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Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000632A
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00:07 WELCOMETO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:16 I'M JULIE SANDERS-KEYMER AND YOU KNOW I GOT TO THINKING ABOUT OUR NAME 00:19 "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" AND YOU KNOW WHAT GOD ASKS US TO BE ON AN ADVENTURE 00:23 WITH HIM EVERY DAY OF OUR LIVES AND SOME OF US MISSION FIELD MIGHT BE 00:27 RIGHT WHERE WE LIVE IN THE COUNTRY WHERE WE WERE BORN AND SOME OF US HAVE BEEN 00:31 CALLED TO OTHER COUNTRIES AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT-ABOUT THE 00:34 10/40 WINDOW HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH AND IT'S A HUGE EXPANSE OF REAL 00:39 ESTATE ON OUR GLOBE AND THAT'S OUR FOCUS HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH TO SHARE 00:43 JESUS IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD AND THERE ARE TWO ADVENTURERS HERE AT GOSPEL 00:48 OUTREACH AND I'D LIKE TO WELCOME LINDA AND CHARLES SHULTZ HERE TO "ADVENTURES 00:52 IN MISSIONS". 00:53 THANK YOU, THANK YOU. 00:54 DO YOU VIEW YOURSELVES THAT WAY? 00:55 AS ADVENTURERS FOR GOD? 00:57 ABSOLUTELY. 00:58 YES, ABSOLUTELY. 00:59 WELL I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT. 01:01 AND IT IS THE BEST ADVENTURE WE'VE BEEN ON. 01:03 I KNOW. 01:03 THERE IS NEVER A DULL DAY IS THERE? 01:05 THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT. 01:07 SO LINDA AND CHARLES WHERE IS YOUR FOCUS ON FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH? 01:10 WELL THIS PROGRAM IS GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT OUR YOUTH AND IN WHICH 01:16 COUNTRY? 01:17 IN THE COUNTRY OF NEPAL AND THE PROBLEM WITH THE YOUTH TODAY IS THAT THEY 01:22 ARE SO ISOLATED. 01:24 THEY ARE SPREAD OUT OVER THE HILLS BECAUSE MOST OF NEPAL IS IN THE HILL 01:29 COUNTRY. 01:31 AND, OF COURSE, BECAUSE WE HEAR ABOUT MT. 01:33 EVEREST AND ALL OF THAT SO IT IS VERY HILLY. 01:36 YES, AND THERE AREN'T ROADS TO THEIR HOUSES. 01:39 THEY HAVE TO WALK UP AND DOWN THESE HILLS AND THIS IS THE MIDDLE SECTION OF 01:44 NEPAL AND SO MANY TIMES OUR YOUTH ARE -JUST NEED ENCOURAGEMENT. 01:50 YOU KNOW, THEY ARE STUCK WAY UP IN SOME HILLTOP AND TO GET TOGETHER WITH OTHER 01:55 YOUTH WOULD BE SUCH A TREMENDOUS ENCOURAGEMENT. 01:59 SURE. 02:01 AND SO WE ARE GOING TO BE SHOWING THE FIRST SLIDE IS ABOUT A PATHFINDER GROUP. 02:07 THIS IS THE BANEPA SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH PATHFINDER GROUP AND THEY 02:12 HAVE GONE ON A HIKE BUT IN BEHIND THEM YOU CAN SEE, YES IT IS VERY HILLY, AND 02:18 YOU KNOW YOU CAN IMAGINE THEY ARE SPREAD OUT ALL OVER THE PLACE AND THE 02:20 CHURCHES ARE SPREAD OUT ALL OVER. 02:21 AND SO BASICALLY MEETING WITH THESE YOUNG PEOPLE AND ENCOURAGING THEM IS 02:30 SOMETHING THAT WE REALLY ARE INTERESTED IN DOING BECAUSE THEY GET THE IDEA 02:35 THAT THEY ARE JUST BY THEMSELVES AND THEY ARE NOT. 02:37 SO GIVE US AN IDEA-IN SOME OF THESE REMOTE AREAS THERE MIGHT BE WHAT? 02:41 ONE OR TWO YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH? 02:44 OR MORE THAN THAT? 02:46 MORE THAN THAT BECAUSE OUR CHURCH IN NEPAL BASICALLY IS FULFILLED WITH YOUNG 02:51 PEOPLE. 02:51 WELL, PRAISE THE LORD. 02:52 BECAUSE THEY ARE TIRED WITH AH, YOU KNOW, HINDUISM AND THEY ARE 02:58 LOOKING FOR SOMETHING THAT REALLY MEETS THE NEEDS OF THEIR HEART. 03:02 AND OF COURSE, YOUTH ARE LOOKING FOR A PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE THAT WILL MEET 03:08 THEIR NEEDS. 03:09 WE ALL NEED TO BE LOVED AND CHRISTIANITY IS A LOVE RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS. 03:13 ABSOLUTELY SO THEY ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THE STATUS QUO THEY ARE WANTING SOMETHING 03:16 MORE. 03:17 THEY WANT SOMETHING MORE. 03:18 WELL GOOD. 03:20 THE PATHFINDER CLUB IS ONE WAY OF WITNESSING TO THEM. 03:25 UM THE-YOU KNOW WHENEVER YOU HAVE A PATHFINDER CLUB YOU'RE DRAWING ALL KINDS 03:30 OF KIDS, SURE, ADVENTIST, CHRISTIANS, HINDUS YOU KNOW AND SO WE HAVE THIS 03:36 NEXT SLIDE OF A CAMPOUT NOW. 03:41 AND THIS WAS LIKE THE FIRST CAMPOUT, I BELIEVE, THAT THEY EVER HAD AND 03:47 SOMEONE I BELIEVE, FROM THE STATE SUPPLIED THEM WITH TENTS. 03:52 OH NICE! 03:53 AND THIS WAS LIKE A BIG, BIG DEAL FOR THESE KIDS. 03:56 SO HAVE PATHFINDERS BEEN GOING FOR QUITE A FEW YEARS IN NEPAL? 03:59 AT OUR HOSPITAL-SCHEER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN BANEPA IN FACT, I EVEN 04:03 HAVE MY PATHFINDER UNIFORM FROM NEPAL. 04:06 OH DO YOU REALLY? 04:08 AND IT HAS A -IT HAS A LITTLE LOGO WITH HIMALAYAS AND RHODODENDRONS AND ALL 04:14 BUT AND YOU KNOW THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR YOUTH TO ALSO SHARE, SURE. 04:19 HERE THEY ARE WITNESSING. 04:21 THIS LADY HAS BEEN CUTTING GRASS AND YOU CAN SEE HER LITTLE SICKLE THERE TUCKED 04:25 INTO HER WAISTBAND AND OF COURSE, SHE IS WEARING RED BECAUSE RED IS ONE OF THE 04:31 FAVORITE COLORS AND AFTER SHE HAS CUT HER GRASS YOU KNOW, SHE IS TALKING WITH 04:37 OUR YOUTH. 04:39 THEY ARE SHARING JESUS WITH THEM AND THEN AFTER THAT SHE GRABS HER LOAD OF 04:45 GRASS, WOW, LOOK AT THAT. 04:47 AND HEADS BACK TO HER HOUSE UP AND DOWN THESE HILLS AND THIS IS FODDER 04:51 FOR HER GOATS AND HER SHEEP AND HER COWS. 04:54 I THINK THAT'S THE TRUE BACKPACK RIGHT THERE. 04:57 YES, BUT YOU KNOW JUST TO SHOW HOW YOUTH ARE-ANY CHANCE THAT THEY HAVE OF 05:04 GETTING TOGETHER. 05:06 NOW THIS IS THE NEPAL YOUTH FOR CHRIST. 05:11 THIS WAS BACK IN 2014 AND YOU KNOW 300 KIDS. 05:18 WONDERFUL! 05:19 AND THERE IS MORE WHO WOULD LIKE TO COME YOU KNOW AND SO BASICALLY 05:24 THESE KIND OF PROGRAMS WHERE WE CAN FOCUS THEIR ATTENTION ON JESUS AND 05:30 ALSO HOW THEY CAN WITNESS FOR JESUS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR THE WORK IN 05:36 NEPAL BECAUSE THESE ARE OUR FUTURE LEADERS. 05:39 OH ABSOLUTELY AND LIKE YOU SAID, THIS WAY THEY ARE FEELING CONNECTION. 05:42 I MEAN IT IS THE SAME FOR ALL OF US. 05:43 YOU KNOW YOU GO TO A CHURCH AND YOU FEEL CONNECTED AND THEN YOU 05:46 KNOW THE LORD BLESSES US FOR THE NEXT WEEK BUT TO HAVE A GROUP OF YOUNG 05:50 PEOPLE TO COME TOGETHER LIKE THIS-THIS IS EXCITING. 05:53 AND I THOUGHT IT WAS VERY NICE IN THIS THEY DIVIDED UP THE GROUP INTO 06:01 LOCALITIES AND THEN THEY HAD A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER-HE'S THE ONE IN THE 06:07 WHITE SHIRT AND THE DARK PANTS. 06:09 OH SURE. 06:10 AND BASICALLY THESE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE SHARING THEIR PROBLEMS. 06:14 YOU KNOW, WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THIS? 06:15 OR WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THAT? 06:17 AND THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO GET ANSWERS AND ALSO A FEELING OF 06:22 SOLIDARITY. 06:24 UH HUH. 06:25 AND I THINK THAT THAT WAS VERY, VERY VALUABLE. 06:27 SO ARE MOST OF THESE YOUNG PEOPLE -HAVE THEY COME I MEAN YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T 06:31 KNOW FOR SURE BUT HAVE A LOT OF THEM COME FROM HINDU BACKGROUNDS LIKE YOU 06:34 MENTIONED WHERE THEY ARE WANTING SOMETHING DIFFERENT BUT HAVE A LOT 06:37 OF THEM BEEN REARED IN CHRISTIAN HOMES? 06:40 AH, PROBABLY NOT. 06:41 PROBABLY NOT. 06:43 AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE CHALLENGE YOU KNOW THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH THE 06:45 FIRST GENERATION CHRISTIANS. 06:47 YES. 06:49 AND YOU KNOW YOU AND I WE'RE WHAT THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH GENERATION BUT WHAT 06:53 IT WOULD BE LIKE TO BE A FIRST GENERATION CHRISTIAN AND YOU JUST-YOU ARE LIKE 06:58 A SPONGE YOU KNOW, AND YOU JUST HAVE TO TAKE IN EVERYTHING YOU CAN. 07:02 BUT CHARLES THAT'S WHERE IT IS EXCITING DON'T YOU THINK, LINDA? 07:06 YES. 07:07 I MEAN THAT'S WHERE IT IS EXCITING YOU SEE THE FIRE BECAUSE LIKE YOU ARE 07:09 RIGHT, WHEN IT IS JUST PART OF YOUR CULTURE AND PART OF YOUR LIFE AND THAT 07:13 IS SADLY WHERE MANY OF US IN THE WESTERN PART OF OUR WORLD HAVE TAKEN IT FOR 07:17 GRANTED AND I MEAN WE CAN GO TO WALMART AND BUY A BIBLE. 07:19 YES. 07:20 YOU KNOW BUT THEY CAN'T GO TO A BIBLE STORE AND BUY A BIBLE RIGHT THERE BUT WE 07:23 TAKE SO MUCH OF THAT FOR GRANTED BUT HOW EXCITING TO HEAR THAT FIRE. 07:26 RIGHT! 07:27 WELL NEAT, WELL THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING THAT AND I'M JUST EXCITED TO 07:31 SEE WHAT ALSO IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN YEARS TO COME WITH THESE YOUNG PEOPLE. 07:34 THAT'S RIGHT. 07:35 SO LINDA, YOU'VE BEEN INVOLVED WITH SOME NEAT THINGS IN NEPAL. 07:37 YES, AND BEFORE I GET INTO THAT I WOULD JUST LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THE LAST YEAR 07:43 THAT IT'S BEEN A REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT YEAR-2015 WAS A VERY DIFFICULT YEAR 07:48 IN NEPAL. 07:49 THEY SUFFERED TWO MAJOR EARTHQUAKES, YES, AND JUST HUNDREDS OF AFTERSHOCKS 07:55 SINCE THE EARTHQUAKE AND THAT JUST DECIMATED COMMUNITIES, SOME OF THE 07:59 VILLAGES ESPECIALLY UP IN THE MOUNTAIN AREAS. 08:03 AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT IN SEPTEMBER THEIR BORDER WAS CLOSED BETWEEN INDIA AND 08:10 NEPAL AND THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO GET FUEL TRUCKS IN. 08:13 THEY WERE PLANNING TO HAVE ANOTHER NEPALI YOUTH FOR CHRIST MEETING IN OCTOBER 08:18 OF 2015 AND SADLY THEY HAD TO CANCEL THAT MEETING BECAUSE OF THIS FUEL 08:25 SHORTAGE. 08:26 IT -BUSSES COULDN'T RUN; VEHICLES COULDN'T RUN; TRUCKS COULDN'T RUN; 08:31 EVERYTHING STOPPED. 08:32 EVERYTHING STOPPED BECAUSE THEY JUST-THEY WENT DOWN TO -THEIR FUEL WENT DOWN 08:35 TO JUST A TRICKLE GETTING ACROSS THE BORDER AND SO THEY WERE HAVING A REALLY 08:40 DIFFICULT TIME DURING THE WINTER. 08:42 THIS BLOCKADE ACTUALLY LASTED FOR ABOUT SIX MONTHS. 08:45 IT'S JUST RECENTLY EASED SO THEY HAD TO CANCEL THAT MEETING BUT THEN WE HAD AN 08:53 OPPORTUNITY TO HOLD A MEETING THERE IN JANUARY SO I WANTED TO TELL YOU 08:58 SOME ABOUT THAT MEETING. 09:00 YES, JANUARY 2016- SO IT'S RECENT. 09:02 YES. 09:03 O.K. 09:03 GREAT TELL US ABOUT IT. 09:05 WE REALLY WERE NOT SURE THAT WE WERE EVEN GOING TO BE ABLE TO HOLD THIS 09:07 BECAUSE OF ALL OF THE DIFFICULTIES THERE AND WERE PEOPLE GOING TO BE 09:10 ABLE TO TRAVEL? 09:11 WERE THEY GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET THERE? 09:13 BUT WE HAD JUST AMAZING OPPORTUNITY-THE LORD OPENED UP FOR US TO 09:17 PARTNER WITH ADVENTIST THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 09:21 SOME PEOPLE COMING FROM ANDREWS UNIVERSITY WHO HAD A KNOWLEDGE OF NEPAL WERE 09:27 HAVING A BIBLE SEMINAR THERE AND SO THIS WAS -GOSPEL OUTREACH JOINED 09:32 WITH THEM. 09:34 FANTASTIC! 09:35 KIND OF COMBINED OUR RESOURCES AND OUR EFFORTS AND WE PUT TOGETHER IN 09:38 JANUARY, 2016 JUST THE MOST AMAZING BIBLE SEMINAR THERE. 09:44 SO WHO CAME TO THIS? 09:45 SO WERE THESE JUST PASTORS? 09:46 WERE THESE LAY PEOPLE? 09:48 BOTH? 09:50 IT WAS-WE HAD ABOUT 65 ATTENDEES THERE AND IF WE COULD GO BACK A PREVIOUS 09:56 SLIDE FOR A JUST A COUPLE MINUTES-THERE WERE ABOUT 65 ATTENDEES THERE AND IT 10:01 WAS REALLY LIMITED BY BUDGET. 10:03 A LOT BY BUDGET AND ALSO BY FACILITY. 10:07 EXPENSES WERE GOING UP THINGS WERE GETTING MORE AND MORE EXPENSIVE BECAUSE 10:10 OF ALL OF THE SHORTAGES THERE BUT ABOUT HALF OF THE PEOPLE WHO CAME WERE 10:15 OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 10:17 GOOD. 10:17 WE HAD SOME PASTORS. 10:18 WE HAD LAY LEADERS FROM THE CHURCH. 10:20 WE HAD A NUMBER OF YOUTH THERE AND SO IT WAS REALLY, REALLY 10:25 ENCOURAGING, UPLIFTING JUST A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE AND IT WAS FOR 10:28 FIVE DAYS. 10:29 WONDERFUL! 10:31 WE STARTED ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND WE FINISHED UP ON THURSDAY MORNING. 10:34 OH. 10:35 SO WE HAD THREE FULL DAYS AND TWO HALF DAYS THERE. 10:38 GOOD. 10:40 I WANTED TO ON THE NEXT SLIDE JUST GIVE CREDIT TO TWO PEOPLE WHO CAME -THREE 10:45 PEOPLE ACTUALLY WHO CAME FROM ANDREWS. 10:47 IN THE CENTER IS DR. CONNIE GAIN SHE IS WITH THE ADVENTIST 10:50 THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 10:52 CONNIE GREW UP IN NEPAL. 10:54 OH SHE DID? 10:55 SHE DID. 10:56 SHE SPENT NINE YEARS IN NEPAL AS A CHILD AND THIS WAS HER HOMECOMING. 10:59 SHE HADN'T BEEN IN NEPAL FOR I WON'T SAY EXACTLY HOW MANY YEARS, YES, BUT 11:03 IT HAD BEEN MANY, MANY, MANY YEARS. 11:06 OH HOW NEAT FOR HER. 11:07 AND SO HER-ONE OF HER CHILDHOOD FRIENDS BASHERA SHRUSTA IS ONE OF OUR LAY 11:12 ELDERS IN OUR CHURCH AND THE TWO OF THEM WORKED A LOT TO PUT THIS PROGRAM 11:16 TOGETHER AND HER FATHER, WHEN SHE WAS IN NEPAL, HER FATHER DR. RICHARD CLARK, 11:21 YOU WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT DR. RICHARD CLARK? 11:24 YES, BECAUSE THIS WILL TIE INTO SOME OF OUR OTHER STORIES. 11:28 SURE. 11:29 IN 1969 DR. CLARK AND HIS WIFE AND CONNIE AND HER TWO BROTHERS AND I, YOU 11:34 KNOW, WE WERE THE OVERSEAS MISSIONARIES. 11:36 IN NEPAL? 11:38 IN NEPAL AND DR. CLARK WAS HER FATHER WHO WAS THE DIRECTOR OF SCHEER 11:42 MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, SURE, WHICH IS OUR ADVENTIST HOSPITAL THERE. 11:46 HE TOOK CARE OF EVERYTHING. 11:48 IT WAS -THAT WAS REALLY THE OPENING DOOR TO ADVENTISM IN NEPAL. 11:52 SO HOW NEAT FOR HER ALL THESE YEARS LATER. 11:54 YES, TO COME BACK, COME BACK. 11:55 GOOD. 11:57 SO YOU HAD THIS BIBLE SEMINAR, YES, AND YOU HAD ABOUT 65 PEOPLE ATTENDING 12:01 AND I THINK WE HAVE A PICTURE HERE OF THE GROUP. 12:04 YES, THERE IS OUR GROUP. 12:06 THAT WAS THE LAST DAY OF THE SEMINAR AND YOU CAN US HERE IN FRONT- THE GAIN 12:10 FAMILY- CONNIE IS AN ARCHEOLOGIST AND SO HER PROGRAM WAS ON THE 12:16 EVIDENCE FROM THE BIBLE; WHY CAN WE TRUST THE BIBLE; WHY CAN WE BELIEVE 12:20 IN THE BIBLE BECAUSE THERE IS EVIDENCE IN ARCHEOLOGY THAT PROVES THE BIBLE IS 12:26 TRUE. 12:27 OH YES. 12:28 AND HER HUSBAND DR. BOYD GAIN IS OLD TESTAMENT THEOLOGY PROFESSOR SO HE 12:34 TALKED A LOT ABOUT THE SANCTUARY AND HOW THE SANCTUARY POINTS TO CHRIST 12:38 AND THEIR SON IN LAW TALKED FOR THREE DAYS ABOUT ADVENTIST HISTORY 12:42 AND THEN THEIR DAUGHTER GAVE TALKED ABOUT HOW TO STUDY THE BIBLE. 12:47 OH WOW! 12:48 SO IT WAS JUST AN AMAZING SEMINAR AND THE ATTENDEES THERE GOT TO HEAR THINGS 12:53 THAT THEY REALLY NEVER KNEW BEFORE. 12:55 YOU KNOW, THEY GOT SOME TEACHING THAT THEY HAD NEVER BEEN EXPOSED AND 12:59 LIKE CHARLES WAS SAYING THAT THESE -A LOT OF THESE ARE FIRST GENERATION 13:05 CHRISTIANS. 13:05 YES, SO IT IS ALL NEW TO THEM. 13:07 THEY CAME FROM-A LOT OF THEM HAVE COME OUT OF HINDUISM AND SO THEY 13:11 LEARNED JUST AN AMAZING AMOUNT OF INFORMATION THERE. 13:17 THE MATERIAL WAS TRANSLATED INTO NEPALI SO THEY COULD TAKE THAT HOME. 13:21 GOOD. 13:22 AND YOU KNOW STUDY IT SOME MORE. 13:24 GOOD. 13:25 AND YOU KNOW, AGAIN WE TAKE SOME OF THIS FOR GRANTED YOU KNOW ACCEPTING 13:29 JESUS THAT'S THE FIRST MAJOR STEP BUT THEN HELPING PEOPLE STUDY THEIR 13:32 BIBLE AND THINGS LIKE THAT-THAT'S YES, THAT'S WHERE MORE EDUCATION 13:35 COMES. 13:36 THAT'S FOR SURE. 13:37 WELL GOOD KEEP GOING LINDA. 13:38 SO LET'S GET BACK TO OUR YOUTH. 13:40 THE NEXT SLIDE I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT IS THE LADY WITH THE PINK SCARF 13:45 IS LAKSHMI RAI AND SHE IS ONE OF OUR NEW GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 13:48 SHE IS THE FIRST FEMALE THEOLOGY GRADUATE FROM SPICER UNIVERSITY IN INDIA 13:55 BUT MOST OF OUR PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH ARE NOT THAT EDUCATED. 13:59 WE HAVE SOME EDUCATED YOU KNOW, BUT WE ARE REALLY THANKFUL TO HAVE HER AS 14:03 ONE OF OUR NEW GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 14:06 SO LINDA YOU WERE TELLING US ABOUT MENTORING THE YOUNG PEOPLE AND SOME OF 14:10 THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE, SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE BEING MENTORED ARE YOUNG 14:13 PEOPLE. 14:14 YES, SO TELL US A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THEM. 14:16 YES, AND SOME OF -THE FIRST ONE I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT IS ONE OF OUR 14:20 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 14:21 THE PINK, THE GIRL IN THE MIDDLE WITH THE PINK JACKET IS NINETEEN YEARS 14:26 OLD AND SHE ACTUALLY IS ONE OF OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 14:29 FANTASTIC. 14:30 AND SHE HAS GOT AN AMAZING STORY BUT IN THE INTEREST OF TIME I'M JUST GOING TO 14:33 TELL YOU THE STORY REAL BRIEFLY. 14:35 SHE COMES FROM A HINDU BACKGROUND AND SHE WAS INTRODUCED TO CHRISTIANITY 14:41 THROUGH SOMEONE IN HER VILLAGE WHO WENT TO SCHEER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, THE 14:45 ADVENTIST HOSPITAL. 14:46 WOW. 14:47 IN NEPAL AND SHE BROUGHT-THIS OTHER PERSON BROUGHT CHRISTIANITY BACK 14:51 TO THE VILLAGE AND ANITA GOT INTERESTED. 14:54 SHE STARTED GOING TO THE CHURCH WITH HER SISTER SUNITA WHO IS THE BLUE AND 14:58 THE FAMILY INITIALLY WAS VERY, VERY AGAINST THEM GOING TO CHURCH. 15:02 THEY WERE THREATENING THE GIRLS BUT THE GIRLS REALLY WANTED TO CONTINUE TO GO 15:08 AND SO THEY CONTINUED, CONTINUED AND THEN HER MOTHER GOT SICK, OH, OH, 15:12 AND SO THE GIRLS CONVINCED THE MOTHER TO COME TO THE CHURCH AND HAVE THE PEOPLE 15:16 PRAY FOR YOU. 15:18 THE MOTHER CAME THEY PRAYED FOR HER AND SHE GOT BETTER. 15:22 PRAISE THE LORD. 15:23 AND NOW THEIR WHOLE FAMILY IS CHRISTIAN AND COMING TO THE CHURCH. 15:29 AND HOW OLD IS ANITA? 15:30 ANITA IS 19 YEARS OLD AND SHE IS NOW OUR LEADER OF THE CHURCH AND THEY GO 15:34 OUT-THEY GO TO SCHOOL IN THE MORNING AND THEN IN THE AFTERNOON THEY GO OUT 15:39 AND THEY VISIT WITH PEOPLE IN THE VILLAGE AND THEY TEACH CHILDREN AND PRAY 15:48 WITH PEOPLE AND SO THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE LEADING THE WORK IN THEIR VILLAGE 15:52 RIGHT NOW. 15:53 IT IS JUST REALLY AMAZING. 15:54 AND HOW MANY STORIES DO WE HEAR AROUND OUR WORLD ABOUT HOW HOSPITALS-THE 15:58 HEALING HAND OF JESUS THROUGH HIS DOCTORS AND NURSES AND THINGS LIKE 16:03 THAT. 16:04 IT'S IN THE BIBLE LOOK HOW MANY PEOPLE CAME TO JESUS IN THE BIBLE FOR HEALING. 16:06 THAT'S RIGHT. 16:07 WELL WONDERFUL GOD BLESS ANITA AND HER FAMILY. 16:09 WE HEAR THAT OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN NEPAL. 16:12 AND THE NEXT ONE I WANTED TO INTRODUCE YOU TO IS IN THE CENTER. 16:17 THIS IS OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER VISHNU ROKA AND HE IS AGAIN ABOUT 16:21 TEN YEARS AGO WENT TO THE HOSPITAL AND WAS ILL AND THAT'S WHERE HE WAS FIRST 16:26 INTRODUCED TO CHRISTIANITY. 16:29 HE IS NOW ONE OF OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS AND HIS FAMILY IS- I 16:34 CONSIDER HIM TO BE REALLY THE MENTOR FOR HIM. 16:37 HIS DAUGHTER SONA IS IN THE ORANGE COAT AND SHE IS VERY, VERY, VERY ACTIVE 16:42 WITH YOUTH MINISTRY. 16:44 WONDERFUL. 16:45 AND IT IS INDEED THE YOUTH THAT THIS IS HAPPENING IN NEPAL. 16:48 THAT'S RIGHT. 16:49 YES. 16:50 THAT'S RIGHT. 16:50 OK GOOD. 16:52 AND THEY'VE GOT A VERY, VERY ACTIVE-THIS IS THE YOUTH GROUP AT THE KAPING 16:56 CHURCH AND THERE IS SONA SECOND FROM THE RIGHT IN THE LIGHT COLORED JACKET 17:01 AND SHE GAVE US A TESTIMONY AT THE BIBLE SEMINAR THAT JUST SO 17:07 IMPRESSED ME ABOUT THIS YOUNG WOMAN-ABOUT THEM TRAVELING NINE HOURS. 17:11 THIS GROUP ACTUALLY SAVES THEIR OWN MONEY FOR THEIR OUTREACH MINISTRY. 17:16 REALLY? 17:18 TRAVELED NINE HOURS TO ANOTHER VILLAGE TO WITNESS TO THE PEOPLE AND TO HOLD 17:23 A CHILDREN'S PROGRAM. 17:24 WONDERFUL. 17:26 AND TEACH THE CHILDREN ABOUT JESUS; TEACH THEM CHRISTIAN SONGS. 17:29 SO NO ONE IS ASKING THEM TO DO THIS THEY ARE DOING THIS BECAUSE THEY WANT TO 17:32 SHARE JESUS. 17:32 YES. 17:34 THEY ARE DOING THIS ON THEIR OWN AND I VISITED THEIR CHURCH WHEN I WAS IN 17:38 NEPAL IN JANUARY AND I JUST FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS CHURCH, THIS 17:43 COMMUNITY, THESE YOUNG PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND I WAS JUST SO 17:47 AMAZED ABOUT THE WAY THEY ARE WORKING SO HARD FOR THE LORD. 17:51 THEY ARE SO DEDICATED. 17:52 THEY ARE SO COMMITTED AND THEY ARE SO IN LOVE WITH JESUS. 17:54 THAT SHOULD BE ALL OF US, RIGHT? 17:55 THAT'S RIGHT. 17:57 THAT SHOULD BE ALL OF US NO MATTER IF WE ACCEPTED JESUS WHEN WE WERE YOUNG 18:00 OR IN OUR TWENTIES, THIRTIES, FORTIES OR WHATEVER I MEAN THAT 18:02 SHOULD BE ALL OF US EVERY SINGLE DAY. 18:04 IT IS NOT ABOUT MONEY. 18:05 NO IT IS NOT AND I THINK THAT WE-HEARING THESE STORIES -AGAIN WE TALKED 18:09 ABOUT BEING "ADVENTURERS" FOR GOD NO MATTER WHERE WE LIVE AND BUT WE ARE 18:13 SPECIFICALLY TALKING ABOUT NEPAL HERE TO DAY BUT THAT'S THE SPARK THAT WE 18:16 ALL NEED TO HAVE. 18:16 YES, THAT'S RIGHT. 18:18 OH SO LINDA, THIS HAS JUST REALLY BEEN EXCITING FOR YOU I CAN TELL. 18:21 I HAD A WONDERFUL TIME WHEN I WAS IN NEPAL. 18:23 IT WAS VERY COLD BUT I HAD A WONDERFUL TIME WHEN I WAS THERE. 18:27 I WAS JUST SO THANKFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO AND JOIN AND TO MEET MORE OF 18:31 OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THERE AND SEE THE WONDERFUL WORK THAT THEY 18:34 ARE DOING THERE. 18:35 IT IS REALLY INCREDIBLE AND VERY, VERY DIFFICULT CONDITIONS. 18:39 THEY ARE VERY RESILIENT PEOPLE AND THEY ARE JUST SO LOVELY PEOPLE. 18:43 AND AFTER SEEING THE PHOTOS FROM CHARLES YOU SHOWED US PHOTOS AFTER THE 18:48 EARTHQUAKE IN APRIL, MAY OF 2015 AND YOU KNOW WE SEE THESE PICTURES OF 18:53 EARTHQUAKES BUT A LOT OF THESE HOUSES I MEAN, THESE ARE JUST LITTLE SHANTYS 18:57 WITH TIN ROOFS AND ALL OF THAT AND TO HAVE AN EARTHQUAKE COME I MEAN IT 19:00 WAS DEVASTATING. 19:01 YES, YES. 19:02 SO WELL THE WORK THERE IS VERY SPECIAL I KNOW TO BOTH OF YOU AND SOME 19:07 THINGS THAT ARE IN THE FUTURE THAT YOU ARE WANTING TO WORK ON WHAT 19:10 ARE SOME OF THOSE? 19:12 WELL I THINK THAT WE NEED TO HAVE MORE YOUTH GATHERINGS. 19:16 IT COSTS MONEY TO TRAVEL AND THE TRAINING, THE TRAINING. 19:23 YOU KNOW BASICALLY THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND A LOT OF THE DOCTRINES. 19:28 THEY UNDERSTAND JESUS DIED FOR THEIR SINS BUT THE STATE OF THE DEAD-THEY 19:33 UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE SABBATH BUT THE SANCTUARY YOU MIGHT EVEN SAY SOME OF 19:40 THE DOCTRINES THAT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED THEY DON'T HAVE A CLUE. 19:45 AND OTHER CHRISTIAN CHURCHES ARE THE SAME WAY AND SO I THINK THAT THESE 19:50 BIBLE CAMPS THEY ARE VERY, VERY IN EARNEST ABOUT THIS. 19:55 IT WAS A BIG DEAL AND THEN BASICALLY WE HAVE SOME PICTURES ABOUT A RALLY. 20:04 IT WAS A GLOBAL YOUTH DAY AND -YES IF WE COULD JUST MOVE ON TO OH, WE'VE GOT A 20:11 COUPLE MORE HERE JUST REAL QUICK. 20:13 THESE WERE AT A BIBLE SEMINAR - WE BROUGHT THREE OF THE YOUTH GROUPS THERE 20:15 AND THIS IS THE KAPING YOUTH GROUP THAT IS SPECIAL MUSIC. 20:16 THIS IS SONA AGAIN WHO AFTER GIVING HER TESTIMONY GOT SOME SPECIAL 20:21 RECOGNITION THERE AND SHE WAS NAMED THE YOUTH LEADER NOW IN NEPAL. 20:32 THE NEPAL SECTION YOUTH LEADER AND IN MARCH OF 2016 THEY HAD A RALLY AND 20:42 WE'VE JUST GOT A FEW SHOTS HERE IN OUR LAST FEW MINUTES TO TALK ABOUT THE 20:45 WORK THAT THESE KIDS WERE DOING AND AGAIN THERE IS GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS 20:49 -SOME OF OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS ARE AMONG THE PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE. 20:52 THEY HAVE THEIR OWN LOGO ON THEIR TSHIRTS AS YOU SAW AND THEN ONE OF THE 20:58 THINGS THAT THEY DID, YOU KNOW, NEPAL IS BIG FOR PROCESSIONS AND YOU KNOW 21:03 THERE WILL BE A PROTESTING YOU KNOW, GOVERNMENT-NOT ENOUGH WATER, NOT ENOUGH 21:08 ELECTRICITY THEY ARE ALWAYS PROTESTING ABOUT SOMETHING. 21:12 WELL THIS PROTEST WAS BASICALLY ABOUT SOCIAL EVILS. 21:17 OH INTERESTING! 21:19 YOU KNOW, PUBLIC DRUNKEDNESS, DON'T SMOKE AND ALL KINDS OF YOU KNOW 21:28 PICK UP YOUR LITTER. 21:30 LIFESTYLE. 21:31 YES, AND THEN THEY EVEN MET THIS-HERE'S A HOLY MAN AND HE HAS A CIGARETTE IN 21:33 HIS HAND AND SO OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH YOUTH SHE JUST RUNS UP TO HIM AND GIVES 21:35 HIM SOME ANTISMOKING LITERATURE. 21:36 HELP YOUR HEALTH. 21:37 YES. 21:38 AND YOU KNOW HE'S-HE WAS KIND OF INTERESTING AND THEN THEY HAD THIS IN FIVE 21:40 DIFFERENT AREAS AND AGAIN ENCOURAGEMENT OF OUR YOUTH ALL OVER NEPAL AND SO THIS 21:44 IN THE EASTERN PART OF NEPAL THEIR SIGNS AREN'T QUITE AS FANCY AND THEN 21:52 AFTER THAT THEN THEY DID THE CLEAN UP YOU KNOW, AND VILLAGES ARE ALWAYS FULL 22:14 OF TRASH. 22:15 PEOPLE JUST THROW THEIR TRASH ANYWHERE AND SO HERE YOU HAVE A GROUP OF 22:19 ADVENTIST YOUTH WHO ARE SAYING YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT GOOD YOU NEED TO, YOU 22:26 KNOW, PUT YOUR TRASH IN A PROPER PLACE- A RECEPTACLE AND SO I THINK THAT WAS 22:31 VERY WELL RECEIVED BY THE COMMUNITY AND THEY SAW THAT YOU KNOW, WE ARE ALL 22:37 SO INTERESTED IN ENVIRONMENT AND KEEPING THE ENVIRONMENT AS CLEAN 22:43 AS POSSIBLE. 22:45 WELL AND BEING GOOD CITIZENS OF THEIR TOWN AND THEIR VILLAGE AND MAKING 22:48 SURE THAT THINGS LOOK NICE AND WHAT A GREAT WAY TO BE A WITNESS FOR ALL OF THAT. 22:51 YOU KNOW IT IS ALSO CALLING ATTENTION TO ADVENTIST YOUTH? 22:57 WHAT'S THAT? 22:59 YOU KNOW AND THEN THEY ARE ABLE TO SHARE WELL WE ARE CHRISTIANS; WE FOLLOW 23:05 JESUS AND WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO SHARE WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT JESUS 23:11 AND TO HELP OTHER PEOPLE WITH A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT. 23:15 OH ABSOLUTELY! 23:17 AND WHAT A GREAT IDEA SO IF PEOPLE ARE USED TO SEEING ALL THESE PARADES 23:20 AROUND NEPAL WHY NOT GIVE THEM SOMETHING ELSE TO LOOK AT THAT IS POSITIVE-A 23:23 CHRISTIAN YOUTH PARADE, RIGHT. 23:25 YOU KNOW IT WAS AGAIN A WAY THAT THEY COULD GET TOGETHER AND WORK TOGETHER 23:27 AS A TEAM. 23:28 SO WHO ARE THESE TWO YOUNG MEN? 23:29 THESE ARE TWO OF OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS WHO WERE ATTENDING THE 23:39 BIBLE SEMINAR AND UM, THERE'S-WE HAVE FFIFTY-THREE GOSPEL 23:44 OUTREACH WORKERS IN NEPAL. 23:46 THESE ARE JUST TWO OF OUR FIFTY-THREE AND THEY ARE DOING A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT 23:51 TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF OUR CHURCH IN NEPAL. 23:54 THE WORK IS REALLY VERY, VERY NEW. 23:56 OUR CHURCH IS VERY YOUNG IN NEPAL. 23:58 IT IS A DIFFICULT COUNTRY TO WORK IN BECAUSE OF THE POLITICAL SITUATION. 24:01 THERE IS A CHANCE THAT IT COULD GET WORSE HERE IN THE NEAR FUTURE. 24:06 WE HAVE FIVE PASTORS IN NEPAL. 24:10 FOR HOW MANY MILLION? 24:10 GIVE US -FOR THIRTY MILLION PEOPLE. 24:12 THIRTY MILLION PEOPLE. 24:14 AND SO OUR FIFTY-THREE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS ARE DOING A LOT TO REALLY 24:18 HELP SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE CHURCH AND TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL TAKING THESE TO 24:24 VERY, VERY REMOTE VILLAGES AND UM IT'S, IT'S JUST ALMOST, IT IS AN 24:33 IMPOSSIBLE TASK THAT WE HAVE THERE. 24:35 HOW ARE WE GOING TO REACH THIRTY MILLION PEOPLE? 24:37 BUT YOU KNOW WHAT THAT'S GOD'S PROBLEM. 24:39 WE JUST HAVE TO BE TELLING THE GOOD NEWS, RIGHT? 24:41 THAT'S RIGHT. 24:42 IT IS OVERWHELMING. 24:42 YES. 24:44 YOU KNOW AS A HUMAN WHEN YOU THINK HOW IN THE WORLD -THIRTY MILLION PEOPLE I 24:45 CAN'T EVEN PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY WRAP MY HEAD AROUND IT-THIRTY MILLION 24:48 PEOPLE BUT NO, TRUE YES. 24:50 YES. 24:51 AND SPREAD OUT ALL OVER THE HILLS OF NEPAL, YES, AND THAT'S WHERE OUR YOUNG 24:55 PEOPLE COME IN BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT AFRAID OF IMPOSSIBLE TASKS. 24:59 WELL AND AS YOU'VE SAID IN ALL COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD THE YOUNG PEOPLE- 25:04 THAT IS THE GENERATION OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND THAT'S WHERE WE NEED TO BE 25:08 PUTTING FOCUS AND I'M JUST THRILLED TO HEAR ABOUT ALL THAT IS GOING ON HERE IN 25:12 NEPAL. 25:13 SO WHEN YOU TRAVEL BACK PLEASE GREET OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHEN YOU TALK 25:15 WITH THEM ON EMAIL AND ENCOURAGE THEM AND WE WANT TO HEAR MORE STORIES ABOUT 25:19 MORE CONGRESSES, MORE BIBLE SEMINARS AND ALL OF THAT, YES, SO WE LOOK 25:22 FORWARD TO THAT. 25:24 WHAT IS SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE CAN DO HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH TO HELP 25:26 NEPAL? 25:27 PRAY. 25:28 PRAY AND REALLY SUPPORT THESE TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR OUR WORKERS. 25:35 I THINK THAT THAT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST NEEDS THAT THEY WERE EXPRESSING IS 25:39 THEY WERE SO THANKFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY THAT THEY HAD TO HAVE THESE 25:44 PROFESSORS FROM ANDREWS UNIVERSITY COME AND TEACH THEM SO MUCH IN DEPTH. 25:50 LIKE CHARLES WAS SAYING, A LOT OF THEM HAVE HAD KIND OF A SUPERFICIAL 25:55 INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIANITY AND HERE THEY REALLY, REALLY, REALLY GOT 25:58 INTO DEEP DOWN THEOLOGY AND THE HISTORY OF THE ADVENTIST CHURCH AND THEY 26:07 WERE JUST SOAKING IT UP. 26:09 THEY WERE ON THE EDGE OF THEIR SEATS AND EVEN THOUGH IT WAS SO COLD, IT 26:13 WAS CROWDED IN THE ROOM AND IT WAS COLD. 26:15 THAT KEPT EVERYBODY WARM, RIGHT? 26:17 YES, THE YOU KNOW THEY WERE JUST SO ENCOURAGED BY THIS RECENT VISIT THAT WE 26:22 WERE ABLE TO MAKE THERE. 26:24 WELL LINDA AND CHARLES THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE AND WE WANT TO 26:27 ENCOURAGE YOU TO BE AN "ADVENTURER" FOR THE LORD AND WE WOULD ASK YOU TO GO 26:32 TO OUR WEBSITE: GOAIM.ORG AND LEARN ABOUT HOW YOU CAN BE INVOLVED. 26:38 FOR "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH, I'M JULIE 26:40 SANDERS-KEYMER AND MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU TODAY. 27:17 [CLOSING MUSIC]. |
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