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Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000586A
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00:00 [OPENING MUSIC].
00:16 I WANT TO WELCOME YOU TO THE GOSPEL OUTREACH PROGRAM THE "ADVENTURES IN 00:19 MISSIONS". 00:21 A GROUP OF MY FRIENDS CALLED AND SAID, "DICK, WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO 00:23 COME UP TO WALLA WALLA AND LEARN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH." 00:26 I SAID, "SURE." 00:28 I'M ALWAYS EXCITED TO LEARN NEW THINGS ABOUT MINISTRY BUT I DID NOT 00:33 EXPECT WHAT I FOUND. 00:35 THIS ENVIRONMENT WHERE PEOPLE ARE SO COMPLETELY INVOLVED IN OUTREACH AND 00:42 IN MISSIONS IS REALLY EXCITING. 00:44 I'VE HAD A CHANCE TO MEET PEOPLE WHO HAVE TAKEN THEIR RETIREMENT YEARS, 00:48 WHO HAVE TAKEN SPECIAL ENERGY GIFTS AND JUST GIVEN THEM TO A MINISTRY 00:54 THAT TOUCHES PEOPLE WHERE PEOPLE REALLY NEED TO BE TOUCHED. 00:59 I HAVE A NEW FRIEND, DAVE CROOKS, IS THAT CLOSE? 01:02 DAVE CROOK? 01:05 ONE. 01:07 THERE IS ONLY ONE CROOK AT YOUR HOUSE, NO THERE IS TWO CROOKS AT YOUR HOUSE. 01:11 DAVE, YOU HAVE SPENT MOST OF YOUR LIFE IN CHURCH ADMINISTRATION AND NOW YOU 01:15 FIND YOURSELF IN CHURCH INSPIRATION. 01:19 I LIKE THAT. 01:20 AND WHERE ARE YOU WORKING? 01:21 I'M WORKING IN SOUTH SUDAN AND ETHIOPIA. 01:26 NOW WAIT, WAIT, WAIT YOU WERE CONFERENCE PRESIDENT IN EASTERN CANADA, THAT'S 01:32 RIGHT, YES. 01:33 THERE IS NO COMPARISON BETWEEN NEWFOUNDLAND AND SOUTH SUDAN. 01:38 NO. 01:39 WHY DID YOU END UP THERE? 01:41 WELL, I GUESS GOD WORKED THINGS OUT THAT WAY. 01:48 GOD JUST SAID THIS IS WHERE WE NEED YOU. 01:50 IT'S BEEN A MOST SATISFYING, INSPIRATIONAL, WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE IN 01:55 THE LAST TEN YEARS. 01:56 TEN YEARS? 01:57 YES. 01:59 THERE HAVE BEEN CRISES IN THAT PART OF AFRICA FOR FAR LONGER THAN TEN YEARS 02:02 BUT YOU HAVE BEEN PART OF IT FOR TEN YEARS. 02:05 WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED? 02:07 I LEARNED THAT THE PEOPLE ARE WONDERFUL PEOPLE. 02:13 THEY ARE SINCERE PEOPLE AND MANY ARE LONGING FOR SOMETHING BETTER AND OF 02:20 COURSE, THAT IS THE GOSPEL. 02:23 THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THAT YOU HAVE IN ETHIOPIA AND THE SUDAN 02:27 AREA ARE SUDANESE AND ETHIOPIAN? 02:30 THAT'S RIGHT, YES. 02:31 SO THEY ARE PEOPLE FROM THE CULTURE, THEY KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON, THAT'S 02:34 RIGHT, THEY ARE COMFORTABLE FITTING IN BUT YOU DROP IN FROM CANADA, 02:38 THE UNITED STATES A WHOLE DIFFERENT BACKGROUND AND YOU TRAIN THEM AND YOU 02:45 ENCOURAGE THEM AND YOU INSPIRE THEM. 02:49 WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING IN AFRICA THAN HOW YOU WORKED 02:55 WITH PASTORS IN CANADA? 02:58 WELL, MANY THINGS ARE THE SAME, REALLY. 03:01 OF COURSE, I DON'T HAVE DIRECT ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY WITH THEM, 03:07 RIGHT, BECAUSE THE MISSION IS IN CHARGE OF THEM, RIGHT. 03:10 SO I PLAY A LITTLE DIFFERENT ROLE THAN I WOULD HAVE PLAYED IN MY 03:14 WORK BACK HERE BUT WHAT INSPIRES ME IS TO SEE THE DEDICATION, TO SEE THE 03:23 WILLINGNESS OF THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY ARE GOING OFF INTO NEW AREAS 03:27 AND PLANTING CHURCHES REALLY. 03:29 AND YOU KNOW THIS IS WHAT I APPRECIATE GOSPEL OUTREACH BECAUSE WE TAKE 03:36 VERY SERIOUS THE COMMISSION THAT JESUS GAVE TO US: GO YE INTO ALL THE 03:41 WORLD. 03:43 AND TODAY, DICK WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO THAT IS GO YE INTO ALL THE 03:46 WORLD AND THAT INCLUDES THE REFUGEE CAMPS BECAUSE THAT IS A SPECIAL 03:51 SITUATION. 03:52 HUGE CHALLENGES THERE. 03:54 THAT'S RIGHT, SO I'D LIKE US TO GO TO ETHIOPIA AND MOVE RIGHT UP TO THE VERY 04:02 TOP, THE VERY TOP OF ETHIOPIA OK. 04:07 AND OF COURSE THAT COMES TO THE BORDER OF ERITREA, YES, AND SO IN THIS 04:13 REFUGEE CAMP AT A PLACE CALLED HITSATS WE HAVE ERITREAN PEOPLE THERE 04:20 BECAUSE OF THE INSTABILITY THE SITUATION WITH THE GOVERNMENT THERE, PEOPLE 04:24 ARE FLEEING BY THE THOUSANDS. 04:27 THERE ARE 7000 PEOPLE IN THIS PARTICULAR CAMP. 04:31 LET ME JUST STOP YOU FOR A SECOND. 04:33 WHERE DID THE BUILDINGS COME FROM? 04:36 IS THIS A UNESCO KIND OF CAMP? 04:38 YES, IT IS. 04:39 O.K. 04:40 YES SO IT IS A ROUGH TENT TYPE BUILDING. 04:42 YES, ALTHOUGH SOME OF THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CONSTRUCT HOUSES. 04:45 IT IS AMAZING. 04:47 SO A REFUGEE CAMP COULD BECOME A PERMANENT HOME. 04:49 WELL YES, BECAUSE IT CAN GO ON FOR YEARS AND ANYWAY THE WONDERFUL THING IS 04:56 THAT WE HAVE A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER THERE BUT MENTIONING ABOUT PERMANENT 05:01 HOMES, YOU SEE THIS MAN HE HAS A LITTLE BUSINESS THERE. 05:03 HE HAS A SEWING MACHINE THERE AND HE'S SEWING FOR THE PEOPLE. 05:07 I DECIDED A FEW YEARS AGO THAT IF I CAN PUT ALL MY MONEY TOWARDS ONE THING IN 05:11 THE WORLD, IT WOULD BE TO BUY SEWING MACHINES FOR REFUGEE CAMPS. 05:14 YES. 05:15 IT IS AMAZING WHAT THEY DO. 05:16 IT IS. 05:17 VERY MUCH SO, VERY MUCH SO. 05:19 HERE IS OUR WORKER AND HIS WIFE- MOLIGHITA AND HIS WIFE ZADE. 05:24 WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL PEOPLE AND THEY -ZADE HAS A LITTLE RESTAURANT OR A 05:31 CAFÉ ACTUALLY AND PEOPLE COME THERE TO HAVE A LITTLE REFRESHMENT AND 05:40 RELAX A LITTLE BIT. 05:41 SHE WILL GIVE THEM LITERATURE AND SHE WILL TALK TO THEM ABOUT JESUS 05:47 AND MOLIGHITA HAS TRANSLATED A LOT OF MATERIAL INTO THE LOCAL 05:56 TIGRE DIALECT AND SO SHE HANDS THESE OUT TO THE PEOPLE AND HERE IS A 06:05 PICTURE OF MOLIGHITA WITH SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE GATHERED THAT DAY. 06:10 THE YOUNG MAN IN THE CENTER -THIS ISN'T THE BEST PICTURE BUT- HE IS 16 06:15 YEARS OLD AND HE ESCAPED FROM ERITREA-CAME TO THE CAMP, HAD NO RELATIVES, 06:19 DIDN'T KNOW ANYONE AND THESE DEAR PEOPLE TOOK HIM IN. 06:26 SO, MOLIGHITA IS STUDYING THE BIBLE WITH HIM AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME. 06:33 HE HAS A NEW FAMILY AND HE HAS A NEW HOPE. 06:36 THAT'S RIGHT. 06:38 CERTAINLY. 06:40 NOW THERE WAS A LADY WHO CAME ONE DAY AND ZADE GAVE HER SOME LITERATURE. 06:46 SHE TOOK IT HOME AND SHE WAS READING IT AND WHEN HER HUSBAND SAW HER 06:48 READING THE LITERATURE HE GOT VERY ANGRY AND ACTUALLY BEAT HER. 06:51 A LITTLE LATER ON HE PICKED UP THE LITERATURE AND BEGAN READING IT AND 06:57 THEN HE WENT TO HER AND HE SAID, "WHERE DID YOU GET THIS"? 06:59 SHE TOLD HIM AND SO HE WENT TO SEE MOLIGHITA AND IT WASN'T TO GIVE A 07:06 REPRIMAND BECAUSE IT WASN'T THE LITERATURE -HE DIDN'T GO TO BEAT HIM UP. 07:09 NO, ANYWAY, THEY GOT TO TALKING AND SO HE AGREED TO TAKE BIBLE STUDIES AND 07:18 TWO WEEKS AGO- A WEEK AGO LAST SABBATH, HE WAS BAPTIZED. 07:22 REALLY! 07:23 YES. 07:24 SO WHAT HAVE THEY TRANSLATED THAT HAS THAT KIND OF AN IMPACT ON 07:28 FAMILIES? 07:29 WELL, I DON'T EXACTLY WHAT ALL THE LITERATURE IS ALL I KNOW IS THAT MOLIGHITA 07:36 SOMEHOW GOT A HOLD OF A LOT OF VOICE OF PROPHECY SERMONS AND TRANSLATED 07:40 THOSE. 07:41 MY LANDS, WOULD HAROLD BE HAPPY OR WHAT? 07:45 YES AND I SAY DEFINITELY, NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. 07:48 YES. 07:49 ANYWAY, HERE'S AN INTERESTING-THIS IS IN THE LITTLE CAFÉ THERE BUT YOU 07:52 NOTICE IN THE BACKGROUND THERE IS A TELEVISION. 07:55 OF COURSE, IT'S A REFUGEE CAMP. 07:56 IT'S THE WORLD. 07:59 THERE IS A TELEVISION EVERYWHERE. 08:01 WELL, NO THEY HAPPEN TO HAVE ELECTRICITY THERE -VERY CRUDE WIRES STRUNG 08:07 AROUND HERE AND THERE AND THE MISSION GAVE HIM THIS TELEVISION SET WITH A DISH 08:10 SO THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO BRING IN THE HOPE CHANNEL AND PEOPLE WILL GATHER 08:16 THERE AND THEY WILL BE ABLE TO WATCH THIS PROGRAM TALKING ABOUT THEIR WORK 08:22 IN THAT LITTLE CAFÉ. 08:23 YES, THAT'S RIGHT. 08:24 HOW EXCITING. 08:25 SO THE OTHER THING MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN THE CAMP ARE ORTHODOX. 08:27 ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS? 08:28 YES, ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX. 08:29 RIGHT. 08:30 BUT IN THE CAMP YOU KNOW, THERE ISN'T GRANDFATHER AND UNCLE AND EVERYBODY 08:32 ELSE AROUND LIKE IT IS IN THE VILLAGE AND SO PEOPLE ARE MORE FREE TO ACCEPT. 08:51 THE MAN ON THE RIGHT, I SHOULD HAVE POINTED THAT OUT AND MAYBE WE SHOULD GO 08:55 BACK TO THAT PICTURE BUT THE MAN ON THE RIGHT IS THE MAN WHO WAS BAPTIZED 09:00 -ONE MORE BACK, SORRY- HE WAS THE ONE-THERE HE IS, THE ONE WITH THE BLACK 09:04 SHIRT ON IS THE ONE WHO WAS BAPTIZED A LITTLE OVER A WEEK AGO. 09:08 WOW. 09:09 SO-AND YOU HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF GOING NOW AND JUST SPENDING TIME WITH 09:13 THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS INSPIRING THEM AND LETTING THEM INSPIRE YOU 09:18 WITH THE TALES OF GOD'S WORK. 09:20 YES. 09:21 THERE'S ONE MORE STORY. 09:22 OK I'M READY. 09:23 THIS MAN'S NAME IS TAMESKIN. 09:25 HE CAME TO THE CAMP FROM ERITREA AND HE HAD SOME FRIENDS THERE. 09:30 THEY INVITED HIM TO THEIR CHURCH SERVICES BUT HE WASN'T QUITE SATISFIED 09:34 WITH THE WAY THE CHURCH SERVICE WAS CONDUCTED AND SO SOMEONE SAID YOU SHOULD 09:39 GO AND SEE MOLIGHITA. 09:41 AND HE WENT AND MOLIGHITA INVITED HIM TO HIS HOME WHERE THE CHURCH SERVICE 09:46 WAS HELD AND HE WAS SO THRILLED AT HOW ORDERLY THE CHURCH SERVICE WAS AND 09:52 HE WAS SEARCHING FOR BIBLE TRUTHS AND HE LIKED THE BIBLE PREACHING. 09:56 AND SO HE STARTED BIBLE STUDIES AND I'M NOT SURE HOW LONG AGO, IT WAS A FEW 10:03 MONTHS AGO THAT HE WAS BAPTIZED. 10:06 THE WONDERFUL THING IS THAT HE IS STUDYING FOOD PRODUCTION AND ALSO 10:11 TRAINING TO BE A CHEF. 10:12 I DON'T KNOW JUST HOW EXACTLY HOW IT HAPPENS BUT THERE IS THIS TRAINING 10:15 THERE AND SO HE IS DOING THAT TRAINING PLUS IN HIS SPARE TIME HE IS GOING AND 10:21 VISITING HIS FRIENDS, WITH MOLIGHITA AND SHARING THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS. 10:27 AND YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER IN TRAINING IT SOUNDS LIKE. 10:31 THAT'S RIGHT, YES. 10:32 BUT ANYWAY EVERYONE WAS SO VERY POSITIVE ABOUT MOLIGHITA AND ZADE. 10:36 THESE WONDERFUL PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN SO HELPFUL AND SO KIND TO THEM SO IT WAS 10:41 THRILLING TO HEAR THEIR TESTIMONIES. 10:44 AND NOW THERE IS ANOTHER CAMP THAT I DIDN'T GET TO ALSO IN NORTHERN ETHIOPIA 10:52 AND THAT HAS ABOUT 10,000 PEOPLE IN IT SO WE'RE WORKING HOPING THAT WE CAN 10:57 GET A WORKER TO GO OVER THERE ALSO. 10:59 ANYWAY, WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON TO SOUTH SUDAN NOW. 11:03 OK. 11:05 AND YOU KNOW, POOR SOUTH SUDAN HAD WAR FOR ABOUT 60 YEARS, THERE WAS NO 11:11 INFRASTRUCTURE -IT WAS A TERRIBLE SITUATION. 11:14 AND THEN ABOUT WHAT IS IT ABOUT THREE OR FOUR YEARS AGO, IT BECAME THE NEWEST 11:17 NATION IN THE WORLD-THEY GOT THEIR INDEPENDENCE AND THEY WERE STARTING TO 11:20 BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE AND DO ALL THESE THINGS AND THE PEOPLE WERE SO 11:23 POSITIVE AND OUR SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST PEOPLE WERE SO HAPPY AND POSITIVE 11:25 ABOUT THIS WHOLE THING HAPPENING AND THEN UNFORTUNATELY, WHAT WAS IT 11:30 TWO YEARS AGO, THE CONFLICT STARTED AGAIN BECAUSE THE VICE PRESIDENT 11:36 WAS DISMISSED, I GUESS YOU WOULD SAY, AND SO HIS TRIBE WHICH IS THE SECOND 11:42 LARGEST TRIBE AND THE PRESIDENT'S TRIBE WHICH IS THE LARGEST TRIBE BEGAN 11:47 FIGHTING AND CONFLICT BROKE OUT ALL OVER THE PLACE. 11:50 AND SO MANY OF OUR PEOPLE HAD TO FLEE AND OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS HAVE HAD 11:58 TO FLEE ALSO. 12:00 I'M SORRY, BUT I FORGOT TO MENTION THE MAN ON THE RIGHT THERE WITH A SCARF 12:05 AROUND HIS NECK, RIGHT, IS HALOMARIAN. 12:08 HE IS AN ENGINEER WHO HAD BEEN IN CHARGE OF SEVERAL BIG PROJECTS AND SO ON BUT 12:14 HE WAS BAPTIZED A FEW YEARS AGO. 12:18 HE BECAME SO EXCITED ABOUT THE ADVENTIST MESSAGE THAT HE DECIDED THAT HE WAS 12:22 GOING TO QUIT HIS JOB. 12:24 HE HAD SOME SAVINGS AND HE WOULD USE THAT TO SUPPORT HIMSELF AND HE'S BEEN 12:27 WORKING AS A SELF SUPPORTING PERSON UNTIL LAST YEAR WHEN WE HIRED 12:32 HIM AS A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER AND HE HAD A THRILLING EXPERIENCE IN 12:37 BAPTIZING A LADY FROM THE REFUGEE CAMP. 12:41 THAT'S THE PRESIDENT IN THE CENTER THERE. 12:43 HE IS 26 YEARS OLD. 12:44 AND THAT'S OUR NEW WORKER ON THE LEFT IN THE SHIRT WHO HAS JUST STARTED IN 12:50 THIS HOLY CITY OF AKSUM. 12:51 OH MY, I'VE READ ABOUT THAT PLACE. 12:54 YES. 12:55 THEY ARE WORKING THERE TO TAKE THE GOSPEL. 12:59 THAT'S RIGHT. 13:00 VERY, VERY DIFFICULT BUT THEY ARE WORKING THERE, THAT'S RIGHT. 13:04 AND THIS LADY? 13:05 THIS LADY IS MONICA. 13:06 SHE IS FROM SOUTH SUDAN. 13:08 SHE IS A WIDOW. 13:10 NEVER HAD ANY CHILDREN AND SHE HAS BEEN A VERY EFFECTIVE GOSPEL OUTREACH 13:14 WORKER. 13:15 SHE HAD BEEN A DEACONESS IN HER CHURCH AND ALSO WAS IN CHARGE OF ORGANIZING 13:20 ACTIVITIES IN THE CHURCH. 13:22 SO WHEN THE MISSION SAW THIS, OF COURSE, THEY ASKED HER TO BE A GOSPEL 13:25 OUTREACH WORKER. 13:27 NOW LET ME STOP YOU THERE FOR JUST A MINUTE, BECAUSE MOST OF THE GOSPEL 13:31 OUTREACH WORKERS I'VE MET AND TALKED AND HAD PEOPLE TALK ABOUT ARE MEN. 13:36 YES. 13:37 BUT THERE ARE SOME WOMEN, YES, WHO JUST FIT IN THAT NEED TO BE WORKING. 13:40 THAT'S RIGHT. 13:41 AWESOME. 13:43 AND SHE IS DOING A TREMENDOUS WORK, MATTER OF FACT SHE WENT TO A PLACE 13:45 FOR TWO YEARS AND AFTER TWO YEARS SHE HAD BAPTIZED A LADY PREACHER FROM 13:47 ANOTHER DENOMINATION AND THE ARCH DEACON. 13:51 OH, MY LANDS. 13:52 AND MATTER OF FACT, IN THAT PLACE SHE BAPTIZED TWENTY PEOPLE AND THEY 13:59 BUILT A CHURCH THERE. 14:00 SHE WENT TO ANOTHER PLACE BAPTIZED TWENTY FIVE PEOPLE AND BUILT ANOTHER 14:03 CHURCH THERE. 14:04 AND SHE HAD IN THE LAST CHURCH SHE HAD SEVENTY PEOPLE WHEN THE CONFLICT 14:10 BROKE OUT AND SHE HAD TO FLEE WITH HER PEOPLE TO A CAMP IN UGANDA. 14:17 BUT THERE IN THE REFUGEE CAMP SHE IS WORKING, SHE HAS GATHERED FIFTY THREE 14:22 ADVENTIST PEOPLE TOGETHER AND SHE IS TAKING PASTORING THEM, YOU MIGHT 14:26 SAY, BUT SHE IS ALSO CONDUCTING BIBLE STUDIES AT LEAST AT THE TIME WHEN 14:31 I WAS THERE WITH TWENTY FIVE PEOPLE. 14:33 SO, JUST BECAUSE SHE HAS HAD TO FLEE TO THE REFUGEE CAMP SHE HASN'T STOPPED 14:38 WORKING. 14:39 ALL IT DID WAS CHANGE THE LOCATION OF HER MINISTRY. 14:41 THAT'S RIGHT. 14:42 NOW THIS MAN, JACOB IMMANUEL IS A YOUNG MAN ABOUT TWENTY YEARS OLD. 14:46 HE WAS A FARMER. 14:48 HE IS A RECENT CONVERT TO THE CHURCH BUT AFTER HIS BAPTISM HE CAME SO ACTIVE 14:54 IN SPREADING THE GOSPEL THAT HE WAS ASKED TO BE A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER AND 14:59 SO HE WENT TO AN AREA OF -CALLED NORTH BOR AND BEGAN WORKING THERE. 15:05 BUT UNFORTUNATELY IN THAT BOR AREA NORTH AND SOUTH BOR, THERE IS A LOT OF 15:09 CONFLICT SO PEOPLE HAVE HAD TO FLEE FROM THERE. 15:11 BUT ANYWAY, HE STARTED WORKING THERE AND HE BAPTIZED 68 PEOPLE AND 15:16 THINGS WERE GOING ALONG WELL WHEN WAR BROKE OUT AND SO HE HAS GONE TO A 15:22 CAMP IN SOUTH SUDAN AND THEY CALL IT A DISPLACED PEOPLES CAMP BECAUSE THEY 15:28 HAVEN'T HAD TO ACTUALLY LEAVE THE COUNTRY. 15:31 SO THEY ARE STILL IN THEIR COUNTRY. 15:33 THEY ARE STILL IN THEIR COUNTRY BUT THEY ARE REFUGEES, BUT THEY ARE 15:35 REFUGEES YES, BUT THEY CALL THEM DISPLACED PERSONS THEY DON'T CALL 15:39 THEM REFUGEES BECAUSE OF NOT HAVING TO LEAVE THEIR OWN COUNTRY. 15:42 YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WORKERS WHO ARE BAPTIZING LARGE GROUPS OF PEOPLE 15:47 THROUGH BIBLE STUDIES? 15:48 YES, THROUGH FRIENDSHIP EVANGELISM? 15:51 YES. 15:52 WHAT'S WORKING? 15:53 WHAT DRAWS THE PEOPLE? 15:55 WELL, THESE WORKERS WILL GO TO A REMOTE AREA WHERE THERE ARE NO CHURCH 15:58 MEMBERS. 15:59 THEY BEGIN VISITING THE PEOPLE, MAKING FRIENDS, STARTING TO HAVE BIBLE 16:03 STUDIES WITH THEM. 16:04 THEY'LL GATHER THEM IN GROUPS THEN FOR BIBLE STUDY, PRETTY SOON THEY 16:07 ARE BAPTIZING PEOPLE, THEY ARE ESTABLISHING A CHURCH AND THEY ARE BUILDING A 16:10 CHURCH AND THAT'S THE WAY THE WORK GOES. 16:13 IT'S A MARVELOUS YOU KNOW, THEY ARE PLANTING CHURCHES. 16:16 WOULD THAT ALSO WORK IN NEWFOUNDLAND? 16:18 YES, TO A CERTAIN EXTENT IT WOULD AND PROBABLY WE SHOULD BE DOING MORE OF 16:23 THIS TYPE OF THING THAN WE ARE DOING. 16:26 I'VE WONDERED THAT. 16:27 YES, ESPECIALLY THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS AS I'M LISTENING TO COUNTRY 16:32 DIRECTORS, RIGHT, IT WORKS SO WELL, BETTER BRING IT HOME. 16:36 YES THAT'S RIGHT. 16:37 BUT TAKE US BACK TO SUDAN. 16:38 OK, NOW WE HAVE ANOTHER FAITHFUL WORKER HERE. 16:44 I BELIEVE THIS IS DAVID PANDAK. 16:49 HE IS A MIDDLE AGED MAN, HAS FIVE CHILDREN AND HE WAS WORKING IN THE BORA 16:54 ALSO AND HE HAD BAPTIZED PEOPLE AND ESTABLISHED A CHURCH AND THINGS LIKE 17:00 WERE GOING ALONG VERY WELL AND THEN THEY HAD TO FLEE BUT HE ALSO WORKING IN THE 17:08 CAMP THAT HE IS IN. 17:09 AND IT WAS INTERESTING THOUGH, BEFORE WHEN HE WAS WORKING IN BORA THE 17:16 SECRETARY OF A CERTAIN PROTESTANT DENOMINATION CAME TO HIM AND SAID, 17:22 "COME AND PREACH AT MY CHURCH." 17:24 HE SAID, "WELL HOW I CAN DO THAT WHEN YOU HAVE PREACHERS." 17:28 "HOW CAN I DO THAT?" 17:30 HE SAID, "OUR PREACHERS DON'T KNOW THE BIBLE LIKE YOU DO SO YOU COME." 17:34 SO HE WAS WONDERING HOW THEY ARE GOING TO FEEL ABOUT ME THERE. 17:36 WELL ANYWAY, HE CAME AND HE PREACHED AND THE PREACHERS WERE SO THRILLED 17:40 THEY SAID, "LOOK FOR THE FIRST TIME WE'VE ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS OUR 17:44 SAVIOR." 17:45 "PLEASE COME AGAIN." 17:49 AND THEN HE WENT TO THE REFUGEE CAMP IN UGANDA AND PEOPLE WERE PLAYING CHESS 17:59 AND SOME OTHER GAME THERE HE STARTED TALKING ABOUT JESUS AND SOME OF THEM 18:04 SAID," THIS IS NO PLACE TO BE TALKING ABOUT JESUS" BUT SOME OTHERS CALLED HIM 18:07 ASIDE, PLEASE TELL US MORE WE'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE BIBLE AND ABOUT 18:12 JESUS. 18:14 AND ANYWAY SINCE THESE PEOPLE HAVE COME FROM MANY DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE 18:18 CAMP HE ORGANIZED FOUR BIBLE STUDY GROUPS AS A RESULT OF THAT ENCOUNTER. 18:24 SO THAT'S AMAZING HOW THINGS GO ON AND WHAT CAN ACTUALLY HAPPEN. 18:28 EVERYWHERE YOU GO THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE A NEW WAY. 18:31 THAT'S RIGHT. 18:32 THAT'S RIGHT. 18:34 LET ME TAKE JUST A MINUTE AND TALK ABOUT THAT AND THE SPARK THAT MAKES IT 18:38 POSSIBLE TO REALLY CHANGE WHEREVER YOU LIVE. 18:42 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 18:48 WHERE IS THE 10/40 WINDOW ANYWAY? 18:52 THOSE PEOPLE ARE TOO FAR AWAY. 18:54 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. 18:57 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV? 19:00 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACH, MY HEAD HURTS. 19:04 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO, I GIVE UP. 19:08 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 19:10 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 19:13 ACTUALLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND JESUS ASKED YOU TO GO TO ALL THE 19:20 WORLD. 19:21 WHERE? 19:22 ALL THE WORLD. 19:23 HOW CAN I GO I HAVE COMMITMENTS? 19:25 YOU CAN PRAY. 19:27 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 19:32 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 19:36 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS. 19:39 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE AND MEANING BUT THEY WON'T 19:42 FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 19:44 BE THE SPARK. 19:45 LIGHT THE FIRE. 19:48 FINISH THE WORK. 19:51 FINISH THE WORK. 19:55 BE THE SPARK. 19:56 BE THE SPARK. 19:57 THAT'S WHAT GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS ARE DOING IN SUDAN, ETHIOPIA AND 20:02 ESPECIALLY IN SOME REFUGEE CAMPS. 20:04 THAT'S RIGHT, YES. 20:05 SO TELL ME SOME MORE. 20:06 YOU'VE GOT THREE MORE STORIES, I SEE. 20:08 O.K. 20:09 I WANTED TO TELL YOU ABOUT MOSES KURIASEK. 20:12 HE WAS IN THE AJUMANI REFUGEE CAMP FOR ELEVEN YEARS. 20:16 NOW THAT WAS SEVERAL YEARS AGO WHEN THE OTHER CONFLICT WAS GOING ON. 20:22 HE HAD BAPTIZED MANY PEOPLE IN THAT REFUGEE CAMP-DID A WONDERFUL WORK 20:26 THERE BUT IMAGINE HE WAS THERE FOR ELEVEN YEARS. 20:29 FINALLY WHEN PEACE CAME HE RETURNED BACK TO SOUTH SUDAN AND HAS BEEN WORKING 20:34 THERE AS A REGULAR WORKER AND AT THE PRESENT TIME HE WAS TELLING ME THAT HE HAS 20:41 THREE DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PEOPLE STUDYING THE BIBLE- FIFTY FIVE ALTOGETHER. 20:46 FIFTY-FIVE PEOPLE AND THAT'S HOW IT GOES. 20:51 THIS DEAR MAN-THAT'S HOW IT GOES. 20:56 ITS INCREDIBLE IS WHAT IT IS. 20:58 CAN YOU IMAGINE HAVING A WEEK WHERE YOU GET TO TALK TO FIVTY-FIVE DIFFERENT 21:02 PEOPLE? 21:03 YES, YES, AND KNOW THAT ONE OF THESE DAYS YOU'VE GOT CHURCHES COMING UP. 21:05 THAT'S RIGHT, YES. 21:06 WHAT A GIFT! 21:08 OK, YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER ONE. 21:10 YES. 21:11 I HAD A PICTURE UP THERE OF THIS MAN, PETER AWAI-HE'S AN OLDER MAN BUT 21:16 HE'S BEEN A FANTASTIC WORKER. 21:18 MATTER OF FACT, HE WENT TO ONE PLACE AND BAPTIZED OVER 100 PEOPLE AND BUILT 21:22 A CHURCH THERE; WENT TO ANOTHER PLACE AND BAPTIZED OVER 100 AND BUILT A 21:26 CHURCH THERE AND STARTED A SCHOOL WHERE THERE ARE ABOUT 1400 STUDENTS AT THE 21:30 PRESENT TIME. 21:32 MY LANDS. 21:33 BUT THE REASON WHY I AM SHOWING THIS WITH REFUGEE CAMPS IS BECAUSE HE HAS 21:37 BEEN SO HELPFUL TO REFUGEES. 21:41 HE IS NEAR THE UGANDA BORDER WHERE THE REFUGEES ARE COMING FROM AND SO 21:45 WHEN THESE PEOPLE COME BACK AFTER BEING IN REFUGEE CAMP FOR YEARS AND 21:48 YEARS AND YEARS, WHERE THEY GO? 21:50 WHAT THEY DO? 21:51 AND SO HE HAS BEEN ABLE TO HELP THEM. 21:53 HE HAS BAPTIZED A LOT OF THESE REFUGEE PEOPLE. 21:58 IT'S JUST BEEN A REAL. 22:00 A REAL BLESSING. 22:02 SO YOU KNOW WHAT I SEE HERE DICK IS REALLY SERIOUSLY FOLLOWING THE 22:11 BIBLE COMMISSION: GOING TO EVERY TRIBE. 22:16 I OFTEN WONDERED HOW CAN WE EVER REACH THESE TRIBES WAY OUT IN THESE JUNGLE 22:20 AREAS AND ALL THESE KIND OF THINGS. 22:22 GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS THE ANSWER. 22:24 THEY HAVE THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW THE LANGUAGE, THEY KNOW THE CULTURE, THEY 22:29 KNOW HOW TO EXIST THERE AND SO IT'S A MARVELOUS, MARVELOUS WORK. 22:37 WHEN YOU ARE ON THE GROUND IN SOUTH SUDAN AND YOU GO INTO A REFUGEE CAMP OR YOU 22:43 MEET WITH ONE OF THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS WHO LIVES AND WORKS IN A 22:46 REFUGEE CAMP, HOW DO YOU FEEL IN TERMS OF YOUR OWN PERSONAL SAFETY? 22:52 YOU CAN START THERE, I'VE GOT THREE QUESTIONS: ARE YOU SAFE? 22:56 YES, I HAVE FELT VERY SAFE, ACTUALLY. 22:58 AS FAR AS THE CAMP IS CONCERNED- NO PROBLEM. 23:02 NOW WHEN WE LEFT THE CAMP IN NORTHERN ETHIOPIA, THE POLICE CHECKED US VERY 23:08 CAREFULLY. 23:10 MATTER OF FACT, WE WERE STOPPED SEVERAL TIMES ALONG THE ROAD AND THE 23:12 POLICE WOULD COME ON THE BUSSES AT NIGHT AND ASK FOR PASSPORT AND ALL THIS 23:15 KIND OF THING BUT I FELT SAFE. 23:17 YES. 23:18 COMFORTABLE SO THAT IS NOT A PROBLEM. 23:20 NO. 23:21 DO YOU FIND THAT THE PEOPLE HAVE, EXCUSE ME, SOMETHING TO DO IN A 23:24 REFUGEE CAMP OR JUST SIT HOPING FOR A NEW PLACE TO LIVE? 23:27 SOME DO AND OTHERS HAVE FOUND WAYS OF HAVING A LITTLE BUSINESS OF SOME 23:35 KIND. 23:36 YOU SAW THE MAN WITH THE SEWING MACHINE; YOU SAW MOHLIGITO AND ZADE WITH 23:39 THEIR LITTLE CAFE THERE THAT THEY REALLY -THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THAT IS 23:43 WITNESSING-TO MEET PEOPLE YES, YES AND THAT HAPPENS DO MOST OF OUR GLOBAL I 23:49 MEAN GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS ACTUALLY HAVE LITTLE BUSINESSES? 23:53 I WOULDN'T SAY ALL OF THEM BUT LIKE THE LAST FELLOW, HE'S GOT A SCHOOL THAT HE 23:58 STARTED. 23:59 YES BUT NOW OF COURSE, HE WASN'T IN A REFUGEE CAMP. 24:02 RIGHT. 24:03 HE WAS A REGULAR WORKER. 24:05 THE REASON THAT I MENTIONED HIM IS BECAUSE OF THE BLESSING HE HAS 24:07 BEEN TO REFUGEES AND HOW HE HAS BEEN ABLE TO BAPTIZE BECAUSE OF HIS 24:12 KINDNESS. 24:13 CONSTANTLY REACHING OUT-KINDNESS. 24:15 AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN COUNTRY DIRECTORS USE THAT WORD-KINDNESS. 24:19 HOW DOES KINDNESS BRING PEOPLE TO JESUS? 24:24 I THINK IT JUST HAPPENS AUTOMATICALLY. 24:27 YOU KNOW WHEN YOU ARE KIND TO SOMEONE HOW ELSE CAN THEY REACT? 24:33 I MEAN CHILDREN RESPOND TO KINDNESS; ANIMALS RESPOND TO KINDNESS; WE ALL 24:38 RESPOND TO KINDNESS AND IT GIVES A WONDERFUL TESTIMONY. 24:43 AND IF I'M A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER IN A REFUGEE CAMP AND I GET TO 24:50 WALK THROUGH THE TENTS AND BE KIND AND THAT'S MY MAIN ASSIGNMENT EVERY DAY, CAN 24:58 YOU IMAGINE ALL THE PEOPLE I WOULD MEET? 25:03 AND THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WOULD START AND THEN NEXT THING IS I'M CARRYING 25:06 WATER FOR SOMEBODY AND HELPING REPAIR A TORN TENT. 25:10 A HUNDRED LITTLE JOBS. 25:11 YES. 25:13 BUT I'VE BECOME PART OF THEIR LIVES. 25:15 THAT'S RIGHT. 25:15 THAT'S WHAT YOU HELP OUR WORKERS DO. 25:18 YES. 25:19 LEARN HOW TO DO THAT AND BE HAPPY WITH IT. 25:21 THAT'S RIGHT. 25:23 AND REALLY, YOU KNOW, A WONDERFUL THING IS, I HAVEN'T REALLY HAD TO 25:26 INSTRUCT THEM ON THAT OR REMIND THEM OF THAT BUT THAT'S WHAT THEY'VE BEEN 25:30 DOING. 25:31 AUTOMATICALLY. 25:32 AND THAT'S WHAT THRILLS ME IS TO SEE THE DEDICATION OF THESE PEOPLE. 25:35 YOU KNOW, THESE WORKERS WHEN THEY GO OUT THERE THEY COULD HAVE THROWN UP 25:38 THEIR HANDS AND SAID, "OH LOOK, HERE WE WERE DOING A WONDERFUL WORK AND NOW 25:42 WE'RE-NOW WE'VE BEEN THROWN AWAY." 25:44 YES. 25:45 WE HAVE NO HOME, WE HAVE NO FAMILY, EVERYTHING IS A MESS BUT IMMEDIATELY THEY 25:48 ARE THINKING OF OTHERS NOT ABOUT THEMSELVES BUT OF OTHERS. 25:51 THEY START MINISTERING TO THEIR MEMBERS AND TO OTHERS. 25:55 I FIND MYSELF IN SO MANY OLD TESTAMENT STORIES AS YOU ARE TALKING: THE 25:59 LITTLE GIRL THAT I CALL ABIGAIL, NAAMAN'S MAID, YOU KNOW THROWN AWAY, 26:05 CAPTURED, TAKEN AND TURNED INTO A SLAVE AND WHAT DOES SHE DO? 26:09 SHE CONVERTS THE GENERAL OF THE KING'S ARMY. 26:13 THAT'S RIGHT. 26:14 OR JOSEPH- SOMEPLACE TOTALLY WEIRD. 26:16 THIS MORNING IN THE BOARD MEETING AT GOSPEL OUTREACH THE WORSHIP WAS IN THE 26:22 BOOK OF HABBAKUK: THOUGH THE FIG TREES HAVE NO FIGS; THOUGH STRAWBERRIES 26:27 HAVE NO FRUIT THOUGH THE SHEEP PENS HAVE NO SHEEP; THOUGH NO, NO, NO HABBAKUK 26:34 SAYS, "YET I WILL TRUST IN THE LORD." 26:37 YES AND I LOVE THE WAY THE MESSAGE BIBLE TRANSLATES THAT IT SAYS, "I WILL RUN 26:43 LIKE A DEER ON THE MOUNTAINTOPS AND I WILL REJOICE IN THE GOOD NEWS 26:49 OF GOD." 26:50 YES. 26:51 SO DONORS WHAT A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY IN HELPING TO SPREAD THE MESSAGE AND 26:55 FINISH THE WORK. 26:58 YOU CAN BE PART OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 27:01 YOU CAN'T BE A WORKER MAYBE BUT WHAT YOU CAN BE -YOU CAN ADOPT-A-WORKER 27:05 AND BE PART OF THE TEAM. 28:20 [CLOSING MUSIC]. |
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