Participants: Dave Crook
Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000515
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00:15 HELLO GOOD FRIENDS, IT IS WONDERFUL TO BE BACK WITH YOU AT ANOTHER "ADVENTURES 00:22 IN MISSIONS" PROGRAM FROM HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:25 MOST OF YOU, I KNOW, HAVE BEEN WATCHING LONG ENOUGUG AND WELL ENOUGH THTH YOU 00:30 KNOW LOTS ABOUOUGOSPSP OUOUEACH BUT L L ME E LL YOU EVERY TIME WE GET TO 00:36 HERE IN THIS STUDIO YOU GET SOMEMEEW S SRIESES NENEINFOFOATIOIO EXCITING 00:42 FRONTLINE EXPERIENCES THAT JUST CHARGE US WITH ENTHUSIASM AND EXCITEMENT 00:48 ABOUT WHAT GOD IS DOININ IN THESE WONDERFUL DAYS OF EARTH'S HISTORY. 00:53 TODADA I G G TO O TRODODE E OF MY DEAR, , AR FRIENDS AGAIN AND LET YOU 00:59 OW W WT'S HAPPENING ININTHE PARL 00:59 OUTREACH T TRITOTO FOR 01:04 WHICH HEHES REREONSIBLE. 01:05 THIS FRIEND IS DAVE CROOK. 01:07 DAVE, SO GOOD TO SEE YOU. 01:09 GOOD TO SEE YOU TOO! 01:11 EVERYTIME, ALL THE TIME, WHEREVER I GET TO CROSS PATHS WITH YOU IT'S A 01:16 WONDERERL BLESSINGNG 01:17 THANK YOU. 01:18 I WISH ALL OF YOU COULD KNOW DAVE CROOK AS WELL. 01:22 TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT EASTERN CANADA SO THEY CAN GET THAT ORIENTATION. 01:28 WELL, , ARE O OR ONONHE LANTIC OCEAN AND MAYBE THEY'VE BEEN HEARING ABOUT 01:32 L OUR SNOW THIS WINTER. 01:34 YES. 01:35 BUT IT IS A BEAUTIFUL SPOT AS YOU KNOW. 01:38 YES BETSY AND I HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE THERE A COUPLE OF TIMES 01:44 WITH YOU AND YOUR BRBRE. 01:46 MOST FRIENDLY PEOPLE, MOST HOSPITABLE PEOPLE. 01:48 YOU SURELY ARE! 01:53 IT'S A WONDERFUL PLACE TO LIVE ALTHOUGH I'M A WESTERNER. 01:55 O.K. 01:57 BUT YOU'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST MINISTRY IN THAT 02:01 PART OF CANADA FOR MOST-WELL A LOT YEAEA ANYWAY. 02:05 MOST OF MY MINISTRY, YES. 02:06 ALRIGHT, BUT EVEN MATURE PEOPLE LIKE US DAVE, WE DON'T STOP. 02:14 NO. 02:16 WHEN THERE IS OPPORTUNITY FOR CONTINUING MINISTRY LIKE HERE AT GOSPEL 02:19 OUTREACH AND WHEN SOMEBOBO INVITES US, WE COME. 02:23 YOU ARE ONE OF THE REGIONAL DIRECECRS FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH. 02:25 TELLLLS ABOUT YOYO REGION AND WE ARE G GNG TO HAVE SOMEMEICTURES, I THINK, 02:35 INTERESTSTOT JUST FOLKS EASTERERCANADA ANOTHER PART OF THE WORLD.EW 02:41 THAT'S RIGHTHT 02:43 ACTUALLY I HAVE THREE COUNTRIES. 02:45 I HAVE SOUTH SUDAN, WOW! 02:48 ETHIOPIA AND EGYPT. 02:49 HOT SPOTS IN TODAY'S WORLD. 02:53 IT IS. 02:54 LAST YEAR I JUST LEFT EGYPT ONE DAY BEFORE THE UPRISING SO I WAS VERY 03:02 FORTRTATE TO LEAEA THTHE BEBEUSE E WASASHE ANNIVERSARY, THE S SOND 03:04 NIVEVEARY Y THE REVOLUTION. 03:12 I COULDN'T GET THERE AND IT DIDN'T LOOK IT WAWAGAIN VERY GOOD TO GO TO EGYPTLE 03:16 ALTHOUGHGH THIHI I C CLD VE GONE AT LAST, BUT YOU HAHA TO MAKE TICKET 03:20 RERERVATATNS E ELY A A SOOI ONL. 03:30 ANANIT W W GRERE FOROROUR WORK L SUDAN BECAUSE THAT N N THIHIDIFFICULTY. SOSOELL 03:37 BUBUFOLKLK I W WT TOTOINVIVI YOE IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING GOSPEL OUTREACH MINISTRY 03:53 @@@ 03:53 EGYPT, ETHIOPIA OF COUOUE AND THE THING THAT OUGHT TO INSPIREREOU, , SPIREAN, 04:06 ARARS ANANWE A A GOIOI TOTOEAR R BIT ABOUTH DOES WHAT'S HAPAPNING THERERE 04:09 THAT'S T T WONDERFUL THING THAT THESE INDIGENOUS WORKERS-THEY'LL KEEP ON 04:16 WORKING G EN WHEN THERE IS WAR. 04:18 SOMETIMES THEY HAVE TO FLEE BUT WHAT'S HAPPENED BEFORE-THEY'VE GONE TO THE 04:22 REFUGEE CAMPS AND MATTERER FACT, WE HAD IN ONE REFUGEE CACA, WE HAD 04:27 SESERAL L URCHCH THERE. 04:28 REALLY? 04:29 SO THE WORK DOESN'T STOP. 04:31 THEY ARE BRAVE. 04:33 THEIR DEDICATION IS MOST IMPRESSIVE INDEED. 04:35 WHEN YOU SAY, "THEY ARE BRAVE" THAT IS ALMOST AN UNDERSTATEMENT BECAUSE 04:49 THEY GO WHERE MOST OF US VIROROENT-T-AT'S'STHEIEIWAY Y F BECAUSE THAT IS THTHR 04:51 THAT'S RIGHT. 04:52 O.K. 04:57 BY THE WAY, JUST TO O VE YOU ORIENTATION ON THIS WE ARE DOING THIS LITTLE 05:02 VISIT IN THE GOSPEL OUTRTRCH STUTUO IN THE SPRING OF 2020 SO THAT 05:09 WILL GIVE THE FOLKS A LITTLE IDEA OF HOW RERENTLY YOU WERE THERE. 05:11 THAT WAS ONE YEAR AGO IN JANUARY. 05:15 YES. 05:16 O.K. 05:17 TELL US WHAT SPECIFICALLY IS HAPPENING. 05:20 WELL, I JUST CAME BACK FROM ETHIOPIA THE END OF JANUARY AND I REALLY HAD A 05:30 MOST INTERESTING TRIP. 05:31 I HADN'T BEEN TO THE NORTH. 05:32 I'VE ALWAYS GONE SOUTH TO ADDIS ABBA AND IT IS LEVEL, BIG OPEN PLACES, 05:38 LOOKS LIKE I ITHE E ARIES SO THIS S ME GOING TO THE NORTH IT IS VERY 05:43 MOUNTAINOUS. 05:44 MATTER OF FACT, IT IS SO MOUNTAINOUS THE FARMERS THERE HAVE THEIR FIELDS 05:47 TERRRRED, , TUALAL. 05:49 IN ETHIOPIA? 05:50 IN ETHIOPIA THE NORTH IS VERY MOUNTAINOUS. 05:52 I'VE NEVER PICTURED THAT. 05:53 YES. 05:54 AND VERY ROCKY. 05:59 MUCHCHIFFERENT FROM YOURS TYTYCAL AFRICAN HUT ANDNGS THEN ROCK WALLS AND STONES 06:05 WAS S ED E ERYWHWHE. 06:10 THE PROVINCE OF TIGRAY WHERE I WENT OR THE STATE, THEY CALL IT, IT IS 06:17 LARGELY ETHIHIIAIA ORTHODOX POPULATED. 06:20 MATTER OF FACT, 96 PER CENT OF THE POPULATION IS ORTHODOX AND THEN AKSUM, 06:27 WHWHH ISISOT T T CAPAPAL, MCKELLY IS THEHEAPITAL BUT SUM M THE HOLY CITY. 06:33 IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE ARARK THE COVENANT IS ERE AND ALL L THPOPOS 06:40 ARE CHOSOS THERE. 06:41 ALL THE KINGS USED TO COME THERE TO BE CROWNED AND THERE IS NO PROSELYTING. 06:46 THERE IS N NOTHER CHURCH ALLOWED THERE. 06:50 NOW LET'S DO A LITTLE MAYBE HISTORY ORIENTATION FOR OUR FOLKS. 06:52 WHEN YOU SAY THAHAS THODOD, THAT M MNS THAT THE ORIGIN A A THE HISTOTO 06:55 RELELION IN THAT PARTRTOF ETHIS 06:55 FROM EASTERN CATHOLICISMSM 06:59 YES, Y Y. 07:00 AS CONTRASTED WITH ROMAN CATHOLICISM. 07:02 THAT'S RIGHT, YES. 07:04 AND THERE IS A VERY DEEP COMITTMENT ON THE PART OF THE ORTHODOX THAT THEY 07:05 WILL NEVEV RECECNIZEZEHE POPE AS THE SPIRITUAL LEADER BUT YOU JUST SAID 07:07 ALL THE POPES COME FROM THERE NOW WHAT -THEY HAVE THEIR OWN POPE AND HE 07:09 LIVES IN AKSUM. 07:10 NOW DO THEY CALL THEM ARCHBISHOPS OR? 07:12 NO, THEY CALL THEM POPES. 07:13 THEY CALL HIM THE POPE THAT'S RIGHT. 07:15 IS THAT RIGHT? 07:16 YES AND THEN THE OTHERS THEY ARE CALLED PRIESTS. 07:18 BUT THAT I IJUST FOR ETHIOPIA IS IT NOT? 07:20 YES, IT IS ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX. 07:21 OK. 07:27 YES, YES. 07:36 INTERESTING. 07:45 WELL, ANYTIME THERE IS A DOMINATING RELIGION IT IS DIFFICULT FOR EVERYBODY 08:09 ELSE OF OTHER PERSUASIONS TO EVEN SOMETIMES SURVIVE LET ALONE DO ANY TEACHING 08:17 OR MINISTRY. 08:18 THE INTERESTING THING IS DAN, THAT SINCE AKSUM IS THE HOLY CITY, IT IS HOLY 08:24 GROUND, THERE IS -NONOTHER RELIGION IS TOLERATED BUT WHEN YOU GO TO M MELLY 08:30 WHICICIS THE CAPITAL WE HAVE A AHURCH THERER WE HAVE M MSION HEADQDQRTERER 08:34 THTHE; WE HAVE A CLININ THEHE. 08:36 WE HAVE A SCHOOL WITH 36 TEACHERS THERE. 08:46 D THTH TYPE OF THING SOOOL ITITS VERY DIFIFRENTNTROMMONE P. ALLOWED TO PREACH THERE 08:51 HOW DO YOU SPELL AKSUM? 08:54 AKSUM? 08:55 A K S U M. 09:03 AT A M M OF F HIOPOP WHEHE I -WE WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE THAT HERERE TAY BUTNG 09:09 THAT JUST WASN'T POSSIBLE SO YOU CAN GO ON LINE E WHATEVER AND YOU CAN SEE A 09:13 MAP OF ETHIOPIA. 09:15 BUT IF YOU ARE LIKE ME, I WANT TO GO AND I WANT TO SEE A K S U M. 09:27 YES AND THAT IS THE HOLY CITY. 09:30 THAT'S RIGHT. 09:31 FOR THE ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX FAITH. 09:33 THAT'S RIGHT. 09:34 PEOPLE MAKE PILGRIMAGES THERE. 09:35 TIGRAY IS THE MOST NORTHERN, PRETTY WELL THE MOST NORTHERN STATE OF 09:38 ETHIHIIA AND THEHE AKAKM IS QUITE NORTH IN THE STATE OF TIGRAYAY 09:42 NOW, I KNOW I DON'T WANT TO JUMP P EAD OF YOU DAVE, BUT YOU MUST HAVE SOME 09:49 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THERE. 09:50 YES, WE DO. 09:52 WE WILL COME TO THAT IN JUST A MOMENT. 09:54 O.K. 09:55 BUT LET ME JUST SHOW YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE CITY. 09:57 K. 09:57 ALRIGHT DAVE, WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT HERE? 10:00 WELL, THIS IS ONE OF THE STREETS IN AKSUM AND IT IS VERY INTERESTING THAT YOU 10:11 HAVE MOTOR CARS AND LITTLE TAXIS AND SO O OBUT IT IS A CAMEL.OFTEN THAT YOU SEE 10:13 I THOUGHT THAT WAS RATHER INTERESTING TO SEE THIS MAN LEADING THIS CAMEL 10:15 DOWN ONE OF THE STREETS IN AKSUM. 10:18 NOW HERE IS A LITTLE TAXI THAT YOU TAKE, A THREE WHEELED JOB, AND THAT 10:23 YOYOG MAN STANANNG WITH ME IS NAHOM, WHO IS THEHERESISINT. 10:28 I'VE MENTIONED NAHOM 10:28 BEFORE BECAUSE HE WAS A YOUNG MAN WHO GREW UP IN A 10:32 VERY S SICT ORTHODOX HOME. 10:34 BOTH HIS PARENTS WERE TEACHERS AND HE GOT READING THE BIBLE WHICH HE 10:41 WAWA'T A AOWEDEDO IN N SUM M T ININNOTHTH PLACE HE COULD PERMISSABLE 10:48 BEBEUSE E TUALAL HIS GRANDFATHEHE WHO WAS A PRIEST, GAVE HIS MOTHER 10:53 THAT BIBLE WHEN SHE WAS MARRIED BUT THE GRANDFDFHER LIVED IN 10:57 MCKELLY. 10:58 SO IT IS VERY INTERESTING. 11:00 I COULDN'T QUITE FIGURE THIS THING OUT AT FIRST BUT ANYWAY HE GOT READING 11:04 THTHBIBLBLAND D NOTOTED METHTHG ABOUT THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH H D HE 11:08 NOTICED ALSO MEDIATION. 11:09 SO, HE WENT AND ASKED THE PRIEST AND ASKED SEVERAL PEOPLE, PARENTS AND SO 11:13 ON-NO ONE COCOD GIGI HIM A TRTR ANSWER. 11:21 THIS SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST GAVE HIM SOME LITERATURE AND HE READ THE LITETETURE 11:24 AND D S CONVINCED 11:24 OF OUR TEACHINGS AND FINALLY WAWABAPTIZED. 11:29 WHEN HE WAS S PTIZED HE WAS PUT OUT OF HIS HOME. 11:33 HOWEVER, THERE WAS RECONCILIATION LATER ON. 11:35 BUT ANYWAY, HE WAS GOING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF AKSUM. 11:40 HE WASASAKING ENGINEERING D GRADADTED CUM LAUDE, GNA A M LALAE MATTER OF 11:44 FACT. 11:45 SO IT SHOWS YOU WHAT A BRIGHT YOUNG MAN HE WAS. 11:48 THEN HE GOT DOWN T T OUR ETHIOPIAN COLLEGE AND TOOK THEOLOGY AND GOT HIS 11:53 DEGREE THERE. 11:54 SO AT 24 YEARS OF AGE HE HAD TWO BACHELOR DEGREES. 11:56 REALLY. 11:58 BUT HIS GREAT DESIRE WAS TO GO BACK TO HIS PROVINCE OR HIS STATE AND SPREAD 12:05 THE GOGOEL ANDNDSO HE WAS TAKENA 12:05 GOSPEL OUTUTACH H WOER. 12:09 A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER WITH TWO BACHELORS DEGREES, YES, ALL OF THIS 12:23 WOWOERFUL EDUCATION N D ALL IS BE A GOSPELRING, OUTREACH W WKEKES MOST OF 12:25 THAT'S RIGHT. 12:26 WOW! 12:27 SO ANYWAY, NOW JUST VERY RECENTLY HE HAS BEEN APPOINTED AS THE 12:30 PRESIDENT. 12:35 SO JUST A LITTLE OVER 25 W, THAT'S AND HE IS THE WONDERFUL STORY. MISSION. 12:38 IT IS. 12:39 ANYWAY, HE TOOK ME AROUND A LITTLE BIT AND TO SEE THE DIFFERENT SITES OF 12:43 AKSUM. 12:44 NOW HERE YOU SEE SOME SHEEP HERE WITH THESE FELLOWS. 12:46 THEY ARE SELLINGNGHESE SHEEEEBECAUSE THIS IS JUST BEFORE THE CELEBRATION OF 12:50 EPEPHANYNY 12:51 THEY CALL IT TIMKAT. 12:52 ANYWAY, THESE ARE OF COURSE FOR PEOPLE TO BUY THIS AND SLAUGHTER THEM 12:57 FOR THE FEAST THAT THEY HAVE FOR EPIPHANY WHICH LASTS THREREDAYSYS 13:03 IT'S THE HIGHLIGHT ACTUALLY OF THE ETHIOPIAN CALENDAR BECAUSE IT IS 13:07 CELEBRATING JESUS BAPTPTM IN THE JORDAN RIVER. 13:09 AND THE HIGHLIGHT OF ALL IS THE PARADE. 13:14 THEY GO CARRYING THE, WELL THEY CALL IT THE TABOT, WHICH IS A SYMBOL OF THE 13:24 ARK. 13:25 THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. 13:29 YES SO THEY CAN BE- IN ADDIS ABBA THERE CAN BE THOUSANDS OF THESE PEOPLE. 13:34 THE STREETS S EEALL BLOCKED. 13:35 THE POLICE HAVE TO REROUTE TRAFFIC AND EVERYTHING ELSE. 13:38 THEYEYRE D DSSEDEDN WHWHE D THTH AREREANCICI ANDNDSINGNGGN 13:52 ERY Y HIOPIAN ORTHODOX PARADE T TT ISISOING ON WILL BE CARRRRNG THAT.ANY 13:54 ANY Y URCH WILL BE 13:54 CARRYING THAT SO IT IS VERY INTERESTING. 13:58 I CAN'T HELP BUT ASK YOU 13:58 DAVE, WITH THIS VERY, VERYRYCOMK 14:09 OF THE COVENANT DOES THAT MEAN THAT THERE IS A PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO 14:15 THTHLAW OF GOD THATTWAS S THE ? 14:20 I'M TOLD UP UNTIL 1700 THEY KEPT THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH. 14:24 HOW IT GOT CHANGED I DON'T REALLY KNOW AND JUST HOW MUCH EMPHASIS IS ACTUALLY 14:33 PUT T THE LAW I DON'T'TACTUALLI GREAT EMPHASIS PUPUON T TT.THTHE IS ANY 14:35 ALSO, THIS YOUNG MAN TOLD ME THAT THE PRIESTS USE AN ETHIOPIAN DIALECT THAT 14:41 VERYRYVERY FEW PEOPLE KNOW AND THAT WAS ANOTHER PROBLELEWE H H BECECSE HE 14:47 REALLY WASN'T UNDERSTANDING WHAT THEY WERE SAYING. 14:49 ETHIOPIA HAS 200 DIALECTS AND 80 LANGUAGES. 14:59 THBIBLE, Y Y, WHICHNTION WOULD D GGESESTHATATHE D DN'T HY SABBATH IN HIS READING OF 15:03 ORORNTATATN OFOFHAT T ND TEAEAING,G,HAT'T'RIGHGH ANANWITH THE L LGUAGAG 15:07 PROBLEM. 15:08 YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO TAKE A BREAK RIGHT HERE. 15:10 I'VE GOT TO SAY SOMETHING TO OUR VIEWERS,DAVE. 15:12 YOU FOLKS WHO JOIN US ON THESE E DVENTURES S MIMIIONS" PROGOGMS AND GET 15:23 THE UPDATES, DO YOU REREMBER ONCE UPON A AIME STORIES ININABBATH SCHCHL? 15:25 WE LISTENED WITH SUCH KEEN INTEREST TO EVERYTHING THAT WAS HAPPENING IN A 15:31 RTAIN MISSION FIELELAND THAT WAS T T MOTIVATION FOR OUR MISSION OFFERINGS? 15:36 WELL, LET ME T TELYOU. 15:37 YOU TUNE IN TO THE GOSPEL OUTREACH PROGRAM HERE "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" 15:42 ANANYOU U ARGOGOG TO HEAR MISSION STORIES JUST LIKE DAVE CROOK IS BRINGING US 15:45 DIRECT F FM ETHIOPIA. 15:48 AMAZING THINGS THAT GOD IS DOING WITH PEOPLE THROUGH EXPERIENCES THAT WE CAN 15:56 HARDRD IMAMANE. 15:57 SO, I WANT YOU TO TAKE DOWN THE ADDRESS. 16:00 IT IS ON YOUR SCREEN. 16:01 TAKE DOWN THE ADDRESS, THE TELEPHONE NUMBER, THE EMAIL ADDRESS, THE 16:04 WEBSITE. 16:06 EVERYTHING AND YOU BE IN TOUCH WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH SO YOU CAN GET THE 16:10 NENELETTER WITH THESE KIKIS OFOFTORIRI ON A REGULAR BASIS AND ALSO Y Y 16:16 CAN N A MEMBER, A PART OF GOSPEL OUTREACH WITH YOUR COCORIBUBUONS S AT H HP 16:22 FUND THE MINISTRIES SUCH AS PASTOR CROOK I I TELLING US ABOUT TODAY. 16:27 SO DAVAV I INTERRURUED Y Y AND I'M SORRY Y T-WEWEL JUST GO ON A LITTLE TOUR 16:33 HEHE ACTUALLY. 16:34 O.K. 16:37 YOU SEE HERE THE COBBLESTONES, WELL, NO HERE ARE THE OBELISKS. 16:43 THTHE ARARTWO O ELISIS THERE IN THAT PICTURE THAT THEYEYLAIMIMOES BACK TO 16:48 SOSOMON. 16:49 THE ONE ON THE LEFT IN I THINK 1933 WAS TAKEN TO ITALY AND JUST RETURNED 16:54 BACK, TAKEN TO ROME D JUST RETURNED BACK AKSUM HERE IN 2008. 17:00 BUT T YWAYAYTHERE ARE SEVERAL DIFFERENT HISTSTIC OTS S DIFFERENT PLACES 17:06 LIKE THAT. 17:08 RIGHT HERE, THIS BLUE ROUND OBJECT HERE YOU CAN SEE THERE IS A YOUNG 17:13 FELLOW KISSING IT. 17:14 I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHY HE IS DOING THAT EXCEPT I DID FIND OUT THAT WHEN 17:19 PEOPLE COMOMTO THE MAIN CHURCH, ST. MARY'S CHURCH, THAT THEY GO AROUND THAT 17:23 SOMEHOW SO THERE IS SOME TYPE OF A A LEBRATION THERE BUT I WAS NOT ABLE 17:27 TO FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT THAT T S ALALABOUOU 17:30 WHAT YOU'RE EMPHASIZING IS THE RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE OF THESE PEOPLE WITH THEIR 17:37 ORTHODOXY IS A VERY PRORONENT PART OF T TIR LIVES. 17:40 OH YES, YES VERY MUCH SO. 17:43 VERY MUCH INDEED. 17:45 NOW HERE IS OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER THERE. 17:48 ACTUALLY, HE HAS TAKEN NAHOM'S PLACE AND HIS NAME IS BERHANU GEBER. 17:55 OD F F YOU! 17:57 HE COMES FROM A VERY INTERESTING BACKGROUND, ACTUALLY. 18:00 HEHEELONGED TOTOHE HIOPOPN ORTHODOXOXHURCH BUT ONE E Y HE WAS WALKING 18:05 BYBYN ADADNTISISCHURUR AND THISISELLOW CAMEMEP TOTOIM D HANDED H H A T TCT. 18:09 ACTUALLY, IT WAS ENTITLED "JESUS OUR SAVIOUR". 18:11 WELL, HE READ IT-DISCUSSED IT WITH SOME PEOPLE BUT DIDN'T PAY TOO MUCH 18:15 ATTENTION BUT THREE YEYES 18:15 TER R MEHOW, I'M NOT JUST SURE HOHO HE E LKED 18:19 INTO A SEVENTH DAY ADADNTIST CHURUR. 18:21 HE GOT TALKING TO THE ASSISTANT PASTOR THERE AND AGREED TO TAKE BIBLE 18:26 STSTIES. 18:28 SO, HE TOOK BIBLE STUDIES AND WAS BAPTIZED AND THEN SOMEHOW, SOMEHOW SOMEONE 18:34 SPONSORED HIM TO DO EVANGELISMSMOR A COUPLPLOF YEARS S THINK IT WAS AND 18:42 ANYWAY H HDID THAT. 18:43 HE BAPTIZED SOME FOLKS AND THEN SOMEONE FROM THE UNITED STATES HERE 18:48 SPONSORED HIM TO GO TO OUR COLLEGE ANANHE G G HIS BACHCHOR OF THEOLOGY 18:53 GREE. 18:54 SO, THEN HE WAS CALLED TO GO THERE AND TO BE THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER IN 19:00 THATATARTICULAR PLACE. 19:01 I CAN'T HELP BUT ASK IS THIS SITUATION WITH HIM GOING INTO OR WALKING BY 19:16 THE E VENTNTDAY Y VENTIST URCH -HE OBVIOUSUS WASASNOT T E WALKED BY THATATHURCH? 19:17 NO, THAT IS RIGHT. 19:19 SO I AM UNDERSTANDING YOU TO SAY THERE ARE NO ADVENTIST CHURCHES IN 19:23 AKSUSU 19:24 I'LL COME TO THAT IN A MINUTE. 19:26 OH! 19:27 I KEEP GETTING AHEAD OF YOU, I APOLOGIZE. 19:29 NO, NO THAT IS O.K. 19:31 NO THERE IS NO ACTUAL CHURCH AS SUCH BUT WE ARE ABLE TO RENT A BUILDING 19:38 FRFR A MUSLIM M N AT H H TWOWOOOMSMS 19:42 ONE ROOM SERVES AS A CHURCH THE OTHER ROOM SERVES AS THE LIVING 19:48 QUARTERS FORORUR GOSPEL OUTREREH WORKER, THATAT RIGHT YES. 19:56 MATTERERF FACT IT IS INTERESTSTG BECAUSE THERE ARE TWO, LIKE I SAY, TWO 20:01 ROOMS S D THTH THEHE IS THISISIG Y YD, B BKYARAR THTH IS FENCEDEDND T TY 20:08 USE-YOYOCAN N E THE STSTES THERE AND THAHAS ABOUT TEN FEET HIGH. 20:13 WELLLLTHE NEIGHBOR NEXEX DOOR HAS BEEN THROWING STONES O OR THAT FENCE. 20:18 CKILY, IT HASN'T HIT ANYONE BUT THAT IS SOME OF THE DIFFFFULTIES THEY GO 20:22 THROUGUG 20:23 HERE ARE SOME OF THESE YOUNG MEN ON OUR RIGHT THERE IS OUR GOSPEL 20:31 OUTREACH WORKER BUT THESE ARE SOME OF THE YOUNG MEN THERE AT THE UNIVEVEITY. 20:35 TALK ABOUT DEDICATION. 20:36 ARE THESE ALL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST BELIEVERS? 20:40 THEY ARE ALL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST BELIEVERS, YES. 20:42 NOW LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT. 20:43 AND THERE ARE, I CAN'T COUNT THEM ALL RIGHT THERE BUT THEY ARE PROFESSORS, 20:50 YES, IN THE UNIVERSITY IN THIS ORTHODOX CENTER? 20:53 THAT'S RIGHT. 20:55 THAT'S RIGHT BECAUSE THEY CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THEIR OWN RELIGION SO WE HAVE 20:57 SIX GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THERE AND THE PRESIDIDT IS THERE AND I'M 21:02 THE. 21:03 THERE IS A COUPLE WHO ARE NOT THERE BUT ANYWAY, YES. 21:07 SESEI COULDN'T HELP BUT PICK UP ON WHAT YOU SAID-YOU ARE R RTING 21:11 FACILITIESES FM A MUSLSLIM YES, SO YOU COULDNDN HAVE DONE THAT FROM M 21:17 ORTHODOX? 21:18 NO, NO. 21:19 IS THE NEIGHBOR AN ORTHODOX THROWING THE ROCKS? 21:21 YES, THAT'S RIGHT. 21:23 SO WE HAVE THE BLESSING THEN OF BEING FRIENDS WITH THE MUSLIMS THERE. 21:28 WELL, YES THATAT IRIGHT. 21:29 YES, BECAUSE THEY ARE IN THE SAME SITUATION THAT WE ARE IN. 21:33 THEY C C'T HAVE ACHIHI OF F LAM? 21:40 THEY HAVE A LITTLE PLACE JUST LIKE WE HAVE WHERE THEY GO TO WORSHIP. 21:44 THEYEY LIKE TO VE A MOSQUE BUT THEY CAN'T'TO THAT. 21:47 THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED BUT IT IS INTERESTING THAT THESE MEN N E TEACHING 21:51 THERERAND ALSO W WHAVE SEVEVEL ADVENTIST STUDUDTS GOING TO THAT UNIVERISTY. 21:57 YES. 21:59 YOU KNOW, I CAN'T HELP BUT JUST SAY THAT IT IS NOTHING SHORT OF A 21ST 22:13 CENTURY MIRACLE THAT IN GOSPSP OUTUTACH H SMENT MININIRY G GNG O OINING 22:16 YES, THAT'S RIGHT. 22:17 AND THESE PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO MAKE CONTACT WITH ORTHODOX PEOPLE. 22:23 THESE YOYOG MEN, THESE YOYOG MEN ARE SO D DICATAT. 22:28 SABBATH MORNING SABBATH SCHOOL STATAS AT 9:30 THERE JUST LIKE IT DOES 22:31 HERE BUT THEY WERE THEHE OVER AN HOUR BEFORE FELLLLSHIPING, PRAYIYI, 22:37 SINGING. 22:39 IT WAS THRILLING TO SEE THEIR DEDICATION AND ANOTHER THING THAT IS 22:46 INTETESTING IS THAT THE UNIVERISTY EVEN PROVIDESESA ROOL 22:50 OUTRTRCH WORKER TO GO ANAN MEET WITH THE ADVENTIST STUDENTS THERE AND NO 22:54 DOUBT T OTR R SITOTO WIWI COMOMTHERERTOO. 22:58 THERE MUST BE A SHORTAGE OF ORTHODOX TEACHERS AND THAT'S THE REASON THEY 23:03 NEED THESE O OERS? 23:04 YES AND THAT'S WHY THE POPULATION FOR ORTHODOX IS 85 PER CENT INSTEAD OF 23:10 LIKEKET ISISN E OTOTR STATE. 23:11 THIS MAN HERE IS A PHYSICS TEACHER AND HE IS ALSO THE ELDER THERE. 23:21 THIS WAS IN THE AFTERNOON WHEN THEY CAME BACK IN THE AFTERNOON AND THEY HAD A 23:24 LITTLELEEETITI, FELLLLSHIPING ANANSO ON. 23:27 THAT'S HIS NEW BRIDE THERE WITH HIM. 23:29 WOW! 23:30 HETU-HE IS A WONDERFUL YOUNG MAN. 23:32 MATTER OF FACT, HE IS A PROFESSOR OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS. 23:37 NUCLEAR, WOW! 23:38 YES SO YOU KNOW IT IS JUST WONDERFUL. 23:41 HERE IS THE CHURCH GROUP. 23:43 THESE ARE THE PROFESSORS AND THE STUDENTS THAT ARE THERE. 23:46 THERE E E ABABT 30 OF THTH THAT ACTUALLY MEET THERE. 23:50 YOU CACASEE THE DEDECATION OF ALL OF THESES 23:52 SO HOW MANY GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS DO WE HAVE IN AKSUM? 23:56 JUST THAT T E. 23:57 JUST THE ONE? 23:59 YES, AND THAT'S ALL WE'VE HAD IN THE WHOLE STATE BUT WE JUST ADDED TWO MORE 24:04 WORKERS. 24:05 THE ONE WORKER IS AN ENGINEEER. 24:06 HE IS ABOUT 40 YEARS OLD BUT HE WAS BAPTIZED TWO YEARS AGO BUT HE IS SO 24:12 ENTHUSUSSTIC ABOUT 24:12 SPREADING THE GOSPEL THAT HE GAVAVUP H H WORORAND 24:16 'S BEEN SUSUORTITINGHIHIELF F OS 24:16 AT HE HAHAHAD AND WE'V'V 24:19 JUST TAKEN HIMIMN AS A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER. 24:22 OH, PRAISE THE LORD! 24:23 AND FOLKS THAT'S WHAT YOUR GIFTS TO GOSPEL OUTREACH GO FOR- TO HELP THESE 24:30 KINDS OF FRONTLINE WORKERS WHO ARE INVOLVED IN AREAS THAT TELEVISION ISN'T 24:37 THERE I DON'T THINK, AND THE LITERATURE DIDIRIBUBUON I IDIFFFFULT 24:41 SO IT'S S NDERFUL HAVE THESE THTHE. 24:51 WE'VE GOT A FEW SECONDS SO LET US KNOW SOMETHING BEST. ABOUT WHAT CAN WE DO 24:52 I MADE THE APPEAL BUT - WELL, WE CERTAINLY NEED TO PRAY FOR THESE FOLKS. 24:56 IT'S N N EASASAND D R 24:56 SPELELUTREREH WOWOER ERE E T'S DIFFICICT FOFO 25:00 HIM SO THEY CERTAINLY NENE OUR PRAYAYS BUBUOF C CRSE, WE COULD USE MANY, MANY 25:05 MORERE WKERS THROUGHOUT 25:05 THTHATHOLE STATA BECAUSE THE WHOLOLSTATE HAS NOW 25:09 ONLY T TEE WORKERS. 25:10 NOW, IS ETHIOPIA ALL IN YOUR TERRITORY? 25:14 @@ 25:14 YES. 25:15 HOW MANY WORKERS IN ETHIOPIA? 25:16 IN ETHIOPIA WE HAVE 18 WORKERS-WELL NOW WE HAVE 20 BECAUSE WE'VE JUST 25:19 ADDED THE TWO MORE AND HOPEFULLY WE'RE GOING TO BE ADDING FIVE MORE IN 25:24 WHAT'S CALLELETHE CENTRAL FIELD. 25:26 NOW, IF FOLKS WILL LOOK AT THE ETHIOPIAN MAP AND THEY LOOK TO THE NORTH THAT IS 25:30 WHERE THEY CAN FIND AKSUSUAND SAY THE NAME OF THE STATE AGAIN: TIGRAY. 25:34 TIGRGR, YES AND JUST 25:34 UNDERSTAND SOMETHING ABOUT THE CHALLENGES OF THE WORK 25:39 THERE BECAUSUSYOU'VE HEAEA 25:39 PAPAOR CROOK, OUR REGIONAL DIRECTOR, TELL US ABOUT 25:43 IT. 25:44 I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP DAVE AND I LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING 25:48 ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO VIVIT WITH YOU ABOUT SOME OF THE OTHER AREAS FOR 25:51 ICH YOYOHAVE RESPSPSIBILITY AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US IN 25:57 PRAYING THTH GODODILL FIND MORE O OTHESESDEDICATEDDWONDERFA 26:03 WILLING TO GO THE EXTRTR MIMI FORORHE P PCLAMAMION OF THE GOSPEL. 26:07 THANANYOU SO MUCUCFOR HELPLPG MAKE THIS POSSIBLE BY BEING A PART OF GOSPEL 26:31 OUTREACH. 26:41 [CLOSING MUSIC]. 27:01 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 27:25 WHERE IS THE 10/40 WINDOW ANYWAY? 27:28 THOSE PEOPLE ARE TOO FAR AWAY. 27:31 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. 27:33 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV? 27:36 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACH, MY HEAD HURTS. 27:41 THTHE'S NOTHININI CAN DO, I GIGI UP. 27:44 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 27:47 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 27:49 ACTUALLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND JESUS ASKED YOU TO GO TO ALL THE 27:56 WORLD. 27:57 WHERE? 27:58 ALL THE WORLD. 27:59 HOW CAN I GO I HAVE COMMITMENTS? 28:01 YOU CAN PRAY. 28:03 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 28:08 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 28:12 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS. 28:15 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE AND MEANING BUT THEY WON'T 28:19 FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 28:20 BE THE SPARK. 28:22 LIGHT THE FIRE. 28:24 FINISH THE WORK. 28:27 FINISH THE WORK. |
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