Participants: James Campbell
Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000416
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00:22 HI, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" TODAY. 00:24 MY NAME IS GENEVA WYMA AND OUR GUEST TODAY IS JAMES CAMPBELL. 00:26 AND HE IS THE DIRECTOR FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH NORTHERN INDIA AND NEPAL. 00:30 THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY, JAMES. 00:32 WELL, THIS IS A PLEASURE TO TELL ABOUT GOD'S WORK IN A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THE WORLD. 00:37 I'M VERY EXCITED TO HEAR YOUR STORIES, I'VE VISITED INDIA MYSELF AND I AM ALWAYS EXCITED 00:44 TO MEET SOMEONE ELSE THAT HAS BEEN THERE AND DONE MISSIONARY WORK THERE AS WELL. 00:48 THANK YOU. 00:49 YES, GLAD YOU WERE ABLE TO GO TO INDIA. 00:50 YES. 00:51 SO COULD YOU BEGIN AND TELL US A LITTLE BIT 00:54 ABOUT HOW YOU BECAME INVOLVED WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:57 WELL, YOU SEE I WORKED IN THE NORTHERN INDIA UNION BEGINNING IN 1962 UNTIL 1975 AND THEN I 01:10 CAME BACK TO NORTH AMERICA AND DID SOME OTHER THINGS 01:13 THEN WENT BACK TO INDIA AGAIN IN 1994 TO 1998. 01:19 I JUST LOVE THE PEOPLE OVER THERE. 01:20 AND I'M THANKFUL THAT PEOPLE LOVE ME TOO. 01:26 AND WHEN I RETIRED ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO, I SAID I WANT TO DO SOMETHING BUT I WANT TO DO 01:37 SOMETHING WITH AN ORGANIZATION THAT IS FULLY SUPPORTIVE 01:41 OF THE GOSPEL MISSION OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS. 01:45 AND THAT I FOUND IN GOSPEL OUTREACH. 01:52 WONDERFUL. 01:53 CAN YOU TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING OVER THERE? 01:56 IN INDIA AND NEPAL? 01:58 WELL, GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS THE AREA THAT IS MOST IMPORTANT FOR SPREADING OF THE GOSPEL MESSAGE 02:05 WHICH WE CALL THE 10/40 WINDOW. 02:08 AND THAT IS WHERE GOSPEL OUTREACH CONCENTRATES ITS EFFORTS. 02:13 THE NORTHERN PART OF INDIA, IN FACT ALL OF INDIA AND NEPAL FALL WITHIN THE 10/40 WINDOW. 02:21 GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS, I BELIEVE, EIGHTEEN REGIONAL DIRECTORS WHO HAVE RESPONSIBILITIES IN 02:29 AFRICA, IN ASIA RIGHT THROUGH FROM WEST AFRICA TO THE PHILIPPINES. 02:36 I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF SERVING WHERE I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE A REGULAR MISSION WORKER WAY 02:44 BACK THERE IN THE NORTHERN PART OF INDIA AND I HAD NEPAL AS PART OF MY TERRITORY AT THAT 02:49 TIME TOO. 02:50 OH WONDERFUL! 02:52 WONDERFUL! 02:53 SO YOU SPREAD, YOU WORK WITH THE LEADERS THERE TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL. 02:57 YES, AND WHAT A WONDERFUL PRIVILEGE FOR ME BECAUSE SOME OF THOSE LEADERS WERE JUST 03:05 LITTLE BOYS WHEN I WAS WORKING THERE. 03:07 OH, HOW WONDERFUL! 03:08 IN FACT, ONE OF THEM I TOOK CARE OF THE DEDICATION SERVICE WHEN HE WAS A BABY. 03:12 OH, THAT'S REALLY EXCITING. 03:13 THAT WOULD BE SO MUCH FUN TO SEE HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED OVER THE YEARS, YOU KNOW. 03:21 OH YES, BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN THERE SO LONG. 03:25 THAT'S A BIG THING. 03:26 YOU KNOW, INDIA WHEN I WENT THERE IT WAS HARD TO GET ANY MANUFACTURED GOODS AND THINGS 03:33 LIKE THAT. 03:34 IT WAS VERY AGRICULTURAL BUT SINCE THAT TIME, INDIA HAS BECOME VERY INDUSTRIALIZED AND 03:39 HIGH TECH. 03:41 YOU KNOW. 03:43 THERE ARE STILL OXCARTS ON THE ROAD AND CAMEL CARTS AND DONKEY PEOPLE AND ALL THAT SORT OF 03:49 STUFF BUT THE MAN WHO SELLS VEGETABLES FROM HIS BASKET 03:54 ON HIS BICYCLE WILL HAVE A CELL PHONE. 03:57 OH, HOW FUN! 03:59 HOW FUN! 04:00 YES. 04:02 WELL, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU BROUGHT SOME PICTURES TO SHOW US TODAY. 04:04 I WAS WONDERING IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO EXPLAIN THEM. 04:08 YES, WE DID HAVE THAT PICTURE ON OF THE AREA THAT WE CALL THE NORTHERN INDIA UNION. 04:12 THERE WE BROUGHT UP THE PICTURE AGAIN. 04:15 THAT IS MORE THAN HALF OF INDIA AND IN THAT AREA THERE ARE MORE THAN 700 MILLION PEOPLE. 04:26 WOW. 04:27 THAT IS ONE IN EVERY TEN PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, THE WHOLE WORLD LIVE IN THAT AREA OF THE 04:33 NORTHERN INDIA UNION. 04:35 AND PART OF THAT TERRITORY IS MY TERRITORY FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH. 04:42 WE HAVE ANOTHER FINE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER BEV, AND SHE SERVES HALF OF THAT AREA TOO. 04:51 SO, WE HAVE, WE HAVE A TREMENDOUS CHALLENGE THERE. 04:57 SOUNDS LIKE IT. 04:58 YES. 04:59 NOW THE MAN ON THE RIGHT IN THIS PICTURE IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE NORTHERN INDIA UNION. 05:08 ALL THE ADVENTIST WORK IN THE NORTHERN UNION IS CARRIED ON BY LOCAL PEOPLE. 05:15 AND HERE HE IS TALKING, ENCOURAGING A GROUP OF GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS WHO SERVE IN 05:21 THE DELHI METRO REGION. 05:23 O.K. 05:24 NOW, AS I MENTIONED, THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORK IS DIVIDED UP 05:30 INTO ABOUT EIGHTEEN DIFFERENT REGIONS. 05:34 IN MY TERRITORY, INDIA HAS EIGHT REGIONS OR SECTIONS THAT I WORK WITH DIRECTLY AND THOSE 05:47 AREAS ARE ORGANIZED IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE OFFICES THERE WHICH ARE VERY PRIMITIVE 05:57 OFFICES AT THE PRESENT TIME, MOST OF THEM. 05:59 NOW, THE NORTHERN INDIA UNION OFFICE HAS A GOOD OFFICE AND A GOOD ORGANIZATION. 06:03 THE FIELDS UNDER THAT HAVE THEIR CHALLENGES. 06:05 SOME OF THE FIELDS ARE NEW AND THEY ARE VERY UNDERSTAFFED EXCEPT FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH. 06:15 OH. 06:16 YES. 06:17 NOW IN THE DELHI METRO REGION, THERE ARE SEVENTEEN GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS AND THEY ARE 06:24 DOING A FABULOUS JOB. 06:25 ONE OF THOSE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS IS BURMESE. 06:34 A BURMESE REFUGEE YOU SEE WITH THE PARTICULAR SITUATION THAT EXISTED IN BURMA FOR MANY 06:40 YEARS, THERE WERE A LOT OF CHRISTIANS 06:44 AND OTHERS WHO LEFT BURMA AND SOME OF THEM CAME TO INDIA. 06:47 HERE IN THE CAPITAL CITY OF INDIA THEY FOUND A PLACE WHERE THEY CAN GET WORK AND SO ON. 06:54 GOSPEL OUTREACH STARTED SOME WORK AMONG THEM. 06:58 THAT GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER RAISED UP A CHURCH AND IS NOW THEIR PASTOR. 07:04 WOW. 07:06 A NEW GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER HAS BEEN APPOINTED TO TAKE HIS PLACE AND BEYOND THAT, 07:11 I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE PROBABLY 300 MEMBERS IN THE BURMESE CONGREGATIONS THERE NOW 07:19 IN THE DELHI METRO REGION. 07:20 NOW, IN THIS PICTURE THE MAN ON THE RIGHT GREW UP, HIS FATHER WAS A CARPENTER IN ONE OF OUR 07:31 BOARDING SCHOOLS IN NORTHERN INDIA. 07:34 AND HE, SADISH GOT TO GO TO OUR GOOD SCHOOL, GOOD ADVENTIST BOARDING SCHOOL, 07:42 TO COLLEGE AND HAS BECOME A GREAT WORKER OVER THERE. 07:47 HE IS NOW THE DIRECTOR OF THE DELHI METRO REGION. 07:50 WHEN THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN HE WAS DIRECTOR OF THE WESTERN UPI REGION AND NOW HE IS DIRECTOR, 07:56 HIS WIFE ON THE OTHER SIDE, THE DELHI METRO REGION. 07:59 I'D JUST LIKE TO MENTION THE DELHI METRO REGION A LITTLE BIT. 08:02 THERE ARE 18 MILLION PEOPLE IN DELHI METRO REGION. 08:07 IT HAS BECOME A STATE OF INDIA. 08:10 EIGHTEEN MILLION PEOPLE, I MEAN THEY ARE NOT MANY STATES IN THE U.S. 08:13 THAT HAVE 18 MILLION PEOPLE. 08:15 RIGHT. 08:16 SO, HE HAS THAT TERRITORY. 08:21 HE HAS 25, PARDON ME, 17 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS, ABOUT 2500 MEMBERS AND JUST A VERY FEW 08:30 CHURCH BUILDINGS. 08:32 IT IS A MAJOR CHALLENGE. 08:34 YOU KNOW, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE OUR VIEWERS, THE GOSPEL OUTREACH VIEWERS, 08:41 TO PRAY ESPECIALLY FOR THE DELHI METRO REGION 08:45 AND FOR SATISH WHO IS THE LEADER OF THAT AREA. 08:49 YOU KNOW, 18 MILLION PEOPLE. 08:51 THAT'S A HUGE RESPONSIBILITY. 08:53 IT'S A TREMENDOUS RESPONSIBILITY BUT GOD IS GOING TO ANSWER PEOPLE'S PRAYERS AND 08:59 IF WE WOULD KEEP DELHI METRO REGION IN OUR PRAYERS. 09:03 I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE JUST SO ENCOURAGING TO THE VOLUNTEERS WHO SERVE HERE IN 09:08 THE GOSPEL OUTREACH OFFICE. 09:10 IF YOU ARE GOING TO PRAY FOR DELHI METRO REGION, WHY NOT SEND A LETTER TO GOSPEL 09:16 OUTREACH AND SAY, LOOK I AM PRAYING FOR DELHI METRO REGION AND I WANT TO SEE THE WORK 09:22 FINISHED IN ALL OF THE WORLD SO JESUS CAN COME. 09:25 ABSOLUTELY. 09:26 NOT ONLY THAT, BUT I GOT AN INSPIRATION THE OTHER DAY THINKING ABOUT WHY WE HAVE 09:36 GOSPEL OUTREACH AND WHY WE WANT MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS ABOUT JESUS. 09:46 THE SONG CAME TO ME "WE HAVE HEARD A JOYFUL SOUND, JESUS SAVES, JESUS SAVES". 09:52 I LIKE THAT SONG. 09:53 YES. 09:54 IT IS BEAUTIFUL. 09:55 "SPREAD THE GLADNESS ALL AROUND, JESUS SAVES, JESUS SAVES". 09:58 NOW HERE IS ONE OF OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH FAMILIES THERE IN THE DELHI METRO REGION. 10:04 YOU KNOW, THEY ARE SACRIFICING TO SERVE THE LORD THERE. 10:09 THEY COME FROM VILLAGES AND THEN THEY COME TO THE CITY, THE RENTS ARE HIGH THEY CAN'T 10:16 AFFORD A VERY GOOD PLACE. 10:18 WE HAVE THREE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS WHO EACH HAVE A ROOM, THERE ARE FAMILIES LIKE THIS, 10:23 EACH HAVE A ROOM AROUND A COURTYARD WHERE THERE IS AN OPEN SEWER AND THERE IS NO 10:31 SHADE TREE, IT'S CONCRETE THERE AND IT'S HOT AND COLD IN THE WINTER, HOT IN THE SUMMER. 10:39 IT'S, THEY ARE REALLY SACRIFICING BUT THIS YOUNG MAN AND HIS WIFE, 10:46 And THEY HAVE A SPECIAL HOSPITALITY MISSION. 10:51 THEY SHOW HOSPITALITY TO PEOPLE, THEY FIND PEOPLE WHO ARE IN TROUBLE, 10:55 THEY PRAY FOR THEM AND THEY JUST HELP THEM. 10:59 THOSE PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT JESUS WHEN THEY SEE THAT KINDNESS AND LOVE. 11:04 NOW, THIS PICTURE, PARDON ME IF I AM DOING TOO MUCH TALKING HERE, 11:08 OH I'M EXCITED TO HEAR YOUR STORIES, THIS IS A LOT OF FUN. 11:11 THIS PICTURE IS OF THE LEADER AND HIS WIFE OF THE EASTERN UTTAR PRADESH REGION. 11:20 NOW EASTERN UTTRA PRADESH REGION IS THAT AREA OF NORTHERN INDIA THAT SURROUNDS THE OLD 11:27 CITY OF BANARAS. 11:29 NOW BANARAS IS NOW KNOWN AS VARANASI BUT IT'S ON THE BANKS OF THE GANGES RIVER AND IT'S A 11:37 SACRED PLACE TO THE PEOPLE WHO FOLLOW THE HINDU TRADITION. 11:42 AND THE HINDU PEOPLE WANT TO GO TO VARANASI, OLD BANARAS, TO DIE THERE OR IF THEY CAN'T MAKE 11:52 IT BEFORE THEY DIE THEY WANT THEIR BODIES 11:54 TO BE CREMATED THERE ON THE BANKS OF THE GANGES RIVER. 11:57 THAT'S PART OF THEIR, THEIR WAY OF GAINING SALVATION. 12:02 BUT SURENDRA LAL, YOU'LL SEE HIS WIFE IS POINTING 12:09 TO AN INDENTATION IN HIS UPPER RIGHT ARM. 12:12 HE HAD CANCER THERE, A VERY AGGRESSIVE FORM OF CANCER ALMOST TWENTY YEARS AGO. 12:19 SURGERY AFTER SURGERY UNTIL THE PHYSICIANS AND THE SURGEONS SAID WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO 12:25 TAKE YOUR ARM OFF. 12:27 AND SATISH AND HIS WIFE PROMILA THEY WENT ON A ONE WEEK FAST AND PRAYED AND GOD HEALED HIM. 12:37 WOW. 12:38 HE HAS GIVEN HIS TESTIMONY. 12:40 HE IS SO THANKFUL FOR WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR HIM 12:43 THAT HE HAS DEDICATED HIS LIFE FULLY TO THE LORD. 12:46 DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAS HAPPENED? 12:48 IN THEIR AREA, FIFTEEN YEARS AGO THERE WERE SO FEW ADVENTISTS ONLY ABOUT 50 12:57 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS IN THAT WHOLE AREA OF ABOUT 50 MILLION PEOPLE. 13:02 THAT IS ONE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST PER MILLION, 13:06 ONE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST PER MILLION. 13:08 TODAY, FIFTEEN YEARS LATER THE FIGURES I HAVE RECEIVED ARE THAT THERE ARE ABOUT 40, 13:14 000 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS IN THAT AREA 13:17 AND THAT IS A RATIO OF ONE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST TO 1500. 13:22 OH. 13:24 CAN YOU IMAGINE, IN FIFTEEN YEARS COMING DOWN FROM ONE TO A MILLION TO ONE IN 1500. 13:28 THAT IS HUGE GROWTH. 13:30 GOD IS DOING WONDERS THERE.YES. 13:33 NOW HERE IS PASTOR SURENDRA LAL TALKING WITH TWO MEN THERE. 13:41 THE MAN ON THE RIGHT, HIS NAME IS NANAK. 13:47 IT SOUNDS LIKE AN ESKIMO NAME ALMOST. 13:48 YES, IT DOES. 13:50 BUT HIS NAME IS NANAK AND OF COURSE THE FAMOUS TEACHER OF THE SIKH RELIGION, 13:56 THE FIRST OF THE TEN GURUS WAS NANAK, SO IT IS A COMMON NAME IN NORTHERN INDIA. 14:03 NANAK WAS A THIEF, HE STOLE GOODS THEY CALL IT, FREIGHT WE WOULD CALL IT HERE, 14:12 FROM RAILROAD CARS. 14:14 THE RAILROAD CARS WOULD BE STOPPED, HE WOULD GO AND BREAK THE SEAL AND GET IN THERE IN 14:18 THE DARK OR SOMEPLACE AND HE WOULD SELL THOSE THINGS AND HE WOULD MAKE A PRETTY GOOD LIVING 14:24 BUT HIS FAMILY WAS SO EMBARASSED WHEN THE POLICE WOULD COME TO TRY TO FIND WHAT 14:28 WAS GOING ON. 14:30 THEY KNEW HE WAS DOING THIS BUT HE WAS SOMEHOW ALWAYS ABLE TO EVADE THE POLICE UNTIL 14:36 SOMETHING HAPPENED AND HE MET A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER. 14:40 THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER SHARED WITH HIM THE GOSPEL AND NANAK CHANGED HIS WAY OF LIFE. 14:48 HE DOESN'T STEAL ANYMORE, HE IS HAPPY WITH HIS FAMILY. 14:52 THEY ARE NOT EMBARASSED ABOUT HIM AND THAT IS THEIR SON. 14:55 THEIR SON IS NOW A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER SHARING THE LOVE OF JESUS. 15:03 HE'S GOT A TESTIMONY, I TELL YOU. 15:07 THAT'S WONDERFUL! 15:08 YES! 15:09 NOW IN THIS PICTURE, WE ARE NOW IN THE HARYANA REGION. 15:15 THE HARYANA REGION IS THE AREA NORTH AND WEST OF DELHI, THE CAPITAL CITY OF INDIA. 15:23 OUR LEADER THERE, NUTGIL IS STANDING IN THE BACK IN THE CENTER. 15:32 NUTGIL WHEN HE WAS JUST A LITTLE BABY, HIS PARENTS ASKED ME TO DEDICATE HIM TO THE LORD 15:40 AND NOW HE IS SERVING IN THE STATE OF HARYANA AND IN THE TERRITORY OF CHUNDIR. 15:46 IN HARYANA A FEW YEARS AGO, I WAS ASKED TO RECOMMEND A PLACE IN INDIA WHERE GLOBAL MISSION, 15:53 THAT'S THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS OUTREACH TO UNENTERED AREAS. 15:55 I WAS ASKED TO CHOOSE OR RECOMMEND AN AREA IN INDIA WHERE GLOBAL MISSION SHOULD 16:06 BEGIN ITS WORK. 16:18 THAT WAS ABOUT 1996 AND THE COMMITTEE ACCEPTED MY RECOMMENDATION TO HAVE GLOBAL 16:28 MISSION BEGIN THEIR WORK IN THE STATE OF HARYANA. 16:31 WHY DID WE CHOOSE HARYANA? 16:33 WE CHOSE HARYANA BECAUSE IT HAD THE LOWEST PERCENTAGE 16:36 OF CHRISTIANS OF ANY STATE IN INDIA. 16:41 SINCE THAT TIME, THERE HAVE BEEN ABOUT 8,000 PEOPLE WHO HAVE BECOME SEVENTH DAY 16:46 ADVENTIST CHRISTIANS IN HARYANA. 16:48 SINCE 1996, SINCE 1996, WOW, THAT IS GREAT. 16:52 THEY HAVE SEVERAL CHURCHES BUILT AND IT IS NOT AN EASY FIELD BECAUSE IT'S A VERY, 17:03 WELL PEOPLE HAVE A LOT OF TRADITIONS IN INDIA. 17:06 STORIES OF HOW RELIGION GOT STARTED IN VARIOUS PLACES AND THEY HAVE ONE OF THE FAMOUS 17:16 SHRINES THAT PEOPLE GO TO IN THAT AREA IS IN THAT AREA AND THEY WANT TO GUARD THAT AND 17:23 MAKE SURE THAT IT DOESN'T GET OUT , YOU KNOW,THE FOLLOWERS DON'T FORSAKE THEIR OWN 17:28 TRADITIONS OF RELIGION. 17:29 SO IS THEIR PRIMARY RELIGION SIKH OR HINDU? 17:32 IN HARYANA IT IS ABOUT HALF AND HALF PROBABLY, OF SIKH HINDU. 17:39 O.K. 17:40 YES. 17:41 AND THIS IS A SIKH FAMILY AND THEY HAVE FOUR DAUGHTERS AND A SON. 17:45 ONE OF THE DAUGHTERS WAS VERY SERIOUSLY ILL. 17:49 THEY HAD GONE TO ALL THE SPECIALISTS THEY COULD FIND, THEY HAD GONE TO VARIOUS 17:55 WORSHIP PLACES, SHRINES AND OFFERED MONEY TO THE GODS AND SO ON. 18:02 NO HEALING, POOR GIRL WAS HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME. 18:07 SOMEONE TOLD THIS FAMILY ABOUT THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER THAT LIVED NOT FAR AWAY. 18:15 THEY SOUGHT HIM OUT AND BROUGHT THEIR DAUGHTER THERE. 18:20 AND HIS NAME, THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER, MANZOOR MASSEY. 18:26 WE HAVE A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER HERE, MANZOOR MASSEY, YES. 18:29 THIS IS A YOUNGER MAN WHO IS THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER IN HIS OWN AREA AND HE PRAYED AND 18:36 GOD HEALED THAT GIRL. 18:38 PRAISE GOD! 18:39 NOW THE WHOLE FAMILY ARE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIANS. 18:42 THEY ARE ENJOYING IT SO MUCH. 18:44 WOW! 18:45 YOU HAVE SO MANY INSPIRING STORIES. 18:46 WELL, I GUESS WHEN YOU ARE AS OLD AS I AM 18:50 YOU CAN REMEMBER THE STORIES YOU ARE DOING ALRIGHT. 18:54 NOW, I'D LIKE TO - TELL US ABOUT THIS LADY. 18:58 YES, IS DOCTOR YVONNE STOCKHAUSEN BASLIO. 19:03 AND RIGHT NOW I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE A SPECIAL GREETING TO SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST 19:09 CHRISTIANS IN THE COUNTRY OF JAMAICA BECAUSE DR. YVONNE COMES FROM THE COUNTRY OF 19:17 JAMAICA AND WHAT A BLESSING SHE HAS BEEN IN BURMA, IN PAKISTAN AND IN INDIA. 19:26 IN THE HILLS OF NORTHERN INDIA WHERE SHE SERVED FOR MANY YEARS, 19:30 SHE WAS KNOWN AS "THE ANGEL OF MERCY". 19:33 UNFORTUNATELY, ABOUT TWENTY YEARS AGO SHE GOT A BRAIN TUMOR, A BENIGN BRAIN TUMOR, 19:39 BUT BY THE TIME THE SURGEONS GOT FINISHED, SHE WAS LEFT CRIPPLED. 19:45 THEY DID THE BEST THEY COULD, I AM SURE, BUT SHE HAS BEEN IN A WHEELCHAIR NOW FOR MORE THAN 19:53 TWENTY YEARS AND RIGHT NOW SHE HAS HAD A FALL JUST RECENTLY 19:58 AND IS HAVING A VERY DIFFICULT TIME. 20:01 SHE NEEDS OUR PRAYERS ESPECIALLY. 20:04 I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR VIEWERS IN JAMAICA WHO KNOW THE STOCKHAUSEN FAMILY SO WELL, 20:12 SOME OF THEM HAD HIGH POSITIONS IN GOVERNMENT, OTHERS YVONNE'S FATHER WAS ONE OF THE LEADING 20:19 PASTORS IN JAMAICA YEARS AGO. 20:22 I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR VIEWERS IN JAMAICA TO REMEMBER YVONNE IN PRAYER. 20:28 THE ANGEL OF MERCY WAS HER NICKNAME. 20:32 YES. 20:34 THAT HAS BEEN THE FOUNDATION OF ADVENTIST WORK IN THE STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH. 20:41 HIMACHAL IS YOU KNOW THE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS. 20:43 HIMACHAL MEANS MOUNTAIN AND SO IT IS A MOUNTAIN STATE. 20:48 AND THIS IS YVONNE'S HUSBAND ON THE LEFT AND THERE I AM STANDING. 20:53 THE GIRL IN THE CENTER, WELL SHE IS NOT A GIRL ANYMORE. 20:57 I FIRST KNEW HER WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT SIXTEEN YEARS OF AGE. 21:01 SHE WAS THE FIRST PERSON THAT I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF BAPTIZING IN INDIA. 21:06 AND THEN THERE WERE THIRTEEN PEOPLE FROM A FAMILY WHO WERE BAPTIZED THERE. 21:11 THE MAN ON THE, NEXT TO HER IS HER HUSBAND. 21:16 ACTUALLY, HER HUSBAND'S FATHER BROUGHT 21:18 THE ADVENTIST MESSAGE TO THE VILLAGE WHERE THIS GIRL GREW UP. 21:24 THERE IS ANOTHER WHOLE STORY THAT WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR TODAY BUT ON THE RIGHT IS HER, 21:31 I'M NOT SURE WHETHER HE IS A COUSIN OR A BROTHER, BUT ANYWAY FROM THAT FAMILY A LOT OF, 21:38 OF TEACHERS, SCHOOL PRINCIPALS, PASTORS HAVE COME FROM THAT FAMILY. 21:43 IT ALL STARTED WITH THIS GIRL BEING BAPTIZED. 21:47 WE HAVE FIVE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS IN THEIR AREA AND THEY NEED A LOT OF OUR PRAYERS 21:55 BECAUSE IT IS NOT AN EASY AREA. 21:58 THEY WALK OVER THE HILLS AND THE PEOPLE THERE HAVE SOME VERY STRONG TRADITIONS THAT MAKE IT 22:08 SOMEWHAT DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO BECOME SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIANS. 22:13 BUT IN HIMACHAL PRADESH THERE IS A VERY FAMOUS THING THERE NOW. 22:21 YOU KNOW, THEY GROW APPLES. 22:24 IT IS, THERE IS A TRADITION THAT APPLES BEGAN IN THE HILLS OF NORTHERN INDIA. 22:31 THERE IN HIMACHAL PRADESH BETWEEN 5000 AND 8000 FEET ELEVATION IS THE VERY BEST 22:38 CONDITIONS FOR APPLES. 22:40 NOW, THEY GET HAILSTORMS ONCE IN A WHILE THAT KIND OF MESSES UP THE APPLES BUT THE APPLES 22:44 ARE KEPT IN COLD STORAGE AND SHIPPED TO MANY OTHER COUNTRIES AND AVAILABLE ALL THROUGH THE 22:49 YEAR IN ALL PARTS OF INDIA BECAUSE OF THE APPLES, THE FRUIT THAT IS GROWN THERE IN 22:53 HIMACHAL PRADESH. 22:55 THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS BEING SEEN THERE TOO. 22:58 AS MORE PEOPLE ARE BECOMING SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIANS THERE. 23:03 WONDERFUL. 23:04 SO, CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT SOME OF THE CHALLENGES 23:07 THAT YOU HAVE HAD OVER THE YEARS IN INDIA AND NEPAL? 23:13 WELL, OF COURSE I'D LIKE TO JUST SHARE WITH YOU SOME OF THE CHALLENGES 23:15 THAT WE ARE FACING THERE NOW. 23:20 WE MENTIONED THAT IN THE NORTHERN INDIA UNION, ONE IN EVERY TEN PEOPLE LIVES THERE. 23:25 THERE IS ONLY ONE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST FOR EVERY 3000. 23:30 THE LORD HAS A LOT OF WORK TO DO THERE YET. 23:33 WHAT A PRIVILEGE FOR US TO HAVE A PART IN IT. 23:36 I'D JUST LIKE TO MENTION THE COUNTRY OF NEPAL ALSO. 23:39 NEPAL HAS ABOUT 28 MILLION PEOPLE. 23:44 UNTIL RECENTLY, IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR ANYONE TO CHANGE THEIR RELIGION FROM HINDUISM OR 23:49 BUDDHISM TO BE A CHRISTIAN, LEAVE ALONE A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIAN. 23:55 BUT, THE LORD IS BLESSING THERE NOW 23:58 AND WE HAVE OVER 8000 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS IN NEPAL. 24:03 THERE ARE I THINK, 34 GOSPEL OUTREACH SPONSORED LAY WORKERS THERE 24:13 AND THEY ARE DOING A GOOD JOB. 24:15 RAISING UP CHURCHES AND SOME OF THEM HAVE YOU KNOW BEEN RECOGNIZED BY THE MISSION THERE 24:20 AND HAVE BECOME REGULAR PASTORS BECAUSE OF THE GOOD EXPERIENCE THEY HAVE HAD AS GOSPEL 24:29 OUTREACH WORKERS. 24:31 THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE LIKE TO SEE HAPPEN BECAUSE YOU KNOW IT IS A CHALLENGE FOR 24:36 GOSPEL OUTREACH AND FOR ALL OF US WHO VOLUNTEER WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH TO MAKE SURE THAT THE 24:46 STIPENDS ARE AVAILABLE EVERY MONTH. 24:48 YOU SEE GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS ABOUT 2200 OR MORE GOSPEL OUTREACH SPONSORED WORKERS IN 24:57 FIFTY COUNTRIES. 24:59 WOW. 25:00 FORTUNATELY, THEY ARE MOSTLY IN COUNTRIES WHERE THE DOLLAR BUYS A LOT OF MONEY, 25:08 A LOT OF LOCAL CURRENCY YET. 25:10 IN INDIA IT IS ABOUT $100 A MONTH. 25:13 IT AVERAGES ABOUT $150 A MONTH OVER THE FIFTY COUNTRIES. 25:17 SO YOU KNOW I'D LIKE TO JUST APPEAL TO OUR VIEWERS TO THINK ABOUT PRAYING FOR THE GOSPEL 25:32 OUTREACH WORKERS IN NORTHERN INDIA AND NEPAL AND PRAYING FOR THEIR LEADERS AND PRAYING FOR 25:37 THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE OVER IN THESE COUNTRIES. 25:38 ABSOLUTELY. 25:42 THEY ARE JUST SERVING THE LORD THE BEST WAY THEY KNOW HOW AND THEY ARE SO HAPPY WHEN THEY 25:51 FIND THE TRUTH ABOUT JESUS AND HAVE HOPE FOR THE FUTURE. 25:53 ABSOLUTELY, I REMEMBER WHEN I WENT TO INDIA I WAS REALLY IMPRESSED WITH ALL OF THE 26:05 SACRIFICES THAT THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS MADE. 26:07 SOME OF THEM, YOU KNOW WOULDN'T SEE THEIR FAMILIES FOR SEVERAL WEEKS AT A TIME BECAUSE THEY 26:12 WOULD BE TRAVELING AND SLEEPING IN HOUSES OF FELLOW ADVENTISTS ALONG THE WAY 26:15 AND THAT SORT OF THING. 26:16 RIGHT. 26:18 IT'S JUST AMAZING ALL THE SACRIFICES. 26:20 WELL, WE ARE ABOUT OUT OF TIME. 26:22 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING TODAY AND I'D LIKE TO GIVE OUR VIEWERS SOME INFORMATION ABOUT 26:28 GOSPEL OUTREACH. 26:30 YOU CAN GO TO OUR WEBSITE: WWW.GOAIM.ORG <http://WWW.GOAIM.ORG> OR YOU 26:46 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME TODAY AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE GIVEN. 26:52 [CLOSING MUSIC]. 27:18 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 27:20 WHERE IS THE 10-40 WINDOW ANYWAY. 27:23 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 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. 28:04 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. 28:16 BE THE SPARK. 28:17 LIGHT THE FIRE. 28:19 FINISH THE WORK. 28:20 FINISH THE WORK. |
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