Participants: Audrey Folkenburg
Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000522
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00:14 WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:20 TODAY YOU HAVE THE GREAT OPPORTUNITY OF GOING TO CHINA AND HEARING ABOUT 00:24 CHINA. 00:25 CHINA IS A PLACE THAT WE ALL ARE VERY INTERESTED IN AND WE'RE ESPECIALLY 00:28 INTERESTED IN HEARING ABOUT THE BELIEVERS IN CHINA. 00:31 TODAY I WANT TO WELCOME AUDREY FOLKENBERG. 00:33 WEL COME. 00:35 IT IS GOOD TO BE HERE. 00:37 IT'S GREAT TO HAVE YOU HERE AND AUDREY, TELL US ABOUT WHAT YOU DO; WHERE 00:39 YOU LIVE AND WHAT 00:39 YOUR JOB ENTAILS. 00:44 BASICALLY WHAT I SAID IS, "I'M GLAD TO BE HERE TO HAVE T TS OPPORTUNITY TO 00:57 SHARE WITH YOU ALL ABOUT CHINA. 00:59 I LIVE IN HONG KONG RIGHT NOW. 01:01 MY HUSBAND AND I WORK AT THE CHINESE UNION MISSION AND WE'VE BEEN THERE FOR 01:05 ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF-A YEAR PLUS THISISIME AROUND, SO. 01:08 HOW FANTASTIC. 01:10 WHAT IS YOUR ROLE AT THE OFFICE AT CHINESE UNION MISSION? 01:14 I WORK AS THE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR AND PRAYER MINISTRIRI COORDINATOR SO 01:17 IT IS AN EXCITING JOB AND I WOWO WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH TO HELP 01:21 COORDINATE THE PIONEERS- THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THAT ARE IN CHINA. 01:25 AND THAT IS WHY YOU ARE HERE TODAY. 01:27 THAT IS WHY I AM HERE TODAY. 01:28 WHY DON'T YOU SHARE? 01:30 WELL, I HAVE SOME THINGSGS 01:30 E 01:30 WITH YOU AND I WANT TO 01:32 MAKE SURE I GET IT RIGHT, BUT FIRST OF ALL CHINA. 01:35 THIS IS ABOUT CHCHA AND CHINA IS A COUNTRY THAT IS SO FULLLLF EXTREMES. 01:40 IN FACT IT IS FULLLLFF 01:40 E 01:40 HAVE SAID THATATHE ONLY 01:45 CONSISTENT THING 01:45 ABOUT CHINA IS ITS INCONSISTENCIES. 01:49 FOR EXAMPLE YOU HAVE QUAINT VILLAGES AND THEN YOU HAVE HIGH RISES, YOU 01:52 HAVE MARBLE FOUNTAINS ANANSQUAT POTS. 01:55 YOU HAVE CITIES TH DAZZLING LIGHTS AND DESIGNER MALLS; TO BARREN 02:01 AND DESOLATE LANDSCAPES- THAT'S'SHINA. 02:03 U HAVE TECHNOLOGICALLY SOPHISTICATED FACTORIES AND THEN YOU ALSO HAVE 02:14 CARTS THAT GO THROUGH TOWN CARRYING NICE SOIL THAT WILL GO OUT INTO THE 02:14 . 02:16 IT'S J JT SO MANY DIFFERENCES IN CHINA. 02:19 IT IS A COUNTRY THAT HASASAY 02:19 EVERERCITY BUT IF YOU GO 02:23 INTO A RESTAURANT JULIE, YOU BETTER BRING YOUR KUAIAI, YOUR CHOPSTICKCK 02:27 WHY? 02:29 CAUSE THEY MAY NOT BE ABLE FIND YOU A FORK IN T TT RESTAURANT. 02:34 CHINA-IT'S A PLACE ALSO THAT WELCOMES TOURISTS ATATHE SAME TIME THEY ARE 02:40 STILL CLOSED IN SOME WAYS. 02:41 THERE IS NO O CEBOOK ALLOWED IN CHINA AND ALSO THERE IS NO FREEDOM OF THE 02:45 PRESS. 02:46 SO CHINA IS A PLACE WITH A LOT OF EXTREMES. 02:49 CHINA IS EXPERIENCING A LOT OF ECONOMIC GROWTH RIGHT NOW BUT YET THE GAP 02:54 BETWEEN THTHVERY, VERY RICH AND THE P PR IS DENING ALL THE TIME. 02:58 T THERE IS ONE T TNGNGTHATS 02:58 ALL OF CHINA AND THAT IS 03:03 THERE ARARPEOPLE. 03:04 LOTS OF PEOPLE AND THESE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW JESUS. 03:09 YES. 03:10 WHEN I THINK OF THIS, TWO TEXTS COME TO MIND AND YOU ALL KNOW THESE TEXTS. 03:15 ONE IS MATTHEW28:19-20 "GO YE THEREFORE AND TEACH ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN 03:23 THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY GHOST TEACHING THEM 03:28 TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER I HAVE COMMANDEDEYOU AND LO, I AMAM 03:32 WITH YOU ALWAYS EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD." 03:34 TO THE END OF THTHWORLD, YES, AND THAT INCLUDES CHININ 03:37 AND THAT'S THE SCRIPTURE WE HAVE RIGHT THERE OPEN ON OUR BIBLE HERE. 03:40 AMEN. 03:41 THE OTHER BIBLE TEXT THAT I THINK OF IS MATTHEW 9:37 THAT SAYS "THE HARVEST 03:52 THEREFORE PRAY THE LORD OF THE HARVEST TO SEND OUT LABORERS INTO HIS 03:57 HARVEST." 03:59 AND SO JULIE, ON BEHALF OF THE CHINESE UNION MISSION, I WANT TO THANK GOSPEL 04:03 OUTREACH FOR THE PART THEY PLAY IN SENDING WORKERS OUT INTO THE 04:07 FIELD-LABORERS INTO THE HARVEST. 04:10 PIONEER TEAMS-GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS-THEY ARE OUR BOOTS ON THE GROUND IN 04:17 CHINA AND WE HAVE ALTOGETHER OVER 250 PIONEERS RIGHT NOW. 04:23 FANTASTIC! 04:25 FIFTY TEAMS RIGHT NOW ARE BEING SUPPORTED BY GOSPEL OUTREACH AND THESE TEAMS 04:28 ARE IN VILLAGES; THEY'RE IN LARGE CITIES; THEY'RE IN UNREACHED CITIES; 04:31 THEY'RE IN UNENTERED CITIES; THEY ARE IN OUR CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE SO 04:39 IT IS EXCITING WHAT GOSPEL OUTREACH IS DOING. 04:42 THANK YOU ALL FOR HELPING WITH THE PIONEERS THAT WE SEND INTO CHINA. 04:45 PRAISE THE LORD! 04:47 RIGHT NOW I WOULD LIKE TO SHOW YOU A VIDEO AND I THINK YOU WILL FIND IT 04:50 INTERESTING. 04:51 IT IS ABOUT PIONEERS, GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THAT ARE IN CHINA. 04:55 LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE VIDEO, JULIE. 04:57 O.K. 05:56 THE CHALLENGE OF REACHING CHINA WITH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST IS HUGE BUT 06:00 WE SERVE A BIG GOD, THE ONLY TRUE GOD THAT CARES ABOUT EVERY PERSON 06:05 EVERYWHERE AND THROUGH HIM ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY SINCE GOD NEVER 06:11 ASKS US TO DO SOMETHING WE CANNOT DO. 06:15 PEOPLE USED TO THINK OF FIELDS OF RICE AND BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN RANGES 06:19 AND LITTLE FISHING BOATS AND BASKETS WHEN THINKING OF CHINA. 06:24 THOUGH VILLAGES AND BAMBOO AND PANDAS STILL EXIST TODAY'S CHINA IS VERY 06:29 DIFFERENT AND MULTIFACETED. 06:31 CHINA'S LARGEST METROPOLITAN CITY ALONE HAS MORE CITIZENS THAN THE 06:36 ENTIRE STATE OF TEXAS. 06:39 HERE IS ANOTHER WAY TO THINK OF IT-OTHER THAN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA; THE 06:43 LARGEST CITY IN CHINA HAS MORE PEOPLE IN IT THAN ANY SINGLE STATE IN THE UNION. 06:50 WHILE ITS POPULATION IS NEARLY 1.4 BILLION PEOPLE, THE ADVENTIST MEMBERSHIP 06:55 IS JUST A BIT OVER 400,000. 06:58 THAT BREAKS DOWN TO ONE ADVENTIST FOR EVERY 3,300 PEOPLE. 07:04 THE UNITED STATES HAS ONE ADVENTIST FOR EVERY 300 PEOPLE. 07:08 YOU SEE, THE TASK IS HUGE BUT IT IS NOT OUR TASK IT IS THE LORD'S. 07:16 LET'S NOT BE OVERWHELMED FOR WE ARE SIMPLY CALLED TO BE HIS LABORERS IN THE 07:22 FIELDS AROUND THE WORLD INCLUDING CHINA, THE MIDDLE KINGDOM. 07:27 KINGDOM GROWTH IN THE MIDDLE KINGDOM THAT IS OUR LORD'S DEEP DESIRE. 07:32 CHINA IS BECOMING A WORLD ECONOMIC POWER. 07:40 IT'S CITIZENS MORE THAN EVER ARE LOOKING FOR SUCCESS AND FORTUNE. 07:46 HOWEVER, IN THE MIDST OF THIS DRIVE FOR WEALTH THERE REMAINS A HUNGER FOR 07:51 A MEANING IN LIFE. 07:52 A THIRST FOR SPIRITUAL THINGS; FOR PEACE; FOR HOPE. 07:57 THE MATERIALISM AND SECULARISM ARE GROWING RAPIDLY BUT THERE IS STILL 08:01 TIME AND NOW IS THE TIME TO MOVE BOLDLY IN PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL ALL 08:09 ACROSS CHINA. 08:10 NO DOUBT, THERE ARE CHRISTIANS IN CHINA BUT FOR THE MOST PART THE 08:14 POPULATION OF CHINA IS UNREACHED WITH THE STORY OF THE GOSPEL. 08:19 HOW CAN THIS BE CHANGED? 08:21 HOW CAN GOD USE EACH OF US TO COMPLETE WHAT IS BEEN ASKED OF US AND WHAT HE 08:27 HAS PROMISED TO DO TO TELL ALL THE WORLD, ALL THE NATIONS SO THAT THE END OF 08:33 SIN AND SUFFERING AND SORROW AND DEATH WILL BE NO MORE. 08:37 MAYBE YOU ARE THINKING, "LET ME GO IN AND BE A MISSIONARY. 08:41 I'M WILLING SEND ME." 08:44 DUE TO CERTAIN REALITIES CHINA, FOR THE MOST PART, SHOULD BE REACHED THROUGH 08:48 OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS THAT ALREADY LIVE THERE. 08:53 THEY KNOW THE CULTURE, THE LANGUAGE. 08:57 THE CHINESE ARE REACHING THEIR OWN AND ONE WAY THIS IS HAPPENING IS THROUGH 09:02 LOCAL CHURCH PLANTING PIONEERS. 09:04 PIONEER TEAMS CALLED BY GOD AND EMPOWERED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKING TO 09:09 ESTABLISH NEW CHURCHES IN UNENTERED CITIES AND AREAS AROUND THEIR COUNTRY. 09:15 WE PRAISE THE LORD THAT AT PRESENT WE HAVE OVER 130 PIONEER TEAMS-TEAMS MADE 09:21 UP OF TWO INDIVIDUALS. 09:24 HOWEVER, AS YOU CAN SEE THIS IS ONLY A START? 09:28 WE NEED MANY MORE. 09:31 THESE TEAMS ARE RECRUITED AND TRAINED FROM WITHIN CHINA EQUIPPED WITH TOOLS 09:35 FOR THE TASK AT HAND AND FINANCED THROUGH THE SUPPORT OF MEMBERS AND 09:39 CHURCHES AROUND THE WORLD. 09:41 THE GOAL IS FOR A PIONEER TEAM TO WORK IN A DESIGNATED AREA FOR 3-5 09:46 YEARS SERVING THE COMMUNTY, BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS, GIVING 09:49 BIBLE STUDIES AND GROWING A CHURCH THAT CAN STAND ON ITS OWN AND CONTINUE TO 09:56 EXPERIENCE KINGDOM GROWTH. 09:57 WHEN WE WORK TOGETHER FOR CHINA, THE LORD CAN WORK WONDERS. 10:01 YOU MAY ASK YOURSELF, "SO HOW CAN I HELP?" 10:04 THE ANSWER IS ACTUALLY PRETTY SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD. 10:09 WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT WITH TWO THINGS: WE NEED PRAYER SUPPORT. 10:15 FOCUSED PRAYER WARRIORS-BROTHERS AND SISTERS COMMITTED TO 10:19 LIFTING CHINA AND IT'S BILLION PLUS PEOPLE IN PRAYER. 10:22 PRAYING FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO REVIVE AND GROW THIS CHURCH IN THIS 10:26 COUNTRY AND EMPOWER IT TO ACCOMPLISH THE MISSION CHRIST HAS GIVEN IT. 10:33 NEXT, WE NEED FINANCIAL PARTNERS. 10:35 YES, WE ARE IN NEED OF FINANCIAL PARTNERS WHO WILL ADOPT A PIONEER TEAM. 10:41 YOUR GENEROUS COMMITMENT CAN HELP THE CHINESE UNION SPONSOR A TEAM. 10:46 A TEAM THAT WILL BE SENT TO AN UNREACHED AREA OF CHINA IN ORDER TO PREACH 10:50 THE THREE ANGELS MESSAGES AND LIFT JESUS UP FOR ALL TO SEE. 10:55 REACHING THE UNREACHED IN CHINA? 10:57 YES, THE TASK CAN SEEM DAUNTING AND AT TIMES IMPOSSIBLE. 11:01 HOWEVER, JESUS MADE US A PROMISE WHEN HE SAID, "AND THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM 11:08 WILL BE PREACHCH IN N L E WOWOD AS A WITNESS TO L THE NATITIS, THEN THE 11:13 ENENWILL COME." 11:14 THE WORK WE HAVE ALL BEEN COMMISSIONED TO BE A PART OF, TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF 11:20 WIWI BE ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH PRAYER. 11:23 THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN HIS TIME AND THROUGH HIS POWER AND TO 11:28 THINK WE HAVE THE IVILEGE OF PARTNERING WITH HIM FOR KINGDOM 11:35 GROWTH. 11:36 WON'T YOU JOIN US IN REACHING CHINA FOR CHRIST? 11:45 AUDREY, THAT IS POWERFUL. 11:49 WELL, I JUST-I THINK IT KIND OF WRAPS UP OUR PURPOSE IS WHEN IT COMES 11:53 TO CHINA. 11:54 I GET SHIVERS JUST WATCHING THAT AND THE NUMBER -1.4 BILLION 11:59 PEOPLE. 12:00 YES. 12:01 I DON'T THINK THAT WE CAN EVEN PUT THAT INTO OUR MIND, CAN WE? 12:04 NO, I TELL YOU AND THERE ARE SO MANY CITIES IN CHCHA THAT ARE UNREACHED 12:09 WITH MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 12:11 WE HAVE ONE CITY THAT HAS 30 MILLION PEOPLE AND ONLY JUST A COUPLE HUNDRED ARE 12:17 ADADNTISIS THAHAWORSRSP ERE E SABABTH. 12:19 UNBELIEVABLE. 12:20 YES. 12:22 AND WHAT YOU TALK ABOUT IN THE PICTURES, THANK YOU SO MUCH AND THANK YOUR TEAM 12:24 FOR THAT. 12:25 THAT IS -THE PICTURES AND EVERYTHING THEY SPEAK SO MUCH. 12:29 BUT THE KINGDOM GROWTH, I JUST REALLY LIKE THAT KINGDOM GROWTH. 12:33 CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT HOW YOU CAME UP WITH THAT AND HOW IT TIES TO 12:39 CHINA? 12:41 WELL YOU KNOW, CHINA THINKS OF THEMSELVES AS THE MIDDLE KINGDOM AND WE 12:44 HAVEVEN OUR MINDS THE THOUGHT THAT I IIS THE KINGDOM OF GOD THAT T EDS 12:48 TO BE NUNUURED, IT NEEDS TO GROW, IT NEEDS TO LEARN ABOUT JESUS AND SO WE CALL 12:55 "KIKIDOM GROWTH" ANDDKINGN 12:57 AND NOT ONLY DOES THE WORK NEED TO BE FINISHED IN CHINA BUT AROUND THE WORLD 13:02 AND ALL L RK TOGETHER AND WITHTHOD'S POWER AND HIS GRACE, I IIS AMAZINGNGHAT 13:07 CAN HAPPEN. 13:08 ABSOLUTELY. 13:09 LIKE YOU SAID, THOSE ARE PROMISES IN THE BIBLE. 13:12 THOSE ARE PROMISES. 13:13 YES. 13:14 THOSE ARE FROM THE LORD. 13:15 WELL, NOW IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY. 13:16 YOU'VE HAD THE CHANCE TO HEAR SOME FROM AUDREY AND YOU'LL HEAR MORE FROM HER 13:19 AS WELELBUT YOU'VE SEENN 13:19 TA 13:19 EN T T PICTURES AND 13:23 U'VEVEEARD ABOUT THE PIONEER TEAMAM THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKEKE AND THIS 13:26 IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY WHERE YOU CAN GET INVOLVED AND WE HAVE SOME INFORORTION 13:30 TO SHARE WITH YOU ON HOW W U CAN DO T TT. 13:32 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION IS SOMETHING MANY HAVE HEARD 13:41 OF, PROPHESIED OR EVEN WAITING FOR. 13:43 YET HOW MANY OF YOU REALIZE THAT CHRISTIANITY IS NOW THE MOST PERSECUTED 13:48 RELILION IN THE WHOLE WORLD? 13:50 NOW ALLOW ME TO TELL YOU A BIT ABOUT THE 10/40 WINDOW. 13:54 THE 10/40 WINDOW IS LOCATED IN THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE BETWEEN TEN AND 13:59 FORTY DEGREES NORTH OF THE EQUATOR. 14:01 THIS IS ALL OF TWO-THIRDS OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION. 14:04 AT LEAST FOUR BILLION PEOPLE LIVE HERE. 14:07 UNFORTUNATELY, 84 PER CENT OF THEM HAVE THE HIGHEST INFANT MORTALITY AND 14:13 LOWEST LIFE EXPECTANAN. 14:15 NINETY PERCENT SUFFERING THE RAVAGES OF POVERTY AND DISEASES LIVING THE 14:21 WORLD'S POOREST QUALITY OF L LE. 14:23 NINETY FIVE PERCENT OF THESE FOUR BILLION PEOPLE ARE UNEVANGELIZED AND HAVE 14:28 THE LEAST ACCESSSSO CHRIRIIAN N SOURURS D ININSTMEMES. 14:32 MANY HAVE NEVER HAD THE CHANCE TO HEAR THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST-NOT EVEN 14:37 ONON. 14:38 THERE ARE SIXTY SIX COUNTRIES IN THE 10/40 WINDOW. 14:42 DID YOU KNOW THAT PROCLAIMING THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL IS ILLEGAL OR 14:46 VERELY RESTRICTED IN OVER FIFTY DIFFERENT COUNTRIES? 14:49 FORTY-NINE OF THOSE COUNTRIES ARE PROCLAIMED THE WORST COUNTRIES IN THE 14:54 WORLD FOR CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION. 14:56 MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THESE COUNTRIES EACH GO THROUGH THEIR AMOUNT OF 15:01 TRTRMA FOR THEIR LOVE IN JESUS CHRIST. 15:04 PUBLIC PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS HAS EMERGED AGAIN WITH NO RESISTANCE 15:08 FROM THEHEUTHOHOTIES; 15:08 GOVERNMENTS ARE FAILING TO UPHOLD CONSTITUTIONON 15:11 PROTECTION TO INDIVIDUAL CHRISTIANS. 15:13 MORE THAN 600 CHRISTIAN CHURCHES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED SINCE 1996 15:20 DRIVING CHURCH SERVICES UNDERGROUNUN IN HIDING STRUGGLILI TO PRACTICE 15:24 THEIR FAITH. 15:26 ANYONE CONVERTING TO CHRISTIANITY CAN BE FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM 15:29 THEIR DISTRICT, FACE CHARGES OF TREACHERY, EVEN HAVE THEIR MARRIAGESESADE 15:33 INVALID AND THEIR 15:33 CHILDREN TAKEN AWAY. 15:35 VIOLENT MOBS HAVE GONE AGAINST EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS. 15:40 EVANGELIZING BEING FORBIDDEN, ILLEGAL OR ONLY ALLOW A PERSON TO BE 15:44 BANISHED OR EXILED FROM THE SOCIETY. 15:46 ANY CITIZEN WHO CONVERTS FROM THE NATIONAL OR REGIONAL RELIGION CAN FACE 15:52 E DEDEH PENALTY. 15:53 IN OTHER CASES, BELIEVERS ARE IMPRISONED IN BARBARIC DEATH CAMPS. 15:59 WE CAN STILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 16:01 WE CAN HELP SPREAD THE MESSAGE OF JESUS CHRIST TO THIS FINAL SECTION OF THE 16:04 WORLD. 16:06 HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH WE WORK TO INFORM, EQUIP AND MOBILIZE NETWORKS OF 16:09 PRAYER ACROSS THE GLOBE 16:09 TO E EOWERERFFECECVE ANGEGESM, , URCHCHROWTWT 16:14 AND DISCIPLESHSH INNTHE . 16:16 TO LEARN MORE ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH AND TO SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE NEWSLETTER 16:25 YOU CAN CALL US AT 509-525-2951 OR GO TO OUR WEBSITE WWW.GOAIM.ORG 16:33 <http://WWW.GOAIM.ORG> . 16:34 AND THOSE ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES OF HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED HERE AT 16:36 GOSPEL OUTREACH. 16:37 WELL AUDREY FOLKENBERG FROM CHINESE UNION MISSION, IT IS GREAT 16:39 HAVING YOU HERE. 16:41 SO, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PIONEER TEAMS-THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS AND WE'RE 16:44 TALKING ABOUT THE SIZE OF CHINA, HOW BIG IT IS-THE 1.4 BILLION "B" BILLION 16:51 PEPELE. 16:52 SO WHEN THE TEAMS ARE GOING INTO CHINA, TELL US HOW THEY ARE PLACED IN A 16:57 COUNTRY THAT BIG. 16:58 TELL US A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT. 17:00 WELL, I CAN JUST GIVE YOU A GENERAL OVERVIEW AND WHEN YOU SAID "GOING INTO 17:03 CHINA"A"THESESARE E OPLE ALREADY LIVING IN CHINA AND BABACALLY WHATATE ARE 17:10 DOININAND D AT O O MOTOTR 17:10 CHURURES ARE DOIOI, OUR LARGER CHURCHES, IS 17:14 IDENENFYING UNREACHED AREAS AND SO THEN A PIONEER TETE IS SENT INTO 17:19 THAT AREA. 17:20 THERE IS TRAINING; THERE IS FOLLOWUP; THERE IS SUPPORT. 17:22 THE PIONEER TEAM GOES INTO AN AREA AND THE GOAL IS FOR THEM TO BE THERE FOR 17:27 3-5 YEARS TO PLANTNT CHURCH WITHIN THAT TIME FRAME ANANTHEN MOVE E . 17:32 AND OF COURSRS WEEHAVE E 17:32 WHERE THEY ARE WORKING AND 17:37 MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY AND BEING THE HANDS OF JESUS SO ITIT 17:40 WONDERFUL HOW THEY JUST GO IN AND THEY 17:40 STARARFROMOMCRATAT. 17:44 I'VE GOT A COUPLE STORIES I CAN TELL YOU. 17:48 I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR SOME STORIES. 17:50 O.K. 17:52 WELL ONE IS OF TWO PIONEERS THAT WENT INTO A CITY AND IT WAS UNREACHED. 17:56 WHAT DO THEY DO? 17:57 WHERE DO THEY BEGIN? 17:59 THERE WERE NO OTHER ADVENTISTS AT ALL, SO THEY BEGAN TO BASICALLY WALK 18:04 THE STREETS SAYING, "L"LD WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO DO? 18:07 WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO DO?" 18:08 AND THEY NOTICED THAT ALL THROUGHOUT THE CITY THERE WERE YOUNG KIDS, SEEMINGLY 18:13 HOMELESS K KS WAWAERING AROUND PULLING FOOOOOUT OF GARBAGE CANS, JUSTSTRESSED 18:18 TERRRRLY, , EY WERE NONOIN 18:18 HOOLOLND A ATHEYEYOOKEKE INTO I ITHEYEYEALIZED THTH 18:23 THESE WERE KIDS WHO HAD BEEN SENENBY THEIR PARENTS FROM THEHEURRORODING HILLS 18:28 AND MOUNTATAS ININ E CICI TO HELP MAKE MONEY FOR THE FAMILY. 18:32 OH MY! 18:33 SO THESE KIDS WERE BASICALLY GOING THROUGH RUBBISH BINS AND WALKING 18:36 DOWN ALLEYS AND STREETS TRYING ACCUMULATE TRASH TO SELL IN ANOTHER WAY. 18:42 WELL, THIS COUOUE SAID 18:42 OR THIHITEAMAMAID, "WE NEED TO HELP THESE KIDS." 18:47 YES. 18:48 SO THEY STARTED INVITING THEM TO COME TO THEIR PLACE; TO LEARN TO HELP 18:52 THEM TO READ; TO CLEAN THEM UP. 18:56 OF COURSE THE KIDS LOVED IT. 18:57 THEY LOVED THE ATTENTION. 18:58 THEY WOULD FEED THESE KIDS. 19:00 OF COURSE ONCE YOU CONNECT WITH THE KIDS YOU CONNECT WITH THE PARENTS AND SO 19:04 THTH HAVE STARTED A MEETING ON SABBATH WHERE THESE KIDS ARE COMING TO 19:08 CHURCH. 19:09 THEY ARE LEARNING BIBLE STORIES. 19:11 THEY ARE LEARNING TO SING AND WHY? 19:13 BECAUSE THIS COUPLE, THIS TEAM WENT IN AN UNREACHED AREA AND SAID, "WHAT CAN I 19:18 DO?" 19:20 THIS IS NOT WHAT THEY HAD PLANNED TO DO BUT THEY JUST LAID IT BEFORE GOD 19:23 AND SAID, "TELL US, HOW CAN WE REACH THE PEPELE HERE?" 19:26 SO THEY ARE REACHING THE CITY. 19:28 REACHING THESE KIDS. 19:29 REACHING THE FAMILIES BECAUSE THEY ARE MEETING A NEED AND THIS IS TO GIVE 19:32 THESE E DS SOME EDUCATIOIO TOTOUT C CTHESESN THEIR R CKS; TO GIVE THEM 19:36 HEALTHY FOOD. 19:38 SO THAT IS ONE LITTLE STORY. 19:40 RIGHT ON THE STREETS. 19:42 BUT CAN YOU IMAGINE THE NEED OF THAT FAMILY FOR PARENTS TO HAVE ASK THEIR 19:46 CHILDREN TO DO THAT? 19:48 THAT'S HUGE, AUDREY. 19:50 IT BRINGS IN A REALITY, YOU KNOW, WE THINK OF CHINA AS THIS PLACE THAT 19:53 HAS ALL THIS ECONOMIC GROWTH AND IT DOES, BUT THAT REALLY ONLY AFFECTS 19:59 THTHUPPEPECRUSUS 19:59 OF SOCIETY. 20:00 MOST OF THE PEOPLE ARE VERY, VERY POOR. 20:03 IN FACT, WE HAVE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE MOVING FROM THE 20:07 COUNTRYSYSE ININ THEHECITK 20:07 OH I CAN HAVE A A TTER 20:11 LIFE. 20:13 I HAVE THE CHANCE TO MAKE MORE MONEY AND SO THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE DOING. 20:16 AND SO THE CITIES ARE FILLED W WH A LOT OF P PR PEPELE N N. 20:20 THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE MEANS ARARMOVING OUT AND T T PEOPLE FROM THE VILLAGES 20:25 AND THE SURROUNDING COUNTRYSIDE ARE MOVING INTO THE MIDDLE OFOFHE 20:27 CITIES AND THESE PEOPLE HAVE A AEAL L NSE,E, REAL DESIRE FOR THE LORD, 20:32 REALLY? 20:33 SO IT IS A WONDERFUL PLACE TO MINISTER. 20:36 YOU KNOW IT WOULD BE NICE IF ALL OF OUR MISSIONARIES, IF ALL OF 20:40 OUR WORKERS COULD GO TO THE END OF SOME TRAIL OUT IN THE RURAL AREAS, YES, 20:45 YES, AND LIVE IN A HUT. 20:47 THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE TRADITIONAL MISSION STORY I GREW UP WITH, RIGHT, BUT 20:50 NOT IN CHINA. 20:52 WE NEED PEOPLE SHARING THE LOVE OF JESUS IN THE CITIES. 20:56 I JUST HAVE ONE STORY, YES KEEP GOING, AND I KNOW WE ARE GOING T TRUN OUT OF 21:02 TIME. 21:03 YES, KEEP GOING, KEEP GOING -NO. 21:05 I'LL TELL IT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A YOUNG MAN WHO HAD SOME SEVERE 21:07 LMENTS. 21:08 HE WAS VERY, VERY ILL AND HE BASICALLY BECAME AN INVALID AND HIS PARENTS 21:10 NURTRTED HIM AND TOOK CARE OF HIM BUT AT SOME POINT HE HAD TO HELP THE FAMILY. 21:16 HE HAD TO SUPPORT HIMSELF. 21:18 SO THIS YOUNG MAN WITH HIS PHYSICAL DISABILITIES, HE MOVED INTO THE CITY 21:24 LOOKING FOR A JOB. 21:25 HE FOUND NOTHING. 21:26 HE WANDERED THE STREETS. 21:28 HE GOT HIS FOOD WHEREVER HE COULD. 21:31 HE SLEPT IN BUS STATIONS, TRAIN STATIONS. 21:35 WELL, HE NOTICED THAT THERE WAS A LADY THAT WAS COMING THROUGH AND THEY 21:39 MADE EYE CONTACT AND SHE WOULD WANDER THROUGH ON A VERY REGULAR BASIS. 21:43 IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE THIS LADY CAME WITH HER HUSBAND. 21:48 THEY ARE A MISSIONARY T TM. 21:49 THEY ARE GOSPEL OUTREACH-PIONEER TEAM. 21:52 THEY WENT INTO THIS BUS STATION. 21:54 THEY SAID, "CAN WE BRING YOU HOME?" 21:57 SO THEY BROUGHT THIS MAN HOME TO THEIR PLACE WHERE THEY HAVE ESTABLISHED A 22:04 HOMELESS CENTER AND THIS MAN TOLD THE STOTO OF HOW THEY BROUGHT HIM INTO 22:09 THEIR R ME A A THEHE WERE PEOPLELEHAT T ULD D EETT 22:09 HO 22:14 GLAD YOU ARE HERE." 22:15 HE BEGAN TO LEARN BIBLE STORIES. 22:17 HE BEGAN TO LEARN HOW TO SING, HOW TO PRAY AND HE REALIZED THAT THE ONLY 22:23 PLACACHE REALLY SENSED TRUE AND COMPLELE BELONGININAND SAFETY WAS 22:28 WHWH HE E S SURROUNDND 22:28 BYBYHRISTIANS AND WHWH HEEW. 22:32 SOSOHAT IS ANONOER 22:32 EXAMAME OFOFHAT T SPELEL 22:32 . 22:37 IT IS HELPING SEND GOSPEL WORKERS, PIONEERS INTO CITIES WHO MIGHT EVEN BE 22:43 WANDERING THROROH BUS S ATIONS AND TRAIN STATIONS AND LOOKING FOR 22:47 PEOPLE THAT NEED NOT ONLY FOOD AND SHELTER BUT NEED JESUS. 22:52 AND IT IS THE EYE CONTACT-THEY HAD EYE CONTACT WITH THIS MAN AND 22:57 WHO KNOWS MAYBE OTHER PEOPLE FOR YEARS HAVE LOOKED AT HIM BUT THEY 23:01 LOOKED AT HIM JUST LIKE JESUS LOOKED IN THE BIBLE AT THE MAN WHO WAS 23:04 PARALYZED, WHO NEEDED HIS HAND HEALED. 23:07 OH, FANTASTIC AUDREY BUT I KNOW THAT IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG ON STORIES. 23:12 YES. 23:13 BUT THANK YOU FOR SHARING ALL OF THAT. 23:15 WELL, I AM HAPPY TO SHARE AND WHAT WE NEED MORE THAN ANYTHING-WHAT? 23:20 WHAT? 23:21 TELL US. 23:22 IS PRAYER. 23:24 YOU KNOW, THE LORD CAN TAKE THE FISH AND THE BREAD AND MULTIPLY IT BUT 23:28 THE PRAYAYS HAVE TO O ME FROM US AND SO J JIE, I KNOW WE ARE GETTING TO THE 23:32 ENENOF O O TIME AND D WANT TOTOSK Y Y IF F U WOULD BE WILLING TO SAY A PRAYER. 23:36 NUMBER ONE: PRAY THATTTHEE 23:36 GHT GOSPEL WORKERS WILL 23:44 BE CONNECTED WITH; THAT THEY WILL HAHA IN CHINA, PEOPLE IN CHINA NEED A 23:50 DESIRE -A PASSION TO REACH THEIR BRBRHERS AND SISTERS IN CHINA. 23:55 THE OTHER THING I'D LIKE FOR YOU TO PRAY IS THAT PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND ME 23:58 SITTING HERE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD WILL HAVE A HEART AND A PASSION 24:04 FOR THE WORK IN CHINA. 24:06 MAYBE THERE IS LITTLE THAT YOU CAN DO BUT YOU CAN PRAY AND YOUR PRAYERS WILL 24:11 MAKE A H HE DIFFERENCE. 24:12 SO JULIE, I WANT YOU TO PRAY RIGHT NOW. 24:14 I'D BE HAPPY TO. 24:15 I'D BE HAPPY TO. 24:16 LET'S BOW OUR HEADS. 24:18 LORD, I THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR ABOUT CHINA. 24:20 I THANK YOU FOR AUDREY AND THE CHINESESE 24:20 . 24:22 LORD, I LIFT UP THE PIONEER TEAMS THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS, LORD 24:26 THAT ARE GOING TO BE SENT OUT FROM THE MOTHER CHURCHES AND PLEASE BLESS 24:31 THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALREADY BEEN SENT OUT. 24:33 LORD, WE'VE HEARD JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG ON THE STORIES. 26:24 I KNOW THAT THERE ARE EVEN MORE STORIES OUT THERE LORD BUT I PRAY FOR YOUR 26:29 OUTPOUOUNG O OYOUR HOLY SPIRIT ON THESE PEOPLE. 26:31 PLEASE KEEP THEM SAFE. 26:33 AND PLEASE PUT THE FIRE LORD AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT IN THEM TO SHARE YOUR WORD 26:37 THAT YOU ARE COMING 26:37 BACK AND THAT YOU LOVE THESE PEOPLE. 26:41 THANK YOU FOR THE STORY OF THIS MAN AND HOW THIS GOSPEL OUTREACH PIONEER 26:45 TEAM-HOW THEY BROUGHT HIM INTO THEIRIROME E D THTHE KIDSDSORD,D,LEASASBLESES 26:49 THEM. 26:51 LORD I PRAY FOR THE VIEWERS WHO ARE WATCHING RIGHT NOW. 26:53 I PRAY LORD MAYBE THEY ARE SITTING IN THEIR KITCHEN AND THEY ARE WONDERING 26:58 WHAT CAN I DO? 26:59 WELL WE CAN TOGETHER LIFT UP AND WE CAN PRAY TO YOU LORD THAT YOUR WILL BE 27:04 NE AND I PRAY IF THERE IS SOMEONENEHO I ITRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY 27:10 SHOULD GIVE AND IF THTH SHOHOD GIVE. 27:12 LORD I PRAY THAT YOUR HOLY SPIRIT WILL MOVE UPON THEIR HEARTS ON WHAT THEY 27:17 CAN GIVE TO GOSPEL OUTREACH. 27:18 LORD, I PRAY FOR SOMEONE WHO IS-WOMEN JUST LIKE AUDREY AND ME IN CHINA, WE 27:23 PRAYAYOR T TSE P PTICUCUR MEN N D THTHTHINGS THEHE HAVE G GNG ON IN THEIR 27:27 LIVES THAT THEY WILL SOMEHOW COME TO KNOW YOU LORD AND WE THANK YOU FOR 27:32 THISISIME,E,E THTHK YOU FOR YOUR BLESSINGS AND THANK YOU FOR LETTING US 27:37 BE YOUR KIDS. 27:38 AMEN. 27:39 WELL AUDREY, LOTS TO THINK ABOUT AND LOTS TO PRAY FOR BUT its THINKING- I REALLY 27:43 AFTER I HAVE BEEN IN CHINA ANANHAD THE OPPORTUNITY OF JUST BEBEG IN HONG KONG 27:48 AND BEING AT THE MEETINGS THAT YOU HAD BUT TO SEE THE VOLUME OF PEOPLE BUT 27:53 IS S SO THINKING ABOUT THE PEOPLE JUST LIKE US. 27:56 THERE ARE PEOPLE OVER THERE JUST LIKE US WHO YES, THEY MIGHT LOOK 28:01 DIFFERENTLY AND THEIR HOUSE MIGHT BE LOOK DIFFERENT OR WHATEVER BUT 28:04 THEY HAVE A HEART THAT NEEDS TO KNOW JESUS JUJU LIKE US. 28:08 THAT'S RIGHT AND ALSO IN CHINA YOU HAVE THE PEOPLE IN THE CITIES THAT ARE 28:13 LIVING LIKE US. 28:14 THEY ARE DRESSING LIKE US AND THEY NEED TO KNOW JESUS TOO. 28:18 THERE IS THE F FL SPECTRUM IN CHINA, LIKE I SAID, IT'S A COUNTRY WITH 28:22 INCONSNSTENCNCS AND WIDE DIVERSITY AND GOD WANTS TO REACH EVERY PERSON IN 28:26 CHINA. 28:27 WELL, MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU AND OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU. |
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