Participants: Ole Olesen (Host), Del Orser
Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000597A
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00:16 WELCOME TO ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS. 00:18 IT'S WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU HERE AGAIN TO WATCH. 00:21 WE JUST PRAY THAT YOU WILL BECOME A PART OF THE STORIES OF ALL THESE 00:27 NATIONS, ALL THESE MISSIONS, ALL THESE WOMEN AND MEN WHO HAVE 00:31 VOLUNTEERED AND ARE WORKING AROUND THE WORLD. 00:34 AND THIS MORNING, MY NAME IS OLE OLESEN AND I'M GLAD TO BE HERE WITH YOU AND I 00:40 HAVE A GUEST WITH ME DEL ORSER. 00:43 WELCOME TO OUR PLATFORM HERE. 00:45 THANK YOU. 00:46 THIS IS YOUR PLACE AND I'M HAVING FUN VISITING, GETTING ACQUAINTED, 00:49 HEARING YOUR STORIES. 00:52 TELL ME, WHAT PART OF THE WORLD IS YOURS AS YOU OVERSEE YOUR LITTLE 00:57 SECTION OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:58 AS FAR AS GOSPEL OUTREACH GOES WE ARE INVOLVED WITH THE ENTIRE REGION OF 01:05 ORISSA WHICH COVERS A STATE JUST NORTH OF ANDHRA PRADESH. 01:10 HERE'S THE PHOTO OF IT. 01:11 AS YOU CAN SEE IT'S IN THE BROWN AREA. 01:13 IT'S MORE OR LESS CENTRAL INDIA, EAST , AND THEN WE HAVE TWO SECTIONS WHERE 01:17 THE OFFICES ARE IN ORISSA AND THEN WE HAVE TWO SECTIONS ALSO IN ANDHRA 01:21 PRADESH. 01:22 IS THAT THE GREEN AREA DOWN BELOW THERE? 01:25 YES, ANDHRA PRADESH IS IN THE GREEN. 01:28 ORISSA COVERS ABOUT 44 MILLION PEOPLE SO YOU CAN SEE IT'S AN AMAZING TASK 01:37 TO SHARE THE LORD WITH ALL THOSE AND WE FEEL IT'S GOING TO EVENTUALLY 01:40 HAPPEN. 01:41 WE ARE SO BLESSED TO HAVE A PART OF THAT. 01:44 FORTY-FOUR MILLION IN ORISSA AND THEN MORE THAN THAT IN ANDHRA PRADESH? 01:47 I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE RATIO IS BUT I IMAGINE IT'S AT LEAST THAT. 01:52 AT LEAST THAT. 01:53 AND HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN THERE NOW? 01:55 WE HAVE BEEN GOING SINCE THE YEAR 2000. 01:58 EVERY YEAR BASICALLY SINCE THE YEAR 2000. 02:02 THAT'S QUITE A FEW YEARS. 02:03 YOU'RE WELL INTO YOUR SECOND DECADE. 02:06 WELL RIGHT. 02:07 AND WHAT A PRIVILEGE AND HONOR TO BE A PART OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 02:11 I FEEL SO BLESSED TO BE A PART OF A GROUP THAT TAKES SERIOUSLY THE GREAT 02:15 COMMISSION, GO YE THEREFORE AND TEACH ALL NATIONS. 02:18 OF COURSE, I THINK MOST OF THE VIEWERS REALIZE THAT THIS IS COVERING THE 10/40 02:23 WINDOW WHERE NINETY SEVEN PERCENT OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION LIVE TODAY. 02:29 AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEARN THOSE LOCAL LANGUAGES DO YOU. 02:32 NO. 02:34 BECAUSE GOSPEL OUTREACH DOESN'T REQUIRE YOU TO BECOME LANGUAGE FLUENT. 02:39 WE'RE USING LOCALS WHO KNOW THE LANGUAGE FROM BIRTH. 02:43 THAT'S RIGHT AND I'M SO THANKFUL FOR THAT BECAUSE I KNOW FOR ME TO LEARN A 02:46 NEW LANGUAGE WOULD BE A TOUGH JOB. 02:49 WELL TELL US A STORY FROM THAT REGION. 02:53 TELL US SOMETHING THAT REALLY HAS INSPIRED YOU. 02:58 WHAT A PRIVILEGE. 02:59 ACTUALLY THIS IS SECOND OF A TWO PART SERIES "I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES." 03:04 I WAS ABLE TO SHARE A COUPLE ON OUR LAST SESSION BUT I'M GLAD TO SHARE 03:11 ANOTHER ONE. 03:12 WE HAVE FOUND THAT AS WE TRAVEL THROUGHOUT INDIA, BY THE WAY WE FOUND THE 03:16 GREATEST WAY TO TRAVEL IS BY TRAIN. 03:19 AND FROM ONE STATE TO THE OTHER, THE TIP OF ORISSA TO KADAPA THE SOUTHERN 03:23 PART OF ANDHRA PRADESH IS OUR AREA IN THERE, LIKE TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED MILES 03:30 APART, I BELIEVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 03:32 SO WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME, AND WE USUALLY TRAVEL AT NIGHT TIME. 03:37 WE HAD THIS ONE EXPERIENCE THAT I WANT TO SHARE ABOUT PAUL IN GETTING TICKETS 03:42 FOR US. 03:43 YOU KNOW ONE THING ABOUT INDIA IT TAKES ABOUT 22 HOURS BY FLIGHT TO GET 03:48 THERE AND SO IT'S EASY TO GET YOUR TIMES MIXED UP. 03:51 THIS IS PAUL. 03:52 HE'S ACTUALLY OUR ADOPTED SON. 03:55 HE GOES BY PAUL ORSER NOW. 03:59 HE WAS JUST MARRIED THIS LAST TIME WE WERE THERE. 04:01 WE WENT TO HIS WEDDING. 04:02 WHAT AN EXPERIENCE THAT WAS, HIS WEDDING. 04:05 IT STARTED REALLY LATE BUT YOU KNOW THE MESSAGE BY THE PASTOR THERE FOR HIS 04:11 WEDDING WAS JUST WONDERFUL ON BEING VERY CHRIST CENTERED. 04:14 BUT PAUL HAD GONE AND GOTTEN TICKETS FOR MY WIFE AND I TO GO BY TRAIN UP TO 04:20 NORTH ORISSA. 04:21 HE REALIZED THE DAY THAT HE PUT DOWN FOR US TO TRAVEL WAS THE WRONG DAY. 04:28 OH MY. 04:29 SO HE WENT TO THE TRAIN STATION TO GET NEW TICKETS. 04:33 HE FILLED OUT THE PAPER WORK AND TOOK IT TO THE COUNTER AND THE GUY SAID 04:38 THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO WAY THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET YOU TICKETS. 04:41 INDIAN TRAINS DO GET FULL DON'T THEY. 04:43 OH MY. 04:45 SO HE SAYS I'M GOING TO TRY AGAIN AND HE WENT AND FILLED THE FORM OUT A 04:49 SECOND TIME. 04:50 AND A THIRD TIME AND THE TICKET AGENT SAYS YOU LOOK LIKE AN INTELLIGENT 04:56 EDUCATED BOY WHY ARE YOU COMING WITH A REQUEST AGAIN. 05:00 I DON'T WANT TO EVER SEE YOU AT THIS DESK AGAIN. 05:03 HE JUST REALLY GAVE IT TO HIM. 05:05 WELL PAUL BECAME VERY DISCOURAGED. 05:07 YOU KNOW WHEN WE GO TO INDIA WE MAKE APPOINTMENTS TO SPEAK AND CARRY ON, 05:12 VISIT CHURCHES. 05:13 SO HE KNEW A LOT DEPENDED ON HIM GETTING THIS TICKET. 05:17 HE CAME TO THE ROOM AND MY WIFE WAS SUPPOSED TO COME THAT MORNING, IT WAS THE 05:22 NEXT MORNING SO HE WAS TRYING TO GET TICKETS FOR THE FOLLOWING DAY. 05:26 I FELT, YOU KNOW GOD THIS IS YOUR PROBLEM. 05:31 WE KNELT THERE, WE SAID A SHORT PRAYER. 05:33 I SAID I'M GOING TO GO WITH YOU TO THE TRAIN STATION AGAIN. 05:38 AND HE FILLED OUT ANOTHER FORM. 05:40 HE WENT TO THE SAME AGENT, SAME AGENT, SAME AGENT AND PAUL WAS TREMBLING. 05:44 HE COULD REMEMBER THE TONGUE LASHING. 05:47 OH MY. 05:48 HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. 05:51 YOU KNOW THAT HE DIDN'T EVEN MENTION THAT HE HAD SEEN HIM BEFORE. 05:55 HE ISSUED HIM TICKETS JUST LIKE THAT FOR THREE OF US. 05:58 IT WAS A MIRACLE. 06:00 IT SOUNDS LIKE AN AMAZING MIRACLE. 06:03 IT WAS. 06:04 AND SO THIS PICTURE THAT YOU SAW OF PAUL WITH THE TICKET THERE WAS, I SAID 06:08 WE'VE GOT TO DOCUMENT THIS. 06:09 SO THAT WAS JUST ONE OF THEM. 06:11 NOW THAT'S NOT THE ONLY STORY WE HAVE ABOUT TICKETS. 06:13 WE WERE MAKING PLANS TO GO TO RAJAHMUNDRY WHICH IS AN AREA WHERE WE HAVE 06:19 WORKERS. 06:21 AS WE GOT ON THE TRAIN, WE WENT EARLY AND GOT THERE ABOUT A HALF HOUR EARLY 06:25 AND GOT ON THE TRAIN. 06:27 WE DIDN'T GO THROUGH THE OFFICE BECAUSE WE KNEW WHAT TRAIN IT WAS. 06:30 THE ENGINE NUMBER IS ON THE TICKET. 06:34 WE GOT IN AND SAT DOWN AND WAITED AND WAITED. 06:37 NO ONE CAME ON THE TRAIN. 06:38 WELL THAT'S UNUSUAL. 06:39 AND SO WE THOUGHT WOW, WHAT IS GOING ON. 06:41 SO OUR TRANSLATOR AND BOTH MY WIFE AND I SAID WE'D BETTER FIND OUT WHY 06:46 THERE'S NO ONE GETTING ON THIS TRAIN. 06:48 WE WENT TO THE OFFICE AND FOUND OUT, AND THE OFFICE WAS JUST BEDLAM, JUST LIKE 06:51 HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WITH THE SAME QUESTION. 06:53 YES SURE. 06:55 THE PASTOR, OUR TRANSLATOR, HE FOUND OUT THAT THAT TRAIN HAD BEEN 07:04 CANCELED THAT THERE WAS AN ACCIDENT DERAILMENT AND THE TRAIN WOULD NOT GO 07:09 THROUGH BUT THERE WAS A WAY TO GET TO OUR DESTINATION BY GOING 07:12 ANOTHER ROUTE. 07:13 HE ASKED IF THERE WERE ANY TICKETS AVAILABLE. 07:16 OF COURSE THERE WERE NONE. 07:18 SO WE STOOD WITH OUR SUITCASES RIGHT OUT IN FRONT OF THE PUBLIC AND WE 07:24 PUT OUR ARMS AROUND EACH OTHER AND SAID A SHORT PRAYER. 07:27 GOD THIS IS YOUR PROBLEM AGAIN, THIS IS YOUR PROBLEM. 07:32 IMMEDIATELY AS SOON AS WE FINISHED OUR PRAYER A MAN CAME AND HE SAID DO YOU 07:37 HAVE A PROBLEM. 07:38 WE SAID YES. 07:39 WE EXPLAINED TO HIM WHAT THE PROBLEM WAS. 07:41 HE SAID I KNOW A TRAVEL AGENT NOT TO FAR A COUPLE OF BLOCKS AWAY. 07:46 HE SAID FOLLOW ME. 07:47 WE FOLLOWED HIM, WENT TO THE TRAVEL AGENT AND HE SAID, WE EXPLAINED OUR 07:53 PROBLEM. 07:54 HE SAID THERE'S NO WAY I CAN GET TICKETS FOR YOU. 07:56 NOTHING I CAN DO. 07:57 I SAID, I FELT IMPRESSED TO SAY, WELL WOULD YOU MIND CALLING AND AT LEAST 08:01 PUTTING US ON A WAITING LIST. 08:04 HE SAID WELL I COULD DO IT BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. 08:08 HE CALLED AND IMMEDIATELY WE HAD TWO TICKETS. 08:11 OUR TRANSLATOR DIDN'T GO WITH US BUT THEY HAD ANOTHER TRANSLATOR AT THE 08:14 END BUT WE WERE ABLE TO GET OUR TICKETS, WE GOT ON AND SO WE WERE ONLY ABOUT 08:20 FOUR HOURS LATE FROM OUR SCHEDULED APPOINTMENT. 08:23 SO THAT'S ANOTHER MIRACLE OF HOW GOD PROVIDED. 08:28 ACTUALLY I HAVE A THIRD EXPERIENCE. 08:30 LET ME GO TO THE NEXT PICTURE IF I MAY. 08:32 YES, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU RECOGNIZE THIS GENTLEMAN ON THE RIGHT. 08:41 THIS IS WADE BROOKS AND PAUL AND MY WIFE AND I. 08:47 NOW WE HAVE, WE WERE TRAVELING TOGETHER ON A TRAIN AND WE HAD TEN 08:50 SUITCASES. 08:51 OF COURSE WE HAD SO MANY SUITCASES WE COULDN'T KEEP THEM IN THE BERTH WHERE WE 08:59 WERE SITTING AND SO THE CONDUCTOR THERE PUT THREE I THINK IT WAS OF OUR 09:05 SUITCASES IN BETWEEN THE CARS. 09:07 THEY LOCKED THEM IN BETWEEN THE CARS. 09:09 ACTUALLY OUR TRAIN HAD LEFT, IT WAS ABOUT THREE HOURS LATE LEAVING SO WE 09:17 ADDED THREE HOURS TO OUR DESTINATION TIME WE THOUGHT AND WE WENT TO 09:24 SLEEP IN THE TRAIN AND WAITED AND WAITED. 09:27 WE THOUGHT WE'D GET UP AT A CERTAIN TIME. 09:29 WELL WE WOKE UP AND LOW AND BEHOLD WE HAD PASSED OUR TRAIN STATION. 09:32 WE REALIZED WE NEEDED TO GET OFF AT THE NEXT STATION AND TRY TO GET 09:39 BACK SOME WAY. 09:41 WADE BROOKS OF COURSE WAS VICE PRESIDENT I BELIEVE OF GOSPEL OUTREACH HERE 09:47 AND HE WAS GOING TO TRAVEL THE LAST WEEK OR TWO WHILE WE WERE IN INDIA. 09:55 I WANTED HIM TO VISIT A SECTION DESPERATELY WHERE WE HAD SOME CHALLENGES AND 10:01 PROBLEMS BUT AS WE REVIEWED OUR SCHEDULE WE REALIZED THERE WAS NO WAY 10:05 THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE ABLE TO VISIT THEM, WORK IT INTO OUR SCHEDULE. 10:10 AND THIS IS HOW GOD WORKS. 10:11 THIS IS AN AMAZING STORY BECAUSE WE MISSED WHERE WE WERE SUPPOSED TO GET OFF, 10:20 OUR TRAIN STATION, OVER SLEPT. 10:22 WE GOT OFF AT THE NEXT ONE AND WHEN WE WENT TO GET OF THIS TRAIN WE COULDN'T 10:37 FIND A CONDUCTOR TO UNLOCK OUR SUITCASES. 10:39 SO PAUL AND I STAYED ON THE TRAIN AND MY WIFE AND WADE BROOKS GOT OFF AT 10:41 TUNEY. 10:42 NOW TUNEY JUST HAPPENED TO BE THE CITY WHERE WE HAD THIS PROBLEM THAT I WANTED 10:46 WADE TO VISIT. 10:48 SO PAUL AND I WENT ON AND BY THE WAY, WE HAD TO PULL A CHAIN TO STOP THE TRAIN 10:55 AND THE POLICE CAME WITH THEIR GUNS AND SAID WHAT'S GOING ON AND THEY JUST 10:59 REALLY GAVE IT TO PAUL FOR NOT BEING AWAKE AND ON THE BALL AND GETTING OUR 11:02 SUITCASES AND NOT GETTING OFF AT THE RIGHT STATION. 11:04 BUT GOD HAD HIS HAND IN IT AND HERE'S WHY. 11:06 AS PAUL AND I WENT ON FURTHER TO GET OFF AT THE NEXT STATION TO GET OUR 11:12 SUITCASES BACK WE HAD THE NUMBER TO ONE OF THE BIBLE WORKERS IN TUNEY. 11:19 WE CALLED HIM AND HE IMMEDIATELY CAME DOWN TO THE STATION AND MET MY 11:23 WIFE AND WADE AND THEY WERE ABLE TO SPEND THE DAY TOGETHER. 11:27 WE WENT BACK TO RAJAHMUNDRY. 11:28 HE SPENT SOME TIME WITH US AND WE WERE ABLE TO RESOLVE SOME OF THE 11:31 CHALLENGES AND THE PROBLEMS AND WORK IT OUT AND ENCOURAGE THEM. 11:34 SO THESE ARE AREAS THAT GOD, OVER AND OVER AGAIN WE'VE SEEN, HOW GOD HAS 11:41 MIRACULOUSLY PROVIDENTIALLY BLESSED US. 11:44 I HAVE THIS FEELING THAT WHEN YOU GO TO A PLACE LIKE THIS YOU'RE ALMOST 11:49 BEGINNING TO EXPECT THERE WILL BE PROBLEMS THAT ONLY GOD CAN SOLVE. 11:54 THAT'S RIGHT. 11:56 AND THAT BECOMES PART OF THE ADVENTURE, WHAT IS GOD GOING TO DO NEXT. 11:58 IT'S SO TRUE. 12:00 AND YOU KNOW YOU HAVE SUCH PEACE IN YOUR HEART. 12:03 LET ME TAKE A BREAK HERE AND JUST INVITE PEOPLE AGAIN. 12:06 HERE WE ARE WITH ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS. 12:09 YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY RIGHT NOW TO LOOK ON YOUR SCREEN, SEE THE ADDRESSES, 12:15 SEE THE TELEPHONE NUMBERS, WEBSITES, EMAILS, HOWEVER IT IS THAT YOU NEED TO 12:22 COMMUNICATE WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH. 12:24 TAKE A MOMENT WRITE THAT DOWN AND THEN KEEP PRAYING JUST LIKE DEL IS 12:30 DESCRIBING HERE, KEEP PRAYING THAT WHATEVER THE PROBLEMS ARE IN YOUR LIFE 12:34 GOD WILL REVEAL HIS ANSWERS AND CALL YOU TO WHATEVER INVOLVEMENT HE 12:40 HAS IN THIS. 12:42 IT IS BY INVESTORS LIKE YOU, PEOPLE WHO SAY I WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS 12:47 STORY, I WANT TO BE A PART OF REACHING OUT TO OUR WORLD. 12:50 WHEN YOU HEAR THAT CALL AND YOU SAY YES IT BECOMES A MEANS BY WHICH THESE 12:58 ADVENTURES TAKE PLACE WITH GOD. 13:00 AND WE JUST PRAY THAT IN YOUR LIFE THE SAME EXCITING THINGS ARE 13:04 HAPPENING. 13:06 GOD BE WITH YOU. 13:07 LET'S GO BACK TO INDIA. 13:10 WHAT'S NEXT? 13:11 I BET YOU HAVE MORE STORIES. 13:13 OH MY, I DO. 13:14 I HAVE A COUPLE MORE. 13:15 I HOPE I HAVE TIME TO SHARE. 13:16 THEY'RE JUST AMAZING. 13:17 THEY'RE ACTUALLY, ONE OF THEM IS REALLY TWO ANGELS CAME TO US AND I MUST 13:23 SHARE THAT STORY. 13:25 YOU KNOW WE LIVE ON THE WEST COAST HERE AND YOU KNOW EXACTLY IT'S THE SAME 13:30 DISTANCE WHETHER YOU GO EAST OR WEST. 13:33 NOW WE USED TO TRAVEL WEST BECAUSE YOU KNOW IT'S A LITTLE EASIER TO BREAK UP 13:38 YOUR TIME ON THE PLANE BY GOING WEST WE BELIEVE. 13:43 BUT WE LANDED IN KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA AND WE HAD A TEN HOUR LAY OVER 13:47 ONCE. 13:49 AND AS I WAS IN THE AIRPORT THERE AND WALKING THE HALLS OR WHATEVER THIS 13:55 GENTLEMAN CAME TO ME AND FOR SOME REASON I WAS JUST DRAWN TO HIM. 13:58 I SMILED AND WE STARTED TALKING. 14:00 WE SAT DOWN. 14:02 WE EXCHANGED EMAILS AND I COULD SEE HE WAS ON FIRE FOR THE LORD. 14:04 HE WAS NOT AN ADVENTIST BUT HE LOVED THE LORD. 14:06 HE HAD THREE CHURCHES AND WAS GOING UP TO SOME BIBLE CLASS, CAN'T REMEMBER THE 14:15 NAME OF THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW. 14:17 ANYWAY I BECAME GOOD FRIENDS WITH HIM VIA THE INTERNET. 14:22 AND THE NEXT YEAR WHEN I CAME TO DO ANOTHER SERIES HE WANTED TO COME. 14:26 I INVITED HIM AND HE CAME AND LISTENED AND ACCEPTED OUR TRUTH. 14:30 THAT WAS A SERIES IN HIS COUNTRY OR INDIA? 14:34 HE WAS FROM INDIA. 14:37 OK. 14:39 MACHILIPATNAM WAS HIS CITY AND IT HAPPENED TO BE ABOUT A HUNDRED MILES FROM 14:46 WHERE I WAS GOING TO HOLD A SERIES THE NEXT YEAR. 14:49 I'M SORRY I MISSED THAT. 14:52 ANYWAY I INVITED HIM, HE CAME, ACCEPTED OUR TRUTH AND INVITED ME TO COME TO 14:56 HIS CHURCHES IN HIS CITY AFTER OUR SERIES WAS OVER. 15:01 MY WIFE DIDN'T HAPPEN TO BE WITH ME ON THIS TRIP. 15:04 I WAS BY MYSELF AND I MADE ARRANGEMENTS THAT I COULD STAY FOR THREE OR FOUR 15:09 DAYS WHICH I DID. 15:10 WHEN I WAS VISITING CHURCHES NEAR THERE, I'LL BACK UP. 15:20 HE TOOK MY PHOTO AND HE WANTED TO SEND OUT FLIERS FOR THESE MEETINGS IN HIS 15:26 VILLAGE AND THE VILLAGES AROUND WHICH WAS OK. 15:28 AS THE TIME DREW NEAR TO GO TO HIS VILLAGE I WAS WITH MY TRANSLATOR. 15:36 HE WANTED ME TO SEE ALL HIS CHURCHES WHERE HE HAD BEEN AND ALL AND I 15:40 REALIZED THERE WAS QUITE A DISTANCE BETWEEN WHERE WE WERE AND WHERE THE 15:46 MEETINGS WERE GOING TO BE IN HIS CITY OF MACHILIPATNAM. 15:48 SO AS WE WENT THAT NIGHT WE HAD TO FORD THIS RIVER. 15:55 THE BRIDGE HAD BEEN WASHED OUT. 15:58 WE GOT OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE AND IT BEGAN GETTING DARK AND WE NEEDED OUR 16:02 LIGHTS. 16:03 WE TURNED ON OUR LIGHTS, WE HAD NO LIGHTS ON OUR CAR. 16:07 I REALIZED WE NEEDED TO HAVE LIGHTS. 16:09 THE FLASHERS WORKED SO WE WERE GOING WITH OUR FLASHERS. 16:12 I SAID I'M GOING TO JUMP IN THE BACK SEAT AND SLEEP. 16:14 I'M GOING TO LEAVE THIS WITH THE LORD. 16:16 I JUMPED IN THE BACK SEAT AND I SLEPT MAYBE 10-15 MINUTES. 16:20 I WORK UP AND HERE WE WERE STILL CREEPING ALONG TO OUR MEETING AND WE WERE 16:23 GOING TO BE LATE. 16:24 I KNEW WE WOULD. 16:26 SO WE STOPPED THE CAR, WE'RE GOING TO GET OUT AND MY TRANSLATOR AND I IN 16:30 FRONT OF THE CAR BOWED AND PRAYED THAT SOMEHOW GOD WOULD HELP US GET THOSE 16:35 LIGHTS GOING. 16:36 IMMEDIATELY ANOTHER AMBASSADOR, A WHITE AMBASSADOR CAME, STOPPED, 16:42 TWO MEN GOT OUT. 16:43 THEY SAID CAN WE HELP YOU. 16:45 I SAID WE'RE TRYING TO GET OUR LIGHTS GOING. 16:47 CAN YOU HELP US? 16:49 HE SAID YES, WE KNOW THIS CAR. 16:50 THEY GOT UP AND IN TWO MINUTES THEY HAD THOSE LIGHTS FIXED. 16:54 OH MY. 16:55 IT WAS AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE. 16:57 WE WENT ON. 16:59 THEY HAD BEEN SINGING AND PRAYING. 17:01 WE WERE ONLY ABOUT AN HOUR LATE WHICH WASN'T THAT BAD. 17:03 I WAS ABLE TO SET UP THE PROJECTOR AND I SHARED, I THINK I HAVE A PICTURE OF 17:06 THAT. 17:08 THAT MEETING? 17:09 YES. 17:10 NO NOT THAT ONE. 17:12 I'M SORRY THAT'S IT RIGHT THERE. 17:14 SOMEONE TOOK A PICTURE AND YOU CAN SEE WE HAVE THE PICTURES ON THE LEFT FROM 17:18 THE SCREEN AND THERE WERE ABOUT TWO THOUSAND, HE SAID THERE WERE FIVE 17:22 THOUSAND. 17:23 WELL I DON'T THINK THERE WERE THAT MANY BUT THEY ALL STOOD ACCEPTING THE 17:26 SABBATH TRUTH. 17:27 I WAS ABLE TO SHARE ABOUT THE SABBATH AND I'VE BEEN BACK TO THAT VILLAGE I 17:30 THINK NINE TIMES AND HE IS TEACHING THE SABBATH TRUTH. 17:34 HE HAS 15 CONGREGATIONS THAT HE HAS STARTED. 17:40 IT'S BEEN WONDERFUL. 17:41 GOD ANSWERED HIS PRAYER. 17:43 THAT IS AN ANSWER TO PRAYER. 17:44 NOW IF YOU HAVE TIME FOR ANOTHER STORY, SURE, HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAVE, 17:49 THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR. 17:51 I'VE GOT TO TELL ANOTHER STORY WHICH REALLY WAS A PROVIDENTIAL ONE AS WELL. 17:53 WE HAVE, I THINK IT WAS BACK IN THE YEAR 2002 WHEN WE WERE DOING A MARANATHA 18:02 EVANGELISTIC SERIES. 18:04 THIS PARTICULAR VILLAGE HAD THE MAJORITY OF THE BELIEVERS WERE CHRISTIAN 18:11 BUT THEY WERE NOT OF OUR FAITH. 18:12 THEY STARTED COMING. 18:14 WE WERE EXCITED ABOUT THAT BUT THE LEADERSHIP OF THIS PARTICULAR DENOMINATION 18:24 WHO WAS HEADQUARTERED IN HYDERABAD HEARD ABOUT OUR TAKING THEIR PEOPLE. 18:29 THEY WERE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THIS. 18:31 YES THEY WERE. 18:33 AND THEY CAME AND THEY DEMANDED THAT, LET'S SEE I HAVE A PICTURE OF THAT 18:38 CHURCH. 18:41 I'M SORRY I GUESS, THERE IT IS. 18:45 THAT'S THE CHURCH. 18:46 ANYWAY WE EVENTUALLY GOT ESTABLISHED. 18:48 BUT LET ME BACK UP AND TELL YOU THE REST OF THE STORY. 18:53 THE LEADERSHIP CAME TO MARANATHA AND THREATENED THEM WITH THEIR LIVES THAT 18:56 IF THEY CONTINUED SUPPORTING THESE MEMBERS FROM THIS OTHER 19:01 DENOMINATION WHO COME THAT THEY WOULD WISH THEY HADN'T. 19:04 THEY THREATENED THEM ANYWAY. 19:08 AND SO THE ELDERS OF THIS DENOMINATION CAME TO MY WIFE AND I AND PLEADED 19:16 WITH US THAT WE WOULD PUT UP THE MONEY SO WE HAD A DILEMMA, WHAT WOULD WE DO? 19:22 NOW THIS FINANCIAL ISSUE. 19:24 IT SOUNDS INTERESTING BECAUSE I DON'T THINK I HEARD THE BEGINNINGS OF 19:28 THAT. 19:30 THEY NEEDED MONEY FOR A SPECIAL PROJECT AND THEY NEEDED YOU TO INVEST IN 19:34 IT? 19:35 THEY NEEDED TO HAVE FUNDS TO CONTINUE THEM TO BE ABLE TO COME TO THE 19:39 MEETINGS. 19:40 OH THIS WAS TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS. 19:42 TRANSPORTATION FUNDS, RIGHT, WHICH IS THE GREATEST PART OF THE 19:46 EXPENSE OF HOLDING EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS. 19:48 THE BRINGING PEOPLE TO THE SITE. 19:50 BRINGING PEOPLE TO THE SITE. 19:52 WE'VE GOT TO RENT LORIES AND TRUCKS AND SOMETIMES THERE IS STANDING ROOM 19:55 ONLY IN THESE. 19:56 I'VE SEEN THEM IN THESE TRUCKS UP TO THREE HOURS AT A TIME. 20:00 AND OF COURSE THEY STAY UNTIL MIDNIGHT AND GO TO WORK THE NEXT DAY. 20:04 THAT'S WHY THEY START THE MEETINGS SO LATE AT NIGHT. 20:07 I SEE. 20:08 SOMETIMES THEY START AS LATE AS NINE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT. 20:10 SO THESE MEETINGS WERE ABOUT TO END UNLESS THE TRANSPORTATION COULD 20:12 CONTINUE. 20:13 YES, THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. 20:15 I'M SORRY, I'M TRYING TO RUSH THROUGH THIS THAT I DON'T COVER ALL THE 20:16 DETAILS AND PEOPLE WONDER WHAT, THEY DON'T GET THE MAIN POINT. 20:20 BUT ANYWAY THEY THREATENED THE LEADERSHIP WITH THEIR LIVES SO MY WIFE AND I GOT 20:26 ON OUR KNEES AND WE PRAYED LORD WHAT SHOULD WE DO. 20:28 ANYWAY WE DECIDED THAT WE OURSELVES WERE GOING TO FUND THEM COMING. 20:34 WHAT A BLESSING IT WAS. 20:36 THEY CONTINUED TO COME AND I DON'T KNOW IF THE LORD ANSWERED OUR PRAYERS AS 20:39 FAR AS NOT FOLLOWING UP WITH THE THREATS THAT THEY SAID BUT WE PRAISED THE 20:44 LORD FOR THAT. 20:45 BUT THERE WERE 753 BAPTISMS THAT WERE A RESULT OF THOSE MEETINGS 20:53 IN THAT VILLAGE. 20:54 AND THAT PICTURE THAT WE SAW IS THE LARGEST CHURCH THAT MARANATHA BUILT AT 21:00 THAT TIME. 21:02 TELL ME, YOU KNOW HERE'S A STORY EVEN BEFORE YOU JOINED GOSPEL OUTREACH. 21:08 THAT CHURCH IS STILL THERE IN THE SAME TERRITORY. 21:11 YES IT IS. 21:12 AND WE GO THERE AND VISIT. 21:13 IT'S A GOSPEL OUTREACH CHURCH. 21:15 AND YOU DON'T SEE IT BUT WE HAVE BUILT, NOT ONLY DO THEY NOW HAVE THIS 21:19 RETAINING WALL, THIS WALL I SHOULD SAY, AROUND BUT THEY ALSO HAVE A PASTOR'S 21:23 HOME RIGHT TO THE RIGHT THERE. 21:25 THEY PLANTED SEVERAL COCONUT TREES HERE. 21:27 WHAT AN ON FIRE CHURCH IT IS FOR THE LORD TODAY. 21:32 WELL THIS SOUNDS LIKE YOU HAVE WITNESSED BECAUSE YOU STARTED THERE BACK IN 21:37 2000. 21:39 YOU HAVE WITNESSED TO GROWTH OF OUR OUTREACH IN THAT AREA. 21:43 THAT'S RIGHT. 21:45 AND EVEN THOUGH MARANATHA MAY NOT BE THERE NOW AND GOSPEL OUTREACH IS IT'S 21:48 JUST A WHOLE TIDE THAT'S RISING. 21:51 THAT'S EXCITING. 21:52 I DIDN'T MENTION BUT WHEN WE WENT TO HAVE THE BAPTISM THEY HAD TO HAVE 21:57 THREE PEOPLE BAPTIZING THERE WERE SO MANY BAPTIZED. 22:00 BUT THERE WAS THIS ONE WOMAN WHO WAS DEMON POSSESSED. 22:03 BY THE WAY WE'VE EXPERIENCED EIGHT DEMON POSSESSIONS WHILE WE'VE 22:06 BEEN THERE. 22:07 WE'VE SEEN DEMONS PASS FROM ONE INDIVIDUAL TO ANOTHER. 22:10 THAT'S NOT FUN IS IT. 22:11 OH MY. 22:13 BUT WE HAVE FOUND THAT YOU MUST GO TO THE HOME OF THE INDIVIDUAL THAT'S BEING 22:18 HARASSED OR DEMON POSSESSED. 22:20 WE GO TO THEIR HOME. 22:21 LET ME BACK UP. 22:23 AS THIS WOMAN WAS BAPTIZED SHE CAME FORTH FROM THE WATERS AND JUST WENT INTO 22:28 ALL KINDS OF CONTORTIONS AND FITS LYING ON THE GROUND. 22:33 WE WENT AND WE PRAYED FOR HER AND AFTER A WHILE SHE CAME TO HER SENSES AND 22:38 STOOD AND YOU KNOW RUBBED HER EYES AND LOOKED AROUND. 22:42 IT ALMOST ALWAYS ENDS THAT WAY. 22:45 BUT THE DEMONS MANIFEST THEMSELVES DIFFERENTLY IN EVERY INDIVIDUAL. 22:49 WE'VE SEEN THEM CHOKING AND THINKING THEY'RE GOING TO DIE. 22:54 WE THINK THEY'RE DEAD EVEN. 22:57 THIS VILLAGE WAS, WHAT A TESTIMONY IT WAS TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE THERE, 750 23:02 WERE BAPTIZED THAT DAY, TO SEE THIS LADY COME OUT OF IT AND THEY FOLLOWED US TO 23:09 HER HOME. 23:10 THEY SAID WE MUST GO TO HER HOME AND PRAY THERE. 23:12 AND AGAIN, WE WENT IN AND WE MADE SURE THAT ONLY THOSE WHO HAD CLEAR PURE 23:17 HEARTS WERE ABLE TO GO IN AND PRAY FOR HER IN HER HOME AND AGAIN SHE WENT 23:24 INTO THIS UNCONTROLLABLE SEIZURE. 23:27 THEY ALWAYS MANIFEST THEMSELVES A SECOND TIME IN THEIR HOME. 23:30 AND AS WE GO BACK THESE EIGHT TIMES THE DEMONS ARE ALWAYS FREE. 23:36 BUT IT WAS A TESTIMONY TO GOD'S POWER AND WORKING IN THIS VILLAGE TO SEE THIS 23:41 LADY HAVE PEACE AND COME OUT OF THIS. 23:45 ESPECIALLY IF IT FITS INTO THEIR CULTURE. 23:48 THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON. 23:50 THAT'S RIGHT. 23:51 THIS IS A KNOWN EXPERIENCE AND TO SEE A PERSON LIBERATED WHEN PRIOR TO 23:55 THIS THEY'VE ONLY SEEN PEOPLE GET TRAPPED IN IT AND STAY THERE. 23:58 THAT'S SO TRUE, SO TRUE. 24:00 THIS IS A, YOU KNOW HERE IN THE WEST WE DON'T SEE THAT VERY OFTEN. 24:06 NO WE DON'T. 24:08 BUT OVER THERE IN THAT CULTURE THEY HAVE THE WORDS FOR IT, THE NAMES 24:12 FOR IT FOR THE EXPERIENCE. 24:13 WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO GIVE THEIR TESTIMONY AFTERWARDS. 24:16 IT'S A DIFFERENT WORLD AND YET IT'S STILL THE SAME FORCES THAT TRAP US. 24:23 OH, HOW EXCITING TO SEE THAT. 24:26 AND YOU'VE WATCHED SOME OF THESE PEOPLE GROW SINCE THEN I BET HAVEN'T YOU. 24:29 OH MY. 24:31 ONE MAN WHO HAD DEMON POSSESSION, HE PLEADED FOR US TO COME TO HIS HOME AND 24:35 PRAY FOR HIM. 24:36 HE WOULD CLIMB COCONUT TREES AND BRING THE COCONUTS DOWN, CUT THE 24:40 TOPS OFF, PUT THE STRAW IN YOU KNOW. 24:42 YES. 24:43 WE WENT TO HIS HOME AND PRAYED FOR HIM. 24:45 HE HAS VICTORY. 24:46 YOU CANNOT BELIEVE THAT CHANGE IN HIM AND HIS FAMILY. 24:50 THEY'RE JUST BRIGHT SHINING LIGHTS FOR THE LORD IN THEIR CHURCH. 24:53 AND YOU'RE PLANNING ON GOING BACK. 24:55 RIGHT WE ARE AS LONG AS THE LORD WILLS WE'RE READY. 25:02 HOW MANY WORKERS DOES GOSPEL OUTREACH SPONSOR IN SOME OF THESE PLACES WHERE 25:07 YOU'RE WORKING? 25:08 WE HAVE 193 IN OUR AREA. 25:14 WE HAVE DEVELOPED A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM. 25:16 WE HAVE THEM FILL OUT A FORM. 25:18 WE'VE GOTTEN TO EACH ONE OF THEM. 25:20 WE SPENT A ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEW WITH THEM. 25:22 THIS IS EXCITING BECAUSE WE'VE GROWN TO LOVE EACH ONE OF THEM. 25:24 OH MY. 25:26 WELL 193 ALMOST 200 AND THEIR HAVING EXPERIENCES LIKE THIS DAY IN AND DAY 25:32 OUT WITH CALLING ON GOD TO HELP. 25:34 AND SO IN THEIR WORK I'M CERTAIN THAT THEY THINK OF GOSPEL OUTREACH AS THIS 25:42 AMAZING PLACE IN AMERICA THAT KEEPS FUNDING THEIR WORK FOR THE LORD AND I 25:49 JUST WANT TO LET PEOPLE KNOW WHO ARE WATCHING THIS THAT YOU ARE A PART OF THE 25:55 ANSWER TO THEIR PRAYERS. 25:56 AMEN. 25:58 THEY ARE CALLING ON GOD TO DO THIS, TO KEEP GROWING THIS. 26:03 THEY'RE SEEING HIM AT WORK AND SO IF YOU ARE FEELING GOD'S CALLING NOW TO 26:09 BECOME A PART OF THE INVESTORS IN THIS TAKE TIME, WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU 26:14 SEE ON THE SCREEN. 26:15 MAKE SURE YOU GET THOSE ADDRESSES, EMAILS, WEBSITES, WHATEVER IT 26:20 TAKES TO GET IN CONTACT WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH TAKE TIME TO DO THAT. 26:24 AMEN. 26:26 YOU ARE A PART OF THE STORY, THE STORY THAT DEL HAS BEEN SHARING IS YOUR 26:32 STORY AND AS YOU INVEST IN THIS THESE BECOME YOURS. 26:36 AND I HOPE IT INSPIRES YOU TO LOOK TO GOD FOR THE SAME KIND OF ACTIVITY 26:41 WHERE YOU LIVE IN YOUR TOWN, YOUR LIFE WITH YOUR FAMILIES. 26:46 DON'T GIVE UP ON GOD BECAUSE HE HAS HIS WORK ALL OVER THIS WORLD. 26:51 GOD BE WITH YOU FROM ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS. 26:54 THIS IS OLE OLESEN AND DEL ORSER. 26:56 GOD BLESS YOU. 28:06 [CLOSING MUSIC] |
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