Participants: John Duroe
Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000495
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00:16 HELLO DEAR FRIENDS. 00:17 AGAIN I AM DELIGHTED TO BE HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:21 WE ARE IN THE STUDIOS IN COLLEGE PLACE, WASHINGTON WHERE WE GET T THEAR FIRST 00:27 HAND THESE REPORTS OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORLD. 00:31 NOBODY DESERVES TO KNOW ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING MORE THAN YOU FOLKS DO AND 00:37 SO I AM GLAD YOU ARE THERE, YOU STAY TUNED AND YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR SOME 00:41 MORE EXCITING REPORTS TODAY THAT ARE GOING TO VERIFY FOR YOU WHY YOU ARE 00:47 A PART OF THIS FAMILY AND WHY YOUR GIFT TO GOD'S CAUSE IS INVESTED NOT JUST 00:54 FOR NOW BUT FOR ETERNITY. 00:56 SO, I GET TO WELCOME BACK MY GOOD, GOOD FRIEND HAVEN'T KNOWN HIM FOR EVER 01:01 AND EVER BUT HE'S BECOME A VERY DEAR FRIEND, JOHN DUROE. 01:05 JOHN, THANK YOU, SO GOOD TO BE WITH YOU-HANDSOME GUY THAT HE IS, THE 01:10 HANDSOME BEARD THAT HE SPORTS THERE, HE DOESN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT 01:13 SHAVING LIKE I DO WHEN I GOT ABROAD, AND SO FORTH AND YOU MEET THE PEOPLE 01:18 AND YOU BRING US THE STORIES ON VIDEO. 01:22 WHAT ARE WE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? 01:24 WELL, WE'RE GOING TO TRIPURA IN NORTHEAST INDIA. 01:29 AND TRIPURA IS ONE OF THE SMALLEST INDIAN STATES. 01:33 THEY ONLY HAVE ABOUT THREE MILLION PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIVING IN THIS 01:36 UNDERDEVELOPED STATE. 01:38 IT IS LIKE A LITTLE TEARDROP THAT GOES DOWN INSIDE BANGLADESH SO IT IS 01:42 SURROUNDED ON THREE SIDES BY BANGLADESH. 01:45 SO YOUR REGION IS NUMBER FIVE-NUMBER 5 SO IT IS PRIMARILY BANGLADESH AND 01:53 ALSO TRIPURA, YES. 01:55 AND THE PEOPLE OBVIOUSLY ARE AT LEAST FIRST COUSINS IF NOT MORE CLOSELY 02:01 RELATED THAN THAT. 02:02 WELL, THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF A PROBLEM BECAUSE THAT BANGLADESH CULTURE 02:07 THAT IS SURROUNDING THEM IS TRYING TO INTRUDE ALL THE TIME INTO TRIPURA SO 02:13 THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THERE THAT OBJECT TO THAT SO IT CAUSES A LITTLE BIT 02:17 OF A PROBLEM. 02:18 WE HAVE HOW MANY GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS IN TRIPURA? 02:21 WE HAVE ABOUT TWENTY. 02:25 I DON'T THINK I'VE REMEMBERED TO ASK YOU BEFORE HOW MANY IN 02:27 BANGLADESH? 02:28 WE HAVE ABOUT SEVENTY. 02:31 WONDERFUL! 02:32 WE USED TO HAVE DOUBLE THAT AMOUNT AND THAT AMOUNT GOT CUT A FEW YEARS 02:37 AGO AND WE ARE TRYING TO BUILD THAT NUMBER UP AGAIN. 02:40 THAT'S THE REASON WE'RE ALL ABOUT ADOPTING GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS, THAT'S 02:45 RIGHT, IN SOME OF THESE REGIONS, YES, SO THAT THE WORK THAT HAS STARTED CAN 02:49 BE CONTINUED. 02:50 YES. 02:51 NOW, I RECALL THAT YOU SAID THERE IS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 140 02:55 MILLION PEOPLE IN BANGLADESH. 02:57 YES, AND THREE MILLION IN TRIPURA, YES. 03:00 SO T TRE IS QUITE A CONTRAST THERE, OH YES, BUT AMONG 3 MILLION SOULS 03:05 THERE ARE EARNEST, HONEST PEOPLE WHO NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JESUS. 03:10 YES. 03:11 SO YOUR FIRST STORY. 03:12 IN MY FIRST VIDEO YOU ARE GOING TO SEE THE FIRST BAPTISM IN ONE VILLAGE 03:17 WHERE A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER WENT. 03:20 ALL RIGHT. 03:21 TRIPURA IN NORTHEAST INDIA USED TO BE AN INDEPENDENT KINGDOM. 03:26 THIS WAS THE LAST KING'S PALACE. 03:30 WHEN HE DIED IN 1947, THE QUEEN GAVE THE KINGDOM TO INDIA TO BECOME ANOTHER 03:37 STATE. 03:38 BERAI CHAUDURY IS A VILLAGE IN TRIPURA. 03:44 I WAS THERE WHEN THE FIRST CONVERT WAS BAPTIZED IN BERAI CHAUDURY VILLAGE. 03:50 TARANI WHO WAS BAPTIZED WITH HIS WIFE, SISTER AND A FRIEND; THE FIRST 03:56 BELIEVERS WHO WILL START A NEW CHURCH IN THIS VILLAGE. 04:00 BERAI CHAUDURY IS IN A BEAUTIFUL VALLEY PLANTED WITH A FRESH CROP OF RICE. 04:08 THE LAST OF THE NEW RICE WAS STILL BEING PLANTED BUT WE ARE INTERESTED IN A 04:13 DIFFERENT KIND OF HARVEST. 04:15 LET ME TELL YOU HOW THE PLANTING GOT STARTED. 04:20 SANJIT, AN AREA EVANGELIST, HELD MEETINGS IN BERAI GIDAPA VILLAGE A 04:28 YEAR AND A HALF AGO. 04:29 ONE OF THE VILLAGERS INVITED HIS FRIEND RAMCUMA FROM THE NEXT VILLAGE, 04:34 CHAMPAI. 04:35 HE WAS BAPTIZED WITH SEVEN OTHERS FROM HIS VILLAGE BUT AFTER CONTINUING TO 04:40 WITNESS THERE ARE NOW TWENTY FOUR BELIEVERS IN CHAMPAI. 04:44 RAMCUMA IS BEING SUPPORTED AS A WORKER BY OUR AUSTRALIAN MINISTRY 04:51 "CORNERSTONE". 04:53 THEY SPONSOR FIVE WORKERS IN TRIPURA. 04:56 NOW THIS IS WHERE OUR STORY TAKES A TWIST. 05:00 RAMCUMA'S WIFE COMES FROM THIS VILLAGE BERAI CHAUDURY SO WHILE VISITING 05:08 RAMCUMA MADE FRIENDS WITH TARANI AND THEY STARTED TALKING ABOUT SPIRITUAL 05:13 THINGS. 05:14 TARANI WAS VERY INTERESTED. 05:16 HE WAS BORN A HINDU. 05:17 HAD A DREAM ONE NIGHT-HE WAS DROWNING IN THE SEA. 05:19 HE SAW A MAN IN WHITE WHO SAID, "LOOK BEHIND YOU". 05:28 AND THERE HE SAW A CROSS. 05:34 HE KNEW ONE CHRISTIAN FAMILY -THEY WERE CATHOLICS. 05:38 THEY WERE A GOOD FAMILY. 05:40 HE WORSHIPPED WITH THEM AND WAS SPRINKLED A NEW CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN. 05:45 BUT TARARI'S CHRISTIAN JOURNEY WAS JUST BEGINNING. 05:49 A PROTESTANT GROUP CALLED "THE BELIEVERS CHURCH" CAME TO TARARI'S VILLAGE 05:55 LOOKING FOR SUITABLE YOUNG MEN TO TRAIN AT BIBLE COLLEGE. 05:59 TARARI WAS CHOSEN. 06:02 HE STUDIED FOR TWO YEARS AND WORKED AS AN EVANGELIST FOR SEVEN YEARS 06:07 UNTIL IN SOME ADMINISTRATIVE SHAKEUP HE LOST HIS SPONSORSHIP. 06:13 BUT THAT'S WHEN RAMCUMA TURNED UP ON THE SCENE-STUDIED WITH TARANI, 06:18 TOOK HIM VISITING BACK IN HIS VILLAGE, CALLED PASTOR ZAMINGA THE AREA 06:23 SUPERVISOR AND ZAMINGA STAYED WITH HIM M D STUDIED AND TODAY HE 06:30 BROUGHT ME TO WITNESS THE BAPTISM. 06:32 WHAT A PLEASURE! 06:35 THE PASTOR ZAMINGA HAS ANOTHER PLAN UP HIS SLEEVE. 06:39 HE HAS INVITED TARANI TO PUT ALL HIS TRAINING TO USE. 06:44 HE HAS ASKED HIM TO BE A GOSPEL OUTREACH VOLUNTEER. 06:49 ONLY ONE PROBLEM-HE DOESN'T HAVE A SPARE BUDGET FOR TRIPURA. 06:53 I SAID,"WELL, THAT'S NO PROBLEM WE CAN PUT HIM UP FOR ADOPTION." 06:59 WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADOPT HIM? 07:02 OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM? 07:04 WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ESTABLISHING A NEW CHURCH 07:08 IN BERAI CHAUDURY VILLAGE? 07:13 WOW! 07:14 ANOTHER CHALLENGE. 07:15 YES. 07:16 ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY, YES. 07:18 BUT TAKE ME BACK TO CORNERSTONE. 07:22 TELL ME MORE ABOUT THAT ORGANIZATION. 07:24 CORNERSTONE IS AN GANIZATION THAT IS VERY SIMILAR TO GOSPEL OUTREACH 07:29 BUT THEY OPERATE FROM AUSTRALIA AND THEY SUPPORT EIGHT WORKERS IN TRIPURA. 07:36 ON SORT OF THE SAME BASIS AS GOSPEL OUTREACH SUPPORTS THEM? 07:39 YES. 07:40 AND NOW, WAS-TELL ME WHO THEY WERE SPONSORING IN THE STORY WE JUST HAVE 07:45 SEEN. 07:46 I MAY HAVE MISSED THAT. 07:48 THEY WERE SPONSORING THE YOUNG MAN FROM THE NEXT VILLAGE WHO CAME WITH HIS 07:57 WIFE TO VISIT HER FAMILY IN HER VILLAGE. 07:59 AND THIS YOUNG MAN WHO HAD LOST HIS SUPPORT FROM THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH, HE WAS 08:02 LIVING IN THAT VILLAGE WHERE HIS WIFE'S FAMILY WERE. 08:04 AND SO HIS MIND OBVIOUSLY WAS ALL TENDER TOWARD THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HE WAS 08:08 READY TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SCRIPTURES. 08:11 OH YES, YES. 08:12 HE IS A TRAINED GOSPEL WORKER. 08:15 NOW HE IS A BELIEVER IN THE SABBATH AND HE WANTS TO SHARE THAT WITH OTHERS. 08:24 YOU KNOW THIS PROMPTS ME JOHN, TO TALK ABOUT HOW WE FIND OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH 08:29 -YOU CALL THEM GOSPEL OUTREACH VOLUNTEERS AND I UNDERSTAND THAT TERM BUT 08:35 THEY NEED SUPPORT. 08:36 OH YES, YES. 08:37 AND SO WE ARE ASKING FOR THIS BASIC SUPPORT FOR THEM. 08:41 YES. 08:42 TALK TO US A LITTLE BIT -HOW DO WE FIND GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS? 08:46 I KNOW FROM THE STORY THAT YOU'VE TOLD BUT IS IT A MIRACLE AGAIN? 08:51 IN EVERY CASE? 08:53 SOMETIMES IT IS AND WE'VE ALWAYS GOT TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE 08:58 GOING TO BE EFFECTIVE AS WORKERS. 09:02 NOW, THE AREA SUPERVISOR PASTOR ZAMINGA IS A VERY GOOD AREA SUPERVISOR AND 09:10 HE CAN USUALLY SPOT PROSPECTIVE WORKERS, GOOD WORKERS. 09:14 AND HE DID THIS IN THE CASE OF THIS YOUNG MAN, OH YES, YES. 09:18 HE HAD BIBLE STUDIES WITH HIM AND THEN BAPTIZED HIM. 09:22 HE IS SO WELL QUALIFIED WITH HIS BIBLE SCHOOL TRAINING AND ALL OF THE 09:27 OTHER EXPERIENCE HE HAS HAD AS AN EVANGELIST, YES BRINGING PEOPLE TO JESUS. 09:32 HE NEEDSDSO BE ADOPTED AS A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER. 09:36 YOU ARE SO GOOD JOHN, ABOUT GIVING SEQUES INTO AN APPEAL. 09:39 YOU'VE HEARD JOHN'S APPEAL ALREADY BUT YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS YOUNG MAN WHOSE NAME 09:46 IS TARARI. 09:48 TARARI IS HIS NAME AND SO YOU MAY WANT TO MAKE YOURSELF A LITTLE NOTE, 09:59 TARARI AND THIS YOUNG MAN IS READY, READY, READY TO GO TO WORK AND HE NEEDS TO 10:08 BE ADOPTED. 10:09 THAT'S WHAT GOSPEL OUTREACH IS UP TO THESE DAYS IN ORDER TO EXTEND, 10:13 EXPAND OUR FAMILY OF WORKERS OUT THERE ON THE FRONT LINES. 10:17 SO, ON YOUR SCREEN YOU SEE THE ADDRESS, THE PHONE NUMBER, THE EMAIL ADDRESS 10:21 AND EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO BE IN TOUCH WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH. 10:24 YOU JOT IT DOWN-TARARI AND BUT YOU'VE GOT IT AND PRAY ABOUT BECOMING A FULL 10:34 SPONSOR, $150 A MONTH? 10:37 ABOUT $150 a MONTH, YES. 10:40 OR MAYBE YOUR SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS; MAYBE YOU AND THE NEIGHBORS-SOMEBODY 10:44 CAN JOIN AND YOU CAN HAVE FIRST HAND REPORTS VIA GOSPEL OUTREACH OF JUST 10:51 WHAT TARARI IS DOING UNDER GOD'S BLESSING IN THAT PLACE. 10:55 YES. 10:56 SO THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 10:58 ALL RIGHT, YOU'VE GOT MORE STORIES FOR US. 11:00 NOW, I WANT TO SHARE A STORY TO TELL YOU HOW GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS 11:05 GET STARTED IN A NEW VILLAGE. 11:09 O.K. 11:10 WATCH THIS ONE. 11:11 OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH VOLUNTEERS ARE CHOSEN, TRAINED AND SUPERVISED BY 11:18 THE LOCAL CHURCH CONFERENCE. 11:19 THEIR SMALL SALARY COMES FROM KIND VIEWERS LIKE YOURSELF. 11:26 SO, GOSPEL OUTREACH VOLUNTEER REMRUATA WAS ASKED TO WORK WITH AREA 11:31 EVANGELIST SANJIT TO ESTABLISH A NEW CHURCH IN SHIVSATA VILLAGE, TRIPURA 11:39 NORTHEAST INDIA. 11:44 ALL BUILDINGS INRICKYARDS INDIA USE BRICK.IVSATA. 11:48 SO THERE ARE BRICKYARDS EVERYWHERE. 11:50 IT IS PIECEWORORSO THE WORKERS ARE VERY FAST. 11:55 THEY DON'T WASTE A MINUTE ALTHOUGH THEY WERE QUITE AMUSED WHEN I PAID A VISIT 11:59 WITH MY CAMERA BUT THEY DIDN'T STOP THEIR WORK. 12:03 IT WAS ALL LIKE CLOCK WORK. 12:06 NOW, OUR STORY STARTS FOUR YEARS AGO. 12:10 EVANGELIST SANJIT HELPED GOD START A NEW CHURCH IN A VILLAGE THREE MILES 12:17 AWAY. 12:18 IN THAT MEETING FOUR GIRLS FROM SHIVSATA WERE BAPTIZED. 12:24 SANJIT KEPT VISITING THEM AND AFTER TALKING WITH THE VILLAGE ELDERS HE DECIDED 12:31 LAST NOVEMBER TO START WORK THERE. 12:34 REMRUATA, OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH VOLUNTEER WAS ASKED TO HELP. 12:40 THE FIRST THING THEY DID WAS BUY A VOLLEYBALL AND NET. 12:45 THE VILLAGE BOYS PLAY SOCCER AND CRICKET BUT THEY HAD NEVER HEARD OF 12:50 VOLLEYBALL. 12:52 THEIR FIRST TRY WAS A BIT OF A JOKE. 12:54 BALLS WERE FLYING EVERYWHERE AND THEY COULDN'T STOP LAUGHING. 12:59 SANJIT AND REMRUATA GAVE THEM SOME SERIOUS TUITION AND SOON THEY CAUGHT ON 13:06 AND THE BALLS WENT STRAIGHT-WELL, MORE OR LESS. 13:11 THEY REALLY ENJOYED THE GAME. 13:15 NOW THEY STARTED SOME SERIOUS VISITING FROM HOME TO HOME. 13:20 THIS WAS A HINDU VILLAGE BUT THEY ENJOYED THE BIBLE STUDIES. 13:24 THE VILLAGE LEADERS SUPPORTED THEM AND THE FIRST TEN CONVERTS WERE 13:41 BAPTIZED AS SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIANS. 13:46 A WEEK LATER ANOTHER NINE MADE A DECISION TO FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST. 13:51 THEY PLANNED THEIR NEXT BAPTISM FOR CHRISTMAS DAY. 13:54 THEY CONTINUED WITH THEIR BIBLE STUDIES AND THEY TAUGHT THE VILLAGERS NEW 13:59 SONGS. 14:03 MEANWHILE A GROUP OF CHURCH YOUNG PEOPLE FROM THE NEIGHBORING STATE OF 14:07 MIZORAM CAME ON A MISSION TRIP TO BUILD A TEMPORARY CHURCH. 14:12 IT WAS A SIMPLE STRUCTURE OF VERY THIN TIN-NO INSULATION. 14:17 IT COST ABOUT $1000 AND EVERYBODY WAS HAPPY. 14:23 ON CHRISTMAS DAY, TWENTY-TWO MORE WERE BAPTIZED WITH TWO MORE 14:27 TODAY THERE ARE NOW 46 BAPTIZED MEMBERS IN SHIVSATA VILLAGE. 14:33 PRAISE GOD! 14:36 PREVIOUSLY, THE VILLAGE WAS KNOWN FOR ITS DRINKING AND FIGHTING BUT NOW 14:42 EVERYONE IS AT PEACE AND THE VILLAGE IS HAPPY ALTHOUGH THEY DO GET A 14:47 LITTLE EXCITED IN THEIR VOLLEYBALL GAMES. 14:50 I DID NOT MISS GRANDPA JOHN WITH HIS TRIPURAN GRANDCHILD THERE. 14:59 I'VE JUST BECOME A NEW GRANDFATHER, JUST THREE WEEKS AGO. 15:02 OH, YOU HAVE! 15:03 YES. 15:05 WELL ALL OF THAT, WHENEVER YOU WERE THERE THIS YEAR WAS REHEARSAL FOR WHAT YOU 15:08 ENJOY WITH YOU OWN GRANDCHILD. 15:10 THAT IS SUCH AN EXCITING STORY THAT YOU ARE TELLING, JOHN, THERE. 15:17 THESE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS ARE UNUSUALLY CREATIVE. 15:21 YES. 15:22 THEY GET TO KNOW THE PEOPLE; THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR INTERESTS ARE; 15:27 YES AND THEY JUST BLEND RIGHT IN. 15:30 IT'S KIND OF LIKE THE APOSTLE PAUL "ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE". 15:34 YES, YES. 15:36 WHERE DOES THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER HAVE THAT KIND OF SENSITIVITY FROM? 15:44 WELL, I'M SURE THAT IT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT BECAUSE WHEN THERE IS A NEED, THE 15:50 HOLY SPIRIT COMES AND FILLS THAT GAP. 15:54 BUT IT SEEMS TO ME EACH OF THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS YOU HAVE 15:58 ILLUSTRATED IN YOUR VIDEOS, EAEA OF THEM IS SUCH A BRIGHT, ALERT, 16:02 HAPPY, ACTIVE, ENERGETIC YOUNG PERSON. 16:04 YES, THE YOUNG PERSON IN THAT VILLAGE-HE DOESN'T LIVE IN THAT VILLAGE HE 16:08 LIVES IN ANOTHER VILLAGE. 16:09 I'VE BEEN TO HIS HOUSE. 16:10 I'VE VISITED HIS HOUSE AND SEEN HIS WIFE AND HIS BABY THERE. 16:15 BUT HE GOES TOTOTHER VILLAGES TO START NEW CHURCHES AND THIS IS ONE 16:20 OF THE NEW CHURCHES THAT HE HAS STARTED IN THIS VILLAGE. 16:24 WHEN A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER BEGINS TO CONNECT IN BIBLE STUDIES WITH SUCH 16:31 AS THESE PEOPLE WHO HAVE A HINDU BACKGROUND? 16:34 YES. 16:35 WHERE DOES HE START OR DO YOU KNOW? 16:38 LL HE STARTS WITH CREATION, USUALLY; BECAUSE THAT IS SOMETHING THEY 16:43 WANT TO KNOW. 16:44 WHERE DID I COME FROM? 16:45 WHERE AM I GOING TO? 16:46 AND THAT IS WHERE THEY START. 16:48 SO THERE IS A VERY COMMON HUMAN UNDERSTANDING THAT CAN BE DETECTED, YES, AND 16:56 OF COURSE THE SCRIPTURE IS A COMPLETE ADDRESS TO ALL THE DIMENSIONS OF OUR 17:03 LIVES, YES, AND THESE DEDICATED BRIGHT YOUNG PEOPLE. 17:07 O.K. 17:08 OUR TIME RACES ALONG, O.K. 17:10 NOW I WANT TO TAKE YOU NOW TO A REFUGEE CAMP BECAUSE LOTS OF REFUGEES CAME FROM 17:21 THE NEIGHBORING STATE OF MIZORAM. 17:24 SO THEY HAD SOME PROBLEM THERE AND THERE WAS ONE TRIBE THAT THEY DIDN'T 17:27 LIKE IN MIZORAM AND FINALLY THEY LEFT-CAME OVER INTO TRIPURA. 17:33 THEY SET UP REFUGEE CAMPS THERE AND WE HAVE QUITE A STRONG WORK IN THIS ONE 17:38 REFUGEE CAMP. 17:39 SO I AM GOING TO SHOW YOU WHAT'S HAPPENING. 17:43 BEFORE WE GO THERE, YES, IN YOUR EARLIER STORY I THINK YOU MADE REFERENCE 17:48 YOUNG PEOPLE FROM MIZORAM COMING TO BUILD A CHURCH. 17:53 YES, YES. 17:53 SO IS THE ECONOMY DIFFERENT IN MIZORAM OR? 17:58 MIZORAM IS ONE OF THE EARLIER PLACES WHERE THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 18:06 ESPECIALLY THE ADVENTIST CHURCH, WAS ESTABLISHED. 18:09 WE HAVE QUITE A STRONG CHURCH IN MIZORAM SO YOUNG PEOPLE FROM THERE WILL 18:14 COME OVER ON MISSION TRIPS TO HELP THE NEIGHBORING STATE. 18:18 ARE THESE DIFFERENT STATES IN TRIPURA? 18:21 DIFFERENT STATES-THE NEXT STATE ON. 18:23 BUT THEY ARE ALL TRIPURA? 18:25 FROM TRIPURA IS MIZORAM AND THEN AFTER MIZORAM IS MYANMAR, THE NEXT COUNTRY. 18:33 AH, I SEE. 18:34 SO IS MIZORAM IN INDIA THEN? 18:38 YES, IT IS. 18:39 IT IS. 18:40 ONE OF THE INDIAN STATES. 18:41 O.K. 18:42 ALL RIGHT, LET'S SEE YOUR NEXT STORY. 18:48 O.K. 18:52 IN 1997 AFTER FIGHTING FOR HOMERULE IN MIZORAM, THE BRU TRIBE FLED INTO THE 19:00 NORTHEAST INDIAN STATE OF TRIPURA. 19:04 THEY WERE GIVEN REFUGEE STATUS AND VILLAGE CAMPS WERE ESTABLISHED. 19:09 WITH FINANCIAL HELP FROM DRDRJONATHAN KOMTRAF OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE 19:14 OFFICE, THE SKONGIA PRESCHOOL WAS ESTABLISHED. 19:18 WHEN I PREACHED THERE THIS SABBATH IN FEBRUARY, OVER 400 STUDENTS WERE PRESENT 19:29 PLUS MANY VILLAGERS. 19:31 THE HEADMASTER, VANLA LIANA HAD REQUESTED TWO GOSPEL OUTREACH VOLUNTEERS 19:38 TO COME AND DO SOME EVANGELISM. 19:40 FOR TWELVE DAYS THEY VISITED AND THEY HELD MEETINGS AT NIGHT. 19:47 THEN THEY HAD A WEEK OF EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS AND TODAY AFTER CLEARING AWAY 19:52 THE SKINNY DIPPERS, THIRTEEN WERE BAPTIZED. 19:56 IN MARCH, MORE EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS WERE HELD IN FUMSRAI, A NEARBY 20:10 VILLAGE. 20:11 THESE WERE ALSO HELD BY GOSPEL OUTREACH VOLUNTEERS, TANFILA, 20:16 ROBJOY AND MOYA. 20:18 IN APRIL, STUDENTS FROM SPICER UNIVERSITY CAME FOR EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS AND 20:24 AGAIN THREE OF OUR GOSPEL OUTREAEA VOLUNTEERS WERE HELPING. 20:29 ON THIS SABBATH AFTERNOON, WE MET WITH A BRAND NEW SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST 20:36 CHURCH. 20:37 LET ME TELL YOU HOW IT HAPPENED. 20:40 GOSPEL OUTREACH VOLUNTEER SAPOLA WAS VISITING HIS HOME VILLAGE OF HASATJERA. 20:47 AS HE WALKED BY THE HOME OF AN OLD FRIEND, NAGAVTHE, HE WAS CALLED 20:53 IN. 20:54 NAGAVTHE WANTED TO KNOW WHY SAPOLA WORSHIPPED ON SABBATH. 21:00 HE WAS IMPRESSED BY THE BIBLICAL EXPLANATITI AND HE WANTED TO KNOW MORE 21:05 ABOUT SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS. 21:09 SAPOLA SAID, "WHY DON'T YOU GATHER ALL YOUR CHURCH MEMBERS TOGETHER AND I 21:13 WILL TEACH YOU" SO NAGAVTHE AGREED. 21:15 SAPOLA CALLED ANOTHER GOSPEL OUTREACH VOLUNTEER TO COME AND HELP HIM AND 21:20 THEY HAD MEETINGS IN HOMES FOR TWO WEEKS. 21:27 AFTER EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS IN THEIR CHURCH, THE WHOLE BELIEVERS CHURCH 21:35 BECAME SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS. 21:38 SAPOLA SAID THAT THEY'D ASKED SO MANY QUESTIONS THAT THEIR WHOLE LIFESTYLE 21:45 CHANGED. 21:46 THEY REALLY DID BECOME A NEW CHURCH COMPLETELY. 21:51 THE OLD CHURCH HEADQUARTERS COMPLAINED ABOUT LOSING THE CHURCH 21:55 BUILDING BUT IT WAS ONLY A TEMPORARY CHURCH AND WE ARE HAVING TALKS TO MAKE A 21:59 SETTLEMENT. 22:01 PERHAPS YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP THEM FIX UP THEIR CHURCH. 22:05 IT WOULD ONLY TAKE ABOUT $2000. 22:08 LET'S CONTINUE TO SUPPORT OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH VOLUNTEERS AS THEY LEAD 22:14 OUT IN EVANGELISM IN TRIPURA, NORTHEAST INDIA. 22:17 EVERYWHERE WE TURN WE SEE THE HAND OF GOD BLESSING THIS GOSPEL OUTREACH 22:27 MINISTRY. 22:28 YES. 22:29 JOHN, I DON'T THINK I'VE EVER ASKED YOU WHEN YOU FIRST HEARD ABOUT GOSPEL 22:38 OUTREACH AND WERE INVITED TO BE ONE OF THE REGIONAL DIRECTORS, WHAT WAS IT 22:43 THAT TURNED YOUR HEAD AND YOUR HEART? 22:47 I KNEW ALL ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH BECAUSE I'D BEEN THE GLOBAL MISSION 22:52 COORDINATOR IN THE SOUTHERN ASIA DIVISION AND SO YOU WERE NO STRANGER TO 22:59 GOSPEL OUTREACH. 23:01 NO BECAUSE EVERY YEAR WE WAITED TO FIND OUT HOW MUCH MONEY WAS GOING TO 23:05 COME FROM GOSPEL OUTREACH SO THAT WE WOULD KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE WE COULD 23:10 SUPPORT FOR THE WORK DURING THAT YEAR. 23:14 AND YOUR EXCITEMENT WITH WHAT GOSPEL OUTREACH IS, ITS ORIGINAL CONCEPT AND 23:21 CALL. 23:23 YOUR EXCITEMENT JUST CONTINUES TO BUILD. 23:25 YES. 23:26 YOU NOTICE HOW EVERYTHING THE HOLY SPIRIT MAKES EVERYTHING WORK TOGETHER. 23:30 NOT JUST ONE PERSON WORKING BUT THERE ARE PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT 23:36 PLACES, FROM DIFFERENT STATES ALL GETTING TOGETHER AND DOING THEIR 23:42 PART IN THE WORK. 23:44 JUST LIKE THESE -OUR VIEWERS THAT ARE WATCHING THIS PROGRAM TODAY. 23:48 THEY ALSO CAN BE USED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THEY ALSO CAN BE PART OF THIS 23:56 WORK THAT GOD IS DOING. 23:59 BROTHER JOHN IS SPEAKING RIGHT TO YOU, MY FRIEND. 24:04 YES, THE PEOPLE WHO COME HERE TO COLLEGE PLACE, WASHINGTON OCCASIONALLY TO 24:09 REVIEW THE PLANS AND CHART THE FUTURE FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH ARE VERY MUCH 24:14 INVOLVED BUT THERE WOULD BE NO PURPOSE IN PEOPLE COMING TOGETHER HERE IN 24:19 COLLEGE PLACE AND PRODUCING THESE PROGRAMS WERE IT NOT FOR YOU FOLKS 24:24 WHO ARE THE REAL GOSPEL 24:24 OUTREACH FAMILY, WHOSE PRAYERS ASCEND CONSTANTLY 24:30 ON BEHALF OF THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS-STORIES OF WHOM WE HAVE ALREADY 24:34 LEARNED IN THIS PROGRAM AND WHOSE SUPPORT NOW ASSISTS IN ADOPTING GOSPEL 24:41 OUTREACH WORKERS AND HELPING TO EXPAND THE MINISTRY IN THESE VARIOUS 24:46 PLACES. 24:48 JOHN, AS WE CONCLUDE TODAY I'VE PRETTY MUCH GIVEN YOUR SPEECH, I GUESS, 24:54 ABOUT WHAT GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS CAN DO, BUT ADD A WORD. 24:57 BUT WE WANT TO REMIND PEOPLE ABOUT TARARI, THE FIRST CONVERT IN THAT 25:05 LITTLE TOWN AND HE WANTS TO BE ADOPTED AS A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER. 25:10 HIS NAME IS TARARI. 25:13 YES AND YOU CAN TALK TO YOUR SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS ABOUT THAT. 25:16 TALK TO YOU NEIGHBORS ABOUT THAT; OR MAYBE YOU YOURSELVES ARE SAYING AT 25:21 OUR STAGE IN LIFE WE CAN HAVE ANOTHER SON IN OUR FAMILY AND FOR $150 A 25:28 MONTH, YES, ARE WE ACCURATE ABOUT THAT? 25:31 TARARI CAN BE ADOPTED AS A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER AND YOUR FAMILY IS GUARANTEED 25:37 TO EXPAND ALMOST IMMEDIATELY IN THE MANNER IN WHICH HE STARTS A 25:42 VOLLEYBALL GAME OR WHATEVER ELSE. 25:45 WHAT ABOUT THAT CHURCH THAT NEEDS A NEW CHURCH BUILDING-$2000 FOR A NEW 25:49 CHURCH BUILDING. 25:51 YOU KNOW I TALKED TO SOME PEOPLE VERY RECENTLY WHO ARE GOING ON A TRIP THAT 25:58 COCOS TWICE THAT BUT IT IS A VERY LEGITIMATE THING. 26:02 WE'RE NOT CRITICIZING THAT, BUT THERE ARE RESOURCES THAT CAN BE 26:06 DIRECTED FOR THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORK AND THE GOSPEL OUTUTACH WORK, DEAR 26:11 FRIENDS, HAS A N NE. 26:13 A NAME LIKE TARARI AND THE VILLAGERS FROM WHAT WAS THE VILLAGE THEY CAME AND 26:19 BUILT A CHURCH? 26:21 FROM MIZORAM-PEOPLE FROM MIZORAM. 26:24 THEY ALL HAVE NAMES, THEY ALL HAVE FACES. 26:26 THEIR LIVES ARE ALL RECORDED IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE AND YOU GET 26:32 TO HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF PARTICIPATING IN ENCOURAGING THOSE PEOPLE 26:36 AND SO MANY THEY CAN MEET BESIDES TOWARD THE KINGDOM. 26:40 AGAIN I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF THE GOSPEL OUTREACH. 26:43 YOU SEE THE ADDRESS, THE TELEPHONE NUMBER ALL THE REST ON YOUR SCREEN. 26:46 IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE THE ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS NEWSLETTER, THIS IS THE 26:51 OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO REQUEST IT. 26:53 YOU WILL ENJOY IT VERY MUCH AND MAY GOD CONTINUE TO RICHLY BLESS YOU AND 26:57 YOURS. 27:01 [CLOSING MUSIC]. 27:09 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 27:19 WHERE IS THE 10/40 WINDOW ANYWAY? 27:23 THOSE PEOPLE ARE TOO FAR AWAY. 27:25 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. 27:28 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV? 27:32 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACH, MY HEAD HURTS. 27:37 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO, I GIVE UP. 27:40 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 27:42 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. 27:54 HOW CAN I GO I HAVE COMMITMENTS? 27:56 YOU CAN PRAY. 27:57 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 28:03 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 28:07 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS. 28:10 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE AND MEANING BUT THEY WON'T 28:14 FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 28:15 BE THE SPARK. 28:16 LIGHT THE FIRE. 28:21 FINISH THE WORK. |
Revised 2015-02-05