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00:15 WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:18 I'M JULIE SANDERS-KEYMER AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AND TODAY WE ARE GOING 00:21 TO BE TALKING ABOUT A PART OF THE WORLD THAT YOU HAVE HEARD A LOT ABOUT RECENTLY 00:24 IN THE NEWS AND WE HAVE OUR REGIONAL DIRECTOR, GLEN WINTERMEYER WHO IS 00:29 THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR FOR WEST AFRICA HERE WITH US. 00:32 GLEN, WELCOME. 00:33 THANK YOU IT IS GOOD TO BE HERE. 00:35 SO, GLEN YOU REPRESENT GOSPEL OUTREACH TO AN AREA OF THE WORLD THAT WE HAVE 00:41 BEEN HEARING A LOT ABOUT AND WHERE IS THAT? 00:43 THAT IS IN WEST AFRICA, THE WESTERN HALF OF WEST AFRICA CLEAR OVER ON THE 00:47 WEST COAST. 00:48 IT INCLUDES BURKINA FASO, MALI, LIBERIA, SENEGAL, SIERRA LEONE AND GAMBIA 00:56 AND GUINEA CONAKRY. 01:00 AND I THINK THAT WE HAVE A MAP OF THAT SO LET'S KIND OF TAKE A PICTURE OF ALL 01:05 THIS. 01:06 SO THAT IS WEST AFRICA THERE AND YOU ARE THE DIRECTOR OF THE GOSPEL 01:10 OUTREACH WORKERS FOR THAT AREA AND WE HAVE BEEN HEARING A LOT ABOUT THIS 01:15 AREA IN THE NEWS BECAUSE OF? 01:17 EBOLA. 01:18 AND WHY DON'T YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT HOW THAT HAS AFFECTED OUR 01:22 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 01:23 OK, WELL EBOLA IS A VERY SERIOUS DISEASE. 01:26 IT IS NOT ONE THAT YOU CAN JUST GET RID OF, IT 'S KIND OF LIKE THE FLU. 01:30 IT IS A VIRUS AND IT'S GOT A VERY HIGH MORTALITY RATE -ABOUT A 50% MORTALITY 01:38 RATE AND IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT THREE OF THE COUNTRIES THAT WE SERVE 01:44 ARE THE EPICENTER, THE EPIFOCUS OF EBOLA. 01:49 AND THAT BROKE OUT WHEN? 01:51 IT BROKE OUT IN MARCH OF 2014. 01:55 I'M SURE THERE WERE SOME PRECURSORS TO THAT BUT IT WAS JUST ABOUT THEN THAT 02:00 KAREN, MY WIFE, AND I WERE OVER THERE IN WEST AFRICA. 02:04 WE HAD ONE OF OUR WELL WE HAD A TRAINING SESSION FOR ALL OF OUR BIBLE WORKERS 02:09 TOGETHER THERE IN GUINEA CONAKRY AND UNBEKNOWNS TO US, ONE OF OUR BIBLE 02:17 WORKERS HAD ALREADY CONTRACTED EBOLA. 02:19 HE WASN'T AWARE OF IT AND HERE HE WAS IN OUR CLASS AND BEING TAUGHT BY US. 02:26 ABOUT TEN DAYS AFTER I GOT HOME WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN EARLY MARCH; I FOUND OUT 02:33 THAT HE HAD PASSED AWAY. 02:35 THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHY BUT THEY SENT ME A PICTURE AND I COULD SEE HIM 02:40 HEMORRHAGING AND AS I LOOKED AT THE PICTURE I GOOGLED IN HEMORRHAGING 02:46 AND IMMEDIATEL, JULIE, UP CAME EBOLA. 02:49 OH DEAR! 02:50 AND HE FIT THE PICTURE JUST PERFECT. 02:52 OH DEAR! 02:53 OH DEAR! 02:54 WELL HOW ARE THESE PEOPLE GETTING EBOLA? 02:56 IT COMES HUMAN TO HUMAN CONTACT. 03:00 IT DOESN'T COME FLYING THROUGH THE AIR; IT IS HUMAN TO HUMAN CONTACT. 03:05 SOME OF THE COUNTRIES HAVE VERY UNIQUE, I SHOULD SAY, POLITELY, CUSTOMS IN 03:12 REGARD TO THE DEAD WHICH INVOLVES KISSING THE DEAD. 03:14 YOU DON'T WANT TO BE DOING THAT WITH EBOLA. 03:18 OH, MY! 03:20 SO IT SPREADS FROM HUMAN TO HUMAN; IT SPREADS FROM ANIMAL TO HUMAN; IT 03:26 SPREADS FROM BAT TO HUMAN AND IT CAN GO BACK AND FORTH. 03:30 THEY DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THE PRIMARY HOST IS BUT IT IS SUSPICIONED THAT 03:36 IT IS BATS. 03:37 SO BATS BITING? 03:38 WELL, THEY HAVE A CUSTOM WHERE THEY EAT THE BATS. 03:42 THEY EAT THE BATS? 03:43 YES. 03:44 OH MY! 03:45 THIS IS MORE IN DEPTH THAT I HAD IMAGINED. 03:47 SO IT IS A VERY SERIOUS DISEASE. 03:50 THERE ARE LOTS OF BATS AROUND THE WORLD IN VARIOUS SIZE AND SHAPE AND 03:54 I'M NOT HERE TO DISCUSS THE INUENDOS OF HOW THE BATS PASS IT AROUND TO 04:02 PEOPLE, ETC. BUT NEVERTHELESS IT HAS BEEN A VERY SERIOUS DISEASE. 04:07 IT'S KILLED ABOUT 10,000 PEOPLE AND THE EPIDEMIC IS NOT OVER. 04:12 NO. 04:13 HOWEVER, LIBERIA WHERE WE SERVE IS ON REALLY ON THE DOWNSIDE, IN FACT, AS OF 04:20 THE VERY FIRST OF MARCH, THIS LAST MONTH THERE HAD BEEN NO REPORTED CASES IN 04:25 21 DAYS. 04:26 PRAISE THE LORD! 04:27 AND THAT IS VERY, VERY GOOD. 04:28 HOWEVER, IN SIERRA LEONE IT IS STILL ON THE INCREASE A BIT. 04:34 SO HOW IS IT DIAGNOSED? 04:35 DO PEOPLE REALIZE THAT THEY ARE HAVING SYMPTOMS? 04:38 ARE THEY COMMUNICATING THIS THROUGH THE VILLAGES? 04:41 WELL, THIS IS WHERE IT GETS VERY SERIOUS BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT COMPLICATES 04:46 THE ISSUE BECAUSE IF PEOPLE SUSPICION THEY HAVE IT THEY GO HIDE. 04:52 IF PEOPLE ARE SUSPICIONED OF HAVING IT, THEY ARE IGNORED AND SO IT'S A VERY 04:59 MUCH OF A CAT CHASING THE TAIL KIND OF A THING. 05:02 YOU REALLY CAN'T SET HANDS ON IT BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID. 05:08 DOCTORS WON'T GO TREAT THEM BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT THE PROBLEM. 05:12 THEY DON'T WANT THE DISEASE, OH DEAR, SO HOW CAN YOU DIAGNOSE IT? 05:17 A BLOOD TEST AND YOU KNOW IT INCUBATES-YOU CAN DIE IN AS LITTLE AS TWO DAYS, 05:24 TWO DAYS? 05:25 FROM THIS VIRUS OR IT CAN INCUBATE UP TO 21 DAYS AND THEN SYMPTOMS BEGIN TO BE 05:31 SHOWN. 05:33 SO IT HAS IMPACTED OUR WORKERS OVER THERE AND THEN TO REALIZE THAT 05:40 JOAQUIN AND I'LL JUST SHOW A PICTURE HERE OF JOAQUIN. 05:45 HERE IS THE GUY PREACHING. 05:46 I WANTED TO HEAR HOW THESE GUYS PREACHED. 05:48 YES. 05:49 IT WAS FUN. 05:50 KAREN WAS TAKING NOTES AWAY AND HEARING THEIR STORIES AND THEIR 05:54 TESTIMONIES AND LITTLE DID WE REALIZE THAT THIS FELLOW HERE IN JUST TWO 05:59 WEEKS WOULD BE DEAD FROM EBOLA. 06:02 SO HE HAD CONTRACTED IT AND HERE HE WAS-WAS HE PREACHING AT THE TIME 06:06 RIGHT HERE? 06:07 I DON'T KNOW. 06:08 WE DON'T KNOW.I DON'T KNOW BUT IN TWO WEEKS HE WAS GONE-TEN DAYS AFTER WE GOT 06:12 HOME WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN ABOUT MARCH 5 OR 6 HE HAD BEEN-HE DIED. 06:16 AND WHICH COUNTRY IS THIS? 06:18 THIS IS IN GUINEA. 06:19 IN GUINEA. 06:20 HE LEFT BEHIND A WIDOW AND I'VE GOT A PICTURE OF HER AND THIS IS THE SAD PART 06:27 HERE, SHOW US. 06:28 OH AND SHE IS PREGNANT. 06:30 AND SHE IS PREGNANT. 06:31 AND WE WERE ABLE TO HELP TO A CERTAIN DEGREE FINANCIALLY TO HELP HER 06:37 WITH THE NEEDS OF PREGNANCY BUT YOU KNOW, FIRST CHILD? 06:42 FIRST CHILD HERE SHE IS. 06:45 AND HOW ABOUT THE WIDOW SHE HASN'T CONTRACTED EBOLA HAS SHE? 06:49 SHE HAS NOT. 06:50 OH, PRAISE THE LORD! 06:51 SHE HAS SURVIVED AND SHE GAVE BIRTH AND I TRIED TO FIND OUT FROM THE EMAIL 06:55 WHEN SHE GAVE BIRTH BUT I WANT TO SAY IT WAS AROUND AUGUST OR SO. 07:00 NOW I DON'T KNOW SHE LOOKS MORE THAN THREE OR FOUR MONTHS PREGNANT THERE 07:03 DOESN'T SHE? 07:04 YES, SHE IS VERY PREGNANT. 07:05 WELL BLESS HER HEART. 07:06 SHE IS VERY PREGNANT. 07:07 SO WE NEED TO BE PRAYING FOR HER AND FOR THE CHILD AND ALL OF THAT. 07:12 YES. 07:13 IT WAS A LITTLE BOY THAT WAS BORN TO HER. 07:15 WELL, BLESS HER HEART BLESS HER HEART. 07:17 SO NEEDLESS TO SAY, YOU AND YOUR WIFE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GO BACK TO 07:19 WEST AFRICA JUST BECAUSE OF ALL OF THIS AND SO YOU HAVE BEEN KEEPING IN 07:22 CONTACT WITH THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THERE, YES, AND FINDING OUT HOW 07:26 THINGS ARE GOING BUT THIS IS VERY SERIOUS. 07:29 I MEAN YOU- IT'S ALMOST LIKE IT SEEMS THAT THERE IS AN ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM 07:33 BUT NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT IT. 07:36 WELL,--BECAUSE HOW DO YOU TALK ABOUT IT? 07:38 AND YOU KNOW- SOME PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT. 07:40 NO. 07:41 BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID THAT YOU KNOW, THEY ARE GOING TO GET THE DISEASE 07:45 JUST TALKING ABOUT IT. 07:46 RIGHT. 07:48 BUT YOU KNOW WHEN THIS THING WAS GOING ON AND WE WERE IN THE PROCESS OF 07:50 DEVELOPING A PROJECT IN LIBERIA. 07:53 AND AGAIN THAT'S WHERE IT PROBABLY STARTED IN NORTHERN PART OF LIBERIA 07:58 OR THE SOUTHERN PART OF GUINEA. 07:59 WE WERE DEVELOPING A PROJECT FOR TEN BIBLE WORKERS AND JUST ABOUT THE 08:08 TIME THAT WE WERE REALLY GETTING THIS THING ROLLING-YES, THIS 08:12 HAPPENED- THIS HAPPENED AND NOW SO WHAT DO WE DO NOW? 08:15 YOU KNOW. 08:16 HOW DO WE PROCEED? 08:18 I HAVE A PHILOSOPHY THAT WHEN LIFE SERVES YOU LEMONS, MAKE LEMONADE. 08:25 YOU GOT IT. 08:26 SO TELL US HOW YOU ARE GOING TO DO THAT, GLEN? 08:28 WELL IT IS HOW WE ARE DOING IT. 08:29 THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH PUT TOGETHER A VERY 08:35 NICE POWERPOINT ON HOW TO WORK WITH PEOPLE WHO HAD EBOLA OR HOW TO PREVENT 08:42 EBOLA AND SO I CHALLENGED MY WORKERS IN THE COUNTRIES WHERE EBOLA IS 08:49 INVOLVED TO BEGIN TO DO THE MISSION LIKE JESUS DID. 08:55 HE WENT AMONG THE PEOPLE AND HEALING THEM. 08:59 WE HAD ONE YOUNG MAN THERE THAT -HIS NAME IS FELIX AND FELIX HAD BEEN WORKING 09:10 WITH PEOPLE WHO HAD EBOLA AND VERY CAREFULLY BUT HE DIDN'T HAVE A LOT OF 09:20 RESOURCES AND SO HE WAS MINISTERING AS BEST HE COULD AND THIS ONE MAN KOI 09:29 KOI, 18 YEARS OF AGE, I LIKE THAT NAME, AND HERE HE WAS WITH THIS DREADED 09:36 EBOLA. 09:37 NOT DOING WELL. 09:38 VERY, VERY SICK AND FELIX WENT TO HIM AND STARTED MINISTERING TO HIM AND 09:46 RATHER INTIMATELY, YOU KNOW, SWABBING OUT HIS MOUTH, PUTTING HIMSELF IN 09:51 A VERY VULNERABLE POSITION BUT AFTER HE HAD DONE ALL THAT HE COULD HE WENT AND 09:58 WENT TO THE LOCAL PHARMACY AND HE GOT NOTHING MORE THAN A PAIN RELIEVER AND A 10:05 MEDICINE TO TAKE OUT ANY BACTERIA THAT MIGHT BE IN THERE THAT SHOULDN'T BE 10:13 THERE. 10:14 IN FACT, ANTIBIOTIC DOESN'T KILL THE VIRUS BUT IT WILL TAKE CARE OF SOME 10:18 OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT PERHAPS THIS MAN HAD. 10:21 BUT THEN HE DID WHAT YOU WERE REFERRING TO AS WE WERE SETTING UP FOR TODAY, 10:26 HE PRAYED WITH KOI KOI AND ASKED THE LORD TO PLACE HIS HEALING HAND UPON KOI 10:33 KOI AND WHAT HAPPENED? 10:35 THE NEXT MORNING HE WAS HEALED. 10:37 PRAISE THE LORD! 10:38 I MEAN I DON'T KNOW WHEN HE WAS HEALED BUT THE NEXT MORNING HE WAS BACK TO "GO 10:42 GET THEM". 10:43 WOW! 10:44 PRAISE THE LORD! 10:45 WELL AND WE KNOW THAT THE DEVIL IS WORKING VERY HARD. 10:47 HE IS ROARING AROUND LIKE A LION AND WANTING TO DEVOUR EVERYBODY THROUGH 10:52 WHATEVER WAYS HE CAN EBOLA-YOU NAME IT. 10:54 YES. 10:56 AND WE KNOW THAT THE LIVING GOD IS A POWERFUL GOD, AMEN, AND HE DOES 10:59 HEAL SO ABSOLUTELY AND THAT I THINK IS GREAT ON BEHALF OF BEING ABLE TO 11:05 HAVE SOMETHING FOR THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS TO BE ABLE TO GO AND BE ABLE 11:08 TO HELP AND COMMUNICATE AND TO SHARE WITH PEOPLE ABOUT THIS AND I THINK A 11:13 LOT OF IT IS EDUCATION TOO. 11:15 WELL YOU KNOW, THESE ARE -WE ARE REMINDED THAT WE SHOULD GO AROUND AND DO 11:20 MINISTRY LIKE JESUS DID-GOING AROUND AND TOUCHING PEOPLE BECAUSE 11:26 EBOLA FRANKLY, IS LIKE LEPROSY. 11:31 AND IF YOU'VE GOT EBOLA IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER THEY MAKE YOU HOLLER, LEPER, 11:37 LEPER, LEPER. 11:38 AND YOU KNOW IT IS A VERY SERIOUS THING AND THAT'S WHAT'S MADE IT VERY 11:42 DIFFICULT FOR THE AGENCIES OF THE WORLD TO GO IN AND HELP BECAUSE IT'S GOT SOME 11:49 TRUTH TO IT BUT IT'S GOT SOME FICTION TO IT AS WELL AND YOU KNOW LIKE YOU 11:54 SAID, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT A GHOST IN THE SHADOWS -IT'S A HARD TOPIC BUT 12:00 WHEN YOU WERE SAYING ABOUT THE MAN GOING INTO TO SEE KOI KOI THAT IS, THAT IS 12:04 BY FAITH. 12:05 THAT IS COMPLETELY BY FAITH. 12:06 VERY MUCH AND YOU KNOW I SHARED WITH THE MISSION PRESIDENT I SAID THIS IS 12:11 WHAT I WOULD DO, ANYTIME A CULTURE ANYTIME A NEIGHBORHOOD, A COUNTRY IS 12:16 IN DISTRESS THIS IS THE TIME WHEN THEY NEED HOPE. 12:22 YES ABSOLUTELY, AND I SAID GO AND DO LIKE JESUS DID; GO AND OFFER THESE PEOPLE 12:28 HOPE. 12:29 THEY ARE THIRSTY; THEY ARE WILLING TO ACCEPT AND NOW KOI KOI IS STUDYING TO 12:33 BECOME A BELIEVER IN JESUS CHRIST. 12:36 AND I BET HE IS A MAN ON FIRE BECAUSE, OH YES, THE LORD HEALED HIM-NOW GO AND 12:40 TELL. 12:42 NOW GO AND TELL AND THAT'S OUR JOB AND THAT'S YOUR JOB TOO AND YOU CAN BE A 12:45 PART OF GOSPEL OUTREACH AND WE WANT TO GIVE YOU SOME INFORMATION ABOUT HOW 12:53 YOU CAN DO THAT. 12:55 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION IS SOMETHING MANY HAVE HEARD 12:59 OF, PROPHESIED OR EVEN WAITING FOR. 13:01 YET HOW MANY OF YOU REALIZE THAT CHRISTIANITY IS NOW THE MOST PERSECUTED 13:06 RELIGION IN THE WHOLE WORLD? 13:08 NOW ALLOW ME TO TELL YOU A BIT ABOUT THE 10/40 WINDOW. 13:12 THE 10/40 WINDOW IS LOCATED IN THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE BETWEEN TEN AND 13:17 FORTY DEGREES NORTH OF THE EQUATOR. 13:19 THIS IS ALL OF TWO-THIRDS OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION. 13:22 AT LEAST FOUR BILLION PEOPLE LIVE HERE. 13:24 UNFORTUNATELY, 84 PER CENT OF THEM HAVE THE HIGHEST INFANT MORTALITY AND 13:31 LOWEST LIFE EXPECTANCY. 13:33 NINETY PERCENT SUFFERING THE RAVAGES OF POVERTY AND DISEASES; LIVING THE 13:39 WORLD'S POOREST QUALITY OF LIFE. 13:41 NINETY FIVE PERCENT OF THESE FOUR BILLION PEOPLE ARE UNEVANGELIZED AND HAVE 13:45 THE LEAST ACCESS TO CHRISTIAN RESOURCES AND INVESTMENTS. 13:50 MANY HAVE NEVER HAD THE CHANCE TO HEAR THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST-NOT EVEN 13:54 ONCE. 13:56 THERE ARE SIXTY SIX COUNTRIES IN THE 10/40 WINDOW. 13:59 DID YOU KNOW THAT PROCLAIMING THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL IS ILLEGAL OR 14:04 SEVERELY RESTRICTED IN OVER FIFTY DIFFERENT COUNTRIES? 14:07 FORTY-NINE OF THOSE COUNTRIES ARE PROCLAIMED THE WORST COUNTRIES IN THE 14:11 WORLD FOR CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION. 14:13 MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THESE COUNTRIES EACH GO THROUGH THEIR AMOUNT OF 14:18 TRAUMA FOR THEIR LOVE IN JESUS CHRIST. 14:22 PUBLIC PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS HAS EMERGED AGAIN WITH NO RESISTANCE 14:25 FROM THE AUTHORITIES; GOVERNMENTS ARE FAILING TO UPHOLD CONSTITUTIONAL 14:29 PROTECTION TO INDIVIDUAL CHRISTIANS. 14:31 MORE THAN 600 CHRISTIAN CHURCHES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED SINCE 1996 14:38 DRIVING CHURCH SERVICES UNDERGROUND, IN HIDING STRUGGLING TO PRACTICE 14:42 THEIR FAITH. 14:44 ANYONE CONVERTING TO CHRISTIANITY CAN BE FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM 14:47 THEIR DISTRICT, FACE CHARGES OF TREACHERY, EVEN HAVE THEIR MARRIAGES MADE 14:51 INVALID AND THEIR CHILDREN TAKEN AWAY. 14:53 VIOLENT MOBS HAVE GONE AGAINST EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS. 14:58 EVANGELIZING BEING FORBIDDEN, ILLEGAL OR ONLY ALLOW A PERSON TO BE 15:02 BANISHED OR EXILED FROM THE SOCIETY. 15:04 ANY CITIZEN WHO CONVERTS FROM THE NATIONAL OR REGIONAL RELIGION CAN FACE 15:10 THE DEATH PENALTY. 15:11 IN OTHER CASES, BELIEVERS ARE IMPRISONED IN BARBARIC DEATH CAMPS. 15:17 WE CAN STILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 15:19 WE CAN HELP SPREAD THE MESSAGE OF JESUS CHRIST TO THIS FINAL SECTION OF THE 15:22 WORLD. 15:23 HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH WE WORK TO INFORM, EQUIP AND MOBILIZE NETWORKS OF 15:27 PRAYER ACROSS THE GLOBE TO EMPOWER EFFECTIVE EVANGELISM, CHURCH GROWTH 15:31 AND DISCIPLESHIP IN THE 10/40 WINDOW. 15:34 TO LEARN MORE ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH AND TO SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE NEWSLETTER 15:43 YOU CAN CALL US AT 509-525-2951 OR GO TO OUR WEBSITE WWW.GOAIM.ORG 15:50 15:52 SHE IS A LITTLE PREACHER FOR THE LORD AND YOU CAN BE TOO AND YOU CAN GET 15:55 INVOLVED HERE WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH. 15:57 WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS. 15:59 WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT BECAUSE IT HELPS AREAS JUST LIKE 16:03 WEST AFRICA THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WITH GLEN WINTERMEYER RIGHT HERE ON 16:07 "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS". 16:08 SO GLEN, YOU ARE THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR FOR WEST AFRICA AND THAT INCLUDES 16:13 TELL US AGAIN. 16:14 WELL, YOU START WITH BURKINA FASO WHICH IS RIGHT OUT IN THE HEART OF 16:16 WEST AFRICA AND YOU GO WEST ALL OF THOSE COUNTRIES WEST OF BURKINA 16:20 FASO YOU GO EAST OF BURKINA FASO YOU RUN INTO NIGER, NIGERIA, GHANA, 16:26 TOGO, CAMEROON THOSE ARE ALL DIFFERENT. 16:29 THOSE ARE NOT IN MY AREA BUT YOU CAN SEE HERE IN THE MAP THOSE BIG CIRCLES 16:36 THEY ARE POINTING RIGHT AT THE EPICENTER OF THE EBOLA THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING 16:40 ABOUT BUT JUST RIGHT UP FROM THERE THE TOP CENTER YOU SEE MALI AND ALL THE 16:45 REST OF THE COUNTRIES WEST OF THERE I SERVE. 16:48 AND EBOLA HAS JUST HIT THIS AREA SO HARD AND YOU ARE SAYING THAT IT HAS 16:56 KIND OF FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS AND PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN AS SHORT AS HOW MANY DAYS? 17:01 TWO DAYS, TWO DAYS ON UP TO, YOU KNOW, 20 DAYS OR SO. 17:07 THE INCUBATION PERIOD IS 21 DAYS IF YOU LIVE OUTLIVE 21 DAYS AND YOU 17:13 DON'T HAVE SYMPTOMS AND YOU'VE BEEN EXPOSED YOU ARE PROBABLY GOOD TO GO. 17:17 WOW! 17:18 AND IT IS AFFECTING ALL AGES, ALL PEOPLE NO RESPECTOR, WIDOWS, 17:22 WIDOWERS, ORPHANS YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE WORKS, WOW, SO IT'S NOT A FUN 17:28 THING IT IS VERY, VERY SERIOUS. 17:32 WELL IT'S AWFUL AND TO SEE THE VIDEO ON THE NEWS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE BEING 17:37 QUARANTINED AND ALL OF THAT AND HOW YOU ORGANIZE ALL OF THAT AND YOU SAID 17:41 THERE IS A BLOOD TEST BUT A LOT OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THE HEALTH 17:45 PROFESSION, THEY DON'T WANT TO GET CLOSE TO SOMEBODY AND SO PEOPLE ARE 17:49 BEING OSTRACIZED AND IT IS JUST A WHOLE COMBINATION OF A LOT OF HORRIBLE 17:52 THINGS. 17:53 IT HAS SERIOUSLY AFFECTED WEST AFRICA. 17:55 THEY FIGURE $3.6 BILLION A YEAR OF EFFECT FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS: LOSS OF 18:01 COMMERCE; LOSS OF TRUST; FLIGHT CANCELLATIONS; TOURISM ALTHOUGH THERE IS 18:07 NOT A LOT OF TOURISTS THAT GO TO THAT AREA. 18:10 BUT IF YOU PUT ALL OF THOSE FACTORS TOGETHER AND IT IS GOING TO SERIOUSLY, 18:14 SERIOUSLY IMPACT WEST AFRICA FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. 18:18 AND THESE DEAR PEOPLE ALREADY HAVE SO MUCH THAT THEY ARE DEALING WITH 18:22 ALREADY. 18:23 IT IS A VERY, VERY POOR COUNTRY-A POOR SECTION OF THE WORLD. 18:26 AND THEN TO HAVE ILLNESS AND ALL OF THIS AND FAMILY MEMBERS PASSING AWAY AND 18:31 ALL OF THAT BUT WE DO HAVE THE HOPE THAT JESUS IS COMING, YES, AND WE DO 18:34 HAVE THE HOPE THAT ONE OF OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS WHO DID PASS AWAY 18:38 HIS WIFE IS HEALTHY AND HAD THEIR BABY SON AND WE NEED TO BE PRAYING FOR 18:42 THEM. 18:43 YES. 18:45 AND SO YES, SO WHAT ARE SOME THINGS THAT YOU ARE ENCOURAGING THE GOSPEL 18:48 OUTREACH WORKERS TO DO THERE-WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP SUPPORT THEM? 18:53 TELL US A LITTLE BIT MORE. 18:55 WELL, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO ON THIS SIDE OF THE WATER, IF YOU 19:01 PLEASE, IS THAT WE CAN PRAY FOR THESE WORKERS. 19:07 THEY ARE WORKING IN VERY, VERY DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES, VERY POOR, 19:13 VERY POOR PLACES OF THE WORLD. 19:14 I'VE SHOWN, YOU KNOW, IN OTHER SERIES THAT WE HAVE DONE HERE THE POVERTY THAT 19:21 EXISTS OVER THERE IT IS JUST BEYOND IMAGINATION. 19:26 AND YET THOSE PEOPLE ARE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW, WHEN A PERSON IS HURTING IF YOU 19:30 CAN FULFILL A NEED YOU'VE GOT A LOT BETTER OPPORTUNITY OF GETTING 19:35 THEIR ATTENTION IF THEY ARE NEEDY AND SO YOU KNOW, THAT'S GOOD. 19:40 BUT THAT IS WHERE HOPE COMES IN TOO AND THAT'S WHERE HOPE BECAUSE YES, 19:44 OUR SITUATION AND YOU KNOW HERE WE SIT YOU KNOW IN AMERICA SO BLESSED AND TO 19:51 EVEN HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT SOME OF THESE OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING THROUGH -THAT'S 19:54 ONE REASON WHY WE COME HERE; WHY WE DO THESE THINGS AND WHY WE SHOW THE 19:57 PICTURES BECAUSE THAT BRINGS IT REAL BUT EVEN IN THINGS THAT ANY OF US HAVE 20:02 GOING ON, WE HAVE THE HOPE IN JESUS AND THAT HE IS COMING AGAIN AND THAT IT 20:06 IS GOING TO BE BETTER AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO SHARE, RIGHT GLEN? 20:09 YES AND THEN YOU KNOW I BROUGHT ALONG A COUPLE OF OTHER PICTURES IN THE 20:14 EXCITEMENT OF TALKING ABOUT EBOLA I FORGOT BUT I WANT TO SHOW YOU, YOU WERE 20:20 ASKING HOW WE CAN HELP THESE GUYS, WELL THIS IS FELIX-HE IS THE ONE THAT 20:28 WAS CARING FOR KOI KOI. 20:30 BY FAITH FELIX, I JUST KNOW IT. 20:33 AND WE ASKED THESE GUYS TO PREACH AND TO SHARE THEIR STORY AND HERE IS ONE OF 20:40 THE GUYS-AGAIN THIS IS FELIX. 20:42 HE IS SHARING HIS STORY AND MY WIFE KAREN, WAS TAKING NOTES AND WE BRING 20:47 BACK THESE STORIES OF THEIR PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. 20:51 HERE IS ANOTHER FELLOW THAT WAS VERY MUCH AFFECTED BY THE EPIDEMIC 20:57 OF EBOLA-LUA IGNACE. 21:00 LUA REALLY GETS INTO THIS PREACHING. 21:03 IT WAS FUN HEARING ALL OF THESE GUYS PREACH AND TELLING THEIR TESTIMONIES 21:07 AND SHARING. 21:09 LUA WAS DOING BIBLE STUDIES WITH A FELLOW BY THE NAME OF JHAN AND 21:14 LITTLE DID HE REALIZE THAT JHAN WAS GOING TO SUCCUMB TO EBOLA EPIDEMIC, EBOLA 21:23 DISEASE AND JHAN DIED. 21:27 SAD BUT NEVERTHELESS LUA HAD THE OPPORTUNITY OF SHARING HOPE WITH JHAN AND 21:38 LEADING HIM TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THAT'S WHAT THESE FELLOWS ARE OUT 21:42 THERE ARE ALL ABOUT IS SHARING JESUS. 21:48 JESUS WENT ABOUT MINISTERING AND DOING GOOD AND JESUS TOUCHED THE 21:52 LEPERS AND HE TOUCHED THE LEPERS AND HE TOUCHED THE EBOLA PEOPLE. 21:57 YES AND THAT ANOTHER THING IS AS YOU WERE SHOWING APICTURE OF FELIX, I FEEL 22:01 THAT WE NEED TO PRAY FOR THE HEALTH OF OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS, FOR THE 22:05 HEALTH OF EVERYBODY OBVIOUSLY, BUT WE NEED TO PRAY FOR THE HEALTH OF THE 22:08 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THAT THE LORD WILL CONTINUE TO GIVE THEM 22:12 STRENGTH BECAUSE TELL US GLEN, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE OTHER RELIGIONS THAT ARE 22:16 IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD? 22:18 ANIMISM IS A BIG PART OF WHAT'S OUT THERE ESPECIALLY AS YOU GET OUT 22:22 INTO THE BUSH OUT ONTO THE FORESTS REGIONS OF THESE COUNTRIES. 22:26 DESCRIBE WHAT THAT IS PLEASE. 22:27 FOREST REGIONS-NO THE ANIMISM. 22:29 THE ANIMISM IT IS BASICALLY WHAT WE GREW UP CALLING PAGANISM-WORSHIP 22:36 OF SPIRITS, WORSHIP OF THINGS: ROCKS, TREES, RAIN, SUN, MOON, STARS 22:44 THAT'S ANIMISM. 22:45 THEN THERE IS CHRISTIANITY OF VARIOUS FORMS-PROTESTANTISM, ISLAM 22:52 IS VERY MUCH OUT THERE BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE SEE IS THAT THERE IS A 22:58 BLEND OF RELIGIONS. 23:00 IT IS NOT JUST A PURE KINGDOM BELIEVING PERSON BUT THEY'LL BRING IN 23:07 THINGS FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD INTO THEIR RELIGION. 23:10 WE CALL IT PLURALISM. 23:11 IT IS ALL MIXED UP. 23:12 SURE. 23:14 ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE, MOST ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE HAVE COME OUT OF HEATHENISM, 23:18 HAVE COME OUT OF ANIMISM AND MANY OF THEM HAVE BROUGHT VESTIGES OF THAT 23:25 RELIGION WITH THEM SO THAT IF YOU PEEL THE ORANGE IN TAKING AWAY WHAT THEY 23:33 CLAIM TO BE IN CHRISTIANITY OR ANY OF THE OTHER "ISMS" UNDERNEATH 23:39 YOU SEE AN ANIMIST AND YOU SEE YOU SEE THOSE AMULETS AROUND THEIR ANKLES AND ON 23:44 TOP OF THEIR HOUSES AND OUT ON THE DOORPOSTS AND YOU SEE ALL OF THESE 23:54 THINGS TO SCARE AWAY THE SPIRITS. 23:56 THE SPIRITS SO THEY BELIEVE IN THAT THAT IS GOING TO HELP -OH YES, 24:00 VERY MUCH SO. 24:01 IT IS A VERY REAL THING. 24:03 SO TO GO FROM ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT BELIEFS AND ALL THESE DIFFERENT GODS, IF 24:06 YOU WILL, IF YOU ARE BELIEVING IN THE ROCK AND ALL OF THEN TO ONE LIVING 24:09 GOD-ONE LIVING GOD, ONE LIVING SAVIOR, ONE LIVING SPIRIT THAT'S JUST A WHOLE 24:15 NEW CONCEPT. 24:16 OH YES AND YOU HAVE TO FIGURE OUT YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE CULTURE, 24:19 HOW TO COMMUNICATE, YES, THAT TO THE PEOPLE BUT THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF OUR 24:23 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS BECAUSE THEY'RE WORKING IN THE COUNTRIES WHERE THEY 24:31 ARE FROM, THEY SPEAK THE LANGUAGE AND THEY KNOW ALL OF THIS, YES, BUT THEY 24:39 HAVE ACCEPTED JESUS. 24:40 YES. 24:41 SO WHAT ARE SOME NEEDS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THAT BUT WHAT ARE THE 24:43 NEEDS THAT ARE JUST SO -THAT THEY NEED DESPERATELY RIGHT NOW? 24:45 TRAINING. 24:46 WE NEED, MY GREATEST NEED, I FEEL RIGHT NOW IS TO BE TRAINING THE BIBLE WORKERS 24:51 OUT THERE HOW TO BE DISCIPLE MAKERS RATHER A NUMBER AND A BOOK HOW CAN 24:59 I, GLEN WINTERMEYER, BE DISCIPLE TEACHING? 25:04 HOW CAN I GET THEM TO GRAB GET A HOLD OF THE CONCEPT THAT MAKING PEOPLE 25:10 DISCIPLES IS THE NUMBER ONE THING IN JESUS CHRIST? 25:14 WELL YOU KNOW WHAT GLEN, HEARING WHAT THESE MEN ARE DOING RIGHT NOW JUST 25:18 MINISTERING TO THIS KOI KOI, THE LORD IS DOING A MIGHTY WORK BY FAITH AND 25:22 GOING TO MINISTER TO SOMEONE WHO IS ON THEIR DEATH BED. 25:25 AMEN. 25:26 SO PLEASE ENCOURAGE THEM. 25:28 IT SOUNDS LIKE TO ME THAT THEY ARE DOING WHAT GOD HAS PLACED THEM ON THIS 25:31 EARTH TO DO AND WOW! 25:32 AT GOSPEL OUTREACH WE NEED TO ENCOURAGE THEM. 25:34 I NEED TO GET OUT THERE TWICE A YEAR TO BE TRAINING THESE GUYS. 25:38 WELL AND THAT'S ANOTHER THING WE NEED TO PRAY FOR THAT THIS WILL -EBOLA WILL 25:42 GO AWAY SO THEN YOU ARE ABLE TO GO AND COMMUNICATE BECAUSE ENCOURAGING- HOW 25:46 OFTEN DOES PAUL ENCOURAGE US IN HIS WRITINGS THAT WE ARE SUPPOSED OT ENCOURAGE 25:49 EACH OTHER AND THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO DO WITH OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 25:53 SO YES, WE WANT TO PRAY THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GO AND THAT YOU CAN GO AND 25:58 MEET WITH THEM AND ENCOURAGE THEM. 26:00 THANK YOU. 26:01 YES, WELL WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU ARE HERE. 26:03 WE THANK YOU FOR EDUCATING US ON THIS AREA OF THE WORLD AND PLEASE PASS ON 26:07 TO THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THAT WE ARE PRAYING FOR THEM. 26:10 I WILL DO THAT. 26:11 WE THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. 26:12 WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR JOINING US HERE AT "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" 26:16 AND AS YOU TURN THE TELEVISION ON AS YOU WATCH IN THE NEWS, PLEASE SAY A 26:20 SPECIAL PRAYER WHEN YOU HEAR ABOUT EBOLA, PLEASE PRAY FOR FELIX AND THESE 26:23 PASTORS, THESE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS WHO ARE SHARING JESUS TO PEOPLE 26:27 WHO MIGHT BE ON THEIR DEATH BED AND LET US PRAY THAT WE CAN SHARE THE HOPE 26:31 OF JESUS CHRIST WITH MORE PEOPLE AND I INVITE YOU TO GET INVOLVED. 26:35 GO TO OUR WEBSITE GOAIM.ORG AND WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND THAT 26:40 IS WHAT ENABLES GOSPEL OUTREACH TO CONTINUE SO GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS 26:44 CAN SHARE JESUS. 26:46 ON BEHALF OF "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" AND GOSPEL OUTREACH I'M JULIE 26:48 SANDERS-KEYMER AND MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU TODAY. 26:50 [CLOSING MUSIC]. |
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