THE EXPORT OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIAN EDUCATION. 19:18 YES. 19:20 TO PLACES IN THE WORLD SUCH AS YOU FOLKS HAVE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF WORKING THERE. 19:23 WELL, ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO TELL US ABOUT THAT PART OF THE WORLD AS IT MIGHT RELATE TO 19:30 GOSPEL OUTREACH? 19:31 WELL WE HAVE PUT OUR FIRST GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER IN THE MIDDLE EAST WHICH IS, 19:41 OF COURSE, AND WE PROBABLY CAN'T SAY WHERE THAT IS. 19:44 NO, I'LL TELL YOU WHERE IT IS IT IS IN EGYPT. 19:48 WE HAVE ONE BUT WE NEED TEN, FIFTEEN WORKERS IN EGYPT. 19:53 WOW. 19:54 THERE ARE SO MANY HUGE CITIES THAT DON'T HAVE ANY, ANY ADVENTIST PRESENCE OR ADVENTIST 20:01 MESSAGE GOING TO THEM. 20:03 I MEAN, IF WE HAD THE FUNDS WE WOULD BE ABLE TO PUT IN PEOPLE INTO JORDAN, INTO LEBANON, 20:11 INTO EGYPT AND ALL THESE COUNTRIES. 20:14 WHAT THIS PROGRAM, THIS KIND OF OUTREACH IS ALL ABOUT IS TO HELP OUR VIEWERS, 20:22 HELP ALL OF US, HELP ME KNOW ABOUT WHAT KINDS OF FUNDS ARE WE TALKING ABOUT, 20:27 WHAT DOES IT REQUIRE TO HAVE SOME MORE WORKERS IN EGYPT FOR EXAMPLE. 20:34 WELL ON THE AVERAGE IT TAKES ONLY ABOUT $150 A MONTH TO PUT A WORKER IN ONE OF THE GOSPEL 20:48 OUTREACH TO HAVE A GOSPEL OUTREACH VOLUNTEER BE FULLY EMPLOYED: THAT TAKES CARE OF 20:55 HIS FAMILY, HE IS VERY HAPPY WITH THAT AND WHEN IT IS TRANSLATED INTO THEIR MONEY IT 21:04 TURNS OUT TO BE MUCH MORE AND SO - ARE THERE AVAILABLE MORE WORKERS 21:12 IF WE WERE ABLE TO SUPPORT THEM? 21:13 YES, THERE ARE TEN TIMES AS MANY IF WE HAD THE MONEY, IF WE HAD THE FUNDS TO BE ABLE TO 21:19 SUPPORT GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS WE COULD HAVE TEN TIMES THE NUMBER. 21:24 FOR EXAMPLE, THE CANADIAN GOSPEL OUTREACH ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR AFRICA. 21:33 AFRICA IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF CANADIAN GOSPEL OUTREACH. 21:35 WE HAVE ONLY 132 WORKERS IN AFRICA, IN AFRICA. 21:48 IN ALL OF AFRICA WHICH IS 55 MILLION. 21:51 IS THERE ANYBODY ASSUMING RESPONSIBILITY FOR EGYPT FOR EXAMPLE OR FOR THE MIDDLE EAST? 21:58 ONLY GOSPEL OUTREACH CANADA. 22:01 AND THERE IS ONE WORKER THERE AND GOSPEL OUTREACH CANADA IS A VERY SIGNIFICANT IMPORTANT PART 22:09 OF GOSPEL OUTREACH BUT NOT ABLE WITH THAT CORNER OF THE WORK TO SUPPORT EVERYTHING. 22:15 SO I THINK THIS COULD BE A GENERAL APPEAL TO GOSPEL OUTREACH FOR SUPPORT FOR MORE 22:20 WORKERS FOR EGYPT. 22:22 I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING THAT SPEAKS TO ME ANYMORE THAN THIS STORY THAT YOU ARE TELLING 22:28 ABOUT THAT GOSPEL OUTREACH NEED. 22:30 I COME BACK NOW BECAUSE OUR TIME IS MOVING ALONG, YOU DWIGHT AND GOSPEL OUTREACH, 22:35 YOU HAVE RETURNED FROM MISSION SERVICE AND YOU'VE BEEN OUT THERE ON THE FRONT LINE AND NOW 22:47 YOU ACCEPT A PLACE WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH, WHAT IS IT ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH BECAUSE, 22:59 AFTER ALL, YOU'VE PUT IN A WONDERFUL LIFE-- TERMS OF SERVICE AND YOU DESERVE TO KIND 23:06 OF LEAN BACK A LITTLE BIT. 23:08 WHAT IS IT ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH THAT MOTIVATES YOU TO STAY 23:13 "IN THE HARNESS" SO TO SPEAK? 23:14 WE'VE BEEN RETIRED NOW FOR TWO AND ONE HALF YEARS. 23:20 SOON AFTER WE GOT BACK TO CANADA FROM EGYPT GORDON GRAY SPOKE TO US 23:25 AND TOLD US ALL ABOUT IT. 23:27 WE HAD NEVER HEARD OF GOSPEL OUTREACH, I AM SORRY TO SAY, BEFORE THAT BUT AS SOON AS I 23:35 HEARD ABOUT IT, IT JUST MADE SUCH GOOD SENSE. 23:39 I KNOW BEING AN OVERSEAS WORKER MYSELF IN EGYPT AND IN LEBANON; I KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY IT TAKES 23:48 TO KEEP A FAMILY AN OVERSEAS MISSIONARY FAMILY IN THE FIELD. 23:58 LIKE I DON'T WANT TO TELL YOU BUT ITS THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. 24:03 IT'S EXPENSIVE. 24:04 IT'S EXPENSIVE LET'S SIMPLY SAY THAT AND IT WAS NEEDED. 24:09 THERE WAS NOBODY IN EGYPT TO DO THE WORK OF BEING A HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL AND SO I DID THAT AND 24:15 NOW THERE IS ANOTHER PERSON IN MY PLACE OVER THERE BUT AFTER TEN YEARS I WAS NOT EVEN, 24:19 I COULD SPEAK ENOUGH OF THE LANGUAGE TO GET AROUND IN THE MARKET AND SO ON, 24:22 BUT I COULDN'T PREACH A SERMON, I COULDN'T GIVE A BIBLE STUDY, 24:26 I HAD TO HAVE TRANSLATORS ALL THE TIME. 24:28 AS SOON AS I HEARD THAT GOSPEL OUTREACH IS EMPLOYING PEOPLE WHO ALREADY KNOW THE LANGUAGE, 24:35 PEOPLE WHO GREW UP IN THAT CULTURE, THEY ARE WITNESSING TO THEIR OWN PEOPLE THAT CLICKED, 24:41 JUST CLICKED AND IT MAKES SENSE. 24:44 AND OF COURSE, THE EXPENSE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT KIND OF MINISTRY IS MINISCULE COMPARED 24:53 TO TRYING TO CONVERT THE WORLD BY SENDING OVERSEAS WORKERS, AS GOOD AS THEY MAY BE, 24:59 AS NEEDED AS THEY MAY BE, IT'S JUST NOT VERY EFFICIENT. 25:04 GOSPEL OUTREACH IS, I THINK, THE MOST EFFICIENT MINISTRY 25:11 OUT THERE AND THAT'S WHAT APPEALED TO ME. 25:13 WELL, AND YOU FOLKS HAVE HEARD ME TALK ABOUT THIS BEFORE BUT THAT IS THE REASON, 25:19 THAT KIND OF CONCLUSION THAT DWIGHT HAS EXPLAINED IS THE REASON WHY WE HAVE SO MANY 25:27 EXPERIENCED EFFECTIVE LEADERS, WORKERS AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 25:33 PEOPLE WHO HAVE RETURNED FROM VARIOUS ASSIGNMENTS AND THEY SEE THE OPPORTUNITY OF EVEN 25:38 MULTIPLYING SEVERAL TIMES OVER WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO YOURSELF, 25:43 BY YOURSELF AND KIND OF AS A FOREIGNER AND LOW AND BEHOLD AS YOU HAVE SAID WE CAN PUT AN 25:50 INDIGENOUS PERSON, A LOCAL, IN THERE AND REACH SO MANY MORE PEOPLE EVEN MORE EFFECTIVELY 25:57 AND CERTAINLY MORE ECONOMICALLY. 26:00 SO, MAY I JUST UNDERSCORE DWIGHT ROSE'S APPEAL TO CONSIDER SUPPORT FOR GOSPEL 26:10 OUTREACH AND MAYBE YOU'D LIKE TO JUST INDICATE WE WANT TO HELP GET MORE WORKERS IN THAT 26:18 NEEDY PART OF THE WORLD, EGYPT. 26:21 DWIGHT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING GOSPEL OUTREACH BECOMING A PART OF THIS FAMILY 26:27 AND EVERY TIME YOU GET TO ASSOCIATE WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES YOU ARE GOING TO BE BLESSED 26:31 MORE AND MORE AND WE NEED MORE LIKE YOU TO HELP LEAD THE WORK. 26:38 SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU WHO ARE VIEWING WITH US TODAY TO 26:45 KEEP GOSPEL OUTREACH IN YOUR PRAYERS AND NOW YOU KNOW TO PRAY FOR EGYPT, 26:55 PRAY FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH CANADA IN PARTICULAR, AND DWIGHT ROSE 26:59 AND ALL OF HIS ASSOCIATES THERE. 27:02 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ONGOING SUPPORT. 27:04 GOD BLESS. 27:18 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 27:21 WHERE IS THE 10-40 WINDOW ANYWAY. 27:24 THOSE PEOPLE ARE TOO FAR AWAY. 27:27 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. 27:30 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV. 27:33 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACH, MY HEAD HURTS. 27:38 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO, I GIVE UP. 27:42 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 27:44 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFERENCE. 27:45 ACTUALLY YOU CAN MAKE A DEFFERENCE. 27:48 AND JESUS ASKED YOU TO GO TO ALL THE WORLD. 27:52 WHERE? 27:53 ALL THE WORLD. 27:55 HOW CAN I GO, I HAVE COMMITMENTS. 27:57 YOU CAN PRAY. 28:01 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 28:05 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 28:08 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS. 28:11 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE AND MEANING. 28:14 BUT THEY WON'T FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 28:17 BE THE SPARK. 28:18 LIGHT THE FIRE. 28:19 FINISH THE WORK. 28:21 FINISH THE WORK. |
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