Welcome to
Adventures in Missions
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with Gospel Outreach.
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I am Julie Sanders Keymer.
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And today, we have
the opportunity of hearing
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more about the Philippines.
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And Fred and Arlene Webb,
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welcome to
Adventures in Missions.
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Thank you.
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So you folks are in
charge of the Gospel Outreach
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workers in the Philippine.
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That's correct.
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And you recently got back
from the trip and how was it?
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Wonderful. Great.
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And who all did you visit?
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Oh, we visited everything
from Barangay in the North
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to General Santos in the South.
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Wonderful. And Arlene, what was
the best part of the whole trip?
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Well, I just
enjoyed meeting the people.
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That is to me so
thrilling to hear
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their stories of how
they came to the Lord.
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Now, Fred, how about you?
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What was something that
stood out from this trip?
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Again, meeting the
people and seeing the changes
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that take place in their lives
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when they accept
Christ as their Savior.
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How wonderful.
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And how many Gospel Outreach
workers are in your territory?
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Fifty five.
Fifty five, fifty five.
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Wonderful, well,
you got some pictures
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and you are gonna
take us on a trip.
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All right. We're gonna
start on the island of Samar.
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Samar happens to be
the third largest island
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in the Philippines
but there are very few
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Seventh-day Adventists there.
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And just very recently
we got an Adopt-A-Worker
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stationed there in Samar.
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You'll learn more
about the Adopt-A-Worker
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later in the program
but this first picture
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that we have here
is our worker there.
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Ephraim Carrera on the left
and when he first went there
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and the time these
pictures were taken
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he had been
there for two months.
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So hadn't been very long
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but he had found
this older gentleman here,
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Carlitos who had been
a Seventh-day Adventist
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and has volunteered to be
his assistance without pay.
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And so they are
working together now
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to try to win
people for the church.
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So what's it like
in the Philippines?
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Are the Philippines heavily
religious group of people,
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are they interested in
learning more about Christ?
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Well, when we first visited
the Philippines back in 1993
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it was over-- there
was about 98% Catholics.
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Today it's only
about 80% Catholics.
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So there are Protestants.
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There are many Protestants
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and there are many
Muslims and many animists.
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Okay, all right, that kind
of gives us some idea. Yeah.
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And so here he's
been working here
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and these are some of
those he's been studying with.
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Some that he has
found that are interested
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in learning more
about the gospel.
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There's a grandma.
They're old and a young.
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And there were two, I
didn't quite figure out,
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there were two elderly
ladies here in this home
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who was a
grandma and who was what
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but anyway there were
two elderly ladies there
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but he's giving
Bible study to them.
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So help us have an
idea, most people have
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heard of Manila
in the Philippines.
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So where are we in
conjunction to Manila?
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We are South-East of Manila.
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Manila is on the
island of Luzon in the North
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and Samar is one of, what
they call the Sian islands,
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the ones in the middle.
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Then down to the
south we have Mindanao.
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You can tell his
Bible has been used.
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It's quite well worn but he
was giving the Bible studies
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from what I could
tell without notes,
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just using his Bible.
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Just a young man
but he seems to know.
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This is one of
the interested people
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who wanted to know more
about Jesus Christ. Wonderful.
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This is the home of
another one of his interest
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and they-- I think believe
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they do have
service here on Sabbath.
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Oh, so in his home, okay.
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This is not--this is the
home of one of the interest.
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There was a
church there at one time
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but it had disintegrated.
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There was a
building but no people
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and so he has
now gather together
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some that had been
former Seventh-day Adventists
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and they are not
coming back to the church.
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So now the church has
been used every Sabbath.
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Oh, praise the Lord.
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Now we are on the
other side of the island.
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That was on the western coast,
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now we are over
on the Eastern coast
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in a place called Llorente
and this is where Fred Fragoso,
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he was the former
literature evangelist.
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And now he's a
Gospel Outreach worker
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and he's using his
literature evangelism
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as a means of opening the doors.
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Literally. Literally.
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And getting them to be
interested in the program.
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His wife, this is
on the Sabbath morning,
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his wife is here
conducting the Sabbath school
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for the children, outside.
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Bless their hearts.
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The adults are
inside and this is a house.
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And it's a very, well,
living room is quite small.
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But you can see they are
packed in there pretty tight.
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And the
hospitality of the home owners
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to have the people
come, how good is that.
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Well, he's the one
living in the house. Okay.
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They rented the house
for his home and services.
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I've been there for two baptisms
and this is the second one.
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He's only been there now
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I think just a
little over a year.
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He has about 50
members. Praise the Lord.
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And so they are
lined up down on--
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well, what you see in
the background is the ocean.
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I was going to say
they are at the beach.
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Yeah. But the
baptism is in the river.
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Now this lady has the largest
goiter I think I've ever seem.
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You know here in the States
if we have a health problem
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we go to the hospital
and we get it taken care of.
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That's true.
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There, they have to say,
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how much is this going to cost?
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And if they can't afford
it, they don't get treatment.
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They may die
early or they may suffer
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but without the money
they just don't get treatment.
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And so she had this huge goiter.
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She was going to baptize,
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now the baptism is
actually in a river
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right where it goes
runs out into the ocean.
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Beautiful. The same
place where I was a year before
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and there had been heavy rains
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and it looked
like mud but this time
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it was nice clean water
and was a much nicer situation.
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This lady said, I
want to be a Christian.
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I want to be a
Seventh-day Adventist.
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And so goiter and all she
was baptized. Bless her heart.
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This picture was taken a
year ago when I was there.
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They had bought this piece
of property to build a church
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where they could meet
together and notice carefully
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there is a
concrete wall there beside.
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Oh yeah, there on the right.
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And they concrete is still
there but now there is a church.
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Oh great.
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They have built the church
and it's not quite finished
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obviously but
making great progress.
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And they've got the banana
tree is all around. Right.
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They have a water source,
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they drilled a
well and they have a CR.
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A CR is what they would call,
we would call a restroom. Okay.
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But absolutely, obviously
there's no privacy there yet
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but will probably
put up some sticks
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and stretch a tarp
around the outside of that.
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Wow. So they are all ready.
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I can say is, wow.
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We are on another
village now, this is Giporlos.
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In Giporlos this young man
is only been there one month
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but there had been
worker there before him
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and so there's
already a group of people
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that have been gather together.
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Oh, look at them all.
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And you'll notice
most of them are youth
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and they seem to the
ones that are most interested
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in learning about Jesus.
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So what language are
these people speaking,
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is it Tagalog
or is it-- Visayan.
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Visayan. Visayan or
sometimes it's called Cebuano.
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Do they speak any English?
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Most of them do. Okay.
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Because English is one
of the official languages.
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Of the Philippines.
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And then we went down the
river to be baptized. Nice.
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That's one of
the inspiring things
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about going as we see so
many baptisms taking place.
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Okay, now we are
at the town of Marabut
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and here we have our geo worker,
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his name is George Taladua.
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And this is his humble church.
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It's not quite finish
but they are meeting there.
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He has a congregation,
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many of--most of
which are young people.
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Here we have him with our
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Conference
President Pastor Ben Mahinay
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and our worker there George,
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he decided to be
little more dressed up
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so he had gone
and change his shirt.
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Great. And that this is
the inside of the church,
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you see their backless benches,
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you get quite
ventilation though.
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Yeah, absolutely. The
wind blow when it comes.
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They call all the
members available to come
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and we had a little meeting
and the next picture shows
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little quartet of young girls.
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As I say the big
part is this congregation
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are these young people.
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So why is that? Are
young people really searching?
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Are they learning more,
hearing more about Jesus?
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Why the young people?
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Well, I think that
he being young himself
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sort of seeks
out the young people.
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The people lived
next door the ones
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that donated the land
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and most of the
building material for the church
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but they are part
of the congregation,
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these young people.
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And we had a nice
meeting, they sang,
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we all sang then
Fred talked and I talked
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and then we went
down to the ocean,
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just across the
road was the ocean.
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We went down just a
little ways about a half mile
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where they found a
nice little beach there
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and we had the members
there, there are five children,
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I shouldn't say children,
young people being baptized.
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They were age nine to
sixteen. Nine to sixteen.
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And there our pastor Ben
baptizing there in the ocean
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and now they are just
coming in after their baptism.
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I love to see young people
give their hearts to the Lord
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because they have a
whole life serve Him.
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They certainly do.
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Well, Arlene and Fred,
thank you for being here
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and sharing with us
about the Philippines
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and we want to encourage you
to be a part of Gospel Outreach
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and to be able to fund
the Gospel Outreach workers
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that's where you
become a missionary.
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And you become a
missionary with your pocketbook.
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And we want to say
thank you so much for that.
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We have a really neat
program here at Gospel Outreach
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its called Adopt-A-Worker
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and we like to share more
information with you about that.
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Gospel outreach began
a mission 20 years ago
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by asking one simple question,
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in a world filled with famine,
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hunger and starvation
what is Jesus waiting for?
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In a world
filled with earthquakes,
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hurricane and natural calamities
what is Jesus waiting for?
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The gospel tells
us in Matthew 24:14,
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"And this gospel of the
kingdom shall be preached
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in all the world for a
witness unto all nations,
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and then shall the end come."
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Inspired by those
words, Gospel Outreach
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began with one worker
and over the past 20 years,
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it's grown into an organization
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with 2,200 workers
in 40 plus countries.
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Gospel Outreach
is an independent
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Seventh-day
Adventist lay ministry run
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entirely by volunteers.
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Gospel Outreach works
with the organized church
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to sponsor Bible
workers in the 10/40 Window.
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Now what exactly
is the 10/40 Window?
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The 10/40 Window is a
region of the eastern hemisphere
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located between 10 and 40
degrees north of the equator.
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What makes this region special?
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97% of all the
people in the world
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who'd never heard the
name of Jesus live here.
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Now how exactly
does Gospel Outreach work
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to reach these people?
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We do this by working
with the church as it places
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trained indigenous
workers in new territories,
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sending out
disciples just as Jesus did.
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When a Bible worker sponsored by
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Gospel Outreach
enters a new village,
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it's estimated
that in the first year,
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an additional 300
individuals will be baptized
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and commit
their lives to Christ.
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Individuals who have
never heard the amazing story
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of God's love are
getting to meet Jesus
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for the first time.
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Now how can you help?
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Bible workers rely on
sponsorships to support them
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and their families as they share
the unconditional love of God.
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This is why Gospel Outreach
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is introducing our
Adopt-A-Worker program,
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together with the
church we identify new workers
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and areas that
need to be reached.
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That is why it's
our goal to introduce
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a million new people to
Jesus in the next three years.
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All that is
remaining for this work
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to begin is your financial help.
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In return, we
will keep you updated
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on the exciting
progress of your worker
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sending you stories
and pictures of the lives
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changed by your donations.
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There are three ways
you can get involved.
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You can be a prayer
partner for Gospel Outreach
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by praying for
our Bible workers.
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Second, become an ambassador
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for our Adopt-A-Worker program
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by telling their
family and friends
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about how they can
make a difference too.
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And finally,
sponsor a Bible worker.
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Call or visit the website today.
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So now that you know a
bit about Gospel Outreach
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and now that you know
what Jesus is waiting for,
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the final question is
what are you waiting for?
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And please don't hesitate.
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We all need to join together
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to share the love of
the Lord Jesus Christ
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with as many people as possible.
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And we would encourage
you to go to our website
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goaim.org for more information
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and we'd be happy to
chat with you about that.
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And Fred, you have some
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Adopt-A-Workers
in your territories.
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I do, I have four. And
tell us how that's working?
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Do they think it's kind of cool
that they are being adopted?
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Yeah, they think they are
special people. Well, they are.
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So you encourage
them to give a report back
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to the people who
are sponsoring them?
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Yes, once a quarter
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they will send us
a report telling us
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and what they do
on a general basis
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and hopefully give us
some interesting stories,
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some you know, stories
of how people are converted,
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the things that they have to
give up or change in their lives
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when they become
Seventh-day Adventist.
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And they maybe
even send pictures too.
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Yes. Okay.
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Yes, hopefully there will
be picture with every report.
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Well, that's
fantastic, real good.
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So our viewers can
learn more about that. Right.
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Now Arlene, you
are going to take us
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back the Philippines
and where are we going now?
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We are going to go to Mindanao
to the north east corner.
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Okay. And the first village
we are going to visit is Coro.
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And here we have
the gospel workers
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and few other members ready
to welcome us with singing.
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They are very good at singing
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and they have a
good welcome song
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and make you feel
that you are wanted.
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And here we have a picture
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the next one of our
Gospel Outreach worker,
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his name is Perfecto Tecson.
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How do you like that name?
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Perfecto. I like that.
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And that his wife and I
are there standing with him.
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And they are call,
the members to come in
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as many as could,
this is a weekday.
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We have the children again,
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lots of children
which we love to see.
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And then we have a picture here
of the whole group from their--
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the all that could come in.
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So they have
mixture of young and old,
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they gave us some wonderful
young coconut for Buko Juice.
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They put in a straw
and you drink it out.
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It's very good, yes. So--
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That's one of the pleasures
of going to the tropics,
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you get the fresh
fruits and juice and all,
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they are just so good.
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Okay, we are going to go now
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to another place in
northeastern Mindanao.
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This is Larry
Manto and his wife.
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They came to this village of
Kidihay to spread the gospel.
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They learned that
the chief of the village
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had an encounter with an angle.
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The angle told them to keep
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the Seventh-day
Sabbath and not eat pigs.
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Okay. Wow. That
gets right to the point.
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And that they should
not accept any missionary
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that didn't teach that.
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Well, the first missionary
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that came to the
village was a Pentecostal.
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So he asked then the question,
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do you worship on Sabbath?
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No, we worship on Sunday.
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Well, then you can't be here
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because we only
worship on Sabbath.
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Isn't that so--
Oh, we can do that.
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And so they built a
Seventh-day Pentecostal church.
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Did they really?
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And so this is the situation
that Larry came into. Wow.
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He worked with them and
he started building a church
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and things seem to
be going fairly well.
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He was studying with quite a few
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and then they had Typhoon Pablo.
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Now, Mindanao,
when we were lived there
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we were told we don't
get typhoons in Mindanao.
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But typhoon Pablo came through
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and wiped out
many different things.
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This is the remains
of his church. Oh, no.
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The Seventh-day Pentecostal
church was blown apart too.
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Oh, no. But this was
the remains of his church,
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some of the roofing materials.
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Now the better part
of the roofing materials
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he gave to some of
the families around
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that had lost the
roof off their house.
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Well, that was good.
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He helped the community
with the remains that were left
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but there was a lot of
damage in that typhoon.
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You can see these banana trees,
palm trees. No more bananas.
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All the tops blown out,
debris lying everywhere.
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I am told that the
Seventh-day Adventist church
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lost 338
churches to this typhoon.
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In that one
typhoon. One typhoon.
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Oh my. And they-- some
of them look pretty bad.
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Wow. So he has
rebuilt the church.
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This is built back
on the same foundations.
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He had concrete
pillars that are remaining
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and so he had
put the roof back on
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and he's back in business.
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And that's a good size church.
It is a good size church.
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It can probably sit
maybe 100 people there
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and he's going strong and
will continue to reach out
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to the people in the community.
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It's hard to discourage
our Gospel Outreach workers.
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Well, he got the Lord
working on their side, so.
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I think this fellow's T-shirt
says it all, "I am all in."
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He and his wife were so happy
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and just have big miles
on the face the whole time
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I was there and I though
that shirt just said it all.
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Absolutely. So are
they sitting inside--
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That was inside the church. Yes.
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Coming away from there,
now we had walk going in
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but coming down
they persuaded us
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to ride on a motorcycle.
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Now the white man
behind me is Vernon Emde.
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He'd gone along
as a videographer.
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And so-- You
should had him in front.
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He's carrying his several
thousand dollar camera with him
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on that
motorcycle as we came down
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and all four of us
were on the motorcycle.
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All four of you? The
other man was on there too?
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Yeah, he was sitting between
the driver and the handle bars.
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Okay, so that's a mini
van in the Philippines. Yeah.
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Of course he uses it
for logging trucks too.
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Hey, whatever works?
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Imagine coming
down on a motorcycle,
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slippery roads and ruts.
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I hope you were
praying the whole way, Fred.
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You know how do
you steer a motorcycle
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when it is in a rut? Wow.
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We had to stop and
get off a few times
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so he could take it on through.
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And one time it almost fell over
but we were able to stop it.
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And no helmets but the
Lord and your angels were there.
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Helmet, what's
that? Yeah, what's that?
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Out on the main
road it's required
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but in the mountains, no.
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Okay, now we are in
the village of Seneca
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and we have our
mission president Pastor Magaya
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and we have our Gospel Outreach
worker, Brother Hellagus.
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And which one is the
Gospel Outreach person?
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He's one in the
middle. In the center.
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Okay. And then his wife.
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And next picture it shows
us in front of their church.
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It's a cute little church there.
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And we, they asked
the members to come in
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and so quite a few
came and we wanted to meet
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some that would be
have stories to tell.
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Good conversion stories.
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And so we have now the
man there in the blue shirt.
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He's still a young man,
his name is Rommel Gutierrez
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and he's standing there
with his wife and three children
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but they were
not there originally.
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He told the story
that he had been born
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and raised on an island, a
small island called Dinagat.
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And this island is
the home of a very large
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and powerful cult,
there in the Philippines.
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And his parents
were cult members
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and he was raised there.
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He met a friend,
well, there was full,
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island full of families.
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Another family had a
daughter named Mitchell
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and he and
Mitchell were good friends.
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But as he got
older in his teen years
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he felt that this
cult was not right
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and so he left on his own
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and he went over to
the main land of Mindanao
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and landed in this
place here of Seneca.
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And he was looking for something
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and he got into the wrong crowd
00:20:49.72\00:20:51.65
and he got led
into a lot of sin.
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And then he met up with
a-- we call Born Again church,
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it's a popular church
there and they got him
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come into their church
and they got him saved.
00:21:00.45\00:21:03.11
And so his life is
looking better. Good.
00:21:03.14\00:21:06.51
But sad to say he
didn't stick with it,
00:21:06.54\00:21:09.03
he fell back into his old ways.
00:21:09.06\00:21:11.54
And just felt
that he was very bad
00:21:11.57\00:21:15.39
and too bad to be saved.
00:21:15.42\00:21:17.16
Meanwhile,
Mitchell who was still back
00:21:17.19\00:21:20.92
with their parent began to feel
00:21:20.95\00:21:22.69
that she wanted to
see some more of the world
00:21:22.72\00:21:25.67
but she had accepted the cult.
00:21:25.70\00:21:28.22
And so she left and
believe it or not ended up
00:21:28.25\00:21:31.20
in the same town where
her old friend, Rommel was.
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Well, they got together
and ended up getting married.
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She thought still
very strong in her cult
00:21:39.11\00:21:41.61
she had this following
all of the rigmarole they did.
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And he was not
interested in religion
00:21:47.08\00:21:49.93
because he thought he
was beyond being saved.
00:21:49.96\00:21:53.20
One day he met our
Gospel Outreach there,
00:21:53.23\00:21:55.78
Brother Hellagus.
that we saw and he--
00:21:55.81\00:21:59.47
the brother told him that
you know, you can be saved.
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He said, no, not me.
00:22:02.36\00:22:03.46
I am too far
gone and he said, no.
00:22:03.49\00:22:05.79
he showed him 1 John 1:9,
if we will confess our sins
00:22:05.82\00:22:10.56
God is faithful and just
to forgive us of our sins.
00:22:10.59\00:22:12.82
And so he
finally confesses Rommel
00:22:12.85\00:22:16.33
that there was hope for him.
00:22:16.36\00:22:17.69
So he began Bible studies.
00:22:17.72\00:22:20.05
Now they lived in
this small little hut,
00:22:20.08\00:22:22.48
they made with bamboo two rooms.
00:22:22.51\00:22:25.74
When the Bible worker
00:22:25.77\00:22:27.20
or the Gospel
Outreach worker came,
00:22:27.23\00:22:29.45
they asked Mitchell,
she would like to join them.
00:22:29.48\00:22:31.30
No, she had her own religion.
00:22:31.33\00:22:33.22
So she took the children,
they had three children now,
00:22:33.25\00:22:36.18
two older ones and a baby.
00:22:36.21\00:22:38.46
And she took
then to the backroom.
00:22:38.49\00:22:41.54
And our Gospel Outreach worker
00:22:41.57\00:22:43.73
and Rommel had their Bible
study couple of times a week.
00:22:43.76\00:22:48.08
And she was in the back room
00:22:48.11\00:22:51.56
and the voices could be
heard and she began listening.
00:22:51.59\00:22:54.76
Curiosity. Curiosity.
00:22:54.79\00:22:56.83
What is he getting into? Yes.
00:22:56.86\00:22:59.05
And then finally, they
were finish the lessons
00:22:59.08\00:23:02.67
and so our Gospel Outreach
worker said, now, Rommel,
00:23:02.70\00:23:06.31
would you like to
give your heart fully
00:23:06.34\00:23:07.98
to the Lord Jesus
and surrender to Him
00:23:08.01\00:23:09.95
and he said, yes, I would.
00:23:09.98\00:23:11.27
And he says, well, then we need
00:23:11.30\00:23:12.33
to set up time for baptism.
00:23:12.36\00:23:14.33
He says, what about your wife
00:23:14.36\00:23:15.87
and he was trying
to say, well, she--
00:23:15.90\00:23:17.77
well, all of the
sudden the door opened
00:23:17.80\00:23:19.23
and she came out and
she says I accept it also.
00:23:19.26\00:23:22.03
Wow. Praise God. Yes.
00:23:22.06\00:23:24.40
And so in January of this
year they were both baptized.
00:23:24.43\00:23:28.43
Now after he told us the story
00:23:28.46\00:23:30.45
we said we want to take
some pictures, go get your wife.
00:23:30.48\00:23:33.43
So that's, well, go
back to the last picture now.
00:23:33.46\00:23:36.08
So they went and got the wife
00:23:36.11\00:23:37.87
and she came with the children
and she had a blue plastic bag.
00:23:37.90\00:23:42.63
And she said to our
conference mission president,
00:23:42.66\00:23:46.97
I want to give this to you.
00:23:47.00\00:23:48.80
This is the things that
we use in our cult ceremonies
00:23:48.83\00:23:53.87
and I am done with that now
00:23:53.90\00:23:56.31
and I don't even want
to have it in the house.
00:23:56.34\00:23:58.70
And so she took out the bag
and we saw the various things.
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The top thing you
see there is a T-shirt,
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yellow apparently
was their main color.
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Okay. Has many cult symbols.
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It also had a
little picture of Jesus,
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just to make sure they
cover everything, I guess.
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Then there was a headscarf,
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a large scarf and then there
was a small like a handkerchief.
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And then they had a
ring and then a pendent
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that she wore around her neck.
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Well, she gives
them to our pastor there
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and we go talk about
what should we do with this.
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And remember in
the Bible they came
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and they burn
the books of magic.
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So we decided we
need to burn these
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that would be the proper thing.
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Sure. So immediately
some of the brother went
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and got some kindling
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and some leaves and
we started the fire.
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And articles by
article-- one by one,
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Mitchell put then on
the flames to burn them
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with a big smile on her face,
00:24:49.65\00:24:51.16
she was so happy
that this part of her life
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was now gone forever.
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And so the shirt there was
sort of stuffing up the fire
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and so they lift it up
00:25:01.29\00:25:02.61
and so they get
the flames going again.
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But how moving, to
that be gone. Right.
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And so they burned it all
up and then we had a praise
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and thanksgiving prayer to
the Lord for saving this soul
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and we finished up
with the church members
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all gathering together.
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That is the congregation
there at this church.
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Oh, praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
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He saves us all,
doesn't He? That's right.
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No matter where
we come from and--
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Or how bad we've been. Yes.
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And He's a
powerful God. Oh, He is.
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He is so powerful
that He keeps universes up
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and why can't we come to him
00:25:36.50\00:25:38.25
with anything
that's on our hearts.
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And other things
that those symbols
00:25:39.87\00:25:42.06
before was to
protest her physically.
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And so we pay that the Lord
would put His arms around her
00:25:44.77\00:25:47.39
and protect her now
that these were gone.
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But isn't that something
how no matter where we are,
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what we say is so important
00:25:52.66\00:25:54.63
and here the
Gospel Outreach worker
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was sharing to her husband.
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Yes. Well, that is fantastic.
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Well, thank you both
of you for being here,
00:25:59.97\00:26:01.91
Arlene and Fred
Webb, for giving us report
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on the Philippines
and may the Lord bless you
00:26:04.12\00:26:05.94
and keep you safe as you work
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with these people and encourage
those Gospel Outreach workers.
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Yes. And we'd like to
encourage you to get involved
00:26:10.59\00:26:13.69
with Gospel Outreach and
we'd ask for your donations
00:26:13.72\00:26:16.62
to help with the
work in the 10/40 Window
00:26:16.65\00:26:19.81
where we focus our
efforts here at Gospel Outreach
00:26:19.84\00:26:22.31
and you've heard
the needs in Philippines
00:26:22.34\00:26:23.99
and seen the
churches that need to be built
00:26:24.02\00:26:26.08
and we would ask you
to give what you can.
00:26:26.11\00:26:29.00
And we would ask you
to send a check to us
00:26:29.03\00:26:30.94
at Gospel Outreach,
00:26:30.97\00:26:32.07
PO Box 8 in
College Place, Washington.
00:26:32.10\00:26:34.18
Our phone
number is 509-525-2951.
00:26:34.21\00:26:37.66
And you can also
go to our website,
00:26:37.69\00:26:39.50
goaim.org for more information.
00:26:39.53\00:26:42.80
And we want to thank you
in advance for your gift to us
00:26:42.83\00:26:45.96
and our administration
here at Gospel Outreach,
00:26:45.99\00:26:48.41
its all
volunteers and that's why
00:26:48.44\00:26:50.42
we are able to
make sure that the funds
00:26:50.45\00:26:52.24
that you give then go
out to the work in the field.
00:26:52.27\00:26:56.08
So for Gospel Outreach
and for Adventures in Mission
00:26:56.11\00:26:58.98
I am Julie Sanders Keymer
and take every opportunity
00:26:59.01\00:27:01.95
that God gives you
to share Him to others.
00:27:01.98\00:27:04.38
I need to spell the
gospel here at home.
00:27:16.17\00:27:19.22
Where is the
10/40 Window anyway?
00:27:19.25\00:27:22.33
Those people live too far away.
00:27:22.36\00:27:25.37
Someone else can
tell them about Jesus.
00:27:25.40\00:27:27.76
Maybe they could just watch TV.
00:27:27.79\00:27:31.31
Nearly three billion
people to reach, my head hurt.
00:27:31.34\00:27:36.73
There's nothing I
can do. I give up.
00:27:36.76\00:27:40.24
What's the point of trying?
I can't make a difference.
00:27:40.27\00:27:43.89
Actually, you can
make a difference.
00:27:43.92\00:27:46.61
And Jesus asked you
to go to all the world.
00:27:46.64\00:27:50.40
Where? All the world.
00:27:50.43\00:27:53.29
How can I go, I
have commitments?
00:27:53.32\00:27:55.95
You can pray.
00:27:55.98\00:27:58.04
You can volunteer your talents.
00:27:58.07\00:28:00.45
You can tell others.
00:28:03.61\00:28:06.50
You can give money to
sponsor Bible workers.
00:28:06.53\00:28:09.45
Millions of people are
searching for hope and meaning.
00:28:09.48\00:28:12.42
But they won't
find it without you.
00:28:12.45\00:28:14.80
Be the spark.
00:28:14.83\00:28:15.92
Light the fire.
00:28:15.95\00:28:17.37
Finish the work.
00:28:17.40\00:28:18.77
Finish the work.
00:28:18.80\00:28:21.02
Be the spark!
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