Hello, everybody,
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I'm delighted to
be back with you here
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on another
"Adventures in Missions" program
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where you hear the
stories of Gospel Outreach.
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You know about Gospel Outreach,
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I think if you've been
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tuning into these
programs over the years.
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But may be you are new
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and so you will
learn some wonderful things
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about a frontline
mission organization
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that has some of the
most delightful people
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you will ever learn about.
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And among those
delightful people
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are my guests in this program.
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I kind to think of
Bev as a sister of mine
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because we have been rubbing
shoulders around for a while.
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Bev Thompson, she is our,
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well I was going to say
something different about that,
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but you are the first lady
regional director, right? Yes.
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And we are
pretty grateful for that
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and you ought to be
proud about that too.
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She has
discovered her gift beyond
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the medical field to
the preaching field even
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and that may be a
little scary to start with,
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but God has blessed all the way,
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and today we are extra blessed
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to have your granddaughter
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Sarah here with us.
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Sarah, we are so
glad you are here.
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And listen you have gone
along with grandma to India
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where her Gospel
Outreach team is.
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This is your first time
there? Yes, my very first time.
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I might say, she
didn't come along with me
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and she had a
terrible experience
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transferring in Delhi.
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But she met me in Calcutta.
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And I think that's
all we really need to say,
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memories that she would
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just soon put in
the back of her mind
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and never hear about again.
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Yes, but as I was commenting
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with someone else in
a similar kind of vein.
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It's those experience
that are the memorable ones.
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Yes, that's very true.
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And after all they
kind of help shape your life
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and give you some direction,
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may be to know how to avoid that
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or may be to benefit from it.
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So you don't need to
go into that particular
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but what was it
like going to India.
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Oh, man, it's
completely different
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from here in the States.
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Coming from a little town
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and you spend a lot of time here
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and then you go over
there and you travel.
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The traffic is
chaotic to say the least.
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It's very
exciting to ride over there
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because you don't just drive,
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you drive and you
weave and it's just--
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it's very exciting
to travel over there.
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So you had some
rickshaw rides. Yes, yes.
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And unbelievable
encounters with animals
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of various
kinds including humans
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in the road right in
front of you. Oh, yes.
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And so we were
talking to you Sarah,
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grandma had to work
really heard to get you to go.
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Well, she has been going
year after year after year
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and she took my two
older siblings before.
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And I hear all
these stories all the time
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and I hear like it's
very dirty over there,
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the traffic is very
chaotic and all these stories
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and they are all
very interesting.
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And at first I was like,
man, do I want to go over there.
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It's kind of scary
and I have never been
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on a mission trip by
myself without my family
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and or just with grandma
and so I take a little prodding,
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but once you get
me with the idea,
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I tend to go for
that and so it was good.
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I want you to be thinking,
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we are going to
talk to grandma now,
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but I want you
Sarah to be thinking about
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a person or some
persons that you encountered
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that you are
never going to forget.
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Somebody you met,
something happened
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with a person or in some
of your role or something.
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Be thinking about that.
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We will get back to you
in a little bit about that.
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Okay, let's a do a
little Gospel Outreach
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update here, Bev.
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We always had new
people joining us.
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Gospel Outreach
what, where, why so forth.
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Give us your
overview of Gospel Outreach.
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Well, Gospel Outreach
is where we have a mission
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to spread the
gospel to all the world
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and that mission is accomplished
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by hiring local
people in faraway lands
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to do the
mission work themselves.
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We don't send foreigners.
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We just take
donations to pay the salaries
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of the local people
to do the work for us.
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And then what
Gospel Outreach does is
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many times in these
developing countries,
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there is temptations to
use money in different ways
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to other than what
it was planned for,
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so we have regional
directors that go out
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to an assigned region
every year to make sure that
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in the best of their
ability to see that money
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is been spent the way we
are expecting it to be spent
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and that the work is being done
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that we are
expecting to be done.
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Last recollection,
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there are 18 regions of
Gospel Outreach ministry.
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And so there are--
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you have 17 counterparts in
other regions. That's right.
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And the region is blessed
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with the service of local people
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who are the gospel outreach
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frontline workers. That's right.
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And they are the only ones
who get paid. That's right.
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In the gospel
outreach organization
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and you and Sarah
would be an annual team
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or sometime you go more
than once a year, I know.
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Well, most of the
time it's once a year.
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But I have taken youth
groups a couple of times,
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so it makes it excellent.
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And I appreciate so
much your clarification
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and I'd like our
viewers to understand this,
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it's not a matter
of you participating
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as part of the
gospel outreach family
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and sending support for
gospel outreach workers.
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You can be assured the
likes of Beverly Thomson
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will be going out
there to make sure
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that the
investments that you are making
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in this ministry
accomplish the purpose
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for which the dollars
were given. That's right.
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And so you kind
of go as an auditor.
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I'm far away from
that name but yes.
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Well, let's
call it monitor then.
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And you are making sure that
your gospel outreach workers
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are doing what
they are supposed to.
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But I think really you go
more for your own inspiration
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and to encourage them
in the work they are doing,
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because that mutual
kind of relationship
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will help
produce better results.
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That's right and
you know it's been--
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like they tell me
when you come every year
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and you see the workers,
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this motivates the workers
to do greater and greater,
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preparing for me to come
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so they can show the new souls
that have come to Jesus Christ.
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Now, when you go,
you do some training
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or seminars and so forth.
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And with you I'm sure
with your medical background,
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you can do things
in health education
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as well as Bible studies
and those kinds of things.
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And we try to equip
our gospel outreach workers
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with the basic
home health needs. Good.
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There are lots of details
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that viewers
deserve to know about,
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we just don't have time
for it in these short programs.
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In this particular
trip, tell us where you went.
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Well, I started in Chhattisgarh
which is in the Central,
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North Central area of India
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and then I went
way up to Bhutan area
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and then I worked myself
slowly back down to Varanasi
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where I took the plane
back to Delhi and home.
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So, I really go to four
different states and there are--
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How many gospel
outreach workers in your region?
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About 130. Wow.
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Is that a static number or
is it growing or you need more?
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Oh, we need more.
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I come back with requests
for more for all of the areas.
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But where I see the
work going the fastest,
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that's where I get excited
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and I want to really see
if there is any possibility
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of more funds coming in,
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then we can
divert it to those places
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where they are
really working fast and hard
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and the people are receiving
the message in a fantastic way.
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So you followed grandma on
all these circuitous route?
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I just got there
for ten days of it.
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I was there for five,
six and half weeks. Oh, wow!
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Sarah was there for ten days
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and we were in
South Bengal. Yes.
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And she went on the boat rides
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on these things
out to be, islands
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and then we moved on to Ranchi
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which is the name of a
very large city in Jharkhand.
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And that is where this story
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that we are going to be
telling you today picks up.
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Okay, are you ready for
pictures now already then?
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I think so, yes.
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Okay, let's take a look
at some of the illustrations
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that Bev has brought back.
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Yes, those are the right ones.
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This is a way out in
the boonies, you might say.
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Far from any
city we traveled about
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an hour and a half in a taxi.
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And they have a market
place for these outlying places
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and this is how you might say
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the villagers
exchange their fruits,
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vegetables, legumes,
whatever they have for sale.
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And from this marketplace
you could actually see
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our school and church.
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So, when I visited
last year, in this area.
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This dear lady is
taking her baptism
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or vows and I saw her coming
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and she was
little bit crumpled over
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and I wondered about her
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and yes, we walked
to the baptism pool
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which is about a
half kilometer away.
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And then we had to
walk back to the church
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and here she is
walking back to the church.
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And you know, I
had her in my mind
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a lot as I was thinking about
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coming back to
pool again this time.
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And there she is.
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Can you see the
little lady on the lower
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right side with the
white hair? Yes, yes.
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That is her and
so I asked about her
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because you know,
she just touched my heart
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because she was quite crippled
with hip flexion contractures,
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the knee contractures.
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So she couldn't
stand up straight.
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And I found out that
she had been a witch doctor.
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And people had
come to her for healing
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and for many
various and sundry reasons.
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And she would say,
well, you have to kill a goat
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and feed the
people in the village
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and then you have to
bring me a chicken's foot
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or who knows what and
they would get healed.
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Well, she accepted Christianity.
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Now, what is she going to do?
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She is not making a living
by doing this kind of stuff.
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Well, she isn't making any
money either as a Christian.
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But, instead of
telling people to kill a goat
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or get a chicken claw
to get their sins removed
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or to get healing of
their body or mind whatever.
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She says, I will
have a prayer with you.
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And she is like a
missionary in her home now.
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The people are
coming to her home.
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For prayer. For prayer.
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Wow. What a blessing.
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What a transformation.
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And this is what is happening
to the people in this village.
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Now, you see the school
teacher here on the right
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they're all in the church here.
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That school
teacher was recruited
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by the conference president
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by going to
Spicer Memorial College
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and finding a
teacher who is graduating
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by saying we'd like to hire you
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but we don't have any
funds to pay your salary.
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And are you willing to come
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and you can
recruit your own students
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and set your own fee
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and see if you
can earn a living.
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Well, he was very
intelligent young man,
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he came to this area
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and visited every home in
that village and told them.
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If they would register their
child to come to that school
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that he would give them
free tuition for summer school.
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When I got there last
year, he had 354 students
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and so he have to
have a teachers helper.
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Well, in the mean time we had
a donation for another school,
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in fact it was
four school rooms we had
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and these four
school rooms got built
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with two toilets for
boys and two toilets for girls
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and plus a shower each
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and with this I come in
they have a 150 some students,
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so they have to
hire more teachers.
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Well, the tuition for the--
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of the children in
this very poor region
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is not sufficient to
pay for four teachers,
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so the conference there
is helping them out some,
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but this is a mission project
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and we will tell you
just a little bit more about
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the mission project as we go on.
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You can see, we have
a bunch of kids there
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and this is summer
school, summer time.
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And these children
are also neatly dressed,
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uniforms so do
they have resources
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in their families to
provide that for the children?
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Well, when you register
a child to come to school,
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they have to have
the tuition and a uniform
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and fees for books.
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And so it is a stepping
out process for the family
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to be able to support
their child to go to school.
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But, they stood and
perform singing songs
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and saying memory verses
and they were just beautiful.
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Oh, there is Sarah? Yes.
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What are you doing there Sarah?
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I'm giving my sermon.
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Oh, good. Good for
you. On the Sabbath.
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That's wonderful. Yes,
it was really wonderful.
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And look at the
leis around your neck.
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They probably adorned
you with those, didn't they?
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Oh, they did.
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I got over there
and I felt very honored
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and appreciated because I go
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and I'm just
tagging along with grandma,
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you know, and then they
give her all the garlands
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and then they come to
me, I'm like, oh, I'm just,
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I'm just following grandma here.
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Hey, it pays to
follow grandma. Yeah.
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But let me tell you
when somebody comes with me,
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they don't just tag along.
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I tell them ahead of time,
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I don't have any
deadwood come with me.
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You have to have something
prepared to give to the people
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and so Sarah had
prepared a sermon
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on Sabbath keeping. Oh, wow.
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And it was a very
nicely put together sermon
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and you see I was
trying to also teach
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the Gospel Outreach
workers everywhere I went
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that we wanted them to
have a plan for every sermon.
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You're going to
have an introduction,
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you're going to have 3 to 5
different parts of your message
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and then you are
going to have a summary
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and an appeal because
this is a spiritual thing.
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So you become a
homiletics teacher also.
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And so Sarah gave
an example with hers.
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That's so wonderful.
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She did a very
good job. That was nice.
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Then we had a baptism
and this time you can see
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there are two
young ladies in uniform
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on the right there. Oh, yes.
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And a couple of those
others were parents of children
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that were in the school
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and I think this
is very significant
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because the teacher
actually went to five villages,
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five of the closest villages
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and they have representatives
of every village in that school.
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And not only that
17 kilometers away
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there is a group of
kids that wanted to come
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but they didn't
have transportation,
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they didn't have lodging.
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So the teacher said,
you come and stay with me
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and they bring their mat
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and the teacher
sleeps with 12 students
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and in the morning
they roll up the mats
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and put them to the
side and they have class.
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Right in the classroom? Yes.
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And so you will see
this is you might say
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this baptism is
representative of the work
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that a school
does in that community.
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All right, we got to
hurry with your pictures
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I'm afraid we are going
to miss out on something.
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This is on the
way to the baptism.
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Everyone goes to
the baptismal pond
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and here the children
are leading the procession
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and then the
drummers and everyone singing
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and then we
gather at the poolside.
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Shall we gather at the river?
This is a pool though a pound.
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Oh, he's got this place.
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Anyway, this is
looking down on the pound
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from the people
that are collected there
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and then the
baptism. Isn't it beautiful?
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And you know,
with the shimmering
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of the light on the water,
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it makes the water
look clean It's beautiful.
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If you could see it
otherwise it was brown
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but it was beautiful
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and when the person
goes down into the water,
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you can see the
cascade around their head,
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it's just like a
hallow around their head
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that God is
blessing them as they do it.
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There were young
men and young women,
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there were some
that were older also.
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And see the
reflection of them there
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I think of how they reflect
Jesus Christ. Wow, beautiful.
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Beautiful and when we
got back to the church,
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we went to the
back part of the church
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and we had another
donation from another classroom,
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so this is classroom number 5
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and they wanted
me to dedicate it,
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inaugurate it or dedicate it.
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And so this is the building
and it has one class room
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and they said we have it built
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so that we can add
three more classrooms to this.
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And with the hope and prayers
that will have more donations
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for the
classrooms and in a place
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where you see this message going
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because of the school.
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I say great, this sounds
like a wonderful place too.
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Bev, I got to
interrupt you just--
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just briefly here
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because I want our
viewers to know that
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what you do with, for, through,
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Gospel Outreach makes
a powerful difference.
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Evidence by that
beautiful classroom
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and we have seen the
pictures of the students
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who are involved
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and the
culmination in the baptism.
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It is a whole
picture, a beautiful picture.
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I'm going to have to
ask you to rush along now
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because I'm going
to get back to Sarah
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for a little
story before we end.
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Okay, so they
dedicated the church
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and you can see the
ribbon is flying two directions,
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so I have cut the ribbon here
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and we had a
picture inside the classroom
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with the president and
treasurer of the conference
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and the school
teacher next to me there.
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And here you will see
a rickshaw on the campus.
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Now, let me tell you,
the rickshaw was a donation
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and we have two
gospel outreach workers there
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and they are
really busy, busy people.
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One drives the rickshaw
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so that he can carry students
that live a little distance
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but want to stay at home.
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And so, here it's
a Sabbath afternoon,
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and they are filling
the rickshaw with kids
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all from one village
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because we are going to
have a branch Sabbath school.
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Now, just look at
the kids piled in there.
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I don't think I saw them all
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but there were 12 that I counted
00:21:10.25\00:21:12.55
and I saw a
last one goes through
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the back window of the rickshaw
00:21:15.17\00:21:17.46
and somebody
helped him get in there
00:21:17.49\00:21:19.91
and they are
just squished inside.
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But then while they
were on their way setting up
00:21:23.23\00:21:25.31
for the branch Sabbath school
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we had the
welcome for the people
00:21:26.59\00:21:29.35
who had been baptized then.
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Look at they have put
garlands on the people
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and then after
they put the garlands
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they give them the Bible
00:21:35.37\00:21:37.96
and their baptismal
certificate right there
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and these baptized people now
00:21:40.74\00:21:42.80
really feel part
of that community.
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They are told that they are
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but they are also
welcomed in this way
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and there is that
beautiful bunch of people
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who are baptized
with the school teacher
00:21:50.85\00:21:53.13
in the foreground.
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So the school is a
strong evangelist outreach
00:21:54.37\00:21:59.67
in that community.
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That's right and here we are
00:22:01.31\00:22:03.03
at the branch Sabbath
school in the village.
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They have put the tarp down.
00:22:05.34\00:22:06.76
What did you see that was
00:22:06.79\00:22:07.82
the most
interesting there, Sarah?
00:22:07.85\00:22:10.52
I really enjoyed
seeing how the school kids
00:22:10.55\00:22:14.07
they led with the song service,
00:22:14.10\00:22:16.18
and then their peers
would come trickling in
00:22:16.21\00:22:19.35
from the villages
and they'd sit by them
00:22:19.38\00:22:21.40
and they try to sing along
00:22:21.43\00:22:23.62
and then they would see
a whole bunch of bystanders
00:22:23.65\00:22:25.84
would come and
they were all curious
00:22:25.87\00:22:27.76
and it really is an outreach
00:22:27.79\00:22:30.81
because the
curiosity of all these people
00:22:30.84\00:22:34.46
are just pecked with like,
people coming in stories and--
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Well, it becomes
the most important thing
00:22:39.24\00:22:41.16
in the village. Yeah.
00:22:41.19\00:22:42.65
One of the things that
they told us with the opening
00:22:42.68\00:22:45.24
which to all of
these villages was
00:22:45.27\00:22:48.43
don't drink alcohol
00:22:48.46\00:22:50.19
and this picture shows you
how the woman brew their own
00:22:50.22\00:22:53.42
and come out and sell it
00:22:53.45\00:22:55.72
and sometimes this is
the only way they make money
00:22:55.75\00:22:58.42
and it is so sad,
00:22:58.45\00:23:00.07
but this is one
of the opening wedges
00:23:00.10\00:23:02.36
for our people in these villages
00:23:02.39\00:23:04.65
is to have a health
message to give to them.
00:23:04.68\00:23:07.44
And here again
you see the bystanders
00:23:07.47\00:23:10.11
and those that
are coming out to see
00:23:10.14\00:23:12.09
the branch Sabbath school
00:23:12.12\00:23:13.62
and the school
teacher is standing there
00:23:13.65\00:23:15.52
with that group of men.
00:23:15.55\00:23:16.64
He is in a white
shirt and he is telling
00:23:16.67\00:23:18.64
the children story there.
00:23:18.67\00:23:20.11
Oh, really. And
everyone is hearing it.
00:23:20.14\00:23:22.87
And here the
children are singing
00:23:22.90\00:23:24.99
and kids that don't
know anything at all,
00:23:25.02\00:23:27.41
they have gathered around
00:23:27.44\00:23:28.72
and the ones that are
standing are the students
00:23:28.75\00:23:32.66
and I wanted you to see also,
00:23:32.69\00:23:35.12
look at the heals of the
little boy that standing.
00:23:35.15\00:23:38.49
He is the student, he is
got a big hole in his sock.
00:23:38.52\00:23:41.29
Hole in his sock.
00:23:41.32\00:23:43.15
Now, has he taken his shoes off
00:23:43.18\00:23:44.63
to come on to that mat?
Oh, yes, in reverence yes.
00:23:44.66\00:23:49.59
And the children there,
they are very, very poor.
00:23:49.62\00:23:52.53
You can see that they don't
have clothes that fit them.
00:23:52.56\00:23:55.62
I'm going to let you
show a few more pictures.
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This is it. And this is it.
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Yes. okay.
00:23:59.17\00:24:00.20
Just look at the
smile on that face
00:24:00.23\00:24:02.67
and I think about
those children are the ones
00:24:02.70\00:24:05.48
that are missing
out in going to school,
00:24:05.51\00:24:07.29
because their
parents don't have enough,
00:24:07.32\00:24:09.93
but they get to
learn about Jesus,
00:24:09.96\00:24:11.86
because they bring
the message to them
00:24:11.89\00:24:14.04
every Sabbath afternoon.
00:24:14.07\00:24:16.03
But it isn't
just this one village,
00:24:16.06\00:24:19.36
it's the five villages
that the kids go to school
00:24:19.39\00:24:24.04
at our school there.
00:24:24.07\00:24:25.65
It is those five villages
00:24:25.68\00:24:26.95
they go to every
Sabbath afternoon
00:24:26.98\00:24:29.75
to take a branch Sabbath school.
00:24:29.78\00:24:31.88
Can you imagine? It's hard.
00:24:31.91\00:24:34.81
Sarah, you have been thinking
00:24:34.84\00:24:37.83
who, who is in your mind
00:24:37.86\00:24:40.03
that you're
never going to forget?
00:24:40.06\00:24:42.57
I have to say,
it's the school teacher
00:24:42.60\00:24:45.43
at this school in Polas.
00:24:45.46\00:24:48.15
He takes these kids out
to all the different villages
00:24:48.18\00:24:53.60
and he is on fire and he goes
00:24:53.63\00:24:56.42
and he doesn't do it
00:24:56.45\00:24:58.30
just because he is
getting paid. It's a good job.
00:24:58.33\00:25:00.69
He does it because he loves God
00:25:00.72\00:25:02.37
and he is going out there
and he gets to the kids involved
00:25:02.40\00:25:05.54
and the youth involved
00:25:05.57\00:25:07.21
and so everybody
is involved in there
00:25:07.24\00:25:11.20
and he goes out
on Sabbath afternoons
00:25:11.23\00:25:13.17
and I think about
my Sabbath afternoons.
00:25:13.20\00:25:15.18
What do I do and go to church
00:25:15.21\00:25:17.92
and then take a nap or something
00:25:17.95\00:25:20.06
or go to the
mountains or something
00:25:20.09\00:25:22.02
but he is going out there and--
00:25:22.05\00:25:25.45
I understand how
he is one faithful
00:25:25.48\00:25:28.71
and impressive person
00:25:28.74\00:25:30.55
to bring a dozen
children into the school
00:25:30.58\00:25:33.85
and to sleep there,
so that they can have
00:25:33.88\00:25:37.40
a benefit of a
Christian education.
00:25:37.43\00:25:40.16
Well, thank you,
Beverly, always glad to be
00:25:40.19\00:25:43.16
where you are and to
hear your exciting stories.
00:25:43.19\00:25:46.53
I got to tell you
Sarah, to be with your grandma
00:25:46.56\00:25:49.20
and just see the
smile on her face
00:25:49.23\00:25:51.19
and enthusiasm that she exhibits
00:25:51.22\00:25:54.38
would sell this
story to anybody.
00:25:54.41\00:25:56.94
And I want to
thank you for helping.
00:25:56.97\00:25:58.49
Salute to our folks
who are viewing right now
00:25:58.52\00:26:01.70
and we are glad all
of you have joined us
00:26:01.73\00:26:03.92
for this Adventures
in Missions program.
00:26:03.95\00:26:06.35
And I'm sure you are
saying to yourself right now.
00:26:06.38\00:26:09.54
I'm not going to miss
another one of those program
00:26:09.57\00:26:11.42
and we do want you too.
00:26:11.45\00:26:12.86
We want you to be a
part of this family.
00:26:12.89\00:26:15.04
You see on the screen
right there the address,
00:26:15.07\00:26:17.04
name, telephone number
all of that information.
00:26:17.07\00:26:19.60
Ask for a copy of the
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00:26:19.63\00:26:22.69
or you can get
it online of course
00:26:22.72\00:26:24.74
and thank you for your support.
00:26:24.77\00:26:27.44
Your support helps build school,
00:26:27.47\00:26:29.65
helps develop
all of this ministry
00:26:29.68\00:26:33.73
that Beverly and
Sarah have told us
00:26:33.76\00:26:35.60
about today in this program.
00:26:35.63\00:26:37.60
And I want to thank you
for being a part of this
00:26:37.63\00:26:40.58
very important
21st century ministry
00:26:40.61\00:26:44.14
where God is finding people
00:26:44.17\00:26:47.06
and doing things
that we wouldn't have
00:26:47.09\00:26:49.88
dream possible a
little while ago.
00:26:49.91\00:26:52.25
But He is able
and we are grateful.
00:26:52.28\00:26:55.20
See you next time.
00:26:55.23\00:26:56.53