[OPENING MUSIC]. 00:00:00.43\00:00:15.98 I WANT TO WELCOME YOU TO THE GOSPEL OUTREACH PROGRAM THE 00:00:16.01\00:00:19.61 "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS". 00:00:19.65\00:00:21.12 A GROUP OF MY FRIENDS CALLED AND SAID, "DICK, WOULD YOU BE 00:00:21.15\00:00:23.15 WILLING TO COME UP TO WALLA WALLA AND LEARN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH." 00:00:23.18\00:00:26.96 I SAID, "SURE." 00:00:26.99\00:00:28.39 I'M ALWAYS EXCITED TO LEARN NEW THINGS ABOUT MINISTRY BUT I DID 00:00:28.42\00:00:33.29 NOT EXPECT WHAT I FOUND. 00:00:33.33\00:00:35.23 THIS ENVIRONMENT WHERE PEOPLE ARE SO COMPLETELY INVOLVED IN 00:00:35.26\00:00:42.04 OUTREACH AND IN MISSIONS IS REALLY EXCITING. 00:00:42.07\00:00:44.71 I'VE HAD A CHANCE TO MEET PEOPLE WHO HAVE TAKEN THEIR RETIREMENT 00:00:44.74\00:00:48.88 YEARS, WHO HAVE TAKEN SPECIAL ENERGY GIFTS AND JUST GIVEN THEM 00:00:48.91\00:00:54.75 TO A MINISTRY THAT TOUCHES PEOPLE WHERE PEOPLE REALLY NEED 00:00:54.78\00:00:59.65 TO BE TOUCHED. I HAVE A NEW FRIEND, DAVE CROOKS, IS THAT 00:00:59.69\00:01:02.29 CLOSE? DAVE CROOK? 00:01:02.32\00:01:04.39 ONE. 00:01:05.89\00:01:07.40 THERE IS ONLY ONE CROOK AT YOUR HOUSE, NO THERE IS TWO CROOKS AT 00:01:07.46\00:01:11.90 YOUR HOUSE. DAVE, YOU HAVE SPENT MOST OF YOUR LIFE IN CHURCH ADMINISTRATION AND NOW YOU 00:01:11.93\00:01:15.70 FIND YOURSELF IN CHURCH INSPIRATION. 00:01:15.74\00:01:19.44 I LIKE THAT. 00:01:19.47\00:01:20.94 AND WHERE ARE YOU WORKING? 00:01:20.98\00:01:21.88 I'M WORKING IN SOUTH SUDAN AND ETHIOPIA. 00:01:21.91\00:01:26.68 NOW WAIT, WAIT, WAIT YOU WERE CONFERENCE PRESIDENT IN EASTERN 00:01:26.72\00:01:32.55 CANADA, THAT'S RIGHT, YES. 00:01:32.59\00:01:33.82 THERE IS NO COMPARISON BETWEEN NEWFOUNDLAND AND SOUTH SUDAN. 00:01:33.86\00:01:38.93 NO. 00:01:38.96\00:01:39.93 WHY DID YOU END UP THERE? 00:01:39.96\00:01:41.30 WELL, I GUESS GOD WORKED THINGS OUT THAT WAY. 00:01:41.33\00:01:48.17 GOD JUST SAID THIS IS WHERE WE NEED YOU. 00:01:48.20\00:01:50.14 IT'S BEEN A MOST SATISFYING, INSPIRATIONAL, WONDERFUL 00:01:50.17\00:01:55.01 EXPERIENCE IN THE LAST TEN YEARS. 00:01:55.04\00:01:56.71 TEN YEARS? 00:01:56.75\00:01:57.71 YES. 00:01:57.75\00:01:59.25 THERE HAVE BEEN CRISES IN THAT PART OF AFRICA FOR FAR LONGER 00:01:59.28\00:02:02.78 THAN TEN YEARS BUT YOU HAVE BEEN PART OF IT FOR TEN YEARS. 00:02:02.82\00:02:05.79 WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED? 00:02:05.82\00:02:07.92 I LEARNED THAT THE PEOPLE ARE WONDERFUL PEOPLE. 00:02:07.96\00:02:13.16 THEY ARE SINCERE PEOPLE AND MANY ARE LONGING FOR SOMETHING BETTER 00:02:13.19\00:02:16.40 AND OF COURSE, THAT IS THE GOSPEL. 00:02:20.47\00:02:23.07 THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THAT YOU HAVE IN ETHIOPIA AND THE 00:02:23.10\00:02:27.24 SUDAN AREA ARE SUDANESE AND ETHIOPIAN? 00:02:27.28\00:02:30.01 THAT'S RIGHT, YES. 00:02:30.05\00:02:31.51 SO THEY ARE PEOPLE FROM THE CULTURE, THEY KNOW WHAT'S GOING 00:02:31.55\00:02:34.85 ON, THAT'S RIGHT, THEY ARE COMFORTABLE FITTING IN BUT YOU DROP IN FROM CANADA, 00:02:34.88\00:02:38.32 THE UNITED STATES A WHOLE DIFFERENT BACKGROUND AND YOU 00:02:38.35\00:02:43.39 TRAIN THEM AND YOU ENCOURAGE THEM AND YOU INSPIRE THEM. 00:02:45.46\00:02:49.03 WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING IN AFRICA THAN HOW YOU 00:02:49.06\00:02:55.50 WORKED WITH PASTORS IN CANADA? 00:02:55.54\00:02:58.04 WELL, MANY THINGS ARE THE SAME, REALLY. 00:02:58.07\00:03:01.31 OF COURSE, I DON'T HAVE DIRECT ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY 00:03:01.34\00:03:07.42 WITH THEM, RIGHT, BECAUSE THE MISSION IS IN CHARGE OF THEM, 00:03:07.45\00:03:10.25 RIGHT. SO I PLAY A LITTLE DIFFERENT ROLE THAN I WOULD HAVE 00:03:10.29\00:03:14.12 PLAYED IN MY WORK BACK HERE BUT WHAT INSPIRES ME IS TO SEE THE DEDICATION, TO SEE THE 00:03:14.16\00:03:19.23 WILLINGNESS OF THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY ARE GOING OFF INTO 00:03:23.70\00:03:27.20 NEW AREAS AND PLANTING CHURCHES REALLY. 00:03:27.24\00:03:29.64 AND YOU KNOW THIS IS WHAT I APPRECIATE GOSPEL OUTREACH 00:03:29.67\00:03:36.44 BECAUSE WE TAKE VERY SERIOUS THE COMMISSION THAT JESUS GAVE TO US: GO YE INTO ALL THE 00:03:36.48\00:03:41.58 WORLD. 00:03:41.62\00:03:43.05 AND TODAY, DICK WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO THAT IS GO YE 00:03:43.08\00:03:46.96 INTO ALL THE WORLD AND THAT INCLUDES THE REFUGEE CAMPS BECAUSE THAT IS A SPECIAL 00:03:46.99\00:03:51.59 SITUATION. 00:03:51.63\00:03:52.69 HUGE CHALLENGES THERE. 00:03:52.73\00:03:54.20 THAT'S RIGHT, SO I'D LIKE US TO GO TO ETHIOPIA AND MOVE RIGHT UP 00:03:54.20\00:03:59.33 TO THE VERY TOP, THE VERY TOP OF ETHIOPIA OK. 00:04:02.80\00:04:07.38 AND OF COURSE THAT COMES TO THE BORDER OF ERITREA, YES, AND SO 00:04:07.41\00:04:13.38 IN THIS REFUGEE CAMP AT A PLACE CALLED HITSATS WE HAVE ERITREAN 00:04:13.42\00:04:18.49 PEOPLE THERE BECAUSE OF THE INSTABILITY THE SITUATION WITH THE GOVERNMENT THERE, PEOPLE 00:04:20.49\00:04:24.66 ARE FLEEING BY THE THOUSANDS. 00:04:24.69\00:04:27.73 THERE ARE 7000 PEOPLE IN THIS PARTICULAR CAMP. 00:04:27.76\00:04:31.87 LET ME JUST STOP YOU FOR A SECOND. 00:04:31.90\00:04:33.94 WHERE DID THE BUILDINGS COME FROM? 00:04:33.97\00:04:36.47 IS THIS A UNESCO KIND OF CAMP? 00:04:36.50\00:04:38.17 YES, IT IS. 00:04:38.21\00:04:39.17 O.K. 00:04:39.21\00:04:40.11 YES SO IT IS A ROUGH TENT TYPE BUILDING. 00:04:40.14\00:04:42.24 YES, ALTHOUGH SOME OF THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CONSTRUCT 00:04:42.28\00:04:45.71 HOUSES. IT IS AMAZING. 00:04:45.75\00:04:47.05 SO A REFUGEE CAMP COULD BECOME A PERMANENT HOME. 00:04:47.08\00:04:49.62 WELL YES, BECAUSE IT CAN GO ON FOR YEARS AND ANYWAY THE 00:04:49.65\00:04:56.49 WONDERFUL THING IS THAT WE HAVE A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER THERE BUT MENTIONING ABOUT PERMANENT 00:04:56.52\00:05:01.06 HOMES, YOU SEE THIS MAN HE HAS A LITTLE BUSINESS THERE. 00:05:01.10\00:05:03.50 HE HAS A SEWING MACHINE THERE AND HE'S SEWING FOR THE PEOPLE. 00:05:03.53\00:05:07.70 I DECIDED A FEW YEARS AGO THAT IF I CAN PUT ALL MY MONEY TOWARDS ONE THING IN 00:05:07.74\00:05:11.21 THE WORLD, IT WOULD BE TO BUY SEWING MACHINES FOR REFUGEE 00:05:11.24\00:05:14.18 CAMPS. YES. 00:05:14.21\00:05:15.18 IT IS AMAZING WHAT THEY DO. 00:05:15.21\00:05:16.85 IT IS. 00:05:16.88\00:05:17.85 VERY MUCH SO, VERY MUCH SO. 00:05:17.88\00:05:19.41 HERE IS OUR WORKER AND HIS WIFE- MOLIGHITA AND HIS WIFE ZADE. 00:05:19.45\00:05:24.35 WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL PEOPLE AND THEY -ZADE HAS A LITTLE 00:05:24.39\00:05:31.03 RESTAURANT OR A CAFÉ ACTUALLY AND PEOPLE COME THERE TO HAVE A LITTLE REFRESHMENT AND 00:05:31.06\00:05:36.06 RELAX A LITTLE BIT. 00:05:40.40\00:05:41.77 SHE WILL GIVE THEM LITERATURE AND SHE WILL TALK TO THEM ABOUT 00:05:41.80\00:05:47.54 JESUS AND MOLIGHITA HAS TRANSLATED A LOT OF MATERIAL 00:05:47.58\00:05:52.65 INTO THE LOCAL TIGRE DIALECT AND SO SHE HANDS THESE OUT TO THE PEOPLE AND HERE IS A 00:05:56.38\00:06:01.49 PICTURE OF MOLIGHITA WITH SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE GATHERED 00:06:05.09\00:06:10.83 THAT DAY. THE YOUNG MAN IN THE CENTER -THIS ISN'T THE BEST PICTURE BUT- HE IS 16 00:06:10.87\00:06:15.54 YEARS OLD AND HE ESCAPED FROM ERITREA-CAME TO THE CAMP, HAD NO 00:06:15.57\00:06:19.81 RELATIVES, DIDN'T KNOW ANYONE AND THESE DEAR PEOPLE TOOK HIM 00:06:19.84\00:06:26.58 IN. SO, MOLIGHITA IS STUDYING THE BIBLE WITH HIM AT THIS 00:06:26.61\00:06:33.25 PARTICULAR TIME. HE HAS A NEW FAMILY AND HE HAS A NEW HOPE. 00:06:33.29\00:06:36.12 THAT'S RIGHT. 00:06:36.16\00:06:38.56 CERTAINLY. 00:06:38.59\00:06:40.03 NOW THERE WAS A LADY WHO CAME ONE DAY AND ZADE GAVE HER SOME 00:06:40.06\00:06:46.17 LITERATURE. SHE TOOK IT HOME AND SHE WAS READING IT AND WHEN HER 00:06:46.20\00:06:48.60 HUSBAND SAW HER READING THE LITERATURE HE GOT VERY ANGRY AND 00:06:48.64\00:06:51.34 ACTUALLY BEAT HER. A LITTLE LATER ON HE PICKED UP THE LITERATURE AND BEGAN READING IT 00:06:51.37\00:06:57.25 AND THEN HE WENT TO HER AND HE SAID, "WHERE DID YOU GET THIS"? 00:06:57.28\00:06:59.35 SHE TOLD HIM AND SO HE WENT TO SEE MOLIGHITA AND IT WASN'T TO 00:06:59.38\00:07:06.39 GIVE A REPRIMAND BECAUSE IT WASN'T THE LITERATURE -HE DIDN'T 00:07:06.42\00:07:09.52 GO TO BEAT HIM UP. NO, ANYWAY, THEY GOT TO TALKING AND SO HE AGREED TO TAKE BIBLE STUDIES AND 00:07:09.56\00:07:14.60 TWO WEEKS AGO- A WEEK AGO LAST SABBATH, HE WAS BAPTIZED. 00:07:18.50\00:07:22.54 REALLY! 00:07:22.57\00:07:23.54 YES. 00:07:23.57\00:07:24.84 SO WHAT HAVE THEY TRANSLATED THAT HAS THAT KIND OF AN IMPACT 00:07:24.87\00:07:28.41 ON FAMILIES? 00:07:28.44\00:07:29.94 WELL, I DON'T EXACTLY WHAT ALL THE LITERATURE IS ALL I KNOW IS 00:07:29.98\00:07:36.18 THAT MOLIGHITA SOMEHOW GOT A HOLD OF A LOT OF VOICE OF PROPHECY SERMONS AND TRANSLATED 00:07:36.22\00:07:40.96 THOSE. 00:07:40.99\00:07:41.86 MY LANDS, WOULD HAROLD BE HAPPY OR WHAT? 00:07:41.89\00:07:45.03 YES AND I SAY DEFINITELY, NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. 00:07:45.06\00:07:48.46 YES. 00:07:48.50\00:07:49.93 ANYWAY, HERE'S AN INTERESTING-THIS IS IN THE LITTLE CAFÉ THERE BUT YOU 00:07:49.96\00:07:52.87 NOTICE IN THE BACKGROUND THERE IS A TELEVISION. 00:07:52.90\00:07:55.20 OF COURSE, IT'S A REFUGEE CAMP. 00:07:55.24\00:07:56.77 IT'S THE WORLD. 00:07:56.81\00:07:59.07 THERE IS A TELEVISION EVERYWHERE. 00:07:59.11\00:08:01.14 WELL, NO THEY HAPPEN TO HAVE ELECTRICITY THERE -VERY CRUDE 00:08:01.18\00:08:07.05 WIRES STRUNG AROUND HERE AND THERE AND THE MISSION GAVE HIM THIS TELEVISION SET WITH A DISH 00:08:07.08\00:08:10.42 SO THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO BRING IN THE HOPE CHANNEL AND PEOPLE 00:08:10.45\00:08:16.62 WILL GATHER THERE AND THEY WILL BE ABLE TO WATCH THIS PROGRAM TALKING ABOUT THEIR WORK 00:08:16.66\00:08:22.16 IN THAT LITTLE CAFÉ. 00:08:22.20\00:08:23.16 YES, THAT'S RIGHT. 00:08:23.20\00:08:24.17 HOW EXCITING. 00:08:24.20\00:08:25.53 SO THE OTHER THING MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN THE CAMP ARE ORTHODOX. 00:08:25.57\00:08:27.27 ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS? 00:08:27.30\00:08:28.27 YES, ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX. 00:08:28.30\00:08:29.27 RIGHT. 00:08:29.30\00:08:30.81 BUT IN THE CAMP YOU KNOW, THERE ISN'T GRANDFATHER AND UNCLE AND 00:08:30.84\00:08:32.54 EVERYBODY ELSE AROUND LIKE IT IS IN THE VILLAGE AND SO PEOPLE ARE MORE FREE TO ACCEPT. 00:08:32.57\00:08:37.65 THE MAN ON THE RIGHT, I SHOULD HAVE POINTED THAT OUT AND MAYBE 00:08:51.79\00:08:55.00 WE SHOULD GO BACK TO THAT PICTURE BUT THE MAN ON THE RIGHT IS THE MAN WHO WAS BAPTIZED 00:08:55.03\00:09:00.40 -ONE MORE BACK, SORRY- HE WAS THE ONE-THERE HE IS, THE ONE 00:09:00.44\00:09:04.51 WITH THE BLACK SHIRT ON IS THE ONE WHO WAS BAPTIZED A LITTLE 00:09:04.54\00:09:08.08 OVER A WEEK AGO. WOW. 00:09:08.11\00:09:09.54 SO-AND YOU HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF GOING NOW AND JUST SPENDING TIME 00:09:09.58\00:09:13.88 WITH THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS INSPIRING THEM AND LETTING THEM 00:09:13.92\00:09:18.62 INSPIRE YOU WITH THE TALES OF GOD'S WORK. 00:09:18.65\00:09:20.69 YES. 00:09:20.72\00:09:21.69 THERE'S ONE MORE STORY. 00:09:21.72\00:09:22.69 OK I'M READY. 00:09:22.72\00:09:23.69 THIS MAN'S NAME IS TAMESKIN. 00:09:23.73\00:09:25.09 HE CAME TO THE CAMP FROM ERITREA AND HE HAD SOME FRIENDS THERE. 00:09:25.13\00:09:30.07 THEY INVITED HIM TO THEIR CHURCH SERVICES BUT HE WASN'T QUITE 00:09:30.10\00:09:34.54 SATISFIED WITH THE WAY THE CHURCH SERVICE WAS CONDUCTED AND SO SOMEONE SAID YOU SHOULD 00:09:34.57\00:09:39.74 GO AND SEE MOLIGHITA. 00:09:39.77\00:09:41.24 AND HE WENT AND MOLIGHITA INVITED HIM TO HIS HOME WHERE 00:09:41.28\00:09:46.15 THE CHURCH SERVICE WAS HELD AND HE WAS SO THRILLED AT HOW ORDERLY THE CHURCH SERVICE WAS 00:09:46.18\00:09:52.02 AND HE WAS SEARCHING FOR BIBLE TRUTHS AND HE LIKED THE BIBLE 00:09:52.05\00:09:56.93 PREACHING. AND SO HE STARTED BIBLE STUDIES AND I'M NOT SURE HOW LONG AGO, IT WAS A FEW 00:09:56.96\00:10:03.80 MONTHS AGO THAT HE WAS BAPTIZED. 00:10:03.83\00:10:06.23 THE WONDERFUL THING IS THAT HE IS STUDYING FOOD PRODUCTION AND 00:10:06.27\00:10:11.37 ALSO TRAINING TO BE A CHEF. 00:10:11.41\00:10:12.84 I DON'T KNOW JUST HOW EXACTLY HOW IT HAPPENS BUT THERE IS THIS 00:10:12.87\00:10:15.31 TRAINING THERE AND SO HE IS DOING THAT TRAINING PLUS IN HIS SPARE TIME HE IS GOING AND 00:10:15.34\00:10:20.98 VISITING HIS FRIENDS, WITH MOLIGHITA AND SHARING THE GOOD 00:10:21.02\00:10:27.42 NEWS OF JESUS. AND YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER IN TRAINING IT SOUNDS LIKE. 00:10:27.46\00:10:31.29 THAT'S RIGHT, YES. 00:10:31.33\00:10:32.73 BUT ANYWAY EVERYONE WAS SO VERY POSITIVE ABOUT MOLIGHITA AND 00:10:32.76\00:10:36.87 ZADE. THESE WONDERFUL PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN SO HELPFUL AND SO KIND 00:10:36.90\00:10:41.50 TO THEM SO IT WAS THRILLING TO HEAR THEIR TESTIMONIES. 00:10:41.54\00:10:44.11 AND NOW THERE IS ANOTHER CAMP THAT I DIDN'T GET TO ALSO IN 00:10:44.14\00:10:49.21 NORTHERN ETHIOPIA AND THAT HAS ABOUT 10,000 PEOPLE IN IT SO WE'RE WORKING HOPING THAT WE CAN 00:10:52.35\00:10:57.69 GET A WORKER TO GO OVER THERE ALSO. 00:10:57.72\00:10:59.72 ANYWAY, WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON TO SOUTH SUDAN NOW. 00:10:59.75\00:11:03.93 OK. 00:11:03.96\00:11:05.39 AND YOU KNOW, POOR SOUTH SUDAN HAD WAR FOR ABOUT 60 YEARS, 00:11:05.43\00:11:11.03 THERE WAS NO INFRASTRUCTURE -IT WAS A TERRIBLE SITUATION. 00:11:11.07\00:11:14.00 AND THEN ABOUT WHAT IS IT ABOUT THREE OR FOUR YEARS AGO, IT 00:11:14.04\00:11:17.37 BECAME THE NEWEST NATION IN THE WORLD-THEY GOT THEIR INDEPENDENCE AND THEY WERE 00:11:17.41\00:11:20.91 STARTING TO BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE AND DO ALL THESE THINGS AND THE 00:11:20.94\00:11:23.11 PEOPLE WERE SO POSITIVE AND OUR SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST PEOPLE WERE SO HAPPY AND POSITIVE 00:11:23.14\00:11:25.11 ABOUT THIS WHOLE THING HAPPENING AND THEN UNFORTUNATELY, WHAT WAS 00:11:25.15\00:11:30.32 IT TWO YEARS AGO, THE CONFLICT STARTED AGAIN BECAUSE THE VICE 00:11:30.35\00:11:36.86 PRESIDENT WAS DISMISSED, I GUESS YOU WOULD SAY, AND SO HIS TRIBE WHICH IS THE SECOND 00:11:36.89\00:11:42.56 LARGEST TRIBE AND THE PRESIDENT'S TRIBE WHICH IS THE LARGEST TRIBE BEGAN 00:11:42.60\00:11:47.44 FIGHTING AND CONFLICT BROKE OUT ALL OVER THE PLACE. 00:11:47.47\00:11:50.64 AND SO MANY OF OUR PEOPLE HAD TO FLEE AND OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH 00:11:50.67\00:11:55.74 WORKERS HAVE HAD TO FLEE ALSO. 00:11:58.61\00:12:00.15 I'M SORRY, BUT I FORGOT TO MENTION THE MAN ON THE RIGHT 00:12:00.18\00:12:05.75 THERE WITH A SCARF AROUND HIS NECK, RIGHT, IS HALOMARIAN. 00:12:05.79\00:12:08.32 HE IS AN ENGINEER WHO HAD BEEN IN CHARGE OF SEVERAL BIG PROJECTS AND SO ON BUT 00:12:08.36\00:12:14.66 HE WAS BAPTIZED A FEW YEARS AGO. 00:12:14.73\00:12:18.00 HE BECAME SO EXCITED ABOUT THE ADVENTIST MESSAGE THAT HE DECIDED THAT HE WAS 00:12:18.03\00:12:22.70 GOING TO QUIT HIS JOB. 00:12:22.74\00:12:24.24 HE HAD SOME SAVINGS AND HE WOULD USE THAT TO SUPPORT HIMSELF AND 00:12:24.27\00:12:27.71 HE'S BEEN WORKING AS A SELF SUPPORTING PERSON UNTIL LAST 00:12:27.74\00:12:32.51 YEAR WHEN WE HIRED HIM AS A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER AND HE HAD A THRILLING EXPERIENCE IN 00:12:32.55\00:12:37.49 BAPTIZING A LADY FROM THE REFUGEE CAMP. 00:12:37.52\00:12:41.06 THAT'S THE PRESIDENT IN THE CENTER THERE. 00:12:41.09\00:12:43.09 HE IS 26 YEARS OLD. 00:12:43.12\00:12:44.59 AND THAT'S OUR NEW WORKER ON THE LEFT IN THE SHIRT WHO HAS JUST 00:12:44.63\00:12:50.20 STARTED IN THIS HOLY CITY OF AKSUM. 00:12:50.23\00:12:51.50 OH MY, I'VE READ ABOUT THAT PLACE. 00:12:51.53\00:12:54.90 YES. 00:12:54.94\00:12:55.87 THEY ARE WORKING THERE TO TAKE THE GOSPEL. 00:12:55.90\00:12:59.24 THAT'S RIGHT. 00:12:59.27\00:13:00.64 VERY, VERY DIFFICULT BUT THEY ARE WORKING THERE, THAT'S RIGHT. 00:13:00.68\00:13:04.21 AND THIS LADY? 00:13:04.25\00:13:05.21 THIS LADY IS MONICA. 00:13:05.25\00:13:06.92 SHE IS FROM SOUTH SUDAN. 00:13:06.95\00:13:08.55 SHE IS A WIDOW. 00:13:08.58\00:13:10.05 NEVER HAD ANY CHILDREN AND SHE HAS BEEN A VERY EFFECTIVE GOSPEL 00:13:10.09\00:13:14.19 OUTREACH WORKER. 00:13:14.22\00:13:15.72 SHE HAD BEEN A DEACONESS IN HER CHURCH AND ALSO WAS IN CHARGE OF 00:13:15.76\00:13:20.93 ORGANIZING ACTIVITIES IN THE CHURCH. 00:13:20.96\00:13:22.36 SO WHEN THE MISSION SAW THIS, OF COURSE, THEY ASKED HER TO BE A 00:13:22.40\00:13:25.93 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER. 00:13:25.97\00:13:27.80 NOW LET ME STOP YOU THERE FOR JUST A MINUTE, BECAUSE MOST OF 00:13:27.84\00:13:31.17 THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS I'VE MET AND TALKED AND HAD PEOPLE TALK ABOUT ARE MEN. 00:13:31.21\00:13:36.51 YES. 00:13:36.54\00:13:37.95 BUT THERE ARE SOME WOMEN, YES, WHO JUST FIT IN THAT NEED TO BE 00:13:37.98\00:13:40.72 WORKING. THAT'S RIGHT. 00:13:40.75\00:13:41.72 AWESOME. 00:13:41.75\00:13:43.15 AND SHE IS DOING A TREMENDOUS WORK, MATTER OF FACT SHE WENT TO 00:13:43.18\00:13:45.35 A PLACE FOR TWO YEARS AND AFTER TWO YEARS SHE HAD BAPTIZED A 00:13:45.39\00:13:47.92 LADY PREACHER FROM ANOTHER DENOMINATION AND THE ARCH 00:13:47.96\00:13:51.19 DEACON. OH, MY LANDS. 00:13:51.23\00:13:52.66 AND MATTER OF FACT, IN THAT PLACE SHE BAPTIZED TWENTY PEOPLE 00:13:52.69\00:13:58.97 AND THEY BUILT A CHURCH THERE. 00:13:59.00\00:14:00.47 SHE WENT TO ANOTHER PLACE BAPTIZED TWENTY FIVE PEOPLE AND 00:14:00.50\00:14:03.14 BUILT ANOTHER CHURCH THERE. 00:14:03.17\00:14:04.61 AND SHE HAD IN THE LAST CHURCH SHE HAD SEVENTY PEOPLE WHEN THE 00:14:04.64\00:14:10.58 CONFLICT BROKE OUT AND SHE HAD TO FLEE WITH HER PEOPLE TO A 00:14:10.61\00:14:17.32 CAMP IN UGANDA. BUT THERE IN THE REFUGEE CAMP SHE IS WORKING, SHE HAS GATHERED FIFTY THREE 00:14:17.35\00:14:22.96 ADVENTIST PEOPLE TOGETHER AND SHE IS TAKING PASTORING THEM, 00:14:22.99\00:14:26.70 YOU MIGHT SAY, BUT SHE IS ALSO CONDUCTING BIBLE STUDIES AT LEAST AT THE TIME WHEN 00:14:26.73\00:14:30.97 I WAS THERE WITH TWENTY FIVE PEOPLE. 00:14:31.00\00:14:33.74 SO, JUST BECAUSE SHE HAS HAD TO FLEE TO THE REFUGEE CAMP SHE 00:14:33.77\00:14:38.14 HASN'T STOPPED WORKING. 00:14:38.17\00:14:39.21 ALL IT DID WAS CHANGE THE LOCATION OF HER MINISTRY. 00:14:39.24\00:14:41.14 THAT'S RIGHT. 00:14:41.18\00:14:42.61 NOW THIS MAN, JACOB IMMANUEL IS A YOUNG MAN ABOUT TWENTY YEARS 00:14:42.64\00:14:46.61 OLD. HE WAS A FARMER. 00:14:46.65\00:14:48.12 HE IS A RECENT CONVERT TO THE CHURCH BUT AFTER HIS BAPTISM HE 00:14:48.15\00:14:54.52 CAME SO ACTIVE IN SPREADING THE GOSPEL THAT HE WAS ASKED TO BE A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER AND 00:14:54.56\00:14:59.53 SO HE WENT TO AN AREA OF -CALLED NORTH BOR AND BEGAN WORKING 00:14:59.56\00:15:05.17 THERE. BUT UNFORTUNATELY IN THAT BOR AREA NORTH AND SOUTH BOR, 00:15:05.20\00:15:09.20 THERE IS A LOT OF CONFLICT SO PEOPLE HAVE HAD TO FLEE FROM 00:15:09.24\00:15:11.64 THERE. BUT ANYWAY, HE STARTED WORKING THERE AND HE BAPTIZED 68 00:15:11.67\00:15:16.34 PEOPLE AND THINGS WERE GOING ALONG WELL WHEN WAR BROKE OUT AND SO HE HAS GONE TO A 00:15:16.38\00:15:22.88 CAMP IN SOUTH SUDAN AND THEY CALL IT A DISPLACED PEOPLES CAMP 00:15:22.92\00:15:28.82 BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T HAD TO ACTUALLY LEAVE THE COUNTRY. 00:15:28.86\00:15:31.39 SO THEY ARE STILL IN THEIR COUNTRY. 00:15:31.43\00:15:33.40 THEY ARE STILL IN THEIR COUNTRY BUT THEY ARE REFUGEES, BUT THEY 00:15:33.43\00:15:35.40 ARE REFUGEES YES, BUT THEY CALL THEM DISPLACED PERSONS THEY 00:15:35.43\00:15:39.13 DON'T CALL THEM REFUGEES BECAUSE OF NOT HAVING TO LEAVE THEIR OWN 00:15:39.17\00:15:42.64 COUNTRY. YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WORKERS WHO ARE BAPTIZING LARGE 00:15:42.67\00:15:47.21 GROUPS OF PEOPLE THROUGH BIBLE STUDIES? 00:15:47.24\00:15:48.41 YES, THROUGH FRIENDSHIP EVANGELISM? 00:15:48.44\00:15:51.91 YES. 00:15:51.95\00:15:52.91 WHAT'S WORKING? 00:15:52.95\00:15:53.88 WHAT DRAWS THE PEOPLE? 00:15:53.92\00:15:55.32 WELL, THESE WORKERS WILL GO TO A REMOTE AREA WHERE THERE ARE NO 00:15:55.35\00:15:58.25 CHURCH MEMBERS. 00:15:58.29\00:15:59.75 THEY BEGIN VISITING THE PEOPLE, MAKING FRIENDS, STARTING TO HAVE 00:15:59.79\00:16:03.09 BIBLE STUDIES WITH THEM. 00:16:03.12\00:16:04.56 THEY'LL GATHER THEM IN GROUPS THEN FOR BIBLE STUDY, PRETTY 00:16:04.59\00:16:07.30 SOON THEY ARE BAPTIZING PEOPLE, THEY ARE ESTABLISHING A CHURCH AND THEY ARE BUILDING A 00:16:07.36\00:16:10.67 CHURCH AND THAT'S THE WAY THE WORK GOES. 00:16:10.70\00:16:13.10 IT'S A MARVELOUS YOU KNOW, THEY ARE PLANTING CHURCHES. 00:16:13.13\00:16:16.10 WOULD THAT ALSO WORK IN NEWFOUNDLAND? 00:16:16.14\00:16:18.11 YES, TO A CERTAIN EXTENT IT WOULD AND PROBABLY WE SHOULD BE 00:16:18.14\00:16:23.41 DOING MORE OF THIS TYPE OF THING THAN WE ARE DOING. 00:16:23.45\00:16:26.48 I'VE WONDERED THAT. 00:16:26.51\00:16:27.88 YES, ESPECIALLY THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS AS I'M LISTENING TO 00:16:27.92\00:16:32.25 COUNTRY DIRECTORS, RIGHT, IT WORKS SO WELL, BETTER BRING IT 00:16:32.29\00:16:36.29 HOME. YES THAT'S RIGHT. 00:16:36.32\00:16:37.29 BUT TAKE US BACK TO SUDAN. 00:16:37.33\00:16:38.33 OK, NOW WE HAVE ANOTHER FAITHFUL WORKER HERE. 00:16:38.36\00:16:44.13 I BELIEVE THIS IS DAVID PANDAK. 00:16:44.17\00:16:49.30 HE IS A MIDDLE AGED MAN, HAS FIVE CHILDREN AND HE WAS WORKING 00:16:49.34\00:16:54.24 IN THE BORA ALSO AND HE HAD BAPTIZED PEOPLE AND ESTABLISHED A CHURCH AND THINGS LIKE 00:16:54.28\00:17:00.85 WERE GOING ALONG VERY WELL AND THEN THEY HAD TO FLEE BUT HE ALSO WORKING IN THE 00:17:00.88\00:17:05.95 CAMP THAT HE IS IN. 00:17:08.06\00:17:09.72 AND IT WAS INTERESTING THOUGH, BEFORE WHEN HE WAS WORKING IN 00:17:09.76\00:17:14.83 BORA THE SECRETARY OF A CERTAIN PROTESTANT DENOMINATION CAME TO 00:17:16.83\00:17:22.20 HIM AND SAID, "COME AND PREACH AT MY CHURCH." 00:17:22.24\00:17:24.47 HE SAID, "WELL HOW I CAN DO THAT WHEN YOU HAVE PREACHERS." 00:17:24.51\00:17:28.64 "HOW CAN I DO THAT?" 00:17:28.68\00:17:30.75 HE SAID, "OUR PREACHERS DON'T KNOW THE BIBLE LIKE YOU DO SO 00:17:30.78\00:17:33.98 YOU COME." SO HE WAS WONDERING HOW THEY ARE GOING TO FEEL ABOUT 00:17:34.02\00:17:36.38 ME THERE. WELL ANYWAY, HE CAME AND HE PREACHED AND THE PREACHERS WERE SO THRILLED 00:17:36.42\00:17:40.49 THEY SAID, "LOOK FOR THE FIRST TIME WE'VE ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST 00:17:40.52\00:17:44.23 AS OUR SAVIOR." 00:17:44.26\00:17:45.23 "PLEASE COME AGAIN." 00:17:45.26\00:17:49.13 AND THEN HE WENT TO THE REFUGEE CAMP IN UGANDA AND PEOPLE WERE 00:17:49.16\00:17:54.24 PLAYING CHESS AND SOME OTHER GAME THERE HE STARTED TALKING ABOUT JESUS AND SOME OF THEM 00:17:59.11\00:18:04.01 SAID," THIS IS NO PLACE TO BE TALKING ABOUT JESUS" BUT SOME 00:18:04.05\00:18:07.58 OTHERS CALLED HIM ASIDE, PLEASE TELL US MORE WE'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE BIBLE AND ABOUT 00:18:07.62\00:18:12.95 JESUS. 00:18:12.99\00:18:14.46 AND ANYWAY SINCE THESE PEOPLE HAVE COME FROM MANY DIFFERENT 00:18:14.49\00:18:18.56 PARTS OF THE CAMP HE ORGANIZED FOUR BIBLE STUDY GROUPS AS A RESULT OF THAT ENCOUNTER. 00:18:18.59\00:18:24.40 SO THAT'S AMAZING HOW THINGS GO ON AND WHAT CAN ACTUALLY HAPPEN. 00:18:24.43\00:18:28.64 EVERYWHERE YOU GO THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE A NEW WAY. 00:18:28.67\00:18:31.67 THAT'S RIGHT. 00:18:31.71\00:18:32.67 THAT'S RIGHT. 00:18:32.71\00:18:34.21 LET ME TAKE JUST A MINUTE AND TALK ABOUT THAT AND THE SPARK 00:18:34.24\00:18:38.71 THAT MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO REALLY CHANGE WHEREVER YOU LIVE. 00:18:38.75\00:18:42.82 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 00:18:42.85\00:18:48.49 WHERE IS THE 10/40 WINDOW ANYWAY? 00:18:48.52\00:18:52.23 THOSE PEOPLE ARE TOO FAR AWAY. 00:18:52.26\00:18:54.76 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. 00:18:54.83\00:18:57.37 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV? 00:18:57.40\00:19:00.34 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACH, MY HEAD HURTS. 00:19:00.37\00:19:04.64 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO, I GIVE UP. 00:19:04.67\00:19:08.51 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 00:19:08.54\00:19:10.91 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 00:19:10.95\00:19:13.31 ACTUALLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND JESUS ASKED YOU 00:19:13.35\00:19:18.39 TO GO TO ALL THE WORLD. 00:19:20.56\00:19:21.52 WHERE? 00:19:21.56\00:19:22.49 ALL THE WORLD. 00:19:22.52\00:19:23.49 HOW CAN I GO I HAVE COMMITMENTS? 00:19:23.53\00:19:25.49 YOU CAN PRAY. 00:19:25.53\00:19:27.46 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 00:19:27.50\00:19:32.37 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 00:19:32.40\00:19:36.40 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS. 00:19:36.44\00:19:39.21 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE AND MEANING BUT THEY 00:19:39.24\00:19:42.91 WON'T FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 00:19:42.94\00:19:44.35 BE THE SPARK. 00:19:44.38\00:19:45.81 LIGHT THE FIRE. 00:19:45.85\00:19:48.05 FINISH THE WORK. 00:19:48.08\00:19:51.52 FINISH THE WORK. 00:19:51.55\00:19:55.06 BE THE SPARK. 00:19:55.09\00:19:56.36 BE THE SPARK. 00:19:56.39\00:19:57.79 THAT'S WHAT GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS ARE DOING IN SUDAN, 00:19:57.83\00:20:02.10 ETHIOPIA AND ESPECIALLY IN SOME REFUGEE CAMPS. 00:20:02.13\00:20:04.10 THAT'S RIGHT, YES. 00:20:04.13\00:20:05.10 SO TELL ME SOME MORE. 00:20:05.13\00:20:06.10 YOU'VE GOT THREE MORE STORIES, I SEE. 00:20:06.13\00:20:08.10 O.K. 00:20:08.14\00:20:09.07 I WANTED TO TELL YOU ABOUT MOSES KURIASEK. 00:20:09.10\00:20:12.24 HE WAS IN THE AJUMANI REFUGEE CAMP FOR ELEVEN YEARS. 00:20:12.27\00:20:16.95 NOW THAT WAS SEVERAL YEARS AGO WHEN THE OTHER CONFLICT WAS 00:20:16.98\00:20:22.18 GOING ON. HE HAD BAPTIZED MANY PEOPLE IN THAT REFUGEE CAMP-DID 00:20:22.22\00:20:26.52 A WONDERFUL WORK THERE BUT IMAGINE HE WAS THERE FOR ELEVEN 00:20:26.55\00:20:29.09 YEARS. FINALLY WHEN PEACE CAME HE RETURNED BACK TO SOUTH SUDAN AND HAS BEEN WORKING 00:20:29.12\00:20:34.73 THERE AS A REGULAR WORKER AND AT THE PRESENT TIME HE WAS TELLING 00:20:34.76\00:20:41.27 ME THAT HE HAS THREE DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PEOPLE STUDYING THE BIBLE- FIFTY FIVE ALTOGETHER. 00:20:41.30\00:20:46.27 FIFTY-FIVE PEOPLE AND THAT'S HOW IT GOES. 00:20:46.31\00:20:51.38 THIS DEAR MAN-THAT'S HOW IT GOES. 00:20:51.41\00:20:56.32 ITS INCREDIBLE IS WHAT IT IS. 00:20:56.35\00:20:58.02 CAN YOU IMAGINE HAVING A WEEK WHERE YOU GET TO TALK TO FIVTY-FIVE DIFFERENT 00:20:58.05\00:21:02.32 PEOPLE? 00:21:02.36\00:21:03.83 YES, YES, AND KNOW THAT ONE OF THESE DAYS YOU'VE GOT CHURCHES 00:21:03.86\00:21:05.63 COMING UP. THAT'S RIGHT, YES. 00:21:05.66\00:21:06.76 WHAT A GIFT! 00:21:06.80\00:21:08.20 OK, YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER ONE. 00:21:08.23\00:21:10.33 YES. 00:21:10.37\00:21:11.77 I HAD A PICTURE UP THERE OF THIS MAN, PETER AWAI-HE'S AN OLDER 00:21:11.80\00:21:16.34 MAN BUT HE'S BEEN A FANTASTIC WORKER. 00:21:16.37\00:21:18.77 MATTER OF FACT, HE WENT TO ONE PLACE AND BAPTIZED OVER 100 00:21:18.81\00:21:22.38 PEOPLE AND BUILT A CHURCH THERE; WENT TO ANOTHER PLACE AND BAPTIZED OVER 100 AND BUILT A 00:21:22.41\00:21:25.98 CHURCH THERE AND STARTED A SCHOOL WHERE THERE ARE ABOUT 1400 STUDENTS AT THE 00:21:26.01\00:21:30.89 PRESENT TIME. 00:21:30.92\00:21:32.05 MY LANDS. 00:21:32.09\00:21:33.59 BUT THE REASON WHY I AM SHOWING THIS WITH REFUGEE CAMPS IS 00:21:33.62\00:21:37.93 BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN SO HELPFUL TO REFUGEES. 00:21:37.96\00:21:41.33 HE IS NEAR THE UGANDA BORDER WHERE THE REFUGEES ARE COMING 00:21:41.36\00:21:45.80 FROM AND SO WHEN THESE PEOPLE COME BACK AFTER BEING IN REFUGEE 00:21:45.83\00:21:48.80 CAMP FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS, WHERE THEY GO? 00:21:48.84\00:21:50.17 WHAT THEY DO? 00:21:50.21\00:21:51.41 AND SO HE HAS BEEN ABLE TO HELP THEM. 00:21:51.44\00:21:53.41 HE HAS BAPTIZED A LOT OF THESE REFUGEE PEOPLE. 00:21:53.44\00:21:58.45 IT'S JUST BEEN A REAL. 00:21:58.48\00:22:00.78 A REAL BLESSING. 00:22:00.82\00:22:02.22 SO YOU KNOW WHAT I SEE HERE DICK IS REALLY SERIOUSLY FOLLOWING 00:22:02.25\00:22:06.89 THE BIBLE COMMISSION: GOING TO EVERY TRIBE. 00:22:11.89\00:22:16.13 I OFTEN WONDERED HOW CAN WE EVER REACH THESE TRIBES WAY OUT IN 00:22:16.16\00:22:20.17 THESE JUNGLE AREAS AND ALL THESE KIND OF THINGS. 00:22:20.20\00:22:22.17 GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS THE ANSWER. 00:22:22.20\00:22:24.44 THEY HAVE THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW THE LANGUAGE, THEY KNOW THE 00:22:24.47\00:22:29.04 CULTURE, THEY KNOW HOW TO EXIST THERE AND SO IT'S A MARVELOUS, 00:22:29.08\00:22:34.15 MARVELOUS WORK. WHEN YOU ARE ON THE GROUND IN SOUTH SUDAN AND YOU GO INTO A REFUGEE CAMP OR 00:22:37.75\00:22:43.16 YOU MEET WITH ONE OF THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS WHO LIVES AND 00:22:43.19\00:22:46.49 WORKS IN A REFUGEE CAMP, HOW DO YOU FEEL IN TERMS OF YOUR OWN 00:22:46.53\00:22:52.50 PERSONAL SAFETY? YOU CAN START THERE, I'VE GOT THREE QUESTIONS: 00:22:52.53\00:22:56.00 ARE YOU SAFE? YES, I HAVE FELT VERY SAFE, ACTUALLY. 00:22:56.04\00:22:58.61 AS FAR AS THE CAMP IS CONCERNED- NO PROBLEM. 00:22:58.64\00:23:02.14 NOW WHEN WE LEFT THE CAMP IN NORTHERN ETHIOPIA, THE POLICE 00:23:02.18\00:23:08.72 CHECKED US VERY CAREFULLY. 00:23:08.75\00:23:10.19 MATTER OF FACT, WE WERE STOPPED SEVERAL TIMES ALONG THE ROAD AND 00:23:10.22\00:23:12.19 THE POLICE WOULD COME ON THE BUSSES AT NIGHT AND ASK FOR PASSPORT AND ALL THIS 00:23:12.22\00:23:15.86 KIND OF THING BUT I FELT SAFE. 00:23:15.89\00:23:17.46 YES. 00:23:17.49\00:23:18.33 COMFORTABLE SO THAT IS NOT A PROBLEM. 00:23:18.36\00:23:20.46 NO. 00:23:20.50\00:23:21.83 DO YOU FIND THAT THE PEOPLE HAVE, EXCUSE ME, SOMETHING TO DO 00:23:21.86\00:23:24.40 IN A REFUGEE CAMP OR JUST SIT HOPING FOR A NEW PLACE TO LIVE? 00:23:24.43\00:23:27.64 SOME DO AND OTHERS HAVE FOUND WAYS OF HAVING A LITTLE BUSINESS 00:23:27.67\00:23:32.74 OF SOME KIND. 00:23:35.21\00:23:36.68 YOU SAW THE MAN WITH THE SEWING MACHINE; YOU SAW MOHLIGITO AND 00:23:36.71\00:23:39.61 ZADE WITH THEIR LITTLE CAFE THERE THAT THEY REALLY -THE MAIN 00:23:39.65\00:23:43.55 PURPOSE OF THAT IS WITNESSING-TO MEET PEOPLE YES, YES AND THAT HAPPENS DO MOST OF OUR GLOBAL I 00:23:43.59\00:23:48.99 MEAN GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS ACTUALLY HAVE LITTLE BUSINESSES? 00:23:49.02\00:23:53.19 I WOULDN'T SAY ALL OF THEM BUT LIKE THE LAST FELLOW, HE'S GOT A 00:23:53.23\00:23:58.27 SCHOOL THAT HE STARTED. 00:23:58.30\00:23:59.33 YES BUT NOW OF COURSE, HE WASN'T IN A REFUGEE CAMP. 00:23:59.37\00:24:02.44 RIGHT. 00:24:02.47\00:24:03.44 HE WAS A REGULAR WORKER. 00:24:03.47\00:24:05.31 THE REASON THAT I MENTIONED HIM IS BECAUSE OF THE BLESSING HE 00:24:05.34\00:24:07.78 HAS BEEN TO REFUGEES AND HOW HE HAS BEEN ABLE TO BAPTIZE BECAUSE 00:24:07.81\00:24:12.38 OF HIS KINDNESS. 00:24:12.41\00:24:13.38 CONSTANTLY REACHING OUT-KINDNESS. 00:24:13.42\00:24:15.38 AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN COUNTRY DIRECTORS USE THAT 00:24:15.42\00:24:19.45 WORD-KINDNESS. HOW DOES KINDNESS BRING PEOPLE TO JESUS? 00:24:19.49\00:24:22.76 I THINK IT JUST HAPPENS AUTOMATICALLY. 00:24:24.86\00:24:27.40 YOU KNOW WHEN YOU ARE KIND TO SOMEONE HOW ELSE CAN THEY REACT? 00:24:27.40\00:24:31.30 I MEAN CHILDREN RESPOND TO KINDNESS; ANIMALS RESPOND TO 00:24:33.37\00:24:38.94 KINDNESS; WE ALL RESPOND TO KINDNESS AND IT GIVES A WONDERFUL TESTIMONY. 00:24:38.97\00:24:43.75 AND IF I'M A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER IN A REFUGEE CAMP AND I 00:24:43.78\00:24:50.49 GET TO WALK THROUGH THE TENTS AND BE KIND AND THAT'S MY MAIN ASSIGNMENT EVERY DAY, CAN 00:24:50.52\00:24:55.56 YOU IMAGINE ALL THE PEOPLE I WOULD MEET? 00:24:58.99\00:25:03.43 AND THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WOULD START AND THEN NEXT THING IS I'M 00:25:03.47\00:25:06.74 CARRYING WATER FOR SOMEBODY AND HELPING REPAIR A TORN TENT. 00:25:06.77\00:25:10.24 A HUNDRED LITTLE JOBS. 00:25:10.27\00:25:11.51 YES. 00:25:11.54\00:25:13.07 BUT I'VE BECOME PART OF THEIR LIVES. 00:25:13.11\00:25:15.08 THAT'S RIGHT. 00:25:15.11\00:25:15.94 THAT'S WHAT YOU HELP OUR WORKERS DO. 00:25:15.98\00:25:18.85 YES. 00:25:18.88\00:25:19.81 LEARN HOW TO DO THAT AND BE HAPPY WITH IT. 00:25:19.85\00:25:21.95 THAT'S RIGHT. 00:25:21.98\00:25:23.42 AND REALLY, YOU KNOW, A WONDERFUL THING IS, I HAVEN'T 00:25:23.45\00:25:26.15 REALLY HAD TO INSTRUCT THEM ON THAT OR REMIND THEM OF THAT BUT THAT'S WHAT THEY'VE BEEN 00:25:26.19\00:25:30.03 DOING. 00:25:30.06\00:25:31.03 AUTOMATICALLY. 00:25:31.06\00:25:32.39 AND THAT'S WHAT THRILLS ME IS TO SEE THE DEDICATION OF THESE 00:25:32.43\00:25:35.20 PEOPLE. YOU KNOW, THESE WORKERS WHEN THEY GO OUT THERE THEY COULD HAVE THROWN UP 00:25:35.23\00:25:38.60 THEIR HANDS AND SAID, "OH LOOK, HERE WE WERE DOING A WONDERFUL 00:25:38.63\00:25:42.30 WORK AND NOW WE'RE-NOW WE'VE BEEN THROWN AWAY." 00:25:42.34\00:25:44.31 YES. 00:25:44.34\00:25:45.84 WE HAVE NO HOME, WE HAVE NO FAMILY, EVERYTHING IS A MESS BUT 00:25:45.87\00:25:48.74 IMMEDIATELY THEY ARE THINKING OF OTHERS NOT ABOUT THEMSELVES BUT 00:25:48.78\00:25:51.45 OF OTHERS. THEY START MINISTERING TO THEIR MEMBERS AND 00:25:51.48\00:25:55.62 TO OTHERS. I FIND MYSELF IN SO MANY OLD TESTAMENT STORIES AS YOU ARE TALKING: THE 00:25:55.65\00:25:59.22 LITTLE GIRL THAT I CALL ABIGAIL, NAAMAN'S MAID, YOU KNOW THROWN 00:25:59.25\00:26:05.43 AWAY, CAPTURED, TAKEN AND TURNED INTO A SLAVE AND WHAT DOES SHE 00:26:05.46\00:26:09.73 DO? SHE CONVERTS THE GENERAL OF THE KING'S ARMY. 00:26:09.76\00:26:12.97 THAT'S RIGHT. 00:26:13.00\00:26:14.40 OR JOSEPH- SOMEPLACE TOTALLY WEIRD. 00:26:14.44\00:26:16.81 THIS MORNING IN THE BOARD MEETING AT GOSPEL OUTREACH THE 00:26:16.84\00:26:22.51 WORSHIP WAS IN THE BOOK OF HABBAKUK: THOUGH THE FIG TREES HAVE NO FIGS; THOUGH 00:26:22.54\00:26:27.52 STRAWBERRIES HAVE NO FRUIT THOUGH THE SHEEP PENS HAVE NO SHEEP; THOUGH NO, NO, NO 00:26:27.55\00:26:34.52 HABBAKUK SAYS, "YET I WILL TRUST IN THE LORD." 00:26:34.56\00:26:37.69 YES AND I LOVE THE WAY THE MESSAGE BIBLE TRANSLATES THAT IT 00:26:37.73\00:26:43.57 SAYS, "I WILL RUN LIKE A DEER ON THE MOUNTAINTOPS AND I WILL REJOICE IN THE GOOD NEWS 00:26:43.60\00:26:49.14 OF GOD." 00:26:49.17\00:26:50.14 YES. 00:26:50.17\00:26:51.67 SO DONORS WHAT A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY IN HELPING TO SPREAD 00:26:51.71\00:26:55.54 THE MESSAGE AND FINISH THE WORK. 00:26:55.58\00:26:57.98 YOU CAN BE PART OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:26:58.01\00:27:01.88 YOU CAN'T BE A WORKER MAYBE BUT WHAT YOU CAN BE -YOU CAN 00:27:01.92\00:27:05.89 ADOPT-A-WORKER AND BE PART OF THE TEAM. 00:27:05.92\00:27:10.99 [CLOSING MUSIC]. 00:28:20.23\00:28:25.23