Participants: Fred & Arlene Webb
Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000472
|
00:16 Welcome to "Adventures in Missions"
00:18 with Gospel Outreach. 00:19 I'm Julie Sanders Keymer. I'm glad that you're here. 00:21 We are headed on a trip to the Philippines, 00:24 but before we do that, 00:25 I wanted to read a scripture from Psalm 133. 00:28 "How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together, 00:32 work together in unity." 00:34 And we're going to hear more about that 00:36 from Fred and Arlene Webb. 00:37 Welcome to "Adventures in Missions". Thank you. 00:40 So you folks are in charge of the Gospel Outreach workers 00:44 in the Philippines. Yeah. 00:45 And Fred, tell us a little about how the brothers and sisters 00:48 are working together in unity there. 00:50 Well, two years ago I had the privilege of working 00:52 with the Quiet Hour in Baguio city. 00:55 Now Baguio is a resort city up in the northern part of Luzon. 00:59 It's about 5,000 feet elevation so it's cool. 01:03 It's north of Manila. 01:04 Oh, its north of Manila about six hours by the car. 01:08 And it's up in the-- so it's up in the mountains, it's cool 01:11 and that's where people in the Philippines go to cool off. 01:15 And we had a series of meetings there, 01:18 we had ten venues 01:19 and one of those was in a place called Ecuab 01:22 I think that's an acronym for something 01:24 but I don't know what it is. E-C-U-A-B, Ecuab. 01:29 Anyway, at the close of the meetings, 01:31 of course, there were some baptized 01:33 and we recommended and mission placed 01:37 Gospel Outreach worker in Ecuav to nurture 01:43 and to lead this people along. Wonderful. 01:45 And so our first pictures shows is the Josue Budayao 01:51 and his wife who were assigned there. 01:54 And they began nurturing 01:56 but you know many people move around, 01:59 and they ended up not very many people actually stayed. 02:03 They moved to other places so they weren't very many 02:05 so they started giving Bible studies 02:07 and reaching out really good. 02:09 But because of Quiet Hour, they were assigned there 02:12 so we give some Quiet Hour some credit for this also. 02:16 And that's where the unity comes in. That's right. 02:19 And as they began to work, they met this man, 02:22 Arsenio and his wife Sally. Arsenio was a gold miner. 02:26 There's a lot of gold around Baguio City. 02:30 And he was a gold miner, 02:32 private man, has 35 employees 02:37 and they go digging back into the mountains. 02:38 I asked him if I can go back into the mountain with him, 02:40 he said no, no, no. 02:41 You wanted some gold, Fred. 02:43 Well, no, I just wanted to see how they did it. 02:46 And he said no, no, it's too dangerous. 02:48 I said what you mean. Why? 02:49 He said, well, you probably couldn't breathe back in there. 02:52 But he goes back in there with his men every day. 02:55 To find the gold. 02:56 To find the gold or they'll bring it out and they-- 02:59 And they probably don't wear masks and they-- 03:01 No, they-- safety? 03:03 Yeah, way bothered with that. Safety? What's safety? 03:05 Anyway, the Gospel Outreach found-- 03:08 worker found gold in Arsenio and Sally. 03:12 They wanted to study the Bible. Good, praise God. 03:14 And they studied and both of them accepted. 03:17 They became Seventh-day Adventists 03:19 but they had no place to worship 03:21 because when we held the meetings there, 03:23 it was, you know, big public gymnasium. 03:26 So he said, well, I have a big house. 03:31 Wow, that is a big house. 03:33 It's a tall house. Yeah. 03:35 And he had a large room downstairs. 03:39 He said, well, why don't we meet in my house? 03:41 And so the people come to church on Sabbath morning 03:45 coming down these steps and it is a long way down 03:48 because Baguio is steep. 03:52 It's built on hills and mountains, 03:53 not just hills with steep canyons all around. 03:56 But they're used to, they live there. 03:57 They're used to it 03:58 and so they came down these steps 04:01 to go to church on Sabbath morning. 04:03 There were several there. 04:05 Now this is the one individual 04:09 who's still left from the Quiet Hour baptism. 04:11 Oh. She is now a high school senior. 04:16 The only Adventist in her family 04:19 and the only one left, the rest of all moved away, 04:23 many of them were students. 04:25 And so others found jobs elsewhere 04:27 and they moved away. She's involved with the church? 04:29 She is very involved with the church 04:31 and she led out in a song service. 04:33 And a very delightful young lady to talk to, 04:37 she's just, you know, fresh and bubbly. Good. 04:41 She's got the joy of the Lord in her then. That's right. 04:44 And here she has another group of ladies working 04:47 with her singing special music 04:49 for this church on Sabbath morning. 04:51 Now what do the neighbors think about 04:52 all of this when they house churches like this? 04:55 Are the neighbors curious? 04:57 Have any of the Gospel Outreach workers 04:59 shared any of that with you? 05:00 I have not gotten the feedback on that. 05:02 Yeah, and just to be curious to know... 05:04 The neighbors are close. Yeah? 05:06 I mean they're right there. Right there. 05:08 Well, let's just hope that singing inspires them. 05:12 Most people in the Philippines are very cordial however 05:16 and are quite religious, 05:20 so they're tolerant of religious activities. 05:22 Oh, good, okay. 05:24 In fact, you know here in the States, 05:26 you can't have Bible in the school 05:28 or you can't have a prayer. 05:30 There they have prayer in school, it's very common 05:33 and they talk about religious things 05:35 so it's not a problem. Well, that's good. 05:39 This is the head in another area, 05:44 he was the Gospel Outreach worker, 05:47 he was assigned two areas close together 05:50 and so he's now built up two congregations, 05:53 each of them about 50. Good. 05:56 And they are meeting in separate places 05:59 but on this particular Sabbath they came together, 06:01 not all of them came together 06:02 but most of them did, the leaders did. Sure. 06:05 And we had a good fellowship together. 06:10 But the house is getting too small and we were-- 06:13 That's a great problem. 06:14 And they would like to join together 06:16 and so they have this Arsenio, 06:20 the gold miner has tried to do something about it. 06:23 Here are some of the people that gathered together 06:24 for church that day 06:27 and Arsenio found this piece of property. 06:31 Now in Baguio, property is very expensive 06:34 because it's outstanding on end 06:37 and they built on those steep hillsides. 06:40 And so he found this piece of property, 06:42 part of it is up on the level 06:43 where you see Josue standing there 06:46 and part of it's down below. It dips down. 06:48 So what they're trying to do 06:49 is to build a church up on the top level 06:53 and go out and the children would be 06:55 down below there for-- So--excuse me, go ahead. 06:58 So as they can have their services 07:00 and to have a place for the children as well. 07:02 So do you have any idea 07:04 how much that piece of land is right there? 07:07 Just a ball park? 07:08 It was about, I think it was about $3,000. 07:11 $3,000? Yeah. 07:13 And that's expensive for them. Yeah. 07:14 Arsenio put up half of that money as down payment. 07:17 Wow. Personally? Yeah. 07:21 That shows his commitment. 07:22 Some other donors have sent 07:24 some more money so they can make sure 07:25 that they can make the payments 07:27 on the property and get titled to it. Wow. 07:30 And this is a title property that which is a real problem 07:32 in many places in the Philippines as well. 07:37 People claim they own property 07:38 and try to sell it but they don't actually own it. 07:41 And they can just setup shop there, build a house 07:43 whether they own it or not? Yeah. 07:45 So when you buy, you have to make sure 07:46 you buy titled property 07:47 otherwise you might end up losing it. 07:49 Sure. So... 07:51 Oh, there we can see the terrace a little bit more. Right. 07:54 Arsenio and brother Budayao 07:58 standing together in the property 08:00 that they have basically they have purchased now. 08:04 Now they're going to try to raise money 08:05 to put up a building. Good. 08:06 So hopefully, their mission will help him with that. 08:10 So here are the two leaders of the two congregations 08:13 that were joined together to build this church. 08:16 So, Fred, help us again understand 08:19 what's the distance between the two congregations? 08:22 Will this be more of a challenge for them 08:24 to come together as far as walking up 08:26 through all these hills or will it be more convenient? 08:28 They will probably have to take 08:30 some kind of transportation to get here. 08:31 To get there, okay. 08:33 But that's why motorella, motorcycle with a sidecar. 08:37 Okay, that's called a motorella? Yeah. 08:40 I learned a new word. Or a tricycle. 08:42 Okay, I learned a new word. 08:43 Different names in different places. Okay, I got it. 08:44 Yeah, depends on where you go. 08:46 Motorella, it sounds like a combination 08:47 of a motorcycle and umbrella but... 08:49 Well, that's sort of what it is, top on it. 08:52 Okay, that's good, that's good. 08:53 So that almost fits that description. 08:56 But there are houses around there 08:59 that they would like to bring in. 09:02 If we can bring that picture back up again. Yeah. 09:07 These houses, you see 09:08 how they're kind of built on the hillside. Yeah. 09:10 And they're almost built right on top of each other. 09:13 With the stilts and all of that? Yeah. 09:16 So they have a work to do right there and hopefully, 09:20 they can build a church and fill it. 09:23 Now you mentioned the man who's the gold miner 09:25 so that's his job, he basically has two jobs 09:28 because he's working as a Gospel Outreach worker-- 09:29 No, no, no. 09:31 The gold miner was one 09:33 to the church by the Gospel Outreach. 09:35 Okay, all right, I misunderstood that, okay. 09:36 No, he's still a gold miner, that's his business. 09:38 So the Gospel Outreach worker, that is their job. Yes. 09:41 Should be a Gospel Outreach worker fulltime. 09:42 Fulltime. Okay. 09:45 Okay, our next one takes us to San Ysidro. 09:49 And we have a Gospel Outreach worker Rowell Ed-- 09:55 and he has just well, 09:57 transferred recently to this area, 09:58 I think it was the first of the year 10:00 and he is going to be holding some meetings. 10:03 He's showing us here the Barangay Hall. 10:05 Each town has a hall which is a meeting place 10:09 and as you see there at the far end 10:12 is a basketball goal, 10:14 that's the main sport there in the Philippines, 10:17 so every Barangay, 10:19 every village has to have a basketball court. 10:21 So it's kind of like the community center 10:23 /gymnasium/whatever? Right, right. 10:26 Eventually, civic center 10:27 and so they were going to beholding meetings 10:29 and the next picture shows us 10:31 some of the elders in the church, 10:35 workers that are going to be assisting him. 10:38 The meeting should be in progress now 10:40 but we have not had any recent report 10:43 but they were getting ready for it then. 10:45 Now we go to the town of Ramos 10:48 and our Gospel Outreach worker here, 10:50 his name is Raymond Santus? 10:54 Santos. Santos. 10:56 He and his wife and has a little girl. Cute. 10:59 And they--this is another, what you call a home church. 11:02 Just around the corner, less than a mile away, 11:05 we passed a big protestant church, 11:08 and that was a beautiful big church 11:10 and then we turned the corner, 11:12 we come down and here we come to our Adventist church. 11:15 Here's this little sign out there, 11:17 it's the Adventist church in the Ramos. 11:20 They had the gates, they opened up the gates, 11:22 you have a little courtyard 11:24 and then just beyond there is a room 11:26 actually it only has two sides 11:29 but they had some curtains there on the far side. 11:32 And this is on Sabbath 11:34 and on Wednesday night 11:35 preparing the church members meet. 11:37 Just a small congregation, 11:39 I think only about 25 or 30 and then just beyond 11:42 where the people are standing there 11:44 is another little just open area 11:47 and then there's a house, it's a small little house but... 11:50 And that's where the Gospel Outreach workers live. 11:51 Live. Okay. Yes. 11:53 And while we were there, the head elder 11:55 and his wife came over and we met them also. Oh, nice. 11:59 You know even in these conditions, 12:01 when you don't have much money, 12:03 they put out something for us to eat 12:04 no matter where we go. 12:06 Usually, its tropical fruit 12:07 but we really enjoyed it. Yes. 12:09 So they--yeah, everywhere we go, they provided food for us. 12:12 Very kind. 12:14 So that's a bigger place to tell people how they can join. 12:17 Absolutely, well, and we want to encourage 12:20 our viewers to give to Gospel Outreach 12:23 and that's where you can be involved. 12:25 At Gospel Outreach, we have a wonderful program 12:27 called Adopt-A-Worker 12:28 and we have some information 12:30 that we'd like to share with you. 12:32 Gospel Outreach began a mission 20 years ago 12:35 by asking one simple question. 12:37 In a world filled with famine, hunger and starvation, 12:41 what is Jesus waiting for? 12:43 In a world filled with earthquakes, 12:45 hurricanes and natural calamities, 12:48 what is Jesus waiting for? 12:50 The Gospel tells us in Matthew 24:14, 12:54 "And this gospel of the kingdom 12:55 shall be preached in all the world 12:57 for a witness unto all nations, 12:59 and then shall the end come." 13:04 Inspired by those words, 13:05 Gospel Outreach began with one worker 13:08 and over the past 20 years, it's grown into an organization 13:11 with 2,200 workers in 40 plus countries. 13:15 Gospel Outreach is an independent 13:17 Seventh-day Adventist lay ministry 13:18 run entirely by volunteers. 13:22 Gospel Outreach works with the organized church 13:24 to sponsor Bible workers in the 10/40 Window. 13:28 Now what exactly is the 10/40 Window? 13:32 The 10/40 Window is a region of the eastern hemisphere 13:34 located between 10 and 40 degrees 13:37 north of the equator. 13:39 What makes this region special? 13:41 97% of all the people in the world 13:44 who'd never heard the name of Jesus live here. 13:47 Now how exactly does Gospel Outreach work 13:50 to reach these people? 13:52 We do this by working with the church 13:54 as it places trained indigenous workers in new territories, 13:58 sending out disciples just as Jesus did. 14:01 When a Bible worker sponsored by Gospel Outreach 14:04 enters a new village, 14:05 it's estimated that in the first year, 14:07 an additional 300 individuals will be baptized 14:10 and commit their lives to Christ. 14:13 Individuals who have never heard 14:15 the amazing story of God's love 14:17 are getting to meet Jesus for the first time. 14:20 Now how can you help? 14:22 Bible workers rely on sponsorships 14:24 to support them and their families 14:26 as they share the unconditional love of God. 14:30 This is why Gospel Outreach is introducing 14:32 our Adopt-A-Worker program, 14:34 together with the church we identify new workers 14:37 and areas that need to be reached. 14:39 That is why it's our goal to introduce 14:41 a million new people to Jesus 14:43 in the next three years. 14:45 All that is remaining for this work 14:46 to begin is your financial help. 14:50 In return, we will keep you updated 14:52 on the exciting progress of your worker 14:54 sending you stories and pictures 14:56 of the lives changed by your donations. 14:59 There are three ways you can get involved. 15:02 You can be a prayer partner 15:03 for Gospel Outreach by praying for our Bible workers. 15:07 Second, become an ambassador for our Adopt-A-Worker program 15:10 by telling their family and friends 15:11 about how they can make a difference too. 15:14 And finally, sponsor a Bible worker. 15:17 Call or visit the website today. 15:20 So now that you know a bit about Gospel Outreach 15:23 and now that you know what Jesus is waiting for, 15:25 the final question is what are you waiting for? 15:31 And you can have an impact for the Lord 15:33 by adapting a worker in the Philippines for example, 15:36 for about $150 a month. 15:39 You can adopt a worker who is outgoing 15:41 and meeting with the people like the picture, 15:42 pictures that we've been seeing here from the Philippines. 15:44 They're meeting the people where they are 15:46 and they're sharing the love of Jesus with them. 15:49 And you can go to our website 15:50 goaim.org for more information. 15:53 So we're going to go back now with Arlene and Fred Webb. 15:57 They have been keeping in contact with the recent trip 16:00 with our Gospel Outreach workers in the Philippines. Yes. 16:02 So, Fred and Arlene, where are we going now? 16:05 Well, we are going-- 16:06 we started in the northern part of the Philippines, 16:08 now we're going to the very, very 16:09 southern tip of Mindanao. Okay, let's go. 16:12 Way to the south, 16:13 if we could have our first picture here 16:14 where we have Pastor Sagabi-- he's a former Sulu 16:18 that's a gospel student missionary 16:21 from Mountain View college 16:22 but now he's the evangelist for Southern Mindanao Mission 16:25 and he's the man on the left 16:27 and he's in charge of our mission outreach work there. 16:30 He's in the grey? Yes. 16:32 And therefore in charge of our Gospel Outreach workers. 16:35 Here we have five of our men, 16:39 the lady there one right is the wife of one of them 16:42 who I'll talk about later, was too far away to come in 16:47 and in a dangerous place 16:48 and she doesn't him dare go out there, 16:50 but we'll talk about that later. 16:51 But these other five are Gospel Outreach workers 16:53 and we are very pleased with their work in the past. 16:56 For the last several years, these men and the one lady 17:02 have been bringing in 17:04 a thousand baptisms a year. Wow. 17:08 Several years ago I visited Rey Dolotallas 17:11 who's the kind of the leader of the group, 17:14 the bald headed one on the left in the previous picture 17:17 and he has--he works through a singing group, 17:20 he keeps the kids to sing 17:22 and so these were B'laan tribe children 17:26 singing a special song for us. 17:28 And they're wearing, is this their national dress? 17:30 That's their B'laan tribal costume. B'laan. 17:34 Now that was taken 7 years ago. 17:37 This is the group today, 17:38 I was working with the Quiet Hour 17:42 as a speaker for our recent 17:45 evangelistic campaign we had there. 17:46 Working together again. Yes, the unity. 17:49 And I was meeting with all those men 17:51 that you just saw on the former picture 17:53 and they were saying that they have a singing group 17:57 they would like to bring to sing for us. 18:00 And so I said that's fine, I'll make arrangements for it. 18:03 And so the group came this one evening 18:05 and I was disappointed they wore new uniforms 18:08 but they said they've outgrown them. 18:10 But when they got up to sing, 18:12 although there was a little noise, 18:13 we have a lot of children at our meetings, 18:15 our meetings average from 400 to 600 a night. Wow. 18:18 And lot of kids so there's noise, 18:21 this group is getting up to sing you know, 18:24 the buzz arose but when they started to sing, 18:27 time they've done the first or second bar 18:29 it just quiet it down 18:31 and they did five songs right one after another, 18:34 no with the pausing, you know 18:37 and it was just beautiful 18:38 and the congregation was really moved 18:40 and touched by their singing. Wow. 18:42 So we're so glad that you came. 18:44 Now are they teenagers? College age? 18:46 Yes. Okay. 18:47 They're now, some years ago, they were children. 18:49 Right, right. 18:51 Okay, our next picture shows 18:55 one of our workers there Elias Bitoon. 18:57 Now he had moved to a new place that they move them 19:02 like where they build up a church you know. 19:05 And so I came to a new area 19:06 and about 50% of the people were Muslims 19:09 but the Muslims and the Adventists 19:12 are on good friendship 19:14 because our-- oh, just to me doctors 19:18 we have a lot in common. Sure. 19:20 Like the unclean meats. Dietary. 19:21 And we don't worship idols and we worship, 19:25 you know, the one God. 19:26 So he has no problem of love and affection there. 19:29 The other 50% are Catholics, 19:33 Protestants and the tribal people. 19:35 And they do a lot of friendship evangelism. 19:38 Going out and meeting people from other churches 19:41 or they even go and visit other churches on Sunday 19:44 and making friends. 19:46 Anyway, the man you see there, the taller man in the white, 19:50 he was a pastor of an evangelical church that he met 19:55 and his name is Dencio Enghang, something like that 20:00 and he was interested, 20:03 the pastor there on what do Adventist believe. 20:06 He was quickly into the Sabbath 20:08 and so Elias gave him bible studies 20:12 and he came two weeks ago. 20:15 On March 30, we had a big mass baptism there in General Santos 20:20 and another two which Fred will mention more 20:23 and this pastor was one that came. Wow. 20:28 Now the man in the center there with stick, 20:32 he is what they call a quack doctor. 20:34 A quack doctor? What is that, Fred? 20:36 A witch doctor. A witch doctor. 20:38 He dealt with the all of the different 20:42 incantations and things 20:44 and he is now accepted Jesus as his savior. Wow. 20:48 And he was preparing for baptism 20:51 and the day this picture was taken, 20:52 we were at the baptismal site 20:54 and he was just ready to go and to be baptized. Wow. 20:56 And Elias Bitoon is really been working hard there 20:59 and he brought 100 people for baptism that day. Praise God. 21:05 And this picture is another Gospel Outreach worker, 21:08 Noel Ming. 21:10 And he has just been one year in his spot, 21:15 getting acquainted with the people 21:17 and trying to assist their needs 21:19 and where he could really lead them. 21:21 And he decided to have a seminar on family life, 21:26 how to make the family happy and working together. 21:30 So he began a series and he'd only gone two weeks 21:35 when he had an accident on his motorcycle. Oh-oh. 21:38 And he was taken to the hospital, 21:40 he had many facial cuts, he had injury on the head 21:45 and his chest was hurting so he was put in the hospital, 21:49 of course, if you look carefully you might see 21:51 some of the ridges there where they sewed him up 21:54 and he had some things on his head, 21:56 you can see a place where it's still gone here back, 21:59 had a big bandage on his head. Bless his heart. 22:02 And but he came the night for the next meeting. 22:05 And he told the doctor I'm holding a seminar 22:08 and we have a meeting tonight 22:09 and I need to go and the doctor said no, 22:11 you cannot leave the hospital. 22:14 So after the doctor left, he said I must go. 22:17 So he got up out of the bed. No way. 22:19 Went to the cupboard, got his regular clothes, 22:21 took off his hospital gown, put on his clothes and he-- 22:24 He just discharged himself. 22:25 He went to the meeting, he held the meeting. 22:28 After the meeting was over, he went back to the hospital, 22:32 he took off his clothes, put it in the cupboard, 22:34 put on his gown and got back into bed. 22:37 That's a determinant man for the Lord I'll say. Right. 22:40 Three days later, the doctor did dismiss him 22:44 and he continued with his meeting 22:47 and on November 24th, this is 2012, 22:51 he baptized 33 people, 29 were new members 22:56 and four were former Adventists. 22:59 Then on February of this year, he baptized another 31. Wow. 23:04 From neighboring area and then at this man's baptism, 23:09 he brought 40 more people. Bless his heart. 23:11 So he has been very active working for the Lord. 23:14 I should say. 23:15 Now the next man we have there is Samuel Tambunan 23:19 and he worked in an area, when he got there, 23:22 they were having problems. 23:23 There was the native people 23:25 and then another people group had moved in 23:27 and they thought they were superior to the natives 23:30 and were trying to takeover their land. 23:32 So there was big friction 23:34 well, the Datu is the chief of the natives, 23:37 he called for a meeting where they get together 23:40 and to workout their differences and now Samuel had, 23:46 actually he had been a pastor of alliance church. 23:51 But he was baptized in 1980, 23:54 started working for the Gospel Outreach in 2000 23:59 and he spoke several languages, the native languages. 24:02 And so he was asked to be the translator 24:05 as they have these negotiations. 24:08 And anyway, the outcome was that the Datu decided 24:12 that the newcomers go back and you find land somewhere else 24:15 and the local Subanon tribe will keep their land. 24:20 They solved it out. 24:22 They solved it out and now he is a hero 24:24 and he's won the confidence of the people 24:27 and so then he began studies and this man-- Great. 24:30 This man had a baptism on January 12 of this year, 24:34 56 were baptized. 24:36 In February, he had another baptism 24:39 and 52 more were baptized. Praise God. 24:42 And when he came to the meeting 24:44 just couple of weeks ago for the baptism, 24:46 he brought 200 more people for that baptism. Wow. 24:50 This man, bless his heart, he is on fire. 24:53 Over 300 people. 24:55 The Lord has really been blessing his ministry. Wow. 24:57 The next man is Rey again, we have him 25:00 and he brought a large group to the baptism also. 25:04 He has been very active 25:05 and one of the things that he does is 25:08 to meet people at serenading, 25:10 takes his young people, his singers. Oh, really? 25:13 And they go to the doors of home on their birthday 25:17 and they go out 3 o'clock in the morning 25:20 and the people are sleeping. 25:22 He has translated many of our Christian songs 25:25 into their local dialect. 25:27 These are the native people in the mountains 25:29 and people are sleeping, all of a sudden, 25:32 they hear this angelic music 25:34 and as they finally wake up, they'll get up and get dressed 25:37 and come to the door and listen, if there's-- 25:41 house is big enough, they'll invite them in, 25:43 they have a prayer for the birthday celebrant. 25:46 They have a little message 25:48 and then they shake hands and get acquainted. 25:51 And at 3 a.m., the birthday person is not upset? 25:54 No, they enjoy the music, they feel honored. 25:56 They invite them in and give them the food either. 25:58 Isn't that something? 25:59 One of the reason it is the neighbor 26:01 the catholic minister excuse me, a Baptist minister, 26:05 neighbor, heard this beautiful music 26:07 and so he came out and after the group was done, 26:10 he asked them if they would come to his church and sing. 26:14 They accepted the invitation 26:17 and they were invited back again and asked to preach. 26:21 And as a result, many of the members of that church 26:24 then joined the Adventist church 26:26 and the minister said that he believed also 26:30 and he would have to make some arrangements 26:32 but he also wanted to join our church. 26:34 Isn't that fantastic? 26:35 From serenading, I love it. Well, praise the Lord. 26:38 Well, Arlene and Fred, thank you so much 26:39 for being here and the Lord bless you 26:41 as you continue to encourage the people in the Philippines 26:44 as they work on behalf of the Lord. 26:46 And thank you so much for joining us 26:48 here on Adventures in Missions. 26:49 I'm Julie Sanders Keymer 26:50 and we do hope that you'll donate here to Gospel Outreach. 26:53 Please visit goaim.org 26:56 and may the Lord bless you. |
Revised 2014-12-17