[OPENING MUSIC ]. 00:00:02.26\00:00:23.06 HELLO EVERYONE. 00:00:23.06\00:00:24.73 I WANT TO WELCOME YOU TO THIS SEGMENT OF "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" SPONSORED BY THE 00:00:24.73\00:00:27.83 WONDERFUL MINISTRY OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:00:27.83\00:00:29.40 AS YOU CAN TELL, THIS PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO JUST GIVE YOU AN 00:00:29.40\00:00:33.43 OVERALL IDEA, AN OVERALL INFORMATION AS TO THE SCOPE OF 00:00:33.43\00:00:37.23 THIS MINISTRY. I HAVE A VERY SPECIAL GUEST WITH ME THIS EVENING, OR THIS MORNING, 00:00:39.60\00:00:44.30 WHEREVER YOU ARE WATCHING THIS PROGRAM. 00:00:44.30\00:00:47.50 FIRST OF ALL, HE IS A GENUINE CHRISTIAN. 00:00:47.50\00:00:50.16 SECOND, HE WAS BORN IN A COUNTRY THAT IS VERY CLOSE TO WHERE I 00:00:50.16\00:00:57.20 WAS BORN. I WAS BORN IN IRAN AND GEORGE WAS BORN IN PAKISTAN. 00:00:57.20\00:01:02.63 FIRST AND FOREMOST, I HAVE TO ADMIT I HAD NEVER SEEN A BLONDE HAIRED BLUE EYED TALK THE WAY 00:01:02.63\00:01:08.70 HE TALKS THE PAKISTANI LANGUAGE. 00:01:11.93\00:01:14.70 LO AND BEHOLD HE WAS BORN IN PAKISTAN. 00:01:14.70\00:01:19.36 GEORGE, I WANT TO WELCOME YOU. 00:01:19.36\00:01:21.40 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 00:01:21.40\00:01:23.03 IT IS A PLEASURE; I'M GLAD TO BE HERE, TO BE WITH YOU ON THIS PROGRAM ON THIS SEGMENT. 00:01:23.03\00:01:27.00 VERY CLOSE TO MY HEART THE OUTREACH TO MUSLIMS AND THE CHALLENGE OF ISLAM AND THE 00:01:29.90\00:01:37.53 CHALLENGE OF THIS EXPONENTIAL GROWTH IN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES, ISLAMIC POPULATION. 00:01:37.53\00:01:43.60 BUT WHAT REALLY HAS TROUBLED ME RECENTLY IS THE LACK OF, I WOULD 00:01:46.23\00:01:53.93 SAY, EDUCATION AND UNDERSTANDING ON THE PART OF CHRISTIANS ABOUT 00:01:53.93\00:02:00.06 MUSLIMS. AND IN SPECIFIC ABOUT THE QURAN, THE ISLAMIC HOLY 00:02:02.23\00:02:07.73 BOOK. BUT WHAT I ADMIRE ABOUT YOU, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I ADMIRE ABOUT YOU IS THAT YOU 00:02:07.73\00:02:12.93 HAVE TAKEN ON THAT CHALLENGE. 00:02:12.93\00:02:14.90 AND FOR THE YEARS THAT YOU HAVE BEEN IN MINISTRY BOTH IN YOUR INDIVIDUAL MINISTRY AND YOUR 00:02:14.90\00:02:22.06 ASSOCIATION WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:02:22.06\00:02:24.33 REACHING OUT TO MUSLIMS HAS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO YOUR HEART. 00:02:24.33\00:02:28.46 THAT'S RIGHT. 00:02:28.46\00:02:29.46 AS WELL. 00:02:29.46\00:02:30.80 FIRST, GIVE US SOME UPDATE AS TO WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING, WHAT'S 00:02:30.80\00:02:37.23 NEW, WHAT ARE YOU INVOLVED WITH NOWADAYS. 00:02:37.23\00:02:41.00 I KNOW I'VE HEARD SOME RUMORS THAT YOU WERE TECHNICALLY RETIRED BUT AS WE ALL KNOW; 00:02:41.00\00:02:48.10 THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS RETIREMENT IN THE KINGDOM. 00:02:48.10\00:02:50.46 YOU KNOW, YOU JUST CHANGE FACES; YOU CHANGE BASICALLY SPECIALTIES 00:02:50.46\00:02:56.16 AND ALL THAT. KEEP US UPDATED WITH WHAT IS HAPPENING. 00:02:56.16\00:02:58.00 ACTUALLY, MY WIFE AND I WERE PRIVILEGED TO HAVE A VERY RICH AND LONG SERVICE TIME IN ASIA 00:02:58.00\00:03:04.13 AND WE SERVED IN PAKISTAN BEGINNING IN 1968. 00:03:09.13\00:03:15.30 WE WERE THERE FOR ABOUT 16 YEARS. 00:03:15.30\00:03:18.16 IN 1983 WE MOVED TO SINGAPORE AND SO THE NATION JUST TO THE NORTH OF US WAS MALAYSIA, 00:03:18.16\00:03:24.23 TO THE SOUTH OF US WAS INDONESIA, LARGEST MUSLIM COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. 00:03:28.60\00:03:33.50 AND FURTHER EAST WAS BUNI AND SO EVEN THERE WE WERE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO IMMERSE OURSELVES 00:03:33.50\00:03:41.46 IN THE STUDY OF ISLAM, IN ASSOCIATION WITH MANY, 00:03:41.46\00:03:46.23 MANY FRIENDS WHO COME FROM THAT FAITH. 00:03:46.23\00:03:49.33 BUT IN 1997 AFTER SOME 30 YEARS OF SERVICE IN ASIA, WE RETURNED 00:03:51.40\00:03:56.40 TO THE STATES. IT IS TRUE THAT AFTER WHAT WAS IT , 2009 I RETIRED AND I WAS WORKING AT THE 00:03:56.40\00:04:02.53 TIME IN CALIFORNIA THOUGH MY WIFE AND I BOTH GO TO ASIA A COUPLE OF TIMES A YEAR. 00:04:05.33\00:04:12.00 SOMETIMES TOGETHER, SOMETIMES SEPARATELY. 00:04:12.00\00:04:13.90 SHE WAS, MOST RECENTLY SHE WAS IN INDONESIA I THINK JUST LATE 00:04:13.90\00:04:18.30 LAST YEAR. BUT WE RETAIN THIS INTEREST AND EVEN THOUGH I RETIRED, I CONTINUE WITH THE 00:04:18.30\00:04:25.53 SAME RESPONSIBILITIES WITH THE CHURCH THAT I DID BEFORE RETIREMENT AND WE'VE BEEN SO 00:04:25.53\00:04:31.73 BLEST WITH THIS. 00:04:31.73\00:04:33.33 RIGHT NOW, MY WIFE IS ACTUALLY INVOLVED WITH A LITERATURE PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION 00:04:33.33\00:04:38.23 PROGRAM WHERE SHE, SHE'S HELPING TO PREPARE LITERATURE THAT GOES 00:04:38.23\00:04:45.80 INTO INDONESIA. IT IS BEING TRANSLATED RIGHT NOW INTO THE 00:04:45.80\00:04:49.93 INDIAN LANGUAGES. IT'S, IT'S ACTUALLY PENETRATED MANY OF THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE, 00:04:49.93\00:04:53.60 SOME 15 OR 16 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. 00:04:53.60\00:04:55.70 SHE HAS A BACKGROUND IN EDITING, IN WRITING BOOKS, IN PUBLISHING 00:04:55.70\00:05:01.30 AND SO SHE IS ABLE TO BE USEFUL WITH THAT. 00:05:01.30\00:05:02.46 BUT I WILL TAKE SEMINARS, APPOINTMENTS OUTSIDE OF OUR 00:05:02.46\00:05:06.40 AREA. I THINK THE ONLY THING THAT IS DIFFERENT IN RETIREMENT IS THAT I DON'T HAVE TO PUNCH 00:05:06.40\00:05:13.26 THE CLOCK, THERE YOU GO, AND THAT I SPEND A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME WITH MY GRANDCHILDREN. 00:05:13.26\00:05:19.36 MY KIDS STILL SAY "DAD WHEN WILL YOU RETIRE? 00:05:19.36\00:05:22.70 TELL US ABOUT THAT." 00:05:22.70\00:05:24.33 AND THEN FINALLY THAT I'M ABLE TO SORT OF SELECT AND PICK THOSE THINGS THAT I AM REALLY 00:05:24.33\00:05:30.90 INTERESTED IN AND IN ADDITION TO THE REGULAR RESPONSIBILITIES I CARRY WITH THE CHURCH THAT I 00:05:30.90\00:05:35.10 AM ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, GET INTO THOSE ACTIVITIES. 00:05:35.10\00:05:38.30 VERY GOOD. 00:05:38.30\00:05:39.86 WHAT ARE SOME OF THE LATEST PROJECTS THAT YOU ARE WORKING ON WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH? 00:05:39.86\00:05:44.33 ACTUALLY, ON THIS TRIP HERE TO COLLEGE PLACE, I BROUGHT TWO RETIRED PAKISTANI PASTORS. 00:05:44.33\00:05:50.40 THEY HAD RICH SERVICE RECORDS OVERSEAS, 00:05:55.90\00:05:59.90 ONE IN TEACHING THE OTHER IN TEACHING AND IN ADMINISTRATION. 00:05:59.90\00:06:04.33 ONE HAS BEEN HERE IN THE UNITED STATES FOR ABOUT 22 YEARS AND THE OTHER JUST ARRIVED JUST A 00:06:04.33\00:06:09.86 COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO. 00:06:09.86\00:06:11.50 SO IN A SENSE, I AM BEGINNING TO BUILD A SMALL GROUP OF LEADERS WHO REALLY UNDERSTAND 00:06:11.50\00:06:19.23 GOSPEL OUTREACH AND ITS MISSION AND WHO WILL BE ABLE TO RETURN TO PAKISTAN ALONG WITH ME AND 00:06:19.23\00:06:26.80 ALSO SEPARATELY TO, YOU KNOW, GET MORE VIDEO FOOTAGE, TELL THE 00:06:26.80\00:06:31.63 STORIES OF WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE AND TO SUPPORT GOSPEL OUTREACH IN OUR OVERSEAS 00:06:31.63\00:06:37.06 MISSION. OF COURSE WE HAVE OUR HOME BASE HERE; SURE, 00:06:37.06\00:06:39.06 IN COLLEGE PLACE BUT THE REAL ACTION IS OVERSEAS. 00:06:39.06\00:06:42.36 THE CURRENT PROJECTS THAT ARE GOING ON IN PAKISTAN, HOW INTRICATELY ARE YOU INVOLVED? 00:06:42.36\00:06:47.86 WELL, IN PAKISTAN AT PRESENT AND I'M THE CONTACT PERSON FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH FOR PAKISTAN, 00:06:47.86\00:06:53.90 BUT AT PRESENT IF YOU LOOK AT THE CHURCH YOU WOULD FIND THAT WE HAVE SOME 52 SEVENTH DAY 00:06:57.66\00:07:03.76 ADVENTIST WORKERS SUPPORTED BY THE CHURCH BUT GOSPEL OUTREACH IS REPRESENTED IN PAKISTAN BY 00:07:07.76\00:07:13.83 48 WHICH MEANS THAT ABOUT 95 PER CENT OF THE WORKER FORCE 00:07:15.80\00:07:21.86 IN PAKISTAN IS SUPPORTED BY GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:07:21.86\00:07:24.83 THIS HAS REALLY ALLOWED US TO OPEN UP NEW AREAS AND I THINK TO HAVE A YOUNGER AND PERHAPS 00:07:24.83\00:07:30.90 MORE VITAL GROUP OF WORKERS BECAUSE THE WORKING FORCE, BY 00:07:35.36\00:07:40.86 AND LARGE, IS RATHER ELDERLY BUT THESE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE JUST FULL OF ENTHUSIASM AND IT'S WONDERFUL 00:07:40.86\00:07:46.43 TO WATCH THEM AT WORK. 00:07:46.43\00:07:48.70 WELL, BASICALLY PAKISTAN IS ONE OF THE LARGEST ISLAMIC COUNTRIES 00:07:48.70\00:07:55.43 AND WITHIN ITSELF THERE ARE SO MANY SUBDIVISIONS OF ISLAMIC AND 00:07:55.43\00:07:59.23 HINDU. THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN BRUTAL CLASHES AND SO FORTH AND 00:07:59.23\00:08:05.40 SO ON. THE QUESTION THAT COMES TO MY MIND, IN YOUR ESTIMATION SINCE YOU'VE BEEN PART OF THIS 00:08:05.40\00:08:12.26 ORGANIZATION, HOW AND WHAT IS THE QUALITY OF THE WORK IN 00:08:12.26\00:08:17.03 PAKISTAN? HOW FAST HAS IT GROWN? 00:08:17.03\00:08:18.86 IN WHAT AREAS DOES IT GROW AND WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES. 00:08:18.86\00:08:22.76 I MEAN ALWAYS FINANCES, YES WILL BE THE CHALLENGES AND SO FORTH BUT BASICALLY WITH, 00:08:22.76\00:08:28.80 YOU KNOW, THE INFLUX OF RADICAL ISLAM IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD AND SPECIFICALLY IN PAKISTAN. 00:08:28.80\00:08:34.06 BECAUSE PAKISTAN I THINK IS A CONGLOMERATION OF SO MANY ISLAMIC POPULATION GROUPS THAT 00:08:34.06\00:08:38.56 ARE NOT NECESSARILY PAKISTANIS, YOU KNOW THEY ARE FROM DIFFERENT 00:08:38.56\00:08:42.30 PARTS. WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES THAT OUR WORKERS HAVE TO DEAL 00:08:42.30\00:08:45.33 WITH? JUST THIS MORNING FOR INTERESTS SAKE, I GOT ON THE COMPUTER AND CHECKED TO SEE WHAT 00:08:47.70\00:08:53.56 THE POPULATION OF PAKISTAN IS. 00:08:53.56\00:08:55.10 CURRENTLY, IT STANDS AT 187 MILLION PEOPLE. 00:08:55.10\00:09:01.13 IT IS THE SIXTH LARGEST POPULATION COUNTRYWISE IN THE 00:09:01.13\00:09:06.20 WORLD. I DIDN'T REALIZE THIS. 00:09:06.20\00:09:07.83 INDONESIA, OF COURSE, IS THE LARGEST ISLAMIC COUNTRY WITH OVER 250 MILLION BUT PAKISTAN 00:09:07.83\00:09:13.73 IS RIGHT UP THERE. 00:09:13.73\00:09:14.90 BANGLADESH OF COURSE, HAS MORE POPULATION THAN PAKISTAN DOES. 00:09:14.90\00:09:19.46 PAKISTAN IS UNIQUE, OF COURSE THERE ARE A NUMBER OF LANGUAGES; 00:09:19.46\00:09:24.40 THE MAIN ONES WOULD BE URDU, THAT'S THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE AND OF COURSE YOU HAVE PUNJABI. 00:09:24.40\00:09:30.90 THAT WOULD BE THE LARGEST PROVINCE AND OF COURSE INDIA AND PAKISTAN BOTH SHARE PUNJAB, 00:09:30.90\00:09:37.43 WEST PUNJAB, EAST PUNJAB AND THERE IS SINDH, THERE IS BALUCHISTAN BORDERING IRAN AND 00:09:37.43\00:09:44.60 THEN YOU HAVE NORTHWEST FRONTIER PROVINCE 00:09:44.60\00:09:47.86 WHICH BORDERS LARGELY TO THE NORTH WITH AFGHANISTAN. 00:09:47.86\00:09:51.40 THERE ARE DIVISIONS WITH THESE FOLKS AND OF COURSE I THINK THAT RADICAL ISLAM HAS COLORED 00:09:54.23\00:10:01.63 THE PICTURE AND THE RESPONSES OF ONE GROUP TOWARD THE OTHER A 00:10:01.63\00:10:07.93 GREAT DEAL. PERHAPS TODAY THE TWO RELIGIONS, THE GREAT RELIGIONS CHRISTIANITY OF COURSE 00:10:07.93\00:10:14.46 IS A SMALL PERCENTAGE MAYBE 3-4% IN PAKISTAN BUT THEY APPROACH EACH OTHER CAUTIOUSLY AND THE 00:10:14.46\00:10:21.40 THREAT OF SECURITY BREACHES AND SO FORTH IS ALWAYS THERE. 00:10:21.40\00:10:25.10 I THINK THE CHALLENGE TO US AND WE'VE SEEN THIS MORE AND MORE, THE CHALLENGE TO US IS THAT WE 00:10:25.10\00:10:32.80 ENSURE THAT OUR APPROACHES, THAT OUR OPENNESS AND SO FORTH IS BASED ON SPIRITUALITY. 00:10:32.80\00:10:38.83 AND I CONTRAST THIS WITH THE WORD RELIGION. 00:10:43.83\00:10:46.83 RELIGION OFTEN LEADS YOU TO FIXED LINES, TO WALLS BUILT, 00:10:46.83\00:10:52.90 LABELS, TO LABELS, TO DISAGREEMENTS AND ARGUMENTS AND 00:10:55.30\00:10:58.26 SO FORTH. BUT YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU REALLY COME IN CONTACT WITH A VERY SPIRITUAL PERSON NO MATTER 00:10:58.26\00:11:05.00 WHICH, WHICH, YOU KNOW, CONVICTION OR FAITH THEY COME FROM YOU FIND THAT HEARTS 00:11:05.00\00:11:11.43 RESONATE TOGETHER AND THIS HAS BEEN, I THINK IT IS DIFFICULT FOR THE WEST TO PERCEIVE THIS. 00:11:11.43\00:11:17.50 BECAUSE WE HAVE SEEN CERTAIN EVENTS THAT MAYBE COLOR OUR MINDS AND THINKING BUT WHEN YOU 00:11:20.20\00:11:25.36 REALLY, REALLY COME IN CONTACT WITH A SPIRITUAL, DEEPLY GOD FEARING CHRISTIAN, YOU KNOW, 00:11:25.36\00:11:29.26 OR MUSLIM OR SOMETHING. 00:11:29.26\00:11:34.06 SOMEHOW THAT CUTS RIGHT ACROSS ALL ACROSS ALL THESE BARRIERS AND YOU DON'T ARGUE ANYMORE. 00:11:34.06\00:11:40.13 INSTEAD YOU FELLOWSHIP TOGETHER AS REAL COMPANIONS, FELLOW 00:11:43.36\00:11:46.80 TRAVELERS. WHY DON'T YOU EXPOUND ON THAT A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE YOU JUST TOUCHED A VERY HOT BUTTON. 00:11:46.80\00:11:51.80 THE COMMUNITY, OR I WOULD SAY THE COMMONALITY IN THE TWO COMMUNITIES OF CHRISTIANS AND 00:11:51.80\00:11:58.90 MUSLIMS; OBVIOUSLY IN PAKISTAN THE MAJORITY ARE MUSLIMS OR HINDUS BUT IN, YOU KNOW, 00:11:58.90\00:12:05.20 FOR OUR CONVERSATION SAKE, HOW CAN THAT BE POSSIBLE TO HAVE TWO DIFFERENT FUNDAMENTALLY 00:12:05.20\00:12:11.26 DIFFERENT RELIGIONS? 00:12:15.70\00:12:17.46 WELL, YOU AND I KNOW THAT THERE IS SO MUCH SIMILARITY BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM OR BIBLE 00:12:17.46\00:12:22.73 AND THE QURAN BUT IN COMMUNITY SENSE, HOW CAN THAT BE POSSIBLE? 00:12:22.73\00:12:28.43 HOW CAN THEY HAVE A COMMUNITY YET HAVE THEIR OWN DISTINCT 00:12:28.43\00:12:34.83 IDENTITIES? LET ME TELL A LITTLE STORY. 00:12:34.83\00:12:36.56 TO ME, THIS SORT OF ILLUSTRATES WHAT YOU HAVE JUST SAID IN THE 00:12:36.56\00:12:43.43 ABSTRACT. I WAS FLYING WEST IN A JUMBO 747 ACROSS THE PACIFIC AND 00:12:43.43\00:12:49.50 IT WAS L.A. OR SAN FRANCISCO TO HONG KONG. 00:12:51.83\00:12:55.06 I GET UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT BECAUSE I NEED TO STRETCH 00:12:55.06\00:12:58.76 MY LEGS. SO, I WALK UP AND DOWN THE AISLE AND AT THE END OF THE AISLE BACK TOWARD THE BACK OF 00:12:58.76\00:13:03.86 THE PLANE IS A MAN I RECOGNIZE. 00:13:03.86\00:13:06.73 HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN EITHER YOU KNOW PAKISTANI OR INDIA. 00:13:06.73\00:13:10.86 WE BEGIN TO SPEAK AND WE FIND THAT WE SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE, 00:13:10.86\00:13:16.93 URDU. AND HE IS WELL EDUCATED. 00:13:20.03\00:13:22.46 OF COURSE YOU KNOW, WE CAN SHARE TOGETHER-HE WAS SO SURPRISED 00:13:22.46\00:13:27.06 THAT I SPOKE URDU. WE BEGAN TO TALK AND HE SAID, "WHAT DO YOU 00:13:27.06\00:13:30.10 DO"? I SAID, "WELL, I'M A CHRISTIAN PASTOR. 00:13:30.10\00:13:32.53 I WAS A MISSIONARY IN PAKISTAN." 00:13:32.53\00:13:34.10 SO HE COMMENTS TO ME, THIS MUST HAVE BEEN VERY DIFFICULT? 00:13:34.10\00:13:38.96 HOW DID YOU SURVIVE? 00:13:38.96\00:13:40.50 HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN? 00:13:40.50\00:13:42.60 AND I SAID TO HIM; LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I AM DOING. 00:13:42.60\00:13:48.40 I'M ON MY WAY NOW TO BANGLADESH AND I HAVE A SMALL GROUP OF 00:13:48.40\00:13:53.83 PEOPLE WITH ME. WE ARE TAKING SOLAR EQUIPMENT FOR A SCHOOL WAY OUT IN THE RURAL AREA. 00:13:53.83\00:13:58.30 THEY HAVE NO ELECTRICITY. 00:13:58.30\00:13:59.96 THE KIDS CAN'T STUDY AT NIGHT SO WE ARE GOING TO SET THIS UP SO THAT THEY HAVE LIGHT WITH 00:13:59.96\00:14:07.36 WHICH TO COOK AND THEY HAVE LIGHT WITH WHICH TO STUDY. 00:14:07.36\00:14:11.10 HE SAID THAT'S GOOD. 00:14:11.10\00:14:13.03 AND IN OUR INTRODUCTIONS HE TOLD ME THAT HE WAS AN ENGINEER AND HE WAS AN EXECUTIVE WITH 00:14:13.03\00:14:18.26 PHILLIPS, THE GIANT DUTCH COMPANY THERE.O.K. 00:14:18.26\00:14:23.13 SO, WE TALK ABOUT THIS AND WE BEGIN TO TALK ABOUT SPIRITUAL 00:14:23.13\00:14:29.20 THINGS. I CAN TELL THAT HE IS TURNED OFF BY WHAT IS HAPPENING 00:14:32.00\00:14:37.63 IN THE WORLD TODAY AND ALL THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS. 00:14:37.63\00:14:39.80 FINALLY I SAY TO HIM, MY FRIEND, DO YOU STILL SAY YOUR NAMAZ? 00:14:39.80\00:14:46.93 DO YOU STILL PRAY FIVE TIMES A DAY? 00:14:46.93\00:14:49.80 HE LOOKS AT ME AND SAYS NO, I DON'T. 00:14:49.80\00:14:52.66 HE SAID I AM DISENCHANTED. 00:14:52.66\00:14:55.00 I'M REALLY, REALLY TURNED OFF BY WHAT IS GOING ON AND SO FORTH. 00:14:55.00\00:14:58.73 AND I SAY TO HIM IN RETURN, "LOOK MANY OF THE DISAGREEMENTS ARE THE WORKS OF MEN, 00:14:58.73\00:15:05.83 IT IS THE SPEECH, IT IS THESE HARSH THINGS WE SAY ONE TO 00:15:05.83\00:15:10.16 ANOTHER. IF YOUR MOTHER TAUGHT YOU WHEN YOU WERE STANDING BY 00:15:10.16\00:15:16.63 HER KNEE TO PRAY, THEN DON'T GIVE UP PRAYER BECAUSE THAT'S GOD, THAT'S NOT SOMETHING HERE 00:15:16.63\00:15:21.10 ON THIS EARTH. THIS IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD HIMSELF. 00:15:21.10\00:15:25.16 AFTER A FEW MOMENTS, HE TURNS TO ME 00:15:25.16\00:15:27.33 AND SAYS NOW I UNDERSTAND WHY YOU DID NOT HAVE A PROBLEM IN 00:15:27.33\00:15:34.30 PAKISTAN. YOU WERE REACHING DEEPER. 00:15:34.30\00:15:35.83 THAT'S IT. 00:15:35.83\00:15:37.40 AND THEN HE COMES BACK AND HE SAYS TO ME AS WE CONCLUDE AND WE GO BACK TO OUR SEATS, 00:15:37.40\00:15:41.13 BY THE WAY YOU KNOW I HAVE INFLUENCE IN PHILLIPS AND I CAN 00:15:41.13\00:15:46.06 ARRANGE THINGS. HE SAID THE NEXT TIME YOU GO ON A TRIP LIKE THIS 00:15:46.06\00:15:50.80 HE SAID CALL ME. EVERYTHING YOU TAKE WILL BE DONATED BY 00:15:50.80\00:15:53.83 PHILLIPS. SO YOU CAN SEE THIS YEARNING IN THE HEART. 00:15:53.83\00:15:57.73 HE THANKED ME AT THE END BECAUSE, I MEAN HE SAID IT'S AMAZING TO ME YOU'VE TOLD ME TO 00:15:57.73\00:16:02.93 BE A BETTER MUSLIM, YOU KNOW. 00:16:02.93\00:16:06.10 IN A WAY YOU KNOW, IF A MUSLIM WOULD COME TO ME AND CHALLENGE 00:16:06.10\00:16:11.23 ME, I COULD BE A BETTER CHRISTIAN. 00:16:11.23\00:16:13.76 YOU SEE, THAT YOU JUST, YOU KNOW, PUT YOUR FINGER ON THE 00:16:13.76\00:16:20.43 PULSE. THE OVERALL CONVERSATION TOOK HOW MANY MINUTES? 00:16:20.43\00:16:23.96 FIFTEEN. 00:16:23.96\00:16:24.96 FIFTEEN MINUTES, RIGHT? 00:16:24.96\00:16:26.46 YOU PROBABLY LEFT A LASTING IMPRESSION ON THAT MAN'S MIND AND VISAVERSA, RIGHT? 00:16:26.46\00:16:32.30 THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS BEEN PROMOTING. 00:16:32.30\00:16:37.86 WE ARE NOT HERE TO PROMOTE RELIGION; 00:16:37.86\00:16:40.50 WE ARE NOT HERE TO PROMOTE WHO IS WRONG AND WHO IS RIGHT. 00:16:40.50\00:16:45.26 WE ARE HERE TO INTRODUCE THEM TO THE ONE WHO CREATED THEM IN HIS 00:16:45.26\00:16:51.53 IMAGE. RIGHT. 00:16:51.53\00:16:52.66 TO JESUS CHRIST OR ISA EL MASIH AS HIS NAME IS IN ARABIC. 00:16:52.66\00:16:57.86 AS YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING THIS SEGMENT OF "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS", IF THE DISCUSSIONS, 00:16:57.86\00:17:03.50 IF THE TOPICS ARE RESONATING WITH YOU, IF YOU ARE WATCHING THIS PROGRAM AND SAYING WOW, 00:17:03.50\00:17:10.33 THERE IS A SHARP CONTRAST BETWEEN WHAT I'M HEARING AND WHAT THE NETWORK NEWS ARE 00:17:10.33\00:17:16.20 SHARING WITH US ABOUT MUSLIMS, THEN I ENCOURAGE YOU, I CHALLENGE YOU I SHOULD SAY, 00:17:16.20\00:17:22.06 TO CONTACT US. 00:17:22.06\00:17:23.83 IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BROWSE OUR WEBSITE YOU CAN GO TO 00:17:31.23\00:17:36.00 FIRST HAND YOU CAN FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH THE WORLDWIDE 00:17:36.00\00:17:42.06 OPERATIONS OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:17:46.36\00:17:48.33 I HAVE A BURNING QUESTION REGARDING THE WORKERS, 00:17:48.33\00:17:54.40 THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS IN PAKISTAN. 00:17:56.96\00:17:59.03 HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE, FIRST MAYBE IT IS A TWO PART QUESTION? 00:18:01.10\00:18:05.73 BUT WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE WORKERS WERE FROM ISLAMIC 00:18:05.73\00:18:13.30 BACKGROUNDS? JUST A HANDFUL, I DOUBT IT WAS FIVE PER CENT. 00:18:13.30\00:18:16.73 FIVE PER CENT. 00:18:16.73\00:18:18.23 THE REST ARE FROM -THEY ARE PROBABLY BY AND LARGE FROM CHRISTIAN BACKGROUNDS. 00:18:18.23\00:18:21.83 YES. 00:18:21.83\00:18:22.83 NON ADVENTIST OR ADVENTIST BACKGROUNDS? 00:18:22.83\00:18:24.23 THEY ARE ADVENTISTS BUT MANY OF THEM, WHEN YOU SAY FROM WHICH 00:18:24.23\00:18:28.80 BACKGROUND, MANY OF THEM WOULD HAVE COME FROM VARIED 00:18:28.80\00:18:32.26 BACKGROUNDS. O.K. 00:18:32.26\00:18:33.53 BUT THEY HAVE MESHED TOGETHER IN THIS MISSION OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:18:33.53\00:18:35.46 SO YOU SAY ABOUT FIVE PER CENT ARE FROM ISLAMIC BACKGROUND? 00:18:35.46\00:18:39.23 FIVE PERCENT. 00:18:39.23\00:18:40.23 O.K. 00:18:40.23\00:18:41.73 WHAT KIND OF WORK DID IT TAKE OR HOW LONG DID IT TAKE FOR THOSE 00:18:41.73\00:18:48.76 WITH THE ISLAMIC BACKGROUNDS TO BE PUT IN THE MISSION FIELDS FROM THE TIME THAT THEY WERE 00:18:48.76\00:18:53.53 INTRODUCED TO CHRIST TO THE TIME THAT THEY ARE OUT IN THE MISSION 00:18:53.53\00:18:57.46 FIELDS? OFTEN, THIS WOULD TAKE YEARS AND THE REASON WHY IS THAT OFTEN THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED 00:18:57.46\00:19:04.33 IN CHILDHOOD, MAYBE IN SCHOOL AND SO FORTH THEY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY AND THEY 00:19:04.33\00:19:10.76 STUDIED THE QURAN SHARIF AND THEY STUDIED THE BIBLE MURKUDIS, 00:19:10.76\00:19:14.53 THE HOLY BIBLE AND SO IN DOING THIS, AND REMEMBER THIS IS VERY 00:19:14.53\00:19:21.33 VITAL, REMEMBER THAT ISLAM TEACHES BELIEF IN FOUR HOLY BOOKS: THE TAWRAT, THE ZABUR, 00:19:21.33\00:19:27.93 THE INJIL AND THE QURAN. 00:19:27.93\00:19:29.46 FOR THOSE WHO ARE HEARING THIS AND IT SOUNDS A BIT FOREIGN, THE 00:19:29.46\00:19:33.53 TAWRUT OR TORAH, IS BASICALLY IN THE MIND 00:19:33.53\00:19:35.00 OR I WOULD SAY IN THE ISLAMIC CONTEXT IT MEANS THE OLD 00:19:35.00\00:19:41.06 TESTAMENT. RIGHT. 00:19:45.60\00:19:46.93 BUT WE KNOW THAT ANYTHING THAT MOSES WROTE WAS CONSIDERED THE 00:19:46.93\00:19:49.40 TORAH. THEN YOU SAID, ZABUR, ZABUR ARE THE PSALMS. 00:19:49.40\00:19:52.60 PSALMS. 00:19:52.60\00:19:54.26 WHATEVER DAVID WROTE AND THEN YOU HAVE THE INJIL, MEANING THE GOOD NEWS OR THE GOSPELS, 00:19:54.26\00:20:00.83 IT'S SO INTERESTING. 00:20:00.83\00:20:01.73 AND THE FOURTH ONE WAS THE QURAN, THE QURAN. 00:20:01.73\00:20:03.40 AS FAR AS THE, I DON'T WANT TO USE THE TERM SUCCESS RIGHT, BECAUSE THERE IS NO SUCH THING 00:20:03.40\00:20:09.36 ONLY HE IS THE ONE THAT WOULD DECIDE THAT BUT WE ARE CALLED TO BE FAITHFUL MORE THAN 00:20:13.00\00:20:18.56 ANYTHING ELSE, WE ARE CALLED TO BE FAITHFUL. 00:20:18.56\00:20:21.63 THESE MUSLIM BACKGROUNDS OR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE REACHING OUT TO THEIR OWN NOW IN PAKISTAN, 00:20:21.63\00:20:27.66 WHAT HAS BEEN THE FRUIT OF THIS LABOR OF YOU SAID 50 PLUS GOSPEL 00:20:30.30\00:20:36.40 OUTREACH WORKERS. ACTUALLY RIGHT NOW, 44. 00:20:36.40\00:20:38.33 FORTY FOUR. 00:20:38.33\00:20:40.40 FOR THE LACK OF A BETTER WORD, WHAT IS THE SUCCESS RATE? 00:20:41.60\00:20:45.63 YOU KNOW I SUPPOSE, HOW DO WE GAUGE THAT? 00:20:45.63\00:20:48.06 I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT IT ALL DEPENDS ON HOW YOU SPEAK OF 00:20:48.06\00:20:50.96 SUCCESS. UH HUH. 00:20:50.96\00:20:55.26 TO ME, SUCCESS IN NUMBERS IS MAYBE A CHEAP THING BECAUSE IT IS VERY DIFFICULT FOR US AS 00:20:55.26\00:21:02.43 HUMAN BEINGS TO READ HEARTS. 00:21:02.43\00:21:05.26 BUT AS YOU LOOK AT THE INFLUENCE OF PEOPLE AND SOME OF COURSE WILL BE WORKING TOWARD A 00:21:05.26\00:21:12.90 BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF OTHERS, YOU MIGHT HAVE EITHER A 00:21:12.90\00:21:17.23 CHRISTIAN, BY THE WAY ISLAM CAN BE VERY MISSIONARY MINDED, YOU KNOW, TYPE OF RELIGION. 00:21:17.23\00:21:23.30 YOU TAKE BUDDHISM; BUDDISTS ARE NOT OUT PROCLAIMING THEIR TEACHINGS TO THE WORLD. 00:21:27.40\00:21:32.56 IN FACT, IF IMMIGRANTS COME TO THE UNITED STATES THEY WOULD CALL IN FINALLY A BUDDIST 00:21:32.56\00:21:38.53 PRIEST OR TEACHER TO TEACH THEIR CHILDREN AND SO THAT'S HOW, 00:21:38.53\00:21:42.70 SO THAT'S NOT EVANGELISTIC, NO NOT EVANGELISTC BUT ISLAM YOU 00:21:42.70\00:21:46.73 KNOW, THEY WILL STUDY THE BIBLE, FOR EXAMPLE, IN ORDER TO HAVE 00:21:46.73\00:21:51.30 DIALECTIC , YOU KNOW AND DISCUSSION WITH CHRISTIANS. 00:21:51.30\00:21:54.30 CHRISTIANS DO THE SAME. 00:21:54.30\00:21:55.80 I THINK OFTEN THE HEARTS OF THESE GOSPEL OUTREACH VOLUNTEERS 00:21:55.80\00:22:01.43 WHO ARE ENGAGED IN MINISTRY IN THESE COMMUNITIES, IT'S AS IF IN THEIR HEART THEY KNOW THEY HAVE 00:22:03.66\00:22:09.73 SOMETHING, THEY HAVE DISCOVERED SOMETHING THAT OTHERS DON'T HAVE AND SO THERE IS THIS PASSION TO 00:22:09.73\00:22:14.43 SAY "DO YOU REALLY UNDERSTAND?" 00:22:14.43\00:22:16.90 MAYBE YOU AREN'T REALLY STUDYING THE THREE BOOKS; YOU ARE ONLY LOOKING AT THE FOURTH? 00:22:16.90\00:22:23.23 IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THERE ARE NUGGETS OF TRUTH HERE WHICH YOU 00:22:23.23\00:22:27.83 SHOULD UNDERSTAND? SO, I THINK IT'S AN APPROACH OF THAT SORT AND TO WHAT EXTENT THEN CAN YOU 00:22:27.83\00:22:33.40 SAY, WELL WE SUCCEEDED IN THIS WAY OR WE SUCCEEDED, THAT'S ONLY 00:22:33.40\00:22:38.03 IN THE HEART. O.K. 00:22:38.03\00:22:39.56 SO THAT'S BASICALLY THE SOLE MISSION OF THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS IN PAKISTAN. 00:22:39.56\00:22:42.63 I THINK YOU KNOW BASICALLY, YOU KNOW AS YOU LOOK AT IT YOU REALIZE IT'S THIS PROCLAMATION 00:22:42.63\00:22:48.46 AND CREATING BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND BY THE WAY THE 00:22:48.46\00:22:52.90 REVERSE IS TRUE. GOSPEL OUTREACH IS WORKING HERE IN THE UNITED STATES FOR US TO CULTIVATE 00:22:52.90\00:22:58.33 BETTER RELATIONSHIPS WITH OUR NEIGHBORS IN ISLAM AND IN OTHER RELIGIONS AS WELL.SURE. 00:22:58.33\00:23:01.80 ABSOLUTELY. 00:23:01.80\00:23:02.66 WE ARE NOT ENEMIES, ABSOLUTELY, YOU KNOW. 00:23:02.66\00:23:04.76 HOW DO YOU SEE THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS IN THIS FIELD? 00:23:04.76\00:23:10.93 IN THAT PARTICULAR FIELD? 00:23:10.93\00:23:12.40 WHAT ARE YOU ENVISIONING, WHAT ARE YOUR ASPIRATIONS IN TERMS OF 00:23:12.40\00:23:18.43 SEEING DONE. WELL, I WOULD SAY THIS I THINK THAT IN BOTH THESE GREAT FAITHS THAT THERE ARE FAR 00:23:18.43\00:23:24.50 MORE MODERATE AND PEACE LOVING AND SPIRITUAL PEOPLE THAN THERE 00:23:30.13\00:23:36.16 ARE RADICALS. MANY PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS THAT WORLD EVENTS HAVE BROUGHT. 00:23:38.53\00:23:45.43 AND I THINK IT'S A COMMISSION, IT'S A CHALLENGE TO US TO GO OUT AND SHARE THAT GOOD WILL 00:23:45.43\00:23:51.50 WITH OTHERS. 00:23:54.96\00:23:56.60 A FEW DAYS AGO I WAS TRAVELING ON THE EAST COAST, STOPPED AT NIGHT AND PAID FOR A MOTEL, 00:23:56.60\00:24:01.36 FOUND OUT THAT THEY WERE INDIANS. 00:24:01.36\00:24:03.36 TURNED OUT THE OWNER, THE NEXT MORNING WAS A PRATHAN, HE WAS A 00:24:03.36\00:24:08.93 MUSLIM. BEFORE WE FINISHED DISCUSSING, HE SAID TO ME OVER BREAKFAST, HE JUST CAME TO SIT 00:24:08.93\00:24:15.00 WITH ME; I MUST REFUND YOU THE MONEY THAT YOU PAID LAST NIGHT 00:24:15.00\00:24:20.40 FOR THE ROOM. I SAID NO, NO, NO. 00:24:20.40\00:24:22.00 THERE ARE OTHERS WHO - HE SAID THE NEXT TIME YOU COME, YOU PHONE ME, I BOOK THE ROOM, 00:24:22.00\00:24:27.76 I WILL TAKE NOTHING, MY WIFE WILL COOK FOR YOU.WOW. 00:24:27.76\00:24:30.86 BUT YOU KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE LIKE THAT AND WE NEED TO JUST NEED TO WORK ON THAT LEVEL. 00:24:30.86\00:24:35.83 YES. 00:24:35.83\00:24:37.53 AND IT IS SO INTERESTING IF THAT KIND OF RECIPROCATES, IF WE CHRISTIANS WOULD RETURN THAT 00:24:37.53\00:24:41.93 FAVOR JUST THE WAY THEY' RE RETURNING. 00:24:41.93\00:24:44.26 WELL, IT IS WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU WITH US SIR. 00:24:44.26\00:24:46.30 IT IS ALWAYS A PLEASURE AND AN INSPIRATION TO HEAR YOUR, YOUR WORK AND EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE 00:24:46.30\00:24:52.36 PRETTY OCCUPIED WITH YOUR MINISTRY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA BUT YOU ARE STILL COMMITTING 00:24:55.73\00:25:01.80 YOUR WORK WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH IN COUNTRIES LIKE PAKISTAN. 00:25:01.80\00:25:06.43 AS YOU CAN TELL, WHEN YOU TALK AND WHEN YOU ARE IN THE PRESENCE 00:25:06.43\00:25:12.60 OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN THERE, DONE THAT AND BEEN THE PERSON THAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT YOU 00:25:12.60\00:25:17.43 GET A WHOLE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE OF THINGS. 00:25:17.43\00:25:19.70 ISLAM IS NOT A FOE TO RECKON WITH BUT THEY ARE JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAID GOD'S CREATION. 00:25:19.70\00:25:25.76 THEY ARE, AS A MATTER OF FACT, SHARERS OF GODS PROMISES. 00:25:29.06\00:25:33.03 RIGHT. 00:25:33.03\00:25:33.90 HE DID PROMISE TO ISHMAEL RICH BLESSINGS. 00:25:33.90\00:25:36.63 HE SHALL BECOME A GREAT KINGDOM AND YOU KNOW TWELVE KINGS SHALL, 00:25:36.63\00:25:41.73 SHALL COME FORTH FROM ISHMAEL AND SO IT IS TIME, I THINK FOR US BELIEVERS IN CHRIST AND IN 00:25:41.73\00:25:47.63 SPECIFIC IN THE ADVENTIST CHURCH TO CONSIDER, TO CONSIDER A BROADER PICTURE AND TO SEE 00:25:47.63\00:25:53.76 HOW THE LORD WILL IMPRESS YOU, THE VIEWER, AS YOU ARE WATCHING. 00:25:53.76\00:25:58.03 AS YOU CAN TELL, MY HABIT AS A PASTOR IS TO ENCOURAGE YOU, TO INSPIRE YOU TO BE WHAT GOD HAS 00:25:58.03\00:26:04.16 CALLED YOU TO BE IN THE KINGDOM. 00:26:07.53\00:26:09.46 IT MIGHT BE SOMETHING YOU CAN DO TO THIS END, THIS SPECIFIC FIELD THAT TRANSCENDS PRAYER 00:26:09.46\00:26:15.53 AND TRANSCENDS FINANCIAL GIVING. 00:26:18.56\00:26:20.66 MAYBE IT CALLS YOU FOR A TRANSFORMATION TO COMMIT YOUR LIFE TO FINISH THIS GREAT 00:26:20.66\00:26:27.56 COMMISSION. 00:26:27.56\00:26:28.80 SO, ANY WAY THE SPIRIT LEADS YOU WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU. 00:26:28.80\00:26:32.10 YOU CAN CONTACT US AT GOSPEL OUTREACH TELEPHONE NUMBER 00:26:32.10\00:26:38.33 509-525-2951. IF YOU ARE COMPELED TO CONTACT US AND TO SUPPORT THIS MINISTRY, 00:26:42.70\00:26:47.53 WE WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO IT. 00:26:47.53\00:26:49.06 UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN, ALWAYS REMEMBER JESUS IS FAITHFUL TO 00:26:49.06\00:26:55.26 HIS WORD. THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM WILL BE PREACHED 00:26:55.26\00:26:57.86 TO ALL THE NATIONS AS A WITNESS THEN THE END SHALL COME. 00:26:57.86\00:27:03.70 UNTIL WE SEE THAT BLESSED DAY, MAY THE LORD KEEP YOU AND BLESS 00:27:03.70\00:27:07.43 YOU. [CLOSING MUSIC ]. 00:27:08.33\00:27:17.86 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 00:27:18.70\00:27:20.73 WHERE IS THE 10-40 WINDOW ANYWAY? 00:27:20.73\00:27:24.20 THOSE PEOPLE ARE TOO FAR AWAY. 00:27:24.20\00:27:27.36 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. 00:27:27.36\00:27:29.73 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV. 00:27:29.73\00:27:33.26 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACH, MY HEAD HURT. 00:27:33.26\00:27:38.53 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO, I GIVE UP. 00:27:38.53\00:27:42.20 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 00:27:42.20\00:27:44.16 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 00:27:44.16\00:27:45.43 ACTUALLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 00:27:45.43\00:27:48.60 AND JESUS ASKED YOU TO GO TO ALL THE WORLD. 00:27:48.60\00:27:52.30 WHERE? 00:27:52.30\00:27:53.56 ALL THE WORLD. 00:27:53.56\00:27:55.23 HOW CAN I GO, I HAVE COMMITMENTS. 00:27:55.23\00:27:57.80 YOU CAN PRAY. 00:27:57.80\00:28:00.13 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 00:28:00.13\00:28:05.50 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 00:28:05.50\00:28:08.03 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS. 00:28:08.03\00:28:11.63 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE AND MEANING. 00:28:11.63\00:28:14.56 BUT THEY WON'T FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 00:28:14.56\00:28:16.80 BE THE SPARK. 00:28:16.80\00:28:17.96 LIGHT THE FIRE. 00:28:17.96\00:28:19.40 FINISH THE WORK. 00:28:19.40\00:28:23.43 FINISH THE WORK. 00:28:23.43\00:28:24.43