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Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000573A
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00:15 WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:18 I'M JULIE SANDERS-KEYMER AND WE ARE EXCITED THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN TO LEARN 00:22 MORE ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:24 AND TODAY YOU HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF GOING TO THE COUNTRY OF INDIA AND WE 00:29 WILL BE TRAVELING HERE WITH ED AND MARCELLINE DASS. 00:32 WELCOME! 00:33 THANK YOU. 00:34 AND BOTH OF YOU ARE ORIGINALLY FROM INDIA SO WORKING HERE AT GOSPEL 00:38 OUTREACH AND VOLUNTEERING HERE IS LIKE GOING BACK HOME, RIGHT ED? 00:41 VERY, VERY MUCH SO. 00:42 YES, I ENJOY GOING BACK THERE, YOU KNOW. 00:45 I GET TO SEE OLD FRIENDS AND I SEE ALSO WHAT IS HAPPENING WHEN IT COMES TO 00:51 GOSPEL WORK THERE. 00:53 AT THE SAME TIME, I FEEL VERY HAPPY TO SEE CHRISTIANITY MAKING 00:58 PROGRESS IN INDIA. 01:00 WELL PRAISE THE LORD AND MARCELLINE THIS AREA IN NORTHWEST INDIA-WHAT IS 01:09 THE PROMINENT RELIGION GROUP THERE? 01:12 HINDUISM-80-85% OF THE PEOPLE ARE HINDUS AND OF ALL CASTES, THEY HAVE THE 01:17 HIGHER CASTES. 01:19 ACTUALLY THE CASTE SYSTEM IS NOT FROM INDIA IT IS FROM THE BIBLE. 01:23 A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE QUITE SURPRISED WHEN THEY HEAR THAT WHEN GOD CHOSE THE 01:29 ISRAELITES AS HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE, PRIESTS WERE THE HIGH CASTE. 01:34 THEY WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO ANY MENIAL JOBS OR CLEANING, THAT'S TRUE, 01:40 ONLY SUPPOSED TO WORK FOR THE TEMPLE AND STUFF, RIGHT, AND THEN THERE WERE 01:45 THE SOLDIERS. 01:46 EVERYBODY WAS NOT A CAPABLE PERSON OF GOING AND FIGHTING IN THE ARMY 01:50 AND ABLE BODIED PEOPLE WENT TO BE IN THE ARMY SO THERE WAS THE SOLDIER 01:55 CASTE AND THEN THOSE WHO WERE THE CRAFTSMEN AND, RIGHT THOSE THAT WORKED ON 02:00 THE TEMPLE, RIGHT AND THEN THERE WERE THOSE WHO WOULD GET ALL THE CLEANING THEY 02:06 WERE NOT-THE PRIESTS WERE NOT TO BE IN TOUCH WITH THOSE WHO DID THE CLEANING 02:12 BECAUSE THEY WOULD DEFILE THE TEMPLE. 02:14 SO THE CASTE SYSTEM HAS COME FROM THE BIBLE BUT IN LATER TIMES WE HAVE PUT ON 02:21 THE HUMANITY, YES, AND A LOT OF THE NEGATIVITY OF A LOT OF THE CASTE SYSTEM. 02:25 YES, THAT'S RIGHT. 02:27 SO ED, SPEAKING OF THE CASTE SYSTEM YOU AND MARCELLINE WERE AT A 02:30 SCHOOL FOR MANY YEARS, YES, AND WHY DON'T YOU TELL A LITTLE STORY ABOUT 02:34 HOW YOU KIND OF DEFIED THE CASTE SYSTEM. 02:36 OH YES, IT WAS QUITE FUNNY SOMETIMES BUT AT THAT TIME IT WASN'T FUNNY BECAUSE 02:48 SOMETIMES LIFE CAN BECOME VERY SERIOUS AND YOU HAVE BEAR SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES, 02:51 YOU KNOW. 02:55 WHEN YOU ARE YOUNG AND YOU NEVER CARE ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES, YOU KNOW, 03:00 JUST GO AHEAD-DO IT. 03:01 YES. 03:03 WELL ACTUALLY TO GO BACK TO MY DAD'S TIME- MY GRANDFATHER WHO WAS A 03:10 PUNDIT-A PRIEST OF A TEMPLE AND HE WAS TRAINING MY DAD TO BECOME THE 03:18 PRIEST OF THE TEMPLE, INTERESTING, AND SENT MY FATHER FOR HIS EDUCATION 03:25 TO A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL-A BOARDING SCHOOL, A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL AND BY 03:31 THE TIME HE FINISHED HIS HIGH SCHOOL, MY DAD WAS CONVINCED THAT THAT WAS 03:37 THEIR RELIGION. 03:38 BECAUSE HAD HE COME FROM A HINDU BACKGROUND? 03:40 YES, HE WAS BRAHMAN-WAS COMING FROM THE PRIESTS, OH, O.K.-HE WAS A PRIEST'S 03:44 CHILD YOU KNOW. 03:46 BUT SENT BECAUSE IN THOSE DAYS THE BRITISH ARRIVED, RIGHT, THE BRITISH WERE 03:50 RULING; IF YOU WENT AHEAD AND KNEW ENGLISH YOU COULD COMMUNICATE IN ENGLISH YOU 03:56 WOULD MADE A LOT OF PROGRESS IN INDIA. 03:58 YOU COULD GET EVERYWHERE YOU WANTED TO GET. 04:01 SO THAT'S ONE REASON WHY HE WAS SENT TO BOARDING SCHOOL-CHRISITAN BOARDING 04:05 SCHOOL BUT ONCE HE WAS THROUGH WITH HIS EDUCATION THERE- HE LIVED THERE 04:08 ABOUT 7 OR 8 YEARS HE WAS TOTALLY CONVINCED BECAUSE HE HAD TO GO TO WORSHIPS, 04:14 HE HAD TO DO ALL THE THINGS THAT CHRISTIANS DO. 04:17 HE WAS CONVINCED THAT JESUS WAS THE SAVIOR. 04:20 WOW. 04:21 SO QUIETLY HE CAME AND DISCLOSED THAT TO HIS MOTHER. 04:25 HOW DID THAT GO? 04:27 VERY BADLY AND SO WHEN THE FATHER CAME TO KNOW, GRANDFATHER CAME TO KNOW 04:32 THEY ALMOST OSTRACIZED HIM. 04:35 REALLY! 04:37 BECAUSE HE WAS THE PRIEST AND HE COULDN'T HAVE A SON WHO HAS BECOME A 04:41 CHRISTIAN. 04:42 SO THAT'S THE FIRST DEFIANCE DONE BY MY OWN FATHER. 04:47 OF COURSE, BY THE TIME I CAME IN I WAS BORN CHRISTIAN, I WAS NOT BORN 04:55 HINDU I WAS BORN CHRISTIAN AND I LEARNED SO MANY THINGS THAT MY GRANDFATHER 05:01 WOULD TEACH ME AND TELL ME ONCE IN A WHILE HE'D COME AND TELL ME -HE NEVER 05:06 VISITED US TOO MUCH BECAUSE OF MY DAD'S CHANGE OF RELIGION BUT ONCE IN A 05:11 WHILE HE'D TELL ME, "NOW YOU CAN'T GO AND PLAY WITH THAT GUY AND YOU CANNOT 05:15 PLAY WITH THAT PERSON AND CANNOT DO THIS AND YOU CANNOT DO THIS, YOU HAVE 05:19 TO KEEP THIS HOUSE CLEAN AND YOU HAVE TO"-YOU KNOW ALL THOSE RAMIFICATIONS HE 05:24 WOULD DISCUSS WITH ME BUT THAT WAS ONLY A FEW TIMES. 05:29 I'D JUST LISTEN AND WOULD KNOW WHAT GRANDFATHER WAS TALKING ABOUT. 05:36 LATER I STARTED PLAYING WITH PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT OF MY CASTE. 05:44 WHAT WAS MY CASTE? 05:45 I WAS A CHRISTIAN. 05:46 YES, THERE ISN'T A CATEGORY FOR THAT. 05:49 YES YOU WERE A CHRISTIAN, YOU WERE EVERYBODY'S FRIEND. 05:53 SO HOW DID THAT GO? 05:54 IT WENT ALRIGHT WITH ME BUT IT DIDN'T GO VERY WELL WITH MY RELATIVES. 05:59 MY PARENTS DIDN'T BOTHER ME BUT MY RELATIVES: UNCLES, AUNTS AND OTHERS 06:06 THEY WERE STILL HINDUS. 06:09 SO IT WAS DIFFERENT. 06:10 IT WAS KIND OF NEW NO ONE HAD DONE THAT PROBABLY, IN YOUR FAMILY. 06:13 EXACTLY, FOR ME TO BE PLAYING WITH A GUY WHOSE MOTHER AND FATHER SWEEP 06:20 THE ROOMS, THAT WAS A NO, NO. 06:23 YOU KNOW BUT HE WAS THE BEST LOOKING GUY AND-BUT YOU WERE JUST BEING LIKE 06:30 JESUS BEING FRIENDS WITH. 06:31 I WAS NOT KNOWING THE DIFFERENCE, YOU KNOW. 06:33 YES, SURE. 06:35 TO ME HE WAS A HUMAN BEING, SURE, AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I DID. 06:38 I HAD TO BEAR CONSEQUENCES FOR THAT BUT SOMETIMES I GOT BEATINGS. 06:42 DID YOU REALLY? 06:43 YES, I GOT BEATING FOR THAT BUT NOT FROM MY DAD. 06:46 YES. 06:48 MY DAD NEVER BEAT ME OR SAID ANYTHING BUT I GOT BEATINGS FROM UNCLES AND 06:51 AUNTS AND OTHER RELATIVES AND THEY CAME AND ALSO, YOU, NOW, SCOLDED MY 06:58 MOTHER: "WHY DO YOU ALLOW THIS AND WHY DO YOU DO THAT?" 07:01 MY MOM WAS A MUSLIM CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY. 07:03 YOUR MOTHER WAS A MUSLIM CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY? 07:07 AND MY DAD WAS A HINDU CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY SO THERE WERE TWO RELIGIONS 07:18 IN MY HOUSE. 07:19 ABSOLUTELY. 07:20 AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT I WAS BUT WAS BORN A CHRISTIAN. 07:24 AND YOU WERE. 07:25 AND I ONLY KNEW JESUS, NOBODY ELSE. 07:28 PRAISE THE LORD. 07:29 I KNOW JESUS WAS GOD AND HE IS THE ONE AND SO I WENT AND DID MY THINGS AS 07:34 THE LORD WOULD HAVE ME DO IT AND NOBODY WAS WORRIED ABOUT CASTES. 07:39 AND THEN AT THE SCHOOL THOUGH, YOU HAD A SPECIAL DAY THE INDIA NATIONAL 07:43 DAY, OH YES-AT THE SCHOOL WHERE I WORKED RECENTLY YOU KNOW, BEFORE I CAME 07:49 BACK WE HAD- DURING INDEPENDENCE DAY AND REPUBLIC DAY WE ALWAYS 07:56 HAVE TO RAISED THE FLAG AND HAVE TO HAVE A SPECIAL HONORABLE GUEST-GUEST OF 08:02 HONOR. 08:04 HE HAS TO BE A V.I.P. 08:05 HE HAS TO BE A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL OR EDUCATIONAL LEADER OR SOMETHING LIKE 08:10 THAT BUT ONE TIME WE JUST COULDN'T ARRANGE FOR ONE SUCH PERSON AND I WONDERED 08:18 WHAT I WAS GOING TO DO. 08:20 IN THE MORNING I HAVE TO RAISE THE FLAG. 08:23 SO A THOUGHT CAME TO ME I SAID, "WHY DON'T I GET MY LOWLY CLASS WORKERS AND 08:33 HAVE THEM RAISE THE FLAG?" 08:35 WHO WOULD THAT BE? 08:36 THAT WOULD BE A COOK, A GARDENER AND WHO WAS THE DRIVER-THE SCHOOL VAN 08:42 DRIVER. 08:44 THESE GUYS ARE ALL LOW CLASS YOU KNOW, CONSIDERED LOW CLASS BUT THEY ARE NOT 08:48 LOW CLASS. 08:49 THEY ARE VERY HARD WORKING ONES. 08:52 THEY ARE HARD WORKING AND THEY ARE GOOD PEOPLE SO I ASKED THEM IF THEY WOULD 09:00 RAISE THE FLAG. 09:01 US? 09:02 HOW CAN WE RAISE THE FLAG? 09:03 I SAID, "YES, YOU CAN RAISE THE FLAG. 09:05 THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT?" 09:07 WHO SAID THAT YOU CAN'T RAISE THE FLAG? 09:09 AREN'T YOU CITIZENS OF INDIA? 09:10 YES. 09:11 I SAID, OK, COME. 09:13 SO THEY RAISED THE FLAG AND I TELL YOU THERE WAS SUCH A CHANGE IN THE 09:20 WORKING CLASS OF THE COLLEGE. 09:22 SO THEY JUST WENT AHEAD AND WORKED WITH THEIR HEART CONSIDERING THAT IT 09:30 WAS THEIR OWN INSTITUTION-THEY WERE A PART OF IT.THEY COULD 09:35 RAISE THE FLAG. 09:37 WHY NOT? 09:38 PRAISE THE LORD. 09:39 AND THAT'S HOW IT WENT AND I THINK GOD WAS VERY HAPPY WITH THAT. 09:43 I WOULD THINK SO. 09:44 I WOULD THINK SO. 09:45 WELL, THANK YOU FOR SHARING BECAUSE THAT KIND OF GIVES MANY OF THE 09:48 VIEWERS AN IDEA OF SOME OF THINGS NOT ONLY WITH THE RELIGION BUT THECASTE 09:53 SYSTEM AND UNDERSTANDING THAT. 09:55 SO IN NORTHWEST INDIA YOU HAVE THIS POPULATION OF 650 MILLION PEOPLE AND HOW 10:01 MANY GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS? 10:03 ONLY 350. 10:05 WOW! 10:06 MARCELLINE THAT'S A BIG DIFFERENCE-THAT IS ABOUT 2 MILLION PER PERSON. 10:12 YES ABSOLUTELY. 10:14 200 MILLION -NO 2 MILLION PER PERSON. 10:16 THAT'S JUST A HUGE NUMBER, HUGE NUMBER. 10:19 MORE PEOPLE WHO NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JESUS, RIGHT? 10:21 BUT GOD HAS WAYS. 10:24 GOD HAS WAYS UNBEKNOWN TO ANY OF US. 10:27 MYSTERIOUS, MARVELOUS, MIRACULOUS YOU NAME IT. 10:32 NO WORDS CAN DESCRIBE HOW GOD INTERVENES AND BRINGS HIS WORD TO THE PEOPLE 10:40 THAT ARE WAITING, THAT ARE RECEPTIVE AND THROUGH SO MANY WAYS. 10:48 I KNOW WHEN WE WERE WORKING AT THE SCHOOL ONE DAY, ED WAS PREACHING AND 10:54 THERE WAS A WOMAN WHO WAS SCREAMING, SCREECHING AND I CAME OUT AND I SAW THAT 11:02 THIS WOMAN WAS BEING DRAGGED IN THE MUD AND THE DIRT AND THE HAIR, LONG 11:10 HAIR WAS FULL OF DUST AND DIRT AND I RAN TO HIM-HE WAS PREACHING AT THE 11:17 ENGLISH CHURCH. 11:18 THIS WAS HAPPENING AT THE HINDI SPEAKING CHURCH AND HE CAME AND REALIZED THAT 11:24 THIS WOMAN WAS BEING TORMENTED BY THE DEVIL. 11:27 OH DEAR. 11:29 AND HE REBUKED THE DEVIL AND IT WENT OUT. 11:31 IT CAME BACK AGAIN INTO HER THREE TIMES. 11:35 IT JUST DID NOT LEAVE THE WOMAN AND MANY OF THE GOSPEL WORKERS ARE TALKING 11:41 ABOUT THE SAME THING ABOUT HOW THE DEVIL IS ATTACKING THE PEOPLE, TORTURING THEM 11:47 PHYSCIALLY, MENTALLY THAT THEY HAVE NO PEACE. 11:50 JUST LIKE IN THE BIBLE, YES. 11:52 IT IS ALL IN THE BIBLE. 11:53 YES. 11:55 IT GAVE ME GOOSE BUMPS TO KNOW THAT THE WORK OF THE LORD NOW TAKING PLACE IN 12:00 INDIA IS SO SIMILAR TO THE BIBLE STORIES-SICK WOMEN COMING CRYING, THEIR 12:05 CHILDREN ARE BEING TORMENTED, THROWN AROUND, BEATEN AND I'VE SEEN FOR 12:11 MYSELF FIRST HAND THIS WOMAN BEING TORTURED AND BEATEN AND THIS WOMAN WAS 12:17 FILTHY DIRTY WITH DUST AND MUD ALL OVER HER. 12:20 MY HEART JUST WENT OUT TO HER AND I PUT MY ARMS AROUND HER AND I SAID, 12:25 "OK, LET'S WASH YOU UP." 12:27 "I WILL GIVE YOU SOME FOOD." 12:29 THE FIRST THING THEY ASK FOR IS WATER AND FOOD WHEN THE EVIL LEAVES THEM AND 12:37 THIS WOMAN ASKED FOR WATER-WE GAVE HER WATER THEN WE GAVE HER FOOD TO 12:42 EAT AND A FEW WEEKS LATER SHE CAME BACK AGAIN -SABBATH AND I WAS TELLING 12:48 SOMEBODY CAME AND JUST HUGGED ME FROM THE BACK. 12:51 WAS IT THAT WOMAN? 12:53 YES, AND SHE WAS KISSING MY BACK AND I JUST -NOBODY LOVES ME THIS MUCH TO DO 13:01 THAT? 13:02 BUT YOU KNOW THE RELIEF FROM SUCH TORTURE THIS WOMAN EXPRESSED IN HER 13:08 JOY, YOU KNOW, WHEN SHE WAS RELIEVED OF EVIL AND THAT IS THE SECRET OF WHY 13:16 THE PEOPLE TURN TO JESUS BECAUSE JESUS RELIEVES THEM OF TORTUROUS PAIN. 13:24 OH SISTER! 13:25 PREACH IT, PREACH IT! 13:27 AND IF YOU ARE ENJOYING WHAT YOU ARE HEARING HERE AT "ADVENTURES IN 13:30 MISSIONS" HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO GET 13:34 INVOLVED. 13:39 GOSPEL OUTREACH BEGAN A MISSION TWENTY YEARS AGO BY ASKING ONE SIMPLE 13:44 QUESTION. 13:45 WHAT IS JESUS WAITING FOR? 13:46 IN A WORLD FILLED WITH FAMINE, HUNGER AND STARVATION WHAT IS JESUS 13:51 WAITING FOR? 13:53 IN A WORLD FILLED WITH EARTHQUAKES, HURRICANES AND NATURAL CALAMITIES, 13:57 WHAT IS JESUS WAITING FOR? 14:00 THE GOSPEL TELLS US IN MATTHEW 24:14, "AND THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM 14:05 SHALL BE PREACHED IN ALLTHE WORLD FOR A WITNESS UNTO ALL NATIONS AND THEN 14:10 SHALL THE END COME." 14:13 INSPIRED BY THOSE WORDS, GOSPEL OUTREACH BEGAN WITH ONE WORKER, AND OVER THE 14:18 PAST TWENTY YEARS HAS GROWN INTO AN ORGANIZATION WITH 2200 WORKERS IN 40 14:23 PLUS COUNTRIES. 14:25 GOSPEL OUTREACH IS AN INDEPENDENT SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST LAY MINISTRY RUN 14:29 ENTIRELY BY VOLUNTEERS. 14:31 YES, YOU HEARD THAT CORRECTLY. 14:32 IT'S AN ALL VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION. 14:36 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKS WITH THE ORGANIZED CHURCH TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS IN 14:39 UNREACHED TERRITORIES. 14:41 NOW, YOU MIGHT ASK DOESN'T THIS TAKE AWAY THE CHURCH IS ALREADY DOING WITH 14:47 OVERSEAS MISSIONS? 14:49 ABSOLUTELY NOT. 14:50 DIRECT SPONSORSHIP IS JUST A PART OF THE EQUATION JUST AS LARGE A PART IS 14:55 STAYING INVOLVED IN THE WORK THE CHURCH IS DOING THROUGH MISSIONS OFFERING. 14:59 GOSPEL OUTREACH MAIN DESIRE IS TO RAISE FUNDS WHICH ARE SENT DIRECTLY TO 15:03 THE CHURCH TO PAY BIBLE WORKERS WHO HELP SPREAD THE GOSPEL IN THE 10/40 15:07 WINDOW. 15:09 NOW WHAT EXACTLY IS THE 10/40 WINDOW? 15:12 THE 10/40 WINDOW IS A REGION OF THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE LOCATED BETWEEN 15:16 10 AND 40 DEGREES NORTH OF THE EQUATOR. 15:18 WHAT MAKES THIS REGION SPECIAL? 15:22 NINETY SEVEN PER CENT OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, WHO HAVE NEVER 15:27 HEARD THE NAME OF JESUS, LIVE HERE. 15:29 NOW HOW EXACTLY DOES GOSPEL OUTREACH WORK TO REACH THESE PEOPLE? 15:33 WE DO THIS BY WORKING WITH THE CHURCH AS IT PLACES TRAINED INDIGENOUS WORKERS 15:38 IN NEW TERRITORIES. 15:39 SENDING OUT DISCIPLES JUST AS JESUS DID. 15:43 WE SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS LIKE PRABIR RUBIN. 15:45 PRABIR IS FROM INDIA AND WITH THE HELP OF OUR SPONSORSHIP; HIS CHURCH 15:49 CONFERENCE HAS SENT HIM TO THE SMALL VILLAGE OF MARUA TO SHARE THE GOSPEL. 15:54 THESE INDIVIDUALS HAD NEVER HEARD THE NAME OF JESUS AND THEIR LIVES HAVE 15:58 BEEN CHANGED FOREVER. 16:00 IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS THERE HAVE BEEN NINE ADDITIONAL BAPTISMS DUE TO 16:03 THE WORK OF PRABIR. 16:05 UNTIL A FEW MONTHS AGO, THE LOCAL MEMBERS OF THIS CHURCH HAVE BEEN 16:09 WORSHIPING IN A HOUSE CHURCH. 16:11 RECENTLY, A NEW MEMBER NAMED ERISMA GAVE HIS LIFE TO GOD AND DONATED A PIECE 16:16 OF HIS OWN LAND TO THE CHURCH. 16:18 ON IT A NEW TIN CHURCH HAS BEEN CONSTRUCTED. 16:21 IT STILL NEEDS SOME WORK BUT GOD'S CHURCH CONTINUES TO GROW HERE IN INDIA. 16:25 WHEN A BIBLE WORKER SPONSORED BY GOSPEL OUTREACH ENTERS A NEW 16:30 VILLAGE, IT IS ESTIMATED THAT IN THE FIRST YEAR AN ADDITIONAL 300 INDIVIDUALS 16:35 WILL BE BAPTIZED AND COMMIT THEIR LIVES TO CHRIST. 16:38 INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEVER HEARD THE AMAZING STORY OF GOD'S LOVE ARE GETTING TO 16:43 MEET JESUS FOR THE FIRST TIME. 16:45 NOW HOW CAN YOU HELP? 16:49 BIBLE WORKERS LIKE PRABIR RELY ON SPONSORSHIPS TO SUPPORT THEM AND THEIR 16:55 FAMILIES AS THEY SHARE THE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE OF GOD. 17:00 THIS IS WHY GOSPEL OUTREACH IS INTRODUCING OUR "ADOPT-A-WORKER 17:03 PROGRAM" TOGETHER WITH THE CHURCH, WE IDENTIFY NEW WORKERS IN AREAS THAT NEED 17:08 TO BE REACHED. 17:17 WE HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED A REQUEST FROM PASTOR RON WATTS, RETIRED SOUTHERN 17:20 ASIA DIVISION PRESIDENT, FOR 10,000 NEW BIBLE WORKERS IN INDIA ALONE. 17:23 THE NEED IN THE REST OF ASIA AND AFRICA IS JUST AS LARGE WHERE PEOPLE ARE 17:27 HUNGRY TO HEAR GOD'S WORD AND THAT IS WHY IT IS OUR GOAL TO INTRODUCE A 17:31 MILLION NEW PEOPLE TO JESUS IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS. 17:34 ALL THAT IS REMAINING FOR THIS WORK TO BEGIN IS YOUR FINANCIAL HELP. 17:37 THE AVERAGE COST OF A BIBLE WORKER IS $150 A MONTH. 17:41 FOR SOME, THAT'S TOO MUCH TO SPONSOR ON THEIR OWN BUT TOGETHER WITH YOUR 17:45 CHURCH, SABBATH SCHOOL GROUP OR SCHOOL YOU CAN TAKE OWNERSHIP OF THE WORK 17:50 BEING DONE AND SPONSOR A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER FOR A YEAR. 17:53 IN RETURN WE WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED ON THE EXCITING PROGRESS OF YOUR WORKER 17:58 SENDING YOU STORIES, PICTURES OF THE LIVES CHANGED BY YOUR DONATIONS. 18:03 NOW THAT YOU KNOW ABOUT OUR "ADOPT-A-WORKER PROGRAM" THERE ARE THREE 18:06 WAYS YOU CAN GET INVOLVED: FIRST, YOU CAN BE A PRAYER PARTNER FOR GOSPEL 18:11 OUTREACH BY PRAYING FOR OUR BIBLE WORKERS. 18:14 SECOND, BECOME AN AMBASSADOR FOR OUR "ADOPT-A-WORKER PROGRAM" 18:17 BY TELLING YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS ABOUT HOW THEY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE TOO. 18:23 AND FINALLY, SPONSOR A BIBLE WORKER. 18:25 CALL OR VISIT THE WEBSITE TODAY. 18:28 SO NOW THAT YOU KNOW A BIT ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH, AND NOW THAT YOU KNOW WHAT 18:31 JESUS IS WAITING FOR, THE FINAL QUESTION IS: WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? 18:43 AND THAT'S THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION-WHAT ARE WE ALL WAITING FOR? 18:46 TODAY IS THE DAY, TODAY IS THE DAY WHEN WE NEED TO SHARE JESUS WITH OTHER 18:49 PEOPLE AND THAT'S WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE WITH ED AND MARCELLINE 18:53 DASS AND SO RECENTLY YOU JUST RETURNED FROM A TRIP TO CHECK IN WITH THE 18:56 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS IN NORTHWEST INDIA AND YOU HAVE SOME PICTURES FOR US, 19:00 ED. 19:01 THAT'S RIGHT. 19:02 SO WHY DON'T WE GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED. 19:04 OK. 19:06 OH HERE'S OUR FIRST PICTURE WHERE WE CONDUCTED A LEADERSHIP SEMINAR FOR 19:10 WORKERS -GOSPEL WORKERS AND LEADERS OF THE UNION. 19:15 HERE WE ARE PRAYING TOGETHER WITH THEM. 19:17 HERE IS A GROUP OF LEADERS ALL FROM THE UNION AND FEW ARE FROM THE SECTIONS ALSO 19:26 WHERE WE CONDUCTED THE SPECIAL LEADERSHIP SEMINAR. 19:30 THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE WE WENT OUTSIDE OF DELHI OUTSKIRTS WHERE TELL THEM 19:36 ABOUT THIS PLEASE QUICKLY, THE ODORS WERE SO TERRIBLE, PUTRIFYING ODORS 19:41 AND THE AIR WAS SO ACRID WITH THE OPEN SEWAGE AND IN THAT AREA THESE WOMEN 19:49 WERE ABOUT 60-65 WOMEN SITTING ON THE FLOOR WERE PRAYING AND SINGING AND ED 19:57 DID NOT SMELL ANYTHING. 19:58 HE WAS JUST SO EXCITED- I LOVED THE WAY THEY WERE SINGING THE LORD'S 20:02 PRAISES. 20:03 PRAISE THE LORD. 20:04 AND HE JUST KEPT SAYING, "OH THEY WERE SO ENTHUSIASTICALLY SINGING 20:09 AND PRAYING." 20:10 HERE THEY ARE. 20:12 NOW WE WENT TO VARANASI, THAT'S ONE OF THE MOST SACRED TOWNS OF HINDUS. 20:21 WHY? 20:22 BECAUSE THE HINDUS BELIEVE IT TO BE WHERE THE GANGHIS COMES IN, OH RIGHT, OK, 20:28 I'VE HEARD ABOUT THIS LOCATION. 20:30 THIS IS WHERE MOST OF HINDUS GO AT LEAST ONE TIME IN THEIR LIFE-THEIR 20:34 PILGRIMAGE. 20:35 PILGRIMAGE THERE YOU KNOW. 20:36 THERE WE HAVE A MAN -THESE ARE THE GOSPEL WORKERS WHO ARE GIVING THEIR 20:43 TESTIMONIES IN THAT PLACE AND BEAUTIFUL TESTIMONIES. 20:47 ONE TESTIMONY, ONE OF THE GUYS SAID THAT A HINDU WOMAN CAME TO HIM AND 20:52 SAID, "WELL, IF YOU CAN GET ME A BOY-MY PUNDIT SAID THAT I'M GETTING A 20:59 GIRL WHEN I WANT TO DELIVER A BOY BECAUSE I WANT TO HAVE A BOY IN THE 21:03 FAMILY. 21:05 AND I WANT A BOY SO THAT MY FAMILY WOULD BE HAPPY; IF YOU PRAY FOR ME TO YOUR 21:09 LORD. 21:10 IF YOU PRAY FOR ME TO YOUR GOD AND I GET A BOY, I WILL BECOME A CHRISTIAN." 21:16 AND THE GOSPEL WORKER PRAYED FOR SEVERAL WEEKS HE PRAYED WITH HER AND SHE 21:22 DELIVERED A BOY. 21:23 AND? 21:24 AND THE WHOLE FAMILY BECAME A CHRISTIAN. 21:26 WOW! 21:27 THAT'S LIKE RAHAB BRINGING HER WHOLE FAMILY-WOW! 21:30 AND HERE AT THE VARANASI MEETING THAT IN THAT HINDU TOWN, WHERE IT IS A SACRED 21:35 TOWN, WE HAVE GOSPEL WORKERS WHO ARE VERY ENTHUSUASTICALLY GOING AND 21:40 PREACHING THE GOSPEL IN THE HEART OF THE HINDU TERRITORY. 21:46 THEN FROM THERE WE MOVED TO SHAHABASPUR WHERE WE INAUGURATED A CHURCH AND 21:54 MARCI WAS TALKING TO YOU ABOUT THE TEMPLE THAT IS CLOSE BY OR A FORT THAT IS 21:59 CLOSE BY AND IN THIS FORT IS ABOUT 1600-1700 YEARS OLD- THERE IS A ROOM IN 22:07 THE BASEMENT WITH A 50 POUND LOCK-50 POUNDS? 22:11 YES. 22:12 THAT'S HUGE. 22:13 HUGE AND THE KEY OF IT IS LONG GONE. 22:16 NOBODY KNOWS WHERE. 22:18 THEY SAY THE TREASURY OF THE KING IS LOCKED IN THERE AND FROM THE BOTTOM 22:24 OF THE DOOR FORKED TONGUES COME OUT. 22:28 THE SNAKES CANNOT COME OUT BECAUSE THE SPACE IS TOO NARROW, YES, WHEN SOMEBODY 22:38 HAS COUNTED OVER 34 TONGUES THERE BUT HINDUS BELIEVE THAT THE SNAKE GOD 22:44 IS THE KEEPER OR THE CARETAKER OF THE TREASURE. 22:52 SO THEY WANT TO PROTECT IT. 22:54 YES, THIS IS THE CHURCH THAT WE INAUGURATED WHICH IS VERY CLOSE TO THAT SAME 22:57 PLACE. 22:59 AND THE LADIES ARE WEARING THE SHAWL LIKE YOU HAVE- YES, MARCELLINE, THEY HAVE 23:03 ALL GOT THEIR HAIR COVERED AND THEN THIS IS THE SAME PLACE IN VARANASI WHERE 23:08 THE MR.- OUR WORKER, THE LEADER, FEARLESS LEADER, WHO CONDUCTS THE AFFAIRS 23:16 OF THE LORD THERE. 23:19 ---NEVER SCARED TO GO AND PREACH THE GOSPEL. 23:21 PRAISE THE LORD! 23:24 OK. 23:25 THERE YOU ARE INAUGURATING THE CHURCH. 23:27 THERE THE LADIES ARE AGAIN, YES, WITH THEIR HEADSCARVES. 23:30 EXACTLY. 23:31 AND THEY ARE SITTING ON THE FLOOR. 23:33 I LIKE THE STRIPED FABRIC. 23:35 THAT IS FANTASTIC. 23:37 YES. 23:38 HERE WE WENT TO ANOTHER CHURCH. 23:40 THIS IS IN MURADABAD WHERE OUR CHURCH IS THERE BUT THE PROPERTY IS IN VERY 23:46 BAD SHAPE. 23:48 IT NEEDS SOMETHING - IT IS IN THE HEART OF THE LARGE CITY. 23:51 HEART OF THE LARGE CITY -THE PROPERTY IS ALL DELAPITATED, FALLING DOWN. 23:56 IF WE CAN BUILD THIS PLACE UP THIS WOULD BE A TREMENDOUS INFLUENCE ON 24:01 THE PEOPLE OF THAT CITY. 24:03 THEN WE WENT TO NACHEVABAD- THIS IS WHERE YOU CAN TELL ABOUT -DR. 24:08 REYNOLDS SENT MONEY TO GOSPEL OUTREACH FOR THIS CHURCH. 24:14 WE IN THE EARLY 20'S, 30'S SOMEWHERE WAY OUT THERE HIS DAD WAS WORKING IN 24:20 THERE AND HIS HEART BLEEDS FOR NACHEVABAD-THAT'S THE CHURCH WHERE HE HAS 24:26 CARPETED THE WHOLE PLACE. 24:27 AND WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE MUSCIAL I N STRUMENT-HARMONIUMS, 24:31 YES; I LOVE THE SOUND OF THEM. 24:33 THEY ARE FORM THE BELLOWS WITH THE LEFT HAND AND THEN YOU PLAY WITH THE 24:38 RIGHT HAND AND THEN OH, DON'T FORGET THE MAN ON THE DRUM THOUGH, THAT GOES 24:41 ALTOGETHER. 24:43 EACH NOTE IN THE DRUM HAS 64 BEATS ONLY AN EXPERT CAN BEAT THOSE. 24:49 WOW! 24:50 NOT EVERYBODY. 24:51 THERE IS YOUR GROUP AGAIN. 24:52 YES. 24:53 WELL FANTASTIC PHOTOS, THANK YOU. 24:58 SO WHEN YOU MET WITH THEM, IT WAS ENCOURAGING THEM, IT WAS HELPING THEM TO DO 25:06 SOME TRAINING, WERE YOU INVOLVED WITH ANY TRAINING? 25:10 ED WANTED TO SEE WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING? 25:15 WHAT ARE THESE WORKERS DOING THAT WE CAN SAY YES, THEY ARE REALLY WORKING. 25:22 WORK SPEAKS. 25:23 WORK PRODUCES RESULTS. 25:24 THIS IS TRUE. 25:26 WE DID THE TRAINING IN DELHI FIRST WHERE WE HAD CALLED ALL THE LEADERS, 25:33 MAINLY THE LEADERS TO COME, SO WE COULD HAVE SEMINAR FOR LEADERSHIP 25:38 TRAINING SEMINAR FOR 4 DAYS WE TRAINED THERE AND THEN FOR ANOTHER 2 DAYS I 25:43 WENT TO VARANASI THE HINDU CITY WHERE I TRAINED ANOTHER 60-70 PEOPLE, YOU 25:51 KNOW HOW TO PREACH THE GOSPEL FEARLESSLY. 25:56 WONDERFUL! 25:57 I HAD SOME OF THESE LEADERS IN TEARS. 26:01 BECAUSE WHY? 26:02 BECAUSE THE WAY WE SAID PRAYER WORKS. 26:07 YES, IT DOES WORK. 26:08 IT DOES WORK. 26:09 IT DOES WORK. 26:11 GO AHEAD AND I TAUGHT THEM BY SAYING THAT IN THE BIBLE YOU HAVE TO PRAY 26:15 WITH ONE ACCORD, ONE - TWO BY TWO, SINGLE, THREE BY THREE, FOUR BY FOUR GET 26:23 TOGETHER AND PRAY AND PRAYER PRODUCES RESULTS. 26:27 WELL AND THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO DO AND WE WANT TO ASK OUR VIEWERS TO NOT 26:31 ONLY PRAY BUT ALSO TO GIVE SO WE CAN HAVE MORE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS IN THIS 26:34 AREA. 26:35 ABSOLUTELY. 26:36 FOR 650 MILLION. 26:37 AMEN. 26:38 WELL BLESSINGS TO YOU BOTH, THANK YOU. 26:40 ED AND MARCELLINE THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US 26:42 HERE ON "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS". 26:44 YOU'VE HEARD THE NEED, YOU'VE SEEN THE PEOPLE WHO ARE LEARNING ABOUT JESUS 26:47 AND THAT'S WHERE WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO GIVE TO GOSPEL OUTREACH. 26:51 WE'D LIKE YOU TO PRAY AND WE THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. 26:53 ON BEHALF OF GOSPEL OUTREACH AND "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" I'M JULIE 26:56 SANDERS KEYMER AND MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU TODAY. 27:33 [CLOSING MUSIC]. |
Revised 2015-10-16