Adventures in Missions

Mining Engineer to Pastor

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Participants: Fred Webb

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00:00 [OPENING MUSIC].
00:14 HELLO EVERYBODOD
00:17 I'M SO GLAD TO BE BACK WITH YOU AGAIN.
00:19 ARE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH COLLEGE PLACE, W WHINGTON.
00:24 THIS IS IN THE FALL OF 2014 ANANTHISISS THTH SEASON OF THE YEAR WHEN
00:29 GOSPEL OUTREACH LEADERS COME TOGETHER AND THEY EVALUATE ALL OF THE
00:34 REPORTS OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN T T GOSOSL OUTREACH W WLD A A MAKE
00:38 CISIONS ABOUT WHATAT F THE FUTURE.
00:41 AND ONE OF THOSE WHAT'S FOR THE FUTURE HAS TO DO WITH A AING MORE A A MORE
00:47 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS OUT THERE IN THE REGIONS.
00:51 THEY LOOK AT BUDGETS A LOT BECAUSE IF THERE IS NOT NEY IN THEHECCCCNT TO
01:00 PAY FOR THESE WORKERS WE CAN'T ASSIGN THEM.
01:04 STHAT'S WHERE YOU COME IN.
01:06 WE ARE THE GOSPEL OUTREACH FAMILY AND D R PARTRTIPATION IS LED BY
01:13 GOD UNDER THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TOTOULTIPLY THE WORK OF GOSPSP
01:18 OUTREACH.
01:19 SO RIGHT AT THE TOP HERE, THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU
01:23 DO AS A PART OF THE GOSPEL OUTREACH MINISTRY.
01:28 ANANWHAT I GETETO DO HERE IN THIS STUDIO IS INTRODUCE YOU TO O O
01:34 GOSPEL OUTREACH LEADERS WHO HAVE RESPONSIBILITIT R THE DIREREION OF
01:40 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKRKS IN THE VARIOUS REGIONS OF THE WORLD.
01:44 I DON'T KNOW, WHAT ARE THERE FRED, 17- 18 REGIOIO?
01:47 I THINK THERE'S 17 REGIONS.
01:49 AND I GET TO PRESENT TO YOU MY DEAR FRIEND FRED WEBB.
01:53 FRED, ALWAYS GOOD TOTOEEL YOUR HAND IN MINE BROTHER.
01:57 I MEAN WHEN YOU SHAKE
01:57 HANDS WITH FRED WEBB YOU KNOW YOU'RE SHAKININHANDS
02:01 WITH SOMEBODY BECAUSE THAT'S A SINCERE HANDNDAKE.
02:05 YOU KNOW, I MILKED
02:05 COWS FOR MANY YEARS.
02:07 IT FEELS THAT WAY ALRIGHT.
02:10 ANYWAY, SO GOOD TO HAVE YOU B BK FRED.
02:13 THANK YOU.
02:14 AND I'VE GOT T TTELL YOU THAT WHEN I JUST THINK FRED WEBB I THINK THE
02:19 PHILIPPINES.
02:20 AND YOUR REGIONS IS THE COUNTRY OF THE PHILIPPINES.
02:25 AND ALL THE REGIONS HAVE NUMBERS.
02:27 I DODOT KNOW HOW THEYEYOT NUMBERS.
02:29 MINE IS NUMBER 8.
02:31 AND WHATEVER IT IS IT'S ON THE TOP OF YOUR LIST.
02:33 THAT'S MY LIST.
02:34 THAT'S RIGHT.
02:36 AND FRED BRINGS US IN PROVERBIAL LIVING COLOR REPORTS OF WHO HE SEES.
02:43 YOU GO T TTHE PHILIPPINES AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR DODOOU?
02:45 ONCE A Y YR AT LEAST.
02:46 AND WHY DO YOU GO THERE?
02:49 I GO THERE TO SEE WHAT THE WORKERS ARE DOING TO MAKE SURE THAT THE MONEY THAT
02:54 THE DONORS GIVE IS DOING THE WORK THAT THEY INTENDED FOR IT TO DO.
02:58 USING A CRUDE WORD, BUT YOU'RE KIND OF AUDITING ON BEHALF OF THE GOSPEL
03:02 OUTREACH LEADERSHIP ANANFAMIMI?
03:04 RIGHT.
03:06 NOW, WHAT'S THE ADVANTAGE TO THOSE WORKERS THERE WHEN YOU GO?
03:12 THEY KNOW THAT THEY ARE BEING SUPPORTED BY A LARGER ORGANIZATION.
03:23 WE ENCOURAGE THEM, BRING THEM IDEAS OF WHAT THEYY OTHER AREAS.
03:23 M
03:24 AND YOU DO SOME TRAINING?
03:26 WE D DSOME TRAINING.
03:27 BECAUSE SOME OF THESE PEOPLE, AND I USE A CRUDE TERM FORGIVE ME, THESE ARE
03:33 PEOPLE FROM THE PATH AND THE PLOW AND THEY MAY NOT HAVE HAD THE ADVANTAGE OF
03:39 AN E ECATION.
03:40 SOME DO AND SOME DON'T.
03:42 AND SO YOUR ROLE PARTIALLY IS TO BRING THEM ALL UP TO SPEED SO TO SPEAK.
03:46 GHT.
03:47 THAT'S THE MAJOR RESPONSIBILITY OF THE LOCAL ORGANIZATION TO DO
03:55 THE TRAINING BUT YEYE WE DO SOME.
03:57 NOW, FROM A GOSPEL OUTREACH PERSPECTIVE AND THIS IS KIND OF
04:00 FUNDAMENTAL L EXPLAINING WHO WE ARE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH, WHAT'S THE
04:05 ADVAVAAGE OF YOUR WORKERS THERE IN THE PHILIPPINES OVER HAVING SOMEBODY ELSE
04:15 THERE?
04:16 WELL, FIRST OF ALL THEY ARE MEMBERS OF THAT CULTURE.
04:20 THEY UNDERSTAND THTH CULTURE, THEY UNDERSTAND THE LANGUAGE AND THEY Y N
04:24 GO IN THERE AND DO WORK THTH I IS AA
04:24 FOR.
04:27 NOW I SPENT 17 YEARS IN FOREIGN MISSION SERVICE BUT WHEN I SEE WHAT THESE
04:30 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS ARE DOING IT'S FAR SUPEPEOR TO ANYTHING I
04:33 EVER DID.
04:35 AND GOSPEL OUTREACHE'S, WHAT SHALL I SAY, DIVINE GENIUS IS THAT THESE ARE
04:43 PEOPLE WHO ALREADY LIVE THERE, ALREADY PART OF THE CULTURE AS YOU'VE
04:49 PLAINED, ALREADY UNDEDETAND THE DIALECTS, E LANGUAGES, WHATEVER
04:54 AND THEY ALSLSLIVE AT THE SAME E ENOMIC LEVEL OF ALL THE OTHTH PEOPLE.
04:59 RIGHGH
05:00 IF THEY DON'T THEY ARE NOT LISTENED TO.
05:02 AH HA, THEY'RE A PART OF US.
05:05 RIGHT.
05:07 YOU SHARED, AND I'M JUST GOING TO TUCK THIS IN, YOU SHARED THAT EXCITING STORY
05:11 OF ONE WORKER WHO O NT BACKCKO HIS PEOPOP AND WASN'T ACCEPTED BECAUSE HE
05:17 WASN'T WEARINGNG G-STRING.
05:18 AND SO HE HAD TO KIND OF DRESS DOWN IN ORDER TO ASSURE THOSE PEOPLE, AMONG
05:25 WHOM HE WAS BORN, THAT HE WAS STILLLLNE O OTHEM.
05:28 AND YOU KNOW, ADAM AND EVEVWERE DOWN TO LESS THAN WHAT WE DRESS WITH TOO.
05:37 THAT'S RIGHT.
05:38 SO WE'LL JUST LEAVE THAT ONE THERE.
05:40 TODAY WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT A PART OF YOUR FIELD.
05:42 YES.
05:43 WE'RE GOING TO GO TO TWO AREAS OF OUR WORK.
05:45 .
05:47 I HAVE TEN DIFFERENT ENTITIES THAT I WORK WITH SO WE'LL TALK ABOUT TWO OF
05:48 EM T TAY.
05:49 OK, LET'S GO WITH SOME OF YOUR PICTURES.
05:55 OK, WE'RE GOING TO START WITH SILVESTER AND LINDA LIWES.
06:00 HE I IA VERY SMAMALLANANASY
06:00 SOON BUT H HGOT T S
06:02 EDUCATION IN MINING.
06:04 HERE IS S S DIPLOMA WHEN HE GRADUATED WITH A BACHELOR IN MINING
06:08 ENGINEERING.
06:20 ALSO-HERE'S A CERTIFICATE ROADOF ORDINATION IN NEXT TTHE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH.S
06:26 D HE WAS A PASTOR FOR THE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH WHEN ONE OF OUR PROFESSORS
06:33 FROM THE COLLEGE CAME TO HIS TOWN AND WAS PRESENTING SOME
06:37 EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS.
06:39 AND D BEGAN TO LISTEN TO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THE PASTOR WAS SAYING AND
06:42 HE SAID THAT'S NOT RIGHT.
06:44 HE'S IN THE ONG DIRECTION.
06:47 HEHEHALLLLGED HIM TREALLY.ATE.
06:48 OUR PASTOR TOOK HIM UP ON THE DEBATE AND IT WAS THE AGREEMENT THAT WHOEVER
06:54 LOST THE DEBATE WOULD JOIN THE OTHER CHURCH.
06:58 THATAT THE OLD WORLD OF D DATE THAT USED TO HAPPEN IN N L SOCIETIES.
07:03 S.
07:04 REALLY.
07:05 SO AT THE END OF THE MEETINGS SILVESTER DECIDED HE WOULD BECOME A
07:09 SEVENTNTDAY ADVENTIST.
07:10 WOW.
07:12 SO HE HAD TO GIVE UP HIS PASTORATE AND HE ACTUALLY WENT TO OUR ADVENTIST
07:17 COLLEGE ANANTOOK A FEW COURSES THEN HE WAS ASKED TO GO OUT AS A GOSPEL
07:21 OUTREACH WORKER.
07:23 SO SILVER, AS HE IS CALLED, SILVESTER BUT SILVER, WAS ASKED TO GO
07:25 OUT TO A VILLAGE-THAT'S HE ON THE LEFT AND THE MISSION PRESIDENT STANDING
07:34 NEXT TO HIM THERE.
07:38 NOW THE MISSION PRESIDENT IS NOT A VERY TALL MAN BUT HE'S A LITTLE BIGGER THAN
07:42 SILVER.
07:43 THERE HE STANDS WITH ME.
07:51 WOW.
07:52 I CAN SEE HE JUST COMES TO YOUR SHOULDER MAYBE.
07:55 AND I'M NOT ESPECIALLY TALL, I'M SIX FEET BUT IT MAKES HIM LOOK PRETTY
07:58 SMSML.
07:59 BUT HE IS A POWERFUL MAN WITH A BIG VOICE.
08:06 HE HAS A DEEP BASE VOICE.
08:08 THERE IN THE VILLAGE HE HAS HAD A LOT T PROBLEMS BECAUSE THTHE WAS A MAIN
08:14 CHURCH IN TOWN A A ONE OF SILVLV'S FIRST CONVERTS WAS ONE OF THE ELDERS IN
08:16 THAT CHURCH.
08:18 THE MAYOR IN TOWN WAS THE LEADER OF THAT CHURCH SO SILVER WAS KIND OF BLACK
08:20 LISTST.
08:21 HE HAS QUITE A FEW STRIKES AGAINST HIM DOESN'T HE.
08:27 HE HAD A LOT OF STRIKES AGAINST HIM BUT HE HAS BEEN QUITE SUCCESSFUL
08:35 THERE AND HE HAS THIS TEMPORARY CHURCH.
08:39 NOW THE MISSION HAS BOUGHT A PIECE OF PROPERTY ON WHICH THIS TEMPORARY
08:43 URCH IS BUILT.
08:44 WHEN I WAS THERE EARLIER THIS YEAR THEY SAID THAT BY THE TIME I COMEMEACK IN
08:51 2015 THEIR HOPING TO HAVE
08:51 A PROPER CHURCH BUILDING THERE AND BE READY TO
08:57 DEDICATE IT THE
08:57 SABBATH I COME.
08:59 WELL SEEING WHAT YOU'VE SHARED WITH US BEFORE FRED, THESE PEOPLE WHEN
09:04 THEY MAKE A PLPL OR A PROMISISLIKEKEHAT T EY KNOWOWOW TO FULFILL IT.
09:10 I HOPE SO.
09:11 AND GOD'S BLESSING ON THEMEM
09:12 I HAVE WRITTEN ASKING OUT IT BUT THEY HAVEN'T RESPONDED SO I'M HOPING
09:15 THTH'RE JUST KEEPING IT A SECRET.
09:17 THEY'RE GOING TO SURPRISE YOU.
09:18 IS IS INSIDE THE CHURCH.
09:19 IT LOOKS NEAT AND CLEAN.
09:21 IT'S NOT FANCY BUT IT'S NEAT AND CLEAN.
09:26 WE'RE GOING TO GO NOW TO ANOTHER AREA IN THE SAME MISSION.
09:30 THISISS FILEMON N RGASIN.
09:32 LEMOMOIS WORKING IN AN AREA CALLED CAMP 6.
09:37 THE WHOLE MOUNTAIN ON WHICH THTHCITY OF BAGUIO IS BUILT IS A GOLD MINE
09:45 AND CAMP 6 IS ONE OF THOSE GOLD MINES.
09:47 SO THAT'T'WHERE HE'S WORKING.
09:48 FILEMON, IS THAT LIKE PHILEMON IN THE BIBLE?
09:55 YES, IT'S SPELLED WITH AN "F"FTHOUGH AND IT'S FILEMON.
09:59 WOULD HE HAVE GOTTEN THAT NAME AS A BIBLE NAME?
10:08 PROBABLY.
10:09 AH, INTERESTING.
10:11 TO GET TO HIS CHURCH, AND THEY HAVE BUILT A CHURCH D I'I' SHOW THAT IN A
10:15 BIT, B B YOUOUAVE TO TAKE A TRIP ACROSS THIS SWINGING BRIDGE.
10:20 AT LEAST THIS ONE S STEEL L CAES.
10:24 I'VE BEEN ON SOME BRIDGES THAT WERE NOTHING BUT BAMBOO.
10:27 THIS ONE AT LEAST HAS STEEL CABLES BUT IT SWINGS BACK AND FORTH AND YOU
10:30 KNOW I'M'MOT AS YOUNG AND BALANCED AS I USUS TO BE.
10:35 GIVE ME AN IDEA, WHAT'SS
10:35 .
10:38 IT'S PROBABLY 200 FEET ACROSS.
10:42 REALLY.
10:43 AND IT'S PROBABLY 50-75 FEET DOWN TO THE WATER.
10:48 SO YOU ARE HANGING OUT IN SPACE.
10:50 YOU'RE WAY OUT THERE.
10:51 SO THIS IS HOW YOU START OUT.
10:53 THIS GOES FROM T T MAIN ROAD GOING ACROSS TO THE HER SIDE OF THE RIVER.
10:58 D WHEN YOU GET TO THEEOTHER SIG
10:58 PATH, CONCRETE PATH THAT
11:02 GOES OUT BETWEENENHE TS, THE LITTLE SHELTERS IN WHICH THE PEOPLE LIVE.
11:07 THE CONCRETETEATHH
11:07 IS O
11:07 MANY HEAVY RAINS?
11:10 YES, A LOT OF RAIN THERE.
11:11 BUT THEY PROBABLY CARRIED THE CEMENT FOR THAT WALK IN SACKS ACROSS THAT
11:18 BRIDGE.
11:19 RIGHT.
11:20 WOW.
11:21 AND YOU GO ON FARTHER AND THAT GOES ON FOR A LONG WAYS, WAY OUT INTO THE
11:26 AREA THERE TO GET TO THE SIGN THAT T INTS YOU TO THE CHURCH.
11:33 REALLY.
11:35 THEN WHEN YOU FINALLY GET OUT THERE THE CHURCH HAS BEEN BUILT UP.
11:38 ITITOOKS PRETTY NICE.
11:41 THESE ARE SOME OF THE MEMBERS IN THAT CHURCH.
11:46 MAYBE YOU'D LIKE TO TELL PEOPLE HOW THEY CAN BE INVOLVED IN BRINGING
11:51 MORE PEOPLE TO CHRIST AND HOW THEY CAN HELP.
11:53 THANK YOU FRED.
11:55 I ALWAYS LOOK FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO REMIND OUR VIEWERS THAT THIS IS
11:59 SIMPLY AN EXPLANATION OF YOUR MISSION FIELD, YOUR WORK AND THAT WHICH IS
12:07 ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH YOUR PRAYEYE, THROUGHH
12:07 YO.
12:12 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING A A RT O OTHE E SPEL OUOUEACHCHAMILY AND I WANT
12:16 TO R RIND D U AGAIN
12:16 THAT ON THE SCREEN IS THE ADDRESS TO WHICH Y Y
12:22 WRITE, THE TELEPHONE NUMBER THAT YOU CALL.
12:24 A VOLUNTEER WILL ANSWER THE TELEPHONE FOR YOUR OR
12:24 THERE IS THE EMAIL ADDDDSS
12:30 D THTHWEB SITE.
12:32 IN FACT GOSPEL OUTREACH LEADERSHIP IS WORKING ON A WONDERFUL PLAN FOR YOU TO
12:38 EVENTUALLY, AND THAT MAY BE SOON, GO TO THE WEB SITE AND BY Y ING TO THE
12:46 VARIOUS LINKS YOU'LL BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THESE PROGRAMS LIKE THIS ONE
12:50 WITHTHRED WEBB A A OTHERS ON A FUTURE BASIS IF YOU HAVE THE INTERNET
12:57 CONNECTED TO YOUR HOME AND WHO ALMOST DOES NOT T THESE DAYS.
13:01 SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF GOSPEL
13:05 OUTREACH.
13:06 COULD I ADD JUST A LITTLE BIT TO THAT?
13:08 YES.
13:10 YOU KNOW THE OFFICERS AND THE PEOPLE WHO WORK HERE IN THIS OFFICE ARE ALL
13:13 VOLUNTEERS.
13:14 INDEED.
13:15 NO ONE HERE GETS PAID.
13:16 THAT'S TRUE.
13:22 I WGOSPEL OUTREACH OF SUPPHAS NO EMPLOYEES, NOT LONNO PAID EMPLOYEES.HEM
13:25 AND THEY SAID WHATAT
13:26 HOW DO YOU FUNCTION?
13:28 UNDER GOD'S BLESSING AND THE ENTHUSIASM O OPEOPLE O BELIEVE IT CAN BE
13:36 DONE.
13:37 SO WELL OVER 90 PERCENT, WHAT IS IT?
13:39 OH I KNOW, IT'S 98 PERCENT GOES T TTHE FIELD.
13:42 IT'S A VERY GOOD INVESTMENT.
13:46 ALRIGHT, LETS CONTINUE WITH YOUR REPORT.
13:50 OK.
13:51 THIS IS JOSUE.
13:54 HE ALSO WORKS IN ONE OF THESE GOLD MINING AREAS IN BAGUIO AREA.
13:58 THEY ACTUALLY ARE MINING GOLD THERE NOW?
14:00 OH YES.
14:01 REALLY.
14:02 EVERYDAY SEVEN DAYS A WEEK.
14:03 DO SOME OF THE MEMBERS WORK IN THOSE GOLD MINES?
14:05 WELLLLTHIS IS ONE THEM RIGHT HERERE
14:08 OH REALLLL
14:16 HE IS A GOLD MINER AND UPON ARSENIO AND HIS WIFE ARSALLY AND THEY BECAMEOM
14:16 HE
14:25 INTERESTED AND BEGAN TO STUDY.
14:26 LOVELY, LOVELY PEOPLE.
14:28 OH YES.
14:29 NOW ARSENIO IS A GOLD MINER.
14:32 HE IS ONE OF THE MORE SELF SUPPORORNG GOLD MINERS.
14:36 HE HIRES 30 OTHER MEN TO WORK WITH HIHIAND THEY MINE GOLD D T OF THE
14:42 MOUNTAINS AND THAT'S HOW HE MAKES HIS LIVING.
14:45 HAVE YOU SEEN THE GOLD MINING PROCESS?
14:48 VERY LITTLE OF IT.
14:49 I'VEVEEEN THE MINES OUT ONONHE HILLS.
14:53 I HAVEN'T ACTUALLY BEEN INTOTO MINE BUT T EY BRING THE GOLD IN-N-LIEVE IT OR
15:11 PLACE WHERE THEY DUMP IT ANANTHENENUTS S OUT INTO THE WATER AND SHAKES I IT
15:15 A SLUICE BOX KIND OF F ING.
15:16 AND THEY HAVE CARPETS, CARPET LIKE ON THE FLOOR, IN THE SHUTE AND THE GOLD
15:25 SETTLES DOWN INTO THAT CARPET.
15:28 HOW DO THEY GET IT OUT OF THE FIBER?
15:30 I'M NOT QUITE SURE HOW THEY GET IT OUT BUT THEY DO.
15:32 I'M SURE THEY WOULUL
15:34 IF THERE GOLD IN THAT THTHE FIBER
15:34 I'M GOING AFTER IT.
15:37 THAT'S RIGHT.
15:38 I'VE SEEN THEM, THEY ONCE IN AWHILE WILL PAN A LITTLE BIT JUST TO SEE AND
15:41 MAMAKEURE THAT THERE IS GOLD IN THE ORE AND I'VE SEEN THE GOLD IN THE PANS.
15:48 WELL, YOUR TERRITORY IS MINING FOR DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOLD.
15:55 THAT'S RIGHT.
15:56 AND ARSENIO AND HIS WIFE SALLY WERE A PART OF THAT.
15:58 THEY ARE THE GOLD THAT IS BEING PURIFIED.
16:01 BUT THEY HAVE NOT LET THIS MONEY GO TO THEIR HEADS.
16:06 YES, THEY HAD A NICE HOUSE.
16:08 OH REALLY.
16:09 IT'S A NICE HOUSE.
16:17 IN THE PHILIPPINES THIS WOBUT THEY DON'T KEEPN EXCETHAT TO THEMSELVES.CE.
16:21 ON SABBATH MORNING HERE COME THE PEOPLE, HERE COME THE MEMBERS COCONG DOWN A
16:27 HILL AND BAGUIO IS ON STEEP HILLSIDES.
16:30 THE WHOLE CITY IS ON STEEPEPILLSIDES.
16:34 I MEAN, ONE HOUSE WILL BE UP HERE AND ANOTHER ONE RIGHT DOWN BELOW ALMOST
16:36 BUILT ON TOP OF EACH H HER.
16:37 SO HE LIVES DOWN ON THE SIDE OF THE HILL A WAYS SO PEOPLE HAVE TO COME DOWN
16:40 THE STAIRS TO GET TO HIS HOUSE.
16:41 SO THEY COME DOWN
16:41 THERE E D THEY WORSHIP ON SABBATH MORNING.
16:43 AND THIS IS
16:43 INSIDE THEIR HOMOM
16:44 THIS IS INSIDE THEIR HOME.
16:45 AND HE HAS BEEN A VERY FAITHFUL SUPPORTER OF THE WORK THERE AND HAS DONE AN
16:48 EXCELLENT JOB IN DOING HIS PART.
16:50 EY NEED A BIGGER PLACE.
16:51 THEY NEED A PLACE TO WORSHIP SO THEY HAVE BOUGHT A PIECE OF PROPERTY
16:53 AND AGAIN N SENIO WAS THE ONE WHO PUT THE DOWN PAYMENT DOWN ON THIS PIECE
16:57 OFOFROPERTY.
16:59 THAT PART THAT'S DOWN BELOW THERE WILL BE THE BASEMENT OF THE CHURCH AND
17:02 THTH U UWHERE E OTHEHE JOSUE E STATAING THERE IS ROOM FOR ANOTHER PART OF
17:09 THTHCHURCH.
17:13 SO THERE'S QUITE A BIT OF ROOM.
17:15 AS I SAID THE WHOLE CITY IS BUILT ON HILLSIDES SO YOYODODOT FIND FLALAPLACES
17:20 THAT WE ASASESTERNERS WOULD THINK WOULD BE A BUILDING SITE.
17:23 TO THEM THIS IS ANANDEAL SPOT.
17:25 NOW IT DOESN'T'TOOK LIKE A TERRIBLBLLARGE ECE OF PROPERTRT
17:28 THERE'S PROBABLY AS MUCH BEHIND ME AS THERE E S BEFORE ME.
17:30 BUT STILL IT MEANS THAT THIS CHURCH H GOING TO HAVE MORE THAN O O STORY
17:32 AT LEAST IN ORDEDETO ACCOMMODATATTHE E OPLE THAT WILL BE WORSHIPING
17:34 THTHE.
17:35 YES.
17:37 I THINK BASICALLY THE GROUND FLOOR BECAUSE THE ROAD COMING IN COMES DOWN
17:38 TO THE CITIT
17:39 I SEE.
17:41 SO BASICALLY WHERE HE IS STANDING WILL BE THE GROUND FLOOR AND THEN
18:00 THERE WILL BE A BASEMENT AND I DON'T KNOW IF THERE WILL BE SOMETHING ABOVE OR
18:04 NOT.
18:05 SO MAYBE WHEN YOU GO BACK AGAIN THERE WILL BE A CHURCH THERE.
18:10 WELLLL HOPE SO.
18:11 THTH WEREN'T QUITE AS SURE ABOUT THAT.
18:20 LEFTFTHEM A LITTLE BITS TO T T AND ENCOURAGE THEM ALONG THE WAY TO AT LEAST
18:39 OWN THE PROPERTY.
18:41 THEN THEY CAN START SAVING MONEY TO BUILD A BUILDING.
18:43 GOOD.
18:45 FROM THAT CHURCH YOU CAN LOOK DOWN INTO THE VALLEY AND THAT'S ALMOST STRAIGHT
18:50 DOWNWN
18:51 I MEAN YOU CAN SEE THE HOUSES DOWN IN THE VALLEY UP ON THE HILLSIDE THERE
18:56 YOU SESEA FEW OF THE SPOTS THAT ARE BROWN C COR?
18:59 THOSE ARARTAILINGS FROM MINES.
19:01 AH, I WONDERED.
19:03 SO IT IS A VERY RICH GOLD MINING G EA.
19:08 OK, , 'RE GOING TO GO TO ANOTHER MISSION AREA NOW.
19:11 THIS IS DOWN IN THE CITY.
19:13 THE MAN ON THE LEFT IS OUR GOSPEL OUTREREH WORKER AND THE MAN ON THE RIGHT IS
19:20 OUR COORDINANAR ININHAT AREA BROTHER CABAZON.
19:24 JAY ---- IS THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER.
19:27 THE TIME E WAS THERE THEY WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO SOME MEETINGSGSHAT
19:33 WOULD BE HELD
19:33 PRPRABLY IN THIS BIGIG
19:33 .
19:36 THTH HAVE BEENEN GIVING BIBLE STUDIES.
19:41 HE HAS GOTTEN SOMEME
19:41 HER
19:41 CHURCH M MBERS.
19:44 THESE ARE E URCHCHEMBERS
19:44 THAT ARE NEAR BY THAT HE HAS RECRUITED TO HELP HIM
19:50 IN HIS PREPARARATI
19:50 FOR THESE MEETINGS.
19:53 WHILE I WAS THERE JAY PRESENTED A BIBLE STUDY TO SOME OF THEHENTERESTS
20:00 BECACAE THEY LIKIKTO DEMONSTRATE THEIR SKILLS.
20:03 AND IT'S GOOD I THINK FOR THE DONORS T TSEE THAT THEY ARE GIVING BIBLE
20:07 STUDIEIE
20:08 THEY'RE NOT JUST TAKING THE MONEY.
20:10 AND HE PRESENTED THIS BIBLE STUDY AND THEY ALWAYS HAVE FOOD.
20:15 YOU SEE THE E NANAS THERE ON THE TABLE.
20:17 THEY PROVIDED A FULL MEAL FOR US.
20:21 BUT THERE IS COMPETITION.
20:24 THIS IS THE MODEDE LOOKING CATHOLIC C CRCH THAT'S I ITHE TOWN.
20:27 ERE E S ANANLD, , D CATHEDRAL-TYPE BUILDING ON THE SAME E OPERTY.
20:31 SO THIS IS THE COMPETITION THAT HE HAS.
20:36 MANY PEOPLE ARE-WELL, IN THE PHILIPPINES 90 PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE ARE E MAN
20:40 THOLIC.
20:41 OH THEY ARE?
20:42 YES.
20:43 IT WAS HIGHER.
20:44 THEY ARE LOSING GROUND.
20:45 IT WAS 98 PERCENT WHEN WE WENT OUT THERE IN 1993.
20:51 AND THERE ARE OTHER PROTESTANTS WHO ARE ALSO MINISTERING THERE I
20:55 SUSPECT.
20:56 OH YES, YES.
20:57 PROBABLY THE LARGEST PROTESTANT CHURCH ISIS LOCAL ONE CALLED IGLESIA
21:00 NI CRISTO WHICICWOULD BE THE CHURCH OF CHRIST BUT IT'S NOTOTELATED TO THE
21:05 CHURCH OF CHRIST
21:05 HEHE IN THE STATES.
21:07 IT WAS FOUNDED ACTUALLY BY A DISGRUNTLED SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST MIMISTER.
21:12 IT IS MUCH LARARR
21:12 THAN THE A AENTITI
21:12 CHURUR T TRE N N.
21:16 AND IT'S VERY WEALTHY.
21:17 YOU KNOW WHEN YOU MENTION SOMETHING LIKE THAT IT MAKES ME REMEMBER
21:23 SOMETHING I READ VERY RECENTLY IN THE SCRIPTURES WHERE E E DISCIPLES AND
21:29 JESUS WERE TOGETHER AND JOHNHN THIHI SAIAII FOUND THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE
21:36 PRPRCHING IN YOUR NAME.
21:39 SHALL I GO AND CALL FIRE DOWN FROM HEAVEN ON THEM?
21:43 AND JESUS SAID THOSE WHO ARE NOT AGAINST US ARE WITH US.
21:49 AND D I T TNK I AM FINDING SOME INSTRUCTION IN THE FACT THAT THE NAME
21:59 OF JESUS CAN BRING ALL PEOPLE TOGETHER IN FELLOWSHIP WITH OUR LORD.
22:05 THAT'S TRUE.
22:10 THERE ARE MANY SHEEP NOT OF THIS FOLD.
22:12 THAT'S RIGIG.
22:13 BUT HE'S GOING TO BRING THEM ALL TOGETHER.
22:15 WE'LL ALL BE BROUGHT TOGETHER AT SOME POINT IN TIME.
22:17 THAT'S RIGHT.
22:18 AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO THAT DAY.
22:20 I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO WHEN JESUS COMES WHEN WE'LL ALL BE GATHERED
22:22 TOGETHER.
22:24 AND THESE PEOPLE THAT YOU ARE INTRODUCING US TO, THAT'S WHAT THEIR WHOLE
22:27 LIVES ARE ABOUT.
22:28 THEEY ARE FRONT LINE WORKERS.
22:29 THEY SPEND THEIR FULL TIME SPREADING THE G GPEL.
22:34 IS IS VAL AQUINO, HAPPENS TO HAVE THE SAME
22:34 LAST NAME AS THEHERESISINT
22:39 OF THE C CNTRY AT THIS POININ
22:40 AH HA.
22:41 I DON'T KNOW IF HE'S RELATED.
22:43 HE IS WOWOING WAY WAY OUT.
22:44 IT TOOK US SEVEN HOUOU TO GET FROM THE MISSION HEADADARTERS TO HIS HOME.
22:50 IS THAT BY VEHICLE, BY FOOT, BY HOW?
22:53 BY VEHICLE.
22:54 OK.
22:55 SEVEN HOURS.
22:56 WE GOT OUT THERE.
22:57 WE SPENT TWO HOURS WITH THEM AND THEN ANOTHER SEVEN HOURS BACK TO HOME
22:59 BASESE
23:00 THAT'S A LONG DAY.
23:01 I GUESS SO.
23:09 BUT HE HAS A SMALL CHURCH THERE THAT HE HAS BEEN WOTHE DISTRICT PASTOR.AN
23:09 IS
23:11 SO HE HAS THE SUPPORT OF HIS DISTRICT PASTOR WHO BY THE WAY LIVES SOME
23:20 DISTANCE AWAY.
23:21 NOW THE RED JACKET IS THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER?
23:23 S.
23:24 OK.
23:26 AND I GOT A PICTURE OF HIM STANDING AT HIS PULPIT BUT UNFORTUNATELY I WAS NOT
23:30 ERE ON THE SABBATH T I WANTED TO GET HIM IN THE PULPIT BECAUSE HE DOES
23:34 PREACH THE GOSPEL AND THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT.
23:37 BUT HE HAS A VAST TERRITORY TO WORK IN.
23:41 THIS IS OUR LAST PICTURE BUT THERE'S A LOT TO DO THERE.
23:43 SEE ALL THOSE HILLS HAVE HOUSESESCATTERED AROUND.
23:50 LITTLE VILLAGES HERE, LILILE VILLAGEGETHERE AND HIS TASK IS TO REACH OUT
23:55 TO ALLLLF THOSE E VIAGES.
23:56 GIVE US A VERY BRIEF SKETCH FRED OF HOW THIHI GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER
24:04 LOOKING AT THIS VAST AREA WITH ALL THE PEOPLE, HOW DOES A GOSPEL OUTREACH
24:12 WORKER GO ABOUT HIS OR HER WORK IN THAT TERRITORY.
24:17 WELL FIRST OF ALL YOU CAN'N'WIN THOSE YOU DON'T KNOW.
24:22 SO THE FIRST TASK IS TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE PEOPLE.
24:26 AND ONCE THEY'VE MADE FRIENDS WITH THE PEOPLE THEN YOU CAN BEGIN TO TELL
24:31 THEM ABOUT JESUS.
24:32 WHAT'S THE COMMON BASIS TO FRIENDSHIP?
24:35 COMMUNICATION.
24:37 YOU'VE GOT TO BE OUT THERE.
24:38 YOU'VE GOT TO TALK TO THE PEOPLE.
24:40 YOU'VE GOT TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE PEOPLE AND AS FRIENDS ARE MADE THEN THEY
24:46 GIN TO SAY WELL YOU KNOW,W,HY ARE YOU DIFFERENT FROMOMHE REST OF
24:49 ?
24:51 YOU STARTED IN THE PHILIPPINES OF COURSE AS A MISSIONARY WITH YOUR WIFE
24:54 ARLENENE
24:55 YES.
24:56 NOW YOU'VE BEEN GOING THERE AS A GOSPEL OUTREACH LEADER.
24:59 YOU STARTED OUT WITH HOW MANY GOSPEL OUTRTRCH WORKERS?
25:02 HOW MANY DO YOU HAVE NOW?
25:03 WE HAVE E OUT 65 NOW.
25:05 WHEN I STARTED IN 2005 WE HAHAABOUT 45.
25:10 AND SO AS MANY AS YOU CAN HAVE T TRE IS STILL MORE TO BE DONE.
25:17 OH THERE'S MORE WORK TO BE DONE.
25:19 THERE ARE MANY MANY VILLAGES.
25:21 I RECALL RIDIDG WITH THE MISSION PRESIDENT ON THE ISLAND OF SAMAR.
25:25 WE DROVE FORORBOUT THREE HOURS AND D SAID IN THAT THREE HOURS WE HAVE NONO
25:30 PASSED ANY SEVENTH-DAY ADADNTISIS.
25:32 W.
25:33 AND WE PASSED MANY VILLAGES ALONG THE WAY.
25:35 SO THERE'S ROOM FOR MANY MANY MORE WORKERS AND THERE ARE WORKERS
25:40 AVAILABLE.
25:41 THEY GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE WITH A DEGREE IN THEOLOGY BUT THE MISSIONS DON'T
25:45 HAVE THEHEONEY TO HIRE THEM.
25:47 DO YOU HAVE SOME OF YOUR WORKERS WHO ARE ADOPTED BY OUR DONORS?
25:52 ACTUALLY WE HAVE.
25:53 ABOUT HALF OF THEM ARE ADOPTED BY DONORS.
25:56 AND IN 20 SECONDS
25:56 WHAT DOES THAT MEAEA
25:59 THAT MEANSNSHAT THE ONE WHO DOES THE ADOPTING HAS INFORMATION ABOUT THAT
26:04 ININVIDUAL, HAHAA PICTURE, KNOWS ALL ABOUT THEM, GETS A REPORT EVERY QUARTER OF
26:09 THE WORK T TY ARARDOING.
26:10 SO THEY Y E THE WORK THAT THEIR MONEY IS DOING.
26:15 AND THAT MEANS THAT YOU COULD BE ONE OF THOSE WHO ADOPTS A WORKER IN THE
26:22 KIND OF ENVIRONMENEN THAT WE'VE SEEN FRED WEBB DESCRIBE TO US AND THEN ON
26:27 A VERY FAITHFUL REGULAR BASIS YOU WILLLLET REPORTSTS
26:34 GOD'S WORKER, IS DOING IN THAT TERRITORY AND HOW THE WOWO OF F E KIKIDOM M
26:40 GOING FORWARD.
26:41 AND 150 DOLLARS A MONTH WILL DO IT.
26:44 THANK YOU FRED FOR BEING WITH US.
26:46 THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US AS W WL AND FOR YOUR PRAYERS.
26:51 REMEMBER TO PRAY FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH, THIS FIELD IN PARTICULAR AND
26:57 SEE YOU NEXT TIME.
26:58 [CLOSING MUSIC]


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