Participants: Dan Walter
Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000426
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00:11 ♪OPENING MUSIC♪
00:22 HELLO AND WELCOME TO THIS SEGMENT OF "ADVENTURES 00:24 IN MISSIONS" SPONSORED BY GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:28 IN GENERAL, IF YOU HAVE NOTICED IN THESE SERIES 00:33 OF PROGRAMS, GOSPEL OUTREACH IS PRESENT IN 00:38 AREAS THAT ARE EXTREMELY CHALLENGING AND IN SOME AREAS THEY'RE UNCHARTED TERRITORIES 00:47 AND YET OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF REGIONAL DIRECTORS HAVE BEEN 00:54 PERFORMING AND HAVE BEEN CARRYING OUT THE GOSPEL AND 00:57 HAVE BEEN DOING THE WORK SO METICULOUSLY AND SO FAITHFULLY. 01:02 OUR PROGRAM TODAY WILL GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF HOW YOUR GRACIOUS SACRIFICIAL GIFTS ARE BEING PUT 01:11 TO USE IN PARTS OF THE WORLD THAT YOU WILL ONLY HEAR OR SOMETIMES EVEN READ THEIR NAMES 01:16 IN BOOKS AND YOU WILL NEVER SEE ANYTHING ABOUT THESE REGIONS. 01:20 WE ARE GLAD TO HAVE DAN WALTERS WITH US TODAY. 01:25 DAN, I WANT TO WELCOME YOU TO THE PROGRAM. 01:27 THANK YOU. 01:28 THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US. 01:29 I KNOW YOU'VE COME WITH TONS OF NEWS; I KNOW YOU 01:32 TRAVELED RECENTLY TO ANDHRA PRADESH INDIA. 01:38 TELL US ABOUT YOUR DISTRICT. TELL US ABOUT YOUR REGION. 01:41 WHAT DO YOU OVERSEE AS FAR AS A REGIONAL DIRECTOR FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH? 01:47 I AM OVERSEEING PART OF ANDHRA PRADESH WHICH 01:52 IS LIKE SAYING TEXAS HERE IN THE USA. 01:55 IT IS ONE OF THE LARGEST STATES OF INDIA. 01:57 AND THEN RECENTLY MY TERRITORY WAS ADJUSTED TO INCLUDE THE 02:01 STATE OF ORISSA WHICH JUST TO THE NORTH. 02:04 ISN'T ORISSA, DIDN'T WE HEAR SOMETHING ABOUT ORISSA HAVING RELIGIOUS CONFLICT? 02:12 SOME EVENTS TOOK PLACE IN ORISSA RECENTLY? 02:14 YES, ABOUT THREE OR FOUR YEARS AGO THERE WAS QUITE AN UPRISING 02:20 AGAINST ALL CHRISTIANS BY, BY THE HINDUS. 02:25 THAT STATE IS ALMOST ENTIRELY HINDU. I MEAN LIKE 99.95% HINDU. 02:31 WHAT IS THE POPULATION? 02:32 POPULATION IS AROUND 2 MILLION OR MORE. 02:38 IT IS NOT A DENSELY INHABITED AREA. IT IS A LOT OF MOUNTAINS. 02:43 THERE IS A LOT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, LIKE IRON, COAL AND SO THERE ARE BIG MINES BUT THE 02:52 AREA FOR AGRICULTURE IS QUITE MINIMAL AND SINCE MOST OF THE PEOPLE ARE WHAT YOU CALL 02:58 AGRARIAN, FARMERS, THERE IS NOT SO MANY FARMERS. 03:04 MORE OF THE FOLKS WORKING IN MINES AND THAT SORT. 03:07 SO THE POPULATION FOR INDIA IS RATHER SPARSE THERE BUT STILL MORE THAN 2 MILLION. 03:15 HOW IS THE WORK GOING? 03:18 IT IS CHALLENGING. VERY CHALLENGING. 03:24 WHEN THE TROUBLE WAS ARISING TWO, THREE OR FOUR YEARS AGO, THE HINDUS WERE KILLING 03:32 CHRISTIANS JUST BECAUSE THEY WERE CHRISTIANS, BURNING CHURCHES, BURNING HOUSES. 03:39 WE LOST TWO OF OUR PASTORS AND AT LEAST ELEVEN MEMBERS 03:42 DURING THAT CONFLICT AND A LOT OF DAMAGE. 03:47 DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS AND TO CHURCHES AND WHATEVER AND THE 03:53 TROUBLE IS STILL BARELY UNDER THE SURFACE. 03:57 THERE ARE STILL LOTS OF PROBLEMS THERE. 03:59 WE HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL WHAT WE SAY, WHAT WE DO, WHERE WE GO. 04:05 DO THE HINDU COMMUNITY ARE THEY AWARE THAT GOSPEL 04:10 OUTREACH WORKERS ARE IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS? 04:13 OH YES, THEY KNOW. 04:17 ANY SECURITY MEASURES YOU TAKE OR HOW DOES IT WORK? I'M KIND OF CURIOUS. 04:22 WELL, SECURITY FIRST THING IS LINKED WITH THE LORD, OF COURSE. 04:28 AMEN. 04:29 BECAUSE GUARDIAN ANGELS ARE THE BEST ONES. 04:32 BUT I ALSO DO NOT TRAVEL ALONE THERE. 04:36 I MAKE SURE I HAVE ONE OF THE MISSION WORKERS OR PASTORS OR SOMEONE ACCOMPANYING ME BECAUSE 04:41 OFTEN TIMES THEY DETECT DANGER SIGNALS LONG BEFORE I DO. 04:47 DO YOU HAVE SOME FOOTAGE FOR US? 04:50 DO YOU HAVE SOME CLIPS THAT YOU CAN SHOW FROM YOUR TRIPS? 04:53 I SHOULD SHOW YOU ABOUT MY LAST TRIP THERE. I JUST FINISHED IT IN MARCH. 05:00 FROM ANDRHA PRADESH FOR MORE THAN TWELVE HOURS ON A TRAIN 05:09 AND ARRIVED FINALLY IN THE CITY WHERE THE MISSION HEADQUARTERS 05:16 ARE AND THE MISSION OFFICERS MET ME AT THE TRAIN STATION ABOUT 8 O'CLOCK 05:24 IN THE MORNING AND THEY IMMEDIATELY USHERED ME INTO THE OFFICE AND INTRODUCED ME TO 05:33 HALF OF THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THAT THEY HAVE THERE. 05:38 IN THAT PARTICULAR SECTION, THEY HAVE ONLY 12 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 05:42 SIX OF THEM WERE THERE AND ONE OF THEIR SUPERVISORS. 05:47 AND SO I BEGAN TO INTERVIEW THESE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS 05:52 TO FIND OUT THEIR STORIES AND EXPERIENCES. 05:55 THEY TOLD ME ALL KINDS OF STORIES. 06:01 THERE IS ONE I COULD TELL YOU ABOUT HERE. 06:06 THE WORKER'S NAME WAS - WE'LL JUST CALL MAHLI. 06:10 INDIAN NAMES ARE OFTEN VERY LONG, BUT WE WILL CALL HIM 06:13 MAHLI AND MAHLI HAD BEEN ASSIGNED TO A CERTAIN AREA. 06:19 HE WAS RIDING INTO ONE OF THE VILLAGES ON HIS BICYCLE. 06:25 HE WAS IN A LONELY AREA, NO ONE ELSE AROUND WHEN SUDDENLY 06:31 HE CAME UPON A YOUNG GIRL HERDING COWS. 06:36 BUT HE NOTICED THAT SHE WAS NOT ACTING QUITE NORMAL. 06:41 SHE STARED AT HIM, BUT WITHOUT RECOGNIZING OR SEEING ANYTHING. 06:47 SHE WAS FROTHING AT THE MOUTH AND SHE WAS STARK NAKED AND HE WAS STANDING 06:52 THERE WONDERING WHAT TO DO OR WHAT TO SAY TO HER. 06:57 SOME OF THE VILLAGERS CAME BY JUST THEN AND THEY, HE ASKED THEM,"DO YOU KNOW THIS GIRL?" 07:04 YES, WE KNOW HER SHE IS FROM OUR VILLAGE UP HERE BUT SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED TO HER. 07:08 WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON WITH HER. 07:10 SO THEY, THE VILLAGERS WENT AND GRABBED HER AND SHE WAS ACTING RATHER WILD, THEY GRABBED HER 07:17 AND WRAPPED SOMETHING AROUND HER SO THAT SHE WAS MODEST AND STARTED INTO THE VILLAGE. 07:25 BUT AS THEY WERE GETTING INTO THE VILLAGE THE VILLAGERS RECOGNIZED THE GIRL AND THEY 07:32 ASKED HER "WHO IS THIS WITH YOU?" AND ABOUT THAT TIME THE VILLAGERS SAID, "HE MUST HAVE 07:42 DONE SOMETHING TO HER? WHO IS THIS STRANGER?" AND THEN 07:47 THE GIRL BEGAN TO RESPOND BUT IT WAS NOT HER VOICE. 07:51 IT WAS A MALE DEMON SPEAKING THROUGH HER VOICE AND HE ASKED "WHO ARE YOU? 07:58 WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? IF YOU ARE GOING ON, KEEP GOING. 08:04 I'M TAKING CARE OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS VILLAGE." WELL, HE(MAHLI) MENTIONED TO THE 08:12 PEOPLE HE SAID "I AM A PRIEST OF GOD AND IF YOU ARE WILLING I WILL PRAY FOR THIS GIRL" AND 08:20 SO THEY ALLOWED HIM TO PRAY FOR HER AND HE PRAYED ALL NIGHT LONG. 08:27 THE NEXT MORNING SHE WAS STILL IN THAT SAME CONDITION, SHE WAS DEMON POSSESSED. 08:32 ANOTHER CHURCH MEMBER CAME TO JOIN HIM THERE AS THEY HAD PLANNED AND THEY BOTH BEGAN 08:40 PRAYING AND AFTER JUST A BIT, THE VILLAGERS CAME AND SAID, 08:47 "YOU HAVE TO EITHER HEAL THIS GIRL OR WE WILL SUSPECT THAT 08:52 YOU ARE THE ONE WHO BROUGHT THIS ON HER AND WE WILL KILL YOU". 08:58 SO THE VILLAGERS NOTICED THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE GIRL. 09:02 OH, THEY KNEW. 09:03 FROM WHAT RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND? 09:05 THEY WERE ALL HINDU. ALL HINDUS. 09:07 SO EVEN HINDUS CAN DECIPHER BETWEEN NORMAL AND DEMON POSSESSION. 09:12 VERY MUCH. AND SHE WAS OUT OF IT, FROTHING IN THE MOUTH 09:19 AND YELLING THESE UNINTELLIGIBLE SOUNDS AND A MALE 09:24 VOICE COMING OUT OF HER MOUTH AND SO ON. 09:26 THEY KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG. 09:29 AND SO THE TWO OF THEM PRAYED MORE, SANG SOME HYMNS. 09:35 DEVILS DON'TLIKE HYMNS. AND THEN THEY KNELT BESIDE HER 09:40 AND PLACED THEIR HANDS ON HER HEAD AND AS THEY DID THAT IN 09:46 THEIR PRAYER, SUDDENLY THE GIRL JUST DROPPED LIKE SHE WAS DEAD AND HE WAS A LITTLE BIT 09:53 FRIGHTENED THAT MAYBE SOMETHING WAS SERIOUSLY HAD HAPPENED BUT NO, HANG ON, A MOMENT LATER SHE 09:59 SAT UP LOOKED AROUND, OH, LIKE HERE I AM WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON? 10:07 AND SO MAHLI ASKED HER, WHO IS THAT MAN OVER THERE? 10:12 OH, THAT'S MY DADDY. AND THAT ONE? 10:15 THAT'S MY BROTHER. AND WHO IS THAT? 10:18 OH, THAT'S MOTHER. SHE WAS TOTALLY IN HER RIGHT SENSES. 10:23 THEN THE PEOPLE THERE BEGAN TO SAY. 10:26 "YOU KNOW SHE WAS RIGHT HERE IN FRONT OF THE TEMPLE, IF THE TEMPLE HAD ANY REAL POWER WHY 10:35 DID THE SPIRIT LEAVE?" NOW, THEY SAID WE'VE GOT TO LEARN ABOUT THIS SPIRIT THAT WAS MORE 10:43 POWERFUL THAN THOSE DEMONS AND IT OPENED THAT VILLAGE. 10:49 MY QUESTION IS DAN, HOW RECENT WAS THIS EVENT? WHEN DID IT TAKE PLACE? 10:54 JUST A MONTH OR TWO AGO. 10:57 SO, AS FAR AS DEMON POSSESSIONS ARE CONCERNED IF IT WASN'T FOR THE MINISTER OR THE GOSPEL 11:04 OUTREACH WORKER BEING THERE, WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED TO THAT GIRL? 11:11 SHE WOULD PROBABLY REMAIN DEMON POSSESSED FOR INDEFINITE PERIODS. 11:17 SOMETIMES DEMONS, SO THEY DON'T THEMSELVES, THE HINDU RELIGION DOES NOT HAVE EXORCISM? 11:22 THEY CANNOT CAST OUT DEMONS? AM I RIGHT? 11:25 YOU ARE RIGHT IN FACT, OFTEN TIMES WHEN A PERSON IS DEMON 11:28 POSSESSED THEY WILL SAY HE IS BLEST BECAUSE HE HAS THE SPIRIT. 11:33 WOW. SO THEY LOOK AT DEMON POSSESSION IN A POSITIVE LIGHT, IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING? 11:40 THEY DO. THEY DO. UNLESS THEY START HAVING SOME ABNORMAL 11:45 OR VIOLENT ACTIONS, THEN THEY GET CONCERNED. 11:50 INTERESTING. BUT DEMON POSSESSION THERE IS LIKE 11:55 IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF JESUS, IT IS RAMPANT AND IT IS RUDE. 12:02 WHEN, JUST OUT OF CURIOUSITY BECAUSE I AM JUST COMPARING IT WITH AN INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED 12:07 DURING THE LIFE OF CHRIST, RIGHT? 12:09 IF THE DEMON LEAVES, WHEN THE DEMON LEAVES I SHOULD SAY, 12:12 DO THEY EVER MAKE AN ATTEMPT TO COME BACK? 12:15 OH YES, THEY DO. 12:16 SO, WHAT HAPPENS THEN? WHAT DO THEY DO? 12:20 THEY WILL BECOME POSSESSED AGAIN UNLESS CHRIST COMES INTO THEIR LIVES. 12:27 THAT'S THE ONLY DEFENSE THEY HAVE. 12:29 AND YOU HAVE SEEN INCIDENCES LIKE THIS? 12:31 MANY TIMES. MANY TIMES. 12:34 WELL, AFTER I HAD INTERVIEWED AND GOTTEN A LOT OF STORIES LIKE THIS THE MISSION PRESIDENT SAID, 12:45 "I'VE GOT TO TAKE YOU UP INTO THE MOUNTAINS." AND SO 12:49 AT 10:30 THAT NIGHT, HE PUT ME BACK ON THE TRAIN. 12:53 WE TRAVELED ALL NIGHT AND UNTIL NEARLY NOON THE NEXT DAY. 13:01 IN MOST OF INDIA THAT I HAD TRAVELED IN HAD BEEN FLAT, BUT HERE WE WERE GOING THROUGH 13:04 TUNNELS, AND MOUNTAINS, LITTLE MOUNTAIN VILLAGES. 13:12 IT WAS A VERY DIFFERENT INDIA THAN WHAT I HAD SEEN BEFORE 13:16 ESPECIALLY DOWN IN THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH. 13:19 ANDHRA PRADESH IS JUST LEVEL OR ROLLING HILLS BUT HERE WERE THE PEOPLE MEETING THAT TRAIN. 13:27 SOME GETTING ON SOME GETTING OFF, RUSHING BECAUSE IT WAS ONLY STOPPED FOR A SHORT TIME AND 13:33 THEN OFF WE WOULD GO AGAIN THROUGH MORE TUNNELS AND ACROSS 13:40 BIG BRIDGES THROUGH MORE LITTLE TOWNS AND VILLAGES. 13:47 THIS I THINK, WAS A MINING TOWN, I COULDN'T SEE THE MINES BUT THERE WAS EVIDENCE OF THAT. 13:51 HERE IS A TRAIN COMING WITH ORE CARS. 14:01 AND FINALLY WE REACHED THE TOWN OF JAIPUR. 14:08 IN JAIPUR, WE DO HAVE A LARGE SCHOOL. 14:16 A SCHOOL OF ABOUT 900 STUDENTS THERE AND WHEN WE GOT TO THIS SCHOOL 14:25 THEY HAD THE OTHER GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS FROM THE VILLAGE. 14:30 HERE IS THE SIGN HERE JAIPUR. AND HERE IS THE SCHOOL, 14:39 900 STUDENTS ALL OF THEM BOARDING STUDENTS THERE. 14:43 THEY HAD BROUGHT IN SOME OF THE OTHER GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THERE FOR ME TO INTERVIEW. 14:50 HERE IS ONE, HIS NAME IS NIEK AND HE TOLD ME OF ONE OF HIS 14:57 EXPERIENCES GOING INTO SOME OF THE TRIBAL AREA THERE. 15:02 HE WAS RIDING HIS MOTORCYCLE GOING UP A VERY STEEP CROOKED ROAD AND AS HE ROUNDED THIS ONE 15:07 CORNER A BICYCLE WITH TWO PEOPLE ON IT CAME CRASHING RIGHT INTO HIS FRONT. 15:13 THEY ALL DROPPED DOWN ON THE GROUND BUT HAPPILY NO ONE GOT HURT. 15:18 AND SO AS THEY GOT UP AND WERE DUSTING THEMSELVES OFF, 15:21 HE APOLOGIZED VERY MUCH AND OFFERED TO REPAIR THE BICYCLE. 15:28 THE FRONT WHEEL WAS QUITE BADLY BENT AND HAPPILY THERE WAS A LITTLE SHOP NOT FAR AWAY SO HE 15:33 WENT WITH THE PEOPLE DOWN THERE TO THE SHOP AND THEY WERE GETTING THE BICYCLE REPAIRED. 15:41 AS THEY WERE VISITING THERE, THEY INTRODUCED THEMSELVES BY NAME 15:45 AND SO ON AND BEFORE THEY LEFT HE OFFERED TO PRAY FOR THEM. 15:51 THEY WERE QUITE IMPRESSED. 15:53 HERE A CHRISTIAN MAN PRAYING FOR THESE HINDUS. 15:57 WELL, THE NEXT DAY THEY MET AGAIN DOWN AT THE MARKET PLACE. 16:04 THEY APPROACHED HIM AND SAID "WE APPRECIATED YOUR PRAYER SO MUCH WOULD YOU PRAY FOR US 16:09 AGAIN?" SO HE SAID OF COURSE I WILL AND HE SAYS BY THE WAY I AM A CHRISTIAN IN FACT, I AM A 16:18 PRIEST OF GOD AND I WILL BE HAPPY TO PRAY EVEN FOR SICK PEOPLE. 16:24 HE LEFT IT AT THAT. 16:27 A FEW DAYS LATER, ABOUT FIVE DAYS LATER THEY CAME LOOKING FOR HIM AND THEY SAID, "MY MOTHER 16:36 IS VERY SICK WOULD YOU PLEASE COME PRAY FOR HER?" WELL HE HOPPED ON HIS MOTORCYCLE THEN 16:41 AND FOLLOWED THEM UP THE MOUNTAIN. 16:44 BY THE TIME THEY GOT TO THE HOME IT WAS QUITE LATE IN THE AFTERNOON, THE WOMAN WAS HAVING 16:50 HIGH FEVER AND DIFFICULTY BREATHING AND SO HE PRAYED FOR HER AND THEN THEY SAID, 16:57 "IT'S SO LATE YOU BETTER JUST STAY HERE." SO HE STAYED OVERNIGHT. 17:00 THE NEXT MORNING BEFORE HE LEFT HE PRAYED AGAIN. 17:06 AS HE WENT OUT THE DOOR, HER FEVER WENT OUT AND HER BREATHING BECAME NORMAL AGAIN. 17:13 THEN THE PEOPLE CAME AND LOOKED FOR HIM AGAIN AND SAID COULD 17:19 YOU PLEASE TEACH US ABOUT THIS GOD THAT YOU WORSHIP? 17:23 AND HE SAID, WHY OF COURSE I'D BE HAPPY TO BUT WHY DON'T YOU COME ON SATURDAY TO MY MEETING 17:30 WHERE I WILL HAVE TIME THAT I CAN REALLY WORK WITH YOU? 17:33 THEY HAVEN'T MISSED A SABBATH SINCE. 17:35 WOW. BEAUTIFUL. 17:39 SO A CRASH BASICALLY WAS A CAUSE OF SALVATION. 17:43 IT WAS, FOR THESE PEOPLE. CRASH YIELDED CONVERTS. 17:52 WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? 17:55 THIS ONE NOW IS ONE OF THE MEN UP ON THE MOUNTAIN THERE. 18:04 HIS NAME IS MR. TEAGA. WE WANTED TO GET OUT TO HIS VILLAGE, 18:13 IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, BUT WE FOUND OUT THE DAY BEFORE THAT 18:17 THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE HAD JUST PASSED A NEW LAW 18:20 SAYING THAT NO FOREIGNER COULD VISIT TRIBAL AREAS. 18:25 NOW, WHERE DO WE GO? 18:27 WELL MR. TEAGA WAS NOT IN TRIBAL AREA SO LET'S GO SEE HIM. 18:30 EARLY THE NEXT MORNING WE FOUND OUT THAT THERE WAS A TRANSPORTATION STRIKE. 18:37 PRICE OF GASOLINE HAD GONE UP AND THE PEOPLE WERE FEELING REBELLIOUS 18:40 ABOUT THIS AND SO NO TAXI, NO BUS, NOTHING WAS MOVING. 18:46 FORTUNATELY, THE MEN THAT WERE GUIDING ME HAD ARRANGED FOR A CHRISTIAN MAN, NOT ADVENTIST BUT 18:52 A CHRISTIAN MAN, DRIVING A TAXI AND HE CAME EARLY IN THE MORNING BEFORE THE CURFEW AND THEN HE 19:00 TOOK US OUT INTO AREA ON BACKROADS. 19:09 WE WENT BACKROADS THIS WAY, THAT WAY AND SO ON UNTIL WE HAD GONE 19:14 THROUGH VILLAGES, WE HAD CROSSED RIVERS THAT HAD NO BRIDGES. 19:21 FORTUNATELY, OUR VEHICLE WAS A FOUR WHEELED DRIVE, HIGH THING 19:24 SO WE GOT THROUGH JUST FINE AND WE GOT INTO MR. TEAGA'S VILLAGE. 19:30 IT HAD TAKEN US ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF TO GET OUT HERE. 19:36 AND WHEN WE GOT THERE, WE WENT LOOKING FOR MR. TEAGA. 19:42 HERE IS MR. TEAGA COMING OUT TO MEET US. 19:47 HIS LITTLE PLACE WHERE HE IS STAYING IS RIGHT NEAR THIS CHURCH AND AS HE CAME OUT TO 19:54 MEET US WE TOLD HIM WE WANT TO SEE WHAT YOU ARE DOING HERE IN THIS VILLAGE AND IN THIS AREA. 20:03 SO HE TOOK US AROUND MOST OF THE PEOPLE WERE STILL AT WORK. 20:06 HERE THEY WERE SHELLING THEIR RICE, GETTING IT READY TO SIFT. 20:11 HERE THEY ARE SIFTING IT. 20:18 SO THE PEOPLE WERE BUSY BUT HE HAD SET A TIME. 20:22 HE SAID THAT AT A CERTAIN TIME OF DAY WE ARE ALL GOING TO GET TOGETHER. 20:25 YOU DROP YOUR JOBS AND COME TOGETHER. 20:28 IT WAS AWFULLY NICE OF HIM AND OF THE VILLAGERS. 20:31 HERE HE IS TALKING TO SOME OF THE FOLKS THERE IN THE VILLAGE. 20:39 THEY LINED UP, MOSTLY IN THE SHADE. 20:43 THEN HE TOLD US ABOUT ANOTHER VILLAGE ABOUT A HALF AN HOURS WALK AND SO WE OF COURSE, 20:51 WANTED TO SEE WHERE HE GOES, WHAT DOES HE DO? 20:59 THIS IS HIS PRACTICE. HE WILL TAKE THE VILLAGERS FROM 21:02 ONE ESTABLISHED CHURCH AND GO TO OPEN NEW WORK. 21:07 NOW HERE HE IS GATHERING THE CHILDREN IN ANOTHER VILLAGE TO TELL THE STORIES OF THE BIBLE. 21:15 HE IS JUST GETTING STARTED. 21:17 HE DOES SO MUCH WORK WITH THE CHILDREN AND EVERYTHING. 21:19 HERE THE CHILDREN ARE ACTING OUT ZACCHEUS. ZACCHEUS, A WEE LITTLE MAN. 21:26 I DON'T KNOW WHAT ALL THE JUMPING UP AND DOWN IS BUT HE IS LOOKING AROUND FOR JESUS, HE IS 21:30 LOOKING THIS WAY AND THAT WAY AND THEY HAD IT ALL ACTED OUT. 21:33 IT WAS REALLY INTERESTING WHAT THEY WERE DOING. 21:43 A THOUGHT CAME TO ME. IT'S A LONG WAYS, A LONG WAY 21:47 FOR THESE FOLKS TO COME FROM HINDUISM TO BECOME CHRISTIAN. 21:53 THEY HAVE TO MAKE SO MANY CHANGES IN THEIR LIFESTYLES, IN THEIR BELIEFS AND IF WE RUSH 21:59 THIS PROCESS TOO MUCH WE END UP BAPTIZING HINDUS BECAUSE THEY 22:05 BRING ALL OF THAT BAGGAGE FROM BEFORE. 22:10 AND YOU THINK OF WHAT THEY HAD CONSIDERED BEFORE AS THEIR GODS. 22:14 THERE IS A GOD ANJHINU OR THEY CALL HIM LORD ANJHINU 22:21 AND LORD SILVA AND LORD VANYACA. 22:28 I DON'T KNOW IF I AM SAYING THESE ALL RIGHT BUT ANYWAY 22:31 THEY LOOK KIND OF HALF HUMAN SOMETIMES HALF ANIMAL BUT THESE 22:36 HAVE BEEN THEIR GODS AND THEY HAVE THESE IDOLS AND PICTURES IN 22:39 THEIR HOUSES AND THEY WORSHIP THESE GODS EVERY DAY. 22:52 THEY ARE PART OF THEIR LIFE. 22:54 SO THEY'VE GOT TO PUT AWAY THESE VISIBLE GODS PUT THEIR TRUST 23:00 INTO AN INVISIBLE GOD AND THEY HAVE TO CHANGE THEIR DIET. 23:07 WHAT THEY EAT IS NOT WHAT GOOD CHRISTIANS SHOULD EAT. 23:12 THEY HAVE TO LEARN ABOUT A NEW HOLY BOOK THAT THEY HAVE NEVER HEARD ABOUT BEFORE, THE BIBLE. 23:17 THE PROCESS OF SALVATION, LEARN ABOUT GOD AND HIS PLAN FOR US. 23:25 IT'S JUST SO MANY THINGS THAT THEY HAVE TO CHANGE. 23:29 BACK IN THE MISSION OFFICE I GOT TO MEET WITH ANOTHER GROUP FROM NORTH ORISSA. 23:38 HERE IS ONE OF OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS FROM THERE. 23:44 HIS NAME IS MASHARIDEN BARDA AND HE TOLD ME OF AN EXPERIENCE 23:49 THAT HE HAD QUITE SIMILAR TO THE FIRST ONE. 23:53 HE WAS COMING INTO A VILLAGE AND FOUND A YOUNG GIRL POSSESSED BY DEMONS AND AS HE APPROACHED WITH 24:03 HE WAS COMING INTO A VILLAGE AND FOUND A YOUNG GIRL POSSESSED BY DEMONS AND AS HE APPROACHED WITH 24:09 HIS BICYCLE, THE DEMON CALLED OUT TO HIM AGAIN IN THIS MAN'S VOICE AND SO ON. 24:16 HE PRAYED AND PRAYED AND FINALLY HE PUT, HE RAISED HIS TWO HANDS WITH HIS BIBLE IN ONE, AND 24:25 BROUGHT THEM DOWN ON THE GIRL'S HEAD AND AS HE PUT THE BIBLE ON THE GIRL'S HEAD THE 24:30 DEMON CRIED OUT "THERE'S A HEAVY ROCK ON MY HEAD GET THIS ROCK OFF MY HEAD. 24:38 I'M COMING OUT, I'M DYING". 24:42 AND SO HE LIFTED THE BIBLE JUST A TINY BIT AND THE DEMON CAME OUT 24:47 AND AS HE CAME OUT HE KNOCKED HIS BICYCLE OVER AND FLED. 24:51 THE PEOPLE SAID, "WHAT POWER IS THIS? 24:55 TO GET THESE DEMONS OUT." IT OPENED UP A WHOLE VILLAGE FOR HIM. 24:59 AND SO THESE DAREDEVILS, SHALL WE CALL THEM, GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS, I CAN'T HELP BUT 25:05 ADMIRE THEM FACING THE DEVIL HIMSELF. 25:08 AMEN AND I DON'T HAVE TIME TO TELL YOU MIRACLES OF HEALING AND OTHER THINGS THAT GOD HAS DONE 25:15 TO GET THE ATTENTION AND CONFIDENCE OF THE PEOPLE THERE. 25:19 THESE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS ARE KEY MEN. 25:22 FASCINATING, FASCINATING. 25:24 AS YOU CAN TELL, I DID MY BEST NOT TO INTERFERE OR INTERRUPT 25:29 BROTHER DAN'S PRESENTATION. YOU KNOW SOMETIMES YOU GET TOO 25:33 ENWRAPPED WITH ALL THE STORIES AND ALL THE RECOLLECTIONS THAT 25:37 YOU FORGET TO ANNOUNCE TO OUR VIEWERS HOW THEY CAN BE INVOLVED AND HOW THEY CAN BE A PART OF 25:44 THIS MAGNIFICENT WORK OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 25:47 HERE IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY. THE CONTACT INFORMATION: 25:51 EVERYTHING ON THE SCREEN IS FOR YOU TO DECIDE WHICH WAY YOU WOULD PREFER TO CONTACT GOSPEL 26:03 OUTREACH AND TO BE A PART OF THIS WONDERFUL PHENOMENON. 26:07 AS YOU CAN TELL, BROTHER DAN IS SO EXPERIENCED AND HAS SEEN SO MUCH OF THIS BUT ME, BEING IN A 26:15 WESTERN COUNTRY, YOU KNOW, WE SOMETIMES HEAR ABOUT DEMONIC POSSESSIONS IN THE SCRIPTURES 26:21 AND WE THINK THAT IT IS SOMETHING CONJURED UP AND THOSE CRITICS THAT SAY OH THIS WAS 26:26 SOMETHING MADE UP OF THE TIME AND SO FORTH BUT YOU HAVE SEEN IT IN PERSON, YOU HAVE HEARD IT 26:31 IN PERSON AND YOU HAVE EVEN SEEN OBJECTS BEING PUSHED OVER AND, YOU KNOW, 26:37 BROKEN AND SO FORTH BY THE EXIT OF THE DEMONS. 26:42 YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO BE A PART OF THIS WONDERFUL WORK, YOU CAN BE INTRICATELY INVOLVED WITH YOUR 26:48 PRAYER SUPPORT AND WITH YOUR SACRIFICIAL GIFTS THAT WILL GO ALMOST 26:54 98 PER CENT OF IT DIRECT TO THE CAUSE ON THE FIELDS. 26:58 DAN, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US. 27:00 THANK YOU. 27:02 JOIN US AGAIN AND REMEMBER JESUS SAID THIS GOSPEL WILL BE PREACHED UNTO ALL THE WORLD. 27:07 ♪CLOSING MUSIC♪ |
Revised 2015-02-06