Adventures in Missions

Paul

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Participants: Del & Bonnie Orser

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Program Code: AIM000530


00:00 [OPENING MUSIC].
00:14 WELCOME AGAIN GOOD FRIENDS TO GOSPEL OUTREACH AND "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS."
00:22 I AM SO HONORED TO HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF BRINGING STORIES TO YOU AND
00:28 INTRODUCING MY FRIENDS TO YOU WHO ARE SOME OF OUR FRONT LINE CONNECTION WITH
00:36 THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS OUT THERE IN THE FIELD.
00:40 WELCOME DEL AND BONNIE.
00:42 GLAD TO SEE YOU AGAIN.
00:45 THANK YOU.
00:46 THESE PEOPLE ARE LONG TIME, I DIDN'T SAY OLD, LONG TIME MISSIONARIES WHO
00:53 HAVE BEEN TO LOTS OF PLACES, SEEN MANY THINGS.
00:57 AND I THINK IT'S TRUE WITH YOU DEL, LIKE I'VE DISCOVERED WITH SO MANY
01:00 OTHERS, YOU HAVE BEEN BITTEN BY THE MISSIONARY BUG.
01:06 RIGHT.
01:07 IT'S A DISEASE THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO GET RID OF.
01:10 I WOULDN'T CALL IT A DISEASE, I'D CALL IT A PRIVILEGE, AN HONOR.
01:14 OKAY.
01:15 THE GREATEST JOY IN LIFE.
01:16 I AM SO BLESSED TO GET TO BE HERE WITH YOU FOLKS AGAIN.
01:21 ON OTHER OCCASIONS I'VE HEARD STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE, PLACES AND EVENTS.
01:29 VERY QUICKLY I WANT TO ADVISE ALL OF YOU WHO ARE A PART OF OUR GOSPEL
01:35 OUTREACH FAMILY THAT DEL AND BONNIE HAVE DISCOVERED NEW NEEDSDSNEW
01:43 OPPORTUNITIES AS THEY HAVE BEEN VISITING FOR THE LAST YEAR OR TWO.
01:48 WE'RE HERE IN THE SPRING OF 2014 AND YOU'VE BEEN WITH US ABOUT A YEAR PLUS.
01:55 ACTUALLY LESS THAN THAHA
01:57 LESS THAN A YEAR.
01:58 YES, LESS THAN A YEAR.
01:59 WELL ALREADY IN THEIR MINISTRY, NOT JUST HERE WITH GOSPEL OUTREACHCHUT
02:04 IN THEIR MINISTRTROF 14 YEARS GOING TO INDIA I GUESS IT IS A NEED FOR
02:10 LITERATURE.
02:11 SO THEY HAVE UNDERTAKEN IT THEMSELVES.
02:13 AND REALLY DEL, I'D LIKE TO HAVE YOU GIVE THE FOLKS JUST A BRIEF WORD ABOUT
02:20 THE LITERATURE YOU HAVE BEEN IMPRESSEDEDO PROVIDE BECAUSE YOU FOLKS WHO ARE
02:26 VIEWING WITH US TODAY ARE GOING TO HELP UNDERWRITE SOME O OTHE COSTS OF
02:32 DUPLICATING, PRINTING THIS LITERATURE SO IT CAN GO TO MANY, MANY PEOPLE IN THESE
02:37 LALAUAGE GROUPUP
02:38 GREAT.
02:40 WHAT IS THIS?
02:41 "GOD'S AMAZING GRACE."
02:43 UNDERSTANDING RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH JUSTIFICATION AND
02:47 SANCTIFICATION.
02:48 THE TWO PARTS.
02:50 WE HAVE PUT THIS TOGETHER IN TELUGU AND USING THAT IN SOME OF OUR TEACHING
02:58 FOR OUR BIBLE WOWOERS THROUGHOUT INDIA AND ANDHRA PRADESH
03:02 SPECIFICALLY.
03:04 I THINK YOU ARE DIVINELY INSPIRED WITH THIS BECAUSE YOU DISCOVERED THAT THERE
03:14 WAS NO OPPORTUNITY FOR THOSE BIBLE WORKERS TO TEACH THIS FUNDAMENTAL
03:20 BIBLE TRUTH BECAUSE THEY HAD NO RESOURCES.
03:23 THAT'S RIGHT.
03:24 SO THE LORD HAS LED YOU TO DO THIS AND WE COMMEND YOU AND THANK YOU FOR DOING
03:30 THISIS
03:31 YOU HAVE A WHOLE CURRICULUM ALSO OF COLORFUL LITERATURE THAT
03:36 I'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF SHOWING BEFORE.
03:38 I'M JUST GOING TO PULL OUT ONE OF THEHE HERE BECAUSE IS A WONDNDFUL MESSAGE
03:47 IN A PICTURE THAT YOU HAVE PRODUCED HERE.
03:51 AND YOU HAVE TRACTS.
03:54 HOW DID THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS, THTH PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT YOU
03:58 GO TO WORK WITH-JUST TRY TO EXPLAIN TO ME BONNIE W DOES THE WORKER
04:05 RESPOND WHEN THEY DISCOVER THEY'VE GOT SOMETHING THEY CAN USE LIKE THIS?
04:08 THEY ARE V VY EXCITED.
04:10 THEY TAKE AND THEN THEY WANT MORE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO SHARE IT WITH
04:14 THEIR CHURUR FAMILY AND GIVE THEM SOMETHING IN THEIR HANDS TO SHARE WITH
04:17 THEIR NEIGHBORS.
04:19 IS T TT AN ENVIRONMENT THERE IN INDIA WHERE YOU FOLKS ARE NOW MINISTERING
04:25 WHERE PEOPLE DON'T RESIST METHING LIKE THIS?
04:30 WHEN THIS IS OFFERED THEY WANT IT?
04:33 YES.
04:35 WHICH IS NOT WHAT WE'RE ACCUSTOMED TO EXPERIENCING HERE.
04:38 PEOPLE LOOK DOWN THEIR
04:38 NOSES AND D SIST THE PORTUNITY OF HAVING
04:44 LITERATURE.
04:45 ANOTHER THING THAT WE'VE PROVIDED, I HAVEN'T MENTIONED TILL NOW, IS
04:48 THAT WE PROVIDE ILLUSTRATIONS OR PICTURES OF JESUS WITH THE
04:52 CHILDREN.
04:53 WE HAVE FOUR DIFFERENT ONES THAT WE GIVE OUT AND THE CHILDREN LOVE THESE
04:56 AND GIVE THEM TO ALL THE CHILDREN.
04:58 THIS HARKS BACK TO OLD PICTURE ROLL DAYS WITH THE PICTURES WITH WHICH
05:06 STORIES ARE TOLD.
05:07 TODAY IN THIS PROGRAM WE WANT YOU TO TELL US STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE AND
05:17 EXPERIENCES YOU'VE HAD.
05:19 BUT JUST BEFORE WE GET THERE BECAUSE IT'S IN MY MIND RIGHT NOW AND I DON'T
05:23 WANT TO FORGET THIS, TELL US ABOUT YOUR TERRITORY.
05:28 WHERE IS IT YOU ARE REPRESENTING GOSPEL OUTREACH?
05:32 WE APOLOGIZE F F NOT HAVING A MAP BUT MOST OF US ARE FAMILIAR WITH SOUTH
05:36 INDIA.
05:38 SOUTHEAST INDIA IS ANDHRA PRADESH, THERE'S TAMIL NADU, ANDHRA PRADESH AND
05:40 THEN ORISSA UP ABOVE AND THEY ARE ON THE EAST COAST OF SOUTH INDIA.
05:42 WEWEAVE BEEN G GNG TO ANDHRA PRADESH FOR THE LAST 14 YEARS.
05:45 BUT NOW WE HAVE ADDED AS WE ARE GOSPEL OUTREACH DIRECTORS FOR REGION 11.
05:47 IT COVERS NORTH ORISSA AS WELL.
05:49 WE JUST GOT BACK A MONTH AND A HALF AGO FROM TOURING OUR ANDHRA PRADESH
05:50 SECTCTN AREA AND THEN GOING UP TO NORTH ORISSA WHICH IS NEW TERRITORY FOR
05:54 US, IT'S A DIFFERENT DIALECT.
06:03 FOR OBSERVERS LIKE ME, READING A LITTLE AND UNDERSTANDING A BIT, THE
06:25 ENVIRONMENT IN THAT PART OF INDIA IS NOT AS WELCOMING AS IT PERHAPS
06:34 ONCE WAS.
06:36 WHAT DOES THAT SAY TO US BONNIE ABOUT THE CHALLENGE OF TAKING ADVANTAGE OF
06:43 OPPORTUNITIES NOW?
06:51 THEY DON'T WELCOCOROBABLY FOREIGNERS TO COME IN ANDY DO EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS.
06:56 WE CAN GO IN A A DO HEALTH LECTURING G D CHILDREN'S MINISTRY AND W WEN'S
07:02 MINISTRY, BUT WE ARE NOT ABLE TO GOGON AND HAVE EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS.
07:06 WE USED TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
07:09 SO THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS LIKE THIS DOOR IS SLOWLY CLOSING FOR
07:14 THE GOSPEL.
07:16 DEL, YOU WERE GOING TO SAY?
07:17 IT WAS IN THE YEAR 2008, JUST FIVE YEARS AGO, THAT THERE WAS GREAT
07:21 PERSECUTION IN ORISSA.
07:23 MANY HAD TO FLEE THEIR HOMES AND THEIR HOMES WERE BURNED, THE CHURCHES WERE
07:26 BURNED.
07:27 IF ANYONE WILL GO ONLINE AND JUST DO "ORISSA PERSECUTION" THEY WILL BE
07:35 AMAZED TO SEE THESE VIDEOS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE AND THERE.Y OF WHAHATOOK PLACE
07:36 I THINK YOU EXPLAINED TO ME ALSO THAT BACK THEN OR BEFORE THEN IT WAS
07:42 POSSIBLE FOR US OUTSIDERER US WESTETEERS TO GO O ERE AND HAND OUT LITERATURE.
07:48 BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WANAND IT WE COULD DO THAT BUT NOW AUTHORITIES PREVENT
07:54 YOU FROM DOING T TT.
07:56 THEREFORE, THE DIVIVE GENIUS OF GOSPEL OUTREACH OFOFHE LOCAL PEOPLE, THESE
08:02 ININGENOUS FOLOL DODOG THIS.
08:04 THEY NEED THIS MATERIAL IN THEIR HANDS TO DO IT.
08:08 SO PART OF WHAT WE DO IS NOT JUST TO GO THERE AS YOU FOLKS DO, AND THAT'S
08:12 ENCOURAGING TO THEM, BUT WE'VE GOT TO PROVIDE RESOURCES FOR THEM.
08:16 THAT'S RIGHT.
08:17 YOU'VE GOT STORIES TO TELL.
08:19 WE DO.
08:20 WE ALWAYS HAVE STORIES AND EXPERIENCES THAT ARE SO EXCITING.
08:23 AND WE LIKE THE PICTURES YOU BRING TOO.
08:26 I'M HAPPY TO SHARE THE FIRST STORY, IF IT'S OKAY.
08:30 IT'S A SWEET LITTLE STORY ABOUT A YOUNG MAN WHO WAS DEAF AND LAME.
08:35 WE WERE HOLDING A BAPTISM.
08:38 WE WANT TO SEE HIS PICTURE.
08:40 IT'S COMING UP.
08:41 FIRST OF ALL I WANT TO TELL YOU WE WERE HAVING A BAPTISM IN ONE OF THE
08:47 VILLAGES A FEW YEARS BACK AND ALL OF A SUDDEN WE WERE I IERERPTED BY THIS
08:53 YOUNG MAN WHO COULD NOT WALK.
08:55 I SAW THE COMMOTION.
09:01 ALL OF A SUDDEN HE CAME UP THIS, I DON'TTKNOW WHO T TS IS. WATER AND I SAID, WHO IS
09:03 SOMEBODY TOLD ME THAT HE WANTED TO BE BAPTIZED.
09:06 I WAS NOT AWARE THAT THIS YOUNG MAN HAD ATTENDED OUR MEETINGS.
09:13 THE VILLAGERS WOULD NOT ALLOW HIM TO GO TO THE MEETINGS IN THE EVENING
09:17 BECAUSE THEYEYAID THERE'S NO NEED FOR YOU TO GO.
09:19 YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND, YOU CAN'T HEAR.
09:21 SO HE DECIDED HE WAS GOING TO GO ON THIS HUNGER STRIKE AND NOT EAT UNTIL
09:27 THEY WOULD LET HIM GO.
09:29 WELL, AFTER THE THIRD DAY THEY TOOK HIM.
09:31 HE SAT IN A LORRY AND WATCHED WHAT WAS GOING ON, THE PICTURES, AND REALIZED
09:37 THAT HE E EDED JESUSUSNTO HIS S ART T D HIS LIFEFE
09:42 THERE IS A PICTURE OF HIM.
09:43 SO HE ACCEPTED THE LORDRDND WAS BAPTIZED.
09:47 NOW I SEE YOU'RE TOWERING OVER HIM.
09:49 HOW OLD IS HE?
09:50 YOU KNOW HE AT THE TIME WAS PROBABLY ABOUT 18 WOULD YOU SAY SWEETIE?
09:58 YES.
09:59 WE WERE ABLE TO REPAIR A BICYCLE HE HAD.
10:03 EVERY YEAR WE GO BACK WE VISIT HIS CHURCH AND SEE HOW HE IS PROGRESSING.
10:07 IT'S JUST BEEN WONDERFUL TO SEE HIS SPIRIRI
10:10 WE REPAIRED THIS BICYCLE FOR HIM.
10:14 HE LOVES THE LORD AND IT'S BEEN SO NEAT TO SEE HOW HE HAS BEEN SUCH A STRONG
10:19 INFLUENCE IN HIS V VLAGE FOR R E LORD IN HIS WITNESS AND HIS TESTIMONY.
10:23 DOES HE COCOUNICATE IN SIGN LANGUAGE THEN?
10:28 YOU KNOW, SIGN LANGUAGE IN INDIA IS DIFFERENT.
10:31 I KNOW HE HAS HIS WAY OF COMMUNICATING SOME WORDS BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S AS
10:36 MUCH AS WHAT W WWOULD SEE HERE IN THE STATES.
10:41 HE JUST UNDERSTANDS HUGS FOR SURE AND LOVE, THOSE KINDS OF THINGS.
10:45 HE IS OBVIOUSLY ACCEPTED AND RESPECTED BY THE OTHER VILLAGERS SO IT IS THAT
10:55 SIMPLE APPROACH THAT THE LORD USES TO TIE HIM TO OTHER PEOPLE.
11:02 HIS MOTHER IS ALSO A FAITHFUL MEMBER OF THAT CHURCH.
11:07 THAT CHURCH WAS BUILT IN HONOR OF MY MOTHER MILDRED C CSP.
11:13 REALLY.
11:14 WHAT A JOY IT'S GOING TO BE ON THE RESURRECTION FOR YOUR DEAR MOM TO SEE THIS
11:23 FAMILY THAT SHE DIDN'T EVEN GET TO KNOW THAT'S A PART OF HER ETERNAL
11:27 FAMILY.
11:28 THAT'S RIGHT.
11:29 MORE PICTURES?
11:31 YES, WE HAVE A STORY AND I'M GOING TO LET MY WIFE TELL THAT STORY IF SHE
11:36 WOULD.
11:37 THIS YOUNG MAN CAME INTO OUR LIVES 14 YEARS AGO.
11:43 HE WAS A STUDENT AT A SMALL SCHOOL THERE IN KADAPA.
11:49 ASIAN AID DOES A WONDERFUL WORK IN INDIA.
11:52 WE L LE WHAT THEY DO AND HE WAS TAKEN FROM HIS POOR VILLAGE.
11:56 SOMEONE TOOK AN INTEREST IN HIM AND EDUCATED HIM.
12:01 WE HAVE ADOPTED HIM NOW AS OUR SON.
12:05 OH REALLY.
12:06 YES, IT IS TRUE.
12:08 WE JUST LOVE PAUL AND HERE WE ARE WITH OUR SON PAUL.
12:16 HE IS NOW 26 YEARS OLD.
12:21 PAUL HAS A DESIRE IN HIS HEART TO SERVE JESUS AND HE WANTS TO BE A MEDICAL
12:27 MISSIONARY.
12:28 HE HAS NOW GONE TO SCHOOL, GOTTEN SPECIAL TRAINING IN THAT AREA.
12:33 PAUL'S FATHER DIED ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO WHEN WE WERE THERE.
12:38 BEFORE HIS FATHER DIED AND A FEW YEARS AGO THERE WAS A FIRE.
12:42 YOU SEE THE SMALL LITTLELEOT HERE THAT UL IS STANDING O O
12:47 THE GOVERNMENT GAVE THEM THAT LITTLE PIECE OF LAND.
12:51 WHAT IS THAT, 20 FEET WIDE OR SO?
12:53 THEY CALL IT ONE CENT, WHATEVER THAT MEANS, AND IT'S NOT MUCH.
12:57 THEY HAVE TO BUILD IN ONE YEAR ON THIS PROPERTY OR THE GOVERNMENT COMES AND
13:04 TAKES IT AWAY.
13:06 SO PAUL, AFTER HIS FATHER DIED-AND HERE WILL BE SOME PICTURES OF THE WAY THEY
13:11 DO IN THE VILLAGE.
13:12 THEY JUST LAY THE DEAD BODY RIGHT ON A COT RIGHT IN THE VILLAGE THEN PEOPLE
13:16 COME AND PUT GARLANDS ON THEM.
13:19 WHEN WE ARRIVED AT THAT VILLAGE THEY WERE WEEPING AND WAILING.
13:23 IT REMINDED ME OF MAYBE THE WAY IT WAS WHEN JESUS WALKED THE STREETS.
13:27 WE GOT THERE AND PAUL IS AN ONLY CHILD.
13:32 HERE IS AT THE SERVICE.
13:34 IT WAS AN INTERESTING FUNERAL SERVICE REALLY.
13:39 THERE THEY ARE GATHERED AROUND.
13:41 PAUL, OF COURSE BEING AN ONLY CHILD, HAD THE RESPONSIBILITY NOW OF HIS
13:47 MOTHTH AND HIS TWO GRGRDMOTHERS.
13:49 HOW DID HIS MOTHER BECOME-IS THIS THIS MOTHER?
13:51 YES.
13:53 HOW DID HIS MOTHER BECOME A PART OF THE FAITH?
13:58 PAUL HAD STUDIED WITH HER.
13:59 AND IN HIS VILLAGE THERE ARE MANY MORE ADVENTIST BELIEVERS.
14:01 HE HAS BEEN REACHING OUT.
14:02 IT'S BEEN VERY EXCITING.
14:03 BUT THE REALLY EXCITING PART WAS THAT PAUL COULD NOT WHAT WITH GOING TO
14:19 SCHOOL, NO FINANCIAL AID HELP, JUST CARING FOR HIS MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER, HE
14:25 WAS NOT ABLELEO DEVELOP THIS PROPERTY SO AN OFFICIAL CAME AND SAID,
14:30 I'M TAKING BACK YOUR DOCUMENTS SO YOU DO NOT OWN THAT PROPERTY ANY
14:35 MORE.
14:37 THEY FELT SO BAD BECAUSE IT WAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO POSSIBLY HAVE
14:40 SOMETHING OF THEIR OWN.
14:41 BECAUSE AFTER THE FIRE THEY MOVED INTO A VERY POOR LITTLE HOUSE.
14:47 SO PAUL WAS OUT DOING HIS MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORK.
14:51 NOW THAT MEANS NATURAL MEANS AND CARING FOR PEOPLE, DOING MASSAGE, HOT
14:57 AND COLD FOMENTATIONS, TEACHING THEM TO PURIFY THEIR WATER.
15:01 ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT MAKE THEM HEALTHY.
15:04 THERE WAS AN ACCIDENT.
15:05 HE WAS ON A BUS TRAVELING.
15:10 THERE WAS THIS REALLY BAD ACCIDENT.
15:12 HE LOOKED OUT THE WINDOW AND HE COULD SEE THAT ONE OF THE MEN WAS KILLED BUT
15:18 THERE WAS ANOTHER MAN OVER THERE WHO WAS STILL ALIVE AND MOVING.
15:23 SO PAUL PICKED UP HIS MEDICAL BAG.
15:25 THE PEOPLE ON THE BUS DIDN'T WANT HIM TO GET OFF THE BUS.
15:27 THEY ARE PARANOID ABOUT GOING NEAR THINGS LIKE THIS.
15:33 SO PAUL SAID, NO I'M GOING TO GO HELP THIS MAN.
15:35 SO HE GETS OFF THE BUS, HE GOES OVER AND HE SEES THAT HE IS BLEEDING AND HE
15:39 NEEDS TO HAVE AN AMBULANCE SO PAUL, ON HIS CELL PHONE, CALLS TO GET AN
15:43 AMBULANCE THERE.
15:45 HE COVERS HIM SO HE DOESN'T GO INTO SHOCK AND HE TRAVELS WITH HIM IN THE
15:48 AMBULANCE TO THE HOSPITAL.
15:51 ON THE WAY HE REALIZES THAT THIS MAN WHO IS HURT SO BADLY WAS THE OFFICIAL
15:57 WHO O ME AND TOOK HIS DOCUMENTS.
16:01 FOR THE LOT?
16:02 FOR THE LOT.
16:03 IS THAT AMAZING?
16:04 REALLY.
16:05 THAT'S RIGHT.
16:06 SO A FEW WEEKS LATER PAUL ARRIVED BACK TO HIS HOME AND IT'S 11 O'CLOCK AT
16:11 NIGHT.
16:13 HIS MOTHER IS IN A FRENZY BECAUSE SHE SAYS PAUL, THESE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN
16:16 WAITING HERE FIVE HOURS FOR YOU AND HERE IT WAS THIS MAN, HIS WIFE AND
16:22 DADAHTER WHO H H COME BACK TO THANK HIM, TO THANK HIM FOR SAVING HIS LIFE
16:28 BASICALLY BECAUSE HE WOULD HAVE JUJU LAID THERE ON THE ROAD I GUESS.
16:31 AND BLED TO DEATH.
16:32 THAT'S RIGHT.
16:33 PAUL WAS SO GRATEFUL AND THEY GAVE BACK THE DOCUMENTS.
16:38 THAT'S A MIRACLE.
16:40 PAUL STUDIED WITH THIS MAN AND HE BECAME A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
16:43 CHRISTIAN JUST FROM THIS LOVE.
16:45 BUT DAN, THAT'SSONLY HALF F E S.
16:48 ALRIGHGH YOUOUOME BACK WITH THE OTHER HALF OF THE STORY RIGHT AFTER THIS
16:53 MESSAGE ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH.
16:56 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME.
17:02 WHERE IS THE 10/40 WINDOW ANYWAY?
17:06 THOSE PEOPLE LIVE TOO FAR AWAY.
17:08 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS.
17:11 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV.
17:14 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACH.
17:17 MY HEAD HURTS.
17:18 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO.
17:20 I GIVE UP.
17:22 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING?
17:24 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
17:27 ACTUALLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
17:30 AND JESUS ASKED YOU TO GO TO ALL THE WORLD.
17:34 WHERE?
17:35 ALL THE WORLD.
17:37 HOW CAN I GO, I HAVE COMMITMENTS.
17:39 YOU CAN PRAY.
17:41 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS.
17:46 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS.
17:50 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS.
17:53 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE AND MEANING.
17:56 BUT THEY WON'T FIND IT WITHOUT YOU.
17:58 BE THE SPARK.
17:59 LIGHT THE FIRE.
18:01 FINISH THE WORK.
18:05 FINISH THE WORK.
18:08 BE THE SPARK.
18:11 I'M STILL REMEMBERING YOUR STORY BONNIE.
18:14 SOMETHING YOU FOLKS SAID A LITTLE BIT AGO REALLY SPOKE TO ME TOO.
18:20 YOU TALKED ABOUT THIS YOUNG MAN BEING YOUR SON.
18:25 YOU HAVE TAKEN HIM INTO YOUR LIVES AND HE'S A PART OF YOUR LIFE.
18:29 THAT'S THE WAY BETSY AND I ARE ALSO IN NORTH AMERICA HERE OF ALL PLACES.
18:35 WE HAVE A BRAZILIAN SON, A GRANDSON.
18:38 WE HAVE A PERUVIAN SON, GRANDSON.
18:40 AND WE HAVE SYRIAN GRANDDAUGHTERS AND GRANDSONS AND GREAT
18:46 GRANDCHILDREN.
18:48 I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT BECACAE WE GET CLOSE TO THESE PEOPLE
18:59 AND WE SEE THEM COME TO JESUS.
19:00 I'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF BAPTIZING THREE OF THESE.
19:04 PRAISE GOD.
19:05 I HAD A RECENT BIRTHDAY AT OUR VISIT HERE AT THIS TIME AND I GOT TEXT
19:14 MESSAGES-FATHER DAN, THE SYRIANS THE WAY THEY ADDRESS ME.
19:20 AND IT'S WONDERFUL.
19:21 I INTERRUPTED YOU WITH THE STORY YOU WERE TELLING BONNIE.
19:26 PICK UP FOR US.
19:27 WELL PAUL'S LAND WAS IN JEOPARDY BECAUSE HE WAS NOT ABLE TO CONTINUE
19:34 BUILDING O OPUT ANYTHING REALLY ON THIS LITTLE PIECE OF LANDND
19:38 IT WAS R RLLY AN O OORTUNITY FOR HIM TO HAVE A HOME.
19:41 TWO YEARS AGO WHEN WE WERE IN ANOTHER AREA VIVITINGNGBIBLED
19:49 JOINED US.
19:50 HE IS A WONDERFUL BLESSING BECAUSE HE'S A GREAT TRANSLATOR.
19:53 OH I CAN UNDERSTAND.
19:54 THAT'S JUST SUCH A BLESSING.
19:57 AND HE CARES FOR US.
19:58 ANYWAY, HE WAS A LITTLE SILENT FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS.
20:02 ONE MORNING HE CAME IN AND HE WAS BUBBLY HIS PAUL SELF.
20:06 I SAID WHAT'S GOING ON.
20:07 HE SAID I'M HAVING WORSHIP THIS MORNING.
20:09 I SAID REALLY AND HE SAID YES, I JUST HAVE TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT I WAS DOING
20:15 WHAT DAD HAS TOLD ME TO DO-USE GOD'S WORD AND PRAY WITH GOD'S WORD.
20:20 SO HE HAD USED THAT SCRIPTURE, LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED, YOU
20:24 BELIEVE IN GOD, ABOUT THE MANSION.
20:27 IT WAS SO EXCITING BECAUSE HIS MOTHER HAD CALLED TWO DAYS BEFORE AND SAID
20:34 ANOTHER OFFICIAL HAS ME, WE HAVE NOT MADE THE PROGRESS THAT WE NEED TO
20:38 ON THE LOT.
20:40 I HAD TO BRIBE HIM TO GIVE US A LITTLE MORE TIME AND I BORROWED FOUR THOUSAND
20:45 RUPEES FROM A NEIGHBOR.
20:46 THE MAN HAD REPLACED THE EARLIER MAN.
20:50 HE HAD BEEN SENT ON TO ANOTHER REGION SO A NEW MAN TOOK HIS PLACE IS WHAT
20:53 HAPPENED.
20:54 SO SHE WAS CRYING ON THE PHONE AND PAUL SAID I'LL JUST PRAY MOM, WE'LL JUST
20:59 KEEP PRAYING.
21:01 HE HAD GOTTEN A CALL BACK FROM HIS MOTHER AND SHE SAID TO PAUL YOUOUE BEEN
21:06 PRAYININPAULULECAUAU I HAVE T TS WONDERFUL EXCITING THING THAT'S
21:09 HAPPENED.
21:10 THE MAN HAS COME BACK AND BROUGHT BACK THE FOUR THOUSAND RUPEES AND GAVE
21:15 ME 500 FOR MY TROUBLE.
21:18 PAUL SAID HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?
21:21 PAUL'S MOTHER HAD DONE DAY LABOR FOR A RICH INDIAN MAN.
21:26 THIS INDIAIAMAN HAD LOST THE USE OF HIS LEGS AND PAUL'S MOTHER HAD SAID TO
21:33 PAUL, YOU NENEED TO GO VISITITHE MAN WHOHOS GIVING ME DADALABOR AND
21:37 MAYBE YOU COULD HELP HIM WITH Y YR MEDICAL WORK.
21:45 SO PAUL WENT TO SEE HIM HIM HOT AND COLD TIME, FOMENTATIONS ON HIS LEGS.
21:49 PAUL TOLD ME THAT THE FIRST TIME HE TOUCHED THAT MAN HE STARTED TO WEEP.
21:55 YOU ARE REALLY GOING TO TOUCH ME.
21:57 HE SAID HIS FAMILY HAD PUT HIM IN A LOWER PART OF THE HOUSE.
22:03 PAUL COULDN'T GO THROUGH THE HOUSE TO SEE HIM.
22:05 HE HAD TO GO AROUND THE HOUSE, GO DOWN BELOW AND MINISTER AND DO
22:11 FOMENTATIONS AND MASSAGE.
22:13 WOULD YOU BELIEVE THAT THE MAN GOT TO WALKING.
22:17 WE METETHE MAN WHEN WE WERE T TRE THIS LALA TIME.
22:20 WE'D HAVE TO BELIEVE.
22:21 ISN'T THAT AMAZING.
22:23 GOD'S ARM IS NOT SHORT THAT HE WON'T HEAL AND SAVE IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
22:29 I HAVE TO TELL YOU, THE OFFICIAL WHO CAME AND TOOKOKTHEW
22:35 TO THE RICH MAN WHO PAUL WORK ON HIS LEGS.
22:39 SO THE NEPHEW IS GOING BY TO SEE HIS UNCLE BECAUSE HE'S IN THE AREA.
22:44 HE IS SO EXCITED ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING TO HIS LEGS AND HE CAN WALK NOW.
22:48 HE SEES THESE DOCUMENTS LYING THERE AND HE SAYS WHO HAVE YOU BEEN SEEING?
22:53 HE SEES PAUL'S NAME.
22:54 HE SAYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THEM?
22:58 HE'S THE YOUNG MAN WHO IS THE REASON WHY I'M WALKING.
23:01 HE SAID, WELL DIDN'T KNOW.
23:02 AND HE SAID, WHAT DID YOU DO TO THEM?
23:06 HE SAID WELL THEY PAID ME A BRIBE OF FOUR THOUSAND RUPEES.
23:09 HE SAID, YOU TAKE THAT BACK TO THEM RIGHT NOW.
23:12 I'LLLLAY THAT BRBRE IFIFYOU HAV.
23:16 HAVE YOU MET THESE PEOPLE?
23:17 YES, WE MET HIM THE LAST TIME WE WERE THERE.
23:20 IT'S SO PROVIDENTIAL.
23:21 WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S TRUTH.
23:24 WE DIDN'T TELL A LOT OF PEOPLE UNTIL WE BACK THIS LAST TIME.
23:27 WE TOLD PAUL WE'VE GOT TO MEET WITH THESE MEN.
23:30 SO WE HAHA MET WITH THEM.
23:31 IT'S AMAZING.
23:32 WE HAVE MET THESE MEN.
23:34 LET'S SEE IF WE CAN HAVE THE CONTROLLER GET PAUL'S PICTURE UP ONE MORE TIME
23:37 BEFORE WE END THIS.
23:39 WE HAVE A COUPLE MORE PICTURES HERE.
23:41 JUST A SECOND.
23:41 YOU'VE GOT TO PUT YOUR RED-THERE YOU GO.
23:44 OKAY WE NEED TO MOVE THROUGH IT A LITTLE MORE.
23:46 WE WANT TO SHOW YOU-DEL AND I HAD BEEN IMPRESSED THAT WE HELPED BUILD A
23:52 HOME FOR HIM-OH BLESS YOUR HEARTS-ON THAT LAND AND YOU'LL SEE IT HERE IN
23:55 THESE PICTURES.
23:57 ANOTHER FUN PART FOR US IS THAT WE ARRANGED-OH THERE WE GO.
24:01 THIS IS THE HOME.
24:03 IN THE FRONT SECTION IS GOING TO BE A LITTLE MEDICAL CLINIC FOR PAUL TO
24:07 TAKE CARE OF PEOPLE THAT COME.
24:09 WHEN WE WERE THERE WE ARRANGED A MARRIAGE FOR PAUL.
24:14 ARRANGED A MARRIAGE?
24:15 YES.
24:16 I MEAN YOU ARE REAL PARENTS IN THE BUSINESS OF ARRANGING MARRIAGES.
24:19 THAT'S RIGHT, I KNOW.
24:20 IT WAS REALLY FUN.
24:21 AND NOW THIS IS THE LITTLE HOUSE.
24:23 ISN'T IT JUST PRECIOUS.
24:24 THERE IS ANOTHER LAYER.
24:25 WE DON'T HAVE THAT PICTURE.
24:26 ON THAT LITTLE BLACK PLAQUE IT SAYS "TO GOD BE THE GLORY."
24:36 TALK ABOUT MISSIONARY STORIES.
24:39 ISN'T THAT A WONDERFUL STORY?
24:40 IT'S THRILLING.
24:41 WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO TELL ABOUT THIS ARRANGED MARRIAGE.
24:44 IT'S AN AMAZING THING.
24:47 NO TIME?
24:48 GO AHEAD QUICKLY.
24:49 I JUST WANTED YOU TO-PAUL HAD MET A YOUNG WOMAN AND HE SAID I WOULD LIKE FOR
25:01 YOU TO MEET HER FAMILY AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IF YOU FOR ME.RRANGE A MARRIAGE
25:02 SO WE ARRANGED A TIME AND WE WENT TO THEIR VILLAGE.
25:05 PAUL HAD NEVER TOLD THIS GIRL THAT HIS MAMMA AND DADDY WERE WHITE
25:12 AMERICANS.
25:13 SO WE GET OUT AND ALL OF THE FAMILY IS THERE.
25:18 IT WAS SO MUCH FUN.
25:20 THEY WERE SO EXCITED.
25:22 DO WE HAVE A PICTURE OF HER?
25:23 WE DO NOT.
25:24 WE WILL HAVE A PICTURE.
25:25 WERE THERE WHEN HE PROPOSED TO HER.
25:28 IS THAT RIGHT.
25:29 IT WAS VERY EXCITING.
25:30 AND THEY WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT A DOWRY.
25:32 A DOWRY?
25:34 WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT DOWRIES AND WE DON'T LIKE WHAT WE HEAR IN INDIA
25:37 SO WE JUST SAID YOU GIVE A NICE GIFT WHEN THEY GET MARRIED.
25:41 IT WAS FUN.
25:42 WHAT THRILLING STORIES.
25:45 I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE TO KEEP YOU FOLKS IN THE U.S.
25:51 ON A VERERLONG PERIOD OF TIME ANYWAY.
25:55 WHEN DO YOU GO BACK AGAIN?
25:56 WE'RE HERE IN THE SPRING OF 2014.
25:58 WE'VE BEEN GOING EVERY YEAR ABOUT JANUARY, FEBRUARY, THOSE TWO
26:03 MONTHS.
26:04 SO YOUR RECENT TRIP HAS BEEN THE EARLY PART OF 2014.
26:06 THAT'S RIGHT.
26:08 NOW YOU'LL PUBLISH MORE RESOURCES AND WHATEVER GETTING READY FOR YOUR
26:13 NEXT TRIP?
26:15 YOU HAVE FAMILY HERE I'M SURE AS WELL.
26:18 HOW DO THEY FEEL ABOUT THIS?
26:20 OH THEY ARE SO SUPPORTIVE.
26:21 THEY WANT TO GO TO PAUL'S WEDDING.
26:23 AND PAUL IS JUST ROOTING FOR THAT.
26:25 WE DON'T KNOW.
26:26 I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
26:28 BUT FOR SURE IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN THEY'LL MEET.
26:31 BLESS YOUR HEARTS.
26:32 THANK YOU BOTH FOR WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU DO IN ADDING THESE ELEMENTS OF
26:39 REAL EXCITEMENENTO GOSPEL OUTREACH ALBEIT WE DON'T NEED MORE EXCITEMENT, BUT
26:44 THIS IS EXCITING.
26:46 THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
26:47 THANK YOU.
26:48 AND THANK ALL OF YOU FOR BEING MEMBERS OF GOSPEL OUTREACH.
26:52 YOU'RE SUPPORT IS SO SIGNIFICANT AND YOUR PRAYERS AS WELL.
27:43 [CLOSING MUSIC]


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