Again a bright
hello from Gospel Outreach
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here in College
Place, Washington the studio
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where we're
producing another program
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of Adventures in
Missions stories.
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I know you've been
inspired by the stories
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you've already heard,
observed via this program
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and today is going
to be no exception.
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I get to welcome my dear,
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dear friend of few years now Bev
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to the set of gospel outreach.
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Beverly
Thompson, Regional Director
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for Gospel
Outreach in some corner
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of India in north. Thank you.
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Yes, in Northeast India
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this is from
Calcutta up to Bhutan
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and then over
westward to south of Nepal.
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Did you know where those
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places were on the
map before you went?
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I didn't, I haven't
even heard of Bhutan.
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And now you've traversed
the area several times.
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Yes, I like to go to Bhutan
and encourage the workers there.
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How many workers in
Bhutan? They are 10.
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Now, are they in
culture and everything similar
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to the rest of
India to the south?
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You know, there
are some similarities
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but they have a
culture of their own
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and they are very
proud of their culture.
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And it is a
monarchy, they have a king,
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and they are very
proud of their king.
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And he is a very
caring type of person
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and he wants to
preserve Bhutanese. Yeah.
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Do you find as a westerner ready
access to places like that?
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For Bhutan it's a
little bit difficult
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because their
government rules are that
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you have to pay the government
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so much money to
be able to get a visa
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to get into the country.
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The visa isn't that much
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but they require you to
spent $250 a day in Bhutan.
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Now that $250
goes to transportation
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for lodging and for food.
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Can it go to support
gospel outreach workers?
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I wish it would.
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No, proselytizing
is against the law.
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And for trying
to convert someone
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you can be put in
jail for 14 years.
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So how is
gospel outreach working
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under this kind of environment?
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My gospel outreach workers do
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a lot home to home visitation
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and come and see my aunty,
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come and see my
cousin in this kind of work.
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And then when they know
that you are a Christian,
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there seems to be
drawing card for Christianity,
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because people there know
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that our God
works through prayers
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and so when you have somebody
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who will pray for
you who is a Christian,
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it is better than
going to a witch doctor.
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So while
proselytizing is illegal,
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being a Christian in
Bhutan is acceptable?
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It is, but you keep your
Christianity inside your door.
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Uh-huh..
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But anybody who comes
inside your door is fair game.
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A possibility, right.
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Okay, we're going
to place called Tarpin.
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Tarpin is the name of
the village in Sikkim area,
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right next-door to Bhutan.
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And Sikkim is that area
between Bhutan and Nepal
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and there is been,
it's mountainous area
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and countries are far
over this little piece of land.
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It has been in Tibet's hand
before China took over Tibet.
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And it's been in Bhutan's
hand, it's been in Nepal's hand.
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And currently
it's in India's hand.
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In fact I think it was
in 2006 that China said,
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okay, it belongs to India
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because they
had it before India.
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So to get into this area
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where we have this
group of believers,
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you have to get a special
visa at the doorstep of Sikkim.
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And we can show
the first picture.
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I'm just trying
to-- just try to clear up
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for a non traveler like me.
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I travel some but
not there, Sikkim.
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Correct. Okay.
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And what I am thinking
because of some Indian origins
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and routes nothing to
do with the Sikh religion?
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No, no, no. Okay.
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So that's another part
of India. That's right.
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It's in the north
but it's northwest
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that they have the stronghold--
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All right, let's
see your pictures, Bev.
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Okay, we just did show
while you were talking.
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The border crossing
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but I want to introduce
you to the pastor there,
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he is the taller
man that Pastor Thompson
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and the other man is a
Gospel Outreach worker.
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And he is the man who said,
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I'm going to
visit every, by God,
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which is a house
on these mountains
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and we are going to introduce
them to the love of Jesus.
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And this has been a big part.
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Now this to me
is one of the most
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beautiful little
churches. I guess.
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I believe it was
built by Maranatha.
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But we have a
Gospel Outreach worker
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who-there are two
Gospel Outreach workers
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who have certainly you might say
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the headquarters
with this church.
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And these members
that but we have a church,
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we need a school
for our children,
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there is no schools for
a long ways around here.
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The government hasn't school.
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No government school, no school.
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And if we can
only have a school,
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so these members
put up the school.
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Can you imagine us
calling that a school?
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That is a four room school.
On the side of a mountain.
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On the side of a
mountain. Can you imagine.
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Now this is looking in
that-- we're looking across,
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you see the blackboards
on two large blackboards
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and one partial one there.
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I took this last year
but this year when I went,
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there were teachers in there
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I just couldn't
find my picture for
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to show you the
teachers with the students.
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But they are
actually in this room teaching
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and those boards
are up 4 feet high
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and the teachers
can be seen above it.
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And it's open air.
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Now can you imagine what happens
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in December and January?
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Well, I've already
been thinking about that.
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The foothills of the Himalayas,
it is cold, cold, cold.
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And so-- They don't
have snow days there?
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No snow days but they get snow.
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They do get snow in this area.
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But these people have
asked for a real school.
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You know, they called it,
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we need a real
school for these people.
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But when we got there this time
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I was so disappointed,
we got there at sunset
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and we have to quickly take
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some pictures of the
members in front of the church.
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And then we have
to walkout behind
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with flashlights
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because we had to
see what had been build.
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We had a donation for a clinic.
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And so we walked
way in the back there,
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it's difficult to see maybe
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but this is in front
of the two room clinic.
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And we have a
dedication service,
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they had waited for
me to come to dedicate it
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and they have two people
to come to run the clinic.
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And I thought it
was very interesting.
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They have been to a
self supporting mission
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where they have taught them
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seminary fundamental
beliefs as well as healthcare.
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Now in the
flashlight we are doing
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the ribbon cutting ceremony.
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So the whole thing is,
it's really in the dark?
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Yes, it's in the dark.
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And it's just a
thrilling experience to be there
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even in the dark to do this
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ceremony for opening
the clinic. Interesting.
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Now that clinic
was established built
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under the auspices
of Gospel Outreach also?
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Yes, because the
donation came through me
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because they had
previously asked me for a clinic
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and I was little
wary at first that,
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but when I asked them who
will you going to have here
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to man the clinic.
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Well, they want to do
home health treatments.
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Oh, that's another story.
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So yes, now they are
showing us another room.
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There's two rooms
for the clinic there
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and there is a door and
two windows in each room.
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And then they
took us into the church
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and they showed us
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when they told
the government people
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that they are going
to have this new clinic.
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They gave a solar light
and battery for the clinic.
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And now we're saying hello
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to all of our Gospel
Outreach workers in Sikkim.
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These are the Sikkim band
of Gospel Outreach workers.
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We have three ladies there.
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The man in the center with
the sachet like across him,
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he is the one that
you saw in the field
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at the beginning
of the talk. Oh, yes.
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And this message
is going to Sikkim
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because of these workers there.
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I want you to look
at the terrain of this.
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I was up at the school
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and looking down and
there was a building--
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On the roof up there. How is it?
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Yes, that's how steep it is.
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And to see people willing to
do all of this on the hillside.
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Back to the school. Yes.
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We are some
dollars away from making
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that building a real school
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or does it need to be
at build some place else.
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What's the challenge there?
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Okay, this property
is donated to the Lord.
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A man had a family member
die and will him property.
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And they have
dedicated this to God.
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The church has been put on it,
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they build the school
on it and then the clinic.
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Last year they
showed me the property
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and it's 7 acres there.
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When I was there they said,
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well, we got to have
groundbreaking ceremony
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because we know
the money is here.
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So there we are
breaking the ground
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with everyone that was around
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when I was there last year.
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But there is no
flat ground there?
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No, they had to
bring in a bulldozer
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and have it flattened out.
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They said, now we have
this large flattened area,
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we can have camp meeting on it.
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And then there is a
place there for parking,
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there is a
place for having games
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if they want some games.
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And they have
made a wall of stone.
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It's about 3 feet high
and the wall of stone supports
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that clinic on the top of that.
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These people you might say
are really on fire for God.
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They love the Lord and they want
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to see the
message go in that area.
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And so again they
are using a school
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as a means for
getting this message out,
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they are using a clinic.
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I got an email
from the worker there
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and he told us how the husband
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and wife team have
come for the clinic
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and they are doing
treatments every day
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and they are--
it's like the beginning
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of a new message
of health, education,
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and health
treatments with home health.
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So you are explaining to us
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that there is no education
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provided to the people
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about the
government in this place
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and there must be
no healthcare either.
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It's a long ways away.
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But not there. No.
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But Gospel Outreach
with the whole message
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that God has entrusted to us.
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Can they establish a place,
a service among these people
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that they
wouldn't get anywhere else
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but from Gospel
Outreach? That's right.
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Well, that's wonderful.
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And I think the message is going
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because God is
using these facilities.
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And that's why, you know,
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we are open for
donations for another school
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and we're looking
at four classrooms,
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and the four classrooms
will cost probably $12,000.
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For four classrooms is all.
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And that is probably a building
that could be closed to be
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more sufficient for
winter weather? Yes, yes.
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Now are there
dwelling houses heated?
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No, no.
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Those people--
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I wanted to remark on
the video that's going on.
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Okay, please.
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They are welcoming us
not with garlands this time
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but with scarves.
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And you can see all of
us are receiving the scarf
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and I have mine,
It's very precious to me
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because of the
people in this area
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and the way the
message is going in this area.
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The people are so giving
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and so thankful
for whatever you do
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and when they have
that church by Maranatha
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and then they have the school
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that they themselves built
and then they have the clinic,
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the Gospel Outreach
has helped to put up
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and now they're just
saying one more thing
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we can really use a real
school. Bless their heart.
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With this in mind
they have given me a gift.
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And this is the
Sikkimese extra warm jacket
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like that ties in the front.
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Plus like a-- it's like a
saree that goes underneath it.
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But they want to reach
out and the thing is that
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I told them that
we have a donation,
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we're hoping that somebody
is going to come through
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with the donation for the school
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and this was their response.
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They stood and
applauded with cheers
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and thanksgiving, beautiful.
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So this is kind of a
new dimension of ministry
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for Gospel Outreach.
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Formally our
Gospel Outreach workers
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were holding Bible
studies, praying with people,
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preparing for
evangelistic series
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which is certainly
a part of the ministry
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and very much in order,
but here among the Bhutanese
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and among the Sikh
folks in order to get
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I don't know a
relationship with them perhaps.
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We need to work
from an educational
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and a health point of view.
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Well, you know, the Bible says
over and over and over again
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lot about
helping the poor people.
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And those that don't
have what we can have.
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And I think about this
every time I go to Tarpin.
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And I see how little they have
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and how they're
willing to put up
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with everything
that is imaginable.
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And be thankful that they're
gonna have that little bit.
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And, you know, with
their desire to have a school.
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Yes, our Gospel Outreach workers
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still go door to door
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and they are just
using this as another means
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by which they
can reach more people
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that can be more interested
in receiving the gospel.
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And so we have many more people
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who are brought to Jesus Christ
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because of the
extra things that come.
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Now we don't usually say
Gospel Outreach build schools,
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Gospel Outreach build churches.
No, this is not our key focus.
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Our key focus
is still number one
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Gospel Outreach workers,
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they are the ones
that are sending it.
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But every so often
when we have people
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who are supporting
Gospel Outreach workers,
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this is the next step of support
for Gospel Outreach workers.
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Well, I think the
scripture is clear
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on the commission to believers
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that we have to meet people
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where they are with
response to their needs
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because well, in
the James it says,
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it doesn't do much good to go
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and talk to
people and say be warmed,
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if we haven't given
them a cloth or a garment
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to assure them
that we can understand
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and care about
that. That's right.
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This region of Sikkim
you say is a small little...
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Well, it's
probably I'm trying to think
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maybe not even the
size of Nevada. Oh.
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Well, that's larger than
I was imagining when you...
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I would say it's
half the size of Nevada.
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I'm not from the east, so
I can't give a smaller state.
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And is it ruled with
the monarchies as is Bhutan.
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No, because now it is
part of India. Ah, surely.
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But they have a border
crossing to get into Sikkim.
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There is a definite line,
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you cross this line
you have to have a visa.
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And they take my
passport and photocopy it
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and they put a
stamp in it to say
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that I have
permission to go into Sikkim.
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Now where you cannot do
proselytizing in Bhutan.
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Is that true also of Sikkim?
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Different states in
India have different laws
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and some laws are very strict
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and sometimes they are
on paper and not practiced.
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And as it is in Bhutan,
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they have a law
against proselytizing.
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But every person
is their own policeman
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and so your
neighbor can turn you in.
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And they are a well
banded group of people.
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There are differences
in the culture in Bhutan
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and that they have large
group of Nepalese in the South.
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And you might say that
the Nepalese are not duke
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which is the main
part of Bhutani people
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that are true Bhutanese
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at least that's
what they call themselves
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the true Bhutanese
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But some of the
Bhutanese have come from
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Tibet and China,
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others from
Nepal, others from India.
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But the main group
there that called themselves
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Bhutanese are group and
they speak Zonka language
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and so it's opening a new
area when we get into Bhutan.
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So how many Gospel
Outreach workers in Sikkim?
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Sikkim we have 10. Oh.
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As we have 10 in Bhutan. Okay.
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Do you have
anymore pictures today?
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I think that
was-- Oh, yes we do.
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This is singing
in the church there
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the workers, there is the
man in the black and white shirt
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and he is the one that brought
the church to that property
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and then help to
build the school. Yes.
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And you might
say he and his wife
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are background to the school.
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And he is your Gospel
Outreach worker there too?
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He is in charge of
that area. Oh, okay, okay.
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Now this is inside the church.
This is inside the church.
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The ladies sit on one side
and the men sit on the other.
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Look at the next picture.
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The people there have
many children that seems
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and the children are just
wide eyed and eager to learn,
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eager to learn and
there is just something
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about those people that
are so hungry for the Lord.
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As you think back
on your visit to Tarpin
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and I remember you showing me
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some pictures of
this unique area before
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and that's the
steep area that it is.
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As you think of those folks,
00:20:49.97\00:20:51.49
you've shown a
several people here,
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but tell me about one
person or one individual
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that you met in
this Tarpin region
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that has impressed you,
00:21:04.23\00:21:05.87
the worker of course but
who has impressed you there.
00:21:05.90\00:21:10.55
As somebody who has really been
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captured by the Spirit of Jesus?
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Well, you know,
that's a little bit difficult
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because I feel
like the children are
00:21:18.74\00:21:22.06
as much on fire as anyone else.
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Interesting. And
it's igniting the people.
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It is just everyone
is on fire for the Lord.
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Everyone wants to have a school.
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Everyone wants
to have this clinic.
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Everyone is bringing
their people to that area,
00:21:36.09\00:21:39.34
so that they can
learn more about Jesus.
00:21:39.37\00:21:42.75
The little church and I
hope I'm not misusing a term
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it was darling,
this little church,
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they're nestled in
this mountainous area
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and to think-- and it's probably
00:21:54.10\00:21:56.07
the only Christian
church in that region,
00:21:56.10\00:21:59.47
is that true? Oh, yes, yes.
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And so it becomes indeed
00:22:02.29\00:22:04.20
a light house. That's right.
00:22:04.23\00:22:05.61
That makes a dramatic difference
in the lives of these people.
00:22:05.64\00:22:09.16
And now to add the
clinic along with the school,
00:22:09.19\00:22:12.66
the people's
whole lives can expand
00:22:12.69\00:22:15.68
and enlarge based upon
these dimensions of human life
00:22:15.71\00:22:19.78
that apparently were
not of any concern before.
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You've got the
message. Yes, Dan.
00:22:23.32\00:22:28.01
This part of the world are
hungry for Jesus Christ. Wow.
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And, you know,
it's like I said before,
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Christianity has a
power with God through prayer.
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And the people know it
and it makes the difference.
00:22:40.74\00:22:44.53
When they have a sickness
they go to the witch doctor
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or to the medicine doctor,
that is the religious leader
00:22:47.90\00:22:53.63
and they have to kill
a goat or kill a sheep,
00:22:53.66\00:22:56.71
or kill a chicken any
of these kind of things
00:22:56.74\00:23:01.72
and then
supposedly get this blessing,
00:23:01.75\00:23:04.32
so that they will be healed.
This is their believe pattern.
00:23:04.35\00:23:08.10
These are animist people,
00:23:08.13\00:23:09.53
the people that
believe that a tree is the God,
00:23:09.56\00:23:12.88
that a stone is the God
00:23:12.91\00:23:15.04
and then when they
get their hearts to Jesus
00:23:15.07\00:23:18.91
and let Him do the work
00:23:18.94\00:23:21.29
what a difference it
makes in their lives.
00:23:21.32\00:23:23.79
And so they will
come to the Christians
00:23:23.82\00:23:26.70
after they've gone
to the witch doctor,
00:23:26.73\00:23:28.52
after they've gone
to the medical doctor
00:23:28.55\00:23:31.16
and not had helped.
00:23:31.19\00:23:32.70
And you have to realize
that in this part of the world
00:23:32.73\00:23:35.84
when they go for
the medical service,
00:23:35.87\00:23:38.90
many times there
are people along the way
00:23:38.93\00:23:40.84
that are giving
money under the table
00:23:40.87\00:23:43.96
and then I'll treat you.
00:23:43.99\00:23:46.82
And it's supposed to
be free for the people,
00:23:46.85\00:23:50.18
but now the workers
along the way take money
00:23:50.21\00:23:53.50
otherwise they
don't get treated.
00:23:53.53\00:23:55.66
And so the poor person really
is falling between the cracks.
00:23:55.69\00:24:01.16
But they go to these people
00:24:01.19\00:24:02.76
and then they say what can I do,
00:24:02.79\00:24:04.18
I'm going to die. Then
they come to a Christian.
00:24:04.21\00:24:10.61
Beverly, were you the
first regional director
00:24:10.64\00:24:15.54
for Gospel Outreach of this area
00:24:15.57\00:24:17.19
or was it somebody before you?
00:24:17.22\00:24:18.96
Actually Wally
Mandigo was first there
00:24:18.99\00:24:22.73
for a short time before me.
00:24:22.76\00:24:25.64
We had not got into Bhutan yet,
00:24:25.67\00:24:28.58
we have some workers in India
00:24:28.61\00:24:32.01
that we're going
across the border,
00:24:32.04\00:24:34.42
but this seems to be a practice
that many churches have done.
00:24:34.45\00:24:38.62
And so we did not really
have an entrance into Bhutan
00:24:38.65\00:24:43.34
until after I
saw these problems.
00:24:43.37\00:24:47.19
And another thing that
00:24:47.22\00:24:48.91
you are impressing me
with is the establishment
00:24:48.94\00:24:52.29
of the permanence
with these people.
00:24:52.32\00:24:54.64
We just didn't come to see you
00:24:54.67\00:24:56.56
into kind of have
a tourist experience.
00:24:56.59\00:24:59.60
We came to live with you
00:24:59.63\00:25:01.21
and we want your
lives to be different
00:25:01.24\00:25:03.34
because of Jesus,
right. That's right.
00:25:03.37\00:25:05.13
So, Beverly, I want to thank you
00:25:05.16\00:25:07.62
so much for who you
are. God bless you dear.
00:25:07.65\00:25:11.93
And for what you do indeed,
00:25:11.96\00:25:16.44
I am sure that
maybe 15 or 20 years ago
00:25:16.47\00:25:20.86
you really had no idea
00:25:20.89\00:25:22.98
that you would be an
international missionary
00:25:23.01\00:25:25.44
the way you have been.
00:25:25.47\00:25:26.91
And to travel as a many times
00:25:26.94\00:25:30.18
a single woman
going among these people
00:25:30.21\00:25:33.45
and God is certainly
been with you protected you--
00:25:33.48\00:25:35.72
God is good.
00:25:35.75\00:25:36.78
And inspired you with
more and more experiences
00:25:36.81\00:25:41.07
that you've been
back to inspire all of us.
00:25:41.10\00:25:44.57
And so I just want to assure you
00:25:44.60\00:25:47.33
that you are very
special in Gospel Outreach.
00:25:47.36\00:25:50.34
Thank you and, you know,
00:25:50.37\00:25:51.40
I think about a
friend who asked me,
00:25:51.43\00:25:53.25
well, this time what
would you grade your visit
00:25:53.28\00:25:56.88
as on a scale of 1 to 10.
00:25:56.91\00:25:59.89
And I just have to say
00:25:59.92\00:26:01.51
for the most part
it was 10, 10, 10.
00:26:01.54\00:26:04.42
Bless your heart.
00:26:04.45\00:26:05.57
Well, I think and
I'm going to say this
00:26:05.60\00:26:09.48
for our audience all of us.
00:26:09.51\00:26:11.66
With the spirit in which
a servant like Beverly goes
00:26:11.69\00:26:18.36
you can't miss a 10. No.
00:26:18.39\00:26:20.93
Because Jesus is
all about who we are,
00:26:20.96\00:26:26.01
why we are,
where we're going and--
00:26:26.04\00:26:28.29
And it's all about
Jesus. Intrusting Him.
00:26:28.32\00:26:30.94
He gives us all
these experiences,
00:26:30.97\00:26:33.45
even the little
thing you talked about
00:26:33.48\00:26:35.12
in an earlier
program with Sarah that
00:26:35.15\00:26:37.37
didn't go just the
way you wanted it to
00:26:37.40\00:26:39.53
but it was such a
blessing to you, to her,
00:26:39.56\00:26:42.47
and to so many other people.
00:26:42.50\00:26:44.11
And, Beverly, you
are blessing to us
00:26:44.14\00:26:46.21
and all of
Gospel Outreach family.
00:26:46.24\00:26:49.04
Thank you all for
being a part of this.
00:26:49.07\00:26:51.44
You'll catch the address
and all of that information.
00:26:51.47\00:26:53.49
We want you to be in touch
00:26:53.52\00:26:55.01
and if there's anyway
that you can join this family,
00:26:55.04\00:26:58.59
we want you to do
that. God is good.
00:26:58.62\00:27:00.61
I need to spread
the gospel here at home.
00:27:16.46\00:27:19.47
Where is the
10/40 Window anyway.
00:27:19.50\00:27:22.65
Those people live too far away.
00:27:22.68\00:27:25.81
Someone else can
tell them about Jesus.
00:27:25.84\00:27:28.41
Maybe they could just watch TV.
00:27:28.44\00:27:31.60
Nearly three billion
people to reach, my head hurt.
00:27:31.63\00:27:36.98
Just nothing I
can do. I give up.
00:27:37.01\00:27:40.49
What's the point of trying?
I can't make a difference.
00:27:40.52\00:27:44.51
Actually you can
make a difference.
00:27:44.54\00:27:46.96
And Jesus asked you
to go to all the world.
00:27:46.99\00:27:50.70
Where? All the world.
00:27:50.73\00:27:53.61
How can I go, I
have commitments.
00:27:53.64\00:27:56.44
You can pray.
00:27:56.47\00:27:58.50
You can volunteer your talents.
00:27:58.53\00:28:04.11
You can tell others.
00:28:04.14\00:28:06.90
You can give money to
sponsor Bible workers.
00:28:06.93\00:28:09.77
Millions of people are
searching for hope and meaning.
00:28:09.80\00:28:12.65
But they won't
find it without you.
00:28:12.68\00:28:15.08
Be the spark. Light the fire.
00:28:15.11\00:28:17.64
Finish the
work. Finish the work.
00:28:17.67\00:28:21.38
Be the Spark!
00:28:21.41\00:28:23.50