Participants: Glen Wintermeyer
Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000414
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00:02 [ OPENING MUSIC].
00:22 HELLO, EVERYONE. 00:23 WE WANT TO WELCOME YOU TO THIS SEGMENT 00:27 OF "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" SPONSORED BY GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:28 AS YOU CAN TELL, THIS OUTREACH OF THIS ORGANIZATION IS COMMITTED IN BRINGING THE 00:31 GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST IN ALL ITS GLORY 00:35 IN EVERY INNOVATIVE CREATIVE WAY THAT YOU CAN EVER IMAGINE. 00:40 AND AS YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE HISTORY OF GOSPEL OUTREACH, NO PARTS IN THE WORLD ARE 00:49 OUTSIDE OF THE REACH OF THE GOSPEL. 00:51 AND IN SPECIFIC AREAS OF THE WORLD THAT WE ARE ALSO GOING TO BE DISCUSSING TODAY WITH OUR 00:57 NEW GUEST, WELL HE'S NEW BECAUSE I'VE JUST MET YOU 01:01 BUT YOU ARE NOT A NEW FACE TO GOSPEL OUTREACH. 01:03 GLEN WINTERMEYER, I WANT TO WELCOME YOU. 01:06 YES, GLAD TO MEET YOU GERALD. 01:08 THANK YOU FOR BEING ON OUR SHOW. 01:10 GOOD TO BE HERE. 01:12 IT'S A PLEASURE TO HAVE THE ACQUAINTANCE OFA MAN OF YOUR CALIBER BECAUSE OF WHAT I SEE 01:16 IN WHAT YOU ARE INVOLVED WITH AND YOUR YEARS OF WORK IN AFRICA. 01:21 THANK YOU. 01:22 AND I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE NOW OVERSEEING SOME PROJECTS IN AFRICA. 01:27 THAT'S CORRECT; I'M SUPERVISING SIX NATIONS IN WEST AFRICA. 01:31 ARE WE AT FREEDOM TO DIVULGE THE NAMES OF THOSE COUNTRIES? 01:35 OH SURE.THERE ARE TWO ENGLISH SPEAKING ONES, GAMBIA AND LIBERIA THEN IVORY COAST, 01:42 BURKINA FASO, MALI, GUINEA CONAKRY. 01:47 SO THIS IS BASICALLY WEST AFRICA. 01:48 THAT'S WEST AFRICA. 01:49 AND WHAT POPULATION IS THIS? 01:51 WHAT'S THE NUMBER THEN? 01:52 OH, I HAVE NO IDEA. 01:53 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT HEARD ABOUT JESUS CHRIST. 01:56 REALLY, IT'S STILL IN WEST AFRICA THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE 01:58 WHO HAVE NOT HEARD OF JESUS CHRIST. 02:01 OH YES, YOU STAND THERE IN THE CITIES AND YOU LOOK AND THERE ARE JUST MASSES OF PEOPLE. 02:08 WHAT IS THE PREDOMINANT RELIGION IN THOSE AREAS? 02:11 OH, ANIMISTIC PEOPLE AND ISLAM. 02:12 ANIMISTIC AND ISLAM. 02:13 UH, HUH. 02:14 O.K. 02:16 AND HOW DO YOU APPROACH, LET'S SAY PEOPLE FROM THE ANIMISTIC BACKGROUND? 02:19 HOW, WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH THEM? 02:23 THEY'RE VERY SPIRIT ORIENTED AND WE WANT THEM TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS AN ALL POWERFUL 02:30 SPIRIT, THE HOLY SPIRIT, GOD'S SPIRIT THAT IS WILLING TO WORK WITHIN THEIR HEARTS AND WILL DO 02:36 THEM NO EVIL, WILL NOT HURT THEM BUT WILL TREAT THEM WELL. 02:41 HOW MANY YEARS HAVE YOU BEEN DOING THIS? 02:43 WELL, I STARTED IN 1995 WITH ADVENTIST FRONTEIR MISSIONS AND I SUPERVISED MISSIONARIES IN 02:48 WEST AFRICA FOR ABOUT FIVE, SIX YEARS, SEVEN YEARS, I GUESS AND THEN IN SOUTHERN ASIA AS WELL. 02:55 HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH? 02:58 THIS IS MY SECOND YEAR. 02:59 SECOND YEAR. 03:01 A QUESTION THAT I HAVE, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WERE AT THAT REGION? 03:08 I WAS THERE ABOUT 15 MONTHS AGO. 03:10 FIFTEEN MONTHS AGO, OH, OK, SO RECENTLY. 03:13 YES. 03:14 WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING? 03:15 IT SEEMS RECENT MAYBE TO YOU BUT TO ME IT SEEMS LIKE A LONG TIME. 03:18 WELL, SURE CAN WE SAY YOU ARE A MISSIONARY AT HEART? 03:21 OH, ABSOLUTELY. 03:22 MY MOTHER RAISED ME THAT WAY. 03:24 UH, HUH. 03:25 HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN IN THE MISSIONS? 03:27 I FIRST WENT OUT, WELL THAT'S A HARD QUESTION, ALL MY LIFE. 03:32 BUT OFFICIALLY I FIRST WENT OUT IN 1985. 03:35 I ADMINISTRATED AN ORPHANAGE IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND THEN MORE RECENTLY, 03:43 I WAS TWO YEARS WITH MY FAMILY IN CENTRAL AMERICA ADMINISTRATING AN ORPHANAGE SO 03:48 I LOVE KIDS, I LIKE PEOPLE. 03:51 SO WHAT IS THE RECENT ENDEAVOR THAT YOU HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WITH? 03:54 WELL, MY BURDEN TODAY IS-I DO A LOT OF SMALL GROUP EVANGELISM IN AND AROUND MY PERSONAL LIFE 04:03 HERE IN THE UNITED STATES. 04:04 AND I AM REACHING THE CONCLUSION THAT EVERY PERSON 04:08 NEEDS TO WIN A PERSON TO JESUS CHRIST. 04:11 AMEN. 04:12 WE ALL NEED TO LET IT BE KNOWN THAT WHEN YOU COME TO JESUS CHRIST IT IS YOUR TURN, 04:22 JUST LIKE IN THE PICTURE, THAT IT IS YOUR TURN 04:25 THEN TO INTRODUCE SOMEONE ELSE TO JESUS CHRIST. 04:28 THAT'S THE NATURE OF THE GOSPEL. 04:30 THAT'S THE NATURE OF THE GOSPEL. 04:31 JESUS TOLD US THAT GO, TELL AND BAPTIZE AND TEACH IN JUDEA, IN SAMARIA AND OTHER PARTS OF THE 04:40 WORLD AND SO WE'VE GOT A THING OF, WE NEED TO BE MEETING WITH THESE PEOPLE IN THEIR LIVING 04:47 ROOMS, IN SMALL GROUPS. 04:50 HERE I AM TEACHING THESE KIDS WHAT SMALL GROUP EVANGELISM IS ALL ABOUT. 04:56 HOW ONE PLUS ONE IS ONE , HOW TWO PLUS TWO IS TWO BUT THEN IF WE GOT TO THE MULTIPLICATION 05:01 MODE THEN WE HAVE ONE TIMES IS ONE , TWO TIMES TWO IS FOUR AND IT JUST VERY QUICKLY GROWS. 05:07 AND YOU KNOW ARE WE GOING TO GROW BY ADDITION, MULTIPLICATION OR DIVISION? 05:15 THE ANSWER IS YES BECAUSE WE LOOK AT THE APOSTOLIC MODEL IN ACTS AND IN ACTS 2:47 WE SEE 05:22 THE CHURCH GROWING BY ADDITION, NUMBERS WERE ADDED DAILY. 05:27 IN ACTS 6, WE SEE THE CHURCH WAS MULTIPLYING AND THEN IN ACTS 8 WE SEE THE CHURCH WAS 05:34 DIVIDED BECAUSE OF PERSECUTION AND PEOPLE WERE SCATTERED, LITERALLY ALL OVER THE WORLD, 05:40 THE THEN KNOWN WORLD. 05:42 PEOPLE WENT AND SHARED THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST. 05:46 SO BY ADDITION WE CAN REACH A CITY, BUT BY MULTIPLICATION WE CAN REACH A COUNTRY. 05:53 A QUESTION THAT COMES TO MY MIND WITH YOUR EXPERIENCE, ARE MEMBERS INVOLVED IN DOING WHAT 06:06 YOU ARE SAYING? 06:07 ABSOLUTELY, THEY NEED TO BE. 06:09 WE NEED TO DO A PARADIGM SHIFT, IF YOU PLEASE, BECAUSE TOO OFTEN TIMES WE WANT THE 06:15 PASTORAL TEAM TO DO ALL THE WORK. 06:17 THAT HAPPENS IN AFRICA THAT HAPPENS PROBABLY IN MANY PLACES OF THE WORLD. 06:22 IT'S THE PASTORS JOB. 06:23 IT'S NOT THE PASTORS JOB, GERALD. 06:25 IT IS MY JOB AS A NEW BELIEVER OR AN OLD BELIEVER TO SHARE THE GOSPEL WITH THOSE AROUND ME. 06:35 O.K. 06:37 IN THE PART OF THE WORLD THAT YOU ARE INVOLVED WITH WHAT HAS BEEN THE SUCCESS RATE? 06:45 WHAT HAS BEEN OUTCOME OF THIS MULTIPLICATION APPROACH? 06:51 WELL, INTERESTING, I THINK THERE IS A PICTURE DOWN THE WAY HERE A LITTLE BIT BEFORE WE GET 06:58 THERE BECAUSE I DO HAVE THAT STORY ALONG WITH ME TODAY -IF WE LOOK AT THE WORLD GROWTH 07:04 RATE 209,000 BABIES BEING ADDED A DAY, IN A YEAR 76 MILLION PEOPLE PER YEAR. 07:13 THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD SIZED PIECE, THAT'S A COUNTRY. 07:15 THAT IS MORE THAN A COUNTRY, YES, SOME COUNTRIES-THIS IS NET GROWTH AND SO HOW ARE WE GOING 07:23 TO DEAL WITH THAT? 07:24 WE NEED CHURCH MULTIPLICATION MOVEMENTS, MOVEMENTS CAPABLE OF SWEEPING ACROSS ENTIRE 07:30 COUNTRIES AND A CHURCH MULTIPLICATION MOVEMENT IS A RAPID REPRODUCTION OF CHURCHES, 07:36 PLANTING CHURCHES, MEASURED BY A REPRODUCTION RATE OF 50 PER CENT THROUGH THE THIRD 07:41 GENERATION OF CHURCHES WITH NEW CHURCHES HAVING 50 PER CENT OF NEW CONVERTS. 07:46 SO, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 07:47 THAT MEANS THAT YOU SPREAD FROM POINT A TO POINT B TO POINT C WITH NEW BELIEVERS JOINING THE 07:58 RANKS OF THE KINGDOM IN EACH OF THOSE SPOTS THAT ARE BEING PLANTED. 08:01 A, B, AND C. 08:04 WHAT PERIOD OF TIME ARE YOU ASSIGNING TO THIS? 08:21 IS IT RIGHT AWAY? 08:22 WELL. 08:23 OR ARE WE CONSIDERING ALSO THE TIME LAGS THAT ARE INVOLVED. 08:25 I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, PERSONALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A NEW CHURCH OR A NEW GROUP 08:26 BEING PLANTED EVERY YEAR. 08:28 THIS, THIS GROUP THE NUCLEUS GETS TOGETHER, STUDIES THE WORD AND SOMEBODY IN THAT GROUP SAYS 08:29 YOU KNOW WHAT I LIVE TEN MILES OUT THERE, I'M TIRED OF WALKING TEN MILES I WOULD LIKE TO START 08:35 A GROUP IN MY HOME. 08:36 AND THAT WORKS GREAT IN THE BUSH OF WEST AFRICA BECAUSE THERE ARE THOUSANDS AND 08:43 THOUSANDS OF MILES OF RURAL AREA WHERE THERE ARE NOT MANY ROADS AND IT'S MUCH EASIER FOR 08:52 THE GOSPEL TO GO THEM THAN FOR THEM TO COME TO THE GOSPEL. 08:57 OK SO, A YEAR'S TIME IS GOOD ENOUGH TIME FOR A BRAND NEW, BABY BELIEVER, 09:07 TO BE AT A STAGE THAT HE OR SHE CAN START OFF ANOTHER NUCLEUS GROUP. 09:12 YES. 09:13 IS THAT WHAT I UNDERSTAND? 09:14 YES, HERE IS A SITUATION RIGHT HERE: THE BOON SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH IN BURKENA 09:20 FASO, RIGHT OUT IN THE HEART OF WEST AFRICA, THIS CHURCH STARTED IN THE FOLLOWING WAY: 09:26 UP SOUTH OF THE CAPITAL CITY WHICH IS OUAGADOUGOU, 60 MILES SOUTH OF OUAGADOUGOU THERE IS A 09:32 VILLAGE CALLED SAPOUY. 09:35 A WOMAN WALKED FROM THE FOREST TO THIS CHURCH SINCE 2007. 09:41 IT IS NINE MILES. 09:42 HAVE YOU EVER WALKED NINE MILES TO CHURCH? 09:45 I HAVEN'T. 09:46 WHY DON'T YOU TRY IT THIS COMING WEEKEND? 09:48 AND SHE DID THIS SINCE 2007. 09:51 SHE STARTED TALKING WITH THE GOSPEL OUTREACH EVANGELIST WHO WAS THERE SAYING, 09:57 YOU NEED TO COME AND START A CHURCH WHERE I AM. 10:01 AND SO FINALLY, HE ACQUIESCED AND IN 2011 HE WENT TO THE BOOM, 10:08 HOW WOULD YOU LIKE THAT NAME? 10:10 THIS IS THE BOOM CHURCH; THE BOOM SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH STARTED NINE MILES OUT 10:15 IN THE FOREST WITH EIGHT BELIEVERS WHO WERE BAPTIZED. 10:20 AND NOW, THAT'S 2011, THAT'S 2O11 AND NOW WE ARE IN 2012 THERE IS TWELVE MORE PEOPLE 10:27 WAITING TO BE BAPTIZED. 10:29 I JUST GOT THIS STORY JUST TODAY VIA EMAIL. 10:33 SO, THESE ARE THE CHURCH BOOMER GENERATION, BASICALLY. 10:36 THI S IS THE SECOND GENERATION YES. 10:39 AND NOW SOMEBODY IS GOING TO CONCEIVABLY START COMING TO THE BOOM CHURCH THAT'S NINE MILES 10:45 FURTHER INTO THE BUSH. 10:48 WE NEED TO START THE MENTALITY THAT EACH GROUP WILL PROVIDE LEADERSHIP AND CAN START AND 10:55 SPAWN ANOTHER CHURCH. 10:57 SPAWNING A CHURCH, SPAWNING A CHURCH. 10:59 SPAWNING A CHURCH. 11:01 NOW A QUESTION THAT COMES TO MY MIND GLEN, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE HINDRANCES? 11:07 DO THESE PEOPLE, THESE BRAND NEW BELIEVERS IN THIS PART OF AFRICA, 11:12 DO THEY HAVE TO DEAL WITH RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION AND PERSECUTION? 11:15 OH ABSOLUTELY. 11:16 IN WHAT WAY? 11:17 AND WHAT DO THEY DO ABOUT IT? 11:19 WELL, IN SOME CASES: THERE WAS A SITUATION THERE, THIS IS ANOTHER STORY, 11:26 AND I HAD MENTIONED THIS TO YOU EARLIER OFF THE SET: THAT A YOUNG LADY WAS IN WITCHCRAFT, 11:34 POSSESSED BY A DEMON 11:36 AND HER FATHER WHO WAS MUSLIM WANTED HER TO BE CLEANSED OF THE DEMON. 11:41 AND SO, YOU KNOW, JESUS CLEANSED HER OF THE DEMON AND THEN THE FATHER WANTED IT ALL 11:46 TO STOP, BUT SHE SAID NO I WANT TO CONTINUE LEARNING ABOUT THE JESUS THAT CLEANSED ME. 11:51 WOW. 11:52 HE WASN'T HAPPY ABOUT THAT AND SO YOU KNOW, PERSECUTION, OPPRESSION, 11:57 AND OF COURSE IT CAN REALLY GET BAD, THROW YOU OUT OF THE HOME. 12:03 AND SO THESE CURRENT BELIEVERS, HOW ARE THEY SUPERVISED I WOULD SAY? 12:10 IN ANOTHER WORDS, HOW CLOSELY KNIT ARE YOU IN THIS OPERATION, HOW INVOLVED ARE YOU? 12:17 ME PERSONALLY? 12:18 YES. 12:20 I'M NOT INVOLVED IN THAT SITUATION IN THERE BUT I CAN ANSWER THAT IN MY OWN 12:25 RELATIONSHIP HERE IN THE UNITED STATES. 12:29 MY GROUPS THAT I WORK WITH, OUR GROUPS, WE'RE VERY TIGHT KNIT; WE'RE VERY MUCH OF A CORE 12:36 GROUP, IF YOU PLEASE. 12:38 AND WE RESPOND TO EACH OTHER, WE RELY ON EACH OTHER, WE PRAY FOR EACH OTHER AND THAT'S WHAT 12:44 THE APOSTOLIC MODEL IS ABOUT. 12:46 IF YOU LOOK IN ACTS 2:47 I BELIEVE IT IS, THE PEOPLE GOT TOGETHER, THEY SOCIALIZED, 12:53 THEY ATE, THEY PRAYED AND THEY STUDIED TOGETHER AND THAT'S WHAT A GROUP NEEDS TO BE DOING. 13:00 ANYWHERE. 13:01 ANYWHERE. 13:03 WHETHER IT IS AMERICA OR AFRICA AND THEN WE NEED TO BE DIVIDING AND MULTIPLYING AND REACHING 13:10 FURTHER OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY OR INTO THE OUTBACK OR INTO THE BUSH, 13:16 WHATEVER YOU CALL IT WHEREVER YOU ARE. 13:18 HOW IS GOSPEL OUTREACH INVOLVED WITH THIS NUMBER OF COUNTRIES THAT YOU JUST MENTIONED? 13:23 DO WE HAVE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THAT ARE CONDUCTING THESE BIBLE STUDY SEMINARS? 13:29 ABSOLUTELY. 13:30 THERE ARE ABOUT SIXTY, SIXTY- FIVE GOSPEL OUTREACH EVANGELISTS IN WEST AFRICA THAT 13:36 I OVERSEE IN COOPERATION WITH THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST MISSIONS THAT ARE OUT THERE. 13:42 AND WHEN I GO, I MEET, I TRAIN, I ASK THE BIBLE WORKERS HOW THEY ARE DOING, HOW IT'S GOING. 13:51 WE HAVE A GOOD TIME TOGETHER. 13:52 YOU MENTION THE LAW OF MULTIPLICATION AND SO FORTH, HAS THAT BEEN STRICTLY 13:58 IMPLEMENTED IN THIS PROJECT? 14:02 ANOTHER WORDS, IS IT REALLY WORKING? 14:04 MAYBE THAT'S THE QUESTION. 14:05 WELL, YES I DON'T PHILOSOPHICALLY YES. 14:10 IS IT A PERFECT FORMULA? 14:13 NO. 14:14 I WOULD LIKE IT TO BE A PERFECT FORMULA BUT YES, IN MALI I'VE GOT A PASTORAL GUY THAT IS 14:22 WORKING THERE AND IT IS WORKING. 14:25 HE HAD SEVEN OR EIGHT GROUPS BUT IT NEEDS TO BE ABLE TO MOVE OUTSIDE OF THE CITY. 14:30 ADDITION, WE CAN ADD A CHURCH HERE A CHURCH THERE BUT IT NEEDS TO BE MULTIPLICATION 14:35 WHICH WE CAN COVER A WHOLE COUNTRY AND SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE. 14:39 I SEE THESE BUILDINGS, ARE THEY ERECTED FROM SCRATCH UP 14:43 OR ARE THEY SOME EXISTING LIKE BUNKERS OR WHATEVER? 14:48 NO, THESE ARE FROM SCRATCH UP, NO, NO BUNKERS HERE. 14:53 THIS IS BUILT RIGHT OUT OF THE MUD OF WEST AFRICA. 14:54 O.K. 14:55 JUST OUT OF CURIOUSITY WHO IS SPONSORING THE BUILDING OF THOSE CHURCHES. 14:59 WELL, THE GOOD NEWS IS, IS THAT THEY ARE DOING THEMSELVES. 15:02 REALLY. 15:03 I HAVE SEEN MUD CHURCHES: THEY BUILD THEM, THEY WHITEWASH THEM, 15:08 THEY MAKE THE FLOOR PLASTERED AND IT'S SHINY CLEAN, WELL AS CLEAN AS A DIRT FLOOR CAN BE. 15:15 SURE. 15:16 I'VE SEEN THE PULPITS MADE OUT OF BAKED MUD. 15:22 UNFORTUNATELY, ONE OF THE OBSTACLES TO CHURCH GROWTH IS WE HAVE TO HAVE A CHURCH BEFORE 15:28 WE CAN GROW. 15:29 AND I DON'T BELIEVE THAT. 15:32 I BELIEVE THAT AN INJUSTICE HAS BEEN SERVED WHEN SOMEHOW THEY GET THE IDEA THAT THEY HAVE TO 15:39 HAVE A CHURCH BEFORE THEY CAN GROW. 15:41 WE CAN MEET UNDER A TREE, WE CAN MEET UNDER IN SOMEBODY'S HUT, 15:44 AND WE CAN MEET IN A NUMBER OF PLACES. 15:47 AND OF COURSE, WE CAN MEET IN A CHURCH. 15:49 BUT WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A FANCY STEEPLE OR A FANCY ROOF OR ANYTHING LIKE THESE 16:00 BUILDINGS TO BE ABLE TO WORSHIP JESUS CHRIST. 16:03 I SEE YOU STILL HAVE A LOT TO SHARE WITH YOU REPORT. 16:07 TELL US MORE. 16:09 WELL, I WOULD LIKE TO, LET'S SEE WHERE THIS SLIDE IS HERE ON THE MULTIPLICATION, 16:15 HERE WE GO: JUST THE IDEA OF THE ADDITION, 16:21 IF WE ADD A CHURCH TO A CHURCH WE HAVE TWO CHURCHES. 16:25 IF WE ADD ANOTHER CHURCH TO TWO CHURCHES, WE GET THREE CHURCHES. 16:29 BUT I WOULD LIKE TO GET PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND, I'D LIKE TO GET MY GOSPEL OUTREACH EVANGELISTS 16:35 WORKERS TO UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN EVERY TELLS ONE, EVERY ONE WINS ONE, 16:39 HOW MUCH MORE CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED. 16:42 TAKE A LOOK AT THIS SLIDE HERE.YOU KNOW, ONE TIMES ONE IS ONE; TWO TIMES TWO IS FOUR; 16:49 FOUR TIMES FOUR IS SIXTEEN; SIXTEEN TIMES SIXTEEN IS 256 16:53 AND WE ARE ONLY FOUR GENERATIONS IN. 16:55 FIVE GENERATIONS THE NUMBERS GET CRAZY BUT YOU CAN BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THAT IF EVERYBODY 17:01 ADOPTS THIS, HOW MUCH QUICKER IT CAN BE TO REACH 17:06 THE UNREACHED PEOPLE FOR JESUS CHRIST. 17:11 WELL, AS YOU CAN TELL, THE MULTIPLICATION NEEDS TO BE NOT ONLY IMPLIED AND IMPLEMENTED IN 17:22 AFRICA BUT ALSO IN AMERICA. 17:24 YES. 17:25 CAN WE LEARN ANYTHING FROM THE AFRICAN BELIEVERS? 17:27 YES, I MEAN THIS PICTURE THAT WAS JUST THERE WE ARE WORSHIPPING UNDER A TREE. 17:32 I WORSHIPPED SITTING ON SAPLING BENCHES WHERE, YOU KNOW, THE TREE IS ABOUT FOUR INCHES IN 17:40 DIAMETER AND YOU SIT ON THAT FOR TWO OR THREE HOURS IT'S NOT THE MOST COMFORTABLE THING. 17:48 HERE I AM, THIS IS AN INTERESTING STORY: I PRAYED EARNESTLY THAT THE LORD WOULD 17:53 HELP ME TO BE A FAITHFUL WITNESS ON THE MANY AIRPLANE RIDES AND IT NEVER HAPPENED. 17:58 BUT HERE I WAS SEATED AT A RESTAURANT IN GAMBIA AND THESE FOLK CAME ALONG AND STARTED 18:05 ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY I WAS THERE, 18:07 WHAT I WAS DOING AND WE STARTED STUDYING THE BIBLE TOGETHER. 18:10 RIGHT THERE AT THE HOTEL IN BANJUL, GAMBIA. 18:15 WOW. 18:16 IT WAS VERY, VERY EXCITING AND I JUST, 18:19 I'VE BEEN EMAILING THEM BACK AND FORTH OVER THE LAST YEAR. 18:22 PRAISE GOD, PRAISE GOD. 18:28 SO, THE WORD OF GOD SPREAD AND THE NUMBER OF THE DISCIPLES MULTIPLIED GREATLY. 18:32 THE WHOLE MENTALITY OF MULTIPLYING IS SO IMPORTANT. 18:41 ALSO, THE FACT TO REMEMBER IS THAT THE CHURCH WILL DO ITS PART. 18:47 GOD WILL DO HIS PART. 18:49 THAT'S RIGHT. 18:50 WE NEED TO KEEP IN MIND IT WAS GOD THAT ADDED TO THE CHURCH, YOU KNOW. 18:54 AS FAR AS THE CHURCH IS OBEDIENT TO THE CALL, OBEDIENT TO THE MASTER IN ITS PURITY AND 19:02 ITS PURE INTENTIONS AND ITS SOLE PURPOSE WHICH IS TO BE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 19:08 GOD WILL MULTIPLY IT ACCORDING TO HIS WORD. 19:12 AS YOU CAN TELL, THE BEAUTY OF MULTIPLICATION IS, IT TAKES SOME WORK. 19:18 IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE ON AN EVANGELISTIC LEVEL. 19:23 NOT ALL OF US ARE EQUIPED WITH THE SAME GIFTS AND ABILITIES. 19:27 YOU KNOW, I DO HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF GOING TO A LOT OF CHURCHES AND I TALK TO A LOT OF 19:32 PEOPLE AND IN TERMS OF LIVING OUT THE GOSPEL, MANY OF OUR FOLK ARE DISAPPOINTED, 19:40 DISENCHANTED WITH THE FACT THAT IF I CANNOT PLAY MUSIC OR ANY INSTRUMENT, 19:45 OR IF I CANNOT SING, IF I CANNOT STAND BEHIND THE PULPIT AND PREACH THEREFORE, 19:50 I'M PRETTY MUCH LIMITED IN WHAT I CAN DO FOR THE GOSPEL. 19:53 WELL YOU KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK THAT, YOU KNOW AND THAT'S SAD BECAUSE SOMETIMES JUST 19:59 KEEPING MY MOUTH SHUT IS A GOOD WITNESS. 20:03 THAT'S WHY THESE PROGRAMS, THESE "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" ARE DESIGNED SO IT CAN INSPIRE 20:10 YOU ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE THAT THEY CAN INSPIRE YOU 20:13 IN HAVING A SAY IN HAVING A ROLE IN THE KINGDOM. 20:17 THE CONTACT INFORMATION ARE PRETTY MUCH ALL OVER OUR PROGRAMS BUT YOU CAN TELL, 20:24 YOU CAN CONTACT US WITH THE INFORMATION THAT IS ON THE SCREEN: GOSPEL OUTREACH, 20:29 IF YOU PREFER TO CALL US 20:35 IF THE LORD PROMPTS YOU TO GET INVOLVED WITH THIS MASSIVE OUTREACH, 20:39 WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO PRAYERFULLY CONSIDER SUPPORTING THE WORK OF GOSPEL OUTREACH IN ALL THE 20:44 WORLD AND IN SPECIFIC IN AREAS THAT THEY ARE HUNGRY, THEY CAN MULTIPLY IF THEY ARE EQUIPED 20:53 ADEQUATELY WITH THE WORD AND WITH THE EXPERTISE OF PEOPLE LIKE GLEN WINTERMEYER. 21:01 GLEN, THE FEW MINUTES THAT WE HAVE AT THE END, WHAT IS TO COME? 21:08 WHAT ARE YOUR PROJECTIONS LET'S SAY WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR FOR THIS AREA OF THE WORLD? 21:13 MY DREAM IS FOR US TO BE ABLE TO RECRUIT 100 LAY BIBLE WORKERS IN WEST AFRICA. 21:22 I WANT TO SEE THOSE YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN TRAINED FOR THE WORK. 21:29 I MEAN, THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THE LORD. 21:35 WE WANT THEM TO HAVE A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION BUT WITH TRAINING WE WANT THEM TO BE 21:41 ABLE TO GO OUT AND SHARE THEIR BURDEN. 21:42 HOW MUCH TIME DID THE DEMONIAC HAVE WITH JESUS 21:47 AFTER HE WAS EXCORCISED THERE BESIDE THE SEA OF GALILEE? 21:53 YOU KNOW. 21:54 A FEW MINUTES. 21:56 A FEW HOURS, A FEW MINUTES WE DON'T KNOW AND HE PLED TO GO WITH THE MASTER AND JESUS SAID 22:00 NO, YOU GO HOME AND TELL WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN. 22:04 AND THESE GOSPEL OUTREACH EVANGELISTS THAT WE LOVINGLY CALL "JEALS" ARE GOING OUT AND 22:10 SHARING THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST WITH WHAT THEY HAVE EXPERIENCED. 22:15 AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S IMPORTANT. 22:19 THESE GUYS KNOW THE LANGUAGE, THEY KNOW THE CULTURE AND IN MANY CASES THROUGHOUT WEST 22:27 AFRICA THESE GENTLEMEN ARE GOING BACK TO THEIR OWN PEOPLE GROUPS. 22:34 THEY ARE NOT GOING TO SOME OTHER PEOPLE GROUP FROM WHENCE THEY DON'T KNOW MUCH. 22:38 THEY ARE GOING BACK TO THEIR OWN PEOPLE GROUP. 22:40 IN ONE OF THESE SITUATIONS THE INDIVIDUAL IS LEADING THE CHURCH 22:49 AND HIS MOTHER IS IN THAT CHURCH. 22:51 SO, I MEAN REALLY, HE IS WHERE HIS ROOTS ARE. 22:55 EXACTLY. 22:56 AND THAT IS SO WONDERFUL. 22:57 WHEN YOU ARE SAYING THAT IN THE NEXT YEAR YOUR VISION IS TO SEE 100 LAY WORKERS, 23:04 WHAT IS AN AVERAGE LAY BIBLE WORK COST AS FAR AS EXPENSES? 23:09 COSTS ON AVERAGE ARE $150 PER PERSON PER YEAR. 23:17 I'M SORRY, PER PERSON PER MONTH $150. 23:22 IF WE WERE TO SEND A FOREIGN MISSIONARY OVER THERE AND THEY ARE NECESSARY SOMETIMES, 23:28 APPROXIMATELY $8000 PER MONTH. 23:33 SO IF YOU DO THE MATH, WE CAN GET 53 NATIONAL BIBLE WORKERS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE FOREIGN 23:41 MISSIONARY WHO GOES OVER THERE. 23:44 AND SO WE NEED TO USE OUR RESOURCES WISELY AND INTELLIGENTLY. 23:47 O.K. 23:49 NOW SAY IT FOR ME AGAIN, 100 BIBLE WORKERS PER YEAR, 23:55 UH, HUH AT $150 PER MONTH PER LAY BIBLE WORKER, RIGHT. 24:03 THAT'S FIFTEEN, WHAT IS THAT HELP ME WITH MY MATH 15 TIMES 12 THAT'S $1800 IS THAT RIGHT? 24:12 $1800. 24:14 WITH $1800 WE CAN SUPPORT 100 BIBLE WORKERS FOR A MONTH - NO, ONE BIBLE WORKER FOR $1800 PER 24:21 MONTH, NO PER YEAR. 24:23 THAT'S WHAT I WAS, YOU KNOW IT'S, YOU'VE HELPED ME WITH THE MULTIPLICATIONS. 24:31 I STARTED GOING OFF THE DEEP END, BUT ITS $1800 TO SUPPORT A BIBLE WORKER, 24:39 A NATIONAL BIBLE WORKER FOR A WHOLE YEAR. 24:42 THAT IS CORRECT. 24:43 WOW. 24:44 WHAT A DEAL! 24:45 WHAT A DEAL! 24:46 AND THEY KNOW THE LANGUAGE, I MEAN I'VE SEEN IN MY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE I'VE SEEN 24:49 MISSIONARIES GO OVER THERE AND STRUGGLE THE WHOLE TIME WITH LEARNING THE LANGUAGE. 24:54 GLEN, HELP ME OUT. 24:55 WHAT IS THE EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND OF THE AVERAGE LAY BIBLE WORKER? 25:00 DO THEY HAVE HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION? 25:02 YES, THEY DO. 25:04 WE WANT THEM TO HAVE A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION SO THEY CAN, THEY ARE ABLE TO READ AND 25:09 WRITE. 25:10 THAT'S IMPORTANT THAT THEY BE ABLE TO DO THAT SO THAT THEY CAN COMMUNICATE, 25:13 THEY CAN STUDY THE GOSPEL FOR THEMSELVES AND THEN IN TURN COMMUNICATE IT TO THE PEOPLE 25:18 THAT THEY ARE MEETING WITH. 25:21 SO BETWEEN THESE SIX COUNTRIES WAS IT SIX OR SEVEN, SIX COUNTRIES, 25:26 THESE COUNTRIES ARE BASCIALLY UNDER YOUR SUPERVISION IS THAT RIGHT? 25:31 WELL, THE WAY IT WORKS IS THAT GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKS EFFECTIVELY WITH THE MISSIONS 25:37 OR THE CONFERENCES AS THE CASE MAY BE AND THE CONFERENCE OR THE MISSION THEY DO THE 25:43 RECRUITING OF THE INDIVIDUALS. 25:46 AND THEY BRING THEM ON, FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORK, SO THE CONFERENCES ARE INVOLVED IN 25:53 RECRUITING THE PEOPLE FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH. 25:54 THAT'S CORRECT. 25:55 O.K. 25:57 AND THEN WE ARE THERE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS GET THEIR FUNDS THAT 26:04 THEY ARE BEING TRAINED AND THOSE KINDS OF THINGS. 26:10 WELL, THIS IS SO EXCITING. 26:12 THIS IS PHENOMENAL. 26:13 DID YOU GET THE MATH FIGURES? 26:16 $1800 A YEAR THAT'S A LITTLE BIT OVER $120 A MONTH TO SUPPORT ONE BIBLE WORKER FOR 26:27 THE WHOLE ENTIRE YEAR AND THE DREAM THAT GLEN WAS SHARING WITH US WAS TO SEE 100 BIBLE 26:34 WORKERS IN SIX COUNTRIES, I'M PRETTY SURE WE ARE TALKING A POPULATION OF CLOSE TO 200 26:40 MILLION, OH YES, PEOPLE. 26:42 BOTH FROM ANIMISTIC AND ISLAMIC BACKGROUNDS. 26:45 YOU CAN HAVE A PART IN THIS. 26:48 THE CONTACT INFORMATION IS ON THE SCREEN: 26:53 YOU CAN WRITE TO US OR IF YOU PREFER TO CALL US WE ARE HERE. 26:58 OUR VOLUNTEERS ARE MORE THAN HAPPY TO ACCOMMODATE YOU. 27:03 AND REMEMBER JESUS SAID THIS GOSPEL WILL BE PREACHED TO THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD. 27:08 [CLOSING MUSIC]. 27:18 PEOPLE I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 27:20 WHERE IS THE 10-40 WINDOW ANYWAY. 27:23 THOSE 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. 27:42 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 27:44 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 27:45 ACTUALLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 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. 27:59 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 28:05 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 28:07 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. 28:16 BE THE SPARK. 28:17 LIGHT THE FIRE. 28:19 FINISH THE WORK. 28:24 FINISH THE WORK. |
Revised 2015-02-06