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Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000451
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00:11 ♪OPENING MUSIC♪ 00:22 WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" WITH GOSPEL 00:24 OUTREACH. I'M JULIE SANDERS-KEYMER 00:25 AND GLAD YOU HAVE JOINED US. WELCOME TO PASTOR JOHN ASH. 00:29 HELLO JULIE, GLAD TO BE HERE. 00:31 WELL IT IS WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU HERE ON "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS". 00:34 JOHN, YOU ARE WITH CHINESE UNION MISSION LOCATED WHERE? 00:38 WELL WE ARE IN HONG KONG. 00:40 WONDERFUL. 00:41 HAVE YOU BEEN TO HONG KONG? 00:42 I HAVE BEEN TO HONG KONG, I ENJOY HONG KONG. 00:44 GOOD. 00:45 SO TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR INVOLVEMENT. 00:48 YOU ARE AT CHINESE UNION MISSION BUT THEN YOU ALSO ARE WORKING 00:51 WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH, SO TELL US ABOUT THAT. 00:53 RIGHT. WELL, I'M RETIRED BUT I'M NOT TIRED. 00:58 THIS IS GOOD. 01:01 ACTUALLY, GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS BEEN INVOLVED WITH A NUMBER 01:05 OF INITIATIVES AROUND THE WORLD AND ALSO IN CHINA. 01:11 WE'LL GET TO THAT BUT I AM DEALING WITH MEDIA SO YOU CAN 01:18 SAY I'M A MEDIA PERSON, I'M A RADIO BROADCASTER AND A 01:23 TELEVISION BROADCASTER BESIDES TAKING CARE OF THE PROJECT OF TELEVISION. 01:29 BUT YOU ALSO ARE IN CHARGE ON BEHALF OF GOSPEL OUTREACH FOR 01:33 ALL OF CHINA WITH THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THERE. 01:36 ABSOLUTELY, ABSOLUTELY. 01:38 THAT IS A HUGE A TERRITORY WHEN WE SAY YES, YOU ARE THE PERSON FOR ALL OF CHINA. 01:42 YES, IT IS VERY, VERY BIG. 01:44 IN FACT, WE COMPLAIN INTERNALLY THAT WE HAVE FOUR REGIONAL DIRECTORS AND YOU WILL SEE A 01:52 LITTLE BIT LATER THAT THE CHURCH IS NOT VERY SMALL IN CHINA. 01:57 WELL, PRAISE THE LORD FOR THAT. 01:59 SO WHY DON'T YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT RELIGION IN CHINA. 02:03 YOU KNOW WE HEAR SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS ABOUT CHINA AND ALL OF THAT BUT CAN YOU GIVE US 02:07 A LITTLE IDEA OF WHAT THE FEEL IS RIGHT NOW? 02:09 OK, HISTORICALLY SPEAKING YOU GO BACK TO 1949 GOVERNMENT CHANGES, MOST OF THE CHRISTIANS LEFT THE 02:21 CHRISTIAN CHURCH; THEN YOU COME UP TO 1965 CULTURAL REVOLUTION TECHNICALLY STOPPED IN 1976 BUT 02:31 THE REFORMS OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION 1978 ALMOST NO CHRISTIANS INCLUDING ADVENTISTS. 02:39 MOST OF THE ADVENTISTS LEFT THE CHURCH BUT ALL CHURCHES INCLUDING CATHOLIC CHURCH; IT 02:46 WAS NOT CONVENIENT READ "HEALTHY" TO BE A CHRISTIAN. 02:53 SAD TO SAY, ALL CHURCHES REALIZED WE HAD RAISED A 02:58 GENERATION OF WHAT WE CALL "RICE CHRISTIANS". 03:01 HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THAT TERM? 03:02 I HAVE NOT, EXPLAIN THAT. 03:04 OK, THE CHURCHES IN THOSE DAYS SUPPLIED FOOD, GOODIES, CLOTHES AND SO PEOPLE CAME FOR THE FOOD, 03:12 GOODS AND THE CLOTHES BUT NOT FOR THE RELIGION ALTHOUGH THEY WENT TO CHURCH. 03:18 BUT THEY MISSED THE JESUS ASPECT. 03:19 THEY ABSOLUTELY DID AND THEN OF COURSE WHEN TIMES GOT ROUGH YOU KNOW, 03:25 THEY SAID I'M OUT OF HERE AND THEY LEFT. 03:29 BUT HOW IS IT NOW, ARE PEOPLE INTERESTED ARE THEY HUNGRY TO LEARN? 03:32 CAN THEY LEARN ABOUT LORD? 03:34 OH, ABSOLUTELY. WHAT HAPPENS JULIE IS THIS: CHINA IS AN ATHEISTIC COUNTRY. 03:42 THEY HAVE MADE PROVISION FOR RELIGION SO RELIGION IS GUARANTEED BY THE CONSTITUTION. 03:50 OH. O.K. 03:52 BUT BEING ATHEISTIC COUNTRY THEY HAVE CREATED A HUGE VACUUM SO YOU CAN IMAGINE THERE WILL BE A 04:01 LOT OF PEOPLE THAT SAID, IS THERE MEANING? 04:05 WHERE IS MEANING? 04:06 LIFE WITHOUT MEANING IS KIND OF HOPELESS, YOU SEE. 04:10 RIGHT. 04:11 SO, IT HAS CREATED A VERY GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR CHRISTIANITY. 04:17 NOW, IN RECENT YEARS I STARTED IN CHINESE MINISTRY 42 YEARS AGO, THAT WAS A LONG TIME AGO 04:27 BUT MOST RECENTLY IN CHINA, DIRECTLY IN CHINA IN 1987, THAT'S ABOUT 25 YEARS. 04:34 SURE AND YOU HAVE PROBABLY SEEN A BIG DIFFERENCE. 04:39 OH ABSOLUTELY. 04:40 NOW THINGS WERE VERY TIGHT, LET'S SAY IN 1987, OF COURSE. 04:45 TIGHT MEANING WHAT? 04:47 MEANING THAT RELIGION IS EXTREMELY CONTROLLED. 04:51 TODAY, THERE IS FREEDOM AND FLEXIBILITY WITH CONTROL. 04:57 AH, THAT IS NEVER GOING TO GO AWAY. 05:00 THAT WILL NEVER GO AWAY. 05:07 SO WE SAY IN CHINESE "YOU NEED TO KNOW THE RULES OF THE GAME". 05:15 ONCE YOU KNOW THE RULES OF THE GAME, IT DOESN'T WORK SO BADLY. 05:19 THEN YOU KNOW HOW TO PLAY? 05:20 THEN YOU KNOW HOW TO PLAY, EXACTLY. 05:22 SO, AT THIS POINT THERE ARE QUITE A BIT, IN FACT, MAYBE I 05:29 SHOULD START BY JUST SAYING ONE THING HERE. 05:34 TAKE US ON A LITTLE TRIP. 05:35 OK. NOW WHAT DO YOU NOTICE HERE? 05:39 I NOTICE THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE AND THE COLOR RED AND I LOVE BOTH. 05:45 OK. 05:46 NOW IN THIS PICTURE, THIS IS A SUPERMARKET. 05:49 O.K. 05:50 SO YOU ARE IN A BIG SUPERMARKET BUT YOU'VE GOT A 100% ANSWER: PEOPLE. 05:58 ANOTHER PICTURE HERE, THIS IS IN A TRAIN STATION WAITING TO GET TICKETS. 06:06 NOW HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE IN ONE OF THOSE LINES? 06:09 THAT'S BUSY AND A LOT OF PEOPLE. 06:12 ONE OF THE VIRTUES OF EARLY CHINA WAS NOT WAITING WELL IN LINE AND THEN OF COURSE YOU HAVE 06:18 THESE HUGE LINES AND SO LITERALLY I HAVE HAD PEOPLE CLIMBING UP MY BACK TRYING TO 06:26 GET A TICKET AND OF COURSE, AND YOU ARE TALL, AND I'M TALL. 06:29 IT IS A LITTLE DISCONCERTING. 06:32 PEOPLE-- NOW IF YOU NOTICE THIS NUMBER IS THAT A NUMBER THAT YOU READ VERY EASILY? 06:40 A BILLION? NO? 06:42 CAN YOU COUNT THOSE ON YOUR FINGERS? 06:44 THAT IS AMAZING, NO I PERSONALLY CAN'T BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF COMMAS AND A LOT OF ZEROS AND WE 06:51 DON'T NORMALLY SEE ALL OF THAT TOGETHER. 06:53 YOUR CALCULATOR BY THE WAY PROBABLY WON'T HANDLE A NUMBER LIKE THIS. 06:56 CORRECT. 06:57 SO 1.4 BILLION THAT IS A BIG "B". 07:01 THAT'S A BIG "B". 07:02 RIGHT. 07:03 THAT IS LOTS OF PEOPLE IN CHINA. 07:05 RIGHT SO THAT'S THE CHALLENGE, HUGE CHALLENGE BECAUSE THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH IS 07:14 COMMISSIONED AS THE REMNANT CHURCH TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE WHOLE WORLD AND HERE IS 1.4 07:22 BILLION PEOPLE, THE BIGGEST COUNTRY, MOST POPULATED COUNTRY 07:26 IN THE WORLD, AND HOW ARE WE GOING TO DO THAT? 07:30 MAYBE THAT IS THE QUESTION YOU ARE GOING TO ASK? 07:32 WELL ABSOLUTELY. 07:35 OK, SO WHAT WE HAVE IS WE HAVE LOTS OF PEOPLE AND THEY 07:43 ARE INTERESTED IN RELIGION ALSO TIMES HAVE CHANGED. 07:49 I MUST TELL YOU THAT THE CHALLENGE FOR THE CHURCH IS THAT CHINA IS NO LONGER SO COMMUNIST 07:57 OR SOCIALISTIC MAYBE, O.K, SOCIALISTIC AS IT WAS AND THAT IS A GOOD THING, YES, SO 08:03 CAPITALISM, DARE I SAY THAT, IS ALIVE AND WELL AND EVERYBODY IS TRYING TO MAKE A BUCK, MAKE A 08:12 DOLLAR HERE AND SO THAT RUNS COUNTER TO SPREADING THE GOSPEL. 08:20 NOW, I WANT TO SHOW YOU ONE MORE PICTURE HERE, PLEASE DO. 08:24 THIS IS THE CURRENT SITUATION OF THE ADVENTIST BELIEVERS IN CHINA. 08:29 SO 4371 CONGREGATIONS; OK 4371 CONGREGATIONS WITH 41,492 WOO THAT'S A BIG NUMBER OF 08:39 SO 4371 CONGREGATIONS; OK 4371 CONGREGATIONS WITH 41,492 WOO THAT'S A BIG NUMBER OF 08:47 BELIEVERS AND THIS WAS LAST YEAR. 08:49 SO 400,000. 08:51 OK NOW THIS IS THE NUMBER OF BELIEVERS IN CHINA BUT THE CHURCH DOESN'T OPERATE THE WAY 09:01 OK NOW THIS IS THE NUMBER OF BELIEVERS IN CHINA BUT THE CHURCH DOESN'T OPERATE THE WAY 09:08 THE CHURCH OPERATES ON THIS SIDE OF THE POND. 09:11 NOW YOU'VE BEEN IN CHINA, YES I HAVE, AND SO YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED IT. 09:16 SO HOW IS IT DIFFERENT? 09:20 OK, PART OF THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE GOVERNMENT CONTROLS CHURCH. 09:28 NOW, WE ALSO HAVE DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF ADVENTISM AND I DON'T 09:37 KNOW IF I HAVE THAT MUCH TIME TO EXPLAIN IT. 09:41 LET'S JUST TALK ABOUT THE GLOBAL ADVENTISM. 09:42 BUT AT LEAST THE GOVERNMENT CONTROLS THINGS AND YET THIS CONTROL HAS LOOSENED UP. 09:50 WHAT WE SAY IN CHINA IS THAT THERE IS MORE FREEDOM, 09:56 MORE FLEXIBILITY AS I MENTIONED BEFORE WITH CONTROL. 10:01 BECAUSE THEY DO HAVE A DEPARTMENT IN CHINA, THE THREE SELF THAT GOVERNS CHURCHES, 10:06 RIGHT THREE SELF, WE CALL IT THE TWO ORGANIZATIONS: THREE SELF AND CCC AND 10:11 THEY CONTROL ALL RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY FOR THE WHOLE COUNTRY. 10:15 RIGHT. 10:17 BUT NOWADAYS, AS LONG AS YOU DON'T BECOME POLITICALLY ORIENTED AND YOU FOLLOW THINGS 10:28 THE WAY YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO FOLLOW, YOU HAVE ABSOLUTE FREEDOM. 10:31 WELL THAT'S A GOOD THING FOR OUR BELIEVERS THERE. 10:34 HEY, LISTEN IN 1987 THERE WAS NO EVANGELISM BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T DO IT, RIGHT. 10:43 YES. 10:45 YOU KNOW PASTOR DANIEL CHOW, HE HAS IN RECENT YEARS, HE IS MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, SO IN RECENT 10:50 YEARS, EVEN MONTHS HE HAS ACTUALLY HELD EVANGELISTIC SERIES IN CHINA. 10:56 PRAISE THE LORD. 10:57 WE COULD NEVER DO THAT BEFORE. 10:59 SO THE GOVERNMENT HAS LOOSENED BECAUSE THEY ARE WHAT? 11:02 THEY ARE REALIZING THAT PEOPLE NEED RELIGION OR THAT? 11:08 ACTUALLY YOU WILL BE SURPRISED AT THIS; THE GOVERNMENT 11:12 NOW RECOGNIZES THAT CHRISTIANITY MAKES GOOD CITIZENS. 11:18 WELL, PRAISE THE LORD AT LEAST THEY HAVE GOTTEN THAT PART. 11:23 RIGHT. 11:24 NOW OBVIOUSLY, PART OF THE PROBLEM IS THAT YOU MAY HAVE SOME OFF SHOOTS OR WILD VERSIONS 11:34 OF CHRISTIANITY BUT AT THE PRESENT TIME, THE GOVERNMENT RECOGNIZES THIS AND IF YOU 11:41 DON'T GET INVOLVED WITH POLITICAL THINGS THEN IT IS JUST O.K. 11:46 NOW THERE IS A TERM THAT WE HEAR CALLED "MOTHER CHURCHES" WHAT EXACTLY DOES THAT MEAN? 11:52 A MOTHER CHURCH WE DIDN'T CREATE THIS BECAUSE PART OF THE THREE SELF CHURCHES, YOU CANNOT 12:01 GET INVOLVED WITH INTERNAL CHINESE AFFAIRS. 12:06 SELF SUPPORTING, SELF GOVERNING, SELF PROMULGATING WHICH MEANS THAT 12:11 YOU CANNOT OUTSIDE CHURCHES CANNOT GET INVOLVED WITH THAT. 12:17 BUT ORGANICALLY, NATURALLY I DON'T KNOW HOW IT IS, THIS IS A HOLY SPIRIT THING IT IS JUST 12:26 OUT OF MY CONTROL AND OUT OF ANYBODY'S CONTROL CHURCHES BECAME STRONGER AND STRONGER. 12:34 THEY STARTED SPREADING THE GOSPEL AND EVENTUALLY 12:39 THEY HAD - WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT MOTHERS? 12:42 WELL, THAT THEY BECOME MOTHERS AND THEY HAVE CHILDREN. 12:44 O.K. 12:45 THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED IN CHINA. 12:48 MOTHER, BIG CHURCHES BECAME MOTHER CHURCHES THEY 12:52 HAD DAUGHTER CHURCHES AND SOME OF THEM QUITE A FEW. 12:59 I THINK OF ONE CHURCH IN NORTHERN CHINA THAT HAS MORE THAN 80 DAUGHTER CHURCHES. 13:07 I MEAN THAT'S BIGGER THAN A CONFERENCE. 13:09 SO YOU ARE SAYING THAT WHEN PEOPLE COME TOGETHER AND THEY FILL THE MOTHER CHURCH AND THEY 13:14 GET SO EXCITED THEN YOU'VE GOT THIS OTHER CHURCH THAT STARTED, THIS OTHER CHURCH, THIS OTHER 13:20 CHURCH, RIGHT, SO THEY GO BACK TO THEIR AREAS AND SO THERE ARE SATELLITE CHURCHES IF YOU WILL. 13:23 YES, BUT REMEMBER THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST, THE WORLD 13:28 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH HAS ZERO 13:31 CONTROL ABOUT WHAT GOES ON IN CHINA. 13:34 WE CALL IT THE UNORGANIZED TERRITORIES BECAUSE OF THAT, WE CAN HAVE NO CONTROL, NO 13:39 AUTHORITY BUT THESE MOTHER CHURCHES SORT OF IN THEIR 13:43 OWN ENVIRONMENT BECOME LIKE CONFERENCES. 13:46 SURE. 13:47 SO THEY TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING. 13:49 ISN'T THAT INTERESTING SEE IT IS A DIFFERENT VIEWPOINT THAN IN THE WESTERN PART 13:52 OF HOW WE DEAL WITH CHURCHES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 13:54 RIGHT. 13:56 WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH WE ARE GOING TO ASK OUR VIEWERS IT 13:58 IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO GET INVOLVED. 13:59 IF YOU ARE EXCITED ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE HEARING ABOUT CHINA AND 14:01 WE ARE GOING TO TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE AND SHARE WITH 14:03 YOU ABOUT THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS WORKING IN CHINA THAT 14:07 PASTOR ASH IS GOING TO BE WORKING WITH, WE WILL SHARE THAT WITH YOU BUT WE ALSO WANT TO 14:11 GIVE YOU SOME WAYS FOR YOU TO RESPOND WHETHER THAT BE THAT YOU PRAY FOR THE WORKERS IN CHINA, 14:17 YOU PRAY FOR ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON THERE, THE BELIEVERS THERE BUT WE ALSO WANT 14:21 TO ASK YOU FOR YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH BECAUSE THAT ENABLES WORKERS 14:26 THEN TO GO OUT AND SPREAD THE WORD OF THE LORD WITH OTHER PEOPLE. 14:31 SO, THERE ARE SOME WAYS TO CONTACT US: 15:33 AND DON'T FORGET IF YOU DON'T RECEIVE OUR ADVENTURES 15:36 IN MISSIONS NEWSLETTER PLEASE ASK US, PLEASE CALL AND ASK US. 15:40 THE GREAT NEWS ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH WE HAVE ALL VOLUNTEERS HERE AND WE ARE WORKING IN 15:44 50 NATIONS WITH A HUNDRED MISSIONS. 15:47 THAT IS PRETTY AMAZING. 15:49 THAT IS. 15:50 WE ARE HERE VISITING WITH JOHN ASH AND YOU ARE THE GOSPEL OUTREACH DIRECTOR FOR CHINA AND 15:54 SO WE ARE TALKING ABOUT MOTHER CHURCHES. 15:56 SO WE ARE TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT EVANGELISM IN CHINA, HOW THAT HAS CHANGED, THE MOTHER 15:59 CHURCHES AND ALL THESE DAUGHTER CHURCHES. 16:03 THE DAUGHTER CHURCHES THEN NEED TO HAVE SOME OTHER WAYS OF EVANGELISM. 16:07 WELL, OBVIOUSLY WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW IS THERE ARE A LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE. 16:15 THE CHURCH USED TO BE OLD BUT NOW YOU ARE GETTING LOTS OF YOUNG PEOPLE. 16:20 THIS IS GREAT. 16:22 AND THEY ARE HIGHLY EDUCATED, EXTREMELY HIGHLY EDUCATED AND THEY ARE 16:27 GOING-IT'S CHALLENGING TOO, THEY ARE GOING TO THE OLDER, THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH AND SAYING 16:33 WE WANT TO GET INVOLVED BUT (CAN WE SAY IT THIS WAY) WE ARE ON A DIFFERENT WAVE LENGTH. 16:40 IT'S O.K. 16:42 WE WANT TO SHARE AND SO SOME OF THESE OLDER PEOPLE ARE SAYING, SOME OF THEM HAVE JAUNDICED EYE 16:54 OF COURSE, AND THEY SAY WELL, I'M NOT SO SURE ABOUT IT BUT 17:00 SOME OF THEM ARE JUST SAYING O.K. 17:03 AND THEY ALMOST GIVE THEM A BLANK CHECK AND SAY GO FOR IT. 17:07 GOOD. 17:09 SO THESE ARE TECHNOLOGICALLY LITERATE YOUNG PEOPLE. 17:15 SO COMPUTERS, INTERNET, VIDEO AND SO THEY ARE BRIGHT AND THEY ARE COMMITTED. 17:25 SO NOW THE TRICK IS TO PUT THEM ALL TOGETHER IN A PACKAGE TO HELP THE MOTHER CHURCHES AND THE 17:35 DAUGHTER CHURCHES BECOME EFFECTIVE IN THEIR OWN MINISTRY. 17:40 SO CHINA IS BECOMING MORE "WIRED" IF YOU WILL WITH 17:44 MORE PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET THINGS LIKE THAT. 17:47 RIGHT. 17:48 CORRECT? 17:49 RIGHT SO THAT IS THE REASON FOR THE INTERNET MINISTRY AND EVANGELISM? 17:53 O.K. 17:55 RIGHT AND ACTUALLY THIS IS HOW GOSPEL OUTREACH FIRST GOT IN WITH IT. 17:57 I MUST SAY THAT EARLY ON GOSPEL OUTREACH ACTUALLY SENT CHURCH PLANTERS IN THERE AND THEN OTHER 18:07 PARTS OF THE WORLD REALLY GOT HOT AND I JUST HEARD THIS THE OTHER DAY, I LOVE IT, IT SAYS 18:14 " WIN THE WINABLE WHEN THEY ARE WINABLE". 18:18 THAT'S PERFECT AND HOPEFULLY THAT IS TODAY. 18:21 SO AT THAT TIME, THIS OTHER PART OF THE WORLD WAS HOT SO THEY SAID, 18:27 WELL YOU GUYS TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN WORKERS AND WE DID. 18:32 IT WAS A LITTLE TIGHT, BUT WE DID AND NOW AFTER SOME YEARS, GOSPEL OUTREACH CAME ALONG AND 18:41 SAID INTERNET MINISTRY AND RIGHT THEN INTERNET MINISTRY WAS HEATING UP AND WE DIDN'T KNOW 18:48 MUCH ABOUT IT BUT WE HAD A BROTHER IN CHINA THAT WAS INTERESTED AND WE SAID, YOU GO 18:56 FOR IT, AND THIS IS WHAT GOSPEL OUTREACH SAID, WE WILL SUPPORT THIS AND DO YOU KNOW SOMETHING? 19:04 ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THIS TOO; THEY ACTUALLY 19:07 TRAINED MORE THAN A THOUSAND INTERNET MINISTERS. 19:12 WONDERFUL. 19:13 NOW NOT ALL OF THEM BECAME TOTALLY IMMERSED BUT THESE YOUNG PEOPLE WITH A BACKGROUND OF 19:22 INTERNET MINISTRY AND UNDERSTANDING THESE THINGS NOW GO BACK TO THEIR CHURCHES. 19:27 ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL? 19:28 WHAT A BLESSING HOW THE LORD HAS USED THAT. 19:30 OH, THAT IS WONDERFUL. 19:32 ACTUALLY JUST RECENTLY, YOU WERE IN CHINA I DON'T WANT TO STEAL YOUR THUNDER BECAUSE MAYBE 19:38 YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SHARE LATER ON BUT WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST 19:42 IMPRESSION AS YOU SAW THESE YOUNG PEOPLE? 19:44 IT IS VERY EXCITING TO SEE THEM SO EXCITED ABOUT WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE IN THEIR LIFE THAT THEY 19:48 WANT TO SHARE AND I THINK THAT THAT IS WHAT MAKES ALL OF US WHEN WE UNDERSTAND WHAT THE LORD 19:59 HAS DONE, WHEN WE HAVE GOOD NEWS WE WANT TO SHARE IT RIGHT? 20:01 OH, ABSOLUTELY! THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE DOING. 20:03 NOW ACTUALLY JULIE, HOW THIS WORKS WITH THE MOTHER CHURCH IS THIS: MOTHER CHURCHES HAVE THESE 20:06 COMMITTED YOUNG PEOPLE THAT WILL BECOME INTERNET MINISTERS OR 20:14 I SAY DIGITAL MINISTERS AND THEY WILL FOLLOWUP. 20:19 THEY HAVE THE SYSTEM - WE USED TO BE CENTRALIZED IN OUR FOLLOWUP, 20:23 THAT'S NOT GOING TO WORK IN CHINA. 20:25 CHINA IS DECENTRALIZED SO ONE OF THE "ADOPT A WORKER" HAVE YOU HEARD OF THAT? 20:32 I HAVE AND WE ARE PROMOTING IT QUITE HEAVILY HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 20:35 SURE WE ARE, SO WE ARE GOING TO IDENTIFY THESE, WE ARE ACTUALLY CREATING A JOB DESCRIPTION RIGHT 20:43 NOW AND WE WILL IDENTIFY THESE AND WE WILL, WHOEVER ADOPTS THESE WORKERS, REAL NAME, REAL 20:52 FACE THEY WILL ACTUALLY MONTH BY MONTH BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT THEY ARE DOING. 20:58 WONDERFUL. 21:00 THAT IS EXCITING NOW IT IS VERY EXCITING AND WE CERTAINLY NEED TO BE PRAYING FOR THAT. 21:03 NOW YOU ALSO HAVE A VIDEO THAT YOU WANT TO SHARE WITH US. 21:06 RIGHT AND WE DON'T HAVE TOO MUCH TIME LEFT. 21:09 LET'S GO FOR IT RIGHT NOW. 21:10 O.K. 21:11 ♪INTRO VIDEO MUSIC♪ 21:21 ♪INTRO VIDEO MUSIC♪ 22:22 TODAY THE LOCAL AND WORLDWIDE CHURCH MUST WORK CLOSELY WITH MEDIA. 22:27 IT IS A BASIC TOOL FOR GOSPEL PREACHING. 22:29 THE GOSPEL MUST EXTEND PAST THE CHURCHES BOUNDARIES SO MORE 22:33 PEOPLE WILL JOIN HEAVEN ON EARTH, THE CHURCH. 22:37 TODAY, THE CHINESE INTERNET POPULATION EXCEEDS 500 MILLION PERSONS. 22:41 TWO HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE REGULARLY LOG INTO VARIOUS CHINESE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS. 22:47 COMPARE ALL OF THIS WITH THE MINISCULE 400,000 ADVENTIST CHURCH MEMBERS. 22:51 CONCLUSION: MEDIA IS AN INDISPENSABLE TOOL FOR THE CHURCH TO USE. 22:58 TODAY OUR MEDIA WORK INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING: PUBLISHING: EACH YEAR OVER 23:04 300,000 PAMPHLETS, SMALL BOOKS AND FLYERS ARE PUBLISHED. 23:08 STILL A VERY SMALL NUMBER. 23:11 BROADCAST: GOSPEL RADIO HAS BEEN ON THE AIR SINCE 1987. 23:16 CURRENTLY, VOICE OF HOPE CHINESE IS ON 19 FREQUENCIES AIRING 24 HOURS DAILY. 23:22 EACH YEAR THOUSANDS OF HOURS OF RADIO PROGRAMS ARE PRODUCED. 23:26 ON AVERAGE 500 LETTERS AND EMAILS ARE RECEIVED EACH MONTH. 23:31 LAST YEAR OVER 600 PEOPLE ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST BY MEANS 23:36 OF RADIO BROADCAST AND BIBLE CORRESPONDENCE LESSONS. 23:40 TELEVISION: SINCE JULY OF 2011 SATELLITE TV HAS COVERED ALL 23:46 OF CHINA 24/7 WITH GOSPEL PROGRAMMING. 23:49 EACH YEAR 350 HOURS OF TV PROGRAMS ARE PRODUCED. 23:54 INTERNET MINISTRY: PUBLICATIONS, RADIO BROADCASTS AND TV 24:00 ARE AVAILABLE SIMULTANEOUSLY ON THE INTERNET. 24:02 CURRENTLY, THE CHINESE UNION MISSION HAS THREE INTERNET WEBSITE ACCESS POINTS AND MANY 24:08 LOCAL ADVENTIST CHURCHES ALSO HAVE THEIR OWN WEBSITES. 24:11 THE GOSPEL IS AVAILABLE TO THE MASSES. 24:15 WITH THE ECONOMIC SUCCESS IN CHINA, HALF OF THE COUNTRIES POPULATION RESIDES IN 24:19 METROPOLITAN AREAS BUT THE MULTIPLICATION OF MEDIA TOOLS AND COMMUNICATION CHANNELS HAS 24:25 UNFORTUNATELY, DIMINISHED THE HUMAN INTERRELATIONSHIP ELEMENT. 24:29 SO, LOCAL CHURCHES WILL BE BEGINNING TO USE MEDIA AS A WINDOW TO REACH THE OUTSIDE 24:34 WORLD BOTH FAR AND NEAR. 24:36 AS THEY EMBARK ON INTERNET MISSIONARY WORK, THEY ARE EQUIPPING MORE YOUNG PEOPLE TO 24:41 USE THE INTERNET AS A PREACHING AND SHARING TOOL. 24:45 THERE ARE MORE THAN 4000 ADVENTIST CONGREGATIONS IN CHINA 24:48 AND THE 37 MOTHER CHURCHES OVERSEE A LARGE SHARE OF THEM. 24:52 THE EXPANSION OF MISSION WORK THROUGHOUT CHINA BESIDES SENDING GLOBAL MISSION PIONEERS ALSO 24:58 REQUIRES A CONTINUAL MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT. 25:04 BY 2015, THE CHINESE UNION MISSION WILL BE ABLE 25:07 TO CELEBRATE THESE MILESTONES IN MEDIA MINISTRY. 25:10 TWENTY FOUR MOTHER CHURCHES WILL HAVE DEVELOPED WEBSITES; TEN MEDIA PRODUCTION TEAMS WILL HAVE 25:15 COME INTO EXISTENCE; 1050 HOURS OF RADIO PROGRAMMING AND 1825 HOURS OF TV PROGRAMMING WILL 25:23 HAVE BEEN PRODUCED; 1.5 MILLION COPIES OF VARIOUS PAMPHLETS AND SMALL BOOKS WILL HAVE BEEN 25:28 PUBLISHED AND 20 MILLION PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET WILL HAVE COME 25:33 INTO CONTACT WITH SOME ASPECT OF ADVENTISM. 25:35 OUR GOAL IS TO HAVE MORE THAN ONE MILLION SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS BY 2015. 25:41 WE ASK FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND YOUR SUPPORT FOR OUR MEDIA MINISTRY DEVELOPMENT. 25:52 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING THAT VIDEO. 25:54 HOW EXCITING! 25:55 IT IS! 25:57 SO "ADOPT A WORKER" FOR THE 1.4 BILLION AND WE HAVE TO KEEP THINKING ABOUT THAT BUT 1.4 26:02 BILLION PEOPLE OF CHINA INTERNET EVANGELISM WITH THE 26:05 GOSPEL OUTREACH "ADOPT A WORKER" PROGRAM. 26:07 RIGHT AND SO YOU WILL HAVE A REAL PERSON, A REAL NAME WITH WHAT HE DOES EVERY MONTH, THE 26:14 CONTACTS HE MAKES, THE BIBLE STUDIES AND EVERYTHING AND ALL 26:19 THAT IS NECESSARY IS FOR YOU TO ADOPT A WORKER. 26:23 YOU CAN CALL GOSPEL OUTREACH FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT. 26:27 OUR NUMBER HERE IS 509-525-2951 AND IN CANADA IT IS 250-545-2212. 26:37 I JUST CAN'T KEEP FROM THINKING ABOUT THE 1.4 BILLION PEOPLE. 26:42 THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE, A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ALL NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE GOOD LORD. 26:46 ABSOLUTELY. 26:48 WELL JOHN ASH, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE WITH CHINA 26:50 UNION MISSION AND WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH. 26:52 BLESSINGS TO YOU AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING WITH US HERE 26:55 ON "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH. 26:57 I'M JULIE SANDERS-KEYMER. 27:00 ♪CLOSING MUSIC♪ |
Revised 2015-02-06