Participants: Glen & Karen Wintermeyer
Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000486
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00:00 [OPENING MUSIC].
00:23 WELCOME BACK FOLKS, TO ANOTHER GOSPEL OUTREACH PROGRAM WHERE WE DEAL WITH 00:28 ADVENTURING IN MISSIONS. 00:30 THIS IS THE PROGRAM WHERE WE GET TO MEET PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN OUT ON THE FRONT 00:35 LINE. 00:36 MEET THE FOLKS WHO ARE THE LOCAL GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS; THE PEOPLE FOR 00:41 WHOM YOU PRAY. 00:42 THE PEOPLE THAT YOU SEND MONEY TO HELP SUPPORT AND TODAY I GET TO WELCOME 00:46 BACK A DEAR, DEAR FRIEND AND HIS WIFE, GLEN WINTERMEYER AND HIS WIFE 00:51 KAREN. 00:52 SO GLAD YOU ARE HERE WITH US TODAY, KAREN. 00:54 TELL US ABOUT YOUR REGION AGAIN, GLEN. 00:57 REGION 4 WHICH IS WEST AFRICA, THE WESTERN HALF OF WEST AFRICA, BURKINA 01:04 FASO, MALI, GAMBIA, GUINEA AND LIBERIA. 01:07 IN THERE I HAVE 55 BIBLE WORKERS. 01:10 WOW. 01:11 THEY HAVE RETURNED FROM REGION 4, EARLY PART OF 2013. 01:16 THEY'VE BROUGHT PICTURES AND STORIES AND WE DON'T WANT TO MISS OUT ON ANY OF 01:23 THAT SO, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO WATCH FAST AND LISTEN FAST AS GLEN 01:27 ADVANCES THE PICTURES AND KAREN IS GOING TO TELL THE STORY. 01:33 SO LET'S GO WITH YOUR STORY FROM LIBERIA. 01:35 O.K. 01:41 WELL, MARY UNDERSTANDS WHAT TRIALS AND SUFFERING ARE ALL ABOUT. 01:46 LISTEN AS SHE SHARES HER STORY. 01:48 SHE SAID, "I MARRIED A LEBANESE MAN AND TOGETHER WE HAD FOUR CHILDREN." 01:52 WOW. 01:53 "WE STAYED TOGETHER FOR 15 YEARS. 01:56 MY HUSBAND WAS A BUSINESSMAN. 01:59 WE MOVED SEVERAL TIMES AS MY HUSBAND WOULD OPEN A STORE IN ANOTHER AREA. 02:05 ONE PLACE WHERE WE LIVED FOR 2 YEARS, THERE WAS NO CHURCH. 02:10 MY BROTHER, WHO WORKED IN A PALM PLANTATION, TOLD ME WHERE I COULD FIND ONE AND 02:16 IN 1969 I JOINED A CHURCH. 02:20 NOW, MY FATHER WAS A MINISTER OF A DIFFERENT DENOMINATION AND HE WANTED 02:26 ME TO JOIN HIS CHURCH. 02:29 BUT I HAD STARTED GOING TO THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH AND TOLD HIM I 02:33 COULD NOT BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS TO KEEP THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK. 02:39 IN DECEMBER 15, 1973 I WAS BAPTIZED INTO THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 02:46 MY HUSBAND ALLOWED ME TO GO TO CHURCH ACTIVITIES BUT ONE DAY HE SAID," "YOU 02:52 LOVE GOD TOO MUCH, SO SOMEDAY I WILL LEAVE YOU AND SEE IF GOD WILL SAVE 02:58 YOU." 03:00 MY HUSBAND MOVED AGAIN AND BUILT A SUPERMARKET IN YET ANOTHER PLACE. 03:06 IT WAS AT THIS TIME THAT MY COUNTRY FOUND ITSELF EMBROILED IN DEEP 03:11 STRIFE-CIVIL WAR, PERSECUTION AND SUFFERING. 03:16 MY HUSBAND WITH HIS TWO BROTHERS SOLD THE ENTIRE BUSINESS AND LEFT THE 03:21 COUNTRY LEAVING ME ABANDONED. 03:25 ARE THOSE SPENT SHELLS? 03:26 THOSE ARE SPENT SHELLS THERE. 03:28 THAT YOU COULD TAKE A PICTURE OF THAT? 03:31 YES. 03:32 WOW. 03:33 I DID NOT KNOW HE EVEN LEFT. 03:35 HE NEVER EVEN TOLD ME ANYTHING. 03:36 HE LEFT ME WITH THE FOUR CHILDREN. 03:41 HE LEFT ME WITH NO MONEY, NOT EVEN ONE PENNY WAS LEFT FOR ME. 03:51 IT WAS SO HARD FOR US. 03:52 I PRAYED TOGETHER WITH THE CHILDREN. 03:54 IT WAS SO BAD I WAS THINKING OF KILLING MYSELF. 04:04 I TOLD MY CHILDREN SO. 04:07 BUT MY OLDEST SON SAID, "MOM, IF YOU DO THAT WE WOULD JUST BE LEFT ALONE 04:12 ON THE STREET TO FEND FOR OURSELVES OR DIE, SO PLEASE DON'T DO THAT." 04:18 SO I PRAYED AND FASTED, FASTED AND PRAYED AND PRAYED AND FASTED. 04:25 MY OLDEST BROTHER CAME AND SAID MY OLDEST SON COULD WORK AT THE PALM 04:30 PLANTATION WHERE MY BROTHER WORKED. 04:32 MY OLDEST SON WORKED THERE AND WAS PAID ONE BAG OF RICE A MONTH. 04:42 AFTER ONE YEAR, HE LEFT TO GO WORK IN THE CITY ON HIS OWN. 04:47 SO, I HAD TO TRUST AND HAVE FAITH IN GOD IN THE MIDST OF ALL OUR 04:52 STRUGGLES. 04:53 SO THE OLDEST SON WAS PAID THE RICE, WAS THAT THE TOTAL SUSTENANCE FOR THE 05:01 FAMILY THEN? 05:02 YES. 05:03 YES. 05:05 AND NOW WE GET TO THE PLACE IN THE STORY WHERE HE LEAVES TO GO TO ANOTHER 05:09 CITY AND SHE IS ON HER OWN. 05:10 YES. 05:11 CONTINUE. 05:12 BUT THESE ARE HER NEXT WORDS. 05:15 GOD PROVIDED FOR US. 05:16 WOW. 05:18 I HAD TO BEG FRIENDS FOR CLOTHES. 05:20 I HAD NOTHING TO WEAR TO CHURCH BUT SOME CHURCH MEMBERS GOSSIPED ABOUT ME 05:26 SAYING, "WE GAVE HER CLOTHES AND NOW WE DON'T SEE HER BACK HERE IN 05:31 CHURCH FOR A LONG TIME. 05:33 SHE MUST BE SELLING THE CLOTHES WE GAVE HER." 05:36 I TALKED WITH THE PASTOR AND TOLD HIM BUT HE ALWAYS ENCOURAGED ME AND WOULD 05:42 TELL ME NOT TO EVEN LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAID. 05:47 HE CONTINUED TO ENCOURAGE ME UNTIL MY CHILDREN WERE GROWN. 05:53 I WROTE ABOVE THE DOOR OF MY HOUSE, "GOD WILL PROVIDE". 06:00 EVERYBODY IN THE TOWN KNEW THAT HOUSE. 06:04 IT WAS BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR THAT WAS IN 1985. 06:10 NOW IN 1991, I WAS THE CHOIR DIRECTOR IN MY CHURCH. 06:15 I LOVE TO SING. 06:17 WE WOULD GO FROM CHURCH TO CHURCH. 06:19 IT WAS THEN THAT I BEGAN TO SPEAK IN SOME OF THE CHURCHES AND THAT IS HOW I 06:24 STARTED GETTING USED TO PREACHING AND PREPARING TO BECOME A CHURCH PLANTER. 06:31 REMEMBER, THIS WAS ALL DURING THE FIRST CIVIL WAR IN MY COUNTRY THAT WENT 06:36 FROM 1985 - 1996. 06:42 IN 1992, I WENT TO AN UNENTERED AREA WHERE I WAS A STRANGER. 06:48 I WENT TO THEIR SUNDAY CHURCH WITH THE PEOPLE AND PRAYED WITH THEM. 06:52 THE PEOPLE CALLED ME "SISTER" AND "MOTHER" THERE. 06:58 I EVEN PREACHED IN THE SUNDAY CHURCH. 07:02 THEN I STARTED SABBATH SCHOOL AND STUDIED THE BIBLE WITH PEOPLE. 07:07 LATER ON, WEDNESDAY NIGHT WE STARTED PRAYER MEETINGS. 07:12 I WAS THERE UNTIL THE WAR CAME TO THAT PART OF LIBERIA THEN I HAD TO 07:16 LEAVE. 07:19 IN 1994, I STARTED TO ATTEND THE CHURCH IN MONROVIA, THAT IS THE 07:23 CAPITAL OF LIBERIA. 07:25 I WAS MADE THE ELDER TEACHING THE PASTOR'S CLASS--WHERE I HAD BEEN 07:28 BEFORE ONCE AND I HAD ENCOURAGED THE PEOPLE THERE TO SAVE FOR A CHURCH 07:30 WHICH THEY HAVE TODAY. 07:31 THEY DID THAT. 07:33 I THEN RETURNED TO AN AREA WHERE I HAD BEEN BEFORE AND TOLD THE TOWN PEOPLE, 07:49 "I WANT TO BUILD A CHURCH HERE." 07:52 THE ELDERS OF THE TOWN AGREED. 07:54 SO, I WENT AND BOUGHT FOUR BAGS OF RICE. 07:58 NOW WHERE IS SHE GETTING HER SUSTENANCE BY THIS TIME? 08:01 NOW, SHE HAD GONE TO THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH MISSION AND ASKED 08:06 THEM IF THEY COULDN'T HELP HER WITH SOME MONEY TO BUY THIS RICE. 08:10 O.K. 08:14 SHE BOUGHT THIS RICE FOR THE CRUSADE MEETINGS TO FEED THE PEOPLE BECAUSE 08:19 THE PEOPLE ARE VERY POOR THERE. 08:23 I ASKED FOR AN EVANGELIST TO COME AND 13 PRECIOUS SOULS WERE BAPTIZED. 08:31 THEN IN 1995, I LEFT LIBERIA AND WENT TO GHANA BUT I RETURNED TO LIBERIA 08:37 IN 1998 JUST IN TIME FOR THE SECOND CIVIL WAR TO BEGIN IN 1999. 08:47 I WANT TO SHARE ANOTHER STORY THAT MARY TELLS AS SHE WENT THROUGH THE CIVIL 08:55 WARS, TWO OF THEM. 08:56 CAN YOU IMAGINE? 08:57 I'VE NEVER BEEN THROUGH ONE. 09:02 SHE HAS BEEN ABANDONED BY HER HUSBAND BACK BEFORE. 09:06 HER CHILDREN ARE GROWN AND ON THEIR OWN NOW? 09:08 YES. 09:09 IN THE PROCESS OF OR HAVE GONE ON. 09:12 AND SO IT SEEMS THAT HER WHOLE LIFE IS DRIVEN BY THE DESIRE TO PLANT 09:18 CHURCHES OR HOLD EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS-ANYTHING CHURCH 09:22 -EVEN TO BORROW THE MONEY TO BUY RICE TO FEED THE PEOPLE WHO COME TO THE 09:28 MEETINGS. 09:29 YOU GOT IT. 09:30 SHE LOVES THE PEOPLE AND THEY LOVE HER. 09:33 WOW. 09:35 THEN SHE SAID, WHEN THE WAR CAME WE WERE IN THE VILLAGE ALL GATHERED IN 09:39 THE CHURCH AND PRAYING. 09:42 THE SOLDIERS CAME TO BURN THE WHOLE VILLAGE AND KILL US. 09:47 THEY MADE US ALL STAND IN A CIRCLE PREPARING TO KILL US. 09:52 I WALKED OVER TO THE COMMANDER AND HE ASKED, "WHAT DO YOU WANT"? 09:58 I TOLD HIM, "I WANT THE LIFE OF MY PEOPLE." 10:03 HE SAID, "WHO ARE YOU ANYWAY?" 10:05 "YOU ARE A STRANGER HERE, I CAN TELL. 10:08 THESE ARE NOT YOUR PEOPLE." 10:11 I SAID, "YES, I AM A STRANGER BUT NOW THE PEOPLE HERE ARE MY FAMILY. 10:16 THEY EVEN CALL ME SISTER AND MOTHER NOW." 10:19 ABOUT THREE TIMES DURING THE WAR I WENT AND TALKED TO THE HEAD REBEL AND 10:25 SAVED THE LIVES OF MY PEOPLE. 10:29 WELL OBVIOUSLY, THE ANGELS WERE WITH HER. 10:31 ABSOLUTELY A MIRACLE. 10:36 SHE SAID IN RETURNING ONE TIME INTO AN AREA WHERE I HAD BEEN BEFORE, I FOUND 10:40 THERE WAS NO CHURCH BUILDING EVEN, NOTHING. 10:44 THE MEMBERS SAID, "WELL SINCE YOU WERE NOT HERE, WE STOPPED GOING TO CHURCH 10:49 OR ANYTHING." 10:51 SO IN 2002, I ASKED THE LIBERIAN SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST MISSION FOR 10:56 MONEY FOR A CHURCH IN THIS LOCATION. 10:59 A LADY DONATED $1000 U.S. 11:03 DOLLARS AND I TOOK THE MONEY RIGHT AWAY AND I BOUGHT SIX BUNDLES OF 11:08 METAL ROOFING. 11:11 THE MEMBERS GAVE THE LAND AND IN JUST THREE WEEKS THEY BUILT THE CHURCH 11:17 THEMSELVES. 11:20 THE CHURCH WAS VERY FAR AWAY AND IT COST ME ABOUT $12 U.S. 11:25 DOLLARS TO TRAVEL JUST ONE WAY. 11:28 SO, I WOULD GO AND SPEND A WHOLE MONTH AND THEN I WOULD RETURN TO MONROVIA, 11:34 MY HOME. 11:36 SO, I ASKED FOR A GOSPEL OUTREACH EVANGELIST TO BE SENT THERE. 11:40 SO HE IS NOW LEADING THAT CHURCH. 11:44 THEN I WENT TO START NEW WORK IN ANOTHER AREA FOR JESUS, SHE SAID. 11:50 WE CALL THE NEW CHURCH THE NEW JERUSALEM. 11:55 WE FIRST BAPTIZED THIRTEEN AND THEN EIGHTEEN AND NOW MORE ARE WAITING TO BE 12:02 BAPTIZED. 12:04 SO, SHE SAID NOW I AM ASKING THE CHURCH FOR A BUILDING THERE AND THEY 12:11 HAVE ALREADY BOUGHT THE LAND. 12:15 MARY PAUSES TO SHARE YET ANOTHER STORY IN THE TRAGEDY OF WHAT WAS GOING 12:20 ON. 12:21 TUNE IN TO THIS ONE. 12:23 SHE SAID DURING THE WAR THE REFUGEES, MOSTLY CHRISTIANS, WOULD GO FAR 12:28 INTO THE BUSH-FAR FROM TOWN TO WORSHIP. 12:32 IN THIS PLACE THEY BUILT A BIG TENTLIKE STRUCTURE AND THEY WORSHIPPED THERE 12:37 EVERY SUNDAY. 12:39 A REBEL CAME INTO TOWN BUT THE TOWN WAS EMPTY. 12:43 HE SAW FOOTPRINTS. 12:47 HE FOLLOWED THEM TO THE RIVER WHERE THEY DISAPPEARED INTO THE 12:52 RIVER. 12:54 THEY WENT TO THE RIVER'S EDGE SO HE SAID, "SOMEONE MUST BE HERE." 12:59 HE TOOK ANOTHER SOLDIER WITH HIM AND THIS TIME WHEN THEY CAME TO THE 13:03 RIVER; THEY HEARD SINGING FROM ACROSS THE RIVER. 13:08 MOVING CLOSER, CROSSING THE RIVER THEY HEARD PREACHING. 13:12 HE TOLD HIS FRIEND TO HALT AND WAIT, LEAVING HIM BEHIND. 13:19 HE SAW THE TENT WITH ALL THE PEOPLE AND TELLING THEM TO HALT THEIR 13:24 SINGING. 13:26 THE PASTOR LET HIS BIBLE SLIP TO THE GROUND. 13:30 THE REBEL TOLD EVERYONE TO HALT AND ASKED, "WHO IS THE PASTOR?" 13:37 NO ONE ANSWERED. 13:40 THE PASTOR DID NOT TELL THAT HE WAS THE PASTOR. 13:44 "WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?" 13:45 SHOUTED THE REBEL. 13:48 NO ONE ANSWERED. 13:51 IN YELLING AT THEM ONCE AGAIN HE DEMANDED, "TELL ME, WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU 13:55 ON?" 13:56 STILL NO ONE ANSWERED. 13:57 THEN HE ASKED, "WHO ARE YOU WORSHIPPING HERE?" 13:59 "IS IT JESUS?" 14:00 STILL NO ONE WOULD ANSWER. 14:01 THEN THE REBEL WHILE POINTING TO A CLEARING SAID, "THE PEOPLE WHO ARE 14:18 ON JESUS' SIDE STAND THERE." 14:22 A FIFTEEN YEAR OLD BOY BENT DOWN, PICKED UP THE PASTOR'S BIBLE AND PUT IT 14:30 ON HIS CHEST NEXT TO HIS HEART AND WENT AND STOOD THERE. 14:36 HE SAID, "YOU CAN KILL MY BODY BUT YOU CANNOT KILL MY SOUL". 14:42 THE REBEL SAID, "YOU BOY, ARE THE ONLY TRUE CHRISTIAN HERE FOLLOWING 14:48 JESUS." 14:50 SO THE REBEL KILLED EVERYONE EXCEPT THE BOY. 14:54 THE REBEL TOOK THE BOY WITH HIM AND ALL THE REBELS TOOK CARE OF HIM 15:01 UNTIL THE WAR WAS OVER. 15:02 THAT BOY WHO HAD THE BIBLE BECAME THE PASTOR OF THE REBELS UNTIL THE WAR WAS 15:11 OVER. 15:12 AMAZING! 15:18 NOW IN LIBERIA, A LOT OF PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT IN WEST AFRICA AREA THERE IS 15:25 A LOT OF-THEY CALL IT ANIMISM, WHICH BASICALLY MEANS WORSHIPPING 15:29 SPIRITS-- ALL KINDS OF SPIRITS. 15:33 WELL, WE WERE TOLD THAT IN LIBERIA THEY ARE NOT ANIMISTS BUT THEY HAVE 15:40 SOMETHING THEY CALL "TRADITIONAL SPIRITUAL BELIEF". 15:45 AND THEY BELIEVE THE DEVIL COMES TO THEIR VILLAGE ABOUT ONCE A YEAR AND THE 15:52 DEVIL COMES OUT OF THE BUSH. 15:55 THEY CALL IT "THE DEVIL'S BUSH". 15:59 AND THE DEVIL MAY COME AS ONE OF THE VILLAGE MEN OR ANOTHER MAN OR SEVERAL MEN 16:05 DRESSED UP. 16:09 THEY WELCOME THE DEVIL BY CELEBRATING. 16:13 THE YOUNG GIRLS GET ALL DRESSED UP AND WEAR LOTS OF BEADS AND DANCE AND 16:18 EVEN SOME OF THE MARRIED WOMEN DANCE. 16:21 THE SINGLE YOUNG MEN ARE THERE TO WATCH AND TO TAKE A YOUNG GIRL TO MARRY. 16:27 NOW THE REASON THE OLDER MARRIED WOMEN MAY JOIN THE DANCING IS BECAUSE SHE IS 16:31 THINKING, H-M-M I'M GETTING OLD SO MY HUSBAND NEEDS SOMEONE TO CARE FOR 16:35 HIM WHEN I GET OLD AND CANNOT OR IF I DIE. 16:41 THEY HAVE MORE THAN ONE WIFE OFTEN HERE IN THE LIBERIAN BUSH. 16:47 WHEN THE CHILDREN ARE SMALL, THE MAN OR OTHER PEOPLE REPRESENTING THE 16:52 DEVIL TAKE THEM AWAY INTO THE BUSH TO TRAIN AND TEACH THEM. 16:58 SOMETIMES THEY WILL EVEN DO THE TRAINING RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE VILLAGE. 17:05 NOW, IF YOU WERE NOT OF THIS WITCHCRAFT GROUP OR SOCIAL GROUP, YOU MUST 17:11 STAY AWAY AND CLOSE YOURSELF UP IN YOUR HOUSE WITH YOUR FAMILY. 17:17 BECAUSE IF THE CHILDREN ARE CURIOUS AND JUST STAND BACK TO WATCH THE DANCING 17:23 AND WHATEVER IS GOING ON, THEY WILL SNATCH THAT CHILD AWAY AND TAKE THEM 17:28 INTO THE BUSH AND TRAIN THEM AND TEACH THEM. 17:31 ALL PARENTS EVEN IF THEY ARE CHRISTIANS MUST PAY WHATEVER THEY ARE TOLD TO 17:36 PAY-WHICH IS USUALLY A HALF A BAG OF RICE, RED MEAT, RED PALM OIL AND 17:45 MONEY. 17:47 SOMETIMES THEY EVEN CAPTURE ADULTS AND FORCE THEM TO GO INTO THE BUSH 17:52 AND BE TRAINED. 17:55 THAT IS WHY YOU MUST STAY AWAY AND JUST STAY IN YOUR HOUSE. 18:01 MOST PARENTS IN THE VILLAGE HAVE ONLY EVER KNOWN THIS TRADITIONAL 18:06 SPIRITUAL BELIEF. 18:08 SO, THEY ALLOW THEIR CHILDREN TO BE TAKEN AND TRAINED AND TAUGHT. 18:14 ONE OF THE THINGS THEY ARE TAUGHT IS NEVER TELL THE TRUTH. 18:21 ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BUSH? 18:23 ANYTHING. 18:24 OH, PERIOD. 18:25 PERIOD. 18:26 IT IS JUST THE PRINCIPLE OF LIFE, DON'T TELL THE TRUTH. 18:30 YES. 18:32 THIS IS EVEN HAPPENING TODAY. 18:34 I MEAN, I'M NOT JOKING. 18:37 WE LEARNED ALL THIS WHILE WE WERE SITTING AT THE SUPPER TABLE OF A FAMILY 18:41 WE STAYED WITH. 18:44 THEY HAVE NO CHILDREN BUT THEY HAVE TAKEN TWO OF THEIR RELATIVES CHILDREN 18:49 AS THEIR OWN. 18:51 THE OLDEST IS TWELVE AND IN THE FOURTH GRADE AND VERY HELPFUL. 18:56 HE IS EVEN A DEACON IN THE CHILDRENS LITTLE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 19:02 WHEN HE FIRST CAME TO THIS HOME, HE LIED ALL OF THE TIME. 19:07 AND WHEN ASKED WHY, HE SAID BECAUSE WE WERE TOLD NEVER TELL THE TRUTH. 19:17 HE HAD BEEN TAKEN WHEN HE WAS YOUNG AND GIVEN THIS TRADITIONAL SPIRITUAL 19:21 BELIEF TRAINING. 19:23 SO YOU CAN IMAGINE THE DIFFICULTY HIS AUNT HAS IN RETRAINING THIS YOUNG MAN 19:29 INTO A GODLY DIRECTION BUT SHE IS DOING A WONDERFUL JOB. 19:36 OF COURSE, THE WORDS OF JESUS SAY, "I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE". 19:44 YOU CAN SEE THAT THE DEVIL'S WAY IS ABSOLUTELY THE OPPOSITE OF JESUS WAY. 19:51 JOIN YOUR HANDS WITH OURS AS WE PRAY FOR THESE GOSPEL OUTREACH 20:00 EVANGELISTS WHO ARE PLANTING THE CHURCH IN LIBERIA AND MANY OTHER 20:05 PLACES IN THE WORLD. 20:06 HELP US TO PLANT THE MESSAGE THAT JESUS LOVES US ALL. 20:12 LET ME TRY TO SORT THROUGH THIS AMAZING STORY OF MARY BECAUSE SHE IS THE 20:25 EVIDENCE OF A MIRACLE OF GRACE. 20:28 AMEN. 20:30 THERE IS NO WAY A HUMAN BEING COULD SURVIVE WHAT SHE WENT THROUGH: CIVIL 20:38 WAR, ABANDONMENT, AND DEPRIVATION AND ON AND ON AND ON EXCEPT SHE DEPENDED 20:45 UPON GOD. 20:46 AMEN. 20:47 WHAT AN OBJECT LESSON. 20:48 INDEED. 20:49 NOW, YOU WERE THERE TO DO A TRAINING PROGRAM FOR YOUR GOSPEL OUTREACH 20:54 WORKERS. 20:55 THAT'S CORRECT. 20:56 HOW DID MARY HAPPEN TO GET THERE? 20:59 WHEN WE GO TO THE MISSIONS, WE INVITE ANYBODY THAT IS INTERESTED 21:04 IN LEARNING HOW TO SHARE THE GOSPEL TO COME. 21:06 WE INVITE THE MISSION LEADERSHIP. 21:08 WE INVITE THE PASTORS. 21:10 WE INVITE THE BIBLE WORKERS. 21:12 WE INVITE THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 21:14 THIS TIME WE EVEN INVITED SOME OF THEIR WIVES, IF THEY WANTED TO COME. 21:18 SO A FEW OF THEM CAME AND SO WE HAD A GROUP THERE AND WE TAUGHT SIMPLY HOW 21:24 TO STUDY THE BIBLE IN A SIMPLE WAY. 21:27 WE TAUGHT THEM THE GOSPEL THROUGH STORIES AND PARABLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS 21:33 THAT JESUS USED. 21:35 MARY OVERHEARING THE INVITATION SAID, "THAT MEANS ME TOO." 21:37 YES. 21:38 SHE WAS THERE FOR THE WHOLE TIME-THREE DAYS WE WERE TEACHING. 21:40 IT KIND OF FEELS TO ME LIKE THAT YOU KEPT PROBING FOR HER STORY AND HENCE WE 21:46 GET TO MEET MARY IN THIS "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" PROGRAM TODAY. 21:51 WE CAME BACK WITH 28 PAGES OF STORIES. 21:59 WOW. 22:00 THANKS TO KAREN. 22:03 NOW, I WANT TO GO AGAIN A LITTLE BIT -THIS ANIMISM BUT IT'S A SPECIAL BREED 22:13 OF ANIMISM, IF I MAY USE THAT CRUDE TERM. 22:15 DEVIL WORSHIP IN LIBERIA THERE. 22:21 DID YOU SAY THAT THE DEVIL APPEARS ONCE A YEAR? 22:25 THAT'S WHAT THEY TOLD ME. 22:28 YES. 22:30 THAT IS CAUSE FOR A CELEBRATION? 22:34 THAT'S WHAT THEY SAY AND IT CAN BE IN THE FORM OF ONE OF THEIR MEN FROM THE 22:38 VILLAGE OR SEVERAL PEOPLE DRESSED UP. 22:43 BUT THEY KNOW? 22:44 IS IT BECAUSE OF THE TIME OF THE YEAR? 22:46 BUT THEY KNOW THIS IS THE DEVIL? 22:48 WHAT DO THEY CALL HIM? 22:51 I DON'T KNOW THAT ANSWER. 22:53 WE'LL HAVE TO GO INTO THE BUSH AND FIND OUT. 22:55 NO, THANK YOU. 22:57 BUT THEN YOU SEGUED IN YOUR STORY TO THIS FAMILY WHO TOOK IN NEPHEWS OR 23:04 SOME CHILDREN. 23:05 YES. 23:06 NOW THEY ARE AN ADVENTIST FAMILY. 23:10 YES. 23:11 ACTUALLY THEY WORK IN THE MISSION THERE. 23:13 THEY DO. 23:14 YES. 23:15 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST MISSION. 23:16 O.K. 23:17 AND THEIR LOVING HEARTS REACHED OUT TO CHILDREN WHO DIDN'T HAVE A HOME? 23:22 YES THAT'S RIGHT. 23:24 THEY DISCOVERED THAT THESE ARE CHILDREN WHO'VE BEEN SUBJECTED TO THIS BRAIN 23:32 WASHING-DEVIL TRAINING PROGRAM, YES, WHICH THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR 23:36 OWN THESE CHILDREN, AS I HEAR YOUR STORY, WERE CAPTURED AND TAKEN INTO 23:41 THIS EDUCATIONAL PROCESS AND THAT'S HOW THE DEVIL WINS THEM. 23:47 YES AND SO THEY ARE RESCUED BY THIS ADVENTIST FAMILY. 23:52 AMEN. 23:53 EVEN THE MOTHER IN THIS ADVENTIST FAMILY-HER PARENTS BECAME SEVENTH DAY 24:01 ADVENTISTS AND HER GRANDMOTHER SO EVEN THOUGH SHE KNEW ABOUT THIS 24:07 TRADITIONAL SPIRITUAL BELIEF SHE DIDN'T TOTALLY KNOW WHAT THEY TAUGHT THEM 24:13 UNTIL SHE EXPERIENCED THIS BOY. 24:16 YES. 24:17 NOW, I UNDERSTAND. 24:19 SO A LOT OF THE STORY GETS PUT TOGETHER BASED UPON THE FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE 24:23 OF A 12 YEAR OLD BOY. 24:25 THAT'S RIGHT. 24:26 YES. 24:27 O.K. 24:28 WE DON'T KNOW ALL THE THINGS THAT THEY WERE TAUGHT. 24:30 TELL ME ABOUT YOUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS IN THE LAST HALF MINUTE OR 24:34 FORTY-FIVE SECONDS WE'VE GOT HERE IN THIS KIND OF ENVIRONMENT. 24:37 HOW DID THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS WORK IN THAT KIND OF AN 24:42 ENVIRONMENT? 24:43 WELL, THEY FIRST OF ALL, MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE PEOPLE. 24:46 DEVELOP RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEM AND SEE THEIR NEEDS AND THESE MEN AND WOMEN 24:54 ENJOY TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT JESUS CHRIST. 24:57 WE JUST RECENTLY ASKED THAT QUESTION. 24:59 WHAT DRIVES YOU? 25:00 WE LOVE TO TELL PEOPLE ABOUT JESUS CHRIST. 25:03 THE STORY IS SUCH A DRAMATIC CONTRAST FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF THEIR LIVES 25:09 THAT OBVIOUSLY PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR. 25:11 THEY NEED HOPE. 25:13 THEY ARE LOOKING FOR HOPE AND THAT HOPE COMES IN JESUS CHRIST. 25:16 WE MAINLY TOLD THE STORY BECAUSE THIS TELLS YOU WHAT OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH 25:21 WORKERS ARE DEALING WITH EVERYDAY IN THEIR LIVES THAT IS AROUND THEM. 25:27 IT SEEMS TO ME LIKE MARY IS A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER AND YOU DIDN'T HAVE 25:30 TO RECRUIT HER. 25:31 NO, SHE IS THERE. 25:33 SHE IS GREAT. 25:34 I LOVE IT. 25:35 SHE IS A PRECIOUS SOUL YOU COULD SEE IT IN THE EXPRESSIONS OF HER FACE 25:41 AND EVEN THOUGH YOU WERE TELLING HER STORY, KAREN, I COULD HEAR HER 25:46 ANIMATION. 25:47 THIS WAS ALL TRANSLATED TO YOU, I AM SURE. 25:50 LIBERIA IS ACTUALLY IN ENGLISH. 25:52 IT IS? 25:53 YES. 25:54 SO SHE COULD TELL HER STORY IN HER OWN. 25:56 SHE DID BUT THEIR ENGLISH SOMETIMES IS NOT VERY UNDERSTANDABLE. 26:03 IT IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT, SO I HAD A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING SO I TOOK 26:08 ONE OF THE OTHER STUDENTS IN THE CLASS AND HAD HIM HELP ME MAKE SURE I 26:12 UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING. 26:14 WELL, THANK YOU TWO FOR VISITING LIBERIA AND FOR COMING AND SHARING THE 26:19 STORY WITH US. 26:20 I'M ANXIOUS TO HEAR MORE OF YOUR STORIES. 26:23 SO, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TOO, FOLK. 26:28 ON THE SCREEN, YOU SEE GOSPEL OUTREACH, THE ADDRESS, THE PHONE NUMBER 26:32 AND EMAIL ADDRESS. 26:33 EVERYTHING. 26:35 YOU KNOW HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH AND THE MAIN REASON THAT 26:39 WE WANT YOU TO BE IN TOUCH IS-WE NEED YOUR PRAYERS. 26:42 AMEN. 26:43 ON BEHALF OF GOSPEL OUTREACH AND YOUR SUPPORT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE 26:46 IN THE WORLD FOR THE MARYS OF THE WORLD TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE THEIR MINISTRY. 26:51 [CLOSING MUSIC]. 27:03 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 27:18 WHERE IS THE 10/40 WINDOW ANYWAY? 27:22 THOSE PEOPLE ARE TOO FAR AWAY. 27:24 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. 27:27 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV? 27:31 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACH, MY HEAD HURTS. 27:36 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO, I GIVE UP. 27:39 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 27:41 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 27:43 ACTUALLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND JESUS ASKED YOU TO GO TO ALL THE 27:50 WORLD. 27:51 WHERE? 27:52 ALL THE WORLD. 27:53 HOW CAN I GO I HAVE COMMITMENTS? 27:55 YOU CAN PRAY. 27:57 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 28:02 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 28:06 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS. 28:09 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE AND MEANING BUT THEY WON'T 28:13 FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 28:14 BE THE SPARK. 28:15 LIGHT THE FIRE. 28:18 FINISH THE WORK. 28:22 FINISH THE WORK. 28:26 BE THE SPARK. |
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