[ OPENING MUSIC]. 00:00:00.56\00:00:15.50 WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:00:15.50\00:00:17.70 I'M JULIE SANDERS-KEYMER AND ARE YOU IN FOR A HISTORY LESSON ON 00:00:17.70\00:00:21.96 CHINA? WELL TODAY IS YOUR DAY THAT YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS HUGE, WONDERFUL 00:00:21.96\00:00:25.26 UNTRTRFILLED WITIT1.4 BILLION PEOPLE AND THOSE ARAR1.4 4 LLION 00:00:25.26\00:00:30.93 PEOPLE WHO NEED KNOW ABOUT JESUS. 00:00:30.93\00:00:32.26 SO, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AND TODAY WE HAVE AUDREY FOLKENBERG 00:00:32.26\00:00:35.23 HERE FROM THE CHINESE 00:00:35.23\00:00:36.40 UNIOIOMISSSSN. 00:00:35.23\00:00:36.40 WELCOME. 00:00:36.40\00:00:37.40 THANK YOU, IT'S GOOD TO BE HERE. 00:00:37.40\00:00:39.36 AUDREY NOT ONLY ARE YOU TIED IN WITH THE CHINESE UNION MISSION 00:00:39.36\00:00:41.93 BUT YOU ARE ALSO LINKED IN WITH US HEHE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:00:41.93\00:00:45.03 YES, I'M THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR FOR CHINA SO THAT ALLOWS ME THE 00:00:45.03\00:00:48.90 PRIVILEGEGOF WORKING WITH T TS WONDERFUL TEAM H HE AT GOSPEL 00:00:48.90\00:00:51.86 OUTREACH AND LINKING IT TO THE BOOTS ON THE GROUND IN CHINA 00:00:51.86\00:00:54.80 SHARARG JESUS. YES, YOU THINK ABOUT THAT. 00:00:54.80\00:00:57.13 YOU AND THEN THE BIG MAP OF CHINA JUST CAME INTO MY HEAD AND 00:00:57.13\00:01:01.03 PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU AND WE'RE GLAD YOU ARE HERE. 00:01:01.03\00:01:03.03 SO YOU HAVE SOME THINGS TO SHARE WITH US ABOUT SOME HISTORY IN 00:01:03.03\00:01:07.06 CHINA. YEYEAND D U KNKN THEHEHING IS UNLESS WE LOOOOBACK WE DON'T ALWAYS KNOW, WE 00:01:07.06\00:01:13.20 DON'T UNDERSTAND REALLY HOW GOD IS LEADING US NOW AND INTO 00:01:13.20\00:01:17.56 THEHEUTURE. CHINA IS A COUNTRY THAT HAS A LOT OF HISTOROR 00:01:17.56\00:01:20.96 YES. 00:01:20.96\00:01:22.36 I ENJOY HISTORY BUT I ENJOY IT ALL THE MORE WHEN I CAN SEE IT, 00:01:22.36\00:01:25.40 WHEN I CAN BE THERE AND I WANT TO SHAHA WITH YOU ALL A LITTLE 00:01:25.40\00:01:29.63 BIT ABOUTUTI'AN, CHINA. 00:01:29.63\00:01:30.83 IT IS THE ANCIENT CAPITAL OF CHINA. 00:01:30.83\00:01:32.83 OF COURSE, THE CAPITAL OF CHINA IS NOW IN BEIJING BUT XI'AN WAS 00:01:32.83\00:01:37.13 THE CAPITAL R MAMA, MAMA, MANY YEARS AND IT'S A VERY 00:01:37.13\00:01:41.73 FASCINATING PLACE. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE HEARD OF THE TETEA 00:01:41.73\00:01:44.56 COTTA WAWAIORS. OH YES, I HAVE SEEN N EM. 00:01:44.56\00:01:46.06 YOU'VE BEEN THERE? 00:01:46.06\00:01:47.06 I'VE LOOKED AT THEM. 00:01:47.06\00:01:48.06 WHAT DID YOU THINK OF IT? 00:01:48.06\00:01:49.33 THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF THEM, 7000, THAT'S MY NUMBER, WHAT A 00:01:49.33\00:01:54.70 FEAT? AND TO FIND THEM AND FOR THEM TO BE POLISHING THEM AND 00:01:54.70\00:01:59.36 MAKING SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS JUST SO. 00:01:59.36\00:02:00.43 IT'S HUGE. 00:02:00.43\00:02:01.43 THE BIG AUDITORIUMS THAT COVER THEM. 00:02:01.43\00:02:05.13 THEY ARE AMAZING. 00:02:05.13\00:02:06.13 THAT'S RIGHT. 00:02:06.13\00:02:07.56 IN THE 1970'S THERE WERE SOME FARMERS OUT WORKING AND THEY 00:02:07.56\00:02:11.40 WERE DIGGING AND THEY CAMAMUPONONHESE CLAYYFIGURA 00:02:11.40\00:02:17.46 COTTA WARRIORS WERE BURIED 00:02:11.40\00:02:17.46 THERE AND THEY WERE BURIED YEARS AND YEARS AGO. 00:02:19.70\00:02:23.43 B.C. 00:02:23.43\00:02:24.43 IN FACT, 200 OR SO B.C. 00:02:24.43\00:02:25.93 IN THAT ERA. 00:02:25.93\00:02:28.00 EMPEROR QIN; EMPEROR QIN WAS THE FIRST EMPEROR OF CHINA. 00:02:30.40\00:02:33.00 HE BASICALLY UNITED CHINA FOR THE FIRST TIME. 00:02:33.00\00:02:36.43 HE DEVELOPED THE HIGHWAY SYSTEM. 00:02:36.43\00:02:38.43 HE DEVELOPED WEIGHTS FOR MEASURING THINGS. 00:02:38.43\00:02:41.53 WOW. 00:02:41.53\00:02:42.53 HE DEVELOPED THEIR FIRST OFFICIAL TYPE OF WRITING. 00:02:42.53\00:02:45.73 HE WAS A VERY, VERY, VERY POWERFUL MAN. 00:02:45.73\00:02:48.00 IN FACT, EMPEROR QIN WAS SO POWERFUL THAT HE SAID, "WHEN I 00:02:48.00\00:02:54.63 DIE I WANT AN ARMY TO E EORT ME INTO THE AFTERWORLD." 00:02:54.63\00:02:58.23 AND SO, THAT IS WHAT HE DID. 00:02:58.23\00:02:59.40 HE SPENT YEARS BUILDING. 00:02:59.40\00:03:03.56 OH YES. 00:03:03.56\00:03:04.90 YES AND INTERESTINGLY HE BECAME EMPEROR OF CHINA WHEN HE WAS 00:03:04.90\00:03:09.40 ONLY 13. THIRTEEN? 00:03:09.40\00:03:10.53 SO HERE HE WAS PLANNING FOR HIS DEATH ALL OF THESE YEARS. 00:03:10.53\00:03:12.70 ISN'T THAT SOMETHING? 00:03:12.70\00:03:13.70 I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT. 00:03:13.70\00:03:15.10 YES, SO THERE HE WAS AND HE BUILT AN ARMY BASICALLY TO GO IN 00:03:15.10\00:03:19.90 TO THE GROUND WITH HIM AND TO TAKE HIM TO THE AFTER LIFE. 00:03:19.90\00:03:22.33 YOU KNOW THERE ARE CAVALRY MEN. 00:03:22.33\00:03:24.73 THERE ARE ARCHERS. 00:03:24.73\00:03:26.20 THERE ARE FOOT SOLDIERS. 00:03:26.20\00:03:28.50 YOU'LL SEE ANIMALS, FOOD YOU KNOW THE BONES AND THINGS. 00:03:28.50\00:03:31.80 IT'S VERY, VERY FASCINATING PLACE. 00:03:31.80\00:03:34.06 YES. 00:03:34.06\00:03:35.80 HE WAS A VERY ACCOMPLISHED MAN BUT UNFORTUNATELY AS SIN IS, HE 00:03:35.80\00:03:41.86 DIED AND ALL THAT IS LEFT NOW IS THESE RUINS WHICH ARE AN INDICATOR OF POWER THAT 00:03:44.03\00:03:48.76 ONCE EXISTED. 00:03:48.76\00:03:49.76 YES. 00:03:49.76\00:03:50.76 BUT THEN PASSES AND FEARED TOO. 00:03:50.76\00:03:52.33 YES IT'S INCREDIBLE. 00:03:52.33\00:03:54.86 IF YOU EVER GET A CHANCE TO GO THERE, YES, OR EVEN GO TO GOOGLE 00:03:54.86\00:03:58.36 AND PUT IN TERRA COTTA WARRIORSRS UNBELIEVABLE. 00:03:58.36\00:04:00.63 THE SEVEN THOUSAND WARRIORS IN THERE, THE CLAY FIGURINES-NO TWO 00:04:00.63\00:04:04.90 ARE ALIKE. 00:04:04.90\00:04:06.06 OH, I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT. 00:04:06.06\00:04:07.66 THEY ALL HAVE DIFFERENT HAIRDOS, OR HELMET OR SOMETHING, THEIR 00:04:07.66\00:04:10.96 FACIAL EXPRESSIONS ARE DIFFERENT; DIFFERENT SIZES, EVEN THE INTRICATE DETAIL. 00:04:10.96\00:04:15.83 THE CARVINGS YOU SEE ON THE BOTTOM OF THEIR SHOES. 00:04:15.83\00:04:19.10 THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT. 00:04:19.10\00:04:20.86 SOMETHING I JUST RECENTLY LEARNED IS THAT ART FORM EMPEROR.Y DIED WITH THE 00:04:26.93\00:04:27.93 WHY? 00:04:27.93\00:04:29.30 BECAUSE ANYBODY THAT WAS INVOLVED IN CREATING THIS HUGE 00:04:29.30\00:04:33.36 TOMB, THIS HUGE MAUSOLEUM THEY WERE BEHEADED SO THAT THEY COULDN'T SHARE THINGS WITH 00:04:33.36\00:04:38.56 OTHEHE THAHANOTHING WOULD BE PASSED ON. 00:04:38.56\00:04:40.60 OH MY! 00:04:40.60\00:04:41.60 IT IS VERY, VERY INTERESTING. 00:04:41.60\00:04:43.03 ANOTHER FASCINATING THING IN XI'AN, THE ANCIENT CHAPEL OF 00:04:43.03\00:04:48.63 CHINA IS CALLED THE DE LA FOREST. 00:04:48.63\00:04:50.20 IT IS AN OLD CONFUCIUS TEMPLE AND IF YOU WALK THROUGH THERE 00:04:50.20\00:04:54.56 AND YOU GO THROUGUGTHE DIFFERENT COURT YARDS YOU COME TO THE END 00:04:54.56\00:04:58.20 AND YOU GO INTO A RORO AND IT'S GOT ALL THESE-IT LOOKS LIKE 00:04:58.20\00:05:03.13 GIANT TOMBSTONES. RERELY? 00:05:03.13\00:05:04.46 YOU KNOW THEY ARE ON PEDESTALS AND THEY GO UP REALLY, REALLY 00:05:04.46\00:05:08.83 HIGH AND MAYBE SOME OF THEM ARE SIX TO EIGHT FEET HIGH AND ON THESE STELLAS, THESE ROCKS 00:05:08.83\00:05:13.83 ARE ENGRAVINGS OF CONFUCIUS' SAYINGS,S,ANCICIT, 00:05:13.83\00:05:18.86 THIS IS HISTORY ALL CARVED IN. 00:05:18.86\00:05:20.60 IT IS CARVED. 00:05:20.60\00:05:21.60 IT IS WRITTEN IN STONE, LITERALLY. 00:05:21.60\00:05:23.60 ONE OF THEM THAT WAS DISCOVERED IN NEAR THE 1300'S A.D. 00:05:23.60\00:05:27.23 WAS FOUND AND IT HAD BEEN CREATED BACK IN THE 6-700'S A.D. 00:05:27.23\00:05:33.30 WHY? 00:05:35.43\00:05:36.56 IT WAS A DOCUMENTATION OF MISSIONARIES GOING INTO CHINA. 00:05:36.56\00:05:40.26 O.K. 00:05:40.26\00:05:41.26 SAY THE NUMBERS AGAIN? 00:05:41.26\00:05:42.73 IN A.D. 00:05:42.73\00:05:43.76 6-700 IT WAS DOCUMENTATION OF MISSIONARIES IN CHINA. 00:05:43.76\00:05:46.96 THE MISSIONARIES THAT WENT INTO CHINA, EXPLORING MISSIONARIES 00:05:46.96\00:05:50.16 THAT WENT INTOTOHINANA 00:05:50.16\00:05:51.16 WOW! 00:05:51.16\00:05:52.63 WHAT THAT SHOWS ALL OF US IS THAT CHRISTIANITY HAS BEEN A PART OF CHINA FOR A 00:05:52.63\00:05:56.76 LONG TIME. 00:05:56.76\00:05:58.23 NOW INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, NOT TOO LONG AFTER THEY CAME IN I 00:05:58.23\00:06:03.10 WOULD SAY IN THE 800'S, A AER T T TABLET WAS FORMED THEY HID IT. 00:06:03.10\00:06:07.83 THEY PUT IT INTO THE GROUND AND LIKE I MENTIONED BEFORE, IT 00:06:07.83\00:06:10.63 WASN'T DISCOVERED UNTIL 130000 BECAUSE T TY HID IT BECAUSE 00:06:10.63\00:06:14.76 PEOPLE WERE BEING RSECUTED THAT BELIEVED IN ANYTHING OTHER THAN 00:06:14.76\00:06:18.83 BUDDHISM. INTERESTING. 00:06:18.83\00:06:20.36 SO LET'S GET THIS OUT OF THE WAY-SO THEY HID IT AND IT WAS 00:06:20.36\00:06:23.46 DISCOVERED. WITH T TT DIDIOVERY I HAVE FELT THAT IT IS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT THINGNGIN 00:06:23.46\00:06:29.06 CHINA TO SAY, HEHE 00:06:29.06\00:06:33.40 THERE IS A PLALA FORORCHRIRIIAN. 00:06:29.06\00:06:33.40 YES, YOU HAVE A LONG, LONG HISTORY BUT THERE WAS A TIME 00:06:33.40\00:06:38.26 WHEN MISSIONARIES CAME IN AND THERE IS WORK K BE DONE. 00:06:38.26\00:06:40.40 AND IT IS CARVED IN STONE, AUDREY. 00:06:40.40\00:06:42.66 YES, IT IS CARVED IN STONE. 00:06:42.66\00:06:44.03 NOW THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, I'M SURE YOU KNOW WHO 00:06:44.03\00:06:47.83 THAT FIRST MISSIONARY TO CHINA IS? 00:06:47.83\00:06:49.26 YES, ABRAM LARUE. 00:06:49.26\00:06:50.63 ABRAM LARUE HE WAS BORN IN NEW JERSEY AND HE WAS INTO WEALTH 00:06:50.63\00:06:56.23 AND MONEY. HE LOST IT ALL AND THEN HE SAID, "I'M GOING G GIGI 00:06:56.23\00:07:00.50 MY LIFE TO JESUS." AND HEHEELT A CALL TO GO TO CHINA. 00:07:00.50\00:07:02.50 HE DID. 00:07:02.50\00:07:03.96 BEFORE I TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT STORY, I WANT TO 00:07:03.96\00:07:06.63 SHOW YOU ALL A VIDEO ON CHINA. 00:07:06.63\00:07:08.00 IT'S THE HISTORY OF THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH AND THEN WE 00:07:08.00\00:07:10.80 WILL TALK A LITTLE BIT T RE OUT T RAM LARUE. 00:07:10.80\00:07:12.80 HOW'S THAT, JULIE? 00:07:12.80\00:07:13.80 PERFECT. 00:07:13.80\00:07:14.80 O.K. 00:07:14.80\00:07:20.86 WHEN WE SAY, "TO GROW GOD'S KINGDOM" WE MEAN TO EXPAND THE 00:07:22.93\00:07:28.16 PLAN OF SALVATION AMONG MANY OF THE CHINESE LIVING INNTHE GREAT. 00:07:28.16\00:07:33.30 THE ADVENTIST MINISTRY IN CHINA BEGAN WITH MAIN MISSIONARY ABRAM 00:07:33.30\00:07:38.50 LARUE, 125 YEARS AGO IN 1888. 00:07:38.50\00:07:42.53 THE FIRST OFFICIAL MISSIONARY, J.N. 00:07:42.53\00:07:44.86 ANDERSON WAS SENT TO CHINA IN 1902. 00:07:44.86\00:07:47.76 IN 1906, GUO ZYING BECAME THE FIRST ORDAINED CHINESE ADVENTIST 00:07:47.76\00:07:54.70 MINISTER. LATER ON, HONG ZIJIE, A BAPTIST MINISTER JOINED THE ADVENTIST MINISTRY. 00:07:54.70\00:08:00.20 FOR HALF A CENTURY ADVENTIST LEADERS AND MEMBERS LIVED 00:08:00.20\00:08:05.33 THROUGH DIFFICULT HISTORICAL PERIODS WITHSTANDING COUNTLESS 00:08:05.33\00:08:09.53 REGIME CHANGES, POLITITIL UNREST AND BRUTAL MILITARY CONFLICTS INCLUDING THE JAPANESE 00:08:09.53\00:08:15.00 ININSIONONND E CIVIL WAR. 00:08:15.00\00:08:16.56 DESPITE THE UNSTABLE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT BY 1950, THE CHINA 00:08:16.56\00:08:22.86 DIVISION ALONG WITH ITS SEVEN UNION CONFERENCES WE'RE SUPERVISING 276 CHURCHES 00:08:22.86\00:08:28.60 AND D ,00000EMBERS. 00:08:28.60\00:08:31.60 IT ALSO OPERATED MANY SCHOOLS RANGING FROM ELEMENTARY LEVEL TO 00:08:31.60\00:08:35.86 COLLEGE LEVEL, THIRTEEN HOSPITALS AND SIGNS OF THE TIMES 00:08:35.86\00:08:40.53 PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION. 00:08:40.53\00:08:41.90 WITH THE BACKDROP OF THE ONGOING KOREAN WAR, THE ADVENTIST CHURCH 00:08:41.90\00:08:46.40 WENT THROUGH THE ACCUSATION MOVEMENT DURING WHICH MANY ORDINARY CITIZENS WERE 00:08:46.40\00:08:50.80 WRONGFULLY ACCUSED OF BEING FOREIGN SPIES. 00:08:50.80\00:08:54.10 IN 1951, THE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT CONFISCATED ALL 00:08:54.10\00:08:59.36 CHURCH ENTITIES. IN 1958, CHINA ENTERED A PERIOD CALLED THE "GREAT LEAP FORWARD". 00:08:59.36\00:09:05.10 CHCHSTIAN CHURCHES WERE ANNEXED IN ORDER TO ELIMINATE 00:09:05.10\00:09:09.40 DENOMINATIONS. STARTING IN 1966, THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION WHICH LASTED TEN YEARS INFLICTED 00:09:09.40\00:09:15.33 ANOTHER ROUND OF DESTRUCTION TO ALL L LIGIGIS. 00:09:15.33\00:09:18.20 BIBLES WERE TORCHED IN PUBLIC. 00:09:18.20\00:09:21.03 CHURCHES WERE CONVERTED TO FACTORIES, SCHOOLS AND DAY CARE 00:09:21.03\00:09:25.73 CENTERS. MANY CHRISTITI MINISTERSRSAND OF 00:09:25.73\00:09:29.96 WERE SENT TO LABOR CAMPS 00:09:25.73\00:09:29.96 FOR "R"REDUCATION." 00:09:29.96\00:09:31.86 SOME WERE THROWN IN JAIL. 00:09:31.86\00:09:33.26 IT WAS THE DARKEST CHAPTER IN THE CHRISTIAN HISTORY IN CHINA. 00:09:33.26\00:09:37.46 EVEN DURING THE MOST DIFFICULT TIMES THE LORD WAS WITH HIS 00:09:37.46\00:09:43.33 FAITHFUL FOFOOWERS. 00:09:43.33\00:09:44.73 MANY ADVENTISTS SUFFERED FOR THEIR FAITH BUT THEIR PERSEVERANCE KEPT THE 00:09:44.73\00:09:49.06 CHURCH ALIVE. 00:09:49.06\00:09:51.03 WHEN CHINA ENTERED A NEW ERA, THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES SPRANG 00:09:51.03\00:09:55.10 LIKE BAMBOO SHOOTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 00:09:55.10\00:09:57.70 TODAY, IN 2013 THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE CHINESE ADVENTIST CHURCH 00:09:57.70\00:10:03.16 REACHED 400,000. 00:10:03.16\00:10:05.46 THE NUMBER OF CHURCHES AND MEETING PLACES IS BETWEEN 00:10:05.46\00:10:10.86 4-5000. MORE THAN ONE MILLION BOOKS OF SPIRIRIOF PROPHECY 00:10:10.86\00:10:14.63 HAVAVBEEN PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED. 00:10:14.63\00:10:16.00 FROM 1958 TO 1966 THE ADVENTIST CHURCH HAS GONE THROUGH A GREAT 00:10:16.00\00:10:22.50 TEST. IN SHANGHAI WHERE THE CHCHA DIVISION OFFICE WAS LOCATED, MORE THAN TWENTY 00:10:22.50\00:10:28.03 MIMISTERER ELDERS AND DEACONS, MINISTRY DIRECTORS AND LAY 00:10:28.03\00:10:31.86 PERSONS WERE SENT TO LABOR CAMPS FOR "RE-EDUCUCION". 00:10:31.86\00:10:34.46 NONE OF THEM BETRAYED THEIR FAITH. 00:10:34.46\00:10:37.33 THEY WENT STRAIGHT BACK TO THE BUSINESS OF GROWING GOD'S 00:10:37.33\00:10:41.66 KINGDOM WHEN THEY WERE RELEASED. 00:10:41.66\00:10:42.86 YEARS LATER THEY WERE EXONERATED BY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. 00:10:42.86\00:10:46.56 YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF SOME OF THEM SUCH AS DAVIVILIN; ZHEN ZHAORONG; YANG DAWEI; 00:10:46.56\00:10:52.60 JIAO HONGZHI AND ROBERT WONG. 00:10:58.10\00:11:02.46 THERE WERE MANY DEDICATED ADVENTISTS LIVING IN OTHER 00:11:04.53\00:11:09.13 PLACES AS WELL. WE REMEMBER THOSE WHO CAMEMEARTYRS FOR THE KINGDOM INCLUDING ZENG 00:11:09.13\00:11:14.90 XIANGFU. 00:11:14.90\00:11:16.46 CURRENTLY, THERE ARE SEVERAL CITIES AND REGIONS IN CHINA 00:11:16.46\00:11:20.30 WHICH BOAST OF HAVING MORE THTH 1000 ADVENTISTS WORSHIPING ON 00:11:20.30\00:11:25.83 ANY GIVEN SABBATH. THE CITIES OF WUXI; 00:11:25.83\00:11:32.63 WENZHOU; SHEN YANGNGXI'A'A ANANTHE REGIONS AROUND 00:11:25.83\00:11:32.63 GUSHAN; GONGSHU L'ININ NORTHERN GUANAGDONG PROVINCE ARE 00:11:32.63\00:11:38.33 PROMINENT LOCATIONS. 00:11:38.33\00:11:39.90 THE CHURCHES AT THESE LOCATIONS STARTED SMALL. 00:11:39.90\00:11:42.86 THEIR DEVELOPMENT TESTIFIES TO GOD'S GLORY AND POWER. 00:11:42.86\00:11:46.63 ALL THE CHURCH LEADERS LED WITH GOOD EXAMPLES OF TRUE DEDICATION 00:11:46.63\00:11:52.76 AND SACRIFICE. THE E NGRERETIONS REREONDED WITH FAITHFUL WITNESSING FROM A FEW TO 00:11:52.76\00:11:57.46 SEVERARATHOUSAND THEY STEADILY GROW GOD'D'KINGDOM. 00:11:57.46\00:12:00.90 BUT THAT ON THE GOOD GROUND ARE THEY WHICH IN AN HONEST AND GOOD 00:12:00.90\00:12:06.83 HEART HAHANG HEARD THE WORD, KEEP IT AND BRING FORTH FRUIT T 00:12:06.83\00:12:12.33 TH PATIENCE. JEJES RIGHTFULLY DESCRIBED HOHOHIS KINGDOM GROWS. 00:12:12.33\00:12:15.50 FROM THE ERA OF EAST ASIA ASSOCIATION TO TODAY'S CHINESE 00:12:15.50\00:12:22.00 UNION MISSION, EVERY OUTRTRCH METHOD,D,LITERAT, 00:12:22.00\00:12:27.23 RADIDIBROADCASTING, 00:12:22.00\00:12:27.23 DISCIPLE TRAINING, INTERNET AND TV MINISTRIES, CORRESPONDENCE 00:12:27.23\00:12:32.26 BIBLE SCHOOLS, GRIGGS UNIVERSITY ASIA, EXCHANGES D VISITS HAVE 00:12:32.26\00:12:38.06 BEEN USED TO SOW THE SEEDS AND 00:12:38.06\00:12:40.90 TO NURURRE T T HEARTS. 00:12:38.06\00:12:40.90 WITH OUR OWN EYES WE SEE THAT THESE SEEDS HAVE GROWN AND BORN 00:12:40.90\00:12:46.96 FRUIT IN CHINA. 00:13:01.86\00:13:03.46 AND PRAYING FOR CHINA, THAT IS WHERE IT IS ALL ABOUT. 00:13:03.46\00:13:06.20 BUT AUDREY, ABRAM LARUE HERE HE WAS AN OLDER MAN -TOLD HE WAS 00:13:06.20\00:13:12.00 TOO OLD TO GO BUT LOLO HOWOWHE LORD USED O O PERERN AND ONE PERSON'S CALL THAT HE FELT 00:13:12.00\00:13:16.76 FROM GOD. 00:13:16.76\00:13:18.20 THAT'S RIGHT SO HE FELT THE CALL TO GO TO CHINA SO HE CONTACTED 00:13:18.20\00:13:21.03 THE GENERAL CONFERENCE-WE ARE FINISHING THE STORY HERE- AND THE GENERAL CONFERENCE 00:13:21.03\00:13:24.26 SAID, "SORRY, YOU ARE TOTOOLD." 00:13:24.26\00:13:26.33 BUT HE SAID, "GOD'S CALLING IN MY HEART TRUMPS ALL." 00:13:26.33\00:13:30.46 HE PACKED A CHEST FULL OF BOOKS HEADED TOWARDS CHINA, HE WENT TO 00:13:30.46\00:13:35.03 HAWAII FIRST. 00:13:35.03\00:13:36.10 HE SOLD BOOKS- I THINK HE WAS THERE ABOUT THREE YEARS. 00:13:36.10\00:13:38.40 I DIDN'T KNOW THAT. 00:13:38.40\00:13:39.80 IN THE PROCESS OF BEING IN HAWAII AND SELLING THOSE BOOKS 00:13:39.80\00:13:43.40 HE BEGAN TO HAVE BIBLE STUDIES AND AFTER THREE YEARS, HE CALLED AND HE SAID "BRETHREN, I NEED 00:13:43.40\00:13:47.36 TO C CE OVOV. 00:13:47.36\00:13:48.56 I'M ON MY WAY TO CHINA AND SOME PEOPLE NEED TO BE BAPTIZED." 00:13:48.56\00:13:52.36 SO HE WENT ON TO CHINA AND THERE HE WORKED UNTIL HE DIED. 00:13:52.36\00:13:56.60 THE INTERESTING THING IS I LIVE IN HONG KONG RIGHT NOW WHICH IS 00:13:56.60\00:14:01.36 THE PORTION OF CHINA HE MOVED TO AND I LIVE IN LARUE BUILDING. 00:14:01.36\00:14:05.80 IT'S A BUILDING THERE NAMED AFTER HIM ON THE EIGHTH FLOOR 00:14:05.80\00:14:09.53 APARTMENT B D JUJU DOWOWTHE HILL IS THE CEMETERY AND IN THAT CEMETERY IS THE GRAVE 00:14:09.53\00:14:16.16 MARKER WHERE A AAM LARUE IS BURIED. 00:14:16.16\00:14:20.43 I AM JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO THE DAY WHEN JESUS COMES AND HE IS 00:14:20.43\00:14:27.30 RAISED UP AND HE SEES THE DIFFERERCE THAT HE HAS MADE. 00:14:27.30\00:14:29.80 RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ACTUALLY 400,000 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS 00:14:29.80\00:14:35.23 ACROSS CHINA. WE HAVE A GOAL THOUGH THAT BY 2020 TO HAVE ONE 00:14:35.23\00:14:39.70 MILLION. SO WE NEED YOUR PRAYERS AND GOSPEL OUTREACH WE NEED YOUR 00:14:39.70\00:14:44.36 SUPPORT AND WE APPRECIATE IT T MUCH. 00:14:44.36\00:14:45.80 WHAT A DAY IT WILL BE, AUDREY FOR ABRAM LARUE TO SEE NOT ONLY 00:14:45.80\00:14:51.66 THE LORD GOD AND JESUS AND ALL OF THE SECOND COMING AND ALL OF THAT BUT THEN TO SEE ALL 00:14:51.66\00:14:55.03 OF THESE PEOPLE AND IT'S TESTSTENT AND TESTIMONON FOFOUS 00:14:55.03\00:15:00.23 T TT IFIFOD PUTS A CALL ON OUR HEARTS. 00:15:00.23\00:15:01.46 THAT'S RIGHT. 00:15:01.46\00:15:02.86 AND I KNOW I HAVE STOOD AT THAT GRAVE, AT ABRAM LARUE'S GRAVE 00:15:02.86\00:15:05.60 AND I WAS ABLELEO STAND THERE WIWI A GROUP OF PEOPLE WITH DR. ROBERT WONG WHO O S IN 00:15:05.60\00:15:09.40 E VIVIO WHWHWENT TO THE LABOR CAMP AND TO STAND THERE AND TO 00:15:09.40\00:15:14.80 KNOW THAT GOD IS BLESSING THE WORK AND HAS BLEST T D IS BLESSING THE WOWO IN CHINA. 00:15:14.80\00:15:19.10 ISN'T THAT HUGE? 00:15:19.10\00:15:20.50 IT IS AMAZING AND IT IS REALLY TOUCHING BECAUSE WE, I FEEL, ARE 00:15:20.50\00:15:25.30 OFTEN SO COMFORTABLE IN OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD BUT WHEN WE ASK GOD TO U U US 00:15:25.30\00:15:32.83 WE CAN COUNT ON IT BECOMING MORE DIFFICULT AND IT'S JUST KIND 00:15:32.83\00:15:38.83 OF-IN THAT, THAT GOD WILL PUT YOU TO THE TEST. 00:15:38.83\00:15:40.83 HE WILL CONTINUE TO GROW YOU AND SO IT'S INTERESTING AND 00:15:40.83\00:15:46.03 MOTIVATING FOR ME TO LEARN ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE ABRAM LARUE, LIKE THE ROBERT WONG- THE 00:15:46.03\00:15:50.33 DIFFERENENPEOPLE THAT I WORK WITH H MY OFFICE WHO THTHGOSPSP.ED BECACAE OF 00:15:55.20\00:15:56.56 WELL, HELEN AND MILTON LEE BOTH BORN IN CHINA TO MISSIONARY 00:15:56.56\00:16:00.50 PARENTS AND SPOKE CHINESE FLUENTLY AND PAULINE AND DOYLE BARNETT WHO WENT OUT TO SHANANAI 00:16:00.50\00:16:04.26 IN 1940 AND YOU KNOW THE 00:16:09.36\00:16:10.36 STORIES THE CHRISTIANS AND GONE BEFORE.OPLE WHO HAVE 00:16:09.36\00:16:10.36 YOU HAVE SOME BOOKS TOO ON ABRAM LARUE. 00:16:10.36\00:16:12.80 WELL, I BROUGHT THESE HERE JUST TO SHOW YOU ALL. 00:16:12.80\00:16:17.16 SOMETIMES WE FORGET HOW GOD HAS LED IN THE PAST AND SO THESE ARE 00:16:17.16\00:16:21.36 TWO BOOKS AND THEY ARE ON ABRAM LARUE AND THEY ARE IN CHINESE 00:16:21.36\00:16:25.60 AND WE'RE DISTRIBUTING THEM ACROSS CHINA AND PEPELE A A BEING REVIVED AND REMINDED THAT 00:16:25.60\00:16:31.30 THERE IS A STORY THAT 00:16:31.30\00:16:33.96 NEEDS TO BE TOLD. 00:16:31.30\00:16:33.96 SO IT IS REALLY FUN. 00:16:33.96\00:16:35.86 THE ABRAM LARUE, THE FIRST MISSIONARY TO ASIA - FOR KIDS AND THIS ONE IS FOR 00:16:35.86\00:16:39.93 ADULTS AND WE ARE ENJOYING DISTRIBUTING THAT THAT IS 00:16:45.00\00:16:46.36 FANTASTIC. NOW. WELL, AND IF YOU ARE WONDERING HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED BY HELPING THE 00:16:46.36\00:16:52.76 CHRIRIIAN N RK IN CHINA, WE HAVE INFORMATION HERE TO SHARE WITH 00:16:52.76\00:16:59.16 YOU SO YOU CAN GET INVOLVED. 00:16:59.16\00:17:00.60 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 00:17:00.60\00:17:04.70 WHERE IS THE 10/40 WINDOW ANYWAY? 00:17:04.70\00:17:07.73 THOSE PEOPLE ARE TOO FAR AWAY. 00:17:07.73\00:17:10.36 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. 00:17:10.36\00:17:12.83 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV? 00:17:12.83\00:17:16.13 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACH, MY HEAD HURTS. 00:17:16.13\00:17:21.10 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO, I GIVE UP. 00:17:21.10\00:17:25.63 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 00:17:25.63\00:17:27.20 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 00:17:27.20\00:17:28.86 ACTUALLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND JESUS ASKED YOU 00:17:28.86\00:17:35.96 TO GO TO ALL THE WOWOD. 00:17:35.96\00:17:36.96 WHERE? 00:17:36.96\00:17:37.96 ALL THE WORLD. 00:17:37.96\00:17:38.96 HOW CAN I GO I HAVE COMMITMENTS? 00:17:38.96\00:17:40.96 YOU CAN PRAY. 00:17:40.96\00:17:42.53 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 00:17:42.53\00:17:47.66 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 00:17:47.66\00:17:51.90 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS. 00:17:51.90\00:17:54.73 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE AND MEANING BUT THEY 00:17:54.73\00:17:58.40 WON'T FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 00:17:58.40\00:17:59.83 BE THE SPARK. 00:17:59.83\00:18:01.36 LIGHT THE FIRE. 00:18:01.36\00:18:03.36 FINISH THE WORK. 00:18:03.36\00:18:05.96 FINISH THE WORK. 00:18:05.96\00:18:08.53 BE THE SPARK. 00:18:08.53\00:18:11.20 BE THE SPARK. 00:18:11.20\00:18:12.20 LIGHT THE FIRE. 00:18:12.20\00:18:13.50 THAT'S WHAT WE ARE WANTING TO DO HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH AUDREY 00:18:13.50\00:18:15.30 AND ENCOURAGE OUR VIEWERS TO GET INVOVOED AND SOMETIMES WE ARE 00:18:15.30\00:18:19.16 SITITNG AT HOME GOING WELL I'M NOT QUITE SURE HOW I C C GO O CHCHA BUT OH, YOU CAN AND 00:18:19.16\00:18:23.63 THROUGH GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS- - E PIONEER TEAMAMIN C CNA. 00:18:23.63\00:18:26.03 THAT'S RIGHT. 00:18:26.03\00:18:27.46 I WANT TO SHOW YOU A MAP RIGHT NOW AND THIS IS A MAP OF APPROXIMATELY WHERE 00:18:27.46\00:18:32.10 WE HAVAVOUR MISSIONARYRYEAMS. 00:18:32.10\00:18:35.23 WE HAVE RIGHT NOW 120-130 OR SO TEAMS AND FIFTY OF THEM ARE 00:18:35.23\00:18:40.70 THROUGH GOSPEL OUTREACH SPONSORSHIPS SO WE FEEL SOSOSO B 00:18:40.70\00:18:43.73 BSSED. AND IF YOU SAW ON THAT MAP, THERE ARE MORE OF THE PIONEER TEAMS ALONG THE 00:18:43.73\00:18:49.83 EASTERN N DE O OCHININ 00:18:49.83\00:18:51.33 WE NEED THEM ACROSS ALL OF CHINA. 00:18:51.33\00:18:54.20 SO ANYTHING THAT YOU ALL CAN DO TO HELP AND GOSPEL OUTREACH IS 00:18:54.20\00:18:59.43 SUCH A WONDERFUL THING TO WORK WITH H U ALL AND TO HAVE THE 00:18:59.43\00:19:03.63 PRAYERS OF THIS ORORNIZATION AND THE FINANAIAL L PPORT BECAUSE OUR BOOTS ON THE GROUND 00:19:03.63\00:19:07.50 NEED FOOD IN THEIR STOMACHS. 00:19:07.50\00:19:08.76 THIS IS TRUE. 00:19:08.76\00:19:09.76 THEY NEED BOOKS IN THEIR SATCHELS. 00:19:09.76\00:19:12.23 THEY NEED A PLACE TO STAY AND WHAT YOU DO HELPS WITH ALL OF 00:19:12.23\00:19:16.36 THOSE COSTS. WELL THANKS TO THE VIEWERS AND FOR GETTING INVOLVED AND HEARING STORIES FROM 00:19:16.36\00:19:20.00 PEPELE LIKE YOU. 00:19:20.00\00:19:21.40 WELL, I DO WANT TO TELL YOU ONE STORY AND THIS IS OF A TEAM, AN 00:19:21.40\00:19:25.33 OUTREACH TEAMAMHAT T NT 00:19:25.33\00:19:27.33 INTNTMONGOLIA. 00:19:25.33\00:19:27.33 MONGOLIA IS A VERY, VERY DIFFICULT PLACE AND THE PIONEER 00:19:27.33\00:19:32.90 TEAM THAT I AM FERRING TO, THE GOSPEL OUTREACH TEAM THAT WENT THERE; THEY WERE QUITE 00:19:32.90\00:19:37.63 SURPRISED AND THEY DID NOT KNOW W WRE T TBEGIGI 00:19:37.63\00:19:40.96 SO THEY JUST BEGAN VISITING THEIR NEIGHBORS AND THEIR 00:19:40.96\00:19:45.03 TESTIMONY IS THATATHE BEST THING TO DO I IJUST GO AROUND AND 00:19:45.03\00:19:48.86 VISIT PEOPLE. AND ONE HOME THEY WEWE TO THEYEYOUND A YOUNG CHIHI THAT WAS POSOSSSED BY A 00:19:48.86\00:19:54.83 DEMON AND THEY KEPT GOING CK, GOING BACK AND EVERYDAY THEY 00:19:54.83\00:20:00.16 WOULD PRAY WITH THE MOTHER AND THE MOTHER SAIAI "YEYE WEENEEDEP 00:20:00.16\00:20:05.63 WITH THIS." 00:20:05.63\00:20:07.00 SO THEY WOULD GO BACK EVERY DAY AND PRAY WITH THE MOTHER AND 00:20:07.00\00:20:09.60 THEN THE CHILD BEGAN TO LISTEN IN AND THEN THE CHILD JOINED IN PRAYER R D BOBO THE 00:20:09.60\00:20:15.10 MOTHTH AND THE CHILD GAVE THEIR LIVES S JESUS AND THE E FFERENCE 00:20:15.10\00:20:19.93 THAT THAT MADE WAS HUGE AND OUR PIONEER TEAMS SAY Y W REALLY 00:20:19.93\00:20:26.03 WHAT MADE THE DIFFERENCE WAS PRAYER. 00:20:26.03\00:20:27.83 SO NOT ONLY ARE WE PRAYING FOR OUR PIONEER TEAMS BUT THEY ARE 00:20:27.83\00:20:33.13 PRAYING FOR THE PEOPLE THAT THEY COME ININCONTNG 00:20:33.13\00:20:37.26 THOSE PEOPLE HOW TO PRAY. 00:20:33.13\00:20:37.26 SO MONGOLIA ISIS VERY, VERY CHALLENGING PLACE AND ANY OF 00:20:37.26\00:20:44.76 THEM ACTUALLY. ANOTHER STORY THAT HAPPENENEIN THE SAMAM AREA IS A COUPLE MOVED UP 00:20:44.76\00:20:48.53 THERE, A PIONEER TEAM, AND THEY WERE GETTING G ON WITH THEIR 00:20:48.53\00:20:52.90 NEIGHBOBO AND MEETING OTOTR PEOPLE BUT THEY COUOU NOTOTONNECT WITH THE PERSON 00:20:52.90\00:20:57.03 RIGHT NEXT DOOR. 00:20:57.03\00:20:58.03 O.K. 00:20:58.03\00:20:59.46 YOU KNOW HOW IT SAYS THAT THE RAINS CAME DOWN AND THE FLOODS 00:20:59.46\00:21:01.70 CAME UP, YES, WELLLLN THTH STOTO THEHERAININCE 00:21:01.70\00:21:08.03 WAWA BETETEN OUR PIONEERS, 00:21:01.70\00:21:08.03 OUR MISSIONARIES, AND THE NEIGHBORS CAME DOWN. 00:21:08.03\00:21:11.90 THERE IT SAT IN A HUBBLED PILE ON THE FLOOR. 00:21:11.90\00:21:15.60 LITERALLY. 00:21:15.60\00:21:16.86 YES, BECAUSE OF ALL THE RAIN AND IT WAS THERE- NOBODY WAS PAYING 00:21:16.86\00:21:20.16 ATTENTION TO IT. 00:21:20.16\00:21:21.60 SO THE GENTLEMAN, HE SAID, "YOU KNOW WHAT, I'M GOING TO GO OUT 00:21:21.60\00:21:24.46 AND FIX THAT WALL." 00:21:24.46\00:21:25.86 SO HE WENT THERE AND HE WAS BUILDING THE WALL, PUTTING IT 00:21:25.86\00:21:27.90 BACK TOGETHER. HE DIDN'T ASASTHE E IGHBOR FOFOHELPLPND O O 00:21:27.90\00:21:31.73 DAYAYTHE NEIGHD SAID, "YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE YOUOUOINGNG 00:21:31.73\00:21:33.73 I FEEL BADLY YOU'RE DOING THIS." 00:21:33.73\00:21:35.73 HE SAID, "NO, I WANT TO DO IT. 00:21:35.73\00:21:36.73 IT IS WHAT I CAN DO." 00:21:36.73\00:21:37.70 IT'S CALLED BEING THE HANDS OF JESUS BEFORE YOU. 00:21:37.70\00:21:39.73 YES, RIGHT THERE. 00:21:39.73\00:21:41.03 HE STARTED PUTTING THAT WALL UP AND THEY BEGAN TALKING ABOUT 00:21:41.03\00:21:43.73 JESUS WHEREAS BEFORE THE NEIGHBOR WAS TOTALLY CLOSED OFF 00:21:43.73\00:21:46.40 TO ANYTHING SPIRITUAL. 00:21:46.40\00:21:47.73 OUR PIONEER SAID, "YOU KNOW, I THINK I'M GOING TO INVITE HIM 00:21:47.73\00:21:55.30 OVER FOR DINNER," SO HE WENT TO HIS WIFE AND SAID PRPRARE 00:21:55.30\00:21:59.26 SOMETHING SPECIAL. THAT DAY HE INVITED THEM OVER FOR DINNENEAND D VING BUILT THAT WALL L GETHER 00:21:59.26\00:22:04.06 AND D E NENEHBOROREEING 00:22:04.06\00:22:08.86 CHCHSTIANITY IN ACTION THEN BEING INVITED TO SIT 00:22:04.06\00:22:08.86 AROUND THE TABLE THEY BEGAN TO TALK. 00:22:08.86\00:22:11.73 THEY TALKED ABOUT JESUS AND FOR THE FIRST TIME THE NEIGHBOR 00:22:11.73\00:22:15.33 LISTENED. HE WAS HUNGRY NOT ONLY FOR THE FOOD ON THE TABLE BUT FOR THE GOSPEL AND BECAUSE 00:22:15.33\00:22:21.50 OF THIS ACACOF K KDNESES 00:22:21.50\00:22:25.56 HEHEAVE HIS LIFE TO JESUS. 00:22:21.50\00:22:25.56 SO IT'S TO ME AN EXAMPLE OF HOW SHARING JESUS IS SIMPLE AND 00:22:25.56\00:22:31.43 BASIC NO MATTER WHERE WE ARE. 00:22:31.43\00:22:32.43 TRUE. 00:22:32.43\00:22:33.90 WHETHER YOU ARE IN CHINA; WHETHER YOU ARE IN INNER MONGOLIA; WHETHER YOU ARE 00:22:33.90\00:22:36.63 IN WASHINGTON STATATOR FLORIDIDI DODOT' CARE WHERE YOU ARARWHEN 00:22:36.63\00:22:40.50 WE PRAY, WHEN WE ARE DELIBERATE AND WE REACH OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE 00:22:40.50\00:22:45.50 AND THEN WE ASASTHEMEMF THEY WANT TO PRAY, IF THEY WANT TO G 00:22:45.50\00:22:49.60 G TO KNOW JESUS IT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE. 00:22:49.60\00:22:51.00 SO THIS WAS A PIONEER TEAM, A GOSPEL OUTREACH TEAM THAT SAID, 00:22:51.00\00:22:55.70 "IT'S NOT JUST A AUT D DNG OSE E BLE E UDIEIE 00:22:55.70\00:22:58.16 IT'S ABOUT GETTING TO KNOW MY NEIGHBORS. 00:22:58.16\00:23:00.23 IT'S ABOUT HELPING AND THEN SEEING WHAT GOD WILL DO." 00:23:00.23\00:23:02.80 THE RAINS CAME DOWN D THE WALL IS WHAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER. 00:23:02.80\00:23:07.23 THAT'S RIGHT. 00:23:07.23\00:23:08.20 ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 00:23:08.20\00:23:09.66 OH, IT IS FANTASTIC BUT IT IS TAKING THE HOOK WHEN GOD GIVES 00:23:09.66\00:23:13.73 YOU THE HOOK AND MAKING SURE THAT YOU 00:23:13.73\00:23:16.13 KE T TT FIRST STEP. 00:23:13.73\00:23:16.13 AND GOSPEL OUTREACH IS HELPING PEOPLE TAKE THAT FIRST STEP WHEN 00:23:16.13\00:23:21.00 PEOPLE FEEL CALLED TO GO TO AN UNREACHED AREA OF CHINA. 00:23:21.00\00:23:24.60 YES. 00:23:24.60\00:23:26.06 IT IS WHAT GOSPEL OUTREACH IS ALLOWING TO HAPPEN BY THE SUPPORT THAT YOU GIVE. 00:23:26.06\00:23:30.26 WELL, AND THAT'S'SHERE THE VIEWERS COME IN AND WE NT TO 00:23:30.26\00:23:33.03 THANK THE VIEWERS FOR ALL OF THEIRIRDONANAONS S DT 00:23:33.03\00:23:36.20 ON SEVERALALHINGNG 00:23:33.03\00:23:36.20 YOU TALKED ABOUT PRAYER AND PRAYER IS A KEY COMPONENT OF 00:23:36.20\00:23:39.46 WHAT YOU FOLKLKARE TALKING ABOUT 00:23:39.46\00:23:44.23 WITH KINGDOM GROWTH IN CHINA AND PRAYER IS S 00:23:39.46\00:23:44.23 HUGE THAT WE CAN BE DOING THTH HERE - PRAYING FOR PEOPLE AND SO 00:23:44.23\00:23:47.60 WHY DON'T WE PAUSE E R A MOMENT AND HAVE A PRAYEYE 00:23:47.60\00:23:49.60 ALRIGHT. 00:23:49.60\00:23:50.60 I'LL PRAY. 00:23:50.60\00:23:52.06 DEAR LORD, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT WITH 00:23:52.06\00:23:53.93 AUDREY, LORD D I THANK YOU FOR ALL OF T T COUOURIES LORD IN THE 00:23:53.93\00:23:57.73 WORLD. I THANK YOU FOR THE SECTION OF THE WORLD THAT HERE 00:23:57.73\00:24:01.90 AT GOSPEL OUTREACH THAT WE ARE FOCUSING ON AND TODAY WE ARE LOOKING AT CHINA AS WE ARE 00:24:01.90\00:24:06.60 TALKING HERE WITH AUDREY. 00:24:06.60\00:24:08.03 LORD, THERE ARE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THAT ARE OUT RIGHT NOW 00:24:08.03\00:24:11.56 AND YOU KNOW E STRUGGLES THAT THEYYARE HAVINE 00:24:11.56\00:24:15.66 JOYS THAT THEY HAVE E D 00:24:11.56\00:24:15.66 YOYOKNOW THE PEOPLE,E,HEIRIRNEIY 00:24:15.66\00:24:19.16 SHARED ABOUT THIS WALL 00:24:15.66\00:24:19.16 WITH THIS GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER AND HIS NEIGHBOR AND LORD YOU 00:24:19.16\00:24:22.96 BROUGHT THE WALL DOWN AND YOU BROUGHGH IT UP LORD BUTUTHESESENEIGIGORSE 00:24:22.96\00:24:27.36 CONNECTED WITH YOU. 00:24:27.36\00:24:28.36 I PRAY FOR THE VIEWERS WHO ARE WATCHING RIGHT NOW. 00:24:28.36\00:24:31.16 I PRAY LORD THAT THEY WILL REALLY SERIOUSLY CONSIDER WHAT 00:24:31.16\00:24:35.26 THEY CAN GIVE TO GOSPEL OUTREACH ANANLORD TOGETHER AS WE PRAY 00:24:35.26\00:24:39.66 ASASWE GIVEK TOGETHER HELP P TO, LIKE AUDREY SAID, WE NEED TO BE THE HANDS ANANTHE FEET OF 00:24:39.66\00:24:44.66 YOU AND I PRAY IS IN YOUR NAME. 00:24:44.66\00:24:47.00 AMEN. 00:24:47.00\00:24:48.36 SO, YES PRAYERS WILL CONTINUE TO BE WITH YOU AND THE NEEDS- 00:24:48.36\00:24:51.83 OBVIOUS THE NEEDS THAT YOU DO HAVE ARE MORE GOSPEL OUTREACH 00:24:51.83\00:24:55.20 WORKERS, RIGHT? THAT'S RIGHTHT 00:24:55.20\00:24:56.36 WE HAVE A GOAL BY THE END OF THIS YEAR OF HAVING 200 TEAMS. 00:24:56.36\00:25:00.66 RIGHT NOW WE HAVE 120- 130 OR SO TEAMS LIKE I MENTIONED. 00:25:00.66\00:25:04.43 AND YOU KNOW THEY ARE GOING INTO AREAS WHERE THERE ARE 00:25:04.43\00:25:08.26 CHALLENGES. JUST LIKE OUR EARLY MISSIONARIES - JUST LIKE THE PEOPLE WE SAW IN THE 00:25:08.26\00:25:10.76 DEO O VE C CLLENGES. 00:25:10.76\00:25:12.16 THERE WAS ONE TEAM THAT WENT INTO A CITY AND IT WASN'T LONG 00:25:12.16\00:25:17.43 BEFORE OTHER CHRIRIIANS AND NCHRISTIANS WERE SAYING, AH, THE 00:25:17.43\00:25:21.36 ADVENTIST CHURCH, THE TRUTH IT'S WONDERFUL AND THEY BEGAN TO MEET WIWI THIS OUTREACH TEAM 00:25:21.36\00:25:27.06 AND BEGAN TO WORSHIP ON SABBATH BUT IT WASN'T LONG AFTER THAT 00:25:27.06\00:25:32.03 WHEN THERE WAS PERSRSUTIOIOBASICALLY BY 00:25:32.03\00:25:36.90 OTHER CHRISTIAIACHURURES WELELAS THE GOVERNMENT. 00:25:32.03\00:25:36.90 THTH TEAEAHAD D -THTH WEWE FORORD TO LEAVE BY THE 00:25:36.90\00:25:40.83 OFFICIALS. THEY SAID, "YOU HAVE TO LEAVE THE CITY." 00:25:40.83\00:25:44.26 SO THEY MOVED BACK TO A TOWN BETWEEN THEIR HOME TOWN AND THIS 00:25:44.26\00:25:49.56 CITY AND THEY B BAN TO GO BACK AND FORTH WORKING FROMOMHE 00:25:49.56\00:25:54.13 OUTSIDE. GOD-THAT'S ANOTHER GREAT STORY, YES, HOW GOD USED THIS COUPLE THAT WAS 00:25:54.13\00:25:58.40 BASISILLY PERSECUTED BUT IT DIDN'T GET IN THE WAY OF THEM 00:25:58.40\00:26:03.60 REACHING P PPLE IN IS UNREACHED TOWN. 00:26:03.60\00:26:05.40 THEY WERE ENCOURAGED. 00:26:05.40\00:26:06.80 THE LORD ENCOURAGED THEM AND THEY CONTINUE TO HAVE THAT 00:26:06.80\00:26:09.26 CALL-JUST LIKE WE LKEDEDBOUT IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD.THEY HAD NO 00:26:09.26\00:26:11.26 CHOICE. GOD HAD CALLED THEM, HAD NOT RELEASED THEM OF THE CALL 00:26:11.26\00:26:13.33 EVEN THOUGH THE GOVERNMENT HAD SAID YOU'VE GOT TO MOVE ON. 00:26:13.33\00:26:15.66 ISN'T THAT SOMETHING? 00:26:15.66\00:26:16.70 WELL PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU AND THANK YOU FOR SHARING. 00:26:16.70\00:26:20.13 THANK YOU FOR BEING INVOLVED WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:26:20.13\00:26:22.13 PLEASE WHEHEYOU U MEET WITH THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS, THE 00:26:22.13\00:26:25.03 PIONEER TEAMS PLEASE DO SHARE WITH THEMMTHAT R 00:26:25.03\00:26:29.13 THEM AND THAT THEY ARE 00:26:25.03\00:26:29.13 ING G MEMBMBED. 00:26:29.13\00:26:30.56 I WILL DEFINITELY, I KNOW IT MEANS SO MUCH TO THEM TO KNOW 00:26:30.56\00:26:33.83 THAT THEY HAVE A WORLD CHURCH THAT IS SUPPORTING IN WHAT THEY 00:26:33.83\00:26:36.63 DO. ABSOLUTELY. 00:26:36.63\00:26:38.03 WELL AUDREY FOLKENBERG THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND THANK YOU FOR 00:26:38.03\00:26:40.20 WATCHING DVENTURES IN MISISONS"S"ON G GP. 00:26:40.20\00:26:42.16 BEFORE, YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THE PEPELE NOW AND AS MORE PEOPLE HEAR ABOUT THE LORD 00:26:45.20\00:26:49.60 JEJES CHCHST T TT IS THE GOAL AND WE ASK YOU TO BE INVOLVLVED 00:26:49.60\00:26:53.06 FOR "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" AND GOSPEL OUTREACH, I'M JUJUE 00:26:53.06\00:26:55.36 SANDNDS-KEYMER AND MAY THE E RD BLESS YOU TODAY. 00:26:55.36\00:27:01.50 [CLOSING MUSIC]. 00:27:53.73\00:27:59.80