Participants: Dave Crook
Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000459
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00:21 WELCOME TO GOSPEL OUTREACH "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS". 00:26 I'M YOUR HOST KEVIN WAITE AND WITH US IN THE STUDIO TODAY WE HAVE DAVE CROOK WHO IS A 00:31 REGIONAL DIRECTOR FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH 00:33 AND COVERS THE AREAS THE AREAS OF EGYPT, ETHIOPIA, AND SOUTH SUDAN. 00:38 WE'RE DELIGHTED TO HAVE YOU HERE TODAY, DAVE AND IN A MINUTE I'LL HAVE YOU TELL US 00:43 WHERE WE ARE GOING TO BE TRAVELING TODAY BUT FIRST OF ALL FOR NEW VIEWERS WHO MAY 00:49 NOT BE ACQUAINTED WITH YOU, I'D THOUGHT I'D JUST ASK YOU HOW YOU FOUND OUT ABOUT GOSPEL 00:55 OUTREACH, HOW LONG YOU'VE BEEN WORKING WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH THAT TYPE OF THING. 00:59 WELL, WHEN I RETIRED IT SO HAPPENED THAT THE PRESIDENT FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH FOR CANADA 01:05 LIVED IN THE SAME CITY AS MY MOTHER LIVED, WENT TO THE SAME CHURCH AND SO HE APPROACHED ME 01:12 ABOUT JOINING GOSPEL OUTREACH WHICH I WAS HAPPY TO DO 01:16 AND I'VE BEEN VERY HAPPY EVER SINCE. 01:18 I'VE HAD NO REGRETS. 01:19 IT'S JUST A MARVELOUS ORGANIZATION TO SEE THE DEDICATION OF ALL THESE 01:24 WORKERS GIVING THEIR TIME IN A VOLUNTEER WAY AND TO SEE HOW THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ARE USED 01:31 IN THESE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. 01:32 IT'S BEEN THRILLING. 01:35 WELL, SPEAKING OF THE WORK IN THESE COUNTRIES 01:38 AND INDIGENOUS WORKERS, WHERE ARE WE GOING TODAY? 01:40 WELL, WE'LL GO TO ETHIOPIA, O.K. 01:42 AND THEN TO EGYPT. 01:43 TWO VERY, VERY OLD COUNTRIES. 01:45 I DON'T THINK EITHER ONE OF THEM WERE EVER COLONIZED. 01:48 I KNOW ETHIOPIA WAS NEVER AND EGYPT NO, THEY ARE BOTH VERY OLD COUNTRIES. 01:53 AND THE GREAT THING IS WE DON'T EVEN HAVE TO GET INTO AN AIRPLANE TO GO THERE. 01:58 YOU'VE BEEN THERE FOR US. 02:00 O.K TAKE IT AWAY. 02:02 WELL, YOU KNOW I WANT TO SAY THIS FIRST THAT TO BE A FIELD DIRECTOR IS SUCH A PRIVILEGE 02:09 BECAUSE YOU NOT ONLY HEAR THE STORIES 02:11 BUT YOU CAN GO AND ACTUALLY SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING. 02:14 YOU GO ONE YEAR AND HERE IS A WORKER WHO HAS JUST MOVED OUT INTO A NEW AREA WHERE THERE IS 02:21 NO CHURCH, NO MEMBERS. 02:23 COME BACK THE NEXT YEAR AND HE HAS A GROUP AND PROBABLY HAS BAPTIZED SOME PEOPLE AND MAYBE 02:28 HE'S ALREADY BUILT A CHURCH. 02:30 THAT MUST BE THRILLING. 02:31 AND THE NEXT YEAR OF COURSE, THERE IS A CHURCH AND A CONGREGATION AND THE PEOPLE 02:36 ARE THRILLED AND HAPPY IN JESUS 02:38 AND THAT'S JUST A VERY REWARDING AND WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE. 02:41 I'VE TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THE PEOPLE HERE BEFORE LIKE TIMOTHY BAGSO WHO WENT WAY OFF 02:46 INTO A REMOTE AREA AND WITHIN A YEAR BAPTIZED 130 PEOPLE AND THEN HE STARTED ANOTHER CHURCH 02:52 AND THEN HE STARTED ANOTHER CHURCH AND IN ABOUT SEVEN YEARS NOW THAT HE IS WORKING 02:57 ON HIS FOURTH CHURCH. 02:58 MAYBE HIS FIFTH AND THEN THERE WAS ANOTHER MAN THAT WE TALKED ABOUT 03:03 HERE BEFORE BY THE NAME OF GESAHEGN. 03:09 HE HAD WONDERFUL SUCCESS IN STARTING A CHURCH. 03:28 MATTER OF FACT THE ONE PLACE HE WENT HE MET A MINISTER OF ANOTHER CONGREGATION AND GOT 03:33 VISITING WITH HIM AND STUDYING WITH HIM AND HE WAS BAPTIZED AND THE TWO OF THEM WENT 03:39 WORKING AND BEFORE VERY LONG SEVERAL OF THAT CONGREGATION HAD BEEN BAPTIZED. 03:42 MATTER OF FACT, THEY GAVE THE CHURCH OVER TO THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS AND BEFORE LONG IT 03:48 WAS TOO SMALL THEY HAD TO BUILD A BIGGER CHURCH. 03:51 WELL NOW AS I MENTIONED BEFORE HOW WONDERFUL IT IS HOW THE MISSIONS ARE SENDING SO MANY 03:56 OF THESE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS ON TO COLLEGE TO BE TRAINED IN A FORMAL WAY AS 04:01 PASTORS AND THAT'S WHATS HAPPENING WITH ZRABO. 04:04 SO THAT'S EXCITING TOO TO SEE THESE YOUNG MEN ADVANCING IN THIS WAY THAT YOU KNOW, THEY 04:09 HAVE PROVED THEMSELVES AND NOW BEING ABLE TO BE HIRED AS FULL TIME PASTORS. 04:13 SO IT'S VERY GREAT TO SEE HOW THE WORK WAS GOING FORWARD IN ETHIOPIA. 04:18 ETHIOPIA IS A UNION MISSION THAT HAS FIVE FIELDS THAT THEY ADMINISTRATE. 04:21 AND OF COURSE, EACH ONE OF THOSE FIELDS HAS THEIR OWN ADMINISTRATION. 04:25 ANYWAY, THIS MAN HERE IS TESFAYE SHIBRO AND TESFAYE IS A GOSPEL OUTREACH COORDINATOR 04:31 FOR THE CENTRAL ETHIOPIAN FIELD ALONG WITH PASTORING A CHURCH. 04:36 ON SABBATH I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF GOING TO A CHURCH IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A DIFFERENT 04:42 LOOKING ARCHITECTURE HERE. 04:43 IT IS IN A BUILDING AND TESFAYE IS THERE. 04:46 THIS IS NOT HIS ACTUAL-HE DOESN'T PASTOR THIS CHURCH BUT HE CAME WITH US AND HE IS 04:52 THERE AT THE DOOR TO WELCOME US THIS PARTICULAR DAY. 04:55 ONE THING I WAS IMPRESSED WITH IN THIS CHURCH IS THE ROLE THAT LADIES WERE PLAYING. 05:00 THIS LADY WAS TEACHING THE SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON THAT DAY AND DOING A VERY FINE JOB AS 05:06 FAR AS I COULD SEE BECAUSE SOME ONE WAS TRANSLATING FOR ME , WHAT SHE WAS SAYING AND 05:12 SHE WAS DOING A NICE JOB OF COVERING THE LESSON. 05:15 AND THEN HERE FOR THE CHURCH SERVICE I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF SPEAKING IN THAT LITTLE CHURCH 05:21 BUT YOU NOTICE THERE ARE TWO LADIES UP FRONT TAKING PART IN THE CHURCH SERVICE AND I 05:26 THOUGHT THAT WAS VERY NICE AND VERY UNIQUE AND I WAS PLEASED TO SEE THAT REALLY. 05:33 THEN LIKE I SAY, IT IS A VERY SIMPLE LITTLE STRUCTURE IN A LARGE ROOM WHERE THEY HAVE THE 05:39 CHURCH BUT HERE THEY ARE BUILDING A NEW CHURCH. 05:43 THERE IS SOME OF THE CONCRETE PUT UP AND YOU KNOW IT'S A BIG JOB 05:47 THE SIMPLE WAY THAT THEY HAVE TO DO THAT. 05:50 LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE A LARGE FACILITY. 05:52 IT WILL BE QUITE A LARGE FACILITY THAT'S RIGHT AND SO THAT WILL GIVE THEM A CHANCE 05:57 OF- THIS IS A PART OF ADDIS ABABA, THE CAPITAL OF ETHIOPIA. 06:03 THIS YOUNG MAN-ISN'T HE A BRIGHT LOOKING YOUNG FELLOW? 06:07 YES, HE IS. 06:09 I SPOTTED HIM RIGHT AWAY WHEN WE HAD GATHERED A GROUP OF THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 06:16 HIS PARENTS ARE TEACHERS AND HE WAS BROUGHT UP 06:19 IN A VERY STRICT AND RIGID ORTHODOX FAMILY. 06:24 THE ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF COURSE, IS VERY PROMINENT. 06:27 IT COVERS A LARGE PART OF THE POPULATION AND HIS GRANDFATHER WAS A PRIEST 06:35 AND HE TOLD ME HE LOVED GAMBLING. 06:39 NOW HE LIVED IN THE STATE OF TEGRA THAT'S IN THE NORTHERN PART OF ETHIOPIA. 06:44 NINETY SIX PER CENT OF THE POPULATION OF TEGRA IS ORTHODOX. 06:48 SO THEY HAVE A REAL STRONGHOLD THERE. 06:53 MEKELE IS THE CAPITAL BUT THE CITY OF AXUM SEEMS TO BE THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE. 07:00 IT IS CALLED A HOLY CITY, ZION. 07:03 THE ORTHODOX THINK THAT THE ARK OF THE COVENANT HAS BEEN STORED IN AXUM AND THERE ARE 07:11 MANY MONASTERIES THERE. 07:13 THERE ARE HOLY POOLS THAT THE WATER ACTUALLY BRINGS HEALING. 07:20 THEY HAVE A LOT OF OBELISKS AND SO ON. 07:26 I HAVEN'T VISITED THERE YET BUT I'D LIKE TO GO THERE SOME TIME. 07:36 THE PEOPLE MAKE PILGRIMAGES TO AXUM AND ALL THE KINGS OF ETHIOPIA 07:44 WENT TO AXUM TO BE CROWNED. 07:49 THE ORTHODOX POPES GO THERE TO BE APPOINTED AND ABOUT 85 PER CENT OF THE POPULATION IS 08:01 ORTHODOX THERE AND I THINK WHY IT'S LESS THAN THE STATE IS BECAUSE THEY BUILT A LARGE 08:05 UNIVERSITY THERE AND THEY HAVE TO HAVE STUDENTS COME FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD SO I THINK THAT 08:11 DILUTES THE POPULATION A LITTLE BIT. 08:12 A HIGHLY RELIGIOUS AREA, NEVERTHELESS. 08:14 VERY, VERY MATTER OF FACT THE ORTHODOX WOULD NOT EVEN ALLOW THE MUSLIMS 08:18 TO BUILD A MOSQUE THERE. 08:19 THAT SHOWS THE CONTROL THAT THEY HAVE AND IF A MAN HAD A HOUSE TO RENT AND YOU WERE 08:25 NOT, HE WOULD ASK, AND IF YOU WERE NOT ORTHODOX HE WOULD NOT RENT IT. 08:29 HE MAY HAVE TEN HOUSES BUT HE WOULD LEAVE THEM EMPTY RATHER THAN TO DO THAT. 08:34 WELL ANYWAY, THIS LITTLE FELLOW NAHOM, HE ATTENDED THE ORTHODOX CHURCH AND HE TOLD ME 08:38 THERE THAT THE PRIESTS USE A TRADITIONAL LANGUAGE CALLED GEZ AND I'M NOT SURE IF I AM 08:43 PRONOUNCING IT RIGHT BUT THEY USE THIS LANGUAGE AND HE SAID A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T 08:47 UNDERSTAND IT AND HE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT SO HE NEVER KNEW 08:51 EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE REALLY TALKING ABOUT. 08:53 NOW HIS GRANDFATHER WHO WAS A PRIEST GAVE HIS MOTHER, WHICH WAS THE GRANDFATHERS DAUGHTER, 08:57 A BIBLE WHEN SHE WAS MARRIED BUT IT SEEMED LIKE THE FAMILY DIDN'T READ THE BIBLE. 09:02 ANYWAY HE HAD THIS INQUIRING MIND EVEN AT A VERY YOUNG AGE AND HE WAS CONCERNED BECAUSE 09:08 HE WASN'T UNDERSTANDING WHAT WAS HAPPENING YET HE WAS THERE IN CHURCH AND SO HE STARTED 09:12 READING THE BIBLE BUT HE TOLD ME HE HAD TO DO IT SECRETLY WHICH SEEMS STRANGE THAT THEY 09:16 HAD THE BIBLE IN THE HOME BUT STILL THEY DIDN'T READ IT. 09:19 AS HE READ, HE BEGAN WONDERING WHAT ABOUT THIS SABBATH BUSINESS? 09:23 WHAT ABOUT MEDIATION AND HE TALKED TO HIS PARENTS, THEY COULDN'T SEEM TO REALLY GIVE 09:29 HIM ANY ANSWERS ON THIS AND ANYWAY SOMEHOW HE CAME ACROSS A GOSPEL WORKER. 09:38 THE GOSPEL WORKER GAVE HIM SOME TEXTS AND THEN HE WAS STUDYING WITH HIM. 09:42 HE'D HAVE TO GO SECRETLY TO HIS PLACE BECAUSE THE PARENTS DIDN'T WANT HIM ASSOCIATING 09:48 WITH ANYONE ELSE. 09:49 HE KEPT DOING THAT AND FINALLY IT CAME TO THE PLACE 09:53 WHERE THE WORKER SAID NOW WHAT ABOUT BEING BAPTIZED. 09:56 HE SAID NO I'M NOT REALLY READY I CAN'T BE BAPTIZED YET. 10:01 BUT THEN HE WENT TO MEKELE, THE CAPITAL CITY TO FURTHER HIS EDUCATION AND HE TRIED TO 10:09 FIND A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 10:11 HE TOLD ME HE LOOKED FOR THREE MONTHS AND COULD NOT FIND A CHURCH BUT FINALLY SOMEONE 10:16 MADE CONTACT WITH HIM AND HE WAS ABLE TO GO TO THE CHURCH AND HE WAS BAPTIZED. 10:20 WELL, HE CAME HOME AND HE WOULD SECRETLY STUDY THE BIBLE WITH HIS YOUNGER BROTHER AND 10:29 HE SAID ALSO SOMETHING ELSE WAS INTERESTING , HE HAD LEARNED SOME HYMNS FROM 10:35 ATTENDING CHURCH AND HE TAUGHT THESE HYMNS TO HIS MOTHER AND TO HIS SISTER AND TO HIS 10:42 BROTHER AND THEY'D SING THESE HYMNS. 10:44 BUT THEN FINALLY HIS FATHER FOUND OUT HE HAD BEEN BAPTIZED AND SO THE FATHER GOT HIS 10:51 SISTER, NAHOM'S AUNT TO COME AND TRY TO PERSUADE HIM TO LEAVE THE SEVENTH DAY 10:56 ADVENTIST CHURCH BUT NAHOM TRIED TO EXPLAIN SOME OF THE TRUTHS 11:01 OF THE BIBLE TO HER BUT TO NO AVAIL. 11:04 HOWEVER, HE WOULD NOT CONSIDER LEAVING THE ADVENTIST CHURCH. 11:09 FINALLY, THE FATHER CAME AND SAID, LOOK YOU EITHER LEAVE THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST 11:16 CHURCH OR YOU LEAVE HOME. 11:19 NAHOM STOOD FIRM AND SAID I CAN'T, I CAN'T LEAVE THESE TRUTHS. 11:23 I CAN'T TURN MY BACK ON JESUS AND SO THE FATHER SAID, YOU'RE OUT. 11:29 SO HE LEFT WITH ONLY AS WE USE THE EXPRESSION, WITH THE SHIRT ON HIS BACK WHICH AMOUNTED TO 11:34 A TSHIRT AND A PAIR OF TROUSERS. 11:37 HE SAID THAT'S ALL HE HAD TO WEAR AND SO EVERY DAY, EVERY NIGHT HE WOULD WASH HIS 11:42 TROUSERS AND HIS TSHIRT. 11:44 HE DID THAT FOR ABOUT A MONTH BUT FINALLY SOMEHOW THE FATHER DID SEND THE CLOTHES TO HIM 11:50 AND ANYWAY HE WAS GOING TO UNIVERSITY AND HE WAS OH BY THE WAY, WHEN THE FATHER PUT 11:59 HIM OUT OF THE HOUSE IT WAS ABOUT TEN O'CLOCK AT NIGHT. 12:03 SO IT WAS A VERY DIFFICULT SITUATION. 12:06 NOW I SUPPOSE WE SHOULDN'T BE TOO HARD ON THESE PARENTS WHEN THEY PUT A CHILD OUT OR A 12:13 FAMILY MEMBER OUT BECAUSE OF ANOTHER RELIGION BECAUSE AS HE EXPLAINED TO ME, THE WHOLE 12:19 COMMUNITY IS SAYING TO THE FATHER HERE YOUR SON HAS GONE AND JOINED THIS OTHER GROUP 12:26 AND YOU ARE JUST GOING TO JUST SIT BACK AND DO NOTHING ABOUT IT? 12:30 YOU NEED TO PUT HIM OUT OF THE HOME. 12:31 AN ISSUE OF DISCIPLINE. 12:33 AND SO YOU SEE THE PRESSURE IS ON THE PARENT S TOO ALTHOUGH THEY MAY NOT REALLY WANT TO DO 12:38 THAT BUT THEY' RE ALMOST FORCED TO DO IT. 12:41 SO THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED AND ANYWAY HE DIDN'T GO HOME FOR THREE YEARS. 12:50 IN THE MEANTIME, HE WAS GOING TO UNIVERSITY STUDYING TO BE AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEER AND 12:58 FINALLY HE GRADUATED WITH HIS DEGREE, MAGNA CUM LAUDE AND HE WAS OFFERED A JOB AT THE 13:06 UNIVERSITY AND ALSO OFFERED A JOB WITH ETHIOPIAN AIR WHICH IS A LARGE AIRLINE. 13:12 HOWEVER, TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THAT JOB HE HAD TO WRITE A TEST ON SABBATH, ON SATURDAY. 13:21 HE SAID I CAN'T DO THAT. 13:22 WELL, THEY SAID WE CAN'T GIVE YOU THE JOB. 13:24 AND SO HE TURNED THE JOB DOWN. 13:27 SO THEN FOR A WHILE HE WORKED WITH ANOTHER ADVENTIST AND DID WITNESSING AND SO ON BUT THEN 13:37 THIS FRIEND WENT DOWN TO OUR ETHIOPIAN COLLEGE AND SO FINALLY NAHOM SOMEHOW FOUND A 13:58 WAY THAT HE COULD GO AND HE WENT TO OUR ETHIOPIAN COLLEGE AND THERE HE EARNED A DEGREE 14:03 IN THEOLOGY AND AGAIN GRADUATED WITH VERY HIGH MARKS CUM LAUDE AND HERE HE IS, TWO 14:08 BACHELORS DEGREES TWENTY FOUR YEARS OLD WHICH WAS MARVELOUS. 14:14 WHILE HE WAS THERE HE WAS VERY INVOLVED MATTER OF FACT 14:20 HE WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE STUDENT ASSOCIATION. 14:23 HE WAS THE PRESIDENT OF HIS GRADUATING CLASS. 14:25 HE WAS THE ADVENTIST YOUTH LEADER. 14:27 HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH BOARD AND LIKE I SAY HE GRADUATED WITH THESE HIGH 14:32 MARKS AND SO NOW HE 'S CALLED TO BE A GOSPEL OUTREACH EVANGELIST. 14:39 SO HE HAS GONE BACK TO HIS HOME STATE OF TEGRA. 14:43 HE IS WORKING IN A PLACE ABOUT FIFTEEN MILES FROM HIS HOME AND HE IS USING, HIS KNOWLEDGE 14:52 OF THE LOCAL RELIGIONS TO KNOW HOW TO APPROACH PEOPLE WHICH HE HAS TO BE VERY CAREFUL. 14:59 YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DO ANY PROSELYTIZING SO HE IS JUST VISITING MAKING FRIENDS AND 15:05 WITNESSING TO THE PEOPLE THIS WAY BUT HE IS SO ON FIRE FOR JESUS. 15:09 HE WAS SUCH AN INSPIRATION. 15:11 MATTER OF FACT I WAS TRYING TO GET PICTURES OF ALL OUR WORKERS THERE., ONE BY ONE AND 15:14 IT WOULD ALWAYS TAKE SO LONG TO TRY -THEY'D BE TALKING TO GET THEM UP THERE AND SO ON 15:18 AND I SAID TO NAHOM CAN YOU HELP ME HERE GETTING THESE FELLOWS 15:21 UP TO TAKE THESE PICTURES. 15:23 WELL, HE HAD THEM ALL LINED UP THERE AND I TOOK THE PICTURE SO FAST THAT THE MAN I WAS 15:29 WITH , THE GOSPEL OUTREACH COORDINATOR SAID ARE YOU FINISHED ALREADY. 15:32 BUT THAT'S JUST THE KIND OF A YOUNG MAN HE IS AND SO HE IS SUCH A BLESSING. 15:36 BUT TO THINK HERE IS A YOUNG MAN WHO HAS GIVEN HIS LIFE TO JESUS AND SO ON FIRE FOR THE 15:45 LORD IT WAS JUST A REAL, REAL INSPIRATION. 15:50 IT'S AMAZING. 15:52 YOU KNOW WE WILL TAKE A SHORT BREAK HERE TO THOSE OF YOU AT HOME YOU KNOW IT IS STORIES 15:57 LIKE THESE THAT WE GET TO LISTEN TO HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH ALL THE TIME. 16:01 OUR REGIONAL DIRECTORS BRING THESE STORIES BACK AND IT IS A REAL INSPIRATION TO EACH ONE 16:05 OF US TO KNOW HOW GOD IS USING THESE NATIVE WORKERS, 16:09 THESE INDIGENOUS WORKERS TO HELP SPREAD THE GOSPEL. 16:13 WE HAVE A PROGRAM NOW AT GOSPEL OUTREACH CALLED THE "ADOPT A WORKER PROGRAM". 16:17 WE ARE GOING TO RUN JUST A SHORT VIDEO THAT TELLS A LITTLE ABOUT THAT PROGRAM AND 16:24 INVITE YOU TO CONSIDER PARTICIPATING IN THIS PROGRAM AND BY DOING SO YOU'LL HAVE A 16:29 PART IN THIS WONDERUFL WORK THAT IS BEING DONE. 16:32 LET'S TAKE A LOOK. 16:34 [VIDEO PLAYING] GOSPEL OUTREACH BEGAN A MISSION TWENTY YEARS AGO BY ASKING ONE 16:37 SIMPLE QUESTION. 16:38 IN A WORLD FILLED WITH FAMINE, HUNGER AND STARVATION WHAT IS JESUS WAITING FOR? 16:44 IN A WORLD FILLED WITH EARTHQUAKES, HURRICANES AND NATURAL CALAMITIES, WHAT IS 16:49 JESUS WAITING FOR? 16:51 THE GOSPEL TELLS US IN MATTHEW 24:14 AND THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM SHALL BE PREACHED IN 16:57 ALL THE WORLD FOR A WITNESS UNTO ALL NATIONS AND THEN SHALL THE END COME. 17:04 INSPIRED BY THOSE WORDS, GOSPEL OUTREACH BEGAN WITH ONE WORKER OVER THE PAST TWENTY 17:09 YEARS HAS GROWN INTO AN ORGANIZATION WITH 2200 WORKERS IN 40 PLUS COUNTRIES. 17:16 GOSPEL OUTREACH IS AN INDEPENDENT SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST LAY MINISTRY RUN 17:20 ENTIRELY BY VOLUNTEERS. 17:23 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKS WITH THE ORGANIZED CHURCH TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS 17:26 IN THE 10/40WINDOW. 17:29 NOW, WHAT EXACLTY IS THE 10/40 WINDOW? 17:32 THE 10/40 WINDOW IS A REGION OF THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE LOCATED BETWEEN 10 AND 40 17:37 DEGREES NORTH OF THE EQUATOR. 17:39 WHAT MAKES THIS REGION SPECIAL? 17:42 NINETY SEVEN PER CENT OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO HAVE NEVER HEARD THE NAME OF 17:46 JESUS LIVE HERE. 17:48 NOW HOW EXACTLY DOES GOSPEL OUTREACH WORK TO REACH THESE PEOPLE? 17:52 WE DO THIS BY WORKING WITH THE CHURCH AS IT PLACES TRAINED INDIGENOUS WORKERS IN NEW 17:58 TERRITORIES SENDING OUT DISCIPLES JUST AS JESUS DID. 18:01 WHEN A BIBLE WORKER SPONSORED BY GOSPEL OUTRACH ENTERS A NEW VILLAGE, IT IS ESTIMATED THAT 18:07 IN THE FIRST YEAR AN ADDITIONAL 300 INDIVIDUALS WILL BE BAPTIZED AND COMMIT 18:12 THEIR LIVES TO CHRIST. 18:13 INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEVER HEARD THE AMAZING STORY OF GOD'S LOVE ARE GETTING TO MEET 18:19 JESUS FOR THE FIRST TIME. 18:21 NOW HOW CAN YOU HELP? 18:22 BIBLE WORKERS RELY ON SPONSORSHIPS TO SUPPORT THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES AS THEY 18:27 SHARE THE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE OF GOD. 18:31 THIS IS WHY GOSPEL OUTREACH IS INTRODUCING OUR "ADOPT A WORKER PROGRAM" TOGETHER WITH 18:36 THE CHURCH, WE IDENTIFY NEW WORKERS IN AREAS THAT NEED TO BE REACHED AND THAT IS WHY IT 18:41 IS OUR GOAL TO INTRODUCE A MILLION NEW PEOPLE TO JESUS IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS. 18:46 ALL THAT IS REMAINING FOR THIS WORK TO BEGIN IS YOUR FINANCIAL HELP. 18:49 IN RETURN WE WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED ON THE EXCITING PROGRESS OF YOUR WORKER 18:55 SENDING YOU STORIES, PICTURES OF THE LIVES CHANGED BY YOUR DONATIONS. 19:00 THERE ARE THREE WAYS YOU CAN GET INVOLVED: YOU CAN BE A PRAYER PARTNER FOR GOSPEL 19:04 OUTREACH BY PRAYING FOR OUR BIBLE WORKERS. 19:07 SECOND, BECOME AN AMBASSADOR FOR OUR "ADOPT A WORKER PROGRAM" BY TELLING YOUR 19:11 FAMILY AND FRIENDS ABOUT HOW THEY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE TOO AND FINALLY, 19:16 SPONSOR A BIBLE WORKER. 19:18 CALL OR VISIT THE WEBSITE TODAY. 19:21 SO NOW THAT YOU KNOW A BIT ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH, AND NOW THAT YOU KNOW WHAT JESUS IS 19:25 WAITING FOR, THE FINAL QUESTION IS WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? 19:33 WELCOME BACK. 19:34 WE HAVE BEEN VISITING WITH DAVE CROOK HERE TAKING A LITTLE TRIP TO ETHIOPIA AND WE 19:41 ARE ABOUT READY TO CHANGE GEARS HERE AND HEAD SOMEWHERE ELSE. 19:44 DAVE, WHERE ARE WE GOING NOW? 19:45 WELL, WE ARE GOING TO THAT INTERESTING COUNTRY OF EGYPT. 19:49 A VERY OLD COUNTRY, LOTS OF HISTORY. 19:52 OH YES. 19:54 HERE WE HAVE THE PRESIDENT OF THE EGYPT MISSION, LLEWELLEN EDWARDS A VERY DEDICATED MAN 20:00 WITH SOME BIG, BIG CHALLENGES THERE. 20:02 OF COURSE THERE IS NO PROSELYTIZING ALLOWED THERE AND OF COURSE WE ALL KNOW 20:07 ABOUT THE TROUBLES THAT THERE HAVE BEEN IN EGYPT. 20:11 EGYPT HAS A POPULATION OF AOBUT 80 MILLION AND WE ONLY HAVE ABOUT 750 SEVENTH DAY 20:17 ADVENTISTS THERE SO THERE IS A LOT OF WORK TO DO BUT I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE 20:20 POSSIBILITIES THERE, TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY. 20:24 WELL THERE IS SOME OF THE CONGESTIVE TRAFFIC IN CAIRO. 20:27 I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY EVER GET AROUND THERE BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL JUST JAMMED TOGETHER. 20:32 IT IS REALLY SOMETHING. 20:34 FORTUNATELY MOST OF THE TIME WE WERE ABLE TO TRAVEL BY TRAIN ALL NIGHT LONG IN SOME 20:41 CASES BUT IT GOT US TO THE DESTINATIONS WHERE WE HAD TO GO. 20:46 WE WENT TO ALEXANDRIA AND THAT WAS THE ENTRANCE TO THE CHURCH IN ALEXANDRIA THAT WE JUST SAW 20:53 FLASHED ON THERE MAYBE WE CAN GO BACK AND JUST HAVE A LOOK AT THAT AGAIN. 20:57 IT'S QUITE A NICE ORNATE LOOKING FRONT. 21:01 TO ENTER THE CHURCH THE CHURCH CONTAINS ASSEMBLY ROOM FOR THE CHURCH SERVICE AND ALSO A 21:10 PASTOR'S APARTMENT ALONG WITH AN OFFICE AND SO SOME OF THE BUILDINGS DON'T ACTUALLY LOOK 21:14 LIKE CHURCHES BECAUSE THEY ARE OTHER TYPE OF BUILDINGS BUT ANYWAY IT'S A NICE LITTLE 21:24 ASSEMBLY ROOM THERE FOR THE CONGREGATION IN THAT PARTICULAR PLACE. 21:29 THEN FROM THERE WE WENT ON TO A PLACE ABU TALAT, I KNOW I AM NOT PRONOUNCING THAT CORRECTLY 21:38 BUT IT IS ABOUT FIFTEEN MILES ALONG THE COAST WEST 21:42 OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CITY OF ALEXANDRIA. 21:44 THERE WAS A PASTOR, RETIRED PASTOR, WHO NOW LIVES IN THE UNITED STATES WHO FELT THAT WE 21:52 SHOULD TRY TO PLANT A CHURCH THERE AND SO HE GAVE A DONATION AND SO THE EGYPTIAN 21:59 ADMINISTRATION DECIDED TO PURCHASE A PARTLY FINISHED BUILDING 22:02 THERE TO SEE WHAT COULD BE DONE. 22:05 SO WHILE I WAS THERE THEY WERE BUILDING, WORKING ON THE BUILDING AND THEY HAD EXTENDED 22:11 IT TO FOUR STORIES AND IN THIS BUILDING WHAT THEY ARE HOPING THEY CAN DO IS THAT THEY CAN 22:18 HAVE A COUPLE COME WHERE PERHAPS A WIFE WOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE A CHILDRENS PROGRAM 22:25 AND THE HUSBAND COULD RUN OTHER PROGRAMS: HEALTH PROGRAMS, OTHER OUTREACH 22:30 PROGRAMS LIKE THAT, STOP SMOKING PROGRAMS AND ALSO SOME SKILLS PROGRAMS. 22:38 THEN AFTER THEY GET A CONGREGATION THEN THEY WOULD APPLY FOR A PERMIT BECAUSE YOU 22:44 JUST CAN'T GO AND START A CHURCH. 22:48 YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY HAVE A PERMIT FOR THAT. 22:53 NOW HERE WE HAVE OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER MINA 22:57 HERE IS A LADY THAT HE HAS BEEN WORKING WITH. 23:01 THE EVENING I WAS THERE I WAS ABLE TO GO WITH HIM 23:05 AND MEET SEVERAL OF THESE DIFFERENT PEOPLE. 23:08 THE MAN ON THE RIGHT THERE IS RASMY, HE WAS A TRAIN CONDUCTOR A RAILROAD CONDUCTOR 23:14 FOR 40 YEARS AND NOW IN HIS RETIREMENT HE WORKS AS A BIBLE WORKER. 23:20 A WONDERFUL DEDICATED MAN INDEED. 23:24 HERE WAS ANOTHER FAMILY THAT WE WERE ABLE TO VISIT THERE. 23:30 AT EACH OF THESE PLACES I WAS ABLE TO TAKE SOME TIME AND TALK ABOUT JESUS, SALVATION 23:39 AND SO ON AND THEY WERE VERY ATTENTIVE AND VERY INTERESTED. 23:45 NOW WE HAVE A CITY CALLED SOHAG. 23:48 IN THIS PARTICULAR PLACE AGAIN, THEY ARE WORKING ON A BUILDING 23:54 IT IS GOING TO BE SIX STORIES. 23:57 WE HAVE A DOCTOR AND HIS WIFE WHO ARE COMMITTED TO COME THERE FOR THREE YEARS AND SO 24:03 MINA OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER THERE THE FELLOW WITH THE LIGHTER SHIRT ON BESIDE 24:09 THE MAN WITH THE GRAY CLOTHING, HE IS OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER THE ONLY ONE 24:15 WE HAVE IN EGYPT. 24:17 HE WILL WORK ALONG WITH THE DOCTOR AND SO ON. 24:20 WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A CLINIC THERE THEN? 24:24 YES THEY WILL HAVE SORT OF A CLINIC AND DO OTHER HEALTH RELATED PROGRAMS, CHILDRENS 24:29 PROGRAMS, THIS KIND OF THING. 24:31 NOW I THINK MOST OF OUR PEOPLE REMEMBER YEARS AGO HEARING OF MRS. KRUEGER WHO HAD AN 24:37 ORPHANAGE IN CAIRO. 24:39 WELL, SHE GOT TOO ELDERLY TO RUN THAT ORPHANAGE AND HAD TO LEAVE AND THEY NEVER COULD GET 24:45 ANYONE TO TAKE HER PLACE SO ANYWAY THE BUILDING SAT THERE FOR A WHILE BUT NOW BECAUSE OF 24:52 ALL THE PEOPLE FROM SUDAN WHO ARE REFUGEES THAT HAVE COME TO CAIRO, 24:57 WE HAVE A SCHOOL OF 400 STUDENTS THERE. 25:00 THE IDEA IS THAT IF WE HAD A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER THERE WHO COULD COME AND WORK WITH 25:19 THOSE PARENTS BECAUSE THERE WOULD BE NO PROBLEM. 25:21 THEY'RE NOT ARABIC OR NOT MOSLEMS SO THAT WAY THEY WOULD HAVE AN INTRODUCTION WITH NO 25:26 PROBLEM TO THOSE PEOPLE. 25:27 ALSO IN KHARTOUM IT IS ESTIMATED THERE ARE 100,000 ERITREANS THERE WHO ARE 25:31 REFUGEES AND AGAIN WE'D HAVE FREEDOM TO WORK WITH THOSE PEOPLE. 25:34 SO WE NEED SOMEONE TO GO AND WORK THERE ALSO. 25:37 SO WE HAVE SOME GREAT OPPORTUNITIES ACTUALLY IN EGYPT AND PRAISE GOD THEY WILL 25:41 BE ABLE TO PUT THESE THINGS TO WORK. 25:43 I HOPE WE CAN FIND THE WORKERS TO TAKE CARE 25:46 OF THESE DIFFERENT AREAS WHERE WE NEED WORKERS. 25:48 SO EGYPT IS LOOKING BRIGHT AND WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO SOME GREAT THINGS HAPPENING THERE. 25:53 BOY, THAT IS A GREAT REPORT AND YOU KNOW WHEN YOU MENTION THE NEED FOR WORKERS I JUST 25:58 APPEAL TO THOSE OF YOU AT HOME WHO ARE WATCHING THIS PROGRAM RIGHT NOW, THIS IS ONE WAY WE 26:06 CAN ALL PARTICIPATE IN SPREADING THE GOSPEL BEYOND 26:09 OUR LOCAL AREA, OUR LOCAL CHURCH. 26:11 WE ARE TOLD TO GO INTO ALL THE WORLD, THAT'S RIGHT AND GOSPEL OUTREACH IS AN ORGANIZATION 26:17 THAT IS DOING THAT VERY THING AND IN FACT, IS WORKING IN AN AREA CALLED THE 10/40 WINDOW 26:19 WHICH IS A LOT OF THESE COUNTRIES. 26:21 NINETY SEVEN PER CENT OF THE WORLDS UNREACHED LIVE IN THIS AREA OF THE WORLD. 26:28 YES. 26:30 BY SPONSORING INDIGENOUS WORKERS IT'S A GREAT WAY TO GET THE WORK DONE. 26:33 ONE THING THAT I'D LIKE THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE NOT SUBSCRIBING TO THE NEWSLETTER TO DO RIGHT 26:40 NOW IS TO CALL US AND SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWSLETTER. 26:43 IT IS ABSOLUTELY FREE. 26:44 JUST GIVE US A CALL AT 509-525-2951 AND ASK FOR THE ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS 26:54 NEWSLETTER AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THAT OUT. 26:57 THERE IS ALSO SOME OTHER CONTACT INFORMATION ON THE SCREEN. 27:00 WE ARE JUST DELIGHTED YOU HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO JOIN US TODAY 27:03 AND WE INVITE YOU BACK AGAIN NEXT TIME. 27:06 FOR "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" I'M KEVIN WAITE. 27:07 [CLOSING MUSIC]. 27:16 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 27:19 WHERE IS THE 10/40 WINDOW ANYWAY? 27:22 THOSE PEOPLE ARE TOO FAR AWAY. 27:25 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. 27:27 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV? 27:31 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACH, MY HEAD HURTS. 27:36 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO, I GIVE UP. 27:38 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 27:41 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 27:43 ACTUALLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND JESUS ASKED YOU TO GO TO ALL THE WORLD. 27:50 WHERE? 27:51 ALL THE WORLD. 27:53 HOW CAN I GO I HAVE COMMITMENTS. 27:55 YOU CAN PRAY. 27:59 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 28:02 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 28:06 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS. 28:09 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE 28:12 AND MEANING BUT THEY WON'T FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 28:14 BE THE SPARK, 28:16 LIGHT THE FIRE, 28:17 FINISH THE WORK, 28:18 FINISH THE WORK. |
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