Participants: Charles Schultz
Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000549A
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00:17 WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:20 I'M JULIE SANDERS-KEYMER ANANIF YOU AREREEW TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" 00:23 WE WANT TO WELCOME YOU. 00:24 WE COME TO YOU HERE WITH AN UPDATE ON THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING WITH 00:29 OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS WHO ARE IN THE 10/40 WINDOW. 00:32 NOW THE 10/40 WINDOW 00:32 THAT MIGHT BE A TERM TO YOU THAT IS NEW. 00:36 WELL, THAT IS 10 TO 40 DEGREES NORTH OF THE EQUATOR AND THE COUNTRIES 00:41 THAT A A IN THIS WINDOW- THEY ARE THE MOST HEAVILY POPULATED COUNTRIES IN THE 00:46 WORLD AND THAT'S WHERE ALL OF THE MAJOR RELIGIONS ALAL S SRTED. 00:49 AND THAT'S WHERE WE ARE FOCUSING HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH SO PEOPLE CAN 00:53 LEARN MOMO ABOUT JESES IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD. 00:56 SO WELCOME AND TODAY WE HAVE A VERY SPECIAL GUEST- CHARLES SHULTZ. 01:00 YOU ARE HERE WITH US AT "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS". 01:02 THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME AND TODAY I'D LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT NEPAL. 01:06 AT'S WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE FOCUSING AND THAT'S WHERE WE ARE GOINGNGN THE 01:09 10/40 WINDOW. 01:10 NEPAL IS SANDWICHED BETWEEN INDIA AND CHINA. 01:15 IT'S'SBOUT THE SIZE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND OF COURSE THAT'S WHERE M M 01:20 EVEREST IS. 01:21 YES. 01:27 AND UP UNTIL THE WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, CHARLES, CLOSED?. 01:29 IT MEANS THAT CHRISTIANITY IS NOT CONSIDERED A FAVORABLE RELIGION. 01:35 THE KING WAS AN INCARNATION OF T THEINDU D, VISHNU AND UNLESS YOU 01:40 WERE A HINDU IT WAS LIKE YOUOUERE NOT REALLY SUPPPPTING THE KING. 01:46 YOU WERE N N EXACTLY A TRAITOR BUT -NOT A LOT OF POLITICAL PRIDE THEN. 01:51 NO, NO AND SO -BUT IN 2005 THERE WAS A REVOLUTION AND THE MAOISTSTCOMMUNISTS 01:58 DEPOSED THE E NG-ITS INCREDIBLE-COMMUNISM GAVE US RELIGIOUSUSREEDOM. 02:02 THAT'S THE IRORO OFOFHAT T N'T IT? 02:06 YES, IT IS AND SO THEN YOU 02:06 KNOW, THE GOSPEL IS WIDE OPEN YOU KNOW AND YOU CAN 02:16 ANAND WAWATHERE FIRST OF ALL WHEN I WAS A YOUNGE MAN, 1969 IT WAS AGAINST 02:23 THE LAW TO PREACH, TO PROSELYTIZE. 02:25 I WAS DOING HEALTH EDUCATION AS MY, AT THAT TIME, AT THAT TIME. 02:29 BECAUSE IT IS-NEPAL IS MOSTLY A H HDU COUNTRY. 02:32 YES, PREDOMINANTLY HINDU AND YOU KNOW THE PEOEOE ARE WARM AND FRIENDLY. 02:37 THEY ARE VERY RECEPTIVE TO THE GOSPEL. 02:43 NOW HERE IS A SLIDE OF SOME LADIES THAT I MET. 02:47 NOW THESE LADIES ARE ORGANIC GARDENERS BECAUSE THEY ARE OUT COLLECTING 02:50 AVES. 02:52 THEY WILL MIX THOSE LEAVES WITH THE COW MANURE THAT THEY HAVE AT HOME AND THEN 02:56 THEY'LL PUT THAT IN THEIR FIELDSDSND THAT IS HOW THEY FERTILIZE THEIR 02:59 FIELDS. 03:00 INTERESTING. 03:01 AND NOW THE NEPALI LADIES LIKE RED. 03:03 YOU CAN SEE THAT. 03:04 I LOVE RED AS WELL. 03:05 AND THEY ARE ALL PROBABLY EITHER CHETRI OR BRAHMAN. 03:10 BRAHMAN IS THE HIGHEHE CASTE CHETRI I ITHE NEXT ONE AND SO AS A 03:14 MISSIONARY, FIRST OF ALL, I WANTED TO DRESS LIKE A NEPALI ANDNDO I HAD MY 03:19 DAURA-SURUWAL ON; DAURA-SURUWAL, YES, WALA? 03:23 YES. 03:24 O.K. 03:26 AND YOU KNOW, I TRIED TO DRESS LIKE A NEPALI. 03:29 MY LANGUAGE TEACHER GAVE ME A NEPALI NAME. 03:32 WHICH IS? 03:33 CHUKRA -THAT IS CLOSE TO CHUCK, CHARLES. 03:35 AND SHARMA IS CLOSE TO SHULTZ. 03:38 THEY COULD NEVER SAY SHULTZ AND SO MIRANA CHUKRA MESAD SHARMRM YOU 03:43 KNOW. 03:44 MY NAME IS CHUCKRA MESAD SHARMA. 03:46 AND DO YOU DO THIS WHEN YOU SEE SOMEONE, YES. 03:48 YES, THIS IS THE NEPALI GREETITI YOU KNOW. 03:50 SHAKING HANDS IS A DANGEROUS THING BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT 03:52 DISEASE YOU ARE GOING TO GET FROROTHATATERSOSO 03:54 YES I LIKE THE NEPALI W W THEHE 03:56 AND IF YOU ARE A CHRISTITI YOU SAY JIMA SE AND IF YOU ARE NOT YOU SAY NAMA STA 04:00 WHICH IS I BOW TO YOU. 04:07 NOW WAIT, SO THEN IF YOU GREET SOMEONE WHO IS A HINDTHE CHRISTIAN WAY?THEM 04:08 OH, O.K. 04:09 NO, NO YOU SAY NAMA STA. 04:10 NAMA STA, YES. 04:11 AND THEN YOU WOULD GREET A CHRISTIAN-WITH JIMA SE, PRAISE JESUS. 04:16 K. 04:17 AND SO THEN I HAD TO LEARN NEPALI BECAUSE VERY FEW PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD ENGLISH 04:24 IN 1 19. 04:26 WHEN I WOULD GO INTO A VILLAGE LIKE THESE LADIES WHEN I WOULD MEET THEM, 04:30 THEY WOULD LOOK AT M M LIKE I AM SOME SORT OF A DESPICABLE PERSON BECAUSE 04:37 I EAT MEAT. 04:38 AMERICANS EAT MEAT AND THEN HERE IS THE MOST HORRIBLE THING YOU CAN 04:42 IMAGINE, THEY EAT COWS. 04:44 CAN YOU-AND MOTHERS GIVE MILK, COWS GIVE MILK THEREFORE COWS ARE YOUR 04:49 MOTHER- HOW COULD YOYOEVEN THINK OF EATING YOUR MOTHER? 04:53 BECAUSE IN THE HINDU RELIGIGI -THEY N'T EAT COWS. 04:58 THEY D D'T E E COWS BECAUSE YOU KNOW BASICALLY THAT COULD B BE UR MOTHER, 05:02 IT COULD BE SOSO OTHER R RSONS MOTHER. 05:06 REINCARNATED. 05:07 RIGHT, REINCARNATION AND SO I HAD TO, WHEN I WENT INTO THE VILLAGE I HAD TO 05:11 HAVE MY LITTLE SPEAL. 05:13 I WOULD INTRODUCE MYSELF 05:16 . 05:17 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN CHARLES? 05:21 I DON'T SMOKE; I DON'T DRINK AND I DON'T EAT MEAT. 05:28 SO THEY ASSUMED BECAUSE YOU ARE A CAUCASIAN MALE FROM AMERICA THAT YOU DID 05:33 ALOF THE THIHIS S AT PERHRHS THEY SAW IN THE MOVIES, YES, O OTHAT THEY 05:37 UNDERSTOOD WAS DIDIERENT FROM THEM. 05:39 AND THAT WOULD KEEP ME FROM GETTING CLOSE TO THEM AND AS SOON AS I WOULD 05:44 GIVE MY LITTLE S SAL, , EN THOUOU THEY WERE BRAHMHMS, 05:44 EY W WLD I IITE ME INTO 05:52 THEIR HOHOMEND I WOULD GO INTO THE MOST SACRED PLWHH H WHEHE?ME. 05:53 THE KITCHEN AND THEY WOULD FEED ME RICE. 05:57 YOU ONLY EAT RICE 05:57 WITH PEOPLE THAT ARE YOUR S SE CASTE. 06:01 OH, REALLYLY 06:02 AND SINCE I AM SHARMA I'M A BRAHMAN. 06:06 I'M A CHRISTIAN BRAHMAN. 06:07 SO THEN THAT PUTS YOU ON THE SAME LEVEL WITH THEM AND THEY COULD ACCEPT YOU. 06:13 YES. 06:14 ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 06:16 AND YOU KNOW, AND THEN I HAD LITTLE JOKES THAT I LEARNED. 06:20 ALL DAY LONG I'M A BRAHMAN. 06:22 . 06:25 BUT AT NIGHT I GO DOWN. 06:28 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 06:29 IN OTHER WORDS, DURING THE DAY YOU LOOK VERY PIOUS AS A BRAHMAN BUT AT NIGHT YOU 06:34 DO ALL KINDS OF DESPICABLE T TNGS. 06:36 OH, I SEE. 06:37 AND THEN THEY WOULD ALL LAUGH. 06:38 YES, SO IT WAS MORE OF A JOKE THEN. 06:40 RIGHT, RIGHT. 06:41 SO YOU WERE TRYING TO INCORPORATE AS MUCH AS YOU COULD INTO THAT CULTURE 06:44 BUT EVEN THOUGH YOU DID ALL THTH YOU WERE STILL A FOREIGNER. 06:46 STILL A FOREIGNER AND YOU KNOW I COULD SING NEPALI HYMNS. 06:50 WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO -I WOULD LOVE IT. 06:52 O.K. 06:53 NOW THIS TALKS ABOUT A COORDINATED WITNESS. 06:57 THE EARLRLCHRISTSTNS TOOK NEPALI FOLK TUNES AND PUT RELIGIOUS WORDS TO THEM 07:06 AND THEY WERE FANTASTIC. 07:08 HERE COMES ONE. 07:09 LISTEN FRIENDS TO THE MOST TASTY INCREDIBLE NEWS ABOUT JESUS. 07:30 OH, PRAISE THE LORD. 07:32 AND ONLY JESUS CAN GIVE YOU MUPTI WHICH IS SALVATION. 07:35 MUPTI? 07:36 THAT'S WHAT I WANT MUPTI. 07:38 SO ANYWAY YOU KNOW I COULD EAT LIKE A NEPALI; I COULD DRESS LIKE A NEPALI; I 07:46 COULD SING LIKE A NEPALI; I COULD HAVE A NEPALI NAME; I'M STILL AN 07:53 AMERICAN. 07:54 YES. 07:55 I'M SORRY FOR THAT. 07:56 WAS THERE STILL IS-DID YOU FEEL -STILL FEEL KIND OF A DISTANCE BECAUSE OF THAT? 08:00 WEWE MY NEPALI IS RATHER LIMITED. 08:03 YES. 08:04 AND SO FROM 1969 TO 1977-AT THE END OF 1977 I HAD-THERE WERE 15 SEVENTH 08:15 DAY ADVENTISTS. 08:16 FIFTEEN SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIANS IN THE WHOLE OF NEPAL WHICH 08:19 THEHEIZE OF CALIFORNIA. 08:20 ADVENTNTT CHRISTIANS, RIGHT. 08:23 WHEN I WENT BACK IN 2009 I WAS THE SECRETARY TREASURER OF THE WHOLE 08:29 COUNTRY AND NOW THERE IS 7000 SEVEVEH DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIANS. 08:35 WONDERFUL! 08:36 PRAISE THE LORD FOR MORE PEOPLE LEARNING ABOUT JESUS! 08:38 AND SO I ASKED HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? 08:41 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 08:43 BINGO. 08:44 AND THAT IS WHEN I GOT REALLY EXCITED. 08:46 WHILE I WAS THERE, UNFORTUNATELY, MY WIFE CAME DOWN CANCER AND 08:51 INSTEAD OF GIVING 08:51 MONEY FOR FLOWERS, YES, I SUGGESTED -A-A-A-A-AIS THE 08:57 PICTURE THAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT- LET'S BUILD A MEMORIAL CHURCH FOR 09:02 ELIZABETH ININEPAL. 09:04 OH. 09:05 AND SO FOR $16,000 WE HAD THIS CHURCH. 09:07 NOW THIS IS IN THE LITTLE TOWN OF RAMATAR. 09:12 RAMATAR-SO GIVE US AN IDEA OF HOW FAR- WE KNOW THE TOWN,THE CITY OF KATMANDU. 09:16 KATMANDU, RIGHT. 09:17 SO HOW FAR IS THIS CHURCH FROM KATMANDU? 09:19 PROBABLY 150 MILES. 09:22 O.K. 09:23 WHICH DIRECTION? 09:24 IT'S SOUTH. 09:25 SOUTH , O.K. 09:26 IT IS ON THE EAST-WEST HIGHWAY. 09:28 IT'S A MAJAJORUNCTION- EAST-WEST HIGHWAY AND NEAR HETAUDA WHICH IS A FAIRLY 09:31 BIG PLACE. 09:32 SO YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS INSTEAD OF GIVING FLOWERS THEY DONATED FOR THIS 09:35 CHURCH. 09:36 YES. 09:38 WHICH WILL STAY AND CONTINUE AND THE LORD WILL BLESS THAT AND YES, WE 09:40 LOVE FLOWERS, YES, DON'T GET ME WRONG WE LOVE FLOWERS BUT SADLY ON THIS 09:44 EARTH FLOWERS S E BUT YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS GAVE IN T T MEMORY OF YOUR WIFE 09:49 FOFOTHIS LOVELY CHURCH.PRAISE THE LORD. 09:51 ABSOLUTELY, NOW HERE IS A PICTURE OF ME AND SANDRA HORNER FROM M YMEN'S 09:55 MINISTRYRY 09:56 THIS IS A COORDINATED WORK-LAYMEN'S MINISTRY HELPED US BECAUSE SANDRA 09:58 SUPERVISED THE BUILDING OF IT. 10:00 ON THE LEFT IS PASTOR SILAS-HE IS THE CHURCH PASTOR AND YOU LOOK ABOVE 10:05 SANDND'S HEAD BELOW THE CROSS THERE IS A PLALAE. 10:08 THIS CHURCH IS IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH SHULTZ. 10:10 HOW W CE. 10:11 AND THEN THIS IS THE INSIDE. 10:14 FOR SIXTEEN-IT'S A NICE LOOKING CHURCH. 10:16 I LOVE THE RED, CHARLES. 10:18 AND YOU NOTICE THERE IS NO PEWS THERE IN THE CHURCH. 10:22 DO YOU KNOW WHY THERE IS NO PEWS? 10:24 THEY SIT ON THE FLOOR. 10:25 THEY SIT ON THE FLOOR AND YOU CAN GET A LOT MORE PEOPLE, TRUE, IN THAT 10:28 CHURCH. 10:29 OH MY, YES. 10:30 AND SO NOW THIS WAS WHY IT WAS FILLING UP. 10:33 IT WASN'T FULL YET AND PEOPLE ARE STILL COMING THROUGH THE DOORS, COMING 10:36 IN THE WINDOWS A A THERE IS ONLY FIFTY ADVENTISTSTSI5 10:44 GUESTS, HINDU GUESTS T TT DADA 10:47 BECAUSE EVERYBODY WANTS TO KNOW WHY ARE THE FOREIGNERS HERER 10:49 WHAT'S GOING ON? 10:50 I WANT TO BE A PART OF IT. 10:52 YES AND FOFOUNATELY WE HAD PASTOR SILAS AND JEETS BADOR. 10:58 NOW JEETS BADOR IS ON HIS KNEES AND HE HAS THIS WHITE SCARF AROUND HIS 11:05 NECK- SO HE IS TO THE RIGHT OF THEHEAN, THE PASTOR IN THE BLUE, PARDON 11:12 ME. 11:13 THAT'S RIGHT. 11:15 THAT'S RIGHT AND JEETS WIFE IS THERE IN GREEN AND THEN PASTOR SILAS' WIFE IN 11:19 THE YELLOW SARI. 11:20 BASICALLY, THEY ARE BEING ORDAINED AS CHURCH ELDERS AND I APPRECIATED THIS 11:25 BECAUSE THIS CHUHUH-YOYO KNOW YOU JUST DON'T BUILD A CHURCH YOU HAVE TO 11:28 ORGAGAZE THE CHURCH; YOU 11:28 HAVE TO TURN IT OVER TO PEOPLELEHO WILL LOOK AFTER 11:32 THAT CHURCH ANAN 11:32 THAT'S WHAT GOSPEL OUTREACH IS DOING. 11:35 AND THE LOCAL PEOPLE-TELL ME, CHCHLES I SEE THE LADIES THERE WITH THEIR 11:39 SARIS AND OUT OF RESPECT DURING PRAYER TO T T LORD DO THEY COVER THEIR HEADS? 11:43 ABSOLUTELY, WITH A PART OF THEIR VEVE OR R EIR SCARF? 11:46 ABSOLUTELY. 11:47 BEAUTIFUL. 11:48 WHAT A SPECIAL DAY FOR YOU. 11:50 IT WAS GREAT. 11:52 I'M SORRY ABOUT YOUR WIFE 11:52 BUT LOOK HOW THE LORD HAS TAKEN AND HE HAS BLESSED. 11:58 AND YOU KNOW THAT'S -WE 11:58 WORSHIP THE CREAEATOGOD. 12:01 WE SURE DO. 12:02 AND HE IS ABLE TO CREATE A BLESSING OUT OF ANYTHING-OUT OF TRAGEDY. 12:06 ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO US. 12:08 NOW AS A RESULT T THAT CHURCH JEETS BANANR OURR 12:08 GR 12:15 THERE, HE IN CONNECTION WITH THE PASTOR WERE ABLE TO PREPARE 64 PEOPLE FOR 12:20 BAPTISM. 12:21 THAT DAY? 12:22 BASICALLY WITHIN TWO MONTHS. 12:24 TWO MONTHS, PRAISE THE LORD. 12:26 SO IS THIS AT A RIVER BANK CLOSE TO THE CHURCH? 12:28 YES, AND YOU'LL SEE E ETS BABAOR THERE IN THE WHITEE 12:28 E 12:32 SCREEN AND HE'S THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER? 12:37 HE IS ONE E THE SIXTY GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THAT NEPAL HAS AND THE 12:42 PEOPLE THEHE ARERE -IS IS THE MONSOON TIME SO THERE IS A LOT OF RAIN AND HERE 12:49 WE HAVE A PICTURE OF PASTOR KUBARE. 12:54 HE IS ACTUALLY THE ORDAINED PASTOR HERE. 12:56 HE IS THE ONE IN THE PLAID BLUE. 12:58 YES, YES AND JEETS BANDOR I ITHERE IN THE WHITE SHIRT. 13:03 THEY ARE PREPARING THIS LADY TO GO U UER THE WATER BE BURIED-HER OLD LIFE 13:10 AND COMING U UAS A NEW CHRISTIAN AND, PRAISE THE 13:10 LORD, THERE'S A GREAT DEAL 13:22 OF EXCITEMENT, YES, AND IN N NAL IT TAKES TWONOW WHY IS THAT?ZE. 13:23 WELL, ONE PERSON-THE PASTOR DOES THE ACTUAL, YOU KNOW, CEREMONY BUT 13:28 JEETETBADOR IS THERE T T ASSIST HER AS SHE COMES UP OUT OF THE WATER. 13:35 I LIKE THAT AND WELL, , IS THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKRK THEHE ANDNDE WILL 13:38 CONTINUE TO ASSIST HER AND HELP HER IN HER R LK. 13:45 SO WHAT I'M HEARING FROM YOU CHARLES, IS THAT THE LORD CALLED YOU AND YOUR 13:57 WIFE TO GO TO NEPAL, YES, AND THE LORD USED YOU AND YOU LEARNED WHAT YOU COULD 14:07 AND YOU TRIED TO ASSIMILATE AND BE A BRAHMAN AND ALL OF THAT 14:10 BUT, CHRISTIANANRAHMAN, ABSOLUTELY, CHRISTIAN BRAHMAN BUT AT THIS POINT 14:15 NOW YOU ARE COMINGNGACK -BACK TOTOEPAL, YES, AFTER YOURUREARS OF SERVICE IN 14:18 OTHER ARARS AND THE LORD CALALD YOYOU W WK ATAT 14:18 GOW 14:21 YOU ARE WOWOING WITH THESE PEOPLE AND HELPING THESESE 14:21 S 14:23 WHWHLIVE THERE, YES, WHO GREW UP THERE; WHO SPEAK THE LALAUAGE; KNOW THESE 14:26 FOLKLKONGSGSND ALL OF THAT AND LOOK HOW THE 14:26 LORD IS BLESSING AND HE IS 14:28 BLESSING YOU AS WELL. 14:30 AND YOU KNOW PASTOR CAMPBELL, JAMES CAMPBELL HE HAS ASKED ME TO TAKE 14:31 OVER HIS PLACE AS DIRECTOR FOR R SPEL OUTREACH IN NEPAL AND I FEEL VERY 14:34 HONORED, HUMBLED AND HONORED BECAUSE I FELL IN LOVE WITH THESE PEOPLELET 14:39 ANANARAR AGE AND WHAT N I DO TO HELP THEM? 14:43 WELL AND THE LORD 14:43 IS BLESSING AND WE CAN SEE THAT. 14:45 AND YOU KNOW, RATHER THAN ME GOING OVER THERE BECAUSE I'M STILL AN 14:49 AMERICAN AND THERE IS 14:49 STILL A DISTANCE THERE A A MY NEPALI ISIST THAT GOOD, 14:54 T WE HAVE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKEKE ANDNDHERE ARE SIXTY OF THEM THAT ARE 14:58 DOING MY WORK. 15:00 WELL, DOING IT TOGETHER AND THAT'S WHERE YOU CAN BE INVOLVED AND WE HAVE 15:03 SOME INFORMAMAON TO SHSHE WITH YOU ABOUT HOW YOU CAN SPONSOR A GOSPEL OUTREACH 15:07 WORKER AND BE INVOLVED SHARING THE LOVOV OF JESUS IN NEPAL. 15:14 GOSPEL OUTREACH BEGAN A MISSION TWENTY YEARS AGO BY ASKING ONE SIMPLE 15:18 QUESTION. 15:20 WHAT IS JESUS WAITING FOR? 15:22 IN A WORLD FILLED WITH FAMINE, HUNGER AND STARVATION WHAT IS JESUS 15:26 WAITING FOR? 15:28 IN A WORLD FILLED WITH EARTHQUAKES, HURRICANES AND NATURAL CALAMITIES 15:31 WHAT IS JESUS WAITING FOR? 15:35 THE GOSPEL TELLS US IN MATTHEW 24:1:1 "AND THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM 15:39 SHALL BE PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD FOR A WITNESS UNTO ALL NATIONS AND THEN 15:44 SHALL THE END COME." 15:52 INPAPA TWEWEY YEARS HAS, GROWN INTO AN ORORNIZATION OWITH 2200 0 WOERS IN 4 4 15:58 PLUS COUNTRIES. 15:59 GOSPEL OUTREACH IS AN INDEPENDENT SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST LAY MINISTRY RUN 16:03 ENTIRELY BY VOLUNTEERS. 16:06 YES YOU HEARD THAT CORRECT. 16:07 IT IS AN ALL VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION. 16:10 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKS WIWI THE ORGANIZED CHURCH TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKRKS IN 16:14 UNREACHED TERRITORIES. 16:16 NOW, YOU MIGHT ASK DOESN'T THIS TAKE AWAY FROM THE WORK THE CHURCH IS ALREADY 16:21 DOING WITH OVERSEASASISSIONS? 16:23 ABSOLUTETE NOT. 16:25 DIRECT SPONSORSHIP IS JUST A PART OF THE EQUATION JUST AS THE LARGER PART IT 16:30 IS STAYING INVOLVED IN THE WORK THAHATHE CHURCH IS DOIOI THROUGH MISSIONS 16:33 OFFERING. 16:34 GOSPEL OUTREACH'S MAIN DESIRE IS TO RAISE FUNDS WHICH ARE SENT DIRECTLY TO 16:42 THE CHURCH TO PAY BIBLE WORKERS WHO HELP SPREAD THE GOGOWINDOWOWE 10/40 16:44 NOW WHAT EXACTLY IS THE 10/40 WINDOW? 16:47 THE 10/40 WINDOW IS A REGION OF THE EASTERN MISPSPRE LOCATED BETWEEN 16:51 10 AND 40 DEGREES NORTH OF THE EQUATOR. 16:54 WHAT MAKES THIS REGIGI SPECIAL? 16:57 NINETY SEVEN PER CENT OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO HAVE NEVEV HEARD 17:00 OF THE NAME 17:00 OFJESUS, LIVE HERERE 17:03 NOW W W EXACTLY DOES GOSPEL OUTREACH WORK TO REACH THESE PEOPLE? 17:07 WE DO THIS BY WORKING WITH THE CHURCH A AIT PLACES TRAINED INDIGENOUS W WKERS 17:13 IN NEW TERRITORIES SENDING OUT DISCIPLES JUST AS JESUS DID. 17:17 WE SPONSOR BIBLE WORKEKE LIKE PRABERE RUEBEN. 17:20 PRABERE IS FROM INDIA 17:20 D WITH THE HELP OF OUR SPONSORSHIP HIS CHURCH 17:23 CONFERENCE HAS SENT HIM TO THIS SMALL VILLAGE OF MARUA TO SHARE THEHEOSPEPE 17:28 THESE INDIVIDUALS HAVE NEVER HEARD THE NANA OF JESUS AND THEIR LIVES HAVE 17:32 BEEN CHANGED FOREVER. 17:33 IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS, THERE HAVE BEEN NINE ADDITIONAL BAPTISMS DUE TO 17:37 THE WORK OF PRABERE. 17:39 UNTIL A FEW MONTHS AGO, THE LOCAL MEMBERS OF THIS CHURCH HAVE BEEN 17:43 WORSHIPING IN A HOUSE CHURCH. 17:45 RECENTLY, A NEW MEMBER NAMED ARISMA GAVE HIS LIFE TO GOD AND DONATED A PIECE 17:49 OF HIS OWN LAND TO THE CHURCH. 17:52 ON IT A NEW TIN CHURCH HAS BEEN CONSTRUCTED. 17:55 IT STILL NEEDS SOME WORK BUT GOD'S CHURCH CONTINUES TO GROW HERE IN INDIA. 18:00 WHEN A BIBLE WORKER SPONSORED BY GOSPEL OUTREACH ENTERS A NENE 18:04 VILLAGE, IT IS ESTIMATED THAT IN THTHFIRST YEAR AN ADDIDIONAL 300 INDIVIDUALS 18:09 WILL BE BAPTIZED AND COMMIT THEIR LIVES TO CHRIST. 18:12 INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEVER HEARD THE AMAZING STORY OF GOD'S LOVE AREREETTING TO 18:17 MEET JESUS FOR E FIRST TIME. 18:19 NOW HOW CAN YOU HELP? 18:25 BIBLE WORKERS LILI PRABERE RELY ON SPONSORSHIPS TO SUPPORT THEM AND THEIR 18:29 FAMILIES AS S EY SHARE THEHE. 18:34 THIS IS WHY GOSPEL OUTREACH IS INTRODUCING OUR "ADOPT-A-WORKER 18:37 PROGRAM". 18:38 TOGETHER WITH THE CHURCH, WE IDENTIFY NEW WORKERS IN AREAS THAT NEED TO BE 18:42 REACHEHE 18:51 WE HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED A REQUEST FROMOMASTOR RON WATTS RETIRED SOUTHERN 18:54 ASIA DIVISION PRESIDENT FOR 10,000 NEW BIBLE WORKERS IN INDIA ALONE. 18:57 THE NEED IN THE REST OF ASIA AND AFRICA ISISUST AS LARGE WHERE PEOPLE ARE 19:00 HUNGRY TO HEAR GODOD WORD AND THAT IS WHY IT IS OUR GOAL TO INTRODUCE A 19:04 MILLION NEW PEOPLE 19:04 TO JESUS IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS. 19:06 ALL THAT IS REMAINING R THIS WORK TO BEGIN IS YOUR FINANCIAL HELP. 19:19 FCHURUR, SABBATH SCHOOLH GROUP OR SCHOOOOYOU U N TAKE OWNERSHIP OF THE E RK 19:24 BEING DONE AND SPONSORORA H 19:24 WORKER FOR A AEAR. 19:28 IN RETETN WE WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED ON THE EXCITING PROGRESS OF YOUR WORKER 19:33 SENDING YOU U ORIES AND PICTURES OF THE LIVES CHANGED BY YOUR DONATIONS. 19:37 NOW THAT YOU KNOW ABOUT R "ADOPT-A-WORORR" PROGRAM THERE ARE THREE 19:40 WAYS YOU CAN GET INVOLVED: FIRST, YOU CAN BE A PRAYER PARTNTN FOROROSPEL 19:45 OUTREACH BY PRAYING FOR OUR BIBLE WORKERS. 19:48 SECOND, BECOME AN AMBASSADOR FOR OUR "ADOPT-A-WORKER PROGRAM" 19:51 BY T TLINGNGOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS ABOUT HOW THEY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE TOO. 19:56 AND FINALLY, SPONSOR A BIBLE WORKER. 19:58 CALL OR VISIT THE WEBSITE TODAY. 20:02 SO NOW THAT YOU KNOW A BIT ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH,H,T 20:05 JESUS IS WAITING FOR, THE FIFIL QUESTION IS: WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? 20:17 SO THAT IS THE QUESTION, CHARLES. 20:19 WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR? 20:20 YOU KNOW WE THINK THAT ERE WILL BE A BETTER TIME OR WE'LL HAVE MORE 20:23 MONEY Y WE'LL GET INVOLVED NEXT WEEK OR WE'LL TALK WITH OUR 20:26 NEIGHBOR ABOUT JESUS WHEN A BETTER OPPORTUNITY COMES BUT WHAT I'M REALIZING IS 20:31 THE OPPORTUNITY IS N N IT'S TODAY AND, RIGHT, NOW IS WHERE WE NEED TO GET 20:35 INVOLVED AND THAT'S SO EXCITING. 20:37 ALL THAT IS GOININON HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH AND I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU 20:41 TO BE A PARTNER HERE AS WE 20:41 WORK TOGETHER FOR THE LORD AND D ARE WHAT GOD HAS 20:49 YOU KNOW CHARLES, IT IS VERY HUMBLING TO SIT IN THIS SEAT AND SEE THOSE 20:52 PICTURES OF THOSE DEAR PEOPLE WORSHIPING. 20:55 THEY ARE SITTING O OTHE FLOOR OF THE CHURCH, YES, IN MEMORY OF YOUR WIFE 21:00 ELIZIZETH, YES. 21:01 THEY ARE THRILLED TOTOE THERE. 21:03 ABSOLUTELY, AND YOU KNOW THE -YOU NOTICE ABOUT 90% OF PEOPLE IN THAT AUDIENCE 21:07 WERE BELOW 30 YEARS OF A A. 21:10 WONDERFUL! 21:11 I'D ALSO LIKE TO MAKE A COMMERCIAL FOR ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO HONOR A 21:15 LOVED D E WHWHHAS PASSED-MEMORIAL CHURCH. 21:23 WE HAVE SEVERAL MEMORIAL CHURCHES IN NEPAL THAT GOSPEL OUTREACH FRIENDS. 21:25 IT IS A TREMENDOUS WAY OF HONORING A LOVED ONE PLUS BEING A BLESSING TO THE 21:31 COMMUNITY. 21:32 YES,S,BSOLUTELY. 21:33 SO WE'RE TALKING HERE ABOUT NEPAL AND GIVE US AN IDEA- YOU SHOWED SOME 21:37 PICTURES OF A DEAR WOMAN BEING BAPTIZED IN THE RIVER, YESESSO WHAT IS HER 21:43 LIFE GOING TO BE LIKE. 21:44 MOST OF HER FAMILY EY ARE HINDU. 21:46 YES, AND SHE HAS MADE A DECISION TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN, YES, AND THEN 21:49 MADE A DECISION N BECOME SEVENTH H Y ADADNTIST, YES, SO WHAT DOES THAT 21:53 MEAN TO HER? 21:55 SHE NOW BECOMES A MEMBER OF THE ADVENTIST FAMILY AND THIS AGAIN WHY IT T 22:00 IMPMPTANTNTO HAVE A GOSPSP OUTREACH-SOMEONE THERE WHO SPEAKS THEIR 22:03 LANGUAGE, WHO UNDERSTANDS ALL OF HER N NDS A A THAT'S WHAT JEETS BANDOR 22:07 IS D DNG AND HIS WIFE ANDNDOU KNOW, YOU GET TWO FOR ONE. 22:12 YOU NOT ONLY HAVE A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER R T HIHI WIFE IS THERE HELPING AS 22:16 WELL AND THEY ARE DOING A TREMENDOUS J J. 22:18 AND THAT'S'SO TRUE-I'M GLAD YOU MENTITIED THAT AND THAT IS SO TRUE OF OUR 22:21 PASTORS S OUNDNDHE WORLD, THEIR SPOUSES ARE -THEIR WHOLE FAMILIES ARE PART OF 22:25 IT. 22:26 THAT'S RIGHT. 22:27 SO, BUT ARE CHRISTIANS-ARE THEY OSTRACIZED? 22:30 I MEAN IS THERE SUCH-IS THERE-THE FAMIMI DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THIS AND SO I 22:36 MEAN WILL IT BE DIFFICULT? 22:37 THE CHURCH, IF YOU SAW PICTURES OF RAMATAR THIS LITTLE CHURCH FOR $16,000 22:44 LOLOS LIKE THE TAJ MAHAL. 22:46 YES. 22:47 YOU KNOW EVERYBODY ELSE HAS MUD HUTS AND STUFF LIKE THAT AND SO THIS 22:51 GIVES GREAT CREDENCE TO THE WORK,YOU KNOW. 22:54 THIS IS AN ONGOING, UP AND COMING ORGANIZATION AND WHAT IS THIS CHRISTIANITY? 22:59 THERE IS A LOT O O CHRISTIANS IN AMERICA IT MUST BE E E RIGHT RELIGION 23:03 BECAUSE HINDUISM IS DISCOURAGING AND DEPRESSING; CHRISTIANITY 23:08 IS FULL OF LIFE AND HOPE AND LOVE. 23:11 YOU KNOW CHRISTIANITY IS A RELIGION OF LOVE AND THEY NEED TO HEAR THAT AND THEY 23:15 ST DRINK IT UP, THEY JUST DRINK IT UP. 23:17 PRAISE THE LORD. 23:19 IN THE DEDICATION SERVICE, WE DIDN'T EVEN MAKE AN ALTAR CALL AND TWO PEOPLE 23:22 CAME FORWARD AND WANTED TO BECOME CHRISTIANS. 23:24 PRAISE THE LORD! 23:26 BOY THE LORD-HE MAKES IT REALLY EASY OFTEN TIMES AND THEN AT OTHER TIMES WE 23:30 MAKE IT DIFFICULT DON'T WE? 23:31 YES. 23:32 SO WHAT ARE SOME NEEDS CHARLES, THAT YOU AND YOU ARE HEADED OUT HERE IN A 23:36 COUPLE OF DAYS, YES, TO BE GONE FOR THREE WEEKS WITH LINDA WHO IS YOUR SECOND 23:41 WIFE ANDNDHE HAS A NEPALI NAME. 23:44 WHAT IS THAT? 23:45 HER NEPALI NAME IS SUNMYA WHICH IS GOLDEN LOVE, PERFECT, AND BASASALLY WE 23:51 ARE GOING TO THE NEPAL 23:51 UTH FOR CHRIST THIS IS LIKE GYC EXCEPT IT IS NYC- 23:56 THTHE HUNDRED YOUNG PEOPLELEK 23:56 ABOUT JESUSUAND UNITY IN 24:02 THE CHURCH. 24:03 THIS IS A TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE THESE ARE THE FUTURE LEADERS FOR 24:07 OUR WORK I INEPAL AND IT IS A COORDINATED WITNESS WITH GOSPEPEOUTREACH AND 24:12 THEN LOOKING IN THIS GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE FOR FUTURE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS 24:17 WHO HAVE A BURDEN AND A DESIRE TO SHARE JESUS IN THEIR COMMUNITY. 24:20 SO ARE THE YOUNG PEOPLE, THE TEENAGERS ARE THEY CURIOUS; ARE THEY 24:24 INTERESTED? 24:25 ARE THEY-IS IT INTERESTING? 24:27 IS CHRISTIANITY SOMETHING NEW FOR THEM? 24:29 IT IS NEW AND ITS LIKE WONDERFUL NEWS JUST LIKE I SANG ABOUT. 24:34 YOU KNOW, IT IS SWSWT T WS AND IT IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN ANYTHING ELSE THEY 24:40 HAVE. 24:41 BUT YOU KNOW IT IS INTERESTING BACK IN 2005 YOUNG PEOPLE WERE EITHER 24:44 BECOMIMI CHRISTIANAN OR COMMUNISTS. 24:46 THEY ARE FED U U WITH HINDUISM. 24:48 THEY ARE FED UP WITH THE STATUS QUO. 24:50 THEY WANT A CHANGE. 24:52 CHRISTIANITY GIVES THEM THE GREATEST POSSIBILITY FOR CHANGE BECAUSE IT IS 24:56 ALALABOUT JESUS. 24:57 AND IT GIVES HOPE. 24:58 YES. 24:59 IT GIVES HOPE. 25:00 ABSOLUTELY. 25:02 HOPE THAT'S WHAT -HOPE IS SUCH-HOPE AND JOY THOSE ARE TWO WORDS THAT WE AS 25:05 CHCHSTIANS NEED TO BE SO EXCITED ABOUT T CAUSE WE HAVE HOPE AND ESPECIALLY 25:09 FOR THESE PEPELE IN THESES OTHER COUNTRIES WHO HAVE 47 GODS AND D RE A A ALL 25:13 OF THIS, I MEAN I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU WOULD PRAY TO -ITS HINDUISM 330 MILLION 25:20 GODS. 25:21 WHOA! 25:22 330 MILLION? 25:23 YES, YES. 25:24 OH MY! 25:25 SO BOILING IT DOWN TO ONE IS A LOT EASIER. 25:27 YES. 25:28 WELL PRAISE THE LORD HE IS THE LIVING GOD. 25:30 AMEN. 25:32 SO CHARLES, AS YOU SIT HERE BEFORE YOU LEAVE AND FROM WHAT YOU KNOW, WHAT 25:36 ARE YOUR NEEDS THAT YOU HAVE RIGHT NOW IN NEPAL THAT OUR VIEWERS CAN KNOW 25:42 ABOUT? 25:43 MORE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS AND D RE MONEY FOR CHURCHES THAT CAN BE 25:47 NTERS FOR THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER TO INVITE PEOPLE TO- THIS IS YOUR 25:56 HOME CHURCH; THIS IS WHERE 25:56 YOU U RSHIHI THIS IS W WRE 25:56 HOHO AND COURAGE ANDLOVE. 25:58 AND WHAT ABOUT PRAYER? 26:00 OH ABSOLUTELY, PRAYER IS OUR GREATEST NEED BECAUSE IT IS ONLY A MIRACLE THAT 26:05 PERSON SEES THE TRUTH AND RESPONDS TO THE TRUTH THROUGH PRAYER AND THE 26:10 WORKININOF THE HOLY S SRIT. 26:12 WELL OUR PRAYERS WILL BE WITH YOU, THANK YOU,U,ND WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 26:15 BEING HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 26:17 WHAT ARE SOME PARTING THINGS THAT YOU CAN SAY IN NEPALI FOR US BEFORE WE 26:21 CLOSE? 26:23 WHICH MEANS WE WILL MEET AGAIN AND IF NOT HERE ON THIS EARTH WE WILL MEET T 26:27 HEAVEN WITH MANY, MAMA NEPALIS THAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO WITNESS TO. 26:32 WONDERFUL! 26:33 WELL THANK YOU AND PLEASE GREET OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE LORD WHEN 26:37 YOU GET TO NEPAL AND D ESSINGS TO YOU AND THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. 26:40 THANK YOU FOR JOINING US HERE AT "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" AT GOSPEL 26:52 OUTHESE GOSPEL OUTREACHRD WORKERS; PLEASE PRAY FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH AS WE WORK 27:09 TOGETHER WITH YOU AND OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU AS THE LORD IMPRESSES UPON 27:28 YOU WHAT YOU CAN GIVE TO GOSPEL OUTREACH SO THE LORD CAN COME AND WE CAN 28:04 SO THANK YOU FOR COMJOINING US AND MAYAND HISTHE LORD BLESS YOU.IM. 28:20 I'M JULIE SANDERS-KEYMER. 28:25 THANK YOU. 28:27 [CLOSING MUSIC]. |
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