Participants: Audrey Folkenburg
Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000523
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00:15 WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:17 I'M JULIE SANDERS-KEYMER AND ARE YOU IN FOR A HISTORY LESSON ON CHINA? 00:21 WELL TODAY IS YOUR DAY THAT YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS HUGE, WONDERFUL 00:25 UNTRTRFILLED WITIT1.4 BILLION PEOPLE AND THOSE ARAR1.4 4 LLION PEOPLE WHO 00:30 NEED KNOW ABOUT JESUS. 00:32 SO, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AND TODAY WE HAVE AUDREY FOLKENBERG HERE 00:35 FROM THE CHINESE 00:35 UNIOIOMISSSSN. 00:36 WELCOME. 00:37 THANK YOU, IT'S GOOD TO BE HERE. 00:39 AUDREY NOT ONLY ARE YOU TIED IN WITH THE CHINESE UNION MISSION BUT YOU ARE 00:41 ALSO LINKED IN WITH US HEHE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:45 YES, I'M THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR FOR CHINA SO THAT ALLOWS ME THE PRIVILEGEGOF 00:48 WORKING WITH T TS WONDERFUL TEAM H HE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH AND 00:51 LINKING IT TO THE BOOTS ON THE GROUND IN CHINA SHARARG JESUS. 00:54 YES, YOU THINK ABOUT THAT. 00:57 YOU AND THEN THE BIG MAP OF CHINA JUST CAME INTO MY HEAD AND PRAYERS ARE WITH 01:01 YOU AND WE'RE GLAD YOU ARE HERE. 01:03 SO YOU HAVE SOME THINGS TO SHARE WITH US ABOUT SOME HISTORY IN CHINA. 01:07 YEYEAND D U KNKN THEHEHING IS UNLESS WE LOOOOBACK WE DON'T ALWAYS KNOW, WE 01:13 DON'T UNDERSTAND REALLY HOW GOD IS LEADING US NOW AND INTO THEHEUTURE. 01:17 CHINA IS A COUNTRY THAT HAS A LOT OF HISTOROR 01:20 YES. 01:22 I ENJOY HISTORY BUT I ENJOY IT ALL THE MORE WHEN I CAN SEE IT, WHEN I CAN 01:25 BE THERE AND I WANT TO SHAHA WITH YOU ALL A LITTLE BIT ABOUTUTI'AN, 01:29 CHINA. 01:30 IT IS THE ANCIENT CAPITAL OF CHINA. 01:32 OF COURSE, THE CAPITAL OF CHINA IS NOW IN BEIJING BUT XI'AN WAS THE CAPITAL 01:37 R MAMA, MAMA, MANY YEARS AND IT'S A VERY FASCINATING PLACE. 01:41 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE HEARD OF THE TETEA COTTA WAWAIORS. 01:44 OH YES, I HAVE SEEN N EM. 01:46 YOU'VE BEEN THERE? 01:47 I'VE LOOKED AT THEM. 01:48 WHAT DID YOU THINK OF IT? 01:49 THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF THEM, 7000, THAT'S MY NUMBER, WHAT A FEAT? 01:54 AND TO FIND THEM AND FOR THEM TO BE POLISHING THEM AND MAKING SURE THAT 01:59 EVERYTHING IS JUST SO. 02:00 IT'S HUGE. 02:01 THE BIG AUDITORIUMS THAT COVER THEM. 02:05 THEY ARE AMAZING. 02:06 THAT'S RIGHT. 02:07 IN THE 1970'S THERE WERE SOME FARMERS OUT WORKING AND THEY WERE DIGGING AND 02:11 THEY CAMAMUPONONHESE CLAYYFIGURA 02:11 COTTA WARRIORS WERE BURIED 02:19 THERE AND THEY WERE BURIED YEARS AND YEARS AGO. 02:23 B.C. 02:24 IN FACT, 200 OR SO B.C. 02:25 IN THAT ERA. 02:30 EMPEROR QIN; EMPEROR QIN WAS THE FIRST EMPEROR OF CHINA. 02:33 HE BASICALLY UNITED CHINA FOR THE FIRST TIME. 02:36 HE DEVELOPED THE HIGHWAY SYSTEM. 02:38 HE DEVELOPED WEIGHTS FOR MEASURING THINGS. 02:41 WOW. 02:42 HE DEVELOPED THEIR FIRST OFFICIAL TYPE OF WRITING. 02:45 HE WAS A VERY, VERY, VERY POWERFUL MAN. 02:48 IN FACT, EMPEROR QIN WAS SO POWERFUL THAT HE SAID, "WHEN I DIE I WANT AN ARMY 02:54 TO E EORT ME INTO THE AFTERWORLD." 02:58 AND SO, THAT IS WHAT HE DID. 02:59 HE SPENT YEARS BUILDING. 03:03 OH YES. 03:04 YES AND INTERESTINGLY HE BECAME EMPEROR OF CHINA WHEN HE WAS ONLY 13. 03:09 THIRTEEN? 03:10 SO HERE HE WAS PLANNING FOR HIS DEATH ALL OF THESE YEARS. 03:12 ISN'T THAT SOMETHING? 03:13 I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT. 03:15 YES, SO THERE HE WAS AND HE BUILT AN ARMY BASICALLY TO GO IN TO THE GROUND 03:19 WITH HIM AND TO TAKE HIM TO THE AFTER LIFE. 03:22 YOU KNOW THERE ARE CAVALRY MEN. 03:24 THERE ARE ARCHERS. 03:26 THERE ARE FOOT SOLDIERS. 03:28 YOU'LL SEE ANIMALS, FOOD YOU KNOW THE BONES AND THINGS. 03:31 IT'S VERY, VERY FASCINATING PLACE. 03:34 YES. 03:35 HE WAS A VERY ACCOMPLISHED MAN BUT UNFORTUNATELY AS SIN IS, HE DIED AND ALL 03:44 THAT IS LEFT NOW IS THESE RUINS WHICH ARE AN INDICATOR OF POWER THAT 03:48 ONCE EXISTED. 03:49 YES. 03:50 BUT THEN PASSES AND FEARED TOO. 03:52 YES IT'S INCREDIBLE. 03:54 IF YOU EVER GET A CHANCE TO GO THERE, YES, OR EVEN GO TO GOOGLE AND PUT IN 03:58 TERRA COTTA WARRIORSRS UNBELIEVABLE. 04:00 THE SEVEN THOUSAND WARRIORS IN THERE, THE CLAY FIGURINES-NO TWO ARE 04:04 ALIKE. 04:06 OH, I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT. 04:07 THEY ALL HAVE DIFFERENT HAIRDOS, OR HELMET OR SOMETHING, THEIR FACIAL 04:10 EXPRESSIONS ARE DIFFERENT; DIFFERENT SIZES, EVEN THE INTRICATE DETAIL. 04:15 THE CARVINGS YOU SEE ON THE BOTTOM OF THEIR SHOES. 04:19 THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT. 04:26 SOMETHING I JUST RECENTLY LEARNED IS THAT ART FORM EMPEROR.Y DIED WITH THE 04:27 WHY? 04:29 BECAUSE ANYBODY THAT WAS INVOLVED IN CREATING THIS HUGE TOMB, THIS HUGE 04:33 MAUSOLEUM THEY WERE BEHEADED SO THAT THEY COULDN'T SHARE THINGS WITH 04:38 OTHEHE THAHANOTHING WOULD BE PASSED ON. 04:40 OH MY! 04:41 IT IS VERY, VERY INTERESTING. 04:43 ANOTHER FASCINATING THING IN XI'AN, THE ANCIENT CHAPEL OF CHINA IS CALLED 04:48 THE DE LA FOREST. 04:50 IT IS AN OLD CONFUCIUS TEMPLE AND IF YOU WALK THROUGH THERE AND YOU GO 04:54 THROUGUGTHE DIFFERENT COURT YARDS YOU COME TO THE END AND YOU GO INTO A 04:58 RORO AND IT'S GOT ALL THESE-IT LOOKS LIKE GIANT TOMBSTONES. 05:03 RERELY? 05:04 YOU KNOW THEY ARE ON PEDESTALS AND THEY GO UP REALLY, REALLY HIGH AND 05:08 MAYBE SOME OF THEM ARE SIX TO EIGHT FEET HIGH AND ON THESE STELLAS, THESE ROCKS 05:13 ARE ENGRAVINGS OF CONFUCIUS' SAYINGS,S,ANCICIT, 05:18 THIS IS HISTORY ALL CARVED IN. 05:20 IT IS CARVED. 05:21 IT IS WRITTEN IN STONE, LITERALLY. 05:23 ONE OF THEM THAT WAS DISCOVERED IN NEAR THE 1300'S A.D. 05:27 WAS FOUND AND IT HAD BEEN CREATED BACK IN THE 6-700'S A.D. 05:35 WHY? 05:36 IT WAS A DOCUMENTATION OF MISSIONARIES GOING INTO CHINA. 05:40 O.K. 05:41 SAY THE NUMBERS AGAIN? 05:42 IN A.D. 05:43 6-700 IT WAS DOCUMENTATION OF MISSIONARIES IN CHINA. 05:46 THE MISSIONARIES THAT WENT INTO CHINA, EXPLORING MISSIONARIES THAT WENT 05:50 INTOTOHINANA 05:51 WOW! 05:52 WHAT THAT SHOWS ALL OF US IS THAT CHRISTIANITY HAS BEEN A PART OF CHINA FOR A 05:56 LONG TIME. 05:58 NOW INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, NOT TOO LONG AFTER THEY CAME IN I WOULD SAY IN THE 06:03 800'S, A AER T T TABLET WAS FORMED THEY HID IT. 06:07 THEY PUT IT INTO THE GROUND AND LIKE I MENTIONED BEFORE, IT 06:10 WASN'T DISCOVERED UNTIL 130000 BECAUSE T TY HID IT BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE BEING 06:14 RSECUTED THAT BELIEVED IN ANYTHING OTHER THAN BUDDHISM. 06:18 INTERESTING. 06:20 SO LET'S GET THIS OUT OF THE WAY-SO THEY HID IT AND IT WAS DISCOVERED. 06:23 WITH T TT DIDIOVERY I HAVE FELT THAT IT IS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT THINGNGIN 06:29 CHINA TO SAY, HEHE 06:29 THERE IS A PLALA FORORCHRIRIIAN. 06:33 YES, YOU HAVE A LONG, LONG HISTORY BUT THERE WAS A TIME WHEN MISSIONARIES 06:38 CAME IN AND THERE IS WORK K BE DONE. 06:40 AND IT IS CARVED IN STONE, AUDREY. 06:42 YES, IT IS CARVED IN STONE. 06:44 NOW THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, I'M SURE YOU KNOW WHO THAT FIRST 06:47 MISSIONARY TO CHINA IS? 06:49 YES, ABRAM LARUE. 06:50 ABRAM LARUE HE WAS BORN IN NEW JERSEY AND HE WAS INTO WEALTH AND MONEY. 06:56 HE LOST IT ALL AND THEN HE SAID, "I'M GOING G GIGI MY LIFE TO JESUS." 07:00 AND HEHEELT A CALL TO GO TO CHINA. 07:02 HE DID. 07:03 BEFORE I TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT STORY, I WANT TO SHOW YOU ALL A 07:06 VIDEO ON CHINA. 07:08 IT'S THE HISTORY OF THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH AND THEN WE WILL 07:10 TALK A LITTLE BIT T RE OUT T RAM LARUE. 07:12 HOW'S THAT, JULIE? 07:13 PERFECT. 07:14 O.K. 07:22 WHEN WE SAY, "TO GROW GOD'S KINGDOM" WE MEAN TO EXPAND THE PLAN OF 07:28 SALVATION AMONG MANY OF THE CHINESE LIVING INNTHE GREAT. 07:33 THE ADVENTIST MINISTRY IN CHINA BEGAN WITH MAIN MISSIONARY ABRAM LARUE, 07:38 125 YEARS AGO IN 1888. 07:42 THE FIRST OFFICIAL MISSIONARY, J.N. 07:44 ANDERSON WAS SENT TO CHINA IN 1902. 07:47 IN 1906, GUO ZYING BECAME THE FIRST ORDAINED CHINESE ADVENTIST MINISTER. 07:54 LATER ON, HONG ZIJIE, A BAPTIST MINISTER JOINED THE ADVENTIST MINISTRY. 08:00 FOR HALF A CENTURY ADVENTIST LEADERS AND MEMBERS LIVED THROUGH 08:05 DIFFICULT HISTORICAL PERIODS WITHSTANDING COUNTLESS REGIME CHANGES, 08:09 POLITITIL UNREST AND BRUTAL MILITARY CONFLICTS INCLUDING THE JAPANESE 08:15 ININSIONONND E CIVIL WAR. 08:16 DESPITE THE UNSTABLE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT BY 1950, THE CHINA DIVISION 08:22 ALONG WITH ITS SEVEN UNION CONFERENCES WE'RE SUPERVISING 276 CHURCHES 08:28 AND D ,00000EMBERS. 08:31 IT ALSO OPERATED MANY SCHOOLS RANGING FROM ELEMENTARY LEVEL TO 08:35 COLLEGE LEVEL, THIRTEEN HOSPITALS AND SIGNS OF THE TIMES PUBLISHING 08:40 ASSOCIATION. 08:41 WITH THE BACKDROP OF THE ONGOING KOREAN WAR, THE ADVENTIST CHURCH WENT 08:46 THROUGH THE ACCUSATION MOVEMENT DURING WHICH MANY ORDINARY CITIZENS WERE 08:50 WRONGFULLY ACCUSED OF BEING FOREIGN SPIES. 08:54 IN 1951, THE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT CONFISCATED ALL CHURCH ENTITIES. 08:59 IN 1958, CHINA ENTERED A PERIOD CALLED THE "GREAT LEAP FORWARD". 09:05 CHCHSTIAN CHURCHES WERE ANNEXED IN ORDER TO ELIMINATE DENOMINATIONS. 09:09 STARTING IN 1966, THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION WHICH LASTED TEN YEARS INFLICTED 09:15 ANOTHER ROUND OF DESTRUCTION TO ALL L LIGIGIS. 09:18 BIBLES WERE TORCHED IN PUBLIC. 09:21 CHURCHES WERE CONVERTED TO FACTORIES, SCHOOLS AND DAY CARE CENTERS. 09:25 MANY CHRISTITI MINISTERSRSAND OF 09:25 WERE SENT TO LABOR CAMPS 09:29 FOR "R"REDUCATION." 09:31 SOME WERE THROWN IN JAIL. 09:33 IT WAS THE DARKEST CHAPTER IN THE CHRISTIAN HISTORY IN CHINA. 09:37 EVEN DURING THE MOST DIFFICULT TIMES THE LORD WAS WITH HIS FAITHFUL 09:43 FOFOOWERS. 09:44 MANY ADVENTISTS SUFFERED FOR THEIR FAITH BUT THEIR PERSEVERANCE KEPT THE 09:49 CHURCH ALIVE. 09:51 WHEN CHINA ENTERED A NEW ERA, THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES SPRANG LIKE 09:55 BAMBOO SHOOTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 09:57 TODAY, IN 2013 THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE CHINESE ADVENTIST CHURCH REACHED 10:03 400,000. 10:05 THE NUMBER OF CHURCHES AND MEETING PLACES IS BETWEEN 4-5000. 10:10 MORE THAN ONE MILLION BOOKS OF SPIRIRIOF PROPHECY HAVAVBEEN PRINTED 10:14 AND DISTRIBUTED. 10:16 FROM 1958 TO 1966 THE ADVENTIST CHURCH HAS GONE THROUGH A GREAT TEST. 10:22 IN SHANGHAI WHERE THE CHCHA DIVISION OFFICE WAS LOCATED, MORE THAN TWENTY 10:28 MIMISTERER ELDERS AND DEACONS, MINISTRY DIRECTORS AND LAY PERSONS 10:31 WERE SENT TO LABOR CAMPS FOR "RE-EDUCUCION". 10:34 NONE OF THEM BETRAYED THEIR FAITH. 10:37 THEY WENT STRAIGHT BACK TO THE BUSINESS OF GROWING GOD'S KINGDOM WHEN THEY 10:41 WERE RELEASED. 10:42 YEARS LATER THEY WERE EXONERATED BY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. 10:46 YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF SOME OF THEM SUCH AS DAVIVILIN; ZHEN ZHAORONG; YANG DAWEI; 10:58 JIAO HONGZHI AND ROBERT WONG. 11:04 THERE WERE MANY DEDICATED ADVENTISTS LIVING IN OTHER PLACES AS WELL. 11:09 WE REMEMBER THOSE WHO CAMEMEARTYRS FOR THE KINGDOM INCLUDING ZENG 11:14 XIANGFU. 11:16 CURRENTLY, THERE ARE SEVERAL CITIES AND REGIONS IN CHINA WHICH BOAST OF 11:20 HAVING MORE THTH 1000 ADVENTISTS WORSHIPING ON ANY GIVEN SABBATH. 11:25 THE CITIES OF WUXI; 11:25 WENZHOU; SHEN YANGNGXI'A'A ANANTHE REGIONS AROUND 11:32 GUSHAN; GONGSHU L'ININ NORTHERN GUANAGDONG PROVINCE ARE PROMINENT 11:38 LOCATIONS. 11:39 THE CHURCHES AT THESE LOCATIONS STARTED SMALL. 11:42 THEIR DEVELOPMENT TESTIFIES TO GOD'S GLORY AND POWER. 11:46 ALL THE CHURCH LEADERS LED WITH GOOD EXAMPLES OF TRUE DEDICATION AND SACRIFICE. 11:52 THE E NGRERETIONS REREONDED WITH FAITHFUL WITNESSING FROM A FEW TO 11:57 SEVERARATHOUSAND THEY STEADILY GROW GOD'D'KINGDOM. 12:00 BUT THAT ON THE GOOD GROUND ARE THEY WHICH IN AN HONEST AND GOOD HEART 12:06 HAHANG HEARD THE WORD, KEEP IT AND BRING FORTH FRUIT T TH PATIENCE. 12:12 JEJES RIGHTFULLY DESCRIBED HOHOHIS KINGDOM GROWS. 12:15 FROM THE ERA OF EAST ASIA ASSOCIATION TO TODAY'S CHINESE UNION MISSION, 12:22 EVERY OUTRTRCH METHOD,D,LITERAT, 12:22 RADIDIBROADCASTING, 12:27 DISCIPLE TRAINING, INTERNET AND TV MINISTRIES, CORRESPONDENCE 12:32 BIBLE SCHOOLS, GRIGGS UNIVERSITY ASIA, EXCHANGES D VISITS HAVE BEEN USED 12:38 TO SOW THE SEEDS AND 12:38 TO NURURRE T T HEARTS. 12:40 WITH OUR OWN EYES WE SEE THAT THESE SEEDS HAVE GROWN AND BORN FRUIT IN 13:01 CHINA. 13:03 AND PRAYING FOR CHINA, THAT IS WHERE IT IS ALL ABOUT. 13:06 BUT AUDREY, ABRAM LARUE HERE HE WAS AN OLDER MAN -TOLD HE WAS TOO OLD TO GO 13:12 BUT LOLO HOWOWHE LORD USED O O PERERN AND ONE PERSON'S CALL THAT HE FELT 13:16 FROM GOD. 13:18 THAT'S RIGHT SO HE FELT THE CALL TO GO TO CHINA SO HE CONTACTED THE GENERAL 13:21 CONFERENCE-WE ARE FINISHING THE STORY HERE- AND THE GENERAL CONFERENCE 13:24 SAID, "SORRY, YOU ARE TOTOOLD." 13:26 BUT HE SAID, "GOD'S CALLING IN MY HEART TRUMPS ALL." 13:30 HE PACKED A CHEST FULL OF BOOKS HEADED TOWARDS CHINA, HE WENT TO HAWAII 13:35 FIRST. 13:36 HE SOLD BOOKS- I THINK HE WAS THERE ABOUT THREE YEARS. 13:38 I DIDN'T KNOW THAT. 13:39 IN THE PROCESS OF BEING IN HAWAII AND SELLING THOSE BOOKS HE BEGAN TO HAVE 13:43 BIBLE STUDIES AND AFTER THREE YEARS, HE CALLED AND HE SAID "BRETHREN, I NEED 13:47 TO C CE OVOV. 13:48 I'M ON MY WAY TO CHINA AND SOME PEOPLE NEED TO BE BAPTIZED." 13:52 SO HE WENT ON TO CHINA AND THERE HE WORKED UNTIL HE DIED. 13:56 THE INTERESTING THING IS I LIVE IN HONG KONG RIGHT NOW WHICH IS THE PORTION 14:01 OF CHINA HE MOVED TO AND I LIVE IN LARUE BUILDING. 14:05 IT'S A BUILDING THERE NAMED AFTER HIM ON THE EIGHTH FLOOR APARTMENT B 14:09 D JUJU DOWOWTHE HILL IS THE CEMETERY AND IN THAT CEMETERY IS THE GRAVE 14:16 MARKER WHERE A AAM LARUE IS BURIED. 14:20 I AM JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO THE DAY WHEN JESUS COMES AND HE IS RAISED UP 14:27 AND HE SEES THE DIFFERERCE THAT HE HAS MADE. 14:29 RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ACTUALLY 400,000 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS ACROSS CHINA. 14:35 WE HAVE A GOAL THOUGH THAT BY 2020 TO HAVE ONE MILLION. 14:39 SO WE NEED YOUR PRAYERS AND GOSPEL OUTREACH WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT AND WE 14:44 APPRECIATE IT T MUCH. 14:45 WHAT A DAY IT WILL BE, AUDREY FOR ABRAM LARUE TO SEE NOT ONLY THE LORD GOD 14:51 AND JESUS AND ALL OF THE SECOND COMING AND ALL OF THAT BUT THEN TO SEE ALL 14:55 OF THESE PEOPLE AND IT'S TESTSTENT AND TESTIMONON FOFOUS T TT IFIFOD PUTS A 15:00 CALL ON OUR HEARTS. 15:01 THAT'S RIGHT. 15:02 AND I KNOW I HAVE STOOD AT THAT GRAVE, AT ABRAM LARUE'S GRAVE AND I WAS 15:05 ABLELEO STAND THERE WIWI A GROUP OF PEOPLE WITH DR. ROBERT WONG WHO O S IN 15:09 E VIVIO WHWHWENT TO THE LABOR CAMP AND TO STAND THERE AND TO KNOW THAT GOD 15:14 IS BLESSING THE WORK AND HAS BLEST T D IS BLESSING THE WOWO IN CHINA. 15:19 ISN'T THAT HUGE? 15:20 IT IS AMAZING AND IT IS REALLY TOUCHING BECAUSE WE, I FEEL, ARE OFTEN SO 15:25 COMFORTABLE IN OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD BUT WHEN WE ASK GOD TO U U US 15:32 WE CAN COUNT ON IT BECOMING MORE DIFFICULT AND IT'S JUST KIND OF-IN 15:38 THAT, THAT GOD WILL PUT YOU TO THE TEST. 15:40 HE WILL CONTINUE TO GROW YOU AND SO IT'S INTERESTING AND MOTIVATING 15:46 FOR ME TO LEARN ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE ABRAM LARUE, LIKE THE ROBERT WONG- THE 15:55 DIFFERENENPEOPLE THAT I WORK WITH H MY OFFICE WHO THTHGOSPSP.ED BECACAE OF 15:56 WELL, HELEN AND MILTON LEE BOTH BORN IN CHINA TO MISSIONARY PARENTS AND 16:00 SPOKE CHINESE FLUENTLY AND PAULINE AND DOYLE BARNETT WHO WENT OUT TO SHANANAI 16:09 IN 1940 AND YOU KNOW THE 16:09 STORIES THE CHRISTIANS AND GONE BEFORE.OPLE WHO HAVE 16:10 YOU HAVE SOME BOOKS TOO ON ABRAM LARUE. 16:12 WELL, I BROUGHT THESE HERE JUST TO SHOW YOU ALL. 16:17 SOMETIMES WE FORGET HOW GOD HAS LED IN THE PAST AND SO THESE ARE TWO BOOKS 16:21 AND THEY ARE ON ABRAM LARUE AND THEY ARE IN CHINESE AND WE'RE 16:25 DISTRIBUTING THEM ACROSS CHINA AND PEPELE A A BEING REVIVED AND REMINDED THAT 16:31 THERE IS A STORY THAT 16:31 NEEDS TO BE TOLD. 16:33 SO IT IS REALLY FUN. 16:35 THE ABRAM LARUE, THE FIRST MISSIONARY TO ASIA - FOR KIDS AND THIS ONE IS FOR 16:45 ADULTS AND WE ARE ENJOYING DISTRIBUTING THAT THAT IS FANTASTIC. NOW. 16:46 WELL, AND IF YOU ARE WONDERING HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED BY HELPING THE 16:52 CHRIRIIAN N RK IN CHINA, WE HAVE INFORMATION HERE TO SHARE WITH YOU SO YOU 16:59 CAN GET INVOLVED. 17:00 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 17:04 WHERE IS THE 10/40 WINDOW ANYWAY? 17:07 THOSE PEOPLE ARE TOO FAR AWAY. 17:10 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. 17:12 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV? 17:16 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACH, MY HEAD HURTS. 17:21 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO, I GIVE UP. 17:25 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 17:27 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 17:28 ACTUALLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND JESUS ASKED YOU TO GO TO ALL THE 17:35 WOWOD. 17:36 WHERE? 17:37 ALL THE WORLD. 17:38 HOW CAN I GO I HAVE COMMITMENTS? 17:40 YOU CAN PRAY. 17:42 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 17:47 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 17:51 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS. 17:54 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE AND MEANING BUT THEY WON'T 17:58 FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 17:59 BE THE SPARK. 18:01 LIGHT THE FIRE. 18:03 FINISH THE WORK. 18:05 FINISH THE WORK. 18:08 BE THE SPARK. 18:11 BE THE SPARK. 18:12 LIGHT THE FIRE. 18:13 THAT'S WHAT WE ARE WANTING TO DO HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH AUDREY AND 18:15 ENCOURAGE OUR VIEWERS TO GET INVOVOED AND SOMETIMES WE ARE SITITNG AT HOME 18:19 GOING WELL I'M NOT QUITE SURE HOW I C C GO O CHCHA BUT OH, YOU CAN AND 18:23 THROUGH GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS- - E PIONEER TEAMAMIN C CNA. 18:26 THAT'S RIGHT. 18:27 I WANT TO SHOW YOU A MAP RIGHT NOW AND THIS IS A MAP OF APPROXIMATELY WHERE 18:32 WE HAVAVOUR MISSIONARYRYEAMS. 18:35 WE HAVE RIGHT NOW 120-130 OR SO TEAMS AND FIFTY OF THEM ARE THROUGH GOSPEL 18:40 OUTREACH SPONSORSHIPS SO WE FEEL SOSOSO B BSSED. 18:43 AND IF YOU SAW ON THAT MAP, THERE ARE MORE OF THE PIONEER TEAMS ALONG THE 18:49 EASTERN N DE O OCHININ 18:51 WE NEED THEM ACROSS ALL OF CHINA. 18:54 SO ANYTHING THAT YOU ALL CAN DO TO HELP AND GOSPEL OUTREACH IS SUCH A 18:59 WONDERFUL THING TO WORK WITH H U ALL AND TO HAVE THE PRAYERS OF THIS 19:03 ORORNIZATION AND THE FINANAIAL L PPORT BECAUSE OUR BOOTS ON THE GROUND 19:07 NEED FOOD IN THEIR STOMACHS. 19:08 THIS IS TRUE. 19:09 THEY NEED BOOKS IN THEIR SATCHELS. 19:12 THEY NEED A PLACE TO STAY AND WHAT YOU DO HELPS WITH ALL OF THOSE COSTS. 19:16 WELL THANKS TO THE VIEWERS AND FOR GETTING INVOLVED AND HEARING STORIES FROM 19:20 PEPELE LIKE YOU. 19:21 WELL, I DO WANT TO TELL YOU ONE STORY AND THIS IS OF A TEAM, AN OUTREACH 19:25 TEAMAMHAT T NT 19:25 INTNTMONGOLIA. 19:27 MONGOLIA IS A VERY, VERY DIFFICULT PLACE AND THE PIONEER TEAM THAT I AM 19:32 FERRING TO, THE GOSPEL OUTREACH TEAM THAT WENT THERE; THEY WERE QUITE 19:37 SURPRISED AND THEY DID NOT KNOW W WRE T TBEGIGI 19:40 SO THEY JUST BEGAN VISITING THEIR NEIGHBORS AND THEIR TESTIMONY IS 19:45 THATATHE BEST THING TO DO I IJUST GO AROUND AND VISIT PEOPLE. 19:48 AND ONE HOME THEY WEWE TO THEYEYOUND A YOUNG CHIHI THAT WAS POSOSSSED BY A 19:54 DEMON AND THEY KEPT GOING CK, GOING BACK AND EVERYDAY THEY WOULD PRAY 20:00 WITH THE MOTHER AND THE MOTHER SAIAI "YEYE WEENEEDEP 20:05 WITH THIS." 20:07 SO THEY WOULD GO BACK EVERY DAY AND PRAY WITH THE MOTHER AND THEN THE 20:09 CHILD BEGAN TO LISTEN IN AND THEN THE CHILD JOINED IN PRAYER R D BOBO THE 20:15 MOTHTH AND THE CHILD GAVE THEIR LIVES S JESUS AND THE E FFERENCE THAT THAT 20:19 MADE WAS HUGE AND OUR PIONEER TEAMS SAY Y W REALLY WHAT MADE THE 20:26 DIFFERENCE WAS PRAYER. 20:27 SO NOT ONLY ARE WE PRAYING FOR OUR PIONEER TEAMS BUT THEY ARE PRAYING FOR THE 20:33 PEOPLE THAT THEY COME ININCONTNG 20:33 THOSE PEOPLE HOW TO PRAY. 20:37 SO MONGOLIA ISIS VERY, VERY CHALLENGING PLACE AND ANY OF THEM ACTUALLY. 20:44 ANOTHER STORY THAT HAPPENENEIN THE SAMAM AREA IS A COUPLE MOVED UP 20:48 THERE, A PIONEER TEAM, AND THEY WERE GETTING G ON WITH THEIR NEIGHBOBO AND 20:52 MEETING OTOTR PEOPLE BUT THEY COUOU NOTOTONNECT WITH THE PERSON RIGHT NEXT 20:57 DOOR. 20:58 O.K. 20:59 YOU KNOW HOW IT SAYS THAT THE RAINS CAME DOWN AND THE FLOODS CAME UP, YES, 21:01 WELLLLN THTH STOTO THEHERAININCE 21:01 WAWA BETETEN OUR PIONEERS, 21:08 OUR MISSIONARIES, AND THE NEIGHBORS CAME DOWN. 21:11 THERE IT SAT IN A HUBBLED PILE ON THE FLOOR. 21:15 LITERALLY. 21:16 YES, BECAUSE OF ALL THE RAIN AND IT WAS THERE- NOBODY WAS PAYING 21:20 ATTENTION TO IT. 21:21 SO THE GENTLEMAN, HE SAID, "YOU KNOW WHAT, I'M GOING TO GO OUT AND FIX THAT 21:24 WALL." 21:25 SO HE WENT THERE AND HE WAS BUILDING THE WALL, PUTTING IT BACK TOGETHER. 21:27 HE DIDN'T ASASTHE E IGHBOR FOFOHELPLPND O O DAYAYTHE NEIGHD 21:31 SAID, "YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE YOUOUOINGNG 21:33 I FEEL BADLY YOU'RE DOING THIS." 21:35 HE SAID, "NO, I WANT TO DO IT. 21:36 IT IS WHAT I CAN DO." 21:37 IT'S CALLED BEING THE HANDS OF JESUS BEFORE YOU. 21:39 YES, RIGHT THERE. 21:41 HE STARTED PUTTING THAT WALL UP AND THEY BEGAN TALKING ABOUT JESUS 21:43 WHEREAS BEFORE THE NEIGHBOR WAS TOTALLY CLOSED OFF TO ANYTHING 21:46 SPIRITUAL. 21:47 OUR PIONEER SAID, "YOU KNOW, I THINK I'M GOING TO INVITE HIM OVER FOR 21:55 DINNER," SO HE WENT TO HIS WIFE AND SAID PRPRARE SOMETHING SPECIAL. 21:59 THAT DAY HE INVITED THEM OVER FOR DINNENEAND D VING BUILT THAT WALL L GETHER 22:04 AND D E NENEHBOROREEING 22:04 CHCHSTIANITY IN ACTION THEN BEING INVITED TO SIT 22:08 AROUND THE TABLE THEY BEGAN TO TALK. 22:11 THEY TALKED ABOUT JESUS AND FOR THE FIRST TIME THE NEIGHBOR LISTENED. 22:15 HE WAS HUNGRY NOT ONLY FOR THE FOOD ON THE TABLE BUT FOR THE GOSPEL AND BECAUSE 22:21 OF THIS ACACOF K KDNESES 22:21 HEHEAVE HIS LIFE TO JESUS. 22:25 SO IT'S TO ME AN EXAMPLE OF HOW SHARING JESUS IS SIMPLE AND BASIC NO MATTER 22:31 WHERE WE ARE. 22:32 TRUE. 22:33 WHETHER YOU ARE IN CHINA; WHETHER YOU ARE IN INNER MONGOLIA; WHETHER YOU ARE 22:36 IN WASHINGTON STATATOR FLORIDIDI DODOT' CARE WHERE YOU ARARWHEN WE 22:40 PRAY, WHEN WE ARE DELIBERATE AND WE REACH OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE AND 22:45 THEN WE ASASTHEMEMF THEY WANT TO PRAY, IF THEY WANT TO G G TO KNOW JESUS IT 22:49 MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE. 22:51 SO THIS WAS A PIONEER TEAM, A GOSPEL OUTREACH TEAM THAT SAID, "IT'S NOT 22:55 JUST A AUT D DNG OSE E BLE E UDIEIE 22:58 IT'S ABOUT GETTING TO KNOW MY NEIGHBORS. 23:00 IT'S ABOUT HELPING AND THEN SEEING WHAT GOD WILL DO." 23:02 THE RAINS CAME DOWN D THE WALL IS WHAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER. 23:07 THAT'S RIGHT. 23:08 ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 23:09 OH, IT IS FANTASTIC BUT IT IS TAKING THE HOOK WHEN GOD GIVES YOU THE HOOK AND 23:13 MAKING SURE THAT YOU 23:13 KE T TT FIRST STEP. 23:16 AND GOSPEL OUTREACH IS HELPING PEOPLE TAKE THAT FIRST STEP WHEN PEOPLE 23:21 FEEL CALLED TO GO TO AN UNREACHED AREA OF CHINA. 23:24 YES. 23:26 IT IS WHAT GOSPEL OUTREACH IS ALLOWING TO HAPPEN BY THE SUPPORT THAT YOU GIVE. 23:30 WELL, AND THAT'S'SHERE THE VIEWERS COME IN AND WE NT TO THANK THE VIEWERS 23:33 FOR ALL OF THEIRIRDONANAONS S DT 23:33 ON SEVERALALHINGNG 23:36 YOU TALKED ABOUT PRAYER AND PRAYER IS A KEY COMPONENT OF WHAT YOU 23:39 FOLKLKARE TALKING ABOUT 23:39 WITH KINGDOM GROWTH IN CHINA AND PRAYER IS S 23:44 HUGE THAT WE CAN BE DOING THTH HERE - PRAYING FOR PEOPLE AND SO WHY DON'T WE 23:47 PAUSE E R A MOMENT AND HAVE A PRAYEYE 23:49 ALRIGHT. 23:50 I'LL PRAY. 23:52 DEAR LORD, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT WITH AUDREY, LORD 23:53 D I THANK YOU FOR ALL OF T T COUOURIES LORD IN THE WORLD. 23:57 I THANK YOU FOR THE SECTION OF THE WORLD THAT HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH 24:01 THAT WE ARE FOCUSING ON AND TODAY WE ARE LOOKING AT CHINA AS WE ARE TALKING 24:06 HERE WITH AUDREY. 24:08 LORD, THERE ARE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THAT ARE OUT RIGHT NOW AND YOU KNOW 24:11 E STRUGGLES THAT THEYYARE HAVINE 24:11 JOYS THAT THEY HAVE E D 24:15 YOYOKNOW THE PEOPLE,E,HEIRIRNEIY 24:15 SHARED ABOUT THIS WALL 24:19 WITH THIS GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER AND HIS NEIGHBOR AND LORD YOU BROUGHT THE 24:22 WALL DOWN AND YOU BROUGHGH IT UP LORD BUTUTHESESENEIGIGORSE 24:27 CONNECTED WITH YOU. 24:28 I PRAY FOR THE VIEWERS WHO ARE WATCHING RIGHT NOW. 24:31 I PRAY LORD THAT THEY WILL REALLY SERIOUSLY CONSIDER WHAT THEY CAN GIVE TO 24:35 GOSPEL OUTREACH ANANLORD TOGETHER AS WE PRAY ASASWE GIVEK 24:39 TOGETHER HELP P TO, LIKE AUDREY SAID, WE NEED TO BE THE HANDS ANANTHE FEET OF 24:44 YOU AND I PRAY IS IN YOUR NAME. 24:47 AMEN. 24:48 SO, YES PRAYERS WILL CONTINUE TO BE WITH YOU AND THE NEEDS- OBVIOUS THE 24:51 NEEDS THAT YOU DO HAVE ARE MORE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS, RIGHT? 24:55 THAT'S RIGHTHT 24:56 WE HAVE A GOAL BY THE END OF THIS YEAR OF HAVING 200 TEAMS. 25:00 RIGHT NOW WE HAVE 120- 130 OR SO TEAMS LIKE I MENTIONED. 25:04 AND YOU KNOW THEY ARE GOING INTO AREAS WHERE THERE ARE CHALLENGES. 25:08 JUST LIKE OUR EARLY MISSIONARIES - JUST LIKE THE PEOPLE WE SAW IN THE 25:10 DEO O VE C CLLENGES. 25:12 THERE WAS ONE TEAM THAT WENT INTO A CITY AND IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE OTHER 25:17 CHRIRIIANS AND NCHRISTIANS WERE SAYING, AH, THE ADVENTIST CHURCH, 25:21 THE TRUTH IT'S WONDERFUL AND THEY BEGAN TO MEET WIWI THIS OUTREACH TEAM 25:27 AND BEGAN TO WORSHIP ON SABBATH BUT IT WASN'T LONG AFTER THAT WHEN THERE WAS 25:32 PERSRSUTIOIOBASICALLY BY 25:32 OTHER CHRISTIAIACHURURES WELELAS THE GOVERNMENT. 25:36 THTH TEAEAHAD D -THTH WEWE FORORD TO LEAVE BY THE OFFICIALS. 25:40 THEY SAID, "YOU HAVE TO LEAVE THE CITY." 25:44 SO THEY MOVED BACK TO A TOWN BETWEEN THEIR HOME TOWN AND THIS CITY AND 25:49 THEY B BAN TO GO BACK AND FORTH WORKING FROMOMHE OUTSIDE. 25:54 GOD-THAT'S ANOTHER GREAT STORY, YES, HOW GOD USED THIS COUPLE THAT WAS 25:58 BASISILLY PERSECUTED BUT IT DIDN'T GET IN THE WAY OF THEM REACHING P PPLE IN 26:03 IS UNREACHED TOWN. 26:05 THEY WERE ENCOURAGED. 26:06 THE LORD ENCOURAGED THEM AND THEY CONTINUE TO HAVE THAT CALL-JUST LIKE WE 26:09 LKEDEDBOUT IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD.THEY HAD NO CHOICE. 26:11 GOD HAD CALLED THEM, HAD NOT RELEASED THEM OF THE CALL EVEN THOUGH THE 26:13 GOVERNMENT HAD SAID YOU'VE GOT TO MOVE ON. 26:15 ISN'T THAT SOMETHING? 26:16 WELL PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU AND THANK YOU FOR SHARING. 26:20 THANK YOU FOR BEING INVOLVED WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH. 26:22 PLEASE WHEHEYOU U MEET WITH THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS, THE PIONEER TEAMS 26:25 PLEASE DO SHARE WITH THEMMTHAT R 26:25 THEM AND THAT THEY ARE 26:29 ING G MEMBMBED. 26:30 I WILL DEFINITELY, I KNOW IT MEANS SO MUCH TO THEM TO KNOW THAT THEY HAVE A 26:33 WORLD CHURCH THAT IS SUPPORTING IN WHAT THEY DO. 26:36 ABSOLUTELY. 26:38 WELL AUDREY FOLKENBERG THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND THANK YOU FOR WATCHING 26:40 DVENTURES IN MISISONS"S"ON G GP. 26:45 BEFORE, YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THE PEPELE NOW AND AS MORE PEOPLE HEAR ABOUT THE LORD 26:49 JEJES CHCHST T TT IS THE GOAL AND WE ASK YOU TO BE INVOLVLVED 26:53 FOR "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" AND GOSPEL OUTREACH, I'M JUJUE 26:55 SANDNDS-KEYMER AND MAY THE E RD BLESS YOU TODAY. 27:53 [CLOSING MUSIC]. |
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