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Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000575A
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00:15 WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:18 I'M JULIE SANDERS-KEYMER AND THERE IS A VERY, VERY BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY IN OUR 00:22 WORLD AND IT HAPPENS TO BE IN THE 10/40 WINDOW AND THAT WINDOW IS 10 TO 40 00:27 DEGREES NORTH OF THE EQUATOR AND THIS COUNTRY IS THE COUNTRY OF NEPAL 00:32 AND IT HAS THE LARGEST MOUNTAIN IN THE WORLD-MT. 00:34 EVEREST WHICH I AM SURE THAT YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT. 00:37 IT ALSO HAS SOME VERY INTERESTING PEOPLE THERE WHO ARE VERY INVOLVED HERE 00:41 WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH AND THEY ARE OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS AND THEY 00:43 ARE WORKING IN NEPAL TO SHARE JESUS TO THE PEOPLE OF THAT BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY. 00:48 AND WE HAVE LINDA AND CHARLES SHULTZ HERE WITH US AND YOU ARE THE GOSPEL 00:52 OUTREACH WORKERS FOR NEPAL. 00:54 DIRECTORS- RIGHT. 00:55 WONDERFUL! 00:57 WELL WE ARE SO GLAD YOU ARE HERE AND YOU ARE GOING TO GIVE US A LITTLE IDEA, 01:00 A LITTLE GLIMPSE INTO THIS BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY AND LINDA THIS WAS YOUR FIRST 01:04 TRIP TO NEPAL, YES, AND WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS AFTER VISITING THERE? 01:09 IT WAS- IT WAS A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE. 01:12 I THINK EVERYONE WHO GOES ON A MISSION TRIP THEY COME BACK AND THEY SAY 01:14 THAT THEIR LIFE HAS BEEN CHANGED BY THAT EXPERIENCE AND I JUST FIT RIGHT IN 01:20 THERE. 01:22 IT WAS A WONDERFUL THING I'VE BEEN WANTING TO GO OVERSEAS FOR A LONG TIME, 01:25 WANTING TO GO ON A MISSION TRIP. 01:27 IT WAS A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE. 01:28 WE DID SO MANY THINGS IN THREE WEEKS AND SO WE WILL JUST SHARE A GLIMPSE OF 01:33 THAT TODAY. 01:35 AND CHARLES, NEPAL IS NOT A NEW PLACE FOR YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE LIVED 01:39 THERE. 01:40 YES, RIGHT. 01:41 I WENT THERE FIRST IN 1969. 01:45 I WAS FRESH OUT OF THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH WITH MY MASTER'S IN PUBLIC 01:48 HEALTH. 01:49 IT WAS AGAINST THE LAW TO PREACH IN THOSE DAYS SO THE CHURCH SAYS WELL GO 01:53 THERE AND DO HEALTH EDUCATION AND MEDICAL WORK IS THE RIGHT HAND OF THE 01:58 MESSAGE. 01:59 TRUE. 02:00 AND THAT'S WHAT I DID. 02:01 IT WAS AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE AND I LEARNED SOME NEPALI BUT FELL IN 02:05 LOVE WITH THE NEPALI PEOPLE. 02:07 WELL, WONDERFUL AND WE ARE SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH AS 02:10 DIRECTORS FROM NEPAL. 02:11 TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE GEOGRAPHY-YES, I MENTIONED MT. 02:16 EVEREST AND WE HEAR ABOUT THAT BUT KIND OF GIVE US AN IDEA WHEN YOU WERE 02:19 THERE ON YOUR LAST TRIP LINDA, WHAT WAS THE TEMPERATURE LIKE? 02:22 IS IT COLD? 02:23 IS IT MODERATE? 02:24 WE WERE THERE IN OCTOBER WHICH WAS A VERY NICE TIME OF THE YEAR. 02:27 IT WAS GETTING COOL-GETTING INTO THE COOL SEASON BUT THERE WAS STILL 02:31 SOME HOT DAYS AND IT REALLY, REALLY VARIES BECAUSE THE TOPOGRAPHY OF 02:35 NEPAL AND I HAVE A PICTURE, I'M GOING TO PUT UP THIS PICTURE-DOWN ALONG 02:39 THE INDIA BORDER, NEPAL IS AT ABOUT SEA LEVEL AND IN THAT SMALL COUNTRY IT WILL 02:47 GO FROM NEAR SEA LEVEL TO ALMOST, WHAT IS THE HIGHEST MT. 02:51 EVEREST? 02:53 29,000 FEET AND SO A LOT OF THE COUNTRY IS VERY, VERY, HILLY TERRAIN. 02:58 NOW THE AREA IN EASTERN NEPAL THAT WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT TODAY IS 03:03 MORE IN THE LOW LANDS ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF NEPAL BUT ON -THERE'S A LOT OF 03:09 PEOPLE UP IN THE HILLS AND UP IN THE MOUNTAINS, THERE IS A LOT OF VALLEYS. 03:12 SO IT IS A REALLY, REALLY VARIED TOPOGRAPHY. 03:17 WHAT IS THE POPULATION OF NEPAL? 03:19 IT IS ABOUT 30 MILLION PEOPLE. 03:20 O.K. 03:21 AND THE SIZE? 03:23 I CAN'T REMEMBER OFF HAND THE SQUARE MILES BUT I KNOW IT IS ABOUT HALF THE 03:28 SIZE OF THE STATE OF OREGON. 03:30 O.K. 03:32 SO THAT KIND OF GIVES US AN IDEA OF THE SIZE EXCEPT IT IS REALLY LONG. 03:34 IT IS LONG; IT IS NARROW; IT'S RUGGED AND SO THE PEOPLE ARE CONCENTRATED IN 03:42 THE VALLEYS AND THEN THEY ALSO LIVE UP ON THE HILLSIDE AND THEY TERRACE 03:46 EVERYTHING,YOU KNOW, TO DO THEIR FARMING. 03:49 IT IS JUST REALLY AMAZING. 03:51 AND WHAT IS THE MAIN RELIGION IN NEPAL? 03:54 HINDUISM. 03:55 HINDUISM, RIGHT. 03:57 AND WE ARE THERE SHARING JESUS. 03:59 THAT'S RIGHT, THE ONE LIVING GOD BECAUSE THEY HAVE LOTS OF GODS IN THE 04:02 HINDU RELIGION- THREE HUNDRED THIRTY MILLION, ONLY. 04:05 THREE HUNDRED THIRTY MILLION? 04:07 YES, RIGHT. 04:08 OH MY! 04:09 HOW CAN YOU KEEP THEM ALL STRAIGHT? 04:11 YOU BETTER, OTHERWISE THEY'LL MESS WITH YOU. 04:14 WOW! 04:15 OH MY! 04:16 SO THAT IS NARROWING IT DOWN TO THE LIVING GOD. 04:20 WELL, YOU HAVE SOME PICTURES TO SHARE WITH US ABOUT A TRIP WHERE YOU 04:23 WENT IN AND CHECKED IN WITH YOUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS AND TELL US WHAT 04:26 AREA WE ARE GOING TO IN NEPAL, LINDA. 04:28 WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT CHURCH GROWTH IN GELABARI. 04:31 GELABARI IS ON- AGAIN IT IS ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF NEPAL, O.K., THIS IS A 04:38 PICTURE AS WE'RE GOING OUT TO THAT VILLAGE. 04:41 IT IS A VERY RURAL AREA. 04:43 IT IS ABOUT A TWO-I THINK ABOUT A TWO HOUR DRIVE OUTSIDE OF THE BIG CITY OF 04:48 BIRATNAGAR. 04:49 IT IS A VERY IMPOVERISHED AREA. 04:52 WHAT DO PEOPLE DO FOR WORK THERE? 04:54 DO THEY FARM? 04:55 I SEE A COW? 04:56 YES, THEY HAVE SOME ANIMALS; THEY FARM. 04:58 IT IS JUST -YOU REALLY HAVE TO WONDER WHAT THEY DO FOR WORK. 05:01 IT IS A VERY, VERY, VERY POOR AREA. 05:04 THERE IS A LOT OF ILLITERACY THERE. 05:07 THEY ARE STILL KIND OF FUNCTIONING UNDER THE CASTE SYSTEM SO THESE ARE 05:14 KIND OF THE LOWER CLASS OF PEOPLE-VERY, VERY, VERY POOR. 05:19 IT IS A TRIBAL VILLAGE. 05:22 THEY HAVE A LOT SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS AMONG THE PEOPLE. 05:27 WHAT DID YOU SAY AGAIN? 05:30 WELL THEY ARE LAND SLAVES. 05:33 THEY DON'T OWN THE LAND AND THEY JUST ARE WORKING FOR SOMEONE AND THEN THE 05:39 CROPS, THEY ALL GO TO THE OWNER AND THEY MAY GET A LITTLE BIT SO THEY ARE 05:43 VERY, VERY POOR YOU KNOW. 05:46 IF THEY OWNED THE LAND, THAT WOULD BE WONDERFUL BUT THEY DON'T. 05:49 BUT THEY DON'T, NO. 05:51 SO ARE THEY -WHAT ARE THEY GROWING, CHARLES? 05:53 RICE. 05:54 RICE, MAINLY AND GRAIN. 05:57 O.K. 05:58 SO IN THIS AREA OF CHURCH GROWTH TELL US ABOUT HOW DID THE CHURCH START 06:02 THERE? 06:03 HOW MANY BELIEVERS WERE THERE? 06:04 THE ADVENTIST CHURCH STARTED THEIR WORK IN THAT AREA ABOUT THREE YEARS 06:09 AGO-THERE WERE TWO BELIEVERS AND I'D LIKE TO SHOW YOU A PICTURE OF ONE 06:15 OF OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS-THIS IS KARITIKA AND HE WAS ONE OF THE TWO 06:21 BELIEVERS THAT STARTED WORKING IN THAT AREA. 06:24 GOSPEL OUTREACH HAD HELPED HIM WITH A BICYCLE AND HE TRAVELS ABOUT 30 06:29 KILOMETERS EVERYDAY MORNING AND EVENING GOING THROUGH THE VILLAGES 06:34 SHARING MESSAGES OF THE GOSPEL AND JESUS WITH PEOPLE. 06:37 HE IS A VERY, VERY FAITHFUL, VERY HARDWORKING PERSON AND THEN THE OTHER 06:43 THING THAT WE'VE STARTED IN THAT AREA ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO -IT IS SO 06:49 IMPORTANT TO MEET THE COMMUNITY NEEDS THERE IS A LITERACY CENTER. 06:54 OH. 06:56 THIS IS THE PICTURE THAT WE TOOK IN OCTOBER WHEN WE WERE THERE OF THE LITERACY 06:59 CENTER AND THE TWO TEACHERS AND WHAT GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS DONE IS IT 07:04 HAS CONTINUED TO SUPPORT THIS LITERACY CENTER; HELPED TO BUILD IT AND 07:08 CONTINUED TO SUPPORT IT BY PROVIDING A SMALL STIPEND FOR THESE TWO TEACHERS WHO 07:13 TEACH IN THE MORNING AND IN THE EVENING. 07:16 THEY GO OUT AND THEY WORK DURING THE DAY BUT THE CHILDREN CAN COME AND THEY 07:21 CAN LEARN BASIC READING; BASIC ENGLISH; BASIC MATH AND THEN THEY ALSO LEARN 07:26 BIBLE SONGS AND STORIES. 07:27 RIGHT NOW THEY HAVE ABOUT 50 CHILDREN COMING. 07:30 EDUCATION IN NEPAL IS NOT FREE. 07:32 ONE OF THE EXPERIENCES WE HAD WHEN WE VISITED SEVERAL OF THE SCHOOLS 07:37 WHEN WE WERE IN THE CITIES AND THE PARENTS HAVE TO PAY FOR THEIR CHILDREN TO 07:42 GO TO THE SCHOOLS AND WHEN YOU ARE IN THESE VERY, VERY RURAL AREAS THEY JUST 07:47 SIMPLY CANNOT AFFORD-THERE IS NO SCHOOLS; THEY CANNOT AFFORD TO SEND THEIR 07:50 CHILDREN TO SCHOOL SO THESE LITERACY CENTERS OFFER AN OPPORTUNITY FOR 07:54 THE CHILDREN TO START TO BREAK AWAY FROM THAT CYCLE OF POVERTY THAT THEY ARE 08:00 TRAPPED INTO BY BEING ILLITERATE. 08:03 SO WHAT NATIONAL LANGUAGE ARE THEY ALSO LEARNING OR ARE THEY ONLY LEARNING 08:07 ENGLISH? 08:08 OH NO, THEY LEARN NEPALI. 08:09 OK. 08:10 OF COURSE THEY LEARN NEPALI TO READ BUT THEN THEY LEARN SOME BASIC 08:13 ENGLISH AS WELL. 08:14 I THINK THAT IS FANTASTIC. 08:15 SO WHAT DO THE PARENTS THINK? 08:16 WHAT ARE WE HEARING BACK FROM THE PARENTS? 08:19 ARE THEY HAPPY ABOUT THIS? 08:20 WELL, YES THIS IS A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY FOR THEIR CHILDREN AND IT HAS 08:25 ALSO DONE A LOT TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE GROWTH OF OUR WORK AND OUR CHURCH 08:30 IN THAT AREA. 08:31 PRAISE THE LORD! 08:32 PRAISE THE LORD AND ISN'T THAT SOMETHING THAT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED. 08:36 I MEAN, WE SO TAKE FOR GRANTED THAT WE HAVE ALL OF THESE OPPORTUNITIES AND 08:40 HERE THESE LITTLE KIDS JUST NEED TO LEARN HOW TO READ AND WRITE AND DO 08:44 THINGS LIKE THAT BUT YOU KNOW WE DON'T HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THAT. 08:49 YES. 08:50 WELL ISN'T THAT SOMETHING O.K. 08:51 SO KEEP GOING. 08:52 WHERE ARE WE GOING NEXT? 08:53 WELL, WE ARRIVED AND WE HEARD SINGING AND THEY WERE SINGING NEPALI SONGS 08:59 THAT I KNEW-THE OLD TIMEY ONES AND THIS GROUP OF LADIES WERE -THEY REALLY 09:04 SOUNDED GOOD AND THEY HAD ACCOMPANIMENT; THERE WAS DRUMS; THERE WAS 09:08 TAMBOURINES; THERE WAS TIMBRELS AND THIS WAS A BAPTISM. 09:13 NOW IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PICTURE AT THE FAR RIGHT, THERE IS 09:18 A BLACK-LOOKS LIKE A BLACK ROCK, THAT IS A BUFFALO AND THE BUFFALOES WERE 09:23 BATHING THE SAME TIME WE WERE BAPTIZING THESE FOLKS. 09:26 NO ONE SEEMED TO BE UPSET ABOUT THAT. 09:29 HERE IS PENNA LAL. 09:31 OH, WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM? 09:33 HE HAD ABDOMINAL SURGERY ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE AND HE WANTED TO BE BAPTIZED WITH 09:40 THIS GROUP AND HE WENT IN AND WAS BAPTIZED. 09:43 EVEN STILL HAVING HIS INCISION, OH MY, YES. 09:46 AND HERE HE IS. 09:47 BLESS HIM! 09:48 AND PASTOR ROBIN AND AFTERWARDS HE ASKED US TO PRAY FOR HIM THAT HE 09:53 WOULDN'T HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS AND WE DID AND WE FOUND OUT LAST WEEK 09:56 HE IS DOING FINE. 09:57 WELL, PRAISE THE LORD! 09:59 HERE IS OUR GROUP AFTERWARDS AND YOU CAN SEE THE ONE OF THE GOSPEL 10:05 OUTREACH WORKERS KARITKA IS WITH ME AND THE OTHER WITH THE WHITE SHIRT AND 10:08 THE BLACK BAG-OH AND I JUST LOVE THE REDS-THE LADIES SARIS. 10:12 BEAUTIFUL. 10:13 VERY COLORFUL IN NEPALI: RED THINGS ARE BEAUTIFUL AND SWEET THINGS ARE 10:19 TASTY. 10:20 WELL I AGREE WITH ALL OF THAT. 10:22 AND THEN OF COURSE, WE HAD A SPECIAL MEAL AFTER THE BAPTISM AND HERE IS ONE OF 10:31 THE LADIES SERVING US AND THEY ARE ALL SITTING DOWN HAVING A WONDERFUL MEAL 10:37 AND THEN WE WERE ABLE TO SEE THE CHURCH, THE PRESENT CHURCH THAT THEY 10:43 ARE WORSHIPING IN- VERY SMALL AND IT IS JUST MUD AND TIN ROOF AND THE 10:50 NEPALI WORD OUT THERE IS "SWARGATONG" WHICH MEANS WELCOME IN NEPALI. 10:56 THE PERFECT WORD. 10:57 SO TELL ME DID THEY BUILD THIS, CHARLES? 10:59 OH YES. 11:00 THEY ACTUALLY BUILT THIS. 11:01 YES AND DO THEY OWN THE LAND AS WELL? 11:03 AH, YES, YES. 11:06 YOU KNOW THE LAND WOULD BE THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE PROBABLY THE GOSPEL 11:13 OUTREACH WORKER AND THEN PASTOR ROBIN. 11:16 PASTOR ROBIN IS THE MAN IN THE WHITE SHIRT ON THE LEFT AND THEN KARTIKA AND 11:20 HIS WIFE WERE THERE AND THEN PASTOR UMESH ON THE RIGHT IS THE PRESIDENT IS 11:25 THE SECTION PRESIDENT OF NEPAL SECTION. 11:27 SO ABOUT HOW MANY MEMBERS ARE COMING TO THIS PARTICULAR CHURCH? 11:29 UM, THEY HAVE ABOUT 35 ADULTS AND 40 CHILDREN. 11:33 O.K. 11:34 GOOD. 11:35 AND INSIDE -THIS IS THE CHURCH INSIDE THEY'LL HAVE THE CROSS. 11:38 I LIKE THE CROSS. 11:39 THEN THEY HAVE THE PICTURE ROLLS AND ACTUALLY HERE IS A PLEA: ANYBODY OUT THERE 11:49 HAVE ANY OLD PICTURE ROLLS THAT ARE SITTING AROUND IN A CLOSET, DON'T THROW THEM 11:53 AWAY, SEND THEM TO GOSPEL OUTREACH AND WE WILL CARRY THEM TO NEPAL BECAUSE A 11:59 PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU CAN GET 12:04 THOSE ANYMORE BUT THEY NEED THINGS LIKE THAT. 12:06 WONDERFUL! 12:07 WELL YOU HAVE HEARD IT HERE THAT YOU CAN BE INVOLVED IF YOU DO HAVE A 12:11 PICTURE ROLL IN YOUR CHURCH THAT YOU ARE NOT USING OR THAT YOU MIGHT 12:14 HAVE IN A CLOSET SOMEWHERE WE WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE THAT AND IF YOU ARE 12:17 ENJOYING WHAT YOU ARE HEARING ABOUT THE LORD'S WORK IN NEPAL, WE WOULD 12:21 INVITE YOU TO GET INVOLVED AND WE'RE GOING TO SHARE WITH YOU HOW YOU CAN. 12:24 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 12:30 WHERE IS THE 10/40 WINDOW ANYWAY? 12:34 THOSE PEOPLE ARE TOO FAR AWAY. 12:36 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. 12:39 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV? 12:42 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACH, MY HEAD HURTS. 12:46 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO, I GIVE UP. 12:50 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 12:52 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 12:55 ACTUALLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND JESUS ASKED YOU TO GO TO ALL THE 13:02 WORLD. 13:03 WHERE? 13:04 ALL THE WORLD. 13:05 HOW CAN I GO I HAVE COMMITMENTS? 13:07 YOU CAN PRAY. 13:09 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 13:14 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 13:18 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS. 13:21 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE AND MEANING BUT THEY WON'T 13:24 FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 13:26 BE THE SPARK. 13:27 LIGHT THE FIRE. 13:29 FINISH THE WORK. 13:32 FINISH THE WORK. 13:34 BE THE SPARK. 13:37 FINISH THE WORK AND I'VE GOT ONE FINGER POINTING AT YOU BUT I'VE GOT FOUR 13:40 POINTING BACK AT ME SO THAT'S WHAT WE ARE WANTING TO DO HERE AT GOSPEL 13:44 OUTREACH AND WE ARE INVITING YOU TO BE THE SPARK AND BE THE SPARK IN 13:47 YOUR COMMUNITY WITH YOUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR. 13:49 SHARE JESUS WITH THEM BECAUSE WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER AND THAT'S WHAT 13:53 WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO IS TO SHARE JESUS, RIGHT CHARLES? 13:56 RIGHT, AMEN. 13:57 I'M HERE WITH CHARLES AND LINDA SHULTZ AND WE ARE TRAVELING TO THE BEAUTIFUL 14:00 COUNTRY OF NEPAL WHERE THERE ARE BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAINS, BEAUTIFUL 14:04 PEOPLE AND LOTS OF NEEDS, RIGHT CHARLES? 14:07 YES THAT'S RIGHT AND LINDA YOU'VE BEEN SHARING SOME LOVELY PHOTOS WITH US AND 14:11 LET'S GO BACK AND LOOK AT SOME MORE PICTURES. 14:13 WELL, WE SAW A PICTURE OF THE LITTLE MUD CHURCH AND NOW WE ARE GOING THROUGH 14:18 THE RICE FIELDS TOWARD THE LOCATION OF THE NEW CHURCH SITE AND THIS IS PRAYER 14:28 OVER THIS SITE. 14:30 YOU CAN SEE THE RICE IS THERE AND THEN WE WERE ABLE TO DIG THE FOUNDATION 14:38 OF THIS CHURCH AND AGAIN WE, THANKS TO GOSPEL OUTREACH, THIS CHURCH HAS 14:47 BEEN BUILT. 14:48 WE PURCHASED THE LAND. 14:50 WE WERE ABLE TO PURCHASE THE MATERIALS. 14:54 THERE WE ARE PUTTING IN THE CORNERSTONE- THAT'S MYSELF AND PASTOR UMESH 14:58 THE PRESIDENT OF NEPAL SECTION-THRILLING EXPERIENCE, THRILLING. 15:00 BRICKS AND YOU KNOW BRICKS ARE BETTER THAN MUD AND CEMENT FLOOR- FIRM 15:11 FOUNDATION. 15:12 YES, IT IS A FIRM FOUNDATION. 15:13 THIS IS A PROGRESS REPORT THAT THEY HAD SENT US IN JANUARY. 15:17 THEY STARTED BUILDING IN NOVEMBER AND THIS WAS THE PROGRESS REPORT THAT THEY 15:22 HAD SENT US IN JANUARY. 15:23 OH AND LOOK IT'S DONE! 15:27 MARCH, THIS IS MARCH THEY HAD JUST HAD THE CHURCH DEDICATION IN MARCH. 15:29 SO THIS IS HOT NEWS HERE. 15:31 OH YES, YES AND THEY ARE SO HAPPY AND YOU KNOW THERE IS A PROBLEM 15:38 HOWEVER, OH, OH. 15:39 WE HAVE A CHURCH BUT THERE NO TOILET. 15:41 I BELIEVE THAT EVERY SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH SHOULD HAVE A 15:46 TOILET. 15:48 SO WE NEED $1000 - A TOILET AND TWO ROOMS SO THE PASTOR COULD LIVE HERE 15:52 BY THE CHURCH. 15:53 THAT WOULD BE A LITTLE ANNEX, YES, OFF FROM THE ACTUAL BUILDING. 15:59 RIGHT. 16:00 ISN'T THAT SOMETHING? 16:01 I MEAN HOW MANY CHURCHES HAVE WE HEARD OF IN NORTH AMERICA OR WESTERN EUROPE 16:06 THAT NEED A TOILET? 16:09 THAT IS JUST ASSUMED. 16:10 WE ARE NOT EVEN ASKING FOR ELECTRICITY, NO, WE ARE JUST ASKING FOR A TOILET. 16:16 RIGHT. 16:17 AND IT IS $1000. 16:18 O.K., INCLUDING THE TWO ROOMS- THE TWO ROOMS FOR THE PASTOR PLUS A TOILET 16:23 FOR THE CHURCH IS $1000. 16:24 AND YOU KNOW THINGS ARE HAPPENING THERE IN GILABARI-HERE'S OUR TWO 16:29 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS AND WE ARE IN EASTERN NEPAL, EASTERN NEPAL. 16:33 O.K. 16:34 AND THEY NEED TWO MORE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS JUST TO TAKE CARE OF THE 16:40 INTERESTS THAT ARE COMING UP BECAUSE OF THE LITERACY PROGRAMS AND BECAUSE YOU 16:45 KNOW ALL OF A SUDDEN HERE IS THIS WONDERFUL CHURCH. 16:49 IT'S BUILT UP ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AND SO WE NEED TO FIND A PLACE FOR 16:55 ANOTHER CHURCH. 16:56 AND I AM SURE WORD SPREADS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE AREA. 16:59 THEY HAVE HAD TEN MORE BAPTISMS SINCE WE WERE THERE IN OCTOBER SO NOW 17:03 THE CHURCH HAS GROWN FROM THESE TWO BELIEVERS THREE YEARS AGO TO THE ACTIVE 17:08 LITERACY CENTER TO A CHURCH OF ABOUT 46 MEMBERS NOW AND GROWING AND 17:14 CHILDREN JUST SO MANY CHILDREN. 17:16 HERE IS THE LITERACY CENTER AND AN OPPORTUNITY AND AGAIN HINDUS WILL SEND 17:23 THEIR KIDS TO THESE LITERACY CENTERS BECAUSE NOT EVERYONE CAN AFFORD 17:29 EDUCATION. 17:30 EDUCATION ISN'T FREE. 17:31 IT IS NOT FREE IN NEPAL SO THEY ARE HAVING TO PAY FOR THAT IF THEY WANT THEIR 17:35 CHILDREN TO GO TO SCHOOL. 17:36 YES. 17:37 AND THEY HAVE TO TAKE TESTS AND WHEN THEY GET TO A CERTAIN AGE AND THEY 17:41 DON'T PASS THEIR TEST, THEY DON'T CONTINUE. 17:44 WOW! 17:45 SO THEY TAKE THEIR STUDIES VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY. 17:47 WELL SURE IF YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU TAKE 17:49 THAT. 17:50 YES. 17:52 WELL, VERY, VERY INTERESTING. 17:53 SO, WHEN YOU CAME BACK LINDA, DID YOU COME BACK WITH A JOYFUL HEART ABOUT 18:00 ALL THAT YOU SAW ON YOUR FIRST TRIP TO NEPAL AND DID YOU ALSO HAVE A HEAVY 18:04 HEART BECAUSE OF ALL THE NEEDS? 18:06 NOT SO MUCH HEAVY I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE THERE WERE NOT UNHAPPY EVEN 18:12 THOUGH THAT THEY WERE VERY, VERY POOR YOU KNOW, THEY ARE VERY INDUSTRIOUS. 18:15 I WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH EVERYBODY WAS DOING SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, 18:18 WHETHER IT WAS SITTING ON THE GROUND SELLING ORANGES IN THE MORNING TO US FOR 18:23 BREAKFAST AND THE CHILDREN WERE DELIGHTFUL. 18:27 I CAME BACK WITH A REAL STRONG DESIRE TO GO BACK AGAIN AND HELP IN WHATEVER 18:33 WAY WE CAN. 18:35 YOU KNOW ESPECIALLY THE CHILDREN TO CONTINUE THE WORK THAT THE LITERACY 18:39 CENTER IS DOING-THIS IS JUST ONE VILLAGE WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT BUT THERE 18:42 IS A LOT OF OTHER VILLAGES NEARBY AND JUST SO MANY PEOPLE, SO MANY CHILDREN 18:49 AND JUST SUCH AN INTEREST IN JESUS AND YOU KNOW, THE DEDICATION OF THESE 18:58 WORKERS TO BE GOING OUT DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY ON THEIR BICYCLES AND 19:02 SPREADING THE GOSPEL AND YOU KNOW, WE ARE KIND OF TIMID HERE SOMETIMES YES, 19:06 WE DON'T KNOW IF WE SHOULD SAY SOMETHING, TO SHARE HOW DO WE SHARE JESUS WITH 19:11 PEOPLE AND YOU KNOW, HERE THESE PEOPLE ARE IN THIS COUNTRY OF PEOPLE MOSTLY A 19:16 NONCHRISTIAN COUNTRY AND THEY ARE JUST SO DEDICATED AND THEY HAVE SUCH A LOVE 19:21 FOR THE LORD AND COMMITMENT. 19:23 YES. 19:24 YOU KNOW PENNA LAL-CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING BAPTIZED AFTER YOU'VE HAD SURGERY? 19:27 NO, BECAUSE WHEN I SAW THAT WHEN I'VE HAD SURGERY, BOY YOU ARE NOT 19:31 SUPPOSED TO GET INTO A HOT TUB SWIMMING POOL, RIVER OR ANYTHING AND HERE BY 19:36 FAITH, FROM WHAT YOU'VE SAID HE WANTED TO MAKE HIS COMMITMENT. 19:39 YES AND YOU KNOW HE WAS THERE WITH BUFFALOS AND EVERYTHING YOU KNOW. 19:45 HE JUST RADIATES AND THESE WOMEN THAT WERE SINGING- THE JOY THAT WAS THERE AND 19:51 ALL OF THE VILLAGERS YOU KNOW, THE HINDU VILLAGERS THEY'D ALL GATHERED AROUND 19:54 -WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? 19:55 WHAT IS THIS? 19:56 WHAT'S HAPPENING? 19:57 YES AND YOU KNOW THEY ARE WATCHING THE BAPTISM, THEY ARE LISTENING TO THE 19:59 LADIES SING AND IT MADE SUCH A TREMENDOUS INFLUENCE. 20:03 WHAT I'M HEARING YOU SAY AND THIS IS SO TRUE NO MATTER WHERE WE ARE, I 20:08 BELIEVE THAT GOD WANTS US TO PUT THE HOOK OUT BECAUSE SOMEONE IS GOING 20:12 TO GRAB ON TO THE HOOK AND IF WE DON'T PUT THE HOOK OUT AND SHARE SOMETHING 20:16 THEN THAT'S OUR FAULT AND THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS ARE GOING OUT AND 20:21 SAYING HEY, THIS IS WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN MY LIFE AND MY LIFE HAS CHANGED. 20:25 THAT'S RIGHT. 20:26 SO NOW THERE ARE NEEDS AND WE HAVE A COUPLE OF MORE PHOTOS TO LOOK AT. 20:29 YES, WE NEED ANOTHER CHURCH AND THIS IS OUR WORKER STANDING ON THE 20:37 LAND THAT WE COULD PURCHASE AND THIS WOULD BE VERY CONVENIENT BECAUSE 20:45 THIS PLOT OF LAND IS NEXT TO HIS HOUSE WHERE HE LIVES AND YOU KNOW, AS 20:50 SOON AS YOU PUT UP A CHURCH PEOPLE ARE GOING TO WANT TO COME TO IT AND IT 20:56 CAN KIND OF BE A FOCAL POINT. 20:57 THAT COULD BE THE AREA WHERE THEY HAVE THE LITERACY TRAINING PROGRAM 21:01 BECAUSE WHEN IT RAINS THEN THEY DON'T HAVE TO SIT OUTSIDE OR GO UNDERNEATH 21:05 THE TREE THEY CAN GO INSIDE. 21:07 SO THE CHURCH HAS MULTIPLE USES BECAUSE THERE IS A RAINY SEASON IN NEPAL, 21:12 RIGHT? 21:13 YES AND WHEN DOES THAT COME? 21:15 DURING THE SPRING AND THE SUMMER AND WE'RE NOT TALKING JUST LITTLE BIT OF 21:18 RAIN, WE'RE TALKING DOWNPOUR, RIGHT? 21:20 MONSOON QUALITY, MONSOON, FLOODING AND THE WHOLE NINE YARDS.THEY HAVE TO 21:25 GET ENOUGH RAIN TO FLOOD THEIR PADDY FIELDS, THEIR RICE FIELDS BECAUSE-SO 21:30 IT'S A MIXED BAG, OH YES IF THEY DON'T HAVE THE WATER THEN THEY'LL GO 21:35 HUNGRY. 21:36 SO A CHURCH-THIS AREA NEEDS A CHURCH. 21:38 YES AND THEN FOR THE GILABARI CHURCH WE NEED ANOTHER $1000 SO WE CAN 21:42 HAVE A TOILET. 21:43 TOILET. 21:44 AND AN ADJACENT LITTLE HOUSE FOR THE PASTOR TO LIVE THERE AND THEN PLANS 21:47 FOR EVANGELISM. 21:49 YOU KNOW THERE ARE SO MANY NONCHRISTIANS IN THIS AREA, CHILDREN AND THEY 21:51 NEED HOPE. 21:52 YOU KNOW CHRISTIANITY IN NEPAL IS WHAT GIVES HOPE AND IT IS SUCH A POSITIVE 21:56 APPROACH. 21:57 THE FACT THAT JESUS DIED FOR THEM TOUCHES THEIR HEARTS. 22:11 THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO, MANY OF THEM, HAVE NEVER ACTUALLY EVER HEARD THE 22:15 NAME OF JESUS CHRIST BECAUSE IT WAS A CLOSED COUNTRY FOR SO MANY YEARS 22:21 UNTIL EDWIN HILLARY CAME IN CLIMBED MT. 22:25 EVEREST IN 1953 AND THEN YOU HAVE STANLEY STURGIS WHO STARTED THE SEVENTH 22:29 DAY ADVENTIST HOSPITAL IN 1958 OR 1959 AND SO WE NOW HAVE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND 22:40 WE NEED TO BE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM BECAUSE WE DON'T 22:42 KNOW HOW LONG, YES, THIS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WILL CONTINUE. 22:44 THE OPPORTUNITY HAS PRESENTED ITSELF FROM THE LORD AND NOW IS THE TIME 22:52 TO MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES. 22:54 RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT. 22:55 THE S-O-N. 22:56 THAT'S RIGHT AND BASICALLY THEY HAVEN'T HAD A CONSTITUTION YET. 23:00 THEY'VE BEEN WORKING ON A CONSTITUTION FOR 4, 5, 6 YEARS, WOW. 23:05 THE ROYALISTS THE PEOPLE WHO WANT A KING AND BACK TO A HINDU COUNTRY THEY 23:11 ARE TRYING TO GET ENOUGH POWER TO MAKE RELIGIOUS LAWS THAT CHRISTIANS CAN'T 23:17 COME INTO THE COUNTRY, NO ONE CAN BECOME A CHRISTIAN. 23:21 THIS OLD FEELING IS STILL THERE ABOUT INTOLERANCE AGAINST CHRISTIANS. 23:27 FORTUNATELY, THERE ARE MANY CHRISTIANS AND CHRISTIANITY IS A GROWING 23:31 FAST RELIGION AND THIS IS WHY THE HINDUS ARE VERY CONCERNED AND THEY WANT TO 23:37 STOP THE GROWTH OF CHRISTIANITY BEFORE IT GETS EVEN ANY BIGGER. 23:42 WELL AND THE LORD HAS OTHER PLANS AND WE'LL SEE WHAT HE DOES. 23:45 THAT'S RIGHT. 23:46 BUT QUITE LITERALLY, THE DOOR IS OPEN NOW. 23:48 YES AND IT COULD CLOSE BUT IT IS OPEN NOW AND THAT IS VERY, VERY EXCITING AND 23:54 PEOPLE ARE HUNGRY FOR THE MESSAGE. 23:56 AND YOU ALSO NEED MORE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 23:59 ABSOLUTELY. 24:01 THESE DEAR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS WHO ARE PEDDLING 30 KILOMETERS RIGHT? 24:05 WOW! 24:07 WHAT A COMMITMENT TO BE ABLE DO THAT AND TO SHARE JESUS AND TO HAVE THAT ON 24:10 YOUR HEART. 24:11 SO WHAT ARE SOME OTHER THINGS THAT YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH OUR VIEWERS 24:15 ABOUT YOUR AREA? 24:18 WELL, I THINK THAT NEPAL IS A COUNTRY THAT IS DECIDING WHAT IT WANTS TO 24:25 BE. 24:26 DOES IT WANT TO BE IN THE 21ST CENTURY? 24:29 OR DOES IT WANT TO BE BACK THERE IN THE 5TH OR 6TH CENTURY? 24:33 OUR YOUNG PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THAT CHRISTIANITY IS AN OPTION AND THAT 24:39 CHRISTIANITY GIVES THEM HOPE AND EITHER THEY'LL BECOME-SOMETIMES IT SEEMS 24:45 LIKE EITHER IT IS CHRISTIANITY OR COMMUNISM BECAUSE COMMUNISM GIVES 24:49 THEM HOPE AS WELL. 24:51 BECAUSE IT IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM WHAT THEY KNOW. 24:55 THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT. 24:56 CHRISTIANITY IS-GIVES THEM NOT ONLY HOPE BUT YOU KNOW, A CHURCH, BEING ABLE 25:02 TO GO OUT AND SHARE AND THESE PEOPLE AS SOON AS THEY BECOME CHRISTIANS 25:09 THEY ARE OUT THERE SHARING JESUS. 25:11 I LOVE THAT YOU KNOW AND WE HAVE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THAT HAVEN'T EVEN 25:16 BEEN SIGNED UP AS GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THEY ARE OUT THERE GIVING BIBLE 25:20 STUDIES AND THEN THE BIG QUESTION IS HOW DO THEY PROVIDE FOR THEIR 25:24 FAMILIES? 25:25 WHERE DO THEY GET THEIR FOOD? 25:26 THE LORD PROVIDES FOR THEM BUT IT WOULD BE EASIER FOR THEM IF THEY HAD SOME 25:30 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. 25:32 WELL AND THAT'S THE BEAUTIFUL THING ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH, MANY OF 25:35 US CAN'T PICK UP AND MOVE TO NEPAL. 25:38 GOD HASN'T CALLED US TO PICK UP AND MOVE TO NEPAL TO LEARN THE LANGUAGE, THE 25:41 CULTURE AND ALL OF THAT AND THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF GOSPEL OUTREACH WHERE 25:45 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS FROM THAT AREA ARE THEN WORKING FOR THE LORD, 25:49 THAT'S RIGHT, BECAUSE THEY KNOW ALL THE CULTURAL THINGS. 25:51 THEY KNOW THE LANGUAGE, THAT'S RIGHT. 25:53 AND THAT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL THING TO BE RUBBING SHOULDERS WITH 25:56 YOUR NEIGHBORS AND BEING ABLE TO SHARE JESUS. 25:58 AND YOU KNOW WHEN I WAS A MISSIONARY THERE YOU ARE KIND OF AN ODDITY, YOU 26:02 KNOW, AND THERE IS A BARRIER THERE YOU KNOW BUT AS FAR AS A NEPALI, A 26:08 NEPALI GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER HE UNDERSTANDS THE CULTURE, HE UNDERSTANDS 26:12 THE LANGUAGE, HE UNDERSTANDS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS 26:16 A SAVIOR SO HE FITS IN PERFECTLY. 26:18 WELL AND HE UNDERSTANDS THE CULTURAL THINGS OF HINDUISM AND ALL OF THE 26:23 HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY AND I MEAN THERE IS JUST SO MANY THINGS. 26:25 SO LINDA AND CHARLES WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL OF YOUR EFFORTS ON BEHALF 26:30 OF THE BELIEVERS IN NEPAL AND WE PRAY FOR YOU AS YOU GET READY FOR YOUR NEXT 26:35 TRIP AND AS YOU COMMUNICATE WITH THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS IN 26:37 NEPAL, PLEASE TELL THEM THAT WE LOVE THEM AND WE ARE PRAYING FOR THEM AND 26:41 THAT WE WILL SEE THEM IN HEAVEN AND A BIG THANK YOU TO THEM. 26:44 THANK YOU, THANK YOU. 26:45 SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US HERE ON 26:48 "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH AND YOU TOO CAN BE THE SPARK 26:52 BECAUSE AS YOU'VE HEARD, WE NEED A TOILET, WE NEED A COUPLE OF ROOMS FOR A 26:55 PASTOR, WE NEED SOME FUNDING FOR A CHURCH BUILDING AND WE NEED MORE 26:59 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS SO THAT MEANS THAT YOU CAN GET INVOLVED AND WE THANK 27:02 YOU AND WE PRAY FOR YOU. 27:04 ON BEHALF OF GOSPEL OUTREACH AND "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" I'M JULIE 27:07 SANDERS-KEYMER AND MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU TODAY. 27:09 [CLOSING MUSIC]. |
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