Participants: John Blake
Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000410
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00:02 OPENING MUSIC
00:22 HELLO, GOOD FRIENDS. 00:24 SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU WITH US FOR ANOTHER "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" PROGRAM. 00:29 THIS, YOU KNOW, IS GOSPEL OUTREACH AND WE BRING YOU UP TO THE MINUTE INFORMATION ABOUT 00:36 WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THE FRONT LINES OF GOD'S WORK THROUGH THIS GOSPEL OUTREACH MINISTRY. 00:44 GOSPEL OUTREACH IS VERY SPECIAL IN MANY WAYS AND THE PROGRAM TODAY UNDERLINES, 00:52 HIGHLIGHTS ANOTHER VERY SPECIAL PART OF GOSPEL OUTREACH MINISTRY. 00:58 YOU'VE SEEN ME HERE BEFORE TALKING ABOUT THIS AND WITH MY BROTHER JOHN BLAKE. 01:05 JOHN, JOHN IS OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH LEADER FOR DEAF WORK AND I THINK IT IS A FASCINATING 01:14 LITTLE STORY, JOHN, ABOUT HOW YOU GOT TO BE HERE. 01:18 HOW YOU ARE EVEN INVOLVED WITH DEAF WORK. 01:22 YES, GOD HAD A PLAN AND SOME MAY SAY THAT GOD ALLOWED US TO HAVE A DEAF PERSON IN THE 01:32 FAMILY SO THAT WE COULD GET INVOLVED IN DEAF WORK, OTHERS MAY SAY THAT GOD USED A 01:38 CIRCUMSTANCE, A CIRCUMSTANCE BUT WHATEVER-- WE FEEL THAT GOD HAS ASKED US NOW THAT WE HAVE A 01:47 LITTLE DEAF GIRL WHO BECAME DEAF AT THREE MONTHS THAT WE WOULD WORK WITH DEAF PEOPLE AND 01:57 GOD HAS OPENED DOORS SO NOW IT HAS EXPANDED TO AROUND THE WORLD IN SEVEN COUNTRIES. 02:03 WOW. 02:05 WHEN I STARTED, WHEN I OFFICIALLY RETIRED IN 2005, 2006 I DIDN'T REALLY HAVE AN 02:11 UMBRELLA TO WORK UNDER BECAUSE I WAS JUST BASICALLY THE DEAF MINISTRY COORDINATOR OF THE 02:16 ALBERTA CONFERENCE IN CANADA WHERE I LIVE. 02:19 BUT THAT REALLY DIDN'T QUALIFY ME TO WORK OVERSEAS 02:23 EVEN THOUGH I WAS ALREADY INVOLVED IN INDIA. 02:26 SO, I ASKED GOSPEL OUTREACH, WE ARE ALREADY SPONSORING ABOUT THIRTEEN WORKERS, 02:32 WOULD YOU START A DEAF DEPARTMENT AND LET ME WORK WITH THEM? 02:38 THEY SAID, "MAKE A PROPOSAL". 02:40 SO WE MADE A PROPOSAL AND THEY SAID YES AND SO GOD HAS NOW WORKED IT TO THE POINT THAT WE 02:47 ARE IN SEVEN COUNTRIES AND I HAVE TWO ASSISTANTS. 02:50 AND YOU HAVE BEEN TO PLACES ON THE GLOBE THAT YOU NEVER DREAMED OF GOING TO BEFORE. 02:56 OH, I'VE BEEN TO KRYGYZSTAN, I'VE BEEN TO CHINA, I'VE BEEN TO THE PHILIPPINES, 03:02 THE UKRAINE, AND BRAZIL AND NOW WE ARE GOING TO TALK TODAY IN THIS PROGRAM 03:09 ABOUT GHANA AND THEN KENYA. 03:12 AND IN EVERY PLACE YOU HAVE BEEN YOU HAVE GONE THERE BECAUSE GOD HAS CHILDREN THERE, 03:18 YES, WHO ARE DEAF AND THEY DESERVE TO KNOW THAT SOMEBODY CARES AND THEY DESERVE TO KNOW 03:25 WHO JESUS IS. 03:26 AND AS YOU WILL EXPLAIN AND HAVE EXPLAINED IN MANY, MANY, TOO MANY INSTANCES THOSE DEAF 03:35 PEOPLE KIND OF GET ISOLATED OFF BY THEMSELVES AND ARE NOT INCLUDED IN A LOT OF THE 03:42 EVANGELISTIC OUTREACH THAT WE WANT TO DO. 03:45 WELL, IN SO MANY PLACES IN THE WORLD WHETHER IT IS HERE IN NORTH AMERICA, 03:49 IN CANADA WHERE I LIVE, THE U.S., WHETHER IT IS OVERSEAS-- DEAF PEOPLE HAVE KIND OF FALLEN 03:57 THROUGH THE CRACKS. 03:58 YES. 03:59 BECAUSE THOUGH THEY ARE SEEN, PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND THE TREMENDOUS COMMUNICATION 04:05 PROBLEM AND HOW THIS ISOLATES THEM. 04:10 NOT ONLY IN THE COMMUNITY AND IN WORK SITUATIONS BUT IN THE CHURCH. 04:15 RIGHT NOW, I ASKED IN ONE OF THE AREAS THIS WEEK IN A LETTER, 04:25 DO YOU HAVE ANY INTERPRETING? 04:28 A YOUNG MAN THAT I AM WRITING IN, THIS O ONEAPPENS TO BE IN KENYA, I SAID TO STANLEY, 04:33 "DO YOU HAVE ANYBODY TO INTERPRET FOR YOU IN CHURCH?" 04:38 HE SAID "NO". 04:39 WHAT AM I GOING TO RECOMMEND? 04:41 WE CAN'T BE PAYING FOR INTERPRETERS; 04:44 WE DON'T EVEN HAVE A WORKER RIGHT IN HIS TOWN. 04:47 BUT HE IS TRYING; HE HAS A LITTLE SABBATH SCHOOL GROUP THAT HE IS WORK WITH THAT 04:52 SABBATH SCHOOL GROUP. 04:53 SO, I TRY TO GIVE HIM SOME IDEAS OF WHAT HE COULD DO AND SO ON. 04:57 THAT IS JUST ONE INSTANCE. 04:59 YOU KNOW JOHN, YOU REMIND ME OF SOMETHING I'VE JUST GOT TO BRING IT UP HERE AGAIN. 05:05 MANY YEARS AGO, AS I WAS PASTORING IN THE NORTHWEST, IT CAME TO MY ATTENTION THAT WE 05:11 HAD A DEAF PASTOR IN OUR CONFERENCE AND YOU KNEW HIM, THE SWEETEST KIND OF A MAN AND 05:22 HE WOULD COME TO THE MEETINGS WITH ALL THE OTHER PASTORS AND HE WAS GREGARIOUS AND FRIENDLY 05:30 AND WE ALL DID LOTS OF NODDING AND SMILING AND SO FORTH BUT WE GO INTO THE MEETINGS AND DEAR 05:38 ARTHUR, DIDN'T ALWAYS KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON. 05:42 AND CERTAINLY NO CREDIT TO ME BUT I KEPT WATCHING HIM AND FINALLY I THOUGHT, 05:48 WELL I CAN AT LEAST TRY TO WRITE SOME NOTES 05:53 SO THAT HE COULD BE CLUED IN TO WHAT WAS HAPPENING. 05:55 SO, I STARTED SITTING BESIDE HIM IN THOSE MEETINGS AND I WOULD BARELY START TRYING TO 06:03 GIVE THE IDEA IN MY RAPID WRITING AS TO WHAT WAS BEING SAID, 06:08 WHAT THE MEETING WAS ABOUT AND SO FORTH AND THAT MAN WAS SO SHARP AND SO ALERT AND IN TUNE 06:18 THAT ALL I HAD TO DO WAS JUST START A SENTENCE AND IT SEEMED LIKE HE WOULD WRITE ME A LITTLE 06:24 WORD THAT WOULD TELL ME "I GOT THAT NOW, LET'S GO ON TO THE NEXT". 06:28 PEOPLE COULD DO EVEN AS SIMPLE AS THAT IS, I COULDN'T DO SIGN LANGUAGE EXCEPT THE SMILE AND 06:34 THE PAT ON THE BACK AND ALL OF THAT BUT JUST A FEW WORDS HELPED HIM FEEL LIKE HE WAS A 06:40 PART OF THE GROUP AND WAS UNDERSTANDING. 06:44 SO THE SITUATION YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, COULDN'T THERE BE SOMEBODY THERE WHO COULD 06:47 EVEN DO THAT? 06:49 I WOULD HOPE SO. 06:50 ANOTHER THING THAT IN NORTH AMERICA CAN BE DONE WHERE MORE PEOPLE HAVE COMPUTERS --IS IF 06:57 SOMEBODY WILL MAKE NOTES ON THE COMPUTER, WHO IS A REASONABLY FAST TYPIST SO THE DEAF PERSON 07:02 CAN EITHER SIT BESIDE THEM OR THEY CAN HAVE A SCREEN WHERE THEY OR ANYBODY AROUND THAT 07:08 MAYBE HARD OF HEARING WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO CHECK WITH WHAT IS GOING ON. 07:13 IT IS NOT WORD FOR WORD BUT IT WOULD BE A GREAT HELP. 07:17 SO, MAYBE SOME OF YOU FOLKS WHO ARE VIEWING THIS PARTICULAR GOSPEL OUTREACH PROGRAM WOULD 07:25 BE MOVED TO BE ALERT TO SOME DEAF FOLKS THAT YOU KNOW OF. 07:32 MAYBE THEY DON'T COME TO CHURCH ANYMORE BECAUSE THERE IS NO COMMUNICATION AND MAYBE 07:37 SOMETHING COULD BE DONE TO LET THEM KNOW YOU CARE AND THAT THE MESSAGE OF JESUS LOVE IS FOR 07:43 THEM AS WELL. 07:44 WELL JOHN, WE'VE GOT TO MOVE ALONG HERE. 07:47 YOU'VE GOT A STORY ABOUT HARRISON YOU ARE GOING TO TELL US ABOUT? 07:51 YES, IN THE FALL OF 2006, I GOT AN EMAIL ASKING ME TO WRITE A DEAF BOY. 07:59 WELL, I DIDN'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HIM BUT AS I WROTE HIM I FOUND THAT YES, 08:05 HE CAME FROM AN ADVENTIST HOME, SAME AS WE BELIEVE, BUT THE CHURCH WAS DOING NOTHING FOR 08:12 THE DEAF IN HIS AREA. 08:14 HE SAID "MY DEAF FRIENDS HAVE LEFT THE CHURCH AND I THINK I WILL TOO" 08:19 OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT. 08:21 WELL, I WROTE HIM, I SENT HIM SOME SIGNED DVD'S, 08:26 SENT HIM SOME MATERIALS LATER IN EASY ENGLISH. 08:30 THE PASTOR WHO ASKED ME TO WRITE HIM ENCOURAGED HIM AND GRADUALLY IT SEEMED AS IF MAYBE 08:40 HE COULD ULTIMATELY BECOME A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER. 08:43 WOW. 08:44 AND SO NOW HE IS OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER FOR GHANA AND WE ARE GOING TO SEE HIS STORY 08:52 AND SO ON, ON THE SCREEN. 08:54 ARE WE READY FOR THAT VIDEO RIGHT NOW THEN? 08:56 YES. 08:57 ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO TO THE VIDEO. 08:58 HERE WE GO. 09:00 HERE WE ARE IN MY TRIP TO GHANA THIS FEBRUARY AND THIS IS DURING THE SONG SERVICE AND YOU 09:05 CAN SEE THE ANIMATED WAY THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE SIGNING WITH, I THINK THIS WAS WITH THE 09:13 AUDIO, NOTICE THE ACTIONS START BEFORE THE MUSIC, THE CAMERA HAD TO MOVE AND IT WAS - NOTICE 09:23 HE WAVES HIS HAND LIKE THAT, THAT IS CLAPPING. 09:26 THIS IS THE AUDIENCE AND PROBABLY THE MIDDLE MAN THERE IS ACTUALLY THE PRINCIPAL OF 09:35 THE DEAF SCHOOL AND HE IS LEADING IN ONE OF THE SONGS. 09:37 HE IS NOT A MEMBER OF OUR CHURCH BUT ABOUT 25 PER CENT OF THE STUDENTS ARE ACTUALLY FROM 09:42 ADVENTIST HOMES. 09:43 THIS IS THE CHOIR FROM THE DEAF SCHOOL WHERE HARRISON WENT TO SCHOOL. 09:48 IT IS ABOUT 50 KILOMETERS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND THIS IS THE SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON. 09:56 THE COUPLE ARE INTERPRETING THERE. 09:57 THE YOUNG MAN WHO IS GOING TO BECOME A WORKER FOR THE DEAF IS ACTUALLY TEACHING THERE. 10:08 NOW THIS WAS A GIFT THAT WAS GIVEN TO ME, THAT IS ACTUALLY THE CONFERENCE TREASURER THERE, 10:12 AND THERE WAS ONE FOR ME AND THEY DIDN'T FORGET MY WIFE WHICH WAS VERY NICE. 10:16 OH, WOW. 10:18 NOW YOU CAN SEE THIS LONG, PROBABLY HAND MADE ON A LOOM, FABRIC MADE RIGHT IN GHANA AND 10:29 IT WOULD BE TYPICAL COLORS SINCE I DON'T KNOW A LOT ABOUT THAT BUT YOU CAN SEE THEM 10:34 PLACING IT AROUND ME IN A CERTAIN SPECIAL WAY AND I'D HAVE TO WATCH THIS VIDEO IF I 10:39 WAS GOING TO TRY AND PUT IT ON. 10:40 SO THAT IS CUSTOMARY DRESS. 10:42 THE AVERAGE PERSON DOESN'T WEAR THAT NOW BUT THAT IS A CUSTOMARY DRESS. 10:47 HARRISON IS THERE PUTTING THIS AROUND MY NECK AND THAT IS ACTUALLY HIS MOTHER AND HIS 10:54 FATHER; YOU'LL SEE HIM AGAIN LATER IN A STILL PICTURE. 10:58 SUGGESTING THIS SPECIALL LITTLE THING AND THIS WAS A THANK YOU TO ME FOR COMING TO GHANA. 11:06 NOW THE CONFERENCE PRESIDENT WAS ACTUALLY RETIRING WHILE I WAS THERE AND THIS WAS SORT OF 11:14 HIS "SEND OFF". 11:15 SPECIAL CELEBRATION FOR HIS RETIREMENT AND YOU MAY BE GETTING SOME SOUND THERE IT WAS 11:21 QUITE A BIT OF SOUND INVOLVED WHILE THOSE LADIES WERE GUIDED PARADING AROUND OR I DON'T KNOW 11:27 EXACTLY WHAT YOU WOULD CALL IT AND SO IT WAS INTERESTING. 11:30 NOW THEY WERE ALL DRESSED-WERE THEY PART OF A CHOIR OR? 11:33 SOME OF THEM IN THE KIND OF BLUISH OR TURQUOISE THEY WERE PART OF A CHOIR OR MAYBE ONE OF 11:39 TWO CHOIRS THAT WERE THERE AND IT WAS ACTUALLY A BAND PLAYING AS WELL. 11:42 IT WAS QUITE LOUD. 11:44 WOW. 11:46 WELL, YOU MUST HAVE HAD A VERY EXCITING TIME TO EVEN GET TO BE THERE. 11:50 YES. 11:51 AND THEN TO GET THIS KIND OF RECOGNITION. 11:54 HERE IS THAT PIECE OF FABRIC THAT WE SAW IN THE VIDEO BEING WRAPPED AROUND. 12:00 THIS IS HEAVY, JOHN. 12:01 YES. 12:03 THIS IS MORE LIKE SOMETHING YOU ARE GOING TO WEAR IN CANADA BECAUSE IT WOULD BE A NICE WARM 12:09 AND IT'S BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL FABRIC. 12:12 I THINK IT IS ACTUALLY HAND MADE ON A LOOM, BUT I CAN'T SAY FOR CERTAIN. 12:16 AND THEY SENT ONE LIKE THIS FOR YOUR WIFE AS WELL, YES A SMALLER ONE. 12:19 WOW THAT IS WONDERFUL. 12:22 WELL, I CAN THINK OF A NUMER OF QUESTIONS THAT ARE VIEWERS ARE GOING TO BE INTERESTED IN ABOUT 12:30 THE WORK FOR THE DEAF IN GHANA BUT I THINK THE BETTER THING FOR US TO DO IS TO GO TO THOSE 12:35 SLIDES THAT YOU'VE GOT AND TELL US THE STORY AS WE PROCEED THROUGH THOSE SLIDES. 12:39 O.K. 12:41 THIS IS, AFTER I GOT THERE, THE CONFERENCE SECRETARY IS IN THE CENTER THERE AND HE TOOK TIME, 12:47 HE ACTUALLY, I WAS ACTUALLY DELAYED AND MISSED MY FLIGHT BECAUSE OF AN ELECTRICAL 12:56 PROBLEM AND SO I HAD TO PHONE, AND THEY WERE ACTUALLY ON THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT, 13:00 A FIVE OR SIX HOUR DRIVE, TO PICK ME UP AND I HAD TO PHONE AND I WAS ABLE, 13:04 THE LORD WORKED IT OUT, I WAS ABLE TO GET HIM ON HIS CELL PHONE, WOW, 13:09 AND STOP THEM AND TELL THEM I AM COMING TOMORROW NIGHT. 13:12 THE MAN ON THE LEFT, BROTHER KENNETH, HAS BEEN A SUPERVISOR FOR HARRISON AND HARRISON IS 13:20 OVER ON THE RIGHT, IN THE YELLOW SHIRT, YES, AND BROTHER KENNETH HAD ACTUALLY BEEN A 13:24 TEACHER FOR THE DEAF FOR ABOUT NINE YEARS. 13:25 SO HE IS QUITE FAMILIAR WITH THE DEAF WORLD. 13:27 IN THE NEXT PICTURE, WE ARE ON THE WAY FROM THE AIRPORT IN AKIRA UP TO KOMASI AND THIS IS 13:37 A LADY SELLING FOOD BESIDE THE CAR. 13:41 THEY DID A LOT OF THIS AND IN THIS PARTICULAR PICTURE IT IS JUST A LITTLE STORE BESIDE THE 13:50 ROAD AND THEY ARE SELLING POP AND DIFFERENT TYPES OF DRINKS THERE. 13:56 THIS IS A LITTLE SEWING SHOP, TAYLOR SHOP AND I BELIEVE THERE WERE THREE SEWING MACHINES 14:02 THERE AND LOOKS LIKE THE LADY SITTING AT HER SEWING MACHINE RIGHT THERE. 14:07 THIS SUGGESTS VERY ENTERPRISING PEOPLE, IT SEEMS TO ME. 14:10 YES, YES. 14:11 AND THIS IS CHURCH? 14:12 THIS WAS A SPECIAL OCCASION WHEN PEOPLE WERE BUSSED IN FROM THE SCHOOLS, STUDENTS. 14:18 THERE WERE OTHER PEOPLE THERE AND I DIDN'T KNOW THAT HARRISON'S PARENTS WERE 14:24 ACTUALLY SITTING IN THE AUDIENCE AND I THINK HIS BROTHER WAS THERE AS WELL AND 14:30 OTHER PEOPLE WHO WERE INTERESTED IN DEAF MINISTRY. 14:32 AND I TOOK THIS PICTURE ACTUALLY DURING THE, I THINK IT WAS DURING THE SABBATH SCHOOL. 14:38 AND THE YOUNG MAN WHO, IN FACT I JUST GOT A LETTER THIS MORNING FROM DR. AMOA AND THEY 14:48 WOULD THE MAN IN THE CENTER WHO IS TEACHING THE SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON, 14:52 WHO HAS A THEOLOGY TRAINING TO ALSO BE INVOLVED WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH. 14:57 RIGHT NOW, I DON'T THINK WE HAVE THE MONEY BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO, 15:01 WE'LL CONFRONT THAT WITH THE BOARD, I THINK. 15:03 IS THIS A CHALLENGE OF A HUNDRED DOLLARS A MONTH, OR WHATEVER? 15:06 MORE LIKE $200, $200 IN THAT ECONOMY. 15:09 YES. 15:10 O.K. 15:11 IT ALL VARIES OF COURSE FROM COUNTRY TO COUNTRY, SURE. 15:13 BUT THAT WAS DURING THE SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON. 15:16 THERE WERE A COUPLE OF INTERPRETERS. 15:18 THIS WAS DURING THE SONG SERVICE AND WE SAW THEM IN THE MOVIE A FEW MINUTES AGO. 15:24 AND THIS ACTUALLY IS THE PRINCIPAL; HE IS A CHRISTIAN OF THE DEAF SCHOOL WHERE HARRISON 15:30 WENT TO SCHOOL. 15:31 YOU SAY THERE ARE ABOUT 500 STUDENTS AND ABOUT 25 PER CENT OF THEM 15:34 ARE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS? 15:35 YES, AND HE IS VERY OPEN TO US COMING. 15:39 IN FACT, HE MADE A COMMENT HE SAID THAT HE REALLY APPRECIATED THE ADVENTISTS COMING THERE 15:45 BECAUSE OTHER CHURCHES DIDN'T SEEM TO BE THAT INTERESTED IN THE DEAF. 15:50 AND HE ASKED ME IF I WOULD DO A LITTLE INTERCEDING BECAUSE THEY HAD BEEN GETTING SOME FOOD FROM 15:55 CANADA AND SOMEHOW THAT HAD GOTTEN STOPPED AND SO I AM STARTING TO TRY AND HELP GET 16:01 THEM BACK TOGETHER SO THEY CAN GET THEM MAYBE A CONTAINER 16:03 LOAD OF FOOD SO THEY CAN HELP FEED THEIR STUDENTS. 16:06 AND THIS IS A BOARDING SCHOOL? 16:08 YES, THERE ARE 500 STUDENTS. 16:10 IN FACT, HE TOLDME THEY HAVE OVER A HUNDRED STUDENTS ON A WAITING LIST THAT THEY DON'T 16:15 HAVE ROOM FOR. 16:16 O.K. 16:18 WE DON'T TO HAVE TIME TO TALK ABOUT THIS BUT THE CHALLENGE THAT I THINK WILL JUST RAISE 16:24 THE ISSUE THAT PROBLEM OF DEAFNESS MUST BE A HIGHER PERCENTAGE IN SOME OF THESE 16:29 AFRICAN COUNTRIES THEN. 16:31 YES. 16:32 I THINK IT IS MUCH HIGHER THAN IN NORTH AMERICA. 16:34 YES. 16:35 I DON'T HAVE A STATISTIC THAT I CAN GIVE. 16:38 ALL RIGHT, I WANT TO SEE THE REST OF YOUR PICTURES. 16:40 O.K. 16:42 NOW THIS IS THE LITTLE CHOIR THAT CAME WITH THE PRINCIPAL AND THEY ARE DOING A BEAUTIFUL 16:45 JOB, AND THEY GENTLY SWAYED BACK AND FORTH AS THEY SIGN 16:49 AND THIS WAS THE CHOIR FROM THE SCHOOL. 16:52 SOME ARE PROBABLY ADVENTIST AND SOME ARE PROBABLY CHRISTIANS OF OTHER DENOMINATIONS. 16:57 NOW THIS IS ME STANDING WITH HIS FAMILY AND WHAT WE SAW IN THE MOVIE, 17:04 I NOW HAVE THIS THING ON. 17:06 ACTUALLY THAT PIECE OF FABRIC, SO THAT'S HARRISON AND HIS PARENTS, RIGHT. 17:11 LOVELY PEOPLE. 17:13 AND THEY WERE SO THANKFUL THAT THEIR SON IS A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER AND I HAD THE PRIVILEGE 17:19 -NOW LATER IN THE DAY, WHEN THE STUDENTS HAD GONE BACK TO THE SCHOOL, 17:24 THIS WAS THE GROUP THAT WAS LEFT. 17:28 AND THREE OF THESE YOUNG MEN HAVE A MUSLIM BACKGROUND. 17:33 OH, REALLY. 17:34 AND SO THERE IS A SPECIAL NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THEM. 17:37 NOW, THESE PEOPLE THAT HARRISON IS WORKING WITH THEM. 17:40 YES. 17:42 SOME ARE MEMBERS AND SOME ARE ATTENDING AND HARRISON IS WORKING WITH THEM. 17:47 AND ONE OR TWO ARE INTERPRETERS. 17:49 THE STUDENTS FROM THE SCHOOL ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO COME TO THIS CLASSROOM AND ABOUT MAYBE 17:55 20 KILOMETERS, 10 KILOMETERS AWAY FROM THE SCHOOL AND WILL HAVE A SABBATH SERVICE. 18:01 THESE ARE PROBABLY THE STUDENTS THAT COME FROM ADVENTIST HOMES. 18:05 OVER A HUNDRED COME FROM ADVENTIST HOMES. 18:07 THIS IS HARRISON AT HIS HOME, AND WE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF GOING TO HIS HOME AND IT WAS SO 18:12 WONDERFUL TO MEET HIS PARENTS AND HARRISON, OF COURSE, WAS PROUD OF THEM. 18:18 HIS FATHER ACTUALLY WORKS AND I DIDN'T GET THE DETAILS, BUT HE IS A COCOA BUYER AND THEY GROW 18:27 COCOA IN THE AREA, I GUESS THE COCOA BEAN. 18:30 WHETHER THOSE BAGS ARE FULL OF BEANS OR FULL OF POWDER, I DON'T KNOW BUT THIS IS THE 18:35 WAREHOUSE THAT THE FATHER HAS. 18:37 REALLY. 18:38 THEN HE RESELLS THAT AND THAT IS HIS BUSINESS. 18:41 RIGHT, THAT'S, THAT'S -I DON'T THINK IT IS A BIG BUSINESS 18:44 BUT IT IS KIND OF A FAMILY BUSINESS I THINK. 18:46 THAT IS THE END OF THOSE PICTURES. 18:50 O.K. 18:51 YOU HAD NOT BEEN TO GHANA BEFORE? 18:54 NO, AND ACTUALLY I'VE BEEN TO SO MANY OF THESE COUNTRIES. 18:59 I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I WENT BEFORE I WENT TO INDIA, I WAS SCARED TO GO, YOU KNOW. 19:02 YOU HEAR ALL ABOUT THE SNAKES AND THIS AND THAT AND THE OTHER, 19:05 AND I ALMOST TOLD DOROTHY WATTS I DON'T THINK I CAN GO, I DON'T THINK I CAN MAKE IT. 19:14 BUT GOD GAVE ME THE STRENGTH TO GO AND I WAS WORRIED ABOUT GOING TO AFRICA BUT GOD GAVE ME 19:22 THE STRENGTH TO GO TO AFRICA BOTH GHANA AND KENYA 19:25 AND NOW I FEEL FOR MORE FREE MAYBE TO GO ANYWHERE. 19:29 NOW THAT I'VE BEEN TO SO MANY PLACES. 19:31 I AM SO GRATEFUL YOU ARE WILLING TO GO BECAUSE THIS IS A DIMENSION OF GOSPEL OUTREACH 19:35 MINISTRY THAT WE CERTAINLY WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HAD NOT YOU BEEN MOVED TO 19:42 COME AND OFFER YOUR SERVICES AND LO AND BEHOLD, 19:45 WE NOW HAVE DEAF WORK IN SEVEN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. 19:49 BUT THAT IS NOT THE LIMIT IS IT? 19:50 NO. 19:52 WELL THERE ARE 200 COUNTRIES OR MORE, MORE THAN 200 COUNTRIES AND AS A CHURCH; 19:59 I'VE MADE A LIST OF WHERE ALL WE HAVE WORK. 20:03 OF COURSE, I DON'T KNOW ALL THE PLACES; SURE, THE LORD HAS BEEN WORKING BECAUSE FORTUNATELY IT 20:09 IS NOT DEPENDENT ON ME OR GOSPEL OUTREACH. 20:12 THE LORD IS BEHIND ORCHESTRATING WHAT HE WANTS TO DO. 20:16 GOOD. 20:18 IN ONE PLACE WHERE I HAVE BEEN AND WE'VE DISCUSSED THIS BEFORE IN KRYGYZSTAN, 20:22 THE LORD GAVE A LADY A DREAM AND SHE SAW JESUS 20:26 AND SHE ENDED UP GOING TO AN ADVENTIST CHURCH. 20:29 THERE IS NOW IN THAT CITY AN ADVENTIST CHURCH FOR THE DEAF. 20:35 SO, GOD IS NOT SIMPLY DEPENDENT ON US BUT HE ASKS US TO DO OUR PART. 20:42 THAT'S WHY I'M SO INVOLVED WITH DEAF MINISTRY IS BECAUSE GOD HAS PLACED BEFORE ME THE NEED, 20:48 BEFORE US AS AN ORGANIZATION THE NEED AND NOW WE ARE PRESENTING THIS NEED TO THE 20:53 TELEVISION AUDIENCE. 20:55 AND WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO JUST UNDERSCORE THAT THOSE OF YOU WHO PROBABLY KNOW SOMEBODY WHO 21:03 IS DEAF AND YOU ARE WONDERING IS THERE SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO FOR MORE DEAF PEOPLE, 21:11 GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS A WAY OF AT LEAST REACHING THESE WHOM BROTHER JOHN HAS BEEN TALKING 21:17 ABOUT AND EARLIER IN THE PROGRAM WE MADE AN APPEAL TO YOU, 21:22 FIND A WAY TO EVEN MINISTER TO THE DEAF IF THERE IS SOMEONE WHOM YOU KNOW THAT GOD IS 21:30 CALLING YOU TO MINISTER TO. 21:32 YOU SEE THE ADDRESS THERE ON THE SCREEN ALONG WITH THE PHONE NUMBER, 21:36 ALL THE INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH. 21:40 IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DEAF MINISTRY, PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH AND 21:45 YOUR INQUIRY WILL BE MOVED OVER TO JOHN BLAKE EVEN THOUGH HE IS NOT HERE AT THE OFFICE ALL THE 21:51 TIME, THEY CAN GET IN TOUCH WITH HIM ON A DAILY BASIS VIA EMAIL OR WHATEVER. 21:56 AND IF YOU HAVE A BURDEN FOR DEAF WORK, 21:58 WE WOULD JUST LIKE TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO BECOME INVOLVED. 22:01 AND IF YOU ARE MOVED TO SUPPORT DEAF WORK, SPECIFICALLY, YOU HEAR ABOUT THE NEED FOR ANOTHER 22:09 WORKER RIGHT THERE IN GHANA AND THE CONFERENCE IS RECOMMENDING A YOUNG MAN WHO HAS TRAINING IN 22:16 THEOLOGY, READY TO GO TO WORK AND WISHES THAT HE COULD BE COLLEAGUING WITH HARRISON IN 22:23 REACHING THESE PEOPLE. 22:24 THERE IS SO MUCH MORE NEED AND WE ARE JUST GRATEFUL FOR WHAT GOD IS DOING AT THIS TIME. 22:30 JOHN, AS YOU THINK ABOUT THE WORK THERE, 22:36 WE NEED $200 A MONTH APPROXIMATELY FOR ANOTHER WORKER? 22:41 THAT IS NORMALLY WHAT WE PAY FOR A STIPEND WORKER. 22:45 IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD. 22:46 AND I'M NOT JUST QUITE SURE, SINCE I JUST GOT THIS EMAIL THIS MORNING QUITE WHAT IS 22:51 GOING TO BE INVOLVED IN THAT SPECIFIC SITUATION BUT WE NEED MORE WORKERS IN GHANA, 22:56 NOT JUST THAT YOUNG MAN THAT WE SAW TEACHING THE LESSON. 22:59 FOR ALL OF THIS WITH 125 ADVENTIST STUDENTS IN THAT ONE SCHOOL AND YOU SAID THERE ARE 23:04 MAYBE A DOZEN SCHOOLS? 23:06 THERE ARE A DOZEN SCHOOLS, DEAF SCHOOLS, YES. 23:09 AND I EXPECT THERE MAY BE TEN OR TWENTY OR THIRTY PER CENT OF THE STUDENTS IN ALL OF THE 23:15 SCHOOLS, MANY OF THE SCHOOLS, MAYBE ALL OF THEM WHO COME FROM AN ADVENTIST BACKGROUND. 23:20 WE AT LEAST SHOULD BE MINISTERING TO THEM. 23:22 YES, PLUS ALL THE OTHER DEAF WHO HAVE NO CONNECTION IN THEIR BACKGROUND WITH OUR CHURCH. 23:28 IN PARTICULAR, YOU HAVE STATED THIS BEFORE, BUT IN PARTICULAR, WE NEED TO BE MINISTERING TO 23:34 THOSE ADVENTIST YOUNG PEOPLE IN THOSE SCHOOLS BECAUSE AS IN HARRISON'S CASE, 23:40 WHERE HE WAS ISOLATED, AWAY FROM THE HEARING POPULATION; HE WAS CONSIDERING GOING WITH THE 23:47 DISAFFECTED OR DISENFRANCHISED OTHER YOUNG PEOPLE. 23:51 SO, WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO MINISTER TO ALL OF THEM. 23:55 AS YOU THINK ABOUT THE CHALLENGES, I SEE IN THE NOTES YOU GAVE ME HERE, 24:04 WHAT IS YOUR APPEAL FOR THE WORK FOR GHANA? 24:08 WELL, I WOULD EXPAND IT NOT JUST GHANA, O.K., BUT THE WORLD FIELD. 24:11 WE HAVE THE REQUEST WE JUST TALKED ABOUT, WE HAVE A REQUEST FOR SEVEN NEW WORKERS FOR KENYA 24:16 AND WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT LATER ON IN A DIFFERENT PROGRAM. 24:19 WE HAVE NEED IN SO MANY COUNTRIES AND SO MANY PLACES AND I DON'T KNOW HOW THE LORD 24:23 IS GOING TO OPEN ALL THESE DOORS. 24:25 WHEN I STARTED IN 2006 WITH THE DEPARTMENT HERE, I DIDN'T KNOW THE LORD WAS GOING TO OPEN SO 24:31 MANY DOORS? 24:32 AND I DON'T' KNOW WHICH DOOR THE LORD IS GOING TO OPEN NEXT. 24:34 BUT IF WE HAD THE MONEY THE LORD WILL OPEN MANY, 24:53 MANY DOORS TO BE ABLE TO EXPAND TO OTHER COUNTRIES. 24:58 AND THE NEED IS SO GREAT. 25:02 SO OFTEN THE DEAF FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS AND IT'S NOT THAT OUR MEMBERS ARE HARD HEARTED, 25:09 NO, NOR THE ADMINISTRATORS BUT IF YOU DON'T KNOW, IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE NEED YOU WON'T 25:17 DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT OR DO VERY LITTLE. 25:20 SO, WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO HERE IS TO HIGHLIGHT THE NEED, NOT ONLY TO HELP GOSPEL 25:27 OUTREACH BUT WHEREVER PEOPLE ARE SEEING THIS, AS YOU POINTED OUT EARLIER, 25:35 TO WATCH FOR DEAF PEOPLE. 25:37 YOU MAY SEE THEM IN LINE AT THE GROCERY STORE, YOU MAY SEE THEM SIGNING ON THE STREET CORNER. 25:44 THESE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THAT JESUS IS COMING SOON, THEY NEED TO KNOW JESUS LOVE 25:49 AND WE NEED TO DO OUR PART. 25:52 JOHN, IT IS KIND OF FEEBLE OF ME TO JUST SAY IT THIS WAY BUT THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP 26:02 AT GOSPEL OUTREACH AND GIVING US AN INTRODUCTION TO A PART OF GOD'S FAMILY THAT OTHERWISE WE 26:09 WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN. 26:11 I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THIS PROGRAM IN PARTICULAR, FOR PUTTING A FACE ON DEAF MINISTRY 26:17 IN THE PERSON OF HARRISON. 26:20 AND THEN, THE SENSE OF JOY AND PRIDE THAT I SAW ON THE FACES OF HIS PARENTS TO THINK THAT 26:28 THEIR BOY IS A PART OF GOSPEL OUTREACH MINISTRY AND WORKING FOR THOSE 26:34 IN HIS SCHOOL WHO ARE ALSO DEAF. 26:37 SO, THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THIS AND THAT THEY WOULD PRAY FOR HARRISON AND THE OTHER PASTOR 26:45 WHO IS GOING TO BE STARTING. 26:46 GOOD. 26:47 YES, THERE IS SO MUCH FOR WHICH WE HAVE TO BE GRATEFUL AND GOD WAITS TO HEAR OUR APPEALS, 26:54 OUR PETITIONS AND YOU DO KNOW WHAT TO PRAY FOR. 27:00 THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF GOSPEL OUTREACH 27:01 AND FOR YOUR PRAYERS FOR THIS WHOLE MINISTRY. 27:04 WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT TIME. 27:19 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. 27:29 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. 27:41 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 27:43 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. 28:00 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. 28:15 BUT THEY WON'T FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 28:17 BE THE SPARK. 28:18 LIGHT THE FIRE. 28:19 FINISH THE WORK. 28:20 FINISH THE WORK. |
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