And hello good friends,
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so wonderful to
be back with you,
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with another
Gospel Outreach program
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Adventures in Missions.
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I have it had options
to be with you for a while,
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accepting some of the
reruns that you probably see.
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So this is a new program today
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and I'm always excited
when I have opportunity
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to spend time with people
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who are representatives
of gospel outreach
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close by and farther away.
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And my guest today is
one of those who is close by
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but our program is
going to illustrate,
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he spent a little farther away.
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And so I want to welcome Wade.
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Wade Brooks, and
you got to tell us
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a little about you Wade.
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You are one of the newer people,
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I mean in the last
two, three, four years
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any way here at Gospel Outreach.
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What do you do and why
did you decide to do it?
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Well, you know I have to admit,
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I - you said
right by Gospel Outreach
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when it was a little
house on college avenue
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and wonder what was
really going on in there.
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And I worked in
the corporate world
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for quite a number of years.
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And I just felt God moving me
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to take a step to
put myself in a place
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where I could be more
available lay ministry.
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But I wasn't quite sure
how to get there, prayed a lot.
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God ultimately impressed us
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to start our own small business,
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which allowed me some
flexibility in my time
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and ultimately I
was able to start
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volunteering here
at Gospel Outreach
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and I just never dreamed
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that my life
would change so much.
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Sometimes I tell people
I don't hardly recognize
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my life from what I was a
couple of short years ago so.
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You may not recognize it,
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but you are
delighted with it, I'm sure.
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Amen, amen.
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And I would like
to assure you that,
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since you become
a part of this team
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everybody refers to Wade Brooks
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with gratitude and appreciation
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because you have
been such an inspiration
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and effective leader here.
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Now, break it down a little bit.
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What is your role
at Gospel Outreach?
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Actually what I do is--
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I'm the Vice
President of Field Operations.
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And I have the
privilege of working
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with all of the
regional directors
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of Gospel Outreach
in their various areas
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of responsibility
throughout the 10/40 window.
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So I do what I can
here at the home office
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to serve their needs,
to help with resources
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and communication
tools to be able to help us
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establish those relationships,
find out what the field needs
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and be able to serve those needs
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of the world church
in the best way we can.
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Just for the
benefit of the people
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who may not have
had much experience
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with Gospel
Outreach and don't know
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a lot about the structure.
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You said regional directors.
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Who are those people and
how many regions are there?
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We have 18 regions.
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Basically what we
have done is we have taken
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the 10/40 window
that area of the world,
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10 degrees to 40
degrees north latitude
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and we broke it into
regions and each region
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for the purpose of being able
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to get good visibility
what's going on in those areas.
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Has a regional director sign
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and they work directly
with the church leadership
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there in that area to determine
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where those unentered
areas are, where the needs are.
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They act as an
ambassador of sorts.
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Because we want to know,
and be able to adequately
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address the visions of growth
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for the body of
Christ in these areas.
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One region or
several regions are in India.
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And for reasons
of God's leading,
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Gospel Outreach is working a lot
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in that area of the
world and we are here
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on this program
today because Wade has been
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to India for the
first time I understand?
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That's true.
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And I'm sure it was
a rewarding experience
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as for everyone who gets to go.
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You went for what purposes?
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Well, briefly
really three reasons.
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One I was going to participate
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in a workers
training conference there
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for a number of the
workers that had come in from
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Andhra Pradesh area,
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several different
regions around Andhra Pradesh.
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Also we wanted to have sometime
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with the leadership there of
three of the unions to really--
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things are moving
so rapidly in that area
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of the world to really make sure
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that we are
properly understanding
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the needs and the issues there.
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But the third and probably
one of my favorite parts
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of the journey was to be
able to gather testimonies
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for our viewing
audience of people
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that are experiencing
miracles of God in their life
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and let them
tell their own story.
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And I had the
privilege of traveling
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with Roman Hans our videographer
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and many people help
make that possible but,
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but that was one of the most
delightful parts of the trip.
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Well, we are very excited about
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seeing the visual
report of that trip,
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and just before we go there,
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I want to remind
everybody who has joined us,
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who we are, what this is?
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This is a Adventures in
Missions Gospel Outreach
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and on your screen right
now, is appearing an address,
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telephone number, email address,
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website all of
that for the purpose
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of putting you in
touch with Gospel Outreach.
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I don't know what
some of you might say wow,
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I would like to be
involved with Gospel Outreach
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on one of those trips may
be or in some other way like
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receiving the newsletter,
which is yours month by month
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if you just let folks
know, how to get it to,
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you can get that
online now by the way.
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So, I would
like to encourage you
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to be in touch
with Gospel Outreach
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in one of the avenues
that you see available.
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All right, Wade,
we got some footage.
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Yes, these were some recent
video footage that we took.
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I have to say, I
kind of call this
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little part here
first impressions.
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India just amazing
with the diversity of people
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of some 1.2 billion people
that are divided into 28 states,
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one of those
states Uttar Pradesh
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is 200 million
people nearly two thirds
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the population of
the United States.
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And so I was amazed
some of these almost
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seem like
countries within a country.
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Different
cultures, some 200 dialects,
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18 official languages.
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India is a combination
of the old and the new
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as you can see here
ancient civilization,
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yet it's undergoing a
revolution of sort of change.
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Everywhere in the
country you could sense
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the momentum of
change that is taking India
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by storm in so many ways
as myriads of young people
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are full of energy
and interest are anxious
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to be able to participate
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in the economic
opportunities in the world.
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But India is a land that
you realize its very old,
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so much older than our country
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and--and so much
of India story today
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is really rooted in the past
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as there are major religion,
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world religions that
are very strong there.
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As you can see there is no end
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to the entrepreneurial spirit.
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I was just amazed,
every where you turn there
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is thousands of little
shops and businesses set up
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in the most unusual places.
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Didn't find any
Wal-Mart supermarkets there.
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But yet, there
was an endless variety
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of different
things as you can see
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many rich agricultural
goods in some of these areas
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where people are
very enthusiastic
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about selling you
their particular products.
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You can see all
these hot peppers,
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sometimes we saw
them laid out in the road
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for eighth of a mile
drying them on highway
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that wasn't being used.
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As you can see, here
the modes of traffic,
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they have these little autos,
you saw those little yellow,
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those little yellow
vehicles buzzing around.
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Very fascinating and
people who have been to India
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will identify with the
lot of what we have seen there
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and the thing that
I guess impresses you,
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impresses all of us when we
observe something like that,
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every one of
those is a child of God.
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Every person but she
or he may not know it,
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may not understand and
you are going to take us
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into some of their religious
experiences little bit later.
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Let's move along
because I don't want to miss out
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on anything
that you bring to us.
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No, I just, I was
amazed that how much
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effort especially in the
villages that life takes.
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The manual
work, the effort taken
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to just survive the
basic needs of every day.
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This was a little village
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about 70
kilometers outside Hyderabad.
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Where we were
given a warm welcome,
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I learned
something about what it means
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to be part of the body of
Christ by traveling in India.
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Began to realize that without--
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without being part of that
family how lost you can be.
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We found that
everywhere somebody
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is doing something for money.
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You saw the bricks,
the cows people are very
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take a great deal of
pride in their livestock.
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In the villages life is simple
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and is very, very
busy from morning to night
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as you can see this
lady sow very carefully
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sifting through the crops
that she has brought in here.
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In the south, it's
must dryer and hotter,
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the foods are spicier.
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In the north,
it's a little cooler,
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the foods are little less spicy.
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You can see
she-- all the sifting,
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the winnowing, the harvesting
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is all very,
very labor intensive.
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And in a way life in the village
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is a world apart
from life in the cities.
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Where there are call
centers and factories.
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Here you see some
women making some ropes
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just from the simple
materials they have at hand.
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Well, it seems to me the
focus of life is survival.
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Yeah, it is.
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And they are resourceful,
they have to be to survive
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and interestingly
enough, my observation would be
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that God has
instilled in every single person
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some knowledge,
some understanding,
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some comprehension
of what they can do,
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in the light of who
they are and where they are
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and what they never have,
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perhaps most of
them all their life
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been able to
identify that God is the one
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who has been
with them all along.
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Let's continue.
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You know, I was just struck
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by the countless
deities as people,
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India is a very
religious country
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and these people
are looking for God.
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We went by an idol factory here,
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we are actually they
were creating the Gods
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and I was stunned,
I look beside the road
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and see before my very eyes
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these various
deities being carved
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right out of the rock before me.
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But people there is no
concept within Hinduism,
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animism and Buddhism of grace.
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And so these people
looking it's so works oriented,
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you are a devote and depending
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on how faithful
of a devote you are
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is whether or not you will
be rewarded in the after life.
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Hinduism being incarnated
to a better form of life.
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But there is a
quest for dependence
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or some kind of
blessing from a higher power
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or a deity represented in
the best way they know how.
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It's exactly right.
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Yes, you can see this
was just outside Hyderabad
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a shrine of little
temple that we were in there
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a little Hindu
temple and there was just -
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this was festival
for the goddess Shiva.
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And the people are as
you mention they are seeking,
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they are
searching, they will go on
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long pilgrimages for many weeks,
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spending great amounts of money
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to find that peace,
try to find that peace.
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And still they
keep, they keep going,
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they keep looking,
they keep questing.
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Yes.
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And certainly,
Wade, that must give them
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some immediate
response when somebody says
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this is the
avenue the understanding,
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the reality of the true God.
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It is.
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You know, I was just
stunned by that singing bulls
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and the bells
and all the rituals
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that they do to
manipulate the mind
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or to bring certain
sounds to bring the body
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into harmonics of
peace and all the things
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in the various
temples that we went to.
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There is a hunger for
them to be able to experience
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peace of heart and that'
what that home of nirvana,
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you can see that holy men
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as they are seeking
to advise the people.
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Did the people give
them money in their response.
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They do, they do
and many some of these
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once in this
particular Hindu temple,
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use the drugs to
try to reach that point.
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But, we saw that
monkeys were getting the benefit
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at the end of the day.
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People looking like this
dear lady here for whole life,
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for peace and
struggling to find it,
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looking to find it.
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So, religion is a
very significant part,
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Of the culture of
their living experience then.
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Even in death as you
can see in this picture,
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there is--if you
die and this is a famous
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Hindu temple and they
are purifying this body,
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they later will burn this body.
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You probably in a
few frames earlier
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looking for that peace
even at the point of death.
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And all of this and
to our viewers right now,
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we share these
kinds of programs,
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so that you can
perhaps in the security
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of our western
world have some idea
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of who are fellow human
beings are brothers and sisters
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in other parts of the world.
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Okay, Wade, we must continue.
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Yes, this is a
picture of a Muslim family,
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who have found the peace
in Jesus or Isa al-Masih,
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Christ, the Messiah.
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And this lady was
dying of tuberculosis.
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Many of these people do
not know how to read or write.
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They are looking for a God
who can solve their problems.
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This lady
underwent an amazing miracle,
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she came to
trust in Jesus Christ
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and was completely
healed of tuberculosis.
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I want to share
this little clip to show
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the hope in the
eyes of the people
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as once they found Christ.
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Young boy, was a
beautiful singer,
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and shared some very
inspiring prayer song,
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you can see this little girl.
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They are delight
and the happiness
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with the believers
that we worship with,
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as we travel to these various
villages is very inspiring.
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So, what you have
wonderfully portrait for us here
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is the transition from
that experience of quest,
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hopelessness and
searching, searching
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to the reality of having found
the relationship with Jesus.
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Yes, I think of a
priest, the Hindu priest
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the name Bapji that we met
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and just seeing
his journey 40 days
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of fasting every
year with one meal a day.
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Traveling on long pilgrimages,
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doing this for seven years
in order to become a priest,
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that estimates 18 hours a
day looking for the real God
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and having found God.
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And he is now leading
many people to Christ.
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Now, this is the
blind lady right here
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who when she found
Christ began to share.
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Her new found faith
just praying for people,
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she says what can I do.
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She started a prayer
ministry in her village.
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These are the
reality of who people are,
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where people are that
drives Gospel Outreach
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on the course it continues
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to reach out in
the service of Christ.
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You know, Dan, I have to
say that there were times
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I was frankly ashamed,
as I saw little workers
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like this going
into these villages,
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facing sometimes
great difficulties
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and even persecution
but not counting the cast
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and looking at their just
their simple raw primitive faith
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and watching God and
hearing their stories
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about how God has
answered in his raw power
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in these situations.
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This little lady has
experienced miracles of God
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and answer to prayer,
simple prayers in her village.
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And people are happy to have
her come and pray with them.
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And that shows their
search and their desire
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to have a
relationship with God too.
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Yes. Yes. In that.
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All right, Wade has
brought a wonderful series
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of illustrations
that he and Roman
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secured while in India.
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I just want to keep you posted
as who we are and where we are,
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you see the information
on the screen right there.
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But Wade has got
more pictures for us.
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So let's proceed.
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We went one day
to see a baptism,
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we went through a village that
was--I called it stone city.
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Every thing in this
city was about rock.
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As we went out
there was a quarry
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which you can
see in this picture.
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And literally layers of rock
had been cut out over the years.
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They have these
saws that come out
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and they pry them out
after it had been cut by hand.
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Incredible excruciating
labor intensive work,
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hundreds and thousands of trucks
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moving as everything in
this town is about stone.
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But we were going to
see those whose hearts
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have been turned from
stone to heart of flesh.
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And we went over
some of the worst road
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I think I have ever been on.
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Big holes on the road
we travel for a long time.
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As we headed out
in this stone quarry,
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I pass the little
town with the countless
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slabs of stone for sale.
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We went down to this quarry,
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they got permission
to have this baptism
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and all the
workers in the stone quarry
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are watching this
baptism as we had some,
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I think it was seven
people make a decision
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to enter into baptism and
give their heart to Christ.
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And that's what
we are seeing here,
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I have never
seen anything like it.
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People were very
curious wondering what on earth
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is going on in the stone quarry.
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And we just walk right down
into the middle of the job site
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and nobody seem to be, you know,
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seem to be too shocked.
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Be trouble by that. Yeah. Yes.
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And so, we went through this
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and just to see the happiness,
the joy of the believers
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and then
participating in a small feast.
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They give us no doubt
their best of this meal
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and it was just an
honor to be able to worship
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with believers as they--
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And those who were observing
what was happening there
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are obviously going to
be very curious at least
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by driven by the
spirit to ask what's going on?
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What does this mean? Yes.
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And somebody is going
to have an opportunity
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to testify based upon
what they have seen there.
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Yeah, it's so
true. That's beautiful.
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Yes.
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It just reminded in a
way, it was almost like being
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part of an
apostolic era of baptism.
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You know just out under the sun
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and in the middle of
the workplace in the day so.
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Often we do things behind
closed doors but this was.
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You know, Jesus says,
let your light start shine
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and that's exactly what
was happening that day there.
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See, I think
that's so beautiful,
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there you are
greeting them, Wade.
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I think it's so beautiful.
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They are in their clothing,
their street wear so to speak,
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went down to be
baptized and here they are
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and they are not upset
about that they are waiting
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for for the sun to dry them out.
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And ready to go
to work for the Lord.
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Yes, it is.
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All right, I want to get to that
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next special story you have got.
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I think it's
coming next anyways.
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Yes. And so let's go to that.
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So we don't miss it.
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One of our
Gospel Outreach workers
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had really impressed me.
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He is a tremendous preacher,
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soul winner but
he is handicapped.
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He had polio when just a child
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and he can't use
his legs very much
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and as he and I were talking,
00:21:03.70\00:21:07.04
he told me the
difficulty that he has
00:21:07.07\00:21:10.01
trying to pastor three churches,
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riding a local bus and
you know what buses are here.
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Yeah.
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Getting up and
getting down off those buses
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and going from this
village to that village
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has been such a trial for him.
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So, I took picture of
him, submitted his story
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to Gospel Outreach
couple of years ago.
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And it's him thought
you were somewhere in there
00:21:36.50\00:21:38.00
that you discovered this.
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So I'm going to get a chance
to meet this mystery person
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I have seen his picture.
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Why don't you introduce
me to this fine young man
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sitting over here on the edge?
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I would like for
you to meet Shaker Bob.
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Thank you so much.
00:21:49.78\00:21:50.81
Shaker Bob, it is a
pleasure to meet you.
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I heard about you, I
have seen your picture but--
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Thank you, sir.
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This is the first time
that we actually got to meet.
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You know you are correct Dan.
00:22:01.23\00:22:03.06
Dan did send a story
to Gospel Outreach here.
00:22:04.24\00:22:08.41
It's been a while back
and I was going through
00:22:08.44\00:22:12.90
those emails one day trying
to--there are so many we get
00:22:12.93\00:22:15.70
from time to time
and actually daily often.
00:22:15.73\00:22:19.62
And as I was going
through those emails
00:22:19.65\00:22:22.17
that you have sent, I
saw Shaker Bob's picture
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and I read the story and
it was so compelling to me
00:22:25.65\00:22:30.15
about the effort that
he was spending everyday
00:22:30.18\00:22:33.46
out there working for
the Lord in these villages
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and the extreme
difficulty that he was having.
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And I just thought,
I'd send you an email
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to find out what was
going on and at that point
00:22:41.68\00:22:44.51
how much was going on.
00:22:44.54\00:22:45.76
Aiding pretty much
come to a standstill.
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We haven't been able to
raise any funds for him.
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And so when you
picked up the interest there
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and said I'm going to take
this to my Sabbath school class.
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You know, I
remember about that time,
00:22:58.80\00:23:01.67
somebody left a little
sheet of paper on my desk,
00:23:01.70\00:23:04.30
saying that somebody
wanted to donate some funds
00:23:04.33\00:23:07.49
to help Gospel Outreach
workers with transportation.
00:23:07.52\00:23:11.27
And I called this
lady and it had been
00:23:11.30\00:23:13.17
quite sometime
since she had called,
00:23:13.20\00:23:14.79
a note had gotten
stuck in between some papers.
00:23:14.82\00:23:17.78
And she actually
was having a tough time,
00:23:17.81\00:23:20.75
she was a small business person.
00:23:20.78\00:23:22.79
And, but when she
heard Shaker Bob's story,
00:23:22.82\00:23:25.83
I told her about
that, she got so excited
00:23:25.86\00:23:28.91
and she wanted
to be a part of that
00:23:28.94\00:23:31.26
and then also God
just brought other people
00:23:31.29\00:23:34.32
that wasn't not
enough to cover the project
00:23:34.35\00:23:36.94
as a piece of transportation
or little motorbike like this,
00:23:36.97\00:23:40.75
is not a small vespa,
this may have to be modified.
00:23:40.78\00:23:44.05
So I think you were able to talk
00:23:44.08\00:23:46.26
and other people came
forward and one thing another,
00:23:46.29\00:23:50.16
pretty soon the full
amount of the project
00:23:50.19\00:23:52.51
for this three
wheeler was raised.
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Now, you have mentioned to me,
00:23:57.32\00:24:00.27
you are looking
after three churches.
00:24:00.30\00:24:03.04
Can you go to all three churches
00:24:03.07\00:24:05.24
in one day now
with riding the bus?
00:24:05.27\00:24:08.11
No, sir.
00:24:08.14\00:24:09.60
So you can only
go to one or two.
00:24:13.87\00:24:16.36
Now you can only go to one.
00:24:16.39\00:24:18.56
It's not possible. Yeah.
00:24:18.59\00:24:20.16
But with the motorcycle now,
00:24:20.19\00:24:22.46
he will be able to
go to at least two,
00:24:22.49\00:24:24.29
may be three on Sabbath day.
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Good, good.
00:24:26.48\00:24:28.45
So before all the
years up to this time,
00:24:28.48\00:24:32.51
what is your normal
day like in your work
00:24:32.54\00:24:36.73
when it comes to transportation,
00:24:36.76\00:24:38.61
how would you get
from place to place?
00:24:38.64\00:24:40.89
(Speaking in Foreign language)
00:24:40.92\00:24:46.05
Well, sometime I used to wait
00:24:46.08\00:24:48.42
long time to catch a bus, I
never used to get auto also.
00:24:48.45\00:24:52.86
If I hire a auto for a day,
it will be costing more money.
00:24:52.89\00:24:56.73
So I used to walk
with more difficulty,
00:24:56.76\00:24:59.90
though it's very
difficult to walk
00:24:59.93\00:25:01.99
to attend the church services,
00:25:02.02\00:25:03.73
but I never used to attend
three churches on Saturday.
00:25:03.76\00:25:09.35
So the difficulty
really is to as just the bus
00:25:09.38\00:25:12.43
was just such a waste of time.
00:25:12.46\00:25:13.81
You lost so much
time trying to wait there
00:25:13.84\00:25:16.44
in all kinds of
weather for those buses to come
00:25:16.47\00:25:19.76
and often you could miss
00:25:19.79\00:25:22.37
other appointments
with your church members.
00:25:22.40\00:25:24.84
Shaker Bob, we
just want to tell you
00:25:25.85\00:25:28.61
how much we are inspired
00:25:28.64\00:25:30.86
by what God is doing
to you and our prayers
00:25:30.89\00:25:34.74
and I just pray
that the prayers of our
00:25:34.77\00:25:36.91
listening audience will
be with not only Shaker Bob
00:25:36.94\00:25:42.20
but all of our Gospel
Outreach sponsored workers
00:25:42.23\00:25:45.84
as we worked hand in hand
with the church to reach India
00:25:45.87\00:25:50.71
and indeed all through the
10/40 window for Jesus Christ.
00:25:50.74\00:25:54.48
Thank your for your
dedication and your faithfulness
00:25:54.51\00:25:58.78
and we are looking
forward to more good reports
00:25:58.81\00:26:01.81
on how God is
working in your villages.
00:26:01.84\00:26:04.64
Thank you. Thank you sir.
00:26:04.67\00:26:06.13
And I hope that vehicle
will be real blessing to you.
00:26:06.16\00:26:09.74
Thank you so much.
00:26:09.77\00:26:11.77
You know I was just so
inspired by Shaker Bob,
00:26:11.80\00:26:14.36
his energy and his devotion.
00:26:14.39\00:26:16.51
As you can see him he
has a just a terrible limp.
00:26:16.54\00:26:19.11
But just that was
not holding him back.
00:26:19.14\00:26:21.66
He works with many
different religions
00:26:21.69\00:26:24.49
and in fact he has
helped to lead many others,
00:26:24.52\00:26:27.69
and some hundreds of just
in a short period of time.
00:26:27.72\00:26:32.44
Well, this is such a--and
I want to show our viewers
00:26:32.47\00:26:37.45
this is kind of ministry
Gospel Outreach is involved in.
00:26:37.48\00:26:41.52
If there's a worker like that
whose service can be improved,
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can be extended Gospel Outreach
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wants to do something
about getting a vehicle
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that would let him
go where he needs to go
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as the Lord is leading it.
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And I am so delighted
also that you have our
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dear, dear gospel outreach
leader Dan Walter there.
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Yes, he is the
regional director in that area
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and he was able to share.
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In fact he was-- he was the one
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that introduced me to Shaker Bob
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and I had an opportunity
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to travel several days
with Dan, it was a delight.
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You know, he just couldn't
quit smiling, the Shaker Bob.
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To have this vehicle
was just beyond a dream
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come true to him
and even got to take
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some practice driving lessons
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with another
vehicle someone let him try
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and you could
tell the excitement
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was just right there
on the surface for him.
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And I suppose
typically among his people,
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you never would get
a vehicle like that.
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You know, often
handicap people they--yeah,
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it's just, special need folks,
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they don't always have
the same opportunities.
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Wade, thank you,
thank you and thanks to you
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who are a part of the
Gospel Outreach family.
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Your support helps
people like Shaker Bob
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and so many thousand
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and thousands of
other faithful people.
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And thank you
for praying for us.
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We'll remember you
too until next time.
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I'm Dan Matthews.
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